As the helicopters and S.P.A vehicles arrived at his doorstep, Sheireif stepped out into the fray to meet with Seymour.
"I knew you were an agent" Shereif said. "So what is it you want?"
"Hand over the Pandora Shereif, do that and we can all go home safe"
"Hmmmm, an intruiguing offer, but your forgetting one thing?"
"And what would that be?"
"Were in the Badlands! I'm already home!"
Booom!
A huge explosion of dust and sand went off where Seymour was standing.
"SEYMOUR!" A femal agent called out from the hovercopter behind him.
"He's fine Veronica! look!" Another agent said.
Up in the air, Seymour was being protect by his green army of nanobots as a huge torrent of Golden Scarabs chased him iinot the sky.
"Finnaly!" A huge agent with horns on his head cried. "Time to go Hardcore!"
Runnining onto the battlefeild he left behind a trail of cracks in the ground behind him.
"Veronica, Victor!" A white haired shifter said. "You two make sure Core doesn't get out of hand! Nights! you are with me!"
"Yes Wei sir!" They answered heading after Core
In the blink of an eye, a masked man with knives floating around him appeared beside Wei.
"This should be an easy battle" Wei said. "With the humans backing us up, the enemy is vastly ournumbered."
In the distance, 10 men on hovercars with two of them at the front closed in on the battlefield.
"Heh" Vincent said cracking his knuckles. "You handle the Humans, The S.P.A they are all mine" He answered.
"Wait a minute, ain't your little bro one of em?" Shine answered
"That's exactly why I'm handling it! Got it?" Vincent jived.
"Got it" Shine said. "But next time you give me orders, I'm putting you in my crosshairs" Shine said aiming a gun at Vincent. He had drawn it so fast, it was almost as if his arm had turned into the gun.
"Woah slow your roll" Vince laughed. "I'm ex-S.P.A remember?"
(Back in the library)
Looking down at the boys Lily blushed closing her book shut. Placing her hand on a vine above her, she began to lower herself on it using it as a hammock.
As the girl came into view Lars could see a short girl with curly hair and glasses that was in the same age group as himself. As the little light reaching the underground library touched her vibrant blond hair, she blushed and stared away from the boys as she came down.
Lars, catching Reggie in his peripheral, watch as Reggie, nervously blushed and looked away from the girl.
"Heh" Lars said elbowing Reggie.
"What man?" Reggie cried nervously.
Lily seemed quite fragile, almost losing her footing during the otherwise monotonous ride, however she managed to keep balance long enough to make it to where Lars and the others were standing.
The boys stared at the girl unsure of what they were supposed to say. After all, neither had ever really spoken to girls before.
"Well…. don't just stand there introduce yourself Lily!" Sadira beamed.
"Hi... I'm Lily" she said blushing. She was clearly no expert at talking to boys either.
"Hey there Lily... I'm La... I mean I'm Axel, and these ar my friends, 6, B, Reggie, and Lance"
"Don't include me in that group" Lance said crossing his arms. "I'm here for a missoin and nothing else."
"Well, what can I do for you on this mission?" Lily asked
"We are looking for something called the Matryoshka Pandora do you happen to know what that is?" Lars asked.
"THe Matryoshka Pandora..." Lily said thinking. "Is that some kind of special Pandora? Can you describe it to me?" Lily asked.
"Well... it's a giant safe!" Reggie blurted out.
"I know what a Pandora is ofcaorse... I meant specifically what kind? Did it have anything special about it?" She asked.
"Well.." Lars thought. "It had grooves in it... and it seemed like there was a special way to open it... that's about all I could see" Lars answered
"Hmmm" Lily thought. "Lets use a dictionary from the pre-shift era and look up this Matryoshka Pandora word"
Opening a book, Lily scrolled to the M section finding the world.
"Here it is Matryoshka dolls, from the Russian language... whatever Russia was.. "little matron" are a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another... I see! This must be the special way of opening!" Lily said.
"I see, so there are a set of pandora's inside of each other... that's why it has the name Matryoshka but why is that important?"
"It's important because that super Large Pandora, may actually be a tiny one! And on the Tiny Pandora's sensitive information regarding the humans has been found!"
"Wait... what do you mean?" Lars asked,
"After the second Apophian war, there were humans, who were terrified of losing their technology as the people of the pre-shift era had, and so they made a second set of Pandoras, the mini Pandoras!"
"Ok, but why is that important?" LArs asked.
"Because it is believed that some of these "mini" Pandoras had information on Human weapons technology! I thought we had recovered all of them but it seems one of them could be hidden inside of this special Matryoshka one!"
"I see!" Reggie said. "So what kind of weapon are we talking here? A mech a laser? what kind?"
"Hmmm:" Lily thought. "Maybe I can do a search for any weapons the humans had in the past...Lets do a search for 2110 human weapons"
After typing into her holopad for a few minutes, Lily stumbled upon something.
"This is an article online... I can't be certain how accurate it is"
"Just tell us!" Lars said. "What does it say?"
"It says... in year 2110 after the second Apophian war... Humans had massive weapons called, the... Planetory destroyers... each controlled by a special console only accessible by humans, however, shortly after the war, one of these consoles was rumored to have gone missing..."
Lars, B, 6, and Reggie all froze after hearing Lilies words.
"So... there's something called a planetary destroyer! And its being taken over by people in the badlands!" Lars yelled.
"Well we can't be sure based of an article..."
"That man and that woman..." Lars said." That's what they are after!"
"Man and a woman?" Sadira asked. "What man and woman!"
"No time to explain! Guys we are going back to the Battlefield! The agents have no idea what they are about to unleash!"
"What good will 5 Cadets on a battlefield do?" Lance scowled. "The chances of us making intot he mine are near zero! And if we do they already know our faces! We won't get far!"
"Heh" Lars said laughing. "Luckily I have a plan, a plan that will not only help us sneak past the entire battlefield, but will bring us directly to the Pandora without being noticed!"