Within minutes, another Einstein-Rosenthal bridge was created (of course, after Karin explained the point of it to the inhabitants for their sakes) and they were now within an appropriate distance to drop the planet off… of course, after they help jump start its new revolution path. That would actually take a few hours and they will have to come back every month to make adjustments to make sure it doesn't stray too far that the planet dwellers freeze or too close that they burn up, especially when they get close to the planet for spring and summer. With the coordinates of the sol's system saved onto the navigation computers, it would be a simple Ceph wormhole away from their assistance and would take merely five minutes to ready the wormhole for use from wherever in the universe they are.
Speaking of...
After Menma had finally had his fill of her milk, he drifted off to sleep with his dreams once again filled with thoughts of love from his mother. Naruko wiped her pink nipple dry of any leftover fluids and put her chest strap back over her breast. She lifted a hand to gently wrap it around the back of Satsuki' neck, bringing her in 'til their foreheads touched, both women's eyes closed in the moment.
"Thank you, Satsuki. Your help and comfort were invaluable to me. I know you have grown attached to Menma and since your child is already weaned, I will allow him to nurse from you every once so often if you want."
Satsuki obviously didn't respond vocally but a small movement of her head relayed her pleasure before Naruko released her. "I'm sure Menma and Sayuri will be close friends when they grow up. Your little girl is quite the adorable girl."
I'm certain. I just know that she will inherit her father's mischiefness, Naruko understood from Satsuki' gaze, as well as thoughts over their link. Naruko would give her that much.
"Much I'm sure as she grows older, her personality will be more like yours. They all almost always are."
Naruko turned to Karin who had moved back to her station to monitor the reports of ship-wide systems after a second use of the wormhole. To be honest, though they have the capability to use it, they often use their own form of Faster-Than-Light (FTL) travel. Sure, a Ceph wormhole was faster, but you needed coordinates of the place you want to go to to make it most effective. Without the coordinates for the system, it was really a case of 'shooting without looking.' Slim chances were you'd accidentally end up in a black hole or in the flight path of energy ejected from a quasar. With their own FTL, one would simply plot a course and drop out at any time, and during transit, their monitors were still capable of tracking what they were passing or coming upon from within their dimension.
Because of the unorthodox use of the Ceph wormhole, she simply wanted to make sure everything was working at peak condition. She noted some strain on the spires within the planet but that was too be expected. They would retrieve them in due time. With a finger swipe across the hologram display, the gamma radiation emissions from the spires ceased as the wormhole closed behind the planet and the inhabitants were treated to their first look at their new home.
The night was filled with unfamiliar star alignments and constellations as those that they knew of before were much too far away and mixed within the crowd of other stars to identify. The mass of ghostly greens and yellows indicated the Oort clouds surrounding different solar systems hundreds of astronomical units away and beyond those were the untraceable outlines of sibling galaxies so close yet so far away.
Naruko nestled the sleeping Menma a bit as she stood up and made her way to Karin, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Thank you as well, my friend." The woman didn't look back, but nodded. Naruko wasn't offended though. "Set course for the Triangulum Galaxy when we are ready to detach from the planet. They've noticed the new hive link in Menma and are curious. In the meantime, I will pay a visit to the planet once again to settle some business before we leave. Have the shuttle posted over each major ninja village tell them that I will be coming to exchange words. Each kage is encouraged to bring two bodyguards or advisors each and can simply board their respective shuttles to attend the meeting by the time I make to planetside in thirty minutes."
Naruko leaves with confidence that her XO understands and will handle the ship and preparations. She herself orders her personal shuttle and a detail of her personal honor guards to be prepped and ready for her arrival to go planetside in thirty minutes.
Stepping through the portal door and ending up in her bed chambers, she set Menma down on her bed as she quickly strips off her clothes and carries Menma into a bathroom behind a section of the wall that opens upon her command. It's a simple yet beautiful bathroom of wooden, polished walls, actual grass as the floor, with a warm spring pool set within a foundation of water-smoothed rock.
Stepping into the water, she sighs as the warm water massages the stress away from her body and the relief only grows as she submerges more until she finally settle all the way with the water just over her nipple line. Despite desperately wanting to just lie there, she gets to work gently lathering a disinfectant soap across her body, followed by Menma's much to his disgruntlement, and was done within a twenty minutes altogether.
Quickly drying herself off, she clothes herself and Menma in light clothing similar to the kind she wore before. A white, linen-cloth skirt hanging on her hips that fell to her ankles while a slit up the side showed smooth legs. She actually wore footwear this time, they being white colored, heeled boots with black outlines that almost went up to her knees. Her top consisted of a silk-like silver shirt with the upper-half identical to Satsuki's top and the rest flowed smoothly over her body but split outwards to show her toned, slim stomach.
