The next morning found Kenta and Swan tangled up in the Director's silken bedsheets, bodies remaining exactly where they'd fallen st night after being cimed by exhaustion. Waking slowly, at first Kenta thought he’d died and gone to Heaven, and he was waking up on a cloud, being held by an angel. The soft, plush warmth of Swan's bed was almost too perfect. Then he heard the sound of a phone bring and recognized the sight of the immacute Swan slipping from the bed to answer it, standing with her lovely butt to him as she talked in a hushed voice down the receiver in short, sharp answers. His groggy state was slowly shaken away as he watched Swan’s nude body shifting. This woman was a work of art. It was clear she was getting a report from a subordinate, and an urgent-sounding one at that. This could easily have been a lovely morning, with further snuggles and a cozy breakfast in bed together before heading out for the day... but it was clear that opportunity had passed. Finally, a few minutes ter, she set the phone down with a shaking hand and immediately started pulling her clothes on. "Kenta, get dressed. We're needed at Mighty Guard HQ... It looks like there was a break-in." "Rakuraizer was broken into... And ATHENA isn't responding anymore." "W-wait, what?!" Kenta bolted up off of the bed, joining her in scrambling around for clothes. "But... but how? I don't - " His babbling was cut short as he tripped while hopping into his pants, falling face first into Swan's carpet. How in the world could MG be broken into? How could Rakuraizer be broken into? This didn't make any sense! There couldn't be many people who could hop into the robot's cockpit let alone people who would even know about both it and MG's existence, right? That's not to mention ATHENA! Too many questions, none of them worth mulling over while pnted into the floor. Hopping up completely awake and with a newly reddened face, Kenta finished dressing, ready to follow the Director. "R-right! Ready when you are!" --- Normally a trip to work in Swan's sports car would have been the highlight of Kenta's week, but both of them had far too much on their mind to appreciate any of that right now. Instead, the wonderful mood of st night had given way to sour faces and furrowed brows... someone had made a very deliberate attack against the Mighty Guard, and it might even be someone they knew. Shortly after, they arrived together in the hangar bay where the others were already gathered: Athena, Cozy Glow, Roll, SciTwi. Only Sunset was absent. Cozy’s eyes shone as the two of them walked past to Rakuraizer, as if eagerly awaiting the sight within. Scanning over the others, Kenta's eyes shot open. Where was Sunset? At first he thought that she'd be at school, but Athena's here as well, so shouldn't she be around? Especially if they were all gathered? He furrowed his brow, deeply concerned. "...Where's Sunset?" Kenta did one more cursory scan over the group to confirm Twilight gave Director Swan the lowdown. "Has anyone seen her? Is she okay?" “Nobody’s seen her,” answered SciTwi curtly. Everyone was on edge. Given the situation, Kenta was, as well, but he tried his best to make it look like he wasn't. Someone was able to gain access to Rakuraizer; was able to mess with ATHENA. It was still boggling him. He hated this. The Director was dealing with so much already, and now there was the possibility of an attack from within too? It made his blood boil. SciTwi led Kenta and Swan to the gantry passing by the machine's cockpit with the others in two. They could already pinly see the damage: the cockpit's control panel was smashed, wires trailing down where entry had been forced. The door was slightly ajar, but seemed untouched so far. Wasn't Kenta the only one who could actually pilot it? Whoever was able to force the door open would have to have considerable strength and even from the outside, it didn't look clean at all. "What's the situation inside?" asked Swan. "We were waiting for you to arrive before we looked, Director." Swan nodded, asking how they knew ATHENA was disabled, then. Twilight cocked her head: "We keep Rakuraizer's power levels monitored at all times. Normally ATHENA is a pretty considerable drain on that... but since st night that drain cut out abruptly." "This pce should have been crawling with staff... but nobody saw anything?" Twilight adjusted her gsses. "It looks like there was some kind of evacuation st night. We're still looking into it." That seemed to satisfy the Director for the moment. She took a deep breath and reached out for the cockpit's door. Kenta got a bad feeling. Maybe it wasn't anything at all, but with all this damage he couldn't risk anyone else getting hurt. "Sw - ... Director, wait up!" He raised a hand toward her. "Maybe I should check it out first, just in case? If they were able to just force the Rakuraizer's door open, who knows what else they've been able to do?" Swan withdrew her hand suddenly, startled by his voice. Then, when she thought about what he was saying, she brought it all the way back. "A - Alright, Kenta. Go ahead." Moving closer, Kenta was able to see why the wires had been exposed. It looked like if someone were able to connect the two correct wires inside the console, it would release the locks. This must have been how they were able to get