Silent Talks

Nothing is making any sense. Not to him, not to anyone.

He fires from his electrically propelled rifle. Watching the round propel into the metal arthropod. Piecing the speeding machine with ridicule and unease. Instant destruction. He looks back at his rifle, smoking with static electricity. The latest of stolen technologies that just left the gate. Still being moved from the containers they hastily found.

"Come on man! The one time we are kicked out from our base, we are gifted with a stupid invasion!"

He turns to his left, watching his younger sister firing from the turret of the technical. Rather ignorant and uncaring as she sulked upon a lollypop. Still unable to feel any semblance of emotions against the invaders. He sighs, unable to comprehend his inability as a brother. Though remembering the time she faced against the Unibody, he could tell she is hiding her seething anger. Her determination for a rematch. Her determination to show that she was more that just mere ants on the sidewalk.

It had been an awful rush attempting to move everything in record time to their second base. Time they hardly have with the record numbers of stolen art and weapons in their pockets. The plan of holding them off at the headquarters had been a disaster. Less of the cockiness of his master and more of the mistakes he made facing Hacksaw. A huge blunder. He failed his master, had he not controlled his sister...

Sure the resources and firepower in the Russian base was equal to their headquarters but many of the documents of significant importance were stored there. Now, they have clues to the members worldwide. Compromising everything they stood for.

"What are you worried about Jango? We both just recently enlisted here you know?"

She looks at him with curiosity. His face wrecked with hidden guilt, gloomy in the dark cloudy sky. Hiding his expression like a snake.

"Nothing… just that I'm worried f-"

He answered her question, looking away to stare at his rifle. Unsure of his words, dreaming away in silence only to be cut off, by his sister poking his shoulder, still as playful as ever. On one hand, her phone, still connected to her earphone on her left ear. Filled with electronic music that seemed more nonsense than art to him. The other a bottle of warm water. Still fresh from the kettle.

"Why are you so worried? We got one life to experience! We lost our parents for sure but we are still here to experience it all! Isn't that just fine?"

Jango raised his eyebrows, accepting of the drink with grateful resolve. Surprised upon her words.

"For my sister who had seen so much, you seem so cold and unfeeling…"

He takes a sip, watching his tongue as he stared away into the gloomy town that seemed abandoned with terrible upkeep. Their base. Ignoring the rounds she fired from the turret, shooting down the incoming metal isopod into a blazing inferno. A textbook shot.

"But you do realize that there is nothing you can do now right. And yet you decided to do this?"

She removes her earpiece, slouching down by the warm turret, holding her chin by her hand with exasperation. As if she didn't had any feelings as a human being. A human being that had seen far too much for her youth.

"Do you still remember what I told you about this? Faye? Why I had decided to join them? We have no family left but the friends I made."

He looks back in his time as a teenager. A punk who led a gang. A punk who tended to his sick mother while his father starved to gain cash in the large corporation, Teck Toph Industries. Hiding his contempt against his terrible boss who constantly mistreated him.

He still remembered how he had just gotten his payday after losing his job from the war. It was the first time the entire family could finally enjoy themselves in a new place. Sector C had a beach they still could enjoy despite all of the madness. Wanting to enjoy the little free time they had. Hopeful that in the event everything went wrong, the supers would come. What foolish hope.

"I know. But you can you keep your words down Jango? We have little time to lose here. Maybe if we do well enough, we'll get the justice we came for."

He looks back at her, still holding her chin by her hand. Now hiding her sadness with a small smile. A calming smile he always remembered when he took pains to take care of her. When their parents fought. When they were left to fend for themselves against thugs. Alone together.

"Yeah…"

He continues to enjoy his warm drink, hopeful that she could be safe from harm. The only family he truly had.

"What the hell is that?"

He turns to face her sister, holding a telescope she brought along. Her voice frozen in fear, frightened by the sight whilst jets and robots scrambled towards their location. He turns to face the sight watching the bright lights he knew on their first day out.

The wretched team of the Light of Men. Code Zero.

"Oh no… We need to go! We need to go now! They are here!"

He quickly scrambled into the drivers seat and slammed on the gas, disappointed they weren't informed of their presence. Nevertheless, he looks by his sister at the helm of the turret. Rushing for good time they could use to defend their only shot to respond.

"Didn't know he had such power!"

Shane looks back at the circular purple trail that dissipated into the wind. Amazed at the power he received before his breakout. To be able to teleport him and everyone else in record time to the exact location is no mean feat. Sure there were supers with such power, but she never heard or seen any of them teleport multiple people at once at different points of the globe in record time. Working under the office had truly made her feel like she is living under a rock.

"Yeah… I just hope he made it in time…"

Atsuki radios in from their slimy bubble, unable to do anything but watch the jets and mechs bought with stolen money fire back with impunity. Not taking chances upon the frustrating invasion from foreign invaders. Annoyed they have to deal with two enemies at once. A reasonably unreasonable pain.

"I'll do the honors here, you guys each deal and capture the four monsters, they are top priority."

She launched her new electrical powered cannons, each with the power of a battleship. Laying waste to everything she saw in front of her in a test of strength in one shot.

She fired, ignoring the mild pain she still felt from her injuries. Watching and awaiting the response as the bullet immediately exploded and ricochet in multiple directions in multiple fiery lights of lightning, explosive fire and led. Too many to evade with a time of 0.03 seconds to respond at the rapid sequence of events. It wasn't even a contest. She look away from the destruction. Disgusted by her own feat.

Was it the time she spent with the normal Derek who didn't want to have a part in this? Or was it the fact they didn't even have the proper weapon to respond? She couldn't tell, nevertheless she hoped for one thing. An end to the nonsense she saw.

"Now let's hear what they have to say…"