Natalie awoke to discover that she was in what appeared to be an Interrogation Room, 'Where in the world am I?'
Her head felt as if she had suffered a heavy blow to the cranium from a blunt object. She rolled her neck until she felt it popped from being stiff.
"It's about time that you woke up." A male voice verbalized after he observed her minimal movement in the chair.
Her vision was slightly blurred until she blinked till it was clear. She notices a male with a black fedora, round dark orange sunglasses, pale skin, gray hair, wrinkly face, a black trench coat, pants, boots and gloves.
"Surprisingly, you didn't put up too much of a resistance, Ms. Andros." The man spoke in what sounded like a mechanical tone.
The young woman unexpectedly finds herself able to freely sit up and moves her arms and hands around.
"You actually thought we would restrain you? That isn't in our nature, especially for someone who excelled in this program room."
She adjusted herself so she could get comfortable in the metal chair, "What do you mean I was a part of a program?"
"It does seem as if the Memory Infragmentor worked rather well on you." The man responded with no signs of joy or remorse in his tone.
"If you don't tell me what's going on here, I will be forced to release my anger out on you." The solider was demanding while slamming her fist on the table making a large dent.
"Trust me, what I am about to tell you will forever change the way you view your existence on this plane and how you view others."
"If I were you, I would do well to control that anger of yours and listen to what I am going to say." The man answered in a tone that was calm never spiked with ire or irritation.
The captain was slowly becoming quiet until finally reaching the standard he was looking for before clearing his throat.
The bright white lights around her had died down to a dim before they completely shut off. It left them in semi-darkness before the raven haired woman discerns a brighter square shape against a wall.
"This picture before you is the group of children that we collected from various orphanage. As you can see, yours was one of the chosen few." He explains when she spots herself in the middle of twenty-five kids with a wide smile evident on her face.
"We initially started you all of with a basic assessment of mental, emotional, and physical or to sum it up a basic physical is what we conducted." He informs her.
He was flipping through about three pictures showing children working out, doing mental problems and talking to what appears to be a Therapist.
"That was just a kiddie test that we gave to you all. The real test would come in simulations both technological and physical."
"We did random experiments on each aspect that we could find on you all and constantly pushed those boundaries to the limit." The man was explaining while he showing her pictures with children running military like drills.
"Let me guess, you only had a select few to complete the entire process and am I to assume that I completed it?" Natalie was asking after coming to a conclusion based on observing all of the pictures.
"Did I forget to mention that you consistently excelled in the emotional state? Whenever you were angry, your strength drastically increases."
"Did you notice that?" The man told her before he turnt off the lit screen and the lights flipped back on.
Her mind envisioned the boulder, which she broke with her bare fist because she was irritated with the Avatar.
'You know you don't have a scratch on your fists?' She reflected back on when she had that conversation with Minato.
"So what exactly am I?" The young woman was inquiring while examining at herself as if she was a foreign object. An expression of concern was clearly present on her face.
"You are just a normal human being whose limits have been removed through rigorous military training. It has been routinely installed within you ever since you were a little child." The strange man thoroughly explained to Natalie.
"So you are saying that I am still me, except with a few tweaks? I'm able to tap in to my five senses at a faster rate than any normal person?" The captain was wondering since it was starting to make sense now.
"You're currently displaying your abilities at this very moment!"
"You are able to keep your emotions in check even though you don't have the slightest clue as to where you are now. You are trying to figure out about the program that you were a part of just by my mere simple explanations of the pictures." The man responds with his own statement.
Natalie sits back in her seat and realizes that the old man was right.
She was not scared whatsoever. It was as if she knew that he could not harm her no matter how hard he tried.
The woman still probably would not flinch but there still was some lingering suspicious about the man sitting in front of her.
"So why were you after me?" The young woman pops the question that burns in the back of her head ever since the pictures and their sudden intrusion on her personal space.
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"Do you think that Minato would listen to us?" Kiera suggested to her twin brother as they sat across from each another.
"I don't know? Maybe...we need more solid proof on what that woman is doing." Kieran reveals his opinion of the situation.
"This whole quiet process is driving me nuts! Why don't we just tell mommy what we know and see what she says from that?" She grumbled since she slightly became agitated with the wait it out process.
"Look, what we are doing takes time. For now, we won't have to worry about it because that woman is going to slip up and we are going to expose her for whoever she is." He asserts to his sister.
"Well if your plan doesn't work then maybe we should do what I said. Do we have a deal?" The girl demands since she knows that he has no other choice but to agree.
"Alright then, we have a deal…wait shush here comes Minato…" The boy warns his twin as they change the subject instead.
"Hey you two, have you seen Natalie around?" Minato greets them politely before he inquires about the presence of Natalie.
The twins cut their eyes toward each other before they wear a weird expression on their faces. They soon looked at Minato's face.
"What's with those weird faces you two?" He queries unaware that he had set himself up for their trap.
"It seems as if you are always asking where she is?" The prince purposely challenged before he heard the princess chimed in "Do you like her or something?"
"Eh?!" The blonde was taking aback by the twins' accusations unaware that his cheeks were now a slightly pink.
"We knew it!" The twins giggle at the result of their prank.
"What are you guys talking about?" The young man fretfully challenges in a rush tone to where the twins barely hear the question.
"I believe we found our answer! Wouldn't you agree with me sister?" Kieran asked his twin.
