Chapter 7: Ricky and Saber

After flying a few miles away from S.S. Axiom, Saber activates her freighter's auto-pilot mode and stands up from her pilot seat and turns to Ricky and Ben.

"Okay, now that we have escape from a mining ship which is now infested with Faction soldiers, can anybody tell me what are we going to do now?" Ben asked.

"We're now going to London." Saber said.

"London? Why?" Ben asked.

"Because before I was betrayed by Jack, I was driving my way to London. Now I shall continue my way over there."

"But you still haven't answered why." Ricky asked.

"To aid the city's recovery effort. London was one of the few cities in the world to barely manage to defeat the Faction army before they could conquer their city. Of course, the city suffered major damage during their battle and now I do my part to help the soldiers over there."

"But care to explain why you wanted to play hero and become a Rebel Templar in an attempt to revive the Templars and ended up bringing trouble at the S.S. Axiom?!" Ricky asked Saber, his tone filled with anger.

"Hey! How would I know Jack will betray me?!" Saber snapped.

"Then you are a fool!"

"Well, you were more foolish to enter the SS Axiom unauthorized and have a rest over there!"

"Hey, at least I had a reason why. Because me and Ben need to get a place to rest. But for you, you ended up get backstab by Jack Spicer while you were on your way to London because you want to be a fool and play hero."

"Oh yeah, right! Of all the places, you have to take a rest at a mining ship! Why can't you try a local hotel?"

"Because I-"

"STOP IT!" Ben yelled, making Ricky and Saber yelp in surprise. Wall-E whimpered. "Listen, this quarrel is getting us nowhere. Right now, we have no where to go so I suggest we take saber's suggestion and head towards London."

"Ha! At least someone is on my side. Now if you don't mind, I would like to have some rest." Saber then leaves the cockpit and enters the back of the freighter. Ricky turned to Ben who just glared at him.

"Hey! Don't look at me like that. If she haven't came to the ship, we would have been safe." Ricky said angrily.

"Yes, but at least give her some credit for saving our skins back there." Ben snapped. Wall-E makes beeping sounds as he nods his head.

"Oh no, not you too, Wall-E." Ricky said.

"Ricky…" Ben said.

Ricky sighed and said, "Fine. I'll go talk with her. Ben, you take care of the ship's controls."

"Good." Ben then hops onto the pilot seat and works with the controls with Wall-E next to him. Ricky then walks out of the cockpit.

As he walks out of the cockpit, he enters the back of the freighter. Saber sits on one of the seats with her arms crossed. She turned her head and frowns as she sees Ricky walking over to her. "Hi." She simply said before turning her head away from him.

Ricky sits next to her and said, "Look, I'm sorry for arguing with you."

Saber sighed and said, "It's okay. Let's just forget about that argument of ours."

The two remained silent for a moment until Ricky asked, "So anyways, why do you want to revive the Templars?"

"Well, my father was one of the generals of the Rebel Templars. I love him so much. He was the only parent I had. I cried so much when I heard he got killed in action. And I still couldn't remove the sadness from my heart. So a few years later, I decided to take his footsteps and become a Templar, just like him." Saber explained.

"I'm sorry about your father." Ricky said.

"It's okay." She said sadly. "Anyways, what about you?"

"Well, my mother was a leader of the Templars."

"Wait, don't tell me your mother is Yoruichi Shihouin?" Saber said as she widens her eyes.

"Um…yeah." Ricky said as he hangs his head.

"Oh wow. I don't believe this." Saber said as she perked up. "I mean…I didn't know…I was arguing with a child of the great Yoruichi Shihouin all along."

"Ahem."

"Oh right. Anyways, I heard she got killed in the battle of DC. What happen?"

"Oswald Donovan killed her."

"Oh, you mean the high commander of the Faction?"

"Yeah."

"Do you miss your mother?"

Ricky sighed sadly as saber asked the question. "Yes, I really do. She was a good mother to me and I loved her back. I learnt everything from her. How to fly a ship, how to fix computers and other sorts of devices, you get the picture. That inspired me to become an engineer one day but when I heard she died, I started to lose all hopes in myself. My grades start to fall and I became a punk at school. I mean, sure my guardian Robert is nice to me too but still, I'm still disappointed, lost and depressed without her."

"So that makes us even. We both lost someone we love." Saber said, sad as well.

"Yeah."

"I'm sorry about your mother."

"It's alright." The two remained silent again. Until Ricky asked, "So are we still going to London?"

"Well, yeah. Like I said, I had to go over there and help the Royal British Army."

"How were the Rebel Templars formed anyway?"

"Long story. Over about seventeen years ago, year 3925, London was under attacked by a Eurasian terrorist group from Kazakhstan. The terrorist group managed to conquer every British city after city until only on city remains. London. But before all hopes were lost, a young woman managed to form an army of Rebels of her own to help the British Army defeat the rebels."

"Who was that woman?"

"Well, it's of course your mother. Yoruichi Shihouin. She was a girl who loves to learn magic. She completely mastered magic only at the age of 16 and eventually, she even learn how to fight with magic as well. So many people became interested in this new magical fighting style that they became loyal to her, join her and become the Rebel Templars."

"Wait, my mother loves magic? Come on." Ricky rolled his eyes.

"No. I'm serious, really. Even though I do find it funny sometimes too." Saber chuckled.

"Right, anyways, so the Rebel Templars then helped the Royal British Army and defeat the Kazakh terrorist army, right?"

"Yes, and the terrorists feared the Templars so much, they unconditionally released the other cities in Britain and since then, the Templars are influence all over Europe, then the world. Until, after Yoruichi and most of the Templars died in the battle of DC, that split up the Templars for good and most of the surviving Templars never use their magic fighting styles again. Heck they didn't even bother to help when London got invaded by the faction. But the Royal british Army barely managed to defend their city from the Faction."

"So now you're going to Britain to pay up for the mistakes the Templars did."

"Hey, we all have to learn our mistakes and we always need to find a war to make up for our mistakes."

"Right, so how far is London?"

"Not too long. We can always check it out on my freighter's star map."

"Right, then let's rest here for a while until we reach there."

"Good idea." Saber smiled as she nods. Saber and Ricky then closed their eyes and take a rest on their respective seats.

END OF CHAPTER