Next Chapter! So I'm sorry for the wait but this is kinda on my backlist as I'm working on two others currently so I'm planning on getting down to actually write this when I finish them. So it could be quiet a while before the next update as I will probably only work on this if internet dies and I don't have access to my other stories :) So enjoy and leave your thoughts!

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Well sorry for the wait. But glad I saved you from boredom :)

Sarah reached out to touch the deathly Zor, he was alive but barely. As she reached out whatever energy field that had kept him alive fell suddenly and he moaned. She inhaled quickly as she swung her backpack around and brought out the medical kit. It was fairly large since she had known she would be on her own now and she was thankful it was. She pulled out some cleaning solution and gauze, it took her nearly an hour to clean and wrap all the wounds to the point where she could at least move him a bit without him bleeding out everywhere. As she finished with the last of the wounds, for the moment, Zor started to regain consciousness and groaned, "Et kelkaples? Dra ha di?"

Sarah smiled and laughed quietly, "I'm sorry, I don't understand Zentradian or Tirolean or whatever it is you people call it."

He looked at in confusion for a second before he choked out, "Who are you?"

"I'm Sarah, can you stand?" She asked. He started to stand only to nearly fell back down as she went to catch him and helped him stay upright, "This is never going to work…stay here."

He gave her a daft look, "Where-where else am I going?"

She just smiled and shook her head and darted away before returning a minute later with the jeep she had snagged, "This should be easier."

It should have been but with all the wounds he had received, it was a miracle he was alive at all, but they eventually made it the five feet to the truck. Once Zor was finally inside he laid his head on the seat and breathed a breath of relief and pain. Sarah winced but there was nothing she could do right now for it. She decided to drive back to the cabin base, every bump in the road causing Zor to wince.

They arrived several hours later, taking longer to get back because she was trying to be careful of Zor's wounds. Zor squinted at the wooded structure in front of him, "What is that?"

"It was a base for Dana and the refugee clone-"

"Dana, she-she survived?"

Sarah nodded, "Yeah."

Zor smiled painfully for the first time, "And the clones?"

"Well…I'm not really sure. They weren't doing well without the Cosmic Harp but Dana and the Fifteenth found a way to get them back to Tirol." She stopped the Jeep inside the fort.

"Did they all go?" Zor asked.

"All but me." A voice suddenly called from behind them.

Zor turned his head as Sarah whipped around, "Loui! Why are you still here?"

Loui laughed as she hugged him, "I decided that I would be more useful here. With the new technology in New Tokyo I can try and create something to combat the Invid."

Zor sighed and shook his head, "No, no way to stop them."

Sarah looked at Zor sadly while Loui went over to help him, "It's good to see you on our side again."

"I-I'm sorry, I had no control, of what I did for a while."

Loui smiled, "Its ok with me…though if you ever see Dana again I would suggest treading lightly."

Zor looked pained, "I only did it to save her."

"We all know that, but she's still mad. Probably gets that from her mother."

"Her Zentradian half." Zor nodded.

Loui looked confused as he helped Zor stand, "How did you-"

Zor smiled, "I created them. I think I would know one of their children."

Loui shivered, "That is one part of Protoculture I don't think I will ever understand."

"I think you, already do." Zor sighed.

Loui held a confused look before grabbing Zor around his chest and helping him out and stand. "Let's take him over to the bedroom in the cabin, I have more medical supplies there."

Sarah followed them to the cabin before grabbing the supplies. It was another two hours before Loui finally came out of the room looking tired. "How is he?" She asked.

He gave her a tired smile, "I'm no doctor but I think he'll be fine. Needed a lot of stitches though."

"That was obvious." Sarah deadpanned, rolling her eyes.

A week had passed now and Zor was recuperating well. It was dusk and Loui was inside tinkering with a gun and Sarah sat outside on the log wall looking out across the decimated landscape. A tear fell down her cheek as she released a shaky sigh. A hand suddenly landed on her shoulder and she jumped, only to see Zor standing above her. "You scared me."

He smiled apologetically, "It was not intentional." There was a pause, neither saying a word, "What is wrong?"

"It's just…a lot of thing." Sarah said quietly.

Zor sat down next to her and looked at the reddened hues on the clouds, not saying a word for several minutes. Finally he spoke, sounding far away, "Tirol had sunsets something like this."

"Really?" Sarah asked.

Zor nodded, a sad smile on his features, "Yup. Earth and Tirol aren't that different from one another. Or at least they weren't."

