Crol brought the little Silvie to her grandfather with his aircraft. The old man was happy to see his granddaughter safe and sound. He thanked Crol for saving her and gave him a map.

"I believe that you'll find what you need when you reach this area I marked right here."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"You'll know when you see it."

Leaving Crol in confusion, the old man left with his grandchild. Digit suggest that he should move on to the marked area regardless. With no better options. he agreed and departed with the Garuda.

While traveling on the sky, Crol notice two signals were chasing from behind him. Two aircrafts behind him launched missiles and he barely dodged. He trying to evade his enemies by flying downward but such attempt didn't work. The two hostile aircrafts eventually caught up to him and shot down his aircraft, forcing him to initiate an emergency landing.

Barely survived when Garuda crashed into the ground, Crol had to hide himself before getting caught or possibly terminated by the enemies. He cloaked himself using Blend Bandit, the enemies landed but they didn't see him anywhere. They found no one inside the Garuda either. The ability Crol acquired recently spared him the chance to get away from his chasers.

Even though he was out of his their sight, the remaining wound did not allow him to run to he could only walked away and hope that he won't be noticed. Luckily, there was a town nearby so he climbed inside a carriage and hide there. Two armed guys entered the town and asked the locals if they had seen a guy with dark green hair and eyes, to which they all shook they heads. Both of them left the town, still searching for Crol.

Crol himself felt asleep, not realizing that the carriage he was hiding in started moving. While he drifted into unconsciousness, the carriage arrived at a small house. Someone found him sleeping when they finished packing stuff. Crol noticed an unfamiliar face watching after him in what looked like a bedroom.

It was a girl with light brown skin and dark blue hair, there was a braid in the back of her head. She wore a grey shirt with the coverage only led down right below her chests. Her jeans were torn, making look it look like a short pant.

"You've finally awaken. Just why did you sleep in my carriage like that?"

"Uh...was a bit tired on my travel is all."

"Don't think I didn't notice your bandaged wounds. Did someone done that to you?"

"No need to concern."

"You slept on my wares so you've registered yourself as one of my concerns."

"Whatever, is this your room?"

"Yes, I had my father carried you in here."

"Thank you, I guess."

"Such dry attitude, the surface has had enough of drought already. At least there's the waterway system."

"Well if you excuse me, I'll take my leave."

*grabs*

"Let go of me."

"You're not going anywhere before returning the favor, and there's your wound as well."

*sighs* "Fine, I'll be a nice patient."

"Good."

And thus, the braided girl left Crol alone as she went into the kitchen. His thoughts were stopped by Digit informing him that the Garuda was damaged and needed repairs. But he couldn't risk going back to check the aircraft in the state he was in at the moment, his chasers might still be around. Staying still was his only option.

At night, the braided girl and her father asked Crol to join them for dinner, putting an end to his thinking moment. She introduced herself as Maya and her father as Rufus, her mother died when she was still young so the two of them had been living in their house without a woman ever seen. Crol introduced himself to be a wanderer, seeking for the family stolen from him.

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After filling his belly, Crol rested on the living room sofa. He made up his mind, intending to find technical equipment to fix the Garuda. He slept on the sofa until the following morning. Having gotten up, he left without giving the house's inhabitants a notice. He borrowed some stuff from an old man on his wat out of town. When he arrived at where the aircraft forcefully landed, he began his handy work.

The noises coming from the town distracted him from his work, Crol had to stop what he was doing to check the town. The townspeople were being attacked by a horde of guardsmen, among them was a blonde man with fluffy hair wearing a blue jacket. He looked familiar, it was then he realized that it was no another then The Peacock A.K.A Philip Feathers, Falcon's classy little brother. He and his men raided the town in search for something. Eventually the baddies cornered the locals, allowing Peacock to make his speech.

"Now that everyone has gathered here, I have a question for you all. Have you seen anyone entering the town yesterday. Someone had stolen an aircraft once belonged to my poor brother."

"No, we haven't had any visitor recently."

"I'd advise you not to lie. My men found someone who had stolen the Garuda7 which belonged to Falcon. Are you sure that none of you has seen him?"

