3. Calm Before the Storm
"So you let the target get away yet again," a child's voice spoke.
Before the figure in shadows a man kneeled, his head hung and his hair draped over his face. Without saying anything he clutched his hand against the reddish brown earth beneath his hand.
"I suppose I could always punish you but without subordinates, what would become of me...in any event, please explain why your mission was a failure this time," the young voice scolded.
As the man stood up he nodded as his overseer stepped forward. The person he had to look up to was no taller than about his abdomen and appeared very frail in appearance with a very slender form. Her unusual voice was coupled with her child like appearance. Parts that threw it off would be her long raven hair as well as the pale blue tinted skin she had. Other parts would be that she was completely bare as far as clothes, with the exception of gloves and stockings. The most bewitching trait on her was the cold lifeless stare she owned. With it, she possessed the power of easily breaking composure of others.
"Well. I couldn't see exactly, but it appeared that he wasn’t alone. There were two others that he escaped with. I could sense one was that princess girl from the island continent but the other..." the man stopped looking at the lifeless rock below him that dully colored the terrain reddish brown.
The girl while near emotionless changed her expression to one of disgust and question. She then approached the cloak shrouded subordinate.
"Do not tell me that some kid and this girl managed to throw your hunting off, you were supposed to be my best," she scolded.
She would reach up to the man's chest to grab his shirt, pulling him down to her height.
"Faen, you ignorant, useless waste of my energy, why is it whenever I send you out, you can never give me what I want?" She scolded more pushing him back and walking back to her alter.
Faen looked up at her from his hunched position again. His pupils narrowed to slivers as he watched her.
"Sincerest...apologies, mistress..." he whispered some.
She looked back at him, detest in her expression.
"I have a new task for you. You will be taking Stormie this time," she started to speak before being interrupted by Faen.
"Mistress, I beg your pardon, but Stormie isn’t the most competent of people to be sending on missions..." Faen stated showing obvious protest to the plan she was about to explain.
"I don't want to hear it from someone who can't carry out a simple task. You will take Stormie with you and your mission is to bring back something off of that man. Because Stormie is more adept than you are in civilization. You will escort him to Sarthe and get and of his DNA. If I can't have a perfect subordinate, damnit, I will make one to replace you," she explained to him.
Faen stood silently and nodded. Beside him another figure started to manifest from the ground, first was silver spiked hair followed by his body which was clothed with what appeared to be a white dress shirt designed with irregular designs of black electricity. Under it he wore nothing which revealed his torso, covered in scrapes and cut wounds.
"Yo, yo, what's up mistressy lady!" Stormie spoke as leisurely as he could as he bowed.
The girl simply stared at him a moment, obviously it annoyed her some when he was around.
"Faen here is taking you on a little...field trip. He will detail the contents of your mission to you. I'm hoping you will bring success to me, Stormie," she spoke.
Stormie nodded and looked over at Faen who by now had a frustrated look on his face.
Faen turned to faced the rather laid back ally of his and turned away, walking off.
"Be sure not to fail me this time, Faen," the girl spoke out before disappearing in a dark mist.
Without giving any form of a response, Faen departed as well. Stormie shrugged some making his own leave.
Back on Keiroy, Karu found himself facing a promiscuous vixen yet again. It seemed that the foxgirl he'd met with on, now counting, three occasions, had comfortably made herself comfortable on his torso on her back. His hands, from what he could feel, were on her stomach and from what he could tell his hands were also right up under her breasts. Unable to help but embrace his male instinct in the heat of the situation, he shifted his hands until he was sure he had her breasts cupped in his hands.
In his head he thought about how many different tasks he'd achieved just from this one action. While he believed he had the upper hand he carefully slid his hands up the large mounds thinking to himself over how soft they felt.
This all came to a stop when he heard her mumble in her sleep. His body instantly freezing as he watched her arm raise and clasp her chest, locking his left hand down against her breast now.
"Oh man, if the guys back home heard about this, I could never hear the end of it....It'll be so great," he whispered to himself.
Caught up in his moment of victory the vixen had since awoken. Not wanting to startle him she laid there silently with a grin growing on her face.
