Chapter 14: Heavensider
Skou Planet:
An icy planet that act as the main headquarters of DeMille, as well as their stronghold...
"So this is the cornerstone of el civilization's glory...the end result of Mothers" the kid-like figure spoke while analyzing it's data
"No, it's just a single unit, so 'Mother' was the appropriate term...this is the one that was stolen by DeMille from the group of Mothers' thought network..." the blue alien countered
"the organization is even willing to sacrifice half of its members just for this one single unit since this one has already a very high capacity to become a host computer, even in this state"
"So, that means that it possess every member's recorder...but I heard that all mother units were females...I wonder why?" the black haired woman wondered out loud
"Heh! That's none of your concern...you, who unable to become either man or woman!" the kid-like figure earlier taunted her
"It seems that someone here wants to lose his head, isn't that right, Trumbo?" she shot back
"Want to try it, Cheryl?" the kid named Trumbo countered
"!"
"You already knew that if I died, you will have a lot trouble locating something without my genius intellect, so even knowing that fact, do you still want to try it, Cheryl?" Trumbo added, Cheryl groaned in frustration
"Trumbo! Get back to work if you don't want to lose your head!" The light blonde haired guy ordered
"What did you say, Alvah!?" Trumbo then turn to the man named Alvah
"Hihihi...so either way, Trumbo will lose his head, after all" the pink hair girl said while grinning
"Shut up Lili! I'm already done here, and that's because King ordered me, not Alvah" Trumbo hissed
"Isn't that the same?" Cheryl asked
"No...Rank has a significant effect on power and strength..." an old looking guy with a blue Mohawk-like hairstyle answered her
"..."
"King is our boss, and I'm in-second-in-command...Alvah is below us, so his orders are weaker..." he continued
"I can't believe I'm hearing that from someone who just join us recently" Cheryl said
"Shut up, you damn hermaphrodite! I would have killed you if it weren't for this plan" he shot back
"Wanna try it?!"
"Don't regret this..."
"Wait!"
Then the blue alien among them step in between the two individuals to prevent them from fighting each other
"Pointless fight like this will led us to nowhere"
"Which side are you on, Dassim?" Cheryl asked him
"I only serve god, and my god knows that he never wish for this..." the blue skinned alien named Dassim continued
"Haha! that's wonderful, then in that case, give my regards to your god, and Cheryl..." Alvah then look at the hermaphrodite
"...Don't defy McCay-san (AN: Dmytryk was supposed to be his name but for some reason, it was officially change to McCay so I'll stick on this name), who is our second-in-command" Alvah finish
"Tch!"
"Hmm..."
"I'm back from my little walk..."
Everyone turn to cave's entrance to see King, holding a red haired man, who was clearly dead
"King..."
"Who's that?" Alvah asked him
"DeMille's greatest martial artist and esper" King simply answered him
"That's not good, you defeat the undefeatable" Alvah told him
"Pfft.."
"Hahaha..."
"HAHAHAHA!"
Then their combined laughter echoed through the cave they're in
"I'm bored..." King muttered after he threw the corpse on the ground
"That's great since Trumbo here has finished analyzing the data from that Mother" Alvah told him
Then after that, Trumbo showed him something, it's a picture of several galaxies and stars
"Thanks to the data from el civilization system and this mother, I've figure out quite a lot and obtain some interesting information..." Trumbo explain
"...As you can see here, this picture shows the map of el civilization, then..."
Trumbo show another holographic picture that contains some marked places with names on it and then, he overlap it on the first picture
"This is the ancient ruins that DeMille investigates throughout the universe, and if we aligned it to the Glyph's golden coordinate..."
Then Trumbo pick up a hologram that consist of several lines that made up a certain mark (AN: I can't figure what exactly is that so if you're confused, read the chapter) then he overlap it again to the picture of ancient ruins
"It match perfectly..."
The lines and the marked ancient ruins were perfectly aligned to each other, King look at it for some time
"So where's the 'blueprint'?" he asked Trumbo
"Well, the place that overlap with the blueprint's location was this one...but DeMille didn't even bother marking this" Trumbo told him
"What!"
"They went here for once and it was because of the Monitalien, but they were intercept by the space police" Trumbo continue
"Just one Monitalien? Doesn't seem the place to hide the blueprint" McCay stated
"Are you sure about that, Trumbo?" Dassim asked
"I already checked this one over and over, but there's one thing that bothers me..."
"What is it?"
"Remember the red haired guy, the one who blew himself up? Well, he's the one who went on that planet but he also destroy his recorder on that planet too" Trumbo explain
"!"
