Many years ago, former GUN headquarters

Although the council of GUN and a judge of the superior court of California presided over the room, but even so their presence did not silence the voices. For a long time GUN did not have to hold a trial for treason, and much less judging one of the lances of GUN, so all television and media wanted to be present.

The reason for the trial? The death of 7 adolescents taken hostage, 5 extra human and 2 human, during a robbery in the main bank of Bahia.

 
After a few minutes, the sheriff stood in front of the dais, and after a hammer blow from the judge, addressed the audience. "Silence! As a trial not only of GUN, but of the court of Bahia and the State of California, the honorable Judge Vanze presides over the courtroom."

 
"Thank you sheriff, in this very special trial, the decision will be taken equally by me and the special council of GUN, formed by the four remaining lances, Valeria Moon, the lance in charge of communication will act as spokesperson with me." Valeria rose from her chair and greeted the room with a slight bow. "Let the defendant pass, sheriff"

 
Nodding, the sheriff left the room, and after a few minutes full of murmurs, returned to enter accompanied by the spear of GUN Carmen, the accused.

"Miss Carmen Stone, you know why you're here, right?"

 
"I am accused of negligence in the rescue procedures of the central bank, your honor. Negligence that I continue to deny outright.

Act as it should, it was a situation against the clock and my actions saved the lives of 44 hostages."

"That will not be decided by you, Miss Carmen, this jury will do." Carmen spit to one side, knowing that the worst situation could not be. "I hope that this behavior does not repeat itself, or I assure you that I will not be afraid to put a muzzle"

"Anyway, your honor"

"So, my first question about the events of that day is the following:Why do you think you should enter the bank directly? Negotiations according to this report were still ongoing."

Carmen looked down, noting the handcuffs she had been wearing since that night. "Your honor, the report could say what you want, but I can assure you that they were not going well." The police officer in charge, I did not want to learn her name, was a damn fool who was only making the robbers more nervous.

Valeria hit the dais with both fists, rising and screaming with all her strength. "IT WAS A DAMN ANGEL, CARMEN! IF SOMEONE KNOWS ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS AND KEEP PEOPLE CALMED ITS A ANGEL!"

"THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXTRAHUMANS LIKE YOU AND THE HUMANITY VALERIA!

YOU BELIEVE THAT BY BEING MORE INTELLIGENT OR STRONG YOU HAVE ALWAYS THE REASON! AT THE RHYTHM THAT WERE NEGOTIATIONS, THEY HAD MASSACRED ALL THE HOSTS! I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO!"

Vanze slammed his hammer furiously, hoping to stop the screams of both. "SILENCE RIGHT NOW! VALERIA DO NOT MAKE ME EXPULSIVE FROM THE ROOM!" After grumbling, Valeria sat back in her chair, obviously annoyed. "Accused, you say that the negotiations were going badly and they were going to end up in a massacre towards the hostages, but your actions entering alone through the parking lot of employees ended up in the same shooting, what did you have to say?"

"Do you believe that once I could forgive myself for not having been able to shoot that bastard's rifle? Considering that being extrahuman, the boy would hold a first shot... I never imagined that there would be a second robber with another rifle..."

"WHO IS NOW RACIST NOW CARMEN? THAT BOY WAS AN ADOLESCENT! EXTRAHUMAN OR NOT IT WAS TOO YOUNG TO RESIST A SHOOT AT A SHORT DISTANCE!

7 YOUNGS DIED! 7 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAD ALL LIFE AHEAD! I DONT CARE ABOUT THE OTHER 44! WE HAVE TO SAVE THE 51 HOSTS!

AS YOUR SUPERIOR, THE ORDER WAS YOU WAIT!" Valeria couldnt stand the tears, crying bitterly with her head resting on the dais.

"VALERIA! LEAVE THE ROOM FOR 5 MINUTES! Sheriff, accompany her."After resisting being caught by the sheriff, Valeria left the room while dozens of reporters photographed her. "Well... let's continue with the trial."

Present

The fire cowgirl was tough, but Carmen knew how to put the extrahumans in their place. Activating the hidden blade of the left arm and after getting rid of the cowgirl, Carmen I nail the blade in the side.The protoslime live their daily life thanks to a crystal cover, and although you can not penetrate their Cores, damaging that crystal film forces them to withdraw and control themselves so as not to melt everything around them.

And luckily for her it worked, because Fiona was getting ready to give her the coup de grace. "Grrrrr ... a blade able to penetrate my skin without melting ... Impressive armor ... full of toys ..." If the protoslime released the wound, the heat that would emanate would melt the asphalt, and an invoice to add to the Debt was not acceptable.

