Remember last time? Beth Nevins had defeated Tohka Yatogami, a vampire robot created by MIO, who once fought her and died. She gave out a huge message that the Jewel Women are coming. But who are the Jewel Women? Beth, alongside Emily Maynard and Izuku Midoriya, head back to New York, to learn the grave news to June Nevins.

But even so, meanwhile, in Germany, the arrival of the NubMench was underway, as Kosuri von Stroheim, the leader of the faction, is about to interrogate a prisoner. And a familiar prisoner, too – Michelle Nevins!

Episode XII – Chapter 1: Michelle Nevins Tells All!
The Tragic Tale of Two Years Ago!

A half an hour later, in the dungeons, Michelle was nudging a bit, still tied up and beaten. She moaned, opening her eyes slowly. She coughed, as she groaned, "Ungh… Where am I?"

SPLASH!
Water was thrown into her, as she was starting to come to. Kosuri smirked, as she said to her, "Well, well, well… If it isn't Michelle Nevins of FBI… Feral Beauty…"

Michelle coughed, as she barked, "The devil! What for you-? Unh… Pain…"

Kosuri smirked, "I see that mein soldiers throttled you gut. I have been overlooking you, Frau Nevins…"

Michelle growled, "Who the hell are you?"

Kosuri replied, "Do not worry. There will be time for introductions, later. How are you feeling, Nevins?"

Michelle growled, "How did I get here?"

"There's an old saying in Europe: The villager in which the elderly kill each other is not long for this world. YOU have a secret. A secret that would kill us all! I WANT ANSWERS NOW!"

She slugged Michelle in the stomach, as she held up a small pink diamond in her hand, "This gem, I found this in your hands, as you were clutching it really tight, after my men thrashed you. We managed to get more information in an outpost in Mexico…"

Michelle coughed, "Ungh… Why, God? Why do this to me? Why didn't I die, back there?"

Kosuri said, "It wasn't God. God didn't make you live… I did. Of course, I can change that!"

A doctor rolled in a syringe, as Kosuri stated, "The NubMench would like more information from you, before anything drastic can happen!"

Michelle gasped, as Kosuri continued, "You're stubborn, old lady. I know that torture alone will not give us what we want out of you. I also know that you were badly hurt, when you were washed ashore in the Rio Dada. And that you have knowledge of this Moji Mikisa, leading to countless lives gone…"

She boomed and hollered, "GERMAN MEDICINE IS THE BEST MEDICINE IN THE WORLD! WE CAN GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT!"

Michelle growled, "A truth serum? What do you even want from me?"

Kosuri shouted, "EVERYTHING! I want to know it all! Give me a history lesson! Tell me about this Tohka, and this Nevins Family you are from… Kosuri wants to know more about your bloodline, and your powers! Tell us more, so we can awaken the Jewel Woman!"

Michelle gasped, "Jewel… Woman… NO! No, you can't! You don't know the forces you're playing with! She's powerful enough to destroy us all!"

Kosuri snuffed, "Pathetic… Why don't you tell me everything… like how you washed ashore on MY base?"

Michelle growled, as she moaned, "Bloody little… Fine… I'm sorry, but I promised myself that Yui… my Yui… that her secret is safe with me… But knowing what you're after… what I'm about to say will leave a bad taste in my mouth… I may have doomed us all, from the start."

She seethed, "Since those two came along, my life changed… my father died… my brother abandoned me… my friends cannot help me… Everyone thinks I'm dead… Kill me now, before you try anything funny… But just as it is, I'm not breaking Yui's promise! But she's dead… and I cannot forgive myself… Yui can never forgive me, in the afterlife…"

Kosuri asked, "Yui? Who's Yui?"

Michelle said, as she was upset, "Yui Hirasawa, a girl I know, two years ago… She and another girl, Mio Akiyama, came into the Nevins Household, long ago. That was when my brother and I returned home to England, to remain on holiday. However, things changed. The gem you hold… it belongs to her… Yui…"

Kosuri asked, "This gem? I'm curious, mein Brit. What power lies inside this cute topaz?"

"That cute topaz is forged from volcano rock… from Japan… This gem, among other gems, was birthed from Mount Fuji. And these gems powered up superhuman people called "Jewel Women"… a race of robots, crossed with vampires. Both girls, when I first heard of them, were normal girls… that is, until I learned which one was good and evil… Yui was a good girl, and Mio… was evil…"

She seethed, "MIO… You whore… Why did Yui have to die?"

