Mizel...


" Pathetic."

A voice spoke and the Killer Droid was smashed to pieces by a certain jet formed LBX.

Everyone had their eyes wide open as they recognized the voice, for its owner had addressed the whole world before. There was no way they could forget that voice, especially NICS' members.

Jessica: " you're kidding me..."

The jet shape shifted to a certain LBX that was once stolen and thought to be destroyed for good. Though the look was the same as it was originally manufactured.

Even the adults who were following the fight outside from the meeting room had their eyes wide open in disbelief.

Haruka: " how..."

Evangeline: " Mizel..."

She had a confused look, not knowing what to think of the LBX hovering in front of them.

Itan bit on his lollypop as he saw that familiar aircraft before having Gruxeon pull back to his hand.

Mizel: " if you know with whom you're playing, then you better retreat."

The LBX said firmly as he shifted his attention to the one who stood in front of Ban.

Itan: " tsk! Just wait until we get you! We will make sure to divide you to a hundred piece!"

Mizel: " I see, good luck with that."

He said scornfully to which the other boy gritted his teeth and pulled off.

As soon as he was out of sight, everyone's attention went back to the LBX that shifted in a flash of a green light into the familiar boy, mostly gaining with that hateful glares.

Yuuya: " I thought you were gone for good!"

Mizel: " it's your mistake for not coming to check back."

He said curtly as he walked off to Jin who didn't pay any attention to him. He stopped just a few feet away of him.

Evangeline: " can't you do anything about Zenon!"

Everyone except Ran were shocked as they heard her.

Mizel: " the LBX's AI is just like the humans' souls. If it gets destroyed, no matter how many times you try to recreate it or pull back up data, it won't ever be the same. He is gone for good..."

Evangeline: " it can't be..."

Mizel: " ... or so what I want to say."

Everyone looked up at him bewildered. Mizel focused his eyes on the black and white haired boy.

Mizel: " if you pull out your CCM, you should see a download gage."

Jin's ears perked up at that as he quickly checked on the device. True for that, there was a download bare showing a percentage of 100%.

Mizel: " if it's full then he should be still alive within your CCM."

The red eyes slightly widened at the news.

Kazu: " oi! Everyone!"

Kazu and the ones who were inside and were cut off ran to see their friends, had shocked eyes as they saw the familiar green head.

Hiro : " Mizel..."

Gouda: " you!"

He was stopped as Ban held up his hand in front of him. His eyes narrowed as he looked back at Mizel.

Ban: " why did you save us?"

Mizel: " I was ordered to do so."

He said with a shrug.

Ban: " ordered!? Ordered by whom?"

Mizel: " that I can't tell you."

Kirito had his eyes narrow as he focused on the void green eyes and the wide smile the boy had.

Kirito: " is he the one who send the vaccine program to us."

Mizel: " close but not true. Oh, and before I forget..."

He held up his hand at the LBXs thrown on the ground. Before anyone could move a muscle to stop him from doing anything bad to their partners, Mizel had emitted a green wave. Soon, the LBXs were up again on their feet.

Beargguy: " finally..."

Ran: " why are you here for?"

Ran had her guard up as she asked him. Even though part of her was thankful for him, still the other one couldn't forgive him for the bad things he had done, especially trying to kill her.

Mizel: " to join you."

He said offhandedly almost making everyone fall down.

Jessica: " how dare you say something like that! You wanted to kill us years before!"

Mizel: " yeah, that was then and now is now. Whether you liked it or not, you will need me."

Ruri was trying for so long to hold back her anger but finally failed.

Ruri: " who will need the help of a murder!"

Everyone blinked as their heads snapped back towards her. Ken walked over and placed his hand gently on her shoulder to calm her down.

Mizel: " I won't neglect the fact that I've caused a lot of chaos years ago. And I seriously don't expect you to accept me either. But I'm bound with this role so I have to do it. For, like all of you here..."

His eyes glowed blue as all their CCMs showed the same owl mark that appeared when they first activated their new powers along with the world ' Creator '.

Mizel: " I was chosen by her."

Sendou: " how can we be sure? For all we know you may have hacked our CCMs to pull off this!"

Nightmare: " I'm afraid that's not possible."

Everyone looked at the LBXs then.

Joker: " when you activated the program, your CCMs are protected by a strong fire wall that no one can go through. The only way for him to show this is..."

Valkyrie : " to actually have some degree of authority over the program."

Runa: " Creator? "

Mizel: " I helped out in the modeling of the program you're now using. So I've been given the title Creator, though all I did was resolving some few bugs in it to boost it."

He said coldly.

Ban: " why would we need you?"

Mizel looked at him and had a wide smirk on the face.

Mizel: " to find the Creator, the one who can afford giving answers about Leviathan."

Lilyan: " finding the Creator?"