"You have bad luck, cowgirl, I've been dealing with extrahumans all my life who think they have the right to impose themselves on others.I know all your weaknesses and possibilities of attack. Now you have two options, to retire so as not to end up being a walking bomb, or keep fighting and let it destroy that sweet Core of yours."

"I'm not a suicide... but I'm not a coward!" Fiona took out her revolver and fired her last 3 bullets. Unfortunately for her, the GUN armor was designed to fight against any kind of extra human, so a few simple bullets were nothing. "Oh... that explains why my first 2 shots had not pushed you back..."

"Child, this armor is the result of a lifetime imposing on monsters like you-" When Carmen got ready to launch herself towards the wounded cowgirl, she felt a slight discharge on her back. After shaking a little, she saw a feather fall to the ground.

Bolt and Elsa were leaning against the wall of the building. Bolt held what looked like an improvised slingshot with pieces of armor, and Elsa was looking at one of the harpy's feathers up close. "Extrahumans please, only the real old people call them monsters."

"Wow... Bolt, you're the only one of GUN that I like... but to see you turned into the squire of a silly blonde? I expected more from you, girl"

"My name is Elsa, as I have already told you" Elsa took off her helmet and released it on the ground, while walking towards the middle of the street to face her. "First I thought I needed you, to train me and Jack... But seeing that you're just an old bitter racist... The situation is radically different"

Elsa pointed with the bolt pen towards the former vanguard. "From this moment on, you are my enemy Carmen, and I intend to finish you here and now"

"Wow... I deduce that with such words you will know how to handle the armor once, no? because if not, you do not have any chance."

"Look at me Carmen... because today is the day the world screams "All hail Elsa!"" Elsa ran to her, with the feather in her hand.

"That will be if you survive!" Carmen activated the sonic transmitters of her arm, ready to take advantage of the fact that the blonde, in her ignorance, had removed her helmet. "Say goodbye to your ears- BUT WHAT ?!" The armor began to deactivate all its systems, one after another.

Carmen looked around desperately for the hacker, but it was not until she looked down that she saw that Bolt's feather was still emitting electricity. "BOLT! DAMN BASTARD! I'VE TAUGHT YOU EVERYTHING YOU KNOW! WHAT TEAM DO YOU SUPPORT?"

"I support my little sister's girlfriend, Carmen! Did you really expect me to be part of your team after cutting off all relationships with me and GUN?" Bolt opened his wings, and rising, he plunged toward Carmen.

"I KNEW THAT TRUSTING ANOTHER EXTRAHUMAN WAS A MISTAKE!" Carmen raised her hands to stop Bolt with a punch, but the agent was much faster and grabbed both arms with her legs. "THIS IS AN ATTACK ?! YOU DO NOT HAVE STRENGTH TO LAUNCH ME! YOU ARE MISERABLE UNTIL FOR AN EXTRAHUMAN!"

"Throw you? The plan was just to hold your arms!" Bolt threw an electric shock down his legs, trying to paralyze Carmen long enough.

"The plan?" With the elemental redirection system disabled, the armor's insulation was not enough to stop the harpy's discharges, so Carmen only had to try to break off with headbutts.

"MY PLAN!" Elsa threw herself with all her strength towards Carmen, falling on top of him on the ground and stabbing into the hollow of the armor's neck with the supercharged feather. "Hey carmen ... something to say to the silly blonde?"

"A FEATHER? GIRL, I HAVE FIGHTED AGAINST EXTRAHUMANS MUCH BIGGER AND DANGEROUS THAN BOLT ALL MY LIFE! A FEATHER WILL NOT CAUSE ME ANYTHING OF DAMAGE!"

"I thought so... but what do you think we've been doing all this time while you were fighting with Fiona? THIS IS OUR COMBINED ATTACK!

"STORM IN-A-FEATHER"!

As ridiculous as the name was, the signal to release the discharge was clear, and while Elsa walked away Bolt released the condensed 300-volt discharge into her fearther.

The discharge wasnt enough to kill Carmen, but counted all the insulating resistance of the armor off, 300 volts were more than enough to knock her out instantly. She didnt even have time to scream.

"And that ... is my coup de grace" Raising her right fist high, Elsa walked towards an imaginary crowd that chanted her name. And although Bolt on the other hand could not stop thinking that really all the physical work she had done, for today she would let it happen.

Fiona watched from a distance as Elsa rejoiced in her victory. "Not bad... take advantage of the armor's vulnerability to sneak a feather... not really bad Elsa... I'll remember your name" Without releasing the break in her skin, Fiona walked away from the corner of the street, Wishing to tell all this to the priestess.

Back to Elsa, she turned around past ten meters and ran again next to Bolt, "And now ... we take her armor and all the others she has"

"The armors? Why?"

