《Flash Step》
Transfer student
It was a warm spring day, a day like any other, except for the fact that class 1A of Chuuni High School got a peculiar transfer student. This transfer student was in fact a prisoner, who had his hands bound and was escorted by two guards. Even the teacher was scared, when she first heard about this transfer student.
He was convicted for 20 years because he castrated a well known businessman. No one ever knew, why he did it, as the boy, who at that time was only 14, never said it. When the students heard that a prison such as this was going to transfer into their class, they panicked. All the boys however reflexively covered their private parts with their hands.
When the teacher had explained the situation and that the transfer student will be sitting at the back end of the class under strict supervision of the two guards with his hands bound, they calmed down. They realized that if no one got close to him, he couldn''t do anything to them.
It was at that moment, a youth with fair, blonde hair and blue eyes walked in. He was wearing jeans and a black T-shirt. The youth was medium height and had an annoyed expression on. There were two guards behind him, one seemingly twenty year old man and a middle aged man, who looked to be in his thirties. The old man had greying hair and had a pretty robust build. He currently had a weird smile on his face. The young man had brown hair and also a pretty robust build. The young Guard was currently holding back his laughter with all his might.
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When everyone else saw that, they were scared. The teacher quickly stepped away as she said in a trembling voice, ¡°P-p-please, say a f-f-few things about yourself.¡± The youth looked at her with amusement and said, ¡°Well, My name is Ghost von Poltergeist and I am here to feed on your souls.¡±
The young guard, burst out laughing and the old guard was shaking his head, however there was urge to laugh written all over his face. Everyone else however were frozen where they sat.
Chapter 1: Introductions
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Chapter 1: Introductions
Everyone were frozen where they sat, all that could be heard was the young guards laughter. After a few seconds the youth turned around and smiled towards the two guards and said, ¡°Pay up.¡± The two guards reluctantly pulled out their wallets and both took out a 20 Earth Dollar bill. They gave them to the youth and the older guard said, ¡°Now that you won the bet, how about you do a proper introduction.¡±
While putting the money in his pocket, the youth cleared his throat and started, ¡°Well, my name is Alex Uni and I''m 16 years old. As you can see, I''m a prisoner. The only reason I am currently in this school is because they threatened to ban me from drinking coffee if I didn''t join the school.¡± He looked at his fellow students with a straight face and when he got to the coffee part, he pointed behind him towards the two guards. The younger guard was having trouble holding back his laughter again while the older one just kept shaking his head.
¡°My hobbies are napping, sleeping and hibernating. Due to circumstances, I can''t take part in any class activities and I honestly don''t expect to even know your names when high school ends. If you need something from me, I''d prefer if you didn''t ask.¡± Alex always had a smile one his face as he talked, some of the students wanted to laugh at that introduction but were too afraid to.
One of the girls with straight black hair, black eyes, an oval face and a slender body raised her hand. Seeing this Alex looked at her and asked, ¡°Yes, do you want to ask something?¡± The girl nodded and asked him, ¡°Why do you hide behind your smile?¡± As the question dropped, Alex''s face turned rigid, the guards behind him however had an interested face on. Everyone else in the class however looked at her with a puzzled gaze, ¡°Whatever could you mean by that?¡± Alex asked with a still smiling face. He was starting to grow wary of the girl as he could see that she was not ordinary Joe.
¡°My ability is to see a persons true feelings as an aura around them, yours has been blue from the moment you started talking. Blue signifies that you are regretting something.¡± As the girl said that, Alex''s face had lost his smile and looked serious now, even his eyes had turned cold as he thought to himself, ¡°Just my luck, running into an ESP-er right as I walked into the classroom.¡± Even the guards were shocked to see Alex turn like this. They had been with the boy for two years and this was the first time, they saw him without a smile on his face. ¡°Well, don''t you know it''s impolite to stick your nose into someone else''s business?¡± Alex said in a cold voice, the girl opened her mouth to rebute him but before she could do that, Alex turned to the teacher and asked in a cold voice, ¡°Can I go to my seat now?¡± The teacher feeling dread, just nodded and Alex started walking towards his seat. The guards walked right behind him and were puzzled as they had never seen Alex act like this. Alex went to sit down and as he did, an awkward silence reigned in the classroom. The teacher started going on with the lessons but Alex didn''t pay her any heed. He was cursing inside, ¡°For the love of, I knew there were a lot of ESP-ers in this school but to run into such a steel wall 5 minutes into the lesson, I must have seriously pissed off my guardian angel at some point in time.¡±
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ESP-ers were people with special inborn abilities, they were quite common in the world and the government had put up a special department for them. When people joined this department they gained exceptional privileges, so basically every ESP-er in the country joined them. Where there are good points there are always bad ones, some people however find that department as a way to control the ESP-ers and limit their freedom and have formed various Terrorist organizations to combat that.
While it was true that most combat oriented ESP-ers did indeed kill people, they first received a choice whether to under go special training for that or not. If they didn''t want to, they didn''t have to go into the Combat Department. Even amongst the many ESP abilities there were good ones and bad ones, strong and weak ones. The ability the girl had, was a non combat middle class one, mostly used in interrogations. Alex however had a secret no one knew, he was also an ESP-er.
If he had joined the ESP-er department, he could have gotten out of prison in a few hours, since his ability was both a logistical and a combat one. It was categorized as high class one. The reason he didn''t want to reveal his ability was that, if he did, the reason he castrated the businessman would also come to light and that was the one thing, he didn''t want happening. For that to stay hidden, he was willing to endure 20 years in prison.
As everyone''s eyes were continuously stealing glances at Alex, suddenly the speaker started admitting a broadcast, ¡°This school is now under our control. All the students in it will now be escorted to the gym.¡± As the broadcast ended, men with cloth masking their faces, stormed into the room with assault rifles in hand. Everyone were stupefied about what was going on, no one dared to make a move as they glanced at the men. When Alex heard the broadcast he had a twitching smile on his face and only a, ¡°Are you fucking kidding me?¡± was running through his mind.
When the men stormed into the classroom, his head fell to the desk with a big bang. Everyone looked at him in surprise, the terrorist included. Then as if something had clicked in his head, he lifted his head and looked at the ceiling before loudly cursing, ¡°What the flying fuck did I do to piss off my guardian angel this fucking much. First I''m forced to go to some random bullshit school and then 10 minutes into the lesson, the whole school gets taken as a friggin hostage. Are you just fucking kidding me?¡±
Everyone were taken aback by that sentence and no one knew what to say to that. The guards both had a serious face on, while the terrorists looked at Alex in confusion. In a few moments every returned to their senses and the terrorists started ¡°escorting¡± everyone to the gym. When all of the people inside the school had arrived, a middle aged man, with a built body and brown hair walked into the spotlight, he had a scar on his left eye and he said with a wicked smile, ¡°We have taken control of this school, to use your lives as bargaining chips to close down that abominable ESP-er department that forces children to fight and kill.¡±
As the man said that, Alex just face palmed himself and mumbled in low voice, ¡°For the love of god, couldn''t you have picked a day sooner, when I wasn''t fucking here...¡±
Chapter 2: Lunatics
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Chapter 2: Lunatics
As Alex mumbled to himself, everyone else were frightened, the ESP-ers however were all looking at the terrorists with venom in their eyes. One of them stood up and said, ¡°Joining that department is up to a persons free will and also joining the Combat Division is up to a person as well, If they do not want to join it, they don''t have to. Now tell me, which one of the two is abominable, the organization that leaves practically everything up to a person to decide or you guys, who shove your beliefs down other''s throats?¡±
When the terrorists heard that, they got pretty pissed. The leader went over to the person who had dared to speak up and hit him right in the face. He broke the boys nose and as he had fallen on one knee, the leader said with a cold face, ¡°Do not test my patience by mocking our cause little boy, the next time you do, I will kill you.¡± Everyone swallowed the words they wanted to say to the man, they did not doubt the mans words one bit. Silence started to reign over the gym as the leader of the terrorists started feeling smug about himself, There were nearly 40 people there with automatic rifles, who would dare to open their mouths to argue them, When the youth had opened his mouth, he was already courageous as hell for doing so. However, before the man could continue his ¡°glorious speech¡± a mocking laughter rang out in the now silent gym.
When everyone heard that, everyone''s gazes immediately turned to the source of the voice, to the mayhem of class 1A, it was their new transfer student. Alex was laughing really loudly and after a minute he started to calm down, when he did, he wiped the tear from his eye and looked at the leader before saying, ¡°Well, your cause is a load of Bullshit. I''m willing to bet that you are that Departments reject or some religious nutjob for thinking that you are right and everyone else is wrong.¡±
As the words echoed out in the gym, everyone''s faces turned pale, the terrorists however had a face full of rage. Every one of the terrorists pointed their guns at the youth, his guards however only had a weird smile on their faces.
They knew exactly how sharp Alex''s words can be and that he was not afraid of death. They also understood that this day had gone from bad to worse to the frigging worst for him today and he had snapped. The last time he had snapped, all the inmates of the institute had ¡°magically¡± started going to get tutored by him on high school subjects and all bullying had also disappeared from the whole institute. The guards knew the best that if this guy was like a sleeping dragon: Harmless when asleep, Hell on Earth when awoken. Everyone had already suspected that he was an ESP-er but when confronted he gave a vague answer and no one had the actual balls to start pressing him for the information because they were afraid of losing them.
The guards also didn''t stop him from opening his mouth for two reasons:
1. They were only there to keep him from running away, getting killed alongside him, was not in the job description.
2. They were curious about how he would plan on dealing with this situation.
Alex was currently extremely pissed, so much that he had actually lost his rational thinking. Alex stood up and walked in front of the leader and asked in a cold tone, ¡°So, which is it?¡± The man looked at him enraged and gnashed through his teeth, ¡°It is true that I was once a member of the department but that has nothing to do with right now.¡± Alex looked him straight in the eye and just laughed, ¡°So you think that just because you were rejected by them, others shouldn''t have the option of being a part of them?`Wake the fuck up, will you. You said that the Department controls the ESP-ers limiting their freedom. Hell yea they have to because if they didn''t we would have a hell load of ESP-ers running around doing whatever they want. Should that happen no person is safe and can you say that, that is the world you want to see?¡±
Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences. When the man heard the last sentence he was shocked, he immediately rebutted, ¡°If ESP-ers could do what they want without anyone controlling them, we wouldn''t end up with chaos. Instead we would end up with a world, where ESP-ers rule and people without abilities would be the lower class.¡± The man had a fanatical smile on his face as he let out a lunatic laugh. To this, Alex could only look at him with pity and say, ¡°Yet another lunatic, who thinks that the ESP-ers are the superior race etc.¡±
He let out a soft sigh as he felt his clear mind returning to him. When he did a quick recollection of past 5 minutes, he realized, that only by using his ability would he get out of this alive. He cursed himself repeatedly in his mind for getting so riled up. He let out a sigh as he had gotten tired of this, when suddenly a phone rang. Everyone looked towards the phone and the leader walked over and put it on speaker. Alex let out a breath of relief and returned to where the guards were sitting.