"I probably should try and wake her up though," he spoke quietly looking at the top of her head.
She smiled a little bit, unable to hold back yawning as she turned around to face him.
"Did you have somewhere you needed to go?" She asked him, stretching until her arms wrapped loosely around his head.
"Yea, I was hoping to meet up with that Aaron guy," he stated, not seeming to mind what she was doing at the very moment.
She simply nodded and removed her arms from around his head as she turned over to face him. An expression of concern on her face.
"You just be careful with those Seilku people, I have suspicions about them..." she said calmly.
Karu was quiet, while he didn't want to entirely believe her, at the same time he had to heed her words as well, since she was from this world.
"I'll keep that in mind for later," he said.
After that she got up off of him and looked his features over some.
"Yuri," she stated suddenly.
"Huh?" Karu replied curiously wondering what she was talking about.
"That's my name. Make sure not to forget it, okay?" She continued on, a grin on her face.
He froze only for a moment as he looked at her. Now that he thought about it he hadnt really gotten her name up until now.
"It's a honor, Yuri!" He responded taking her hand, "I look forward to spending time with you again."
She smiled as he got up and began to leave the room.
As he exited the room and closed the wall back she stared toward the exit of her room her smile sinking into a frown as she got up from her bed to get dressed.
Karu walked toward the kitchen where he would expect to see the two girls from earlier, Nina and Iruka. Surely enough, the two of them sat at the table enjoying a light breakfast of meat and poultry.
"Look who's up. Did you go for a stroll last night or something?" Nina started turning about in her chair to face him directly.
Iruka looked at her sister confused, but didn't say anything to her.
"Karu did you sleep well last night at the very least?" Iruka asked, showing almost the opposite level of concern for her house guest.
Seeming to easily ignore the unruly of the two sisters, he walks over.
"I slept pretty well. Thanks. Hey...this might seem a bit out of my place to ask, but do you live with parents?" Karu wondered finding an open seat.
Iruka laughed some as he sat down. It wasn't until then she realized he hadn’t seen her yet.
"Oooh where are my manners. If you wait another few minutes or so, mom will be coming back from dropping Eli off," the older sister responded.
Karu nodded and waited figuring he'd have time to kill since he really didn’t have much else to occupy himself with.
A few minutes passed by slowly, Nina fumed over him sitting at the table with them and Iruka minded her own business as she ate freely. The three of them moved to face the living area as the door was heard opening.
"Whoo! I tell ya, it is just a beautiful day out. You two should go do some running- oh..." she peeked over to the kitchen seeing not two but three faces, stopping herself mid sentence.
Walking over she eyed Karu curiously.
"And who might you be, dear?" The older woman asked in the rather pitched and scratchy voice.
Karu blinked, leaning back some to get some distance between them.
"Name's Karu, it's nice to meet you, I hope?" He replied waving a hand in the air.
She looked at her daughters with wonder. Nina shook her head and turned away. Iruka smiled and gave a thumbs up to her mother.
"Hm...fifty-fifty, eh? Well, Karu, I will allow you to stay here. I take it Aaron allowed you to stay here?" She asked standing up right.
Karu nodded as he watched her settle her hands on her hips.
"At least you are more forgiving than this girl over here. I have to say I'll promise to at least be of assistance around the house for my own sake if I hope to have somewhere to live," Karu replied.
"Oh, dear me, settle down there, tiger. I could never throw someone out. What gave you that silly idea?" She asked holding a hand to her cheeks as she looked him over with her bright red eyes.
He hadn't noticed before now the resemblance that her daughter, Iruka, had to this woman that spoke to him, similar skin complexion, deep red eyes and long shining black hair. Among other assets, primarily body shape. Snapping from his thoughts on her looks he scratched his jaw with a finger as he thought. The only person who had really given him a hard time here was Nina.
"Well...nothing. I guess it's just my imagination. Thanks for allowing me to stay though," Karu replied to her, "I hate to cut things short but I have to meet with Aaron today to discuss something, he said it was important."
The mother looked at him confused but nodded.
