Back with Naomi, she was remembering about after the picture on her dresser was taken.
"Get lost you Adept, before I tell the Sumeragi about you." A boy snarled.
Naomi was on the ground laying on her stomach. Naomi used all her EP and was overheated. Both Naomi and the boy were covered in scrapes and cuts. However, both of them only had one bruise. Naomi had hers on the right side of her left leg 4 inches below her knee. The boy received a left black eye.
Copen then walked forward.
"Stay away from my sister you jerk." Copen growled.
"And what would you do if I didn't?" the boy interrogated before placing his right foot on Naomi's head.
"This." Copen answered before rolling back his left sleeve and throwing a punch at the boy, which resulted in the boy's already black eye becoming even darker. Naomi then went inside to get Ms. Francine.
"What is going on here!?" Ms. Francine shouted.
"He started it!" Copen and the boy exclaimed while pointing at each other.
"Now that's enough. All right, it's getting late. So let's get inside and see what can be done about those injuries." Ms. Francine suggested.
Copen and Naomi then followed Ms. Francine inside. Suddenly, after Copen and Naomi finished patching up, they heard something outside.
"This is an announcement for all humans. I am Sumeragi's unified supervisory AI, Demerzel. Your continued survival will now come to an end. A large scale attack will commence to facilitate your ejection. Effective immediately, a new weapon is being deployed to all areas outside of Sumeragi controlled Sectors. Our new mecha cannot be stopped, have a nice day." Demerzel announced.
"I thought Xana was locked up in a separate area along with Takefutsu." Dr. Kamizono spoke.
'Huh? When Xana and Takefutsu are together they can do that!? This makes escaping infinitely easier. Consider all humans will be dead, all Sumeragi scientists are human along with the soldiers. Oh boy, now I can't let that happen.' Naomi thought.
"Wait a minute! This didn't happen!" Naomi noticed.
Suddenly, Naomi rushed outside to see a robot with treads, a circular front plate to cover it's circuitry, it had a circular body and two quarter circles on top of the circular panel so it could see. It's arms were 6 barrel machine guns.
"Help!" Naomi shrieked.
Suddenly, a Bullit hit the robot, but it bounced right off and landed on the ground.
"I'm sorry." Naomi cried before the robot fired a few rounds at her.
Suddenly, Naomi was tied to a chair, her eyes were covered with a blindfold, her wrists and ankles were tied to the chair so she couldn't move. Then Naomi heard approaching footsteps so she burned the ropes before also burning the blindfold, saving the chair for later.
While Naomi was walking around, she heard someone try to jump at her from behind. So Naomi turned around and grabbed the person by their throat while lifting them into the air. Naomi's eyes then went wide in realization.
'All this did happen! It just took me some time to remember!' Naomi thought before noticing the person wrapped their hands around her left arm.
Naomi was in pain from it so she dropped them. Only to use her Metallion Septima to stretch the person's arms apart so they couldn't attack her.
"Now answer me this question and I'll let you go, if not, you die. Now, what did you plan to use me for that you had to kidnap me, blindfold me and tie me to a chair?" Naomi interrogated angrily.
The person didn't respond.
'Whoops! Guess they can't talk because veins lead everywhere including the tongue and lips.' Naomi thought.
Naomi then allowed the person to move.
"Geez! Some people are so outta whack nowadays!" a male voice joked.
"Who are you? And why did you bring me here?" Naomi snarled.
"Chill out man! I didn't want to do this, but my boss made me do it. He wanted me to get you to join us." The boy explained.
Naomi laughed.
"What's so funny?" the boy questioned.
"You, think you can take me out? Do you even have a Septima?" Naomi teased.
"I have a Septima but I just don't like using it." The boy elucidated.
"I didn't quite catch a name from you." Naomi commented.
"Oh, it's Zeno." The boy now identified as Zeno answered.
"Well, Zeno, I'll go with you. But only under one condition. You can't cuff me, have your gun to my head or treat me like a prisoner." Naomi spoke.
"Okay then, follow me." Zeno agreed.
Three quarters of the way to the building, Naomi decided to ask Zeno a few questions. "Why does your boss want to hire me?" Naomi wondered.