¡°What are your demands, you terrorists?¡± A cold voice could be heard echoing out through the gym, the leader just smiled and said back in a loud voice, ¡°We want the abolishment of the ESP-er Department. We will not hurt any of the hostages, except for one, who came from the prison for he mocked our cause.¡± There was a minute of silence and the leader of terrorist organization started sweating, in his mind the scenario of the man telling him that the department wouldn''t be disbanded for so few hostages, was currently playing on a loop.
¡°Is the prisoner you want to kill a medium height young man with blonde hair and blue eyes?¡± The old voice sounded out again, leaving everyone stupefied. Everyone looked at Alex with a puzzled gaze, everyone''s mind had the same question, ¡°Does he know the man?¡± The leader of the terrorist group also looked at him with peculiar gaze before answering, ¡°Yes, that''s the guy. Do you know him?¡±
¡°Yea, well good luck with killing him, I have seen a lot of people try and fail doing so. Most of the people ended up in a wooden box , the more fortunate ones are still in the infirmary.¡± When the voice rang out, everyone''s eyes were glued to Alex, all of the ESP-ers recognized that voice, it was the Director of the ESP-er Department.
When Alex heard the voice, he froze, ¡°That old bastard can''t possibly be alive, I saw him die with my own eyes, 4 years ago.¡± As the thought ran through his mind, he opened his mouth, ¡°Oi, you can''t be that Broken Old Timer right, aren''t you supposed to be dead right now?¡± As he asked that, his mind was reeling, if that guy was still alive, then the chances of the whole department knowing that he''s a High Class ESP-er were already very high.
The only answer he got was, ¡°Did you honestly think that, ¡°that¡± would be enough to kill me, I just needed some time to recuperate. When I was done and came back to the real world, the first thing I hear is that you have ended up in prison. Tell me, is the reason you are in prison tied to Sandra?¡± ¡°That''s on a need to know basis only, you currently aren''t on the list old timer.¡± Alex answered with a smile, as he stood up, his cuffs were gone. In his eyes, grief flashed through as he heard the name Sandra.
As he stood up, the voice from the phone rang out again, ¡°Ho, have you decided to take action Flash Step?¡± Alex just smiled to that and answered with a smile, ¡°That''s the only way to run from you, so yea, I''m going to take action.¡± As he said that, a bell cling could be heard.
Chapter 3: Director
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Chapter 3: Director
As Alex stood, up everyone were on high alert, the words the person on the phone said started to bug them. The leader was hesitant, he had gotten cold feet from the description of what he had heard. When he sized up Alex however that nervousness faded, he couldn''t see how that boy would be as strong as the man on the phone made him out to be. He was about to let out a cold ¡°humph¡± when the voice sounded again, ¡°Well then, do you honestly think that you can run from me? I let you have your peaceful vacation in the prison for 2 years, now it''s time to get back in the game, don''t ya think, Flash Step?¡±
This time the voice didn''t sound out from the phone, but came from the doorway. When everyone turned their eyes there thy saw a man in his fifties leaning against the doorway with a smile on his face. The man had a built body, grey hair and brown eyes, numerous scars could also be seen on him. He had a smile on his face as he looked towards Alex, Alex however let out a wry smile when he saw the man. ¡°Yo, you look good for someone who is one foot in the grave don''t you think?¡± When the man heard that, he let out a laugh. ¡°And you seem to be out of shape, for a few people of this level to even make you sit down and actually listen to them.¡± No one knew how to squeeze into their conversation. They had a hard time understanding their relationship, it seemed good but the venom hidden in their words was something that made them feel unsure.
When the ESP-ers saw him, everyone rose to their feet and said, at the first moment they could, ¡°Hello Director.¡± When everyone heard that, there were mixed expressions, the ones of students and faculty were of joy, the ones on the terrorists, well on the faces of those who could be seen, was fear and dread. Alex looked at the man in disbelief and said with wide eyes, ¡°You have become the Director now? I thought the last Director said, that Hell would freeze over, Heaven would become a purgatory and Yama would become a flower sniffer before he would let you succeed him.¡± The man only smiled to that. The leader of the terrorists lost his patience and howled at the man, ¡°You, do not think that we are afraid of you, our cause-¡± His speech got cut short as he suddenly felt gravity multiply by many times, he fell onto one knee, barely keeping himself from from lying flat on the ground.
¡°Shush, I''m talking to my favourite disciple at the moment, I''ll get back to you later.¡± As the words were said by the man, all of the terrorists suddenly felt gravity multiply as well. They all had trouble keeping themselves from spreading out on the floor. When the students and teachers saw that, they immediately rejoiced and started storming out of the exit. In but a few minutes, the only people left in the room were the terrorists that were nearly nailed to the ground, Alex, the Director, Alex''s guards and a few faculty members alongside all of the ESP-ers.
The Director looked at Alex and said with a nostalgic gaze, ¡°I picked you up when you were 4, I didn''t expect for you to have an ESP ability at the time but as time flew by, your ability manifested. I trained you on how to use your ability and survive in a fight. Looking back at it, it was nearly 12 years ago, that we first met, now you are already grown up and have gotten yourself in prison as well.¡± As the final sentence fell, the man looked at the terrorists and said, ¡°Well, I guess I have to thank you. If you guys hadn''t shown up today, I would have never gotten the chance to meet this little guy again.¡± With that, the police stormed in and started taking the terrorists outside.
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¡°Well, your ability is still broken as Fuck. To be able to control gravity to a perfect degree in one kilometer radius. You can make the gravity nonexistent or make a feather turn into a frigging mountain.¡± Alex said, as he looked at the old man. The old man only smiled and asked, ¡°Now then, I will ask of you. Why didn''t you kill the businessman but let him live after what he had done to Sandra. That girl was a friend of yours for a long time, wasn''t she? I know what happened to her, what I do not understand is how you could let that son of a bitch still live?¡± Rage was evident in both the old mans eyes and tone. Alex looked at him in surprise for a second before saying in a wicked smile, ¡°There are worse things in life than death. You should know very well, what his current situation really is like.¡±
Hearing those words, the old man calmed down a bit before nodding his head and saying, ¡°Castrated, all of his fingers are cut off, arm joints are broken beyond repair, legs are broken in so many places, it is easier to tell where they will be normal, not disfigured. But the man is a millionaire, do you honestly expect that he can''t do anything anymore?¡± Hearing that everyone were shocked, when Alex was convicted, the only charge against him was castrating the man, nothing in the charges about him turning the man into a complete cripple. Alex just smiled and asked, ¡°Can I borrow your phone for a second?¡± The old man wondering what he is up to, lent him his phone. Alex just dialed a number and after some ringing, it connected. They could only hear Alex''s side of the conversation, ¡°Hey, it''s me. Regarding that plan, it''s time to set it into motion. Yea, okey. See ya then.¡±
When the call ended Alex gave the Director his phone back and with a smile and said, ¡°Well, you should check the news soon, I''m willing to bet that it will be all over the news.¡± People started inquiring that what he had just done but Alex just smiled and told them to wait for the news. Half an hour passed and the Warden from Alex''s prison arrived. After having gotten a briefing from the guards, the Warden looked at Alex with a complicated gaze. The prison had no legal grounds what so ever to hold an ESP-er. He talked for a few minutes with the Director of the ESP Department and then Alex was released. Alex was both annoyed and confused about the situation.
The Director just smiled at Alex and said, ¡°Now then, you are a free man again and now comes the part, where I will offer you a job at the Department.¡± Alex just pursed his lips and mumbled, ¡°But I liked it in prison, you get a warm room, three meals a day and no obligations what so ever. I would honestly prefer to go back there.¡± When everyone heard that, they burst out laughing, he was the first person they had heard of that wanted to stay in prison. No one could refute his logic though. The place was a free logging and had three warm meals a day, the prisoners lived better off than some of the families that were financial straits. ¡°Well, you can''t go back to prison anymore, so you are going to be stuck outside.¡± As the Director finally got over his laughing fit, he said with a smile. Alex just shrugged his shoulders and asked him, ¡°What kind of a job are we talking about then?¡± Everyone''s gazes were focused on the Director, they were also curious about that.
The old man opened his mouth and said with a smile, ¡°As an instructor for newly admitted Combat Division people.¡± When everyone heard that, they were shocked, silence started reigning over the now practically empty gym.
Chapter 4: Decision
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Chapter 4: Decision
The whole gym was silent enough to hear a pin drop to the ground. After a dozen of seconds had passed Alex said, ¡°Are you fucking kidding me? Why in the seven hells would you think, that someone like me would be a good frigging instructor? I have zero people skills, I would get them killed sooner, rather than later.¡± As Alex burst into rage, everyone else came back to their senses as well. As an instructor you are responsible for the lives of the people you teach, so it wasn''t something any person off the street could do on a whim. Alex knew he was strong and had plenty of fighting experience but to start teaching someone else as an instructor was something he felt was way out of his league. The Director just put a serious face on and said, ¡°You have plenty of fighting experience, your ability is the best for saving them in clutch situations, you are strong enough to be qualified for an S rank in the Combat Division and most importantly you are my student. I know you better than anyone else, do you honestly think that I would want you to become an instructor if you didn''t have the qualifications for that?¡±
When Alex heard that reasoning, he could only curse inside. He didn''t actually have anything against teaching someone but an instructor was a person who was responsible for his students lives. He wasn''t ready to be responsible for someone else''s life yet, heck, he was barely responsible for his own. After another thirty minutes of back and forth conversation like that in the gym, one of the people who was checking his phone for news suddenly yelled out, ¡°What the heck is this? The businessman Alex crippled, has been charged with kidnapping, imprisonment, torture, causing suicide, rape and giving bribes.¡±
When everyone heard that they immediately remembered the phone call Alex made, Alex only smiled to hearing that. The Director immediately asked, ¡°You are the one behind this?¡± Alex only smiled before answering, ¡°Yea, that was the plan I was talking about on the phone. We had hard evidence to lock that bastard up for a long long time but since the industry he runs is massive, it would have caused a big blow to the countries economy if it didn''t have someone to take over. I just got in contact with his son, who he had disowned and we worked out this plan. I would get to make that mans life a living hell and he would get the industry his father cut him out of. It was a win-win for the both of us. The preparation just took longer than expected and we finished everything just a few days ago.¡± The Director just let out a sigh when he heard that and said, ¡°You truly are merciless aren''t you?¡± Alex looked at him in surprise for a second before answering, ¡°You were the one that taught me this: If you do something, do it thoroughly.¡±
The Director could only let out a hollow laugh to that. ¡°Well, stop by the Department in a few days after settling in at the outside world to let me know of your decision.¡± Alex just looked into the distance for a second before sighing, ¡°Yea, will do. I''m just wondering where I''ll be staying from now on.¡± The Director just threw him a little bag, the size of a palm. ¡°I''ll let you borrow this apartment free of charge for now, until you settle in properly. The water runs, electricity is working and the place is warm. Should be good enough for now.¡± After that all the ESP-ers left with the Director to give a full report on what had happened, the faculty exchanged a few friendly sentences with Alex before he left with the Warden to deal with the paperwork for the release and to collect his things from the jail cell. When he reached the apartment that he realized that it wasn''t needlessly big or small. It had a separate kitchen, living room, bedroom. The toilet and the shower were in the same room, it was furnished and kept clean. He settled in there and as school for canceled until next Monday, he had a lot of free time on his hands.