Menma was simply wrapped in a soft cloth until she could get some made for him. She could already picture Coco going overboard with the designs and inventing a whole new line of fashion.
Putting that foreboding thought aside for now, she stepped through her door and appeared within her personal hangar, the one from before but a different shuttle was in place now. Her personal shuttle that she usually uses for diplomatic missions was the same colors as 'Outer Heaven.' Its main body was shaped like an upside-down trapezoid prism about thirty feet in width and fifty feet in length with two large fix wings in the back and two smaller, forward swept wings in front of them. There were no visible armaments on the shuttle but the Spectras wouldn't have let her shuttle fly anywhere unarmed.
Aligned in a single row on both sides of the shuttle's ramp were two members of her honor guard along with two gynoids. The most recognizable was KOS-MOS who would look after Menma if Naruko had to hand him off to take care of any business she felt would disturb him. The other gynoid was considered KOS-MOS's sister if you wanted to be general about it.
Standing at 7'3 with beautiful bronze skin, long silver hair that flowed down her back with two bangs framing her face as they fell over the headpiece that wrapped around her head like a band and they also made a widow's peak, and a single group of hair in between the bangs going straight up a couple of inches like a curved horn. Her face was angular yet contradicted the sharpness with smooth skin, a small nose, thin glossed lips, and bright blue eyes, making her a stunning beauty.
Her outfit was more open than KOS-MOS's own, leaving her shoulders, back, majority of her thighs and hips, a small circle patch above her navel, and a large diamond-shaped patch of skin from her lower breasts to her stomach bare to the elements. Her large breasts were covered in a what looked like a bikini top made of silk connecting between the collar around her neck and the rest of her 'suit' that was predominately black and purple and fit over her body like a sleeveless/legless unitard. She wore detached black sleeves from her biceps down that fit like gloves and had armored plating over the biceps and a purple gauntlet over her left arm from the forearm to her hand. She wore black armored heeled boots with attached leggings that went up to her lower thighs and on her right outer thigh was a large metal pack strapped around it.
This gynoid was T-ELOS (Telos), the anti-thesis to KOS-MOS as where the blue-haired gynoid was certainly capable of defending herself and equipped with an array of armaments, she was focused as a medic unit unlike Telos who was designed as an aggressor unit, updated and trained in all forms of warfare and capable of sustaining massive amounts of damage as well as being equipped with enough armaments to make her one insult away from becoming a walking 'Shock-and-Awe' campaign.
These two are assigned to specifically guard Menma from any who would think to take advantage of her through him should they see the chance. She had that prisoner ninja and Kushina's memories so she was fully well aware of what kind of deplorable world this one still was and it frustrated her greatly because they have such potential for productive things.
The last two accompanying them were her own guards… yeah, don't think about that too hard. Let's just say that despite their strengths and skills, their presence will really be just a formality. Standing at 7ft even, these two women were of equal beauty seeing as how they are twins with peach (caucasian but not pale) colored skin, straight, platinum blonde hair: somewhat even bangs down to their eyebrows, two longer bangs down their fronts to their chests, and longer hair down to their mid-backs. Both had sterling silver eyes with a hint of yellow mixing with them. They both wore matching outfits: sleeveless black unitards that could be mistaken for spandex hugged their bodies' every curve from toned glutes to perky, modest breasts and left nothing to the imagination, black shoulder guards that overlapped another set of guards with them strapped together underneath the arms and over the chest, metal skirt plates hanging from their waists made of a material that seemed to absorb light like a vacuum, black, metallic boots with no elevated heels that covered their ankles and shins.
Their final articles were their weapons of choice, both being a large, double edged claymore sword about six feet long with a standard guard and a thin foot-long handle. These swords weren't the sharpest bladed weaponry the Spectras had in their diverse arsenal but with each claymore weighing at 530 lbs and made out of near indestructible synthetic alloy produced from the metallic carapace of the eldest wyrms back in their solar system, only the Spectra males, gynoids, large A.I. battle platforms, and the Royals could possess the strength to effectively use these in combat and in the hands of the 'Black Twins', they might as well have been classified as Non-Nuclear Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction (NNWMDs). In fact that's actually what they were classified as when being wielded by the two sisters.
Now, these two women weren't actually Royals or gynoids. In Karin's first efforts to increase the population of the Royals by introducing Royal blood for the other subclasses to Neblade, her methods weren't as fine tuned as they are now (despite the process still having an undesirably high chance of death—Menma was an exception because of Kyuubi and his Uzumaki blood) and resulted in alot of rejections that simply made the subjects sick for several weeks before they went back to normal. Surprisingly, the Black Twins possessed a genetic mutation that Karin didn't catch (and couldn't study after the procedure) and it was responsible for them successfully Neblading the Royal DNA but the result was them becoming imperfect Royals which was shown by their silver eyes and platinum blonde hair.
