[hr][Center][h1][color=#C362B2]The Matthews Twins[/color][/h1]

In collaboration with: [@dragonpiece][/center][hr]

Iris had slept through the whole terrorist conflict. She wouldn't call herself a heavy sleeper but the situation ended so quickly it didn't even warrant waking up. In fact, you would even call it inconsequential background noise similar to leaving the television as you fall asleep. However, the words uttered by Avelyn was more than enough to rouse her from her nap. She sat straight up and drowsily asked [color=#FF007F]"Where's my candy?"[/color] then whipping her head back and forth in visible confusion.

Samuel was awake, yet acting like he was asleep. He didn't want to get up too quickly and frighten Iris, he just wanted her to sleep nice and soundly. After all, Tarak and the others had the situation under control, sure their help could be useful, yet Samuel just didn't feel like dealing with these washouts. And thankfully he didn't even need to get up as he just cuddled slightly close to Iris, as he just rested there as he waited for there to be a reason for him and Iris to get up. Yet it seemed Iris decided to wake up as she got up quickly and ask where her candy is, all because Avelyn wanted to play a little joke. Which ended up with Samuel falling forward and landing his head on the table and then onto Iris' lap. Feeling slightly dazed as he wasn't prepared for that sudden movement, yet otherwise fine.

A head had fallen into Iris's lap. A bit startled she pulled her hands away from the area and leaned back a bit. She had realized her brother had literally fallen there. Iris bursted out laughing as she just ran her fingers through his hair, finally getting out [color=#FF007F]"What are you doing?"[/color] as she pulled him up, setting him back onto his seat. 

Samuel feels slightly dizzy as he feels his sister's fingers run through his hair, as he felt better, but also still in pain. As Samuel answered his sister's question with, [color=#7ad7f0]"Eh…I dunno…just hangin' out"[/color]. As he felt Iris slowly raise him back into his seat as he looked at her still slightly dizzy as he says, [color=#7ad7f0]"Thank ye"[/color]. As he looked over as Tarak was talking to the shop keeps as there were crates upon crates of food, and…candy. [color=#7ad7f0][i]Oh lord. Iris is gonna rot her teeth[/i][/color]

Iris was still laughing as she watched her brother look off for a bit. She sprung out of her seat and said, [color=#FF007F]"Where be my candy?" [/color] As she tried to find her sweets. Some moments later, Iris's candy had been found. It seemed to have been moved, like people had been scurrying about. [color=#FF007F]"Samuel!"[/color] Iris yelled at she gleefully skipped over, [color=#FF007F]"Look! I found my candy..."[/color] Iris went deathly quiet as she spotted what had caught Samuel's eye. She dropped her measly bag of candy as with almost glimmering eyes she yelled [color=#FF007F]"CANDY!"[/color] as she stated to inspect is content. It was full of the works. Nougat, fudge, caramel, gum, chocolate, connections, hard candy, gummies, and licorice of red and black. That wasn't all though. Much to Iris's surprise, there was a ton of candy she had never tried. It wasn't long until she started to reach in there with the sole idea [I][color=#FF007F] Just one candy... Of each...[/color][/I]

[color=#7ad7f0]"Oh no you don't"[/color] Samuel immediately grabbed Iris's hand before she starts taking out more candy. He continued as he said, [color=#7ad7f0]"You already have enough candy you can't be opening more already"[/color]. Samuel lightly scolds her as he notices everyone else leaving too. As he starts taking Iris by the hand as he continues, [color=#7ad7f0]"Come on, they are going to the other shuttle, let's not get left behind!"[/color]

Samuel pulled Iris out of the crate but not before she was able to grab one of the random ones and stick it in her mouth. With that, she started to run towards the other shuttle to get slightly away from Samuel. She then pulls out the candy from her mouth and unwraps it to them promptly starts sucking in it. It had a warm feeling like it was spiced with cinnamon or clove. She turned to Samuel with a smile, showing the candy through her cheek.  She extends a hand for Samuel to hold as she asks him, [color=#FF007F]"Hey Samuel, what is this place? It seems pretty heavily armored and kind of looks like a bug."[/color] She takes a whiff out of the air and says, [color=#FF007F]"It smells like ozone and explosives"[/color], looking back at Samuel for confirmation.

Samuel takes hold of Iris's hand as he says, [color=#7ad7f0]"This place does smell like that yeah"[/color]. As Samuel continues to look around as he continues,  [color=#7ad7f0]"Oh this must be an armory"[/color]. As Samuel starts to look around at the weapons as people start talking about getting gear. Samuel looks over to Iris as he says, [color=#7ad7f0]"You want anything? I don't really need anything"[/color].

As they walked in, Iris let her eyes wander from stall to stall, looking for anything that might interest her. She replies to Samuel, [color=#FF007F]"Honestly, I think we are fine, we don't really use equipment. But it would be fun to do some window shopping. Come on!"[/color] Iris pulled him slightly forward to have them start walking again. It was truly a fun place to window-shop as much to her surprise, there was plenty of weapons and guns she has never seen before. There was this strange lightheadedness Iris was experiencing. It didn't make her feel much more like she was slightly out of her body. She didn't know what was happening but it was okay she thinks. She leaned closer to Samuel to keep herself safe as there was some nervousness with this development. Iris's eyes were starting to dilate.