He received a ¡°pay¡± for teaching the delinquents in prison, so he didn''t have to worry about food or anything. Since the pay was quite substantial, he had a bit of free money on his hands.
He settled in and in the blink of an eye 3 days had passed. It was 9 o''clock in the morning and he was currently in front of the ESP Departments compound. The area they had for private use was massive, over 5 square kilometers. There were specialized buildings for paperwork, an infirmary, logistics department and training grounds. For people that worked there full time, there were also some barracks there where they could sleep and a mess hall, where everyone could grab breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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He went up to the people who were on guard duty and told them, that the Director told him to stop by when he had the time. The guards called the office and after verifying Alex''s identity, they called for someone to escort him to see the Director. It took him half an hour to reach the Directors office from the front gate. When he entered the office, the Director looked at him with a smile from behind his desk and asked, ¡°Hey, have you made your decision?¡± Alex took a quick look around and then sat down on a chair opposite to the Director before answering, ¡°Yea, I thought it over and figured that this place is probably my best bet for employment now, so I accept under one condition.¡±
¡°And what might that condition be?¡± the Director lifted his eyebrow as he asked that. Alex just smiled and said, ¡°If someone, who is my student, ends up dead because of his own ignorance and carelessness, I won''t be held accountable for that.¡± Hearing that the Director understood what he meant. During his time, he has seen a lot of young and talented people get themselves killed because they got too haughty over having an ability. He also knew the person in front of him is a rare dual ability wielder. The nickname ¡°Flash Step¡± was given to him due to his know ability, to move at a speed that seems a kin to a teleportation. People often mistake his ability to teleportation on first sight but it is actually very different.
He could actually manipulate time, depending on who you ask, you will get either one of these answers:
1. He slows down others time nearly to freezing point
2. He accelerates his own to make it seem like teleportation.
But due to people not making a difference between the two, he got the nickname ¡°Flash Step¡±. His other ability is something that even the Director has no knowledge on. He has seen it only once and that left even him feeling dread. Alex has not used it ever since the Director banned him from using it 11 years ago. Seeing that Alex had agreed to become an instructor, they filled out the necessary paperwork and the Director gave him a special magnet card, that held his name, rank and status (student, instructor, guard etc). There was also a picture on it for identification. After the paperwork was filled out and Alex briefed on the general rules and responsibilities, the Director handed him four files. In them, was the personal data for the four people he would be in charge of.
Alex started reading the files and time ticked by. The more he read, the more his brows furrowed, in the end, when he had finished reading the four files, he asked the director with a helpless face, ¡°You seriously do not like me, huh? These four are probably the four biggest problem children you could find.¡± The director stood up and looked out of the window that was behind his back before starting, ¡°Those four have immense potential and they all joined the Combat Division on their own. Due to their abilities being a bit ¡°unique¡± others keep creating problems for them and they have lost the motivation they had, when they joined. You are our best bet in making them turn around.¡±
Alex could only sigh to that, from the files he read he could tell, this was going to be an up hill battle against a storm gale that was blowing him back. ¡°All right, I''ll meet them and I''ll instruct them for a week. If I see no possible way of turning around their motivation, I''m sorry to say this but I''m going to quit teaching them.¡± Alex said as he steeled his determination. The Director looked at him with a wry smile and said, ¡°Thank you, all of the other instructors have said ¡°No way¡± the moment I made them their students.¡±
With that the old man started leading the way, it was time for Alex to meet with his new students.
Chapter 5: Meeting the students
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Chapter 5: Meeting the students.
When Alex and the Director reached the training grounds, Alex was stunned. The Director only had a wry smile on his face, if you could read his thoughts you would could read a ¡°Not again¡± screaming in his mind.
When they arrived, two boys were fighting while two girls were arguing, it almost seemed as if they would start fighting soon as well. One of the boys had white hair, blue eyes and was of medium build and height. The other one had red hair and brown eyes, he was a bit taller than the other boy and was also medium build. One of the two girls had green eyes and long blond hair, had a curvy body and was also medium height. The other one however had short brown hair and brown eyes. Her chest was ¡°lacking¡± compared to the other girl. What was unusual though was that the boy with white hair had a layer of frost on his body and the boy with red hair had little flames popping out of everywhere.
The Director turned to look at Alex and just cleared his throat before saying, ¡°Well, these guys are your students, good luck.¡± With that, he turned around and started walking out of the training grounds. Alex just stared at the mans back and just sighed to himself ¡°What the hell did I get myself mixed up in. I knew I shouldn''t have accepted his offer, it''s not like this is the first time he screws me over like this.¡± With that he took a quick glance at his ¡°students¡± and sighed again.
He slowed down time and picked up two training swords that were lying around on the ground. He walked in between the two boys and pointed one sword at each of the boys and let time flow normally again. They were shocked, when Alex just appeared in front of them like that. The boy with the red hair wanted to say something to him but before he could Alex said with a smile on his face, ¡°Drop your fists and straighten your backs. I''m going to be your instructor from now on and before you two go at it again, how about a round of self introductions?¡± All four of them were stupefied by that sentence but the boys quickly lost interest in listening to him. They saw that Alex was not much older than them, so they held him in no regard.
The red haired boy just ignored him and wanted to charge right past him. Alex just sighed to seeing this and dropped the sword that was in his left hand. He used his hand to flip the red haired boy over and then smacked his head with the sword. Everyone were surprised about what just happened, they understood that this guy wasn''t like the rest. He didn''t hesitate at all to just flip the boy and hit him. Everyone exchanged a quick glance and went over to a nearby bench and sat down. The red haired boy wanted to say something but suddenly felt a chill run down his spine when he saw Alex''s cold eyes.
He just shut up and went to the bench as well. Seeing this Alex just smiled for a second and walked in front of the bench. He cleared his throat and began, ¡°My name is Alex Uni. I''m 16 old and I am an S rank operative. My ability is to accelerate my own time to a point that it seems like teleportation if I move. From today onward I am your instructor and I am going to make one thing clear: If any of you start getting too full of yourself you will be punished. By punishment I am that I will send you to intensive care, I am not like those pushover instructors you have had before, so from now on think before you act.¡±
His face turned cold when he reached the end, everyone had seen what he could do and they were fairly certain that he would beat them to the intensive care if they fucked up big time. ¡°Now you guys, stand up and properly introduce yourselves. Also state the reason you why you joined the Combat division.¡± As the words fell, the four exchanged a glance and the girl who had long blonde hair stood up and started, ¡°My name is Marina Erin, I''m 15 years old and am a D rank member. My ability is telekinesis and I am looking forward to working with you. I joined the combat division because I want to make a difference and lose my cowardice.¡±
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She sat down again and the girl next to her stood up, ¡°My name is Erica Tela, I''m 14 years old and am also a D rank member. My ability is mechanization. When I see technology In my head I can disassemble and reassemble that piece of technology in an instant with modifications to improve it.¡± Hearing this Alex asked, ¡°Why not join the research department or logistical department?¡± Erica looked at Alex with a lowered head and said, ¡°I''ve been mocked for a long time due to my ability and I wanted to show them that the things I can create can help mankind. The reason I didn''t want to join the other departments was because then the inventions wouldn''t have my name on them but the departments.¡±
Alex just gestured her to sit down and the red haired boy stood up, ¡°My name is Marcus Tuli, I''m 15 years old and my ability is pyrokinesis. I am also D rank. The reason I joined the combat division is that my ability is not exactly useful anywhere else.¡± Alex just nodded and let him sit down. The white haired boy stood up and said with an expressionless face. ¡°My name is Christoph Lumi, I''m 14 years old and my ability is to materialize ice. I am also D rank. I can create and destroy pretty much everything that has to do with below zero degrees. The reason I joined the Combat Division is to catch up to my elder brother who was born with the same ability as me.¡±
He sat down again and Alex just glanced over all of their faces before continuing, ¡°Well now that we are all acquainted, let''s move on. The reason I became your instructor is that you guys would have been kicked out of the Combat Division program If I hadn''t, you guys are troublemakers on all the fields. You have managed to scare three instructors into retirement and are called by a common name amongst your peers: ¡°Team Crazy¡±. From now on, fighting against others or amongst yourselves is banned. You guys will do what I say, when I say it. Also, I have talked it over with the Director and if you guys get into trouble, it won''t be my problem. If you pick a fight, you finish it, I won''t be coming to clean up after you guys and also, if you dare to fight in front of me again like that, even more so ignore me, then you have earned yourself a trip to the infirmary. Am I clear?¡±
When Alex had finished talking, everyone of them swallowed a mouthful of saliva. These guys had not been in a life and death fight yet but they could feel that Alex had killed before, this aura wasn''t something they could see but it was more like an instinctive feeling. They all looked at each other and nodded their heads.
Seeing this Alex let out a smile and asked, ¡°Now then, we have all the troublesome things behind us. Tell me, why were you two fighting in the first place.¡± He looked towards the two boys. The boys immediately felt a shiver run down their spine and their gazes dropped to the ground before Erica started talking, ¡°Marcus was telling Christoph to show more emotions but Christoph kept reminding him that just as Marcus is always hotheaded due to his ability, he is calm as ice and showing expressions is something he doesn''t know how to do properly.¡±
When Alex heard that he just shook his head, he knew many people who were in the same boat as those two. From time to time people, who had extreme compatibility with their ability, started showing traits unique to the abilities, for example people born with pyrokinesis tend to be hotheads who strike first, think later. Ice manipulators however have problems showing their expressions.
Alex turned around and took off his jacket. ¡°Now then, time for me to see your combat strength, I will spar with everyone of you guys and after wards we will have a little reflection meeting, where I will tell you what your strengths are and what you are lacking.¡± When Alex said that, everyone gulped, they knew that they were going to be in for a world of pain.
Alex looked at that and said with a cold smile, ¡°Now then, who is going to be the first sacrifice?¡±
Chapter 6: Is this a Fucking joke?
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Chapter 6: Is this a Fucking joke?
