Chapter Four
Sitting by the window of the airplane, the boy stared out at the window. This view was beautiful. More beautiful than the one he flew the other day. It had been a week now and they just started flying. That day when Professor Utonium had instructed them, they did not realize they would be flying not until a few days later.
Of course it had something to do with Bling because he only came to the school for a few days, so he needed to at least attend all of his classes of the week so his professors would not deduct his points for attendance.
Fate decided he was an S student. Fate gave him this opportunity and now he was flying again. To be able to fly away from school must have been very nice. He bet everyone would like to go away from school for a while, but they had to fly to operate missions. He was still new to this mission operating and had not realized what he will be doing.
Believe walked up to him to see him wandering off into space. She was going to interrupt him, but then felt it would be inappropriate. After all, they will be working with each other for eight semesters, she needed to make herself more reliable and more friendly. But the thought of her acting so nice to him made her feel disgusted. If anyone were to see her face, they would laugh their heads off.
Believe crumbled her fists and wanted to at least crumble a piece of paper so she could hit him. Though, for no particular reason, and because she was only thinking about being nice to him, this had made her lose her femininity. This made her uneasy and she could not be more feminine than she wanted to.
Bling noticed the girl stood by him but never said a word. He turned his head around to see her deep in thought. He then made out the words, "Is there something you need?"
Believe rolled her eyes and without asking for his permission, she sat down next to him. She began to speak, "So, New York."
The golden boy scratched his head and nodded. "My parents live in New York… I don't know if I will be able to meet them there though."
Surprisingly, Believe thought it was cool to have parents living in New York. But then again, were they going to the place where his parents were? "What part of New York, do you know?"
He shook his head and turned to study the clouds again. He went into wandering mode and Believe got so tired of that. "How do you not know?"
"I haven't seen them for years, and to be honest, I don't know what they even look like," Bling responded as he continued staring at the clouds. He wondered if he could one day stand on top of those clouds and to be able to fly like that instead of using the airplane.
"I'm sorry to bring that up," Believe apologized. "I'm so envious of you, unlike me, I don't have any parents. I wonder what it would be like if I had parents."
This shocked Bling. In the end Bling had always thought Believe was raised by two spoiled parents. Apparently not… Believe was like this because she had no parents, that makes a lot of sense. To be able to become strong and act all mighty in order to live, this must be differences between having families and no families.
"Why do you envy that?"
Believe sighed and leaned against the chair. "A lot of people from the school has no parents. Even if they do, they are usually from rich families. Princess, a well-known student of the college, she is rich because her father is one of the school's investors. He is the wealthiest man in Enstor District. I don't envy Princess because she is rich, but I envy her that she has someone there to support her and do everything for her and in return she doesn't like her father doing things for her. I wish I could have someone to support me."
"Let's be honest for real," Bling stated, "You finally talked normal."
Believe rolled her eyes and smacked his head.
The boy hated it. He was only commenting her and he did not mean it that way. Why did everything have to end up with smacking his head? This was just not fair.
"So which part of New York are we going?" Bling asked, nervous. He really wish he knew which part of New York his parents were living. He hoped that the place they were going happens to be the place his parents were living. But then, the odds of that were small. Wreaking havoc… did that seemed to affect his parents at all, even to the slightest?
It may have been a thought, but he did want to get things straight and see them for real. He thought about how his missions will give him free time to explore New York, but they were more in favor for the mission over free time.
"Albany," Believe answered, "The capital of New York."
"Okay," Bling said and realized even if he asked for the place name, he had no clue what that place was. This was his first time hearing this name too.
Believe looked at Bling and smacked his head again and Bling gave her a cold glare. "I didn't mean to wake you up from fantasy, Bling. Look at the time, it's already 12 p.m. We need to eat."
"Yeah, so?" Bling asked, "Don't they push the cart over to us and give us food? Why do we need to know where the food is?"
Believe shook her head and laughed, "Why are you such a blockhead? Those are for regular airlines. Remember the airplane we are flying comes from Enigia College. When we need to eat food, we go to the dining room."
Bling almost forgot. "Oh, right." He stood up and walked to the front of the plane, a couple of blocks away from the pilot's seat.
The moment he saw there was plenty of food in the airplane, he quickly went to grab as much as he could while he began to sit down. Believe sat across from him and basically never laid a finger on the food.
She stared at him eating like a maniac. She thought he was insane and imagined how he ate at the regular dinner held at the cafeteria. Sure, Believe had seen him eat his lunch, but now that she think about it, she was never able to see him eat dinner.
A minute later, Believe laid her head on her palm of her right hand.
This was the moment Bling stopped eating. He felt he caught the attention of Believe. "Why are you not eating?"
Believe rolled her eyes. "Because I want to see how you eat all of this."
"But aren't you hungry?" Bling asked, again very nervous. Now that she saw him like this, he tried to not eat as much as possible.
"No, you're fine," Believe said, "You can have all of the food."
