New Chaos...
Almost a year later...
Hiro peeked up from behind the brunette as he dealt a number and took the CCM next to his ear, completely worried. At the same time, Cobra was typing away on his computer.
Ban's worry seemed to fade out as an answer came.
"Onii-chan."
Ban: " thank God, are you alright?"
" Don't worry, the LBXs still didn't reach here, but I can see them from my window."
Ban: " I see, don't worry, I will make sure to stop them before they could reach to there."
" Be careful."
He nodded and ended the call. Before Hiro could even ask with whom he was talking, Cobra called for them...
Elie: " Kazu and Ami! To A nation!"
Ban nodded as he walked with his sister through the garden of the hospital that evening. The girl had Elusion in her hand as she was inspecting it carefully before her brother broke the news.
Ban: " we will have to go and save them, not to mention stopping Detectors."
She sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose.
Elie: " you really get yourself into all kinds of troubles. Just, be careful not to get captured as well."
Ban: " don't worry, but won't you feel lonely?"
He stopped on his tracks and looked down at her.
Elie: " Yuuya is still here to keep my company, plus, it's not like you won't contact me, right?"
Ban: " the time difference is 8 hours, I think it would be hard. But I will call you whenever I have the chance."
Elie returned his LBX and looked at him for a while before jumping on him, hugging him tightly.
Elie: " stay safe."
Ban smiled softly at her and hugged her back.
Ban: " I will."
Hiro was having dinner as he watched Senshiman. He suddenly snapped when he glanced at the clock and quickly ran to the blue laptop resting on the table.
Hiro: " crap, it's almost time!"
After a few minutes, he got a video call. The woman on the other side was somehow similar to him, she had midium blue hair tied into two pigtails, brown eyes and was wearing a white shirt with pink flower mark on it underneath a black unbuttoned vest.
Hiro: " Mirai nee-chan! You won't believe what happened to me the few last days!"
He said excitedly, almost piercing the screen to come at the other side.
Mirai: " oi oi! Hold on for a second Hiro! I will be glad to hear you once you calm down."
He Briefly told her about the Detectors and brainjack and showed her his LBX.
Mirai: " I heard about that incident too and I was worried. Yet, I couldn't contact you because I was really busy. But it seems you managed to take care of yourself and even got an LBX and teamed up with that Yamano Ban! All in just the span of a day!"
Hiro laughed sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his head.
Mirai: " well, keep up the good work and take care of yourself alright."
He nodded at that and closed the laptop...
" Ban-kun."
The brunette stopped and looked back at his friend as he walked to him when they left Otacross' room that night.
Jin: " I wanted to ask you before Hiro called us..."
He looked away and Ban knew exactly what he wanted to ask about.
Jin: " she was angry when I left all of the sudden without saying anything, right?"
Ban sighed.
Ban: " bet me on that, she swore she will get better only so that she can chase after you for that."
He said with a shrug and a smile. Jin couldn't help but let a small smile slid.
Ban: " I think, you better call her. More than angry, she is actually worried about you. I'm sure she would appreciate a call right now, especially with the whole Detector thing."
He patted his shoulder and gave a small smile before turning to leave.
Jin merely sighed as he reached for his CCM.
Jin: " it should be morning in Japan by now..."
He looked at the side, thinking it over ...
As soon as she saw the caller's ID, she quickly picked up.
Elie: " took you long enough to call!"
On the other end, Jin winced as if her words pierced a hole in his ear.
Jin: " very angry aren't you?"
Elie: " well, let's see, you left without saying goodbye, you didn't even send a message, you didn't contact any of us for a whole year! I think it's enough reasons for me to be angry, Kaidou Jin!"
She bit her lip at that and breathed in deeply to calm herself down. Her voice spoke again, very calm yet, still with an angry tone.
Elie: " I thought I told you we're friends... You don't have to bear everything alone."
Jin: " sorry..."
She sighed at that. At least his tone made it clear that he was really sorry.
