During the blackout, a lot of things went through Monika's head. She saw some flashbacks of her life, a time where she was the president of the school student console, and the time where her parents never came back from a mission, then the memory about her going through the enhancement, the pain and bad memory kept stirring up as if they would consume her anytime, after a hard cry of agony, she woke up.

She opened her eyes with fear, she tried to get up from her lying position but the searing pain from her body made her collapse on the bed again: "Bed? why am I on a bed?" She asked internally, Monika then takes some time to look around, and eventually find out she's in a place where she recognizes nothing from the environment. Just about she's trying to get off the bed, she hears a series of hard footsteps. Monika immediately went back to bed pretending to be asleep.

"Ohhh, it's a new female plaything, I can finally do whatever I want with her fragile body, and more I want to…." Before the person can finish his sentence, a lamp is flying towards him. But he caught it perfectly. He sees Monika half-kneeling herself on the bed while extremely exhausted after just a simple throw.

Monika finally is able to see this person clearly, Well…. it's not really a person. Just within the simple five seconds of interaction Monika already deem him as the only thing she would eradicate completely from the face of this planet before doing anything else, that is if she's in condition to do that: "Who. The. Hell. Are. You…?" That's the only words that she can squeeze from her mouth before collapsing again on the bed.

2 hours later.

Monika suddenly woke up, the first thing she checked was her body, to see whether that person did anything to her or not. But after a fairly thorough self-check, she thinks that she's in the clear. "Knock knock~" A weird voice coming from behind the door. Monika grabs the royal-made alarm clock next to her, hides it under the blanket. This time she will strike true and bash this person's head off if is necessary.

"..." Monika didn't answer because she wants to pretend to be asleep again but also was a bit weirded out by the tone that person use. She thought she was already prepared for all situations and there isn't a lot of things that could go wrong but when the thing comes in, she froze as if she's on ice. She sees a two meters tall mechanical robot dressing like a human maid, slowly pushing a cart that has food on it. She doesn't know whether she should scream or just simply get weirded out. But in short, Monika doesn't know what to say or what to act in this case. This is actually the first time she's been able to see her surroundings properly. She's lying on a fairly well-made royal king-sized bed. But the time this was made seems off. And the general surrounding of her is all human-made, but if she's looking a bit closer, they are actually all from different times throughout history. Just about Monika about to talk, the robot put his cold metallic finger on her lips, to sign her to stop trying to talk.

He then used unknown technology to transform back to the Necron overlord outfit with a snap. "Greetings! Honor guest, I hope you are enjoying your rest at the galaxy famous gallery of Solemnace! You are currently sleeping on a custom-made bed that was supposedly for the high-rank official in the very well-known Holy Terra!" he picks up Monika's hand while bowing then pretends to kiss it on the back of her hand. "To answer the first question, you asked when we met, my name is Trazyn, the infinite. Lord of Antique, Overlord of Solemnace, Owner of the Solemnace Gallery, and of course your personal maid from the time being. To simplify things, you can call me Trazyn from now on. I know you have a lot of questions, which I will… of course answer. But let me explain myself from my previous actions. I was simply trying to be 'funny, from what I have seen in human culture is that you people always seemingly use a similar mechanism to light up the 'mood'. These tactics are used often in a first-time meeting base to increase the friendliness index, but I think the joke I made was not of your liking because you responded to me with one of my collections. That's why I've transformed me into a more 'official' method." Seeing the lack of answer from Monika, Trazyn approaches Monika and taps his finger on her head: "Hmm... I don't think you are broken... but the human anatomy is so strange. Maybe if I..."

"Ahem," Monika lightly made a noise to signal Trazyn that she's fine, she would say so many things but if only every word she speaks is like a dagger stabbing her lung, she points her finger at the food cart Trazyn brought in and signals him that she need to drink some water before she can speak.

Trazyn passed on the glass of water and patiently wait for Monika until she's ready to speak: "So... you are a Necron overlord that collects antiquities. And I am lying on a bed that was... stolen from the Holy Terra."

"It seems like your short memory sectors in your brain is functioning as it should!"

"Why am I here? and wherein the hell are my clothes?!" Monika suddenly realizes Trazyn changed her clothes without her permission, maybe she's still processing all of that information and so her brain isn't focusing on the right questions.

"Your clothes have already been washed and folded in the drawer, my lady. But I wouldn't suggest you change it yet, given your current situation isn't that 'optimal. I suggest you rest here from the time being before continuing any other activities. Also, the reason you are here is that I am fulfilling a bargain with someone, the exact details I'd rather not disclose. But from the time being you are safe and sound." The reason he didn't tell Monika about Nova is that Nova told him not to tell Monika about it was her that sent Trazyn to save Monika from the troubles. He then pours in a bowl of soup:" I hope you would like it; I took a recipe from a royal chef who used to serve the high lord general of this planet."

