LEGION HEADQUARTERS…

"And then he blows the last one away with this huge energy bubble." Cyril finished, telling the others about how Devian had defeated those kids. Devian then came down the stairs; he had a black trench coat and khakis on, as well as a purple T-shirt (not to forget black tennis shoes and sunglasses). He ran a hand through his curly brown hair and said, "You're forgetting one detail Phantomae, I hardly broke a sweat." Then he heard him say to himself, "You also forgot one thing, they must be using one of your prototypes…but which one?"

"But which one?" Devian muttered, they all looked at him with a puzzled look, "What did you say?" Dark Angel asked him.

Devian looked up and answered, "I think these kids might be using one of my virtualizer prototypes, I just wish I knew which one?!"

"You know funny thing was that girl those kids are with wasn't there this time." Phantomae added, Devian then asked, "There was another, what did she look like?"

Phantomae (or Cyril if you prefer) went into deep thought and said, "Well she was beautiful in appearance, short hair…funny color too, sort of a reddish-pink…"

Sargent Bash then added, "I think they called her, Ae…Aeli…Ae, well I can't remember the name, but it began with that."

"Aelita…" Devian said under his breath, "Aelita…they're using # 13!" Devian then looked at them and said, "This meeting is adjourned, go back to your resonated areas. I'll call you if I need anything." They all left except for Sabrina, she asked, "Michel, Devian…what's wrong? Come on, I mean I'm your little sister as well as a member of LEGION…so come on, fill me in."

Devian turned to Sabrina and said, "Okay Sabrina, I guess you deserve to know…Before LEGION, before any of this, even before the limousine accident…"Devian then removed the glove on his left hand to reveal a gold robotic hand, with one twist of his forearm and a clicking noise he removed the forearm from the trench coat sleeve and continued. "I was thinking about giving the Internet a physical shape, I created a virtual world as a result. It took ten months to make it all, linking it to all sorts of sites and technologies but I did it, but there was a problem…"

"Yes I think I understand…continue," Sabrina said.

Devian continued, "Well I had the theory of transferring living material there, but the first 12 prototypes which involved the same process as a scanner were less than satisfactory, but number 13…well that was something special, it was sort of the ancestor to The Gateway program we use now, and the only one I ever got successfully working. I even created a little virtual friend so that the place wouldn't seem so barren; I gave her a name, abilities—Oh it was magic, Hours and hours of love and magic. I even started on a program that would bring her to our world. But when I had created a blueprint for that program…I…I had entered a few algorithms I probably shouldn't have and instead created something that shouldn't have been there from the start. I had to shut down the system, but not before saving Aelita's information on a back-up file."

Devian finished with, "After the accidental failure of #13, I created four more…but none of them met the same succession as #13 had…and that's it, I didn't know if the Government had found it or not until now. That's why I'm creating these towers, not only to control everything electronic, but to take back everything I lost in my life before the limo accident!"

Sabrina put her hand on Devian's shoulder and said, "Then why not tell those kids the story you just told me? I'm sure they'll understand?"

Devian leered at her and said, "How could they understand, they got hold of that thing on whim…handed to them on a silver platter, I on the other hand had to devout 117 hours of my sweet time on this earth, without sleep mind you, to get that thing running! If you ask me they should be thanking—no, no, that's too weak of a word for this…they should be bowing before me!"

Then Devian looked at his watch and said, "Look at the time, we better get going home or Camryn's going to think we were kidnapped by Eco-Terrorists."