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With John, Miya, Karasuba, Uzume and soulless body of Matsu in real world

Shortly after Matsu had used her power Miya had explained to John what was going on, after another five minutes Uzume had returned to the living room and sat next to Matsu in front of the still unconscious Karasuba. "So if I got everything right Matsu has just used her powers to connect with the data chip right?" Uzume repeated in confirmation. Uzume was still uncomfortable that Karasuba was here and she was still on guard should something happen, but it wasn't too bad right know due to Karasuba not being awake.

"That's right Uzume but something seems to be wrong, it has been almost 10 minutes since Matsu closed her eyes, I've never seen that it has taken so long to sort through something." Miya said.

Hearing this John spoke up. "She does that a lot?" motioning to Matsu. "Well yeah." Uzume replied, after being in the room with the Chief and after another round of introductions Uzume found that her gut was telling her that this Chief wasn't a bad person, quiet, stern looking, and a little imposing but not bad. Uzume thought she could work her way around him staying here, Karasuba was another thing altogether though.

After another 10 minuter of nothing happening Karasuba finally woke up again with a startle, and scaring Uzume who back paddled into the wall again. After reorienting and remembering what had happened Karasuba completely forgot about Miya's, Uzume's and Matsu's presence in the room and straight away started to lay into John for knocking her out. "Damn you John, how dare you knock me out again!? If you're doing that again I'm going to get rid of you, deactivation be damned!" John, his head turned towards her, just stared at Karasuba in a calm manner, betraying no emotions what so ever. To the other occupants of the room it was quite the funny scene, with Karasuba barking up to the huge form that was the Chief and him just staring her down, even in the seiza position their height difference was ridiculous, with Karasuba still being two heads smaller, her delicate body looking like a toothpick next to Johns. The only one who chuckled was just Miya, Uzume didn't dare to do so. After about 5 minutes of more screaming, that was completely unlike the leight back attitude Karasuba usually displaced. It seemed like Chief was good at riling Karasuba up.

After another 5 minutes of Karasuba egging Chief on, Chief seemed to have enough of it and when he slowly turned his upper body towards Karasuba and lifted his left hand up, Miya and Uzume paid rapt attention to what he was going to do. Karasuba noticed this too but she kept her bitching going. Chief slowly stretched his left hand out with his thumb and pointer in the ready position. Slowly moving his two fingers towards Karasuba's face both Miya and Uzume stopped their breath. What was Chief going to do? It seemed like Karasuba was beginning to be short on breath as she took another gulp of, just as she was done and wanted to resume her bitching. Chief took actions and clamped with his thumb and pointer down on Karasuba's glossy lips effectively shutting her up.

"Ssshhh, so loud." Was all Chief said. And Uzume finally lost it, the terror that was Karasuba be damned this was just too funny. Still keeping his to fingers in place on Karasuba's lips Chief turned his head toward Uzume and calmly stared at her, not understanding what was so funny.

Karasuba was speechless, how dare John disgrace her so much in front of that wuss Uzume and her archenemy Miya. Oh he was gonna get it.

If John would have kept his gaze on Karasuba he would have seen her head slowly growing red to show that she was reaching her melting point. Alas he didn't notice, only when Karasuba slapped the offending appendage out of her face and launched herself at him he noticed. Karasuba after jumping on John wrapped her legs around his torso to stay in place with her head finally being on eyelevel with his started to lay into him with her open hands, slapping on is cheeks and trying to pull on his hear, which was a fools notion because of his short hair. It seemed all rationality had finally left Karasuba. With this scene playing out in front of Miya, Miya couldn't keep using her lady like chuckling and started to fully laugh as well, Uzume who had recovered a little at this point started to laugh again and even louder than before.

Karasubas slaps didn't really hurt John but you could tell form his almost unnoticeable twitching eyebrow he was beginning to get really fed up. And then he decided that he had enough. Wiggling an arm free John shoved his hand in her face and pushed her not too gently off him. Karasubas head struck the floor with a resounding thud. The moment she got her bearings back she saw John's face above her own. And with a firm voice John spoke. „Enough, stop behaving so disgracefully."

