Fate...


Kazu: " eh! Ryuu did what!?"

Ryuu looked down as the rest glanced upon him in disbelief.

Ryuu: " I'm sorry..."

Gouda: " calm down. He didn't use it after all."

Ami: " but Ryuu, why would you do that?"

Ryuu: " I really wanted to be of help to everyone."

Hiro: " regardless of the reason, you shouldn't do that."

Ryuu: " I'm really sorry."

Kirito: " you know. I don't care about your reasons or whatever..."

He said never looking up from the screen in front of him.

Kirito: " but I'm really thankful that you brought us this sample of the virus. "

In another room, Eva was running scans on both the LBX and the CCM.

Rina: " with this and the data from the vaccine program installed within Pandora and the others, maybe we can create some kind of a vaccine that everyone can use."

Takuya: " Kirito..."

Kirito : " we're doing what we can, but..."

He looked back at Ryuu.

Kirito: " Eva said she needs you to ran the virus for us one more tim-"

He was cut by the sound of an alarm. One of the employees there who had been tasked with the monitoring of the city turned with a pale face.

" Sir! It's another rampaging!"

He pulled up the map on the screen. Many dots started popping up one after the other.

Jin: " this is..."

Evangeline: " they're all almost around Cyber Lance."

Fenrir: " it seems their target is Cyber Lance this time."

Gouda: " why not Tiny Orbit?"

Just at that more dots started appearing around Tiny Orbit's building.

Kirito: " tsk! Did you have to speak?!"

Gouda: " sorry..."

Takuya: " alright! Split into two groups! One heads to Cyber Lance and the other stays here!"

Kirito : " I will be going with Jin and Eva using your car."

Kazu: " we will use my bike."

Hiro: " Ran-san, Gouda-san and I will take care of the ones around Tiny Orbit. Don't worry."

Jin: " alright then! Takuya-san, we're heading out!"

He said as he and the others rushed out...


Sendou was surrounded within a department along with a lot whole of people who sought safety there.

Outside, were a lot of explosions and shattering as LBXs wrecked havock in the area.

From his position near the window, Sendow was able to spot the players in control stationed on top of the roofs.

He clicked his tongue and tried to call the others at Tiny Orbit but his call didn't get through. He cut the call and then tried to reach to Asuka but to no avail.

" What's going to happen to us?"

" Are we gonna die?"

" Hsh, don't say that."

" We will be fine."

" Someone will save us soon."

" I don't want to die yet."

He squinted his eyes when he suddenly noticed the back exit. An idea got through his mind, a very Gouda-like one to his dismay. He checked the application only to notice that there wasn't that much of LBXs around that building. They can make it out if they ran away. The only problem were the ones on the next roof.

Sendou: " everyone! Listen up!"

Everyone then looked up at him.

Sendou: " I will draw their attention! You run through the back door and head as far away as possible!"

" But, then you..."

An old man spoke in concern.

Sendou: " don't worry about me."

He said taking his Nightmare Fear.

Sendou: " just make sure everyone gets out safe and sound."

And he headed out of the building...


Asuka had to duck down behind the car as more bullets flew by.

Asuka: " what the hell is wrong with those guys!"

She screamed loud. Thankfully they didn't hear her and the LBXs went by without finding her.

She let a sigh as she leaned back on the car, only to blink twice when she heard something from the inside.

" Did they go?"

" Apparently."

She pulled herself up and looked through the window of the backseat.

The two kids were scared when they saw her and the older girl hid her brother behind her.

Asuka : " wa... Wait! I'm not gonna hurt you!"

The girl squinted at her, yet she didn't lower her guard.

" You're not with those bad LBX players?"

Asuka: " nope, I'm totally a good person."

The girl seemed to have an inner debate. She didn't attack them, wasn't that a good proof that she wasn't bad?

A group of LBXs approached the area again.

Asuka: " oh crap!"

" Come here!"

The older sibling unlocked the door for her and Asuka hopped inside the car, ducking down along the two kids.

The LBXs wandered around for a bit but eventually went back as they didn't find anyone.

Asuka: " fewh. That was a close call. Thanks kid."

She turned on them, grinning broadly.

" I'm Rika."

The older brunette spoke while offering a smile.

" I'm Riku."

The younger brunette brother spoke as well. He seemed sort of shy.

Asuka: " I'm Asuka. May I ask what two kids doing on their own here?"

Rika: " our parents said they were going to grab a few things from the convenient store and asked us to stay here. The LBXs attacked no long after and it seems my parents couldn't make it back."

Riku: " nee-chan and I hid within the car and locked the doors. We were afraid."

Asuka: " hm..."

She looked up and scanned the area around them. There weren't any LBXs around. She pulled up her app on her CCM as she made her way to the driver seat.