Ban thought for a moment before running his eyes through everyone else's faces.

Ban: " very well. We'll keep you with us for the meantime. It seems you have a lot of information to share with us."

Mizel shrugged with a smirk.

Mizel: " good luck, I'm hard to get information from, unless you hack me."

Kritio gave him a smirk as a reply.

Kritio: " don't provoke me into doing it."

Ruri: " are we really going to keep him with us, Ban-san!"

Everyone could see her reluctance. Ban simply gave her a soft look.

Ban: " we don't have a choice."...


Away...

The blond man pinched the bridge of his nose as he looked through the older footages and the ones they got from that day's battle.

Ash: " who could have thought it was actually coming to this."

The older ones were shown the same LBX that appeared on the scene that same day, fighting off their infected LBXs.

Gruxeon: " you should have left me to deal with him."

Ash: " you can't..."

The man entwined his fingers as he leaned on the table.

Ash: " no one can defeat him. Plus, he is smarter than to have himself getting captured, he won't let us get anything from him even if it meant self destroying himself."

Itan: " so what should we do? And now that he had joined them it will be a pain."

The male narrowed his eyes.

Ash: " let's just keep on monitoring things. Leviathan must have a solution."...


NICS HQ...

The screens were showing the green haired android who was locked inside a room with nothing but a chair.

Kaios: " the Creator?"

His eyebrow rose slightly at Ban who nodded. Seeing as he was the one to make the decision, he also had to elaborate his point.

Ban: " he said he is the only one who knows so much about Leviathan and maybe how to stop him."

Haruka: " can we trust him?"

Mirai: " I won't go as far as to say let's trust him but... More likely let's profit of him as much as possible. He seems to have some valuable information."

Kaios: " still, we shouldn't let our guard down around this guy. He was the one who put the world in chaos before."

Yuuya: " and almost killed Eva-kun!"

Eva snapped at how irked the man by her side was.

Mirai: " and I hate to point this out but he is the one who saved half the world as well."

Everyone in the meeting room blinked at that.

Mirai: " secretary, you may like to put some of the Fire Sweets' records from all around the world on the screen."

Kaios blinked but he nodded at one of the employees there. Soon, some pictures pulled up. Mirai pointed at a number of them.

Mirai: " can any of you recognize this LBX?"

As soon as they focused on the pictures their eyes widened at the robot that was taking down the infected LBXs.

Mirai: " there is no mistaken it, it's O-Ligion. The one and only O-Ligion in the world."

Ban: " I see. O-Ligion, Odin Mk2 and Achilles D9 are the only LBXs that dad never sold their designs to companies, seeing that they were too powerful. The only other one who ever knows of the designs is..."

Jessica: " Mizel. Since he is the one who stole it."

Mizel: " that's rude. I won't use the word ' stole'. I just borrowed it."

His voiced came out from the speakers there, startling them.

Touko: " how?"

Mizel: " I can hack through anything easily. It didn't take me five seconds to get a hold of your whole base."

Elie: " you didn't give it back so I won't say it was borrowed!"

She answered to the boy's earlier comment. His reply was a sole ' huff'.

Asuka: " hold on, you were eavesdropping on us!"

Mizel just ignored her.

Mizel: " whatever, are you convinced yet?"

Ruri: " not one bit!"

Asuka: " don't ignore me!"

Ban: " I suppose we don't have a choice but to believe your words now."

Kazu: " Ban!"

Ban: " as he said, the whole base is already under his control. If he was planning to do something, shouldn't he have done it by now."

Sendou groaned as he found himself agreeing.

Kaios: " and just to think we tried our best to cut him off any computer..."

Mizel: " good to hear that. Then first off all, we have to go to Tokio city."

Everyone blinked.

Hiro: " Tokio city!"

Mizel: " our next lead is in Tokio city."

Ban: " wait! So you don't know where the original Creator is?"

Mizel: " I will be willing to give more details once on the way to Japan."...


Meanwhile, professor Yamano was taking a look at the heavily damaged LBX. He looked at Jin and sighed.

Jun'ichirou: " I'm sorry Jin-kun, but it's already in an irreparable state."

Jin shook his head.

Jin: " I understand that. I'm just glad the AI was intact."

He said looking down at the CCM in his hand, holding it tight like if it may escape. He snapped when the professor placed a hand on his shoulder.

Jun'ichirou: " if you want, we can have Saibara-kun sending us a new one here."

Jin narrowed his eyes as he thought back to Mizel's words. It's not only the AI. Even without it, it won't be the same. It's not the same Zenon that he fought with for so long. Still, he gave a nod.

Jun'ichirou: " alright then. I will inform you as soon as it's here and ready."

With another nod he left the professor to continue looking into the other LBXs that were damaged and walked to his room. He stopped midway as he saw Elie waiting for him at the end of the corridor...


