Ch. 1: Boredom

Vexus was bored. She had finally regained control of Cluster Prime as of late, due to the fact that Vega had been assassinated just a few weeks ago.

"I don't know what to do anymore..." The queen covered her face with her hands and sighed. Even the prospect of getting young XJ9 to join the Cluster was beginning to fade, as she had no idea where the blue robot was, due to surveillance of the planet Earth.

She sighed depressedly yet again. "What to do, what to do..."

Kage looked up at the clouds in the sky. They just drifted by without a care in the world. He raised his automail right arm up and spread out his fingers, as if trying to catch one of the condensed masses of water vapor.

The 21-year old began to think. How dull has my life become...? he pondered. Ryota's already been with Reiko for a really long time, and there's no girl that'll date me. Friggin' right arm and left leg...

Getting up, he leaped off the roof of Ryota's Fantasian mansion and landed on the ground. He walked inside and saw his two best friends sitting together on the couch, watching television. "Maybe I could borrow an airship for a while," he mumbled to himself, "and leave this ...