"Shot them!", said one of the soldiers and the fired their bullets towards the remaining men.
"You need to get the hell out of here!", said Kurtz as he gave Akira the key to one of the cars.
"You are coming with me!", said Akira as he shot two more men form a balcony. He grabbed Kurtz arm, threw a smoke grenade and ran towards the car. Something in his way of moving, made the more experienced soldier feel like he was watching a ghost of Sousuke.
As soon as they got to the car, they saw Mao with a machine gun, taking other soldiers from the roof. "Get in!", screamed Akira as he drift the car into the main entrance. The woman jumped in the back sit and kept shooting as a cover to a car that was following them.
"Like the good old days Kurtz!", said Mao as she broke the windshield to keep attacking their enemies.
"This brings back memories, although my eyesight is not as good as it was", said Kurtz as he used his sniper to take down the driver who was following them.
With a big explosion they got rid of their enemy and soon they were driving down the highway.
"So what now?", said Kurtz as he cleaned the broken glass from his jacket.
"Now, we kill that man", said Mao as she cleaned her rifle.
"Yes, now we kill him", said Akira as he drove towards an exit.
….
Akira had never felt angrier in his entire life. It was as if something was going to burst in his chest for all the hate he had against Leonard Testarossa. It was as if he was possessed by demon that only seek for revenge.
First his sister was kidnapped right in front of him… and he felt helpless.
Then his mother was brutally murder in front of him… and he felt helpless.
Later his father got shot in the chest and drowned in the sea… and he felt helpless,
And now, Tessa… that was the last drop
It was as cruel version of Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events. But now this orphan knew it was personal. He had to kill his silvered hair version of Count Olaf and nobody could stop him. He was smart for a reason and he wasn't going to make a mistake ever again.
When they had came back to the hotel, looking for survivors of the attack, they found a run down machine, the Arbalest. With the remaining men, they moved it towards a hangar and started working.
Some of the men left, but the remaining soldiers decided to stay at a hostel. It was a third class joint, probably where addicts went to get high.
"What are you doing?", asked Mao as he saw Akira put cables inside at the bedroom tub that looked extremely anti higenic, so she couldn't undertand what they young boy wanted to get in.
"We have an armslave, my brain and my parents money. With my whispered ability we can make this machine work. Believe me I have a plan", said Akira as he connected the cables to himself and got in the water.
"You have lost your mind!", said Mao but Kurtz stopped her before she could remove the electrical hazard teenager from the bathtub.
"Give me a notebook and a pen", he said to Kurtz and started drifting into that familiar void. With his eyes closed, the numbers and the elements started showing in his head. Cloaking technology, better metals, advanced shields, cold fusion knowledge, everything just kept puring in his head and he wrote it in that notebook. Mao and Kurtz could only see in wonder as the young man worked his magic.
"He is been there for hours. Is it healthy?", said Kurtz as he looked at the clock. Since he had entered the tub it had passed at least 8 hours.
"If he doesn't get out he is going to get an ear infection", said Mao when suddenly Akira openned his eyes.
"Boy! You alright?", asked Kurtz as he helped him get out of the water.
"I'm more than alright. I need your help", he said with a smile on his face that made both experienced soldiers shriver.
For months the group helped Akira, day and night, work in the armslave. He gave the specific instructions and they executed the project. The teenager also worked at night on small features of the machine and computer codes, he didn't had a good night's rest. But in the end, in that hangar, they built a devise that no one had seen before.
Slender and smaller than a Tauros, and more stylish than the Arbalest. Even more impresive than Leonard's Testarossa knew weapon.
"Do you want to test it?", said Kurtz as he saw that marvelous machine. He wanted to see it in action.
"No, I know it works", said Akira as he entered more codes in the machine's main frame.
"And how are you going to call it?", said Mao as she inspected the machine. It had almost no joints. It was smooth as if it was made from a single piece.
"It's a Gundam", said Akira as he shut his laptop.
"Gundam?", asked Kurtz.
"You'll see how good this machine really is because I have the exact person I want to test it with", said Akira with a smile that again, made both experienced soldiers shriver. He took all the notes he had written down, the computer and the chips on top of his desk, then he moved outside the hangar and trew them into a trash can.
"What are you doing?", said Kurtz as he saw the teenager throw gasoline inside the can.
"No one should ever have this knowledge", said Akira as he throw a lighter inside.
As the flames consumed the content inside the bin, he knew in that moment, that no matter what he will take his sister back.
Now all he had to do was find Leonard.
Again he turned his tub into a fire hazard, connecting cables, but this time he put a helmet on.
"What are going to do with that?", said Kurtz as he saw the boy enter the water.
"This will avoid him from detecting me, but not me from detecting him", said the boy as he closed his eyes.
He started to drift into that familiar void. There he saw his baby sister, she was sitting next to a window in a big mansion. She could see her sad little face and the way she looked so nostalgic. Suddenly her eyes changed and look straight at him with a large smile.
"Tessa!", she screamed as she saw the silver haired beauty enter the room accompanied by Leonard. When she saw him she changed her adorable little face into a smirk.
"Yuki don't get angry. My sister and I were just talking", said Leonard as he put a hand on her sister's hair. Tessa took the little girl from him and hide her behind herself.
"I'll leave you girls to it", said Leonard and left the room. Akira followed him close, trying to get any detail from the house and the surroundings.
When he saw Leonard open a secret compartment in the hallway. He went down the stairs and saw a glass coffin, inside there was a nervous system. Brain, spinal cord and nerves, connected to a machine that showed vital signs.
"I can believe I had to reduce myself to this", said Leonard as he saw the machine and the heart beat.
"That thing...", said Akira as he saw the machine. It was something he had seen his sister draw in the plane on their way to Japan in his mother's lap. He hadn't really noticed the shape before.
Now he understood everything. She had that kind of knowledge before. No wonder they wanted her for experimentation, no wonder the killed his parents.
That machine could bring the dead back to life…
Akira shriver in fear at the thought of it.