Hey guys! Just so you know, I have not read the manga to SNO yet, but I do know about the Melans and a few other details via face book page, but I don't know what the Melans are called by Minos. If someone could tell me before I write them in, that would be great. If not, I'm just gonna call them "Melans." Anyway, here's chapter 3!

Chapter 3

Return of the New World Discovery Club

Kyle

Everything went to Hell last night. My memory was almost completely wiped and I couldn't remember my friends, where I grew up, where I live, not even my family. It took me a few hours to calm myself, and after a long talk with Nymph and Astraea, I finally fell asleep.

You know the funny thing about dreams? They rely completely on memories from the dreamer, but they are scattered throughout the dream like an unfinished jigsaw puzzle. The problem was that I had no memories to use.

I dreamt about after I crashed and my A.I. took over. I saw what I did to those people in the woods, how I tortured and humiliated that man whose clothes I stole, but I especially remember how I almost killed Nymph, the innocent humanoid I just met a few hours ago and how I was so close to hacking her brain then doing away with her like an empty candy wrapper.

It was scary. After that, I promised I would never harm her or another innocent person again.

X

Nymph

Nymph ran to the kitchen when she smelled pancakes. She assumed it was Ikaros's idea to make them again because it's been forever since she had pancakes. Nymph rounded the corner to the kitchen, but instead of Ikaros, she found a new face.

"Oh hey." Kyle said as he placed one of the pancakes onto a plate with about fifteen already on it.

"Wait, you're cooking?" Nymph asked, cautiously.

"Yeah… I'm sorry for what happened to you last night, and how I… shot your wing. So I made pancakes." Kyle finished the last pancake and slid it off the pan and onto the plate. "I hope you don't mind."

Nymph looked at Kyle, than at the pancakes. She cautiously picked one up and took a bite. Immediately after she did, her eyes shot open.

"Wow! These are amazing!" Nymph shouted, happily. "How did you learn to make these?"

"Honestly? I just followed the instructions." Kyle said, laughing.

Nymph laughed along. Just then, a familiar face appeared from under the counter.

"Are those pancakes?" Astraea asked as she jumped up.

Kyle and Nymph were a little spooked by her, which made Kyle almost drop the pancakes.

"Oh, yeah. Help yourself." Kyle said, smiling and setting the plate down in front of Astraea.

"Oh wow!" Astraea said before she grabbed two pancakes and began eating like there was no tomorrow.

As Astraea was eating, Tomoki walked downstairs wearing a school uniform.

"Well, I'm off to school, I guess." He said. "Nymph, Astraea. You coming?"

"Mhm!" Astraea said as she was still eating.

Tomoki noticed Kyle standing next to the angeloids. "Oh hey, Kyle. Sorry I freaked out last night. I guess I should be used to weird stuff happening to me, huh?"

Kyle waved off the subject. "Don't worry, it's not your fault." He grabbed the plate of pancakes without looking at it and held it up. "Pancake?"

As he held up the plate, however, the pancakes were gone. Kyle looked at the plate, then back to Astraea who was looking at Kyle with a half-eaten pancake in her mouth like a puppy.

"Um… never mind."

Tomoki looked at Astraea angrily and a little disappointed that she stole his breakfast… again.

"Whatever." He sighed. "I'll just get something later. Anyway, you two coming?"

"Oh yeah, give me a sec." Nymph said as she went to get Ikaros from outside, who was petting one of her watermelons as usual. After bringing her inside, she, Astraea, Tomoki, and her got together their belongings and headed out the door.

Before he left, Tomoki looked back at Kyle.

"Now I'm trusting you to not cause any trouble, okay?"

Kyle nodded.

"Good." Tomoki said as he headed out. "We'll be back in a few hours."

With that, Tomoki closed the door behind him, leaving Kyle alone in the house.

Kyle

Quick note: I'm changing to first person because I'm more used to doing it that way… sorry for the inconvenience.

