Chapter 2.3: Loha

" Are you an officer from some nation in Caestran?" She said after deep in contemplation.

The reason she thought like that was because of this expensive jet and Aaron mysterious identity. She thought so because currently, she didn't trust Aaron. Despite that, she also thought he isn't a bad person. Just rude.

"..."

" Are you a Jedi Knight?"

" I don't know what Jedi is but I'm also not a knight. I'm just a scavenger who steal things from the scrap and the sorts.." She shook her head.

" Where did you learn that Kung- No, Martial Art?"

" I didn't learned it, I'm just a natural at it.."

Aaron was silent as he pondered on how to answer her. Unlike before, he found her to be useful with her various skills. With a quick thought, he searched the system for something and he found it immediately.

[ Knight - 384 day - 100000 point]

[ Elite Fighter - 192 day - 30000 point]

Seeing the price, he couldn't help but cursed in his heart.

' Hell!! I might have to destroy the whole ring of asteroid at this rate!!' He calmed and comforted his bitter heart as his attention went back to Loha.

' I need someone like her..'

Loha skill impressed him. Since earning the points was a tiring work, he decided to only make purchases for cheap goods.

He must be conservative in spending the point. Knights or the likes, for now he decided to look for a hire given the needs.

After he made up his mind, he began to carefully pick his word.

" Loha, no.. but you see.. I was given a higher authority by a person.... he have a lot of fleets.... and are raising an army.." He began to describe and flaunted the mysterious person who gave him authority.

But outside his expectation, Loha wasn't impressed. When he laid out of how their group were about to raise an army, Loha yelled in anger instead.

" Enough is enough!!"

Aaron was about to scream but held back his annoyance. He also began to ponder where his mistake lies.

" Just how many more war did you all want to wage!? Didn't you all ever thought of the consequences of your action!? A billions died every day just for them to rise another ruler! and new nation!"

She clenched her teeth and closed her eyes.

" My father.. died on the battlefield completing his duty as a knight, my mother.. died as an innocent civilian affected by the war.. " Tears began to roll on her cheek.

" Countless innocent had lose their family in these endless wars.. No one care about them.." With that, she began to cry her hearts out.

No one knows how much she had to endured those feelings until she had spoken it out to Aaron.

" I wished I have the ability to change this world!"

Aaron soon understood why she was angered. Hearing that he was raising an army, the thought of war immediately pop in Loha's mind.

War was a non-stop occurrence in this era. Billions died every year in result of war. When a new legion of army rose up, the leader's goal was always to build a new kingdom.

Though Aaron didn't have the thought to become a monarchy yet, maybe sooner or later he might have this thought as he was an ambitious person.

He knew that Loha had misunderstood him. As he needs her, he felt the need to explain to her but held back after some thought.

He was just planning to build and army first, if it was a success then he had to consider the next path. Maybe after that, if he walked the path of monarchy he won't be able to recruit Loha.

' Wait a minute.. Since when do I care about people feelings?' When such thought appeared, he shook his head as he told himself he was just afraid Loha will messed up his work if she was recruited given her perception.

But after seeing her crying even after some minutes have past, he felt a little annoyed.

Some event in his past had changed him greatly to the point he won't even give seats to the old or sympathize with them.

If not for the fact that she was a possible recruit with unmatched potential, he would have shut her up rudely but now, he decided to console her.

He moved his left hand toward Loha right hand resting on the armrest in attempt to show his sympathy.

He had tried this move a lot of time and it earned him a slap sometime from crying stranger. But at least they stopped crying.

Loha, although she was angry and haven't trusted him fully. When she found that Aaron attempted to comfort her. She felt a little emotional as this was the first time someone had show concerns to her since her parents passed away.

So she just accepted it as she tried to calmed down. She also found that Aaron's grips was harder than any human. As Aaron wore gloves, she haven't seen his cybernetic hand yet.

" You good now?" Aaron asked after a while.

" Yeah, thank you." Loha said and Aaron smirked to himself, feeling proud.

" I'm sorry too." He apologize, part of him because he was sincere and another because he want to have a good impression.

They stared at each other's eyes as Loha attempted to let out a smile. Her eyes and nose was still red which made her look more pitiful and cute.

Aaron on the other hand was wondering if he had caught her heart or not. If he did, it would be easier to pull her in. So he thought.

Loha found herself lost in that beautiful hazel eyes of Aaron despite the burned facials. At this moment, she saw something change in that eyes. The eyes that was usually uncaring and lazy instantly become fierce and filled with compassion.

" Maybe one day, the whole galaxy would ceased war as a new order rose to unite everyone." Aaron said confidently.

Loha shook her head but still had that smile.

" Maybe."

Their gaze soon landed on the radar screen displayed between them, a numbers of small fleets were approaching them fast.

" They really come!" She exclaimed in surprised and wiped her tears as she put on the pilot headset.

Aaron unstrapped the mask as he could breathes comfortably now. After that he stood up and sat on the electronic desk behind them.

" What are you doing?"

" Calling in the reinforcement."

***

Whoosh

The Jet containing Aaron and Loha dived down as the four fighter with interceptor plane followed them toward the canyon.

As the Jet was a diplomatic type, it was not equipped with weapon. Although he believes in Loha piloting skill, he still felt the need to prepare a back up plan. Sitting at the electronic desk, he put the head set and began uttering nonsense.

" Destroyer 01 command center, this is Bond 007 do you copy?"

At that moment explosion erupted around them as the interceptor's shot missed them and hit the surrounding around them.

Aaron could described himself being in a thrilling dog fight scenes as he radio for aids while the chaos erupted around him.

Part of him doings this because he needed to make things believable and convinced Loha reinforcement would come. Also part of him because he had been waiting for this dramatic moment.

Reacting like he received response from the other side, he continued to blabber some words that sound sufficiently militaristic.

" Password, Miska muska micky mouse.... reporting, there's hostile on our ass.... requesting back up ASAP.. sending coordinate.." After a series of empty sentences, he yelled to Loha.

" Loha! Can you lose them?"

" We can't! It was an interceptors and the pilots was all flying like a veteran! I won't be able to loss them but holding on should be possible!"

Realizing the situation too late, she answered back to Aaron. She had definitely believes Aaron after hearing his conversation back there.

Aaron congratulated himself for preparing in advance. He also didn't expect the pursuer to have interceptors.

Interceptor Type Fighter was the lightest, fastest and most responsive. Able to use it's high acceleration to outmaneuver others.

Evading missile, and dodge incoming fire was a given already due to its agility. But what made it the weakest among other fighters was because it's low shield power.

If Heavy Fighter can took a longer blow with it's shield power, Interceptor will only took in less than a dozen of blow. But it's an another whole matter when used by an Ace pilot.

" Just hold on! Aids on the way!"

Finishing his act, he secretly connected a portion of his mind to one of the fleets on the flagship.

At the flagship that was still working on destroying the asteroids, a single carrier flew out of the countless deck into the stargate hides by nebula gas.

[ ' Venator- Class Star Destroyer, W1-01' Is in control ]

[ (W1-01)' V- Wing Interceptor 001,... V- Wing Interceptor 008' is in control ]