Loona found herself staring out the windows. At her world, close up once again. She had watched the aliens push the buttons and steer the ship back above it, and then gone right back to watching the planet.

In the background, she heard two of them, the two bird-raptors, arguing about something. She still couldn't understand them, so she wasn't paying attention. After all,why pay attention to an argument that you couldn't understand? Surely, it didn't involve her anyway, so she didn't care.

The argument stopped. She felt a light tap on her shoulder. She turned her head, and saw the brown coated one, the one with the large feather sticking out of his head. In her limited time with them, she had seen that this one seemed to be the one calling the shots for the most part, so she had come to the conclusion that this was the leader of the group.

He motioned for Loona to follow him. Loona got up from where she was sitting, and followed him. He lead her back to a room. A room she vaguely recognized: The room where they had used this device to leave the ship.

"Ookay?" She asked, despite knowing how futile that was. The alien didn't bother to answer her, instead, he only gave her a look of ... sadness? 

It was then that the other alien came into the room. He was carrying something. A ... blade of some sort? 

"Uh, what's that?" She asked as the blue-coated bird-raptor handed it the female linoone. 

She looked at the strange item. It was definitely a sword of some sort, like the one that damned raichu had, but much different. It was curved instead of straight, had only one bladed side, and its blade was orange. Clear, almost, like glass. Its handle was oddly shaped as well, but not so much that it was uncomfortable to wield. It was smaller than the one Rai had used, but still larger than a dagger.

"Why are you giving me this?" Loona asked. There was still no answer. The only response was that one wiped his eyes, trying to hold back some tears that were starting to leak, while the other one sadly waved to her.

"Wait, what's going on?" Loona was confused. Then, suddenly, it hit her. The blade, the room with the teleport. The sad looks...

Her eyes went wide with fear once she realized what they were about to do.

"WAIT, NO!" She yelled, stretching out her free arm towards them as she tried to run towards them. "DON'T SEND ME BA-"

But it was too late. She saw herself being enveloped by a strange, purple energy. And then the next moment, she was no longer there.

"-CK!" She finished just as she reappeared. Loona looked around frantically, and saw...
Sand, lots of sand. And a wall. And off in the distance, an all too familiar looming shape. 

They'd sent her back.

Anger, and sadness overwhelmed Loona. She fell to the ground onto her hands and knees, dropping the sword by her side. Tears welled up in her eyes, as she let out a loud wail.

"WHY?! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" She yelled as she held her head in her hands. She lifted her face to the sky. "YOU... ASSHOLES! I WAS SO HAPPY UP THERE! WHY DID YOU KICK ME OUT?!" She screamed. "WAS I NOT GOOD ENOUGH? DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG? WHY? WHYYYYYYYYYY?!"

Her face was soon buried in her hands again as she sobbed, with only the desert sands to keep her in poor company.

She just sat there, and cried. She didn't know for how long, but it felt like hours. Crying over everything, everything going wrong. She had a taste of heaven, of happiness, only to have it ripped away from her. Again! And worse, she didn't even know why.

Maybe if she was stronger? Maybe if she had some sort of skills? Did they just get sick of taking care of her? So many maybes. So many questions. And no answers. 

Finally, she ran out of tears to cry. With a shaky sob, the linoone rose to her feet. She bent over and picked up the alien blade which had fallen out of her grasp. 

"At..." she sniffled, "At least they gave me this."
They hadn't been completely cruel. They'd left her with the thing she had tried to create on that fateful night. They'd left her with at least some level of hope. They'd left her... with IRON. Or... at least, their equivalent to it.

Slowly, she came to terms with her situation. As many regrets and anger at the aliens and/or herself she had, the only thing left for her now was to continue where she had left off. 
She examined her surroundings again. They hadn't put her in the city.

"They put me... Outside of the city?!"

She looked at the blade in her hand. And wondered what to do next. What she had planned to do with the IRON she had intended to create.
Loona's first thought was to go back to the Pignite, and show that bastard the true meaning of pain. To make him suffer for what he had done to her, and who knows how many others. 
But then, she remembered why she had actually wanted to leave the city in the first place. Why she had attempted to leave with the Guild Seal in hand but had been denied by that asshole guard. Who had refused to let her out of the city without a Guild escort.
She had wanted to go home. Home to The Maze, and find that raichu and his rapist friends, and put an end to them. 

"Well in that case..." She muttered to herself, a slight sniffle still in her voice. "I'm right where I want to be."

She was lying to herself of course. Where she really wanted to be was safe back on that ship, free from the chaos, the pain, and the suffering of this abominable world. But that door was closed to her now. And this was the second best outcome, even if it was a far second.

The only thing to do now was to move forward. And as long as she was already out here...

Her face turned to a furrow as she realized that this also meant that she could not retrieve Veera. She hadn't seen head or tail of her since she had left to get in the guild. 
She was glad that Veera didn't have to see what happened there. It would have broken her, if the events of The Maze hadn't already.

For all Loona knew, Veera was most likely still somewhere within Sandstone. A place she could no longer enter. At least, not without a guild escort.

'Like that's going to happen.' She thought bitterly. 'Fool me once...'

She could only hope that her poor little eevee friend had not suffered as much as she had. She could only hope she was safe somewhere in there. As unlikely as 'safe' and 'in there' being mutual was, as she had found out the hard way.

'Maybe it's for the better, though. Veera does not need to see what I am about to do.' Loona rationalized internally.

And with that, Loona began her long trudge back to The Maze, with a renewed determination to put an end to her rapists and that accursed rat. As for the pignite, she'd have to come back for him later.
...Maybe.