A/N: Hello and welcome to another episode of GAME ON!, ladies and gentlemen. Now, I'll be commenting on reviews. Continue submitting Ocs, need three more.
Luvley Lilac: One thing I like to do with characters that have good stats is get them in a really hard battle. So be prepared, LOL. There is no problem with the love interest part.
WrittenWithPencils: You should watch anime. It's great. A good place to start would be Death Note or Monster (be careful with Monster, it's very dark).
Toonwriter: Would you please tell me where I can find the song?
By the way, it's now time to start thinking if your OC will stay the way he is. This is not the typical Smash Bros story, where most of the times everyone's having jolly good fun and ocasionally do something. Things will get pretty grim at a certain point of the story. I'm just warning you (I thought about this when I read about Andy, things may go real hard on him. But, I guess from my point of view they'll grow up and become EPIC).
Stats time.
Don't expect that Bastion is going to win over Senros because Senros has a lower intelligence, he's not the only one with a 10/10.
Name: Senros von Kreiz.
Age: 34
Intelligence: 9.5/10
Agility: 7/10
Creativity: 8.3/10
Emotional Strength: 10/10
Physical Strength: 8.2/10
Main Theme: Professor Layton and the Last Specter Theme.
Chapter 9
The Longon Brigade
"29th of July, one day after the Red Second incident. Smasher's computer hacked and made free for unknown company to enter. IP located in a place where there seems to be nothing but dust..."
"Stop talking so robotically, Tetsi!" Andy Veran, a medium-height kid yelled.
The same guy who was standing in the rain at Longon, that same, tall black haired with blue eyes boy who was standing in the rain yesterday, was reading for some other people. His name was Tetsuya Kagumi, a guy who cared a lot about the world. His fringe covered a bit of his right eye, which was a trait that he liked much. His friends surrounded him, the leader of the so-called Longon Brigade. Andy Veran, a jumpy, hyperactive twelve years old kid, Tay, a fourteen years old teen, great jokester. Sir Ragnarok was sitting there, legs crossed, in the corner. The man was a hedgehog from Pastback, a medieval part of it. Next to Tetsuya was the vice-president of the Longon Brigade and best friend of Tetsuya, Lexi Falcon, a young fifteen years old girl, with a particular red hair. Tetsuya here was fifteen years old too.
The main purpose of this brigade is to solve difficult criminal cases the incompetent police, as Tay liked to call it, couldn't figure out. Staying anonymous, they've managed to find twenty-nine criminals and have saved fifty-two living beings from a painful death.
The house of the brigade was the basement of an abandoned nine floor building. Everything but gas, which they planned installing in a month, was available for their use.
Tetsuya heard about the Red Second incident and called Lexi so she could make a report with information of the case.
"Well, if something is pretty obvious, is that the first thing a criminal should worry is the Smashers." Tay commented.
"What about the Battle Royale or The X's?" Andy asked.
"They're too separated to actually think as a group. Most of The X's are in some part of Futoing, and everyone knows Futoing gives two shits about the other dimensions." Tetsuya answered, calmly. "As for the Battle Royale, they were just formed, so before acting as a team of super heroes, like the Smashers, they have to make money." (If you didn't notice by now, the Battle Royale would be Playstation characters and The X's Xbox.)
"Couldest thee find out about where is this place?" Sir Ragnarok spoke, to Lexi.
"Unfortunately, even with the latest maps I've found, I did not find a single piece of data of where this is. The only thing I could find was a picture of the place, but I'm not even certain if it's real or not."
"But couldn't you track it with satellite information?" Tay interrogated Lexi.
"I'm afraid it shows that there is a river there."
"So it shouldn't be dry." Sir Ragnarok said.
Tetsuya scratched his chin. He looked at Lexi once more.
"Lexi, by any chance the others know about this?"
"Who, Jasmine, Zonlit, and Amelia?"
"Yeah, those three. "Currently they're looking for new members, so I doubt they're on to any current investigation. "
"Could you find a list of the victims?"
