"This had better be worth my time!" she shouted at the group in front of her. "I already killed someone on my way here because of you people telling me to make sure I'm not followed"

"It's fine, we just wanted to let you know about something that you will probably be interested in" said one of the engineers nervously. "There's a group of us, friends and enemies, working together to try and repair this world to make it liveable in again. We've all stopped trying to win this war as it's pointless. We were hoping you would join us. It wouldn't mean abandoning the war yet, but to just go along with command doing the minimum required and helping to defend us and bring supplies between both sides and our new third side."

"You're all crazy! Why shouldn't I just turn you in right now for being traitors!" The girl shouted at them. "Or maybe I should just kill you all right now and be done with this."

"This would benefit your family, isn't that the entire reason you became a modified human?" another person asked her.

"That doesn't explain why I should join you. Winning this war will help my family, and that has a better chance of protecting them then your crazy idea"

"If this war is won then what? If the other side wins your family dies, if this side wins then there is no future left for them anyways because this world will be dead. By helping us you can keep playing the part of a loyal soldier while hopefully giving your family a future"

The girl considered what they said for a moment. "If I'm caught helping you then my family will be killed, and I'll be tortured to death"

"Eventually they will come for your family when they run out of people to fight. Joining us will give them a place they can hide"

"Give me a minute to think about this" she said before leaving so she could be alone to consider what they said.

When she returned she responded "Fine, I'll help. But if anything bad happens to my family I'm going to personally make sure that you all suffer the same. I also don't want my name to be referred to in any communications just in case"

"That's fine with us. Thank you for accepting to help us"


June 6

Attacks on military bases had been increasing. Too many reports mentioned fog coming in before the attack for it to be coincidence. Now Maki and Rin along with several others from their bunker were flying towards their meeting point in preparation for a massive battle.

"How long have we been flying now" Rin asked.

"Around forty minutes. At this speed, we will reach our destination in about twenty more minutes. After that we'll see what happens" someone answered on her walkie talkie. Rin groaned in frustration at the answer.

"Rin, make sure to not dash around too much and get dangerous amounts of heat" Maki said.

"How come I have to use a normal walkie talkie but you get a nice earpiece you can use?" Rin asked her.

"Because you broke yours by playing with it too much" Maki reminded her. "It's not a toy Rin, and until you learn that you're not getting another one. Besides, I also have a walkie talkie like you in case my earpiece breaks or malfunctions. It might be more boring but it's far more reliable".

They continued along in silence, with Rin occasionally trying to start a conversation but immediately being told to stop talking so much. After twenty minutes, they spotted a giant army waiting for the battle to start.

So many people are here. How large is this battle going to be? Maki wondered, nervously looking around at all the people and machines. We have air units, land units including some sort of large machine. That's going to immediately be targeted by their modified humans. There's also that lake we're nearby, does it have anything under it?

As they came closer the forces from the bunker split off to join other machines similar to theirs to wait, leaving Rin and Maki alone as another person flew towards them.

"Hey there, names?" the girl asked.

"Maki Nishikino"

"Rin Hoshizora"

"Perfect, right on time. Follow me" she said as she led them towards another group of people.

All modified humans? Maki thought.

Once in the group one of them began talking.

"Alright now that everyone is here, I'm going to explain what's going on and what our jobs are so listen up because I don't want to repeat myself. My name is Nath, to my right" she said gesturing toward the girl who lead them there "is Sakano. She will explain what we know about the enemy once I've finished. We currently are preparing for a large scale open field battle which is why you can see so many people gathered here right now. Because I don't feel like lying I'm going to tell you this, by the end of today you will not be seeing some of the people here right now ever again" This earned some nervous looks from everyone.

"Question, do you know that for sure?" a girl asked who Maki recognised as Nozomi.

"Yes I do" Nath stated bluntly. "Some of us are going to die so there's no point to getting to know people here you don't already know. What you should do is make sure you can recognise everyone here because command doesn't want friendly fire. While we're on that topic, make sure you shoot the enemies and not our own people. Any other questions right now?"

Seems clear so far. I don't see anyone else asking questions Maki thought.

"Since there's no questions right now I will begin informing everyone of our forces strengths and explain our orders. We currently have an number of regular piloted machines here, ground and air. I was not told how many we have, but looking at them all you can see it's a lot. We also have some drones here. Once again, I do not know the exact number so do not ask me. We do not have anything under the water over there-" Nath said pointing to the nearby lake "- but we have some people ready to intercept anything there". Nath looked around to make sure everyone was still following what she was saying before continuing.

