Welcome to Gaia! ::

Zil scratched the back of his head and said to the twins, "Right now? I want you two to pull up your sleeves and tell me what you want for dinner so we can cook whatever you like. And I'm sure you'll behave if you don't want a repeat of the sprinkler incident." He snickered.

It was an interesting setting they had the Helmshire capital plaza. The adults were being handled by Kyrell while the able children were being handled by Fanny. The children and toddlers too young were often left by their parents in Saiyu's care and the rest of the Helmshire guards supervised.
"No, no! You hold your hand up like this... And pull the fist away. Slide it down... Gently... That's good!" Fanny instructed one of her students, trying to learn how to deflect grabs and punches and the rest watched and practiced with each other.

In thirty minutes, Monica was back at HQ with a report that one of the secret police had written up about the training while Monica was instructing. Clipped also inside were some photos of that day's training. She knocked on Jian's door and started, "Hey, it's me. I have the report for today's training. Oh, and if you've heard about that guy who shot you... Oops?"

The prince was hard at work training Helmshire people to fight and to use their brains. After all, if brawn could not be the basis, street smarts came in very handy when stuck in bad situations. Slowly but surely, the Helmshire citizens learned to fight in their free time along with the crown prince himself... And it made them feel proud and loved. It encouraged them to join the Helmshire army themselves and the stock of the Helmshire army grew bigger.

Meanwhile, rebels in Diethelm had special projects to do like for example --The successive bombings of mines in Diethelm land leading to a shortage in coal and various metals. Ever since the training period for the first batch had finished, continuous headaches were being offered to Diethelm officials like attacks on whatever sources of food supplies Diethelm had, system hacks of local government agencies as well as a few other infamous pranks that cost some people their lives like namely, the appearance of a Helmshire flag on the flagpole of a government office one morning, which landed in all the employees of said office being fired. There was also a prayer played on national radio once that did get certain people killed. This was all an attempt by the rebel leader to stall any developments for war while Helmshire was buffing up defenses and he was trying to get some defense designs from the twins. Of course, he wasn't going to force it. He needed to earn their trust first.

((OOC: Awww.... >.<" ))

"That's alright. You may come in." Jian replied.

"How is she doing?" One doctor asked another.
"Normal. She's slow moving and lopsided, but her sense of touch is already returning. Unfortunately we won't be able to monitor her sense of smell, taste, or her mental state until tomorrow. Make sure she keeps the bandage on her eyes and the earplugs in though. Remember, vision and sound are too complex for her brain to take in during this state.
"Sir! We have a situation!" A rebel yelled, entering the room. "We have to evacuate. Diethelm troops are headed this way."
"What?" The doctor asked with surprise. "Ok, Contact Zil. We'll need an escort if things get worse. In the mean time, we'll have to destroy this base."
"B-but sir?" The rebel replied. "Thats-"
"The only thing of value here is some of the medical equipment, but we can't let them have access to our computers or the research we used to save Shadow. We have to destroy the system. Put the sequence on for a half an hour, and make sure everyone gets out." The doctor replied.
"Yes sir." The rebel replied. A different doctor carried Shadow in his arms as they began to evacuate the facility. The doctors narrowly escaped with her as the building was surrounded by soldiers. After twenty minutes, many of the rebels were killed or left for dead as half of the remaining soldiers invaded the building looking for Shadow and any others.

"Sir, we can't find her. They seem to have evacuated." The soldier said. Jian picked it up on his intercom on his desk.
"What? Be careful! I told you it might be a trap." Jian replied.
"We are sir. They must have escaped out the back."
"Damn!" Another soldier swore.
"Hey, what's this?" Another soldier asked, looking at the computers. "Project Idun Apple? What kind of stuff is this?" He muttered, looking over the scientific babble.
"Wait, you idiot! Send that file to HQ immediately!"
"Sure." The soldier said nonchalantly "We're sending the information over Chief General."
"Good. I'm starting to get a transfer." Jian replied, only half listening.
"What's so important. I mean, it could have something, but chances are it's just normal medical research."
"Don't you know mythology? Idun's apples grant eternal youth!" He snapped.
"What?!" The soldiers asked. Suddenly, Jian jolted with alarm.
"In that case, according to this, other then rats, they already have one human success. First treatment lasted one month and extends life for an estimate of 375 years." The soldier said, skipping the hundreds of pages of research until he reached the bottom for the results page. Looks like the file isn't complete though. We probably ran them out before they could..." He started when suddenly the entire base finally exploded, destroying everything and killing the soldiers inside.
"What the?" Jian muttered, when he heard the explosion. "Anyone there? Hey, answer me!" Jian yelled into the soldier's mike. There was no response. Only static. "s**t. It looks like the file was only half loaded. Monica, can you uploaded and see what you make of it? I'm going to go send troops to investigate."

Zil sighed. "Roll up your sleeves, I said. Now show me. Those scars of yours should be gone right now, are they?" He then paused, "Also, given the choice... Where would you rather be? Back home in Diethelm? Probably where you got those injuries?" He then paused and said, "You guys are pretty stupid, aren't you? I did say I'll get you anything you want as long as you don't cause trouble."