When everyone heard that Alex was going to fight them one on one, they felt a shiver run down their spine. They were all usually hot headed and quick to fights but this time, they had clearly seen the distance between their levels, they understood, what waited them wasn''t a one versus one fight but a one versus one beat down. Even if they had ganged up on him, they would have a miniscule chance of winning this.
It was an instinctive fear, they hadn''t seen what he could really do but that was exactly what they were afraid of, if they knew his full ability, they could think of a plan but he could probably beat them with zero effort. They all looked at each other and did rock paper scissors to determine the line. The one who went first, was Marcus. When they reached the center Alex sped up his time by 25% and the fight started.
Marcus tried everything he could but to no result, he threw fire at him, went into hand-to-hand combat but none of it helped. After 5 minutes Alex just hit kneed him to the stomach and threw him out of the boundaries. He didn''t say anything about his performance but just said, ¡°Next!¡± and the Christoph went in. The same scenario repeated itself every time.
Alex just dodged around for 5 minutes then threw them out of the boundaries. When they were done, Alex was extremely irritated and just yelled at them, ¡°You guys seriously wanted to join the Combat Division with that little ability, you would get yourselves killed in your first life or death fight! Now everyone come at me together.¡±
Even when everyone attacked together, they had no chance. In 3 minutes everyone were thrown out of boundaries and Alex was nearly at boiling point. He gnashed through his teeth, ¡°This is all for today. We will meet again at tomorrow morning 6 AM sharp. If you are late you will get punished.¡± Everyone were holding onto their sore spots when they looked at Alex with dread. Alex just took his jacket and started going towards the Directors office.
Everyone, who saw him on the way, immediately made way for him. He looked terrifying, when he reached the Directors office he went straight inside. The Director was currently talking to another instructor who bailed the second he saw Alex''s face. He felt instinctive fear from him. The Director just looked at Alex and sighed, ¡°So, you tested them huh?¡±
Alex looked straight at the man and said, ¡°Is this a fucking joke? Those guys are worse than beginners, they need to be taught from ground zero to even get a frigging decent result. The current them would get killed 4 minutes into a mission and in the file it said that they have been in the training program for 3 years now. How the flying fuck can someone suck so bad after being in training for 3 years, huh? Or is it that your instructors are shit for not being able to teach them?¡±
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When Alex was done, the Director stood up with an angry face and yelled back, ¡°What do you fucking know?! I entrusted them to you because we don''t have anyone else who could teach them. For three years they were bounced from one instructor to another, no wonder their foundation is crappy.¡±
Alex just replied, ¡°And now you want me to teach them from ground zero, are your instructors seriously that pushover that they couldn''t even demonstrate their strength to them to make them respect the person? With twerps like these you need to show them the gap between the two like you did to me, not be like a fucking pussy and make an exception after exception for them. I read the files and now I understand, it wasn''t that they were unable to control them but they lacked the balls to man up and show them their difference in strength.¡±
When the Director heard him, he seriously wanted to punch Alex but he realized, that he was right. The previous instructors were too lenient on them because their aptitude with their abilities was high. The higher the aptitude, the bigger chance of the person becoming extremely formidable was, they didn''t want to ruin that potential so they were more lenient towards them and made exception after exception. This made them too haughty and a bit uncontrollable, making what Alex said right. They should have been extra hard on them from the start.
Alex calmed down after venting his fury like that, he sat down on the chair and sighed, ¡°It is not impossible for me to make them into S ranker''s but I need to work with them from ground zero, that means that during the summer break I will do a two and a half month extreme hell training camp. They have a lot of potential but they seriously need to learn how to control their abilities to the best they can and more importantly, they need fighting experience and discipline.¡±
When the Director heard that, he let out a wry smile and just said, ¡°If you plan on training them, then you should know that we will support your every decision. Just train them thoroughly.¡±
¡°Then prepare the infirmary stocks because these guys are going to go through a hell of a boot camp in one month.¡± As Alex said that, he exited the office and started thinking of the training regime for each of his new students.
¡°This is going to be more troublesome than I thought.¡± he mumbled as he walked out of the ESP Divisions compound.
Chapter 7: First day of training
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Chapter 7: First day of training
When Alex reached his flat he just laid down on the bed and started thinking. He needed to make a specialized training regime for everyone of them. What suited one, didn''t necessarily suit the others. While Alex was pondering about that, time ticked by and when it was 1 AM, he decided to go to bed, he also already had a rough sketch of the training plan until the ¡°boot camp¡± started.
He went to sleep and woke up at 5 AM, He was already at the training ground at 5.55 AM. As he waited there drinking coffee from his travel mug, time slowly ticked by, 6 AM, 6.15 AM, 6.30 AM. He was completely alone, he felt rage quietly building up more and more. At 6.45 AM came the first person, it was Erica. When she saw Alex standing there completely angry, she froze. She had thought the 6 AM gathering was a joke but now she understood just how terribly wrong she had been.
¡°You are 45 minutes late, let me hear your excuse.¡± Alex said with a cold look. Erica dropped the bag she had on her and stuttered, ¡°I-I-I d-d-did not think y-y-you thought the 6-6-6 AM thing s-s-seriously.¡± ¡°Ohh, is that so. Now then 55 laps around the training ground now. If I see you slacking or resting without permission, you are getting 5 more laps. Am I clear?¡±
There was a tinge of anger hidden inside the cold tone that sent shivers down Erica''s spine. She immediately scrambled to run, as time ticked by the other members of the team also poured in. They all met the same fate as Erica but everyone got a different number of laps to run. In the beginning, Alex planned to give them 10 laps to run but after waiting for half an hour for them, he reached a decision, everyone would get one extra lap for every minute they were late.
The worst off was Marina, she had to run a record number of 154 laps. Alex let them rest for five minutes after every 10 laps so it wasn''t a complete torture. He also allowed them to take over a certain number of laps from another person, so if Erica was done, she could help out Marina by helping her do her laps. If he hadn''t done that, they would have been there at least until midnight.
This also helped them get a better sense of teamwork so it was like killing two birds with one stone. It was 2 PM already when they had finally finished, all four of them were exhausted. When Alex saw this, he brought the new water bottles to them, he had regularly refilled the water bottles he had prepared, he needed to keep them hydrated throughout training. When they all saw Alex, they did no longer see an instructor, they saw a ¡°Demon¡±.
¡°Alright, it is a bit late but go grab lunch now, we will meet here again 3.30 PM. Do not be late this time.¡± When Alex had said that, he turned around and started heading towards the mess hall. The four saw him leave and started calming their breath. This was a harsh lesson for them as to not take his words as a joke. As they went to the mess hall, all along the way the heard mockery. They were used to it now, ¡°Failures¡±, ¡°Team Crazy¡±, ¡°Pampered brats¡±, all of those nicknames had been attached to them now.
They were no longer mad about it, they just ignored it but deep down, their heart clenched every time they were mocked. Usually they would start a fight with the people mocking them but the current them had no spare energy to do so. As they dragged their bodies to the mess hall, more mockery came their way, finally Cristoph couldn''t handle it anymore and gathered the last remnants of his energy before he shouted, ¡°Do you want to fight me?! Come on then, After meeting that Demon of an Instructor, you guys are nothing.¡±
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When everyone heard that, their faces were grim. This was the first time, they were called weaklings like that by them. A boy who seemed around 17 with a large frame and built body stepped forward, ¡°Hoo, you seem to have gotten more courage huh? This is the first time a failure like you has said such bold words. Seems like you need to be taught you place again.¡±
As his words fell rocks started growing around his arm and just as he was about to punch Cristoph, he was suddenly staring at the ceiling. Not understanding what had just happened, he rose to his feet and eyed the indifferent youth in front of him. ¡°These are my students and I don''t remember giving you any authority to teach them anything.¡±
The owner of the voice was Alex. When the four students saw that, they had mixed feelings. They were happy that he was helping them out but they also feared him for the consequences. They remembered him saying that if they picked a fight, they were on their own, so him intervening now confused them. The brute however had blood flow in his brain and in a blind rage he didn''t hear anything the Alex had just said, he just wanted to get back at him for humiliating him like that. Just as he was about to hit Alex, who was facing his students instead of him, he felt a sharp pain in his right arm.
As he let out a scream Alex turned around and said with a cold look, ¡°This is a warning, you touch my students again and I will break more than just your arm.¡± As the brute heard that, he looked at his arm and realized, it was broken and bent form 4 different places. As he saw his arm, his clear mind returned and he shifted his gaze from his arm to Alex. When he saw his cold eyes, sweat started appearing on the boy''s forehead.
¡°Do you understand?¡± As Alex barked at him, he immediately answered, ¡°Yes, I understand.¡± Everyone started making way for Alex and his students to leave as an enraged voice echoed out in mess hall, ¡°Who the fuck do you think you are to do this to my student?¡± A middle aged man stepped forward. He had a built body but not as large of a frame as the brute who had his arm broken.
¡°Since you find amusement in seeing my students in pain, I find amusement in causing pain to yours. When that bastard spoke out, you just pointed at him and said, ¡°Ohh look, he is going to teach them a lesson again.¡±. I just punished the little fucker for messing with the wrong persons students. If that hit had landed, Cristoph would have been hospitalized for at least a month. Do you have the balls to take responsibility for that?¡±
Alex said in a calm, relaxed manner. The man, who had stepped out, however was gritting his teeth and suddenly his arm turned gray. As if it was covered in steel. When Alex saw this, his eyes flashed and he just put up his guard. Fighting against a student was a hell lot different from fighting against an instructor. Countless plans and attack patterns ran through his mind.
The man just gnashed through his teeth, ¡°I don''t know who you are but I am not called the ¡°Steel Fortress¡± for nothing. I honestly do not give a shit who you are either as you are going on a one way trip to a funeral home.¡±
The man raised his steel like arms and started rushing towards Alex. Everyone held their breath, some of the instructors even started running towards the two in hopes of intervening but they quickly realized, they will never make it in time.
Everyone helplessly watched as the man drew closer to Alex and just as the punch was about to connect a terrifying scream echoed out in the hall.
Chapter 8: Who is Alex?
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Chapter 8: Who is Alex?
As the blood curling scream echoed out in the mess hall, everyone''s faces slowly went pale. They all could not believe what they were seeing, an Instructor, who was regarded as one of the strongest in the program, was laying on the ground with his feet bent the wrong way. The name ¡°Steel Fortress¡± was given to him due to him being nearly invulnerable to physical attacks, so seeing his feet bent the wrong way was a very terrifying sight for them. Everyone looked towards the youth, who was now squatting in front of that Instructor, with eyes filled with dread.
Alex just looked into the mans eyes and said in cold voice, ¡°I don''t give a shit who you are or what your nickname is but you dare and touch my students again and I will cut off your fucking balls and shove them up your ass so high, that you can suck on them. Am I clear now?¡± When the man had recollected what had just happened and the threat the youth made, he immediately nodded. Fear started outweighing the pain for him. He understood that what this youth just said was no joke. The entire mess hall was in complete silence, if someone dropped a pin in there, it would ring out loud and clear.