Kosuri asked, as she was not amused, "Exactly what happened? Why did you protect this Yui Gynoid?"

Michelle explained everything, from start to finish, from Yui & Mio's arrival, during the Nevins Siblings' Holiday, to their father's death and Mr. Nevins betrayal.
"Two years ago… my brother, Steven Nevins, came to my office in Feral Beauty, wanting to return home to England, after the aftermath of the Great West Greenwich War. He was in saddened depression, after Black Dynamite died in the war… Father was nice enough to welcome us in. Days later, we learned of the arrival of two girls, Yui & Mio… To make a long story short, I overlooked something in Yui's briefcase, and learned that Mio was overthrowing our family, making her an heir to the Nevins Family. However, my brother and I had a scuffle between Mio & Yui, and his blood splattered all over the gem… Not that gem. There was a clear white gem – a diamond – that Father brought in. It once belonged to my mother…
Only I knew of its secret, after learning that the blood reacted to the gem. But Mio… Mio wanted to exact revenge on her ex-boyfriend, who died the same way that Father almost died of… I went to London to find out who would poison my father, while my brother, Steven, returned to Manchester, wanting to learn the truth about the gem. He told me, after Mio killed Father, and used his blood to power-up the gem. She even said that the gem awakened her true memories… Mio Akiyama, NO, MIO, is a vampire queen! She killed Father, and tried to burn us alive! But I fought her well, only to have my house burn down, and to experience a power I would never have, before…"

Kosuri snuffed, "Blood, you say? Well, that's a touching story… But I never guess why you turned on your brother, all for your father's death…"

Michelle sniffled, "After that, I… Well, Yui & I escaped, and she sacrificed herself to stop MIO, who emerged from the dead, only to have bloodied me… Yui placed my injured body into a casket… fitting for MIO, and then I floated away…"

Michelle twisted her side of the story on what happened between herself, Yui, & MIO. From Kendra's point of view, Michelle used her last ounce of strength to jab MIO in the neck, when she was just a head, and collapsed in Yui's arms. She died, after that.

"On that ship, tragedy occurred… Mio was actually alive, and assaulted Yui & Michelle. But after the battle, Michelle died, after saving Yui from being killed. Using a chunk of glass, she lunged at Mio's neck, and stopped her from consuming Yui. Michelle died in Yui's arms, and Yui dies with her… and the ship they were on exploded, after Mio launched a horde of zombies onto the ship, killing everyone on it. But as everyone died, including Yui, Mio, and Michelle… the ship caught fire, exploded, and no one survived… … …except for MIO, but did not awaken, for months."

But how Michelle survived was a mystery… even Michelle didn't know. She concluded, "And then… that was it… I died and stopped moving… But then, I was washed ashore, and woke up. The casket was sealed tight, and I had to break out, which I did… All I had left was the clothes that I wear, and this gem… and then you came along. And that was it. I fainted, after that."

Kosuri smirked, "Interesting… You know, if I didn't know better, this gem saved you from death, did it not? Was it immortality?"

Michelle cried, "I beg of you! Whatever is powered in that gem, blood is the key… But I advise you to NOT do it! If a small droplet of blood falls on that gem, we're doomed to relive the entire horror show that is MIO!"

Kosuri asked, "What about Tohka Yatogami? What has she done for you?"

Michelle said, "Tohka… I'm sorry, but… She was a traveler that taught me a martial art called "Ty Ko Ky". However, I'm weak for that, and my Ty Ko Ky is simply used as a mirror image of-."

She thought, "Bollocks! I can't tell them about Hamon! Why am I cursed with Father's powers?"

Michelle's story tells it all, as she knew that she was with pure heart. In short, she learned the ESP Perk, inherited by her father, Clifton Nevins. But during her first battle with MIO, her ESP Perk was finally awakened, after all these years.

Kosuri asked, "Hmm? Kosuri didn't catch that. What is this Ty Ko Ky?"

Michelle said nothing, as Kosuri huffed, "Boo… And here I thought you'd cooperate. Ah, no worries. Mein men have all the information needed… Of course, thanks to the intel that we have harbored…"

She showed a TV monitor, which showed a huge stone pillar, the same pillar that showed a woman made of stone. Michelle gasped in horror, as she asked, "What the devil is that?"