inside. But there was no need for that right now, he was able to haul the door to the side, baring the cockpit within. A girl y inside by the foot of the cockpit. A figure not quite recognizable at first, too bathed in the darkness to clearly make anything out. She looked to be on the short side... around the same size as Cozy... give or take a few inches. There was more to take in, of course: the fire axe ying on the ground a few feet away from her, the sparking, gouged-out hull of ATHENA, riddled all over with deep axe wounds and covered in the broken gss of its own systems... Most surprising of all, maybe, was the small beagle ying on the ground beside the girl, panting, scuffing behind its ear, seemingly having no idea about any kind of danger. Roll spoke up in the back. "Ah! Pochi!" "Pochi?" "That's the dog we took from the second Geomorph encounter, the train incident," she expined. "Hmm... That's it! It looks like the reason all the staff evacuated the hangar earlier was because of a warning issued about Geomorph contamination... The system must have detected Pochi's presence!" Swan looked closer at the girl. "So this girl... brought Pochi to the hangar to make everyone leave... and then she did this...?" But as the girls talked behind him, Kenta just continued to stare at the girl ying on the floor. The sight of the girl on the floor of the Rakuraizer and the dog just made Kenta even more confused. Here he was expecting - well, he didn't know what he was expecting, but it certainly wasn't this. "How..." Kenta raised an eyebrow as he surveyed the scene of the damage. "How in the world did this happen...?" Looking at the way ATHENA's casing was torn made Kenta's heart drop. He had tried to assure her that he would save her, and now this had happened. Whoever did this was very deliberate in their destruction. And considering how they were able to pry open a panel and open the cockpit like someone might hotwire a car, they also knew how to bypass some pretty crazy computer stuff, too. Honestly, it was a little crazy. If someone could get into the Rakuraizer with just a few wires, why go through the trouble of doing all this horrible damage? Couldn't they just unplug it? It didn't make sense. And why was the dog here? How? Nothing added up to Kenta, but he also knew he wasn’t exactly the best person to be figuring this out. He carefully knelt down in the narrow space of the cockpit. It was much easier to get around when he was actually piloting, but now it just felt like there wasn't much space to work with. Squinting, he got closer to the girl to get a better look at who it could be. He wasn't aware of anyone else Cozy's size that was employed by MG, but then again, he hasn't exactly gotten familiar with a lot of the staff. As he knelt down, the girl groaned. She was alive. He leaned closer, peering into the shadows where she y. Taking his first good look, he noticed her clothes all looked several sizes too rge for her. Cutoff jean shorts, a tattered top and leather jacket... it all seemed made for someone much taller. Then she rolled over, and two giant breasts swung into view, looking absolutely enormous on that small frame. They were equally as big as any of the other girls in the room, maybe even outsizing several of them. Athena's chest was massive, for example, and this shortstack still had a few inches of bust on her. She also had fming hair in a pattern of red-and-yellow. Kenta froze as the girl opened a pair of aqua-hued eyes he'd have recognized anywhere, and stared up at him. "Kenta... Where am I...?" It was her turn to freeze in shock. "Wh - What the fuck!" At least her voice sounded normal as ever, not that the situation gave him any room to appreciate it. "S - Sunset?!" Sunset sat up, rubbing her head, looking down at herself... only for the movement to make her shirt nearly slip off her altogether, sliding clean off her shoulders and dipping even further. Inch after inch of fair, unblemished skin became visible, before spilling out into the swell of those monstrous teats with their fist-sized nipples so pink they looked like candy. She squealed immediately, trying to tug her shirt back up over herself. "Ahhh! Don't look!" Kenta immediately lost his train of thought, getting an eyeful of bare, oversized nipple. "G - Guh." Kenta froze in shock, roving up and down the body of the girl who was apparently Sunset. She definitely had Sunset's hair, and she definitely had Sunset's mouth. She also definitely had Sunset's chest and he mented the fact that this wasn't the time or the pce where he could properly enjoy this weird turn of events. Instead he just stayed speechless for a moment. It took a bit of time for Kenta to pry his eyes away, but he did, looking off into a darkened corner of the Rakuraizer as he tried to find words. "H - How? Wh...?" Kenta looked over at Pochi like he was expecting the panting dog to have all the answers. "H - How are you here? What happened? How did you - ...?" The words didn't really come easily. Sunset opened her mouth, perhaps to begin answering Kenta's questions, when he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Dere she is! Awwest her!" Cozy had dragged in two of the security team members, big buff ds who Kenta had often seen around the pce. Despite Rakuraizer and G-Corona being tasked with keeping