Elie: "... How have you been doing for the whole year?"
He snapped when her voice changed to a caring one.
Elie: " you don't even contact! So I was worried about you, ok!"
A small smile crossed his face.
Jin: " I'm fine, you can rest now."
Elie: " hope so."
She exhaled.
Elie: " although I want to talk about a lot of things, it should be night there, right. I don't want to keep you up late... Take care of yourself, and of your LBX too."
Jin: " ok."
Elie: " and I hope your next call won't be after a year!"
He couldn't help but smile.
Jin: " alright. I promise."
She let out a soft smile.
Elie: " alright then, goodnight..."
As he ended the call, a small smile appeared on his face as he placed the CCM in his pocket and walked to the boys' room...
Elie: " so you're getting discharged. Lucky you!"
The now long black haired boy smiled at her. It felt kinda strange for her to see him in a new outfit and not the hospital one. Kinda made her envy him.
Yuuya: " Takuya-san asked for my help, Jin-kun and the others are coming back tomorrow so that they can drop Ami-kun off, we will join them."
She tapped a finger on her chin.
Elie: " I see, since he is no longer Tiny Orbit's Director, he has nothing to stop him from going this time. I feel sorry for him though. But to think that Ami was turned to a slave player..."
She seemed worried, what if more of her friends and her brother got captured?
Elie: " Yuuya, I will leave Onii-chan and Jin to you, take care of them."
Yuuya: " don't worry, Elie-kun."
A small smile appeared on her face. They chatted for a little more longer before Takuya and Rina came to pick Yuuya up.
Elie waved at him goodbye and as soon as he left the room, she wore a disappointed expression.
Elie: " everyone is leaving, and I'm left all alone now..."...
She snapped when her phone rang and she quickly reached for it to find it was her brother. She checked the time, half asleep, it was still five in the morning.
Puffing her cheeks, she answered.
Elie: " do you know what time is it now, Onii-chan?"
She said yawning, her voice was enough for her brother to know exactly what time it was.
Ban: " sorry about it, sis... But... I really felt the urge to talk to you..."
She was completely alarmed when she heard his voice. It was broken and she could tell that he was lost.
Elie: " what's it, Onii-chan?"
She asked him softly.
Ban: " Elie... Detectors' true identity... Is our father..."
Now she was sure she won't be able to go back to sleep for a while after that she heard that.
Elie: " Whaa! What! How! Why?!"
Ban: " it seems dad regretted bringing LBX into existence as he knew of the hidden plans of a certain organization. He believed that he had to stop them no matter what, even if that would make LBXs hated..."
There was a brief moment of silence. She knew how much hard it must be for her brother who had been looking after their father's back with admiration. For him to learn that Detector is the very one he admired since he was a kid and the very one who gave him LBX, it should have been a shock.
Ban: " I'm sure it was hard for him, to see the things he created turn out like that, to make that decision... But... He shouldn't neglect the fact that LBXs gave us dreams, they gave us hopes and smiles! I don't want dad to feel that what he had created is only bringing harm upon our earth!"
Elie: "Onii-chan... then prove to him, that the path you all had chosen is not wrong, that the thing you decided to believe in till the end isn't wrong."
He blinked twice.
Ban: " sis..."
Elie: " you've always belived that LBXs are there to bring smiles, right? Prove that to everyone, Onii-chan. If it's you, then you can do it. You love LBXs, you believe in LBXs, you have LBXs, and you have friends who share the same feelings with you. You're able to prove LBXs aren't a mistake."
Ban: " Elie... Thanks..."
She can almost see him smiling softly at her from the other side.
Elie: " don't thank me, I'm always there for you."...
Mirai shot her eyes wide open while the side of her lips twitched upwards in shock at what she heard.
Mirai: " space?... As in... Space!"
She snapped at that, completely surprised, not to mention the worried expression that appeared on her face.
Haruka: " calm down, Mirai. I will be there with him so you don't have to worry."
The blunette didn't seem to calm down the least bit, almost hyperventilating.