Hearing this Karasuba seethed on the inside but otherwise stopped her struggling and after a minute of a staring contest Karasuba tsht and looked away conceding defeat.

To the other people in the room is was such a surreal event that Karasuba gave in, they were speechless.

John seeing Karasuba back down got of her and sat himself back to the table. Looking around the room he noticed Miya and Uzume stare at him and all he did was shrug as if nothing had happened.

John's gaze at first swept over the room and then stopped at Matsu who still hadn't moved in the slightest. Nobody seemed to care and everybody seemed comfortable enough to just wait until Mats was done. But this was taking already 40 minutes. Deciding to take take actions himself John leaned forward and placed a hand on Matsu's shoulder and gently shook her.

The moment he made contact and shook her Matsu's face of a healthy flush and her breathing turned erratic.

John heard Uzume's disbeliefing voice. „No way Matsu is reacting!"

With Matsu inside the data chip

So Matsu really found herself in a bind, everything was going great until this so-called safety protocol showed up. Now she was stuck inside this barrier with no way out and that thing out there threatened to delete her if she didn't give the right password. Things seemed to be hopeless but suddenly her body started to heat up and a healthy flush dusted her cheeks, her chest tightened and her breathing started to turn erratic. Oh my good she was reacting, and the only conclusion Matsu was able to reach was that her body was preparing itself to bond with this Chief because all the other occupants of the room were sekirei. It had to be this way anything else didn't make sense like the situation Matsu found herself in.

Suddenly her body began to spasm and shake uncontrollably and her eyes turned back into her head so only the white of them was visible. Suddenly visions, no more like memories of another person or thing, she decided to declare it as am entity, were shoved into her. From one second to the other she was in many different places. This places were so different from each other.

One was a Jungel, another was what looked to a spacestation, one that seemed to be in a ship with a pod in front of her. But one thing was always the same everybody around her were huge, the people were literally giants but one person was always there, the guy Chief that she had seen in the living room, who gave her the chip was always there. And a name always resounded in her had. John. John. John. His name was John. Then a mirror in front of her appeared but it didn't show her image, the image it showed was the same as the one from the safety protocol, this was also Cortana, Matsu assumed. Then it spoke, „Take care of my caveman, he will need you. 1oefrv1erlevo7." And as fast as the ordeal began it was over.

Matsu stood up after her body started responding again and took a calming breath. „1oefrv1erlevo7"Saying the password Matsu readied herself for something else unexpected, but nothing happens the only thing that did was the protocol saying. „Password confirmed, access acquired." The moment the protocol said that Matsu was back in the city of electronics, free to wander around. But after the ordeal Matsu didn't really feel like being in here much longer, so she closed her eyes and concentrated, when she opened the she was back in the living room.

With John, Karasuba, Miya and the now awake and still reacting Matsu.

The moment John took his hand off Matsu her eyes flew open and the still flushed woman got up in a flash and threw herself at John to get her kiss and emerge. Matsu could hear Uzume scream, "No way! She's reacting!" from the corner of her left eye she could see Karasuba now awake with narrowed eyes and getting ready to intercept her as she started to sail over the table towards John, from the corner of her right eye Matsu could see Miya gasp and place a hand over her mouth. But the only thing that mattered right now was John that was sitting there, in a few seconds she would make contact with him and get her wings, oh it will be glorious, the thought of all the experiments she was getting to do now was sending a shiver down her spine.

Alas it shouldn't be as with lightning fast reflexes John lifted his hand and grabbed her face, with a little push he shoved her air born form onto the table, spilling the tea again and squishing Matsus laptop underneath her. To Johns left Karasuba was up and ready to move, on Johns right Miya was ready to intercept her and Uzume just scrambled back from the table again, to try and take cover.