"We didn't see any new face, whoever you found might have gone somewhere else."

Peacock ordered his men to search every corner in the town. With the ability to make oneself invisible, Crol had no problem evading the surveilling eyes. The guards reported to their boss that they found no one. Peacock still suspected that the person he was searching for was in this town. He could not forget the image of Ted's headless body when he came to his hideout.

He ordered the men to bring everyone in the town along as captives as he planned something in mind for his brother's killer. The baddies left the town taking the townspeople away, leaving Crol and Maya who just happened to arrive home behind. She saw no one in town and became worried for her father. Crol's sudden appearance behind Maya surprised her.

"Where did you come from?"

"Never mind that, everyone in the town was taken away by The Peacock. I was able to hide away from his men."

"That bastard?"

"You knew him?"

"N-no, I just heard of him recently. He likes kidnapping people to have them as audiences. Just a show-off."

"I believe he was looking for me and wanted to meet me as much as I did."

"Regardless, we should save the people. Let's go, we could use the waterway."

"No need to tell me twice."

Maya led Crol to a hidden ladder taking them to a tunnel below the surface. She hoped on a water motorcycle and he got on as well then they departed. Maya seemed to know the way around the tunnel as if she was familiar with all the routes. After passing through what looked like a cave they arrived at a mountain. Maya heard that Peacock set a stronghold of his own around the area.

Both Maya and Crol cimbled the mountain and eventually found a stronghold surrounded by a huge wall. The stronghold itself had many watchtowers so they had to be careful. He wasn't sure why she came along still decided to break in along with her. He told her to stay put and vanished in front of her eyes. After a while he came back with a stolen outfit from a guard, allowing her to disguise.

Both of them passed through the wall and stepped their feet inside Peacock's hideout. A guard asked for identification, they handed the stolen ID cards and were allowed in. They entered a large hallway with some guards talking among each other. After walking in the elevator, Maya took the time to talk with Crol.

"Just who are you? Why were those guys looking for you?"

"I owned the leader a life. I terminated his brother."

"I won't ask why. I'm sure you would prefer to keep it to yourself. Punishing the abusive ones doesn't require any reason."

"I like your spirit."

"Same goes to you."

The elevator soon stopped, they had reached the top floor of the stronghold where Peacock was supposed to be. They checked a hallway to see if there was any noticeable door. They found a suspicious looking door and found an entire theater inside. However, the audiences were stuck on their seat. There were many people including those from her hometown. Maya noticed her father and tried to save him but to no avail. Suddenly the lights all shined on the stage.

The one and only Philip Feathers had showed himself in front of every each of his captives. He wore a suit appearing as someone originated from nobility. People panicked but the guards silenced them, Peacock begin his so-called speech.

"Welcome to Peacock's Perfected Particular Performance, where I shall display my amazingness to you all so that you will see why devoting yourself to me is the only and best choice."

*dashes*

"Enough of this! Let everyone go!"

"This PPPP with get endless negative reviews."

"At least say its name properly for god's sake."

"Pen-pineapple-peanut-pen."

"You...wait who are you two?"

"We came to postpone your performance."

Crol and Maya removed their disguise and approached the stage. Philip calmly greeted them and asked them to join his performance, to which they declined. Yet, he wouldn't let them get away so simply. In fact, he expected both of them to show up when he noticed the intrusion to his stronghold.

Realizing that talking was pointless, Maya initiated the fight by throwing two water balls at Philip. But he dodged the water balls that turned into blades. Meanwhile Crol threw two boomerangs at him, he barely dodged it but his cloth was torn. He learned that one of his guesses was responsible for his brother's death, Crol himself admitted to have slain Ted Feathers who was also The Falcon.

Maya created a typhoon emerging below Philip. While his movement was restricted by the surprise attack, Crol threw a bunch of boomerangs at his enemies. However, multiple laser beams emitted from Philip's hands, both Crol and Maya dodged but were hit by the beams suddenly changing their trajectory.

Thanks to that, the vaporizing typhoon dissipated. Philip descended slowly using his suit which turned out to be a high-tech armor. He stood calmly in front of the audiences watching in shock.