A week past and Aurora and Astro are no longer grounded and now able to go back outside and hang out with their friends again on the surface and this time they're trying to stay out of trouble as Aurora keeps herself away from Zoey and Zak but not getting as close she was to them at the beginning.
"Do you think it's actually necessary to ignore Zak and Zoey when you're around them?" Astro asked really wanting to know why she chose to ignore them than just try and get along with them again, but he doesn't understand or knows what it's like to lose everything you hold dearly and betrayed by the ones who were extremely close to you like if they were family.
"Because I can... got a problem?" Aurora relied turning to face Astro again serious as he waved his hands showing that he wasn't got a problem at all with her. "Good" she said again glad to get things out to him but if he trusts people like that over and over again he will eventually lose himself or even his mind.
"Can you two stop flirting and actually come over here and help me!" Cora yelled catching their attention as they quickly headed to Cora moving this rusty looking thing which wasn't as heavy as she described it to be but Astor and Aurora were different to one another more than they're to Cora.
"You really are weak" Aurora said to Cora with a cheesy smile as she and Astro put the heavy thing down while she glared at Aurora a bit mad but she could tell that the little troublemaker was having a good time annoying her.
"Well you're some super human alien thing!" Cora said as Aurora tilted her head really not sure about that at all since she was born in the underground.
"If I was I would remember being in space which I would love to go to one day" Aurora replied sharing one when dreams with them joined by a nice soft smile which wasn't like her to pull but they shrugged it off.
"I'm sure you would" Astro replied rolling along with it Since Aurora had a thing for astronomy 🪐 and the different planets she sees in the telescope in Tenma's living room.
Aurora didn't say anymore for the last 20 minutes which was beginning to start to worry Astro quite about but Cora kind liked the silence. The reason Aurora was so quite was mainly because she's thinking about a few things especially the nightmare she had last night about the hidden force attacking metro city but why did seem to real, could it have been a sign or was she actually re-experiencing fear once again.
"Wanna start a conversation?" Astro asked gently patting Aurora's shoulder closer to
Him before quickly extracting it away not wanting her to grab and toss him. Her eyes instantly locked onto him like he was some sort of prey that was about to die.
"What do you want to talk about?" She responded relaxing the pressure she put down on Astro while Cora looked around for stuff that caught her interest.
"Well mainly I just wanted to ask my you seem so quiet today? It isn't like you to act like this" Astro asked obviously concerned for the girl as she sighed knowing that he would do something like this especially when the two always talked to one another a lot at home but not so much around Cora.
"I had a nightmare or a vision of the hidden force taking over metro city last night and I'm trying to process it and see if anything in it can help me wonder if it's a sign or not" she responded giving very detailed description of her dream as Astro smiled innocently not believing that Aurora would have a vision which was typical of someone to do when this was brought up.
"I'm sure it's just a nightmare that's gotten you spooked up because what happened with Alex" Astro said which would be the reason why Aurora was being kinda tense these past few days always bringing up the hidden force like it was nothing but a name to her but really she just hopes that metro city doesn't end up like her home and the blood splattered everywhere.
"But I'm still going to keep thinking about it until I find out what's causing these to happen" Aurora said back not caring and believing that it's more than just a nightmare and would do nothing until she confirms it even if it means being quite and distant to her friends to get it.
Aurora was walking behind Astro and Cora when she noticed something to her right but she was too lost in thought to realise what it is at the time being. Something seemed off especially for Astro as he slowly begins to start to bring his attention to her the more they walk around the surface.
Aurora's PoV:
I really need to stop thinking about that weird
But scary nightmare I had but I need to find the real reason I had this dream it could be connected to my so called brother and maybe it was showing me their plans to attack my new current home like they did to the underground.
I could feel Astro's eyes look at me and then back in front of him but he's was concerned for me because of me being weirdly quiet but it was his fault for not believing me and if that does happen he would know what it's like to see everyone he cares about die in front of him as he is left all alone full of guilt not knowing what to do. But he's a hero it's obvious that he'll fight back but why? Wouldn't he just get himself killed for his own people in this city but what did they do for him to make him risk his life so they can live in peace and harmony, while I was left alone the last of my kind up here besides from Zak and Zoey.
