It’s the next day and by 9 am, all third year students were boarding several buses based on their respective classes.Within 30-40 minutes, the buses leave for the airports due to the fact that Work Program is another activity that shows union between the four branches, so every student from the Southern branch must do their program in one of the other three factions.The same goes to the other factions. Within a particular bus, the S and A class chat happily and excitedly about their expectations and thoughts about the program.Towards the front row of seats, Levi furrows his brows as he tries to revise some technology lectures just as the figure beside him groans. “Will you just relax, babe?” Alana said as she pushes his interface aside and presses her body against him. “We’re an hour from the airport. Let’s enjoy it.”“Fine.” Levi chuckled as he removed his interface and wraps an arm around Alana who snuggles closer to him.Felix stretches out from the seat in front of them and s
Levi subconsciously swallows as the powerful tron walks past them to meet Tyler.“Bright and early as usual I see, T-bone.” She said as she stops by the counter with her eyes fixed on Tyler who smiles sheepishly to himself. She then turns her attention to the two boys. “And who are our guests here?”“The interns.” Tyler said as the boys handed their forms over to her. She hums as she quickly skims through it. “Levi and Felix, huh…” They both nod and she sets the forms down on the counter as she addresses them. “Well, it’s good to have you here. I’m the head of this lab. My name is Dr Racheal Andre but I’d prefer if you call me, Chief.”“Okay, chief.” They said simultaneously and Rachel nods as she gestures to Tyler. “I see you’ve already met T-bone.” Rachel said.“I actually have a question about that name.” Levi mumbled and Tyler glared at him.“They don’t need to know.” Tyler grumbled to Racheal who chuckles before answering.“They’re going to be working with us for 4 months, T-bo
It’s an average Monday afternoon over Iwatani Labs and Levi stands up from his seat in Lab 300 as a friendly face approaches. “Nina?” Levi asked.“Long time no see, kid.” She said with a smile as she gives him a warm hug before ruffling his hair with a laugh. “How’ve you been?” Levi chuckles as he re-adjusts his hair. “I’ve been good. What about you? I haven’t seen you in months.”She places a hand on her hip with a smile as she answers. “Miss Balalaika and I have been leading the Empire case these past months.”“You and Miss Balalaika, huh?” Felix mumbled with a cocky smile and Nina rolled her eye at him.“For the last time, that was just a onetime fling. We were drunk.” Nina grumbled. “She didn’t seem to mind.” Felix chuckled and Nina glares at him.“It’s good to see you too, Felix.” Nina mumbled and Felix smirks at her.A sudden laughter gets their attention to Racheal who was still behind her. “So the rumours about you and Northern head were true, huh…” Rachel mumbled. Nina rai
Within the mindscape of the founder of the Dark Empire, Levi and B stare in complete terror as the powerful aura oozing out of the Web’s creator, the Spider fills the memory around them as she laughs before finally speaking with a cold tone in her voice. “Mr Wick.” As she slowly stands up, her pressure rises again and Levi steps back in fear. “Your retarded human brain cannot even comprehend the full extent of my plan…”She then turns to face Wick who was basically having a panic attack but before they could get a look on her face… the memory goes black just like how Levi arrived.Levi collapses onto a knee, his breath rapid and deep with a hand on his chest. “What…happened?” Levi asked.B frowns as she answers. “Memory altering. It seems the Spider wiped the rest of this memory to avoid her plans leaking out to people like us.”She sighs before turning to him as she speaks. “I’m assuming the fear Wick felt came from the fact that the spider could easily alter his mind. Even though h
In the middle of the afternoon and the Japanese police works hard to block off civilians from passing through a common highway where a situation had occurred…with Levi and his associates in the middle of it. As people scream and abandon their cars in the middle of the road, the members of Lab 300 grunt and struggle as their van was being overrun by a large number of……“Zombies?” Betty shrieked in fear as some zombies claw at her window.Felix gives Levi a concerned look. “Looks like they’re back for more.” Felix said. Levi nods and Tyler glances at them.“So that zombie video was real?” Tyler asked.“Yeah.” Racheal grumbled just as a suddenly loud screech radiates outside the van. “And they’re messing up my van.”With a sudden grunt, Racheal kicks the door open, throwing some zombies off before turning to Levi and Felix, dark eerie energy radiating from her body. “Come on, boys. Let’s teach these guys a lesson.” “Yeah.” Felix mumbled as he follows after Racheal with Levi behind him.
Levi stands nervously as he stares at one of the Index’s Head, a person he’d only seen from afar now in the in front of him.“I hope I’m not intruding.” Mr Kishimoto chuckled as he glances at Betty who nervously organizes her table and Joseph hides his beer and guitar. “Joseph. Betty. A pleasure to see you again.”As he greets them, Felix whispers to Levi. “What’s the Eastern Head doing here?”Levi raises a brow at him before whispering back. “Because we’re in Iwatani Labs and he’s Mr Iwatani Kishimoto.”“No wonder his face is all over the place. I was just too lazy to find out myself.” Felix mumbled and Levi chuckles just as the faint whirling sound approaches them.“I believe this is the first time we’ve met like this, Mr Levi.” Mr Kishimoto said and Levi gives him a polite smile.“Yes. It’s nice to finally meet you, Mr Kishimoto.” Levi said as he shakes his hand.Mr Kishimoto smiles warmly at him before turning to Felix. “And it’s a pleasure to meet you too, Mr Felix.” He said.Fel
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 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