Author’s note: A little busy but not dead~ This chapter is a little longer due to the awesomeness of the new star wars.
Part 1
Ben opened his eyes to a new day, it had been many days since the Cyclops attack. And he still found himself waking up on the same bed, same ceiling, same warmlight, and…
"Mmmm, pepperoni, hawaiiean, cheese, ham,..." The fifth rank S sleep talking besides him. She seemed to still be talking about her dreams about pizza and…
"Susie the Hamster is so cute...@sdfasaa#%" And so on. She had the outer shell of a dignified girl, but actually she was a sweet little girl with a humongous appetite.
Sarah had told him the tales of an angel saving her when there were drags after her. And Ben just kept quiet about the matter and let her finish her story. It had been fun fighting those Cyclops, but he should also be careful in the future.
Then, there was also another matter.
"Hey Ben! We're having a battle-suit practice soon! Get ready!" Selendis happily stated as she was wearing her battle suit. She was a rank B. But one of the highest in the rank. Ben looked at her body happily as Selendis's body was full of lovely curves. Making him smile at the chance.
(So cute~) Ben thought out quietly as he continued to stare. He had already finished wearing, and secretly modifying his armor. It truly was fascinating how the body armor works.
"Well, since Christina is going to be the one who teaches us this day. It truly is interesting..." Ben still remembered the day he fought Christina and intentionally lost to her. It was really fun to see her fight.
However, Christina had a different plan. She ordered everybody to fight as usual, but she especially looked at Ben's fight.
Ben was holding back as usual. But Selendis was forcing him back so hard he may need to use some unique techniques on Dark Matter. Selendis has already hot Ben once when he was off guard, and he got blown all the way to the other side of the arena. He retaliated back in time to shoot 4 Dark Matter shells that exploded on impact. Boom!
"You're better than I thought, Ben." Selendis praised Ben's ability to skillfully use his suit. Ben had used many techniques that shocked even Selendis who was supposed to be one of the best battle-suit users out there. Actually, Ben modified the battle-suit to correspond with his mind, making it easier to use. But the suit is very peculiar, its mechanism seems to be strange and almost unchangeable. Even Ben's Dark matter can't do anything to most of its part. But it seems to have some limitation to its ability to not change. And changes are possibly, as long as the main purpose of it isn't modified.
"Well, you should speak for yourself Selendis, I can't keep up with your techniques, really." Ben once again repelled another slash from Selendis's sword. And he retreated away rapidly. Selendis was try a veteran in battle. She doesn't get cocky no matter how weak her boy opponent seems to be. She then shot 3 missiles at Ben, who created a large Dark Matter shield to guard himself.
But Selendis used that opening to run around Ben and point her blade at Ben's back. Ben was caught off guard and lost the battle. His face, however, showed no sign of regret. It had to be his loss no matter what when it came to using battle-suit.
Part 2
"So, how is our 'Research' doing now?" The Board chairman of the academy, William, asked all of his board of directors as he sipped his cup of coffee. He was a young man with a tired look in his eyes. He had seen many battles and many of his students die. But still can’t get used to in no matter what.
"The experiment on the B class is proceeding smoothly. We have concluded that B classes can progress faster through combat.”
"Not that, I want to know what the witness said was true during our last battle with the Drags.” A problem had arisen that surpassed all he had ever witnessed in his years of battle. This problem is so huge it could make him collapse at any moment.
“Oh sir… About student Conner, did he really turn into a drag?”
“We did not find his corpse, and the witness told us that. It is truly a tragedy.”
Yes, there is a student who turned into a drag during the fight with it. It had shocked the whole world, only the higher-ups, about this classified information. The reason they are not pursuing the culprit who killed the stopped the two drags simultaneously was because of a much bigger problem.
"Y-yes sir. Conner, one of our students. A rank. Turned into a Drag according to witnesses. We have already erased their memory for the best of the whole." Yes, the erasing of the memory had been necessary in order to prevent a huge panic in the campus and the world.
