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Reaching out, she took Hayley's hand gently, lifting it to where her own lips would be and bowing slightly over it. "Fresh it is." The womanly dressed PQ (which was a rare occasion to those who knew her) doing something rather masculine would probably look odd to those who did not know her. While PQ had been raised in Aekea, and had been deeply involved with a notorious gang, she had the proper etiquette of the higher courts nearly beaten into her. She had been taught how to flatter both genders, and all races. When she let Hayley's hand reach the small bit of metal where a human's mouth would be, a small spark jumped between both their bodies. It was not unpleasant, and could have even be called pleasing. Gently releasing the Guard's hand, she straightened.

"It's a pleasure. I'm P.Q." As she said her name, the spaces between the letters were rather pronounced. There was no doubt that her name was only initials. And even in her pleasant tone, voice naturally low and sensual with a hint of 'city kid' on the tip of her tongue, there was no doubt that asking what the initials stood for was not as pleasant.

Geratenchi, Gera's youngest "son" of sorts, was snacking away at the buffet table. His "mom" had brought him here more than just to stuff his face and watch what was going on around him. She said that she wanted him to meet someone, but never said who....

"Geratenchi wonders who Mama wants Geratenchi to meet...."


Eventually, Gera got tired of sitting around and waiting. Who knows? Maybe P-Bot and Hakobe already came and she never knew about it....

"Might as well go down and see everybody...."

The nurse bot got up, brushed off any dust that was on her Winter Rose dress and petal-shaped gloves, straightened her bolero and rose clips, and headed on out....


After eating the last of the crackers, the android got up and flew away. On his way to the staircase, he caught a glimpse of Radio Jack and Ash comically squabbling, which elicited a cheerful giggle from the fake Angel Imp. He then continued on his way up the stairs, heading to where his "mom" was and....well, you knew how this would end up....

"Ow! What hit Geratenchi....?"

"Oh, Geratenchi! Gomennasai! I wasn't paying attention again, was I?"

"Goshinpainaku, Mama. Geratenchi be just fine."

"Oh, good...."

"Is Mama thinking about Pops again?"

"Well, partially...."

"Is person Geratenchi needs to meet here?"

"Not yet, as far as I know...."

As mother and son talked, they headed downstairs to the party. Both were secretly getting a little worried. Perhaps a little investigation was in order....

"....Think we should ask your PQ-oba-san?"

"Hai, hai! PQ-oba-san might know!"

Geratenchi flailed and swooped around with glee for a while. That is, until he realized something, which made Gera sweatdrop....

"....Who be PQ-oba-san?"

Rae rolled her eyes at Pie. "Thanks so was yours, honey." She turned back to Hayley. "Oh we-... Wait a second! When did we get a guard? Have I been that oblvious all this time? Well, it's possible. I really don't pay much attention to anything. But really do we have a guard? 'Cause I had no idea! How long ahve we had it? Do you know? 'Caus-... Nevermind. None of that matters because I really don't care. Thank you for being our Captain. Uhm yes. I suppose I am a fairly decent bassist. Do you have a particular intrest in the instrument?" Dawgie-B's eye twitched as he watched Monk ramble. She really was a spazz.

Monk sighed relieved. "Oh thank goodness. I'd thought I'd lost my mind. Well, what little of it there's left." She chuckled. Rae really hated using that line due it's cheesy-ness, but she really didn't know what else to say. "Well, we really didn't need law enforcement as far as I knew. We seemed to do pretty well on our own with all the ex-assassains, mercenaries, psychotic robots, and of course our lovable Ra worshiping Black Witch living here. But hey, that's cool. You look nice by the way. The daisy is a pleasant touch."

Black turned her head when she heard the mention of her name. Come to think of it, that really was the Aekean Law enforcement. A whole bunch of minute men who happened to be anyone at anytime. "That a whole lot of recruiting you have, Hayley. Come to think of it. . . . The work is half done for you. The other half is organizing the lot of us, especially us loony bins. Can't really work with the loony bins on the risk of becoming either homicidal or suicidal or just plain mad." Black mused. The witch tilted her head, "I'm actually interesting into seeing what method and standards you'll have in place for the Aekean Guards."

Gera had been taken off-guard by Ash's surprise hug. She had slightly jumped a bit, but calmed down when she realized that it was only Ash. The secretive cyborg smiled warmly to the one she thought of as a brother, greeting him back....

"Konbanwa, Faust-kun. I just got tired of waiting for somebody, so I decided to come down and see everyone."

As Gera spoke with Ash, Geratenchi was trying to befriend Radio Jack. He had some rainbow ice cream in his mouth and was attempting to give the little minion of Sol a big feathery hug....

"Tomodatchi! Tomodatchi!"

Gera glanced over at Geratenchi for a split second before focusing on Ash again. Her youngest "son" seemed to be having fun. However, the matter at hand was still present in her mind....

"Hey, Faust-kun....Have you seen Hakobe and P-Bot?"

Hearing the witch's comment about the existing defense mechanisms of the city, Hayley piped up regarding her own thoughts.

"Heh, I'd noticed. I'm mainly here just to set up a kind of organizational system for crisis prevention and the like. That's actually why I wanted to turn to you guys, the people. You've thrived this long. I just want to make sure it stays that way."

She hesitated. "Well, also there's the matter or increasingly large numbers of bureaucratic..... bureaucrats in the law enforcement system these days. Without some kind of defense against all the red tape there's a good chance outside forces might start trying to call the shots for you in a less than voluntary fashion." She forced herself to pause after "bureaucratic" because her mind could really only fill that blank in less than party appropriate words. Gone are the days when nobody cared who saved the day as long as it was done, she despised the shift in how things were run. One of the reasons she had left the guard was that there were rumors floating around about expansion of the force to "provide for" other cities. It wouldn't happen for years to come, and it wouldn't happen at all, if she had anything to do with it.