Yadir went to where the others were as Antoinette asked him. There was a lot of debate between the leader of the Sentinels, the leader of Infinity, and the leader of FIREFLY. Although in the case of Michael Tyndale, he didn't introduce himself as the leader of an organization that studies aliens and protects Earth from an invasion. He only introduced himself as someone associated with the Sentinels. He didn't even tell Armin his name. Jonathan asked everyone to let him talk to Armin, since he knew what had happened: about the photo Fiorella stole from Warshap's antique shop. While the debate continued, Dae-Hyun briefly told Jonathan what had happened when his son fought Armin and Fiorella managed to get on the ship, and what had happened: both of them had mixed emotions and feelings.
_Try to persuade him as best you can-said The Looter-but be careful-
Can my brother come with me to this talk?
_What does Sergei have to do with this? You know he never wanted to be a Sentinel.
_My sister-in-law Miley was Fiorella's best friend, I think that tells you everything.
_All right, Sky Panther, do what you know you have to do.
_Armin and Jonathan headed to a part of the ship where there wasn't much danger. Even so, Dae-Hyun and Cameron monitored the conversation to act in case Armin got furious and acted accordingly.
Armin and Jonathan talking
_I'll remind you of my name: it's Jonathan McMahon, but you can call me Sky Panther. As you already know, I'm a super spy who's in an organization known as the Sentinel Legion.
_It's interesting that your accent sounds like the person I'm talking to is a Warshapian!
_Well, you already know I'm a doppelganger of one of your kind. I know you detected it right away. It's one of their main abilities, and more than just a war-magnetar, isn't it?
_How do you know that information?
_I didn't come here to talk about that.
_So, what did you come to talk about, you damn scoundrel? (threatening tone)
_About Fiorella
Armin was stunned for a few seconds.
_Which of the two: my wife or the one from your Earth?
_I can say both, like I told you: I'm autistic.
Place where Dae-Hyun was monitoring
_It's not a good idea for me to keep saying that- Dae-Hyun said to Jonathan.
_He knows what he's talking about-Cameron said, his powerful gaze reflecting a great aura of mystery-Let's trust Jonathan as we have until now. The strategy he's using is one of the best.
Place where Armin and Jonathan talk
_ Well! One thing we have in common is that I don't give much priority to emotions, but that doesn't mean I don't have the capacity to love. In fact, I know you also have the capacity to love, no matter how cerebral and rigid you are.
_ Warshapians don't process emotions like you humans do. What do you know about that?
_ I already told you, Armin: I know you lost your wife. Like I told you, I came to talk to you about "the two women named Fiorella." Let me tell you, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry for your loss!
_ What do you know about losing the woman you love! - Armin said angrily, almost attacking Jonathan, but Jonathan managed to calm him down with what he said- Because I lost mine too. My wife is dead!-Jonathan's voice cracked- And I couldn't do anything to save her, just as you couldn't do anything either. Even though you're the most powerful alien in the entire Multiverse, you couldn't save the woman you love. That's fine! The swift don't always win the race, the wise don't always make the right decisions, the intelligent can't always triumph. We all have bad times.
_I don't see the logic in you coming here trying to open wounds and now coming with words of wisdom.
_That's not the point. I may be autistic, and they'll say I can't feel empathy, but the truth is, I feel more capable than ever of showing it, and since you and I have suffered similar losses, I'll now talk about Fiorella, but as you said: about someone who comes from my Earth, from Earth 02.
_Speak!
_ I met your doppelgänger who is on my Earth, Earth 02, his name was Yoann McGregor, he was a human, that's true! He also had many parts of your personality, if I'm honest, I never liked him! In fact, we didn't even have the chance to get to know each other to the extent of becoming friends, but I did know part of his story and I'll tell you the truth: Yoann and Fiorella also got married like you with Fiorella from this universe, but obviously your deceased wife was an alien like you, Fiorella was human, and I say she was human because she took "the conversion" just like I did. And so this is their story: like every marriage, they didn't have a perfect marriage but they both loved each other deeply, both being willing to give their lives for the other, unfortunately, Yoann McGregor was kidnapped, and his older brother, Helmer McGregor, was in his power to pay the ransom, but even though he paid it, the damn bastards who kidnapped him, Yoann, received a better offer: 7 times more than what their brother Helmer was going to give them in return than what they gave to Yoann, your doppelganger. And so, they gave it to those ungrateful people and they received 7 times more than the ransom, and well... sorry! I was forgetting an important fact.
