In a CIA hallway, Mason and Narumi are following Hudson.
" So, Narumi, how does it feel to be an illegal immigrant from another world entirely?" Hudson said.
"Look, Hudson, there's no time to joke here, what I told you is the truth." Mason said. Hudson suddenly turned to Mason.
"What you told me was utter bull. So what, a malevolent force known as the 'Nomads' snatched you up to play their little games? Then when you reunited one of those Nomads with his loved one, he gave you a lift home and even gave a complete stranger a free ride to your home as well? You're lucky I'm pretending to believe that it's the numbers talking." Hudson said.
"Just tell us what you're bringing us in for." Mason said.
"Very well, you waited long enough." Hudson said, opening a door to an interrogation room. The room gave Mason shudders as he recalled the time he was in the room being interrogated. "Don't worry. I'm not gonna torture you again. We're just gonna have a little talk." Hudson said, sitting on a chair. He then took out a paper detailing a graph. He pointed to a part of the graph where there is a sudden spike and then a soothing steep down. "About a year ago, there was a sudden spike in radiation coming from Russia. It wasn't nuclear radiation, or any other radiation that we know of. It was a new kind of radiation. We around here call it Neo Waves. We picked up a reading the day it spiked. The moment it did however, it steeped down to the near bottom. We realized that traces of the Neo Waves were still around. We recently built a scanner that scans these traces across the world. Our first test run gave off traces of Neo Waves nearby the warehouse where you two were. We went there and saw you two. We figured to ask you some questions." Hudson said.
"Well, first, did you happen to see…?" Mason asked, but before he finished.
"Yes, we saw the bat monster. Needless to say, we were baffled." Hudson said. Soon, he happened to hear a pinging sound. "Wait…" Hudson said as he went to a corner of the room where he picked up a small rectangular object. He walked towards the two, as the pinging got louder and faster. Hudson soon waved the object over Mason. It was still the same beat. When he waved it over Narumi, it was the same until it reached his chest, in which it became louder and faster.
"MIND TELLING ME WHAT THAT LOUD PINGING IS?" Mason yelled. Hudson turned off the object, the pinging stopping soon after.
"That was the Neo Wave Radar. You and your buddy are radiated by those waves, but it seems that something much more stronger than you two. Hey, Phillip Marlowe wannabe, mind showing me what's in your tux?" Hudson asked. Narumi nodded and opened his tuxedo. He pulled out a black USB Flash Drive-like object and placed it on the table. Hudson noticed a sparkly label with a purple S in the shape of a skull. "What the hell is this?" Hudson asked.
"A Gaia Memory." Narumi said.
"A what?" Hudson asked.
"This thing contains the memory of the Earth, when used in the wrong hands; it can corrupt one's humanity and turns them into the monster you saw. In the right hands, it can be used to combat those monsters and eventually destroy them." Narumi said.
"You're expecting me to believe that?" Hudson asked.
"You can either accept it, or make up a story yourself. I suppose you can spin a better story than us." Mason said.
"Hmm… Well, I've heard worse. Now, is it possible to reverse engineer...?" Hudson said, but Narumi quickly snatched the Gaia Memory.
"That's out of the question." Narumi said.
"Wait, we could have more firepower on our side." Mason said.
"You saw what the Gaia Memory would ultimately lead to. I will not let that fate befall you or anyone else." Narumi said.
"What about you?" Mason asked.
"I had my Lost Driver with me. It nullifies the addictive nature of the memory and allows me to assume a more natural form. Not that it mattered anyways. This memory is useless without the driver." Narumi said.
"So, if we build a 'Driver' for this, you can allow us to reverse engineer the memory?" Hudson asked.
"You can try, though I doubt you'll succeed." Narumi said. He gave Hudson the memory.
"We'll have our best men on the job." Hudson said. Suddenly, a man bursts into the room.
"We need some back up, there's some kind of bat monster outside attacking us!" The man said.
"Crap! Mason, take your buddy handle the situation, I have to take this to the labs." Hudson said. Mason nodded as he got up, with Narumi following.
The two enter outside the CIA building where they see several CIA agents firing at the Bat Dopant, only for those bullets to barely scratch her.
"You call those weapons? Pah! Let me show you my weapon." The Bat Dopant said as she hopped on a car and screeched at it. The car then began to drive by itself. The car steered towards the CIA agents, running them over. The Dopant hopped off the car to pick off survivors, but was shot at by Mason.
"Hey, leave them alone, you dirty communist!" Mason said. The Dopant turned around.
"Ah, you two. Such a pleasure to kill you after what you did to my comrade." The Dopant said as she ran to Mason. She was about to strike at him until Narumi catches her arm.
"I'll be your opponent." Narumi said as he punches the Dopant in the face. "Now, count your sins!" Narumi said, pointing his finger at the Dopant. The Bat Dopant screeched as she ran to Narumi, who punches her gut twice and then once again in the face. The Bat Dopant swung a strike at Narumi, but he ducked and did another punch as he got up. Mason, in the middle of this, runs off to find something. The Bat Dopant screeched at the car again as it began to drive to Narumi, attempting to run him over. Narumi ducked out of the way. The car crashed into a wall. The Bat Dopant ran at Narumi and landed a blow, knocking Narumi down. Just as the Bat Dopant was about to land the final blow, she heard Mason.
"Hey! Bat-Woman! Taste this!" Mason said, holding a rocket launcher over his shoulder. He fired the rocket at the Bat Dopant, which she briefly rode on into the air before she exploded along with the rocket. Narumi got up.
"Do I know how to shoot, or do I know how to shoot?" Mason said.
"Recklessness leads to an early grave." Narumi said, getting up.
"Hey, she was about to kill you! Cut me some slack." Mason said.
"Mason! What the hell are you doing with the rocket launcher?" Hudson said, coming out of the CIA building.
"I was using it to kill that Dopant!" Mason said, pointing to where the smoke was.
"That doesn't excuse you from stealing a weapon and using it on government property!" Hudson said. He then looked at Narumi. "We looked at your 'Gaia Memory' and we found a similar trace of Neo Waves coming from Russia." Hudson said.
"I knew it. The Russians are involved with these attacks." Mason said.
"My thoughts exactly." Hudson said, nodding. Suddenly, they heard the clattering of crates. Narumi turned to see a woman in her forties wearing a beige dress. She tried to run but Hudson held a gun at her. "STOP! Explain yourself, what are you doing here?" Hudson asked the woman.
"Let me help you… I know what is causing these attacks… and it's just the appetizer compared to what will soon come to these soils." The woman said with a Russian accent. Narumi looked into the woman's eyes.
"Start talking." He said.
TO BE CONTINUED