The next few days seemed to have slowed down for Levi mostly because he moves each day with his guard up since he’s now a bait.By now, it’s been exactly a week since the mission debrief but it’s also been a whole month since the commencement of the Work Program and so far, all signs of Frankenstein seemed to have just never happened…It’s a Wednesday afternoon in Iwatani Labs and below in the underground parking lot, Levi, Felix, Tyler and Racheal were picking up some equipment from their van. “Be careful with that, T-bone. I had pull up a lot of favours to get that 3-D printer.” Racheal said to Tyler who groans as he gently lowers the printer onto the ground.As Levi and Felix effortlessly lift two printers each from the van, Felix speaks. “I still can’t get how this Frankenstein guy has to ‘test’ you before taking you.” They drop the printer onto the hovering cart before walking back to the van. “Yeah. I’d say it’s because he’s confident that he can catch us.” Levi chuckled as he
It’s almost 3 am in the morning and a single van pulls up in a small abandoned little village. Inside the van was Ken and his team with Levi and Jackie.Once they all exited the van, Ken holds Levi back and hands him a pill. Levi stares at the reddish pill with a curious eye.“An experimental drug created by the Index to counter any energy suppressing drugs they might give to restrain you.” Ken said.“Just in case, huh.” Levi mumbled but quickly swallowing the pill.“It’ll take some minutes to circulate. Now, let’s move.” Ken said as he moves ahead, followed by the team who strategically walk around Levi and Jackie as they move towards the warehouse.About 5 minutes later, they stop in front of a warehouse and looked around, the sight of old rusty equipment and structures only heighten the already spooky environment.Ken opens up his vintage pocket watch and narrows his eyes a
As the growing whirl and hiss of the structure radiates through the room, Priya speaks up with a louder voice. “During my personal pursuit of elemental trons, I realised something.” Levi looks around as several tiny pores opened into his chamber through the inner chamber wall. “When a tron’s body comes under stress, it instinctively releases its natural energy in an attempt to protect itself. But for an elemental tron, it’s a little special…” She smirks as a strange flow of energy fills Levi’s chamber and instantly becomes a small whirlwind of air that hits Levi’s body violently. It was then that he felt it. “No. No.” Levi grunted as he tried to hold in his energy which desperately tried to leak out. Priya cackles again below before explaining. “It’s no use, Lightning. You can’t fight it.” As if to prove her point, Levi stumbles and groans as his electricity bursts out of his body, crackling brightly in his chamber. “Magnificent.” She mumbled in awe of Levi’s beautiful energy be
“In that case, let’s move.” Sage mumbled as he sheathes his sword and charges forward with the young trons behind him.“I’ll join you after I’ve ensured this child is recovered!” Gale shouts at them as he tends to Raj and Sage nods at him as he continues forward.Within minutes, the trons were running through the hallway which had already been transformed into a battle zone. “Priya de Luca is a bad guy? Viv’s gonna freak!” Citadel said with a shocked look on her face and Riot looks at them.“Forget that for now. How’re we going to find her?” Riot asked.“We follow the energy she stole from us.” Jackie said.Racheal nods as she explains. “The cables seemed to lead up so we need to get an elevator or…”“There’s a stairway to the left.” Levi grumbled as he scans the area using his area scope. Sage nods at Levi before speaking. “Go ahead, young Levi. If she uses her spatial comrade, it’ll all be over.” “I’m coming too.” Nova said as he flies beside Levi who nods as he activates his stat
In the large hall underground, while the Index agents continue to battle Priya’s men and zombies, Priya smirks confidently at the three trons before her.Racheal grunts as she breaks through the rocky debris around her while Jackie winces from the electrical damage done to her body. As they continue to struggle as they picked themselves up, Priya lets out an evil laugh before speaking. “You can’t beat me. I have the power of you three combined.” She then turns to Levi who manages to force himself to stand, a hand on his left shoulder and his teeth gritted. “And I won’t stop until I’ve had every last drop of y-” She suddenly dodges to the side, as a wind current flies passes her and slices cleanly through the machine still hissing in the room. Priya gasps as a shallow cut forms on her cheek with some blood trickling down from it. “Oh my. I didn’t think I’d miss.” Priya turns with a glare at Gale who approaches with a powerful current of wind howling around his body. He then stops a
The mission against Frankenstein aka Priya de Luca and her quest for the elemental powers had come to an end but it wasn’t the end the Index hoped for. Even though they were successful in defeating and capturing her, the introduction of a new enemy lead to her untimely demise. The figure’s identity was Agent Zero. A threat considered to be SS which was a rank only attained by about a dozen trons in history. Examples of such trons that reached this level are the leader of the Dark Empire, Ban Wick through the use of Grade 2 breakers and the now deceased Priya de Luca through the absorbance of 5 different S rank energy signatures. But Zero wasn’t just an ordinary Web agent, he was also the second-in-command to the Web forces and the Spider’s right hand man. And after his display of abilities and gears, no one could deny his power… even someone as powerful as Levi. After the mission, most of the agents returned to their normal posts and the third year students in particular return