Just as no one knew what to do, laughter rang out and everyone saw the Director walk out from the crowd. The Director just smiled at Alex and said, ¡°You truly are overprotective of your own. I remember certain someone saying yesterday, that the team you were assigned to was joke. Also if they got into fights or trouble, it would be their own problem. So why are you covering for them so much now? Alex just looked at the Director and said with a helpless face, ¡°Well, now I understand why they are the troublemakers and also, what I said about Instructors yesterday¡ Seeing this son of a bitch, I stand corrected. These Instructors aren''t weak or lenient, they are just sadistic fuckers who find amusement in the suffering of a younger generation.¡±
When Alex had said that, he pointed at the man who was currently being carried to the infirmary. A tinge of anger flashed across the Directors face when he said, ¡°Oi, even though you were once my student and I specially recruited you to train them, I can''t let that one slide.¡± ¡°Hoo, Well then, mind explaining why they were pointing and laughing at them, when they were being mocked to the ground? Also, why no one stood up to help them, when that student attacked? Had Cristoph taken that punch head on, he would have been in a critical condition. I don''t give a shit about you letting this slide, you fucking dragged me out of prison to instruct these guys and now when I say that you need to do a serious inspection on your Instructors, I''m the bad guy? Furthermore, I am not afraid of you. If you want to start a fight, I''ll accompany you.¡± Alex was clearly in a bad mood, when he said that.
When he reached the end of his story, red lightning flashed over his right arm as he looked straight into the Directors eyes. When the Director saw the red lighting, he immediately flinched, shock and dread flashed in his eyes before he said, ¡°You! You have mastered that?¡± Alex just smiled and said to him, ¡°I haven''t completely mastered using it but I have mastered it to a good enough degree to take you on.¡± Everyone else watched the two in confusion, they could not understand the later part of the conversation. All the Instructors who were previously enraged for being mocked had calmed down and had shame written on their faces. What Alex had said was true and due to that, they had no way of refuting it.
They all quietly listened to the conversation between the Director and Alex. When they heard that Alex was the Directors student everyone felt sweat running down their spine. They had heard of his student before and everything they had heard made them feel like he was out of their league by a mile. They sized up Alex for a second but their thought process was cut short by the Director, who said, ¡°Follow me to the special training room. If you have sufficient control over ¡°That¡± then I will permit you to use it. If not do not think about ever using it again, I will stake my life on the line to kill you if you disobey me.¡±
Those words made even Alex sweat. He might be strong but even he could not recklessly take on the Director. Even more so knowing that the Director has not used his other ability and that is what truly makes him scary. The director was also a dual ability holder like Alex and that was the main reason he took Alex in as a student. He had never accepted any other student what so ever. The Director just turned around and gestured Alex to follow. Alex, having no way out of this, followed him quietly. As the two left the mess hall, a huge uproar suddenly broke free.
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Everyone was guessing, who he exactly was and what the extent of his abilities was. Everyone looked at his four students and no one dared to say any bad words about them anymore. They understood very clearly, should they keep on picking fights with them like that, they would end up worse off than the instructor and the muscle head did. The four were completely stupefied by this turn of events. Their minds were reeling as they discussed amongst themselves with shocked faces.
¡°He is the Directors only student, he even managed to take down the Instructor with so little ease. What bothers me the most is however is what he said.¡± Marina summarized what they had learned. Christoph nodded and added, ¡°The Director released him from prison just to come and teach us. That means, we should not take his words lightly.¡± They all remembered how they took his words as a joke before but now they felt that they were lucky to be in one piece. They all understood that if he wanted, he could turn their lives into an extreme hell.
Marcus said with a rare serious face, ¡°From now on, we need to follow his words. He does not seem like the person to just fuck around with us. Even though I hate him for being this strict, even I understand that the only way to train us is through exercise. Body comes first, if you don''t have the stamina, then you are pretty much screwed out there on the field. Well, let''s just say that our attitude hasn''t been the best lately.¡±
Everyone nodded, they had understood, that because the Instructors always made exceptions for them and were lenient, they started to get too haughty. This display of strength immediately brought them back to earth and they understood that they needed to follow his orders if they wanted to be as strong as him. They no longer saw Alex as a Demon but more like a person who was genuinely trying to teach them to survive. He had shown the gap in strength to them yesterday. Suddenly Erica cried out, the entire hall immediately turned to look at her. She said in a pale face, ¡°This is unreal. Guys, Alex is not only an S rank member but is a legend. He wasn''t registered in the Department before but was registered in an association called Dragoncross.¡±
When everyone heard that, they felt their scalps go numb. What is Dragoncross? It is a group of ten who could be called the strongest in the country. A lot of their members are eccentric fellows so a few of them were in the Department. There were 3 people in the Department before: the Director ¡°Gravity King¡±, Head of the Infirmary ¡°Medical Saint¡±, and a Special Operations Department Leader ¡°Shadow¡±.
Erica continued, ¡°I hacked into the government''s secret files and can see it clearly. Until two years ago, he was known as the 6th strongest in the country with the nickname ¡°Flash Step¡± but two years ago he disappeared. It says here that he got taken to prison for castrating a well known businessman, it is the same one that the media is talking about lately.¡± Erica looked at the other three and all of them were speechless. The 6th strongest person in the country is their Instructor, what kind of a joke was that. While everyone was still in an uproar, two people were quietly eating lunch.
One of them was a busty woman who long blond hair and a slender body, she didn''t look a day over 20 while the other was a skinny man with black hair. The woman opened her mouth and said, ¡°Seems like the little one is back, I hope they didn''t mistreat him at the prison. If anyone hurt him, this big sister will definitely make them pay.¡± Fire burned in her eyes as she said that to the man across from her.
The man lifted his gaze from the food and just laughed, ¡°Oi, if anyone managed to mistreat him, I would definitely like to see that person. And you truly are one sadistic ¡°Medical Saint¡±. Also, what big sister, you are old enough to be his mother for fuck''s sake.¡± The woman flashed a dangerous smile, ¡°Didn''t your mother ever teach you to not mention a woman''s age Shadow?¡± The man felt a shiver run down his spine when he saw that smile and continued eating his lunch.
Meanwhile, the duo of Alex and Director had reached an underground training room. The director turned around and said, ¡°This place is made of special materials, no matter how hard someone hits these walls, not a tremor will be felt outside, not a sound can escape and more importantly, not even a scratch can be made. So lets begin.¡±
Chapter 9: End of the day
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Chapter 9: End of the day
When the Director had said that this room was practically indestructible Alex let his gaze wander around. There was nothing in the room except for the four walls and the ceiling plus floor. The entire room was white. Alex took off his jacket and asked in a relaxed voice, ¡°So do you want to go for a fight first or see how much I can materialize first?¡± The Director just looked at him for a second and said, ¡°Show me how much you can materialize and about that fight, I never said we would be fighting, did I now?¡±
Alex just let out a hollow laugh and red lightning ran across his body, a second later red crystals started forming on his body. It covered his entire body in a matter of seconds and when it was finished, the entire body, except for his head, was covered. The Director sized him up and looked at a wall as he nodded. He said to the wall, ¡°Raise the Dummy.¡±
As the words fell training dummy emerged from the ground. As it turned out on the other side of that wall was the control room for this training room. As the dummy rose from the floor, the Director looked at Alex and said, ¡°Now then, hit it as strong as you can.¡± Alex could only shrug his shoulders and he just gathered all of his strength in his right arm as he punched the dummy. As soon as the punch landed, the dummy was blown to smithereens.
Alex looked at it in astonishment and said, ¡°Wait, this dummy wasn''t made from the same materials as the room?¡± The Director just smiled at him and said, ¡°No, these are made from a strong alloy but not as strong as this. You could say these walls are at least 5 times stronger than the dummy.¡± Alex just looked at his fist while he repeatedly relaxed and clenched it. Even he didn''t think that it would be as strong as this. As Alex was checking his strength, the Director only smiled as he said, ¡°The reason I had you hide your ability all those years back is this: The crystal you can materialize is the ¡°Blood Crystal¡± and its toughness is even stronger than the materials this wall is made out of.¡±
He took a breath and checked if he had Alex''s attention before continuing, ¡°You see, If a child had been running around with this ability, there would have been countless people trying to abduct you so that they could make you into a ¡°Blood Crystal Mine¡± Now however now you are strong enough to beat the crap out of anyone who tries to do so or in the worst case scenario, run.¡± When all of this had been said, Alex''s face also turned serious.
Things like these were no joke, there were a lot of underground organizations that abducted ESP-ers to make them into slave like that. He understood the sentiment of that and didn''t hold any blame for the Director for it. They chatted a bit about the full extent of his abilities and Alex just looked at the watched and said, ¡°Yea it 3.20 PM, I gotta go now. I told the 4 troublemakers to get their asses back to the training ground at 3.30PM sharp. This time I don''t think they will dare to be late even a second.¡±
He just smiled at the Director and exited the room, he started heading toward the training grounds. When Alex had exited the room, a voice rung out in the training room, ¡°Well now, seems like that little guy is stronger than ever now. Maybe we should change his nick name to ¡°Bloody Angel¡± now?¡± The Director looked at the man who emerged from the Shadows and said, ¡°Ohh, it is you Shadow, and maybe we really should. Anyways, he might be one of the Dragoncross in this country but there are broken fuckers like him in the other countries as well. Alun has a triple combat ability holder, now that is scary. Our little island country of Sareld is in for a turbulent time if Alun decides to start pressuring other countries.¡± With that the discussion ended.
Alex however leisurely walked to the training ground and when he arrived he was happy to see that all of his students had arrived on time. He smiled at them and gestured them to sit down before he started talking, ¡°Now then, the training is done for today. It was actually a long shot from what I had intended but oh well, shit happens.¡± He looked at everyone in the eyes before he decided to continue.