"Hmph, how interesting... A human turning into a drag is completely unheard of. The witnesses said that the student seemed to turn whoopy and seemed to praises a god or something before turning into a drag.”
"This matter is serious, Gallen, and not a mere problem we can let pass." An old woman in the room spoke out intimidatingly at the man who sees humans as mere objects for 'his' experiments. The reason he was allowed here was still unknown.
"We can conclude that those student Conner seemed to receive power from an unknown origin. We have, for the first time in 3 years, studied the corpse of Drags. And what we found was shocking, the Drag that the witness said was once a human, turns out there is a dead body of him in the center. Scientists have once found a brain very similar to a human’s in the Drag’s body. Who could have known that it really came from a human.” The director signed wearily as he took another sip from his coffee. He was trying to find a little evidence to make things finally get into standard common sense.
“But we still don’t know how this have happened. It seems to be connected to the unknown origin the power came from. For now, we can’t make any conclusions.” Another young looking man said out his opinion and looked calmly at the reports. This matter had been really serious for once in a long time, and he was taking time getting used to the atmosphere.
“Well, the brain definitely is Conner’s, the bigger problem is why don’t all the humans turned into a Drag yet.” Gallen said jovially, he sees human life as mere experiments, and paid no heed to it in anyway. These things that had transpired had only intrigued him.
“It seems that is still unknown, the scientists are now researching on this and the student’s brainwaves, all of the student’s brainwave have now been collected. If one of them turned abnormal, we shall see its conclusion. Meeting adjourned.” The board of director said out calmly and the people from the board of directors moved out of the room.
The ‘rift’ was something that is only used at the peak of the peak of problems. The gods were uneasy to use it due to the terrible risk it could bring to the world. But after foreseeing world war three, they decided that this was a right choice. Ben never knew of this, but the rift is something much more bigger than anyone could’ve imagined.
Part 3
Star was walking through the academy. She was a Level S rank 3, the strongest and second only to the first and second Rank. She had been in this academy longer than most, and her powers are unquestionable. She took pride in her humongous power and she can do almost anything.
Now, she was just walking through the city, enjoying the breeze, when a group of boys suddenly came at her. In this huge academy, there are parts of it for students who are out of leage. And most rank Bs will pick on girls. And S rank’s face aren’t as known throughout the academy. They often will just walk in the academy without attracting attention. That is what the high rankers like to feel, normal.
“Now girl, you’ve got quite a body there, how about you go on a walk with us?” A big muscular student came to Star and invited her to an alley. Anybody can obviously see that this was a trap, including Star. Star stared at the group of masculine large boys and signed. Boys are all the same, always wolfing after girls.
“Piss of.” Star raised her hands and a mass of liquid metal burst from her feet and blast the bullies away with force. Her ability,
Then something interesting caught her eyes, it was one of the famous cartoon mascot. Netako. A cute cat mascot wit cute black eyes and a really simple design. She instantly dashed towards it at high speed and was about to grab it when…
“Ooohh!!! At last, Sarah had been begging for this, its time I gave her a gift…” A boy with a familiar face suddenly snatched her prized mascot in front of her cry eyes and went to the counter. He was an asian boy with black hair, and a slender but masculine figure. He innocently paid the money and walked away happily.
“Waittttt!!!!!” After the boy left the store, a cute girl suddenly shouted from his back and the asian boy turned around. He saw the Star and was showed a perplexed face. Star was a little embarrassed at how the boy stared at her, as if seeing her somewhere before. But Star ignored it and continued her pursuit.
“Give me that Netako to me immediately, I’ll pay you anything you want!” Star said out proudly, the boy stared at her blankly for a second, and concluded that the girl must have been very confident about her beauty to dare and ask him daringly like this. She must have been a spoiled ojou-sama from somewhere, he concluded. So he decided to politely decline.
“Well, sorry but I need to give this to a friend, I can’t possibly give it to you, have a good day!” The boy, Ben, walked away quickly in front of the stunned girl who was still standing dumbfounded at the very spot. She quickly realised her position and ran after him.
