Incase you're wondering, Kyle and my other characters just got out of high school. Kyle is about 18 and so are most of my other characters.

Chapter 2

The Stranger from Above

Kyle

Kyle lay in the crater he had created. His skin had been completely burned off, his clothes had been burned as well, and he had lost consciousness.

Suddenly, his eyes shot open, but they were not green like before. This time they were red. His A.I. had taken over. He looked around at the trees above him, analyzing his surroundings. He then sat up slowly and with no emotion or pain.

The screen in his eyes showed two objectives:

Blend with society.

Survive.

Kyle looked over his body, which was still metallic and burnt. He closed his eyes and concentrated. After a second, his body began regenerating its skin starting from the limbs. The pink and red flesh, which was once burnt, was now crawling over Kyle's metal body at a quick pace. The only area not covered by the skin were his arms.

When that was finished, Kyle opened his eyes and looked toward a small clump of trees. A beam of light was bleeding through them. Kyle stood up, again with no pain, and walked toward the foliage, brushing away the hanging branches and leaves.

When he reached the clearing, he saw a wooden shack. The shack had smoke coming out of the chimney and there were at least six cars and trucks parked outside. Kyle pushed past the bush in front of him and walked toward the shack.

Kyle reached the door and opened it. Inside, there were eight other men along with a few women. They all looked like the kind of person who loves to hunt (I'm not really sure what a Japanese huntsman looks like, so just use your imagination).

It didn't take long for the huntsmen and their girlfriends to notice Kyle standing in the doorway.

Kyle scanned the room and the huntsmen. As he was doing so, one of them grabbed an axe from their side of the room and walked toward him. Once he had reached Kyle, his scan was complete. He looked into the face of the huntsman who was now face to face with him axe and hand.

"Well, well. Nice night for a walk, isn't it?" The huntsman said with a smirk.

"Nice night for a walk… isn't it?" Kyle repeated with a blank face.

The huntsman frowned. "What are you doing on my property?"

"What are you doing on my property?" Kyle repeated again with the same blank face and tone.

At this point, a second huntsman, a younger man, gets up and looks at Kyle, annoyed. "It must be another user. Hey!" He shouted. "Get out of here! Go away!"

Kyle looked at the younger man. A second later, he pushed the first huntsman and walked up to him. Kyle looked over him for a minute, and then resumed eye contact.

"Your clothes… give them to me." Kyle said.

The huntsmen grumbled to themselves. The younger huntsman was taken aback by this.

"Hey! What the Hell is this? Who are you?" The younger huntsman demanded.

"Who are you?" Kyle repeated.

"That's it!" The first huntsman shouted as he swung his axe at Kyle, only to have it broken in two on impact. Kyle raised his right leg and kicked the first huntsman out the door.

The other seven huntsmen stood up to fight Kyle while the women ran into another room. Two of them jumped onto Kyle, but he threw them off with ease making them crash into the wall behind him. The next few huntsmen were beaten down when they charged Kyle with metal spokes. They all took direct blows to the face, sending them to the hard ground. One of them did land a hit on Kyle, but when the metal spoke collided with Kyle's face, all it did was bounce off and vibrate, causing the huntsman to drop it. Kyle then grabbed the huntsman's face and pushed him down.

Kyle scanned the room filled with knocked out huntsmen and the remainder of the house. After a solid ten seconds, Kyle looked at a closet door, which was not closed before. He walked toward it and when he reached the door, he ripped it off like it was paper. Behind it was the cowering younger huntsman, who was shaking like he was on ice.

"W-wait! Please don't kill me! I thought Angeloids were supposed to be good? You know, like the ones that Tomoki's got."

Kyle stopped for a moment and cocked his head. "Elaborate."

"Well…" The huntsman continued, still shaking. "This Tomoki guy… he goes to me school, right? He's got like five of them at his house or something. They've got these god-like powers that could probably rival Goku's!"