"I will never trust the words of a Xeno and furthermore you expect me to eat what you made?!"Monika is using all of her energy to shout at Trazyn.

"Yes ?"

"It was a rhetorical question, and also..." Monika coughs painfully, and finally, she calms down she continues: "I cannot believe that you would make up all of those stories. What is your true purpose here? What kind of experiment is this?"

Trazyn scoffs: " If I wanted to experiment on you I would, first of all, remove your vocal cord, for a person that suffered five fractures three broken bones, and a concussion, you are surprisingly talkative. Also, I find it strange that you would expect me to do some experiment on you, where did you read things like that?"

"Books about Xenos and that's how I know you are a Necron, a machine, a soulless being." Monika finally calms down completely Trazyn's right, if he wanted to do something fucked up to her, he'd already done so: "So... I am here because of a bargain you made with someone?"

"That is right, but unfortunately that's everything I could tell you. You can take your time, I suggest that you try the soup first, it should help with the hunger." Trazyn then proceeds to leave the room, leaving her alone.

At first, Monika is a bit stubborn about eating the food that was served by a machine, but then with the combination of the amazing smell from the tray and her empty stomach, she opened the tray and had the first taste, "It's amazing, '' Monika said internally, but she still has some doubt with the motive of Trazyn. But thanks to the tiring and painful body, she soon fell asleep again after eating.

It's been a few days after the hub incident, Monika feels a bit better, yet the chest pain is still severe when she's trying to breathe deeply. Usually, with the regenerative gene in Monika's body she won't need more than a few days to fully recover but this time, she felt like a failure or ashamed about her action. Monika leaves the bed and wears her clothes, in the past few days Trazyn has not shown any intention of hostility. And yet Monika is still very skeptical about everything that's happening to her. But soon enough the overwhelming boredom, creep into her, and for the first time, Monika decides to leave the room and to look around. Monika slowly visits the various artifacts that are being displayed on the transparent cases, some of them are of alien origin and some of them can be recognized by Monika.

"Enjoying yourself?" Trazyn suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Monika got startled and almost accidentally pushed over a display case: " Can you please stop teleporting in and out like this? If I am a guest, then I should have the right to complain. Also... Yea, I am quite impressed with the collections you have here."

If Trazyn could show his expression, he would be certainly intrigued by the word choice Monika used: "Oh? How so? Many people call my collection of thieveries and I to have a stained reputation for it."

"I don't think that's true, some of the artifacts have been changed in owners hundreds of times in history and if one of them isn't careful, those artifacts will be gone forever. But at least in this gallery all of these memories that have to withstand the test of time can be remained uncatered in this place." Monika immediately steps away from the display case she almost pushed over on the ground.

Seeing the way Monika talked about Trazyn's work, it makes him seemingly in thought about something, but then Monika saw a shrine-looking place and it immediately grabbed her interest. While Monika is reading the descriptions Trazyn also followed in, and an unnoticeable sigh was let out from him. Elysia is the name that was written on the shrine, this is seemingly to be a place for a memorial: "Is this person...?" Monika asks and zooms into the picture on top of the shrine. This person is seemingly of Eldar origin, pointy ears and slender figures all check the box, but what confuses Monika is the fact that why would Trazyn build a place for her.

"Elysia, an honorable enemy, player, opponents, friend, and... companion." Trazyn loses his usual unseriousness and sass: " She is a fictional character that I wrote about a perfect frenemy."

Monika crosses her arm and narrows her eyes:" Lies." Throughout the days with Trazyn, Monika at some point developed a friend-like relationship with him:" I bet she's someone that was important to you, but you are just too embarrassed to talk about."

"Watch your tone, human." Trazyn suddenly advanced forward to try to scare Monika but she didn't flinch this time.

Instead of even remotely being scared, Monika puts both of her hands on the back and walks slowly towards Trazyn: " Well... If you really don't want to say it then I won't force you, I promise. But... you need to do me a small favor, really nothing big."

"Speak."

"Well... since I have nothing to do here, can you please teach me how to make that soup? I think my sister would love it..." Monika scratches the back of her head and avoids eye contact: " Also... I never really had time to do it or... anything... never mind. I just want to say... thank you for saving me back at the desert." Monika's words were stuttered.

"I told you I was merely fulfilling a bargain." Trazyn doesn't understand what kind of things are in this human girl's brain, are they are just senseless emotion pieces?