"If you need a ride, I'm heading that way, dear. Can't have you walking and wandering without knowing where you're going," she grinned, spinning what looked like a key around her index finger.
Karu was silent but he knew she was right. He hadn't the slightest idea where to even start looking.
"Well alright..." Karu answered hesitantly as he walked over.
"Alright kids, I'm heading out then and I guess I have Karu here with me," the mother stated.
Both Nina and Iruka nodded waving them off as they exited.
Meanwhile within the city Stormie walked with an irritated Faen, whose head hung in irritation.
"Explain one reason why I shouldn't destroy you here and now..." Faen hissed under his breath.
Stormie, who walked with an unpleasantly high disposition of carefree attitude stopped to turn back toward Faen.
"Weeell, dude. The mistress boss lady wouldn't approve of that, since you gotta escort me to this target guy," he replied.
Faen stared at the blue haired being, biting his lip. His hand clenching around the hilt of a sword that settle on his hip.
"Tch...well anyway. I'd sensed Sarthe's signatures around this area so we can't be far off," Faen spoke.
"So what's this dude look like anyway?" Stormie then asked.
Faen exhaled a held breath as he held a gloved hand up in his palm a swirling mass of black smoke began to manifest displaying an image to Stormie.
"He looks like he would attract all kinds of attention, bro," Stormie commented pointing at the image.
"Don't call me that. And don't predict things like that you imbecile. He's incredibly talented at concealing himself. If you do spot him however, we've, of course, been given full permission to conduct an attack regardless of where," Faen explained as he walked ahead.
Not even a moment passed before his eyes caught glimpse of his target. Sarthe was seen walking down the opposite side of the street, among a group of people who walked with and against him.
A grin smeared over his face as he looked to Stormie.
"Our prey is here. Stormie, it's all you," Faen commented.
Stormie turned his head glancing across the street and sure enough he noticed him as well. A grin would appear on his face as well for a moment before it turned to a frown. He lifted his hand and pointed his finger at the man they were after and at the tip of his finger a sphere of water shot, spearing through the air at the man across the street.
"That's not a real person," Stormie spoke as he watched his liquid projectile impact the man, which disappeared shortly after causing a group of people to stop and stare.
"He's as crafty as I thought he might be...I'm sure he has an idea we're still after him now though," Faen quietly stated as he looked around suspiciously before walking again, "Let's go."
The two of them began walking again. The group of pedestrians, while confused began to continue on their paths.
Shortly afterwards, Sarthe himself walks out of a shop nearby where his clone was. A small breath was exhaled as he walked away from the scene. Soon he makes his way down a nearby alleyway, standing at the corner as he watched people pass by. Looking down at the pavement before him he thought to himself a moment.
"Well it's obvious they are still after me. I have yet to find out even their intentions. I'll have to make sure to watch my back double time..." he whispered to himself.
Moving away from the sidewalk, he went further into the alley until he was far enough to wall jump to the roof of one of the buildings nearby.
"So there you are," Faen's voice rang through the air.
Hearing this Sarthe stopped in his tracks looking ahead and spots the duo standing near the ventilation shafts.
"I had a feeling you wouldn't be that easy to catch...but you can't suppress your location that easily. You see...because you possess something we want, the Dark Miracle," Faen spoke as he folded his arms.
Stormie jumped from where he stood toward Sarthe, his jacket fluttering in the air as he began his descent.
Sarthe twinged his lip some as he pulled his hand from his side.
"I hate to ruin your mood but you aren't about to beat me...Day Breaker..." he whispered.
In his hand at his side a dark spiral formed and as he pulled his hand forward a large thin and black sheet of metal began to form and would continue to form until it had reached a length equivalent to his own height.
"Ah the famed Breaker...our mistress would be pleased to also get a hold of that as well." Faen spoke.
As he spoke, Stormie put the sleeves of his jacket together and upon pulling them apart he holds a pair of batons in his hands. Sarthe looked up at him as he lowered his weapon for a rising strike. Surely enough he swung the sword from its resting state, pushing it up into the air when his opponent was close enough. Grinning he watched as his sword swiped through the body with extreme ease. It was this ease that unsettled him as he watched the two halves hit the ground and splatter apart like water.
