Aha! We're back! I was talking with others on how things will go in World Purge, and I made changes to the original idea, I thinking this newer version is a lot better!

Disclaimer: I do not own Infinite Stratos.

Tatenashi is down, her last act being to send a distress call to Ichika. With danger looming far greater than before in the real world, can the Representative Candidates find some way of seeing past their delusions before it's too late?

Can Ichika rally the other boys, and make it to the IS Academy in time to save the day?

Ichika had no idea how, nor why.

But without warning, Tatenashi's special ringtone went off on his phone.

Ichika pulled out his phone, and looked.

"What's she gonna do now-?!" Ichika gasped dramatically as he realized what happened.

Tatenashi had left a message, with an picture of her on the floor and bleeding out.

"Get back IS Acad Now." The message read.

Ichika was so blindsided by the situation, he was stuck in a pause for utter confusion. But after a single second of gawking at the image, Ichika shot out of his seat, and ran for the Byakushiki.

Ichika entered Kagaribi's lab to discover the woman really had put the Byakushiki into Default Shift. Whereas the Unit was in its pristine white Second Shift, it now was in a dull gray Default Shift.

But that didn't matter, he could still make things work.

Kagaribi was sitting down in front of a computer, monitoring the Byakushiki's data.

Her vision was blinded as Ichika dumped his IS Academy school uniform on her head.

"Hey-?!"

"Sorry!" Ichika said as he climbed into the Byakushiki's cockpit. He activated the Byakushiki and broke free of the scanning device it was hooked up to. Ichika took a couple steps before turning back to Kagaribi.

"What're you doing?! I need to-?!"

"I gotta get back to the IS Academy stat!" Ichika explained, "I promise I'll come back after to finish...Whatever the thing you were doing. Sorry!"

"For what?"

"The hole in the wall!"

"What hole in the-?!"

Ichika suddenly smashed right through the wall of Kagaribi's lab, and took flight.

"I said I wasn't finished yet!" Cried Kagaribi, "I was trying to fix the...power supply..."

Kagaribi sighed, as Ichika had already flown out of earshot.

"Well," She muttered to herself, "He said he'd be back later."

The woman quickly raced back to her monitor.

"Now that I've got time," She muttered, "Might as well see about the data I collected..."

Kagaribi stared intently at her monitor screen as she studied the Byakushiki's data.

Ichika flew far and fast.

It was only too late the boy realized just what Kagaribi was attempting to do before he took the Byakushiki.

Kagaribi was attempting to use the Byakushiki's Default Shift as a means of fixing the Byakushiki's power-consumption and energy capacity. However, Ichika had taken the Byakushiki while she was doing so, meaning he'd interrupted the process altogether. In anything, he only ended up making the Byakushiki's power issue even worse, as he currently had have of his previous power capacity.

Right now, he had a maximum of 200%, as opposed to 400%, and far less than the standard 800%.

And the power gauge was dropping by a digit every few seconds.

However, if he was smart, he'd enough power to reach the IS Academy and save Tatenashi before the Byakushiki went into mandatory-unlock.

But he had to hurry.

Ichika quickly began to text a message to Elias, and one to Thomas to alert the boys of the situation.

It was up to the other boys to actually respond.

Elias felt his phone vibrate.

"Who could that be...?" He muttered as he pulled the device out.

He'd found that Ichika had left a text message.

"Get to IS Academy, ASAP!"

Ichika also took the liberty of attaching the image of Tatenashi bleeding out.

Elias gawked.

"What's wrong, Master Elias?" Inquired Maria.

"I must go!"

"To where?"

Elias showed the phone to Maria, who gasped in horror as she saw the picture.

"I need to get to the IS Academy!"

"But, Master Elias, you won't make it!"

"It doesn't matter! I mustn't stop for anything!"

"That's not what I meant."

"Hm?"

"I believe I know a way you can return to the Academy from here in the span of an hour. But it's far too dangerous, I don't want you to-"

"It doesn't matter! Lives could be at risk!"

"I knew you wouldn't take no for an answer..." Muttered Maria, "Quickly, follow me!"

Maria and Elias rushed for the IS Production Facility. Maria swiped a key-card, and ushered Elias into the facility. Elias had a gut feeling of what Maria was leading him into, and quickly began to look around.

"I..." Elias started.

"Hm?"

"As much as I feel the urgency of getting to the IS Academy," Elias confessed, "I don't feel right with simply snatching up the Knight Gunner while the technicians are busy, Mother and Father will be most cross..."