Monika shakes her head: "It doesn't matter, you saved me, regardless of what was the intention, and all good deeds need to be compensated."

Trazyn looks at Monika in a strange way: "You do know that I am a machine, right? I mean aren't you scared of a Necron overlord? You know what I am, right?"

"I do know all of that, but I don't really care about any of that. I am taught to see the world without a filter of prejudice, and everyone should be judged based on their action." Monika said it seriously: "You might not think much but trust me in my world, people won't even bother to act for the same deed."

Trazyn shakes his head and chuckles: "You are terribly naive, you know that?"

Monika grins warmly and slightly tilts her head sideways:" Yea, I do hear that a lot. But thanks for the compliment." She shrugged.

Trazyn starting like find this human girl might not be like the other meat bag he's seen so far:" Come with me."

"To what end?"

"I will teach you how to make that soup you so eagerly want to learn."

Nova always knows where her sister is, of course also the fight in the hub, however, she did not expect that her sister would make her chip in that favor this fast. For an imperial officer stealing from the vault that they are supposed to be protecting is high treason and will be sentenced to death. But Nova has already done her fair share of dance with death in her times already.

The underground facility that has Trazyn's artifact is called D1. It is used to be a missile base for planetary defense since Nova has access to all secret facilities, this shouldn't be hard to get in. The hardest part is to try to get the artifact and sneak out without being noticed or found. If she's captured, no amount of rank can save her from that. At this point, she kind of regretted having such a sister who's clearly doesn't have her head right in the place where she's supposed to be.

While she's thinking about the plan, someone knocked on the door. "Come in," she said after hiding the map of the D1 facility. The person who came in is Maverick, he has something to report from the oil rig incident.

"Good morning, Major." He said it while saluting. " I have a report that ought to deliver."

"Hand it in lieutenant." She looks at the report and then at Maverick in an annoyed way "Anything else?" She acted like this because she wants Maverick to be gone as soon as possible so she can keep working on the plan.

"Yes, Major." he clears his voice:" May I go out with you?"

Nova's heart shook a bit, she lays her back on the chair and asks:" What do you mean to go out with me?"

"Getting to know you better, and therefore being in a relationship with you." He said it with a full sincere voice.

"Did you lose a bet or something, you do know that I am your superior officer right? If the HR finds out both of us would be in trouble." Nova is saying this but she kind of like this feeling, when she was in high school, she was top of the class, but she isn't being chased by any guys. At some point in her life, she was craving the feeling of being wanted.

"Major, I've thought about it a lot after the oil rig operation. I was seriously in love with the way you do things and you." He's so honest. But it might be what Nova wants from a man, all of the men in her position are nothing like this. When you reach a certain height, the people who work there are either extremely wealthy or the people who would do anything to preserve their power. Having a relationship like this would undoubtedly be career suicide.

"This is too sudden; can you give me a bit of time to think about it?" Nova smiled a bit while saying that.

"Of Course, Major, have a nice day." Then he leaves the room.

As Maverick leaves the room, Nova feels like her face is burning. She said a lot of unrecognizable silly things while having a breakdown. But soon she recovered from that. She tries to find someone to talk to about this thing, but she just realizes that she doesn't have anyone who would talk about private matters in her life except her sister. She lightly hits her own face to sober up a bit, then continues to plan for the heist.

Outside the D1 base

Nova activates her invisibility function in her suit:" Alright, Nova, this is nothing, it's just about being a Major trying to break into the secret facility that's exactly what you should protect." she said it to herself internally. Nova starting the count down on her watch she has only twenty minutes to get out in before the troopers are here. When she's checking the security around the facility, she senses something wrong. No imperial forces outside the facility to patrol? That seems off. But she still jumps across the fence then enters from the side door.

She enters an elevator tunnel that leads directly to the - 20 F, which is where the blade is. She suddenly sees a little mouse roaming near her, but the moment it enters the elevator shaft, it got lasered into a piece of coal.

Nova didn't flinch but she frowned a bit after realizing this place is not so easy after all, she activates signature scan to see where the laser is coming from, then calculates a precious bounce shot from her sniper rifle. After pulling the trigger, she got the laser weapon in the elevator shaft. She then proceeded to slide through the cable, until the -20F.

Before doing anything, Nova located the power cell of the floor and then proceed to short circuit it, this process should buy her another five minutes before the backup generator kicks in. This process should give her plenty of time to both arrive at the vault and open it with her decode device. Just as everything went as planned, a green orb appeared in front of the vault.

She thought it was Trazyn again, because that's the same technology Trazyn uses to teleport. She then disables her invisibility suit walking towards the light, but when the light fades a hand grabs her neck, lifts her up like she's a toy. Nova suddenly realizes this is not Trazyn, she tries to struggle off, but the grip is getting harder and harder.