“Give me that Netako now!!! She decided to control the liquid metal around her and it rushed towards the boy and scare him off, then interrogate him. However, the boy reacted immediately and created a huge wall of Dark Matter. The liquid metal that passed the walls immediately turned into normal harmless water. Star stared at it, flabbergasted by the unknown phenomenon. Actually, Dark Matter has more than 20,000 different kinds of energy, and anything that passed through it will have its property and laws changed, whether to the better or worse. And Ben who understands it more than anyone else can turn it into any energy he wanted.
Ben quickly turned around and stared at the girl. He thought somethings along the lines of, ‘is this girl intending to kill me for a single mascot doll!?’ and was frozen with fear of the future of humanity. On the other hand, Star was looking at Ben and she felt that her pride was hurt. Her prided liquid metal, turned into normal harmless water. How could this be possible!? She tried to shoot another liquid metal at the boy, and it once again turned into normal harmless water.
“What the heck are you?” The girl asked in confusion. No one had ever neutralised her powers like that, no matter how strong, in a way Ben had done that impossible. The boy however, was shivering in fear.
(This girl attacked me twice, that means that this isn’t an accident, just how popular is this mascot?) He panically thought and decided to face the girl seriously.
“Hey, tell me how can you fight me like that?”
“Eh, well, I have a little power more special than others a bit that’s all, there is absolutely nothing at all.” Ben hadn’t realised that the girl in front of him was a 2nd S rank. So he spoke casually and tried to not anger her furthur. But Star, however, suddenly laughed and turned to the boy. Her face was filled with a challenger’s look.
“It has been so long since I have gone all out…”
“Um, are you okay?”
“Fight me now!!!!!” She created a huge ball of liquid metal and thousands of weapons burst forth, it seems to surround the boy. However, Ben had different plans, he raised his hands and used his ultimate trump card. He ran.
“What? This isn’t how it was supposed to go?! Usually you must accept the fight and…”
“No way I’m fighting with you!!!!” The boy ran away with incredible speed using his partly dark matter legs, and was gone in a wift. Star was dumbfounded and failed to react. The next thing she knew was that she was standing all alone.
Star was puffing her cheeks and walked back.
Part 4
Ben was now standing and panting hard. The girl just now just shot dangerous liquids at him with an intention to kill. He ran away and settled down in his room. He sat on his soft bed, and opened a smart board to watch videos while waiting for Sarah. The video nowadays seemed to be more about Cyclops more than many other. He searched on and on until he found something. 'Clip:
Ben clicked on it and found something about the baseless about how the theory about how the
He watched on at the people praying and kissing the foot of the saviors who saved them, he can't bare to watch any longer and closed the video. Sarah then knocked on the door. Ben let her in and found her in a very bad mood.
"What happened? Why so depressed, Sarah.”
"Nothing..." In truth, Sarah had woke up late and didn't get the cat mascot she had always dreamed about. She strode sulkily to her bunk bed and pushed her face down.
Ben was trying to cheer her up and bought out the Netako mascot doll out for Sarah. The effect was immediate, she grabbed the mascot and stared at it intensely. She look at it and stared at Ben. Then with the eyes of a poor little puppy, she asked Ben.
"Can I have this, please…"
"Well sure! I bought it for you since you were sleep talking about these stuff. So I decided to buy one for you, that's all." Ben watched Sarah hugged the cat doll lovingly and smiled. He decided that the smile of this girl is totally worth all the trouble he had undergone. The cute rank S girl in front of him continued to hugged it on. Then she turned to Ben with the smile of an angel so bright it hurt Ben's eye.
"Thank you Ben, you're the real good guy!" She hugged Ben quickly before releasing. And continued playing with her cat like a cute little girl. Apparently, she was a girl who loves cat.
"So I have already prepared a stir fried chicken, you want one?" Sarah said out shyly to Ben. She wasn't actually a healthy eater, but her body doesn't care and grew with great curves.