"We're not going to take the Knight Gunner."

"What?"

Maria smirked as she guided Elias to a testing area.

"I doubt your Father and Mother will mind if we borrow a Legionary just for this..."

"You mean-?!"

"We'll have you give the Legionary an impromptu test-flight!"

Maria ushered Elias into a maintenance room, an Inactive Legionary standing inside.

"We'll have to be quick. Hurry and-?!"

Elias simply climbed into the Legionary's cockpit, not even bothering to change into a pilot uniform.

"But Master Elias, what abou-?!"

"We have no time!"

Elias activated the Legionary, and quickly began to move for the exit.

An Audio Bar popped up in the Legionary's HUD.

"Who're you-?! Master Elias?!" Cried the caller.

"I'm quite sorry," Said Elias, "But I must get back to the IS Academy this instant!"

"Master Elias! You're piloting a prototype Legionary! It's not finished yet!"

"Are the propulsion systems working?"

"Y-Yes, but-?!"

"That's all I need."

"But the thrusters aren't finished! We haven't calibrated them yet! Your parents will want you to answer for this!"

"Tell them to make an appointment, then!"

Maria opened up the maintenance room's blast door, and Elias took flight.

"Maria, what's your plan?"

"In order to reach the IS Academy as soon as possible," Explained Maria, "You'll have to dive from orbit."

"What?!"

"There's one problem however," Said Maria, "The Legionary you're using isn't currently capable of going beyond the Earth's habitable atmosphere. At most, you'll have a few moments before you suffocate or freeze."

"Then there's still enough time for me to manage."

Elias turned to the sky, and began to fly higher and higher.

The plan was to sit in orbit as the Earth rotated, rather than flying directly from one location to another. By doing this, Elias would reach the IS Academy far faster than if he'd simply flown over.

IS Units were originally meant for space exploration, and this would be a means of revitalizing such. However, as the Generations went, they were lees oriented to space, meaning Elias was making a very dangerous gamble with the Legionary as it was.

Elias began to feel the Legionary shake as he traveled higher and higher.

"Son!" Snapped Oliver, on the Audio Bar.

"Father?"

"What do you think you're doing?! Have you gone mad?!"

"Not quite yet, Father."

"Return the Legionary Unit this instant!"

"I will when I'm done."

"What's wrong with you?! I know your mother and I haven't been the model parents, but this is your father giving you and order, son!"

"A parent wants their child to grasp the steering wheel of life with both hands, no?" Said Elias, "Well, this is me taking the wheel and charting my own course!"

"What are you going on about, Elias?!" Cried Rose, as she entered the room.

"I'm sorry, Mother and Father," Said Elias, "But my friends need me. I must go to them!"

Elias forcibly muted the Audio Bar, allowing him to focus on his surroundings.

It was getting harder to breath each and every second.

Thomas sat down on Alex's bed as he flipped through the pages of the photo album.

He began to recount each and every photo from when and where it was taken.

All the way back from birthday parties, to outings, and so much more. Thomas realized that these were all the photos Chifuyu would take of him. Was this where all those pictures went? It all made sense now...

But, what were the photos all doing here?

If they were put into this photo album, then why had Thomas never seen it before?

Thomas closed the album and noticed the book's cover.

He'd seen it only once before.

Silver plating on the corners, leather-like cover, and a journalistic book spine.

This was the book in that strange car back from the beach!

Thomas recalled quite clearly now.

Aside from the whole Gospel Incident, Thomas remembered discovering that black car in the forest besides the beach. He'd found a duffel bag, which he'd assumed could've been a body bag. The car itself seemed like a patrol car, with a computer built into the dash.

He'd also found the journal sitting in the passenger seat.

It finally dawned Thomas that the journal wasn't a journal, but the photo album he was now reading.

But something didn't add up.

Neither Chifuyu nor Alex owned the car. At least, he didn't believe either of them owned it. He hadn't seen the black car before, and certainly since. But if it wasn't theirs, then who's car was it?

It was obvious that the car was related to Chifuyu and Alex, but what was the connection?

Did Alex arrive in the car? Was that how he arrived at the Beach Trip?

It'd seem most logical...

Yin was having a meltdown as she clung to the corner of the ceiling.

Thomas was sitting on the bed, and currently had her back turned to her. She didn't have anything covering her face, unlike back when she'd actually conversed with Thomas during the School Festival. At that time, Thomas understood that Yin was there to help, and didn't think any better of it. However, Thomas had no idea Yin was living in the house they shared with the Orimura siblings.

