After a night of… relieving, Ruby and I woke up before dawn and waited for the rest of them. I had the armor on as I was outside. The night sky slowly lighting up with the suns rays. Ruby sat beside me as she looked around.

“So...how are you?” she asked me. I only shrugged.

“Alright, you?” I asked.

“Same.” I told her. The two of us were silent for a bit before Ruby spoke.

“I guess… after this we go back home?” she asked. I thought about it before nodding slowly.

“Yeah… I guess we will.” I said with a slight snort. “Though with us being older might be a little weird.”

“Yeah.” Ruby said with a chuckle. “Might be fun to be the ‘older’ sister for once” she laughed. I laughed with her as we waited. There was a blue flash and I saw Lana there watching us. She gestured to me and mouthed ‘Ask her’ with a smile. I took a deep breath and let out a shaky breath. This might be a bad spot for me to ask this but if I don’t I might regret it. But as I was going to speak Ruby cut me off. “Hey, I got you something.”

“Oh… uh, okay.” I said. Ruby smiled as she pulled the box from yesterday and hand it to me. Looking at it oddly I took it into my hands and felt the weight of it. “Oph, what’s in here?”

“Well, since you made me Phoenix Rose I think it’s only fair.” she said with a smile. After hearing this I quickly opened the box and saw what’s inside. As I saw it I gasped at the sight; it was a large rifle like shotgun with a dark red colouring and some design work on it so it looks like a flaming fox was dashing forward. I slowly pulled it out of the box and looked at it.

“Ruby I… I never…” I saw speechless, this was too amazing for anything I could say. Ruby giggled a bit.

“It took me some time to make after you made Molten Coil into my weapon. Oh also if you do this to it.” Ruby showed me to make it transform. Soon the handle moved upwards and the gun turned into a longsword. “You like it?”

“Like it, Ruby I love it thank you!” I said, giving her a big hug. The two of us hugged each other before pulling away after a minute. “I’ll make it up to you after this.”

“Oh… I think I have something in mind.” Ruby said playfully. Before I could ask what the sun rose up and I saw Rockmond, Ed, and the Twins coming this way.

“First of all, next time ask if the walls are soundproof.” Rockmond said, rubbing the sides of his head. The twins giggled at this while Edward smirked. Both me and Ruby went completely red at this as Ruby covered her face, muttering that they heard her.

“Uhh, sorry…” I told him.

“Just… just warn me when you’re going to do that.” He said with a sigh. The two of us muttered an apology as he looked at the rest of us. He walked away from us, leaving both Ruby and I with the other three, which too of them were still giggling.

“This is completely embarrassing.” I said with a groan.

“It’s not as bad when these two had their armor.” Edward said, gesturing back at the twins who in turn, rolled their eyes. “They suffered the same pleasurable effects and boy were they loud. The entire village could hear them going.” Ed continued with a laugh before being slapped in the back of his head by Heaven. I couldn’t help but laugh at this a little.

“Wow…” Ruby said, still blushing at the thought. “Umm, was I… loud?”

“Why do you have to ask that?!” I asked her.

“I don’t know, curious maybe?!” Ruby answered. This earned a round of laughter from the twins.

“No, the house was able to hold most of the noise. The only ones that could hear your activities are people next to house.” Nevaeh said, calming Ruby down a bit. Edward then stepped up and said.

“Besides, even if people did hear you it’s not like they’d make fun of you. We’ve all been through the replicators odd after effects.” Ed said in a comforting manner before saying. “I was part of the few that went through severe discomfort and I think I’d prefer the other than going another wave of that horrid discomfort.” He said with a shiver.

“Right…” I said as we all saw Rockmond walk towards us. He was decked out in his custom painted armor, black and golden yellow. He carried a rifle in his hands and a sword on his back. I couldn’t help but think he looked badass.

