Sorry for the one month delay. I had winter vacation and no internet at home. I need the school's internet to post stuff.
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Both Moniqa and Gunvolt left the room where Copen was being cared to. After that Moniqa started leading Gunvolt into the kitchen of the facility to offer tea. The whole process of making tea was uncomfortable as Moniqa awkwardly hummed an unfamiliar tune and Gunvolt sitting down at the table being silent. Finding the moment unbearable Moniqa started up by saying, "I'm glad you're all right, GV." Moniqa heard something like a grunt from Gunvolt and she sighed. "Look. I know Zeno said too much but we do need you. Please stay with us. Sure, you left QUILL but that doesn't mean you would personally leave us, right?"
"I already agreed to stay anyways," Gunvolt replied. "But honesty, the whole place is empty. Is it the holiday season or something? Where is everyone? Why does it seem like everything is in ruins?"
Moniqa chuckled at Gunvolt's barrage of questions. "I guess it's our turn to answer you. Okay then." Moniqa turned around with a platter. On that platter was tea. She went over to the table and place a teacup in front of Gunvolt before placing one for herself across from him. She returned the platter to the counter before taking a seat. She blows her tea and sipped it a bit. "No, it's not the holiday season. Everyone in QUILL... left." Moniqa looked away as if it was her fault they left. "They quitted." Gunvolt raised an eyebrow to show her he wanted more explanation. Moniqa took a sip to her tea again and continued, "Everything is in ruins. Since Sumeragi fell the people have been going crazy. With no order around they do whatever they want. Sumeragi did kind of run the world."
"Why didn't you guys do anything about it?" Gunvolt asked and picked up his teacup. Instead of drinking it he looked into the tea. Steam was rising in such a lazy way.
Moniqa answered, "QUILL did but in the end they found out that they were only working for the rights of adepts. Not people. So they left. Now me and Zeno are the only ones to maintain this place."
"For Asimov?" Gunvolt questioned.
Moniqa tried to look Gunvolt in the eyes but he was still staring down at his tea. So she responded slowly, "Yes... for Asimov. But now..." Moniqa stopped talking as soon as she saw Gunvolt placing down his tea and standing up. "GV?"
Gunvolt just stood in place, not responding to Moniqa. His expression was covered in shadow so Moniqa couldn't make out what he was feeling. "So what do you do to kill time here?" Gunvolt finally spoke. He left the kitchen and went out to the front lobby.
"So he's not ready to talk about Asimov yet," Moniqa thought sympathetically. "Even though he told us what happened he's not ready to confront those feelings." Moniqa put a hand to her chest. "And so am I..."
A week later, Zeno was on his feet again. Things were still awkward with him and Gunvolt but Zeno was still able to crack out a joke to lighten up the mood sometimes. Gunvolt understood the gesture and tried to return back the friendly atmosphere. Finally, when things came down to business...
"Geeves!" Zeno called. Gunvolt came to his attention. "With you up we could now start doing things."
"So you were ready to use me like a newly sharpened pencil?" Gunvolt asked jokingly. Apparently Zeno didn't get it so Gunvolt had to give a small smirk.
"Alright. I want you to come to the city with me. There used to be these big TV screens there but it's been run down. Once we reach the control room of the screens we could hook some wires, use some of your electricity to power it up and... bam. We could send out a message," Zeno explained.
Gunvolt nodded in approval to the plan. "Good job. I'm actually surprised you know what to do."
Zeno blushes a bit and rubs the back of his head. "Yeah, I know. I am pretty smar-"
"I told Zeno all about that before he told you," Moniqa cut into the conversation. Zeno tried to deny it but Gunvolt figured as much.
"What message do you guys want to send out?" Gunvolt asked.
Zeno cleared his throat and said, "Duh, man. We want to tell the people that we'll help restore order to the place so they should calm down and side with us."
"Nice one. Did you come up with that yourself?" Gunvolt smirked.
Before Zeno could argue Moniqa told them to go on before it gets late. Both male agreed and left for the city. It looked ugly beneath the bright sky. The buildings were scarred with marks from fires started before. Cars were turned to the side and glass was shattered. The city was empty which was considered odd. Usually there would be people milling around. Either they were going to ambush or they were asleep from their late night rampages. Gunvolt and Zeno stayed out of plain sight just in case.
When the two spotted something that looked like a big TV they went to the base of it. The door was blocked off by a flipped over car. Gunvolt brought out his gun, ready to shoot the car out of the way. "Wait, Geeves," Zeno told Gunvolt. "If you were to shoot that it would make a lot of noise. Is it worth it to have a bunch of people jump us?"
"We could always fight back," Gunvolt said. "They're just people."
Zeno shakes his head. "Geeves, no. We're not going to hurt them. We're doing this in the first place to save these people."
"I know. I never said I would hurt them. I just meant we could always escape their grip than lay back and take it," Gunvolt replied matter-of-factly.
"R-right. That goes without saying," Zeno responded. He walked closer to the side of the car and leaned on to it. "Help me push this car out of the way."
