Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again.-Chapter 495: Team purple.

Ambrosia would have kept going but she had to stop as the car finally came to a stop in the first wall. As it was her first time inside, she was eager to explore. She even commandeered Day to drive her around.

Hades was so focused on Sunshine that he did not give much attention to Ambrosia. Sunshine on the other hand was more focused on reaching their home so that she could talk to their sons.

All three were home. After the disturbance of that morning, Rori did not want them outside where everyone would watch them and whisper.

"Suni..." Hades ran, to keep up with her.

Sunshine pushed the button of the elevator. "I know what you want to talk about, but our talk can wait Hades." She answered. The elevator doors opened, and she jumped inside as if they would close at any moment.

Hades followed her inside, taking her hand. "I...."

She pulled her hand from his, frowning deeply. "You don’t think they will choose her over me. Do you?"

"I...." He said. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

"You are right, we should kill her." She interjected before he could get in a proper response.

Hades pointed to his mouth, feeling lost. He had not made any such suggestion.

"But I don’t want the boys to grow up and find out I killed their birth mother. Amber’s husband is right; there could be some resentment." She sighed, leaning against the wall. "How did she end up here? Do you think Pink sent her?"

"I...." He started.

Sunshine held her hand up. "You are right, we cannot personally kill her. We must consider the fact that she has two young sons. Did you see the older one? He looks somewhat like Ariel, especially the hair and nose. He does not look much younger than Castiel, I think he is three years old or four. Anyway, we can restrain from using violence for now. But if she gets in my nerves, I am sending Leah after her. She can create a tornado that will drop her off on the other end of the world." She smiled brightly. "No fuss, no muss and everyone gets to keep breathing."

"I..." Hades started.

The elevator door opened and Sunshine raced out as if she could hear a clock ticking. Hades sighed. His wife loved the boys more than she loved him. He did not know whether to be happy for them or jealous.

When Sunshine walked into the house, her jaw dropped. "Ariel, what did you do?" How had his hair turned purple all of a sudden?

Rori stepped forward, "Now calm down Suni. I can explain what happened. After we brought the children back here, he marched into the bathroom and came out looking like this forty minutes later."

The shade of purple he had used matched Sunshine’s exactly--with a grape glow and dark streaks that screamed loyalty.

"I am going to tan his hide." Hades muttered.

Sunshine hissed at him. "You will do no such thing." Then, she looked at Ariel. "Champ, this.... why?" She had been expecting some kind of reaction to Amber’s sudden appearance but not this.

Where were the cleaning supplies? Why wasn’t he counting beans or sesame seeds?

Ariel grinned. "I applied logic to this problem. If DNA is supposed to decide who I belong to, then hair color is just as valid. Now, I don’t look like her or Harrington the...." He scratched his head. "I seem to have forgotten the number. But my purpose has been met. I look like you mom. I know this is not scientific, but it fulfills an emotional need."

Rori made a soft ’aww.’

Ariel continued. "Besides, purple is the color of royalty. We have signed contracts in which we promised loyalty to each other. How better to express that loyalty than this?"

Hadrian entered the house and like Sunshine, his jaw dropped. He snapped a picture, chuckling loudly. "Amber is going to shit a stone when she sees this." He turned and left, to share it with the others.

In fact, he was going to print it and paste it all over Westbrook.

Sunshine and Hades were still frozen, staring at Ariel’s head when the door leading to the children bedroom creaked open. Out waddled Earl and Castiel, each sporting a freshly dyed purple head.

Sunshine gasped. "Oh no... not you two as well!"

Castiel beamed proudly, "Look mommy," he ran to her, leaping into her arms. "We have the same hair now. We are twins. No, we are a team. We are superheroes."

Earl added, "Yeah, we are a team. If Ariel can do it, so can we."

Hadrian returned with a message for Sunshine. It dried up when he saw his youngest nephews with the same purple hair. Giggling, he lined up the boys up and took another picture. "Amber is going to shit three stones." He said.

Rori hissed at him. "Stop saying shit around my grandchildren."

"Sorry mom." he muttered. Then loudly, he questioned Hades and Sunshine. "Is this the new family tradition? Are we all dyeing our hair purple to show whose side we are taking? Quinns versus Harrington’s one, two, three and four."

Rori rolled her eyes. "We are not fighting against the kids. And Amber will never be allowed near my grandchildren. It is best that she be kept inside Westbrook and never allowed to move. From now on, the boys will not be allowed to go beyond the mountain without heavy protection."

"So, you have picked a side. The purple side." Hadrian joked.

Rori nodded. "If need be, I too will dye my hair in solidarity. Ariel already explained it to me before he raided the supply store with hair products in search for purple dye. The purple is not a rebellion; it is a brand. Our family has a logo, and this is no different from a logo."

Ariel nodded. "We are making a point efficiently."

The bedroom door creaked again and out stepped White and Tank. While the robot was the same color, the bear cub was purple on the upper body and white from the stomach below. The cub hurried to Sunshine, purple eyes wide, teary and aggrieved.

He grasped on to her leg and pointed to Tank.

"We ran out of purple hair dye." Tank explained.

White cried out. The bear cub was sure it had been done deliberately, to sabotage him. Hades picked him up. Sunshine gave Castiel to Rori and took Ariel aside for a private and more serious conversation in the kitchen.

"I am touched," she started, opening the fridge in search of ice cream. "But this is absurd. We don’t need to have the same hair color to be family. You are my sons; I have a legal document which proves it."

Ariel put his hands behind his back, his voice steady but edged with some bitterness. "Her name is on our birth certificates. The advantage we have is that this is an apocalypse and she cannot run to a judge to ask for visitation rights or custody." He looked her in her eyes and stated firmly. "I will not let her near my brothers. One time, she took us to our maternal parents’ home for a holiday. One day, I came back home from town and found Earl hiding from her under the table. She was drunk, cursing dad and breaking things.

I took him and ran. We took a subway and went back home. Earl was so scared that he had a fever for a week. When dad asked, I lied and said he had played in the water at the beach for too long and I brought him home because he was being a crybaby.

I never told my anyone what happened because she promised me that she would change and never do it again. But she did not change.

I heard she said she left for us. That is a lie. It is what people say when they want to excuse themselves from the damage they caused. It is too late; we don’t want her.

That is why our hair must be purple. She should know that she was replaced in every way that matters."

Sunshine bobbed her head. If that was what Ariel wanted, it was what she would do. Loyalty wasn’t about DNA; it was about hair dye!