“Everyone ready?” He asked us, Edward and the twins nodded at this, each brandishing their weapons. I looked over at Ruby who held her weapon. The two of us smiled and nodded. I looked back at Rockmond with a smile. I saw Lana floating behind him with a worried smile on her.

“We’re ready.” I told him. With a nod, he turned to face the volcano before saying.

“Then let’s go, we’ve don’t have time to waste.” He said, leading the way. The rest of us followed him towards our destination.

The trek towards the Volcano was a long one as we all moved through the swamp and back into the Redwood forest. During the time I pulled the weapon that Ruby made for me and put the cartridge of Molten Coil and put it into the weapon. It was slow but over time I felt a familiar heat coming off from the weapon.

After a few hours, we all stopped for a break and eat. Ruby went off to do something as I drank some water that I had. An hour passed and Ruby didn’t come back, which made me worry.

“Hey, did anyone of you see Ruby?” I asked, looking around us. Rockmond looked around after hearing of her absence before frowning and shaking his head. Everyone else did the same, shaking their heads no. It was then that Lana appeared, looking off into the direction of the old camp.

“Ruby?” I called out before standing up. “Ruby!?!”

I would’ve started to run off as I head, and felt, loud thuds nearby. I stopped when the thuds continued, and sounding louder as if they were coming closer. “Uhh, guys… what’s that?”

“She wanted to ride one for the longest time, I didn’t want to make her sad.” Lana said nervously as the stomps grew closer. Rockmond and the other readied their weapons. As the stomping grew louder and louder right before us something burst out of the trees. We covered out heads with our arms before I looked up.

“Oh you gotta be kidding me.” I said as a large T-Rex stood before us. It looked around and let out a thunderous roar. I had to cover my ears from how loud it was. When it stopped it looked down at us before someone peeked over it’s head.

“Hey guys! I made new friends!” Ruby yelled down happily. The Twins, Ed, Rockmond, and I simply stared up at her as she waved.

“The Jerboa on her head was because she thought out loud what was the cutest creature to ever exist. I found data of a little furry creature named the Jerboa.” Lana said, floating over to the Rex. The furry critter on Ruby’s head stared at Lana’s direction, as if it saw her. Lana waved at the furry creature and it let out a purr. The Rex also seemed to turn toward her but swinged it’s head back towards us. Did the animals know where Lana is?

“Wow… your girlfriend sure is something.” One of the twins said, which I was grateful that I wore a helmet to cover my blush.

“You guys need a lift?” Ruby called down. Rockmond chuckled at the offer, he obviously was okay with walking, his legs being mechanical and impossible to tire. The twins quickly boosted themselves next to Ruby while Edward shook his head at the Rex. I for one climbed on the T-rex for the sake of simply riding on a T-rex.

Ruby looked at all of us before having the Rex turned towards where we were going and soon we were heading off. The loud thuds of the Rex shook the ground as we made our way, the sound of the twins laughing as they rode up front as I was a right behind them, holding on to the Rex. I saw Lana simply floating nearby.

“First holograms, then able to control animals.” I said towards her.

“Not control.. Influence. They see me as a Mother figure and… I truly care for them all as if they were my own.” Lana said, hovering next to me. As she said that the T-Rex made a noise that signals the he, or she, heard Lana. I chuckled at this as Lana smiled at the T-Rex. I then thought back to the scene where Weiss was being all mushy with Oni and imagen Lana doing the same with a dino. The idea was too much and I started laughing. Lana tilted her head at this and Ruby looked back at me as I laughed.

“You okay? What’s funny?” Ruby asked me.

“I’m alright, thought of something funny!” I yelled back with a smile. As we continued on I began to see the volcano getting closer and closer as we made our way towards it. As it did I started to get nervous. “Lana… be honest, do we have any chance of winning?”

“Don’t worry, once you lure back here at the lair, I will handle it myself.” She said, frowning before adding. “Throughout my time as Overseer, I’ve managed to come across something that even it has never seen.I just need a DNA sample of any kind, get that and we’ll beat that thing for sure.” Lana said.

