The crowd roared as the half-time show began. They didn't know who was performing, but they had been assured that it would be the half-time show of the century. As the stadium lights dimmed, two figures near each team's locker rooms glowed brighter and brighter. The figure on the left, glowing orange and dressed in the West City Scrapper Hawks' jersey, roared like a monster and a hawk's face burst into the stadium. As the face shrank back into the glowing man, the other man, glowing in blue for the East City Urban Panthers, roared in kind. A panther's face thrust into the stadium from him, and as it faded, the crowd sat in awe. Many wondered how the lighting effects had been set up so quickly. As rock music began to play, both glowing figures ran impossibly fast at each other. They jumped at 25 yards from each goal, still moving towards one another. As their trajectories crossed, the crossed hook swords and the dagger, forming an A, of the city's symbol appeared in the glowing lights that trailed behind these mysterious men. They stopped in the air, and the crowd looked everywhere for the cranes that must be holding them. The figures dashed at each other and bounced back, then did so again and again. Each time, flashes of light burst from them, and fireworks flew out in all directions. Finally they locked together and fell to the stadium floor, split from each other, and streaked for the locker rooms. As the light faded, and eagle could be seen in the orange streak, and a panther in the blue. The lights faded entirely as the popular rock song ended. The crowd cheered as it hadn't the entire game.

Sito and Hadoshi approached the stadium owner for payment, taking off the team jerseys they had donned for the performance. The man couldn't stop thanking them, asking how they had set up such an act so quickly and perfectly. All they could do was smile. The owner gave them their money and they were on their way. As they exited an emergency door, doing so to avoid the lobby, they stepped into the constant rain of the city. The city that had recently become their home was Arbite, a stunning city far beyond anything on Earth. The sky scrappers, the namesake of the Scrapper Hawks (the creature and the team), pierced the clouds like spears of light. This was not Earth, but the sister planet of Agrarus. This was Pserra, the planet of the future in the eyes of the Agrarians, which produced all technology and was lit all over the globe with city lights. The planet had hollow layers, and was a cosmic marvel. Though Agrarus was half it's size, Pserra had the same gravity. The strange placement of the planets, along with the differences in atmosphere, made Pserra as warm as Agrarus, even though Agrarus was closer to the sun and blocked half it's rays from reaching Pserra. Pserra, as a result, had 12 hour days and 36 hour nights. Out of all the grand cities on it's surface, Arbite, as the capital of Ernia, was the largest, most advanced, and most beautiful of them all. Though Ernia was a small country compared to her neighbors, she was the center of all technological advances in the world. Surrounded on three sides by other, larger countries, Ernia had been in many past wars. Thanks to superior technology, they won every time and the other countries eventually signed a union with Ernia. Since that time of war long ago, the world had come together and had created things beyond earthy comprehension.

Sito, being from modern-day Earth, had the privilege of seeing these amazing marvels, studying them, and helping to advance them himself. That, however, hadn't happened yet. No one in the world knew of Sito and Hadoshi yet. The new planet was all new to them, especially Hadoshi, who had never seen a computer in his life. The people of Pserra might as well have been walking computers. Nanobots were an old invention here, and had become part of human experiments only a few years ago. Already, the people of this technologically driven world were having them implanted in their brains. Companies had begun making software to allow people to call each other with their nanobot-filled brains alone. So far, only the richest people could do so, but things were changing rapidly.

In this time of change and advancement, Sito and Hadoshi had landed in the ocean offshore of Ernia. The heat of their entry into Pserra's atmosphere had boiled the water as they hit, and as they sank below it's surface, the water rushed back in on them and swallowed them, rather than crushing them against the surface tension. It had only been weeks since then. Since then, they had crawled out of the sea in the harbors of Arbite, naked, cold, and unknown to everyone. They had to beg for enough money to buy clothes that fit, then had to find odd jobs to get to where they were now. Standing under the awning of the emergency exit to stay out of the rain, they looked out to the city streets. This had been their first big job, and had payed the most, but they still needed to make a name for themselves and find the Element of Light, who had told them she would be waiting in the city, as a woman named Emi.