Kyle was considering what he had just heard. On his screen, he was calculating one thousand different situations where someone with that kind of power would be in and what they would do. In the end, the screen read: "Angeloids Threat: 68 percent."

As he received the calculation, he heard a gunshot coming from behind him. He turned to see one of the huntsman's girlfriends holding an elephant gun and pointing it at his head.

"Leave my boyfriend's son alone you freak!" She shouted.

Kyle noticed that she was holding the gun nervously and was shaking. Judging her by those traits, he predicted there was only a thirteen percent chance she would actually shoot him.

Kyle held up one of his arms toward her and changed it into one of his laser rifles. The woman saw this and trembled even more. Kyle looked her straight in the eye and raised an eyebrow. The woman dropped the gun and bolted from the room.

Kyle shifted his gun back into a hand as he looked at the closet. The boy was gone, but not far. Kyle turned his head and grabbed the boy who was crawling away by the collar and heaved him into the wall.

"Wait! This is my dad's place; I've got no clothes here! What am I supposed to do?"

Kyle did nothing. He just kept his pose and said, "Nice night for a walk… isn't it?"

X

Nymph

Nymph flew through the sky looking for the impact in the ground. The object didn't fall far from where she was, so she should see it soon.

After about a minute, she saw it. A crater about twenty feet in diameter in the middle of a dense forest. Normally when an angeloid appears, they would make a more dramatic appearance, but this was different. Almost as if it were an accident.

Oh no. I hope it's not something like Hiori or Chaos. Nymph thought as she swooped down to examine the impact zone.

Once Nymph reached the crater, she activated her scanner. Her eyes turned from blue too red. She looked over the scorched field, curiously.

"This can't be right." She said as her eyes turned back to normal. "My scanner says an angeloid was here, but the elements left by it are unknown." That's when Nymph noticed a trail of footprints leading into the woods. She walked toward the trail and looked down at the man-sized shoe print.

"Wait a minute. Angeloids aren't supposed to be man-sized, and if it was going to kill us all the way in Sorami… why is it walking?"

Suddenly, Nymph heard what sounded like a gunshot. She jumped at the sound and looked toward the noise's direction.

"Oh crap! That must be him!" Nymph looked around her, frantically. "No time to warn Ikaros or Astraea. I gotta stop him before someone gets killed!"

Nymph spread her wings and kicked off from the ground, soaring high into the sky. She activated her scanners again, searching for any signs of activity, until she found something. Small traces of gunpowder were burned in a wooden shack in a clearing.

"There he is." Nymph said in a confidant, but nervous tone. She knew it was one angeloid, or whatever he was, but she didn't know if she could handle one alone… not after last time. Last time, she got her wings torn off, not to mention she was next to useless in a fight.

She landed in front of the cabin gently. It looked fine on the outside, but Nymph knew better. In this situation, looks don't mean everything.

She began walking toward the cabin, but as she was, a boy burst through the front door. He was about sixteen with jet-black hair and was completely naked. Nymph recognized him from school, he was some guy who tried to impress Astraea with his hunting skills, but ended up letting Astraea use his gun, and… well… you get the picture.

The boy grabbed his exposed crotch and fled for the thick of the woods as fast as he could as Nymph watched.

Nymph looked at the boy, ashamed. "Jeez. Hate to be that guy."

Just then, the front door opened again. Nymph turned to look at the door once again and was shocked at what she saw.

In the door stood a large, semi-muscular teenage boy with blonde hair and green eyes. He was wearing a hunter's camouflage jacket along with boots, a black t-shirt, and camo pants. He walked out the door like a seemingly normal man, but something about him was… different. For some reason, instead of a normal teenage boy, he didn't slouch or show any emotion towards the previous boy running away naked.

It was him!

Nymph got into a fighting stance and readied her hacking field. "Who are you?" She demanded. The boy looked in her direction and stared at her for a while before she asked again. "I said who are you?"