"Yes, here you are."
Lexi handed a sheet of paper with around twenty names written on it. However, there was one name that startled Tetsuya.
Bastion W.B. Super.
"I know this fella, but from where?" he asked.
"Is something wrong?" Andy asked.
"This guy, Bastion W.B. Super, have you ever heard of him?"
"I have. He is a member of The X's." Ragnarok responded.
"He sure isn't the most famous one, then." Tay chuckled. "But this is the proof all the X's are a bunch of idiots. No one cared about his death."
"Indeed." Lexi admitted.
"So, what do we do?" Andy asked. "I mean, we're sitting here doing nothing!"
"Lexi, keep an eye on what the IP does." Tetsuya ordered. "Be extremely careful, there is a possibility that this person knows that we are aware of his intentions to hack the Smasher's security systems."
"Roger that."
"Sir Ragnarok, if by any chance you see danger, go and help. See if you can connect the two incidents, got it?"
"Yay."
"Andy, Tay, I need you to research more about who did this. Keep an eye on the news, then Lexi will help you get into Black Mesa's reports."
Both of them nodded.
"I'll go see if Zonlit has investigated something." As soon as he spoke, Tetsuya headed for the elevator that lead to the first floor and exist.
"Hey, Tetsuya!" Tay yelled.
"What is it?"
"Would you bring some food and drinks please? It would be great if you could."
The leader sighed and nodded. "Don't die." Tay joked.
"If you ask me you're not in position of interrogating us about our identity." Steve said, coldly.
"Neither are you."
"Well, um…" Steve scratched the back of his head. Light exchanged a look with him.
"It's not like you would know each other, last time I checked, this was an apocalyptic world, there's really no one here besides us."
"Surviving is difficult, kid, we can't receive everyone with open hands and tell them we have so many food that it doesn't fit in a chest." The woman quickly responded.
"I sure know surviving is difficult, I almost got killed two days ago in another world and I don't know where my friends are. I've had a pretty bad day, so I'm not in the mood for someone treating me like a kid like if I don't know how hard surviving is. Now you tell us what your purpose is here, because I'm really fed up with all this…bullshit." Steve felt weird about Light saying that word. "Are you planning on killing us? Because while you have got that armor, we're two and have defeated a horde of eighteen zombies with none of the things you're equipped with."
The woman glared at him, angry. "I'm Steve, fella here is Light. We're survivors too, but as you can see, not as well equipped as you."
"Michonne, I was looking for diamonds here. Heard noises so my reaction was to fire at you. Sorry for the inconvenience."
Michonne saw an arrow flying right across her face. Steve was there, with his bow in hand.
"What was that for?"
"Ask the creeper."
The woman raised her eyebrow and turned around. The body of the creeper lied there, lifeless, with an arrow stuck in his throat. She shivered in fear and disgustment.
"Weird, even with that armor you're more afraid of them than we are." Steve commented.
"Creepers, that's how you call them?"
"Yes, how do you call them?"
"I live alone, so whenever I see them I simply run away."
"That means you're scared of them." Light spoke.
"Well, to say the truth, I am pretty scared. I remember a few days after the apocalypse I was in my dirt hut and the thing blew up on me."
"I lived with a group not so long ago, we were overrun by them. Light here almost got blown up too, the day we first met."
The kid smiled. "Man, I surely remember that bloody moment."
"So you're from another world?" Michonne asked.
"Yes, I went through this portal and suddenly appeared here. It's a pretty long story and I'd rather not talk about it, gives me bad memories." Light answered, while looking at the floor.
After that sentence, the cave was filled with an awkward silence, the three of them with their look on other stuff.
"Say, this will be random, but, would you like to join me in my quest to defeat the Enderdragon?" Michonne inquired, shameful.
"We wanted to do that, too. From what I heard, when you go to the dimension where the dragon is, after you defeat him, you get sent back to your world. That might be a good way of helping Light here."
"Is that a yes or a no?"
"It's a yes." Light replied.