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He looked straight at Erica and started, ¡°Now then, I will tell everyone their specialized training regime. Starting with you Erica.¡± As he pointed at Erica, she straightened her back and listened intently. Alex liked the serious look in her eyes so she smiled and said, ¡°Your only objective at the moment is to upgrade the weapons you specialize in. After that is done, come and find me so we can start on the combat part, which I will explain in more detail, when we get there. You also need to run 20 laps around the training field every day. Also try to think of better protective gear for your team. Remember your occupation is more like a back line support.¡± Alex said as he looked at Erica. She immediately replied, ¡°Understood.¡±
Alex nodded and turned his gaze to Marina, ¡°Your only objective for now is to learn on how to control these blades for an extended period of time and use them efficiently. Your job will not be to attack them in hand to hand combat but be a front line support who helps out her team on the front lines.¡± As he finished, he took out four army knives and gave them to Marina. She looked at them for a second before replying, ¡°I understand.¡±
He looked at Christoph and said, ¡°For now, you need to work on your stamina and Ice manipulation. Remember, manifestation ability holders biggest advantage is that they can create practically anything with their ability. You need to think long and hard about what kind of a weapon you want to specialize in and when you have figured it out, come and tell me. I will give you a special training program for it. For now, every day I want you to run 30 laps around the training field and do 3 sets of the training exercises on this paper.¡± He handed Christoph the paper. Christpoh looked over it and nodded to Alex, ¡°I understand, I will do as you instructed.¡±
Alex just smiled and turned his head to Marcus. He paused for a second and started, ¡°Now then, your ability is the trickiest to train to be honest. You can train to be anywhere from hand-to-hand to long range combat. Depending on what your answer is, your training regime will also be different. So think long and hard in what you want to specialize in and what you want to use a secondary style. For now we will have you do body building. You need speed, strength and control over your fire, so for now follow the instructions on this paper.¡± He handed Marcus a paper with instructions as well.
He glanced over everyone''s faces before asking, ¡°Do you guys have any questions about your training instructions for now?¡± Everyone were quiet for a moment and shook their heads. They had no questions and no objections as well. Even they understood that instructions like these were not thought up on the spot and all of these things covered their general short comings.
Alex saw that none of them had any questions so he continued, ¡°Now, when summer vacation starts, we will be moving to a special training location for a 2 month special training. The higher ups want to send you on a mission in Fall so I need to get you as strong as possible in the 4 months we currently have. I honestly do not want to see any of you dead on your first mission so the two month boot camp is going to be a hard one.¡± When everyone heard that, they gulped.
It was clear that Alex did not want to send them to die so he needed to make them as strong as possible in the short time frame he had. Erica asked out of curiosity, ¡°What will our mission be?¡± Alex looked at her and said, ¡°Most likely to exterminate some Mutant Beast nest. I will also be there so you do not need to be that scared but I can''t protect all of you at all times, so better safe than sorry.¡±
They all understood that they couldn''t stay at the training grounds for all their life so they needed to get strong enough to survive routine missions. With that Alex disbanded everyone and set up a meeting every day. 3PM they will meet at that spot and if anyone has questions or sorts they can ask him then.
They had had an extremely eventful day today so when they got home, they instantly fell asleep. Alex however set his steps towards the Directors office with a serious face.
Chapter 10: Reasons
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Chapter 10: Reasons
As Alex arrived at the office, the sun was starting to set. The Director just sat on his chair, drinking coffee. When he saw Alex enter, he had a warm smile on his face as he said, ¡°Well, you arrived earlier than I thought you would. Wait a moment, I''ll notify for those two to come as well.¡± Alex just nodded and sat down on a chair, while the Director called for Shadow and Medical Saint.
Half an hour slowly ticked by as Alex just told the Director about the progress he had made with his students today. Suddenly there was a knock on the door and two people walked in. They both had a warm smile on their face when they saw Alex. Medical Saint rushed to hug him as she asked, ¡°How have you been? Did they treat you badly over there at the prison? If they did, tell your big sister and she will go and beat the crap out of them.¡±
As she said that she had a serious face on, everyone else were laughing at it though. Alex just smiled and said, ¡°Well you haven''t changed one bit in these two years Clare. I mean that literally.¡± ¡°Well, you have grown up quite a lot since the last time we saw you Alex.¡± Shadow also butted in to the conversation. ¡°Well, you also seem to have aged a bit Daniel.¡± Alex immediately said in a joking tone.
¡°Well well, let''s leave the reminiscing for later. I just want to ask of you Alex, how did the mission go?¡± When everyone heard that, their faces turned serious as Clare immediately asked, ¡°Jack, is this room safe?¡± Jack just nodded before gesturing everyone to calm down and sit down. Everyone took a suspicious glance around before sitting down.
Alex opened his mouth and started, ¡°I was in that prison for two years but the progress I made was practically miniscule. The ones who got caught were only low level people who didn''t know squat.¡± He just shook his head and Jack asked, ¡°So what did you find out or was the two year stay there completely pointless?¡±
Alex just looked at him and sighed, ¡°Practically yea, all of the guys aid the same thing, ¡°We can''t say anything otherwise they will kill us no matter where we are.¡±. Oh yea, there was one interesting bit of information that I received. It seems like they suffered some major setback in Sareld, so their plans are delayed for another 4 years. Did something happen outside?¡± Everyone thought deeply for a second to remember if there were any big incidents happening in those two years.
Suddenly Daniel said, ¡°Ah, I know. About a year back, we busted an illegal laboratory that experimented on ESP-ers. We killed over fifty people and arrested over a hundred. Sadly we got no information out of them as they were equipped with poison capsules and all of them committed suicide shortly after being arrested.¡± Alex just looked at Daniel and also sighed, ¡°Seems like that truly was what set them back. Now the question is, why did they end my assignment early? I should have been in the prison for two more years, no?¡±
Everyone looked at Jack. Alex should have still been in prison for another 2 years to get information from the people sent there. The government had to pull a lot of strings and swear a lot of people to secrecy to get Alex in there and also the people suspected of being part of ¡°Nirvana¡±.
When people thought of Dragoncross, they thought that they were just the ten strongest ESP-ers of the country. What they did not know was that all of the Dragoncross members report directly to highest military authority in the country. They were basically the countries strongest ESP-ers but at the same time, a countries strongest Special Operations team. Dragoncross members did the most classified missions and also were responsible of dealing with certain underground organizations that were trying to shake the country from its foundation.
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One of the most infamous of those organizations was ¡°Nirvana¡±. They were hell bent on taking over the world and establishing a world where ESP-ers ruled and non-ESP-ers were nothing more than slaves. Jack just looked at Alex and said, ¡°The situation has changed, the Danger Zones are becoming more active and we received a word from Elun. She has summoned the Meeting of Ten Dragons. You as the 6th Dragon are also needed there.¡±
When Alex heard that his face turned serious. The Meeting of Ten Dragons was only called when something big was going to happen. Elun was a ESP-er who could see the future. The accuracy of her divination''s was horrifyingly accurate. ¡°When is the Meeting?¡± Alex asked in a serious tone.
¡°Ten days from now at the Dragoncross bar. That was also the reason we had to pull such a stupid stunt like the damn ¡°terrorist act¡±. We needed to get you out of the prison in a round about way. If we had just had the government get you out, then a hell lot of questions would have risen. At the moment however we could pin it on your status as an ESP-er going unnoticed and that you have now joined the ESP-er Division, where we would keep a ¡°strict eye on you¡±. There are problems explaining this to the school you are now attending. It would be better to have you either drop out of school or have you switch schools.¡±
Alex just let out a hollow laugh to that. He had known that something was up, when he mysteriously had to start going to school and suddenly ¡°terrorists¡± took the school hostage. ¡°Well, seems like this discussion is finished now and all of the questions have been answered. Now let me ask you this, in the meantime did you find any trace of Sandra?¡± Alex just shrugged his shoulders as he asked Daniel.
Daniel just let out a sigh as he shook his head, ¡°No, we haven''t. We could not find out, who that bastard sold Sandra to. And also, having you go and cripple him like that was not helping.¡± He reprimanded Alex in the end. Everyone had a serious face on as they talked about this. Sandra was Alex''s friend who had been by his side for all his life. It was clear to everyone that she was in love with Alex but Alex had never shown any fancy to her. Daniel looked into Alex''s eyes and asked, ¡°What do you really feel about her? Do not dodge the question this time.¡±
Everyone there wanted to know the answer to that question. Alex just closed his eyes and let out a breath before leaning back on his chair, ¡°I loved her and wanted to protect her the most in this world. She had the same upbringing as me so I wanted her to have a normal life where she could live like a normal human.¡± Clare immediately asked him, ¡°Then why did you reject her? You could not have been dense enough to not notice her feelings for you!¡±
Alex looked at Clare with a straight face and said, ¡°Because I wanted her to live a normal life, I rejected her. I wanted her to find a man, with who she could buy a small house and be the housewife. The man would come home every evening and they would have a nice family dinner while talking about their day. I however walk alongside death and would be out there placing my life on the line for months without coming home. She would always be there worrying about me, that is not what I wanted for her.¡±
When everyone heard that, they understood the sentiment behind Alex''s actions. It would be no surprise if one of them died at any given day and none of them wanted to have a person worrying about them day in and day out. Clare just said, ¡°I understand your reasoning but don''t you think she would have been happier if you had accepted her? I mean she followed you most of her life.¡±
Alex just cast his gaze down and said in a quiet voice, ¡°If I manage to find her alive and she still accepts me, I would have no second thoughts about retiring from all of this business on a moments notice and buying a small cottage in the countryside to live in with just the two of us.¡± Everyone just let out a warm smile when they heard that. They knew, he seriously would do that if she still accepted him. Silence took over the office as everyone were thinking of a new topic to talk on.
Suddenly Alex''s phone rang and his brows furrowed as he saw an unfamiliar number on the screen. He decided to answer it anyways. As soon as he did, his face changed as he stood up and shouted at the phone, ¡°Where are you Sandra, tell me right now and I will come to get you this second!¡±
Chapter 11: The evening before a calamity
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Chapter 11: The evening before a calamity
As Alex stood up, everyone''s eyes immediately turned sharp. The moment they heard the name ¡°Sandra¡±, they all went into extreme concentration mode. Jack however picked up his desk phone and yelled into the speaker, ¡°Run a trace on where Alex is currently receiving the call from now. I immediately want the location, from where the call was made!¡± Alex was kind of baffled by Jack''s quick judgement.
From the other side of Alex''s call however came a weak voice, ¡°I don''t know where this is, I''ve been locked here in the underground for months now.¡± Just as Alex was about to say something a door creaking open could be heard from the other side of the phone and a hurried voice echoed out, ¡°They are coming, I have to end the call now.¡± With that the call ended. For a second everyone froze but that was soon broken by Alex, who started storming towards the door.
Jack immediately increased gravity weighing down on Alex and yelled, ¡°Don''t be rash and storm out like a headless chicken! I already made a request to get the trace of that call, we will wait for the location and then go there with the four of us. For now sit down and wait for the report!¡± That yell brought Alex back to reality and he just said, ¡°Fine! I''ll wait for it but once the report comes in, I do not give a flying fuck as to where that place is or who I have to fight. I am going.¡±
Jack released the gravity and Alex went to sit down again. The report came in 5 minutes after the conversation had ended and those 5 minutes seemed like an eternity to Alex. For three years, there had not been any sign of Sandra, now that he had found one lead to it, he as sure as hell would not let this slip by him. Daniel and Clare had not said a word since the phone call but they too were ready to storm in alongside Alex.
