Wind rustled across the barren sandy plains, as several cars kicked up sand blown onto a hot tarmac road. A large camp made up of camo-khaki material in a similar colour to the sand could be seen by the road, several men and women made their way from propped up tent to tent, most were dressed in full military gear including helmets, military vests and full khaki uniforms coloured similarly to the tents, while others were dressed in lab coats and suits. Those dressed as soldiers carried rifles while the others carried various tools and other technology. A single man stood outside the camp, looking significantly different from the others, he was dressed in a much more formal military outfit, wearing a dark green jacket that bared several medals and badges and a similarly coloured military hat that would be worn by high ranking officers. He smoked a cigar as he seemed to watch as the vehicles in the distance approached, his eyes were fierce yet calm, a stretch of buzz cut black hair could be seen partially down the back of his head reaching out from underneath his hat. The Vehicles pulled up showing themselves to be black military-esque trucks with the nudist beach insignia painted on their side doors. The man dropped his cigar onto the ground and stamped on it as the car doors opened and the individuals stepped out.

Mikisugi stepped out of the front vehicle wearing his nudist beach gear and slicking his hair back as he spoke out to the man, "How the hell do you guys handle the heat? General er..."

The man spoke back with a relaxed smile, "You get used to it, and its general Steele. Welcome to death valley, sir Mikisugi."

Mikisugi approached the general, and the two shook hands as in the background several nudist beach agents exited the trucks pulling out various equipment and moving towards the tents.
"Its good to be here, I'm still surprised that it would be a general greeting us on our international debut." Mikisugi had a slight chuckle in his voice.

The general replied matching his level of casual enthusiasm, "Its the least we can do to welcome Nudist beach to our wonderful country, you guys made quite the names for yourselves you know."

Mikisugi gestured casually in amusement, "well thanks, but since we're on American soil now, could you tell us why we're here?"

The general turned and pointed towards the tents with his flat hand, "Of course, follow me."

Before the two had the chance to move towards the tent, a motor bike pulled up besides the trucks and the one who stepped off the bike was Tsumugu.

Mikisugi looked towards him with a sly smile, "Ah there you are, thought we would have to wait all day."
Tsumugu didn't respond as he simply moved towards them as Mikisugi spoke to the general, "general Steele, this is Tsumugu, he's a specialist of ours who is experienced in life fiber combat."

The general replied with "Ah I see, nice to meet you Mr Tsumugu."

He then stuck his hand out to shake Tsumugu's hand.

However Tsumugu ignored this and instead stuck a cigarette in his mouth then pulling out a lighter and setting the end aflame before speaking to Mikisugi, "This better not be a waste of my time Aikuro."

Mikisugi turns his head to the general awkwardly with an embarrassed expression on his face, "er don't worry about him, he's... not the sociable type."

The general closed his eyes and nodded with calm understanding, "ah, Don't worry about it, I know plenty of guys like him."

The three men made their way over to the tents, stepping into one at the front with two guards standing at the entrance who opened up the tent for them holding the entrance open. The tent was large with several individuals sitting in front of metal fold-able tables looking into laptops, monitors and microscopes. The general gestured to a specific laptop causing Mikisugi to begin looking to the laptop's monitor. Tsumugu stood in the background as a woman wearing a lab coat held an ash tray in front of him as he begrudgingly snubbed out his cigarette and then the woman in the lab coat returned to her research.

The general spoke as Mikisugi peered into the laptop, "Twenty four hours ago, several radios and our satellite transmission equipment picked up a strange signal that seemed to be bouncing from location to location from around the globe."

The monitor displayed a reading of this signal in the form of a line that spiked and fluctuated in height that represented the frequency of said signal.

Mikisugi then questioned the general professionally, "and you haven't been able to trace it to it's source?"

The general nodded, "yeah, due to it bouncing from location to location we can't locate where its coming from, however..."
The general tapped a few keys on the laptop's keyboard, which showed on the monitor another feed revealing a different line that spiked and shifted much more dramatically.
The general continued, "we noticed another signal that we could trace to death valley, one of the places the previous signal bounced from."
The general tapped different keys on the keyboard this time showing a very different feed, "we started surveying the area, checking on any local population in the area we started hearing odd stories, something of a beast eating people. We then investigated the area but couldn't find anything so we started using satellite imagery and well... observe."

The monitor showed several images taken from top down view, satellite images in a grid format that the monitor proceeded to scroll through. They revealed a small image of what seemed to be creature of some sort, completely crimson that crawled along the ground. It was life fibers.

Both Mikisugi and Tsumugu were blown away by the shock as they stood stunned staring into the images of the strange entity. Its body seemed to stretch out as crimson tentacles extended from it's body.