Elie: " ...sorry for that."

She said as soon as Jin told here what her father had already said about Zenon being irreparable.

They had already moved to one of the balconies, figuring that talking in the corridor with people walking around wasn't comfortable for both of them.

Jin: " don't be, Cyber Lance will send one here sooner or later."

Elie: " but it won't be the same."

He looked back at her, taken slightly by her words.

Elie: " it won't be the same LBX that you've put your heart onto for so long, staying up late to fix and improve it."

Jin: " there is nothing I can do about it."

He directed his gaze back to the blue sky.

Elie looked up at his red eyes, and for the first time for so long, she found they were lonely.

Elie: " why do you prefer to be alone? Why do you want to keep fighting all on your own?"

Jin turned his head back at her.

Elie: " Jin, you're holding so much on your own. You will only break yourself like that. Won't you please share whatever you have with us? Everyone is so worried about you."

Something within his chest moved, something that wanted to come out. But just as it climbed up, it was caught in his throat and his mouth that he opened fell closed again.

He looked back to the horizon.

Jin: " I'm fine Elie. There is nothing to worry about."

Elie sighed tiredly as she wheeled on her heels.

Elie: " I wonder if you ever considered us friends in the first place."

His eyes widened as and he turned around in an attempt to grab her arm and stop her, but he refrained from that, merely looking after her back as she walked away, leaving him alone there...


The screen showed a reluctant president Claudia after she heard Kaios explanation. Her look fell on Mizel who was brought to the meeting room so that the president of country A can see him for herself.

Claudia: " I can't believe this."

She rubbed her forehead as she wasn't found of the idea of them following a former terrorist that nearly killed some of them years ago.

Kaios: " I can assure you no one here is willing to cooperate with him. But the circumstances..."

Claudia : " I know..."

She sighed in defeat.

Claudia: " this Leviathan enemy is far more dangerous for the time being since he shook our world this far. Some countries were entirely wiped and others are barely recovering. We've lost a lot of people. If anything, this Leviathan is our top priority to seize first."

She looked at Mizel.

Claudia: " I will be looking into your situation later. But now, if you have any valuable information you should share with us, else I don't find any reason to keep you around."

Her gaze shifted to Ban and his friends.

Claudia: " I will be depending on you. I know it may be dangerous but, I will have to believe you will stop him if he tries any funny moves."

They all nodded before the call had ended there. They looked at the long green haired boy who didn't seem to be the least bothered.

Gouda: " so you better tell us now. Why should we go back to Tokio city?"

Mizel: " I said I will reveal the reason why once on our way to Japan."

Gouda walked off to him while cracking his knuckles, his answer merely pissed him off.

Kaios stopped him before he could take any step further and looked down at the boy.

Kaios: " you realize you're in no position to set conditions here."

Mizel looked up and gave the blond man a pointed glance.

Mizel: " it won't bother me if I speak here, just so you know. But walls have ears. It will be bad if Leviathan finds the Creator before us."

Kaios' eyes widened as Mizel's words sank in. The green head let an amused smirk as he turned on his heels and walked out the meeting room under everyone's surprised look...


Japan...

Yagami ended the call before he went on to see the prime minister. Zeizen had a risen eyebrow as the call took longer than expected.

Yagami took a deep breath, wandering how to pass the eery news to the prime minister.

Yagami: " it seems... They formed an alliance with Mizel..."

Zeizen had to resist the urge to drop his mouth open as he gave the other male a look questioning his sanity.

Yagami: " unfortunately, it's the truth. Mizel wasn't destroyed and he saved them from an attack just today. Seeing that he didn't resist as they took him away and he offered to help them, they could only believe he has some important information."

Zeizen rubbed his temples as he thought for a while.

Zeizen: " is it me... Or are all the villains now trying to help us?"

Yagami rose an eyebrow.

Yagami: " are you referring to Seredy?"

Zeizen folded his hands as he rested his elbows on the table.

Zeizen: " his condition is very difficult to realize, but what he is promising is really valuable to us."

Yagami had to agree, he had went to see the old man another time after Jin and the others left. His situation was worse than before. The old man refused to speak a word, only giving him one message to the prime minister, a message that even Yagami was reluctant to pass on.

Zeizen: " ' save me'... Huh..."

Yagami: " even if we want to do so, no one will acknowledge the idea without a valid reason."

Zeizen: " and we can't state the real reason behind it. We're left hanging on the edge of the cliff with our last source of information being lied down on the thin line between life and death. If he ever slip down, then..."

Yagami: " we will lose the only lead we have to them."

Zeizen took a deep breath.

Zeizen: " I will try one last time to propose the idea to the other ministers. We can't let such genius slip away easily. Hopefully they will listen to me."

Yagami: " I hope so..."...