This was awesome. I was free. Someone please pinch me. If this is a dream I don't want to be disappointed.

I hit the ground hard and fall over. Eliza lands next to me on her feet, but I just lay there, feeling the grass. It feels so much better when you know you are free.

Eliza clears her throat.

"Uh Keavin. I hate to break up your meeting with the ground, but we need to get out of here. As soon as they realize we are gone they will send out search parties. We can't let them catch us."

I nod and jump to my feet. I looked around, trying to find a way through the dense trees. Eliza starts to walk, and I follow her. The trees close in around us, sheilding us from the watch towers.

We walk for a while, all the while keeping our ears peeled for the sound of the Horn. I knew that it would only be a short amount of time before they realized we were missing.

Then I heard a twig snap, and a muffled exclamation. I stop, and so does Eliza. We immediately go into fighting stance, slowly backing up.

"Who's there?" I call.

"Thats for us to know and for you to get beat up by," a voice replies.

"Sprocket, you really should be nicer," another voice replies. "Who knows who they could be? They might even be messengers from the Resistance."

"Oh alright. I'll be nice," the voice replies. A person emerges out of the cover of the trees, holding a very sharp knife and an aether gun pointed at our chests. I hear Eliza gasp beside me. The girl's right arm was completely mechanical, the gears whirring with every movement.

She smiles. "Hi I'm Sprocket. Tell me who you are or I might just have to kill you." 

I walk down the deck and to the meeting room. One of Poe Allen's generals, Dor, had called us down to a meeting, concering something.

I arrive at the room and take my place in a captain's chair. Other captains and a couple of generals all fill up the room. The only people missing seem to be Poe Allen and Alexandria, and a couple of others.

"We will start this meeting without the presence of a few officials," General Dor says, answering my question.

I nod to myslf and the meeting progresses.

We talk about battle tactics and a newer training program for the soldiers. We also look at some new recruits that will be coming in soon.

Then we finally shift to a different subject:

"We might have some trouble," General Dor.

All of us sit up in our seats, attentitive and curious.

General Dor clears his throat. "Recently, we have looked at the blood and DNA sample of one by the name of Maria Rachael Brown, otherwise known as 'shadow,' a mutant girl part of our HSAP, and also a Resistance leader."

Some scowl at the mention of the Resistance.

"Here's the problem," General Dor says. "One of our own, General Alexandria Reguex, got shot in the leg recentley with a poison bullet. When the doctor drew her blood, the same doctor working with shadow's blood samples, the doctor got the vials mixed up on her desk. When trying to sort it out, she came to the shocking realization that the blood type was exactly the same, and they both had similar chromosones- so similar that the only conclusion was that they might be related."

Some of the captains grunt in disbelief or curiosity.

"So the doctor, wondering if that was true, looked at General Reguex's records," General Dor continues. "And she found that General Reguex is no other than Alexandria Lilly Brown, Maria Rachael Brown's long lost sister."

At this, some stand up slightly and argue amongst themselves, or they excalim in shock or disbelief.

General Dor holds up a hand to get their attention, and they all sit down. 

"So," General Dor says. "General Reguex cannot know about this. Reguex's records are currenetly kept in a SOCS database, and some, including the doctor, have had access to it, but she may not. If either of them, her or her sister, ever knew, chaos would only come. Everyone understand?"

We all nod.

General Dor nods his head. "Good. Meeting dismissed."

We all stand up and walk out of the room.

I walk out and back to my troop, thinking of what just happened.

One on our side and one that is not. If it ever came down to Alexandria finding out, which side would she choose? 

Keavin and I look at each other and slowly raise our hands up. We're brave, but not stupid. We're held at gunpoint, with no way out.

"I'm Eliza Mahtten," I begin slowly. "And this is Keavin Spract'm." 

"Are you with us, the Resistance, or on the other side?" the girl, Sprocket, asks carefully.

"Um, neither," Keavin jumps in. "We were in SOCS School, but we don't like them. Um, we just wanted to get out, we're not on either side."

She jams the gun at Keavin.

"Or you know, we could be part of the Resistance," he says quickly.

She looks at me and I nod in agreenment. But she continues to stare at me, and I squirm slightly.

"Do I... know you?" she asks, narrowing her eyes.

"I don't think so," I reply with a nervous laugh.

She's seeing Olympia.

"Well, not you, but do you have a sister or brother or anything?" she asks.

"Um-"

But I'm interrupted when the Horn rings.

"We have to get out of here!" Keavin exclaims.

"Why?" Sprocket asks.

"They're after us," I say.

Sprocket looks at us questiongly.

"Look, we can tell you everything later," Keavin says. "But we have to go or else they'll kill us!" 

Sprocket hesitates but nods.

We then all run. 

I walk down the deck and to the meeting room. One of Poe Allen's generals, Dor, had called us down to a meeting, concering something.