"In other words, he's hiding something that even DeMille didn't know...and it do make me curious..." Alvah said
"The planet's name?" King asked
"The third planet of Solar System...Earth" Trumbo answered
"Oh! I know that planet, These clothes I'm wearing now came from that planet" Lili stated
"But there's one station there...so our only obstacle was the space police" Trumbo said
"Not even a hindrance..." King spat
"In that case, please do give the order, King" Alvah said
"King!"
then it was followed by his subordinate's cries
"Go and take the 'blueprint'...from Earth"
Earth:
"Serial bombings occurred, the suspect is a Scanerian, all CID officers, head to the site immediately" Riggs' voice echoed on the station
Japan:
"KYAA!"
"Move it!"
"W-What the hell!"
The bystanders were startled by a Mohawk guy running for his life, then thinking that he's a terrorist, some people took out their phones to take a picture of him, but suddenly...
"Huh"
"My phone...it's broken!"
Then on the side, Inspector Virgil and his nameless partner of Division 1 grin, the former's left arm was glowing yellow
"SPH: Viva Noise!"
Virgil then let loose a disrupting yellow signal that jammed all electronic devices around him
"It would be troublesome if a picture of some occult-related case became viral, so I made all cameras within 2 km. radius from me malfunctioned" he continued as he watch the people complain about their broken phones
"Well, we're on post-operatives so we'll let you deal with him, youngsters" his partner said
"Youyousa!"
Nao and Misuzu (with Chips on her shoulder) then proceed to pursue the Scanerian suspect that was on loose
"Hey, stop taking credits from other Divisions, will ya?..." Virgil complain as he and the rest of CID Officers (Division 1, 2 and 5) were gather around the unconscious Scanerian, Chuuta look at him with half-open eyes
"Well, it's either that Inspector Virgil or more people will be involved on this if we prolong the chase even further" He countered
"Y-You do have a point there..." Virgil sunk in defeat
"Besides, we're not actually competing to each other here, right?" Chuuta added
"O-Of course not..." was Veronica's reluctant answer, Chuuta look at her and sigh, it seems she did turn this into competition after all
Well, what happens during the chase was something that even the officers didn't anticipate, the Division 5 was requested on the site as a back-up unit for the Division 2 and Chuuta, equipped with the tranquilizer designed for Scanerians, which was given to them by Professor Isaac, quickly ran towards the suspect in a speed that made him look like he just simply teleport beside the suspect, inject the tranquilizer and the drug did its job
"Well, let's go and get him back to the station then..." Nao said, he was actually frustrated because this might be his chance to test his updated Monitalien but Chuuta ruin everything, however, he did have a point on what he just told them that they should capture him as soon as possible since his SPH was very dangerous, according to the briefing
Then suddenly, the suspect glowed bright and it was followed by Riggs' voice on their communication device
"Get down! I confirmed that the suspect was member of DeMille, he had a bomb inside him!" he shouted
"!"
"Good job, Division 5" Laine said through a video call, Chuuta, Veronica and Ninotchka nodded at that
"So, how long do you think that the suspect will stay unconscious?" he followed up after looking at Isaac
"Well, I manage to get rid of the recorder and the bomb inside him, the one that failed to kill the officers earlier, through a surgery, however, it took a lot of suspect's energy so more time was needed for him to recover" Isaac reported
"I see"
'"Chief, we just finished diagnosing the origin of the Scanerian..." Harry spoke
"Okay, go ahead Harry"
"Well, first of all, his name was Revo, DeMille's low-combatant member, a grunt if may I add..."
"...As you already know, Scanerians possess highly poisonous substance so they were banned on several planets and that includes Earth, so It was suggested that he came here through illegal means..."
"...and according to the communication device that we found on his house, it seems that he got orders from DeMille, but the reason for his allergic reaction was still not clear"
Then Harry finish his report
"But still, the fact that the bomb failed to kill us, means that DeMille was destroyed for good" Veronica added
"!"
Chuuta look at her and Veronica look back to him, Nao was shock at the news
"What? Don't tell me you two didn't know?" she asked him
"What do you think? It's not like they're going to broadcast it on Earth, are they?" Chuuta shot back at her
"W-Well...I didn't..." Nao said
"Hey! At least watch some space related news before going home, you two!" Virgil said, Nao didn't said anything and just shrunk in defeat
"Okay, my fault already! So what about DeMille's destruction?" Chuuta asked them
"Well, to put it simply, it's boss were confirmed assassinated but the other member's deaths including the executives wasn't confirmed yet" Riggs told him
"..."
"Chuuta..."