Bling forcefully put the forks down and stared at her. "Are you mocking me? Who even feels like eating now? Why do you always have to say stupid things to me? I know, and I will admit, that I am a blockhead, at least I think I was, to be able to interpret it myself. But why do you think I can just keep acting like this? Wasn't this your fault in the beginning?!"
He pointed at her with his index fingers in a very mad mood.
Enraged by Bling's sudden explosion, Believe stood up and screamed at him. "I didn't say anything stupid! Why are you making the situation worse? I only said what I thought, and if you don't like it, then you could have asked me to drop it. But you know what, I can just continue to act like this to you and by now, you should know how I talk! If you are going to work with me for eight semesters, then you should get your butt up and listen and know what to expect from me! You should know from now on, I will keep saying these things to you! And it's not like I want to!"
"OMG, why are we fighting over this stupid thing?" Bling complained.
Then, Believe pointed at him too as she snapped, "It's you who started to raise your voice to me! I was nicely talking, and maybe you didn't think that! But I was!"
Bling rolled his eyes and folded his arms. "Okay, I don't want to fight. Besides, we are going to our first mission, we should not be establishing a hatred relationship."
"If you don't want to work with me, then fine by me! We can both each do our little thing and then finish it together at the end."
"You serious?" Bling glared at her. "I never said anything about not being your partner. It is you who always bring that up and you tell me it like you don't want it at all. If you don't even want to work together, you could have said it directly and instead of just trying to fit it in like it was my fault."
"Okay, I get it, let's stop and you can just finish the whole meal!" Believe shouted and left the dining room.
"Wow," Bling said to himself and began to resume eating. He was so hungry he did not feel like he was in the mood to think about what Believe had just said.
Then, a moment later, his watch started to beep. He opened the message and Professor Utonium popped out of the screen in blue.
"Hello Bling," Professor Utonium greeted. "In a few more hours, you will land in Albany, New York. We booked hotel rooms for you two. But before you guys go to the hotel, you will be met by two of the students from our college. They will guide you at New York."
"Wait, how come there are two students there?" Bling asked, "They also in our base?"
Professor smiled at Bling and answered in a professional manner, "No, Bling. Only a professor can have two students working for him. Those two students are not part of our team. They are only there to guide you to your first mission. Of course, they just got finished with their mission as well, and usually Albany, New York, is the place where students would meet up."
"Meet up?"
"Oh right," the professor said, "I forgot to mention to you. Enigia College's headquarters is located at Albany, New York. We don't go there as often, but some students have full access to the headquarters. That place is where you two will be landing at first. You will be met up with two other students."
"Okay, must be nice to be able to have full access to it," Bling commented.
"You too, Bling," Professor Utonium said. "You have access too. An S student automatically have access to it."
"That's nice," he said.
"Just remember though, that is a headquarter," the professor reminded Bling. "That headquarter is not the actual building for Enigia College. It is just to meet up and operate missions more accurately. The headquarter is also where cooperation with other companies for research takes place."
"Okay," Bling said.
Professor Utonium nodded and said his final words, "That's it, Bling, you are good to go. If you have any questions, please do ask the two students who will be guiding you."
After his final words, Professor Utonium disappeared from the screen.
Five hours later, the plane had finally arrived at its destination. Their landing was quite short, so it was easier to get out of the plane. When both of them got out, the entire place looked so different from an airport. After all, they were to go to the headquarters, so they landed right next to it.
Bling stared at the beautiful design of the buildings. It was so amazing and the walls were made out of metal; hence the color silver.
Just when they were done walking down the stairs from the airplane, a blonde young adult had been waiting there.
He had dark blue eyes and his hair was done in a professional manner. He was wearing a black outfit, and this was automatically assumed that he was wearing them for operating his missions.
His hands were crossed in the back, which made Bling want to study more.
When the blonde young adult saw the two coming towards the main entrance of the headquarters, he just nodded.
"Good evening," he said as he stopped crossing his hands at the back. His left arm led the way to the entrance.
The only thing that surprised Bling was that this guy had gloves on, even when he was already finished operating.
"This is the headquarters of Enigia College. You two might have already heard about it, but since this is your first time coming here, we are going to show you around first."
Then, another person came out of the entrance door with her helmet on. She took it off and her blonde hair appeared. She had it braided in French style and looked mature. She also had blue eyes, but they were lighter than the guy.
"Hello," she greeted them as she held onto her helmet to the side. "Nice to meet you both, I am Bubbles." She put her hand out for both of them to shake.
Believe and Boomer shook her hand. After she had shaken with the freshmen, she turned her eyes over at the blonde man. "Did you introduce yourself yet? Or do you want me to introduce you to them?"
He rolled his eyes and said, "Doesn't matter…"
Bubbles turned to face them and smiled as she said, "Sorry, that person over there is Boomer. Unfortunately, he won't be speaking as much as I will be today. Don't worry, he talks, but not going to happen today. If you want to know more about him, I can tell you that he always hold suspicions on people."
She snickered as she said and walked them in, leaving Boomer to glare at Bubbles. Though, he began to walk after them and let it slide.