I arrive at the room and take my place in a captain's chair. Other captains and a couple of generals all fill up the room. The only people missing seem to be Poe Allen and Alexandria, and a couple of others.

"We will start this meeting without the presence of a few officials," General Dor says, answering my question.

I nod to myslf and the meeting progresses.

We talk about battle tactics and a newer training program for the soldiers. We also look at some new recruits that will be coming in soon.

Then we finally shift to a different subject:

"We might have some trouble," General Dor.

All of us sit up in our seats, attentitive and curious.

General Dor clears his throat. "Recently, we have looked at the blood and DNA sample of one by the name of Maria Rachael Brown, otherwise known as 'shadow,' a mutant girl part of our HSAP, and also a Resistance leader."

Some scowl at the mention of the Resistance.

"Here's the problem," General Dor says. "One of our own, General Alexandria Reguex, got shot in the leg recentley with a poison bullet. When the doctor drew her blood, the same doctor working with shadow's blood samples, the doctor got the vials mixed up on her desk. When trying to sort it out, she came to the shocking realization that the blood type was exactly the same, and they both had similar chromosones- so similar that the only conclusion was that they might be related."

Some of the captains grunt in disbelief or curiosity.

"So the doctor, wondering if that was true, looked at General Reguex's records," General Dor continues. "And she found that General Reguex is no other than Alexandria Lilly Brown, Maria Rachael Brown's long lost sister."

At this, some stand up slightly and argue amongst themselves, or they excalim in shock or disbelief.

General Dor holds up a hand to get their attention, and they all sit down. 

"So," General Dor says. "General Reguex cannot know about this. Reguex's records are currenetly kept in a SOCS database, and some, including the doctor, have had access to it, but she may not. If either of them, her or her sister, ever knew, chaos would only come. Everyone understand?"

We all nod.

General Dor nods his head. "Good. Meeting dismissed."

We all stand up and walk out of the room.

I walk out and back to my troop, thinking of what just happened.

One on our side and one that is not. If it ever came down to Alexandria finding out, which side would she choose?

So, what happens with Zinvia? I don't want to waste a perfectly good name.

I walk over to the edge of the airship. I had never been on one before, but I had seen pictures. We had to learn how to fight on one for Battle, in case of aerial attack.

The ground flies below us, everything a blur of color. It was amazing to be up this high, to see so much. I felt like I could go anywhere and do anything.

The girl Sprocket comes next to me, leaning on the railing. I can't help but stare at her metal arm. It was so intricate, so detailed.

"So, where are you from?" she asks.

"SailHaven," I reply.

She turns to look at me, a look of astonishment on her face.

"Really? Your joking, right?" I shake my head. She sighs and smiles.

"Me too," she says, her smile gone. "Sadly, it was destroyed(along with most of my automatons) by His Royal Highness Lord Elliot. Luckily, he's dead."

I blink. "It's destroyed?"

"Yeah. Just recently." She grimaces. "I hope to rebuild it someday, maybe when all of this is over."

I nodd. It felt like a part of me had died. My home was gone. 

Shadow looks through more files, muttering to herself. 

"No...can't be true...ridiculous...doesn't make sense...."

Halfway through the tenth file, I interupt her.

"We better get going back."

I hear a gasp behind us.

We both whip around to see a scientsit with a couple of guards. 

I take one of the airships along with Auva and Rieux through our premisis. Poe Allen asked us to do a raidar check in the air for any ships about.

The crew bustles aboard, looking at technology and screens.

The captain comes up to tell me something when we are interrupted by a crew member.

"Sir," he says, soluting to the captain. "We have picked up a signal on a ship."

"The make?" the captain asks.

"Enemy ship, sir."

We walk towards the deck, and a ship is made out on the raidar.

"Your call, captain," the crew mate says.

The Captain pauses. "Fire full forces." 

Keavin looks depressed as he and Sprocket talk all about SailHaven. I stand in the corner silently while the other girl, Trillian, inspects me. 

"Are you sure that neither of us know you?" she asks casually.

I shake my head quickly. "No."

She slightly narrows her eyes when it looks like a light bulb went off in her head. So she's figured it out.

Suddenely, the ship rattles, and we all lose our balance. 

We look to the huge windows to see a ship taking it's aim at us. But it suddenely stops, lowers, and disapears into the clouds below.

"What was that?!" Sprocket exclaims.

Alexander flies to us. "Someone doesn't like us."

Another thump, this time from underneath, rattles our feet.

Alexander looks at Sprocket wide-eyed. "The loading dock. They're coming in through the loading dock."

We move around furniture, and once we have made a fort out of couches and tables, we ready our weapons.

Within a minute, we hear the thumping of feet through the hallways, and the blasting of weapons.

They've arrived.

And in the front is Olympia. 

where am I in all this action? I want part!