Back in the forest, the confused knights are trying to find out what is happening, not knowing where the four people went. Ever since losing sight of them when the light beam came, they became determined but paranoid in finding them, going to the point of digging the ground in case if they were transported underground.

"Go, keep on digging! Use your sensors to find them at once!" a commander barks at the troops.

More and more earth is pulled apart, the dirt from the grass now gone, replaced with a large hole that gets bigger with each movement, and new ones growing nearby as the soldiers are covering a bigger area.

However, amidst the shadows, a figure of a man appears near a tree branch, overlooking the troops from afar. The figure almost looks like it's armored, with a cape flowing from behind. He then unsheathes something from his belt, revealing a familiar-looking hilt.

A green one.

He clinches the hand near the chest while extending the right one holding the hilt, pointing to the front of the Zlocan patrol.

Suddenly, the figure leaps out of the shadows.

Proceeding to pierce one of the walkers, carving hundreds of holes to the body itself, while vertically slicing one of the legs of the mecha, being cut in half.

All with a green glow along the sliced part.

"What the hell?" A common cry rippled through the troops. They start to disperse from the sight of the figure who sliced the Walker into oblivion. He proceeds to do more or less the same with the other ones.

The last one fires at the figure, but the figure deflects the laser bolts, while growing the light blade into a katana-esque shape. The figure slices the mecha and pilot in half.

But before anyone can start firing, a pink laser bolt emerges deep from the woods, hitting one of the drones that makes it explode massively. The other drones start to suffer the same fate. The Zlocan group, in a state of panic, proceed to fire at all directions of the forest, trying to eliminate the unknown threats.

"Fire everything! Whatever they are, just fire!!" one of the officers screams at the troops while trying to fire everything.

The figure with the transforming sword swiftly deflects most of the blasts while taking cover in the trees, using their agility to dodge every laser bolt while using their sword to deflect them back.

Then, a figure tosses a pair of metal balls. Four Knights notice, freezing.

But before they could react to them, the balls explode with an electric blast, shocking most of the troops severely while being surrounded by bolts around the body.

They are then struck by four simultaneous laser bolts, ending their lives.

A pair of heavily armored Knights starts to fire near the location where the bolts came from, and firing at any direction of the woods while trying to use their sensors to detect if it's still alive or not.

"If the Humans are that good, then they're still a hell of a pain!" one of the heavy troopers says while firing.

Then, they're blown into nearby trees when caught in a green flowing wind. The heavy troopers try to get up and continue firing, but before they could do so, they soon levitate with a green aura surrounding them. After a brief pause, the group of heavy Knights is thrown away to a faraway place.

The remaining group of Knights tries to get up to continue with the attack, trying to pinpoint the location of the wind.

Desperation and fear soon took over their minds as they jerkily aim their guns in whatever place they can.

"Just what are they!?" a Knight asks with her agitated voice.

Without warning, a huge water wave emerges out of nowhere, hitting the remaining Knights which are then flushed away roughly to an unknown distance.

All of the Knights were either killed or gravely injured or even missing, all except for one, sole, scared Knight. He's scared and nervous, not aware of what is happening.

He tries to run away in fear, but then he's shot in the leg from a white laser blast, but this one causes the leg to freeze up. He drops his weapon from surprise. And before he could know it, he saw a group of four individuals. Even with the helmet on, albeit a bit cracked, and with his eyes almost shut, he could feel something he would never have thought to be possible.

Audibly gulping, terribly shaking his head, breathing harshly. He then notices what attacked them, as he soon opens his eyes.

"You were expecting something else?" a familiar, young male voice can be heard.

None other from Logan itself, smiling confidently, with an armor worthy of a knight like him, with the aster now embedded in his right glove.

And alongside him, Seiner, Amira, and Tany.

Seiner with his Star of Bethlehem in his pocket pouch.

Amira with her Mullein placed in her chest armor.

And Tany with her red and yellow rose placed near her vest.

The same four persons that were running away from them, now all back with a vengeance!

This causes the Knight to let out a loud primal scream. "Impossible!!!" the knight yells.

The Knight can not believe what he sees but before he could run away, he's held at gunpoint by Seiner.

"Ho-ho-how could this be?! We thought you were defenseless!" the Knight asks nervously.

"We were, but not anymore you filthy bastard."

Amira then approaches towards the Knight, who's extremely shaking as he's grabbed. "Now please answer me if you don't want any more violence, where is my brother?"

Despite the life and death situation, the knight pulls a desperate act of defiance.

"You'll never know, my loyalties will be always with my Kujar, my secrets will never be spoken to the likes of you!"

"Just please..."

"Piss off, you weak whore!"

His words suddenly make Amira tightly choke his neck where he was sitting. Her once peaceful face swiftly turns into one no one could think could come from her. With her nostrils flaring, her eyes were as wide as they can be, this wasn't something you don't want from her.

"Life or death, the choice is yours! Tell this poor girl or else you'll get a naughty wack!" Tania replies.

"Go to hell!"

Amira then tries to touch his head in search for answers and to see if he's aware of it.

Then to her horror, as her eyes widen...

"My mind's been implanted with machines capable of deflecting mind waves, and so is your brother when he got captured! There's no way you'll ever find out!"

Amira activates her red glowing blade and then starts pointing it almost near the Knight's face. This makes his once cautious smirk turn into a look of abject horror.

"No no no no! I will talk! But please get that blade off me! Take it off!"

Amira then deactivates her blade while still maintaining her furious expression.

"Your brother... Has been taken away to a faraway place you'll never reach that easily."

"Tell me where, you murderer!" Amira shouts furiously that even causes Seiner to be taken aback.

"Amira...?" Logan quietly whispers in response to it.