Ben took a bite and chatted with Sarah. Then he stood up and was about to go to bed when... A photo of a cute girl dropped from his pocket. The whole room turned silent. Everyone was stunned, because the photo was the one of the idols in the school. Ben calmly and silently picked it up and inserted it in his pocket. However, Sarah went silent and stared at Ben. It was the photo of the S rank 6, lower than her, but with a much more feminine figure. Sarah had always been at rivalry with her, and won't allow the boy to get close to that mischievous devil.
"U-um, this is a picture of- wait wait, stop using your gravity powers on meeeeeee!!" Ben was pushed down onto the floor and struggled to stand up. He was pleaing for mercy as he collapsed down onto the floor. Although his body is strong, it isn't invincible. And he doesn't want to use his real pose in front of this girl.
“Don't-you-dare-let-me-see-that-annoying-girl-ever-again!"
"Why do you hate her so much!?" Ben inquired in order to let Sarah loosen her focus for even a second. He got this picture from the grocery store, apparently it was one of the main idol of the school.
The torturing goes on for about ten minutes before Ben got released and walked wearily onto bed. It was tiring even for a superhuman such ad him to endure such a strong gravity, as expected of the 5th S rank.
The reason she was only fifth was because the ranks above her can do something much more fearsome. The forth S rank, codename
Part 5
A certain person walked down the dark alley in the city. He yawned wearily as he picked up his phone, and checked the numbers. It was once again from one of the higher-ups in the academy. The mysterious man on the phone called one of the monsters of the academy.
"Yes, what is it?" The boy said casually as he turned his head to his right. There, lay piles after piles of drones, destroyed mechanical robots, all manufactured by the a force that rivals even the academy itself.
There is no such thing as a totally united earth, and many academy institutes still strive to fight their way to the top and gain dominance above all. The previous
"So you beat all of them again...Hah... I just told you to take care of only some of it, no totally wreck it apart like that." The phone guy signed heavily and slowly voiced his complaint. Almost no one in the higher-UPS of the United nations academy ever feared anyone more than this overly intelligent boy. He had the power of something far different from an esper, yet the same.
"Skip the tutorials, just tell me the business.”
"I need you to take care of the New York's academy new model,
The boy easily jumped up towards it and landed on its board. He had the power rivaling all who lives, but in his eyes, there was only loneliness.
Part 6
Sarah woke up from her bed and glanced over her shoulders. She decided to take a nap today, but she was too excited to even sleep. Today, she had the right to go raiding, and she slowly stood up. Today was another day and she prepared her battle suit.
Lately, Ben had been looking tired everytime he returned. Saying things like 'that annoying metal girl...' or something along those lines. He was a quiet boy who says things that just doesn't make any sense sometimes. Or really loves to talk to himself.
Raiding means for Sarah to go to Africa, the most infested continent in the world. And needs to be kept regularly in check, like stopping its advance. The Cyclops will attack more often in late summer, due to its weakness against cold. Some weapons can expel alot of cold to kill a Cyclops, but its more specialized in one on one, and a huge area at once is just too troublesome., so it wasn't used.
The raid will start in a few hours, so she should really get ready already. She wore her stockings and shorts to increase ease in movement. Her shirt was a tight one, but it was strangely comfortable for moving.
After she finished preparing, she opened the door and was about to go out, when. Boof! Ben was about to walk in and they bumped into each other. Sarah was lighter and she felled backwards, but Ben was still a little shocked, and proceeded to fall down due to momentum. His face, luckily, landed between the two soft valleys. Ben was, however, still confused before he got swung by a super human strength over the soft valley onto bed. And Sarah created a 3 times the normal gravity field above Ben.
Her pale face was dyed red as she walked away quickly before Ben caught up to reality. After he regained full consciousness, he tried to recall the unusual phenomenon that had just happened, but can't recall it.
Sarah went to get ready on the platform. A huge mother ship was there, ready for takeoff. Its shape was similar to a spear, and many of the newest weapon artillery was there, ready for combat.