The black haired boy look at Laine
"I know that there's a chance you're friend, Gucchi, was among the one who died, but...it's not confirmed yet so you don't need to be depressed about it for now" Laine told him
Chuuta simply nodded
"I know... no need to remind me, Chief" he told him
"Great!...Well, I apologized to all of you first since I can't go to the birthday party" Laine added, pushing the topic about the case and DeMille aside
"No problem, chief" Riggs shrugged it off
"It's okay, chief...I'll just drink until I drop at your place" Virgil said, making Laine extremely jealous at him, but then, he could only sigh in disappointment
"Birthday party?" Nao asked
"Well, each month, we celebrate all the birthdays of the officers during that month" Misuzu answered him
"I see"
"And Tonto..." Laine turn to the female cat-like alien
"Hmm..."
"Guess I'll be borrowing Taro for a while if you don't mind...sorry" Laine apologize to her
"Nyah! Don't mind it! Just use him as much as you want" Tonto replied to him
"Thanks...oh, I have to mention this but it seems that Dr. Love's birthday was also in this month" Laine added, making all of them gasped
"Wow, really?" Ninotchka asked in disbelief
"Yup, so now, he's five hundred and...one years old" Laine said
"Pfft..."
"Hahaha!"
Everyone laugh beside Chuuta, who retain a neutral face, what's so funny about it?
"By the way, where is he?" Veronica asked after containing her laughter
"Well, he has some research material he manage to acquired from the HQ and then he paid a visit to his former student before confining himself..." Laine answered
"Typical Dr. Love" Isaac muttered
"But right now, he's on a date"
"D-DATE!"
elDLIVE HQ's Residential Ward:
Dr. Love was talking to an old woman and with them was her butler
"My, my...that face I'm seeing right now really reminds me of my younger days" she told him
"Is that so?"
"Well...what is it you want from me this time?" she asked him, this earned a gasp from the doctor
"Want? I was here to pay you a visit...is that a problem?"
"If I remember correctly, all of the visits you made so far were just for the sake of asking me for favors only..." she replied to him
"Well, this is different...and I meant it" Dr. Love stated
"Well, either way, take this..." she then handed him something
"T-This is..."
Dr. Love was stunned at the material he obtained
"So, you're advancing your research about Planet Glyph...and to think that you manage to get this far..."
"Those were just nothing but my rant about them, nothing special"
"And you're not presenting these to the headquarters?" Dr. Love asked her
"I have no interest in fame anymore, besides, they're just going to waste any scientific development I made anyway, so it would be best that you put that into good use"
"I see, thanks for this"
"Lately, I've been smelling some disturbance around and I hope nothing bad happens on the 'outside world'..." she stated
"Hmm... a smell that only few recognize...is it about the 7th subject?" Dr. Love asked
"That's right..."
"Outsiders of el civilization, Heavensider...we brought what you asked for..."
"..."
Somewhere inside the asteroid, a business was currently being held by two groups, one of them involves the group named 'Heavensider' and the other one was an unknown group that consist of three aliens, unfortunately, King was currently asleep
"I've checked the contents...it's the thing we ordered, King" Dassim reported
"Yup, it really it is..." Lili spoke
"..."
"We fulfill the part of our deal, now's you turn to fulfill your part" he spoke, but he got no response
"..."
"Where is the thing you promised? Are you trying to shrink the payment?!"
"..."
"Bastard!"
"Don't worry, we have it right here~" Alvah suddenly appear behind them, holding a small glowing tube
"When did he?!-"
"Here, it's the promised stone of desire, Greedite, you can buy an entire star cluster with it" Alvah then handed the payment to the three aliens, after they confirm it, they keep it on his cloak
"This meeting is informal and never happen, our planet has nothing to do with you, not on the past and not on the future...don't forget that promise"
Alvah laugh at that
"We gave you ten times the amount but there's no gratitude at all...well that's okay, but now, it's your turn to fulfill your promise..."
Then out of the blue, two of the three aliens just lay dead on the ground and Alvah's gloves were glowing a thread-like blue outline on the middle of each of his finger
"...You promise to come alone, right?" he finished, this make the last alien terrified
"I-I'm sorry!" He apologized
"That's okay, as long as you keep you promise, we're friends"
Then he ran away
"We'll clean the corpses for you!" Alvah yelled back, then he heard a 'thank you' response from him before disappearing completely
"He sure is fast...but are you really sleeping, King?" Alvah then saw him fully awake
"Well, our preparations are finally done, so give us the orders, King..." Then everyone waited for him to spoke
King grin and then look at them sharply
"Let's begin the journey to massacre"