William...
Egor: " William-kun! I'm really glad to see you doing well! Though to think you've been hiding nearby for all those years! You took me by surprise!"
He said squeezing the man's arms, greeting him warmly to which the younger man cracked a soft smile at that.
William: " I just figured I need to stay near someone I can trust in case my plans were messed up. Plus, the isolation of the area played to my favor."
Evangeline: " is it a good idea though, bringing him here?"
Aya: " we did take care of their army though."
Lillia: " it's not enough. They may send another one."
William: " it's fine. Don't you worry about it now."
He said turning back to them and scanning them as though trying to find someone.
William: " more importantly, Mizel. Seeing that he is not here, I may guess that our biggest fear became true."
Mirai fumbled through her bag and took the inactive O-Legion.
Mirai: " Leviathan... Hacked him... He's been like this since then..."
William gently took him up.
William: " you did well so far. Now let's get you back. Professor, I may need to borrow your hardware."
Egor gestured with a radiant smile to his desk.
Egor: " go ahead. You don't need my permission after all."
He nodded thankfully before taking his spot in front of the computer, typing away. Meanwhile, the players attention went to the new kids.
Ban: " and you are..."
Jessica: " they helped us out finishing the enemy's forces. They have some pretty strong and rare LBXs."
She said with an exotic smile, her eyes flickering between the duo.
Queen: " why don't you introduce yourselves. We didn't catch your names yet."
Ryan: " I'm Ya-Ryan... Ryan."
He quickly retorted upon receiving a nudge from the girl next to him.
Ryan: " and this is my cousin, Jennifer."
Jennifer: " nice to meet you."
Gouda: " same here! We're glad to have new strong players with us!"
Asuka: " ne ne! How comes your LBXs are so strong!? What type of motors do you use!? And your weapons! I've never seen any of them before!"
Sendou : " plus, we didn't see you use any CCMs during today's battle. How did you issue the attack function command?"
Ryan sweat dropped.
Ryan: " actually..."
William: " done."
He was thankful the older blond caught their attention. O-Legion, which was hooked to the professor's server using many wires, had its visors blinking.
William: " it will take him a while to reboot his systems but he will come around soon. While we're waiting, I believe I need to catch on a lot of things. Namely..."
He looked up at his sister.
William: " why are you here?"
Lilyan: " eh?"
She was deeply surprised by the sudden question.
Elie: " what's wrong with her being here?"
William: " I send Unicorn to her as to keep it safe. I didn't mean for her to partake in this fight."
Lilyan: " I couldn't stay back while my friends were fighting, I wanted to help."
She protested.
Jin: " though, what do you mean to keep Unicorn safe?"
Ban: " I remember now, the old man with clock also told her to be very careful with Unicorn."
William: " of course he would. Unicorn holds the key to our only hope after all."
"Eh!"
Unicorn was as shocked as everyone upon hearing those words.
Unicorn: " me? Key?"
Although feeling their eager eyes for more explanation, he felt it wasn't the right time to start the subject
William: " I'll get to that eventually later but right now. I have to ask about how far Leviathan did get from Mizel."
Valkyrie: " only the D Manipulator data."
Ruri: " Mizel himself made sure of that."
William inhaled and ran a hand over his face.
William: " 'only the D Manipulator's Data' means a lot of troubles. I trust that you know that."
Haruka: " we do."
Hiro: " with this, Leviathan will create his own body now."
Evangeline: " William-san, how much will it take before he finishes it?"
William: " we're talking about Leviathan here so it will be mostly two months."
Muraku : " two months!"
Odin M: " quite the short time."
Jin: " one month and a half. It's been almost half a month since he hacked Mizel."
Beargguy : " what should we do? How can we defeat him?"
William rubbed his chin in thoughts.
William: " we can't let Minerva out of her hiding spot yet."
"Eh!"
Ran: " why?"
William: " while Leviathan is still resident in Dream Future's server, and with all the data I assume he gathered so far, I'm afraid he can overpower Minerva easily and find her the moment we liberate her."
Wataru: " then what should we do?"
Haruka furrowed her brow.