This was the same stone woman that Hotaru and Tohka discovered, only for Tohka to betray Hotaru. Kosuri said that she discovered it, during a search in Mexico, prior to Tohka's demise. Her army was able to obtain this stone relic, only to have Michelle in distraught.

"The devil is this? This stone woman… She-." She moaned, and coughed.

Kosuri smirked evilly, as she said to her, "I believe that this gem is connected to this stone woman… Normally, I'd let you go, but Kosuri decided to keep you a while longer… you government wench."

"What are you going to do?" Michelle gasped.

Kosuri smiled, "You'll see…"

She said to one of the soldiers, "Make the preparations for the blood-feeding experiments, and don't screw it up!"

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At a small prison cell, a group of people wearing rags were sitting together, feeling unhappy, and screaming for help. Kosuri appeared, as she called to them, "I have a proposal for all of you. Go ahead and choose one of you, amongst yourselves. We need blood for a very historic experiment, one befitting the source of science. Once you have all agreed to choose who you want to sacrifice his or her life, we will grant all of you freedom, immediately."

A small boy said, "ME! I'll do it!"

"Eh?"

The boy in a red shirt cried, "If I do your experiments, you promise that you'll let everyone else go, right?"

Kosuri smirks, "You are quite brave. Courage like yours is that blooming and cultivating, like a lush garden. Here we only allow the most fit to live."

She called out, "Set the boy free, and execute everyone else!"

The prisoners gasp in fright, as Kosuri smiles evilly.

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Meanwhile, in New York, Beth told everyone what was going on. She was telling June, Midoriya, and Emily everything that Tohka said, including what happened to Michelle and Hotaru.

Emily said, "I see… So, the girl assisted Michelle, and she's dead… And what happened to Hotaru and Michelle…"

She held her face and huffed, "But I'm pissed that she had to play dentist! Why did she rip my tooth out?"

Beth barked, "Oh, grow up! I lose my baby teeth, sometimes."

June replied, "No, Emily's right… I don't know if we are to have Mom go find her…"

Beth said, "No! Miss Speedwagon and Auntie Michelle are the only family I got, other than you, Sis. I want to know where they are."

Izuku asked, "But wait… Are you sure? You're going to assist on suicide? You need backup for this!"

Beth said, "No, I'm sorry… But The Gang, they helped us so much… Now, it's my turn. You forget… We're Nevinses. June and I are from a family with such determination!"

June said, "That's true, but… I doubt we're fighters. You bested Tohka, especially since she tapped into your ESP Perk and martial arts. I'm mean… You're just a kid."

Beth barked, "Well, I'm no Devil Princess with glasses!"

Emily complained, "I still say it's a bad idea! We can't go to Mexico and rescue Speedwagon… or Michelle! Besides, we need your Mother's help and expertise."

Beth said, "Tohka said that The Gang's time is to battle this demon woman. My battle is with the devil woman that somehow chased Father away into seclusion, and will bring hell on this planet!"

Emily sighed, as she gave up. She said, "Do what you want. I'm staying here in the States, to see that you don't get killed."

Beth smirked, "Your loss."

She produced a bright red aura and opened a portal. She then said, "I'm going to the area of Hotaru's last known location… You two, make sure that you find Auntie Michelle's whereabouts!"

She dove in, as June cried, "WAIT! I, uh… I'm no genius…"

Emily smiled, "I am. Izuku, was it? You come with me, too."

Midoriya said, "Uh, yes, ma'am."

Beth arrived at a rainforest, somewhere in Central America, and sensed Hotaru's life energy. She whispered, "She's near… But where? It's growing weak… but if only…"

She traveled onwards, into the green forest, and said, "This place is too creepy. But I have my father's courage. I can seek Speedwagon, and return to the USA, and-."

She spotted a spot of blood on the road, and with a lone scooter, near the lane. Beth said, "Blood? And the trail ends here… Short trail, but…"

The scooter was green with faded scratches on the hood. It was one of the NubMench's bikes. Beth whispered, as she was in stealth, "A bike~!"

As she snuck in, a man in a hood was viewing her, with a sneer on face.

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Kosuri called out, "Let the experiment begin!"

The blood began to absorb into the pillar, as Kosuri watches on in delight. Blood started to spurt out from the figure on the pillar.

This is bad… Beth is close to finding Hotaru or Michelle, while Kosuri is about to unleash this evil being!
Be sure to tune in to the next exciting chapter…

To be continued…