Everyone was quite hangover, no Rho, the sun was shining, and birds singing. Suddenly Soldiers with weapons entered their rooms and surrounded them. They start to wake up…

  Ace: What's going on..?

  S: I will ask you to come with us.

  Kaya: Why?

  S: We will explain to you, I will ask you not to resist and come with us and it will be easier for everyone.

  They looked at each other and stood up. Soon they were leading both Nuri and Nigel, they were all in one place

  Nuri: Does anyone know what's going on?

  They said no.

  Nuri whispered to Nigel: where is Rin?

  Nigel: I have no idea

  Soon they were in a large room with several people. Victoria was in charge of this department, and she questioned them.

  Victoria: I am glad you took your time to join us

  Ace: What the hell is going on here?

  Victoria: Looks like we have a theft case, I'll ask you one time, do any of you know anything about it?

  Everyone but Rho looked at Kaya.

  Kaya: It's not me! I understand why I'm the obvious choice, but I really didn't steal anything this time.

  Nigel: Even our money?

  Kaya: This is neither the place or the time for that.

  Victoria: So you're going to pretend you don't know anything? Okay, we can do that. Your rooms are being searched at the moment, we can wait.

  Kaya: I'm sure there was some confusion...

  Victoria: Oh really? What a coincidence that we lose very important documents at the exact time when you and your friend were visiting our laboratories.

  Nigel looked at Rho.

  Kaya: I didn't steal anything, and Rho is definitely the last person who would steal something.

  Victoria: We'll see about that. If you have nothing to say, we will have to temporarily hold you. Lead them.

  Kaya: Where are you taking us?

  Victoria: You'll see.

  They were soon behind bars.

  Ace: Great. They better not damage my katanas.

  Nigel: That's the least of our worries right now.

  Ace: Where is Rin anyway?

  Nigel: Nobody knows

  Kaya: You don't think he did something?

  Nuri: Impossible.

  Kaya: Then why are we here?

  Ace looked at Rho.

  Ace: You are terribly quiet, do you want to explain yourself?

  Rho: I...

  Kaya. This is not the time to point fingers at each other...

  Ace: Maybe it is. That was you, wasn't it?

  Kaya: Rho, tell her you didn't do anything...

  Rho: I can't.

  Kaya: There, you see.... wait what?!!

  Rho: Forgive me.

  She talked calm, she didn’t show that she felt regret.

  Nuri: What did you do?

  Rho: I took something I shouldn't have.

  Kaya: You... stole? After so much talking how bad that is, you're the one who did it?

  Rho: You don't understand...

  Ace: Then explain to us.

  Rho: Those documents contain information about a new project being launched by... Davon.

  There was silence.

  Rho: I had to study them, I just had to take them... you don't understand what he is capable of...

  Kaya: But I don't understand, all we saw here were projects for something better...

  Rho: This is not for something better...

  Rho: I'm sorry to drag you into this but I just had to do it.

  Nuri: What are we going to do now...?

  Kaya gets up and unlocks the door for them.

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  Kaya: We will run away now.

  Nigel: Sounds good to me.

  They slipped past the security guards.

  Nigel: You know, you could have told me.

  Rho: No, I didn't, because then you would ask too many questions that I don't want to answer.

  Nigel: I wouldn't, I would just help you.

  Ace: Enough! We have to find our things first, and then after we leave, argue later.

  They solved the obstacles on the way. Ace managed to take quietly some guards.

  Nigel looks at Ace

  Nigel: You are surprisingly good at that…

  They found their way to the room and their belongings, and headed outside where they were met by soldiers, and Victoria.

  Victoria: Are you leaving already? And we have so much more planned for you...

  Nuri: Unfortunately we are in a bit of a hurry, maybe next time?

  Victoria laughs.

  Victoria: how about now. They attacked, the fight began.

  Nuri: I'm too hangover for this...

  Kaya: We all are!

  Fight.