"Talking about suspicions," Bubbles continued as she walked them inside the headquarters, "He even have suspicions about me. I find it very silly to talk about it. He thinks I come from somewhere else and should not be attending Enigia College. Ironically, I wondered why he hasn't found him suspicious yet." Bubbles was chuckling to herself the entire time she talked. Boomer could see her do the whole process and it made him annoyed.
"Bubbles, if you are going to talk about me, do it properly," Boomer finally said.
Believe started to laugh, which made Bling wonder why. It did not seem funny to him, or maybe he was not able to understand it. Oh right, Bling remembered, he was a blockhead, so he cannot fully interpret the meaning behind the laugh or the entire situation.
"Alright," Bubbles said as she stopped. "This is the cafeteria, we will be eating here tonight. Let me know what else you two need. Boomer and I will be over there." Bubbles pointed at the direction near the window. "We will be sitting over there, you guys can go grab food to eat."
Believe and Bling went to grab their food while Bubbles and Boomer sat at the table she had pointed thirty seconds ago.
When Believe returned, she asked if she could sit next to Bubbles. As nice as she was, Bubbles agreed to sit next to her. Immediately, the both of them started talking and Believe started to like Bubbles. She felt Bubbles was like an older sister since she was so nice and wonderful.
Bling went to the table and sat next to Boomer, who was just drinking his coffee. Bling eyed on him and wondered again. Boomer felt a pair of eyes staring at him and turned to see Bling. He took another sip of coffee with a weird expression on. "You need something?" Boomer questioned.
"Uh, no," Bling said.
"What would you guys like to hear from us?" Bubbles begak to ask, and Boomer was the only one that rolled his eyes.
"How about introduce yourselves so we get to know you two better?" Believe suggested.
Bubbles nodded and began to introduce herself, "Right. Like I said before, my name is Bubbles. I came to Enigia College to do research. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you guys where I came from, or that will spoil my reason at the college. That is why Boomer can't ever figure out where I came from."
Boomer just rolled his eyes.
"But anyway, I am currently a senior at the college. I just finished operating my mission with my partner from TAB Team. Want to know who my partner is? Her name is Blossom, she has beautiful eyes that look red and pink. She is a really smart partner." And as nice as she was, Bubbles chuckled so she would not feel awkward.
Blossom? Everytime people mention someone's name, I feel like I have heard of them before. Oh right… I remember now. The girl I saw at the library and telling me all about evil and stuff. Bling thought in his head.
"Oh does she have really long hair?" Believe asked.
Oh yeah, I remember Believe came into the library as well at the end. But I didn't think she will be able to notice Blossom at all.
"Yes," Bubbles answered, "My instructor is Professor Keane. She is the sweetest professor you will ever meet. She is even sweeter than me if I would say so myself."
"Bubbles," Boomer cleared his throat as he called on her name, "I think you went off topic."
Bubbles began to chuckle again for noticing her mistake. "Oh right, I did. I am sorry, I sometimes do that."
"No worries," Believe said as she smiled at Bubbles.
Bling wondered why Believe has never smiled at him realistically. It is not that he wants her to smile at him, he just feels like she shows favoritism too easily.
"Boomer," Bubbles began to say, "I know you can't speak a lot today, but it would be nice to introduce yourself instead of having me do it. Because… what if I say something wrong about you?"
The blonde boy rolled his eyes, "It's fine, you always say something wrong about me."
"Oh yes," Bubbles saidin a delightful manner. "You never corrected me. Alright, his name is Boomer, also a senior. He is in the team under Professor Teall, the ARM Group."
"Wait," Bling stopped Bubbles before she could think of something else to say, "ARM Group? Isn't that where Mike is?"
"I'm surprised you know Mike," Boomer said and just took another sip of coffee.
"Well Mike is my roommate," Bling responded.
Boomer rolled his eyes and could not imagine more of what it will look like if he was his roommate. "He talks about you a lot, but I didn't think it was because you were his roommate. He said he already had a copy of your information."
Before Bling could say anything else, Bubbles interrupted him, "Like I said, this guy, Boomer, finds everyone suspicious mostly due to being able to see all the information about each student at the campus. Thanks to Robin and thanks to Mike, Boomer had more suspicions on everyone. Oh, and yes, because Mike is his partner, he can go to him any time for information."
Bling turned to Boomer and finally wanted to ask him, "Why do you hold suspicions on others? Are you doing this because the school required you to do it?"
Boomer smirked and took another sip of coffee. "I'm just what Bubbles said. I still haven't figured out Bubbles's information, so I am not going to tell anyone where I came from as well. As long as I find out about Bubbles, I will be open about my intentions and where I came from and who I work for."
"Wait," Bling did not comprehend too well. "You work for two people?"
"Technically," Boomer said as he eyed on Bubbles. "Most students are keeping secrets… or maybe another word to put it, is hiding our identity. We didn't come here just to go to college. Instead, I am here from an order."
