Somewhere in the streets of Ecuador, Satanael was walking along as Delta contacted him.
"So, what are we doing here in Ecuador?" Said Satanael.
"The 8 escudos from Ecuador. The first doubloon minted in Ecuador, in the 1830s, shortly after the country became a full-fledged nation. Only a small handful were ever made." Says Delta.
"Why are we looking for a very old coin that is probably buried at the bottom of the ocean?" Asked Orga.
"Because it is a symbol of Ecuador's independence. It also remains one of the strongest links they have to their past. And uh, a little bad news: the location of the coin is currently inside a tuna that is currently up for auction. But it's best to be careful. Looks like a few of the V.I.L.E. guys are there too. Le Chèvre and El Topo." Says Delta.
"Le Chèvre and El Topo. It looks like V.I.L.E. has no idea how valuable this piece is, which means we need to secure it before they figure out where it's going." Said Satanael.
"By the way, how is your collaboration with Player going?" Asked Satanael.
"It's going well. The difficulty is to hide from him the files concerning the belts. He is very good at hacking, probably more than me." Said Delta.
"I see. Well, it's time to can a tuna." Said Satanael.
Later, Satanael was now in the guise of Orga. The two snuck to the back of the fish market where they saw Zack and Ivy inspecting some tuna with an X-ray machine. At Carmen's request, it was hidden to help Ivy and Zack in case they crossed the path of Le Chèvre and El Topo, while Carmen participated in the auction.
"Aw, find that room, sis! I can't breathe in here." Said Zack.
"If you don't help me, Zack, I promise you I'm going to make you swallow one whole, with the bones." Said Ivy before the device then beeped as it detected a coin in the tuna.
"Great fifty-second, my lucky number." Said Ivy.
Orga cleared his throat to get their attention.
"Ah! Oh, it's just you." Said Zack.
"Hand it over, it will be harder for them to take it from me." Said Orga.
Ivy agreed and gave the fish to Orga who used his weapon to gut the fish and retrieve the coin.
The doors open and Carmen Sandiego enters.
"Well, look what just came in. A red snapper." Said Ivy.
"Hey, don't be embarrassed, Carmen. The smell of fish makes me dizzy too." Said Zack.
Carmen then notices Orga and the gutted fish he was holding.
"You took the 8 escudos. Great, so we can use this to our advantage." Said Carmen, taking a fish of some kind. "We'll make them believe that we haven't yet taken out the piece with a fish." She said.
Orga nodded and gave the 8 escudos to Carmen.
Later, Le Chèvre and El Topo, who had just taken the tuna lot from the auction and gutted them all, found the 8 escudos.
"We've done them all... and none of them have..." Said El Topo in exasperation.
"I think we got screwed." Added Le Chèvre.
The next day, Carmen, Satanael wearing Orga's belt, Ivy and Zack were in Rome visiting the coliseum at night.
"Why are we here?" Carmen asked.
"Delta told me that someone I need to call to order is here." He said.
Suddenly, a gray sword was thrown at Satanael who caught it with one hand before breaking it by tightening his grip on the blade. This surprised Carmen, Zack and Ivy, since he was not transformed into an Orga.
Then footsteps were heard in the direction of the weapon. It was a gray humanoid creature with a head similar to that of a buffalo.
"So, you're the emperor they told me about..." Said the creature as its shadow took the form of a clean-shaven Asian man. "And I won't let you kill me." He said.
"The trouble with those who are victims of the same phenomenon as you... is that they are already dead. And don't take advantage of their second chance to be better." Said Satanael taking out of his jacket the Orga Phone and opened it before pressing the 0-0-0-ENTER keys.
Standing By!
"Henshin." He said as he placed the phone on the belt and lowered it, causing it to turn into Orga. as he placed the phone on the belt and lowered it, causing it to turn into an Orga.
Complete!
Once transformed, he grabbed his weapon and placed a chip similar to the one on the front of his phone to switch it to sword mode.
Ready!
He then launched an attack against the creature. The fight was brutal, the creature having made a new sword appear to replace the one that Satanael had broken, they exchanged blows without any mercy. Of the two, Orga was the more brutal, he fought with a ferocity and violence that worried Carmen. It was as if his friend was unleashing all the impulses that inhabited him in his fight.
"Carmen! What's going on?" Player asked.