“So get hair or something, got it.” I said with a nod. As we stopped at the base of the volcano I pull myself off of the large Dino which lowered its head to help. We all stood in next to each other as we stared at the place.

“Alright everyone, let’s go.” Rockmond said. With that being said, his legs shone a golden yellow before he ran up the side of the volcano like a blur. Edward and the twins followed suit, them being bright blue blurs.

“Uh, can we do that?” Ruby asked me.

“Maybe… never asked.” I said. I looked down at my legs for a moment. “Uh, go fast or something?” Lana giggled at this before she vanishing. Before I could question her disappearance, my legs began moving by themselves before they rapidly gained speed up the side of the volcano. I soon came to sudden halt at the top, feeling nauseous after the experience.

“Your welcome.” Came Lana’s voice within my helmet. I blinked a few times before seeing Ruby coming up behind me… and slowly falling down to to ground.

“Thanks…” I said to her. I heard her giggle as I saw the others nearby. I picked Ruby up and helped her over.

“What… happened?” she asked.

“Don’t question it.” I told her as we made it over to the others. Rockmond stood closer to the edge than the rest, he took an audible deep breath before sighing. Ed and Heaven stood beside each other, while the other sister walked up to their leader.

“This… This brings back memories… horrible memories.” Rockmond said, looking off to the side, his gaze landing on an armored skeleton laying close to the edge, it’s lower half nowhere to be seen. Lana looked away in guilt, thinking she was partially to blame for it. “I honestly never thought I’d find myself here again. Even less with team armored with Tek.” He said, his gaze soon landing on the center of the volcano, a pool of lava was seen down below.

“I’m s-so sorry.” Lana said, teary-eyed at Rockmond. She floated over to him and attempted to hug him, but this resulted in her arms phasing through his body. I looked towards them sadly.

“Come on, we’ve wasted enough time just standing around.” Rockmond said before sliding down into the volcano.

“Never seen him this serious before.” Said Edward just above a whisper before following suit with both twins behind him. Ruby and I look at each other for a moment before following suit.

The six of us slid down and walked into the volcano. Before long we came up to a large doorway. Like the Village it looks more sci-fi then anything else. The door seemed to be close at the moment as I looked at everyone, even Lana.

“So… how do we get in?” I asked them. Lana, hearing this, floated over to the door while Rockmond thought on a way to open it. Soon Lana vanished, just before the door slowly opened, surprising Rockmond and the others. “Way a go Lana.” I said happily.

She soon appeared beside me, though her form fizzled a bit as she appeared. Grasping her head and shaking it, she followed behind the squad of survivors. Me and Ruby began to follow behind them, weapons ready.

“You okay?” I whisper to Ruby.

“Yeah… A little nervous.” Ruby whispered. “Kinda wish Indigo was here, he could’ve helped us with this.”

“I know, but Indigo… he been through a lot and then some. This could be his only time to have some relaxation.” I told her. Ruby nodded at me.

“Yeah… also, what do you think of him and Blake?” Ruby asked. I simply stared at her.

“Not to be rude but...really? You ask about that?” I asked her.

“I think it’s cute.” Ruby said, ignoring me. I sighed a bit.

“... Yeah, they’re cute together.” I told her. We soon stopped behind the others as they too stopped. “Something wrong?”

I looked at the group and saw some giant red birds. “Umm, those aren’t Dodos, are they?” Ruby asked.

“No… No they’re not.” Edward said as we watched the large birds mind its own business. Rockmond thumped the ground with the butt of his rifle, the birds attention was soon switched to us and it screeched loudly that even echoed through the cave. Various roars and similar screeches were returned from within the cave.

