The sound of the CUI's computer keyboard was mute, the sound canceled out by Quentin's music. It was later than any other CUI's work hours, the dirty blond finishing some long do reports on the new taken Ultra humans. The files were ones he didn't finish in the past two weeks... Quentin was one to never do anything on time, but when he did something it was done right...
He looked up when a large ring of keys were thrown onto his desk the noise blaring through his earbuds. He looked up at a three striped CUI standing in front of his desk, himself only being a two strip… he pulled out one of his earbuds, the CUI's were organized with the white stripes that were sewed to the coat all the CUI's got the first day. The strips when to five, anything below a three were CUI's that stayed in the Corp. building with papers and files. And above a three… were the ones on the field takening the out of control Ultra humans off the city streets.
"Hey, lock up when you done Eh Bass?" the three said to Quentin, "I'm heading out, I don't have time to wait till you're done… Alright?" he said in a stern voice, with his coat over his shoulder and his case at his side.
Quentin Nodded. "Yes sir, what should I do with the-" The dirty blond tried asking but the over CUI was tired and turned his back heading for the elevator leaving Quentin a doormat….again. He sighed combing his fingers through his hair pushing it out of his eyes, he emitted he needed a haircut but his long hair with something he just couldn't part with. Pinning some of it back he continued his work nearing the finish of his file, it happened to be the light Freak's he was the only one trying to come up with a way to tell the head of the CUI and the press the Ultra human got away and was still on the streets… it's file, a Category 3 danger. She being the first, ruining the perfect name of the CUI.
The automatic door slid into the wall as Quentin walked though not acknowledging the completely normal action of every day thing looking down at his papers that were still warm from the printer. Walking down the long hall of CUI records, living in an age where computers did everything that paper can do and more, paper was nearly a nonexistent thing in their time. The CUI Crop. kept paper copies of all the computer's files for backup but the hall was completely off-limits to one strips Quentin barely made it with a gun at his side, a third strip was in his site. He pulled out the ring of Keys the three gave to him opening the drawer placing his papers inside for the next day, standing on a tall ladder all the files ordered in alphabetical order.
Closing the drawer tired and alone he slid down the long ladder to the floor meeting with the clean floor he's feet echoing in the hall he made his way to the door everything quite. He switched off the light grabbing his keys ready to lock the door, right before his ear pick up a sharp noise along with a yellow-gold flash of dim light making his inter feel as if it was being dragged down.
"W-WHO'S THERE!" He yelled stepping back into the room knowing it was nothing in the hall that caused a flash like that, it was Ultra... "This is a restricted area, the whole building is!" He yelled out again grabbing the gun at his side seeing something in the darkness silhouetted by the light of the office through the open door. It being an alone, standing figure.
"Well, sure sounds like you CUI's like hiding things." Quentin heard a voice through the hall at him, the tone just below a smart man's kind of pitch.
"Show yourself, I will have to resort to fire!" Quentin shouted holding up his silver CUI gun ready to shoot towards the source of the sound, the strong barreled gun shaking in his hand this being the first time he's ever had to use in any way.
The man's figure traded closer to the CUI quietly seeming unarmed in anyway Quentin studying him like he had been taught to. He was strange but no ultra human he was normal an early way of telling was an ultra human's eyes a pixel exposure person with have an unworldly shine in their eyes some shone more than others but that was just a warning on how truly stronger they were. Every CUI knew this by heart… and if they didn't they were done real quick… seeing this Quentin lowered his gun seeing the man for what he was without him hiding under the shadows, light blond hair, black glasses around his cold brown eyes nearing black, a lab coat trashed and the ends hanging at his keens, jeans and red anime shirt under the white coat.
"How, did you get in here?!" Quentin huffed holding up his gun stiff at the man that still hasn't explained himself.
"Oh, nothing fancy… I'm just here on business and revenge." The scientist attired man uttered proudly.
"Well there was no memo about teleporting men, coming on business in the middle in of the night in the CUI's most classified rooms to the public." Quentin said harshly before starting at him. "I'm going to need to you leave!"
"I was NOT teleporting… it was Intergalactic portal but it's not like someone like you can comprehend truly the insignificant power of that word." The man said as if he were talking with himself about the CUI, he walked closer to Quentin. "Here, here's something that will make all of this make sense…" The man grinned an untruthful smile pulling something out of his pocket ready to show it to Quentin.
