Hidden Identity

Chapter 1: Conductive Intelligence

"We'll search around downtown this time." A blonde female mecha announced, her light colored metallic hand resting on a map with red circles and X's drawn across it. "We haven't looked there yet so that's our next best shot in finding him."

"Mana," a male mecha with long brown hair tied in a ponytail and wearing a black army uniform. "We've looked for C.I for over TWO YEARS," His youthful indian accented voice sounded grim. "It's time to face facts; He's GONE."

Mana swiftly punched at the wall and looked back at the mecha, her lilac colored eyes burning with hate. "Shut UP Jeu!" She yelled at him, her face tense. "He's NOT gone! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"

"Mana." A hand rested on her shoulder, belonging to a light brown colored mecha with dark brown hair. "Take a deep breath..."

Mana looked at the mecha, closing her eyes and breathing in deeply. "Those are my final orders." She finally said in a much calmer voice. "We're searching downtown, end of story."

Jeu swallowed hard and nodded quickly, holding up his hands. "Right, right, got it." He said. "The indian mecha totally gets the orders you are currently telling."

The brown hair mecha smiled at Mana with a nod. "Alright." He said. "Downtown it is."

Mana smiled at him lightly, patting his shoulder with a nod. "Thanks, Rivetski."

Rivetski nodded, walking over to Jeu and nodding his head forward with a smile. "Alright! Lets get going! Krio! Come on!"

A dark purple plated mecha with glasses looked up from a tablet in his hands. "Um, yes?" He asked, the slightest sound of a British accent peaking through.

Rivetski chuckled, beginning to walk with Jeu out of the room. "Come on, didn't you hear anything about looking for C.I?"

Krio smiled a little, nodding and placing the tablet in a brown bag over his shoulder. "Ah yes! Right! Downtown! Coming!" He said, hurrying up to the two other male mechas. "Sorry, just got a bit distracted again."

"Should I fall back to the base to check in on everyone?" A low and gruff voice asked. Mana looked up to see standing behind her was an extremely large and muscle plated Mecha wearing a large trench coat. "We've been gone for a week now."

Mana nodded slightly, smiling a bit. "Yes, please." She said to the mecha. "I doubt we'll run into any trouble out on the search so if you could go check in on everyone that'd be great."

"Great idea, L.U.G!" Jeu said with a grin and raised a finger as he began to run after the large mecha. "I'll tag along-"

"No you won't Jeu." Mana said, slowly looking back at him. "You're coming with us."

Jeu slowly looked back at Mana. He laughed nervously. "What I meant WAS...er...me and L.U.G could look around for C.I underground again. A-As double check, yes?"

L.U.G rolled his eyes with a sigh. "Yeah, sure. It sounds like a pretty good idea to me, actually."

Mana eventually smiled, chuckling lightly and waving a hand. "Fine, go on." She said. "I guess it's better to split up."

"See you all later, our peeps!" Jeu called out, causing the towering mecha to sigh with annoyance and shove him aside before walking off. "Hey! You know you are a big BULLY!" The young mecha called out as he chases after L.U.G.

Mana chuckled again. She sighed, her facial expression softening slowly. She grabbed a locket that lay around her neck and clicked a button on it, a hologram of her and C.I hugging onto each other and laughing popping up. She sighed again, quickly shutting it off and beginning to walk down towards the awaiting Rivetski and Krio. "Alright, let's go."