"Insect." a mechanical voice said with a monotone then strengthens his hands, just about Nova gets her neck snapped, she throws a small breach bomb on his face. Because of the blast, he let Nova go. But when the smoke disappears, he seems to be unscratched. He did not continue his advance, instead, he used his staff to point to the vault, after a loud explosion, the two meters thick steel vault got a hole blast through. Inside, there is Trazyn's artifact.

Nova is hiding in a corner with her invisibility suit on, there is no way that she could stop him. Instead, she made a tactical retreat. On her ride back, she's still terrified of the sheer power that blast did to the vault and what she's supposed to say to Trazyn when she calls him.

For a robot that lived for millennials, seeing countless being come and go but teaching a human girl how to cook is something that he's never done. Well, the end result is rather interesting because for some reason by Monika's hand every combination of food can be turned into something hazard-like: "How did you make fire out of vegetables.?" After seeing the failed products Trazyn decides to stop adding more victims to the piles.

While eating the food Trazyn made, Monika couldn't help but feel a bit down, she was never a great cook or doing anything chore likes, but when she was young her cooking was liked among her friends and sometimes even her sister. But apparently, she lost her talent after the enhancement surgery. When Monika finished her food, she moved to the chair a bit closer to Trazyn: "So... Are you always like... a machine?" Monika asks.

"No, not really. But I don't really miss the time when I had a flesh body with me." Trazyn answered while still trying to fix the lamp that was thrown by Monika the first day. He could fix it with his enhanced technology in a second, but he also believes that the special way of fixing his collection in the way that it's supposed to be fixed, is also an artifact that is worth collecting. Trazyn couldn't do it, even though he has similar knowledge of dealing with similar projects. But after trying all of the ways he could think of, he still cannot fix this very specific lamp. Monika is very interested in fixing this type of thing, she and Nova usually make their own trinket and weapons because the weapons that are fitting for them are not in the arsenal of the imperium.

Monika carefully opens the lamp from the bottom, and then starts to examine the problems, to be honest, she also felt bad about this because it was her who threw that lamp at Trazyn. But when she starts digging into the inner structure and eventually took out a broken piece of metal that was disrupting the circuit: "Tada!" Monika presents the fixed lamp to Trazyn with a proud face.

"Very impressive, human." Trazyn examines the lamp and confirmed that it is indeed fixed.

"Hey! Stop calling me human! I have a name." Monika pouts.

"Then what is your name?"

"Monika, Monika Terra. But just call me Monika."

"You successfully demonstrated the combinations of your name." Trazyn said in a sassy way: " Alright, Monika. Wait..." Trazyn just realized something: "Did you say your family is Terra? As in Nova Terra ?"

"Oh no... Do you know Nova? Did she do anything harmful to you?" Monika looks worried.

"No, but she did leave quite an impression if you ask me. We met in an underground facility and that encounter eventually led to me escorting you out of the hub." since they are sisters then there's really no point for him to hide this part of the information anymore.

Monika didn't reply to that, she just sits on the chair while crossing arms, her expression is rather readable as she felt embarrassed, she's kind of sick that Nova kept micromanaging every move she is going but she's also thankful that if isn't here, she's probably already dead in that hub.

"You seemed troubled by this information." Trazyn sits across Monika: "Do you want to discuss it?"

"No... i am fine, it's just a sister thing you know. When someone is so close to you, it is getting harder and harder to even say thanks to that person. And eventually, you stray further away from them, now I don't even know how to talk to her anymore."

Trazyn then pulls out a hologram projector from his pocket dimension storage unit: "This is Elysia." He projects a hologram that has a Eldar woman on it: " Around five thousand years ago, I encountered with her, and we were all after an artifact that belongs to the old ones. We fought in countless battles and sometimes we had to protect the artifact from third parties. We got pretty close, but eventually, we had to decide who is getting the artifact."

"How did it end?"

Trazyn points at the base of the shrine:" This is where she lies, she will not be a collection of mines. Instead, she has earned my eternal respect and rest peacefully until the day the gallery is gone."

"I am sorry."

"No, I am glad you asked, so more people will know what kind of person she is. I felt... pain when I had to drive my blade through her heart as if I was the one who got pierced."

Monika seemingly noticed something, instead of pointing out the fact that he's a machine, she stays with him and asks Trazyn about their history for quite a long time. And interestingly Monika seemingly liked the stories Trazyn is talking about. In the end, Trazyn is getting fond of this human girl, at least when he's with her the emptiness in his soul is somehow feeling... less empty.