Gipsy Avenger x Saber Athena part 4

Time With The Rogues

(Eden's PO.V.)

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I just don't know what to think anymore...
I've spent about 5 days with them, and it has been 6 days since that human tried to make me me his puppet, and my mother, Oh my mother... I know my mother is worried sick, when I get back, she...  she is going to beat the living metal out of me...

I can't say I have gotten used to the life here, I don't think I will, but I have to go back, no matter what...
It was 8:45 AM, and I just woke up, I was always an early riser, but Prospect woke up earlier than me, in fear that I would run and go to Seattle...
I now needed to see what I can do instead of lazying around, and so I tried my best to still keep my skills sharp as they could, and I started to understand how things worked there...

Hammerhead was to say the leader of them, and acted more of a guardian in some situations, Prospect was more or less of an apprentice mixed with secondary defense, while Arcadia is like a sister to everybody, she slightly older than me, by about a few days... especially Iota, since she is purely an apprentice, while Slayer, well... he acts more as a secret weapon than anything, since he is a hybrid it is understandable how people would find that alarming...

Now I am just sitting by a wall just thinking... till I felt someone sit beside me, I looked to see Iota...
"What are you doing?" I asked...
"Nothing... *yawn*" she said...
"It seems you want to sleep..."
"Does it. .?"
"It does, but it also seems that you were looking for Arcadia, weren't ya?"
" . . . "
"Iota?"
I looked to see her asleep by my side, I found that adorable and then I just thought of 'is this what it is going to be like to almost be a father?', I wanted to go back, I wanted to go back to see my mother, my father, my girlfriend, my cousin and my friends, I just wanted to know now, 'where were her parents?', surely they might have been killed by a kaiju, right? During the during the Uprising war, but it is hard to think that this had to happen with them, especially to a kid like Iota...
I heard foot steps coming from the corridor across where I was sitting...
"Iota? where you?" Said Arcadia in a bit of desperation in her voice...
She came around the corner and found Iota her asleep beside me, and she just seemed to have been embarrassed that she was doing this all the sudden...
"Oh maker, I'm so sorry, here let me help-" she said in an apologetic tone...
"It's okay, I don't mind it... it's kinda feels like having a child of my own..." I said in an almost sleeping tone...
"Like having a child? You have a wife?"
"What? No, just girlfriend by this point, but soon, I plan to make her my fiancée..."
"That nice, do your parents know?" She asks as she takes a seat beside Iota...
"No, I plan on asking her once I have a chance..."
"I know you want to go, but we can't-"
"Due to fear of being recruited or designated rogue jaegers and face with court-martialled..."
"Yeah..."

There was a period of silence between us till I decided to break the ice...

"Arcadia, can ask you a question?"
"Sure." She says as she picks up Iota in her arms and let's her lay on lap while holding Iota almost like a baby...
"Where are you parents?"
She didn't answer me right away, she clenched one fist while trying not to clench her other hand because she was holding Iota...
"They are gone, dead to be precise..."
"What happen?"
"They abandoned us, while Iota was still a jaegerlin..."
"When she was a baby? Why?"
" *sigh* is was right when the Uprising war started... I was 10 at the time maybe... and Iota was born about 9 months before it all started... my parents were becoming desperate due to the fact that our Shatterdome was becoming more and more of a problematic... the population around us were saying that there were too many jaegers there, but in fact there were only me, Iota, my parents, my uncle and my aunt, one day my father took me with Iota far away and told us to stay there because they were going to be moving out, I waited with Iota for about 4 hours, she started to get hungry, and so I walked back to our dome with Iota still in my hands, and I later got to the our dome, to find my parents celebrating that we were gone, while my uncle and aunt were protesting that what they were just children that had done nothing wrong, and they replied that we were nothing but a burden the moment we were born, and it I was good that we were gone, and now they could try again and try to create a more obedient child that would only serve them, I could not comprehend that they only wanted servant children, and at that time I was good at fighting..."

She paused, but I knew for a fact that there was more, and I just didn't want her to go into bad memories...
"You don't have to keep telling me your story Arcadia, living old memories will only open the scarred wounds more..."
"But I want you to know... you deserved it, after all, we are the ones keeping you in here...
After what I heard that, I wanted to cry, to cry so hard that everyone would hear me, but I kept my silence, my aunt went looking for us, and as I was about to grab her attention we heard a weird roar, my aunt looked behind and found me and my sister and held me near her, while my mother went behind my uncle and father she saw us and what happen next was unforgettable, my mother fought my aunt to get rid of me and Iota, my aunt won due to her skill and strength, my mother ran and escaped like a coward, while my uncle and father were fighting the kaiju hybrids, my uncle managed to kill one of the 7, but my father lost his focus when he saw me and Iota on my aunt's arms, he was ripped in half by the hybrid, while my uncle was telling my aunt to run, I killed another one but got killed when another 2 jumped on him... My aunt ran fast and far away from those things, we managed to get to a abandoned Shatterdome and rested there for a while, later we found a group of refugees that were like us, lost their dome due to the hybrid attack, we all lived there for some time, till we lost our aunt due to the fact she didn't tell she got hurt while running from the hybrid, she lost all power, we all gave her a honouring death and we mourned, and I decided to always have a part of her with me, and so with a bit of work, it paid off, parts of her armour were now my armour, we later left that dome after Iota turned 3, and we made our way here which we later met up with the others..."

So she was part of her aunt with her along with a hybrid attack survivor... Rare...

"What was your reaction when you met Slayer?"
"Oh, when I saw him, I was filled with such rage and anger... I tried to attack, but he stopped me hard, and just pushed me back, and didn't fight, Hammerhead knew my story, and he knew Slayer for a while by then, and he said, 'even though we are not a family, we will treat each other with respect, no matter what they will look like' or something like that, first few days, I kept Io away from him at all costs, till one day she fell asleep and so did I, when I woke up in a fright I was looking for her and saw her hand hanging from Slayer holding something, I got up and rushed towards him, and what I saw was incredible, him putting Iota in a proper bed, that she needed... I thought he was taking her somewhere to eat her, but I was proven wrong, from that point on we grew closer, and at this point, each one of us is more like a family member than individuals looking out for each other..."

"That's some story..."
"Yeah... but I just wished to understand, why did my parents got so fed up with us? What did we do to them, for them to treat us like that?"
"I can understand what you mean... I haven't had a bad experience since I was a kid..."
"What do you mean?"
"I have a friend, but she feels more like a cousin than a friend, we grew up together that we don't see each other like anything else than cousins, when we were about 5 or 6, something along that line, her uncle, Obsidian Fury, kidnapped us, and had some idea to turn us like him, inside our con-pods, having something close to a brain of our own, not having pilots drift with us, and being a tool to the Precursors..."
"When you were young?"
"Yeah, and we found all his crazy research, it feels like he is still haunting me, but I can't say how, or even why..."
"Well I don't know, anyway, I'll take her and start my patrol shift..."
"Be safe..."
"Thanks..."

Hey guys sorry that this chapter is not as wide in the story like the others, so I do apologize and also sad news guys, my headphones got slaughtered...
As I am going to school, I accidentally drop them and they get run over by multiple cars and now there are un-usable and un-salvageable...
So anyway I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'll see you guys in the next time (****** Not this Youtuber crap again..!)