It was quiet.

Yet that was to be expected for Steven Hart during a weekend morning. Usually during the night he would be up trying to figure out the latest Super Nintendo role playing game with only a few cans of Coke and Doritos to sustain him. When it was a school week, he would be busy trying to make sure he was caught up in his classes and at the same time cater to the school's Navy ROTC 3rd in command, Angela Steele or "Commodore Crabby" as he liked to call her since there were times that she made even the scariest of Marine Corps DI's look like kittens when she was moody. Which was why he was still asleep on his bed, he had to do some logistics work for her last night and he wasn't finished with it until sunrise.

His dreams, however, consisted of something a little more…enjoyable for a young man his age. Although he was considered one of the brightest students at Lakewood High School, Steve would rather spend his time meeting that one beautiful woman who would help him learn all the carnal pleasures that any teen would want to learn. In his case, he was dreaming about Robin Givens being that special woman to do that.

In the back of his mind, on that edge between being asleep and awake he began to hear a light sound coming from far away. At first he ignored it while he was focusing more on Robin's bosom pressed against his face, yet the small white noise continued to get louder with each second until he looked up at his dream woman and heard a familiar male voice coming out her.

Steve this is Nick please respond!

THUD!

Robin had been replaced with nothing but darkness; someone was going to pay for that, he was so close to having her do the things he had only seen what little he could make out from the Spice Channel and all the after dark movies he could watch on Cinemax. He opened his eyes, noticing the carpet in his room was face level and groaned in frustration at this revelation. Slowly he sat himself up and heard the voice continue to talk with urgency.

Steve, do you read me?

Rushing off the ground, Steve picked himself up and headed towards the desk where he left his Aurachanger and picked up the Aura Spader, "Do you know that you woke me up from a wonderful dream?"

"I don't care if you were running naked around the house with your sister." Nick blurted out of the Aurachanger, "I need you to get up right away."

He sounded a little panicked, which was something Steve had never heard from his friend, "Are you okay, man?"

"No, things have just gone to shit around here." Nick answered trying to keep his cool, "The Gorma has appeared."

Steve began to be even more alert at the sound of the Gorma, "They made a move?"

"Those bastards took Ami." The anger in Nick's voice was apparent.

Steve looked around for some clothes that he could throw on immediately, "Do you need me to come out to where you are?"

"No, just head over towards the Mall and help Li and Nancy." Nick said, "I will meet up with you guys over there and then we'll come up with a game plan."

"Understood." Steve signed off and grabbed his jeans and a Lakewood High 'ROTC' shirt before heading to the shower.

It took Steve ten minutes to get showered and dressed immediately followed by heading towards the living room, where his little sister, Morena was sitting down watching her Saturday Morning cartoons. He wished that he did not have to go out and leave her here while he was about to go out and do something extremely dangerous and what some would consider a suicide mission. Yet, he looked back towards his eight-year-old sister and knew that if he didn't he would not be able to live with himself if these Gorma were to get their hands on her because of his inaction.

Morena looked up from the television, her innocent blue eyes focused on her brother being dressed and ready to head out, "Where are you going?"

Steve hated lying to his little sister, in fact, he used to get on her when she did something similar, but he thought about what was going on and said, "I gotta go out and run some errands for school."

Her face, which usually lit up whenever her brother came in the room, began to show signs of disappointment, "You're always busy."

Steve let out a small sigh of sadness and gently patted her on the head, "I know, when I come back, I'll take you to Thrifty for some ice cream."

Morena's sadness immediately disappeared at her brother's words, "Sherbert?"

"Whatever you want?"

"You promise?"

Steve raised his right hand up in the air as if he was taking an oath, "May Snoopy come and find me and tear off my nose if I don't."

"I AM HOLDING YOU TOO THAT!" Morena screamed while she watched her brother head out of the door.

Steve looked up at the clouds for a moment before he continued down the driveway towards the main sidewalk. Lakewood Mall was at least 15-20 minutes away by bus, so that would not be too bad. He walked further down and heard the sound of a car approaching him. Slowly, he turned around and saw a black 1992 Honda Accord LX sedan racing towards him with complete urgency. The vehicle stopped in front of him and in the driver's seat was a beautiful young woman dressed in a white suit jacket, black slacks and a matching blouse that went down her front in a 'v'. She motioned for him to enter the car which he did without hesitation.

"I did not think you would come and get me, Tonya." Steve said closing the door and fastening his seatbelt.

Tonya, put her foot on the accelerator and continued towards the Lakewood Mall, "You needed a lift to the mall, didn't you? I heard what was going on with the Gorma and thought it would be a lot better than waiting for the RTD to arrive."

"Thanks." Steve looked out the window, "What have the others said about all of us acting?"

The others he was referring to were the team mentors who helped with the strategic end of the operations. There were three people involved with that, but the one in charge was a man named Kaku. Tonya took a deep breath before she started, "He wants you to proceed with what Nick said and then go from there."

"No problem and what about your brother?"

"He has been keeping out of trouble." Tonya answered calmly, "He is not the same guy you remember."

"I heard." Steve relaxed for a little bit seeing the Mall getting closer, "I just hope he doesn't let his personal feelings cloud his judgment."

A small hint of worry appeared on Tonya's face, "He's still the same in that department."