I huffed to myself not really wanting to talk about this to him especially when he doesn't know what it's like to live in my shoes at all or seeing the horrors of limbs being torn from your dearest friends. Almost killing your own friends because of some random strangers who called you their daughter or even sister when they're are the complete opposite to you.
"I CANT TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!" I randomly yelled before rushing off to my left away form Astro and Cora but I was unsure if they followed me or not as I headed into the forest not wanting to face them or anyone at the moment with that I was thinking, I just need to be alone for awhile until I at least calm my thoughts and feeling for a bit.
"Aurora! Where did you go?!" Astro's voice could be heard yelling north from where I was so In order to have some me time I would need to hide and so I did. I managed to leap up into a very tall well covered tree a couple metres away from me and hid in its leaves since Astro was the type of robot that can fly and hiding in a tree without covering myself making me visible to the eye, so what's the point in hiding if I'm not trying to cover myself from my own seeker?
"I really need to be alone for awhile" I thought to myself as Astro slowly drifted up next to the spot I was at but he didn't seem to see me but I could definitely see him and I'm full view too and one move would blow my cover but I wasn't gonna move I was very comfy up here. After a whole 5 minutes of sitting quiet and still he was able to move away from where I was as I quietly sighed with relief before stopping and liking down seeing Cora looking up at me.
"How did you get up there?" She asked as I hugged before using my legs again beginning a little chance on the trees as I jumped to branch to branch as Astro flew after me while Cora ran after us trying to catch up to us but I didn't want to be found or to talk to anyone.
"Why are you running from us?" Astro asked flying beside me with a concerted face not actually seeing that he was making the situation even worse the more he followed me.
"Can you leave me alone! I just want some time to think" I said back as he suddenly stopped allowing me to hop along the trees seeing that I was getting closer to metro city and stopped in a tree before just chilling there as the sound of birds cherping singing their song relaxing my mind making me forget about the stress I was having.
I did feel bad for suddenly leaving Astro like that but I wasn't gonna let the stress get to me so I had no choice but to run and try and relax my mind again before seeing them again. I could see some parts of metro city here especially the park too and why it was still empty again, why was it empty when so many people always talk about it and it's beautiful relaxing aura.
"Did i over react? Should I go and apologise?" I thought to myself questioning myself about my actions of yelling at him like that but I quickly shook it off not wanting to put more pressure onto myself while trying to clear my mind of all the traumatic past I had and try and proceed with the future I need to build for myself.
I soon got the urge to climb down from the tree I jumped onto before getting to a certain height before jumping down landing onto my feet again and then began to head on my way back to metro city hoping not to bump into anyone familiar or anything. I yawned strangely tried it bored while walking around metro city before feeling a intense feeling of pain in my head crouching down holding my head with my hands as they clenched into my hair while random flashes came rushing through my mind but they're were different.
The flashes I had showed my most her professor, Rose but we weren't in the underground it's looked like metro city living in a well decorated house as the clear sky was seen through the window the more I looked out of it seeing no clues as they were below us instead of above us. She seemed way more affectionate with me sharing her ideas and what she was going to build for me something I really wanted for a long time, she grabbed my hand taking me into her lab which seemed to look identically like Tenma's lab but there were two robots sat up on the lab table deactivated as mother pulled something out of her pocket pressing it as their heads looked up at us scanning us before getting off but they looked just like Zak and Zoey no they were them they look just like they did when I first met them in the daycare room but they also knew my name.
"These are your new brother and sister be nice to Zak and Zoey alright?" Mother said gently pushing me towards them as I slowly walked towards them a bit shy but also a bit afraid since they were robots or I think they were.