(A few hours later…)

I sat on the floor eating chips I found in a cabinet while flipping through the TV channels. Okay, two things real quick: first, I know I'm a cyborg, but I still gotta eat. I may have lost my memory, but not my common sense. Second, I know I'm kinda stealing from them, but how else am I supposed to eat? I've got no money and I've got metal arms so I can't go to the store without scaring the living daylights out of some old lady working the register. Although to be fair, they probably are used to seeing winged, robotic women running around.

I wasn't really finding anything I liked other than the occasional weird Japanese game show. I mean really, what kind of show is called "Catch the Panty?" I mean come on.

My TV times, however, ended when Nymph came home.

"Hey!" She cried out from the door. "Those are my chips!"

I whipped around to see her standing there. I had no idea what to say. All that came out was, "Uh…"

Nymph marched up to me as I stood up. "I was saving those for my soapes! There's a new episode coming out tonight! How many bags did you eat?"

"I… uh…"

"Tell me!"

"About two… wait…" I looked into the bag I was holding "three."

"Well stop eating! Give me that!"

I handed her the bag obediently. She took it and looked into the bag. "There's barely any left! I can't believe you ate my chips!"

"Look, I'm sorry. I would get you more, but…"

"You should be ashamed for yourself! You should punch yourself for what you did."

Suddenly, out of nowhere, I punched myself in my face. I retracted my hand and held my nose, grunting in pain.

"Agh… what the?" I cried out.

Nymph looked at me in shock, then curiosity. "Wait a minute… stand on one foot."

I didn't know why, but just as she said that, I stood on one foot. Nymph smiled. "Pat your head and scratch your belly."

I did as she said. Why was I doing this? I didn't want to do this, so why was I doing it? Unless…

"Oh this is too good." Nymph said as she looked me over. "You have to do whatever I say!"

"What?" I shouted while still doing the ridiculous stunt. "Why?"

"It must be from when I hacked your systems in the woods. I ordered you to shut down, so in turn, your systems must still be following my orders." Nymph stopped to look at me. "You can stop, by the way."

I put down my foot and stopped.

Nymph rubbed her hands together and smirked evilly. "Okay… let's have some fun."

X

This day was humiliating… seriously. As punishment for eating her chips, Nymph ordered me to go to the market and shop for snacks… while wearing a dress. I'm a nice guy and I can respect revenge on people, but this was pushing it.

After that, she ordered me to watch her sop opera, "Barnyard Sonata," which lasted AN HOUR! I hate sop operas. I'm sorry, but I just don't like them.

To make things worse, after the show, she made me act out a scene that she was extremely nostalgic about… the love scene.

She pulled out some sort of card and suddenly it turned into the costumes from the show. We slipped them on and acted out the scene.

"But you can't go." Nymph said, acting like the main character. "You promised to stay."

I sighed. "I'm sorry, but I need to do this. The cows won't come back themselves." Kill me…

"But I love you." Nymph said, hanging on me, which I gave no reaction to.

"I'm sorry… I must leave."

"Oh darling, kiss me." Nymph said.

And I did.

Almost instantly, Nymph and I pulled away from each other, trying to wipe away the kiss.

"AGH! What the Hell was that for?" She shouted.

"You told me to do it! I have to do everything you say, remember?" I shouted back.

"But that wasn't an order!"

"You could have fooled me!"

"Um…" Came a voice from behind us.

We turned around and saw another angeloid behind us. This one was… different. She had black hair with a small bell tied to one of the sides along with steampunk-like wings. She was standing in the door next to another girl. This one was about the same height, but had purple hair and a pleasant smile on her face that for some reason creped me out.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but the New World Discovery club meeting is starting." The angeloid said.

"Yes, we hate to interrupt your love-fest, but Sugata wanted Nymph to join us." The other girl said. "You too, Kyle."

I raised an eyebrow. "Tomoki introduced me?"

"Astraea, actually." The girl said. "She wouldn't shut up about your metal arms, and Sugata was really curious about you."

X

Sugata looked me over with curiosity. As he searched my person, he'd constantly knock on my arms. It was a little annoying and it felt weird, but I could tell this was important to him, so I remained still.

"Interesting." He said, straightening his glasses. "I've never quite seen an angeloid like you before."

"Um… actually I'm not an angeloid." I corrected. "I'm a cyborg."

