One solar cycle = one hour
One orbital cycle = one day.
One stellar cycle = one year
No-Online = No life
Writing like this (Don't know the word in English) = particular attention to the word, they pronounce it more slowly
Italic word = thought
Word = bumblebee speaking
-Comlink. And speakers-
GB= Groundbridge
("Mind communication") or ("Communication outside the flash back")
(Resume of part of the last chapter)
More than a starlight Act II: The cause
Chapter 4: Bloody and the young girl
Origin spaceship: Command room
Bloody was walking to the command room, after a small detour so he won't pass in front of Rampage chamber. He then reaches the command room and saw that everyone, except Origin, was chatting together.
"Is there something I've miss?" Asks Bloody.
"Nothing." Says Hellbat. "We were just talking about everything and nothing."
"Except Rampage coming...It's been quite inactive for a while." Says Metatron.
"Oh! Incoming transmission!" Warns Illusionness.
"Where's origin?" Asks Lucier.
"He's elsewhere for now." Answers Metatron.
"We have no choice but to answer." Says Hellbat. He then opens the communication.
"Makeshift! It's so bad to see you again...I mean good...even if it's not in person." Says Maynar.
"-I have some bad news to tell you...The hunters will soon be here.-" Warns Makeshift.
"What!" They all shout in surprise. Old fear awake in them.
"-Yes...You must be ready for anything. It means we must soon bring the young pretenders in the ship for safety and I mean safety.-" Says Makeshift.
"Alright." Answers Hellbat.
"-That's all I have to say for now. It was short but I need to prepare myself if they come here sooner than Starsaber says. Good-bye.-" Says Makeshift cutting the transmission.
"This is not good." Says Metatron. He then walks out of the command room. "I'll warn Origin immediately."
The others went into a serious communication about Starsaber and the hunters, when Bloody decide to pay a visit to the earth again before the hunters are here.
The Grand Canyon
Bloody was walking in the Grand Canyon for pleasure. Though he never tells anyone but he loves this place. He walks for a while until he hears a voice whining with sadness.
"Why?" The voice was very young and sad.
Bloody looks to the air and sees a little girl near the cliff. He saw to his horror that she was covered in blood, she also appears to be uninjured.
"Mom...Dad..." She then stays immobile for a while.
"No." Says Bloody with horror. He knows what she was talking about.
He then immediately begins to climb the Canyon to reach the girl in case she decides to suicide. He climbs and climbs until he was close enough to help her and far enough so he cannot be seen.
"I will be with you again." Says the little girl. She closes her eyes and jump.
She didn't fall long. Bloody catches her with his servo. Then he realises that he forgot something important...To keep holding the canyon.
"Slaggggggggggggggggggggggggg gggggggggggggggggggggggggggg gggggggggg!" Shout Bloosy when he falls.
He manages to grab the cliff with his free servo and slowing his falling until he loses his grab and fall. He puts her on his tank because he knows it's soft and hit the ground violently...without any damage for him. He then releases his servos and sees the girl trembling on his tank...her eyes close.
"What happen?" Asks Bloody, trying to be the most soft and nice than possible.
"...Who are you?" says the young girl...eyes close as ever.
"I am a friend...A hero." He adds.
"I..." She then remains silent.
Bloody looks calmly at her. She appears to be between 6 or 7 years old, she as short black hair and a brown skin. She was wearing a blue t-Shirt and a blue and long skit. But she was covered with blood on her body and her skin. Bloody didn't detect any injury so it wasn't her blood.
"What am I touching?" Asks the little girl. She touches Bloody tank carefully and slowly.
"Me." Answers Bloody.
She then opens her eyes and look at Bloody. She then screams in terror strongly by Bloody appearance and Bloody put his servo on his audio receptor. After a while, she stops screaming.
"Am I that ugly?" Asks Bloody.
It was a silly and a stupid question, but it calms the little girl down.
"Yes." Says the little girl.
"...That's not nice." Says Bloody mimicking an angry look.
"Sorry." When the fears calm down she begins to cry.
"Don't cry...you're fine." Says Bloody to comfort her.
"No...*sniff*" Says sadly the little girl. "Why did you save me?"
"I'm a hero. I'm here to save peoples life." Says Bloody.
"Why weren't you there when he kills mom and dad?" Says the little girl sadly and angry.
"I am not an omniscient being...I'm sorry." Says Bloody sadly.
"...Understood." She then cries more silently.
"Cry as long as you want...I'll take care of you." Says Bloody softy knowing it was useless to tell her to stop crying again.
Bloody stays down on the ground and wait for her to finish crying on his soft tank.
After an hour she stops crying and look at the Minotaur face of Bloody.