Haruka: " we will have to wait till he transfers into his body, that way, his connection to Dream Future will get weaker and so..."
William nodded.
William: " Minerva may have a chance."
Asuka rubbed her forehead as her eyes began to spin around.
Asuka: " I don't get much..."
Sendou: " you don't need to get anything."
Asuka: " what do you mean?!'
William: " but I'm sure he won't stay put during this whole time. He will attempt to drain you with battles and fights in order not to interrupt him."
Strike: " he kind of is right now."
Jin: " nevertheless, we should expect more vicious attacks from him in the future."
Sendou took out a card.
Sendou: " Death, upright... It doesn't seem like a safe path."
Twilight : " still, it's the path we ought to take."
Everyone had a determined look on their faces. If anyone of them had the slightest bit of fear, he managed to hide it perfectly.
William: " everyone..."
" Such a sight to wake up to."
Evangeline: " Mi!"
Mirai: " Mizel!"
Everyone then looked back to O-Legion who was detaching its wires.
William: " welcome back."
He said with a soft smile.
Mizel: " glad to see you're alive and still in one piece."
William: " what a nice way to say you're glad to see me too."
Aya and Lillia squinted at the LBX.
Lillia : " is this really... That Mizel."
Mizel: " right..."
In a flash of green light, he shape shifted to his old self.
Mizel: " much better."
Lillia : " it's really him."
William eyed him carefully.
William: " nothing seems wrong with the manipulation, your form is solid and stable. At least your AI didn't receive that much damage. Also, the D Manipulator..."
Mizel: " it's working fine. Their best mechanics made sure to fix it properly."
His eyes flicked momentarily to Ruri and Eva.
Evangeline: " with the professors' help, that is."
William: " anyway, about what we agreed on..."
Mizel: " it's almost full, I only need the last three drivers."
Lilyan: " what are you talking about?"
Both of them exchanged looks.
William: " trust me. We'll explain when in time."
Lillia : " this is so fishy..."
She whispered to herself, feeling even more skeptical of William.
William: " anyway, hope you won't mind me going back with to your base."
Jessica: " not at all. All this mess is so we can take you back with us."
Ban: " yosh. I'll call Takuya-san and inform him we're going back."
He said taking out his CCM and walking out.
Touko: " Sayaka, Jennifer and Ryan. Would you be interested to join us?"
Sayaka threw a prompt look at her parents who nodded at her.
Seiko: " do whatever you believe is right, dear."
Sayaka seemed to take her time, mulling over it deeply before finally nodding her head.
Sayaka: " I'm joining."
Jessica nodded back at her.
Jessica: " Ryan, Jennifer?"
Jennifer: " of course we're."
Ryan: " we came all the way back f-OUCH! I mean, yeah. We can't stand back while the world is in danger."
He said rubbing his arm where Jennifer pinched him.
Jessica: " alright then."
Jessica smiled broadly at them.
Aya: " so, I think we need to change contact info with-"
She snapped when she realized she had a message notification.
Aya: " a message... From Baba? Why would he-"
Her eyes widened upon seeing the content.
Evangeline: " what's wrong?"
Aya: " I... Need to make a call home..."
She said walking out of the room, making almost everyone rise an eyebrow at her strange attitude.
Yuuya: " anyway, we better get ready to take off."
Jessica: " right."
William walked over to Egor, holding a certain familiar device he brought back with him.
William: " professor, thanks a lot for giving me your first prototype Nerve Gear. It helped me a lot though this whole hassle."
Egor's smile never faded as he held on the man's hands instead of grabbing the machine.
Egor: " you keep it. And don't thank me. I'm glad I was able to help you out."
William was deeply moved by those words and his face beaming down at him.
William: " when things are over, I'll be looking forward to more lessons from you."
Egor softly smiled as his head nodded...
Jinn smirked as he checked the news.
Jinn: " you've done it Leviathan. Now there would be no one to bother us anymore."
Leviathan : " what about Itan?"
Jinn: " I send him off to bring over the World Savers as you ordered. But I don't see what benefits they would bring. Also, are we sure they would accept?"
