Fun Time at the Arcade!

Sin is seen in his classroom with his arms stretch out the window and clapping the chalkboard erasers together to clean up all the chalk off, today is his turn doing the cleaning of the classroom like making sure the chalkboard is clean and the desks are polished.

"Okay, I think that should be all for today." Sin sighed in relief that he is finish with cleaning the classroom and grab his school bag.

"I see you're done with the cleaning." Elphelt noticed how the classroom looks right now as she walks in.

"Hey Elphelt, yeah, just finished." Sin nodded.

"Hmm, you look a little exhausted. Did you get enough sleep?" Elphelt asked.

"I guess you could say I'm still having trouble with sleeping since that fight with Zato two weeks ago." Sin confessed.

"I see, that was your first fight against another Gear, and I looked very strong too. I was worried about if he had stay to continue fighting." Elphelt said.

"Me too, we were lucky that he got called away or something. I gave that fight everything I had, and I couldn't even land a scratch on him, he also had the darkness advantage too with the night sky and all." Sin pointed out. He also wonders about if there are other Gears as strong as Zato or perhaps stronger.

"Well, I think we need to get our mind off about Zato and fighting other Gears at the moment." Elphelt said thinking of an idea.

She hope to use this opportunity to get closer to Sin hoping to lay some hints to him about her love to him, ever since that night after saving him from Zato's attack she wouldn't stop thinking about Sin as he always appear in her head and her heart beats faster with a simple imagine of his handsome face and cute grin along with the awesome eyepatch. She gotten to know Sin better for the past two months like his favorite things to do and then an idea pop into her head of where they should go to, it's perfect and believe she can make this work in her favor.

"Hey Sin, how about we go to the arcade together?" Elphelt suggested.

"The arcade, huh? That sounds like a blast, I was always feel cheer up whenever I go there." Sin smiled, agreeing to the idea.

"Great, I'll go tell Ram that I'll be home later." Elphelt winked.

"Really? I was kinda hoping she could come with us, maybe help her be more open on her emotions on the outside, you know? Consider how her expression is most of the time and all." Sin explained, wanting Ramlethal to experience some fun time like at the arcade.

"Aw, that is so nice of you! But Ram have to finish the science project homework she has been assigned to." Elphelt mentioned.

"Oh, okay, guess we can go another time." Sin shrugged.

"Great, I'll go inform her and meet you at the front gate." Elphelt excited, leaving the classroom through powerwalking and some skips too.

"Uh, that girl sure is full sunshine and rainbows." Sin chuckled.

(With Ramlethal)

Ramlethal out putting in her school shoes in her little shoe-locker and picking up a small box which has the material she needs for her science project, inside the box has three potted plants with three different fertilizers and three bottles of liquid as well. Her assignment is to see what reaction and effect the plants will get from the fertilizers mixing in with the different liquids to see if they could either make them strong better or kill them.

"Hey, Ram!" Elphelt called out to her twin sister, running up to her.

"Hello sister, ready to go home for the day?" Ramlethal asked as she is prepared herself.

"Actually, I came to tell you that I'll be coming home late because I'm going to be hanging out with Sin to the arcade." Elphelt informed.

"The arcade, that is the place where all the "Cool kids" hang out, right?" Ramlethal asked curious.

"Huh, maybe, I mean Sin goes there sometime and he's been feeling down since that fight with Zato. So, I thought about doing something to cheer him up." Elphelt explained cheerfully.

"I see, very well, I will head home by myself while you go to the arcade with Sin. Tell him I said have a good time for me." Ramlethal nodded.

"Sure thing, he was actually hoping that you would come as well to help you with your expression on emotions." Elphelt mentioned.

"I'll consider going there with him should I feel the need to. Farewell." Ramlethal said before walking away heading out of the schoolground.

She then stops as she just remembers something and turns around to face Elphelt.

"I just remember that you two were supposed to be training with Sol-Sensei today, be sure to inform him that you're not coming in today." Ramlethal advised.

"Oh, that's right! Thanks!" Elphelt thanked and quickly took out her phone sending a text message to Sol about she and Sin not coming in for training today. Once she sent the message, she skips around a little exciting in a happy shout.

"Yes, the day will be just me and Sin, all alone together!' Elphelt squealed exciting.

