New Era Rising. (Garmen Story)

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Chapter Five: "Uncommon Meetings" (Part One)

Utter silence, chilling of the air, and the escaping feeling from his heart, Zigeris staggers backwards as he watches his brother's head become deformed and twisted. Without a moment to process what just happened he ducks behind the crates on the lift.

"Where's the bastard that took Quinn?" A soft, young voice echoes from below, "Man, the one I didn't shoot, answer me!"

Zigeris inches a look to the side to see a young woman standing there. Confused and paralyzed he doesn't respond.

"So this is the Alpha? Wasting my entire life away chasing down hunks of metal, pieces of junk." She walks up to the stem of the nose gear and kicks it. "So are ya going to tell me or do I have to blow this entire rock apart?"

Zigeris looks around to try to find the best angle to shoot her from. Despite anything he has heard, what she has done proved to him that she is an enemy.

"Well I hate to bug ya, but this place is already going to be exploded....so if you tell me I'll help you outta this place, if not, whatever..." She turns to the Alpha Centria and unlocks the canopy. Zigeris now looks intently, "She can pilot? She's just a kid!" Zigeris reaches from the side and takes aim, and fires. The girl jumps back and raises her middle finger at Zigeris. "Ok A-hole I was being nice, now you'll just die here with the bombs. Have you seen Quinn?" Zigeris is stunned by the random question he quietly answers while looking for a way out, finding none he answers louder, "I don't know who he is, tell you what, you step away from that ship and we together can go look for him." The girl tilts her head and twirls her pistol around her middle finger, "Sure guy, more eyes the more can be seen! Don't shoot me though, that'd be mean, just come down and be very intentional with your movements else I'll plug you like I did that dirt ball." Zigeris tries not to have emotions over what she said and replies, "Ok, I am coming down, don't shoot...er do you know who you just shot?" She looks around aimlessly almost as if she was looking for something, "Yeahhhh, but if I tell you it's a secret, and I don't know you and I don't know if I can trust you." Zigeris seemed skeptical that her answer suggested she knew, to him it would be impossible for such a little girl to know anything about her brother. She continues, " But since he's dead, and I don't care about these old farts, the guy I popped was some sort of traitor blah blah blah blah. I'm just here to find Quinn!" Zigeris reaches the floor and drops his weapon and looks at the girl, standing 4'6" and barely 85 pounds. "You can fly this machine? You unlocked it... who are you?" She perks up and hangs the muzzle of her pistol on the ridge of her shoulder, "I am Tammy Cooper! Pleasure to meet you mister..." Zigeris puts his hands on his waist, " I am Zigeris."

"OHHHH CRAP MISTER! We gotta get going!" Tammy shouts, and Zigeris begins to reach for his backup weapon, she notices though she didn't mind. "What why?" Zigeris replies. "Oh well I was told to blow this place up, and take this thingy!"

"From who? Who ordered you? And...how are you able to do this?"
"No time! NO TIME! NOOOO TIME! I'll answer later! Let's go!" She hops into the cockpit. "C'mon Ziggy!"

"Wait, I gotta get Kimi!" Zigeris waves her off.
"Oh my gawd, you'd bring your girlfriend here?! Seriously!? Ugh! GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!" She starts up the Alpha.

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