_What fact are you talking about?"
_Before that, while your double was kidnapped, you know that a kidnapper does cruel things to their victims, and one of them was that they sexually abused Yoann.
_Stop! Armin shouted, feeling so angry and so much pain, his arms turning into swords. Why could that be?
The place where Dae-Hyun Park and Cameron Townsend were monitoring
_McMahon! Don't bring those topics up with him- Dae-Hyun said- I think I'm starting to suspect why he reacted that way when I told him such a sensitive subject.
_Jonathan knows what he's doing," Cameron said.
_Don't forget I'm a doctor, Cameron, and while I know you love to talk and be in control and all that, I took some electives in psychology, and I think that's why Skyintellstraighwar reacted that way.
_Let's trust Jonathan, Dae-Hyun. He may be autistic, but you know he's one of the best Sentinels. He'll be able to handle this. It's not time for you and me to intervene yet.
Place where Armin and Jonathan speak
_ Well, the thing is that your doppelgänger was sold to human traffickers, and the place where Yoann McGregor ended up was very similar to an event that occurred on Earth: Nazi concentration camps, because of the racial pride and boundless hatred of a human, he felt that his race was superior and had humans of another race exterminated, it was one of the largest genocides in the history of humanity, it was Jews who suffered, and those cruel things they did to these poor people, that was repeated with those damn traffickers, that's how they treated your double, Fiorella, she believed that her beloved husband was dead, but before the kidnapping she became pregnant with twins: That's right! You had two daughters, but the difference is that your wife and you didn't have them as twins, your daughter, Galaxy, is your firstborn, and Khione is your second daughter. Before continuing with this last information, I will tell you one thing: Fiorella was unjustly imprisoned because she was falsely accused of having murdered her husband and had been an accomplice to his kidnapping, but she was determined to show the truth, and escaped from prison, but as she was not cared for as a woman should be when she is pregnant, since she was a fugitive, at birth, one of her twins was stillborn, who would be Khione's doppelgänger, and only one lived, and Fiorella named her Dorothy. But there's more: Yoann's brother, Samuel McGregor, also ended up with those cruel human traffickers and told Yoann everything, he was devastated to find out, and well, they made him believe that his brother Samuel was killed in front of his eyes and thrown off a cliff, before Yoann's terrifying gaze, and he was taken away on a train, on the way, he couldn't hold it in anymore and started to cry like he had never cried in his life, but love never fails: a little girl, named Rachel, by the way, Rachel Ackermann, who had also been a victim of many injustices, approached him very innocently, the girl was looking for a father's love, and as we know, using common sense, Yoann wiped away his tears and with his speech still halting, he told her why she trusted a stranger so much, but that little girl charged at him like a little girl charges at her father with love - Jonathan's voice breaks again, because he remembers when she approached him like that He loved his daughter Gretel (Air Cat) as a child before she was taken from him—and a special bond developed between them. But then, when one of the commanders found out, he killed the girl right in front of Yoann's terrifying eyes. Well, they pretended they had killed her. There's much more you should know, but you should know this, which is the most important thing.
Armin, who no longer knew whether to follow his tradition of rejecting emotions or feel deeply moved by what he was hearing, in fact, his mixed emotions intensified even more, seeing what Fiorlella (Earth 02) did so that her girls would not be taken away from her, made him find many qualities in Fiorella and fall in love with her even more, and that he had not yet heard what else Jonathan wanted to tell her and even what happened with Helmer, even the Sentinels decided that they would not reveal it to him for the moment, that in due time he would know, but he felt remorse and guilt for those feelings not only for what it implies to be a Warshapian and his position as leader of INFINITY, also for the love he had and has for his deceased wife, and he feels that although she is already dead, it would be like "betraying her" by falling in love with another woman.