“That’s not good.” I said, holding my weapon in my hands. The pack of large birds quickly turned to face us before charging at us, fluttering its wings threateningly. Lana walked in front of us, a calm look on her face before she closed her eyes. She hummed a familiar tune, one used by her opposite the day me and Ruby arrived but unlike Mother’s sinister humming, Lana’s was calming and motherly. The large birds came to a full stop, somehow hearing Lana’s humming.

“What’s going on?” Edward asked, confused as to why they stopped. Heaven lowered her sword, her sister slowly lowering her rifle. Rockmond stared at the birds in suspicion. Ruby looked surprised by the sudden shift in their behavior. I smirked a bit as Lana was surrounded by the large birds. It was funny when one of them tried to nudge Lana’s arm only for it to go through it.

“What the hell?” Naveah asked in confusion.

“Are you complaining that they aren’t trying to kill us?” I asked her. She turned to look at me and shook her head.

“No, just confused.” She said. I looked at Lana as she smiled at the large bird that attempted to nudge her. She placed her hand over the beak of the bird,the latter fluttered its wings a little in excitement.

“They were frightened.” Lana said, looking back at me before adding. “They’ve been locked up for so long, the sight of the group frightened them. They thought they were in danger.” She added.

“Hmm.” I looked at everyone before putting my weapon away. “Maybe if we go around them without being hostile, they will leave us alone.” I nod over to where Lana is. “Lana said they were frightened.”

“Who?” Edward asked, looking at me as if I’m crazy. I looked over at him then at Rockmond, figuring that he may not have told them.

“Oh, you know, a ghost.” I said with a smirk. Lana looked over at me with an odd look.

“I think you’re going off the deep end, you sure your suit is powered up? Not suffering any heat-induced hallucinations?” Ed asked, sounding worried that I might’ve gone crazy.

“No, I may have fox ears but I’m not like that.” I told him. “And the suit is fine, I’m not going crazy.” He gave me one last glance before turning to look at Rockmond. The latter already a ways away. As we walked down the cave Lana followed beside me. “Rockmond didn’t tell them, those three think I’m crazy.” Lana nodded before we soon found ourselves at an edge, overlooking the large cave. What awaited us below was predators aplenty, every single one of them looking up at us with murderous intent.

“Uhh, is there a way to get around this?” Ruby asked. I looked up at Lana for anything. Closing her eyes, Lana fizzled out leaving us to fend for ourselves. Though as soon as she left, the echoes of a familiar sinister humming was heard coming from behind us.

“Ah shit.” I said as I slowly looked behind us. Luckily we were already quite aways away from the entrance but that didn’t calm me down one bit.

“Fuck, its onto us.” Rockmond silently cursed. We all turned around as the humming was getting closer.

“What do we do?” Ruby asked, now sounding scared. Rockmond raised his rifle, ready to fight only to be surprised by a sudden field of energy engulfing him before he soon vanished. The same thing happened to Heaven and Naveah. It soon happened to Edward and as this happened the humming grew closer and closer before she finally came into view, heavily breathing through the mask. The sinister humming soon turned maniacal as she dragged a large bloody axe behind her.

“Oh come on! Does this Overseer guy has a thing for Horror films!?!” I yelled as it was just me and Ruby left. The field of energy soon appeared slowly moving up mine and Ruby’s bodies as Mother grew closer, lifting the axe up to her shoulder. Not really sure what will happen I pulled the weapon up and pointed at the woman. The field almost encase the both of us as the woman got more and more closer. “Let’s see what you can do.”

As I pulled the trigger a loud blast exploded out of the gun and hit the bloody axe, turning it into shards and blowing the woman off her feet from the sheer force of it. It also felt like my arm was about to get ripped off it if wasn’t for the armor, or maybe the way I was holding the dang thing as the field finished. When that happened my vision was blocked by a bright light before falling onto the floor. I groaned a bit as I held my arm.

“Oww~” I groaned as I sat up. “Did you put the blast to max?”

“No… you were holding it wrong.” Ruby said before she got up and looked around. “Whoa… where are we?”