Naruko felt they deserved a class of their own since they possessed the strength, regeneration, and possibly the longevity of a Royal yet lacked several traits that could connect them to their former Minor subclass. The new name she decided would be 'Grey,' as like a Grey, they showed traits of all classes. The only real unfortunate side-effects were that their personalities took a major dive off the deep end and were mostly monotonous, only showing expression through anger, surprise, or a subtle sense of content that couldn't really be detected unless you spent every waking hour of the past hundred years to recognize the minute details they sometimes gave away, and that they had no real handle on 'controlling' their massive strength so Karin placed several biological limiters within their minds that could only unlocked portion by portion on Naruko's command. Right now, they were settling with ten percent of their total strength.
Their names, from first born to second, were Alicia and Beth.
As Naruko approached the ship, her estimated number of steps until she stepped onto the ramp based on the distance of her pace was calculated by the Black Twins and when they counted down in their heads to ten, they snapped a salute. It was a professional gesture that Naruko didn't mind and even applauded for the amount of discipline involved in it. She made her way onto the shuttle with KOS-MOS and T-ELOS right behind her followed by the twins who stepped onto the ship as the ramps closed.
Inside the shuttle, there was plenty of space for just five women and a baby and Naruko sat comfortably while Menma grumbled at the movement disturbing his sleep. Naruko made idle talk with the medic gynoid while the aggressor unit asked briefly for details concerning the capabilities of these metahumans. While Naruko explained what she felt was prevalent, the twins sat on either side of Naruko. It was when they heard some gurgling sounds with the occasional *clicking* did they glance down at Menma who was reaching at Alicia.
Naruko watched in amusement as the Grey showed no expressions yet she could feel the uncertainty of how to proceed. With a light giggle, she lifted Menma up and handed him to a surprised Alicia. "He wants to meet you, Alicia. Menma, say 'hello' to one of mommy's protectors. They protect mommy from danger at all times."
Alicia felt a bit flustered in his mind from the praise and yet she couldn't find it in herself to humbly deny her queen's words when she could have sworn she saw Menma's little eyes light up in happiness. The little baby in her arms pawed at whatever part of her he could despite it being her chest the majority of the time. She wasn't trained for this! What was she supposed to say!? She kills enemies of her queen, not entertains babies! She looked to Beth for aid but her twin was just as stumped as she was in this situation.
Menma seemed to have caught on to her nervousness and frowned with a couple of whimpers coming out. Oh no! Did she make her queen's baby upset? What did she do wrong? The more she panicked the more upset Menma seemed to become. The rest of the cabin's occupants were watching the interaction with great interest. KOS-MOS being a medical unit and Naruko being both a scientist and multi-million year old ruler came to the same conclusions but Naruko wanted to test it out.
"Here, Alicia, I believe I might know what's going on. Let me see Menma." Alicia quickly passed the baby over and as soon as Naruko started thinking of how much she loved Menma, the baby calmed down. Not knowing the reason, the 180 change in behavior seemed to cause Alicia to become depressed in failing such a seemingly simple task.
"Well, that explains that," Naruko announced. "It appears that Menma has some innate ability of 'Empathy.'" At Alicia's questioning glance, she explained "He can feel your nervousness and when you started panicking, he started to panic as well." Alicia felt a huge weight lift off her shoulders before finally speaking.
"That could be dangerous if around those who wish to harm him. It seems it is something we both have to train." If one had heard her, they would wonder if she was dead inside from how flat her soft voice was. "He will need to control his empathy and I will need to train to remain calm in unsure situations."
Naruko had the urge to sigh at the straight answer but nodded at her points. They would indeed need to work on those skills. So with that little tidbit of new info discovered, Naruko simply waited for the shuttle to land in the capital of Hi no Kuni (Land of Fire) where she had announced that she would be coming to represent her people and help alleviate some fears. She wouldn't have bothered had she not promised Kyuubi in their deal to make its host the strongest warrior on this planet.
However, just because she said she would make him the strongest on this planet didn't mean they had to stay on this planet until that time came but with so few species hostile and skilled enough to give the Spectras a challenge, with the few that could being allies with them, she felt this was one of the best place to cultivate her baby into a strong Spectra. She would have to make sure he didn't get caught in this huge vengeance trap the world has been in.
"Entering atmosphere now," the pilot announced.
This was followed by some slight shaking amongst the spacecraft as it fought against the friction of the atmosphere as well as adjusted itself for the gravity.
"ETA, three minutes. Shuttle crew already groundside has secured us a landing zone away from the public reach. They figured little Menma wouldn't like all the loud commotion."
Naruko smiled and told her to give them her thanks. Now she just had to wait.