  Victoria vs Rho,

  Victoria: That was you, wasn't it? They attacked each other.

  Rho: I don't know what you're talking about.

  Victoria: Don't play dumb. You know, if you hand over those documents to us right away, we might reduce your sentence

  Rho: We didn't do anything.

  Victoria: Then why did you run away?

  Rho: Because we got bored of this Island.

  They continued to fight., both were strong. The rest fought against the army

  Victoria: Even if you didn't do anything, now you have, because you are resisting authority and obstructing the investigation, there is no going back.

  They all looked at each other and were aware of this…

  Nigel: Then we'll do our best not to get caught.

  They attacked, more dangerously, bloodier.

  .....

  Rho defeated Victoria, and pinned her to the floor.

  Rho: I will give you a piece of advice, be careful what you produce, because not all products are intended for peace and security.

  More were coming from afar.

  Ace: Come on! We have to go!

  They ran towards the ocean.

  Kaya: Wait how do we get to the ship? They certainly won't let us just take it.

  Rho: We also don't know where Rin is.

  Nuri: I think we have a solution to our problem.

  Nigel: What are you talking about? He points to the ship and Rin on it.

  Ace: How...

  Kaya: we'll ask later, let's go!

  They went to the ship.

  They looked at Rin.

  Nigel: How did you...?

  Rin: I'll tell you later, we still have a problem. Ships appeared.

  They started firing cannonballs. Rho transformed, controlled the orbs, and wanted to throw them at their ships, but she was not allowed to do so, so she threw them into the water.

  Ace: what are you doing?! Throw the cannonballs at them!

  Rho: I can't, I don't know of all people who might be there.

  Ace: Enemies, that's who! Now listen to me well, we did what we did, and we have 2 options, surrender and let them imprison us and maybe kill us because we have useful information, we are talking about Davon! Either that, or we will fight with all our might to escape and survive!

  Ace: I'm sorry, but there's no going back, what's done is done.

  Rho watched as they all risked their lives for her, and as they were all in danger for her. Before, she wouldn't have had a problem with this because she was alone, and didn't care about the consequences, but now she wasn't alone anymore. Rho fires their cannonballs back at their ships. And Nuri lights them with fire. They watched the chaos... all in silence.

  Later.

  Rin: Will someone explain what happened?

  Rho: I happened. I stole information related to Davon... I'm sorry for getting you into this chaos, I really didn't mean it... but this was very important.

  Rin: What's in those documents?

  Rho: Project called Exceptio.

  Ace: What is that?

  Rho: A very, very powerful weapon that could wipe an entire island out of existence

  Everyone was silent for a while.

  Rin: What are the possibilities for that project to become a reality?

  Rho: Closer than it should be.

  Rho: I know I'm not giving you much information, but for now I can't tell you more, you just have to trust me.

  Ace: I understand you, okay? I would do the same if I were you, but from now on, before you plan to do anything... you have to let us know.

  Rho: I will, I promise.

  Ace: And now you, how did you manage to take the ship?

  Rin: Last night when I went to get the ship, I still had access. I stayed and fell asleep. Some noises woke me up, and I heard two soldiers talking about you, and how they have to guard the ship. Since there were only two of them then, I managed to defeat them and take over the ship. They didn't know how I was on the ship. And so little by little, I saw you too.

  Nuri: So you committed a crime?

  Rin: Yes but...

  Nuri: Ha! Maybe I should teach you a lesson now.

  Rin: It's your fault too, you know?

  Nuri: I'm already used to it, it's always my fault, but never yours.

  Rin: Ok, ok... got it.

  Nuri: After this, you will never be able to give me lessons again!

  Rin: Don’t push it.

  Kaya: Well, welcome to the runaway club. Don't worry, you'll get used to it with time.

  Nigel: I wonder what the bounty on my head will be now?

  Kaya: You're on the poster too huh?

  Nuri: Oh yes... wanted posters. Wait, I know about Kaya, but what did you do to get the bounty?