"What happened?"

"Tirol was dying. Not the planet but its people. They were using more energy than what could naturally be produced, that's why I had gone in search for a new energy. It's also when I found Optera. It was beautiful."

Sarah suddenly asked, "Do you like remembering, your past I mean."

Zor looked at her and smiled, "Dana told you about my memory loss hu?"

"Yeah. She talked about you a lot. She and Musica. They really missed you."

"Well to be truthful I'm not sure. It hurts, a lot, remembering what happened…what I did. But at the same time they're what makes me Zor. Before I could remember I may have inhabited the body that was Zor's but he wasn't Zor." His eyes were clouded, thinking and remembering, "I won't deny that over this last week I sometimes wish I could forget all over again…but when I think about how this war I started still won't be finished…I want to be around to finish it. Or at least help."

Sarah nodded and he asked, "So, what about you? You keep looking at Monument City."

She suddenly looked down, "Oh, uh…"

"I told you about me, I think it's only right if I knew a little about you." Zor said in a happier voice.

"I was just remembering…my parents had gone with the Expeditionary force to find Tirol-"

Zor suddenly looked at her, wide eyed and curious, "They went to Tirol?"

She nodded, "Yeah, to try and stop the second war before had a chance to start. Whole lot of good that did them."

Zor sighed and said under his breath, "Maker help them."

"What? What's wrong?" Sarah asked worried.

"There's war there too. Just as bad as it was here, worse now the Master left probably."

Sarah calmed down and nodded, "Wolfe said as much."

"Wolfe?"

"He came back to Earth a little while ago, shortly before the final battle between the Southern Cross and the Robotech Masters. He said the nebula that was not far from Earth was the Invid Sensor Nebula."

Zor looked mortified, "Their here…already?"

"Well, not actually here, yet." Sarah amended.

"They will be soon." Zor said, head hanging in sadness.

"Wolfe said that too. He proposed to try and just lay low during the initial invasion and then try and do something about it…but the current 'government' openly rejected that idea."

"They are fools then. More would survive if they just listen to someone who has obviously encountered them before." Zor hissed.

Sarah gave a lopsided smile, "Welcome to the human government, were most people are fools. But yeah, you'd think that they'd listen to someone who is a war vet with the Invid would have some knowledge of what to do. But that's why Dana left. With the Homeward Bound they were planning to destroy the Nebula-"

Zor cut her off and said matter-o-factly, "You can't destroy the Nebula, the Regis no doubt already knows about this planet."

"Hmh, Dana and Wolfe tried to tell them that but they wouldn't listen. So Dana stole it when she was supposed to be taking it to destroy the Nebula and jacked it to go to Tirol instead."

Zor smiled slightly, "That sounds like Dana…how do you know all this?"

Now Sarah smiled, "Both my parents and the family my brother and I were living with after they left would talk about some stuff when they thought we were asleep. That and the fifteenth talked about a lot after the war ended. I don't think they really cared anymore."

He nodded in understanding, "You mentioned a brother?"

At this her face fell again. "H-he and the family friends we were with died in the final attack." She stopped, eyes filled with tears as she fought to hold them in. Zor, for his part, looked at the child in sorrow and pain, feeling guilty that he had caused this pain. Reaching over he held her close as she finally broke down, "When the firing finally stopped I came out of hiding but I couldn't find them. I looked and looked but could find any sign of Rand. Loui finally found me after the fifteenth and the refugee clones came into the city to scavenge for anything useful."

They sat in silence for another moment before Sarah felt something brushing her hand. Looking down she saw it was a Pollinator. "Polly? I thought he went with Dana."

Zor released her and looked down at the creature, which had made its way to Sarah's lap and was leaning into the hand that was currently scratching around its tiny horns. "There were several Pollinators that were aboard the SDF-1. They no doubt escaped the hold were the flowers were kept when it was destroyed."

"Oh," Sarah breathed softly, still scratching around the creature's horns.

Zor smiled again at the sight, "I think it likes you."

"Really?" She asked, a hopeful look in her eyes.

He nodded, "Most Pollinators don't come near anyone unless they have some kind of connection with Protoculture."

"But, I don't have any connection with Protoculture."

Zor shrugged, "I am not entirely sure."

A voice called up from bellow, "Sarah, Zor! I've got dinner ready, I'd come get it before it gets cold."

Sarah smiled, "I'm glad it was Loui who stayed, Dante's cooking is terrible." She finished with a shudder, Zor laughing as they reached the ground.