Mirai: " but it's space! You're really going to leave the planet earth!"
Hiro: " which is exciting, I doubt anyone else had such experience in a young age."
He told her excitedly and all she did was facepalm and sigh.
Mirai: " you're totally not aware of the dangers that can be in space."
Hiro: " can't be more dangerous than Paradise's canon."
Having seen the weapon in action on TV, she could not talk back at him.
Mirai: " ... Well, you have a point. Then I must insist that you both take care out there."
Haruka: " you don't need to tell your mom to take care."
She told her with a smile to which the blunette rolled her eyes.
Mirai: " did you forget that you can get absorbed in your work easily, mom. I'm worried about you too."
Haruka sweat dropped at her comment.
Haruka: " alright, I got it. I will be more careful, I promise."
" Oozora, it's time for the next lecture."
A boy called out to her and she looked away from the screen.
Mirai: " coming! You heard that, I have to go now, I wish you both good luck, bye."
She waved at them before that the screen went black...
Elie: " I see, so you managed to defeat it in the end. Nothing else expected from Onii-chan! You saved the world twice now!"
Elie shouted out proudly while Ban chuckled sheepishly at that. Across the room, the blunette too was having a call.
Mirai: " so everything is ok now. Thank good."
Hiro smiled, but it quickly faded when he saw his sister wiping tears away.
Hiro: " Nee-chan! Are you alright? Why did you suddenly start crying?"
Mirai: " because... I have a super amazing best little brother who had just saved the world! That's more than I could ask for! I'm proud of you, Hiro!"
And she continued crying while Hiro was trying to calm her down...
Ban and Hiro were eliminating their enemies when the blunette spotted their main target.
Hiro: " Ban-san, it's vector!"
Ban: " we're taking it down!"
Hiro: " okay!"
With that, both LBXs charged towards the black one that quickly flew away.
Hiro: " it's running!"
Ban: " chase after it!"
They both ran after the LBX until it reached a building.
Hiro: " this is..."
Ban: " a school!"
As soon as Vector flew to the building's roof, more LBXs attacked them. Hiro and Ban quickly taking cover as the enemy LBXs started shooting at them while trying to take them down.
Ban: " they're so much! Hiro!"
The blunette nodded as he typed quickly on his CCM.
Hiro: " Ikaros Force! Weapon form!"
The blue LBX turned into a lance.
Ban: " Hissatsu Function!"
" Attack Function! Meteor Breaker!"
Ikaros Zero brought down the lance and all the LBXs around it broke over.
Ban: " let's go!"
They ran through the school's courtyard and entered the main building, heading towards the roof.
When they reached the fourth floor,they found more LBXs waiting for them.
Hiro: " Hissatsu Function!"
" Attack Function! Cosmo Slash!"
As he launched his attack, all the LBXs in their way broke over.
Hiro: " let's go, Ban-san!"...
She hugged her knees tightly as she tried to regulate her breath. She was the only one left in the building, everyone else managed to evacuate but she was late and the LBXs raided the school. She had been hiding since then underneath the staircase, eventually glimpsing a few LBXs passing by but they didn't notice her thankfully.
Suddenly, she could hear multiple explosions from the floors beneath her and she flinched at that.
" Are they trying to destroy this school? Or is someone down there fighting them off?... Either way, I should get out..."
The explosions were getting closer and she swallowed at that, slowly peeking from underneath the stairs.
Three LBXs were pushed back as two other ones which she didn't see before attacked them.
She quickly backed into her corner in fear at that. Two of the rampaging LBXs were destroyed yet the third one was pushed near her.
She squeezed herself away of it as it struggled to stand up. Noticing her, the LBX pointed its gun at her when two boys appeared, she had recognized them from that year's Artemis.
Hiro: " it's using a hostage!"
Ban: " how low! We won't let you hurt her! Hisstasu Function!"
With its Holy Lance, Ikaros Zero finished off the LBX immediately.
