Another Fight...
Months Later...
L City...
The place was plunged in darkness when two LBXs sneaked in through the duct. They soon reactivated the main energy and the screens all over the place lit up. The door opened as a young man and woman entered still holding their CCMs in hand.
Kirito: " this is it?"
Eva took one quick glance at the container on the other side of the room before nodding her head.
Evangeline: " there is no mistaken it, they should have brought Hiro here."
She walked off to one of the panels and held her hand up with glowing red eyes. Sparks flew out of it before her fingers caressed the cables and the sparks ran all over them.
Kirito: " very well then, let's get this over with. "
He said taking a seat in front of a screen.
Kirito: " you take care of the firewall, I will recover the lost data."
He cracked his fingers before typing away on the keyboard. In a matter of seconds, they managed to pull back again what was supposed to be already deleted.
Kirito: " it's just as you predicted..."
He said scrolling down the documents they just restored and Eva bent next to him.
Evangeline: " it's almost the same as Yuuya's..."
She couldn't help a shiver that ran down her spine at that.
Kirito: " they used drags to stimulate his brain activity..."
Evangeline: " the overload, isn't it?"
Kirito slowly nodded his head. Eva pushed herself up and held her CCM.
Evangeline: " I'll inform Yagami-san of what we found then."
Kirito: " it doesn't add up..."
Eva looked back at him.
Kirito: " what they are doing is making no sense. I mean, because they hurried to get their hands on Hiro, they gave away some of their members."
Evangeline: " you mean the one Jessica and her teammates captured? The one working at the emergency in the hospital Hiro was supposed to be transferred to?"
Kirito: " indeed. I mean, it's natural we will figure him out since Hiro was taken. No way they could have taken him out of the hospital with no mess unless one from the inside helped them out. They should have foreseen that we would capture him and find out this place. Then there is the training camp, it's the natural thing to do to desert that place since their younger members were captured, they should know that some of those kids would spit its whereabout out. And finally those very documents. They should've deleted them from the server but they didn't, allowing us to find about some of their secrets."
He groaned.
Kirito: " I don't know what those people are planing."
Eva seemed to think about it.
Evangeline: " maybe they're not planning..."
Kirito: " huh?"
Eva turned back to him.
Evangeline: " you know, this all mess about them kidnaping Hiro... It seems... Like a desperate move."
Kirito merely blinked at her.
Kirito: " why would they?"
Evangeline: " because their leader, their strongest member, and maybe their only overload was taken that they wanted someone to replace it desperately."
Kirito: " come on, you don't really believe Seredy is the top head here..."
He looked at her serious face.
Kirito: " what makes you think so?"
Evangeline: " his whole plan, no, his dream I should say... Seredy wanted to erase borders between countries and unit the whole world under one ruler. It won't make sense for him to have other leaders in this way."
Kirito seemed to mull over it. And the more he did, the more points started to link.
Kirito: " if so, then what's the World Savers objectif now after they lost both Seredy and Hiro?"
Eva rubbed her head.
Evangeline : " I'm not sure that far."
Kirito sighed and whirled back so he was facing the screen.
Kirito: " this is bad..."...
Japan...
Both Ban and Jin were standing out the hospital room in which their friend was taken into as soon as they got there. It was then that a familiar voice called out for them.
" Onii-chan! Jin!"
They turned as they saw Elie running towards them.
Ban: " Elie? You came back as we-"
She didn't let him continue, pulling both of them into a hug. The young woman sobbed as she couldn't hold back her tears anymore.
Elie: " thank God! You're both okay!"
Their looks softened as they saw her like that, she must had a rough time herself after hearing what happened.
Marie followed behind Elie, she had relieved tears and smiled softly as she saw Ban was safe and sound.
Ban gently pulled his sister away and looked at her wet eyes.
Ban: " we're fine. Don't worry."
It was hard to convince her, after all, he also knew from the very start that the fight they were going through this time was far beyond dangerous. Their enemy was nothing but the World Savers, and worst of all, their own friend Hiro.
Elie: " what about Hiro, how is he?"
They both looked away.
Ban: " he... He is in a coma."
Jin: " the reason is still unknown yet, whether it was his synchronization with his LBX or if it was something the World Savers did to him. They don't know when he will wake up, or what the after effects of all this will be on him."
To think about all of that, Elie shivered. How did they come out unscratched?
Jessica came from the end of the hallway, apparently she was talking to someone on the phone.
Elie: " Jessica!"
Jessica smiled softly at the other woman as to reassure her she was fine before her look shifted towards the two men.
Jessica: " we couldn't track them down. Only a few of them were captured successfully. We're taking them to interrogation."
