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Location: Fortress Gori, plateau divide, Union of Evaland. Theo had returned to the cliffs outside with Nila. She was inches away from a tumble down into the divide. They had to be quick and make their leap into the unknown as Theo and Nila heard guards nearby. "Are you feeling confident about this?!" Theo asked Nila as she placed her onto the ground. "Nope!" Grunted Nila. "Good, that makes the both of us!" Replied Theo. It seemed like their presence was noted, orders were being called out to the guards nearby and the stomp of their boots on the dusty soil kicked it up in the light breeze. The sun was due to begin rising soon, and then it would make Theo's job infinitely harder to not be spotted, a fact that Nila reminded her of. "Come on, let's do this before sunrise!" But as the guards weaved in and around the cargo trucks closing in on the Micronauts, Theo's plan to hypershrink was cut short. She had zapped herself down to Nila's size and in an instant, Nila recognized the true danger of their situation. "I'm not small enough!" Theo reminded Nila. "Let's wing it!" Nila insisted as she grabbed a hold of Theo's hand and leaped off of the edge of the cliff with Theo at her side screaming as she believed they would free fall to the bottom. But to Theo, and even to Nila's astonishment, they were pushed up by a draft from the canyon below and soon found themselves to be gliding high above the tree like birds. "What! We're flying! Nila you did it!" Theo proclaimed. "Flying?! Open your eyes, my friend! We're on our way to victory!!" Chuckled Nila who smiled as she privately rejoiced in her being able to carry Theo. "Woah! Let's not be impaled, okay?!" Theo remarked as she saw the tops of the evergreen trees at the bottom of the canyon. But Nila seemed so happy and she was also smiling for a rare change. When Theo observed this, the notion that she had was that Nila had found joy in what she was doing. The question on her mind was if Nila was truly meant to do good for the world and make a positive difference. Theo recognized that one major commonality that she shared with Nila was that they both had an all time high in their personal lives- Theo was at her peak popularity when she left her popstar life to be an agent, and Nila was finally an Empress in good graces with most of the world when she had fallen. Nila continued to smile and look triumphant as the wind carried her flowing white locks of hair, she looked like a leader. All the while neither girl bothered to look back to see if they were spotted, all they knew in this regard was that the bullets weren't flying toward them. And then they landed together upon a platform, or a very large flat rock, as it were. They ran a few inches once their tiny feet touched down. Nila was jubilant and even laughed at her ability to finally take flight with someone holding her hand. "Congratulations, that must be a big deal to you!" Theo said to her. Theo underestimated how big of a deal it was to Nila who was doing a little dance to herself. But she needed reminded that they were likely on borrowed time with the children, unaware that Neya was free still and had saved the children. "Err... The kids?" "Oh! Sorry..." Nila said while Theo restored herself to normal size. "C'mon, let's get this over with." Theo responded as Nila flew up to her shoulder and sat upon it. "And you're okay with riding up there?" "Eh, why the hell not! If I'm gonna be small, I better get good at being small." Nila answered her. "Gotcha." Theo said. The pair approached the spot in the divide where water flowed through in a river. The water level was low enough that a cavern opening was visible with a concrete floor, which was an indicator that it must have been where the entrance was. Theo hurried into the cavern which had light bulbs strung out along its ceiling. At the end there was a staircase carved out of the stone that led to an elevator door. Theo ascended the staircase quickly just in time for the elevator to open up and see a female guard step out. She quickly drew her Micrazor before the guard could get a look at her and reduced her. Theo didn't pay attention and hadn't seen whether she stepped on the guard or not, although it didn't feel as though she did. The door closed behind Theo and she pressed the up button, noting that there were no floors available. "This is like a scene in a film where the good guys enter a villains lair." Theo remarked during the quiet elevator ride. Nila thought about the comment for a moment, then she said: "Is that what it felt like when your agents came after me? I had a couple of decent villain lairs." Nila gloated. "I was a good villain, the best in fact." "Hah!" Theo snickered at Nila's comment. "If you were the best villain, you wouldn't be on our team!" "Fuck you, Theo!" Nila grumbled as usual. "Can I ask you a personal question?" Theo asked. "It's 'may', may you ask... And yeah, I suppose so." Nila responded. "What was the worst thing that you ever did as a bad girl?" Theo asked the question. "Awe jeez! These types of inquiries!" Nila rolled her eyes. "I dunno, I had a lot of people killed." "People? Like what kind?" Asked Theo. "Idiots, morons, traditionalist fools who wanted to keep my tribe in the stone age." Nila explained. "And their families too?" Theo