I pushed myself up to look around. We were in the middle of some kind of spaceship. The roof of the place look like black rock with the same sci-fi doors from the entrance of the cave. Nearby was a beam of white light coming off of some large gem. I pushed myself up as I saw Rockmond, Ed, and the twins there as well.

“You all okay?” I asked them.

“Yeah, we’re fine.” Said the twins in unison. Edward grasped his helmet covered head and groaned while Rockmond looked around in confusion.

“What happens? Where are we?” Rockmond asked out loud. I pushed myself up and walked around a bit. I looked at the white beam and gem before walking over to it.

“What’s this?” I asked, walking closer and closer to it. “Looks important.” I said, reaching a hand out to it

“Please refrain from touching me.” Echoed the familiar voice of Lana. I retracted my hand in surprise. “I’ve noted that my body is rather extremely cold.”

“Oh…” I looked back at everyone else. “Did anyone heard that?”

“Yeah…” Edward said, looking at the obelisk as he spoke. I tilted my head as I pointed that the floating obelisk.

“This, is Lana. The being I was talking about.” I told him before looking at the obelisk. “Guessing you teleported us up here?”

“Yes though it was something that went against the programming.” Lana said, the obelisk shining a bright blue light before the holographic image of herself appeared in front of it. “While I gave you all the advantage, there is no doubt that beast is on its way here. I can feel it, killing them all just for simply being in her way.” Lana said, horrified at this information. “Prepare for a fight like no other, and don’t hold back. Kill her.” Lana said angrily.

“Whoa, hold on, if we kill her then you have no body to return to.” I said, looking at the floating obelisk. “You’ll be stuck like this forever.”

“I have found something deep within this facility, something even she didn’t know existed. With it, I am in no need to return to that body… not after what she has done.” Lana said, looking down in sadness. I stared at her and looked at everyone else. From what it looks like they all see Lana standing there.

“If… that’s what you truly want.” I said, not sure what she would say.

“La-Lana?” Rockmond said, breaking the brief silence between the group. Lana nodded, looking at the man. “I never thought…I... I have so many questions.” Rockmond said in an awestruck tone.

“I know and I hope to answer them soon.” Lana said, nodding to Rockmond before looking at Ed and the twins. “You all should get ready, she is nearing the terminal as we speak.” Lana said. As she sees this, Ruby slowly walked towards Lana, staring at her.

“You’re so…” Ruby paused for a moment as she stared. “Blue.”

“Really? That’s what you say to Lana?” I asked Ruby.

“But it’s true! She’s a Hologram and she’s blue!” Ruby pointed out in a cheerful tone. Lana blinked at Ruby in confusion.

“This… I suppose she’s right, I am very much blue.” Lana said before smiling, her projected body taking a green color. “And now I am green.” She added before she returned to her normal blue color.

“That’s really awesome! Can you do other colours?” Ruby asked childishly. I looked at her, trying to figure out why she’s asking Lana this. Lana soon looked down the large hall and onto the hall, a look of worry on her projected face.

“She’s here.” Lana said, vanishing into the Obelisk. The latter let out mechanical hum as it lifted off the ground. “Please do whatever you can to protect me while I figure out how to use the defensive measures in this body.” Lana said. I nodded and looked at Rockmond.

“Are you ready sir?” I asked him, pulling the gun I had with me out.

“Wouldn’t matter if I said no.” Was Rockmond’s response. With that said we all started to get ready. Ed and Naveah took positions a bit back away with their rifles while Rockmond, Heaven stood near the gem to guard it. Both me and Ruby were standing at the ready as we heard her coming.

“You ready?” I asked her. Ruby looked at me as her weapon extended to it’s full size.

“Yeah, I’m ready.” she said with a nod.

“You two sure you want to fight that thing alone?” Rockmond asked. “It’s a monster with no humanity… err, no offense Lana.”