"H-hello?" I said as I looked eye contact with Zak but he seemed to not act the same he usually does when I met him in the underground but this must be one of my lost memories mother was on about in one of her diary pages. Zak tilted his head confused at me before coming even closer to me like he didn't even know me at all but his eyes seemed way different than I knew, they seemed dull and lifeless but full of blue energy but something changed in him when he stopped front in front of me as he was a few inches taller than me looking down at me like I was some insect.
A sound of something activating could be heard as I looked at him hand seeing a blaster cannon were his hand used to be before aiming it at me as it began to charge in my face but i didn't know what to do I was just a child when everything ended in a flash before waking up in the lab held in my mothers arms while men charged in with their guns ordering that she must put her hands up but I was still aching a sore which was strange form a powerful blast like that.
Suddenly I was back in metro city again but I was crouched with hands on my head before looking up seeing people look at me as I began to feel a bit embarrassed before rushing back home to go inside of my room for the day and stay there.
As I got home I was met by elifun and he seems to be with Tenma and Astro when they turned to notice me rush in quite startled and embarrassed.
"Care to explain to me about what's on your mind today Aurora?" Tenma asked as I looked up before gulping nervously unsure if they would believe me or think that I'm going crazy.
"I got a flashback about my mother" i replied back as he crossed his arms not pleased about the response I gave him right now.
"Aurora you're 13 years old, you should be over this by now it has been weeks since you arrived to metro city" Tenma said as I looked at him shell shocked of what came out of his mouth but he was right I shouldn't still be bringing up things about my mother.
"But I was younger and I saw Zak and Zoey on the lab table and Zak shot me with his cannon but he wasn't the way he was today but" I said trying to get my point straight as he began to tap his foot getting a bit impatient of my excuses.
"That's impossible, robots don't get flashbacks Aurora" he said in a sour tone as I growled at him giving him a death ending glare from him mentioning that I was a robot.
"Tenma please" elifun said wanting Tenma to calm down and not bring anything up about Aurora's diagnosis even though it shows that she isn't just a robot.
"I'm not a robot! I just some weirdly human-robot Looking alien experiment!" I yelled before rushing into my room away from them not wanting to speak to anyone for the rest of the day.
Astro's PoV:
It was obvious that Aurora was hurt from being called a robot even through all I asked was my dad to just have a friend talk with her since these past few days she was beginning to speak less and less like we were going back to the beginning being extremely distant with me.
"That's totally uncalled for" I said before heading up to my room hoping to speed some time until Aurora gets in contact with me today or wants to maybe talk over the phone or something if she feels like it.
Aurora has been under some serious pressure these past couple of days and I want to know why but when I ask she gets frustrated or changes the subject which makes me a bit suspicious, was it when I told her that I was nothing about that nightmare she had last night?.
Hours past and I am laying on the floor of my room which was just above Aurora's meaning that she could hear my footsteps or maybe me yelling or something depending if she's asleep or something but things have been worser than today. But it was still light especially in the afternoon since Cora had to go back home for dinner and spend some time with her family meaning I am yet again bored I'm my room but nothing was happening right now meaning no hero time or anyone to talk to either.
I got up off my bed wanting to go and check up on Aurora but before I could even take a step a huge crash was heard in the floor below me indicating that Aurora is either smashing things or getting attack by someone since she hasn't got cannons yet. I quickly headed out of my room and went down to the floor below me seeing elifun scratched up and bruised while my father was no where to be seen meaning he was taken or has escaped.
"Get out!!" Aurora yelled from her room when I looked up the corridor where it was directly before seeing something coming flying through the door and into the wall behind it making a hole as it's legs dangled over. I froze unsure of what to do incase she attacked me again but she just walked out her room totally fine looking at the hole in the wall before noticing that blue blood dripped from her hands while some were splatted on her face showing that she got serious and messed that thing up bad.
"Aurora, are you alright?!" I exclaimed concerned as she looked at me instantly before slowly heading in my direction but she seemed to be calm and not so aggressive like she was seconds ago. She was stood right in front of me as she began to look at her bloody blue hands then back up at me obviously guilty for seeking such anger to someone but she had to or she would've died.
