"Kanda! Hey, are you done with your mission already?" Lenalee says, running up to the said Exorcist on the train platform. Kanda shifts his head towards her and waits to board the train to greet her, "There was only a couple Akuma. Barely worth my time." He subtly seethes. "Who's he?" He adds.

"Oh, good! Now you can come with us back to base to see what the ruckus is about! This is the finder that was investigating in the town next to the one I was working in. We bumped into each other on our way here." She smiles and starts to look around Kanda for something. "Uh, don't you have a finder with you, Kanda?"

"I had to leave him behind." He answers when walking into the train door, "I called the Order earlier. The operater said all their phone lines were busy, so I'm trying to get there fast."

The accompanying finder replies to the Exorcist's hinting tone of urgency, "Gosh, do you really think it's that bad?"

"Even if it's just a lot of calls coming in, we need to go back. How many times has the European sector been so busy, all the lines are full?"

"I didn't think of that...I just thought it was Big Brother with one of his inventions." She states as she sits down in their booth.

Kanda halts in the aisle, "If it IS your brother..." He furrows his brows and his face sternly straightens, "I'm gonna throw him in the cold river to drown!"

Lenalee bypasses the hasty comment and starts to think twice about the situation. Kanda's right. The chances of it being an actual emergency are a lot higher than it being brother...If it is as bad as that, it'll take too long for us to get there this way...


The Head Unit of the SDEF hunts the surrounding rooms for lanterns, candles or even matches, anything they can use to illuminate the impending pitch darkness. To their enlightenment, their search is interrupted by a green glow that spotlights them brightly but quickly melting on the darkness behind them. The source of that saving grace rested in two spheres among a large, glowing beret shape exterior to the seven men. And one other illuminesence, of red, came into show beneath the orbs. This red was smaller but of three. Their purpose seems to be for forewarning by highlighting numeral gears that ferociously spin as if meant to grind bone. The bearer of light shows its unforgettable face. One of Komui's junior, still looming idly in place.

"At least it can do one thing without causing turmoil."

[CHE.] It grunts.

"Yeah, that's Kanda, alright. But how the heck did it get Kanda's mind AND Komui's?" A fellow scientist quizzes his mind to find an answer.

Reever changes the subject, "Speaking of which-Komui, you idiot! What are we going to do now?!"

"Don't be fainthearted, Reever!" Komui turns swiftly to his mechanized doppelganger, "Junior! We're having a little bit of a light problem. See what you can do to fix it."

This time, his underlings decide to keep quiet, thinking with all the bad stuff that's happened, the odds are in their favor but their choice blooms their concern for all the uncountable things that can still happen.

The Komurin encases an electrical outlet with a square-shaped bar that exceeds from the palm of Its hand and begins to sort through the digital currents to the elusive Kom-Spider. [MASTER. CORRECTING ELECTRICAL RUNNING MALFUNCTION HAS FAILED. KOMU-JUNIOR'S DATABASE WASN'T GIVEN CAPABILITY OF OVERRIDING SIMILAR SYSTEMS DUPLICATED OF THEREOF.] Junior informs with an accusing tone towards Komui for not making It to be able to do so.

"You didn't build him to be able to override other systems?" Johnny asks with a small push to his glasses up the bridge of his nose.

"No, no, I did, he just...you know...can't override other Komurins." Komui doesn't bother himself to look at the 'happy' reaction of the others after saying this.

[AGH! YOU JERK! MASTER!] Junior bellows.

"Junior! I don't allow for such language!"

[KOMU-JUNIOR IS UNDER ATTACK! THE KOM-SPIDER!] Continuing its metallic howl as It goes on the defensive to destroy the devastating interloper, the Komurin tries to grab it without success. Then resorting to creating sparks inside Its armor to hopefully hit the Spider. [AAGHHH! DIIIEEE! DIIIEEEEEE!] Several blasts of sparks burst out from Junior's sides following Its arm. Both eyes switch to red as the Spider fights internally. The Spider's attacks affect most of Junior's being; the sporadic changes to the volume of Junior's digital voice juxtaposes to the warping speed as the ambush ensues.

