"I'm having you taking a flight tomorrow to the Union." Sergei promptly said as he handed a cup of tea to his foster daugher, Soma Peries, Lieutenant on the HRL's Chobu Squad.
"Colonel, what do you mean?" she asked him. He sipped some of his hot drink before he looked at her intently, with an obvious expression of worry, "With this whole Celestial Being affair over, I fear that the Insitute might ask me to..."return you" to them."
Soma stared at her tea, remembering her days as a "Super-Soldier Subject". She didn't want to leave her "father" behind, not after all they had been through.
"So why the Union?" she then asked.
"I have a friend there. You could say a pupil of mine." he answered, "He's about the same age as you. He's the only person there I can trust, to be honest."
He had another sip, "I don't think you'll be staying there long, as I heard that there will be some kind of reform in the UN that might just end all of this mess."
He patted her head, "Get ready to go, then."
***
Several days later, Soma had arrived in her casual clothes to LAX, where this "Matt Mackenzie", the Colonel's Union friend, was supposed to be waiting. However, he didn't seem to have arrived yet...
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