"It seems like ever since we joined up, you've been going out of your way to avoid killing these assholes who ARE trying to kill us!!" Nova exclaimed.

Talon grunted. "I'd just rather not resort to killing."

"So let me get this straight, you'll betray your entire race, but you WON'T kill one of them?!"

"Look, there is a huge difference between fugitive and murderer; both morally and consequentially! If I ever allow myself to go back down into that place, I don't think I'll ever come back." Talon said.

Nova just groaned, clearly a little annoyed. She never had the most patience, despite being trained to have that. "Do you wanna be moral and lawful or do you wanna win?"

"And you think we'll win by your strategy of 'shoot first, think later'?" The purple Slasher hissed.

"Are you saying I don't think?" Nova growled.

"No. I said you shoot before thinking. Apparently you also talk before listening."

"You smart ass little-"

Macy groaned, took out her Everything Ray and blasted at a tree nearby, alarming the two. "Guys! We already made up with each other and have been together for a year! We gotta stick together! We're friends, not rivals! Look, we're all angry and frustrated and I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to give into that temptation of screaming for no reason, but then this team would tear apart! And I don't want that because we're such a good team!" Macy said as she hugged both of her friends before letting them go. "Now if you'll excuse me, I got charge my Everything Ray."

She then pointed at the fire she made. "THAT? That should be way bigger." She said before she walked off.

Nova sighed and then went to sit down on a chair, putting her backpack and gun aside.

Talon's heart clenched before he walked over too. "Nova, I'm sorry. If I did anything that genuinely offended you, I'm terribly sorry for that too."

"It's not you, so don't be." Nova sighed.

"Are...Are you still mad that we had to-"

"Leave Raymond back at the base since it would be too difficult to take him with us...yeah." Nova sighed. "I get that those tiny amount of survivors will heal him and all, but...when our parents passed, I promised I would protect him but he always wants to get himself into trouble." She sniffled. "I feel like that he's not in a coma...I feel like h-he's dead."

"Hey, that's not true. Raymond will wake up. I know he will." Talon said. "It will just take a while."

"I...I guess so." Nova said with a sigh. "Could we talk about something else other than emotional trauma? I'm, uhh, getting kinda bummed out."

"Oh, sure." Talon said before clicking his tongue. "So, give it to me straight. I'm still kinda clueless on the whole 'balls' subject. Are 'balls' a sensitive thing?"

Meanwhile, Dean was about to compliment his creator, Macy, on how well she defused the tension between Nova and Talon.

"Oh my god, really!?" Macy squealed.

Dean then decided that his narration might not be worth it.

Macy sighed. "Nevermind."

"I'm just kidding, Macy. I was very impressed with how you have defused arguments between those two."

"Well, you know how it is. If we can't cooperate, then we can't function. It's like how without proper sensing and light detection, a mechanism can't gather information for the control system to make decisions on, leaving the effectors obsolete." Macy explained.

"Hey! There's the robot loving, tech savvy creator I know!" Dean said.

Macy laughed. "Ah, shaddup." She said as she grabbed a bottle of poison and willingly injected it into her system.

"Okay, first of all. I checked. This is not expired...somehow." Macy blinked. "And second of all, you worried I'm gonna get drunk off one bottle?"

"No, just that you being a fighter and consuming wine do not mix well. And considering that the bread back at the deli might have been moldy. Well, you might find the results unkind." Dean said simply.

"Who knows? Maybe this entire alien invasion is just getting me so pumped for full of endorphins that I ignore the pain in my stomach sometimes...mostly that pain is from drinking this. This tastes really bad." Macy said as she set the bottle aside.

Dean hummed before speaking. "It seems this invasion has put you in a rather cheerful, dare I say, silly mood. I mean, you were more happy about learning about Talon than you were surviving an alien attack. I get that crushes affect girls differently, but I wasn't aware that it would be put first."

Macy blushed and coughed. Flirting with someone was easy, actually talking about the crush and how you like them? Not so much. So, she decided to change the subject. "Yeah, I guess I should be as brooding as Nova and Talon, but I really only get that way when I'm bored. And...well, this is actually a milestone for humanity. Awful as it is, the fact that aliens and inter galactic life exist out there allow me to stay chipper and positive. And the fact that we've survived this long also helps."

"Understandable." Dean said.

"With that being said, I hope these relaxing moments don't get too boring. Maybe something that will move the plot a little will happen!"

"I know I'm narrating, but that is breaking the fourth wall."

"No, I'd be blasting the fourth wall." She said as she opened the cabinet before she gasped at seeing what was inside.

Meanwhile, Talon just had his entire mind blown to bits. "So. Just to recap. On Earth, men have these dangling sacks containing super sensitive spheres, that if you hit them, it's an instant knock out?"

Nova nodded. "Yyyyyyup."

"Like, hit them with virtually any amount of force and they're down?"

"More or less. Okay, more."

"And yet, to describe a tough badass person, you say they 'have balls'?"

"Not to mention we use the female counterpart to show how weak someone is." Nova added.

"That makes NO sense!" Talon exclaimed. "From what you described, the female counterpart is highly superior! It can retain its form after passing something like a hundred times, and even bleeds multiple times without dying! THEY CALL ME THE ALIEN!?"

"I actually tried to switch the words up because it made more sense, but it never caught on." Nova said with a shrug.

"So, you just gave up? That's pretty ballsy."

"...Uhhh, maybe you shouldn't-"

Then, there was a loud and girlish like scream. Talon gasped and quickly got to his feet, unleashing his blades. "That's Macy!!! Come on, Nova!! Time to be a pu-"

"Okay, I can see why it never caught on."