Jin: " I assume getting them to speak will be a challenge."
Jessica: " the Fire Sweet will continue the investigation from here. You both go back."
Ban: " but-"
Jessica: " as of right now, there is nothing you can do. It was a hard month, for all of us. While you have the chance to, you need to take a break."
Marie walked behind them and gently placed a hand on Ban's and Jin's shoulders. She had a soft smile on her face as she spoke softly.
Marie: " let's go."
They both obliged...
Ran sighed as she closed the door of her cousin's room. He couldn't sleep. He just sat there, looking down at his Achilles. He had been like that since she took him home.
She couldn't deny she was the same. Most of all, she wanted to see the blunette, but they told her she couldn't. So she had to go back.
She looked down at the LBX in her hand, Minerva Kai.
Ran: " if it wasn't for this, Hiro wouldn't have been through all of that."
With that thought in her mind, she started regretting stopping detectors...
In the dark room, a group of people sat down around a table.
" World Savers, huh?"
" Who could think they can be this fool."
" Making such reckless move."
" Are we sure they don't have any information about us?"
" Supposedly."
" Don't worry, we have the police on our side, they will make sure to silence anyone."
" Let's proceed to our second plan."
" How is our guest doing?"
They all turned to a very young man sitting at the other end of the table. He had a wide smirk across the face as a red L mark shaped like a dragon appeared on the screen behind him.
" As you can all see."
" Very good, remember, it is the only thing that can grant us total control over the world."
" We had entrusted it with your company since it has the needed equipment to keep it."
The artificial voice spoke.
" Don't worry, I will be always at your service."...
The brunette looked down at the shattered LBX. Odin Mk-2 was beyond repair.
His eyes narrowed, once more, he almost lost someone dear for him, though his fate is still not decided yet.
Ban: " Hiro..."
Suddenly his CCM buzzed within his pocket. He reached for it and took it out. The call's ID showed Lilyan.
He picked up.
Ban: " yes."
Lilyan: " thank God. I was just watching the news and I started to get worried. The whole city almost was in ruins. Are you alright?"
Ban: " right, don't worry about me."
Lilyan: " and your friends?"
Ban looked down.
Ban: " we are mostly fine."
Lilyan knew he was bothered, but she didn't want to push him further. If he needs time to himself then she will allow him that. In the end, he will tell her what's bothering him when he will feel better.
Lilyan: " very well. Take care then."
Ban: " you as well."
He ended the call and stared blankly at the CCM's screen before sighing. He then proceeded to call Tiny Orbit's Director...
Elie had her CCM in hand as she played around with it. She couldn't get her mind of the last attack, of what happened to Hiro, of her own feelings when she knew both her brother and Jin were on the battlefield. She was worried, more than she was angry.
She sighed as she proceeded towards her contacts. She moved the cursor on Jin's number and looked blankly at the screen.
Should she call him? She was still feeling angry with his act, yet, she knew he had been through a lot and mostly needed someone to speak to.
She finally pressed on the number and waited but it didn't get through. She tried again and again but it was the same result.
Elie: " maybe he needs sometime to himself."
With that, she laid down her CCM and went to sleep...
Haruka sat down, trying to wrap her mind around the whole situation. Her laptop stood on the table, shown a list of unanswered calls from her daughter.
Haruka: " Hiro..."...
The blunette young woman ended the call when her mother didn't answer again. She hugged her pillow tightly as she dived in her thoughts.
She looked up at her LBX standing on her table. It was Hiro who picked it for her the last time she visited. He taught her how to assemble it, and even showed her some of the battling basic.
The way he spoke, the way his eyes glimmered, the way he was full of happiness made her understand back then, that her brother loved LBX so much. She couldn't bring herself to believe LBXs were the reason he was in that situation...
When he didn't pick up the next morning, she started to get worried and so decided to go see him in person.
She walked down the neighborhood until she finally came across his house, it wasn't hard to identify it from far away.
She knocked on the door and waited for a few seconds, only for the grey haired old man to open the door for her.
She bowed politely as she greeted him, to which he returned the greeting.
Elie: " is Jin here?"
The man sighed.
Jiiya: " actually, the young master left."
Elie: " what? Where did he go?"
The older man shook his head.
Jiiya: " I don't know either. He didn't say anything."
She clenched her hands into fists, clearly pissed off. He just came back all worn out and he still headed off to somewhere on his own, not even telling his only caretaker.
Elie: " I see, hope he is fine. If anything happened please inform me, Jiiya-san."
Jiiya: " I will, thanks for your concern, Elie-san."
With that she strolled back home...
