Planting his feet in the ground eliciting cracks from the cement surface, Zeel widens his legs to shoulder length as Alice plane was about to descend on the roof.

With a massive rumbling noise, the plane lands but another issue arises. The plane still travelling too fast to slow down in time, as it was about to pass Zeel, He grabs a wing and begins to pull. For a brief moment Zeel also gets dragged along with the plane before digging his feet into the concrete. With a sufficient counterbalancing weight, Zeel then flexes every muscle he could spare to stop the plane which was barely hanging over the ledge.

The other group stood at the side completely appalled by the super human feat Zeel had just done. While anyone would like the looks of admiration at that moment, Zeel who had been preciously injured with the plane incident further aggravating his wounds, preferred some assistance instead of admiration.

"Little help here?" Zeel yelled as everyone came back to their senses.

Alice exits the plane and jumps towards Zeel wrapping her arms and legs around him like a koala bear. Zeel had expected many reactions from her: kicking, cursing, biting, slapping, but he had to admit that this was his favorite reaction.

"Where have you been I've been looking everywhere for you" Alice said in a bit of a seductive voice, Zeel had read about this before so he knew that she was currently deflecting and trying to act cute. He could guess it was because she did something that messed with the nanites and didn't want him to be overly angry at her.

"I've been around, but we'll talk a bit later" Zeel replied as he saw the earlier spectators running towards them in excitement.

"Nice landing" The guy named Luther said to Alice.

"I think technically it is called crashing" Alice replied.

"I guess catching a plane is no big deal around here?" Zeel interrupted as his body began to sway, excessive blood loss is still an issue even with an amazing healing factor.

"Yeah, I am not sure how to compliment a guy who caught a plane" Luther said as he stretched out a hand towards Zeel and then Alice "My name is Luther West"

"Alice. And this is Claire. And this is my husband Zeel" Alice introduced as she got off the swaying Zeel, and began carrying him instead. Her eyes darted over his body as she noticed a couple new scars to his already excessively scarred body.

"That guy dropped from a couple hundred feet just now. I can see why you two are married. It is a p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e to meet you" Luther said as he then introduced everyone in the group "That's Bennett, Angel, Kim, and Crystal"

Luther points to the stuck up old man, then the Mechanic checking out the plane, then the shy looking Asian, before finally pointing at the smiley girl.

Zeel and Alice had the same thought at that moment 'Guess all the normal people died with the apocalypse?'

"Hi! My name is Crystal" The girl at the sides said as she tried to stretch her hand forward.

"No, no, no! Enough with the introductions. So you're here to help, right?" Bennett asked interrupting everyone like the asshole he is. Zeel just looks at him strangely with a strange twinkle in his eyes. Alice seeing this gets in front of Zeel, even if they have been apart for a long period of time she is still very keen on his habits, especially the one to kill people without any explanation.

"can you get us out?" Angel asked.

"are you from Arcadia?" Crystal echoed immediately after.

Multiple questions are fired one after another much to the ire of Zeel and Claire, so Zeel butts in before things can get any worst.

"We are not from Arcadia and just random survivors who were running out of gas and decided to land" he replied not wanting to waste any more time with the bunch of misfits.

"There'll be no rescue?" Crystal says in a downtrodden voice, Zeel was tempted to kick her off the roof since she reminds him of a lost puppy, and he hated puppies.

"I'm sorry...Oh..." Alice said as she tried to say something positive to cheer up the group but couldn't think of anything on the spot.

After every other question was answered the group disperses and Luther comes to the front eyeing Alice strangely, much to Zeel's annoyance. It reminds him of Carlos, 'gosh I so wish he is dead' Zeel thinks to himself.

"Don't even think about it...they had their hopes up. They thought you could take them to the promise lands." Luther said as he leads Alice, Zeel and Claire inside after answering some of their questions in turn.

Alice asked mostly about Arcadia while Zeel and Claire were busy giving each other the stink eye. Zeel doesn't know why but he and Claire could never really get along, he suspects it may be because she is a lesbian and likes Alice too, that or he is being overly cautious.

"I don't even have my memories and I don't like you" Claire said as even without her memories she could still feel the dislike towards Zeel.

"Oh? Really" Zeel said before he dropped the bomb "Are you pretending so you can forget that maybe Carlos abandoned you for K-Mart or another young girl?"

Though Claire could not remember who Carlos or K-Mart is, she still felt extremely offended by the statement so she threw a punch towards Zeel. Zeel just stood still and took the face shot without flinching one bit.

"F.u.c.k!" Claire yelled as she retracted her swollen hand, wondering if she has just punched a person or a f.u.c.k.i.n.g rock.

Zeel stopped paying attention to Claire and instead turned towards Alice and Luther. Earlier he heard them mention Arcadia a couple of times, and has a few conjectures about what it is but doesn't mention anything yet until he can talk to Alice first. While captured and drifting in and out of consciousness he often heard the pilot and soldiers talking about transporting him to 'Arcadia'.

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