Ban walked over to the blonde girl who held her head tightly in her hands and kneeled down.
Ban: " are you alright? Were you hurt?"
The blonde looked up at him and slowly shook her head, to which Ban gave a relieved smile.
Hiro: " Ban-san, what should we do about her?"
Ban narrowed his eyes as he seemed to think of the situation.
Ban: " we can't leave her on her own. I'm afraid you'll have to stick with us. We'll escort you to the Fire Sweet after we clean things up here."
He said offering his hand to help her stand up.
Ban: " we'll protect you."
The blue eyes stared at him for a second before she took his hand and he pulled her off on her feet.
Hiro: " just stay behind us."
The girl nodded her head in understanding. She as well didn't want to be attacked by a rampaging LBX.
All three of them climbed up the stairs till they reached the rooftop. As the girl hid behind the door, Ban and Hiro went to face Vector...
Jiiya knocked twice before entering the girl's room, holding a tray of cookies and hot chocolate in one hand.
The girl whirled around on her chair, facing him.
Evangeline : " Jiiya-san, you shouldn't have done so..."
She quickly took the tray from him with a small frown. She didn't like it when he tires himself too much.
Jiiya: " don't you worry about it. You were working hard so I though a refreshment was needed."
She eventually smiled at him and her eyes brightened from behind her red rimmed spectaculars. Jiiya answered with a smile before peeking down at her work.
Jiiya: " are you done yet?"
Evangeline: " almost..."
She strapped the chest plate into place before taking her red and golden CCM, testing the robot. The purple LBX jumped around the table and whirled mid air before taking both Katanas and swinging them around like if dancing before it took off, flying above the girl and her caretaker's head.
Jiiya: " its movements are better than before."
He pointed out without taking his eyes of the LBX.
Evangeline: " I kind of wanted it to have a smoother style so I had to modify the motor from scratch."
She said taking off her glasses.
Jiiya: " you're amazing, Lady Evangeline."
His comment made her blush slightly.
Evangeline: " it was nothing special."
She retrieved her LBX then whirled again and grabbed a cookie.
Evangeline : " and your cookies are the best ever, Jiiya-san."
Jiiya chuckled at her and his look softened. It's been almost a year since he took her in. And he have to admit, it wasn't easy for either if them.
Since she came to this house, Evangeline wasn't like any normal kid, he supposed that it was because of her long time as a test subject that she seemed so lost, she wouldn't even touch her food back then unless being told to.
Her power was another thing. The girl seemed to use it more often and he didn't bother about it the least, but he knew the world isn't as acceptable as him. It was why the foster family that took her at first abandoned her. He had told her many times to hide it and not to show it to others unless necessary.
Also because of her lack of interaction with people, she had to be home schooled by him. Though he soon found himself unable to teach her anything anymore, seeing how smart she was and how fast she learned.
Before he knew it, the girl who seemed not to have interest in anything when she came to him got attached to LBXs. Maybe it was the effect of what he told her about his young master or her actually coming across some battles in the streets when she goes out with him.
But it took him by surprise when she wanted to have her own LBX and CCM. And so she did, infact, make her own LBX based on the design of Fairy that he had shown her. Even making a special CCM for herself, one that's similar to Jin's since it was the only interesting model he had back then.
Evangeline: " Jiiya-san, are you alright?"
The man blinked twice as he came back to reality and nodded at her with a smile.
Evangeline: " anyway, I was wondering. When can I meet Jin-san? You said he would be coming home soon."
The girl said with excited eyes
The girl said with excited eyes. The male had always spoke of him very highly that she grew to admire him. And from what she heard, the boy himself was looking forward to a chance to meet her since he knew of her situation from his butler.
Jiiya: " it seems young master and his friends had to delay their return to Japan because of an emergency. But I'm sure you will get to meet him soon."
Eva nodded with a small smile before beating the old man to grabbing the tray.
Evangeline: " I'll take care of cleaning. You just sit down and have some rest, Jiiya-san."
And she left the room...