Yagami: " are you ok with this? You didn't even rest properly. Still, you insisted on coming with me?"
Jin: " I'm alright. Just after what Kirito and Eva found out..."
Everytime he thought back to the incident, to how he couldn't move a muscle, to how the glass shattered down on both Hiro and Ararat, and to how the blunette was severely injured, he couldn't bring himself to rest. He had to do something, he ought to stop them before more of his friends get dragged down as well.
It took Yagami a long time to get through the tough security and all types of scanners and code consols.
Yagami: " after what happened with Gardyne, we've upgraded the security. Only three people in the whole world knows how to get to him."
His golden eyes flicked back to Jin.
Yagami: " well, make it four."
The doors finally opened and they were led to a large white room sperated by a bullet proof glass wall. There was a table and a chair at each side of the wall.
On the other side, an old man sat down to the table. He was in a wheelchair and his look was directed down, glumly staring at nothing specific.
Jin and Yagami walked off to the table on their side and the older took a seat. The man still didn't look up at all. Yagami activated the speakers at both sides of the room, so they could hear each other.
The old man then looked up, merely staring while waiting for them to speak.
Yagami " I will get to the point. Who are your leaders?"
Seredy kept silence for a while.
Seredy: " I told you before. I don't have any."
Yagami: " don't play around with us. We know the world Savers is a large world terrorist organization. It can't be that you're its only leader."
Seredy: " yes, I'm. I've never had any higher ups or leaders. Never actually agreed with them when I was serving in the military."
Jin: " then how does the World Savers move right now? Who is leading them?"
Seredy: " I'm betting one of my trusted men. Though none of them could think that far ahead in the future. I have a feeling you managed to raid a base or two."
Jin narrowed his eyes.
Jin: " what's exactly the world Savers? What's your objective."
Seredy: " you guys from Seekers, right... The organization that took down Innovators years ago."
Yagami: " don't change the subject."
Seredy: " you too know what's our objective... In fact, we may be seeking the same thing..."
He closed his eyes and cocked his head to the side.
Seredy: " how rude... They call us terrorist though we're trying to save them..."
Yagami: " you're taking people's lives."
Seredy: " it's needed. We need all of those people to speak, to look back at their rulers so they can make a change. Only a few people who knows the truth can't make that change. So even if it requires sacrificing few lives for the others, then it's fine."
Jin's eyes narrowed at that while Yagami had his eyes wide open in disbelief.
Jin: " you don't mean..."
Seredy smirked.
Seredy: " exactly. If you're too scared to make a move, then the World Savers aren't."
Yagami was gritting his teeth by then.
Seredy: " maybe I spoke too much for today."
Jin: " wait! You still didn't tell us about the world Savers'-"
Seredy: " you have to figure that on your own."...
Elie was trying to kill her time and burry her thoughts by watching the news, waiting for anything interesting. Anything about the World Savers.
Suddenly Ban grabbed the remote and shut the TV.
Elie: " Onii-chan ! I was watching!"
Ban looked down at his sister.
Ban: " did you manage to contact Jin?"
Elie: " nope, he is still not picking my calls."
Ban sighed.
Ban: " Jessica just called..."
Her eyes narrowed at his air.
Ban: " ... all the members they managed to capture... They got killed..."
Her eyes widened in shock at that.
Elie: " how! Weren't they under 24 hours supervision!"
Ban: " that's what I want to know too. Despite their efforts, they still managed to kill them. Just as Gardyne..."
He looked away while Elie's head hanged down.
Suddenly, Elie's CCM rang and she picked up, Jiiya was at the other end.
Jiiya: " Elie-san, I just wanted to inform you that the young master is back."
Elie: " Jin is back? How is he? Didn't he say anything about where he went?"
Jiiya: " he didn't say that much. He said there is no need to know."
Elie sighed.
Elie: " thanks for telling me, Jiiya-san."
She ended the call and looked up at her brother.
Elie: " aren't we going back, Dad will be worried if we don't return to country A."
Ban: " I've already booked the tickets. We will leave as soon as Yuuki-san get Odin ready. Though, don't you want to see Jin first?"
Elie looked down.
Elie: " I think, he really wants to get things done by himself. Then I may as well let him do as he wants."
She said with a cold face and Ban sighed.
Ban: " as you like. Then we will be going back tomorrow morning. You still can think over it tonight."
Elie nodded, yet, she had already made her decision. She didn't care anymore. She had about enough of him pushing her away...
Note: well, for those who already know about the plot of History of justice, I decided to not include Achilles II and Emperor M3 just yet. I need them to appear later in my story so yeah, bear with my version please ^^;