"Why did you save me?" Asks the little girl.
"Why did you try ending your life?" Asks Bloody.
"The reaper...he kills my parents...I...I want to be with them." Says the girl sadly.
"The reaper?" Asks Bloody.
"Yeah! An adult with a skeleton body holding a knife. He says he practices before killing the one who kill him." Say the little girl.
"I see. You are not the only one who loses his parents." Says Bloody not sure what to do about this information.
"Are you a robot?" Asks the little girl changing the subject.
"Yes...The name is Bloody." Says Bloody uncertain.
"Mine is Angela." Says the little girl not affected by his name.
"Angela...Like I say you are not the only one who lose his parents. I also lose my parents." Says Bloody.
"But you're a robot." Protest the little girl.
Bloody couldn't help but smile gently at the little girl.
"I'm an alien robot." Says Bloody. "On my planet...We have parents...mine has been... kill." He adds sadly. "So I know how we can feel."
"Poor you." She says. She then hugs his tank.
"Listen to me little girl. One day, you'll find someone who will love you like you're parents. I found this someone and you'll found that someone one day." Says Bloody to comfort her.
"But...What's going to happen to me now?" Asks Angela.
"Well..." But Bloody remain silent. He looks at her and saw her eyes. Her shining eyes full of hope and fear about the future. "Hum..." He couldn't resist her eyes. Everything about her touches his spark. What she's been through, the eyes she gives him and the love she gives him. "I'll take care of you." Says Bloody. "But it's going to be a secret. I don't want my brothers to find you or my Sire...Father I mean because he won't be happy and might tell me to leave you to an orphanage."
"Okay." Says the little girl.
"To hide you...you must enter in my mouth." Says Bloody.
"...Ok." She says.
"But before that...Let me clean you." Says Bloody.
After a while, Bloody find some water to take out the blood from her body.
Then Bloody takes her on his servo when she's clean, She then stand up and walk to Bloody faceplate direction, when she reaches the end of his servos. When she was near his neckcable, he opens his mouthplate and she climbs in it. He slowly closes it and then returns to the spaceship by the spacebridge, knowing that oxygen exist on the ship.
Origin Spaceship: Corridor
Bloody was walking the more naturally as possible to his quarter. He dodges any conversation and finally reaches his quarter when Hellbat stands in front of him.
"Hey! Where have you been? Origin was worry about you." Asks Hellbat.
Bloody gives him an angry looks. He then pushes Hellbat aside and enters in his quarter without saying anything.
"Guess he isn't in the mood." Says Hellbat as he walks away.
Origin spaceship: Bloody quarter
When Bloody reaches his berth, he opens his mouthplate and move his servo close to it. The little girl climbs down on his servo. Bloody lay down on his berth and put the girl on his tank.
"Be a good and quiet girl and everything will be fine." Says Bloody gently.
"Alright...What can I do now?" Asks Angela.
"I don't know...What do you want to do? I think it's still early to sleep." Says Bloody.
"I don't know..." Says the girl.
...
"So...how are you feeling now?" Asks Bloody.
"A little better." Says the little girl.
"Where are you living? You parents deserve a proper burial." Says Bloody.
"I'll tell you later." Says Angela.
"Do you live near the canyon?" Asks Bloody.
"Yes." She then keeps quiet for a while. She lay down on Bloody tank and let Bloody body warm her.
"Why are your belly soft and not the rest of your body?" Asks innocently Angela.
"Well...In case my T-Stomach gets bigger. I'm an exceptional robot." Says Bloody.
"Can I jump on it?" She asks.
"Hum!...Sure why not? Just...stay in the middle." Says Bloody uncertain.
She then stands up and begin to jump on his tank like a trampoline. Bloody tank was soft enough for her to do it. She then keeps bouncing higher and begins to giggle with pleasure.
"This is so much fun." Says happily Angela.
Bloody was happy to see her smile and he was also carefully watching were she might falls. It didn't hurt Bloody when Angela bounces on him.
"Bloody, I was wondering where..." Origin, which just enters in the room stay silent at the scene. Angela ceases bouncing on Bloody tank and was just observing Origin. "WHY IS THERE A HUMAN ON MY SHIP?"
"Don't shout I can explain." Says Bloody standing up, after the girl was on his servo. Origin scares the girl and she was hiding in Bloody servo.
"Better have a good explanation because I never authorise such thing." Says Origin clearly angry.
"It's because I refuse to let her alone. She just loses her parents and I decide to take care of her." Explains Bloody briefly.
"Not good enough." Says Origin.