The Dragoncross was unlike any other organization, it was more than coworkers, they were like family. Ever since Alex joined at the age of 11, they had seen how the two treated each other. Sandra was always tailing Alex as well so they had had chances to talk to Sandra as well and considered her a friend of theirs. Had it not been for Jack''s cool head, they would have stormed the businessman''s home before Alex could. They quietly made preparations to go practically anywhere to bust her out. As the report came in, Jack frowned as he read it.
Clare immediately asked him, ¡°What''s the matter, did they not find the location or what?¡± Impatience was also evident in her voice. Jack just said with cold eyes, ¡°It is not that they didn''t find her, it is that the call came from the house of a person, who is under investigation of having a connection to Nirvana. He is also deeply involved in politics.¡± He took a deep breath before continuing, ¡°If we storm that house and can not find her, we will be in some seriously deep shit.¡±
Everyone looked at Alex, even he knew what the consequences of fucking up here would be. Alex had the lead on this, so they would follow his order on this. Alex thought for a second and just as he was about to open his mouth, a phone rang out again. Everyone jolted for a second when the silence was broken by the ringing. This time however the phone that rang was Jack''s. When he looked at the number he frowned.
He picked up the phone with a serious face and said, ¡°Hello¡¡± Just as he was about to continue, shock came onto his face and it was soon replaced by a sinister smile. He put down the phone and looked at Alex before saying, ¡°That was Elun, she just said Sandra was indeed in that house as her divination showed her us breaking in and getting her. She told me to say this to you: ¡°When you get her back, I want her to study under me as she has the same ability as me, her compatibility is even stronger than mine.¡± She also told me that we have exactly 24 hours to get her out of there before she sends in the Dragon Reserve.¡±
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When everyone heard that, their questioning attitude turned into full of confidence one. If Elun saw it in he divination that she truly was there, then it was practically set in stone that she was. What made a shiver run down everyone''s spine was that she thought so highly of her to even send in the Dragon Reserve if they did not go.
The Dragon Reserve was made up of retired Dragoncross members. Currently they numbered around thirty people and they were the last and strongest defense line of the country. The only person who could call the Dragon Reserve was the Head Dragon aka the leader of Dragoncross. Currently that position was held by Elun.
Everyone felt relieved that they could go without a problem. Jack immediately started making preparations for transport, Clare went to gather some food and medical supplies because they did not know what Sandra''s current condition was. She may be in an immediate need of medical attention. Daniel gathered his best and most trusted subordinates and Alex was left without a duty.
In half an hours worth of time, there were 50 people fully armed from Daniel''s side. Clare had also brought some of her subordinates with her to treat other people. They did not know exactly, how many people were locked there. Jack had prepared 10 helicopters. They did a headcount and a quick briefing on the importance and objective of this mission.
Alex stood a little farther back and was currently looking at a slightly burnt picture. This picture was made when they were ten years old and this was currently the only one that he had left. When the people came to take Sandra away, they had also burnt down the apartment the they had been living in with Jack.
The two of them came from the same countryside small town, where ESP-ers were deeply hated. When Alex''s ability manifested, he was beaten the crap out of by his family and thrown on the streets. He lived on the streets for half a year. After he was thrown on the streets, the people of that town constantly harassed and beat him up. He survived that period of time in his life solely due to Sandra bringing him food and patching up his wounds as best as she could.
That all changed when Sandra''s ability manifested itself. She too was thrown on the streets and beaten up daily. When Alex discovered that, his ¡°Blood Crystal Manifestation¡± ability ran berserk and in his blind rage, he killed nearly half of the people from that town. The rest survived only thanks to blind luck.
Jack was just passing by, returning from a mission, when he passed through the town and stopped Alex. Half the scars on Jack''s body came from Alex that night. After he had managed to suppress him and found out why he went on a rampage, he had a strong urge to annihilate that town himself. He took Alex in as his disciple and forbid him from using the ¡°Blood Crystal Manifestation¡± again before he gave him permission to do so.
From that day onwards, Alex started walking alongside death every day as he fought ESP-ers and Mutated Beasts alike. In his mind, he didn''t give a shit about anyone else, he only wanted to give Sandra a good life, where she would not be discriminated against or hurt ever again. A small act of kindness on Sandra''s behalf ignited eternal gratitude in Alex.
Alex quietly murmured, ¡°Wait for a little while longer and I will bring you home. When that happens, I will never let anyone lay a hand on you again.¡± With that his eyes turned completely cold and he had entered merciless killing mode.
Chapter 12: A bit of History
This is a "more explainatory" chapter. Also, I will be rewriting some things in the previous chapters (1-11), so no chapter on Tuesday.
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Chapter 12: A bit of History
When everyone was briefed on the objective of this mission, they boarded the helicopters and started moving towards the mansion, where the call came from. The mansion was located in a remote area near the state border. Even traveling via helicopters would take about an hour to arrive there.
The country of Sareld was located on an island that was from north to south 542 km long and from east to west it was 663km long. The main problem however was that about half of the countries territory was Danger Zones, where Mutated Beasts, remnants of WW3, run amok.
Mutated Beasts came to being in places where wildlife mutated due to having a high levels of radiation. Those places were generally spots where Nuclear weapons were detonated. After WW3, due to increased levels of radiation, people started to undergo a genetic mutation as well and ESP ability holders started appearing one after another. After the 3rd WW the world changed drastically from what it was.
Every country started gathering ESP-ers as they were ¡°a stronger weapon¡± than nuclear weapons. Since ESP-ers had all sorts of different abilities, they were in high demand in every profession. The combat part was most heavily developed. Most of the modern weapons had no effect on these Mutated Beasts so ESP-ers who had the ability to kill them were in an extremely high price. The most valued were ESP-ers who had an ability that had something to do with mechanics.
They could invent new weapons or everyday items, they could also upgrade these items. That was the main reason ¡°mechanic ESP-ers¡± were the most eccentric but at the same time most valued. A combat type ESP-er was useful as long has he or she was in active duty but the inventions of mechanical ESP-er could be used even after their death.
A country''s strength was now determined by three factors:
1. Their economic level.
2. Combat type ESP-ers strength
3. How many good ¡°Mechanical ESP-er¡± they had.
As every ability had its own variety of uses, there were not set in stone types. Those who had no direct use in combat could still use it in combat in some way. The outline of combat type and noncombat type was very vague. One of the best examples of this is telekinesis. Depending on how one used it, it would be either a combat type, throwing things at your enemies, or a non combat type, like a construction worker.
Since a country had a lot to gain from ESP-ers they set up different divisions for them. The Medical Division, Combat Division, Logistic Division and Research Division. Those were the four main subdivisions of the ESP Department. Every Division also had its own subdivisions and so on. Since they were a lot of use to the government, their privileges and payroll were quite different from a normal persons.
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For example, a soldier with an ESP ability earned 4 times the amount a normal soldier of the same rank did. They had a lot more freedom with their movement as well. Since a normal soldier did not stand a chance against a Mutated Beast alone but an ESP-er did, it was understandable.
However, all bright sides have a dark side. Even though ESP-ers bring a lot more possibilities to a country there are always people who either welcome it or despise it. Around the world there were various sects and organizations that either believed in normal peoples superiority or ESP-er superiority.
As usual, even these organizations and sects had different beliefs and their radicality was different. From the normal human radicals the most infamous was the organization ¡°Natural Earth¡±, on the ESP superiority was the organization ¡°Nirvana¡±. The both of them had the same goal: One side rules over the other. They did not understand the term ¡°Equality¡±.
Natural Earth saw all ESP-ers as an abomination. It was not known whether it was born from a religious sect or from people who were jealous of ESP-ers because of their abilities, so they believed normal humans were supposed to rule while ESP-ers were supposed to serve them.
Nirvana was on the other side of the spectrum. They believed ESP-ers were chosen ones that should rule and normal humans who did not have an ability were supposed to be their slaves.
They both were an underground association that had roots in every country on the planet. To get rid of them was impossible as no one knew, where their headquarters was or even, who were leading them. All the government knew was this, they had connections and people everywhere but they blended in too well to be distinguished from others.
Around the world there were towns or even whole counties that were either ESP-er haters or ¡°Normal Human¡± haters. The town Alex and Sandra were born in, was one of the most radical examples of these kinds of towns. The towns people believed that normal humans were supposedly superior to mutants like ESP-ers.
The job of Dragoncross is mainly to keep these two radical groups under suppression. However that is easier said than done as the people in those two organizations are like brainwashed sheep. They would rather give up their lives than betray their cause.
The main reason Alex was assigned to juvie was that maybe he could get something out from the younger generation who was caught. In the two years he spent there, the results were extremely lacking. The other reason Alex was assigned to that mission was so that he could cool his head.
The money the government invested into this operation was practically thrown to wind. The government was quietly starting to lose hope in dealing with those two organizations. They were always one step ahead, no matter how secretive the mission was. When dealing with these two organizations, the government felt like they were fishing for a needle in an ocean, they had no way of obtaining anything no matter what they did.
This ¡°war¡± of government against the radicals was a true uphill battle.
Chapter 13: Suppression of the mansion
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Chapter 13: Suppression of the mansion
An hour passed by quickly and soon the helicopters were 1 kilometer away from the politicians mansion. They landed roughly a kilometer away and disembarked.
When everyone had exited the helicopters, Jack and Daniel did a head count and Jack did one last confirmation, ¡°I''m going over this one last time. Our objective is the mansion belonging to Jax Freed. He is a politician, but it is confirmed that he is part of Nirvana. We will completely take over the mansion and everyone within will be placed under arrest. There are also supposed to be several abducted people detained there so do not kill anyone on sight. You are only allowed to kill when they attack first, but our primary objective is to get as many people alive as possible. They may be our only way to reach the upper echelons of Nirvana.¡±
All the people present nodded and on Jack''s signal, they moved out. They were all divided into a group of 5 plus 1. The plus one was the medical personnel that Clare brought with her. On foot and through the night, infiltrating them was going to be easy. The people selected for this were experts in nighttime infiltration and suppression.
20 minutes after heading out, all the teams reached their designated points and were waiting for the order to move in. This had to be done precisely by the clock, experience had shown that if this did not work like a clockwork, then there would be an extremely high chance of them getting away. When everyone had reached their positions, Jack did one final check and signaled everyone to move in.
The mansions were needlessly big and was surrounded by a three meter high wall. Since Jax lived there, there were a lot of guards. Since he was a politician, it wasn''t surprising that he had bodyguards, but on closer inspection of the surrounding guards, everyone noticed there were a bit too many of them. This mission had two ways of execution: Stealth as long as possible and when they were discovered, then it would become a fight. Since they had not been exposed yet, they were still in the stealth part. The best case scenario was that it ended in Stealth as well.
Everyone moved in, silencing the guards as quickly and quietly as possible. Since they entered from 11 different points, there were places where the security was more lax. Jack, Daniel, Clare and Alex formed the only four man cell in this operation. They entered through the back and headed straight for Jax''s bedroom. The amount of guards they met along the way was small but even those few guards were quickly silenced by Daniel and Alex.