The captain slowly told his speech and led the
Ben was now standing and panting hard. The girl just now just shot dangerous liquids at him with an intention to kill. He ran away and settled down in his room. He sat on his soft bed, and opened a smart board to watch Sarah went silent and stared at Ben. It was the photo of the S rank 6, lower than her, but with a much more feminine figure. Sarah had always been at rivalry with her, and won't allow the boy to get close to that mischievous devil.
"U-um, this is a picture of- wait wait, stop using your gravity powers on meeeeeee!!" Ben was pushed down onto the floor and struggled to stand up. He was pleaing for mercy as he collapsed down onto the floor. Although his body is strong, it isn't invincible. And he doesn't want to use his real pose in front of this girl.
“Don't-you-dare-let-me-see-that-annoying-girl-ever-again!"
"Why do you hate her so much!?" Ben inquired in order to let Sarah loosen her focus for even a second. He got this picture from the grocery store, apparently it was one of the main idol of the school.
The torturing goes on for about ten minutes before Ben got released and walked wearily onto bed. It was tiring even for a superhuman such ad him to endure such a strong gravity, as expected of the 5th S rank.
The reason she was only fifth was because the ranks above her can do something much more fearsome. The forth S rank, codename
Part 7
A certain person walked down the dark alley in the city. He yawned wearily as he picked up his phone, and checked the numbers. It was once again from one of the higher-ups in the academy. The mysterious man on the phone called one of the monsters of the academy.
"Yes, what is it?" The boy said casually as he turned his head to his right. There, lay piles after piles of drones, destroyed mechanical robots, all manufactured by the a force that rivals even the academy itself.
There is no such thing as a totally united earth, and many academy institutes still strive to fight their way to the top and gain dominance above all. The previous
"So you beat all of them again...Hah... I just told you to take care of only some of it, no totally wreck it apart like that." The phone guy signed heavily and slowly voiced his complaint. Almost no one in the higher-UPS of the United nations academy ever feared anyone more than this overly intelligent boy. He had the power of something far different from an esper, yet the same.
"Skip the tutorials, just tell me the business.”
"I need you to take care of the New York's academy new model,
The boy easily jumped up towards it and landed on its board. He had the power rivaling all who lives, but in his eyes, there was only loneliness.
Part 8
Sarah woke up from her bed and glanced over her shoulders. She decided to take a nap today, but she was too excited to even sleep. Today, she had the right to go raiding, and she slowly stood up. Today was another day and she prepared her battle suit.
Lately, Ben had been looking tired everytime he returned. Saying things like 'that annoying metal girl...' or something along those lines. He was a quiet boy who says things that just doesn't make any sense sometimes. Or really loves to talk to himself.
Raiding means for Sarah to go to Africa, the most infested continent in the world. And needs to be kept regularly in check, like stopping its advance. The Cyclops will attack more often in late summer, due to its weakness against cold. Some weapons can expel alot of cold to kill a Cyclops, but its more specialized in one on one, and a huge area at once is just too troublesome., so it wasn't used.
The raid will start in a few hours, so she should really get ready already. She wore her stockings and shorts to increase ease in movement. Her shirt was a tight one, but it was strangely comfortable for moving.
After she finished preparing, she opened the door and was about to go out, when. Boof! Ben was about to walk in and they bumped into each other. Sarah was lighter and she felled backwards, but Ben was still a little shocked, and proceeded to fall down due to momentum. His face, luckily, landed between the two soft valleys. Ben was, however, still confused before he got wrestled over the soft valley onto bed. And Sarah created a 3 times the normal gravity field above Ben.
Her pale face was dyed red as she walked away quickly before Ben caught up to reality. After he regained full consciousness, he tried to recall the unusual phenomenon that had just happened, but can't recall it.
Sarah went to get ready on the platform. A huge mother ship was there, ready for takeoff. Its shape was similar to a spear, and many of the newest weapon artillery was there, ready for combat.
The captain slowly told his speech and led the
The mother ship slowly ascended into the endless blue sky. This raid poses an important stand pound for humanity. If they allow Africa's swarm to grow too much, it would be too dangerous, yet sweeping everything at once is too dangerous, so they refrained from it. Sarah slowly walked up the stairs and entered her lucious room. It was decorated with ornaments from all over the world, one befitting for the savior of humanity.
