"everyone ready?" Archerson asked as his pod slid onto the magnetic catapult line with the others.
"no, but let's do it anyways" Jr said as the marines held onto their harnesses.
"hey Captain, this is Miyuki, Wilson made enough pods for supply drops for ya as well, along with two more lines for some extras. We're gonna use the two lines for two other teams of security forces if that's alright with you" Miyuki said over a com channel.
"well, not like we'd ever get another chance in the future to use em. Wilson, why the fuck did you make excess?" Archerson asked.
"in the event we needed to retreat and try again sir?" Wilson squeaked out.
"mmm, good point. Alright then, let's rock and roll!" the captain yelled out as the catapult hurled all the pods out at the same time, like a giant missile launcher. Archerson hit the old cd player he had taped on the inside of his pod and played Steppinwolf's "magic carpet ride" all the way down as the marines cheered, all pods entering the atmosphere.
All E.Ss save the Dinah swarmed the pods along with two squadrons of fighters and three cruisers firing orbital rounds to drop the locks on the pods as they slipped in.
"we got a landing solution on the missile platforms, most of em anyways, three per zone, two zones per sector, three in all. Once we take them out it should be pretty easy to handle anything else thrown our way" Magen said.
"that's if they don't pull anything we don't know about, remember your training grunt" Archerson said over the music just as they broke through re-entry.
"heads up! Land in five! LZ is hot! Gut check time!" Archerson barked as the other pods in the federation marine's squads winked green.
Archerson heard snoring coming from Greys pod and yelled out just as the sniper woke up, the pods slamming into the ground and blowing their doors. The ODSTs were quick on their feet, far better than their federation counterparts as they rushed forward, zig zagging towards one platform as the music from the pod still played on.
"hostiles three o clock on primary tier, head em off Greys!" Magen yelled as three quick rounds pierced the air, followed by three blips on her helmets hud disappearing and a sound of an ejecting clip come from their sniper. Greys was using an armor piercing slug for the fight, ignoring almost all forms of modern battle armor, and though he could only carry three rounds per clip, it was well worth not running into any odd tech he didn't know about.
"explosives are ready" Wilson said as Archerson sprayed down two Milido marines with his SMG before throwing a grenade around the corner, the federation marines having a hard time getting to their position.
"oh wonderful… sergeant Cooper is having a field day keeping up with us…" Magen said as she flipped around and fired her MA6B at two soldiers turning the corner before they slid and jumped back away, calling in reinforcements.
"fine… I'LL go get them here…" Helden said as he ran out, dodged an explosion before rolling and diving behind cover, snap firing before he vaulted over the debris two federation soldiers hid behind.
"hey vatos! Whatchu doin sittin here? Come on! The party is just starting!" he grinned inside his helmet as he threw two grenades over the cover and waited five seconds before sticking his head out and firing.
"Marine my ass! That the best you can do?" Helden yelled out as he sprayed two soldiers down before reloading a clip, a sniper round flying over his head and hitting another sniper taking aim on him.
"thanks man! I owe you!" Helden waved to the air as Greys winked his green light in response.
"all charges set! We're clear!" Magen yelled out to everyone.
"chicken is in the coop" one federation soldier said.
"cook it" Archerson barked as all their side evacuated and detonated the explosives.
"hell yes! Boy do I love my job!" Wilson cheered as the last of the Milido soldiers regrouped.
"we got contacts coming in from the side lines, convoy on five, welcome committee is here" Michaels said.
"take up positions, that's three down, we still have thirty to go after these bastards are gone" Archerson said as the marines dug in under cover as the federation soldiers caught up.
"sir, unknown hostiles, moving in fast, I get the feeling they're… E.Ss get the hell out of here! We got covenant Banshees cutting in quick!" Greys yelled out suddenly as Archerson's stomach sunk.
In the distance, on the horizon, another convoy, much larger than the Milido reinforcements, started moving in, cutting the Milido marines off as explosions were seen in the background.
"fuck, we got covies in this sector! Just when things were looking up…" Wilson grumbled as the federation soldiers cheered.
"get your fucking heads down they aren't friendly you retards!" Archerson barked as the sergeant in charge looked at him oddly.
"but sir, they just took out the backup, are you sure?" the federation soldier said before a beam rifle caught him in the neck, his head rolling slightly as the beam vaporized a good portion of his shoulders.
