4E delivers the unconscious kid to the main Guardians laboratories and returns to his room on the colony. Upon arrival, he notices his partner machine tidying up his room. “Good day, 4E!” Light exclaims to her owner.
“Not quite a good day,” 4E says as if he's heavily thinking. He takes out a packet of Shield Gum and hands a piece to Light, who delightfully takes it and starts chewing.
“What's...wrong?” Light tries to ask while making 4E's bed and chewing the gum.
4E lets out a sigh and begins to speak, “Student of mine. Changes into a malevolent, destructive being during training. Don't know why, the section of Guardians responsible for his rediscovery won't tell. Something's up, I tell you.” Light's eyes change to a bright green, indicating a database search.
“4E, nothing about such occurrences in the past ten years, unfortunately, besides the article about your student.”
4E shrugs and says nothing but looks up to the ceiling. 'What is that section of Guardians hiding?' he wonders. He gets up from the bed and walks over to the desk, typing into the database search.
Hours later, even after Light powered to sleep mode and slept on the cushion in the main room, 4E is busy typing repeatedly into the search engine. No results come up each time, but his curiosity grows with each empty returned result. Frustrated, he starts from the beginning again, except this time, something's different...
4E is surprised that now he notices the name of the Guardians section responsible for rediscovery. 'Project Redevelopment...' 4E thinks. With that name now in hand, he puts the name into the searcher and finds only one article about them, but one is better than none. Interestingly enough, the article is very brief; there is barely any information, but he thinks maybe there is more information if he uses his Guardians identification.
Moments after he's inserted his card into the slot next to the terminal, there is an overflow of articles regarding this section. Most of them are tabloid articles that are otherwise censored to the citizens-but-not-Guardians, but 4E reads about them anyway, hoping that there is information about them.
Surely enough, a very passionate article written by an infamous tabloid at the very bottom of the list is the one that catches 4E's eyes.
“Project Redevelopment to Ruin the Gurhal Planetary System!” the title reads. 4E continues reading, scrolling as needed.
“The Gurhal planetary system is going to be ruined! Project Redevelopment's information page has no information about itself! But what makes this suspicious is that this newly founded section of the Guardians is that there is literally no information about it whatsoever. All we citizens know is that a significant portion of the budget that keeps the Guardians Colony sitting in orbit disproportionately went into funding this mysterious organization. What could possibly be the Guardians be hiding, or who is the mastermind behind this group?” The article continues on using baseless claims, but the first paragraph strikes 4E as true. Even though the Guardians is a somewhat private security firm, it should still release critical information about who or what an upcoming organization is or does to its own people. Even if such 'pressure' to do so is only historical to give information based on previous organizations within the Guardians, there is an unspoken rule of introducing one's job to the public. But of course, this single section has been quiet for most of this time, only having 'spoken' during the rediscovery of that kid.
4E sits down on his bed and slowly reclines until his head rests on the bed itself. 'Hmm...what a precarious situation we've got on our hands.'
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