In a beautiful apartment complex owned by the Index, two trons rushed through the halls before reaching a particular room. As Felix locks the door to Levi’s room, Levi sends a quick message and after some minutes of waiting, he receives a call. He shares a nod with Felix and answers, projecting the holograms of Nina, Peter and Kenji in the room. They wait until the line was secured before speaking. “You guys found something?” Felix asked and Peter scoffs. “Not just something, somethings.” Peter grumbled. Levi and Felix share a concerned look just as Kenji steps closer and speaks. “It took some time because of our other missions but we were able to obtain some questionable information about Mr Kishimoto.” “Like what?” Levi asked and Nina folds her arms over her chest as she speaks. “Remember those Breakers the Empire got their hands on last year?” She asked. “Yeah. Dr Racheal told us it was the Eastern Branch that designed it.” Levi said. “Until an accident got the project shut
Night has fallen on Iwatani Labs but outside the building in the secluded parking lot, Felix glances between the burning vehicle behind him and his slightly grazed shoulder before turning back to Violet whose true identity was now revealed.“So you’re Zero…” Felix grumbled as he gets to his feet just as Violet sends another light beam towards him but he quickly dodges to the side as the beam causes another car to explode.Before Felix’s feet could even touch the ground, Violet was now beside him, half of her body covered by the red-black armour.Felix quickly creates a dagger of blue flames just as Violet sends a crushing punch into arm.The force sends him sprawling across the parking lot and into the side of a building. Felix crumples to the ground and coughs up some blood before realising that something felt strange.He turns to his left arm and his eyes widened when he sees that it was now broken
As the doors to her parent’s room slide shut behind her, Eva’s eyes first meet the messy bed but Levi wasn’t on it. She turns and finds him standing by the cabinet some distance away from the bed. She wanted to speak but stops as an amused idea comes to her mind. She proceeds to sneak up to him and just when she was about to scare him, she finally notices that he was staring at a picture in his hand.Curious, she moves to get a closer look and sees that he was staring at the picture of him and Felix when they were younger. Unknown to Eva, Levi catches the sight of her eyes reflected against the frame and disappears… instantly appearing behind her and attacks with a tickle attack.“Da-Dad! S-Stop!” Eva shouted between laughs before using her own static shell to get away from him.“You let your guard down.” Levi said with a smile as he deactivates his static shell.“Sure but you don’t get to tickle me. I’m not 10 anymore.” Eva grumbled and Levi laughs as he places the picture in the ca
It’s been 2 whole weeks since the defeat of the Parasites but the whole world was still buzzing about it.Not only did it help resolve the still lingering resentment of normal humans against the Index and trons in general, it also boosted the images of the Guardians to the point that they got a title upgrade… ‘The Guardian Deities’ which was ironic because the guardians were fighting beings trying to become gods in the first place.This goes especially for Levi. From the rumours about him to his revelation and his fight, his fame blew up more than the other guardians. This caused people to give him new nicknames and titles but the most notable name was the one the Spider of the Web predicted almost 2 decades ago… ‘The King of Humans’When all this new fame, respect and in some extreme cases, worship emerged, most of those so called superheroes resigned. Which was mostly due to the new bound resentment to people like them using Visor and Shade as references.Those that remained were t
While the world continues to rave about the fight of the Guardians against the Parasites, the Index’s top command was confronted by the revelation of an old enemy coming back for another sick game before being shocked more once they learnt that someone on their side already figured it out.“You’re saying Levi West knew about Blanca all this time?” Carolina asked and Alana nods.“Why didn’t he say anything?” Amanda asked and Alana shrugs.“I think he was worried about Blanca getting whiff of it. Even I didn’t know anything about it until 30 minutes ago.” Alana said.“He told you?” Vivian asked but Alana shakes her head.“He’s still out cold. The person who told me is the only other person who knew which also happens to be the person that’s going to kill that bastard.” Alana said with a gesture to the blank screen.“Who?” The Northern Rep asked and Alana smirks.“I believe you know an agent that goes by the nickname… the ‘Devil’s Kiss’.” Alana said and the Rep’s eyes widen in fear. “I
