"CALL IN MORE TROOPS! GET THEM HERE NOW!" One of the higher ranking guards yelled into a communicator.

The metalheads attacked the city in the late afternoon all the KG's had to head out there. Torn and Errol had been fighting them for almost three hours now and the sun was setting. They managed to brake down the outer walls and get into the city. Luckily the Krimzon Guards were bale to kill them all off before they attacked to many people and patch up the wall. Torn and Errol fought back to back right outside the city walls. When they first became roommates they made a pact that in battle they would fight back to back and they would not break that pact.

"You still alive over there, Torny boy?" Errol yelled as he fired a few rounds at metalheads.

"Just chipper!" He yelled back as he kicked a metalhead that got to close to him.

"Let's hope so, was just makin sure that I don't have a dead man on my back!"

"Oh trust me I'm not the one ya should be worryin' 'bout! I've saver your ass more times then I can count!" Torn yelled over his shoulder.

Several minutes later several KG zoomers came over and began attacking the metalheads. It didn't take very long for them to defeat the metalheads after this, only about an hour. The two sat on the ground leaning up against the tree after the battle both exhausted and breathing hard. Torn looked to his watch and cursed under his breath.

"What? Are they back, or am I dead and ya can't hear me because I'm dead so why am I even talkin'?" Errol rambled tiredly.

"You're not dead." Torn said, "I told Vee I'd meet her in the tattoo parlor while she got them done. I'm already late 'cause of these stupid things." He motioned to a few dead metalheads lying on the ground.

"Well then come on, we can still get there in time." Errol said, "If we share a zoomer and make the excuse that we're going back to our regular patrol they'll let us."

Torn nodded and they got up and walked over to there commanding officer. "Hey, can we borrow a zoomer so we can get back to our regular patrol duties?" Errol asked, since he was such a big suck up to everyone the higher guards often let it slip that he spoke to them in a casual way.

"Well I know for a fact you aren't going back on your patrols but you're doing no good sitting here like a bunch of lazy ass lumps in the dirt, go ahead." He said barley looking at them.

They flew over the city and were able to get to the palace in good time. They turned off the zoomer and jumped off before it even landed and jumped off. Running into the first floor of the palace they made there way over to the tattoo room. Outside the room they saw a girl (looked about seventeen) she had red hair and freshly applied tattoo's on her face. Torn did not remember seeing her in training but she did look familiar, and then it hit him. He saw her when he went to get his tattoos back when he first became a real guard.

"Hey! Ashelin, right?" Errol said as he slowed to a stop in front of her.

"Maybe, who's talking?" She asked folding her arms and shifting her weight from one foot to another.

"I'm Errol this is Torn, I've seen you around; you're the Barron's daughter aren't you?"

"Yeah." Obviously she didn't trust strangers who knew her name very well because she was being very cold to them.

"Well did you see a girl around here, blond hair, dark green eyes, probably lookin' on the verge to kill something?" Torn asked.

"Veronica?" Ashelin asked; the boys exchanged glances confused on how she knew her name. "Yeah I met her yesterday, she was hanging out her until she got her tat's apparently that new girl trashed her dorm. Luckily girl got off one day early."

"Is she still here or did we miss her?" Torn asked her.

"Neither, she never showed." Torn and Errol looked surprised. "She left late last night, don't know why. She just got up and left, when I talked to her she didn't seem very sure about what she was doing, maybe she had second thoughts."

"Do you now where she went?" Errol asked.

"Don't know don't care." Ashelin said and she walked off in the direction of the throne room.

"Maybe she's hanging out at her sisters, we can go there see if she made an appearance." Errol suggested.

Nodding Torn headed outside and back to the zoomer far calmer then they were when they entered but they were both worried. They drove to the slum area of the city and parked in front of an old apartment. They pushed a call button and a few seconds later a female voice answered.

"Hello?" Her voice was high sounded sweet and a little perky.

"Tess?" Torn asked into the speaker.

"Yeah, hi Torn!" She said, Tess knew the whole KG gang because when they went out she often went with them. "What's up?"

"Is Vee there?" Errol asked.

"Well, no, isn't she at the palace?" Tess asked sounding a little worried and confused.

"No, she never showed to get her tattoo's done. "

"Come up." Tess said and Torn opened the door up, they headed to the apartment that the sisters shared. When Tess opened to the door to her apartment for they could clearly see she was working on a new gun because of the parts scattered all over the room and the grease smudges on her hands and face.

"What do you mean she never showed? How do you know? Maybe she just left early." She suggested.

"No, we talked to Ashelin, she said Vee never showed." Errol said.

"Well she couldn't have gotten far." Tess said whipping her hands off on a towel. "We'll spilt up, Errol you take the slums, Torn Industrial, I'll take the Bazaar."

"I'll call up the guys, maybe they've seen her around." Torn said and took out his communicator. He pressed a few buttons and soon Aarons voice came over.

"Yeah?"

"Hey Aaron, have you seen Vee?"

"No, why?"

"She's missing."

"Since when?" Aaron asked a little surprised.

"Last night, could ya look around?"

"Of course." Aaron said and Torn hung up. "Dammit." He said to himself and put the communicator back on his belt.

"Okay, Aaron and Marcus are going to look." Torn said.

"Meet back here in two hours?" Tess said, they nodded and went off to look.

Not only had two hours passed but three months passed, no one found her. They assumed she skipped out to the wasteland to try and find Jen but no one knew. Tess was broken up, she loved her sister but held out that she was still alive saying that she was strong and could handle anything that's thrown at her. Torn didn't know though, he wanted to believe she was alive and out looking for and maybe even with Jen in the wastelands but he couldn't.

Things also changed drastically over the past few months. Errol was far more distant to him and the rest of the gang. He was already a high ranking guard from all his sucking up. And the higher he climbed the more cold he became. Torn had also slowly becoming more important he had natural leadership skills and that helped him out a lot. And to prove he was become more important the tattoo's he had were beginning to creep down his chest. He thought that within a year or two he would have tattoo's on his arms as well.

He walked in the palace, Ashelin had made herslef more known in the city and was crawling up the ranks quicker then anyone (but of course she had advantages), the only thing different was she refused to gte the tattoos anywhere other then her face. but her importance was well known anyway. Torn was still keeoing an eye out for Vee but he doubted that he would ever see her again. It was a shame, she was nice...

AN: Aw... she's gone... And people I have to say the only reaosn I made them sisters was becasue they both had blond hair and Tess kinda looks like my sister... except mine is smarter (no offence to Tess fans). Now is where I would normally name off the people who reviewed but I have two billion windows opened and I am reeeeeally not in the mood to open another and look. And yes all these windows are damn important! No... they're really not... well review and I'll see ya'll later!