Chapter 3: The Beginning
Topaz turned to see what was coming after her, and had her worst fears confirmed - it was a gnosis. Luckily, she had just enough time to move out of its way before it collided with the AGWS unit. Ugh! Why couldn't I have been wrong! Instinctively, she fired two shots of electro beams from her mech in an effort to slow the gnosis down in an attempt get away, but it was all in vain. The shots missed and the gnosis contiued charging at her. Letting her fear get the best of her, she sped off into the middle of nowhere, praying that the gnosis might give up and leave.
The chase went on for only fifteen minutes or so, but for Topaz, it seemed like hours. Whenever it got close to her, she fired off more electro beams, resulting in more failed attempts to fend the gnosis off. Nothing's working... What the hell am I gonna do! I gotta think of something, though... I refuse to die at the hands of a damn gnosis! She turned around to try to go back to the wreckage, either losing the gnosis among the junk or getting attacked by more. She knew her odds of survival were pretty low, no matter what she decided. To her mixture of surprise and relief, her radar began to pick up signs of a ship off far in the distance. Topaz wasn't sure if she should go there and beg for help or go there to warn the passengers, but she kept flying in the direction that the ship was located.
On the ship that Topaz's radar picked up, the passengers' emotions varied from curiosity, relief, to anger. The captain, Matthews, was having a conversation with the ship's new passengers. In the span of a few minutes, they had already picked up three new guests. Shion Uzuki and Allen Ridgeley, who were both scientists at Vector, along with KOS-MOS, a battle android built by Vector. After everybody had been introduced, Matthews was praising chaos, an enigmatic, silver haired boy.
Shion was about to scold KOS-MOS for disobeying her during an important incident, when the ship picked up two objects coming towards the craft.
As her AGWS unit approched the ship by another mile or two, Topaz opened up a channel on the Undus Mundus Network, or the UMN, to tell the ship to get out of there.
"Hey! You people in the ship! Unless you wanna get killed by a friggin' gnosis, you better get the heck outta here!", she yelled.
"What the hell! A gnosis! You've gotta be kidding! ...You are kidding, right?", Matthews asked nervously.
"Why would I joke about somethin' like that! Look, I'm comin' up on your ship. You better start movin' if you value your lives!", Topaz was growing irritated. Why aren't they moving! Do they want to die...?
The crew of the ship, The Elsa, were so engrossed in the conversation, they didn't even bother to look out the windows of the ship.