Setting: Turquoise's Office

In a room surrounded by nothing but water, Turquoise sat at her desk, twiddling a pen between her fingers with an sadden look on her face.

"I miss Ghost soooooo much! It's so boring here without him, well, he wasn't much for friendly conversation, but still, I miss his presence," Turquoise thought to herself in silence. then her face turned sour. "And they took him from me! VRSZ got Ghost arrested and now I'm all alone, and what's worse-"

She threw the papers on her desk into the air. "AND NOW I HAVE TO DO ALL THIS WORK ALL BY MYSELF!" she screamed. "GRRRRR! VRSZ! YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!"

The papers fell to the ground and Turquoise huffed because Ghost wasn't around to clean her messes anymore. She grabbed several before she glanced at one in particular that caught her attention. It was an old wanted poster of herself, before bounty missions became digital, when she first came to Fortuna. She thought nothing of it at first, but an idea formed in her head, she smiled devilishly.

Turquoise had a nasty plan.

Setting: VRSZ Base

The next day, in her room, Violet slept soundly in bed with her curtains closed, door locked, and alarm shut off, she obviously wanted nothing to interrupt her sleep.

"Violet? Violet? Are you awake?" A voice said, dashing her dreams.

Opening her eyes, Violet saw Remus perched on top of her like he usually does in the morning. In the beginning, she would retaliate in anger, but this has happened so many times she stopped caring. She knows Remus has no ill intent, so she accepts this as part of her new normal.

"Good morning Remus, teleported into my room again?" Violet greeted, and he nodded to confirm her guess.

"Zelts and Silver left early to go on some missions together."

"Oh, okay."

Violet got to a sitting position and Remus got on the edge of the bed. "And what are we going to do today?" she said, smiling playfully at Remus with raspy eyes. The only thing Remus did was stare back with a blank face. "Um, what do you want to do?" she asked, but he still just stared at her in silence.

"Remus do you...have any hobbies?"

She was still met with staring which made her come to a realization. She didn't know that much about her teammates like what they like to do when they're not on missions or anything similar to that. The fact that they've been together for about a month makes this even more embarrassing, especially Remus. Unlike Silver and Zelts, Violet has learned that Remus truly doesn't know a lot of things and he's going to need help.

"I guess now is a good of time as any,"

"Remus, tell me what you know. Anything is okay," she said, patiently. She wasn't sure if this would be a long or short answer. Remus tilted his head at the question before giving her an answer.

"I know how to fight," he responded, but Violet wasn't satisfied.

"No, no, Remus I know you can fight. I mean do you know anything besides fighting."

"Hmm... I know how to read, write, I know the names of some things."

"He knows the basic things. Makes things easier for me,"

"Anything else?"

"I was taught science and mathematics."

"Taught?" Her curiosity piqued. "Interesting, he had instructors,"

"Yes, I'll show you."

Remus grabbed a sheet of blank paper, a pencil, and started writing. Violet didn't know what to expect, but what she saw was incredible. Remus didn't just do simple math problems, he was creating complex arithmetic problems and solving them, trigonometry, algebra, and geometry. Violet felt dizzy just looking at his work. "I can show you everything I know in the fields of science if you-"

"NO!... No that's okay, I believe you," she interrupted, not wanting to scramble her brain before having scrambled eggs.

"Let me get out of these pajamas and make us some breakfast before we continue. This is too interesting to stop here." "I can finally get to know more about him,"

"Understood." Remus's usual response and he left the room to give Violet her privacy.

An hour later, Violet made some eggs and toast for the both of them then set the plates on table so they could eat together. Remus ate silently while Violet watched him, wondering what else she could learn about the boy. "So, Remus, tell me what your childhood was like?"

Her question was met with a confused look. "Childhood?" The word seemed foreign to him and this worried Violet.

"You know what a childhood is, right? Memories when you were younger, do you know or remember?" she questioned, a little worried about her friend's answer.

" The oldest thing I can remember is opening my eyes for the first time."

"Really? That's amazing! Most people can't go back that far. For you, that must've been fifteen years ago, right?"

"No, this happened a couple years ago."

"Wh... Wait a minute. Where did you wake up exactly?"

"In a laboratory," Remus said, which unnerved Violet. The unusual answer wasn't the only thing that shocked her, it was the way he said it so casually like it was a normal thing. For a awkwardly long moment of time, she didn't say anything.

"In a lab... No, he can't be, I won't give Silver the satisfaction," she thought, imagining the glee on his face if his assumption of Remus being a robot was correct.

"Remus were you...born or...built? She picked her words very carefully so she wouldn't offend the boy, but as always, insults flew over his head.

"Um... I think I was born. The only things I remember doing after waking up was a lot of combat training, and a promise I said I'd keep before I left."

"What promise?" she asked, hoping it wasn't diabolical. "Please don't be world domination,"

"To leave the lab, never come back, live my own life, and more importantly, to make friends," he said, looking at Violet. These words were not something Violet would expect him to say. Remus had a checkered past, that's for sure, but it brought him here to her, to VRSZ.