Michonne smirked, while Steve and Light stared blankly at her. Either Steve or Light was happy with the presence of this woman, but cooperating would be the best thing to do in a world like this.
"We'll go back to the surface to leave our iron and craft some tools. We'll meet at the top of the ravine in ten minutes." Steve told her.
Both man headed out of the cave, running towards their shack. In the run, Steve spoke to Light:
"Do you agree with the decision?"
"I have no problem, really. What I'm afraid of is the other groups. Not every single people we might encounter will be friendly.
"How can you tell? You have only been here for two days."
"It's simple bloody logic, Steve."
On their way to the shack, the allies were forced to slay a couple of zombies that kept getting on their way. Once there, Steve quickly smelted iron and threw the ingots to Light, who was crafting armor. In the meantime, he made himself a diamond pickaxe and a sword. Having three diamonds left, the kid stopped to think. He turned to Steve.
"Hey…is there anyway we can play discs?" Light asked.
Steve, not paying much attention, answered. "Yeah, there is."
Silence. "Are you bloody kidding me?" Light thought. "How do I craft it?"
"A diamond in the middle with wooden planks surrounding it. Here, more iron for you."
Light grabbed the iron put it in his pocket. He made the jukebox and then some iron pants.
"So, what could you manage to make?"
"A helmet, pants, chestplate and boots. Only that."
"Well, leave it like that. It doesn't matter much as longs as I have my bow and you have that little…"
"Zorua, that's his name."
"How did he fit in there anyway?"
"Oh, it's some special technology. It's not originally from my world, but they distribute them there."
"We have to go back to the ravine."
"How can you tell ten minutes have passed?"
"I know ten minutes HAVEN'T passed, that is enough clues."
Steve and Light headed out towards the ravine like a speeding bullet. It was not because Light wanted it, but Steve seemed awfully worried about Michonne threatening them. She was standing there, just like they planned it.
"You came earlier than I expected." She admitted.
Steve smiled, but Light was worried about the broken music disc. "Hey, do you know by any chance if creepers have a chance of dropping music discs when they die?"
Song: Suzumiya Haruhi OST – Kouchou Kouchou
"Time for five o'clock tea, professor!" Flora exclaimed, excited.
Five o'clock in the professor's lovely office. Layton was onto some archeology research neither Bastion nor Flora cared too much about. Andrew informed the case to his old pupil and that picked the gentleman's curiosity.
"So, does your old mentor know anything about if there are portals to other worlds?" Bastion popped the question.
"I'm afraid not. However, Andrew informed me that an acquaintance of mine might know. Flora, do you remember Clive?"
"So he knows? I haven't seen Clive in a while."
Bastion, observing how the two talked, took a sip of his tea.
"Well, he's still in prison after the Future London incident, but I have visited him in the past two months."
"And you never told me about it? How inconsiderate of you, Professor."
"My apologies, Flora. I should have brought you with me. If you wanted to know, Clive's in a good mental state, he asked about how Luke was. It seems that he got too much into his character."
"It seems this guy is quite a character. I wonder what the connection is. No matter, I doubt it's of much importance." Bastion thought, inside his world. The white haired kid could hear Flora, but didn't pay attention…until she grabbed his ear.
"Bastion, hello? Are you in this world?"
"Oh, uh, sorry Flora, what's the matter?"
"Do you like the tea?"
"Yeah, it's very nice. I'm not exactly an expert in tea but I guess it's good for a critic standards." Bastion replied. Flora smiled at him, eyes closed.
After Layton and Bastion finished drinking their tea, Flora picked up everything and washed the dishes, cheerfully. Layton told Bastion that they would probably go see Clive tomorrow. He grinned.
"It's lovely how some people can take things so lightheartedly. Like Flora. I have to be worried about everyone and everything all the time, because that's my nature." Bastion admitted.
"That isn't a bad trait, Bastion. You care a lot for the people you love, to the point of being preoccupied about them even when you're not with them. It is a very nice trait, don't be ashamed of it."
