Hero...


He was looking down at his CCM, thinking about the mark he saw when he opened it. It seems even his mother was clueless to it.

Hiro's brown eyes met with Achilles' green ones.

Hiro: " just, who am I? Who are you? And what am I supposed to do?"

Then there was loud explosions from the outside. His floor was a bit high so, it wasn't attacked by the missiles. But it made him panic.

Hiro wanted to see what was happening but he couldn't get out of the bed no matter how hard he tried. His control over his limbs was still loose.

A few minutes went by and all he could hear were screams and explosions, no more.

They stopped for a second, but suddenly the floor shook. Before he could even proceed what was happening he saw through the glass clouds of smoke rising up.

Hiro: " what's happening..."

His CCM rang and he picked up.

Ran: " Hiro! Hiro are you alright?"

Hiro: " Ran-san!"

Ran: " thank God! I will be getting there soon! Wait for me!"

And she ended the call without even explaining what was happening.

He started to get more worried as he saw all of the clouds of smoke and hearing the screams and loud cries from the floor beneath his.

Hiro: " I can't just... Sit still..."

He tried again to get out of the bed, but he couldn't.

Hiro: " I want to help! I don't want to stay here!"

As he made another attempt, the same owl mark appeared on his CCM again.

" Oozoora Hiro, are you a hero?"

A female voice spoke. Hiro widened his eyes at the 'yes' and 'no' buttons.

He felt an urge to click the yes button. As his finger tip moved to do so, a voice interrupted back then.

" Otto. You can't make that choice, Nii-san. At least, Not now."

The voice wasn't coming from the CCM this time. It came through the machine linked to him.

He wandered his eyes towards it only to see some sort of a shadow on the screen.

Hiro: " who... Am I... Do you know anything about my past?"

The shadow chuckled.

" I know a lot of things about you."

Hiro: " can you tell me?"

" I can even give you your memories back."

Hiro: " you can!"

" As long as that cord is attached to you, there is nothing more easier than that."

Hiro: " then-"

" But I have to warn you. It will be so painful to regain your memories all at once. I was planning to help you regain them slowly, little by little. But this turn of events happened and you have to make your choice now instead. Not to mention your mind may not be able to hold up."

Hiro clenched his fist on the fabric of the bed sheet.

Hiro: " I will bear anything, just to regain my memories."

He looked at his LBX.

Hiro: " there are people out there that I shared so much with them, I can't bear not remembering about them anymore."

" Behold then, Nii-san. It will hurt you for a while."

Hiro: " nii-sa-"

He was cut off as sparks were send through the wires. His head suddenly felt heavy and ached a lot as it was filled with lot of images. The brunette held his head tightly as he felt his mind will get blown any moment but...

Hiro: " I have to remember them... Ban-san, Ran-san, Nee-chan, mom ... And everyone else... I have to..."

He said through painful loud screams...


The elevator was shut so she had to use the stairs. She Ran through the nurses and doctors with full speed so they can't stop her. Minerva Kai followed right next to her.

They stopped only when fire blocked their way, they couldn't make it up anymore.

People were screaming as they were surrounded within the fire and smoke, so they couldn't even do anything to save themselves.

Ran: " why doesn't the fire detection system work!"

She yelled when she noticed the alert wasn't activated and thus no sprinkler was working.

Minerva: " maybe the system was hacked."

She scan through the area quickly and suddenly pointed at some water hose.

Minerva: " we can put down the fire with it!"

Ran: " alright! You get the hose! I will get the fire extinguisher!"

They parted their way, Ran grabbed the huge cylinder of gas and tried to put down the fire. Minerva managed to get the hose to work and held it up to put down as much as she could.

As some of the people there managed to get free. Two nurses ran to both Ran and Minerva as they took over them to put down the fire.

" Get out miss!"

One of them yelled at the red head but she didn't listen as she, along with her LBX, made it up.

As they made it to Hiro's floor, they found people hurrying to get out through the emergency fire exit. Ran noticed the nurses were struggling to keep all of them under control as they started pushing each other.

Ran: " let's head to Hiro's room."

Minerva nodded as they ran against the flow of people.

" Hey you! Where are you going ?! It's dangerous!"

She didn't care about the warning as she wanted to head to the blunette's room.

When she opened the door, her eyes widened when she found no one was there.

Minerva: " did they evacuate him?"

" I got you! You should go ba- It's you!"

Ran looked up to see she was the long black haired nurse who was looking after Hiro.

Ran: " where is Hiro?"

The nurse looked inside the room when she noticed he wasn't there.

" We were struggling to keep everyone calm and evacuate them in order... It can't be that he went on his own!"

Ran started to get worried when suddenly Minerva saw something moving in the shadow.

Minerva: " Ran... We have a problem..."...


The black and blue Hunter made it down the hall and stopped in front of a small door. Behind it, were none other than the gas pipes.

The LBX held up its rifle, ready to shoot them through the door. But all of a sudden, blue energy bullets came flying at it and it broke over.

" How can that!"

The kid who was holding the CCM was taken by surprise as he didn't expect anyone to find out his LBX.