Bubbles started to applaud for Boomer and commented on him, "You finally talked a lot today!" After she applauded, she went back on topic. "The thing is, we don't like to expose ourselves out. Robin doesn't have most of our records; in fact, I felt that Robin is pretty smart that she can locate information about me. Some students were able to make fake information about themselves, so some information are incorrect. There will come a time where my identity will be exposed, but it's not the right time yet since Mephitic Circle hasn't wreaked enough havoc."
"What? You guys are just waiting for them to make the 100% evil thing and reveal your identity? By then, everyone must have died!" exclaimed Bling.
Believe looked at Bling and saw he was serious. "Dude, I have never seen you this mad before."
"I'm not mad, I just don't understand," he said, "Why are you guys hiding your identities in the first place? Just why?"
"We can't reveal ourselves until evil is at its peak, or else it would be meaningless. Because what if in the end evil didn't go as far as we imagined? Then I had no purpose to come to the college. And… because we're using Enigia College to research about evil. Well, actually, I can't say using them. It's just like a contract, I want to research, I have to work for them. As simple as that."
Believe had noticed Bubbles was not chuckling anymore.
"Enigia College has been establishing cooperation with other companies. That is why the headquarters was specifically built here. There are research organizations working for Enigia College. Unfortunately, I am not part of any of those organizations that builds their contracts with money. I come here as a student for free, since, this is a school of talents and this is what the college just needs. Special talents to fight against evil."
Nobody would have expected the conversation to go this far, and it was like they have already spoiled enough information about their identity. This actually just makes them want to know more about their true identity.
Boomer cleared his throat and finally started to eat something from his plate. "Mephitic Circle is known to cause chaos, but there is another transparent organization out there that could affect our findings. They can also be the source that wreak havoc. We are not sure of its organization name. Mike and I found something interesting, though. The organization doesn't seem to have a leader, it looks like it was established to perform evil or maybe the other way around. We do know that they are not part of the Mephitic Circle. Interestingly enough, there are teams that uses each other and will sacrifice its team members to accomplish what they want."
"Actually," Bubbles tried to add to what Boomer was saying, "Mephitic Circle wants us to know they are everywhere. They are trying to fool us. But with that transparent organization, they are really good at keeping up with their efforts. I sometimes wonder if anyone from the college is a member of that transparent organization. After all, each of us comes from somewhere different, who knows, maybe we are good or bad. I will admit I am not a really good person too."
"What does that even mean? Can that even be compared to evil at all?" Bling asked. "It's like saying you want us to know you are somewhat a bad person."
She chuckled again. "Everyone has some part of bad in them. I come here to do something good, but I came here because I had an advantage. That means I must be bad and I have been here for four years."
Believe and Bling stopped. They did not know what to say after that. Believe has never even said a word about them and listened. Only Bling was getting tired of talking about evil. Every time there was like a new lecture coming towards him and he was getting pretty sick about it. In addition, every information he received were like fantasies to him. Funny how he still remembers and try to comprehend them. Sometimes people say different things and might be not what others say. It really was hard to imagine, which makes Bling want to throw up more.
Bubbles chuckled again and said, "I'm sorry, did we startle you? It must have shocked you both! You guys are new to the college not long ago, and the pile of information we just shared it with you must have been hard to grasp!"
"Oh no, you are fine!" Believe said, "I am glad to be able to know about these information. I can now finally understand the situation better."
Bubbles nodded.
"So the hotel," Boomer said as he grabbed two cards out and put it on top of the table. "These are the cards, or room key, to your room at the hotel. Tomorrow morning, you both will be preparing for the mission. You both will be able to contact with Professor Utonium at the headquarters."
Bling and Believe nodded, and each got their own cards. They stood up and was walked by Bubbles and Boomer.
When they got to the hotel, Bubbles and Boomer left the building quickly.
As both blondes walked back to the headquarters, they were pretty tired. Even though they did not do much today, their tiredness actually came from their missions from earlier.
Bubbles began to pat on her own back and shoulders with one hand. The other hand was holding onto the helmet.
"I spilled too much information today..." Bubbles said as she has both hands holding onto the helmet.
"You did."
Bubbles turned to face him and then flared at him, "You did too!"
Boomer rolled his eyes. Well, that was only because Bubbles was the first person to start talking about it. Now that he thought about it, these two freshmen will eventually know about this whole mess; therefore, it would not matter if Bubbles spilled the information first.
"So, where did you come from?" Boomer questioned as he found the right time to say again.
This was like, the one millionth time? Maybe less maybe more. He still has not figured out who she was and where she came from ever since she came to the college. He found it weird that so many people are good with keeping their identities hidden, and so was he. But what he found more interesting was that he, himself, cannot find any clues about them. Of course he did not think he was a detective or something, he needed to do this as his personal job.
"Oh stop it," Bubbles replied and put the helmet on her head. "We better get going. Tomorrow it's their first time operating a mission."
The blonde young man nodded as he walked the end of the hallway with Bubbles, side by side.
11 a.m. at Albany, New York
At the operating room, about six people was inside. Two of the six were professors that was controlling the machines and fixing the screen so it could reach long distances.
