On the outskirts of Cranagan, there was a meeting taking place, one of grave importance...
"Oi... Meister..." A small, redheaded girl with her hair done up into three pigtails, two on each side of her head and one in the back. "Tell me again, why are we doing this?"
Due rolled her eyes. "Because, Agito, we're trying to see if there are any Relics near here, at the very least, I know that there's a good food shop around here."
"Did we just come here for the food?" The last member, Lutecia, asked softly as she sat across from the fire that Due was attending and looked at Due and Agito. "I should be with..."
"Us," Agito interrupted her while crossing her arms and legs and frowning at the young girl, "if you say that you should be with Quattro, I'll give you such a wedgie that you won't be able to walk for a week!"
Lutecia just blinked and slowly nodded. "...Very well." The girl pulled her knees up to her face and started fidgeting slightly.
Due looked at Lutecia and frowned at her. She may not have found out everything that Quattro did, but the one thing she did find out, well... It made her wonder why Quattro would do that.
Technically, there was nothing wrong with being attracted to people of the same gender, Due would know, she had spent plenty of time in the arms of both genders. If anyone asked about it, all she would say is that being a spy was hard work some days. However, Due really wondered why Quattro would want someone so young.
"Lu," the girl looked at Due and blinked in confusion as Due pulled a towel out of somewhere and tossed it to her, "I'd prefer that you go and get some privacy before doing that." Seeing the girl stand up and run out, blushing, Due sighed and growled to herself. "Ugh..."
"Oi, Meister, shouldn't we just tell her the truth?"
"That we're worried something bad happened to Quattro?" Due looked at Agito. "Twisted, as Quattro might have been, she was more interested in science than she was in something like this." Due narrowed her eyes and looked at the fire. "Something about her changed, a long time ago..."
"You don't think that maybe she was possessed by one of those Mazuko thingies, do you?"
"Mazoku," Due corrected the device, "but, it's possible. But, I'm not sure, not like I can ask her, she'd deny it, and even if I confronted her in front of the doctor..."
"You could ask Lutecia." Agito ventured and then sweat-dropped as they heard Lutecia's voice from behind the bushes. "...Or we could wait."
Due twitched as she heard Lutecia's voice again and let out a sigh. Even if hearing the girl go off to do that was bad, it was at least better than hearing her whimper, toss and turn while crying because she wouldn't use her own fingers to get herself off. "Agito."
"Hmm?" Agito blinked at Due. "What is it?"
Due stood up and grinned at her. "I think it's time for a Unison again." Agito just tilted her head in confusion. "Because if I'm going to do some baking for Lutecia, I'm going to need some fire power."
Agito grinned and nodded. Sure, Due tended to make a mess and things sometimes exploded when she was cooking, but at least the end result was awesome and tasty.
While Due and Agito were planning on baking Lutecia some food, Jail was busy with problems of his own.
Jail frowned as he looked at the data. "Uno," his female clone looked at him in confusion, "something seems wrong here."
"What? Did your subscription to Mad Scientist weekly get cancelled when you weren't looking?" Uno asked while walking over to him. "Huh, that is weird." She blinked as she took a closer look at the data. "The Saint's Cradle, huh?" She raised an eyebrow at him. "I don't know about you, but I don't think that a crib would be useful for showing Mid-Childa anything."
"It's a space ship." Jail frowned softly as he turned away from the control panel. "My research says that it should be on Mid-Childa somewhere, but..."
"Look, even if it was here, Dr., without a Kaiser, and, if I'm not mistaken, they're all dead, to power it, it's just a hunk of metal."
Jail looked at her and smirked, causing Uno to blink several times in confusion. "You remember that shroud I had Due steal?" Uno nodded slowly. "Even if the Saint Kaiser was killed, her DNA remained... That can be very... Useful, don't you agree?"
"Wouldn't the genetic markers have broken down over a few hundred years?" She then looked at Jail and grimaced. "Never mind, I forgot that you're even older than that."
"Don't ask me," Jail shrugged before turning around and looking at the data, "but still, I can't find the Saint's Cradle just yet. Who's out right now?"
"Cinque and Nove are." Uno looked at him, "should I put a call into them?"
"Please do, you know what to tell them."
Uno nodded as Jail left the room. "Nove, Cinque..."
"Un-nee!" Both Cinque and Nove said as their faces appeared on the screen.
Uno smiled at them. "If I could, would you two be willing to be on the look-out for the Saint's Cradle?" The two of them blinked in confusion, well, Nove blinked, Cinque was wearing her eye-patch, so blinking was a bit harder. "Sorry, I forget, you don't have all the data I do. Anyway, the Saint's Cradle is supposed to be something like a giant space ship that got buried in the ground somewhere on this planet. If you two happen to come across any space ships..."
"Would that count?" Nove pointed behind her and Uno felt like groaning.
"No, I don't think that small space fighter is what the doctor is looking for..." Uno frowned as she looked at it. "...Just what is that anyway?"
"I dunno, but I pushed a button and this holographic image of a small green Muppet thing appeared and started speaking weirdly."
Cinque looked at Uno, then at the ship. "The green thing is freaky, can we blow it up?"
"Permission granted." Uno smiled as Cinque ran to the ship and put both hands on the hull.