Rika: " what are you trying to do, Onee-san?"

Asuka : " taking you back to your parents. If we follow this map, then we can go through the rout with less LBXs."

Riku: " can you drive?"

Asuka: " I don't have a license yet. But it can't be that hard, if I follow what I've seen on the movies."

Rika: " wait! What?!"

She pulled two wires and linked them, and then the engine worked.

Asuka: " it worked! Fun huh, old movies tricks still works even at our time!"

She said as she buckled her seatbelt.

Rika: " sit still."

She buckled her brother's seatbelt.

Rika: " are we sure about this?"

Asuka: " I said you don't have to worry!"

And the car zoomed forward with high speed...


They were focusing on destroying anything in their way when suddenly a certain LBX appeared in front of them.

Sendou: " man, I can't believe what I'm doing."

He was hiding in one of the alleys nearby as he commanded his LBX.

The enemies headed forward, aiming to tear Nightmare to pieces.

The LBX tried mostly to dodge them, to earn the ones inside the building time to run away.

Sendou: " huh, why am I doing this again?"

Nightmare received a blow of Warrior's blade and it backed even further. Holding up its scythe and launching off again.

Sendou: " I could have ignored it. I could have walked away."

A few bullets landed on the white robot before it held its staff in defense.

Sendou: " I could have left those people to die there. Damn, I think I spend a lot of time with those guys, more than it's needed."

Nightmare was knocked away with Buld's axe. It fell to the ground and sparks flew out of it.

Sendou: " damn it!"

He panicked, yet, his attention was caught by the Queen in front of him, holding its gun and ready to shoot him. Even though, he smirked, recalling the one card that started it all.

Sendou : " I see, so that card was for me."

The Queen was about to pull back the trigger when suddenly Senoud's CCM bursted in blue light.

The LBX backed, apparently affected. A blue owl symbol appeared on the screen.

" Sendou Daiki, do you want to change your fate?"

Sendou pouted, yet he quickly clicked on the yes button.

" Chosen one who chose to fight, you shall receive a great power. Please use it wisely."

Nightmare Fear's eyes shined as he stood back to his feet, his visors shining brightly as the sparks faded into thin air.

Nightmare: " you've been awful to me, you know."

He looked up at the enemy LBXs. The wide smirk on his face made him look even more terrifying if possible.

Nightmare: " I will pay you all back, trice."

The LBX dashed forward, creating two other copies of him while at that. Each of the copies took care of a portion of the enemies.

Sendou: " wait! This is different from the ones created by speed illusion! Could it be..."

He looked as all three of them took down the robots in their way.

Sendou: " they're really three!"

The players with defeated LBXs fell down as they fainted one after the other. Only three more LBXs were left standing. And they didn't seem like small fries.

Nightmare: " we need an attack function!"

He yelled as he saw the other three were charging theirs. Sendou nodded as he typed away on his CCM.

Sendou : " Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function: Death Scythe Hurricane!"

All of the three Nightmares had their eyes glimmering as they span around, summoning the darkness in the form of hurricanes unleashed down upon their opponents.

Sendou sighed as he walked out of the alley, all of his three LBXs merged back to one.

Nightmare: " nice assist."

Sendou: " good work as well with the others."

Nightmare: " they weren't much to me. I wished I could have made them suffer more."

He said placing his hands behind his head. Sendou smirked.

Sendou: " you sound like some kind of a bad guy. I liked you already."

His CCM suddenly rang.

Kirito: " finally it got through! I caught your signal between the infected LBXs but couldn't call you!"

Sendou: " same here."

Nightmare: " apparently those LBXs were emitting some kind of noise that would block any form of communication."

Fenrir: " who was that?"

Sendou: " welcome your new teammate, Nightmare Fear."

Kirito: " ok, alright. I won't ask about anything. But since you've got a talking LBX, you're helping us out with this mess. There are a lot of them here!"

Sendou: " very well, I'm heading off to Cyber Lance then."

He ended the call and Nightmare jumped on his shoulder.

Nightmare: " let's get going."

Sendou nodded as they dashed towards the huge building...


The car parked in the narrow alley as Asuka checked her CCM once more.

Asuka: " tsk! A dead end!"

The screen showed a whole bunch of red dots waiting on both ends of the alley.

Asuka looked up at the huge building standing tall in the horizon.

Asuka: " mostly people will get evacuated into Cyber Lance in such case. I'm sure your parents are there."

Rika was holding her brother's hand tightly before looking at the woman at the driver seat.

Rika: " why are you helping us?"

Asuka looked through the mirror at the kids at the backseat and let a soft smile slide along.

Asuka: " because you reminded me of my brother and I."