“None taken, now shush.” Lana asked. As we stood there the sound of that sinister humming came closer and closer until the woman in the gas mask walked through the door with a metal spear and a shotgun that I remember to be owned by Ken. I gulped at this as the woman looked around the room and saw us there. It tilted it’s head at us until it looked at Lana the gem. She growled at she pointed the gun at her, ready to fire. A loud bang went off but instead of the being firing, Neveah shot the gun out of its hands, making it snap her head towards her.

“MotherKnows, best!” the woman yelled in a beastly tone. It didn’t sound like a woman or a synthetic being, just a monster in a body. Before anyone could say something it turned towards Neveah and charged at her. Neveah was a moment to late when the woman charged at her to kill her. Luckily Ruby burst into rose petals and slammed into her, knocking the woman away. I don’t know if Ruby is faster than the thing but I didn’t have time to matter on that idea as I aimed my gun at it and opened fire. Each shot sounded like a small cannon went off as I’m blowing holes where the monster was as it jumped away. Slowly I’m starting to fall in love with this gun.

The two with rifles took shot when they could as me Ruby stood toe to toe with it. When the monster took a swing, Ruby dodged it with speeds that looked superhuman, sometimes turning into that burst of petals to get behind it. Ed fired a shot that hit it’s arm, making it scream in pain. It spun around and before anyone could do something it dashed forward and thrust it’s spear into Ed’s shoulder. He let out a painful scream as his rifle dropped onto the ground. The beast looked at him as she raised her hand up to try and rip Ed’s head off.

Not before Rockmond came up and knocked it away with his sword. It cut into it’s armor as it was knocked away. “You took over my leaders body, killed a number of tribes, and now trying to kill one of my own tribe members! I don’t care if you’re using Lana’s body, you’re dying here today.”

It simply hissed at him as he charged after it with his laser sword. But it was simply too quick for him to hit as it spun away and dodge his attacks. After one last swing it punched Rockmond away and grabbed his sword. With that she chopped off his legs and was about to kill him if it wasn’t for Heaven charging after it with me following behind as my weapon turned into a sword. The two of us pushed it back a bit until it blocked one of my swings and kicked Heaven away, sending her into a wall with such strength. It turned towards me and swang it’s sword at me. I blocked and parried it’s blows before it pushed me to the ground and hit in a way that my weapon was knocked out of my hands. I looked up just to see it raised its arm up to bring the sword down onto me, I felt it cut into my armor and into my leg. I let out a painful scream as it pulled it out and was about to do it again but I watched as Ruby came up and used her weapon to cut into its arm.

A bestial scream came out of its mouth as it whipped around and grabbed Ruby by the throat. The sound of choking filled my ears as it threw her at Neveah who was about to take a shot. The two of them slammed into the wall as it turned towards me and picked up the sword.

“Mother Knows Best!” it screamed at me as it was about to bring it’s sword down on me.

“No You DON’T!” Lana screamed as the sound of things were being teleported in. Some odd flying robot things appeared and pushed it back as some more robots appeared. The ones on the ground looked like some sort of crab thing with glowing claws while the ones in the air look like flying robot drones. It growled as she slashed one of them, only for another to replace it. The obelisk shone its bright blue color, the pieces of the destroyed drones flying off towards the obelisk. The bits and pieces circled around Lana, forming a barrier using the scraps. This caused Mother to stop in its tracks, shocked at what Lana had done. With muffled growl, Mother admitted she was outnumbered but before victory could be achieved, Mother once again let out a beastly yell before tearing apart every single drone before she was left panting. This was the first I’ve ever heard her out of breath.

“I’ve had about enough of you!” Lana yelled, using the scraps of the newly destroyed drones to add to her barrier before the barrier formed a giant hand. The hand smacked down onto Mother before picking her up and smashing her against several metal columns. The hand finally tossed Mother out of its grasp before forming into a fist and smashing her onto the ground.

