At Derrick's words Conner's face lit up as he started to smile and nod, he hadn't thought that just keeping them alive was help enough. "Alright on to...the next I am just hoping that all of them are as free of problems as 0097 was!"They had retrieved 8 boxes each almost free of any sabotage, only one signal had been a large piece of metal from a ship. The last they actually had to travel a short ways past the galactic rim. Derrick was cataloging who all they had found by their numbers so far. .It was getting late in the afternoon when we left the beach and I drove her to a remote ocean lookout. When I stopped the car she moved over and kissed me again. I took her in my arms, caressed and kissed her lips. I then nibbled on her ear and moved my hand to her breast. I felt a bit of hesitation from her but then she relaxed and let me fondle her tits. I removed her bikini top and licked her firm breasts and nibbled on her nipples. She then told me that she was a virgin and wasn't sure if. . "Just be careful to close your door and-LOOK OUT!" Odd screamed, pointing at the Spectre which was sneaking behind Sero. Thankfully it was early for a Saturday, so only Rosa was in the cafeteria.'Wait what?' were Sero's only words as he looked behind him to see the Spectre possessing him. Sero kicked and nearly screamed before he got up with the eye of XANA replacing his pupil. He took one look at Odd before he flipped the table they were sitting on, nearly landing on Odd."ODD! XANA activated. Was that fair? Well, they knew the law and, if they were worthy, the new political system was flexible enough to allow the cream to rise and the dross to sink, given time and a reasonable amount of effort.Within a terran-year of the launch of the New Empire, every single system had surrendered with barely a couple of hundred planets or moons that held out under siege by a few madmen who couldn’t accept what was happening, while most of the resistance was by true republics who did not want to.