Sarah plumped her face down onto bed, and opened the thin HD television embedded on the wall of the room. She looked channels after channels and at last closed it out of boredom. Ever since Ben opened an unknown archive from many years ago where great movies still exists, it became boring to watch anything else. The blue monitor took a while and it snapped shut.
She looked around the familiar room and checked over her weaponries, there were guns, missiles, and many foreign weaponries for both anti-human and anti-Cyclops. In this world, there were sections of people who had forgotten their humanity and proclaimed themselves as the angels sent by god. And that all the people who didn't receive the power should just obey their orders.
Sarah was personally disgusted by this idea, but refrain from saying it, instead she thinks that she was also 'once' a human. And still is. Ben also doesn't seem to discriminate rank Cs or Ds. He just treated them equally and laughs with all of them. Including with a rank S like Sarah.
She at last felt uncomfortable and decided to take a bath. She entered the bathroom and opened the water faucet, hot water came gushing out. Before she heard the door opening, ever since the 'accident' Ben committed during his first visit, she had opened the sound from the outside to be able to enter on habit.
She slowly wrapped her towel around herself and prepared her gravitational powers. She slowly exited and took a peek. She confirmed that this must be a pervert whom took the chance she was bathing to do some tricks and enter the room. How did he get pass the fingerprint check is a mystery.
She then burst out of the shower room and did a professional wrestler martial art on the pervert. He was then held down with Sarah on top.
"Who are you! Pervert!" Sarah shouted in disgust but then she saw the man who got held down.
"Wa-wait!? I just came in here, I didn't know you were bathing!!!!" It was Ben, he sneaked into the ship for fun, and tried to surprise Sarah. He didn't intended to see her naked or anything similar at all.
"How did you get in here? There is a fingerprint checker?!”
"Well, I did #$%%$% and the put the $&%%#&& into that. Then I [}[]{%$ into them. That's hoe I entered this room." Ben quickly explained how he got into the room. He used the old trick he once learned coupled with his dark matter power to change the door's mechanisms a little.
Sarah then signed in released. But she noticed where Ben was looking. She was on top the boy, absolutely defenseless, and her plump cleavage was clearly showing. She counted this as the second time of the day Ben saw her Breasts. He was staring fiercely as if to encrypt the image into his brain. In which he is doing.
A loud scream echoed through the ship and on that day, and a brave warrior who had passed through many hells was slapped in the face and fainted on the spot.
Part 9
Well, our brave hero here didn't really faint, but it sure as hell hurt. He was still sitting on the floor and doing a Japanese dogeza style saying sorry. He was apologizing to Sarah with all his might, to the point the one he apologizes to was feeling a little guilty. It can't really be said that it was all Ben's fault, it was partly Sarah's that she suddenly wrestled him on the spot.
"Jeez, that's enough already, stand up." Sarah pleaded Ben to stop. Even she was getting goosebumps at how serious he was at apologizing. Ben slowly anchored his feet and stood up to face Sarah. His face was still red from embarrassment.
"I'm really sorry, I didn't intend to do that at all." Ben once again apologized to the beautiful girl in front of him. She was still fresh from bath, and the odor was really tempting. Yet he can still restrain himself. It had been a man's instinct to stare at the woman's curve, but he still should refrain from it.
After the long period of apologizing, Sarah then realized a much bigger problem.
"Hoe did you get here? The security check in the mother ship is top-class, even someone like you shouldn't be able to enter.”
"C'mon, I have my dark matter, it can release more than 20,000 forms of energy. I just created the filter that doesn't allow the radar to catch on to my energy." Ben casually said out, he doesn't intend to expose too much, but doing so too much will invite suspicions.