Deciding to wait no longer, the two stepped into the rain, ran across the street, and into an alley. As they followed the sharp curves of the back-alley, they came out to a roundabout and had to wait for traffic. This world had cars that ran on the rain that fell around them every day, hydrogen cars like those only talked about on Earth. As they crossed into another alley, they had to jump over a homeless man. The man was sleeping under a plastic awning, probably made from something in the trash, but at least he was dry. This alley was straight, and led to one of the city's central plazas. Today, there was a wooden stage set up in the center, with men and women dressed in torn and worn clothing standing on and around it. A little girl, who came through the alley, walked between Sito and Hadoshi, crossed the street. She stood next to the stage and held up a cardboard sign with black marker writing. She stood in the rain, protesting against something she couldn't possibly understand as the marker ran down the sign in the rain. That sight struck the two Elements, speaking to them as no words ever could. They waited, crossed the street, and stood in front of the scraggly stage, and listened as the revolutionary man yelled into a black megaphone.

"- people realize what's going on around you?! While the rich indulge on all the wonders of our country, the poor sit on the streets, dying of mere COLDS! How can you all be so heartless! No one will pass laws to aid us! No middle class man or woman will stand up for us! Here we stand! Your brothers and sisters! Your sons and daughters! Will no one raise a finger to help us?" The man paused. It was a long pause, filled with silence. He said quietly, heard only by the Elements, "Not a soul among them..." He yelled into the megaphone once more, "Still you sit by and watch as we suffer! Not one person would do a thing to save us!"

Now the city police had pulled up, and were stepping out. One stepped forward and commanded the man with the megaphone to step off the stage and take it down or be arrested. The man slumped, defeated again, and threw the megaphone on the concrete. It shattered into ten pieces and the man jumped down. He stepped right up to the officer. "One day, when you're on the streets, begging beside us, you will regret silencing us." The officer didn't answer, only turned and walked back to his car. The Elements watched as everyone who had been protesting began to dismantle the stage. Even the little girl helped. Sito and Hadoshi walked over to the man who had been speaking.
"Strong words," said Hadoshi.
"Thanks," said the man, thinking he was being sarcastic.
"Too bad you don't have strong allies," said Sito. The man whirled around and got right in Sito's face.
"And what do YOU know about strong allies?! YOU try to find good help, when everyone who's downtrodden in this city has already given up!" The man was shaking as he yelled, clearly ready to burst into pained tears, but the rain masked it.
"I know we can help, if we could speak to your leader," said Hadoshi.

At that, the man's eyes widened and he looked them up and down seeing just plain jeans and hooded sweatshirts, raising an eyebrow. He straightened, saying, "First, how could you two help; and second, your looking at him. I'm Remus Gray, and I started this sorry revolution." He wiped his long black hair out of his face. His clothes were soaked, as was the rest of him, but his eyes seemed to flow like water. He had true resolve in him.
"To answer," said Hadoshi, "I am Hadoshi, master swordsman and acrobat, and this is my brother..."
"The name's Sito, master armorer and inventor," said Sito.
"Swordsman? Acrobat? Armorer? How did two Agrarians get to Pserra? Listen, I appreciate that you want to help, but the most you could do is follow me around like everyone else does." Remus jerked a thumb over his shoulder at his followers.
"I think we can do more than that," said Sito. "I'm a strong speaker myself, and I bet I can solve quite a few of your problems. Hadoshi here is not dumb himself. If you wouldn't mind, we need to be educated on this country and it's government. While you teach one of us, the other can be solving your money problem or food problem. What'd'ya say?" Sito and Hadoshi held out their hands, waiting for Remus to shake them. Remus looked at them, a young man of 19, and looked like he went to a brief war with himself. After almost a minute, he shook their hands, and said, "I have nothing to lose, and for some reason I trust you."
"Then first you could help us find somewhere we can live," said Hadoshi.
"We live in the basement of a warehouse. The company rents it to us really cheap, since the water leaks in and ruins any goods they store there. You're welcome to bunk with us," said Remus, looking at Hadoshi's hand curiously. Hadoshi noticed, and smiled.
"I'll explain my cold hands later," he said, "For now, lets get out of the rain so we can talk more..."