All the movement stopped though as John spoke up in a firm voice, brokering no insubordination from anyone, be it Karasuba or Miya. "STOP!"

Karasuba hearing that was reluctant to obey and that was made even more clear by the growl that escaped her throat, but the calm stare that she received from John made her back down.

Seeing Karasuba back down Miya relaxed her form too and set her cup back up to fill some more tea in, while watching the scene play out in front of her.

"Ouch, Ouch, why would you do that John-tan? Matsu just wanted to get her wings." Matsu whined while she wiggled on the table in discomfort. Hearing that Karasuba barked at Matsu. "How dare you pervert, I won't allow this, you're not going to bond to my Ashikabi, you hear he's mine!"

Matsu shied away a little when Karasuba screamed at her, but a sudden bout of braveness compelled her to talk back. "Mou Karasuba come on, I need to do this, Matsu-tan wants to emerge too!" Matsu whined as another bout reacting symptoms travelled through her body. Sending a pleading look at John to say something.

"I am not bonding myself to another alien." John said electing a bout of gasps from the occupants of the room, well more like from Miya and Uzume, Karasuba just sat back and smirked pleased with Johns answer. Matsu though, she started to sob, slowly tears started to roll down her cheeks. "Why, hic, why do you say that, hic? John looked at her and spoke calmly. "I won't be dragged into a conflict." His voice was firm if anything.

Now this was a blow to Karasuba and Matsu, with Karasuba thinking that now that she had found a battle hardened, and not so easily rattled Ashikabi. And Matsu because he was denying her wings, sure from the brief memories she could somehow relate to that. But this was different, he was her destined one, the person she was meant to love forever and ever. Oh she was getting a mental breakdown as it seemed.

"But, but I promised, you don't have to fight. Pl, pl, please Cortana told me to take care of her caveman for her."

Now this was unexpected for John, how did Matsu know of Cortana?

"How do you know of her?" John asked with a little venom in his voice, as he leaned towards Matsu to scrutinize her, and making sure that there was no escape for her should she try to run, due to her apparent mental state. From the corner of his eyes he could tell that the other occupants of the room were getting curious, Miya, Uzume and even Karasuba were keeping an ear open to better understand the situation.

"I, I met her briefly inside the chip." Matsu whimpered, starting to get scared.

"That's not possible, she's dead." John responded.

"Y y yes, I know", Matsu said as she avoided eye contact with John, "b b but, when I was inside the chip I was looked away by a safety protocol Cortana had installed before she died, it asked me for the password, at first I didn't know it and I thought I was done for but, suddenly I started to react and then I was in different places, seeing things from a different perspective." Matsu said quickly, taking another gulp of air in and she continued. "But you were always there, I remember seeing you with your helmet on in front of me. And t t then everything went dark, Cortana appeared in front of me from a mirror and told me the password and that I was supposed to take care of you. Oh her eyes were so sad, hick." Matsu retold the events that had happened to her, at the end of it her voice started to break and a batch of fresh tears rolled down her cheeks.

John didn't understand what was going on now. Things like this weren't real, they couldn't happen, now what was he supposed to do, he needed space, all the stuff that he had locked away, all the regret, sadness and anger at himself was coming back, he didn't understand where all these had come from in the first place. He needed to think, to contemplate. Making up her mind John got up from his seiza position while grabbing his helmet and putting it back on. Everybody was watching him, wondering what he was going to do, Miya and Uzume where directing inquisitive looks towards him, Karasuba was getting ready to get up too and follow him and Matsu was still on the table and looking at him with hopeful eyes.

"Use the chip and show Miya, where I come from, and what has happened that lead to my arrival here." John ordered Matsu, with that he turned around and opened the door that led to the backyard, when John ducked through the door he said to Karasuba that was about to follow him. "You stay here." Seeing Karasuba about to protest John added. "That's an order."

With that he left the room and closed the door behind him. All the people that were left in the room looked at each other and wondered what was wrong with John.

Got more stuff coming, it will just take a bit cheerio