Leviathan : " they've always seen Itan as Seredy's right arm. While desperate to stand up again and find someone they can gather around, they will surely accept to follow him."
Jin : " let's hope it's worth it."
Leviathan : " and Himari Liam?"
Jinn : " He is receiving his LBX at Omega Dain as of now. You're gathering your forces steadily. wanting to start your attack?"
Leviathan's mark glowed brightly.
Leviathan : " it's almost time."...
A Nation...
Liam stared down at the black LBX in his hand.
Liam: " Nightmare... Hell..."
Knight smirked widely as he pushed back his hair.
Knight: " we've created this one LBX from scratch. Equiped it with Kamiya Crafts' lock on system and powered up with our finest technology. Nothing can hold it back at all. It a tyrant of chaos if I daresay."
Liam: " I liked it."
His eyes and smirk widened in a terrifying way.
Liam: " with this LBX, I can show both of them hell itself."
He said holding up his new LBX and laughing crazily. Knight merely smirked, satisfied.
Knight: " Thank you, future."...
Arata: " Sayaka what!?"
She pulled the right end of her bow, showing them the cable.
Sayaka: " it's a technology that was based of Papa's driving system. It allows me to virtually synchronize with my LBX, imitating an overload. Papa used Professor Mito's studies to create this."
"Eh!"
Liu Bei: " your father crafted that from scratch! "
Twilight : " all on his own?!"
Sayaka : " it wasn't hard."
Tougo: " your father is awesome!"
Sayaka merely smiled proudly while still crossing her arms.
Sayaka : " well, he is my father."
Jin shifted his look to the other two kids and narrowed his eyes. They kept to the far away end of the table, hunched over their LBXs. So far there was no sound of them, but he could still see them eyeing their surroundings carefully. On the other hand, Elie's head craned over the table, checking the occupants. Aya was no where to be seen.
Elie: " have anyone seen Aya?"
Evangeline : " not since when we've boarded the ship."
Lillia: " now mentioning it, something about her seemed off after she called home. I wonder if something happened back there."
Elie nodded with a worried face...
Mizel : " that much happened while I wasn't around?"
Mirai: " yeah. And wait, you weren't aware of what happened in the outside world?"
Mizel: " please give me the definition of a coma."
He said rolling his eyes.
Evangeline " then how did you know Ruri and I fixed you?"
Mizel: " I can easily tell who fixed my body. I know your handwork after all. And, it's not good to eavesdrop on people, Ruri."
The purple head behind the door snapped before entering the maintenance room.
Ruri: " you figured me out."
Mizel: " you seem to forget who I am."
Ruri: " right... Anyway, I wanted to..."
She looked away as to not meet his eyes.
Ruri: " thank you... For saving me... Back with the scanner."
Mizel : " you don't need to thank me. All of you are needed strength to defeat Leviathan. If I hadn't act back then, your strength would be his and we will have even more troubles to deal with."
Mirai face palmed herself and Eva sighed.
Ruri: " though I'll have you know. I may be thankful, I may tolerate your presence. But I still, can't forgive you for what you've done to mom and dad."
Eva: " Ruri..."
Mizel: " fine with me."
He spoke up with a smirk and a shrug.
Mizel: " I'm not here to make friends anyway."
Mirai: " Mizel..."
Ruri : " well then. Excuse me."
And she walked out, the door closing with a swoosh behind her.
Eva: " Mi, you could've been a little bit nicer to her."
Mizel: " I said the truth though."
Mirai: " don't talk back to your older sister!"...
Lilyan: " Onii-sama..."
The man looked up from his tablet as she entered.
William: " Lily, I expected you."
He softly smiled and patted the side of the bed next to him which she immediately took. Unicorn flew off to her and sat comfortably on her lap.
William: " I owe you an apology, Lily. Before I knew it, five years- almost six, passed by while I was away. Although I knew you needed me by your side... I... I'm really sorry... To think I couldn't even recognize you. Some brother I'm..."
Lilyan looked down as she thought of her words.
Lilyan : " I won't lie to you, Onii-sama. I really, really, felt all alone back then. With no one to lean on. I kept pushing forward all on my own, chasing after your ghost, with no leads to your whereabout... No way to know if you were alive or not... I felt really lost..."