asked. "Look, if you're asking me to express sorrow, okay, I admit there is a bit of that in me! But the fact of the matter was that while your people hated it and expressed disdain for my killings, I at least didn't resort to killing people who I thought were just trying to live their lives! When I took over after our revolution, it was during the end of an era that lasted for far too long! Warlords who wanted to keep Jakabar in total feudalism!" Nila grunted out. "I'm sorry that thousands had to be murdered, but you know what else? My reign, although short-lived, was otherwise peaceful! For once we weren't a warring tribe who wanted to conquer our neighbors! And if that took thousands of murders to prevent... Then so be it..." Theo saw the passion running high in Nila. "Was it tradition that you fought?" "Fuck no! It was the fundamentalist sect that I fought! I love Jakaki tradition, I just thought that if we were to be taken seriously, then we the Giants had to sit at the table like all of the other Kingdoms and act civilized. But it doesn't matter, hard work goes unappreciated and visionaries are never understood in their time." Nila lamented. "Now I want to ask you something." "Okay?" Theo allowed it. "Can I stay with you?" Asked Nila. "Me? You know I let Kangi live with me too, right?" Theo reminded her. "So your new house is too small for a fairy?" Joked Nila. "No, of course you can stay. I'll have to buy you a dollhouse but that's no problem." Theo suggested. "Ugh! Save it...the furniture is all crap and the beds are stiff!" Nila replied. "I'm only curious now, why me?" Theo wondered. "Because you and Kangi don't want to flatten between two giant titties every chance they get! Shamid is the worst! But Maia and Hana have this thing with me, they want to have a sex all the time and I'm just not that into that sort of thing!" Nila explained. "And while I respect Peli and Narb, those girls are way, way too good for me! Constantly hearing their philosophical views gets old!" "I don't see why not. But you do know that I have a boyfriend living with me, right? He's Zanzhi and extremely horny. I'm just warning you." Said Theo. "How horny?" Nila questioned her. Three or four times a night, horny. I'm sure he'd bang a fairy too." Theo suggested. "Ugh! Sex is so overrated!" Nila complained. The elevator ride, seeming to take a while, became quiet again. The silence was awkward after Nila lifted off of Theo's shoulder and she gave Theo a kiss on the lips, a simple little thanks for the favor. Kissed by a fairy and by Nila no less, Theo was astonished. She didn't have to inquire why it happened, and even if she wanted to, the ride began to slow down and suddenly the elevator came to a stop. But the doors remained closed. "It stopped." Said Theo. "I'll bet they shut it off." Nila offered. "Okay in this situation, if you were the villain, what would you have done?" Asked Theo. "Me? I'd send someone to stop the elevator, shoot it up, and then break the cables to cause it to fall to be bottom of the shaft." Nila answered. That was the first time that Nila's intuition as a former villain came into use for the Micronauts. Theo gave her an interested look, and Nila nodded as she knew instinctively that trouble was coming. So Nila flew up to the ceiling and with her mighty strength, she was unable to move it still. Theo jumped and knocked it out, allowing for Nila to fly out before Theo continued to jump and push it further aside so she could hop out of the elevator with Nila. "Yeah they stopped us between floors, and we're a few feet shy of being at the top floor." Said Nila, who observed how close the elevator was to the top of the shaft. Theo climbed out of the elevator and pushed the ceiling panel back into it's spot to hide that they had escaped. She shrunk herself down and Nila flew with her to the top of the elevator shift and together they stood at the top of the door frame in the shadows and watched their enemy make a fool of himself. The doorway was lit from the inner corridor and they saw the shadow of someone approach the shaft- it was Karas Brimstone who shot at them earlier with a rifle. The mercenary slid back the action on his sub-machine gun and whike he cackled maniacally, he unloaded on the elevator below the floor, and he did so with multiple magazines, while the tiny Micronauts above him covered their little ears and watched him shred the elevator. "It looks like it'll be all fire and brimstone for you girls from now on!! See you in hell!!" Next the huge man jumped onto the roof of the elevator and he craves to see the dead bodies of the intruders. He kicked the ceiling panel away and observed that there were no bodies inside, he had just wasted his brass on a perfectly good elevator. Theo and Nila each took aim at the elevator's pulley mechanism with their Micrazors, unsure if it would work on the metal components. "Not if we see him first!" Theo joked about Brimstone's comment. They pulled their triggers and the metal components of the pulley system which controlled the steel cables of the elevator burst from the beams striking them. This caused the cables to snap and the elevator to plummet with Brimstone on his way to his own grave. This made Nila smirk, and after the elevator crashed at the bottom, she said: "Looks like he arrived on the express elevator."