The next two people were Bling and Believe, students of Enigia College. They finished dressing in their mission outfit and waited for orders.
The last two persons were technicians working on the computers.
Bling could see that everyone was gathered in here so they could witness their mission. The big screen up there was designed to see the whole process of their mission being operated. In other circumstances, the event would change the matter. Sometimes they would not be able to see it since there were three factors, 1) far distance, 2) weather, 3) privacy. But this time, they chose the location where the headquarters were built, and this was also where chaos occurred. This was short distance, and the weather here was humid, and while this place is kept private for the headquarters it is not private in terms of mission operating. Since the mission was going to be operated here, why should they make it not appear on the screen of what was happening?
Furthermore, it was their first time to operate a mission, so of course it would be better if the professors see them completing it.
"Professor Utonium, are you able to reach our line?" a technician asked as he spoke to the microphones.
Professor Utonium from the other side of America responded as he appeared on another screen. He appeared in a computer screen, not the big one. "Yes I have reached your line."
"Good, we're going to connect the screen to your line."
One of the best thing about technology was that two distances can receive the same message. Professor Utonium would be able to still speak to his students and tell them what was going to be done.
"Professor, when are we going to operate?" Believe asked.
"Soon."
Meanwhile they were talking to each other on the screens, both seniors walked into the room and went past the technicians.
"Morning Professor Utonium," a light female voice echoed in the room, which caused the professor to notice.
"Hello, Bubbles," he greeted and saw Boomer together with Bubbles as well. "You guys are in good timing."
Bubbles nodded while Boomer just simply stood there.
"I see you guys are already dressed, that's good," Bubbles said and moved onto another topic to discuss, "We will be skipping the instructions. Let's talk about what is happening right now at Albany, New York."
Boomer walked over to a table to find some files. Once he had found them, he handed them over to Bling and Believe.
Bubbles continued to explain, "There are two people. They are our number one suspects. You both will have to approach them. I'm guessing you all know how to approach so I won't be explaining them in details. Get as much trust from them and then trap them."
"Roger that," Believe said.
"Okay, good," Bubbles said as she nodded. Then, Bubbles helped fix Believe's hairstyle. "To look more fit as a citizen of New York, do your hair more appropriately. You will need to learn this as you keep operating more missions. You must learn information about each place, that way you won't be off."
Bling did not need to have anything fix since he was, well, a boy, plus he did not have long hair at all.
Once she finished fixing everything for Believe, Bubbles led them out of the room. "Remember to put on your earphone. Also we will be able to see your actions on screen, so make sure you listen carefully as Professor Utonium instructs you guys what to do."
"Understood," Believe said.
Bling never said a word, he always let Believe do the talking.
"Now head to where you are supposed to go."
Bling and Believe walked out of the headquarters in separate directions. After all, both of them were to find each suspect.
Bling walked the east side while Believe in the west. He walked casually like a New York citizen, but Believe walked like her own usual self.
Looking at the screen, the professor instructed only Bling to go inside the hotel.
Bling got inside the hotel and noticed why his outfit was so nice. It was because he was supposed to be dressed as a server or worker at the hotel. They were so prepared, knowing that the first suspect was going to be at the hotel.
Bling walked to the elevators and pressed to the 24th floor. After a while it had reached 24. He walked out and whistled like a loser. Putting both good and bad image was no big deal for him.
When he reached the destination room, he knocked on the door. At this point, Bling has not display fear. Deep down his heart, he was not sure how to accomplish the mission for he knew not of his own talent. He wondered if he will be able to find one for himself.
"Who's there?" the supposedly suspect prompted and Bling could tell his scared voice.
"You called me earlier that you were buying your business off, remember?" Bling said. Good thing the college does something like this. To be able to have contact with him as early on makes the mission easier for me to finish.
Then, the door opened. The suspect looked at Bling and noticed all the golden features of him. The suspect wondered if this was the person who really called him earlier.
"Bling," Bubbles said to his small earphone. "When he asks you for your business information, it will be done by the time you type the password in. Right now, put some time for us. We will get the business information done fast."
Bling nodded knowing they could see his screen. Since he was not allowed to talk out of nowhere, he had to use facial expressions and sign language for his answers.
Meanwhile at the headquarters, in one of the operating technical rooms, Bubbles began to sit down on the rolling chair next to her.
Boomer just followed along.
Bubbles began to log onto the forum and she ordered, "Boomer, get infodog now."
Boomer rolled his eyes and then called Mike. When Mike picked up, Boomer handed over the phone to Bubbles. However, Bubbles was too busy typing down a request, so Boomer put the speaker on.
"What's up?" Mike asked.
As she continued to type, Bubbles said, "Infodog, you busy?"
"Not at the moment," Mike responded from the other side of the phone.
"Good," Bubbles said. "I am putting down a request at the forum. I need someone to help me as quickly as possible. We only got ten minutes."
"Sure, who do you need?" Mike asked.
Bubbles looked at her watch and averted her eyes back at the computer screen. She clicked on the submit button and now the request has been posted. "Staticpath."
