As the men and women professionally scuffled towards their seats, Levi pays attention to the figures sitting at the high-table.
On both sides, the seats were being filled by ministers and presidents of countries like India, Australia, Nigeria.
But the table in front seemed to be the VVIP among the other leaders as not just the Chairman of the Index, together with the four Branch Index heads were present but also the presidents of USA, South Africa, Russia and Japan were seated as well with all their security teams standing behind them.
Levi gulps a little and Lucy squeezes his hand again. “It’s going to be okay.” She whispered.
Levi looks down and notices her other hand shivering slightly. “Are you telling me or yourself?”
She follows his eyes to her shivering hand and clenches it into a fist, punching Levi with a little laugh. “Both. We’re getting through this together.”
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After a long year, the most anticipated day for the first year students not just at the Southern Branch Tron College but the other three colleges as well had finally arrived, the last day of school.It was the afternoon of the lecture-free last day and Levi was up in his room, sorting out his clothes and belongings back into his suitcases while B relaxes on his bed, listening to the music he was playing from his Index band.Levi grunts as he zips up his bag and places it upright. The music playing from his band changes and he turns to B moving her finger to change the songs.“You know; most servants help their masters with the heavy lifting.”“I ‘am’ helping.” A new song plays and she twists her face in disgust before changing it. “If you listen to the perfect music, then you’d have fun while working.”Levi places both hands on his hips and glares at her. “I meant you should help me
The moment the white haired figure makes eye contact with Levi, she grins widely.“Levi!” She shouted out and before he could even blink, Lucy zooms forward with excitement and red lightning crackling her body and gives Levi a tight hug. “I missed you, baby bro.”“Seriously? We saw each other two weeks ago.” He chuckled as he hugged her back.“I know. It’s been too long.” Lucy said as she continues to hug him when she hears an awkward cough from the Index agent and quickly pulls away from Levi. “Sorry. Got a little excited there.” She said with an apologetic smile as her static shell fades away.The agent adjusts her glasses with a stern expression on her face. “Now that that’s over. We can get to the debriefing.”Levi looks around the room filled with pro agents and friends with a curious expression on his face just as Lucy throws an arm over Levi’s sho
About two days after the briefing, Levi and Lucy decided to go out for some ‘brother-sister’ bonding time at one of the Index’s main training halls. It was still around 10 in the morning and the agents already training there, stopped as they felt the rumbling and crashing sounds coming from one of the training room with the words ‘In-Use’ written over the entrance. Inside this room, one of the training droids smashes against the wall after being flung by Levi. He spins around, the lightning coating his body leaving some scorch marks on the ground as he attacks several droids charging towards him. He rips out the arm of a droid and kicks its body away before smashing the severed arm into another droid. “Duck!” Levi suddenly ducks as a large droid swings a fist over his head but a familiar figure coated in red lightning drives her foot into the droid, sending it flying into a wall with a heavy crash. “Thanks sis.” Levi said as they jumped apart to avoid the blasts of several flying
More days’ fly by as Levi enjoys his break but as with all great things, the session break comes to an end.All new second year students retook the same entrance exams as before where some considerable changes were observed in all students particularly the S class.Like how Levi’s top speed was now a little bit over lightning speed or how MJ gave the punching machine a blow so hard that it smashes through the wall and collides with another wall inside.After the exams, Levi finds himself back in the Tron College except this time, he and his classmates were escorted to the second-year hostel block where Levi gets a new room.He also had a new roommate which happened to be a Mastron in his class called Mike who he fought during Mr Jerry’s first class and also happens to be Felix’s old roommate.The one which he always complained to Levi about because he was usually filthy and loud.“This should be fun.
The next day, second-year lectures began and Levi was taking notes from a new lecturer about the World Tron Tournament which was now 2 months and 2 weeks away.The lecturer suddenly gets a call and excuses himself just as Felix slides closer to Levi and MJ on the bench. “Hey.”Levi looks at Felix with the corner of his eye and once Felix doesn’t pull away, he sighs in defeat. “You want to ask about the date, right?”“Duh. You’re sitting together so I’m guessing things went well.” Felix said, pointing at them but his face falls when he notices the awkward look they shared. “What happened?”MJ sighs before speaking. “Let’s just say, Levi and I are better off as friends.”Felix turns to Levi who shrugs in agreement. “What the hell happened on that date?”Levi folds his arms over his chest as he explains, recalling a moment from the date.<M
“… With all that said, the first stage has begun.” The officer said those words in such a calm fashion that the trons failed to react for a few seconds… before simultaneously running to the gates in realisation.As Levi closes in on the gate, he smiles at Felix, Hana and MJ by his side. “Good luck.” Levi said and MJ grins at him.Hana smiles brightly at him as she speaks. “You-” She gets cut off as they push through the gate. “Too?”“Whoa!” Levi shouted out as he finds himself and his friends free-falling into a large and barely-lit pit.MJ looks back up where the gates were still opened and unprepared students emerge only to fall into the pit as well.“This is insane.” MJ mumbled as Levi squints into the dark abyss below him where other students were free-falling as well.His Area Scope extends several feet but he still couldn’t sense an end to
As Levi steps through the warped space, the sounds of his friends as well as the feeling of his best friend’s arm over his shoulder suddenly vanishes as he steps out the other side of the gate.He suddenly finds himself in a now more humid and warm environment surrounded by tall and healthy trees. He turns around and sees that he is now completely alone with no signs of his friends or the gate he just walked through.“Okay?” He mumbled as he looked around with his Area Scope but he doesn’t sense anyone with his range limit still around 80 metres at best.<Try using that tag sensor ability.> B suggested and Levi turns his tag over, runs his thumb over the button before pressing it. The wave sends out but Levi doesn’t feel a thing and after a full 10 seconds of silence, he sighs with disappointment. <Maybe it’s broken.>Levi stuffs the tag into his pocket as he responds to B, telepathically. <Or there
Hidden in the bushes by a stream in the forest during the second stage of the World tron tournament, Levi and MJ watch as a group of western faction students turn on their fellow classmate who just sent of them, sprawling with a single strike. “There it is. The illusion trick he used on me.” MJ grumbled, clenching her fists in frustration when Levi speaks. “It’s not an illusion.” MJ turns to him in confusion but he explains. “I met someone a few days ago with illusion powers and it doesn’t feel the same.” “Then how’d you explain the second punch that just blasted that guy across the stream?” MJ asked. Levi narrows his eyes as he recalls the moment, catching the split-second glimpse of a second fist under the first. <What do you think, B?> <Yeah. That’s definitely not an illusion.> The girl holding a bow and arrow made with her pink energy turns to the leader in confusion. “I’ve never seen that move before.” She said with an