"Okay, calm down, Elphelt. This will just be a friendly hangout between a boy and a girl, nothing serious about love… yet." Elphelt smiled as her face is blushing a little.

(Arcade)

"Okay, here we are, Play Time Arcade!" Sin introduced Elphelt to the arcade place he loves to go to and escort her to the inside.

The white-haired girl gasps of amazement on how fun and awesome the place is with all the sorts of game to see here like video games with the control sticks and the ones where you can drive in a race, games with winning tickets and using them to gain prizes, and there's even eating area where folks can enjoy some good pizza and other food they have here.

"Wow, this place looks amazing! I never thought that an arcade would be something so full of life and other cool stuff!" Elphelt smiled looking around.

"You never been to an arcade before? What about when you were a kid?" Sin asked.

"…I didn't exactly had a good childhood growing to where me and Ramlethal grew up, it wasn't bad either, it just that we never got to do most things that any children would do when they want to have fun." Elphelt explained.

"Sounds like your parents don't even know what is like to have fun." Sin guessed.

"For as long as I can remember, it has always just been me, Ramlethal, and our mom who always did her best to raise us. Though she has always been more focus on our Gear abilities than our own life, she also has a strange way of seeing humans in a different way, but I can't remember what it was." Elphelt said.

"I bet she's the overprotective parent who would worry if her daughter is hanging out with a guy." Sin joked.

"I wouldn't know about that since me and Ramlethal ran away." Elphelt blurted out.

"What?! You two ran away from your own mom!" Sin gasped.

"Y-Yeah, I'm sorry but I don't feel like talking about it." Elphelt looked hurt upon remembering the reason why she and Ramlethal ran away from home.

Sin wanted to know more Elphelt about her past but seeing how uncomfortable and scared from the look in her eyes, he decided not to and focus on why they are here in the first place.

"Okay, how about we just have fun here like we came here to." Sin nodded.

Elphelt nodded glad that friend/crush understand, and they went into the arcade to play.

They start playing some skee balls, rolling some of the balls to go into whatever number they can manage to gain the highest points though Elphelt ends rolling the ball too fast that it bounce off the protection fence and it hit her on the forehead causing her to wince in pain while Sin laughs a little. Racing game to see who can clear the course than the others as Sin has ten wins and Elphelt only manage to win one as the other times her drive skills in this game is bad as she kept crashing into things. The next game they played is a basket ball shooting the balls into the hoops to earn more tickets for whatever prize Elphelt would want, but the cheerful girl isn't doing so well as she keeps hitting the outer ring of the hoop that deflect the ball back hitting her right in the face. Elphelt choose to play a dancing video game next, they stomp their foot on the matching shape and symbols that is on the screen while the play is music and they are rocking the game moving faster with their superspeed and reflexes, performing a pose together in the finale after clearing the level.

Next they try playing a gun shooting game as Sin never try playing something like this before and it is very hard to aim and shoot at the monsters, but what surprises him the most is that Elphelt is doing even better than all the other games they played almost like she has a naturally skills in this kind of game. Elphelt blasted the last of the monsters getting the newest and highest score in the game as some of the kids and teens are all shock of seeing how good she is then they cheer as they start calling her the "Gun Game Queen" chanting her name like a celebrity.

Soon they decided to have a little snack break like a few slices of pizza, unnoticed to them as that the cheese stretches between their own slices and try to eat the whole thing though they quickly realize their lips were about to touch each other quickly separating snapping the stretchy cheese part away as their face turns a little red. Though Elphelt secretly hoped that they would have kept going and have their first kiss together, but she then thought that kind of moment should during a special occasion like on an actual date and prey that day will come soon.

After a few hours of playing some games, they decided to call it a day and turn in the tickets they collected from the other games and Elphelt made her choice by getting a teddy bear dress like a pirate as her prize.

"Wow, I had such a great time!" Elphelt smiled and hugging her pirate bear tightly.

"I'm glad you enjoyed it, I certainly did, and it felt great hanging out there again." Sin smiled.

"I am definitely going to come back here with Ram when we get the chance!" Elphelt excited, hoping Ramlethal will come.

"And I'll bring along some of my friends so you can get to know them and be friends too." Sin said.

"That's actually wonderful, the more the merrier as the old saying goes." Elphelt gigged.