"Alright. I'll whisper it to you." Then bloody move closer to Origin audio receptor. He didn't want to bring up what happen to her again. "When I found her...She was about to commit suicide...no, she tries to suicide and I save her life. Then she was crying on me for a while until she explains that she saw the killer killing her own parents just as target practice. I decide to take care of her."
"She's a human...She will be better in an orphanage." Explains Origin.
"No!" Protest the little girl. "I want to be with the Minotaur robot!"
"Listen...We don't have what you need to take care of you efficiently." Explains Origin.
"Sire." Says Bloody. "It means father." He adds to the girl. "I'll take care of her. I'll do this! Listen, you've took me with you and you raise we well during my existence. I'm happy you give so much energy for me and all my brothers and sisters. It is time for me to do the same. I've decide I'll follow you pedesteps...but I want to raise her myself. Please...allow me to take care of her." Beg Bloody.
Origin looks at his sparkling and sees his resolution in his optics.
"Fine...But if anything happen to her. She'll go to the orphanage. I don't want a human to suffer because of us." Complies Origin.
"Thank you! I promise you I'll protect her with my spark." Says Bloody. He then raises the little girl and kisses her carefully.
"Thanks you mister tall robot!" Says the girl happily.
"Don't make me regret this." Warns Origin. "Your brothers and sisters must be warn of her presence."
"Do not worry. Do you want to meets my family now?" Asks Bloody.
"Sure." She says.
"I think it will be better if you meet them one by one." Says Bloody.
"No thanks." Replies Angela.
"Then let's go." Says Bloody. He puts her on his shoulder and walks to the command room, followed by his sire.
Angela moves on his neckcable. When she touches it, it was warm and...Comforting so she sits there. When Bloody reaches the control his brothers and sisters...except Rampage where here. They were talking until they see the human on Bloody shoulder. They suddenly stay silent for a while.
"Who's that?" Asks Lucier to Bloody.
"Her name is Angela. I've save her live and I decide she'll live here with us." Explains briefly Bloody.
"I've accept her presence in condition he'll take good care of her...I also warn you to never hurt her." Warns Origin.
"Do not worry." Says Hellbat like it was nothing.
"Now I'm worried." Says Bloody.
"Why did you decide to take care of her?" Asks Metatron.
"I couldn't resist her eyes." Bloody didn't tell the rest now. Angela was too close from his mouthplate.
"True." Says Illusionness when she looks at Angela eyes.
Hellbat moves closer to Angela and say:
"Hello there. I'm Hellbat."
Angela hides the best she could in Bloody neckcable. The sensation Bloody feel from her close contact please him.
"...Sorry." Says Hellbat who absolutely didn't want to frighten her.
"It's alight." Says the girl calming down.
"I'm Metatron."
"My name is Illusionness."
"Mine is Lucier."
"I am Maynar."
"I am the Sire of everyone else here. Sire means father Angela. My name is Origin."
"There's another brother here, but you mustn't talk to him. He has a very bad attitude." Warns Bloody.
"Ok." Answers Angela.
"So...What does she needs to survive?" Wonder out loud Lucier.
"We have oxygen...Toilet...I have to brought the rest for her." Says Bloody when he realises they miss's things. "Hum...Angela...I'll let Metatron take care of you for a while."
"Why him?" Asks Hellbat. "I can watch her."
"I think Metatron is a better choice. He's responsible compare to you and I don't want her to become a prankster like you." Countered Bloody.
"I'll take care of her while you find food, water, a fridge, bed, etc." Says Metatron.
"ALRIGHT! I'll be back soon Angela." Says Bloody as he runs outside the room after he puts Angela on Metatron servo.
"...I have a vital question." Says Lucier. "Why do we have toilet in the ship?"
"...That a very good question." Answers Hellbat. "Maybe Origin was over energizing when he gets that idea."
"...I'm here." Says Origin. "I thought that one day, you'll invite humans time to time...I've felt that but...not a human living here."
"Well, things going to change here with you." Says Illusionness.
"I never thought Bloody will be the one to do that." Says Maynar.
"They both live a similar and painful moment. So Bloody grown attaches to her fast." Says Briefly Origin.
They all share the same silent.
"So...what do you want to do?" Asks Metatron unsure.
"Let's play rock paper scissor." Says Angela.
They all know the game when they saw the humans play that during the 3 years when they discover the human society.
"Alright, me first Angela." Says Hellbat.
"Ready?" Asks Angela with a small smile.
"Yes!" Says Hellbat.
"Rock Paper Scissor!" They both say.
"I win!" Says Angela doing the scissor.
"Damn." Says Hellbat who does the paper.
"Watch your mouth!" Warns Metatron. "If she lives here we have to take care of her well."
"Being perfect is not fun." Countered Hellbat.