"I agree! He's always somewhere near her and he treats her way better than that Avatar character does." Kiera responded to her brother's question.
'I swear those two always have something up there sleeves with their pranks. I almost forgot who I was talking to for a minute…'
"Just let me know if you have seen or heard anything suspicious that may seem out of place in the castle, okay?"
,I want you two to tell me as quickly as possible." The knight's tone grew quite serious with them.
The twins stared at each other before they faced the talker male with smiles and nodded their heads simultaneously to the plan.
Minato soon released a deep sigh and admitted, "I swear you two cause me so much grief!"
"Anyway, I am glad that I ran in to you two. You guys will be a big help."
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"Is there anything else that you would want to do for the rest of the day?" Aikka asked his wife once they made it to their private bedroom.
Eva stifles a yawn, rubs her huge stomach and replies, "I don't really know. But I am rather sleepy though."
"Is that a smile I see?" He teased her since he knew that she still was not over the news she received at the doctor.
The Noursaian hears his wife sigh heavily before she ceases her motions with her hand across her stomach, "All I know is, I'm going to be in some serious pain when it is time for me to deliver them into this world."
"Then after you have these three we can take a break, how does that sound?" The young man asked.
"More like I'm going to take a break but it does sounds good though."
"I don't know if I can last with three…we're already having problems with the twins since they are growing up." She answered her husband's question with a smile on her face.
"Those two use to stay in trouble or was the source of it. I remember when they gave the nannies pure madness!"
"It took a day with my father and mother to straighthen them out." The orange haired male was stating while laughing at the end of his statement.
"I know that if we can raise them how we did Kieran and Kiera." The young woman expressed her doubts in her motherhood as well as her parenting skills.
The king was examining the sad look that was evident on his wife's face after hearing her doubts and worries about the future pregnancy.
That was when it hit him, "Do you have any idea what we are going to name them?"
"Of course, I do have names for them. I mean Kieran and Kiera make up the two k's in your name right?" The raven haired woman with crimson tips inquired to her husband.
Aikka nodded his head to show he agreed to what his wife asked him, "So you are planning to name them with two A's and a I?"
"Of course, I'm not sure if I want to do it how I did Kieran and Kiera. Maybe something like Adeline, Adele and Ian."
"How does that sound to you?" The pregnant woman was suggesting while staring at his face for his initial feelings.
"Adeline, Ian, Kieran, Kiera and Adele. A…i…k…k…a. I really like that!" He cheerfully claims with his eyes close and wide smile on his face.
The Noursaian felt his wife gently hits him upside the head, "Of course you would. It isn't everyday that your children's name spell out your initials."
"You are such a lucky father and husband!"
"If not, you wouldn't even be sitting next to me but anyway I didn't expect to get this big." Eva was joking, which was earning a laugh from Aikka.
"Me either." He agrees with his wife before he places his ear against her round tummy while she rests her hands on the opposite ear.
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Jordan opened his eyes and found that the once clear orange colored sky of Noursaia was now but a blurry version of it.
"I must have sunken in the deep depths of the fountain." He spoke and was not surprised to see that he could speak or even breath under this water.
'I almost forgot that this place was connected to me…' The Avatar reminded to himself.
The young man shifted his body so that he no longer fell backwards but rather land on his feet.
'I really want to know what Natalie is thinking about? Is she thinking about me?' He wondered as he decided to hone in onto Natalie's brainwaves.
Meanwhile with Natalie...
'Why does it feel as if someone is trying to call out to me?' She was inwardly thinking before closing her eyes to listen to the voice in her head.
"Natalie, are you alright?" The male asked in front of her until he saw her hold up her index finger as a signal for him to give her a minute.
"I heard someone's voice in my head. I don't know what or who is calling me but it sounds urgent." The young woman divulged in a roundabout manner on what occurred in her head.
"It's possible for someone to be tapping your brainwaves, more specifically your quantum brainwaves, which provides a means for telepathically messaging. So someone has tapped in to your brain's antenna, basically."
'I wonder if it's Minato trying to contact me about the information that he has been finding out.' She The raven haired woman was wondering but the voice that was calling out to her was different from his normal voice.
Back with Jordan,
'As I though...she's thinking about Minato!'
'Why would I even bother contacting her? After all…I treated her so awfully.'
He recalls the first reaction he had when he saw Natalie, 'She was beautiful. She had her Captain's battle gear on. It seemed to suit her style and qualities.'
Yet, his nature told him not to agree with what he saw and simply pushed it to the back of his head. Sooner or later, she would eventually make her way to the front of his mind.
'She didn't jump at the sound of my title. She simply passed me off as if I was a regular person.'
"Something that I wanted everyone to due yet they could not do it.' The young man thought to himself.
'At least I did have one person in mind but she went off to marry the love of her life and gave birth to two children or rather a set of twins and is about to give birth to three more children.'
'However, our relationship didn't go pass the platonic level and that upset me.'
The feel of the purification started to seep through his skin, 'My heart leapt when I saw the look she gave me…the same look that I fell in love with, with Molly/Eva at the time.'
'She trusted me with so much of her secrets, her dreams, her fears, her goals, her models, her dislikes, likes and loves. She told me her real name before anyone else knew and she was the best pilot that I could ever gun for.'
'...but when she saw Aikka, it was a whole other story. She seemed to spend less time with me and more time with him.'
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Author's Notes:
11.27.16 Major editing revision
06.24.17 Major cleaning edits