"Good job!" Fanny said and looked to the grown men scampering for refreshments. "Alright. You guys are dismissed. But before you go, I have something for you." She said with a cute smile. Some of the boys in her class that were around her age or even older had a little crush on her already and soaked in those precious images of her smiling face. Not all were particularly happy with this set up of such a young kid teaching them though. In particular, the older girls were generally distrustful but some of them were like big sisters for Fanny too. Quickly, two rebels came with a crate and opened it once they got there. "Enjoy." Fanny said, turning around after a short curtsy, leaving them to a box of toys modeled after actual weapons like for example, wooden swords, sling shots, toy guns and bows with arrows that had suction cups at the end.

Monica came in and set the report down on Jian's desk and sat down while Jian had a conversation with a soldier. She sighed though when she heard the explosion. Such a waste of fine talent. After all, those soldiers were most likely put in Monica's training program. She then looked at the file on Jian's computer, checking the file size and comparing it to the info on amount of info of the document. Quickly, she noticed quite an anomaly. The file size of the document was much too big compared to the content. Her eyes shot up and quickly tapped Jian on the shoulder. "Jian! Is your computer currently connected to the HQ network? This file. It's a virus! A trojan. From the looks of it, a particularly powerful one." She scanned it with her eyes quickly again and continued after analyzing it. "...I see. No, you got the entire file. It seems this is a conversion type of virus. It hides as another document while slowly deleting that document until no information is left. Move over!" She took over, getting into the command prompt of the computer and trying to override the changes it was making to the file and trying to save it from further destruction. "Not good. Call in the IT professionals" She said, racing against time to save what little was left of the file.

The prince sighed and wiped his own sweat, realizing his troops must have been exhausted as well. "Alright! You guys can have a water break." He said, a little less enthusiastically. The men scampered to get some water in their system while Kyrell walked slowly to where Saiyu was, saying, "Hey. How's that going?" He gestured towards the sleeping children all around Saiyu and the mats around the tree where people could sit or lie down.

((OOC: Snuggy, try this : #ff7700 It's a darker shade of orange but still kinda bright. Also... Di-Dichu just make a character whose dislikes are almost all part of Zil's personality? And he's more addicted to sweets than Fanny, I guess XD ))

"Relax." Jian told her. "I figured it would have. Ever since that last incident, I had the IT people make a program for handling this. I already put them up." He said, pulling up the minimized programs. "This freezes the data in transfered files like this and only allows documents to run. The only thing it's doing is deleating the files that they don't want us to see." He said, taking the mouse and moving the files to his desktop as the program tried to delete them. "And by the way, this computer can't export to the main computer. It can only recieve things. The virus data will be transfered to this file here. I figured with a few modifications, we could use their hard work against them." He said, pointing to the a popup dos box. "But see if you can find anything else. I want to find out what they were looking at." He said calmly before turning to talk with some soldiers over the communicator.

"No you can't." Vincent snapped as they both reluctantly rolled up their sleeves.
"Stop acting high and mighty." Valkyrie chimed in.
"We really just want our grandparents back." Vincent muttered.
"But you can't bring the dead back to life."

The doctors who were excaping tried to contact Zil or Dustin repeatedly in order to get backup.

"We have a situation. The west head has been overrun. We've escaped with Shadow, but we can't account for the others. We're heading for the main HQ, but we need someone to cover our tracks just in case."

With help, the doctors made it back to the main HQ and carried Shadow in. The doctors walked around carrying Shadow, looking for either Zil or Dustin until they found Zil. Shadow herself was hanging limp, only barely moving. "There you are. Talking to the twins again? We need an isolated room for the next three days. Preferably a quiet one with a light that can slowly adjust the brightness. It's kind of urgent."

The twins who were standing by quickly perked up towards the door, looking at them with curiosity. They recognized one as the doctor that checked up on them, but they were more interested in the person they were carrying.

Zil chuckled and said to the twins, "It took me five years and the brutal murder of some one thousand Diethelmians, soldier or civilian, before I got over the death of my beloved. I was bloodthirsty and crazy but the rebels rehabilitated me in a way. It took that long for me to get my sanity back. Now how did those grandparents of yours die? If you like, I'll look into it and see if I can dig up background-" Zil was interrupted by the doctor speaking and took note of the condition of the twins' arms. The scars were all almost completely gone. Zil stood up to his full height and said with an almost evil grin, "Perfect. This ought to be interesting." He then turned to the twins with a loving smile and said, "It seems I'm needed to play interior decorator again. I'll see you guys later." as he turned to leave, shutting the door behind him. In his serious voice, he said pointing to his left, "There is already a room prepared for Shadow's arrival. Over there. three doors down from here."

Fanny walked over to the tree where Saiyu and Kyrell were. She didn't say anything but had a pleasant look on her face.

"People who make viruses more than likely also have the cure for it." Monica muttered and continued after observing the status of the file, "Hmm... It seems the part of the file that was erased already can't be retrieved anymore."

Prince sat down beside Saiyu after catching the bottle and replied to her, "Oh. Very! I didn't believe our citizens would have this much potential at first but they proved me wrong." He then noticed the child approaching them and recognized her as the one who made the initial request of teaching the community to fight. He nodded his head, acknowledging her as the girl curtsied to the prince, acknowledging him as well. "Good work today!" He said, with a warm smile.

((OOC: It WAS intentional~? XD XD ))

((Hey, snuggle. Damien is calling Jay))