"Rumble Detonator."
"Ah, detonation of this ship, do, you should not." A voice that was old and slightly high pitched said as Cinque and Nove ran away from the ship. The silver-haired cyborg snapped her fingers and the whole thing exploded into thousands of pieces in an instant.
"Anwyay," Uno couldn't help but chuckle softly as she reformed the screen in front of Nove and Cinque, "if the two of you come across any space ships that are large enough to house all of us, then that is possibly what we are looking for."
The two of them saluted Uno and she shut off the screen before turning around and leaving the room. As she walked down the hallway, she stopped at Jail's laboratory and raised an eyebrow as he was working on that Knight Valkyrie Armor some more. "Doctor, just what are you doing?"
"I wonder, Uno..." Jail grinned at her. "I wonder if I can make a copy of this and give it to everyone."
Uno blinked and thought about her sisters wearing matching black suits instead of blue ones. "...That is probably the most stylish idea you've ever had. Why didn't you do that before?"
"I don't want to get just the look, I want the properties as well." Jail grumbled while looking at the material. "If only I knew what they used to make this with..."
"A thread and needle." Uno said as she held up a needle. "Of course, if you want, I can probably scan the thing rather fast to find out what magic was used on it. I was always curious, doctor..."
"Hmm?" He asked while not looking up from his work.
"Why make all the cyborgs women?" Jail fell down and Uno blinked at him. "Is that some skill from Al Hazard?" Jail looked up at her, annoyance written on his face. "Well, I think it's a legitimate question."
"Don't look into it too much," Jail said as he stood up, "I was ordered, by the brains, to create nothing but female cyborgs. Before you say anything, just remember that I was listening to them somewhat in the past."
"That's fine, so, just what are your plans?"
Jail looked at her through one eye closed. "To show Mid-Childa that the nightmare from ten years ago is far from over." Uno stared at him. "Even the might Saint Kaiser would not be anything to that being, Death Bringer..." He squeezed his hand into a fist tightly, "even if the world sees me as a villain, I would rather be a villain if it meant that I would never have to worry about that creature ever again."
Unseen to both, Mr. Snuggles hopped down from where he was hiding on the ceiling before leaving the room.
"Sette," the pink-haired cyborg smiled as she saw her cat and knelt down so that he could jump onto her breasts, "I worry a little about the doctor, he seems afraid of something that may not be real."
"There is no evidence that what he is or is not afraid of is real or not." Sette said as she stood up and scratched Mr. Snuggles' head. "Therefore, I must conclude that the doctor is possibly insane."
"What if he is right then?"
Sette stopped and thought about what she had seen around Quattro that one time. "...Then I would owe him an apology for being wrong."
Mr. Snuggles just purred softly as Sette scratched his head.
Elsewhere...
"So, what are we looking for?" Nove asked as she kicked a dead tree out of the way. "I mean, look for a space ship? We already found the Aluminum Falcon, but that was too small!"
"Nove, I'm going to take my eye patch off." Nove looked at her and nodded slowly. "I know it makes you nervous, but I find that even the doctor's advances to the eye patch does not match up to my new eye."
Nove nodded and took a deep breath. "No, I won't look away, Cinque." Sure, that eye was freaky as hell, but it was Cinque, and she was nice, even if she had a freaky eyeball.
Nove fought the urge to shudder as Cinque took her eye-patch off, revealing her eye that was black where it should have been white and the gold iris hidden. "Cinque, can... Can I do something first?"
Blinking, Cinque nodded and wondered why Nove walked up to her and gently grabbed her cheeks before looking at her right eye. "Nove?"
Nove didn't say anything for a few moments, before she sighed and hugged Cinque to her. "I'm sorry, that eye just looks too weird, but, even if it looks evil, it's still Cinque's eye," Nove smiled as Cinque hugged her back, "I'm sorry, Cinque, it just scares me."
"I know." Cinque buried her face into Nove's chest. "And I'm not angry or sad."
Nove let go of the hug and blushed as Cinque smiled at her. "Even if the eye is evil, it's Cinque's eye, so it's not so bad."
Smiling, Cinque looked around and had to admit, her new eye seemed to be able to anything that it needed to at the time. "...I swear, it's almost like this eye can do whatever is needed to help us out. If we were in a book, I'd say it could advance the plot for no good reason."
"Don't talk like that," Nove shuddered softly, "if you say that, then I might find out that this is all a dream and that something bad will happen when I wake up."
Narrowing her eyes, Cinque pointed off in the distance. "There's something over there."
"How can you..?"
Cinque looked at Nove's confused expression and smiled at her. "There's something different with the color in the air over that way."
Nove just shrugged and followed Cinque. When they got close enough to see what it was that Cinque had seen, Nove just stared and Cinque's eyes got big as she gasped at what she saw.
"A man that has pink hair and a pink face?" Nove sweat-dropped as the man, who was sitting on a rock, turned to look at them. He was wearing a white cloak over his body, but since his hood was down completely, the two of them could see his face clearly.
"Normally I would not be found unless I wanted to be found." He stood up and walked towards them, curiosity adorning his features. "However, you two managed to find me, impressive. My name, is Sirius, Shinzoku from the Lost Dark World."
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