"Haha" Angel smiled and acted like what was said was a joke
"This isn't the time to be making jokes, we seriously need to get a handle on this before the minute is up"
"Again, I have no idea what you are talking about and this time I'm not joking around..." Saber said again then turned to look at the control cube few feet behind them. "What makes you think that Nate is an Intellect class trainee anyway?" He looked back at Angel who had her eyes fidgeting in anxiety
"W-well because from what I've been hearing through you which is that he is a very smart and well informed guy so I guess I just kind of figured that he had to be an Intellect class trainee but it looks like I was damn wrong..." She shrugged and gestured with her hands simultaneously
"!!" Saber said nothing
"Wow, but why didn't you o
"Hey girl! What happened to the blond freak and why is he in the back looking different all of a sudden?" Ryder asked as both an insult, for information purpose and a means of distracting Angel all at once 'Are they maybe planning something?' he thought while being cautious*SHRUG*"!!" She did nothing but shrugged to answer Ryder then she turned around to look at where her control cube was"Nathaniel? It's Nathaniel right?" she asked with a normal pitched voice as she wasn't that far away from her cube unlike Ryder and Zack who were going for the offensive"!!" Nathaniel gave a thumbs up as a sign of confirmation. Saber was the more abrasive and confident one of the two although Nathaniel wasn't in any case a push over himself but he wasn't much of a talker*STEP* *ZOOM*"Turning your back at me huh? Big mistake!" Ryder took the initiative
While they were having their discussion Nathaniel had been focused on Vinny and his control cubeSince the exercise started and Ryder attacked, Vinny had quickly approached his control cube and synced up with it and after thirty seconds of syncing he had completely understood every aspect of the cube.With total knowledge of his cube Vinny started his strategy of a bi-sequence command where he simultaneously builds a firewall to protect his cube from digital attacks and at the same time tried to attack Nathaniel's cube.Because Nathaniel wasn't an Intellect class trainee he wasn't able to do the same with his cube and just stood there trying to focus on something*TAP* *TAP*Vinny at an incredible typing pace operated his cube with extreme efficiency and ease as he remained unopposed by Nathaniel digitally
Because they didn't have an Intellect class trainee as a member of their team Angel had come to the conclusion that they had automatically lost the exercise but with Nathaniel's special ability they were a sure to win"So can you damage it digitally with that ability of yours?" she didn't give him the chance to finish he previous thought since her enthusiasm came back from being presented with a chance to win"At least let me finish speaking before you become carefree again, but whatever..." Nathaniel sighed then stepped forward a bit and got standing next to Angel "Something like that but why don't we end this now. I'll handle the cube while you take care of the protectors""Yeah?! Alright!" Angel got in stance and prepared to run off in an attack pattern...*TAP*After realizing that their current distraction with their cube was the perfect time for the opposi
Five minutes before the emergency alarms for help in the training room was sounded, the first set of team brawling had already been completed and the participants; Ryder and his team, then Angel and Nathaniel, had all moved to the walls of the training room, just like everyone else, as they waited for the instructor to call the next participating teams.They were all expecting that the instructor would call those two teams immediately after Angel and Nathaniel came out as the victors of the last brawl, but, it has been a couple minutes since that happened and there was nothing yet.Up above, behind the glass wall the coarse voice instructor was in the midst of a call. He was leaned back into the chair with his pen like communicator raised closed to his mouth, while his eyes remained stuck on the trainees especially the members of the two teams he wanted to select to go up against each other for his entertainment.The pre
Lucille, who was somewhat closer to the spot that opened up in the middle of the training room, got even more tensed as she wasn't expecting something like that, and so did her other teammates but not as obviously worried as she was.Jewel Riverr, who was the one cladded in a less high-tech looking uniform and field as the one Michael .V. Griin wears, was the one whose expression couldn't be discerned because of his field but from his body movement, which tensed up just like how others did, it could be observed that he was just as worried.At the other side, Adam's teammates were also looking worried when the sudden opening of the floor happened but their leader and everyone's captain on the other hand was extremely calm and focused on the battle ahead and how he was going to handle these three younger trainees with unknown powers.Since they were in the Special Class Category, it meant that they were exactly that; speci