"Well, I'd say you're doing well on the making friends part of your promise." She didn't know why, but she couldn't stop smiling as she watched Remus finish his food.

"A boy with little memories about his past and no real identity of his own. Poor thing. I think I- we, could help him with that." she thought, wishfully.

"You know what Remus, let Zelts and Silver do the work today. We're going to have fun." She took Remus with her to the garage to ride her jeep to Fortuna, but when they got there, the car was nowhere to be seen.

"Hmm... guess those two took the car," Violet sighed. "We can still walk to town, but it's going to be a long, hot twenty minutes through the desert. Let's get moving while the sun is still low," Violet said, as she and Remus exited through the garage door and started their walk.

Setting: Fortuna

During their walk, Violet tried to converse with Remus to learn more about him, but got very little. She was able to summarize what she learned about him so far.

"He doesn't know much about his own past, he's not a robot, suck it Silver, he's actually very smart, academically, but not worldly or about people. He wants to make friends and he can fight at a very high level, this combined with his naivete... I'm really glad I'm the one that found him and not someone who could've manipulated him to do their bidding. I know wouldn't want to fight to him, he's strong,"

"No, you're the one I wouldn't want to fight," Remus said, surprising Violet who thought he was reading her thoughts. "You're the strongest person I've ever meet. If we fought, I don't think I would win." Remus complimented.

Violet smiled at his words then started to laugh a little. "Well, I'm glad that we'll never have to fight each other."

While she said this, she didn't notice the action she was doing. Violet was patting his head affectionately. Remus didn't seem to mind, but Violet quickly retracted her hand and feeling embarrassed about what she did. "S...sorry Remus, I don't know why I did that. It won't happen again," she apologized, but Remus just shrugged his shoulders. He really didn't care if she did that again.

"So, um, this lab you lived in, I know you said you couldn't go back, but do you think you can tell me where it is?" "If I can find it, I can understand Remus's story,"

"No, I am forbidden to disclose anything about the facility," he said, in a cold, emotionless way that sounded like it was rehearsed.

"Oh, okay," Violet said, feeling a little sad. This was the first time Remus ever said no to her. "I guess this is something I'll have to let go, for now,"

The two continued strolling through the town like they did before with Zelts, only this time, Violet planned to keep an eye on Remus so he wouldn't wander off again. Violet's goal was for Remus to find something in town that interested him, but nothing really caught his eye yet. He wasn't sure what to look for. It's not that he didn't like anything, but he wanted to try everything and didn't know where to start until he found a store that sold certain items. Violet looked in the direction he was staring and smiled.

"Oh, that could be fun. We'll buy one and go home to play with it."

Setting: VRSZ Base

Sitting on the floor in the living room, in front of the flat screen TV, Violet and Remus were holding their scrolls horizontally and rapidly pressing buttons until Violet stopped and huffed in defeat.

"Winner!" the sound coming from the TV said. On the floor in front of them was a gaming console they got from the video game store using their scrolls as controllers.

"Damn, that's four wins in a row. You're a fast learner, Remus. We were even when we started playing, but you get better and better every time."

"Thank you, I adapt fast when it comes to technology," he said, focused on the fighting game they were playing. His response was still robotic, but his tone was a tiny bit lighter. It was small, but the gap between them was closing. "Hmm... he's tech savvy, good to know," Violet thought as she lost again.

"Winner!" the game's announcer said again, and Violet lowered her head. "This is really fun," Remus said, and he genuinely smiled for the first time.

"I don't think I'm going to win anymore, but he's right, this is still fun," Violet thought. This bonding time with Remus really made her day and vice versa. They continued to play for three hours.

This time together proved fruitful to building the bond between them. Violet has come to view Remus like a younger brother, one that needed her to teach him about the world and she was happy to help him. She felt like nothing could ruin her day.

Suddenly, a loud, banging noise could be heard coming from the garage. "That must be Silver and Zelts," Violet told Remus.

She left to greet them since she hasn't seen them all day while Remus continued playing. She went through the door to the garage. Two seconds later, she screamed loud enough to break Remus' concentration. He ran to the garage and burst through the door to fight whatever was hurting Violet, only to see her standing in front of him as she glared daggers at Silver and Zelts.

The two looked like they've seen better days, most likely worn out from their missions, but the thing that stood out was Violet's jeep, it was significantly damaged. Large scratches and puncture holes, broken windows and one of the tires were flat. The only thing that was left unscathed was the side of the jeep with VRSZ spray painted on it. Shock and awe on her face was replaced by rage, rage she directed at the two likely culprits.

"WHAT! HAPPENED!" she yelled, at a volume that scared the others.

"Turquoise happened. We got trouble," Zelts answered.

"What?" Violet questioned and Silver let out a long sigh before retelling the events that occurred.

"It's a long story."

Additional Information

Remus becomes a big fan of video games especially role-playing games.