"It wasn't enough that you couldn't beat me, but you had to call in a buddy to help huh?" Sarthe spoke as he settled his sword at his side.
As he stood there he glanced behind him watching as the water took on the appearance of the man that charged him.
"Normally, I wouldn't need assistance taking someone like you down but I'm on supervision duty now... My- Our task is not to defeat you today," Faen commented as he watched.
Stormie had manifested behind Sarthe now. Just as he did, Sarthe jumped forward to turn around, putting some distance between them.
"Just what are you exactly?" Sarthe asked as he stared at the being who was coming fully into shape once more.
"That blade of yours seems to have screwed me up, dude, not cool," Stormie ignored his statement pulling another set of batons out.
Sarthe didn't say anything back as he charged this time holding the Breaker in his right hand while his left hand began to conjure up another sword to his aid.after he did he quickly engaged in a parrying fight with the pursuer. Each time one of his swords collided with a baton, sparks would fly. While they contested to see who would make the first hit on the other, Faen watched with a smirk on his face.
"Just one drop is all we need," Faen whispered leaning forward, "Why don't you just let us beat you. The easier it is for us the better off you'll be."
Sarthe clashed finally with all four weapons locked in stalemate. This was his sole moment to glance at Faen as he stood there. His gaze would return to Stormie, who was grinning as well. Not liking this he jumped back after knocking Stormie's stance wide open. Obviously a decent time to make a move but something wasn’t right. Suddenly his eyes widened and a sharp pain had come to his back. He glanced behind him only to see another Stormie had manifested and attacked from behind. He panted under his breath as he felt an obstruction being removed from his body.
He felt his knees hit the ground as he began to lose consciousness only to fall face first afterwards.
Faen jumped down from where he stood next to Stormie.
"Interesting trick there," Faen declared, holding his hand out to the clone, "Our job here is done."
Stormie looked curiously at him.
"Aww dude, we don't get ta kill the guy? I mean he's already halfway there," he complained before getting hit in the jaw.
"This is all we need, we can't risk any unnecessary comebacks from him, Sarthe is just bluffing I'm sure," Faen replied vanishing in a puff of dark mist.
Rubbing his jaw, Stormie looked at Sarthe on the ground and disappeared as well.
Sarthe coughed a few moments later and lifts his head. Looking around through hazy eyes.
"I've gotten careless..." Sarthe mumbled to himself as he struggled into a sitting position.
"I'll say, I noticed a high spike of energy around here...I shouldn't be surprised you were involved with it," spoke a stern yet settled voice.
Sarthe turned around to see who was talking, he would see another man with sharp, bright yellow hair and pale almost solid white skin donning what looked like a skin tight, purple, black and white top and pants with a type of waist and below cloak.
"And just who might you be?" Sarthe stared at him.
He walked forward until he stood before Sarthe.
"I am Zsenith, I belong with the Organization. As per regulations any unusual activities within the city are to be dealt with by us Chasers. Seeing as you were involved I expected bodies to be around but it appears even you had trouble," Zsenith stated.
"So it would seem..." Sarthe commented, getting up.
A decent amount of blood was spilling to the floor as he stood there. Panting in a soft and controlled manner he started walking off.
"Shall I summon one of the Healers?" Zsenith asked, never turning around to view his condition.
"It would just be a bother, I'll make it on my own," Sarthe replied jumping down from the building.
Zsenith remained silent watching the street below spotting a particular car that moved down the street. Unfolding his arms he lept from the roof top back toward the Seilku building.
"So Aaron told you to stay with my family, right?" Sabrina asked as she cruised down the street in her car with Karu.
Karu looked over at her letting his eyes wander down her form as he answered her back.
"Yea, he said something about me staying there since the residents know me better than anyone else since my arrival," he answered.
Sabrina turned to face him, easily catching that he was examining her body rather than making eye contact, but says nothing of it as she places her hand on his shoulder.
"Well Karu, I want you to feel at home so if you have questions or need help you know I'll try my best to be there for you," she replied.
