Hi, NorthernMage here with chapter 3 of Silence of Division. This chapter, we go into Plasma space and see what's going on on the other side of the fight, and of course, Renina's fate is discovered. Anyway, I'm really excited for this chapter, and if you knew what was in it already, you would be too. So scroll down, and read it! Oh, and I went back to chapter 2 and did a little editing to it, but it's only a bit of clarification with POV and a few extra words here and there. Nothing too drastic. So, you might want to go back and read it again if you were confused, or if you're one of the people who started reading the story saying it had 3 chapters, don't really bother because it'll be the same as when you last saw it. You're probably really anxious to get reading, so I won't hold you any longer!

N: NorthernMage doesn't own Pokemon or FTL.

Chapter 3: Reunited

General POV

'General, we have captured a crew member of the Fallen Angel. They were infected with airborne Kirau Olumi, but were cured by our doctors. They have been locked up and contained according to usual procedure in cell 12 in the detention level.'

'Good. I will go visit them and see if they know anything.' The guard backed away as the prince of the separate united systems turned around, got up from his chair, and went past, his long unkempt green hair flowing down his back.

As he went down the Captivity's lift, the bars of light whipping past him as the lift descended to the hangar level, where the detention level also was, he thought for a moment as to the identity of his prisoner. Would it be an admiral, or a general who was on the ship? Maybe he had gotten the captain. He smiled briefly, the doors opening with a hiss. Walking along the hangar floor, he looked up above and saw the dark metal, thrown together, splattered with rivets. He continued on his way. Ever since the Federation had fallen, everything had changed.

Instead of being involved in peaceful negotiations, it was all going around and destroying whoever stood in their way. Arriving at the twelfth cell, he keyed in a code and the doors opened, letting him inside. Inside a girl of no more than 16 had a bit of cloth tied around her face, and was hovering in a containment beam. Her arms were pulled away from her, up and to the side, and her legs were stuck together, pulled towards the ground. She showed a few signs of the door opening and his coming inside.

'What do you know of the information the Fallen Angel was carrying?'

He heard a muffled 'Nothing.'

'What do you know, girl?'

'Nothing.' He hit her, hard.

'Tell me!'

'Seriously, I don't know anything.' He took a deep breath. No one had ever needled him this much, apart from family.

'Idiot.' he shot, trying to provoke her. 'You'll never be rescued.'

'From what, Snothead?' she asked. He froze. Only one person in the universe ever called him that, and only one could get under his skin like this prisoner had.

It was too much to be a coincidence.

He disengaged the containment beam, untied her, took the cloth from her face, and pulled her up to him. She looked into his eyes, he into hers. He had never thought he'd see her again. When she hadn't been on Quariane, after it had been taken over, he thought she might have been taken by slavers, or worse, killed by the attacks. To see her again melted all the ice and anger that had appeared when she hadn't been found.

'Renina.' he said softly, holding onto her tightly, in case she disappeared again after being gone for two months, vanished again. She smiled.

'N.' Apart for months, now the brother and sister duo were back together. Renina Alariga Harmonia had come home to her big brother.

N Aleriga Harmonia's POV

'I'm so sorry.' It was the first thing I could think of to say.

'N, you didn't know it was me.' Renina said, attempting to calm me.

'I didn't mean just that.' I protested. 'I meant everything. I could have video called you, even holocalled you to explain what was happening! I only found out a few hours before it was happening, but that would have been enough time to warn you!' Renina sighed.

'So this is what happens when I leave you alone for two months. N, I'm fine, but I want answers.' She held my arms just above the elbow.

'What happened, and why? Before I left, there wasn't any talk of overthrowing the Federation, just negotiating, and from what I heard later on, the Federation didn't show hostility to us. I just want answers.'

'Of course, but...do you actually know anything about the information?' She sighed.

'No, I was on shields and my crew left me when I caught Kirau Olumi. I want them to have a chance of escape though, for what they've done for me.'

'Oh.' Renina and I were known for trying to smooth things over, and because even after all that, we still felt guilty sometimes of what was happening around us, we'd help anyone who'd helped us.

'So, what do you suggest?' She took a deep breath.

'A day where the fleet doesn't move to find them. Just 24 hours.'

'Ok. That's fine, but no more. We still can't let them get out of our grasp without knowing what they know. Is there anyone on the ship who might know the information?' She frowned.

'I don't know. Maybe the captain?'

'Do you know them?'

'She was the one who let me on the ship.' I nodded.

'I'll look into it and see how I can delay the fleet a day. You better get back to your room and have a shower and all that. Bet you've been missing your room, even on here.' She smiled.

'You have no idea.'

I lay on the bed in my room, actually happy for the first time in weeks. Renina was the only other family I had, between her, Ghetsis and I. My mood sank for a moment, thinking of our power-hungry father. To deal with him, Renina and I had always worked together in a team, us being much more diplomatic with our approaches than him.

Of course, Renina hated fighting. I could do it if I had to, but I knew I would never kill someone. Could never. Unbidden, the memory of Renina eight months ago, leaving Atiris, the capital of the united systems, for the capital of the Federation, Quariane, to study at the university there, came to mind.

I watched as Renina carried a small bag onto the ship that would take her to Quariane. At the Atiris University, her lecturers had frequently said that what she wanted to know was taught better at the Federation University, which of course, as per usual, Ghetsis said she couldn't, under any circumstances attend.