"sniper! Get your heads down!" Archerson yelled as the federation soldiers took cover as the covenant moved towards them.
"shit, Wilson, com link? Did we handle the ecm?" Archerson asked as Wilson looked up at him. The tech nodded his head as he went back to raising his rifle, the captain cursing.
"wonderful, we can get in touch with our Spartan" Michaels said.
"any ideas?" the captain asked.
"there's no way around them, and with the shit we have it'll take a bit of effort to take out that armored column" Magen said as she shouldered a rocket launcher.
"fine, we do it the old fashioned way" Archerson said.
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3 hours later, nearby
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Garrett heard weird com chatter come over his radio as he swapped suddenly from one channel to the next, the same voice on every channel. His goggles were doing something odd, and he saw what looked like ghostly images of people moving around in front of him, completely oblivious to his form nearby. He looked around and suddenly saw what looked like an x-ray view into the ground of thousands of gnosis, all swarming and moving.
"Garrett are you ok?" Shion asked as he suddenly turned around at the sound of her voice.
"I'm… fine. Everything ok in the village?" Garrett said before taking another look behind him, the images gone.
"yeah, it's morning just about, just thought I'd see the sunset before the breakfast is made. Chaos is cooking right now. Shouldn't you eventually get some sleep now that everything is fine?" Shion asked.
"it's never fine, there's always a chance of a patrol coming too close" he said just as an energy signature was seen on the horizon of his radar.
"something's wrong…" Garrett closed his hand in a silence motion as he checked his sensors. The energy signature was trying to be hidden, and from what he knew exactly the tech that could ocillate the frequency he was seeing on his sensors.
"Shion, tell Chaos to evacuate the villagers, I've got covenant coming!" Garrett yelled out as he waved for her to run back.
"what? Are you serious? Here?" Shion gasped.
"get them out of here now! I'll try and draw them off, buy you some time, get going!" he yelled and ran towards the nearby mountainside, and flared his energy signature on all wave bands of detection. If he worked at it, he could light himself up like a Christmas tree and make the covenant track him instead of heading in the direction the village was.
"Garrett! Wait!" Shion yelled off as Chaos ran up, wondering what was going on.
"he's… Chaos, there are covenant from his world here, he's going to try and keep them away from us! We have to get the village evacuated!" Shion told him.
"but what about Garrett? How can he do that?" Chaos asked.
"I don't know, but we can't worry about him right now, we have too many lives at stake! Go wake up KOS-MOS!" Shion asked.
"I am already awake, what is wrong Shion?" KOS-MOS walked toward them as they stood at the edge of the village.
"KOS-MOS, you've got to help us, we have to get the village away from here, but I don't know of any hiding places nearby" Shion said.
"we can head to the caves I told you about, they are quite safe and well hidden" Chaos told her.
"ok, let's get to work" Shion said just as a red AMWS, what looked like an E.S, flew in and made a pass to grab KOS-MOS. She rolled to the side and looked up as it flew by them, and turned to stare.
"Well well, she's a quick one isn't she?" a male voice was heard.
"what did I tell you Hagen? He has good taste in women for the most part. It will take quite a bit of effort to control this wild one" a female voice was heard from another E.S, this one looking similar to Dinah but dark blue and long angel wings on it's back.
"oh Nalia, she can't be that bad now can she? We just have to not harm her until we bring her to Albert" Hagen said from the red mech, half of which looked to be the lower part of Asher, the other half Joseph.
"well, I guess we shouldn't debate this, let's grab her and leave quickly, those aliens nearby are quite a handful and why fight them when these people will do it for us" Nalia said from Mali, the blue mech.
"an E.S? but I thought all of them were destroyed save ours!" Shion gasped as she stared at both of them.
"just because we had our E.Ss Shion, does not mean more were not created, they simply didn't have the animas powering them" Chaos said as he waited for the next attack.
"oh come now, you really think you can stop us little man?" Hagen said as a volley of stun grenades flew out all around them, and KOS-MOS rushed in to guard Shion and knock Chaos out of the way. The grenades hit her back, one of which fell next to Shion and stunned both of the women, as Chaos rolled across the ground from the push and tried to stop her.
"as defensive as ever, a pure heart, I can see why he likes her" Nalia giggled as KOS-MOS fell to one knee, Shion knocked out from the first grenade.