They walk together through the streets until they reach a certain road where the pathway is split in opposite directions as Sin's home is to the right while Elphelt's home is on the left path.

"I know you don't want to talk about your mom, but I can probably guess that she doesn't care how you and Ram thinks or want in your life." Sin said.

"Yeah, that's one of the reasons why me and Ram ran away, she wanted us to become powerful to make the world "Hers" to have the people follow her will or something like that. I just couldn't bare the thought of wanting to hurt anybody." Elphelt stated, looking up at the sky.

"Not to innocent people, I'm sure and you did look awesome with that gun of yours when you use it during training with Uncle Sol." Sin complimented.

"Well, I guess that's one good thing mom did for us." Elphelt giggled.

"I really had a great time, Sin. Thank you." Elphelt smiled and lean closer to Sin to kiss him on the cheek.

"See you at school." Elphelt said and walk away to her home.

Sin just stood there utterly shock and his face is turning into a slightly darker shade of red almost like a tomato and his jaw is drop wide open as his eyes are widen too, his mind only took five full minute to register what just happened and he could only think of one word to describe about this.

"Wow!" Sin said.

(With Ky and Sol)

"So, did you find out anything out Zato?" Ky asked his long-time friend about the Zato his son faced.

"Sorry, but I didn't find anything much about the guy besides he used to be a lab rat for an experiment that was used to create the Gears years ago probably a little of the time before you were born." Sol sighed as he snaps his finger causing a little fire to ignite and light up his cigar.

"I figured as much, still he sounds like the merciful kind of guy who wouldn't strike down an enemy when they're weaken, and he did gave Sin a warning about his power." Ky noted the things Sin told him about with the fight against Zato.

"But he probably would've beat Sin to a bloody pulp if he didn't walk away letting him live, I can tell that guy is a professional when it comes to fighting and killing too." Sol pointed out.

"You are right about that. Zato must've been contacted by a telepath, meaning there's someone commanding Zato and perhaps that someone is strong too." Ky feared that whoever this mysterious foe is might be powerful than he and Sol could handle.

"Let's not get our panties in a twist, we've dealt with worst shit before and I'm sure this bastard will be no different once I burn him to Hell." Sol smirked, making Ky to sigh.

"Confident even in the worst possible moments, but I know how serious you can be at times." Ky commented.

"Just want to make sure, Dizzy isn't going to fight with us, right?" Sol asked.

"Sol, are you worry that she might lose control like last time?" Ky asked back, as well as hoping that his wife doesn't get involve in any fighting at all.

"Something like that, but I'm actually referring if we'll need her in the fight against this enemy. I'm not sure why, but something in my gut is telling me that we'll need her help." Sol explained, taking the cigar out of his mouth and crush it in his hand, burning it into ashes and dump the ashes into the nearest trashcan.

"Sol, as long as I have known you, your gut has never been wrong most of the time and I fear that Dizzy will have to fight as well." Ky looked down shame and sad that he may have to ask his wife to use her Gear powers again.

"Which is why I'm going to increase the difficult of my training with those kids, we're going to need ever hand we get to fight back." Sol stated.

(Unknown Location)

"Yes, yes, yes, I see. That's good, very good need, be sure to have all the preparations that is required exactly everything on the list and no short cuts either as we wouldn't want to draw in too much attention to ourselves now, would we? And be on the look out for anyone who might get in the way, so you already know what to do." A young man said fast and steady talking through his cellphone. His appearance is covered in shadow except for two white circles.

"Of course, you did hire me for that very purpose and so, I will my utmost best to make sure the plan goes smoothly." Zato's voice said.

"Excellent! I can hardly wait for the day to come when all the Gears will be gathered in one place, somewhere where they can feel safe from hiding among the humans, but that place will also serve as their cage as well for my master." The young man smirked.

"I will be waiting for any more orders from you, Bedman." Zato said before hanging up.

The young man Zato called him Bedman chuckles a bit before getting in the laughing of a madman.

KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

Sin sure had a fun time at the arcade with Elphelt giving her the first good experience of going to the arcade playing some video games and now he knows about her feelings to her, at least a little as he is not entirely sure about how he feels for her, but he will soon. And now it is shown the Zato is working for someone just as Ky and Sol predicted as they will have to be prepare for the worst.

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