"Our orders are relatively simple. Kill any enemy you find and keep our people alive. We want minimum damage to the machines and soldiers inside. Clear out big groups of enemies and make sure you don't get hit. There will be modified humans here so if you find one, kill them as they are our highest priority. We also have super weapons here which are going to be targeted by their machines and modified humans, so protect our super weapons from them. They will have some of their own super weapons as well so make sure to take those out. Now, if there are no questions I will let Sakano tell us about their forces."

Sakano moved in front of the group as Nath moved back. "Ok everyone since I didn't see any questions I'll let you all know about what information we have on the enemy. They should have a land based particle cannon so we will need to avoid getting hit by that. It will look like a very large mechanical spider with a giant cannon on its back. Next, we know they have a large air cannon. It looks like a circular platform with a dome on top, with a cannon sticking out of that. So if you see what looks like a flying observatory, destroy that. They should also have an anti-air system that they will use to shoot us all out of the sky. It looks like the base of a tank with a ton of rocket launchers, big and small, on the top. For their modified humans, we know they should also have at least one control type, and a melee type. Luckily for us, some of our scouts spotted Umi far off so we don't believe she will be participating in this battle. Unluckily for us, Suzuki and Mira will most likely be participating so be careful."

"What's so dangerous about Suzuki and Mira?" somebody asked.

"We've had trouble handling them in the past" Sakano said. "Mira has some unpredictable attacks so be careful of that. Suzuki's attacks are also somewhat unpredictable. Anyways as always, be on the lookout for new modified humans."

"What's a control type?" Maki asked.

"If you know what Sham and Nozomi are like then think of something similar" Sakano responded.

"What about their regular forces?" Rin asked.

"Oh right. They're nothing special, we've probably all faced them by now so I didn't think they were worth mentioning. Just be careful of bullets, rockets, and other explosives. Attack when you think you're safe and you should be fine. There will be radio silence for the most part so I guess keep that in mind. Once the fighting starts we will have trouble knowing what everyone else is doing as they will be using a more secure communication, and since we're not piloting machines we don't have access to that. Anyways-"

"Enemy is in sight. All units advance and engage the enemy!" A voice suddenly said.

"Oh, times up. Good luck everyone, try not to die." She said before dashing in the direction everyone else was going.

"Everyone to my left, deal with air enemies. Everyone to my right, deal with ground enemies. I'll help handle the ground ones. Nozomi, hang back a little and assist where needed. If you kill all the enemies nearby you, then move to where you're needed. Now move!" Nath said as she began dashing downwards towards the enemy."

"Understood!" Maki yelled as she dashed upwards towards the enemy with Rin. Within seconds they caught up to a large group of human shaped machines making their way to the enemy and moved in front of them.

"Do we stay with them or move ahead to intercept any threats?" Rin asked.

"Move ahead probably so we don't accidently-" Maki was suddenly cut off by several screams cutting through the air.

"What's tha-" Rin was suddenly interrupted by Maki shouting "SHIELD NOW!".

One second later explosions lit the sky, with the group of machines behind them disappearing in an instant. Maki saw another girl get caught by surprise right as a rocket slammed into her. Maki was sure Rin was screaming something at her but she couldn't hear her over the explosions. The girl dashed out of the explosion looking confused when another rocket hit her. Maki then saw the girl drop from the sky.

"RIN! WE NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Maki shouted as loud as she could but Rin couldn't hear her. Maki was blinded as a rocket slammed straight into her shield. Her ears were still ringing from the explosions around her disorienting her. Once the rockets stopped Maki let her shield down and made her way to Rin. She thought Rin was saying something but couldn't hear her still.

"Rin, are you ok?" She called out.

When she heard no response, she called out again. "RIN!"

She was directly in front of Rin now and could see her mouth moving but no sound coming out. "RIN! ANWER ME!"

"I can't hear you" Maki heard very quietly.

Maki grabbed Rin's hand and started pulling her back towards their camp when another person came up to them.

"Get back, our forces were just obliterated here. You need to defend while we wait for this area to be reinforced."

"What?" Rin called out, still in a confused state.

"You'll be better in a minute or two, get back into the fight!" The person yelled at them.

"Understood?" Maki said.

"Do you understand or not?" They shouted more annoyed now.