Quentin glared at the man no older than himself that to his hands putting the gun back to his side. But all that was ended with the mad man swinging his fist the black tooth in his hold stabbed into Quentin's side. Quentin fell into an unworldly unconsciousness...
"Huh that was easer then I thought…" the mad man chuckled bending down looking at the new first dracle's tag on his coat… "Well Quentin Bass, You now work for me and whatever I need to aide Deophilus… that that includes leading his dracles.
"AND THAT'S, why I say stuff like, derp turtle!" Bruce laughed coming up the subway stairs with the light freak both of them heading around the city, being a moving target was better than a sitting one.
"Uh, n-nice story, but that didn't really answer my question," The light replied after the long story that she had listened to since to start of the subway ride.
"Oh" Bruce paused turning to her, the ultra human's eyes shining walking in the sun, knowing as a former CUI that she was strong, he wondered what his eyes were like, sadly mirrors were no good in that situation. "W-what was the question?" he asked.
"How much do you know about Crossworld? Do you know what they're trying to do?" She asked him again.
Bruce rubbed the back of his head, "When I was in Crossworld, The huge Dragon was telling me that I had no choice… and I would lead his dracles to Terra, But I don't know why they're here? Ah, do you think there after me?!"
"I know why there here, Bruce." She reasserted him.
"Really?! So there not after me?" Bruce said giving a look a brief relief.
"Oh no, I say they still after us… because Terra is Earth… it's just a Latin name they used when people thought the earth was still flat."
"What! Who does that?! Latin is so stupid! Ugh, what are we going to do?" Bruce started up, freaking himself out.
"Calm down Bruce!" she started blowing a piece of hair out of her face, putting it up in a ponytail. "How many dracles were there in Crossworld, the second time you were there?" She asked as if she was trying to do this huge problem in her head.
"Uh, about as many people that fill the city… times ten. And those are just the ones that I saw." Bruce said watching her think as the two swam through the streets of the city.
"Ugh! It'll take too long just to fight them one of us would die before they were finished off, also we don't know how fast they can come back to fight." The light concluded still with a thinking look. "I wish we know what there were trying to do by bringing all those shadow bitches to earth."
Bruce gasped! "Maybe there trying to take over the world!"
The being rolled her eyes. "It would be so tedious for a race like that trying to come in to the earth quietly if they were trying to take over and why would they need you as first dracle? I think they'd just crash in before anyone can say a thing and take the world over with how many bitches that world has."
"How do you know so much about world domination?" Bruce asked giving her a surprised/concerned look.
"I've read a lot of world history, I just know it." She bragged in a tone of mockery. "I'm just saying we could make a lot of guesses on what Crossworld wants with our earth, but what we need to do is to know more."
"Well, what do we do lady? Sit here till dark and wait to be chased again?" Bruce asked in a somewhat sarcastic tone.
"Being chased is not what I meant, we're going to where we fought last night with the CUI's to find evidence." She said to him, correcting him at the most.
"Evidence?...I didn't know you were a detective too…" Bruce sighed playing with miracle hanging out of his pocket the tiny dragon just waking up.
"I can be a lot of things….including your worst nightmare." She couldn't help but not to laugh a bit walking in front of the first dracle.
"More like our worst nerd, huh miracle." Bruce said under his breath with a chuckle.
The being of light turned her head looking back at him hearing flatly what he said to his familiar like creature in his pen pocket of his CUI coat. "What was that dracle…" She huffed.
"N-nothing..." Bruce laughed nervously.
The sun was nearly at noon reaching Sandmark's main street, the two ultra human trying to retrace the chase from the café where the two encountered the first drop of the massive war they headed into blind both knowing it was big, neither could comprehend it's true size or knowing now the world rested in there derpy, unstable, hands.
"HEY, I think this is it!" Bruce said looking into another alley as they had been doing the past four blocks in the city's up town street it was a less busy part of the city but more people lived in building around that part of Sandmark.
"Are you sure?" the being of light asked looking in to the alley walking behind him… "I didn't think we were chased this far away from the café, I thought it was just one block."
"That's because your derp turtle fast when you're scared with you powers, you run can light speed and you don't even know it." Bruce explained kneeling down. "And, yes this is the right alley! Look!" Bruce yelled out to her pointing out his gold scales on the ground from the dracles that he threw his scales at last night.