KOS-MOS struggled to rise as her body was no longer a machine, tired from the first grenade attack before turning her head to see another volley.
"KOS-MOS!" Chaos yelled out as Mali stopped him from running forward to help her.
"so this is Yeshua, I can't believe you've lasted this long, but no need to talk, business is business" Nalia said as she rushed her mech towards him and knocked him towards the village.
The grenade volley hit, KOS-MOS trying to push Shion out of the way as it struck her back, again tiring her to the point of unconsciousness.
"one more…" Hagen said as he fired a third volley, this one KOS-MOS throwing her knife on her boot towards one, priming it's fuse and destroying the whole volley.
"damn it, she still has a few tricks up her sleeve" Hagen cursed as he fired two more volleys, just in case. They hit, and she fell, still trying to shield Shion from the attack, the small brown haired woman not able to survive more than two of the grenades, and ten were flying towards them. KOS-MOS fell to the ground on top of Shion, unconscious.
"no, damn you!" Chaos yelled
"finally, she takes quite a beating before going down. Let's retrieve her and get them out of here" Hagen said as he walked forward, picking up the limp KOS-MOS and Shion before flying off.
"bye bye little Yeshua, we'll play again soon" Nalia said as both mechs flew off towards the horizon.
"no… this can't be happening…" Chaos said as he saw an ear piece, what looked like a black ODST com rig Shion dropped that Garrett gave her.
"Shion, I heard gunfire, what's your status over" Garrett said as Chaos picked it up.
"Garrett, are you there?" Chaos asked.
"I'm here, where is Shion?" Garrett asked.
"she and KOS-MOS were taken, I don't know where, where are you?" Chaos asked.
"taken? Where?" Garrett asked as Chaos heard growling and roaring of a brute attacking.
"I don't know, we have to save them!" Chaos asked.
"currently occupied, that will be the next on my agenda" Garrett responded as Chaos heard gunfire from his rifle.
"Garrett, what's happening? Are you alright? Everything is happening so fast" Chaos asked.
"as I said, currently occupied, I'll talk to you later. Are the villagers safe?" the Spartan asked as Chaos heard a plasma blade ignite.
"I haven't told them yet" Chaos explained.
"then light a fire under your ass and get going, I can't hold these bastards forever" Garrett responded as he snap fired towards a group of brutes, doing no more than piss them off as he vaulted over a rock.
"but what about Shion?" Chaos asked.
"as I said, next on the agenda, focus on the here and now, now get your shit together and move!" Garrett suddenly snapped as he struggled with a brute landing on him.
"ok" Chaos said as he rushed off towards the villagers.
Garrett heard com chatter as he ran away, leading the covenant forces as far as he could make them go.
"one four by nine! Go long! Go long!" was heard over his com rig as he listened intently.
"this is Spartan 003 calling any friendly in the area, ODST call on high, status check respond over" Garrett asked as he heard gunfire over the coms.
"move! Move! Those bastards are gonna overrun us!" Garrett heard a federation marine yell out just as a mortar round was heard in the background.
"Garrett! Yo vato! Is that you! Idios mios is it good to hear from you again!" Helden cheered as the other ODSTs hollered out.
"what's your status and location?" Garrett asked.
"currently? Fucked sir, and our location is kinda mobile at the moment. We're under heavy fire from the Covenant. They found us sir" Helden said as he opened fire, a brute in the background roaring from the bullets.
"what's your zone private, and relay me to Archerson" Garrett asked as he tried to swap to his psi eye, concentrating hard as the soreness through his body started to tense his muscles. He could see the marines were not that far, a good twenty miles from their position on the other side of the mountains, hence not seeing any combat flares or mortar rounds.
"trying to sir, hold that thought" Helden said as he barked an order to a federation marine hiding.
"Corporal, explain to me what you did to wake up these damned hairy bastards, cause I know for a fact they didn't know we were here beforehand while shooting up the Milido morons" Archerson yelled out as he fired a full clip towards the covenant.
"I didn't wake them up sir, but I'll see if we can't make it to your position" Garrett responded as he looked at the two others.
"negative, ground fire is too hot and your position would take you forever and a day to reach us. Baker where the fuck is that transport?!" Archerson barked as a federation soldier ran up.
"currently about to land sir, they're reaching our location any second now" he said.