_ The main thing I should tell you is that Fiorella never gave up, and Yoann was saved by an elderly couple who took care of him as if he were their son for a while, they treated him with love, while he was full of trauma and pain, but he came back because he wanted to see Fiorella again, and that's how it was! And it was painful for him when he heard from his wife's mouth what his brother Samuel had already told him: that she was unjustly imprisoned, that she was a fugitive from the police, and was pregnant with twins but one was stillborn, although to be honest, this last fact, that a twin was stillborn, Khione's doppelgänger, Samuel did not know, he only told him how far Fiorella was pregnant and was being a fugitive from justice unjustly, making Yoann's pain intensify, but he was deeply moved to see how Fiorella, upon knowing that he was alive, continued to wait for him, and when he told her everything he had experienced, she made sure that together they got ahead despite so much pain, giving him all her support and unconditional love, Dorothy was already 6 years old, but more tragedies arose: Fiorella was snatched from Yoann's arms and he was made to believe that she had been murdered, but it was not like that, but the truth is that when Dorothy became a young adult. Yoann truly died, sacrificing himself for his daughter, Dorothy, and for another daughter who wasn't his biological daughter, but whom he had taken in as his daughter. But she died without knowing that Fiorella was alive. But in all those years that she was captive, a prisoner, she never stopped loving him. And she didn't forget her beloved daughter, nor the stillborn little girl: the one you named Khione, but she named Caitlin. Nor did she forget the girl who had been Yoann's crybaby when he was trafficked: Rachel. Now, Fiorella, when she learned that her beloved Yoann was truly dead, was utterly devastated, as devastated as you were when you learned that your beloved wife was dead. But equally, those feelings you now have for her, even if you deny them, Skyintellstraighwar, are present before Fiorella of Earth O2. You love her! And she loves you too! Look for her!
Armin began pacing, confused, and speaking out loud, not knowing what to really express. What he had been loyal to his entire life was crumbling now that he was "in love with a human" (something that is a law all aliens must avoid). Even as he paced, Armin said to Jonathan:
_I am faithful to my principles, and what you want is for me to break them! Why do you keep awakening in me the love for a human? It's very foolish!
_What is necessary is never foolish. It's something I learned from my leader's wise brother, and I'll tell you something wise that the Fire Cat came to know: even a wise man like you, and any other wise man, in the midst of so much oppression, anguish, and fear, can go crazy.
Armin stopped walking and stared at him.
_Don't come to me with wisdom that comes from humans! Instead, answer me these questions. You're a spy, and I'm sure you already know! Who killed my wife and daughter?
_ You'll know that answer in due time. In fact, to be honest, in everything I told you, I told a half-truth, and I sincerely apologize for that because I know that "lies kill." Forgive me, but I assure you that in due time, everything will have an answer.
Serguei makes an appearance for what he came for.
_ My wife is dead too, and she was Fiorella's best friend, the one my brother is telling you about!
Armin stares at Serguei.
_ I met your doppelgänger. She was from the Sensiwarshabile tribe. My wife was from the same tribe.
_ Of course! I'm a doppelgänger of a Warshapian. Serguei is my brother, so he's also a doppelgänger of a Warshapian. From what I see, you also have similar cultures, tribes, things that we have as a human race.
_Now I'll speak: my wife, Miley, was Fiorella's best friend, the woman Jonathan has been telling you about all this time.
_What logic does it make to talk to me about that, you shameless human? - Armin asked Sergei in a cold, serious, but threatening tone.