"Not my newborn Kanda-rin! He's only six hours old! Fight it! Fight your brother, Junior! You have to!" Komui distressfully cheerleads Junior.

Without much to fight such a small enemy, Junior is slowly but eventually completely overtaken. Its stance morphs to mimic the Spider's. [GREETINGS. I AM KOMUI LEE. I AM ANNOYINGLY TASKED WITH PAPERWORK-EXORCIST RESPONSIBILITY-THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES! AND ASSIGNMENT ORGANIZATION AS CHIEF OF THIS EUROPEAN COMPOUND. EVERY PERSONNEL IS UNDER MY SOLE COMMAND, EVEN ALL THOSE OTHER IRRITATING CHIEFS.]

"WHY DOES THE ATTITUDE HAVE TO STAY THE SAME?!" Reever complains again. "Alright, guys, now's the time! It's a bigger target so we won't have much trouble hitting it!" He informs his armed unit.

They switch the safety off their weaponry and try to aim over Komui's shrieking. The Unit Leader stalls to give the word because the Komurin didn't react to the threat, instead the new Kom-Spider-infested-Junior shifts back to the outlet it previously dominated and extends the same metal bar from Junior's hand into the wall again. Unexpected to its enemies, It gives power to some of the lights but only to a certain range around the Spider. The range drew big enough to count the length of a lab from wall-to-wall. After restoring the circuits in the room, the Spider returns its gaze to Komui, [WHO ARE YOU?]

"Wha...? I am your creator, Komui Lee!" He says a little confused as to why it seems the Spider lost its memory in the transfer, "You apparently ha-"

[INTRUUUDER! INTERLOOOPER!] Komui recoils at the sudden outburst, [DIIIEEEEEE!] The Komurin brutally charges at Its target-Komui. In a combative goal, Its stance returns to bipedal.

"AH! Fire!" Reever shouts as he begins to do his own command.

Bullets, lasers, or whatnot from their guns blast past the very agile Spider and into the walls and the ceiling overhead the Komui running for his life. The rubble collaspes hard on the floor and furniture and spreads a coat of white powder on their once again teary-eyed Supervisor.

Finally an opportunity opens. Its foot lands unevenly on a large chunk of cement fallen from the weaponry fire. It tips, a shadow stretching to resemble a mountain looms over the little man, its target. As the body of Junior falls, the sensors alert the robot of Its situation. The Spider tries to catch itself from landing and creating damage to its body or a quiescent stall. The robotic hands press into the floor, though by effort, one appendage is damaged. Once the Komurin realizes this, the priority to destroy Its own master is moved aside. Komui is cringing, with his lens-shot glasses from the extremely close call, being just between the feet of the fallen Komurin.

"AGGGHHH! YOU HURT HIM! YOU DAMAGED MY BABY! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT?!" Their hysterical Chief gushes with his hands in his hair.

"CHIEF, IT'S THE ONLY WAY!"

The new Junior, of unexplained reasons, picks itself up and against assumptions of robotic intellect, chooses to escape through the door, while dodging the last few shots.

"What the-did it just retreat or run away again?" Johnny asks his unit.

A fellow member clenches his fist in their small victory, "Maybe it was afraid of us!"

"I doubt that. But now we have to figure out where it went to." Reever says back.

But more unsettling than the armed fire, a well-feared voice came into the field. "What on earth is going on out here?! The patients need to rest!" The Head Nurse storms out to them. She sees all the clutter of destruction and notices everyone holding a gun is facing Komui, who's on the other side of the room with all the debris. She also notices they're armed to hunt for that thing mentioned over the intercom. Her vein-bulging attention sticks to the powdered Supervisor with a grit of her teeth and a whim to show it to him.