"Satanael is facing the person that Delta told him about. And... the best I can do is show you." Carmen answered by taking out her phone so that the hacker could see with the camera what was happening and he was as surprised as Satanael's new friends.
"If he deploys so much force, it's because he doesn't want to hide anything from you." Delta explained from Carmen's phone.
The blades of the two opponents came back into contact and it was at this moment that Orga opened the Orga Phone without removing it from his belt and pressed the ENTER button before closing it.
Exceed Charge!
Suddenly, Orga's blade was covered in yellow energy that took the form of a larger version of the blade. The creature became frightened and tried to run away, but the energy blade sliced through it in a single blow, setting off a small explosion before leaving the creature with blue flames emanating from it.
Orga pressed the End Call button and faced the creature as Satanael.
"Why? Why do I have to die a second time?!" The creature shouted.
"Because a second doesn't mean harming the innocent." Satanael simply replied, making the creature laugh.
"So... what should this be for?" He asked.
"To become better. And to remain human despite what we have become." Satanael replied as the creature fell to dust.
He then turned to see Carmen, Ivy, Zack and probably Player as Carmen held her phone towards him.
Later in a hotel, Stanael poured a verse to his three friends while Player and Delta from Carmen's phone, drank from a straw cup.
"So what was that monster?" Zack asked.
"It was an Orphnochs." Satanael replied.
"And what is that, exactly?" Player asked.
"They are dead humans with a gene that brought them back to life as a monster like the one you saw." Delta explained. "Some decide to live their lives as before. While others feel that they have become superior to normal humans and see nothing wrong with killing them under the Orphnoch coat of arms that they earned upon their resurrection. And the role of their emperor, is to eliminate those who kill humans." She said.
Upon hearing this, Carmen turned to Satanael.
"He called you 'the emperor'. Is that you?" Carmen asked, hoping she wasn't right.
"Yes... I told you I died for an hour. And I didn't lie to you. I died in every sense of the word. My brain was not sending signals, my heart was not beating, my blood was not flowing. I was definitely dead. Then an hour later I woke up. I was the first Orphnoch to be discovered. Later my father started a project to create equipment to fight against the Orphnochs, what was born from this project is the Rider System, with as first model, the Orga belt. Other belts are in development... but when I found out that you escaped from the island thanks to my father, I decided to take the Orga Belt to find you. And seeing what you were doing, I decided to take a cue from you to keep an eye on you from time to time. Until we met in Poitier." Satanael explained.
"You mean you... are some kind of zombie?" Ivy asked as she and Zack began to get scared.
"You could say that. But I don't transform like other Orphnoc." Satanael replied.
"You can't?" Player asked.
"No, he doesn't want to. It reminds him that he's not human anymore. And he hates it." Delta replied.
"Delta!" Satanael said angrily.
"Okay, okay..." She said, making a motion with her fingers to keep quiet.
"I'm going to pause my explanation to let you digest this." Said Satanael, putting an end to his explanations.
Later that evening, Carmen, wearing simple red pajamas, went into the living room of their hotel room, to find Satanael, looking at himself through the reflection of a television screen, with black marks forming an inhuman face on his.
"Satanael..." She said, startling her friend as the marks disappeared from her face.
"I, uh... I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to see that." He said in an embarrassed tone...
Carmen went over to him and sat down next to him.
"That face over yours... was that your Orphnoc appearance?" She asked.
"... Yes..." He replied with shame as he lowered his head.
"When I was told of your death when I was on the island, I was shocked. At the academy, you were the only one who dared to defend me against Tigress when I flunked out. And when I heard that you left V.I.L.E. because of what happened during the Shadowsan ordeal, it really touched me. That and what I saw when I crashed the mission with Crackle and the others, the day before you left, is what motivated me more than ever to leave the island and fight V.I.L.E. " Carmen explained, putting her hand on Satanael's hand, which was closer to her. "You have partly made me what I am now." She said.
"Carmen... I promise you that together we will bring down V.I.L.E. But after that, I don't know what we will do." He said as he looked at the briefcase containing Orga's belt.
"We'll see. Let's not think right away about what happens next. And don't think about what you have become. Inside, you are still Satanael. And that's what's important." She said with a sincere smile.
"You're right... Thanks Carmen." Said Satanael, returning her smile.
"You're welcome." She said before going back to bed, leaving Satanael to look at the hand she had held.