Boomer got up from his seat and eyed at Bubbles seriously.
Mike, on the other hand, began to laugh. "I know what you are trying to retrieve now. Fake IDs."
Bubbles smirked and turned over to face the phone. "Yeah, just get him to look at the forum. Nobody but him knows how to do it."
"I will call him. But shouldn't it be better for him to just find it himself?" Mike asked.
Bubbles shook her head and held onto the phone now. "I need it quickly in ten minutes. He's not going to be able to see the request in the forum at the same time you know."
"Fine, I will ask him. But I'm pretty sure Princess is with him."
Bubbles rolled her eyes. "You're right. They might be in a mission right now. But no matter how you do it, at least get him to do it and send it to us."
Ten minutes later, Bubbles received a message from the computer. She opened the message and saw the fake business information she requested. "He is so good at this."
Boomer rolled his eyes and continued to stare at the computer screen. "You know we all can make fake information, but you ask for him because he can alter it into any system. Just send it to Bling right now."
"I got it, Boomer," Bubbles said and saved the information on the system. In the next moment, she put the earphone on. "Hey Bling, you still there?"
Bling, on the screen, nodded.
"Okay, we got the information. You can use it any time."
Bling nodded again and continued talking to the suspect.
Bubbles and Boomer listened to the conversation for now, meanwhile the professor was instructing Believe who was not with Bling.
Talking for ten minutes, the suspect believed Bling was really a perfect businessman. After all, the phone call from earlier was no mistake. He was not sure if he chose the right person to have business with, but overall Bling made him satisfied. The suspect was willing to cooperate with him.
"I would like to have a business cooperation with you after talking to you. But in order to do so, we need to take a look at your business records."
Bling suddenly gulped. He smiled at the suspect and nodded. "Yes, of course."
The suspect went to the computer and logged onto the business site they use to look at each individual's profile and their business records.
After typing the password in to load the site, the suspect gave the computer to Bling so Bling could log onto his file.
Bling held onto the computer and Bubbles started talking to Bling. "Username is Bling, password is satisfactorystudent."
Bling was so glad there was help while he is operating a mission. But he was not sure if it will continue to be like this. Maybe they were helping because it is their first time operating a mission. After the first time, everyone expects the students to have already learned a lot of stuff by then. Well, in the end, they still have the professor to instruct.
The login was a success. When Bling's profile has landed onto the page, the suspect took a look at the business records. The suspect lit up his face and began to say, "You have a clean business record! Your trust at the site is really high. We would like to work with you!"
Bling fake smiled. This was all fake to begin with. The information about him was even more fake. He had never been to a business before and his education was so bad that he was not fit to be a businessman. Not to mention he simply had no intention to be a hard worker as a businessman would be.
"Thank you," Bling responded.
The both of them began to handshake each other. Bling's first part of the mission has completed and Bling was free to go out of the hotel room.
The two seniors could see that Bling got the work done. It was time for them both to look at how Believe and Professor Utonium's progressment.
Averting her eyes away from the screen, the blonde young woman turned her rolling chair around. She faced Boomer and said, "What do you say? A fish was caught in our trap."
"That won't be as easy though," Boomer reminded Bubbles. "So don't get too excited."
She rolled her eyes and turned to look at the screen back, this time opening up Believe's side.
Walking at the top of the broken skyscraper, she made sure all the pieces were collected. She was instructed to do so. Currently, Believe showed the entire scenery of the top skyscraper to her viewers.
Professor Utonium, in the other hand, nodded as he examined the scene. "Believe, can you zoom in on the left part?"
Believe nodded and began to zoom to the desired resolution and the place.
There, the professor could see leftover pieces from the floor. "Believe, show me the pieces."
Believe did as she was told. When the professor saw the crystals in highly quality, he said, "Oh, what a nice piece of evidence. Mephitic Circle has purposely left it there."
Bubbles interrupted the professor, "The two suspected people are weak members of Mephitic Circle. It is likely that they didn't know the case they were holding onto were the crystals Mephitic Circle wants protected."
"We need someone to suspect the scene," Professor said as he thought about what Bubbles had said. "I need Blossom to see it."
Boomer rolled his eyes. Today there has been a lot of helpers. The mission would not require any help if he was the one performing it. No matter what happened in these few days, he would be able to figure out that the scenery was caused by accident and that it was not the from Mephitic Circle's orders. They would not be as stupid.
"We don't need her," Boomer said, "We have evidence, that's fine to move on."
"I know you have been on many operations, Boomer, but since they are new, they need to look for clues. Tell me Believe, do you notice anything wrong with the crystals?"
Believe gulped. "Uh… I didn't know they were crystals… they just look like broken pieces."
Professor put his attention back at Boomer even though they do not share the same screen. "Boomer, it might be easier for you to figure it out already. But because they are new to missions, they will need to know how to distinguish objects and when they can't find a solution, they would need the help of others. Of course, as an instructor, I try to be as precise as possible. But first times never go that easily. After they work on many more missions, they would be able to understand the language in a higher context. I'm sure you were like that back then?"