Then the 5 pretenders begin to argue about how to educate well a girl. Origin looks at them with proud. Even if they argue a lot, they all begin to show some parental instinct. Seeing how much they want the best for her shows him how much he was a good sire.
"She needs good parents and you Hellbat aren't the best one." Says Metatron.
"That means I'm not the worse." Says Hellbat.
"Bloody." Says Angela.
"Hum!" All the pretenders in the control say.
"I want Bloody to raise me." Says Angela.
"I guess you are right Angela...but you can count with all of us." Says Hellbat.
"How are we going to raise her?" Asks Maynar. "She needs to go to school, she needs good parents to raise her, socialise with humans, etc."
"I'll give school to her until we find one." Says Metatron.
"Bloody will do the parental parts as Angela wish." Says Illusionness.
"I'll help her socialise with other humans." Says Lucier.
"I'll play with her when she wanted." Says Hellbat. "Minus the prank of course." He adds when the others give him a bad looks.
"I'll give her medical attention." Says Maynar.
"I'll show her how to be a strong femme...no woman." Says Illusionness.
"I'll guide you as parents since I have the experience." Says Origin.
"I think we are alright with that." Says Metatron. "All we have to do is waiting for Bloody to come back."
"Let's play for now!" Says Angela.
A few hours later:
"I'm back." Says Bloody with the stock on a metal plate.
"Bloody!" Says Angela happily.
Bloody puts the metal plate and takes her on his servo. He moves her at the high of his tank and Angela hugs his big and soft tank.
"Sorry for the wait but this stuff cost a lot." Says Bloody. He then puts her on his shoulder and she move to his neckcable.
"What's the shouting here?" Asks Rampage when he enters in the command room. "I hear you shouting for a while."
The others pretender gives him a hard look and didn't answer.
"What's on your neckcable Bloody?" Asks Rampage.
"A human. A child to be exact and I'll take care of her." Answers Bloody.
"You want an organic living being here on the ship. You have seriously glitch." Says Rampage.
"Her name is Angela." Says Bloody.
"Don't care!" Says Rampage. "You better fear me organic because I might not hesitate to kill you if you're in my way."
"Do not say those words or I'll fight you." Says Bloody giving him hard...very hard looks. The others stand by his side. Origin was about to intervene but:
"Mister." Asks Angela to Rampage. "Why are you so sad?"
Rampage suddenly stop moving for a while and become colder than before. He didn't say or do anything until he moves again and say:
"Never ask me that question again organic. Or I'll kill you and whoever stands in my way." Says Rampage, full of rage and hate, before walking out of the control room.
...
"What was that?" Asks Lucier.
"I never expected such reactions." Says Hellbat.
"I thought he's going to laugh at her." Says Illusionness. "Not turning out this angry."
"Maybe she sees something in Rampage we fail to notice." Explains Origin. "And Rampage didn't like her to enter in his spark this easily."
"Do not worry, I'll protect you." Says Bloody to Angela who trembles in fear by the threat.
"Well...I think it's time to prepare the room and something to eat for her." says Origin.
"..." No one was talking. Then Origin realises the problem. They don't know how to make food, he included.
"I guess we'll have to learn it, but for now...What can we do?" Asks Metatron.
"We cannot improvise with food so...I guess I'll have to command some food for now." Says Bloody.
"I'm coming with you." Says Hellbat.
"Looks like we have to prepare the room ourselves." Says Metatron who as again Angela in his servo.
They did as so and with the team work they finish it in 2 solar cycles.
Bloody and Hellbat came before they have finished it and help them while Angela eat an hamburger.
When they have finish, they all take their dose of energon before sitting, exhausted by the job.
Angela was once again on Bloody neckcable when he decides to learn how to make food...healthy food of course. When he hears Angela begin to show sigh of getting sleepy, Bloody walk into his quarter and was about to put her at her bed when she says:
"Can I sleep on you mister robot Minotaur?"
"...Of course...but call me Bloody." He answers with a smile.
Angela takes her sheet and when Bloody lay down on his berth. Angela did the same on his tank, the sheet on her. Bloody watch to be sure she was at the middle and watch her falling asleep. Falling deeper and deeper into the sleeping world, before Bloody follow her.
AC: And yeah, the pretenders became parents of a human.
Hellbat: Do not worry, we'll raise her well.
Author: With a father like Origin for the pretenders, she has nothing to worry about.
Hellbat: Will you explain one day the change we have.
Author: Of course, 3 years as past and everything change for most of them. I decide to give them a human responsibility, and will show how they grown up to Origin. That girl will cause something important to the pretenders...and be the source of my sequel when the 3 acts of More than a Starlight will be over.
Hellbat: Have a nice day...whatever the day we will be.