"Ok, it seems right… but beside this if I were as fast as light, how did you keep up?" she asked crossing her arms.
"I don't know," Bruce shrugged. "Ok I see the evidence of me being here, but I don't really see anything from you or dracles." Bruce said standing back up.
"Just keep looking, there gotta be something." The being of light said looking around herself on the ground.
The bright eyed ultra human looking at the being of light starting her search with a puzzled look on his face. "Look for traces of the Light Freak or the dracles?" he asked.
Hearing her horrible nickname made her hands emit light glaring at Bruce as if he was a CUI, "What do you think!" she growled.
"Wow, don't get so lit up, I was just asking." Bruce said putting his hands up lazily.
She anguished the light take a bit of breathe before looking at the former CUI again, "Just, please don't use that name again." She said continuing looking for traces of the dracles.
"I don't like call you a freak, you know, but like I said everyone needs a name." Bruce said trying to get the light to say her own.
"I don't want you using my other name either, Bruce." She said continuing to looking as Bruce talked to her back."
Bruce huffed, "then what am I supposed to call you?" he asked her his scales at his feet and coming up around his neck, a first dracle's powers weren't the only thing that came with the tooth… so did a dragon's anger.
Him not in her view not seeing any of the anger she continued to look. "Pff, I Don't care…if you want a name so bad why don't you just get the wood burning and think of one, you seem to be good at that."
"You want me to name you?" He asked confused, the layer of the anger fell off his face along with the scales.
"If it gets me to hear that nickname less, and makes you happy… knock yourself out JUST help me look."
"Hey, uh, person… I still haven't come up with a name for yet! Look at this!" Bruce hindered to the light lady a bit farther in the alley looking at some of that wall that most of the shadow dracles have jumped out of from the shadows of the other bindings, but with the sun a pick middle of the sky fair shadows were little to none in the city. She looked up back at him kneeling on the ground again.
"hm, nice name… what did you find?" she asked.
"It a weird stain on the contrite!"Bruce said as she looked over his shoulder at the red stain like drops rain would do if it were wet. "Do you think its blood, Watson?" Country Boy asked doing his best to do a Sherlock Holmes impression.
"Oh, yeah not-so-Surelock holmes… it blood, but it's just from the CUI I cut last night before the dracles." She standing back up pulling the sharp piece of the solar panel out of her shirt shining a glaring light in Bruce's eye reflecting off it from the sun. "See?"
"Yeah I remember, were did you even get that? It doesn't look like anything you'd find off a subway here." Bruce asked looking closer at the sharp piece of shining metal in her hands standing up to get out of the way of the shinning in his eye.
The being of light looked down at the sentimental piece of crooked rubble sharp to the point blue. "Eh, it's not impotent… I'm just glad I had it, if not I wouldn't have a spine and that jerk wouldn't have a permanent reminder not to mess with me right across his face." He huffed placing the rubble back in her shirt.
Bruce stayed quiet for a bit looking around them, "Well I don't see anything else here we care use for a lead… unless garbage counts."
She put her fist under her chin trying to think, "Maybe were looking in wrong places?" She suggested with a shrug before a transcendental feeling shot through both of them same as before.
"Uh… lady person… do you think dracles can come after us in the daylight?" Bruce asked looking the way the atmosphere of heavy light flew at them like hot air from an oven.
"One way to find out Sherlock." She insisted walking towards the wave… the spot where they were standing was only light to were both first dracle and the light walked in further into the alley behind the line of apartments and complexes.
"I can't tell if the light getting heavier or staying the same now…" She said to herself right under her breath turning a third corner after pasting behind three buildings with quite steps Bruce following her, his own feelings become stronger along with miracle looking out of his pocket for Danger. Walking towards a dead end standing tall shading the two brunette heads from the sun coming hot.
Miracle cried out a sharp and loud yelp out of the blue causing Bruce to jump landing his eyes back. "NEON, WATCH OUT!" He pulled her out of the way behind him as an accuracy bullet; silver with a narrow tip was shot crashing through the air. Bruce's scales bolting out over his arm before the bullet touched him, the strong impact shattering the death shot. Gold sharp dragon eyes glaring at the trapping CUI's the same one as before... with three walls and two four strip CUIs as a weak cage.