Visible to everyone's eyes were just Adam, the Reflex Class teammate behind him and Jessica, slaving away on her hovering control cube therefore making the opposition team complete and performing the same task as Jessica but at the opposite end was Samuel of the Special Class team, however, between the two it was only Jessica who would pause her current activity just to portray the same shocked response as everyone else."Hey, where did they go?!"—scrunching her eyebrows in shock and glaring at the entire area of close proximity to the opposition control cube but not finding those she was looking for— She exclaimed."Cap—""Get back to work!!" —swinging his hand and a pointing fingers backwards at the cube without looking in the direction then quickly turning to face the Reflex Class member of his team beside him— Adam interrupted before taking that pointing finger away from Jessica's direct
"These Special Classes are something entirely" Frank to opinionated trainee said to his teammate while they all watched everything unfold with awe and disbelief, although having powers themselves, what they were seeing was way beyond what they could ever hope to accomplish with their enhancements alone.In the brawl, the moment Adam's back had slammed to the ground with Lucille's weight on him making the impact even more so, the boy gasped for air, with face scrunched in pain. However, he wasn't going to be given the chance to rest when Lucille, moving her body flexibly like that of a snake from the waist down whipped herself forward, bringing her face closer to his."What's she planning to do?" Adam thought before remembering the weird action she took at the beginning of the exercise when she gently rubbed her neck while Jewel did something to his field hinting that maybe her power had something to do with the area she touched."Is her power voic
Those spared or who managed to go unaffected were the trainees in the Special Class category which included Angel, Nathaniel, Samuel and Jewel; who was still on the floor trying to recover from having his ribs bashed in but not fractured or broken.Also, among that list but in another spectrum were Adam whose time spent training and having been taken the enhancement retainment medication and other forms of mental and physical improvement was able to withstand the complete effect of the Auditory Manipulation wave, albeit not completely because his level of rage and anger increased but not enough to make him lose control like the others. However, he struggled to control it.Another factor why he was that affected even with all the things he had gone through to give him a strong enough resistance from mental manipulation similar to Lucille's Auditory Manipulation power was because Lucille's mouth was directly next to his ear when he disrupted the ability so the firs
I just want to say a big THANK YOU to every single reader that was able to get this far. Thanks for picking up this story and continuing with it even when the writing wasn't as good at the beginning and when the plot was feeling flat because I wasn't in a good head space or had enough free time to write what I wanted. Thank you for helping me grow as an author and tell my story and get your thoughts on it through the comments. Thank you for following me to the end of this journey. It's been almost two years since I started and finally the story comes to an end (or does it?) If you noticed I was kind of making things up as I went along which is why there are a few plot holes and things I forgot I had written before that didn't tie in well with the continuity of the story. This is my first ever book so a few mistakes are to be expected but regardless I apologise for them. I wanted to use this medium to both declare my appreciation for you guys as well as to pas
I had called my handler to meet me by a nearby coffee shop and by the time I got there he was already seated, waiting for me. Normally I avoid contact with him because it's always him hounding me about something but this was the first time in a long time that I was the one doing the reaching out."Sorry to keep you waiting Nick" I shook his hand then sat down."No problem, so, what is the purpose of this unexpected meeting""I want you to tell me everything about the Arc Agents and what the GHA's real objective is" I didn't waste anytime to ask the real questions.Nick was shocked by the bluntness of my question then tried to deny everything I asked and said in that meeting, gaslighting me most of the time and so it ended up with me not getting any worthwhile information out of him. The meeting took place before I had to go for work so without getting anywhere we ended it and I went to work but I knew that my questions wouldn't stay with Nick but wo
"Please make it in time""If I do this then maybe it'll make up for the fact that all of this happened because I jumped back""Please make it in time"I was currently stuck in a hellish nightmare which was entirely guilt driven. Every action and consequences of said action replayed in my head, panicking, unable to find peace until I woke up with a *GASP*After forcefully waking up, I reached for something with my hand only for that to be the ceiling of someplace I couldn't recognize or knew how I got there. I would pant, trying to catch my breath when all of a sudden I felt a sharp pain in my chest.My teeth gritted and eyes squinting in pain, I reached for the source of this excruciating pain which was when I noticed the medical equipments I was hooked to and that I was on a hospital bed."This is familiar" I said internally after thinking of how it reminded me of waking up in a hospital as my host, the last time I jumped into the pas