"Well, my boss hires Adepts who want to defeat the Sumeragi. We hire humans too, but for safety's sake they work on coding, maintenance, etc. Adepts however go out on the field, depending on if their Septima can attack or not." Zeno elucidated.
"So, he…" Naomi droned.
"Something wrong?" Zeno questioned.
"N-no, not at all. Nothing's wrong. I promise." Naomi protested.
"Sure." Zeno muttered.
"Fine fine, I'll tell you. I want the Sumeragi to be taken down but I'm being forced to work for them, my dad is too." Naomi confessed.
"Yikes, if you aren't there when they need you to be there's going to be stricter guidelines or something." Zeno commented.
"What time do the jobs usually take place?" Naomi questioned.
"Usually one to three in the morning." Zeno answered.
"I can do that." Naomi assured.
"Okay then, we're here." Zeno notified.
Naomi looked up and her eyes widened. The building had opaque pale blue glass and was 10 stories tall.
"Whoa, this is where you work?" Naomi inquired.
"Yup, this is QUILL HQ." Zeno confirmed before walking towards the building.
When Zeno went to go into the building, he turned around and noticed Naomi was still looking at the building. So Zeno went back to get Naomi.
"It's such an amazing work of architecture." Naomi admired.
"Yeah I guess it's a cool building. Come on, I want you to meet my boss." Zeno added.
So, Zeno and Naomi took the elevator to the 8th floor.
"And that's the boss right there." Zeno spoke while pointing at Asimov.
"What the, oh that is SO unfair! He's taller and all and here I am still stuck as a fourteen year old." Naomi ranted.
"What are you talking about?" Zeno asked.
"I'm going talk to him so you'll probably find out in a sec." Naomi elucidated before walking towards Asimov.
"Hi. I know I'm shorter than last time we met to your current perspective but apparently one of your employees informed me you wanted to hire me so I came. But I think I can only do extremely early missions. At least till seven in the morning." Naomi spoke.
"I'm glad you accepted my invitation Naomi. It's good to see you haven't changed. Moniqa has your uniform and first case file." Asimov answered.
Naomi looked at Zeno who's eyes were filled with shock and surprise. Zeno's jaw dropped.
"You, how long have you?" Zeno stuttered.
"I've known about his existence for 20 years and vice versa." Naomi replied.
"Oh." Zeno remarked.
"Now who's Moniqa?" Naomi queried.
"She's the only girl in the building." Zeno replied while pointing to Moniqa who was talking to Gunvolt.
"Can I ask who that guy she's talking with is?" Naomi pondered aloud.
"Oh, that's my pal Geeves. The boss said since you two are the exact same age in years you guys are working together." Zeno explained.
"That's weird, but oh well." Naomi remarked before walking over to Moniqa and Gunvolt.
"Hi, so, I'm here to collect a case file and meet the person I'm supposed to be working with." Naomi greeted.
Moniqa then turned around, revealing the case file Naomi needed in her right arm.
"We're so glad you accepted the job. There's just so many people who think QUILL's the enemy." Moniqa answered.
"Or those who're scared to pick a side or they're blinded to Sumeragi's wrong doings." Naomi agreed.
"Well the case is fairly simple. There's a girl by the name of Lumen who's being used to find Adepts by amplifying their Septima's so they can be tracked down. Soon Adepts here could be exposed. We need to stop Lumen by taking her out. GV here will go with you." Moniqa informed.
"Well if I get caught with all those cameras in there I'm going to be called a backstabbing traitor. But I'm doing what's right, and that's more important." Naomi whispered.
"Before you two go, here's your uniform." Moniqa spoke.
Naomi noticed the uniform looked like something she saw in a music video. The uniform consisted of black pants with four cobalt blue stripes, going above and below her knees. Her shirt was long sleeved with a mix of cobalt blue and black. Her boots were black and were 8 inches high.
Naomi also received a sword. Her sword was 14 feet long including the hilt. Her sword blade was cyan colored.
"I'd better put it on now. I'll be right back." Naomi commented before teleporting to her room, changing and returning before anyone blinked.
"I love it. Well, time to get started on that mission." Naomi spoke.
"I'm afraid you'll both have to wait a bit. Some transportation is needed to get you there considering it's quite a distance away. While you wait there's a couch you can sit on." Moniqa informed while pointing to a pale blue couch touching the left wall of the room.
Naomi decided to sit down.