"Hellooo, my darlings!"

"It's you!" Ruby instantly pointed her weapon at her.

They were in town for awhile before Forthright showed up, in her protective hoverpod. She also had someone else in a hovering steel cage.

"Nos!" Aya cried.

"Aya!" he tried to break out of the cage, drilling the bars with his teeth, "Let me out!"

"Good thing our alliance didn't work out, eh Eve?"

"I'm gonna kill you!" Ruby shot once, then twice.

Forthright dodged each and every attack, "It isn't working!"

"Aya!" Nos hissed, taking advantage of the distraction, "Get me out of here!"

"Um..." Aya looked at the lock, "I can't break this lock..."

"Then get someone who can!" Nos replied, "I've been trying to use mind control on that woman for hours but it won't work!"

"She's an advanced roboticist." Aya explained, "It would make sense that she had top-notch security on her system."

"Well, can you get me out of here?"

"I'll figure something out..."

"Come on, Eve!" Forthright drawled, giggling like a child on a roller coaster, "Join me once more! And we can both be happy!"

Ruby screeched, enraged, "NEVER!"

"I know!" Aya bolted to EVE and whispered, "Can you help me distract Forthright?"

"Distract her? Why?"

"Just get her attention off Ruby." she explained, "Ruby can pick locks, right?"

EVE smiled, "Oh, I get it." she gestured for her sisters to follow, pointing her cannon at Forthright, "HEY MEGA-LICH!"

"Oh, is it your turn now?" Forthright gave a cocky grin, "Finally! Some action!"

"Ruby..." Aya whispered.

"What? I'm kind of in the middle of something."

"Come here." Aya pointed to the cage.

"Ohhh..." Ruby cast a side-smile at Aya, "Got it."

They went over to the cage and Ruby quickly picked the lock, talking to Nos, "I still have a grudge against you..."

"I know..."

"And I still want to kill you..."

"Fair enough..."

"I don't trust you in the slightest..."

"Jolly good..."

"But I can tell you're an enemy of my enemy." Ruby smiled evilly, "And an enemy of my enemy is my ally. Go get her!"

The lock clicked, "Lovely!" Nos flew out of the cage and spread his glowing red wings, dashing straight for Forthright. His fangs bared dangerously.

"Get over here!" he tore at her defenses.

He didn't even make a scratch.

"HHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" Forthright exclaimed, "Did you really think that would work!?"

Nos gave an unholy screech as he was thrown backwards into a building. All the bricks collapsed on top of him.

"NOOO!" Aya clawed at the bricks, "NOSFERATU!"

EVE helped move the bricks aside while everyone else kept fighting Forthright, including Ruby. Aya couldn't believe how fast her electric heart was pumping. She hoped and prayed that the impact didn't kill him, moving each brick aside with more and more panic. Finally, they found his head. A crippling wound had opened up in his forehead, pumping out what looked to be blue servo-fluid, which some robots had in place of the blood in humans. He was also unconscious.

EVE retrieved a repair kit and held a dry cloth to the wound, "Go get Leah."

Aya did as she was told and Leah did her best to tend to his injuries, "We need to get him to the repair ward."

"Will he be okay?" Aya asked.

"Only if we get him help." EVE replied, turning to Leah, "I'll lift his right arm and you carry his left."

Aya followed them there, desperately praying that he'd be alright. He ended up having a broken spinal cord and bruising on his arms, and Aya didn't leave his side once as the damage was fixed.

Nos' eyes adjusted to the bright lights, moaning in discomfort.

"Nos!?" Aya's voice, "Are you okay!?"

"Ugh..." he closed his eyes, "...it's too bright..."

"Oh." Aya turned the lights off, "Is this better?"

"Much." he replied, "What happened?"

"You got hurt." she said sadly, "You hit your head and broke your back."

Nos blinked, "Ow..." he lifted a hand to his head, feeling it was bandaged and sticky.

"Don't touch it." she said, "It needs to heal."

He tried to clear his blurry vision, "I'm thirsty..."