The hand suddenly disassembled, its pieces scattering across the floor before forming themselves on Mothers wrists and ankles as shackles. Mother struggled to break free but was unable to. It was then I saw the state she was in, for having been regarded as nigh unstoppable, she was very worse for wear. Her gas mask having had a lense shattered and the other cracked, her armor torn and shredded. She was bruised and bloodied.

“You want my body, keep it.” Lana said, as an energy field formed around Mother. The latter looked at this and began to double her attempts to free herself. Once the light fully engulfed Mother, the barrier shot forward passed the Obelisk and onto the large viewing glass that overlooked what appeared to be domelike habitats. The light successfully went through viewing glass without shattering it and once out in the deep void of space, the light diminished, revealing the floating Mother. “There… it’s done.” Lana’s voice echoed as her obelisk floated down gently to the ground. I groaned as I sat up, seeing the body of Mother floating outside.

“You… threw her out into space…” I said, looking at the obelisk. “That’s… honestly the most funniest thing I have ever seen.” As I said this, I noticed a few bloodied pieces of metal scrap float away to somewhere, disappearing into the floor.

“That felt… satisfying.” Lana said as her hologram appeared walking out of the Obelisk. “I feel… relieved oddly enough.” She said. I watched her before standing up, or try to. The pain in my leg made it impossible as I fell down onto the ground.

“What’s with me getting stabbed! First in the gut and now my leg!” I complained as I rolled around on the ground.

“You… don’t… have a… spear in your arm!” Ed yelled as he was still up on the wall. “A little help here??”

“Can’t…” Rockmond said as he laid on the ground with no legs. The Twins and Ruby came over to us before helping the three of us out. Soon we were next to each other as the three were mending our wounds.

“So… what now Lana?” I asked her. She smiled before looking at the center of the room as the floor opened up a small a bit, enough for a small pod to be raised up into view. It looked like it has been in the freezer for way too long, a thin layer of ice covered the small pod.

“I’ve been working on this for quite some time and was in need of any form of DNA sample.” Lana said just as the bloodied pieces of metal came into view. They flew onto the pod and upon contact, the blood was gone having been absorbed by whatever the pod was. “Here we go.” She said, her projected image walking into the pod as it emitted a few odd sounds. Once the noises stopped we were left with silence for a moment or two before the layer of ice cracked as the pod opened, steam pouring out of the machine as it did.

“Oh dear, left right left.” From within the steam was an exact copy of both that now dead Mother and Lana’s projected form. Everything was an exact match, even the long raven black hair. “Breathing. That’s something I never thought I’d do again.” She said. We all stared at her for a bit before both Ed and Rockmond turned away as the twins looked at each other. Ruby simply covered her… visor with her hands. The clone woman looked at them oddly before looking at me too which I took off my helmet.

“Uhh, you do know you’re… naked?” I told the Clone, making her look down at herself. She tilts her head a back and forth a bit before looking back up at us.

“Oh, clothing… right.” She said before her body was encompassed in a bright blue light that blinded everyone for a second or two before showing the clone in a sorta skin suit. It was the same colours as the Tek armor, a silver colouring with glowing lines of blue course through the body.

“That’s… so… COOL!” I yelled as I jerked a bit, flaring my wound before falling over. “...ow.”

“Please allow these bots to heal your wounds.” The clone said, just as three odd-looking drones appeared and one hovered over to me. It scanned me with a blue light before noticing my wound and emitting a soothing green light over it. I watched in awe as the wound not only closed itself but appeared as if it were never there. Another drone went over to Edward and did the same process. “Go on, stand up.” She said to me. I nodded and, with some help, I stood up and tested my leg. It was fine, like it was as if I never got stabbed.

“This is just… the coolest.” I said looking up at the woman. “Other than the fight before and that, this is just… awesome.”

“So… what do we call you?” Ed asked. “Do we call you Lana or… something else?”