"bullshit! Have him turn around and pick up our Spartan!… now marine!" Archerson yelled as the corporal nodded scared and ran back to the communication systems.
"lift off in five corporal, accept the quick flight and get here asap" Archerson said as Garrett acknowledged.
"negative sir, I think I've found another route there" Garrett responded as he ran full speed towards a ghost hover cycle and boarded it, landing on the front and kicking out the driver, before flipping it around with plasma fire flaring against the sides before gunning it towards a hillock and jumping the cycle towards a banshee, and boarding that as well.
"what do you mean other route?" Archerson asked just as Garrett kicked the jackal out of the cockpit.
"inbound sir, sit tight" Garrett said as he flew towards the other side of the mountanside, the covenant soldiers trying to follow and calling in phantoms to pick them up.
Garrett cleared the side of the mountains to see turmoil on the ground, plasma fire traded for rifle fire as the marines fell back, mortar tanks smoking as rockets lanced out from a few Spnkr 42s, telling him the ODSTs were split up amongst the federation soldiers. He swerved the banshee towards the covenant and began a banking fire, sliding the banshee right as the plasma flowed from the twin nozzles on the face of the fighter.
"Garrett, might I ask, is the stupid floaty purple thing in the sky you? Cause it missed fucking half the shit it was attacking" Archerson smirked, lying as a trail of death was seen.
"sorry for the poor aim sir, I'll try better this time" Garrett responded as he pulsed the fuel rod cannon, the round flung towards a transport before knocking out it's engine, sending it careening into the mountainside as three more followed past it.
"Garrett, banshees heads up!" Magen yelled as twin rockets flew out and intercepted two purple flying creatures of impending doom to the aerial Spartan.
"thanks for the rescue, returning favor soon" Garrett responded as he flipped the banshee and boosted down towards the marines, making a hard turn right at the last second and firing both plasma cannons and fuel rod cannon at the same time.
"covenant are retreating, guess they were just testing the defenses here" Wilson said as Garrett saw the blips start to fall back.
"why the hell would they fall back? They could have had us with the position we had…" Archerson sighed as Garrett realized just where they were pushed to, open terrain, no covering to speak of. They would have been shelled into the ground.
"ok, lets get away from this sector for a bit, we still have some shit to handle" Archerson said as the marines started to pile into the relief transports for dust off.
"Captain, Shion and KOS-MOS have been captured, we should mount a rescue operation" Garrett asked as he flew next to the dropship.
"wait, what?" Archerson asked.
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2 hours later
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"so she's been captured. I'm guessing we need to mount a rescue operation" Archerson said.
"that's what Garrett just said" Jr. said over the com rig. The marines were still groundside, and the anti orbit weaponry was still for the most part untouched aside from three destroyed.
"we don't have any back up though, we can't send anything through while those things are still operational" Allen said on another screen.
"well, we could technically send a few more troops down through the window the Helljumpers opened for us, it would take some time, but they could widen the control zone and give everyone some breathing room" Togashi said.
"that's not a bad idea. They could finish off what we need to get out of here and pull KOS-MOS and the rest back before anything bad happens" Greys said.
"alright, here's what we're gonna do" Archerson said as the others huddled around him.
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Another 2 hours later
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KOS-MOS looked around, blurry eyed as she woke up, her head splitting. She pressed her hand to her head, the world spinning as she tried to get up.
"ah, you shouldn't be moving my dear, I am sorry my people were so hard on you, you were so insistant on not leaving" a voice said as a cold wet cloth was placed towards her forehead. She looked up at saw Albert sitting next to her, pressing the cloth to her. She leapt backwards on the bed she was laying on and pressed against the back of the pillows as he backed off.
"it is alright, you are fine, I won't hurt you, you know it my dear KOS-MOS" Albert smiled.
"why am I here? What do you intend to do with me?" KOS-MOS asked, her face stern.
"as I told you, I won't hurt you, I'd never harm that precious face" Albert said as he reached out the brush his hand across her cheek. She slapped his hand away quickly and got up on the other side, still woozy from the grenades before falling back.
"you shouldn't move sweetheart, it wouldn't be wise, the effects are quite strong, I'm surprised you took that many, such a noble thing to protect Shion" Albert said as he put his hands on her shoulders, easing her down. She flipped him over her shoulder and rolled over the bed, trying to find a way to escape.
"What did you do with Shion? Where is she? If you have done anything to her…" KOS-MOS shaded her eyes towards him as she became angry.
