Braedey Martin: Robots and a Vampire

Friendship Test; Kurumu's Slimy Stalker

(Boys Dorm)
(Braedey's Room)

"I am so glad Jessie made me take those foreign language classes." Braedey said, as he did his homework with Moka. Both of them were dressed in casual clothing and without their shoes, so they were barefoot and were both enjoying the comfort of just being teenagers and not students in uniforms. They sat at one of those lap warming tables, which Braedey thought was pretty comfortable. "Thanks to her, and Grandpa Jackson, I'm able to understand all this stuff." Though, he did have some problems learning Japanese writing. Really, it all looked like chicken scratches to him when he started and now a portion of it was still chicken scratches rather than all of it. Thankfully, Moka was happy to lend a hand when he couldn't understand the writing.

"You always mention Jessie and your grandfather, but you never told me much about them." Moka mentioned, looking up from her work, looking for Braedey to tell her all about it. "How come?"

Braedey stopped writing and tapped his chin with his pencil. Moka was right; he never really told Moka much about his home life. "It's a pretty long story. You might get bored. Plus, we got homework."

"I can take a break, Braedey." Moka smiled beautifully, scooting up to him.

To Braedey, attending Youkai Academy really opened his eyes to the truth about aliens. Vampires weren't the evil bloodsucking demons that movies portrayed them as. They were like aliens; as different as they were, they were still people. That went for all of the monsters he'd been growing up scared of. They weren't evil or ferocious at all. They were people too and they were all different. No two were alike.

"OK, let's take a break." Braedey said, setting his pencil down. Since Moka was asking, he really couldn't say no. "Well, Jessie, as you know, is my cousin. She's a witch, but unlike Yukari, she wasn't born one. She actually began to learn about magic after she became a superhero called Charm Girl using some mystic charm. She lost the charm but then she got another magical artifact and became Charm Girl again, but temporary. On one of our adventures, we met this teenage witch named Caster, who was a villain that we bumped into now and then during that first summer, and Jessie took a book of spells from her. Since then, she's become a powerful witch."

Braedey took out his wallet and took out a photo of his cousin, which was when they were both still ten and started out their adventures. "This is Jessie, and this is Grandpa Jackson." He took out another photo of his Grandpa. Moka could feel the warmth in the smiles of the people in the photo. "Oh, yeah. I never told you, but my Grandpa Jackson is a former Air Force commander, and an Autobot soldier."

"So he fights against Decepticons and flies jets." Moka said, nodding, but then became confused, as she asked. "Wait a minute, what does this have to do with your powers and whatever?"

Braedey corrected. "My Grandpa was one of their officers that fought alongside the Autobots, a legend among them, but he's semi-retired. So now it's more of a hobby; he may be an old man, but he's still got it." He smirked at remembering how much of a legend his grandfather was five years ago, and still was apparently.

"Wow." Moka's eyes went wide in wonder. "So, he told you he was one?"

"Well, it was after something happened that he had to tell us. You see I told you I got the Transformatrix when I was ten, right? Well, what I never told you was that it was meant to go to my grandpa. The creator of the Transformatrix had it sent to him, but I was the one who found it and, well, this thing made me really popular with a demon named 'Unicron'."

"Who's 'Unicron'?" Moka asked, raising an eyebrow.

"A powerful monster demon from ancient history who wanted to take over the universe and more. But, these are just rumours, but from what I learned from my Grandpa, he was responsible for the destruction of an entire galaxy, and nearly destroyed Cybertron. He was after my Transformatrix, and wanted to mass-produce it to make an army of shape-shifting monsters. The forms in the Transformatrix mostly have combat capabilities so that's why Unicron wanted it. With it, he could become any form he wanted. He even went so far as try and cut off my hand just to get it, several times."