She began to scan him for weapons and defenses. His body was made of human-like skin, but underneath was a metallic element she did not recognize, the same one from the crater. This guy was definitely the angeloid she was looking for.

Along with this, he had tucked away two arms that shape-shifted into two laser rifles, which had some extra features, but she didn't know exactly what they did. He also had material in his shoulders and elbows that suggested he could extend his arms to at least forty feet. Stranger yet, she detected something she would have never thought to find in an angeloid… a human heart, lungs, and brain adapted to being in a machine. This was no ordinary angeloid… what was he?

The boy closed the door and walked calmly toward Nymph. His eyes turned from green too red as he looked over her. He stopped about twenty feet from where she was standing and looked at her for an additional few seconds before he said anything.

"Are you an angeloid?" He asked in a voice that sounded like it was human, but was flat and emotionless.

Nymph began to get a little scared. "I… I am." She said instinctively.

"According to my calculations, there is a sixty eight percent chance that with your kind of power, you would cause harm to many innocent lives." Said the boy. "It is against my programing to allow that to happen. For the future of the many…" The boy extended his arm toward Nymph and changed it into a laser rifle, which glowed red at the end. "You will be terminated."

Nymph was scared, but confused by his statement. "Wait, but I'm not like that! I'm not a killer!"

The boy fired a stream of lasers at Nymph, who managed to fly into the air and dodge them just in time. Nymph looked back at the boy, who was re-focusing his aim. There was no getting through to him at this point.

The boy kept shooting at Nymph, but she kept flying through the air, dodging his attacks.

"Okay… try this on for size." Nymph said, raiding her hacking field to maximum range. As soon as she did, she used her skills to hack the plants to entangle the boy in roots. In a moment, every tree and bush obeyed her wishes, catching the boy off guard.

Nymph smiled in her success as she watched the boy struggle to escape.

"Wow. I can't believe that worked." Nymph said to herself. "I should really use that more often."

As she said that, Nymph's expression turned from relief to fear. The boy was ripping out the roots from the ground with ease and shooting the trees, setting them on fire. At this rate, he would escape in seconds.

"Oh crap." Nymph turned around and began to fly away, but as she was, the boy finished off the remaining plants and was re-aiming his laser at Nymph. He lined up his shot carefully until she was about a mile away, then he took the shot. The laser hit Nymph in the middle of her right wing, creating a hole the size of a golf ball.

The wound was small, but it hurt Nymph to the point where she was falling from the sky until… CRASH. Nymph hit the ground hard.

Nymph struggled to get to her feet, grunting as she did. After she successfully did, she took a look at her hurt wing. The wound left a burning mark in it. It could be fixed, but not for a while.

Nymph knew she had to get help, but before she could, something came lunged out from the tree line and landed on the ground twenty feet in front of her. It was the boy.

The boy stood up slowly, like a machine and looked at Nymph with a serious expression. He started to walk toward her, dramatically. The boy may be a machine, but that didn't stop him from having a sense of humor, plus there was no way Nymph could escape at this point. Knowing this, there was only one option left.

"PARADISE SONG!" Nymph shouted as an enormous energy beam erupted from her mouth, engulfing the boy. After about ten seconds, Nymph stopped her attack and sighed, believing it was over… she was wrong.

Nymph looked up at where the boy was, but instead of seeing a smoldering pile of ash or the boy, she saw the robotic remnants of him. The boy's clothes and skin had been obliterated, but his metallic insides were still completely unharmed.

Nymph's eyes widened, in disbelief. This was definitely not an angeloid. Whatever it was, she had to kill it now. She opened her mouth to let out another "Paradise Song," but as she began to speak, the boy's hand covered her mouth, sealing it.

Oh no. Nymph thought to herself, as she was trembling in fear.

"Enemy neutralized." The boy said, now in a robotic voice. "Retrieving locations of other angeloids now."

After he said that, he raised his right hand to Nymph's head. As he did, his index finger extended and touched her forehead, sprouting tiny mechanical wires that dug into her skin.