"Oh, right." Aya lifted a battery to his lips, "This should help with that."

He tried to bite down on the object in his mouth, but found he was unable to.

"Nos?"

He forced his teeth down on the battery, draining it of its power. It wasn't as gross as the batteries he'd stored on his ship, but it didn't taste good by any means. He shuttered upon finishing it off.

"Is something wrong?"

"It doesn't feel right." he said, "I can't live off of batteries."

"You have to! You can't just keep biting people!" Aya brought another battery to his mouth.

He shook as he tried to bite down, taking even longer this time to drain the battery.

"Nos..." Aya tossed the empty canister aside, "I get the feeling that this isn't working..."

"No, give me another...I can deal..."

Aya sighed, "You're gonna have to get used to this, but it seems it'll be really hard for you..."

"No, I'm fine, I'll be just fine..."

"Huh?" Aya ran her thumb over his cheek, "Is this sweat?"

Nos took a shaky breath, "It doesn't feel right..."

Aya was kind of at a loss. Would he ever learn to rely on batteries?

"Nos, bite me again."

"No! I can't possibly do that twice!" Nos objected, "Give me another battery! I can take it!"

Aya doubted that. His skin was so pale it was almost white. She carefully lay on top of him, putting her neck by his mouth.

"Aya! Don't!"

"You need to get your strength back." she said, "I'm not scared anymore, so don't worry."

Okay, that last part was a lie. Nonetheless, Nos didn't hesitate as long as the first time, and Aya was in that terror once again. She could feel Nos' fangs in her circuits, not just from the pain, but like it was in her data. She gripped his cloak again, tighter and tighter. The pain wasn't as sharp this time, but the slight numbness was scary in it's own right. She suddenly felt her willpower diminishing, and she pushed back against him, "Nos? Nos!" she shoved with all her might, "NOS! LET ME GO! I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE! I'M SCARED!"

"Aya!" EVE yanked her away, "NOS-4A-2!"

He snapped out of whatever trance he was in, "Wh-what happened!?"

Aya drifted in and out of sleep mode. It seemed he'd been more aggressive than before.

"What do you think you're doing!?" EVE scolded him angrily, "You could have killed her!"

He blinked, realization coming over his features, "Oh no...I'm so sorry...I don't know what came over me..."

"...it was my fault..." Aya slurred, "...I suggested..."

"Oh no!" Nos tried to grab her and EVE pulled her weapon, "Eve! I have to save her!"

"From what!?"

"Please let me bite her again! I..." his expression betrayed his shame, "I-I went feral...if I don't do something right now, she will turn into an energy vampire!"

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" EVE's eye flashed red from her rage, "YOU'VE DESTROYED HER! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO MY OLDEST SISTER!?"

"I can fix it! I swear!" Nos cried, "I promise! Let me fix it! Please!"

EVE got right in his face, "If you kill her, I will make your death as slow and painful as possible..." then she shoved Aya into his arms, "Last time."

"Of course..." he made sure to not open another wound as he bit down and gently coursed through her code. Where is it!? He searched her database until he found it, a string of ones and zeros that was very off from the rest. Very foreign. He carefully extracted the venom and then sat back, sighing with relief.

"Did you do it?"

"Yeah, she's fine." he looked down at the now sleeping probe in his arms. Something made him feel very protective of her, and he didn't understand why. He could feel the content inside of her, like it was radiating out in a shower of sparkles. She didn't regret helping him, though she tried to push him away.

"Hey, Eve?"

"What is it?"

"Can you do me a favor?" Nos asked, "Keep me away from Aya during the night. I never want this to happen again. Don't let her near me again until my wounds heal."

"Is that what caused you to go feral?"

"I believe that was part of it, yes. I crave more desperately if I'm injured, because I need the energy to heal. She'll object, but don't let her in."

"Why just her?" EVE asked, "Do you not care about anyone else?"

"Well, someone has to bring me batteries." Nos smiled.

"Are you kidding me right now?" EVE took her sister back and left the room, "You're just as bad as Aya!"

He couldn't stop himself from laughing.