If Thomas looked in her direction...

...It would be all over.

She needed to get out of the room.

But if she did literally so much as shift her weight, Thomas would catch her 9/10.

There was no way out...

Yin would've been overjoyed at the thought of her and Thomas finally being mother and son. However, she'd abandoned him for 16 years, and Thomas didn't strike her as the forgiving kind of son.

All because Yin didn't think properly.

Thomas suddenly looked up from the photo album.

Yin felt her heart stop.

She was finished.

Thomas slowly began to turn around.

He didn't know why, but he felt he was being watched.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated in his pocket.

Yin saw her only chance.

"Forgive me, sweetie..." Yin thought, as she prepared to bolt to the door.

Thomas turned to the opposite side, and began to pull out his phone.

Yin sprang, and launched right to the doorway.

Thomas whipped around as he heard a stomp from the door.

He saw a woman as she raced out the door.

He would've pursued right out of the gate.

But for a single moment, he saw long, snow-white hair.

Thomas froze for a moment as his mind began to go back in time. Back to the Beach Trip, when he thought he'd seen a woman with the same snow-white hair. Back to Kana, who had snow-white hair. Back to that strange dream he had, where he thought he'd seen his mother.

But he never saw his mom.

"Hey!" Thomas shouted as he rushed after the woman, slipping his phone back into his pocket.

Thomas rounded the corner as he chased the mystery person all the way to the front door. The woman rushed out the door and ran fast enough to keep escaping Thomas's sight. But with every time Thomas had gotten another glimpse of the woman, he was reminded of times he'd seen the snow-white hair. and stopped for a few moments as he remembered.

Was Kana the one working with Chifuyu back at the Beach Trip?

Kana was the only one with that recurring snow-white hair, so it stood to reason what Thomas was currently thinking.

The dream, the woman in the hallway, and the one in the locker rooms during the School Festival, they must've been the same person.

But that would mean...

That would mean Kana was...

It couldn't be!

But it made sense.

Chifuyu must've been working with Kana, but for which side? For Phantom Task? That wouldn't make sense, since that would mean Kana was the one trying to stop Autumn from abducting Thomas in that encounter.

But Kana was actively trying to abduct Thomas when they'd faced each other.

Kana wasn't the woman Thomas had glimpsed.

But if not her, then who?

Thomas had completely about the text message.

He wanted answers.

And he was very close to getting them.

The text probably wasn't too important anyway...

Chifuyu and Leader went head-to-head against each other.

The IS Instructor leapt about the dark hallway as Leader struggled to keep up. Despite the obvious advantage Leader had with an IS Unit, Chifuyu was easily ripping her a new one with a smile.

With swing after swing, Chifuyu kept activating the Fang Quake's Absolute Defense.

How could one woman with a mere handful of swords put the most powerful weapon on Earth to shame?

Chifuyu threw a blade, bouncing it off Leader's wrist and letting it sheath itself in the floor.

"I have on question," Inquired Leader, "You really think the male pilots could actually beat me?"

"Of course." Sneered Chifuyu, "Like I said; I sent them off so they wouldn't complicate the situation. Y'see, I've got a bit of a strained relationship with two of them. If they were here, they'd kick your ass."

"As if!" Laughed Leader, "I'm a trained Special Ops soldier, you're talking pitting me against a trio of kids in high school!"

"And? They've fought worse without a sweat."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means if you're having this much trouble against me, a single woman without anything special...Well, I'd hate to break it to you, but you'd be ripped to shreds in seconds facing the boys."

Leader growled, angered by Chifuyu's taunting.

"It's a shame, though." Chifuyu sneered as she drew two more blades, "I would've loved to watch the boys smack the crap out of you."

"But if they aren't here," Questioned Leader, "Then why challenge me?! There's no point, we would've left if there's nothing here!"

"You'd stick around and comb this place head-to-toe. There are various students here, which makes this my problem." Corrected Chifuyu, "And if I'm right, the boys will get word about what's going down right about now, and be here soon. If that's the case, they'd be itching for an opportunity to hurt. So..."

Chifuyu once again raised her blade against Leader.

"...I'll finish this before they return, save them the trouble. It's been a while since I've had a good scrape, so make a good sport of this, yeah?"

Chifuyu rushed Leader once more, and whacked away with her blades.

Ichika pulled up a satellite-image map as he neared the IS Academy.

He had about 99% power left, using the bulk of it to fly at top speed for so long had drained more than half within less than half-an-hour. Ichika didn't really care, however, he was far too focused on reaching the Academy.