_What I'm trying to do is show you that just as you're suffering a lot now, I just learned that the doppelgänger of one of my brother's best friends and a close friend of mine, Cameron Townsend, was your best friend, besides being the interim leader, co-leader, and your right-hand man in INFINITY. You and she have a lot in common, and not just the losses you've suffered irreversibly! Losses that only teach you to live with the pain. Put aside your pride and arrogance that humans are a threat and destroy that damn idea in the minds of all aliens! Don't you see that it's easier for you to destroy millions and millions of humans together than for us to even scratch you? Think of your daughter who is still alive! Soon they will know truths that not even the aliens know.
_Enough! I'm tired of you repeating hidden truths over and over again, you shameless human! If your brother were to remain silent and not say a single word, I order you to answer me: Who killed my wife and daughter?"
_I have nothing to say, what? Does that bother you, prejudiced alien?
Armin growls, grabs Sky Panther and Sergei by their clothes, throws them against the wall, and yells at them again:
_Who killed my wife and daughter!?"
_Anger doesn't let you see the truth, get rid of it!" Jonathan said with a pained voice, almost fainting from the tremendous impact he had when Armin threw him, but The Looter and The Dark Evader appeared on the scene to defend Sky Panther and Sergei. With a fencing sword (similar to the ones his son Seung You used, except it didn't shoot electricity) Dae-Hyun challenges Armin.
_ We may not be aliens like you! But if we are this, even if we're not all here, I'll tell you what we are: We are the Sentinel Legion!
Armin roars again and attacks Cameron first, but Cameron, with his great gift, evades every attack Armin throws for a long time, causing Armin to become frustrated and enraged at not being able to attack him. Meanwhile, Dae-Hyun, despite only having a sword, unsheathes it and fights Armin with it, also taking out a bow and arrow (since Dae-Hyun is also a master archer) and sparring with a type of karate and boxing. Jonathan, using the device used to control drones or in video games, manages to make the ship move abruptly in such a way that Armin loses his balance, but unexpectedly, he is teleported to the place where Hansel and Alexander were fighting. When Armin was teleported, he realized it was Cat-Storm who had done it. He tells him in his feline suit and with the overly deep voice he has when he's wearing the suit:
_Sky Panther told you: anger doesn't let you see the truth, get rid of it! - Then, Cat-Storm takes out rays (like those that appear in thunderstorms) from his eyes and throws them at Armin. Armin protects himself with his Warshapian shield. Although the rays were strong enough to throw Armin very far, he remained standing and could see that he did "some damage" to his shield.
_ Meddling where you're not called is unwise, you shameless feline! What's your purpose in attacking me?
_ I am Cat-Storm, co-leader, interim leader, founder, and creator of the Fighting Cats?
_ Are you like that lunatic human-feline named Antoinette? My respects, though! Does she have a vocabulary and accent very similar to a Warshapian?
_ Don't call her a lunatic human-feline! That woman is my wife!
A moment of silence, Hansel speaks again with his powerful deep voice
_ I'll repeat what Sky Panther told you: Let go of anger, because anger prevents you from seeing the truth! - Later, Hansel transforms: he takes off his powerful Cat-Storm suit and reveals himself as who he also is: a Warshapian (also war-magnetar), transforming with the full armor when they war, and when Hansel speaks without the Cat-Storm suit (being him, an alien with the appearance of a 28-year-old man, physically very similar to Jawara, with a less deep voice than with the suit, just as emotional but rigid as the voice that distinguishes the Warshapians) he tells him: "Anger prevents you from seeing the truth, without anger you can see the absolute truth."
_ Hansel Skyintellfirewar! Your father is Joe Skyintellfirewar, but of course! They are both Outlander-aliens, in fact both he and one of your brothers joined your ship - Armin He transforms much more and reveals more of his combat abilities, though not all of them yet. "I think it's time for me to finish you off!"
_ What I can assure you is this: I won't fight you as Cat-Storm, but as the Warshapian that I am!
At that moment, Cat-Iqinilelion (Andrei Ackermann, Ice Cat's brother) and Cat-motorcyfleet (Jayden Hauer, Ice Cat's husband, who has Asperger's Syndrome), who are also Fighting Cats and entered CVI8 to fight, are at their leader's side.