To that Karu smiled. His head had turned back toward the dashboard. Sabrina chuckled some and pats her hand on his head.
"I know you feel really out of place being here on this world," she started to say as she turned down another street, "I believe you'll like being here though."
Karu looked through the glass before him to see an enormous building they were approaching, dubbed with the word "SEILKU" along the front. This was where he would meet Aaron at. And contrary to what she was saying he believed things were about to get worse. Though he put faith in her comment. As they got closer and closer the road before them seemed to tunnel beneath the main front of the building to reveal a conglomeration of different buildings.
"I didn’t know there was this much to the building... When Zero escorted me it only took five or ten minutes to get out," Karu stated peering out of the passenger window to look at the various buildings.
Sabrina chuckled a little bit as he stared awestruck.
"Well this is the employee entrance. All of the big higher up guys have access codes to get around with ease," Sabrina explained.
Karu nodded not saying anything more.
Soon the car came to a stop and Sabrina exited the car. Karu following soon after her. Together they entered the medical division of the entire complex.
"Well Karu, here is where we must go our different ways, I'll get a hold of Aaron or someone who can take you to him okay?" She said to him.
Only a moment passed before Karu found himself hugging the mother. Sabrina blinked and stuttered a bit as she looked down to see him holding her. Standing there a moment she looked about, a few nurses and doctors in the area looked at her, wondering what was going on. Sabrina smiled sarcastically but looked down at him with a look of concern. Her arms finally rose and wrapped around his back, rubbing it softly.
"Sabrina...thanks. For everything and anything that might happen in the future," Karu spoke muffled by her shirt some.
After saying that he let go of her finally to step back only to feel retaliation as she held him to herself. His cheek was now squeezed up against her chest.
"Karu, it'll be fine, go see what Aaron had to talk to about," Sabrina leaned into the top of his head in a motherly fashion everyone around them resumed what they were doing.
Karu nodded softly as he felt her grip around him loosen. He would step back as she spoke into the panel next to one of the transport stations.
"You wait here, someone will come to pick you up shortly okay?" She asked looking back to him.
He simply nodded and stood there as she walked off. A few moments later the transport pad before him began to illuminate and shine brightly with a white light and from it Zero was revealed standing before him.
"Karu, do you have some business with master?" She asked curious as to why he was there.
"Well he had something he wanted to tell me," Karu replied stepping onto the pad with her.
"I understand. I shall take you to him then," she finished allowing the transport to send them to Aaron's office.
After teleporting, Karu saw they were inside of a long corridor filled with doors. Hopping down from the pad he turned to watched Zero step down behind him.
"You are certainly full of energy, Karu. I hope it will one day come in use for you," she stated, a grin forming on her face.
Karu blinked a few times, staring at her as he whipped his body back around again.
Zero could only laugh some as she began walking down the corridor. Karu could only follow from behind trying to hide an embarrassed face. As they walked down the corridor, Karu couldn't help but stare at the android before him, wondering why other civilizations would explore humanoid technology. Though to be honest he couldn't deny that it was something he liked as well. Sighing some he let his eyes wander down her backside; overall the android appeared to have a slender build and skin tight outfit to accent every part of her body below her neck. It was odd though also, she had more of a country style behind like girls back home.
"Aaron must have a lot of fun with you, huh? With an ass like yours it's no wonder he keeps you around," Karu commented as he stepped up beside her finally.
"I beg your pardon?" She questioned looking to him.
"Eh-heh...nothin," Karu muttered.
By then they had reached Aaron's office and Zero entered the pass code to allow them entry.
"Master Aaron, Karu has come as you requested. Shall I leave the room for you two to talk?" Zero asked, her hands meeting at her front as she awaited his response.
For a moment there was no answer as the chair slowly turned.
"Aaron?" Zero asked in follow up.
As the chair turned around it finally got to the point where they could see no one was in it.
"Oh dear this is not good, the master is not here," Zero looked around then to Karu, "May I ask you to stay here while I locate him?"
Karu looked at her, confused but shook his head shortly afterward. Zero watched him as he shook his head while she did not sincerely express emotion herself, a grin grew on her face.