"Shit," Neon muttered looking at them nearly getting her shoulder blown off… "It's them; the heavy light is coming from them?"
"I know…but how?" Bruce remarked growling.
Len took off his thin black sun glasses placing them in his pen pocket, his eyes with a dead color then before… with no mark on his face from Neon's charm, "This is good." He started in an unnatural tone flat faced. "The Light and failed refinement dracle both. Follow, out, order." He uttered with no feeling or anger as before seeing them him pointing the gun at them with the arm with a bite on his wrist pulling the trigger. Bruce reflected the bullet before lunging that them!
Neon lit up blasting the partner just as emotionless as no longer looking wasted at all. He took it lightly his limbs letting out a array of dark shadow the same as the dracles as he came as her with claws long and sharp with a hiss! Bruce punched the Dracle like Len with his scales on his fists sharp but the hit did nothing as the man continued to stand punching Bruce in the gut!
"These CUI are acting like shadows bitches!" Neon yelled out before the partner kicked her back off her feet throwing blasts of light at him.
"Any idea how it stop them?!" Bruce asked throwing the sharp gold scales at Len, both of them being cornered into the alley.
"Ah, I don't know! It's like they're possessed!" Neon yelled standing back up trying to knock back the CUI's buying them time. "Do something!" She yelled her eyes turning to blue!
Bruce growled throwing a punch, feeling powered at Len as he was running that them! Surprisingly he was throw back the force of his punch jolting to a stop Len catching his fist in the palm of his hand cracking Bruce's knuckles! He pulled back shacking his hand in pain feeling as if they snapped his fingers but quickly a soft heavy yellow-orange light emitted from his hand he opened it to find a wide circle on the palm of his hand like a window looking into Crossworld! The light made the dracle CUI back away weakling with their human side a normal human would die in the non human conditions from such a place! "NEON, BLAST THEM NOW!" he shouted pointing the weakening ray of dark energy at the two Dracle possessed CUI! She didn't hastate to charge, blasting a powerful burst of light at the both of them using both hands! Causing them to fly back on to their back as if they were tackled!
Both Bruce and Neon were no longer trapped the alley way open, the two CUI lying on the ground, Len now having his mark across his face scabbed over from the night before.
"Uh, do you think it worked?" Bruce huffed winded eye exhausted from another new ability…
Neon watched Bruce turn his hand into a fist to make the hand portal vanish back into a palm. "Looks like it to me…. Just one question… WHAT WAS THAT?! That was pretty ultra!" Neon gave him a bit of a grin
"Um… I don't really know, the CUI just cracked my knuckles and the portal was there! But I'm ganna call it a hand portal!" he laughed looking down at it as if he created a tool of the century!
"Hey Bruce." Neon started… "Did we kill those CUI's?" She said with a crack in her vice noticing the two weren't getting up… she got up waking over to the one she hurt with her necklace looking down at him, Bruce after her. She took two fingers putting them on his neck keeling down.
"N-neon, do you think that's safe? He literally just tried killing us!" Bruce warned watching her.
"Shhh," She hushed him. "I'm trying to find a pulse to make should we didn't ice them!" Her tone harsh but badgered with concern for someone that had her back to barrel twice. She held her breathe letting out a soft sigh feeling a slow but steady live pulse. "Huh, who could when a dracle possessed a normal human they went into hibernation." Neon said standing up looking back at Bruce.
"Is that bad?" Bruce asked familiar with hibernation, but not with humans.
"I say it's bad on how long they're held by a dracle, there body's is only seduced to hibernation because of the conditions of Crossworld's Eco biologic that dracles need, I say that's why they freaked when you used your…. ugh …. Hand Portal." She stated.
"So, there sleeping?" Bruce asked summarizing Neon's statement.
"Yeah… let's just hope someone comes along and gives them medical attention it's not exactly healthy for the body to go into hibernation, but they'll be fine…"
"Ok, good, now let's get out of here… I had enough looking for evidence for one day and naming things!"
"Ok sounds fair. Just one more thing." Neon said calmly… suddenly bursting out punching Bruce in the arm with a lit up fist! Her eyes turning back to brown.
"HEY NEON, what was that FOR." Bruce scoffed turning to her as they started out of the alley.
"That's was for giving me a stupid name!" she smirked.