"Y-Yes." Maki said before moving away from them.

She felt Rin pull her and followed Rin upwards, looking around them for any sign of threats. She could see several machines flying towards their area. Enemies I think?

"Maki, are you better? I think my ears have stopped ringing mostly." Rin asked.

"I think so. It's died down a bit for me and I can think properly again."

"I'm going to take care of those enemies there, wait here in case more come."

"Be careful of another rocket barrage!" she called after Rin. That must have been one of their super weapons. I should have asked Rin if she saw where the rockets came from.

Maki saw another girl moving behind the one who yelled at them a minute before. Looking around she could see several machines in front of the girl distracting her. Deciding to help she moved behind the machines to trap them between her and the two girls. As Maki was moving she heard a loud scream and saw the girl who was behind had moved forward and cut the other girl with a spinning disk. She wasn't on our side! Maki realised.

Maki dashed back towards the two of them to try and help but as soon as she got close enough it was too late. The other girl looked at her as if she was challenging Maki to try and save the dying girl. Maki dashed down to try and catch the falling girl but was cut off by the other one who sent several spinning blades that were releasing beams after her, forcing Maki to turn up sharply. Maki tried moving to the side but the other girl moved there making her dash back. As she moved back Maki realised her mistake. She was now surrounded by spinning blades, with the only exit in front of her towards the girl who now had a menacing smile.

Spotting a small opening between two of the blades Maki dashed towards it praying she wouldn't be cut in half. Seeing this the other girl moved to cut Maki off, but let out a scream instead as Rin came from behind her and slashed her with a sword, giving Maki enough time to get out of harms way.

"Maki this way!" Rin shouted.

Seeing no other good options Maki followed Rin with the other girl close behind. Three cylindrical shaped robots came flying towards to them and formed a triangle. As soon as her and Rin passed through, a green field formed between the robots. Their pursuer dashed through but as soon as she touched the field her dashing stopped and her movements became very slow. "What?" she yelled before launching more spinning blades at the robots creating the field.

"Maki, Rin, leave her to me. You two fall back and support the defence" Nozomi said as she moved past them. Raising her arms, green blocks appeared and surrounded the girl limiting her movements. Nozomi then pointed her arms at the girl and several beams shot out from her, splitting apart as they passed through the green barriers to fill the small space.

Maki wasted no time and dashed back towards their camp. On the way she saw some machines flying below her in the same direction.

"Rin, keep moving back to our defensive line. I'll handle the ones below"

"Got it" Rin said as she moved passed Maki.

Maki watched their movements for a few seconds as she predicted their movements before unleashing a hail of beams at them. A third of them exploded before they could react to her attacks. They started spreading out to avoid her. They countered her attacks with some rockets and beams of their own but Maki was prepared for it. She dashed through their beams and once in an opening she fired her beam rifle at the rockets, creating a space for her to move through safely. Positioning herself in the middle of the group she fired her bazooka and each of them leaving only two left. One flew up while the other moved down but they weren't fast enough to avoid her rifle's beams and both burst into flames.

Maki moved onto the next group of machines. They were greenish with yellow on the front. Those are probably beam focused she thought. Sneaking behind them she repeated her previous strategy of ambushing them with a large attack. Once again most of them were destroyed in seconds. Instead of spreading out they moved in together and focused on shooting as many beams as they could at her. Maki fired her beam rifle into their group while moving between the beams as they spread out.

Eventually only one larger reddish one remained. It began shooting beam spheres in a spiral pattern, with the spheres curving in the air. Noticing that her rifle wasn't having much of an immediate effect, Maki began firing as many rockets at it as she could. The machine responded in kind, with it releasing several of its own rockets. The rockets at the front moved quickly in a straight line in the direction they were fired from, while ones launched from behind moved slower but curved towards her, locking onto her.

Maki dashed to the side in a U-turn to get behind it, but it rotated in the air to keep facing her. Stopping, she continued her barrage of rockets into it. Several beam particles appeared in front of it, getting sucked into it's yellow eye. Sensing danger Maki put up her shield right before a laser shaped beam shot out from it. Once the attack stopped its attacks stopped for a moment.

It's stunned, now's my chance!

Maki dashed forwards until she was only a few metres away before firing as many rockets from her bazooka into its yellow eye. It once again began outputting it's beam spiral. Maki moved with the spiral to avoid being hit while still being able to fire rockets. Just as it started shooting several of its own rockets several explosions came from it and its attack stopped as it began falling.

