“… 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
About 3 days ago, Felix steps through the spatial gate for the second challenge of World tron tournament and immediately finds himself in a very windy area.He opens his eyes and sees that he was now standing on a tall rocky hill with the sight of a vast forest to his front.He turns around but he couldn’t see any of his friends including Levi, who he was leaning on when they walked through the gate and even the gate itself was nowhere to be seen, only the sight of the rocky plateau he is standing on.“Hmm.” He hummed as he walked towards that direction but suddenly hits an invisible wall.He rubs his head and hesitatively reaches out, his fingers feeling the strangely solid yet liquid-like barrier forming the boundary of the challenge field.“Dope.” He mumbled in awe, just as a bright light causes him to cover his eyes and a moment later, he finds himself staring at a student from the Eastern faction. The
Felix stares with confused eyes as the imposter Hana remains hunched over, with particles falling from face… particles that resembled…“Sand?” He mumbled.“That was fun while it lasted.” Felix flinches as the imposter’ voice now sounded like a mix of Hana’s with another female’s voice. The imposter looks up, revealing cracked fissures on her skin and the revelation of a darker skin beneath. “But I’m bored now.”Felix suddenly throws a fire ball at her but the imposter just smiles as her golden aura was finally revealed, instantly changing shape and form to become a wall of sand that blocks Felix’s attack.The sand wall suddenly shoots several sand bullets and Felix quickly grabs Hana and flies to the other side of the garden, his feet burning the flowers beneath him.As he sets Hana down, her eyes widen when she sees some red stains on his clothes which he notices as we
Meanwhile, around the same time on the other side of the forest, a familiar white-haired figure grumbled before slowly opening his eyes…He blinks a few times and eventually find himself on the grassy floor and a cool night breeze blowing over his face… just as a small familiar red-haired girl looks at him from an upside-down position followed a loud voice in his head.<You’re finally awake, huh…Master?> Levi blinks a few more times in confusion… before immediately remembering the events that occur before he lost consciousness.He quickly shoots to his feet before tumbling down to his knees, his body partially weak with a headache.B hovers in a criss-cross position in front of Levi, a worried look on her face. <You should rest a little more, Levi. You’re not fully recovered yet.> B said, telepathically.Levi rubs his head with a grunt before gazing the strange plants which attacked him stil
It’s the fourth day in the dimension of the Second Challenge of the World Tron Tournament and Levi finds himself face to face with a new enemy who stares at him with battle ready red glowing eyes.B speaks to Levi telepathically, concern felt in her tone as she takes note of Levi’s still weakened body. <Are you really willing to do this, Master? Your body’s still healing and I want to help but…><My matrix isn’t in peak condition so your energy might actually destroy it?><Precisely.> B sighed and Levi chuckled a little in his mind.<It’s okay. He’s not going to let us go whether I take Raven or not. Besides…> Levi causally swings the kunai on his finger with a small smile on his face. <I get to try some new gears I’ve been working on.> Levi clenches the kunai again, ready to fight………A second later, the tron vanishes and Levi barely blo
It’s been events after events for the past 4 days and now, Levi finds himself staring at a certain teleporting tron’s unconscious body on the ground, his blood slowly pooling under him… with a familiar female figure staring at the tron, a bloodied weapon in her hand.Levi suddenly glares at Raven who flicks the blood off her weapon and wipes some blood from her cheek. “What the hell?!” Levi asked, angrily while she looks up to him with a smile.“Well, good morning to you too, cutie.” She chuckled a little before realising how serious Levi glared at her. She sighed and rested her sword on her shoulder. “Relax, he’s fine. I made sure to miss all vital organs. An average tron can recover from this with no problem.”She looks down on the tron’s body and smirks a little. “I didn’t mean to cut that deep though. Must still be the effect of her gear.”Levi then turned around to s
In the middle of the plant infested clearing, the plant tron continues to look down on a partially injured Levi.She smirks as she inclines her head up a little, commanding several vines which were quietly creeping towards Levi to suddenly wrap around him, covering his entire body…but is immediately blown apart by his lightning stream just as the tron notices a lightning coated object streaking towards her.A large vine forms a shield but once she saw the kunai easily rip through the hard wood, she narrowly escapes by moving her throne to the side just as she sees Levi in the air in front of her, a bolt of lightning focused on one hand.“Nice try.” She waves her hand at him, commanding the sunflowers to fire another beam of bright light at Levi who quickly closes his eyes making the tron smile as she commands four large sharp wooden spikes to fly towards him…… but Levi suddenly weaves over one of the spikes and blasts the o
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