Nymph gasped as she felt herself being hacked. He was going to gain the locations of Astraea and Ikaros and there was nothing she could do… or was there?

Gathering all of her strength, Nymph took her right hand and pressed it against the boy's forehead aggressively. Her eyes turned from blue to red.

"Beginning counter hack." She said through the boy's hand. "Five percent complete… fifteen percent… twenty five percent…"

As she continued, she could feel herself becoming weaker and weaker, almost as if the boy was killing her from the inside out, but she couldn't stop now. She needed to protect her friends and her sisters.

"Fifty percent… sixty percent… sixty five percent…"

Nymph's vision began going dark. Her hacking field was also shrinking. She diverted all power from her body in order to remain conscious.

"Eighty percent… ninety percent… counter hack complete."

Nymph gave the boy the command to shut down immediately. As soon as she did, she could feel her body returning back to normal. Her vision returned and she could use her full strength again.

The boy retracted his index finger and wires as the retina of his eyes turned from red to black. Then nothing. The boy remained in the pose he was in as Nymph stared at the face of her would-be killer in dis-belief that she had defeated it.

In fear, Nymph kicked the boy's body onto the ground where it landed in a "clank." Nymph looked over the boy with curiosity.

"What are you?"

X

Astraea

Astraea sat at the table watching Nymph's sop-operas. She, of course, had no idea what was going on, but it was the only thing on and she couldn't figure out how to use the remote.

"When's Nymph gonna get back? I'm starving." She complained.

Just then, there was a knock at the door. Astraea jumped to her feet and sprinted toward the door.

"Yay! She's back!" She shouted with glee.

Astraea opened the door expecting to see Nymph with bags filled with snacks, but what she got was a bigger surprise. Her expression turned from happiness to worry as she saw Nymph carrying a metal man over her back, and from the condition of Nymph, she didn't have much strength left in her.

"Woah! What happened to you?" Astraea asked.

"This guy tried to kill me." Nymph said, gesturing toward the metal man on her back.

"Wait, so you bring him back here?"

"I'm curious about how he works, now help me carry him into the living room." Nymph said as she dragged the body.

"Oh, sure."

Astraea grabbed the man's feet and helped Nymph carry him to the center of the room. They set him down on the floor on his back and looked at him for a while. That's when Astraea noticed the hole in Nymph's wing.

She gasped. "Oh my god! Your wing!"

"Huh? Oh, yeah. It's fine." Nymph said, glancing at it. "It'll heal in a few hours."

They looked back at the metal man's lifeless body.

"So what are you gonna do with it?" Astraea asked.

Nymph scooted closer to the body and touched its' forehead as she attempted to hack it.

"Well… according to this thing's data banks, 'It' is actually called 'Kyle.' He is eighteen years old, and is a cyborg."

"A cyborg? Wow! Neato!"

"His human self must have been knocked out while his A.I. ran ramped through Sorami. Here, I'll wake him up."

As she activated him, Kyle's retina turned from black to green. Slowly, his skin began to regenerate around his body. After a few seconds, the task was completed and Kyle was fully functional. Immediately, he sat up.

"Asleep!" Kyle shouted as he sat up.

Kyle looked around the room with an expression of fear and confusion. "Wait… where am I? Who are you two?"

"It's okay." Nymph said in a normal voice. "You hit your head and you're A.I. almost destroyed the town. You're fine now."

That shocked Kyle. "I did?" He asked, scared. That's when he noticed Nymph's wing. "Did… I do that?"

"Oh, don't worry about it. It's nothing." Nymph said, waving off the subject.

"Oh don't say that, here." Kyle touched Nymph's broken wing. In a second, numerous tiny wires began sewing her wing back together. In a second, Nymph's wing was as good as new. "There you go." Kyle said, smiling.

Nymph looked at the wing in amazement, as did Astraea.

"Wow…" Nymph said. "Thank you."

