Jess's cheeks turned bright red from Celeste's comment.
Nessa chuckled a bit hearing the conversation between Ryder, Tico and Cernia.
"Cockiness will be your downfall; do not let the love bug confused your senses, alright?" Nessa had a smirked on her face. "As for me, if Mother can provide food, I'll be down for anything really and a good night's rest... Oh and a shower, I know I stink."
"Of course! Maybe you just take a dump in the ocean to clean the filth off, eh?" Jess said. "Especially you, dog!" She jabbed her finger at Celeste's direction. "As for me, I'm taking Aya as far away from you freaks! Not getting caught up with the messes! You guys a-"
"Will you shut up already..?" Aya's words were slurred as he was waking up. "You keep running motor mouth for the past hour or so. Bad enough I had to listen when I'm awake, do not need to hear it in my dreams.."
Aya opened his eyes, seeing the ocean below him.
"Oh damn, guess I really exhaled too much smoke this time around. Now I'm really high." Aya looked around, noticing the Busters and the knocked out Special Squad. "Huh? Where am I?"
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[Mother's Sanctuary]
"Well, I wished you luck on finding that friend of yours." Mother replied. "And of course you can. Any help is always accepted. Try being kind to them, they are not the most accepting group when a newcomer appears to work with them on the field, ever since that particular incident few years back."
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Raster nodded. "Good luck." Before returning to Mother.
In the room, there were dozens of beds with injured specials. Some specials had a few scratches, while some are as severe as missing entire limbs. Nearly all of them turned their attention to Magness when he entered; however, neither of them spoke for a full minute.
"Wh-who are you?" One of them eventually spoke.