Rika blinked twice at that, she didn't expect such answer.

Asuka: " when we were still kids, I would hold on to my brother tightly the way you do with your brother. I was trying to protect him from any danger. Though he is all grown up and he made the choice to go down his own path, but I want to be by his side, to hold on to him and to protect him again."

Asuka looked back at the kids.

Asuka: " treasure each other more than anything, ok?"

Before they could answer, there were gun shots from behind them. A few LBXs started shooting at them as they managed to locate the car.

Asuka: " what..."

She gritted her teeth as she looked back at them through the side mirror of the car.

Asuka: " alright then. It's all or nothing!"

She hit the accelerator and the wheels rolled on their place for a second before exiting the alley at full speed, takin the LBXs outside by surprise.

Asuka: " out of my way!"

She accelerated even more, trying to break through the rows of robots.

Rika was holding her brother tightly in the backseat. The LBXs managed to catch up with the car and pointed down their guns at the wheels, puncturing them.

The car wavered away and Asuka couldn't control it at its curent speed. Suddenly a figure walked to the middle of the street. She hit the breakers, hopping to make the car stop in time.

It carved black lines on the route as it slowed down with a loud ear piercing screech. Then it finally came to a stop, with the figure just being inches from its front.

Asuka heaved a sigh of relief before yelling at the person out.

Asuka: " are you crazy! Weren't you taught to watch out for cars coming at high speed!"

" Are you crazy! Driving without a license! And with kids too!"

She blinked at the familiar voice and peeked out through the window.

Asuka: " Sendou!"

Sendou: " get off that thing, before you get yourself or anyone else killed!"

Nightmare: " well, she almost got you killed."

Sendou:" shut up!"

Asuka: " alright! Alright! Don't scream!"

She said getting down and opening the back door for kids to get out.

LBXs approached them with their weapons up, ready to fire.

Sendou bit his lip as he took out his CCM.

Sendou: " get away with the kids!"

Asuka: " what about you!?"

Nightmare: " we will take care of them! Now go!"

He said as he cloned to three and started the attack.

Asuka obliged and led the kids to a nearby building, hiding within it.

Asuka: " alright, we should be fine here."

Riku: " nee-chan, I'm afraid."

He said hugging his sister tightly.

Rika: " don't worry. We will be fine."

She said as she hugged him back. Asuka softened her look as she saw the girl was shivering, still...

Rika: " don't worry. We will be fine and we will see our parents."

She smiled brightly at her brother.

Asuka: " Takeru..."

Her CCM suddenly bursted in light. She took it out and found an owl symbol on the screen.

" Koujou Asuka, do you have someone important you wish to protect?"

She looked up at the two kids who seemed confused at what was happening. Asuka narrowed her eyes.

Asuka: " yeah, yeah I do! I have a lot of people that I need to protect! Especially my brother Takeru!"

She hit the yes button.

" Chosen one who chose to fight, you shall receive great power. Please use it wisely."

Just at that moment, Vampire Cat jumped out of her bag, startling everyone, Riku was more frightened though.

Vampire Cat made a few jumps forward before looking back at Asuka.

Vampire Cat : " you won't save anyone by standing there."

Asuka scowled in determination and nodded with a smirk.

Asuka: " you're right! Kids, wait for me here!"

Rika: " wait! Hold on-"

However, Asuka was long gone. She followed Vampire Cat out where Sendou and Nightmare were fighting off the enemy's LBXs still. And from far away, they could see their back up joining them.

Asuka: " alright! Let's go!"

Vampire Cat zoomed off towards the enemy's back up .

Asuka: " go!"

Vampire Cat : " triple head spear!"

The spear cut its way through the first row of LBXs, making them explode as it pierced through their chests.

Asuka: " awesome!"

For an instant, she was too distracted with Vampire Cat's new power.

Vampire Cat: " more are coming!"

He toppled back and fended against the ones that made for him.

Asuka: " let's go with this! Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function: Devil Soul!"

Vampire Cat planted his spear on the ground, a purple demonic seal appeared beneath him as he called out to the demonic souls that were launched towards the opponents, destroying them. He was soon joined by three copies of Nightmare.

Sendou : " Hissatsu Function!"

" Attack Function! Death Scythe Hurricane!"

The three LBXs finished off their opponents as well before merging back to one.

Nightmare: " well, that wasn't bad."

Vampire Cat: " good job as well."

Asuka held herself back from celebrating as she recalled the kids waiting for her return.

Asuka: " we gotta get the kids to Cyber Lance!"

She reminded them.

Sendou: " right. It seems we wiped away the infected LBXs here, we can take them there then go help the others out with cleaning up the rest."

Asuka: " good with me."

She went back to get Rika and Riku...