"agh, I didn't expect that…" Albert said as four guards aimed their rifles at KOS-MOS, another helping him up from the fall.
"she is fine KOS-MOS, she is well and being held in another room. But you should sleep, you have a big day ahead of you" Albert calmed down.
"take me to her now" KOS-MOS commanded as she stood defensively.
Albert sighed.
"very well, if it will make you settle down, but I am telling you she is fine" Albert said as he motioned towards a door nearby to the bedroom, and KOS-MOS looked at it. A Guard opened the door and in ran Shion, looking around before spotting KOS-MOS, and ran to her.
"oh my god, are you alright KOS-MOS? Did he do anything to you?" Shion asked as she hugged her friend, looking at Albert as KOS-MOS stood there.
"Shion, are you ok? Did he hurt you?" KOS-MOS asked.
"no, no I'm fine, but what did he do to you? Anything?" Shion asked her.
"nothing, yet. I do not know as of yet what his plans are for me" KOS-MOS said to her friend.
"future plans are so hard to pursue these days, life throws incomprehensible curve balls in our direction every day, jobs, wars, politics, love" Albert smiled towards KOS-MOS.
"what do you want from me? I am not going to be part of anything you wish of me, at all" KOS-MOS sternly said.
"not even for the sake of your friend?" Albert asked as the Guards aimed at Shion.
"you said you wouldn't harm her" KOS-MOS said.
"simply hear me out, and say yes, and she will not be harmed" Albert said as KOS-MOS looked at their chances. She couldn't block all of the rounds in her current state, and Shion would be killed.
"very well… speak" KOS-MOS replied.
"wonderful. Now, you say you are human correct? Albeit superhuman in all cases of the word" Albert smiled, cheerful again.
"yes" KOS-MOS replied.
"then this is great news! Tell me, do you have any interests yet? Family? Any hobbies? A loved one perhaps?" Albert asked.
"what are you getting at? Tell me now" KOS-MOS asked.
"oh, come now, I simply want to know what you are trying to move on towards. Are your ambitions towards ever finding love? When this is all over, would you be interested in settling down?" Albert asked.
"what are you intending. Speak now, do not ask anymore of these questions" KOS-MOS told him.
"fine, fine. I will come clean. KOS-MOS, I, Albert Vanburen, am in love with you" Albert made a grand motion with his hands towards her.
KOS-MOS was silent.
"which is why I ask, would you be with me? I know, I know, it is so sudden, but you see, I couldn't bare you to be with anyone else. Every heart's desire you wish for will be fulfilled, every thing you could want will be given, I will do everything possible to care for you. What do you say? Hmm? Say yes, KOS-MOS, and be mine" Albert asked, putting his hand out for her to grab, expecting her to leap into his arms.
KOS-MOS thought for a moment as she saw him do this.
"I will not. I do not have any feelings towards you in any way, and the fact that you have gone through all of this trouble to be hostile towards us and fight instead of talk has proven you are an evil man that must be stopped" KOS-MOS replied.
Albert frowned.
"but my dear, I have done all of this for you, just to be with you, you must realize that" Albert said, trying to smile again.
"you have attacked innocent people, attacked my friends and have tried to take me hostage twice, one successful, and have fought to claim me as a prize to be won. I will do nothing of the sort" KOS-MOS told him.
"oh my, so cold right now you are. You don't seem to see things from my position my dear. KOS-MOS, search your heart, don't you feel even a little bit attracted? Can you love anyone? Has anyone shown affection towards you?" Albert asked.
"leave us alone" KOS-MOS asked.
"no one has have they? They see you as a friend don't they? No feelings towards you, as you were once a machine, so they see you as equipment. That is so sad to hear KOS-MOS. I don't see you as that, as simply another gun. You are important to me. Please. If it will make you feel better, I will stop my men from attacking anything, they will hereby stop all hostilities. I simply needed to have my people land, you understand right? All of this arguing over who could land on Earth, it was too much. Morale improves with victory, you understand right?" Albert explained.
"no, I do not, and I do not feel the same way towards you" KOS-MOS said simply.
"KOS-MOS, it is very complicated I know, but don't worry. Give me some time to show you how I feel, then everything will sort itself out. Please. No one else will do the same for you. Let me try to touch your heart" Albert said as sirens were heard nearby.