'I turned out fine and I didn't go to a Federation university.' he had argued, which Renina and I had had to remind him that we were only in this position because Renina and I had intervened and made diplomatic missions instead of threats, which he did and he was responsible for all the hostility against us. Eventually, after a lot of needling and effort made to push it at every occasion Ghetsis had given in, much to our excitement. Renina hurried back to us.

'Ok, that's everything packed. N, while I'm away, please make sure Ghetsis doesn't do anything stupid.' I sighed with a little amusement.

'You've already told me that a million times.'

'Yeah, but remember the last time I left you two alone in a room? I went to get a drink and when I came back it was a shouting match.'

'Was not!' I protested. Renina stopped smiling for a moment. 'Whats wrong?' I asked.

'Nothing, it's just...six months is a long time.'

'Yeah.' I agreed. It would be long for me too, Renina and I never being out of contact for more than a week. 'Remember though, when you come back hopefully we can fix some of the problems with the united systems. About a third of them are struggling with a billion problems.' She nodded.

Then the engines on the ship started to fire up. She ran to it and just managed to get on board before it took off. She waved, and I waved back as she went inside. I hoped she got what she wanted there. I needed her back here. It always took two to keep Ghetsis from destroying everything. This was going to be an interesting six months.

There was a beep as my holoplate was called. I sighed as I picked it up. Would it be Ghetsis? Maybe. More likely it was a ship calling for reinforcements. Then, as I answered it, Ghetsis appeared in the holocall. I sighed inwardly. Of course I couldn't have a good day, he had to call. He just had to.

'I heard you captured someone.' he said.

'Yeah, but it was a mistake.'

'A mistake?'

'It was Renina. She escaped Quariane during the attack.'

'But, was she on the Fallen Angel?' I tensed. If I told him she had been, he'd demand the information, even though she had no clue as to what it was. If I told him she hadn't, he'd ask why she had been identified as a Fallen Angel crew member.

'Yes, she jumped on a random ship during the attack and it turned out to be the Fallen Angel.'

'She must know something! She-'

'She has no clue what the information is or who has it.' I interrupted.

'But-'

'She doesn't, Ghetsis.' I said icily. Someone was talking to him in the background and he yelled at them. I cringed for them. It wasn't a good experience being under his command. I knew from personal experience. And he went easy on Renina and I! There was a knock on the door and Renina came in, now dressed in some of her old clothes. She made a sound that sounded like she was dying.

'All my clothes are too small.' she whined.

'Surely there's something you have.' I said, having to admit that she really didn't have anything.

'I don't. All the clothes I had were at the University.' She sat down and fumed silently. After a moment, she took a deep breath, calming herself. Just as I reached for my phone, she spoke. 'N?'

'Yeah?'

'Why did the fleet attack?'

'Why do you think? Ghetsis told them to.' She sighed.

'Does he even realise what he's doing? Taking over more space, putting us in charge of more worlds? If we split the planets between us, that's hundreds for each of us! I'm only sixteen, and you're seventeen! We can't handle this. We had problems before, and now...' Renina sighed with frustration, and I completely understood, feeling exactly the same.

'Listen, we'll just have to deal with it for now.' I said.

'Yeah.' Renina didn't seem happy, but dropped it. 'We'll be returning to Atiris in a few days anyway. There you might be able to get some decent clothes.'

'Yeah, but then everyone is just going to pressure me, and I'll never get to get to the stores. Also, how is the war affecting us?' I passed her her computer.

'Everything's on here.' She frowned, looking through everything. 'We haven't been affected at all! How...how is that even possible?'

'We got the Federation by surprise.' After a few moments just sitting there, Renina snapped to reality.

'Even if we haven't been affected, the hundreds of Federation worlds have. We can't just assume they'll all be ok.'

'I know. We have the cure to Kirau Olumi, but they don't. I've got enough to handle with the Fallen Angel out there, and the Captivity to take care of, so maybe you could handle the cleanup?'

'Definitely. I'll get working on it. This is going to be a big job though.'

'Yeah. Don't envy you. At all.'

'Ha. Well, feeling's mutual, given you're going to get mobbed back on Atiris about the Fallen Angel.' My mood, which had been briefly uplifted by Renina's massive task, then fell.

'I'll get revenge on you for that, you know.'

'Oh, so now it's a crime to not go up to a Federation captain, announce myself as Renina Alariga Harmonia, princess of the Plasma dadada, and demand the information the ship is carrying?'

'Plasma dadada?'

'Well, there's like a million names for it. Separate united systems, rebels, Plasma dadada...'

'Well, I guess Plasma dadada is a possible name...but still, how would anyone react if they heard us talking about Plasma dadada?'

'And you have a better suggestion?'

'Plasma Empire, I don't know.'

'Ok then, the Plasma Empire dadada.'

'What? No, no dadada.'

'Fine.' Renina left for her room on the Captivity, which was about the same size as mine, which was a larger room with a wall-length window, showing what was outside. I yawned and turned off the lights in my room, just wanting to relax for a few hours.

So, Renina's relation to N is her secret. That was the reason for my excitement! Umm, I haven't got anything more to say. Anyway, I'll see you soon, in the next chapter of Silence of Division!