" Stop right there..."

He turned back his head only to see a certain blunette standing behind him. His CCM in hand and his LBX on his shoulder.

" Make me."

Hiro: " why are you doing this! Why are you trying-"

" To hurt everyone? Because they're weak. They're a waste of time and resources."

He looked back at the blunette and his eyes widened when they met the boy's duel ones.

" Leviathan whispered to me. And made me understand there is no room for weak people in his desired world. Why wasting time on repairing something when you can always get one even better. Those people will merely hold back Leviathan's world. So we have to dispose of them."

Hiro: " I won't allow you!"

He said taking out his CCM.

" You want to play. Very well then."

He took out a blue and grey Gladiator.

" This is my LBX, hope you won't mind losing your dear LBX to us!"

Gladiator was surrounded with a dark red aura and it flew off to Achilles D9. The white and blue LBX held up its swords in defense. It pushed the opponents' sword and then proceeded to thrust its own. But Gladiator backed in the right time.

" Unlimited EXP! Unlimited HP! Higher control performance! This is the true power I desired! The power to change my fate! If I'm not strong as human being, then I should get stronger as an LBX player! I can't let anyone become stronger than me! Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function! Sword Cyclone!"

The robot soon around itself as it was trying to break through the opponents' defense.

" This is the true power of the L Virus! Break to pieces now-"

His eyes widened when his LBX was pushed back as Achilles D9 moved its swords to attack.

Achilles D9: " I'm not losing to someone who uses tricks."

" You!"

Hiro: " I see, you've dedicated your whole live to LBX didn't you?"

" Yes! And what if it's !"

Gladiator was back on the attack, trying to push back Achilles.

" I wanted to leave a proof I was there! I wanted to be strong! But no matter what! I kept losing! Even despite everything I did! I kept losing! And losing again!"

Hiro: " then you resorted to using a virus! How can that make you stronger!"

" I can earn my rightful position! I can be the top!"

Hiro: " you can't call this a strength!"

Achilles manged to fly away of Gladiator.

Hiro: " you get stronger when you clash with stronger opponents! You get stronger when you hone your skills! If you happened to lose against someone, then it's a proof that they had trained hard to be able to surpass you! They had given you all their feelings! You should answer to them in kind! Not by using a cheap trick! Achilles! Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function! Sword Bits!"

Achilles' wings opened, revealing energy small sword Bits that flew off to Gladiator and tore it appart, making it explode.

The CCM in the boy's hand flew a spark as he fainted and fell down to the ground.

Hiro walked to him and picked him up.

Hiro: " let's get you down."

" Hiro!"

The blunette turned to face off a certain red head who was bending down and trying to catch up her breath.

Ran: " you worried me! What are you doing here?"

Hiro: " eh! I... I just came after the one with the infected LBX. I took care of him don't worry."

Ran: " wait! How did you get here in the first place!"

Hiro: " um, it's a long story... but, as you see, I'm alright now."

Ran eyed him from head to feet, his sweet smile plastered to his face made her eyes widen in realization.

Ran: " wait, Hiro, you didn't..."

Hiro: " I did...let's head down first and then we can talk about it."

Ran nodded...


Evangeline: " it... Disappeared..."

She couldn't quite understand what was happening. She was looking at the screen of her CCM with confused eyes as Kirito parked Takuya's care near the hospital.

Kazu: " it's not us."

He said though Jin's CCM.

Kirito: " yeah, I know."

He spoke with a lazy voice.

Zenon: " there are only five people who can deal with infected LBXs. So who on earth defeated them?"

Kirito took out a can of coke and opened it as he stepped out of the car.

Kirito: " well, I have a hunch we will know soon."

And he slammed the door shut...


Haruka: " Hiro ! I was worried!"

She said hugging her son tightly.

Hiro: " sorry Mom."

Not far away from them, another woman was hugging the boy that Hiro carried down, clearly relieved that he was fine. The boy on the other hand seemed to not remember anything of what had happened.

" Hiro! Ran!"

They both looked back only to see the two blonds and the black and white haired man approaching them.

Hiro: " Jin-san! Kirito-san! Eva-san! What are you doing here?"

Kirito: " long story. Do you know what happened here?"

Ran: " long story on our side as well."

Evangeline: " do you know who was behind the attack?"

Ran and Hiro nodded.

Ran: " we fought them."

Kirito spat out his Coke, much to everyone's surprise.

Kirito: " wait! Hold on! You said you fought them?"

Hiro: " yeah, you won't believe it though."

Jin: " yeah, if it weren't for the fact that we probably have been the same."

Hiro: " eh?"

Kirito: " I think we have to take you both to Tiny Orbit for a while. As well as whoever is behind all this."

Haruka: " but... Hiro is..."

Hiro: " don't worry mom, I'm fine I can go."

Haruka looked down at her son's sparkling eyes and hers widened by a fraction.

Haruka: " Hiro, it can't be that you-"

Seeing his unfazed determination, she gave in.

Haruka: " alright. I will do something about the doctors here. Just, take care."

He gave her another hug before following after his friends...