“This body may be that of a clone but my mind and soul are the same. I’m still tied to Overseer Obelisk but not as severe as before.” She said, smiling before looking at her hands. “This was all I ever wanted. Freedom.” She said.

“So… you can do… anything, like this I mean.” Rockmond asked her as he let a drone build him some new legs. I looked over at him oddly as he shrugged. “I can’t really say ‘God’, I don’t believe in one.”

“I’ve accepted the responsibilities of being the Overseer of the Ark, without one the Ark will slowly die.” Lana said, closing her eyes as the obelisk hovered over behind her. “To think such malevolent being oversaw the Ark for so long. It infuriates me to no end.”

Rockmond looked at Lana before, after his new legs were finished, he stood up and walked over to her. With him standing there staring at the woman he leaned over and gave her a hug. “It’s… good to see you again.” Lana returned the hug.

“It’s good to finally see you too.” She said, a bit teary eyed. I smiled at the sight of this, seeing the two of them reuniting after so long. I looked off to where the pod was and then around at the place.

“I wonder… can you clone… anyone, not just yourself?” one of the twins asked Lana. The latter having pulled away from the hug, nodded at the question.

“Yes, as long as sufficient DNA samples are given.” Lana said. Naveah looked over at her Twin.

“You’re not thinking of cloning yourself?” she asked her sister.

“What, no. I already have you.” Naveah said with a laugh. I looked over at her and then at Lana.

“Is it wrong to say that I really want to see that happen to me?” I said out loud. Everyone looked at me as I said that.

“What, have a clone?” Ruby asked.

“Yeah, I just… its just something interesting,” I told them. I also blushed a bit. “And… I don’t know, kinda wonder what it would be like to have a twin.”

“I’ll tell you it’s not as cracked up to be.” Heaven said.

“No, it’s not, you love me.” Naveah said. The two of them stared at each other before laughing at each other. I rolled my eyes as I looked back at Lana as she stared at me.

“I suppose you all wish to return, no?” Lana asked, glancing at everyone. The Obelisk humming behind her. Everyone nodded as I stood there.

“You still want to see if you can clone yourself?” Ruby asked me.

“Again, it was an odd thing I had when I was little.” I said as the idea came to mind. “Also, aren’t you coming with us Lana? Or do you have to be here?”

“There is nothing restricting me from coming and going.” Lana quickly answered before the obelisk moved back towards the center of the room. As this happened I got an idea about something.

“Hey, you guys go ahead of me.” I said, looking at Lana. “I… need to talk to Lana for a bit.”

They all looked at each other before Rockmond looked at me. “If you’re sure, then we’ll see you back on the ground.” I smiled at them as they walked away from me. Ruby waved before there was a bright light and they all disappeared. I looked back at Lana and I became a bit sheepish.

“I… need a little favor from you Lana.” I said as I sat down on the ground. She tilted her head at this before asking.

“What might that be?” She asked with a curious tone. With that I explained to her a few things about me and my mother, my real one. I didn’t tell her that Ruby, my aunt and I weren’t from this world but I simply told her that I missed my mom and know she’s alive.

“Now… after all this time that I grew up, I think she would’ve missed taking care of a child.” I said to her sadly.

“And you wish for me to create a much younger clone of yourself?” She asked with a raised brow. I sighed a bit at this and nodded.

“I know it’s… dumb but, I just feel bad for my mom okay?” I hung my head in shame. “I just hope for some good I can do for her when I find her.” The next few second were spent in utter silence, making me more nervous by the second before- “Ow!” I yelled, feeling a strand of hair being pulled out my scalp. I looked to see Lana with a little smile.

“Any form of DNA will do.” She said, showing me the strand of hair she pulled. I stared at it before smiling.

“Lana, you’re a saint.”

Author's Notes:

So as it seems being a giant computer program makes wearing clothes not an issue for if one turns back into a human. Luckily there’s skin suits (or skin-tight suits) that can help.