Chapter one

The Hub was a normally a bustle of activity but today seemed to be a quite day so most of the members where out, Vert was speeding on the salt flats, Spinner and Sherman where in the small town of handlers Corner probably at a game store swooning over the latest console.

Agura had headed of to do her own thing as the huntress often tended to do and Stanford was busy in his room probably trying to come up with a smash DJ hit.

This left the hub quiet with some sense of calm in an otherwise busy place, it was moments like these that Sage enjoyed though lacking some of the human emotions she did enjoy the quiet and calm of the place when everybody was out gave her time to try and regain her missing memories from going through so many Stormshocks on her own.

Though some memories would never fade Sage wouldn't allow them too no matter how many times she had to jump from world to world, she couldn't let them fade no matter what or she would lose a big part of herself, something that she felt she would never get back.

She had been looking into ways of recovering her memories but all endeavours seemed fruitless though as long as the memories of that little experiment where still with her she had hope, hope that one day she would see the blonde hairs tinted with red running up to her excited to show her what she had scavenged for the day, or tucking her into what was at the time a working Mobi and reading her stories from her memory banks and the small child drifted off to sleep, at that time she couldn't explain the affection she had for the young child and still couldn't it was a deep desire to keep her safe, well fed and maintained.

Even with her new team, the Battle force 5 as she called them, her attachments to them where never quite the same as they where to that child. Sure she cared for them, had a deep sense of anxiety whenever they travelled through a stormshock but it was never the same these people where already fully grown when Vert had found her and she had contacted the others.

The child she had cared so deeply about she had found as a young child probably around four or five. She had been sucked through a random Stormshock by pure chance and found by her brother Krytus and his red sentients.

Through their desire to take over the multiverse and destroy all higher life forms they had planned to use that small innocent child to help them, he had commanded they fit her with weaponry to powerful for their small body to handle, when active and even when dormant it caused horrible unnecessary suffering, that wasn't needed and certainly was not right.

Sage remembered finding her when the war was at its peak just before she managed to freeze the red sentients, she remembered finding the small child huddled in a dark corner of her cell, too afraid to even make a noise, if sage hadn't happened to look she would of missed them entirely and left them to starve, it was not a thought she liked to linger on.

She had scooped the cold, hungry and obviously in pain child up, who didn't even give up a fight at such a young age resigned herself to what ever fate horrid fate they imagined to happen to them next. At such a young age a child no matter what race shouldn't of acted in such a way.

Sage sighed as she sat in one of the chairs in her office like space, instead moving her thoughts to the journey she had made with the child.

Overtime of searching memory banks she had found the small child hailed from the earth planet and was female, a small innocent human child caught up in a war that wasn't, Shouldn't of anyway concerned her. More searching led her to discover how to take care of the child, the basic needs like food, hygiene, socialization, shelter and so on. More searching led her to discover that the small girl with her overpowered weaponry, weaponry that couldn't be removed without killing her needed constant maintenance that only Sage could provide.

So Sage got to work. Slowly earning the girls trust, and carefully keeping the hardware that that the red sentients put into her in check, trying to minimize the amount of pain she was constantly in.

Sage remembered after their escape to a small grassland like world finding a small stream, and scrubbing that child of dirt until her pale skin finally showed through all the dirt and grime.

oh how she fought at the start with her screaming and tiny hands trying to push her away but at the end when the child finally realised that Sage was indeed not going to harm her she had quietened resigning herself to the first bath even with cold stream water that she would of hand in a long while and when she was finally clean Sage took her back to the working mobius that she had acquired at the time and placed her on a makeshift bed, before tucking her in and leaving.

Not for a long time, just long enough to source food that the child could eat, though it probably wasn't the most pleasant meal the small girl had ever had it was a meal never the less and Sage judged by how fast she had eaten it it was the first meal in quite some time.

It took months for the girl to fully trust Sage, Months of Sage learning how to handle a small traumatised young child not of her own race, the often fearful glances from the child or how she shrunk away from Sage as she entered the same room as her it often threw Sage off wondering if she had done the right thing, keeping this child, after all even after months baths where still a nightmare, the almost constant nightmares seemed to strike the child incoherent and distant for days at a time.

Though one night as Sage tucked her into her makeshift cot the child grabbed onto Sage and refused to let go forcing the blue sentient to climb in next the child as they fell asleep, even as asleep the child refused to let her go, it was a memory that always made Sage give a small smile.

From then on it seemed something clicked, Baths slowly got easier and her nightmares slowly went from every night of waking up screaming in unfiltered fear to every other night, from then on weekly, then monthly too finally months.

And with the child finally getting more plentiful rest, she had more energy to run, play around the mobius leaving lots of little drawings, LOTS of drawings everywhere.

As she grew Sage taught her how to count, spell maintain a proper level of hygiene expected from a human and as she got older even maintain the machinery placed inside her by the red sentients though only basic maintenance still maintenance never the less, even now Sage felt a small flame of pride seeing the girl identify and fix problems with her hardware,

Though the calmness of the grasslands didn't last long. It was soon Brutally overtaken by Vandals forcing the pair to flee in a cycle that never ended.

Find somewhere which was temporally safe. Settle. Then eventually...Run

The pair managed to survive like this for years. By the time they separated the young child had grown into a young Lady who could find her own food, keep her own hygiene, preform her own low level repairs and control what the red sentients had given her, now she had grown the pain was more manageable.

Sage even to this day hoped that she had instilled enough knowledge into the girl to survive and hoped with every thought she had of the young girl, that she was still alive.

The day Sage had forced her through a portal into an uncharted and hopefully safe world and sealed it without following her through was the hardest.

Sark had cornered her and it seemed the only option available to Sage at the time.

Sage had activated a small Holograph picture in the palm of her hand showing a photo of a young girl roughly between twelve to fourteen, she didn't know her exact age, the girl had pale skin, blonde hair that in the picture seemed to catch the sunlight, two bright blue eyes, a mouth which was in a playful pout. She looked almost human if it wasn't for the dark red wiring that ran under her skin leaving thin lines almost like scratches visible that almost mapped the human nervous system but not quite, or her eyes that where brighter than any human and seemed to emit a glow like hers.

As Sage often put it She WAS human just with added parts.

"April" Sage said in almost a whisper staring longingly at the holophoto until the sound of an engine pulling in drew her attention away Sage realised she must off been distracted by her thoughts for linger than she had realised and quickly put the holodisk away before starting to get back to her duties.

"One day I will find you again"