"You really are just a child when it boils down to it. Shall we wait here then?" Zero asked.
When she did, Karu rushed around the desk to sit in Aaron's chair. Zero watched him of course approaching the desk herself. She would now stand across the desk in front of him.
"So, with a body like yours does Aaron do things like, grope or rub or something?" Karu asked bluntly.
Zero stood silent for a moment before she answered.
"I am afraid I do not understand the question, Karu. What do you mean?" Zero asked, a bit confused.
Karu got down from the chair sighing. He walks around the desk to stand to her side only a moment before she turns to face him. He rose his hand up to her chest and began subtly rubbing over her breast. His other hand wrapped around her waist to do the same to the androids backside.
"Stuff like this. Aaron doesn't do this with you?" Karu asked her again, this time a bit more clearly.
"Intimate rubbing and fondling... I cannot say that he has before, I do not mind this though," Zero replied while Karu continued to fondle her.
Karu stopped once she said that but kept his hands in place for the time being. Eventually his lower hand would make it up to her other breast as well.
"How can you have boobs like this and be okay with him ignoring them," Karu protested.
Only in his mid teen years, the boy obviously enjoyed being able to openly fondle the android before him. Zero watched him curiously as he did this to her. An event like this being a first for her she studied him thoroughly.
"I have not had Aaron do this to me, but I can not see anything wrong with not intimately caressing my cooling tanks, Karu," she responded.
Karu stared up at her with awe. Was this a new form of wordplay that he could have only dreamed for, and from a girl so openly inviting.
"How come they are held here? The cooling system that is," Karu asked her continuing on with his grabbing.
"Well the concept works about the same way as your respiratory or your circulatory system, its just a means to keep heated areas as cooled as possible with a water supply kept in my chest," she began to explain.
Karu looked up at her with a hint of wonder, his hands finally coming off her breasts.
"Well that explains why they feel so natural and warm..." he muttered, exhaling shortly after.
He then looked over to the doorway wondering when Aaron would show up. It was on that note that the door spread open revealing Aaron behind it.
"Oh you're here already, I just went looking for you," he laughed walking over, "I hope you two haven’t been waiting long."
Zero shook her head bowing slightly to him in greeting.
"Karu here was just showing me a few things that seem to be customary on his home world," she explained to him, "Aside from that, Karu appears to have been summoned here for you?"
"I'll have to see what our planetary guest here taught you after we're done here then, and yes, I did ask him here to meet with me, he must be informed of whats going on as I don't want him to be out of the know," Aaron answered moving over to his chair to sit.
Karu watched him with a heightened level of concern but didn't speak since he was about to be told. Zero nodded and moved over to the side of the desk remaining silent for him to begin talking.
"Now Karu as you and I both know, we can't detail what phenomena brought you here, but whatever it was, required a great deal of power which has triggered a chain of events to begin happening. I asked a colleague over to see if she could tell me anything due to her great prowess and knowledge on energy, both spiritual and elemental. She told me that there was definitely something amiss and that if we don't act fast, we'll have a number of problems before us. Karu, we need to make sure that you are as well protected as possible," Aaron spoke.
As he came to a brief pause the door to his office opened once again, and another male stood at it, his face had a much more stern and hostile appearance to it than most he'd seen so far.
"Sir, I have some urgent news you would be wise to hear," he spoke, as he walked forward.
Each step made sounded like the tapping of metal surfaces together. Hearing this, Karu turned around seeing the man there in the odd uniform, but what really drew his attention were this man's feet that sounded as if they were made of metal. As Karu looked down he would see that his feet really were metal. Karu looked back up to the man's face as Aaron began to respond.
"Oh? Has something happened, Zsenith?" Aaron asked as he leaned on one of his hands.
Zero looked over to Zsenith waiting for his reply.
"Sir it would appear that they've began mobilizing, I do not believe they are aware of the power surge however," Zsenith explained, "I was on patrol and noticed that Sarthe was being tag teamed by them just a bit earlier."
Karu blinked, flashing back to the previous day when he'd met the person they were talking about, remembering the man clad in black.