Sugata looked me over once more. "Really? Well that would explain a lot. And I'm guessing you feel emotion?"

"Um… yeah?"

"Interesting." Sugata said to himself as he stepped away. "And you say you have no idea who you are?"

"No." I said, sitting down. "All I can remember is my name."

"I see." Sugata said, sitting down across from me.

"So Sugata, are you just gonna stare at him, or are we gonna get started?" The girl known as Mikako asked.

Sugata looked at Mikako for a few seconds, as if pondering something, but nodded. "All right. Why don't you all get acquainted with our friend here. I need to have a word with Nymph."

Nymph looked up at Sugata and walked with him into the next room.

"Well come on, don't be shy." The angeloid, Hiyori said with a smile.

Sugata

As I guided Nymph into the next room, my mind raced with questions about the cyborg. Was he really who he said he was, or was he just another trap planted by the Synapse? More importantly, how could we trust him? Nymph was the first one he contacted, maybe she held the key.

"So what's up?" Nymph asked.

"I need to know what you know about Kyle." I said, looking at her. "When you first encountered him, what happened?"

Nymph looked away, a little sad. "Well… he attacked me when we met. He didn't speak or anything, he just… saw me as a threat I guess."

"I see." I said. "Maybe he's not who he says he is… maybe he's from the Synapse?"

"Actually… I really don't think he is." Nymph said. "During our fight, I hacked into his mind and disabled his primary functions, but I also stumbled upon some of his memories. All of them were distorted because of the impact. I would restore them, but they're too damaged. If he was from the Synapse, he would have at least had some sort of long-term initiative from Minos."

"Are you sure?" I asked.

"Absolutely. Besides, what angeloid contains a human brain and heart?"

I pondered this. It may mean Kyle was on our side after all, but I can't be certain.

"Okay." I said, straightening my glasses. "So the Synapse theory is out of the question, but now we have a new question we must figure out… who is this man? And where did he come from?"

Ginger

(Meanwhile, back in Myria…)

"Okay, how about now?" I asked.

"No." Kasi said, looking at me.

I touched the machine with my wand again. The tip of my wand glowed blue.

"How about now?" I asked again.

"For the fiftieth time, no!" Joanna shouted as she walked over to me as I stood up. "If there was a portal, you could have heard it by now!"

"Well it could be one of those silent portals."

"There are no silent portals, dumbass."

"There could be."

Joanna grunted and threw her hands into the air. Joanna, Kasi, and I had been trying to figure out the secret to the strange device for about an hour now with no luck. Morgan couldn't help us because of some school issues, but we agreed to help her out. Joanna, however, had to be dragged along like always.

Kasi walked over to me and put a hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry, you did good." Kasi looked at Joanna. "Look, fighting with each other isn't going to solve anything. We need to figure out how to get Kyle back."

"Do we really need him to come back?" Joanna asked as she sat on the couch nearby.

"What do you mean?" Kasi asked.

"Well he is kind of a pussy."

"JOANNA!"

"I'm just sayi'n"

Kasi walked up to Joanna. "You could at least try and help, you know. You may not like him, but he is our friend."

Joanna stood up and got in Kasi's face. "You know what? I don't even know why you losers brought me here. My energy manipulation only lets me absorb energy, not give others it." Joanna walked over to the device and picked it up. "This piece of crap I can't even manipulate, I…" Joanna looked at the device curiously. "Wait…"

"What?" Kasi asked as she and I looked at her.

"It's off. The device is off, that's why it isn't working."

"And how did you know that?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I…" Joanna sighed. "I sensed its energy."

I walked up to her and leaned toward her comically. "But I thought you said that you couldn't sense…"

"Oh shut up." Kasi said, pushing me out of the way. "Joanna, can you turn it on?"

"Maybe if she tried taking her top off?" I said, laughing as Joanna smacked me in the head.

Joanna looked over the object as her hands glowed with red, vampiric energy. "It's very… alien. I don't know if I… wait! I got it!"

As she said that, a portal appeared behind Kasi and I and we looked at it, alarmed.

Before we could react, the portal picked us into the air and pulled us into itself. Joanna turned around, too late to save us. The portal closed behind us.