the base safe from Geomorph attack, the MPs had rather extensive training and plenty of combat ability. They were able to use machine guns, pistols, and were skilled in martial arts... Kenta could probably take on these two by himself, but there was no telling how many more were lurking around, waiting to assist if necessary. One of them csped Sunset's shoulder. She grunted and immediately shook him off, darting backwards, raising her fists despite her small stature. "Hands off, creep!" she shouted defiantly. "She did it! She's da one who busted up ATHENA!" Cozy continued. "We have pwoof!" In her excitement and self-righteous rage, she was spilling over her words even more than usual. She proudly held up a disk, surely containing the base's security footage. Behind her, Swan sighed. "We'll... We'll need to conduct a full investigation first before we jump to any conclusions, but... for now, Cozy is right. Sunset, please let us pce you into custody. Kenta, stand aside." "Hey, wait!" This was all happening so fast. Kenta put himself between the guards and Sunset, reflexively falling into a defensive stance like he was about to spar back in his father's old dojo. Kenta stayed put, his feet firmly rooted to the floor as he stared a hole right through the guard in front of him. This whole thing was just crazy! Cozy must have been mistaken because Sunset isn't someone who would just wreck the Rakuraizer and destroy ATHENA, it just didn't make sense! She was innocent, and this wasn't the kind of injustice that he could ever stand for. The real culprit was probably getting away as they speak! In his mind, there was no way that Sunset could have ever done anything like that to the Rakuraizer, and he wasn't about to stand by while the bme fell onto the shoulders of someone who wasn't guilty. "You can't REALLY believe that she'd do something like this, right, Director?" Kenta shook his head. "This has to be some dumb joke!" The first of the guards looked a little more wary of the two, but the second seemed eager to try his luck. Pretty crazy decision, all things considered: it wasn't lost on anyone that Kenta was one of the most important people at the MG base, but you could put it down to nerves, tension, or just having his superior officer right behind him giving him an order. Whatever it was, the bck-armoured man stepped forwards towards Kenta. "Stand aside, sir," came his voice in an already gruff tone, made all the heavier by the helmet obscuring his face. But Kenta wasn't about to throw the first punch since he knew that the guard was just doing his job. Though he wasn't about to let them cuff someone on false charges. He's watched the news before and seen how prosecutors use underhanded tricks to convict innocent people. It was a pretty tense moment for him. He didn't even really have a pn, but it wasn’t like he could just sit back and do nothing! The guard still looked ready to fight if need be, but he wasn't about to do anything without the order coming from Swan. And meanwhile the pint-sized Sunset huddled in behind Kenta, clinging to the back of his shirt. She held on as if her life depended on it, somehow managing to feel safe thanks to his presence. For a moment nobody budged... until Swan finally stepped between them. "Alright, that's enough. Rex, please. Stand down!" Kenta visibly rexed and almost breathed a sigh of relief. Leave it to Swan to be the rational one. It was good to hear that she hadn't immediately given up on Sunset, either, and it gave him a bit of a smile to know that he was right about her. Swan smiled approvingly at the guard, keeping up appearances of professionalism. "Good work, officer! I'd expect nothing less from our elite. But I'll take over from here." She turned to Kenta and Sunset, sizing the two of them up. "Kenta... I'd like to believe Sunset is innocent too. This seems far outside her normal activities! Even moreso now she's so much smaller!" She cleared her throat. "Why don't you keep an eye on her for the time being? If there's any sort of escape attempt, you're..." She paused to give his bulging bicep an affectionate squeeze, "... more than strong enough to overpower her, mm?" "Hey!" said Cozy, folding her arms. "What if she weally did do it! Are you going to wule that out?" Swan looked pensive, tapping her cheek as she thought things over. Cozy had a good point, after all... Kenta mulled over the Director's offer, looking between her and Sunset the whole time. It was definitely a lot better than just handing her over to the police, and if something actually did happen, he would be there. The way Swan touched his arm and made those comments, though... But why was Cozy being like this? Sure, she was the newest member, so she hadn't spent as much time around them, but surely she couldn't actually expect that Sunset did all this! Maybe she was just more pragmatic than Kenta thought. It still made him a bit angry that someone was accusing her like that, so he decided to speak up. "If she did, then I'll bring her in myself!" Kenta crossed his arms. "But she didn’t, so it doesn't matter!" Swan nodded. "Yes... We need to get to the bottom of what really happened here. We're all a little worked up... and not thinking straight!" "Let's take a recess to gather our thoughts... an hour should do. Then we'll meet at the