William: " Lily..."
Lilyan looked even down.
Lilyan: " one call... Only one call could have relived me..."
William looked away of her.
Lilyan: " Onii-sama... You did that to protect us, right..."
The man looked down as well.
William: " when I figured it all out, I was too late. Leviathan managed to grow stronger that I could no more stop him on my own. And with him seeking after my life, I figured I have to get away from you both before I could cause you any harm."
Images of cars slipping his ways, pipes almost falling on his head as they were transferred. A leak of gas at a supermarket he went to... And a lot more incidents. Lilyan seemed in shock at hearing that.
Lilyan: " that much!"
William: " I had to stay low while trying to stop him. But he grew stronger, gathered followers, conquered Dream Future and the whole world's communication network. It was when Minerva deemed it necessary we gather help on our own as well."
He looked down at his hands.
William: " maybe as the old man said, I'm not ready to take responsibility for the huge leap I crated for humanity."
Lilyan gently reached to his arm and he looked down at her. She offered him a soft smile.
Lilyan: " maybe not on your own. But together, we can fix everything."
Unicorn flew next to her.
Unicorn: " isn't that why, Minerva asked for our help."
William's eyes widened for a second before they softened as he caressed her cheek.
William: " thank you, Lily."...
Aya splashed the water all over her face, and a feeling of refreshment overwhelmed her. She took a deep breath and looked at the mirror.
Aya: " man, they're so red."
She said closing to her reflection to check her eyes.
Aya: " hopefully they won't notice it."
Kämpfer: " Aya..."
The woman looked down at her LBX and smiled softly at him.
Aya: " don't you worry. I'm alright now."
She said helping him to her shoulder.
Aya: " now that aside. We need to give those to Mr Takuya and Mr Yagami."
She said taking one more look at the data which we sent to her.
Kämpfer : " what... They're possibly up to..."
Aya: " whatever it is... The whole world is in the danger zone right now."
Metamo: " we've reached Tokio city Mo~"
Metamo's voice resounded through the shuttle, making everyone stop everything they were doing and heading to take their seats for the landing...
The car parked in front of a certain building and a man stepped out of it. He was wearing some kind of a military uniform and has a stern face. His eyes covered by sun glasses. As he entered the mansion, everyone seemed to take a step back as he walked past them. Guess his appearance did really make them unwilling to be caught in any trouble with him by accident.
He waited for the elevator, tapping his foot rhythmically on the ground. To be fair he was some kind pissed off. It seems he had to cancel a certain important meeting to get to see what the other man wanted of him.
" I swear if he is going to bark about another scientific project or something-"
He was cut off by the dinging of the elevator. He boarded it and headed up to the 10th floor. Soon enough, he was in front of the said man's apartment, ringing the bell. Moment later, a long blue haired male emerged out and invited the blond muscular one inside which he did, making sure to push the scientist slightly as he made it in.
" You're still angry at me?"
The man rose an eyebrow.
" Who is angry? Me? Certainly not."
" Don't play around. You still think it's my fault we were pushed this far."
" You discovered that much! How clever! Right! Because you rushed to get that Oozora Hiro, we were cornered! And we still are!"
" Enough! I didn't come so to listen to you two arguing."
Another voice added in an annoyed tone. Soon, a boy stepped in with a lollipop stick sticking out of his mouth and an LBX on his shoulder.
" You're... Itan Kiyouji! What's this traitor doing here!"
Itan: " how awful, I'm no traitor."
" You betrayed his excellence!"
Itan: " if I recall correctly he was the one to betray me!"
The tension rose in the room as both of them stared at each other in a terrifying way. It was until the blue haired man placed a hand on the other's shoulder.
" Listen to what he has to say first."
" What does a traitor have to say to us?"
Itan help up his lollipop and smirked widely.
Itan: " what if I tell you there is a way to restore the World Savers."
The blond male narrowed his eyes at that. Taking a deep breath, he took off his sunglasses and eyed the boy with sharp turquoise blue eyes.
" Make it short."...