And all the lights go out again because of its absence.


Science Division:

The new Junior found Its way to the Supervisor's office by retracing Its steps to the Science Division. The office bore the same mess from just a little after the Kom-Spider awoke. It strolls in to the almost unseeable desk and slides its fingers across the the wooden surface, pushing the parchments off. Once the feathered pen is found, the Spider tightly grips it and fastly puts it to the work waiting.

Meanwhile Reever's unit, unable to alert or command the lower groups, pools their hunches to where the Komurin would automatically go. It comes between their Division and Komui's own lab. They choose their workplace because the combination of the Kom-Spider and Junior makes them impersonate the responsiblitities of Chief. Once they get there by foot, Johnny is chosen to creak the door open to witness whether or not they were correct. He sees his answer zooming through the parchment sheets in the Chief's stead.

"What's he doin'?" A lab coat quietly asks Johnny from behind.

"It looks like he's really doing Chief Komui's job!" He responds while the others flow into the room beside him, the real Chief being the exception. He stood just outside the door, hoping the Spider wouldn't spy him and run him down almost as it did before.

[KOMUI LEE IS DONE WITH THE FIRST DUMB LOAD OF PAPERS.]

"Y'know, he's not bad! Maybe Chief Komui did have a good thing going with this one!" The group lightens up at the power-worker in the most-often-procrastinating Chief's place.

"Does this mean we don't really have to shoot him, Section Leader?" A comrade speaks with his eyes twinkling. The rest start to join in the plead out of desperation for work relief. Their leader debates by looking over the completed forms for anything abnormal or incorrect.

"It sure does seem good, doesn't it?" Reever doesn't find any fault in the work, he even finds a few Yoshi rabbits doodles which he frowns at irritably. Though soon enough, after a little while at the head desk, the Kom-Spider moves onto another responsibility of being Head Chief.

[MIRANDA LOTTO!] It calls in the knowledge of her close presence in the department of research.

Miranda stumbles in with a lit lantern despite the now working lights of the whole division. She fearfully addresses the giant bot whom she knows is void of human emotions, "E-eh?! Yes?!"

[MIRANDA LOTTO IS ASSIGNED TO A MISSION IN SOUTH AMERICA!] The yelling of the bot makes it hard for her to go and grab the assignment folder from the new Junior. As the gentleman they are, Reever went to get the folder for her.

Now wait just a minute!As responsible head of everyone in his entire branch, this authority deeply irks Komui from the door crack.

The almost-Kanda Spider is unable to understand favors, a shortcoming of the rough designing It was given. Therefore, It roars at Reever's action, [NOT YOU!]

Reever grabs the folder regardless. "I'll hand it to her!"

[...HMPH!]

Miranda receives her assignment gratefully, "Th-Thank you, Reever."

"You're welcome, Miranda. And I'd suggest you go before-" He snaps a glance at Komui, "-something else happens!" She leaves with that and heeds her awaiting mission.

[SECOND LOAD DONE.] The scientists in the division smile happily and even briefly go back to their work. Komui, on the other hand, marches straight in dead front of the Kom-Spider matter-of-factly and voices his emotions, "MY JUNIOR! YOU OBEY ME! LIKE I PROGRAMMED YOU! NOW BOW BEFORE ME!" The demand came with him outstretching his arm and finger then pointing it down to the paper carpet before him.

New Junior took a moment, then walks over to Its one and truly only master. It moves in front of Komui at a appropriate distance and slowly begins to slide Its foot back behind It. Relief begins to drip into the room as tension tightens. The blocky shoe-shaped foot stops without Its knee touching the ground and intsantly thrusts it forward at Komui and kicks him out.

"DUOOOOOOIIIIIII!" Komui automatically sounds, flying through the air.

[IMPERSONATING A ORDER OFFICER IS HIGH TREASON!] The grouchy Komurin slams the office door harshly.