"I'm fine but where Tenma?" She asked looking about only able to see elifun on the floor unconscious as she walked over to him seeing what the robot did before Aurora butted in going crazy against the bot.
"I don't know, I heard a loud bang and rushed down here seeing only elifun down here" I responded telling the truth as she sighed not so glad about this at all but I yet have to take a look out side to see why she's so agitated.
"I told you I was right about my suspicious and because of that countless of lives have been taken by the hidden force, all cause you didn't believe me and my nightmares" Aurora with a tired sigh as I quickly rushed to the window seeing that the city was completely covered by heavy machine war robots that were just as big as Zorg but with deadlier weapons in their armour and have two legs but no arms.
"Please tell me I'm not dreaming" I said myself before slapping my cheek as it hurt very bad meaning that this was real but how come I was able to hear them enter and blow stuff up or screams. "Why couldn't I hear them?" I asked looking back at Aurora as she stood up with her back facing me kneeing that she was in a bad mood right now.
"They have used a sound barrier that prevents and sounds to enter through to those who are trapped inside of it and we are the unlucky ones" she replied looking back at me as the robot was beginning to move again as she grew irritated pulling out the sword that hid and was attached to her arm but she grabbed it pulling it completely off catching me off guard as she threw in a 45* degrees turn seeing it fly away out of view and back again before hearing the bot collapse onto the floor.
"But when did you know about this? Why didn't you tell me?" I asked as she put the blade back onto her hand as it went away again not to be seen again. She looked serious and offended by my questions but she did tell me earlier about the hidden force and the invasion but it seemed to fake.
"I did but you chose to let your city fall that believe me. Plus the only way I found out was when that bot came through the living room wall and tv attacking elifun but I intervened destroying it completely before it could finish its job" she said as I began to feel a bit guilty for not believing her but I also didn't know that I would be to blame for this when it came to picking what happens to my city.
"You're blaming me! I helped you and now you're putting the blame on me!" I yelled pointing at her like and average teenager would do when arguing about something but she just stood there still not interested in what I had to say sticking to what she believed in.
"Are you done yet? because I have to take care of this and find your father so I need you to keep an eye on elifun until I come back" she said as I felt stupid but also enraged but right now all I could do was take care of elifun since I know nothing about these robots and their weakness. "Good, if I'm not back by sundown leave the city and get to safety. Stay out of their sight or you'll be blown up in an instant" she said again giving more orders like an actual soldier but I wanted to help and at least save some innocent lives if there's any left.
"But what about you?" I said stopping her before she could even go out of the door Turing her head to the point that I could see her left eye.
"I can cope with myself and even if I'm in trouble or kidnapped I'll find a way out if it means being brainwashed or controlled from being so remotely weird to everything else on this planet" she said leaving me alone with elifun without any adult to watch over me.
I watched out of the window as she snuck by every robot and their scanners while the more human ones are walking about into buildings finding any left over residence who escaped the endless fires I missed before seeing some sort of colour that went around the building and to the floor could that be the sound barrier Aurora told me before she left, I really hope that she's alright going all alone without me by her side but I really missed having her by my side especially when we accidentally leaned onto one another in the living room waking up realising it but her warmth was so comforting to me only if she trusted me that much to hug like everyone does but I had to be a robot the one thing she's scared of the most and is trying to come over it by destroying them through her ptsd lash outs.
Aurora's PoV:
It was hard leaving him behind but it's the only way to keep him safe until I find Tenma and return so we can fix this and put an end to this pathetic war the hidden force has made trying to take control of the world but is it worth it when it involves killing thousands and millions of lives to achieve that goal.
What a great way to live out a life on in the city but I will get revenge on those responsible for this which is my supposed birth mother and twin brother but they seemed a bit different to me like if they're being forced, I better not be second guessing my thoughts or I will seriously slam my head against a solid wall. They deserve what's coming for them and it ain't gonna be nice and pretty.