Gunvolt started to glow and Joule appear from him. "You wanted to be quiet, right? Then by pushing the car wouldn't it make a loud scraping sound? It's better if that car's removed fast. Gunvolt, let's try." Gunvolt agreed and just as his body was about to glow in septimal energy he spotted the face of a kid hiding behind another overturned car nearby.
"Wait, Joule," Gunvolt told her. The septimal energy stopped flowing through his body and Joule appeared above Gunvolt again. "Over there. A kid." The kid noticed Gunvolt's attention and quickly withdrawn his face behind the car. Zeno looked over to where Gunvolt's eyes looked while Gunvolt headed over there. When he looked behind the car the kid was crouched and staring wide eyes at Gunvolt. "Hey, kid. Are you okay?" Gunvolt asked gently. The kid with wide eyes slowly nodded his head.
"What are you doing, man?!" Zeno whisper-shouted next to Gunvolt. "This could be a trap."
"But it isn't if even you came here," Gunvolt pointed out.
"You guys..." the kid said quietly. Gunvolt turned his attention back to the kid and asked him to speak up. "You guys..." the kid started again with a somewhat firmer voice. "You guys are trying to get in there right?"
Gunvolt took a moment before he answered. Zeno tried to stop him from responding. "Don't tell the kid. It's none of his business."
"Yes, we are." Gunvolt ignored what Zeno said.
"Then I can help you, I guess..." the boy replied. Gunvolt raised an eyebrow to that.
"Do you know another way in?" Gunvolt asked, ready to take any lengths.
The kid smiled an almost creepy smile. "Yep. I'll show you." He got up from his crouching position and went toward the car that was in front of the door to the control room. Gunvolt decided to follow and Zeno reluctantly did the same. Once the two was behind the kid he spun around to look at them. He raised both hands out and closed his eyes.
"What's with this kid?" Zeno said, confused on what was happening. Gunvolt stayed silent and observed the kid. Suddenly, Gunvolt felt the ground beneath him disappear. He could only catch a little glimpse of what happened under him before the two fell through the hole formed beneath their feet. Zeno gave a scream and Gunvolt gasped from the suddenness of it. Everything looked black with the occasional flash of yellow. Finally, the two landed on solid ground. Zeno was rubbing his behind as he grumbled, "What just happened...?" Gunvolt scan the area that they were dropped off in and saw that it was filled with monitors and dials. They were in the control room. After realizing that Gunvolt quickly looked up to the ceiling where both fell from. Just in time he caught the gaping wormhole above him. It was only a second later did the wormhole disappeared. "Was that a wormhole?" Zeno questioned. Gunvolt looked back down to find out that Zeno was staring at the ceiling too.
"It was," Gunvolt replied and got up.
"Did that kid do that?" Zeno asked and scratch his head while getting up. "Was he an adept?"
Gunvolt thought about it. "I don't know." Zeno seems to ponder about it too. "Don't get yourself too burnt up about it," Gunvolt told him.
"But another adept... wouldn't that be cool?" Zeno said and stared at Gunvolt with glowing eyes.
"Yes, but... weren't we here for the control room? Get on with it," Gunvolt indignantly said. He didn't know what to feel about this. Either amazed or worried. An adept out here? Doing what? Knowing adepts they wouldn't be living the quiet life. There's bound to be trouble.
Zeno notices Gunvolt's tone of voice. "Fine. I just thought you would be happy to know there's another adept nearby." Zeno then went to work with one of the monitors. Gunvolt was a bit happy but for some reason that kid didn't quite sit well in his mind. He felt like a normal boy yet he had something like septimal energy in him. It was faint but somehow he was still able to make wormholes. And the power of wormholes itself reminded Gunvolt of Merak...
"Damn! The computers are useless. Their screens are shattered," Zeno broke Gunvolt out of his thoughts. Gunvolt look over to Zeno and saw him scanning the area. "This whole place must have broken out in flames and QUILL once tried to douse it. No wonder then." Zeno went on the transmitter. "Hey, Moniqa? Yeah, the computers won't work. Huh? Upstairs?" Zeno scanned around the area again. Gunvolt did too. He realized at the corner was a flight of stairs. "Hold on, we'll check it out." Zeno turned off the transmitter. "So yeah. Moniqa wants us to go upstairs. Come on." Zeno didn't wait as he went for the stairs.
Once upstairs the two noticed it to had the workings like a clock. There were wires running from wall to wall. On one side of the wall was the back of the big screen TV. Zeno stepped forth toward it. There was a small black slot on the side of it and Zeno pressed on it. What ejected was some kind of green chip. Compared to the TV it was small. Something that could get easily lost. "I got it," Zeno told Moniqa through the transmitter. He listen to her explain. After he does he headed back downstairs. Gunvolt was confused on what was happening and followed Zeno down. As soon as he got downstairs Zeno ejected a chip from one of the monitors. "Okay, we're done here," Zeno announced to Gunvolt as he turned off the transmitter. "Since we're going out this time, let's just blast through and hurry back."
Gunvolt welcomed the word for action and used his Cerberus to shoot the door. It locked on which Gunvolt proceeded to use his Flashfield. The door exploded and dust flew about. Both ran through it and hurry toward base. Gunvolt made sure to look back for the kid but saw that no one was around. Whether he was here for trouble or something else Gunvolt wanted to find out soon.
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