Samuel was more than happy to go and start to just walk around and window shop with Iris. Almost like they were back home. They were just walking around and viewing all these strange and interesting tools and weapons. Sure it is slightly weird that they were doing this in an armory shuttle, however, Samuel thought this was more than fun as he was able to just be with his sister in a normal-ish situation. He felt Iris hold onto him closer as he was thinking, [color=#7ad7f0]This is nice, she even seems to be enjoying this[/color]. As they start bouncing from stall to stall as Samuel starts just looking at the weapons and tools, many seem very strange, like many combat droids, many different guns, and even strange ammunitions that may seem a little inhumane, like who would need an exploding, incendiary, poisonous Rau've bullet? Oh wait, he knows who would. At the end of the trip, everyone was starting to leave as Samuel looked toward Iris and noticed she seems slightly off as he asks, [color=#7ad7f0]"Hey Iris are you alright?"[/color]

Iris just glided through the shuttle, just following Samuel. The weapons were arranged in ways that made them look attractive to the eye. Some of the weapons were the same with just different decals. Most of them looked alright, some looked good, a few looked like literally shit. [color=#FF007F]"Hey Samuel, hey Samuel"[/color], Iris tugs on Samuel's shirt sleeve and grind at him and says, [color=#FF007F]"look at that fecal decal."[/color] She started laughing, being quite proud of her shit joke. But through the jokes and genuine curiosity, she did see something that interested her. A Rau've gear seller was showing off a pair of dark pink fingerless combat gloves. She stared at them the entire time passing by and although she wanted to stop and buy them, she didn't want to spend any money so she just let it go. As they were leaving, Samuel asked her if she was alright. Iris turned to him, put on a slight smile, and responded [color=#FF007F]"Yeah, I'm fine. I saw a [I]really[/I] cute pair of combat gloves. They were fingerless and like this really pretty shade of pink. I wanted them but don't worry, I have successfully have controlled my want for cute gloves."[/color] Iris said as she then takes a power stance, putting her hands on her hips and standing wide, stocking her chest out. She then relaxed from that pose and said to Samuel, [color=#FF007F]"Other than that, I'm pretty fine, thanks for looking out for me"[/color] as she then gives Samuel a big hug. The lightheadedness was still there but she could feel it starting wane on her. Whatever the case, it made the walking around a lot more fun, things just seemed more colorful. She looked towards Samuel and clasped his hand, [color=#FF007F]"Come on, let's catch up to the others"[/color] this time waiting for him to start walking instead of pulling him along.

As Samuel listened to Iris he was very happy she was having a good time. She had fun looking at each of the weapon stalls. As each one seemed to have different and interesting weapons she made jokes about. Yet when they left, she talked about a cute pair of gloves that she wanted, yet she held her wants. He was happy she was gaining more self-control, now if she could put that to candy. As this did get Samuel to think, how much money do we have? People left with tons of weapons and gear, Samuel plans to ask later, just now they needed to go and head to the ship with the rest of their group.

[center][h3]=---=Meeting the Crew=---=[/h3][/center]

Once Samuel and Iris made it to the ship, Samuel was not impressed with the look of the ship. It looked boring and really like a simple freighter ship. A simple ship, and really Samuel held very little expectations of what the group inside will look like. Maybe it's just some outer-rim hicks who want to overthrow the government because of taxes. Samuel was ready to be disappointed, and feel like this was a mistake, yet he was willing to keep going, if it was to get back at his tormentors, he'd go through being with these people.

Iris was busy wondering what kind of jobs she would do on the ship. Maybe she can be the cook! Images of making fabulous meals filled her mind before coming to a halt when she realized she didn't know how to cook. [color=#FF007F][I] Ok, maybe I can do electrician work. Wait, I'll die of shock before getting something to work. I could work as a gunman... If they have guns. Um, I can, um.. Run the intercoms! [/I][/color] She had a sudden ping of anxiety realizing all she really knew how to do was punch stuff. It'll be fine she said to herself as she entered the ship.

Once they came to the ship they met their captain, as she guided them to a meeting room where they found a…Kaisoken? He was standing on 2 legs and looked to have 2 arms as well. Samuel was at first nervous as he held Iris slightly close, yet noticed their captain seemed not alarmed at all as she introduced herself and the Kaisoken, Natasha and Abaddon.  Samuel watched on as he saw the others start introducing themselves, as he even saw Tarak was at ease with him, so Samuel knew he could be at ease. Samuel waved to both Natasha and Abaddon as he said [color=#7ad7f0]"Hello, my name is Samuel. Good to meet you"[/color].

[color=#FF007F][I]Oh my God it's a Kaisoken, with 2 legs and arms!? Is it a Kaisoken? Is it a Tayanen with some crystal armor? It looks kinda cool.[/I][/color] As Iris was left speechless at the cool looking rock person, she could feel Samuel pull her closer. She could tell it was probably because of the rock person called Abaddon. And the captain's name is Natasha, cool. As Iris saw the little bit of crew she realized that she was essentially dead weight to the crew... After Samuel introduced himself to Natasha and Abaddon, she took her turn to introduce herself, [color=#FF007F]"Hi! My name is Iris, Samuel is my twin and my best friend, well maybe besides Tarak. I'm good at punching stuff and I don't know what else!"[/color] Iris kept a smile on her face even though she was doing on the inside after that embarrassing introduction.

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