After entering the mansions second floor, they couldn''t spot any more guards. At first they thought that it was a trap, but soon they realized that the second floor, where Jax lived with his family, was off limits to the guards. After scurrying around the second floor for a few minutes, they reached Jax''s bedroom.
Just as they entered, they could hear someone immediately shouting, "Haven''t I told you idiots enough times already that you are not allowed on the second floor?" The teams eyes focused on a figure on top of the bed. Fat, half-naked and bald like a pig. They could see the person expression going from confused to shocked when he realized who entered his room. Daniel, Clare and Jack instantly moved to cover all of the exits.
Alex started walking towards the bed with an expressionless face and red lightning streaked across his arm. As the lighting reached his fingertips, a sword made of red crystal appeared in his hand. "Where is Sandra being detained?" Alex asked in a cold, detached voice as he just kept walking and looked into Jax''s eyes.
Jax immediately stood up and yelled, "You bastards, do you know who I am? Do you think you can get away with this just like that?" The team could see sand started swirling around his now opened palm. Jack reached his hand into his pocket and took out a folded piece of paper. Everyone in the room was now standing still, Alex included. He stood close enough to attack at a moments notice. Jack unfolded the paper in a leisurely manner and Jax asked him, "What is that?"
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Jack just turned the paper around and said while smiling, "This is a warrant for your arrest." Hearing this Jax''s face turned grim as he asked in a cold voice, "On what charges? I''m an influential politician, you can not arrest me due to my immunity so get lost before I have all of you fired."
Jack just shook his head and said, "Your immunity doesn''t mean shit to us. The four of us are from Dragoncross. Thanks to our privileges we can arrest you when we want and on whatever grounds we deem fit. Currently you are going to be arrested for being part of the underground organization Nirvana. If you resist we will kill you."
Hearing this Jax let out a maniacal laugh that stunned everyone. He looked at Jack and said, "You lousy mutts, you actually have a sharp nose for once. If you figured out this much, then bravo but you should all know what we, The Nirvana is capable-" His line was cut short as Alex cut off his right arm that had swirling sand on top of it.
Jax immediately grabbed the stump that was left. "I don''t have time to listen to your grand speech. Now you also can not break your poison capsule, so you will be completely at my mercy with this one. So where is Sandra?" Alex said in a cold voice as he started walking towards Jax. Fear was starting to surface on his face. He started regretting not breaking the capsule the moment they said that they knew he was part of Nirvana.
The capsule was located in his pinky finger. Usually the person who got caught would break his pinky and the poison would kill him in a matter of seconds. Now that the arm was detached, he couldn''t suicide like that anymore and as he grit his teeth, he started to gather sand on top of his other palm. Alex''s eyes flashed and he immediately cut the hand off of his wrist. When everyone saw that, their expressions were still the same, this kind of situations were not that uncommon.
Suddenly a voice echoed out from the transmitters earphones, "This is the third team. We have found a door leading underground, we believe it to be the door to lead to the laboratory and the holding place of the hostages." Jack grabbed his microphone and said, "Good, stand by there. How are we doing on suppressing the guards around the mansion?" Soon after, every team reported in and it was concluded that the mansion was suppressed.
All they needed to do now was get past the door to enter the underground lab. Jax had lost his worth to Alex so he immediately raised the blood crystal sword to cut his throat when Jack stopped him, "Wait, we do not know what security there is. It is more beneficial to us if he is currently alive so we can use him for the passwords." Alex just looked at him and was void of all emotion, he was like a machine.
Clare and Daniel looked at him with pity in their eyes as they knew that this was what happened when his switch was flipped. He locked down all of his emotions leaving only a calm and rational mind. Hearing Jack, he thought for a second and nodded. Clare stopped Jax''s bleeding and they moved to the door that lead underground. The door was hidden in the tool shed and as they entered the shed, they saw that to open the door they needed an Iris scan.
They all sighed in relief as they had not decided to kill Jax back in his bedroom. Jax was completely lifeless as he could not use his ESP power anymore, he was only glad that his wife and child were visiting his in-laws at the moment.Jax''s ability allowed him to manipulate sand with his fingers. He couldn''t create it or control it with his mind like people usually did. He only joined Nirvana because they promised him to ¡°upgrade¡± his ability.
As Jax opened the door, a loud order came out, "Rain them down with bullets!"
Chapter 14: Reaching the last boss
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Chapter 14: Reaching the last boss
When everybody heard the shout, they instinctively dodged to the sides. They got a glimpse of the long corridor that led underground. When the bullets started flying, everyone swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Hadn''t that person shouted to rain bullets down on them, they would not have been able to dodge in time and would have been turned into swiss cheese already. Everyone looked towards Jack, he only looked at Alex before nodding. Alex''s cold eyes flashed as 4 dagger like crystals manifested around him. He let out a deep breath before activating his time acceleration.
As time accelerated for him, he could see the bullets in slow motion. He dodged past the bullets heading straight for the soldiers in the long corridor. The corridor was white in color and had lights every 2 meters. The people who were shooting were in soldier camo. This made Alex raise his eyebrow, he didn''t dwell on it any longer and dashed towards them.
The soldiers were 10 meters away from the door so reaching them wasn''t very hard. With a flick of his hand, the four daggers by Alex''s side flew forward and pierced through the throats of the shooters. As there were 6 shooters standing side by side, some of the daggers had to go for another throat when they were returning. This all took time to describe but from the activation to emerging in front of the captain like person, less than half a second had passed in real time.
He undid the time acceleration, when he had reached the captain and was holding one of the daggers on the mans throat. Withing seconds, the people who had their throats pierced through, went limp. The captain had no idea what had just happened when suddenly Alex had appeared in front of him. When the shots stopped, Alex yelled, ¡°Clear!¡± and everyone started popping their heads out and rushing towards Alex to subdue the captain.
When the captain was pinned down. Alex took a closer look at him. The man had a crew cut brown hair and brown eyes. He also had a built body and was just like a soldier. When they had made sure that the surrounding area was safe, Jack started interrogating the man, ¡°Who are you, who do you answer to and what the flying fuck is beyond these doors?¡± The man just shut grit his teeth and refused to answer. It was obvious that he was trying to break his poison capsule. Seeing this, Alex walked towards his left pinky and cut it off. ¡°AAARGH!¡± When the miserable shout echoed out, everyone knew what Alex had done. Jack started using his ability to increase gravity on the mans balls as he continued his interrogation.
Alex on the other hand, had sat with his back against the wall. He was breathing heavily as fatigue was starting to take over. Although dual ability users were strong, they were also very vulnerable. The amount of energy that was needed to keep both of the abilities active was very taxing. Fiddling around with time like he was, was very tiring by itself but to add the crystal manifestation and controlling on the list as well, the end result was that he needed to rest for a bit. 10 minutes passed as Jack interrogated the man and then approached Alex and the rest.
When he came back, he had a grim look on his face as he opened his mouth, ¡°This is worse than I thought. There are professional soldiers stationed here as well. The only exit is through this passage way, so we do not need to fear about them running away from another exit. The lab itself is not as big as the mansion and they have only 4 hostages here so this is a bit better scenario than we thought.¡± When everyone heard that, their faces were also grim. They might be ESP-ers but they most certainly were not randomly bulletproof.
This place was their territory as well and only god knows how many booby traps they have set up. Hearing the lab was a small one was a good news as well. If the lab had been a genuinely big, they would become a laughing stock of the world. Alex stood up and stretched a bit, he had recovered enough to go on.
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Seeing this, Jack started talking again, ¡°Now then, from the information that I have gotten, this lab is like a maze. After the next door, it disperses into 5 more passage ways. We will assign the teams and after passing through the next door everyone goes down their respective passages. Should the need arise, you can split your team up more. I will say it again, this is their territory and we have no damn idea, what they have up their sleeves.¡±
Everyone present nodded and Jack started dividing everyone into teams. There were 14 people present so, 4 three man cells were created and 1 two man cell. The ones in the two man cell were Alex and Jack. When everyone had been divided, they started moving towards the next door. As they entered they swiftly took care of the guards on the other side. When that was done, they started rushing through their respective passages, taking care of the guards along the way.
Since they had no idea, where what passage led, it was up to luck to who ended up where. When Jack and Alex had reached the final door, they took in a deep breath before breaking down the door and entering. Jack nodded to Alex and on Alex''s arm red crystals started appearing. When his whole hand was covered he took another deep breath before swinging widely towards the door. As Alex started swinging his fist, Jack manipulated gravity to make it pull towards the door. With the added inertia, when the fist hit the door, it just got blasted to pieces.
As the hole in the door was opened, a lot of coughing could be heard from the other side of the door. Alex and Jack glanced at each other before rushing in. As the door broke, a lot of dust was also created, so their visibility was low. That however worked in Jack and Alex''s favour as they rushed in through the smoke and killed the people guarding there. As the smoke settled down, Alex and Jack took a look around.
The room they were currently in looked like a prison row, on each side of the long passage, there were holding cells. The lights were also a lot dimmer here than in the hallway they came in from. As their eyes got more used to darkness they started going further in. Just as they were going to reach the end, laughter echoed out in hallway and as they looked towards the door, their faces turned serious. There were now two people at the door leading to the hallway.
One was an old man who was rather short and a bit plump. He had white, short hair and reminded you of puff cake. The other was a youth who was about as tall as Alex and had black medium hair, and a thin build. At the moment he had an extremely crazy expression on.
These two people were not strangers to Alex and Jack. Jack just looked at them and said in a cold tone, ¡°So it''s Lunatic and Gourmet. Seems like we really lost our luck this time.¡± This wasn''t the first time they had fought against these two. Every match ended in both sides retreating, the youth called Lunatic looked at Alex with a maniacal face and said, ¡°Heheheh, we meet again. Do not think, that this time will be like last time. Hahhaah, this time I''m going to carve you into work of art.¡±
As the words rang out, Alex grit his teeth. He never liked this guy, he was as mad as a person can get. His ability was that if he established a link to a person, then they would suffer all the damage done to him. In a fight against him, there couldn''t be a bigger handicap. All he needed to do was taste his opponents blood and he could establish the link.
Alex took a glance at Jack''s face and saw, he took had an ugly face on. To run into these two, it was currently the worst case scenario. Jack opened his mouth and said, ¡°Seems like we have seriously pissed of some God who is in charge of distributing luck.¡± Alex looked at the two on the other side of the hallway and nodded, ¡°Or we fucked up big time in our past lives to earn the shittiest karma there is.¡± They were talking like that only due to having to face these two as their opponents so close to the mission finish line.
Suddenly, Lunatic grabbed a knife from behind his back and yelled in an angry tone, ¡°Stop ignoring me, I am going to carve you this time!¡± As he said that, he started dashing towards Alex.