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"Flashfire," you say from the bathroom. "Could you grab me and Blackfire something to eat? We're going to have lunch in our room."

"Why do I have to get you food?" she groans. "Can't you come out and get it?"

"But my arms are tired," you say. "And I'm your brother, you should be nice to me."

"Fine..." Flashfire groans as she goes to the ship's pantry. "What do you want?"

"Did Rabsy pack us any pizza?"

Blackfire looks at you funny.

"What's pizza?" she asks.

"It's a great Earth food Rabsy heard about from some friends. It's a big, flat disc of bread dough with sauce made from tomato plants, with a layer of cheese on top of the sauce, with all kinds of other things on top of that. I had some the first time I met Rabsy, and it was unbelievably good!"

"I'd like to try some," Blackfire says.

"Rabsy packed a few," Flashfire says. "And it says on the box that we can heat them up in the oven."

"Is there one that has pepperoni on it?"

"Is that one of those things you can put on the top?"

"Yes."

"There is one of those!" Flashfire says. She pulls it out of the box and puts it on a big pan, then sticks the pan in the oven. She sets the oven to the temperature and time that the box instructs, then heads to her room.

"You have about half an hour. The timer should signal you then."

You and Blackfire go into your room and sit on the bed.

You turn the television on, and it is already set to the interplanetary news channel, ťŁ̉ς News (pronounced: Florchox). Currently, the Oh-mai-lee Factor is one, and host Hugill Ohmailee is speaking.

"Rhythmis authorities report that 3 members of the infamous crime organization known as 'The Sinful Ones' have been arrested, and one killed, thanks to three Tamaranian teens, one male and two female."

A small picture of you and the girls fighting the members of TS1 appears on screen, with you three Tamaranians highlighted by yellow circles.

"Ironically, the male is notorious criminal delinquint Saffire, a blue-haired Tamaranian most well known for the collapse of a buidling on the utopian planet of Tranquilitus."

"Told you I did that," you say to Blackfire.

"Authorities tried to apprehend him as well," Ohmailee continues, "but Saffire took off before they even opened fire. Police officers there witnessed him fighting the leader of 'The Sinful Ones', the mysterious man known as Transgression. Transgression is also the member that ended up dead during this fight.

Many wonder why Saffire would want to help the people of Rhythmis. A few believe that it was a personal vendetta against Transgression, while fewer believe it was because he honestly wanted to help. Either way, I believe the people of Rhythmis should be thankful to him either way."

You turn the television volume down and see that you still have another 20 minutes before the pizza ready.

You grab Blackfire and pull her close, kissing her neck and smoothing your hands over her legs and back. She kisses you on the lips and wraps her arms around your neck. The two of you roll over, and vigorously kiss and grab and squeeze each other for the entire twenty minutes.

*BING* The oven's timer signals that the pizza is down baking.