Echelon Systems
Be marooned

Without Echelon's advance notice, the thrust on Nathan's clothes was gone and the man was thrown down quickly.

"Hey-hey! What's going on, Echelon!" Shouted Nathan who was panicking due to now his body falling at high speed.

Like engines that experience problems, the booster jet sometimes turns off and turns on due to its energy limitations. This was because Echelon had already started charging for the Time Stone and made Nathan's armor receive very little energy.

Boom!!!

Like a can of wreckage Nathan fell and slammed into an uninhabited island, before finally stopping after the armor covering his entire limbs was scattered into millions of tiny particles, and turned into a watch again.

"Geez-uhuk! I hate you Echelon!" Nathan said as he shook his hand to remove the dust around him.

"Hey, why are you quiet?" Nathan feels awkward with Echelon not answering his words and after checking back he finds that his watch is now dead.

Nathan sighed knowing that Echelon had started charging the Time Stone and had his watch completely shut down.

"Good, looks like you got me stranded on a little island in the middle of the sea. Echelons..." Nathan's heart was raised because he was furious with the behavior of his system.

As far as the eye could see Nathan only found endless stretches of sea water and found himself alone on the island.

"It's like the island in Spongebob's cartoon..." Nathan smiled faintly and threw a pebble into the sea then sat leaning under the coconut tree.

Nathan looks very relaxed and thinks that all this is like camping in contrast to people who would definitely panic if stranded on a small island.

To fill the time waiting until he can use his armor again, Nathan looks for fish trapped between corals and crabs to serve as dinner.

With a makeshift tool Nathan started making fireplaces and burning the fish and crabs he caught earlier while drinking coconut water.

"Don't panic when you're dealing with something difficult, just live life like Larry..." Nathan muttered without any burden at all.

Some time later after finishing his meal, Nathan laid down his body and gazed up at the sky that was filled with stars.

"Echelon, are you alive. I want to ask you..." Nathan said as he played his hand as if grabbing a star in the sky.

"Yes, please ask. I will answer as much as I can..." Reply Echelon.

"From an artificial intelligence like you, what do you think humans are?" Ask Nathan.

"There's a lot to say about humans. They are beings who do not have a fixed ideology and like to change.

Sometimes it can be good but it can also be evil depending on the condition of their heart. There's much more to human nature and it'll be very long to explain it..." Echelon.

"What about me?" Nathan asked.

"Fraud..." Reply Echelon.

The corner of Nathan's lips twitched at the words uttered by Echelon. "Who are you calling an impostor. I'm not a con man!"

"Of course you are. Everything you say, the attitude, the expression you put out is a lie." Reply Echelon.

Nathan is instantly speechless and proves that what Echelon said about him is the truth.

"How did you know that?" Nathan asked with a faint smile.

"Easy enough just from your face and heart rate, I can tell. Even when you smile you're just pretending, I know it..." Echelon.

"For a human you look as if you have no soul and no passion, like an empty barrel..." Connect her.

I used to live in an orphanage when I was ten years old and had no memory of anything when I was not yet ten.

When entering high school suddenly there was a husband and wife who claimed that they were my parents. I was then taken to America and introduced to all my relatives.

To be honest I was still confused, why I was sent to the orphanage and wondered why they left me there..." Nathan Said.

Echelon just silently listened to the story about his master and did not know what else to say.

Nathan laughs at himself who says all the things he's seen all this time, to an artificial intelligence that has absolutely no feelings.

*******

Elsewhere after successfully helping Harry, Emilia is seen searching for Nathan's whereabouts which are completely invisible after the battle is over.

"Where did the man go?" Emilia wondered and looked very enthusiastic while searching for Nathan's whereabouts.

Although still feeling annoyed to Nathan after the man made a fuss, Emilia only wanted to spy on the man secretly.

After searching Nathan and Harry's room, he never found it. "Was he in the canton. Yeah, it's possible..."

Emilia also did not find Nathan's whereabouts. The presence of his dikantin actually makes the marines who were eating glanced at him secretly and feel alert.

Once there was a Marine who was drunk teasing Emilia and the marines were put into isolation without light for 1 week.

This is what makes the marines feel alert, even though Emilia's appearance is very tempting their faith the marines do not want to be crazy because of ridiculous things.

It was better to question him secretly than to have to deal with his father who would not play games with a man who dared to tease his daughter.

Emilia's face looks lethargic and approaches Kevin and Robby who are eating while talking about something.

"Hey, you're both Nathan's friends, aren't you?" Ask Emilia.

Kevin and Robby who saw the arrival of Emilia immediately tidied their hair and clothes respectively.

"Well, what's the doctor?" Said Kevin.

"Look, I have business with that man and haven't found him anywhere yet. Do you know where he is?" Emilia.

The look on Kevin and Robby's face became lethargic after Emilia asked about Nathan. This obviously made the woman wonder about what was really going on there.

"Why with your faces. Is something going on?" Emilia.

"I'm sorry maybe the doctor didn't see her again and neither did we. Nathan has been declared dead after trying to stop an enemy plane from crashing into this ship..." Reply Robby reluctantly.

Emilia's eyes instantly became empty. He tried to digest back what Robby had said, which left him speechless.

"Are you guys joking, this isn't April pop so don't lie to me!" Emilia smiled expressionlessly.

"What are we kidding for. He had indeed fallen and if he did not believe it, the doctor could ask Admiral directly..." Said Kevin.

"What's the need for a doctor to find Nathan?" Ask Robby.

Emilia did not answer him and rushed to the place where Admiral Frank was, which made Kevin and Robby feel confused about the woman's attitude.