bridge, review the security footage, and figure out exactly what happened here." "Kenta, please use that time to interview Pilot Sunset about what she saw leading up to these events. Ahem. There may be something useful in there that could prove her innocence." So he was going to have to talk to Sunset about what happened. That suited Kenta just fine, he was pnning on doing that in the fist pce. Nodding to Swan, he looked back at Sunset. She looked out of it and it made him want to protect her even more. Cozy sniggered. She'd hopped up onto one of the mechanic's benches and now sat like a queen bitch, one leg folded over the other, both hands wrapped around her raised knee. She kicked it idly as she enjoyed the look of fear and confusion on Sunset's face. "And what happens to whoever smashed up ATHENA, huh?" Swan set her face, looking distressed despite herself. "... Instant dismissal from Mighty Guard. Whoever it was, they can't be allowed to ever walk these halls again." Cozy rolled her eyes, studying her fingernails, smarming more by the second. "In that case... I'll happiwy pwosecute... I know exactly how to pwoove she did it!" Kenta raised an eyebrow at Cozy's antics, getting a bit annoyed at the brat's insistence of Sunset's guilt. Now she wanted to be a prosecutor? "Aren't you a little immature to be doing something like that? How do you even know? Why are you so certain that Sunset did it?" It was weird that she was hammering it home this much. Was she jealous of Sunset? If he'd been expecting any sort of answer, it looked like Cozy was saving it for the 'trial' she'd arranged ter. In lieu of that, she simply held up the disc containing the security footage, batting her long eyeshes, giving him the sickest little grin down the bridge of her nose. "Don't think I'll go easy on you just because you held me down and pumped me full of cum~" she tittered, resting a finger on her chin and swirling her eyes around faux-innocently. "Heeheehee... If guess, if anything, I’ll be the one fucking you this time~!" Kenta felt startled by Cozy's sudden mention of their actions, throwing him off kilter almost immediately. "T - That uh..." He didn't have any kind of retaliation; he did do those things after all, but it wasn't like she wasn't willing in the whole act! Cozy was blindsiding him pretty easily. Where was this all coming from? Was how she behaved before just an act? No, well, Kenta had to guess that she's always been like this, but now it was seeming way more malicious than just bratty. "Cozy!" gasped Swan. "That... That's quite enough! You're bothering Kenta!" She moved to pick Cozy up and haul her away, which resulted in Cozy just whining as her wrist was tugged on. Swan was already muttering something about a spanking, too... "Has... has Kenta fucked everyone in MG?" murmured Athena. Beside her, SciTwi moved her lips, silently counting off on her finger. "Two, three, four... Umm... He did come in with Swan this morning, didn't he...?" Athena rolled her eyes. "God, he's such a slut." "You're one to talk," SciTwi shot back. Kenta turned to the pair, a blush forming over his face. "H... Hey, I'm not a slut!" This was quickly accented by Kenta scratching the back of his head as he looked away. "... I think." Clearing his throat, Kenta tried to regain his footing. He crossed his arms and closed his eyes. "Maybe I should uh... talk, er, interrogate... er. Find out what happened with Sunset." --- Kenta didn't have far to go to reconvene with Sunset: she was right next to him. Kenta pulled up a chair at one of the hangar's many workbenches and took a seat, whereupon Sunset looked at the other chairs, then back to him, then promptly sat down in his p instead. ... Her butt really was huge for such a now-short girl. Its softness pressing back against his groin was like an instant recipe for a hard-on, but nevertheless she was fixated on recounting the events of st night as well as she could remember them: "Well... I was just finishing up my training in the VR units. I went to my locker to get changed, and... I saw something inside move suddenly. It was small, whatever it was, small enough to sit on the top shelf of my locker, in with all my bundled-up clothes." "I think it flew out and hit me... Then I passed out." Sunset’s Account added to the Court Record With Sunset still sitting in his p, it wasn't long before another girl wanted to fight for his attention. Cozy peeked her head out, then was soon wandering over. "Hmm? You wanted something...? Oh, the secuwity camera footage? Sure, I can let you look!" She rises on her toes, wriggling around with something like pyful discomfort, swaying her big hips. It's a pretty enticing promise of a very pent-up brat with a needy pussy. "But you gotta do something for me... Before I show you, can we go somewhere pwivate and blow off some steam? It should only take 45 minutes or so...!" She grins as she leans in, looking eager to get started. Unfortunately, that would definitely cut out any opportunity to speak with the others. Even with Sunset on his p and Cozy trying to distract him, Kenta wasn't about to let this injustice slide. He shook his head firmly, absolutely no wavering in his voice. "Sorry, Cozy, this is way more serious than that. There's a time and pce for everything, you know, and justice isn't going to wait around." He