Shattering Humanity-Chapter 418: "...Be On Your A-Game, Nerd."

’Shatan has taken hold of them, causing them to forget the remembrance of Allah. They are the party of Shatan. Surely Shatan’s party is bound to lose.

As for those who defy Allah and His Messenger, they will definitely be among the most debased.

Allah has decreed, "I and My messengers will certainly prevail." Surely Allah is All-Powerful, Almighty.

You will never find a people who truly believe in Allah and the Last Day loyal to those who defy Allah and His Messenger, even if they were their parents, children, siblings, or extended family. For those believers, Allah has instilled faith in their hearts and strengthened them with a spirit from Him. He will admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow, to stay there forever. Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Him. They are the party of Allah. Indeed, Allah’s party is bound to succeed.’-Surah Al-Mujadila 58:19-22

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[Faithful Friends Firehouse]

Friend: "Rrrrufff!

Ruff!"

Xaaydagaay: "Ruff! *whistle* *click*!"

Not perturbed by the visible damage to their playing field like Shelly was, Takamagahara’s four legged Friend, and the human/orca hybrid Xaaydagaay chase each other back and forth. Jumping over and dodging divots left from the catastrophic crash earlier that morning.

They run by the broken pieces of crashed Apache helicopter scattered around the baseball field behind the barely damaged firehouse.

The burned trees left standing behind the fences are bare and blackened.

With Xaaydagaay trying to catch her "brother", the two animal minded beings almost crash into Aiden while he is searching the crash site.

They spin him around but the young man keeps his balance and saves his glasses from falling off his face.

Aiden: "Woah!

Careful you guys!"

The two look at the human yelling at them with open panting mouths but Friend playfully attacks Xaaydagaay’s swaying orca tail, restarting their game.

The young genius chuckles it off and shakes his head while returning back to looking through the wreckage.

Talking to himself out loud, Aiden’s eyes scan the debris behind his large glasses.

Aiden: "We already have people with eye abilities that can answer any question.

So we know how this crash happened, why it happened, as well what was said before, during, and after...

Aha!"

His face brightens up before he jogs over towards the broken off tail to the aircraft.

On the ground, surrounded by burned up grass, is what looks like a personal home computer with a heat venting fan, but half the size. It appears to be in a protective orange case, lightly covered in dirt.

Aiden: "If what that Saku guy told me is true and if both Katsu and Shelly believe in me..."

The brainiac carefully walks over, brushing off the dirt and ash, the text on the heavily protected and unburned machine reads:

"-FLIGHT CRASH RECORDER-

DO NOT TOUCH OR TRANSFER FROM POSITION! IF FOUND, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORITIES!"

The rebel ignores the written request and picks up the heavy object used to record multiple forms of data.

Aiden: "... I’ll have to refrain from consuming knowledge, and start creating.

Not for the sake of being the most pragmatic compared to her, but to use my own sagacity to help my physically stronger friends defeat their... our enemies."

With the incredibly fortified computer in both his hands, the physically weakest of Takamagahara only gets a few steps with the extra weight before stopping and softly puts it back in the ground.

Aiden: "I think I saw a wheelbarrow or hand cart inside somewhere..."

[1 Hour Earlier]

Inside of Faithful Friends Firehouse, all of Takamagahara (except for Squad 40 and Itsuka) is meeting within Abby’s bricked home.

A majority of the weapons cache and mortar rounds that were inside the Ganji-i-Sawai-, have been transferred from the dangerous, underwater to the safer building.

Jormungand, Drakania, Dom, and Sol look out the window at the damaged field and wrecked aircraft.

Dom: "Damn...

Well, at least we won the last and only game we would play."

Annoyed at his mindset at a serious and upsetting sight, Sol punches the dunce in the back of his head.

Sol: "It was a tie, you idiot."

Rubbing the painful lump on his head, Dom gets back up and tries to defend himself.

Dom: "Owww!

We were on the same team!"

Under the broken corner of the building, SeiõrSnow is falling on TayTay as he takes a nap underneath the broken corner to the building.

The big man has fallen asleep with a hand in a bag of cheese curls in his lap and lightly snores with cheese dust around his mouth.

Also taking a chance to nap, Friend and Xaaydagaay are cuddled on the dusty floor.

Sitting next to the napping giant is his Squad 32 member, Aiden. The smartest of the group is face deep in a thick and worn out engineering textbook. The break between each page flip takes less than 30 seconds as his brown human eyes quickly scan the complicated information.

In the same large garage, Laban is holding Princess Rebekah with one arm. She gives her precious daughter a quick smooch on the cheek and sweet talks to her before their eventual seperation.

Laban DaeMon: "Make sure you don’t leave that cul-de-sac, Lollipop.

Okay?"

Princess Rebekah: "I can’t leave, Mama. I’m going to help those other ladies serve food and drinks to our people.

It’s you who needs to be safe, Mama.

I’ll be rooting for you!"

Proud of the willful courtesy of her little girl, Laban giggles. While talking, the Valkyrie blooded DaeMon easily tosses up and catches the 9 year old.

Laban DaeMon: "Now what do we say if some strange creepy man tries to lure you away?"

Laban DaeMon: "’Up yours, Peedio!’ then punch them where they pee."