Kyle looked up at the stares as footsteps were heard. Nymph and Astraea turned to look at where Kyle was looking and saw Ikaros, a curvy woman with short, pink hair and wearing a blue spaghetti strap shirt with short shorts.

"Why are you all yelling?" She asked in a quiet and emotionless tone. "Master is still asleep."

"Master?" Kyle asked.

"Oh, it's okay, Alpha." Nymph said. "This is Kyle, he's my guest."

Kyle looked at Ikaros and waved. Ikaros gave Kyle a blank stare.

"Why is he naked?" She asked.

"I'M NAKED?" Kyle shouted while covering his crotch. "No wonder it's cold in here!"

"Yeah, whatever. Just make yourself form clothes or something." Nymph said, doing her best to look Kyle in his eyes.

"It doesn't work like that." Kyle said. "I have to have actual clothes."

"Fine. Alpha, sneak into Tomoki's room and see if you can find something for him." Nymph said.

"All right." Ikaros said as she walked back upstairs.

X

Kyle finished putting on the shirt as Nymph and Astraea looked at him like he was colorblind. Kyle was wearing a pair of cargo shorts and a light green shirt with holes cut out around his nipples in the shape of stars.

"Um… what am I supposed to be wearing?" Kyle asked.

Nymph groaned. "Alpha must have grabbed the wrong shirt."

"Don't feel bad, Ikaros." Astraea said, turning to Ikaros. "I give you an 'A' for effort."

"Wait, Ikaros? I thought her name was Alpha?" Kyle asked.

"It is Alpha." Nymph said.

"But she just called her Ikaros." Kyle said.

"Yeah, her name's Ikaros." Astraea said.

"Okay, so which one is it? Alpha or Ikaros?"

"It's Alpha." Nymph said.

"It's Ikaros." Astraea said at the same time as Nymph.

"No, no… okay, look." Nymph said, waving her arms. "Her Synapsian name is 'Alpha,' but her actual name is 'Ikaros.' The only reason I call her Alpha is because I'm used to it. All angeloids have these names, just like mine is 'Beta,' and hers' is 'Delta.'"

There was a long pause. Kyle was still trying to wrap his head around this.

"So am I still Astraea?" Astraea asked.

"WILL YOU SHUT UP?" Called a familiar voice from upstairs.

Everyone looked at the staircase as Tomoki; a skinny teenage boy with brown, messy hair marched downstairs looking angry.

"Master. You are awake." Ikaros said to him.

"Yeah, no duh." Tomoki said. "So what the Hell's going on? And who's he?"

"This is Kyle." Ikaros said simply. "He is Nymph's guest."

"Oh great, not another one." Tomoki said. "Why the Hell did you bring him here? As if I don't have enough to worry about already."

"Hey, I'm sorry." Nymph said, rolling her eyes. "He kinda had nowhere else to go, so I thought why not?"

"You can't just keep bringing more and more angeloids here every time you… wait… is he wearing my clothes?"

Kyle looked over himself, then back at Tomoki. "Oh. Well if you want them back, I can just…"

Kyle began to take off his shirt, but Tomoki stopped him mid-way.

"No! Stop! Fine, you can have it. But just for the night."

Kyle straightened out the shirt and looked back at Nymph.

"He seems nice." He whispered to her.

"He's like that sometimes, but he's really a nice guy when you get to know him." She whispered back.

Tomoki groaned. "Look, it's late, okay? I have school in the morning, so I need to go to bed. I'll deal with this tomorrow, but for now please try not to shout so much."

The angeloids nodded and Tomoki went back upstairs. The angeloids looked back at Kyle.

"You should probably get some rest." Nymph said as Ikaros followed Tomoki back to his room. "Your energy cells are probably low from all that action a while ago, but before you do… can you tell me where you're from?"

Kyle opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came out. He looked away, confused for a minute. He thought to himself for a while before saying the following:

"I don't remember."

Okay, that's it for chapter 2! Chapter 3 will be out soon, so make sure you stick around. Also, don't forget to favorite and review!