"STOP! I'll give you a clue, it's on the air, on the sea, and on the ground, but you need more than eyes to find him. It's a place called Metis..."

Amira then pushes her saber closer to his neck, causing him to shake in terror while tears start to drop down from him.

This causes the Knight to glance towards the others.

"Please! Don't let her kill me!"

"Amira! Stop!" Logan says as he approaches her.

"Not until he tells me more of it. Not when he's just mouthed off right away without any trace of loyalty to his faction of murderers!" She snarls in fury.

"No! Please! I told you enough! If they find out I gave everything...me and my family will..."

It's at this very moment where Amira's expression changed.

She turns off the saber and holstered it back, with her hand cupping her mouth in a shaking manner while still breathing heavily.

"F-f-family...?" she says while her voice cracks.

After a brief pause, she lets him go, and he takes off running deep into the forest.

Amira closes her eyes while she starts to breathe normally once more. But even so, she's uncertain about something, as she looks down and kneels.

"Amira?" Logan asks as his armor digitizes piece by piece, transforming back into the red stone, the original form. He deactivates his blade as well.

"My brother...if the knight's words are true, then my journey to rescue him might take years to complete, but otherwise he would have been killed already. I'm supposed to sense him but now I can't...just why...what did we do to deserve this...? Not to mention...the Knight has a family...why me...?" Amira replies as tears begin to fall down from her face.

Fortunately, Logan was quick in comforting her as he pats her gently on her shoulder.

"Eh, not now man..." Seiner whispers.

Tany can only smile gently at such gesture, even if she's unsure, she would still be happy in trying to form a new circle of friendship.

"Don't worry Amira, with the new power we have in our hands, we will help you find your brother..."

"And the...?"

"The Universe...? We are sure to try, don't know how long, but we'll try." Logan replies while still holding her.

"But even so...I barely know you...and what if even after this..."

"That doesn't matter, in time you will know forming new bonds will be the best thing you can think of like no tomorrow. Not to mention, we'll do the best in taking care of you and knowing better, and then show to the galactic community that we are worth co-existing. Isn't that right guys?" Logan replies as he glances at Seiner and Tania.

"We must not get too cocky on this, remember what we know, and that is to be cautious, Logan. She still might be a spy among us and even in regards to what she did today, that doesn't make me budge to her stories. And if what I suspected is true, then you'll pay the major price of all mankind, Logan. Not to mention, maybe we won't be worth jack at all, so let's just do as we can do and not push ourselves too far," Seiner replies.

"But still, Seiny-boy! Are you that willing to let the poor goodie people die while you doubt in what we can do? We came for a reason, a personal invitation to some circle or something and even if  I don't know what else this may do, I can still use my imagination to make everything possible. So, please, cheer up a bit more, will ya!" Tany says.

Only Seiner remained silent, staring at them angrily, with arms crossed and nothing more.

"If you insist on becoming fools...then let me supervise you all, that's my condition for me to join," he replies while having his arms crossed.

"Yipeee! Also, I can't wait to show my powers to my friends! If they were alive anyways..." Tania replies in a saddened tone.

"Who?" Seiner asks.

"Just forget it, I don't want to be so sad right now..." she replies.

"There there now, dear girl. But as we should know,  the four of us can't be the only ones trying to fight off the Zlocu in this planet, we need to find more, more brave people who are willing to stand against tyranny, oppression, and greed. And it doesn't matter if they may not trust us or not, what's important is to do anything we can to survive and perhaps win in this war. And of course, we shouldn't depart, because we alone won't win anything, we must stand together. For now on, our pasts are now put behind us as we forge new identities. As of today, we are...the Earth Warriors."

A brief awkward silence could be heard from the group, all while the wildlife could be heard around them.

Tany's expression becomes a cheery one once more.

"Nah, these ones are better! The Mega Squadron of Doom! The Ultra-Doers! The New Justice League!" Tany says rapidly.

"Hell no. Have you ever thought of trying to think of something that makes sense? You know we are on Earth and we're fighting for our lives in a way you can't imagine!"

"Hmm...maybe warriors like us or others in this whole war should be given a name suited to what they need," Amira says.

"OK...Earth Warriors then!" Tany says.

"But didn't you...? Never mind, people can be contradictory some days but oh well." Logan says in a sheepish tone.

"That's kinda ridiculous for a name you know," Seiner replies.

"But it fits us, Seiner, well, relatively. Anyways, this has been a rough day for all of us, now we take a rest and find a place to hide from them, but tomorrow, our new great journey starts."

"But before we depart...who should lead this group? Don't tell me because of your age, you should be the one," Seiner asks sheepishly.

"Well, to be honest, as even from my teacher days, I believe that any of you could be as fit to lead, but given my experience, I may give out the main directives and guidance to you all."

"Yep yep yep! That is going to be the greatest vacation of my life! More than in Paris or Tokyo or Berlin!"

"I don't think we can call this a "Vacation" Tany, we have enemies in this journey so it's not going to be that easy, or are you asking a quick visit to death itself?" Seiner asks.

"Oh well," Tania then yawns. "I think I'm becoming sleepy right now."

"Very well, come on guys lets head to a place where we can sleep," Logan says.

The four "Earth Warriors" then departed into the unknown, about to take a good rest but now about to embark on a journey that will be dangerous but they must do it for the sake of humanity, freedom, peace and the entire universe in general.

Amira's first time with Humans has left her with mixed feelings. Now she is wondering this, would her presence and the others 'cause a new step in Humanity? Or just further stagnate them into continuing their ways beyond the stars. But right now, she will try her best in knowing the potential Humanity has, and whether others will get the same mixed thoughts of her as well.

The great quest for freedom has begun. It may not go without cost, that's for sure...but what better thing there is when there's nothing left you had before? A new life should be taken care of, always.