"I guess you're right. Uhm, professor?"
"Yes, Bastion?"
"Thank you."
The professor's laughed. "You shouldn't be thankful; it's my duty to help people in trouble." Bastion, nodded, grateful.
End of song.
A weird silence ran throughout the office. Bastion, uncomfortable, forced him to speak.
"What is this project about?"
"It appears that there is a very ancient jewel in some place of the streets of London. You haven't been much in the city, but the rumor has been going from mouth to ear for quite some time now. Curious thing about the jewel is that trustable sources confirm that this jewel may have caused the destruction of Roterryvale, a city forgotten by the years, destroyed by a war."
"I imagine people say it has a strange magical power that makes people greed rise to uncontrollable levels."
"That'd be the case. Andrew and I believe it's a lie, as I have researched about a box that killed the people who opened it. In the end, it was gas that made people completely sure that the effects of opening that box were true."
"The Elysian Box? I've read about it in my school's books. I can help with the case if you agree. That gas you mention…think about it. This jewel may drive people's greed to mad levels due to said rumors…think about the consequences if this is being carried for too long."
"I know…that's why I wanted to investigate them."
Song: Code geass OST 1-17 "Occupied Thinking"
The main room of Incorporated Minds consisted of a large table with a few chairs and a blue carpet. More widely known throughout the organization as the Conference Room. Senros, Paule, High, Raller, Rute, Officer Kenway (the second in command), Elite Force leader Grains, Newtonia's president and Elite Force second in command Rina were inside that room with microphones connected to a computer, which told everyone in the base their current talk.
"Could you manage to find the portals?" Senros spoke to Rute. He nodded, in a response, Senros smirked.
"However, it seems that someone had used them a little bit before we found them. We have no idea who could it have been, though."
"I see…it probably was a Red Second worker."
"I stand against it." Highting stood up. "Red Second workers had high knowledge but not much brains. Any idiot would've realized holding the portals so insecurely was dangerous and they did not.
"I get your point, High." Kenway admitted. "But do you believe a student could survive an army equipped with fire weapons? I find that highly illogical."
"It's illogical you attacked the Red Second facility so cowardly, if you knew that." Newtonia's president opined.
Grains growled at the statement. "You're in no position to call us cowards as you command your nation and betray them at the same time by coming here."
"Honor is not something that matters, those merciless people didn't care for it when they slaughtered Tellus and no one ever knew about it." Senros affirmed.
"Because it was better to stay that way, no one knowing. Don't be such hypocrites. That town deserved it."
Rina grabbed a gun a pointed it at Newtonia's president. This one almost fell out of his chair in shock. "If you're going to do something other than complain, please tell us or I'll have no problem pulling the trigger."
High frowned. He got close to Senros, who was with his eyes closed, thinking.
"Why is this guy here, again? Besides getting information for us." Highting whispered to Senros.
"Nothing more but information, although I agree he's not being very useful." Senros replied. "Rina, stop. Let the man talk. Why did the town deserve it?"
"For being a traitor to mostly every other town in Circunix. That country almost fell apart due to it."
"Have you brought us more information about Black Mesa?" Grains inquired.
"They know someone has stolen the portals."
"As expected." Senros thought. "High, what about the Smashers?"
"It's impossible for them to communicate with someone from outside their mansion."
"And their second option of communication?"
"This is the only problem. Another hacker blocked every computer in all this area to access that system."
"And that hacker, you couldn't track his IP."
"No, I couldn't"
"Raller couldn't, which is different." Senros complained.
"Hmph, I can't handle those things. Neither can you."
Senros remained silent, without a comeback to answer.
"Attack Circunix but don't use uniforms. You heard that, Grains?"
"So all the Elite Force will attack it. Whatever you please, master Senros."
"He wants everyone to know about something important is happening...I see." High thought.
End of song.
A/N: At last I could get that done. Jasmine, Zonlit, Amelia and the other Ocs I don't have will be presented next chapter. Check EC stories, for God's sake.
