The party, which consisted of Prince Ayn, Mieu, Wren, Sari, Darren, King Lyle and Princess Thea, were on Satellite, the so-called 'safe haven'. However, Sari had told them all that this was where the cyborgs were coming from. She was right - there were many more cyborgs attacking them than on Samesina.
"Do these cyborgs ever quit?" Darren asked. Sari shook her head sadly.
"No, but I can tell they're coming from around here." she replied.
"There's just too many of them! My Zan Technique won't kill them all!" Ayn shouted. He then went on to say that they should just run, and so that's what they did. They dodged, skipped and weaved over small cyborgs, under gigantic robots and through the bionic legs of towering cyborgs. Within an hour, they had reached a staircase leading downwards.
"We need to rest. I'm tired." Thea groaned, sitting down on the floor, panting.
"No time to rest, Thea! We have to stop the cyborgs!" Ayn said in reply. Mieu looked down the staircase. She gasped in surprise.
"I'm detecting a very strong cyborg in there! That one must be the leader! Come on!" Mieu ordered, ushering the party down the staircase and into a huge glass labyrinth. Technically it wasn't glass, it was a very strong clear substance that looked like glass, yet didn't break like glass. But we'll call it glass anyway, for the real name is very long, and would take half a day to type.
"Right. Forward!" Ayn ordered, marching forward and smacking his face into the glass. He shook his head and wiped his nose on his hand. There was a small smear of blood.
"That was a bit silly, Ayn. Anyway, we should follow the passages." Lyle said, trying very hard to stifle a laugh.
"I can see the route to take. I'll lead. Follow me." Wren said, walking off to the east. The party followed him, and soon they reached an antechamber to the chamber where the very strong cyborg was.
"Hmm... I'm not sure if he'll be negotiable or if we'll have to fight him. To be honest, I'd prepare for the latter." Darren said, drawing out the wand he had got from the Technique Shop in Landen. Lyle quickly told him the basics of techniques, and taught him the Foi Technique (a basic attack technique that throws a fireball at one opponent), the Resta Technique (a basic healing technique that heals one person) and the Deband Technique (a basic support technique that increases defense for 10 minutes).
"Why did you tell me all that?" Darren asked.
"Well, because those wands can't just be waved and you'll cast a technique. You have to use a technique with the wand. And the techniques I told you are the really easy ones, because we don't have enough time for you to learn one of the really big ones." Lyle replied. After another talk about tactics and positionings, the party went into the chamber. The cyborg had his back turned to the party.
"Ha ha ha ha. I wasn't expecting visitors." the cyborg hissed nastily. Ayn stepped forward.
"Was it you who made all the cyborgs attack Samesina?" the prince asked. The cyborg laughed cruelly.
"Yes, it was. I was going to get rid of that horrible world, but Laya only granted me the ability to create armies to destroy the people." he replied. Lyle moved forward and cleared his throat. He pointed his staff at the cyborg.
"Wait a minute! Laya would never use her power like that! One of her laws was 'Kill no living thing'." Lyle snapped, angered.
"Oh, I have been rude. Forgive me. I have not introduced myself. I am Siren, leader of the cyborg armies!" Siren said nastily. Darren imitated a siren, just to mock him. Not a good idea. Siren was exceptionally fast, kicking Darren and knocking him to the floor, out cold.
"Now listen here, Siren! Did Laya really give you the power to do this?" Lyle asked sternly. Siren gave a malicious laugh. Whilst they were arguing, Darren had come to. Siren hadn't hit him too hard.
"No, you idiot boy! I tempted her with gifts. That's why the armies of cyborgs went after the Layan castles first, because those castles didn't have their deity to protect them!" Siren snarled in reply. He then added that he would then banish Laya to the gap between dimensions, and that was enough to make Lyle scream in rage. It was then that Siren turned round. He looked like Wren, except that he had no skin covering his face, and his hair was bright red. He also had a red eye that looked like the Terminator's red eye.
"WHAT? You only did this to try and get rid of Laya? You're not an overly-devout Orakian, are you?" Lyle asked, furious. Siren said that he was neither Orakian nor Layan, but he started with the Layans because they were fewer in number. Then, a bright blue glow appeared. It took on the shape of a female figure.
"Please, stop him! I beg of you!" the figure pleaded. Lyle told everyone that this was Laya.
"Laya, pray tell, what happened?" Lyle asked. Laya hesitated for a moment.
"Siren... he pretended he was Layan, and prayed for my help. I refused, as I knew he was a fake, but then he threatened to expose me as an evil dark deity if I didn't give him the power he wanted, and that's why I gave it to him. I never wanted to, but if it saved my dignity and my followers, I would have happily done it. I never knew that he really would kill my followers." Laya said, almost on the verge of tears. Not everyone in the party was Layan - Ayn was half-Layan, yet he had been brought up as an Orakian, Mieu had been programmed as an Orakian, and Darren hadn't taken sides at all, but Laya gave them all some of her power.