"We will not get him to train me physically, but if we can get Jack to use this, we'll have a big advantage against Valeria!"

"Wait ... against Valeria, at what moment are we going to go against Valeria ?! ELSA IS MY HEAD AND I AM PART OF GUN! I'M NOT GOING TO FIGHT VALERIA!"

"Not literally! I mean in our team! I do not intend to use this shit anymore, but Jack with one of these could do real wonders!" Elsa mentally erased Valeria from her list of "People to beat"

"I hope so ... but I agree to take the stolen armors, GUN and Jack could make good use of them, and we would recover our armed vanguard unit." While Bolt was bending down to remove Carmen's armor, Elsa went to retrieve her helmet.

"Has she always been so racist, how could she become part of GUN? One would say that Valeria would control who enters and who does not."

"Really ... this is the first time I hear you call monsters to the extrahumans ..." Bolt could not help but remember that although Valeria and Carmen did not get along too well ... she had never insulted any other extrahuman of the unity.

"Well, something has had to change so that now she hates you ... thank goodness she does not have to train me anymore, I can not stand the people who still live anchored in the past and call monsters the extrahumans, they are real rubbish."
Bolt kept thinking about that change in Carmen's sudden attitude. Why would he greet her so naturally and then call her a monster? It did not make any sense ... The carmen that Bolt once knew although he was rough with others was someone you could trust.

Elsa decided to leave the harpy reflecting while looking for the keys to Carmen's apartment. "Fiona! You can help carry the armor to our car ... where are you?" As the protoslime had escaped to avoid hard work, the next time the two of them saw each other Elsa was going to use it as an accusation. That was for sure.

The trial of years ago

After a long 50 minutes of debate between Judge Vanze and the rest of GUN's lances, the 4 returned to enter the room. Whatever they had decided as a sentence, Carmen was prepared to receive his punishment.
"Order in the room! The honorable Judge Vanze is going to issue his decision." The sheriff lifted Carmen from her chair, while she nudge him away.

 
"Thank you, sheriff, now, defendant Carmen, are you ready for my verdict?" Carmen just nodded, biting her lip with all her might."The jury and I have decided ... that you are innocent."
The murmur of the room was completely out of control, no one could give credit to such an unexpected decision, not even Carmen herself.

 
"After much debate, and since I have a trial against the real culprits of this case in a few hours, we have come to the conclusion that although reckless, you saved the lives of 44 people.

Nothing can bring back the 7 young people, but you are not to blame for their deaths. The recordings of the negotiation show that the main robber was very nervous, and could have opened fire on the rest of the hostages at any time. "

 
Carmen kicked her chair with the heel, and stomped with all her might to the judge. "Your honor ... I disobeyed a direct order ... I am ready for my sentence!"

 
"Valeria has defended you at all times, so respect our decision.If you excuse me, I must go to the real trial. The session gets up "Vanze got up from the stand, and after collecting all his things, he left surrounded by the journalists.

"Congratulations for your innocence Carmen" The sheriff removed the wives of Carmen, and left the room to give privacy to the rest of the spears.

Carmen was still stunned, and while caressing her wrists, I sighed. "Valeria... I'm guilty of the death of those teenagers... why have you defended me?

"First you are innocent, and now that you are guilty... there is no one who understands you!"

"IT IS YOU WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ANYONE! FIRST YOU GUILTY OF DISOBEDIENCE AND NOW YOU DEFEND ME?! I SHOULD BE IN THE JAIL!"

"You should not, Carmen. 44 people owe you their life, and now you must live for those 7 that you could not save, that is our destiny as agents of justice, Carmen."

That day, while Valeria left the room with the other lances, Carmen was marked forever. In any other security body, the verdict would have been guilty, and Carmen would have paid for her sins, but GUN was run by extra-human people who treat others as inferior.

 
Valeria's arrogance, pretending to teach her lessons.

A verdict of innocence that he did not deserve.

The looks of those parents who had to see how their children were killed in front of them ...

 
One would think that Carmen took this and kept fighting for Bahia, and so she did. But inside, the extrahumans were the only culprits here.That power and pride that maintained at each step, their attitudes of physical and moral superiority ... If those teenagers had not believed that they could protect their parents for being extra-human, they would not have died.

 
Life is capricious, and although Carmen on the outside continued to be the Vanguard of GUN, inside I stop believing in her ideals of equality and harmony. And when Valeria decided that Zoe and not Richard was his successor, for Carmen it was demonstrated that the extrahumans see humans over their shoulders.

 
She buy a house in the casino complex, in a building only for humans, and she turned away from all those lies of a city of peace and harmony. And she clung to them until the end, when her former favorite student and a human managed to defeat her by combining their qualities.