  Nigel: To be honest with you, I don't know. (He was joking because he didn't want to say the reason)

  Nuri: Of course you don't want to tell us, it doesn't matter, we will definitely find out.

  Rho: I wonder if Rin will even get a poster...

  Nuri: Why?

  Rho: They didn't see him, and didn't count with us..., did the people you fought see your face?

  Rin: No, they didn't see me at all.

  Nuri: He's going to get that poster... I'll go crazy if he gets away with it.

  Kaya: Be good to your brother Nuri

  Nuri: No! For every time I did something bad, I had to suffer, it's his turn too.

  They argued.

  Rho laughed. They all surprised

  Ace: What's funny?

  Rho: I know maybe I shouldn't be laughing but, I can't believe how you all are so relaxed about everything, and how you just accepted everything, and stood by each other... I didn't believe that such a thing existed.

  Rin: We are family now whether we like it or not. We need to stick together.

  Kaya: I have an idea

  Kaya Finds Rin's picture that represents the family bond, puts it in the middle, and puts his hand on it. And he looked at the others.

  Kaya: I am Kaya… and I am a member of this family.

  Nigel: Are we seriously going to do that?

  Kaya: Yes, we are.

  Ace: You know what, I like it.

  She is next.

  Ace: I am Acacia, a member of this crazy family.

  Rin put his hand up next.

  Rin: I'm Rin, and I'm a member of this family.

  Nuri puts his hand on the painting.

  Nuri: I am Nuri, the most important member of this family.

  Kaya looked at him and laughed a bit. Nigel crossed his arms.

  Nigel: And I am… not doing that…

  Nuri: Oh come on man, don’t be like that!

  Kaya: And it was such a beautiful moment…

  Nigel: Well the moment is over I guess…

  Kaya: Oh please, it will really mean much if you do this with us too…

  Nigel: Not happening Kiddo.

  Ace gets serious, annoyed.

  Ace: Put that hand down unless you want to lose it.

  He looked at her a bit, he couldn’t tell if she was serious, but he didn’t want to risk it. There was something about her, he couldn’t say no.

  Nigel: Yes ma’am.

  He stayed calm, and he gave up fighting it.

  (If this was animation he would say something like…

  Nigel: But I don’t want my scene to be shown.

  He would whisper that to Rho, and Rho would be calm and said:

  Rho: No problem.

  And they would show his scene the most… like his hand putting on picture, different angels and so on… as a joke)

  They all do the same, and Rho is the last one, looks at them once more and puts her hand up.

  Rho: I am Rho, and I am a member of this family. For the family!

  Everyone repeats "For the family"

  It was night, Victoria was in her office, the device similar to c6 started to ring. The golden color was shown and she knew who was calling. Her heart started to bet faster, she felt fear but she answered.

  Victoria: the one in charge on Provecta Island safety is on the line, how can I be at your service?

  Davon on the other line.

  Davon: Hello, Victoria, right?

  She started to feel nervous.

  Victoria: Yes sir...

  Davon: I believe you had some intruders today? And not only that, I believe they managed to get some important information, that you tried to hide for me? am I right?

  He spoke calm but with every word of his she started to feel pain in her chest.

  Victoria: Yes... unfortunately they escaped.. And I know we should inform you sooner... and I apologize, and I am ready to do anything to show you how sorry I am...

  She was afraid he will kill her.

  Davon: There is no need for fear sweetheart, don't worry I will not hurt you...

  She started to feel a bit calmer.

  Davon: But I need you to do something for me...

  Victoria: Anything sir.

  Davon: When you send information about those intruders, you will put them on red list... and any information about them goes straight to me... Understand?

  Victoria was surprised but she nodded.

  Victoria: Of course sir.

  Davon: Good, that would be all.

  He hung up.

  Victoria was shaking, started to calm down, and Davon...

  Far away in his office, alone.

  He is looking at chest board, making his first move.

  Davon: Your turn... Nexara.