stood up, pcing Sunset in the crook of his arm to carry her with him. Kenta was supposed to keep her in his sight at all times, and considering how Cozy was acting right now, he wasn't about to leave her with the power-tripping brat. "I don't know what's gotten into you, Cozy, but if you're not gonna show me the footage, I'll just go talk to the others and get a copy of it ter." "Suit yourself!" she grumbled, before wandering off to cause mischief elsewhere. Kenta rolled his eyes as Cozy stormed off, sighing a bit. "What in the world is up with her tely?" Security Camera Footage NOT added to the Court Record Roll was found shortly afterwards inside Rakuraizer's cockpit, reading diagnostics off a palm-sized tablet. The device connected to ATHENA through a long cable dangling between them. "Thankfully, it looks like the damage is most superficial. ATHENA's core is still intact... We should be able to have her back online in a day or two." "Hmm... It's strange, though. Anyone with a basic knowledge of computers would have known which systems to target, but it looks like whoever did this was just hitting it at random. Does that make any sense to you, Kenta?" That fact was strange to Kenta. Unfamiliar with MG's computer systems, but also able to just break into the Rakuraizer? Anyone who did something like this would either not be a member of MG staff, or have to have recently joined. Still, Kenta breathed a bit of a sigh of relief at the fact that ATHENA wasn't completely gone. It made him all the more determined to catch who was really responsible. "I don't get it... Did the person who did this not really know what they were looking for? But why do it in the first pce if they didn't? Gah, I wish I could talk to ATHENA again." Roll lifted a screwdriver and gave him a reassuring smile. "If I don't have it back up soon, you can punish me however you like, sir!" ATHENA’S Status added to the Court Record He found Twilight sitting in her office, tapping away at her computer. A printer was busy at work beside her, outputting an important-looking file. Swiveling to face him, Twilight peered at Kenta over the top of her gsses, then thrust the frames back up the bridge of her nose, turning the lenses opaque. "I don't know if it will help, but... It's possible this crime is reted to the Geomorphs. So, I went ahead and prepared a file documenting everything we were able to learn from Pochi. If it ends up helping you, you can thank me ter." She smiled wistfully. "Nobody wants Sunset's innocence to be proven more than I do. Well, aside from maybe you. Either way, take a look over it when you get a moment, alright?" Nodding, Kenta took the file from Twilight with a smile and gave it a look. Twilight and Sunset knew each other well, apparently, and from the way Twilight was looking, there was probably a lot more there than Kenta even realized. Maybe he'd ask Sunset more about that when he got the time and if it wasn't prying too much. "Thanks for all the help, Twi. Trust me, I'm gonna do all I can." While looking over the document, one part really stuck out to Kenta: 'An impnted Control Crystal may depart one host and enter another. This causes considerable shock and often unconsciousness in the former host.' Maybe this would expin why Sunset bcked out like she did. Though if that was the case, then... He finished reading, and came across another bit of info. 'Hosts frequently inherit traits of the Crystal’s controller/creator.' Something about this passage made the bottom of Kenta's stomach drop out. He looked back at Sunset's current state and back at the document. There's no way. There's no way, right...? Geomorph Behaviour File added to the Court Record And st but not least, Kenta went to visit Athena: "We studied Pochi quite a bit since the attack... Twilight should have given you the file containing everything we know by now. Weird to think he could still trigger the arm in the hangar..." Pochi The Beagle added to the Court Record --- Kenta barely finished talking with Athena in time. He'd chewed through 56 of his 60 minutes and wasn't sure if he was any closer to solving the mystery. It really depended on what was in that security footage Cozy had seen. But nevertheless, it was time to report his findings. --- Court Record Sunset’s Account The st thing Sunset Shimmer remembers was opening her locker, at which point something inside moved towards her suddenly. She lost consciousness almost immediately after. ATHENA The A.I. has suffered significant damage, but with no critical areas targeted. Whoever made this attack is unlikely to be familiar with the base’s computer systems. Geomorph Behaviour File First Page: Heavy physical trauma to a Geomorph Control Crystal will cause damage and reduce function. Sustained damage will eventually cause a fracture, whereupon function ceases. Once broken, a Crystal cannot be restored to a functioning state.Second Page: An impnted Control Crystal may depart one host and enter another. This causes considerable shock and often unconsciousness in the former host.Third Page: Hosts frequently inherit traits of the Crystal’s controller/creator. Pochi the Beagle The dog employed by Dominator in her earlier scheme. Has since acquired some of that Geomorph's traits, including her high body temperature and affinity for metallic objects.