Laban does one final toss up and catch before gently putting the innocent little girl back on the ground.

Laban DaeMon: "Close enough."

Listening to the adopted parent and child is the second mother, Zoram. The Völva is smiling in amusement at the 1on1 self defense lesson.

With her SilkSeiõrSleeves over her hands, up to her forearm, they become covered in light blue Seiõr. She points her fingers towards the little princess and suddenly Princess Rebekah floats over to the spell conjuring witch.

Zoram: "I promise Madame Laban, I shall make sure our treasure stays away from danger.

However..."

Giggling all the way into Zoram’s cradling arms, she snuggles their cheeks together making the love showered child blush.

Zoram: "...my confidence in our concealment from the humans unacknowledged by Seiõr isn’t as strong as if that Sheriff comes to interfere..."

She puts the princess back down and the Seiõr disappears from her gloves.

Zoram: "... Nevermind if your sister shows up. She may be able to break my SeiõrStar barrier based on the pure strength you two share."

Itsuka: "Don’t worry, Ms. Zoram."

From the doorway, the Izanami vice-captain has heard the Völva’s concerns and walks over.

Itsuka: "After talking to Saku and Mr. Daisuki, I’ll be joining you in keep the cul-de-sac safe."

Princess Rebekah: "You’re going with us?!"

The tall, intimidating woman looks down with a sweet smile at Princess Rebekah and nods.

Itsuka: "Mhm!

Auntie Itsuka is gunna be on the defense to protect you all, while you make them feel comfortable and safe."

Princess Rebekah smiles back but the cute moment is ruined by Laban’s intrusion and removal of her daughter from the conversation.

Laban DaeMon: "Yea, no.

She’s not your ’aunt’.

Don’t call her that."

Scowling at her love rival pulling the girl away, Itsuka lets it slide and doesn’t say anything.

Just then, making both Friend and Xaaydagaay wake up and pick their heads up, Squad 40 walks through the same doorway Itsuka entered from.

Saku immediately looks around the room and finds Aiden still deep in his knowledge absorption.

He walks over to the genius and Katsu watches his rival.

Standing over the floor sitting reader, Saku doesn’t say anything, but his presence is enough to make Aiden look up from his textbook.

Both Friend and Xaaydagaay get up and crowd the young man.

Aiden: "Uh, S--Saku!

Wh-What do you-."

Saku: "Get up nerd.

We need to talk in private."

Aiden: "What did I do?!"

Shelly and Katsu walk over to help the Yin Vessel convince their friend to join the three of them quickly.

Shelly: "It’s okay Aiden.

We just want to talk to you about your duties while the rest of us are off fighting."

Taking one last look at the intimidating Saku, Aiden reluctantly gets to his feet and follows them out of the garage.

With nobody else, the four entire the old fire chief office and close the door.

Saku and Shelly nod at one another then Shelly activates her SanguineSoulSeiõrShield.

She puts a hand on Aiden’s shoulder, giving him a SharedSanguineSoulSeiõrShield.

Katsu uses his passive ability to open communications between them all.

Katsu(telepathy): *Aiden!

Can you hear me?*

Aiden is surprised from the mental interaction and takes a step back but Shelly pulls her back in with her strength.

Aiden: "What the Hell?!"

Saku(telepathy): *Shut up, Nerd.

We have to do this quick.

But first I want you to swear you won’t say anything I’m about to say out loud. Got it?!*

Aiden: "Y-."

Instead of verbally responding, the young genius understands the situation, and nods in silence.

Saku(telepathy): *Good.

Okay, so yesterday, Laban had told me about her friend who was the engineer for the original AIG.

Apparently, the girl left Roronora City a couple months ago and never returned.

Because Laban is actually loves the ones she cares about, she didn’t want to use her Nye-omnipotency for the reason why. In case she had died, Laban didn’t want to see her friend dead.*

Shelly(telepathy): *Seems like an eschewal to me.*

Saku(telepathy): *Well I did...

And she’s still alive...*

Katsu, already knowing all the surprises and plot twists, keeps a fake stone smile while Saku reveals his info to the other two.

Aiden, not sure how to react or respond, stays silent and listens.

Shelly(telepathy): *Wait, so why don’t you tell her?

She’ll be happy to know her friend is alive and we can add another genius to Takamagahara.*

Saku’s cold and annoyed stare looks at "innocent" smirking Katsu.

Saku(telepathy): *Because she’s seen what Roronora City has been turned into.

With no other explanation and with the same lies he’s used on the rest of the Sister Mountains, that ugly Fed who hates D convinced her we are the ones responsible.

Even if she could talk to her, that woman believes Laban sold out all of Roronora City and the people in it, for the safety of her own Princess Rebekah and Zoram’s*

An angered Shelly steps in between the stare down between the two complimentary forces, knowing what Saku is also trying to imply.

Saku(telepathy): *The woman in question, ’Buzz’, she’s a different kind of insane. Now that she has the luxury of MamMon’s abilities to acquire any materials..."

The Yin Vessel looks back over to the #1 genius and Aiden swallows his spit.

Saku(telepathy): *If you’re really that smart, we’re going to need you to be on your ’A-game’, Nerd.

Not just how on how things work or made, but where to find the raw materials we don’t have.*