Richard sat down on his couch and watched as his ferret roamed around the living room. While his eyes were tracking the little animal who was happily looking for things to steal for her nest, he was actually reflecting on recent events.

Some many things have been happening with in the past few months. He had been recruited into the Negaverse, stolen energy from people, had killed people for their starseeds, his faction's base had been invaded by the aliens leading to countless deaths for both sides as well as even more injuries. A few of those injured stood out in his mind, that being the injuries of General Benitoite and the corrupted Senshi that had gone in with him to take on the invading royal Senshi, but he was doing his best to not recall those injuries and how they happened.

After that there had been time where they had little by way of instruction beyond recover, repair, and gather more energy and starseeds to help replenish their stores. While the healing had certainly be necessary for many, it would have been nice to at least hear that there was a legitimate plan being made at least. Not that he would question Metallia as that would be a stupid move over all. In the end though it was clear there was a plan at work and they had been gathered together to be split into teams to gather three items, something that sounded like a plot to a movie.

Richard had felt compelled to stick with Benitoite and whoever was in his group, the General being the only one he knew besides Katya and the smaller man was still injured. Of course him joining the team hadn't done much in the long run as he had only managed to punch one of the youma one time, not even doing all that much damage to it, but at least one of their number had managed to complete the mission in retrieving the youma bone. On the way back he had once again stuck with Benitoite, Katya, and Witherite.

He was still amazed that the plan for the three items was to promote General-Queen Laurelite into Queen Laurelite. The fact that they now had a true Queen just proved to him that those of the Negaverse were better off then the Order invaders who only had Princes and Princesses from what he heard. Not that they didn't have General-Queens and Kings before hand anyway. Then they had been given metals for their help and three more General sovereigns were introduced. Two General-Kings and one General-Queen, each taking over one of the branches of the Negaverse except for the general branch.

Richard still wasn't sure what to think about the three new sovereigns since he had not interacted with them as of yet and one brief look and speech from them is not something that helps make solid opinions. Usually anyway. None of them were in charge of his group but he was seriously thinking about looking into the other branches so he was debating on whether to go to some if not all of the meetings they had set up, if possible, to see which branch might be right for him or if he should just stick to the general branch.

In the end his thoughts were disrupted by the sound of something crashing. He rolled his eyes and got up off the couch to go find his tiny furry friend.

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