"Man, that guy's just getting in all kinds of trouble. I'm sure he can handle himself though. Zsenith, since you're here, I'm assigning you and one of the defense units to protect this young man here," Aaron spoke.
Zsenith turned his attention to Karu, his unnatural glare putting Karu in submission rather quickly as the redhead shrunk back.
"...Understood. I shall go seek out a defense unit to assist me," Zsenith replied heading to exit the room.
"I would love to introduce you to your new buddy, but I need to inform you of what's happening first," Aaron resumed, "As I said earlier, this whole event of you being transported here has caused or is going to cause a chain of different events. And more than likely this huge spike of power has caused something to start that I'm hoping hasn't yet."
As Aaron explained to Karu Zero watched the two of them over, her stance relaxing a little bit.
"So Karu, I have to say that if something out of the ordinary begins happening please inform me as soon as possible," Aaron commented, rising from his chair, walking around the table to Karu.
Karu looked at Aaron as he walked around toward him. He then saw the man reach into his pocket for what he believed to be a cell phone of sorts.
"For now that is all, if I find any more information I'll be sure to inform you as well Karu," Aaron spoke stepping forward more until he was behind the teen.
"I have a question, Aaron..." Karu mumbled looking at the floor.
"What's that?" Aaron replied plainly as he turned his head.
"Why tell me this, shouldn't you be telling the city this, too? What possible importance do I play in what's going on, I mean, I understand it's a big deal that my being transported here the way I was seems to have unsettled a lot of things but I can't do anything about it," Karu wondered, his hands clenching subtly.
Aaron remained silent a moment as he turned to the side enough so he only had to face Karu by only having his head turned. Zero watched Karu from the front, his expression one of discomfort.
"Karu, while I do not understand human emotions fully, I want to try to assure you that, as our planet's guest, we wish to ensure your safety until you can return home. I would like to say that I would be devistated if something were to happen to you," Zero spoke walking over.
Karu lifted his head some to glance at Zero. His expression lightened up some but his mind still raced on what this all meant. Aaron came up beside Karu shortly after and stopped.
"Well, Karu, that's up to you. I am not the one who governs this town but I do hold a lot of say in matters like this. If you wish we leave you be until we find a way to send you home, that's fine, but I can half guarantee that something's going to happen that we could have prevented," Aaron commented walking to his desk to lean against.
Karu looked back to the floor, thinking hard about this. The man was right, he didn't know what people here were capable of. He'd already seen swords manifesting and of course his transporting here as well as human animal hybrids.
"I see you’re not objecting, so we'll continue on like this. Like I said, if you see something, let me know with that piece you have, you can set it over your ear like a headset. Just think about the person you need to talk to and hit the button on it before talking," Aaron explained.
Karu nodded looking at the device, this would give him something to play with in the meantime. For now though he silently made his leave exiting the room without a word in response. Zero watched as the door closed behind Karu and then turned her gaze over to Aaron.
"So what's this little tidbit that our other-worlder taught you?" Aaron asked the android, propping his hands on the edge of the desk.
Zero walked around from the side of the desk in front of Aaron and extended her arm to his own.
"I believe it was called 'rubbing' and 'groping'. He wonders if you have ever had the urge to perform this rather peculiar form of activity," she explained to him, maneuvering Aaron's hand to her chest.
Aaron's head figuratively began to spin as he watched the android move his hands over her breasts. After a brief moment of awkward groping he began stuttering his words before finally getting a legitimate sentence out.
"I-I-I-I can't do that to an android it's not meant for that!" He exclaimed pulling his hand back.
Zero looked at her hands as he freed himself from her hold. Quiet and unresponsive she placed her hand on her own breast.
"I see," she finally spoke, staying before Aaron who watched the android closely.
"Are you malfunctioning? Did he do something to your body's operational controls?" Aaron asked standing upright.
Zero took a step backward to widen the distance between them, she shook her head in response to him.
"All systems are functioning normally, no detected errors in any sectors," Zero replied.
Aaron turned his head a bit only to look suspiciously at Zero, only to sigh afterwards.
"Anyway, we have work to do," Aaron changed the topic heading for the room's exit, Zero close behind.
