The Emperor And The Fairy

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Niara Levanov:

Ugh man! By the time we got there we missed all the fun. AGAIN. We picked everyone up and went back to Tiny Orbit. They started talking about this new LBX called Achilles D9 that Ban used to defeat Vector. We handed over all our LBXs to Rina so she could do some maintenance on them.

Before we left, I just couldn't resist asking. "Hey so, what happened to Eva exactly?"

Everyone's eyes shifted from me to Jin, who got caught off guard. "Well, that's..." He looked away. "Where should I even begin..." I heard him mutter.

"Um... If I'm not mistaken, you both met after Tokio Bridge, right?" Yuuya asked nervously. "About a year after I mean..." Jin nodded but said nothing. Instead, he turned on his heels and walked out of the room.

"I guess I shouldn't have asked, but..." I muttered.

"And you called me cold hearted." And there, I felt a chill run down my spine and jumped a meter away. Turns out Kirito was behind me and he made that sadistic voice again. Damnit Kirito! Why do you have to be so creepy! Then again, you're a kid wearing a prison shirt with the number 24 on the front and some bar code on your back so whatevs. HEY! NEW NICKNAME! PRISONBOY! HAHA! ...And I'm 'talking' to myself again...

"Why are you making weird faces?" Hiro asked.

"Eh?" I blinked. "Was I?" Everyone else sweatdropped.

"Oblivious as usual." Kirito muttered.

I groaned in frustration. "Shut it prisonboy."

"What... Did you call me..." His eyes twitched. They're turning evil. Who cares!

"Serioruly though, what happened to Eva?" I asked again. "How did she get ghostjacked? It's not like she picked the Vector up and went all like, 'Oh your my bro? Can you brainwash me?', right?"

"Her brain was doing an auto maintenance on itself." Prof. Oozora stated, holding a mini-computer that she got from who-knows-where. "Every year, she has to shut herself down for about a week so her brain can be sure to back up her memories. So that she wouldn't lose them again."

"So Mizel ghostjacked her while she was doing that?" Hiro asked.

"Most likely." Otacross said.

"Eva's AI is... I suppose you could say 'delicate'." Prof. Oozora said. "It has two functions. The first is to support the optima technology she's using all the way up till the end of her life span. The second is to make sure her memories will never be lost again."

"Life span?" I asked. "How long does she have to live?"

"The term 'life span' meant that she would live until the day she would die of age. But if her AI had an interfeirance within the process, she will have a much lesser time to live." She explained.

"Well I think it's obvious that Mizel had officially 'interfiered'. So how long does she have to live now?" I asked.

"If we don't fix the problem and set her mind straight again... At most, it would be two weeks." She stated.

"Two weeks?!" I freaked.

"That's at most..." Prof. Yamano stated. "What about at the very least?"

". . . Five days."

~~~~~

Kaidou Jin:

Five... Days? Only that long...?

I stood up straight from listening through the wall and turned on my heels. Eavesdropping on that conversation was probably the worst mistake of my life. Second to letting Mizel take control of Eva...

I sat down on the stairs and took out my CCM. It happened again... I made the same promise to her twice now and I still couldn't keep it.

~~~~~

E V A N G E L I N E M E C H

Replaying Memory Sequence...

*)()(*

"You look like a prince!"

"Me? A prince? No chance! I'm not a prince! I'm an Emperor!" He swung the wooden sword.

"Haha! What about me? What am I?"

He shrugged. "I don't know. A witch?"

"Huh?! Witches look ugly! . . . I'm ugly...?"

"N-no! T-that was just a joke! I-I didn't mean it! R-r-really! D-d-don't cry! Ok?"

". . . Then what am I?"

". . . Uh... Well... What about... A fairy?"

"Fairy?"

"Yeah... I mean, they can fly. And they wear cute dresses like you do." He smiled.

"My LBX have wings too!"

"Exactly."

"Ok, Emperor Jin! I'm your little, but powerful fairy!"

"Yes. Yes, you are."

*)()(*

Memory Sequence End...

"Hello there sister. Do you miss your friends already?"

". . ."

"Don't worry, I, in my new form, Mizel Olegion, will take good care of my older sister, Twilight Mech."

". . ." Emperor... Zenon... Triton... Kaidou Jin... Jin...

~~~~~

Niara Levanov:

"Only five days?!" I kicked the chair in Kirito's room, where i decided to 'hang' for a bit. Kirito was on the other side of the room on his bed, which was moved here after he agreed with the whole 'becoming a test player' thing a while back. It was a 'terms and conditions' thing.

He sat there watching me tear the survailence system, or his room, which ever one it is, apart. He had like 10 empty can of coke next to him. Lazy bones. Hey, another nick name, 'Slouchy'.

I kept kicking the wall and also the computers several time before calming down and sat on the murdered chair. Poor little chair.

"Are you done destroying my room yet?" He asked, drinking ANOTHER can of coke.

I nodded slowly. "Pretty much..."

"Good. Now throw this for me." He threw a can at me and I dodged it.

"No way. You have legs. Do it yourself." I said stubbornly.

"Fair enough." He threw the other cans to a trash bin on the other side of the room. "That's 15 points for me in total."

"Show off." I threw the last can but missed. It hit the wall instead. Then bounce onto the bed, where Kirito picked it up and threw it in the bin.

He smirked at me. "No tricks."

"Fu-"

"Levanov."

"Fudge. I was gonna say 'fudge'."

"Sure you were..."

"You little shi-"

"Ahem."

". . . I hate you." I hate him.

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