The members watch him fly through the door and land in some chairs and a desk.

"Good thing I coated his foot in leather." He barely wheezes out. "I think it actually made the blow a little softer." He tries a positive note.

The scientists that are there comes by to check on their Supervisor. "Are you O.K., Chief? I'm a little surprised you didn't go up higher." One said.

"He knew it wouldn't take much to throw a person by his foot." Komui wheezes as his subordinates help him to his feet.

"He said it was high treason! You were lucky he just kicked you out instead of throwing you in the dungeon!" Another remarks.

Reever comes beside with an earnest note, "I think it's about time we're told the rest of the story about that little three-headed insect in there."

Komui sighs, curving his brows upward, "Alright, Reever."


Lab 5

Ark Door:

The Chief of the Asian sector emerges from the Ark to visit the European Branch for the usual-no reason whatsoever.

"Eh? Why's it so dark?" He immediately states, "And how come no one's here?" He realizes first from the absence of the guard that was to greet anyone passing or entering the extraterrestrial doorway.

His faithful companion, Wu, took a emergency candle he coincidentally decided to carry to light, "I don't hear anybody."

"There should at least be a few people here, let alone ONE." He begins to ponder the theories. Could they have evacuated without telling the divine me? Nah... A thought streaks over his mind, "Maybe an intruder?" He speaks to himself. Sweat bulges from his pores as he continues, "An Akuma?! Noah?! Wu! What if we're under attack?! G-go peek your head out the door and tell me if you see anything odd!" Saying this made Wu tremble as he is. Bak putting fear into Wu hurt the chances of him giving a clear report.

Wu squints his eyes in his nervous composure as he slowly rounds the corner. Bak stood just behind him, ready to bolt to the Ark. Wu tries his hardest to whisper as softly as humanly possible, "Master Bak, the candle doesn't-people! There's a horde in the hallway!"

"What do they look like?!" Bak almost yells, trying to keep a lid on his logical, hypothetical mind.

"I can't see; the candle doesn't reach that far and they aren't carrying any lights. I think I can hear them talking!"

"No light? Sounds like Akuma. Can you hear what they're saying?"

Wu returns to his report, "Hmm. I think I hear...'light'...and 'corner'...and...they sound like they're getting louder."

"Loud-They're coming this way?! ARE THEY COMING THIS WAY?! IT'S THE CANDLE! BLOW IT OUT QUICK!" They sputter their lips at the flame the best they could without blowing their spit. "This was so stupid! Why did you light it?!"

"Because we can't see, Master Bak!" The numeral mutterings distorts as they move in panic.

"GET TO THE ARK!" Bak shrieks. The instant they took out their only source of light, they topple over each other. As they begin to run, both almost fall over some chairs that were in the way. They couldn't walk back the exact same route in the dark. After the stumble, Wu stubs his toe on a unforseen step and unwillingly repeats for the rest of the couple step stairs.

A clear voice from the mass calls to the Euro-Asian Chief, "C-Chief Bak?! Is that you?! Stop running!"

"What?! Who are you?!" Bak yells before ramming into a desk. The force of impact made him slam his nose on it.

"Chief Bak, wait! I'm from this lab! We're not dangerous!" The voice announces himself.

"Well, why are you guys standing in the dark?!" Bak snaps as he rubs his nose.

The lab coat shrugs visibly from Wu relighting his candle, "Eh, we gave our candles to the scientists we sent to see if they can fix this and pass out the rest to any other groups without any. We actually did have a few for us, but we had a little problem..."

Bak hasn't yet finished his yelling, "Why didn't you just walk through the Ark to another branch for help?!"

Another lab coat responds for the first one, "We were just discussing about that, Chief! We weren't really sure whether we should bother other branches with our problem. It might just be a minor thing."

Bak pauses from the pain, "What is?"


A/N: Thank you to everyone that enjoys my story!