The marines walked the pink power armor off of the vertibird in the Castle's courtyard. Rowdy came up to the power armor. "I keep telling you, you have to strut." One marine looked at her and shook his head.

Two women marched up to the power armor. "Ambassador - immediate debrief in my quarters.", the General ordered.

Piper objected. "The people have the right for their press/"

"Just come with, Piper.", the General sighed.

"Oh.", the reporter understood. "Okay.

"Nat? Nat! Are you hurt?"

Again the marine shook his head. Rowdy agreed. "Tickety-boo, General. Spick and span even.

"It's like she's just got the morbs. It's probably just a low core."

"No!", the child inside cried out. The external speakers did not carry the voice, but they were close enough to hear the screaming from inside. "Don't disable it!"

Rowdy and Piper took the marines' places escorting the armor. "Natalie. Everything's okay, sweetie."

Colonel Bridget flicked her head at the marines. Her people fled the entourage to report to her and Brandis about the lost vertibird and robotic casualties.

The General only spoke once the four were in her office. "Natalie Wright. You can come out of the armor now."

The armor backed itself into a corner of the quarters. "How do we know she isn't in here? She can turn invisible."

Piper glanced to the other two women. Rowdy shrugged. The General clenched her eyes.

Approaching the armor, she drew her third pistol which she rarely used; a heavily modified LASER PISTOL with the most advanced combat scope on the surface. "Nat. Check your sensors. There's only us in this room. There isn't even an assaultron in here. But if you want to double check..." The General pulled the FUSION CELL out of the weapon. "Use this scanner. There's just us here."

The power armor raised its arms and tried to grab at the weapon. The General placed a hand on one and slid the weapon into place. The power armor shifted as it pointed the weapon at everything. "Okay...okay."

The power armor lifted itself off the wall. It disassembled and a scared little girl oozed out of its back.

"Are you hurt, Nat?", Piper tried. "I have a STIMPACK. You still have yours, right? We can get Doc Anderson."

Rowdy was taking off sections of plates. "Nope, none, nada. Apple pie order, General."

The General faced away from the rest of them. Her fists tightened, but the red head made sure not to show them her face.

"Was it her?", she asked, voice cold.

Natalie looked up. "Aunt Blue?"

"You said that you couldn't see her. Was the woman who attacked you wearing a CHINESE STEALTH SUIT?"

Piper looked back to the General. "You know who did this? You sent Nat in knowing that this was a possibility?"

Rowdy wondered in a different direction. "Who can get their hands on a two hundred year old Chinese armor? Besides maybe Goa?"

The General was not listening to them. "She shimmered. She had an electric sword. She moved in ways you wouldn't understand. If she was hit, she may have turned gray and it would have looked like a second skin?"

The other two women looked to Natalie. "Yes, ma'am."

The General's fists disappeared in front of her and they were left staring at her clenched back. "She attacked a child! Sent to talk to other children. To give them food and medicine and a future. That armor.", the General pointed at what Rowdy had managed. "It isn't the size for an adult. It's obviously a child's civilian..."

The General walked over and simply grabbed the Wright sisters into her arms. "I promise you. I will kill her for this."

Rowdy asked, "What if she surrenders?"

She received a glare in return. "She won't."