Boomer smirked. He understands all of this but he did not want to waste any of his time here for beginners. "Let's just say that I have been involved with these chaotic events before I came to college, so the first mission was a piece of cake."
Bubbles sighed, wondering when will the mission be done.
"So what do you think, call Blossom?" Professor Utonium asked nobody in particular.
"Sure, I will go get her on the phone," Bubbles responded. She got out her phone and started to dial Blossom's number. When the redhead picked up, she was as gloomy as ever.
"What do you need?" She asked with a monotone manner.
"I need to video chat with you for this," Bubbles said. In a next second, they both were on video chat mode. "Take a look at the screen from this screen. Sorry, it's going to be a screen looking on a screen…"
"It's fine," Blossom said.
"Can you look back at what happened here a few days ago?" Bubbles asked, nicely.
The redhead nodded. When Believe showed Blossom the entire scene from one end to another, Blossom finally said, "It's good now, you don't need to keep showing me. I understood it."
Believe was not so sure what she meant by that.
The redhead put down the book she was reading and began to explain, "Approximately 5 days ago, the skyscraper at 4:32 a.m., two people were walking in a hurried condition. One was holding onto a heavy case. The case inside has the crystals that were on the floor. The other person was holding onto a smaller case, the ones that could only fit money in. Before leaving the skyscraper, they had set up an explosion at around the corner of the northwest direction. They were able to escape from the top floor of the explosion at around 4:35 a.m., when it was set to 4:36 a.m. But while the explosion occurred, they were moving down floor seven. As smelting ash piled up, they were not as fast, since the explosion caused the top parts of the building to crash down in less than a minute. The person with the heavy case left a mark indicating he was badly injured by the explosion, which caused the crystals to sort out of the case. In the event of escaping the skyscraper, they left in ten minutes before the police could arrive."
"Good, thanks for the inspection," Professor Utonium said and ordered Bubbles to end the call.
Once the call was ended, Believe held a pair of widening eyes.
"You understood it, Believe?" questioned the professor.
"How did she know who held onto the right case?" Believe was still not understanding how she could figure that out just by looking at the scene.
"Uh," Bubbles said, "About that… nobody has an answer. She's accurate all the time. But there is a limit to the ability, she could only inspect the event up to seven days, so you can't ask her to inspect something over seven days."
"Unbelievable," Believe said, "OMG I can't believe I'm using my name to say all these things."
"So all we need to do is find where this other man is," Bubbles stated.
"The man is suspect number two. This suspect has the crystals. The one Bling talked to was the one that had money. The money is used here as a means to cooperate in illegal business." Professor explained to Believe.
"So I can leave the skyscraper now, right?" Believe asked.
"Yes."
And in an instant, Believe had speed walked all the way down the building. This eventually made Bubbles flinched as she quickly saw a change in scene. Since the screen could only see the front and not Believe herself, they could see the background.
"Wait," Bubbles said, "You have that ability too?"
"What do you mean by too?" Believe asked.
Boomer rolled his eyes. "Bubbles, you just run fast, she didn't even run."
"Is this Speed Escape?" Bubbles questioned.
"Yeah…" Believe said.
"Oh wow!" Bubbles shouted in surprise. "There are three levels of that ability. I could only perform the first level. I have always wanted to move onto the next two!"
"We're getting off topic, Bubbles," Boomer was always the one to be there to remind her that.
"Sure thing," Believe responded late. "I'm still strengthening on it."
"No worries, you can show me some day," the blonde 22-year-old demanded in a sweet manner.
Before Believe could say anything more, she was met by Bling. He had been waiting for her to finish her part. When they both met, Bling waved at her.
"Wow, being the nice guy today huh?"
"Why do you have to keep saying these things? Can't you just like, wave back?" Bling retorted.
Professor Utonium, on the other side of America, spoke to their earphones. "We have located the second suspect. You both will need to run to him before he reached the hotel. It seems to be that he's taking the crystals to sell them as business."
"Understood," Believe said.
They reached where the second suspect was at, thanks to the tracking information done by the technicians. As they approach the second suspect, Believe immediately went to attack him.
"You're being way too aggressive!" Bling yelled, "You really are not a realistic girl."
What! Believe got offended that she stopped. She had not known she was acting like this. She did not even know why either. Summarizing this all up, she was not feminine from the beginning?
Bling, instead of choosing to fight, walked over to the already beaten suspect. He probably chose not to fight for two reasons. One was because he did not know any power he possess. The second was this would not expose their mission out.
"Brats! Get out of my way!" the man demanded.
"What's in that bag?" Bling asked.
"None of your business," he replied.
Believe traveled to him and began to kneel. "Care to give us a look? We won't cause anymore trouble for you."
"Why should I believe in that?"
"Right, you called my name, so no matter how you believe it or not, I'm going to see what's inside!" Believe kicked him to the side and reached for his bag. She noticed he had changed to a bag since the case left a crease and many crystals had dropped on the floor of the skyscraper.
