Chapter 7

Raito trudged slowly around the house. He had been here almost two weeks already. Narumi had told him everything about himself. But he got no emotion whatsoever attached with the retelling. He was confused. Sometimes he got the feeling that he needed to remember something important. But everytime he struggled to remember, it escaped him. It frustrated him to no end because he would got migraine when it happened.

"Mr Raito!" He turned around and saw two girls running towards him. He smiled when he recognized them.

"Rina, Tomoe. What's the hurry? Where are you going?"

"Hi Mr Raito. We are going to the playground. Are you feeling well today?" Rina asked sweetly.

"I'm feeling better today. Where is Daichi?" He asked while craned his neck to spot the third member of the trio.

"Daichi will wait for us at the playground. Bye, Mr Raito!" Tomoe answered while nudged Rina to hurry.

"Be careful you two!" Raito shouted after them. He watched Tomoe pulled Rina's hand to propel her to go faster while simultaneously guiding her. He frowned. That looked familiar. He hissed when he had been assaulted with a sudden headache. He wavered and tried to find something to grab when his knees buckled under him.

"Slow down, nii-san! I'm tired!"

"Don't be a baby, otouto! Hurry up or we will be late!"

"Raito, Raito!" He felt himself been shaken to awareness. He opened his eyes slowly and flinched when the brightness of the sun made his headache worse. He sat up slowly with the help of Narumi.

"What happened?" His voice trembled.

"You tell me. I found yourself outside like this. What exactly happened?" She furrowed his brows in concern. He sighed.

"I'm…not sure. I heard two voices. They were brothers. But there was no image. Just a fleeting voices. Do you think it was from my childhood?" He asked.

"Impossible. You're an only child. I'm sure it was nothing. Come. Let's bring you inside." She changed the subject quickly in hope he would not inquired about it again. She supported half of his weight. He staggered forward while trying not to lean too much on her. He gasped for breath after he lied down in the bed.

"Thank you." He managed to utter that words in exhaustion. She nodded and kissed his cheek.

"Sleep." She ordered him. He had already closed his eyes. His breathing evened out and his feature smoothed to childlike innocence. She smothered him a while before she got out.

GUYS Headquarters

"Guys, we have company." Teppei exclaimed from his station. The others rushed forward and crowded in front of the monitor.

"Where is it?" Captain Sakomizu asked.

"There." Konomi showed them a map with a red dot on it. She magnified it and they saw a monster rampaging in the city. Suddenly the communicator beeped to signal there was an incoming call.

"Sir, it's from Hayata-san!" Teppei exclaimed.

"Put it on speaker."

"Captain Sakomizu, we saw the monster. We're sorry but we can't help you much. We still do not have enough energy to transform. Rest assured that we will do everything in our power to help from down here."

"Acknowledge and thank you for your help." He smiled slightly.

"You're welcome. And Mebius, don't act too rash. Even if Taro is not here, we can still discipline you as your superiors. See you later."

The communicator clicked. Captain Sakomizu whirled around to face his subordinates. All of them stood in attention.

"Alright. Guys, Sally, Go!" He deployed them.

"G.I.G!" They saluted and rushed out. On the way, Marina glanced at Mirai and smirked.

"So, you're quite a handful kid, hmm? Always in trouble when growing up?" She said slyly. The others noted the blush that adorned his cheek. They looked at each other and chuckled.

"Really, Mirai? I never pegged you as a naughty kid. You're too innocence." George chimed in.

"I always acted before thinking. That always caused me trouble in the past. Doing the opposite from what people told me to do. I always gave Master Taro headache for him to discipline me." He smiled sorrowfully.

"What kind of disciplinary action that Ultraman Taro always took?" Ryuu asked curiously.

"Well, he's our Lead Instructor. It's like a principle in human term. Although he's the principle but he's still teach the children. So every teacher needed to consult him for every disciplinary action that they needed to take. He didn't like to punish children so he would take the children aside and went through with them about their mistakes. After that, he would assigned detention by cleaning up the coliseum."

"That's not too bad. What your worse punishment?" Marina frowned.

"Ahem. He would grounded me and I needed to be escorted wherever I went." Mirai looked sheepishly towards them. They stared at him incredulously.

"Grounded? That's a kid punishment. What did you do?" George asked bemused.

"I went into the forbidden territory. On my planet, we have other inhabitants. We sheltered some peaceful monsters who seek refuge with us. They had one condition. They didn't wanted us to trespass their territory."

"Let me guess. You trespassed it, right?" Ryu rolled his eyes in exasperation.

"I'm curious! They refused to tell us why the need of secrecy so I just wanted to know what they were hiding." He defended himself. "Anyway, Master Taro got wind about it. He intercepted me just in time before the monsters pulverized me. Since then Master Taro would kept me in tight leash. He didn't trusted me to go anywhere because he said I would attract trouble. I'm surprised when Ultra Father told me that Master Taro was the one that recommended me to become Earth next protector." Mirai smiled wistfully. The others grinned before George thumped Mirai's shoulder.

"Let's hurry up and deal with the monster. Then we can continue to search your Master." Mirai smiled widely before nodded.

"How are they doing?" Dan said after he arrived at Hayata's place. Hayata locked his gaze on the battle between GUYS crew and the monster.

"Not good. He's agile and fast. They are having difficulty to shoot him."

"And we're stuck here and can do nothing." Hokuto sighed in exasperation.

"We better help the civilians to safety. That's the least that we can do." Goh nudged his brothers before he sprinted to an elderly woman who stumbled from the earthquake. Dan and Hokuto nodded and split up to help too.

"Right now Mebius is our only chance." Hayata spoke softly before he followed suit.

"This isn't working!" Ryu yelled after their jet had been hit from the monster. He struggled to regain control of the jet before it crashed on the ground. From the corner of his eyes, he saw Mirai unbuckled his safety seatbelt.

"I'm going to transform to Mebius." Mirai said to him. He nodded.

"Be careful." He warned his comrade. Mirai nodded. He raised his left hand and the Mebius Brace appeared. He swiped it with his right hand. The item glowed brightly before he simultaneously yelled, "Mebius!"

A shower of light assaulted Ryu. He shut his eyes tightly against the brightness. He opened his eyes slowly and saw Mebius standing in front of his jet. He showed him his two thumbs up and Mebius nodded. Mebius took fighting stance in front of the monster.

Ryu clicked his communicator and spoke directly towards George and Marina. "Come on. We are going to help Mebius!"

"Roger!" both of them acquiesced.