Watching the machine as it went down Maki saw two more modified humans dashing below her while spinning, a trail of light behind them from their dash.

Where are they going? She thought as she looked in the direction they were heading. No, not there! She screamed internally as she began dashing to follow them. She could only look on in horror as they got further away from her, too fast for her to catch up to.

Where's Rin? Where's anyone?

Placing a finger to her ear, she clicked a button on the headpiece she was wearing, deciding the situation unfolding was enough to break radio silence.

"Everyone nearby our giant base thing, two modified humans are heading towards your location. Whatever you do, do not let them get close to our super weapon."

Finished talking she let go of the button. Are those two just ignoring everything around them?

She continued chasing them, hoping that they would get slowed down by something so she could engage them. A massive storm of rockets came towards them, fired from the direction they were heading towards. Rather then using a shield or slowing down, they continued their straight-line dash towards the super weapon. The one in front became surrounded by a red glow. They blazed through the rockets in front of them, seeming to take no damage, while the one in the back followed close behind. Maki dashed through the opening in the wall of rockets as it came towards her, hoping to save time in her pursuit.

Ahead of them was now a large army of machines ready to defend the super weapon. There's no way they can get through that Maki thought. The group fired beams and rockets at the two modified humans but instead of retreating they angled their dash downwards a bit and continued their dash.

What in the world? Are they crazy? Maki thought as she moved upwards to avoid the massive attack before she got too close. Machines moved to try and surround the two people but were quickly passed by as they ignored every enemy around them. Maki could see the super weapon preparing a massive barrage of beams and rockets and moved further upwards so she wouldn't get hit with friendly fire as it attempted to down the two threats.

Loud screams cut through the air as fast rockets were released towards the two, with several beams spheres and lasers following right behind. The two of them immediately swerved to the side, beginning a U-shaped move to approach its side. The machines chasing them exploded as they were caught in the attack meant to down the two modified humans. That sacrifice had better be worth it Maki thought bitterly, feeling sorry for the people piloting the machines.

The two of them rapidly approached the super weapon, its beam attacks having no effect of them as they dashed through. Nath suddenly passed Maki making a dash straight towards them in a pointless attempt to prevent the disaster about to happen. The one in front became surrounded by a red glow again while the one behind slowed down allowing some distance to form between them as the one in front sped up even more. Seconds later the one in front smashed into the side of the super weapon, an explosion coming from the point of impact., taking only moments to carve a hole and appear out the other side. They then started to put as much distance as possible between them self and the weapon. The one in the back dashed into the hole, but didn't come out the other end confusing Maki.

Before Maki could question what was going on the answer presented itself in front of her. Large colourful blades suddenly burst out of the super weapon and began spinning around, slicing it to pieces. Explosions appeared everywhere on its surface, with several bursting forth from inside. Nath finally reached the opening, firing several rockets inside before retreating backwards.

"She's shielded! It's pointless to attempt to take her down right now!" Nath shouted before dashing around to catch the other person who caused the disaster.

How can you attack and be shielded? Maki wondered. Floating in the air she watched as their super weapon continued to be destroyed. A large explosion suddenly erupted from it, with several more happening within seconds of the large one.

I guess that was the ammo supply Maki thought. Everyone else seems to be chasing the other person down, maybe I should wait to ambush this girl.

Spotting someone dash away Maki started her pursuit. Taking notice of their turn, Maki dashed ahead to cut them off. As she got closer she noticed a familiar twin-tailed hairstyle on the black-haired girl. As the girl got closer she could make out red eyes on her.

Pointing her rifle at her Maki called out "Nico, stop right now!"

Instead of slowing down Nico continued her dash, coming straight towards Maki. Maki prepared to fire but right before pulling the trigger she hesitated, she was friendly with me earlier, Maki thought while remembering their earlier encounter. An impact to her stomach brought Maki suddenly back to reality. She fumbled with her rifle trying not to drop it. Coughing Maki turned around to see Nico hovering close by, looking straight at her.

"Hesitating is going to get you killed you know? Are you really that dumb?" Nico asked while giving her a questioning look.

Maki quickly fired her rifle at Nico who spun around to avoid it.

"Were you part of the group that destroyed our anti-air system? If so good job." Nico said. "Let's play a game, let's see if you can catch me before the real fun starts" Nico taunted, gesturing towards some fog coming towards the battle field before dashing away.