He'd finally gotten a lock on Tatenashi's distress signal.

"There you are."

Ichika sped up, flying to Tatenashi's location with ramming speed.

And with the smashing of a wall, Ichika had found himself in the IS Academy's bunker.

The boy looked to his left...

...To find Spec-Ops soldiers carrying Tatenashi off.

Ichika's Yukihira Nagata was a tool of righteous combat. He decided not to use it anger, hate, fear, or spite. He'd only raise it against evil, or in an IS Match. He'd never use it on anyone who wouldn't survive it.

But seeing Tatenashi...

...Ichika was doing his best to resist the urge to cut his foes into bloody halves.

"LET GO OF HER!" Ichika shouted, rushing the soldiers.

Ichika grabbed one soldier by the head, and slammed him into his teammate hard enough to knock out the both of them for a good while.

However, the rest of the Spec-Ops squadron quickly pulled their guns and opened fire.

Ichika bopped each of them on the head hard enough to give them concussions.

The boy rushed over to Tatenashi, and picked her up in his arms.

"Tatenashi? Tatenashi! Wake up!" Cried Ichika.

Tatenashi slowly opened her eyes.

"Ichika..."

"You're gonna be okay...You'll be okay!" Ichika cried, lifting the girl up, "I'm taking you to the Infirmary right now!"

"M'fine..." Tatenashi whispered, "Don't worry about me..."

Suddenly, Tatenashi pulled up a Holo-Tab with a map of the IS Academy.

"You need to go here...They need you...Now..."

Ichika finally realized the gravity of the situation.

As much as he wanted to stay by Tatenashi's side to make sure she'd pull through, he had to prioritize for the bigger picture.

"Understood."

Elias began to see the void of space.

He was gasping for air.

Why were the stars so blurry?

"M...ia?" He tried to speak.

"Master Elias!" Cried Maria, "You have to come down, now! You're running out of air! You'll suffocate if you go higher!"

"Can't...See...Right..."

"NO! Stay with me, Master! Focus on my voice! ELIAS!"

Elias could hardly hear Maria.

He blinked profusely as he tried to correct his vision.

Suddenly, he heard a faint crack.

Elias looked down, and realized the Legionary was beginning to freeze over!

"Wha...On?"

"Master Elias! You have to pull back down! The Legionary you're piloting isn't meant to go that far into orbit! The propulsion system is being pushed too far with the way you keep going too fast! Slow down before you kill the thrusters!"

The Legionary's boot thrusters began to pop and push Elias out of alignment.

Elias could feel the chill all over his body, effectively snapping him back to attention.

However...

Elias began hear the Legionary sputter and die on him.

He'd pushed the thruster hard enough, to the point where he began to feel weightless.

Elias was so disoriented, he couldn't tell if he was falling up or rising down.

Elias tried to take in another breath of air.

But there was no air for him to breath.

The boy felt his body turn cold as he began to black out.

"Master Elias? Master Elias! Stay with us!"

Elias didn't hear Maria's voice.

He'd passed out.

"No, no NO!" Cried Kanzashi, monitoring the Representative Candidates' vitals as they sat in the IS Core Network Interface.

Their brain patterns were all over.

If things kept up as they were...

"They'll be lost forever at this rate!" Cried the girl.

Kanzashi began to type away at her keyboard. If the girls wouldn't snap out of it on their own, she'd have to try and pull them back herself. Kanzashi began to try and manually abort the Interface and pull the girls back to reality.

At least, she tried.

The System gave her little more than an "Error" Tab.

"What do I do now?" Kanzashi pondered.

Suddenly, she heard the door open.

Kanzashi turned to find Ichika tumbling through the door as the Byakushiki suddenly recalled, leading Ichika to fall on the floor with a grunt. Ichika scrambled to his feet and rushed up to Kanzashi to greet her.

"Ichika?!"

"Kanzashi?!"

"What're you doing here?!"

"What're you doing here?!"

"There's no time to explain!" Said Kanzashi, "You're arrival is going to be a great help!"

"Huh?!"

Elias was currently falling back to the Earth.

His current position was somewhere in the area between China and Japan.

"Master Elias! Wake up!" Cried Maria.

Elias was unresponsive.

Maria was in a frenzy.

If Elias didn't wake up soon...

But there was nothing she could do other than scream and shout in the hopes he'd hear her.