About 2 hours after the fight, in the Index’s HQ within the city… “So you have no idea who destroyed the bases?” Callum asked with narrowed eyes at Amanda’s hologram who nods.“We were running around for days trying to find it until we got a call of an attack and decided to check it out. By the time we got there, the base was already in flames and every one in that building died either from the explosion… or were killed with hollow canons.” Amanda said with concerned expression her face.“The same thing happened in Greece.” Vivian grumbled in her hologram form beside Amanda.“And South Korea.” Hunt, Vivian and Veronica’s father said with low growl in his voice as he sits across Vivian in a holographic form as well.“What about New York?” Callum asked and Amanda responds.“It was the biggest out of the four bases so the attack left the squad there a little overwhelmed with the damage. The Erased is helping with the clean-up but Diana’s replacement confirmed that the same thing happen
Barely 2 minutes ago…… “I thought you said that place was safe.” Gwen said as she runs with Nina and Peter leading them through the tunnels underground. “Emphasis on the ‘was’. Plans change.” Maeve said with a nonchalant expression that makes the children even more worried. “I hope they’re all okay.” Alex said with hopeful voice and Alice squeezes his shoulder. “They will be.” Alice said and Alex smiles… just as Eli stops with his eyes narrowed and a hand on his mask. A second later, Maeve, Nina and Peter stop too… just as an explosion occurs several metres behind them. “Whoa.” Cyrus grumbled as he stumbles and turns with widened eyes as the flames from the explosion suddenly barrels through the passage towards them. “Get behind-” Peter grunted as he tries to use her steel form but stumbles just as Eli steps up with his mask down. “Eli!” Alex said as the flames and debris continue to approach him with terrifying speed but Eli remains calm as he takes a deep breath. Seeing this
In one of the four battlegrounds…Cain was now on the ground; eyes widen as their body crumbles away with a reflector seen activated on their chest.They look up and flinch as Hana, Rana and Camie despite being all injured in different places with varying severity, stand around him with the familiar amprade glowing under their skin and their eyes.“How is this possible?” Cain grumbled.“Boosted or not, you were still only capable of using two gears simultaneously. With three seeming to be your limit if you push yourself hard enough." Rana said."But there’s only so many combinations that could work and I’ve fought a monster that could use dozens of different gears simultaneously. Compared to Zero, you’re nothing.” Hana added with a cold tone in her voice.“No.” Cain mumbled with tears in their eyes as they raise an arm to them. “Help… Gil… Mum…” Cain arm finally crumbles away into nothing… followed by the rest of their body.The same event occurs in another place… where Zack was now o
Hidden beneath the chaos caused by the fights above… Nina grunts from the burns on her arm which Maeve tends to. “Are you okay?” Cyrus asked and Nina grunts as Maeve ties her wounds. “Yeah. I just feel stupid for trying to stop her.” Nina grumbled and a pained laugh draws her attention to Peter who was even more injured with Gwen tending to him. “That’s what we get for forgetting she’s Einstein’s little girl. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Peter said before wincing as Gwen washes his wounds. “Still… I thought she was trained assassin. Going this far was too much especially since Mr Levi’s still alive.” Maeve grumbled with a glance at the screen where Levi was seen arguing with Eva before being caught up in a smoke bomb attack, blocking them from sight. “I can understand her emotions. Even I’m fighting the urge to go especially since I can’t even see my father.” Barry said with a frown at one of the screens which only shows the ice fortress with the faint sight of flam
“Dad!!!!!!” Eva shouted as she jumps to her feet with her widened purple eyes fixed at the now hollow ground where Levi was standing without a single trace of him left. “I don’t believe it.” Peter mumbled with shocked eyes while Nina tightly clenches her fists with a pained but still hopeful look in her eye.“Eva.” Alice said as she turns to Eva who was beginning to hyperventilate.“No. No. No. No.” She continues to mumble with tear streaming down her cheeks. Alice and some others move to comfort her but Nina and Peter quickly stop them as black markings begin to crawl onto Eva’s body.“Please. No.”Meanwhile…Blanca just stares with completely shocked eyes at the hollow ground where Levi was standing while Gilgamesh smiles evilly.He then turns back to Blanca who quickly stops time again… before gasping as Gilgamesh’s hand tears another rift that allows him to enter the time stopped world again. “No. Stay away.” Blanca said as he turns to run before gasping as Gilgamesh was now in
12:54 pm…Under the hot afternoon sun, the Sanctuary continues to be bombarded with the chaos created by the parasites.But due to the efforts of the Index, virtually all civilians were safely evacuated to safe points where they, along with the rest of the world watch, via news drones, the battles between these new enemies and the only humans capable of fighting them……In one part of the city, Valentina stands with heavy breaths escaping her mouth while the several cuts on her body continue to heal quickly.She laughs as she looks up to Veronica with some bruises who growls with blood stained claws. “I’d say I underestimated you, Wolf. Your claws are even sharper than the Reaper’s scythe.”Veronica suddenly scoffs. “Wrong again.” Valentina furrows her brows in confusion which makes Veronica smile with beastly sharp teeth.“If you think my claws are sharper than Hana’s blades then she must have really held back when she fought you.”“Is that right?” Valentina chuckled as the last of he