"what's going on?" Shion asked.
"sir, there's a transport of unknown registry moving nearby, they haven't detected us yet" a soldier said.
"show me" Albert said as a screen floated in mid air, showing a pelican flying towards an LZ.
"it's currently under fire by another unknown transport, a dog fight is happening" the soldier said.
"it's that damnable black armored soldier again…" Albert sighed as the screen showed Garrett manning a chain turret on the back of the pelican as the phantom attacked them, firing behind as the pelican banked to dodge the attacks.
"should we destroy them?" the soldier asked.
Albert looked towards KOS-MOS and his eyes softened.
"no. attack the purple transport instead. I will show you KOS-MOS, I am not a bad man, give me a chance" Albert said as the cannons from the cloaked ship fired, slamming into the small transport and flaring against it's shields.
"sir, the attack was resisted" the soldier suddenly told him.
"what? How?" Albert's attention moved away from the woman as the phantom tried to figure out what attacked them. Garrett took advantage of this by jumping out of the pelican and landing, the shields shimmering as they tried to slide him off before he placed an emitter over it and a hole opened, Garrett falling through and landing on the hull of the purple ship.
"incredible, how did he survive the landing?" Albert asked as the Spartan surfed on top of the ship before smashing his armored fist into the hull, pulling it away before scanning the wiring. He started to hack into the controls and disabled the engines as the pelican flipped about, firing a volley of missiles just as Garrett ran and leapt off the Phantom, soaring through the air to land with a loud clang on top of the transport, before flipping under the back wings and jumping into the cargo bay.
"that is a very impressive marine" the Milido marine said, surprised.
"Spartan" KOS-MOS whispered as she watched, twin blue goggles checking the area outside.
"we've hacked into their com channels as well" the marine said as he brought up vocal.
"any sign of any ship in the area?" Archerson asked.
"nothing sir, still scanning for KOS-MOS's life signs. Nadda" Garrett responded.
"Garrett… I'm right here…" KOS-MOS whispered as the pelican started to move away from the area.
"understood, we'll try another zone" Archerson said.
"Garrett we're right here!" KOS-MOS yelled out as the com channel closed.
"enough. KOS-MOS, I am asking you to be mine, please say yes, I am telling you you won't be disappointed" Albert sternly said as he smiled.
"our friends are looking for us, I won't go anywhere near you" KOS-MOS responded.
Albert frowned.
"you will be mine, even if I have to force you to see it my way. Guards" Albert motioned as two guards moved toward them. Shion tried to attack one but was caught mid air by Hagen as KOS-MOS tried to fight back, Nalia flipping out of the shadows and pinning her.
"what are you going to do? Let us go!" Shion yelled as Nalia placed a collar around KOS-MOS's neck, the little device activating as KOS-MOS's eyes went into a trance.
"see? She's already seeing it my way" Albert smiled as Nalia checked to make sure KOS-MOS wouldn't fight, and sure enough, she slowly got up and stood there, motionless.
"What did you do to her?!" Shion yelled out as KOS-MOS stared like a zombie.
"I'm simply giving her a view of what she should be doing, that's all. She'll see it my way for quite some time. My princess, come to me" Albert said as he put his hand out. KOS-MOS slowly walked towards him and Shion yelled out, trying to break away from the large man holding her. He was quite strong, overly strong for his body, and Nalia moved as fast as KOS-MOS.
KOS-MOS put her hand out and took Albert's in hers, and he smiled.
"together, finally. You will see KOS-MOS, everything will be shown soon. You should freshen up though. Take Shion to the other room, my dear will wish to change into something more comfortable" Albert said as KOS-MOS simply stared at him in a trance, her eyes glazed over.
"no. NO! leave her alone!" Shion yelled out.
"Shion, I do not know what you think I will do, but it will not hurt her in anyway. She will simply dress more accordingly, not in this armor she has. It is very unfitting" Albert scowled as he surveyed the blue haired woman.
"I believe the dress on the table would definitely suit you" Albert said as Shion was forced into the other room.
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"did you catch that vocal on channel four?" Archerson yelled out over the wind.
"Yes sir, it was KOS-MOS, point six two on the high front, cloaked ship, energy signature loud and clear. Shion was nearby after I flipped through their security" Wilson said as he tracked all com chatter on his mainframe.
"good, now to start phase 2" Archerson replied.