The man got up and aimed at Believe. She blocked it and opened the bag, but before she could see anything inside, he held onto her legs. Believe looked down and tried to yank him away.
Then, she looked up to see Bling doing nothing but just standing there. "What are you doing? Go find that other guy! I'm going to handle this guy here."
Bling tilted his eyebrow. "Are you sure!?"
"Of course I'm sure! I will fight him until evening! Now hurry!" Believe yelled as she opened the bag to its widest.
There she saw the original crystal blocks in front of her. She noticed Bling still has not left. "What are you doing? I can handle this! He won't be going to his friend's place today! You have to stop that guy from hitting that sell business button!"
Seeing Believe like this, Bling felt he was guilty for not being able to do anything. Overall, she was right. She did not need him here, he cannot even fight for now. He wished he was a fighter, and seeing a girl fight for him, he does not like it. He took a deep breath and started running. Heading to the hotel direction, Bling ran as fast as he could.
He reached the hotel finally, and went back to the 24th floor. He zoomed rapidly to the room the person was supposed to be at.
Before Bling opened the door, he wanted to make sure he could hear what the suspect was doing first.
Inside the room, the suspect was sitting at the couch. His computer was placed on a table. He was waiting for his friend to come. He kept looking at the time every five minutes, until the clock hit 6 p.m. His friend was supposed to be here at exactly 6, but the floor never had a knock. He was starting to get worried, what if people finds out that he was involved with the skyscraper accident? He knew they set the bomb up, but they did not think it would cause much havoc.
Bling finally knocked on the door, and the suspect quickly walked over to open it. When he saw the person was Bling from earlier, his face suddenly changed. It seemed like he was afraid Bling found out about their intention.
"What brings you here again?" The man asked in a nervous manner.
"Your friend won't be coming," Bling simply stated.
The man looked up at Bling and was shocked. Did Bling already figure out? "What… What are you talking about?"
"Your friend, who was supposed to give you the crystals to sell to people. I'm one of the people you were going to sell it to. You guys are doing illegal business."
He stated it out right at the man's face without being so afraid.
The man, who was taken by it, did not know how to respond.
"We took your friend away, now you don't have the crystals to sell. You should stop now."
The man shook his head like he was a crazy man. He began to laugh, "So someone has already figured it out, huh? And I fell for your trick!" Then, he pointed at Bling and exclaimed, "You think I wanted to do this? If it wasn't for him to approach to me that I could do this kind of business, I wouldn't be caught! This is all for my brother's sake!"
Bling felt the situation got worse and he did not know how to end it in a better way.
"I thought you were a really good guy! You are those good guys, but you tricked me!"
"You tricked a handful of others, too, not just me," Bling shot back.
The man realized that too, so there was a contradiction. He began to laugh again and dropped himself down at the couch. He buried his face with his hands. He did not know what to do anymore.
"I did this for my brother…. I did it for him… I did it for my brother…" he kept repeating and repeating, realizing his mistake.
Bling looked at the floor and made a decision. He stretched his arm out and held onto the earphone. "I'm sorry," Bling said. "I'm going to close the screen." After he finished speaking, he completely turn the screen off and everyone can not see him anymore.
"How did he learn how to do that?" Believe asked on the other screen. This was the first time they were on a mission, she has not learned all of the buttons on her watch yet. And who does Bling think he was? Being able to turn off the screen just like that? This pissed Believe off.
She even helped Bling out by finishing off the other guy and now he was not going to let anyone see what he was doing?
Now that nobody was watching, Bling stood in front of the man. "Instead of just repeating what you are saying, it's better to just stop all of this business."
The man shook his head with his hands still burying the face. "Arrest me."
Bling's eyes suddenly lit up. He was not excited to hear this, he was devastated. How could one say this? Maybe everyone was really different. If Bling did something wrong, he might choose the same as this guy. Just that he had not experienced this, Bling could not think of that right now. "You want to be arrested? What about your brother?"
"I'm not a good brother," he said, "He's living at the hospital and I don't have money to cure him. I thought this was going to get me the money, but I still got caught for it. I knew this was some kind of bad business but what more can I do if I see a way to earn money faster so I could cure my brother? I guess not, I never thought about the consequences."
"You're… a good brother."
"Arrest me," the man said. "I'm willing to go to prison. If my brother saw me like this, he would have said he should not have woken up by the dirty money."
At that point, Bling realized the importance of family. Even if he never saw the brother, he could tell that these two were dependent on each other. They did not seem to have parents either, and they were always with each other. Unlike himself, he had never seen such an important bond.
In the end, Bling sent him to the police.
Now the technical operating room was filled with eight people. The other two came back from the mission.
They have completed the mission and Professor Utonium was so proud of them. He was more proud of how Bling tried to handle the situation by himself. He was really surprised that Bling would turn the screen off.
Believe did a great job too, she saved Bling, that was an act of sacrifice. But this was not what Professor Utonium had looked for on their first mission. Even though they did cooperate with each other, they still have arguments over time.
In the end, the professor did not hold favoritism. Both were his students so he did not judge them and enjoyed having them as students.