"Now, defeat Siren!" were Laya's last words before she disappeared. Siren began to laugh nastily.
"Oh, Laya could only give you a fragment of her power. The shame of it all. Well, that will make you even EASIER to deal with! And to make it even easier, I will have a one-on-one fight with... him, there!" Siren hissed, pointing at Ayn. The prince strode forward, sword in his hands.
"You'll regret this!" Ayn shouted, charging forward with his sword, but Siren was very quick, dodging the blade with ease. He then attacked the prince, causing him to fall on the ground with a thud. Ayn swung his sword wildly, but Siren was still able to attack him, wounding his left leg.
"Ha, do you tire yet?" Siren asked. Ayn replied with a sword swing that hit Siren in the head.
"No, not yet. Eat metal!" Ayn yelled, jabbing the sword at Siren. He missed. Siren began to get very angry. His red eye let off a fiery glow, and then he unleashed a flurry of attacks which Ayn simply could not avoid! The prince ducked and dodged in vain as Siren's fists and feet hit him with an impossible speed. The constant pummelling stopped, and Siren punched Ayn right in the head, bursting his lip.
"I can't... give up just yet..." Ayn said, but he sank to the floor in a bloodied unprincely heap. The crimson fluid stained his clothes and the floor. Some had even got onto Siren, but he didn't mind.
"Come on, get up!" Lyle shouted. Whilst he did this, Darren cast the Resta Technique on the prince, healing his wounds, but only slightly. Ayn groaned and picked himself up off the ground. He was still wounded, and blood was still seeping out of them, but the prince picked up his sword and carried on the fight. He swung his sword at Siren, where it hit him on the left arm. Very little damage had been dealt.
"Is that it, feeble one?" Siren asked nastily, kicking at Ayn. The prince held off that blow, only to be hit by a flurry of fists. Ayn fell to the floor in a dead faint. The rest of the party began to panic.
"No! We have to help him!" Mieu shouted, charging forward with her clawed glove. Siren laughed maliciously and kicked the unconscious form of Ayn. His wounds began to bleed more.
"I said it was a one-on-one! And I won!" Siren said. Mieu didn't take any notice. She struck him with the claws, shredding some of the thinner metal. Siren looked in horror at the shredded metal.
"How is it... possible? You cannot hurt me - this is the strongest metal in the universe!" Siren said, horrified. Mieu pointed out that they were only very thin layers of metal. Then she attacked him again, sending showers of sparks this way and that.
"Come on, Mieu! You can do it!" Darren yelled, to try and encourage her to finish Siren off. But to his surprise, Siren stopped fighting back!
"Now, Mieu! He's down! Finish him!" Darren shouted, but Mieu didn't finish him off!
"I was... I could have... if only I had..." Siren said slowly, but then he fell to the floor. Mieu checked him, and he was dead. She then went to check on Ayn. The prince was seriously injured, but miraculously alive.
"Is he OK?" Thea asked in a scared whimper. Lyle said that he was fine - he had just taken a lot of pummelling. He cast the Naresta Technique on Ayn, which is a more powerful version of the Resta Technique. The prince's wounds healed, and he began to regain consciousness.
"Where's Siren? I need to... oh, he's gone. It's over." Ayn said as his drowsiness wore off. He stood up, but fell down again. A sharp pain tore through his left leg. Lyle's technique hadn't quite caught all of the prince's wounds.
"Let's get a bandage on that. It's not worth using a technique on it." Lyle said, rummaging through his pockets and pulling out a large dressing and a bandage.
"You might need some antiseptic on that, Lyle." Darren said, handing Lyle a disposable antiseptic wipe. He then ran over to Ayn and pulled up the left leg of the prince's pants, exposing the wound.
"That's a bad one, Ayn. You took a beating there." Lyle said as he tore open the wrapper on the antiseptic wipe and dabbed it over the wound. The prince gritted his teeth, for the antiseptic wipe was making the wound sting terribly. Lyle quickly placed the dressing over the wound and deftly wound the bandage around, holding it in place. Darren gave Lyle a safety pin, which he then used to pin the bandage so that it wouldn't come off.
"Well! I think Dr. Lyle is done here!" Lyle said jokily, helping Ayn to his feet. The prince whispered a word of thanks, and then he told everyone that they should get a message to his father and everyone else in the cave in the Bernink Province, to say that Satellite is the safe haven it should have been.
"In that case, we should go back." Sari said.
"I'll go. You don't have to come if you don't want to." Lyle said, helping Ayn over to Sari, who got hold of him and supported him. Lyle then departed to Samesina using the spaceship, told everyone in the cave of the Bernink Province Ayn's message, picked them all up and came back to Satellite.