"Elias! SON!" Cried Oliver, "What were you thinking?! Is this some sort of plea to get my attention? Why?! Why would you do something like this?! You're my son, dammit! You...Shouldn't feel like this is the only way to get me to notice..."

Oliver's words fell on deaf ears.

But they soon weren't deaf.

Elias blinked.

He could breath!

As Elias plummeted to the Earth below, he found that he was able to breath a lot easier.

But what was-Oh, right! He was attempting to jump orbit to reach the IS Academy!

Elias then realized he was falling rather quickly.

"I'm alright!"

"Master Elias?!"

"Son?!"

"Father, Maria," Said Elias, "It's me. I'm okay."

The other end of the communications was filled with cries of joy and relief.

"We have a problem, though," Said Elias, "It worked, I think I'm somewhere Japan...I can't really tell precisely. I'll attempt to orient now."

Elias fired up the thruster...

...Only to realize he was in free-fall.

"We have another problem," Said Elias, "The propulsion system is shot!"

"The propulsion system on the Legionary you're using wasn't calibrated!" Explained Oliver, "You must've over-exerted them, the readings imply that the entire damn structure was fused: Your Legionary's thrusters are now just a lump of dead weight."

"Oh..."

Elias looked all over the IS Unit, and noticed the single wing with 5 Optical Drones. Unlike the Knight Gunner, the Legionary only had one wing, and half the Optical Drones as a result. In fact, the Legionary was essentially a cheaper version of the Knight Gunner.

But if the Optical Drones worked...

"Master Elias, you still have access to the Legionary's air-brake flaps! You may be able to slow your descent-"

"Wait! I've got an idea!"

"Hm?"

Elias quickly pulled up a map of his location.

"Come on..." He muttered, "There!"

Elias had quickly marked the IS Academy's location.

"Son, what are you going to do?!"

"Something stupid in principle, but quite worthwhile in payoff. Are the Legionary's Optical Drones online?"

"Yes? But why?"

"I'll have to use them instead to guide my fall."

"You'll what?!"

Elias then deployed all 5 Optical Drones. Instead of rushing outward to fight an enemy, the Optical Drones returned to Elias's side and rammed him head-on, slowly changing his trajectory.

Elias looked down-or in this case, up-to the Earth, and saw Japan slowly enveloping his vision by the second.

He was out of time.

The Optical Drones began to steer Elias just off the shore of Japan, and the IS Academy was slowly coming into view.

Elias then realized a 3rd problem.

How was he going to land?

Elias quickly began to look in the Legionary's arsenal.

"Aha!" Elias cheered as he deployed the Legionary's Barrier Shield. With a great struggle, Elias had managed to put the Barrier Shield out in front, serving as something to slow his fall.

Elias gave another command to the Optical Drones.

The Drones re-oriented and began to push back up against Elias, although it didn't feel that they did much, Elias could tell that the Drones were effectively beginning to break his fall.

Now all he had to do was not die upon arrival.

The Optical Drones quickly began to orient Elias over to the Byakushiki's last known location.

Elias could see a building, and shut his eyes as he braced for impact.

The Legionary had managed to survive smashing right into the side of the IS Academy, going through several walls of the bunker before Elias could feel the Legionary collide with something as it stopped.

Elias opened his eyes to find that the crash landing had ripped apart almost half of the Legionary's armor plating, the Optical Drones were nowhere to be found, and Elias realized he'd let go of the Barrier Shield as he hit the first wall.

"Any landing you can walk away from..." He muttered, getting the Unit to its feet.

Elias then noticed his clothes had been ripped as well, and caked in dust.

The boy sighed as he walked the Legionary to Ichika's location.

After several minutes of Elias doing his best to not let the Legionary buckle under its own weight, he came upon the door to the IS Academy's OS-Interface room. The Byakushiki's last known position was just beyond the door.

Elias entered, and was met with Kanzashi ushering Ichika to an Interface Terminal.

"Elias? What the heck happened to you?" Said Ichika.

"I...Fell." Elias said, jumping out of the Legionary's cockpit and dusting himself off.

"It's a good thing you guys arrived," Said Kanzashi, "The IS Academy is under attack from some hacker. We sent the Representative Candidates in earlier in order to fix the system, but something's attacked them as well!"

"Wha?!"

"Their brain activity is out of whack, and they won't wake up."

"So, what do we do?" Said Elias, "We're pilots, not mad scientists!"

"You two will have to perform a cyber-dive into the system and try to bring everyone back."

Ichika and Elias looked to each other.

"I'm concerned." Said Elias, "Where's Thomas?"