All Maki's internal senses were screaming at her that it was bait, and that she should head back to protect the other super weapons. Deciding to listen to her instinct, Maki dashed back towards Nath and the others. Confusion settled in as she noticed the fog beginning to cover the battlefield. Huh? Why is that fog moving so fast? She thought. As she approached she saw Nath, Nozomi, and Rin grouped up.

"Maki! You're ok!" Rin shouted as she hugged Maki.

"Where's the fog coming from?" Nozomi asked. "That's not natural. Is it related to the attacks on our military bases earlier?"

"I don't know, but where are the others?" Nath asked.

"Not sure." Maki replied.

"Well we took out one of the people who destroyed our super weapon there. Where in the world were you Maki?" Nath asked with an annoyed tone.

"I spotted the other girl leave and tried chasing her down"

"And?" Nath asked.

"She got away. I think she was trying to bait me into an ambush" Maki replied.

"Fair enough I suppose" Nath said. "Let's continue this battle then. Be careful of the lack of vision" She said as she flew into the fog.

Maki followed but quickly lost sight of her. How is anyone supposed to see in this? She wondered.

Her thoughts were interrupted as a machine she didn't recognise flew above her. Another one flew past her below, and then several more flew past her. Maki turned around quickly and shot as many as she could before following them. Her chase didn't last long as she quickly lost sight of them.

Hearing some whirling sounds, Maki put up a shield just as a spinning blade smashed into her shield. Letting out a small squeal Maki dashed upwards hoping to get out of the fog. Looking behind her, she could see the same girl from earlier chasing her and catching up. Maki stopped her dash to fire several rockets before dashing to the side hoping it would slow the girls advance.

While dashing some chains suddenly appeared in front of her forcing her to swerve quickly to the side. As she did that she saw several machines crash into the chains from the direction she was going. That was close she thought. Looking back she couldn't see the girl anymore. Her relief was interrupted when she heard someone say "Got you now". Spinning around she saw the girl along with several spinning blades coming right at her leaving her no time to avoid the attack. Shutting her eyes in fear she felt something grab on to her ankle and forcefully drag her to the side, avoiding the blades. Opening her eyes again she saw a chain wrapped around her leg. The girl from before gave her a look she was unable to read and dashed out of sight.

These chains are probably a bad sign Maki thought as she cut the one around her leg with her sword. Moments later she found herself surrounded by bigger chains and before she could process what was happening several smaller ones snaked around her, wrapping themselves around her tightly preventing her from moving.

Screaming, Maki tried to break free but they were bound to tightly around her. "Rin, Nozomi, somebody help me!" she yelled.

"Stop struggling tomato-head. The only other person here is me" a familiar voice said behind her.

"N-Nico?" she yelped in surprise. Why, why her again?

"You didn't play my game. You make me sad" Nico said feigning hurt.

Maki could feel herself being dragged down. Unsure of what was happening she decided to try and play along with Nico. "I was busy. I can play that game now if you want"

"Nah, you lost. You're unable to move right now and our fog is preventing any of you from seeing.

Our fog? Was this caused by them? Maki thought.

"I'm guessing you're all probably in panic right now at being unable to see anything. Unluckily for you, we have several special units who are trained to fight in this" Nico bragged.

Keep her talking. The more I learn the better. "Yeah, you got us pretty good. We were caught completely off guard"

"I know, right? Most of you seem to have no clue what you're doing. Anyways enough talking for now, let me see that bazooka of yours" Nico said as she grabbed it. Examining it for a second, she threw it away. "You won't be needing that now. Shall we move on to your other weapons then?"

"What do you want? If you're just going to kill me do it now" Maki said trying to hide the fear in her voice.

"You don't need to be so scared, I just saved your life so why would I kill you right now?" she asked cheerfully. "I'm just disarming you so you won't shoot me in the back once I let you go. Although you may want to stay like this because no one is going to attack you while you're chained as they'll all think I'm handling you"

"What?" Maki asked confused.

"I just wanted to ask you a couple questions". Nico took out two pictures and showed them to Maki. "Did you see any of these two?" She asked.

Maki examined them and tried to remember the meeting from earlier. "I think that black haired guy was there for preparations. I don't know about the other person"

"What was he wearing?"

"Umm, a white coat I think. Why?" Maki asked, now curious about what Nico wants.