Mirajh jumped off from the top of the drone and they walked up to the others and because Mirajh was there, Talon quickly relinquished his temporarily given authority in favour of hers."Mirajh and Malkome, you guys made it. So what's going on?" Talon asked."It's over, all our forces have been killed and from the looks of it, we are the only ones left so the question now should be, what should we do next?"Once she said that all their forces had been killed, there was a unanimous dropping of jaws and none of them expected that it could have gotten this bad. They had completely underestimated the Arc Agents and the trainees. The GHA weren't even able to send their Forces Units to assist but the trainees alone along with help from the Arc Agents were able to decimate their entire forces."What about General Icon, does any of you know his whereabouts? If we can verify his status then we might be able to come up with a plan" Talon asked but seeing the look on
Levy who was close by and saw when Akarli was taking aim jumped in front of Boyo, trying to shield him with her body while I was beside the both of them, noticing too late until the shot had been fired.Jeremiah who the shot pulled back to his senses and he saw who she was firing at, the care he had for his best friend even though he didn't want to admit it made him lose it and reflexively he fired multiple shots at Akarli too, killing her on the spot next to Icon.All of this would happen in an instant but for some reason, because I didn't want any of my friends to be shot so badly that I dont know what happened but just like when that strange phenomenon happened back at the court during our escape and I managed to find where Boyo was because of it, it happened all over again.Suddenly everything began to slow down and the surrounding got pitch black with the only thing being as visible as day time were those in there with an angered Akarli holding on to the gu
Once we were brought to the back, my eyes went to the elderly looking man sitting on a metallic chair with a caramel skin coloured lady by his right hand side. In front of them I saw two more individuals who weren't turned to us at the time we entered. One of them I couldn't tell their identity from their stature but the other I knew perfectly well who it was. "Char!" Before I could get the word out Levy called out to Boyo who once the both of them turned we saw an annoyed look on his face and it was clear by that look that he didn't want us to be there. The Upriser behind us pushed the both of us, telling Levy and I to keep on walking which we did until we walked up to where Boyo and the others were. "Nice to meet you, the both of you" Icon greeted us with a gentle smile which was obvious that he was hiding something from everyone, including those who were supposed to be his comrades in there. There was still something he failed to expose. "!!" Levy
""A journal?!"" Both Boyo and Jeremiah exclaimed."Yes... SIGH... A very long time ago, way before our formerly great nation was completely destroyed, former General Franklin Crow brought a younger me to one of his expeditions but this want just any regular expedition. It all started with him unintentionally finding the Philosophers Stone which brought about the rebirth and Emergence of our greatest soldier Anthony Wonne on one of his trips into the United States territory, allowing us to tap into a power that was only secret to our enemies. At that time and I had just been born so my father was the one who spearheaded the position I would later get when I was old enough so none of them knew that that small piece of attractive stone had such power hidden within it until years later, moments before the fall of the Old Soviet Alliance territory"Icon spoke with vivid words so that they would be carried along to where he was heading to."Being a curious man and thi
"Holy shit, what's that up there?" I couldn't help but exclaim while I and Levy tried our best to sneak into the slaughter house. We were moving very carefully, trying not to make any noise when my eyes just went up to the sky and I saw some strange looking patterns being created. "Shush Samuels, do you want to get us caught?" Levy reprimanded me with a low tone of voice but when she turned around to face me and do that she saw the awe stricken expression I had and my gaze up to the sky and she too followed. "What are you looking at?" she had her eyebrows scrunched. The moment she asked that question, my eyes flicked to her and I saw that she too was looking up to the sky but instantly realised the fact that she most definitely wasn't seeing what I was seeing. 'Don't tell me that I'm really the only one who sees that thing? No, that must be it because with her keen senses she would have noticed it even before I did if she could see it. Am I perh
Because the GIGANTA MACHINA worked like one big system, when the center of it was torn apart and the Stealth Drones that made up that part being completely destroyed the rest separated and returned to being Drones but because of what happened to the fused system the Stealth device they had was damaged and the separated drones were no longer able to go invisible.They all flew in different paths, dividing into those wanting to attack the trainees and those wanting to attack Michael but Michael acted quickly and changed where the outlet of the explosion was and used that to sweep the drones coming for him until all the explosion energy had been exhausted. From that point he attacked every single drone in the air with his BLACK FORCE-FIELD BLADE, not giving any the chance to attack the trainees but that meant that he had a lot to take care of on his own.With all their Force-fields no longer a viable option for defense and all the trainees they had to go against rea