"I sent him a text, but he hasn't responded or shown up yet..."

"We'll have to do this without him, then. Time is of the essence!"

"Right."

Ichika and Elias quickly rushed to their seats, and entered the world of Virtual Reality.

But would they succumb like the others?

Leader fired away at Chifuyu with a PDW.

However, Chifuyu was bouncing about the corridor, and Leader was unable to read her movements. Chifuyu bounced from the floor, to the wall, to the ceiling, and danced as though no-one was watching.

However...

Chifuyu rushed in for another attack.

"Got you!" Shouted Leader, "Don't even try!"

Leader had gotten the drop on Chifuyu and attempted to smash her right into the floor.

Chifuyu's swords sank into the ground around Leader.

"Too slow!" Snapped Chifuyu.

Leader blinked.

Chifuyu had completely evaded her attack faster than she could see!

Chifuyu smirked as she leapt into the air above Leader, a very strong string in her hands. Chifuyu spun over Leader's head, and the string began to loop around Leader's neck, no doubt in what that meant.

Chifuyu landed behind Leader, and pulled the string.

Leader realized Chifuyu was strangling her with the string.

"You're relying on your Absolute Defense? Really?" Sneered Chifuyu, "That explains why you were so slow. You think that because no matter what happens, you won't get fatally wounded. Because of that, you feel too relaxed."

Chifuyu pulled harder and harder.

Leader felt as though Chifuyu was using the string to rip her head off her shoulders.

Suddenly, the Fang Quake's Absolute Defense kicked in, severing the string and releasing Leader from Chifuyu's hold. Leader embraced the sensation of air filling her lungs as she swung at Chifuyu.

But once again, Chifuyu had instantly vanished from her line of sight.

Leader then felt her opponent send her stumbling as Chifuyu delivered a devastating kick to her midsection.

The pilot finally recovered as she hit the wall.

"I'll admit it," Said Leader, "Your physical abilities are to be reckoned with. But-"

"Stop wasting time with pointless babble, I'll die over boredom before you kill me at this rate." Chifuyu spat.

Leader growled, and rushed Chifuyu once again. Leader swung at Chifuyu, and Chifuyu naturally jumped away to dodge.

But Leader had finally figured her out.

Chifuyu was in the air.

It took a single moment, and Leader took advantage.

"I got you!" She shouted, taking her free hand and firing away with a jab, "It's over!"

Leader smashed Chifuyu right in the ribs, and sent her to the floor.

Such an attack would have ripped a normal person in two.

But Chifuyu wasn't a normal person.

Chifuyu hit the ground as she hugged her body, nursing her agonizing pain.

But for some strange reason, Chifuyu was laughing.

Leader wasn't feeling very victorious, but rather panicked.

It was then that Leader caught on to Chifuyu.

"The...The blades!" Leader thought.

Leader realized that she was surrounded by Chifuyu's discarded swords. Such a detail didn't seem very relevant, since it was just all the damaged blades Chifuyu tossed aside in favor of sharper ones.

But the discarded blades were far more useful discarded.

Chifuyu sat up, grinning.

"Smithereens time." She sang.

In a mere second, the blades glowed.

Leader was unable to flee from the radius in time.

Within the span of a heartbeat, the blades exploded, filling the hall with a fireball!

Chifuyu grinned and sighed as she got up.

"Now that that's all taken care of..." She muttered, turning around and strolling away.

"I'M NOT DONE YEEEEEEEET!" Screamed Leader.

Without warning, Leader jumped right out of the fire that enveloped her, and rushed Chifuyu.

Chifuyu was too slow to turn around.

The next thing she knew, Leader was right in her face.

A/N: Done! I've been discussing about what happens after World Purge. There's a lot going on, and a lot more to come, so let's hope that everything comes out okay.

Elias will receive a huge upgrade to the Knight Gunner after World Purge, I'll give the profile on the V2 Knight Gunner and the Full-Package Byakushiki on the concluding World Purge Chapter.

But dang, this is getting exciting!

After World Purge, I'll be writing a Christmas Chapter, and a New Year's Chapter, so stick around for those!

Next Time: World Purge Part 4.

Ichika and Elias, having narrowly managed to get back to the IS Academy, cyber-dive into the VR World to rescue the Representative Candidates from the clutches of World Purge!

But will they be able to resist the temptations of their own heats' desires?

And what of Thomas? Will he be able to finally find the answers to the secret, burning questions of his mother?

Whatever happens, Thomas's life will never be the same.

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