"We checked on missing person's reports, but its been difficult to determine which of them was from regular means or by this... creature of ours." the general uttered, his seriousness in relation to the situation displaying across his face.

Mikisugi's face seemed deep in contemplation. "Well this is certainly worth my time"

Tsumugu uncrossed his arms and placed his hands on his hip.

As Mikisugi next spoke, his look of contemplation turned to confusion, "this doesn't make sense... the life fibers were supposed to die off after the primordial life fiber was destroyed-"

Tsumugu spoke up interrupting, "You say that like little miss weird bitch didn't show up on our doorstep."

Mikisugi replied turning to Tsumugu, "That's an exception to the rule."

Tsumugu retorted, "well maybe she's the reason this creature is still alive."

Suddenly a voice interrupts "NOT POSSIBLE"

The group turns to see no one, then they looked down and see a short prideful man with long red hair, he wore glasses that hanged underneath his eyes and he had a large stout nose. He wore a white lab coat over a shirt and tie with a sweaty sweater vest.

The general spoke in accordance to the man's approach, the general seeming to have this time his own embarrassment, "oh you came... Well Mikisugi, allow me to introduce doctor Xavier Natrium."

Mikisugi spoke directly to Xavier, "well its nice to meet you doctor."

The Doctor replied with, "I'm sure it is." Raising an eyebrow on Mikisugi.
Xavier made his way towards the laptop as he next spoke, "what you were speaking about, is simply not possible. A single individual worth of life fibers couldn't sustain the existence through signals alone!"

The general spoke to Mikisugi as Xavier inspected the images via the laptop. "He's one of our head scientists on life fiber research, writing his thesis on life fiber communication, he's one of the more... eccentric lot."

His last remark causing the doctor to throw out a dismissive "Hm" under his breath.

"He told me he wasn't even gonna come despite this being the find of the century-"

Xavier raised his voice to interrupt the general, "I wasn't going to come because THEY are here." Mikisugi and Tsumugu looked towards Xavier who continued to rant, "Those fools destroyed the primordial life fiber without getting a SINGLE specimen for research!"

Tsumugu turned to anger, while Mikisugi turned to annoyance.

"The hell are you talking about!?" Tsumugu shouted.

Mikisugi spoke more calmly compared to Tsumugu, "You realise that the primordial life fiber was going to destroy this planet right?"

Xavier seemed irritated at this obvious remark, "of course I do, and while I agree that the destruction of the primordial fiber was necessary, the fact that you destroyed it not getting anything from us to learn from! you set back the field of life fiber research by decades!"

Tsumugu was ready to square up with the doctor, but Mikisugi stopped him.

Mikisugi replied with an exasperated sigh, "look we can agree to disagree there, you want to elaborate on what you meant?"

Xavier showed a level of frustration in needing to explain this, causing Mikisugi to roll his eyes at the demeaning offset, "Life fibers exert a certain amount of control over other life fibers, this is how individual entities of life fibers exist, by a single dominant mind having control over a collective of life fibers, like a kamui having their own mind is a single fiber being control over the other fibers. That is also what the primordial fiber was, but instead of being in control of a single entity, it was in control of EVERY life fiber that originated from it, which meant every life fiber that existed on this planet. Now for a fiber to have control over other fibers, they need a certain amount of energy and to have this energy requires a certain mass of life fibers, even if their life fibers are powerful, they would still need a lot of those powerful fibers to control life fibers external to their mass."

Mikisugi commented further irritating the doctor, "Nice lecture but do you mind getting to the point?"

The doctor seethed as he replied "the point is that this individual simply can't have the energy on their own to control external life fibers, from that far away at least. Even Shinra-Kōketsu contained an incredible amount of powerful life fibers, was designed specifically for the purpose of controlling life fibers and required even more to be able to control life fibers on a world wide scale."

Mikisugi gestured casually "so what you're saying that she simply ain't powerful enough to be doing this. Oh by the way, how did you even research life fibers much with the primordial life fiber destroyed?"

Xavier rolled his own eyes, "Oh please, I've been studying life fibers for years, they weren't that much of a closely guarded secret that they were only known about in Japan, I even considered joining REVOCS since they seemed to know the most about them, although it was simple to change my mind when they started their attempt at destroying the world."
Mikisugi nodded in agreement as the doctor continued, "Anyway enough chit chat, this signal that is bouncing from place to place is communicating with this life fiber entity, my job will be to translate it, your job you nudist fools will be to do what you do best."

Tsumugu stepped forward, "You want us to hunt these life fibers."

Xavier then bared a wicked smile, "Exactly."