"Better than none of them". Nico started patting Maki's head. "Thanks a lot, this really helps Nico"

"How did this help you, and why did you just speak in third person?" Maki asked.

"Because I thought it was cute" she pouted. "Anyways I have a meeting with someone now, try not to die again ok? Also, since I spared your life please stop fighting in this battle. Bye!" with that Nico dashed away out of sight. The chains binding Maki disintegrated as Nico left.

Once free, Maki moved down to find her bazooka. It took her a few minutes to find it on the ground with all the other rubble. This field was clear earlier. Just how many people died now. She could smell something horrible but couldn't figure out what it was. Covering her nose and mouth with her sleeve, she started looking around for the source of the smell.

She came across a large burnt machine where the smell seemed to be the strongest. Looking inside she quickly discovered what the smell was. Several burnt bodies were inside, some of them still burning. Maki quickly got away and tried to put as much distance between it and her as possible. Feeling nauseous, she landed on the ground and threw up. After one painful minute which felt like hours, she got up and began flying back to their starting positions.

As Maki arrived she could see several injured people laying on the ground as some medics gave them morphine to remove the pain. She went over to the medical supplies and took some. Then she began helping with the injured.

"Shouldn't you be fighting?" one of the medics asked.

"I was spared on the condition that I stop fighting this battle. I'm also a medic so I can help here"

"Some people are going to be annoyed and say you should have kept fighting anyways. They would also say whoever spared you is an idiot. As long as you do a good job none of will say anything ok?" The medic asked.

"That works with me"


After an hour, the fog began disappearing and the enemy retreated inside it, bringing the battle to an end. The once clean field was now littered in ruined machines and burnt bodies.

"You should have been more careful!" Maki said annoyed.

"Sorry. It's not my fault my heat got so high! It was going up faster than normal while I was inside that fog, almost as if there were small pieces of something I was dashing through causing a bunch of friction" Rin said trying to defend herself.

"Then stop dashing all the time like an idiot!" Maki snapped at her. "What if you got killed? Do you have any idea how me and Hanayo would feel?"

"But I didn't die" Rin said. Seeing the look Maki gave her she added on "Sorry. I was just trying to avoid getting hit"

Before Maki could respond she felt someone tap her shoulder. Looking behind her, she saw Nath holding someone.

"Is there anything you can do for her?" Nath asked, her voice emotionless as she set the person on the ground.

Sakano! Maki felt around Sakano's body for a pulse. After ten seconds of not finding a pulse Maki concluded there wasn't one. "Sorry, she's dead" Maki said sadly.

"I see. I figured that was probably the case but thought it was still worth asking. Thanks for checking anyways" Nath said before turning to leave.

"Wait!" Maki shouted.

"What?"

"Black haired guy, white coat, did you see someone like that?" Maki asked.

Nath thought about what Maki said for a second. "Why?"

"I was curious. One of their modified humans was looking for him"

"His name is Asashi. He was killed at some point during the battle. How do you know someone was looking for him?"

I should probably have not mentioned that. I guess I'll just have to tell the truth. "Some girl trapped me and showed me two pictures, one of him and one of someone else. She asked if they were in this battle and I told her he was. After that she disarmed me and let me go" Maki said, leaving out that she was told to stop fighting.

"I see… some of us a are being targeted then. I don't think he was considered a big danger by our enemies so it was probably for personal reasons. I'm glad that at least you made it out fine". Having nothing left to say, Nath left Rin and Maki alone again.

"What's that girl look like? Maybe we should be careful of her" Rin asked.

"Red eyes, black twin tails. Her name's Nico"

"How do you know her name?"

"Not now" Maki whispered. "Maybe when we're back home".

"Ok?"

Someone came over to them then. "Hey you two, we should head home now"

"Huh?" Maki asked.

"Nishikino bunker. We got radioed that a military outpost nearby was levelled not long ago and they're requesting that we return immediately. Mako is also thankful you two are safe and says to be careful on the way back"

"We can head back soon. Just give me a few minutes to finish patching Rin up and check on some of the others I'm taking care of. I'll have to let the other medics know I'm leaving then"

"Sure, we'll be waiting over there. Meet us there when you're ready"


Notes:

Another long chapter (word says ~5800 words), I'm sorry. I didn't plan for it to be this long but somehow I wrote this much.

This chapter was supposed to have another part but I'm going to break this into two chapters as otherwise this chapter would be too long and I wouldn't have it finished for a lot longer.