"I never heard of anyone having dark matter do that though... Well anyway this is a big problem. We still have 2 days until we reach, so you need to get a new cloth for the students abroad here, otherwise you'll be caught. Let's see... that shouldn't be too hard. And also about slee-...." Sarah suddenly stared at the oblivious-looking boy. She was reminded on where he should sleep. He doesn't have any private room for himself.
The boy tilted his head, confused at the sudden silence "What is it?" He inquired the girl. Yes. There wasn't another private room for him to test I. Nor is there any place for him to hide. So the only place available was…
(No, this can't be happening!?) Sarah contemplated, fumes seemed to gush out from her ears. Her face beet red she at last decided on the best specific course…
Some time later
"Hence, you will need to sleep in here, enter only at the time when the others aren't watching, okay?" Sarah finished explaining her plan to Ben. Ben was looking excited at the idea of staying and tour first hand on the mother ship. He took off his everyday cloth and he quickly went out and generated dark matter and turned it into one of the most protective thin cloth on earth. Ben now look likes a normal A rank student. He proudly walked back to Sarah.
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"Well, that looks good on you, why don't you go to the cafeteria? The food's already ready." Sarah was also finished filly dressing herself up. She was wearing a thin t-shirt and short jeans like an everyday girl. It was just plain cute according to Ben's perspective. He stared at her for a while before being pulled back to reality.
They walked off into the cafeteria. Ben was wearing a jacket and half his face was covered by it. He then saw a marvelous sight. Sushi was laying all over the place. Ben had always had a love for Japanese raw fish with the sauce. It had always been the thing that wandered into his head everyday.
He ate the sushi greedily as he wolfed down more and more of the delicious fish and Japanese rice. He gobbled it down with his chopsticks and gather them pile after piles on his plate. He sat down on a random seat and laid down his plates. Now, he was mostly choosing raw salmon and tuna, since it was his very favorite.
He sat down besides a group of girls without really caring. And continued to gobbled down his food with no restraints.
"Oh hi, who are you?" The person who sat besides Ben cheerfully became amiable. Ben recognizes this voice, it was Christina. She was eating a large piece of steak with mashed potatoes. It makes Ben wonder where all those foods go to next in her body.
"Uh- I'm, um, Neb, yes my name's Neb!" Ben was hurriedly thinking of a name, and his name's reverse is what popped up first. Selendis, sitting besides Christina, suddenly showed a suspicious expression, but immediately erased it when Alicia starts talking.
"So you're new? I've never seen you before." Alicia said out in a low voice. If the cheerful Selendis was summer, then she would be the winter.
"Well, I just got transferred here. I am, uh... An A rank, yes." Ben just remembered that his shirt belonged to an A class. D was green, C was yellow, B was blue, A is red and S is gold. That is the color the school was choosing to wear. Though he slightly dislikes the idea of a person judging another by his or her clothes.
"Woah! An A rank. What is your esper ability?" Christina asked out of curiousness. This time, Ben was truly panicked, he can't think of an excuse for this. He rammed through his brain and finally thought of an answer.
"Mine is absolute freeze. I can freeze anything I touch if I wanted to. I'm a new student after all." Ben lied but it looks like it worked on the girls.
"Why do you need to wear your jacket like that?" Selendis suddenly talked and fired a huge shell bomb at him. Ben spit out his food due to shock, he quickly thought up of a lie.
"Uh... My family has a tradition for hiding my face!" Ben said stupidly.
(That won't workkkkkkkkk!!?!?) Inside his head, he was severely panicking.
"Oh, family traditions huh, you were lucky you even have one..." Alicia said out slowly. She lost her parents in the first assault by the Cyclops. Ben suddenly flinched and turned his head back.
"Oh...sorry." Ben said sadly. His previous self was responsible, but he himself is still guilty about it. He knew that he could be said to be Ben with a different body.
"Nevermind, its been such a long time already anyways." Alicia finished her sentence and continued eating quietly.
Selendis suddenly stood up and stared at Ben/Neb. She then suddenly show a angelic smile and politely asked him to accompany her to the food court and help her.
"No, I-“
"Please~" Ben suddenly felt a horrible aura from under Selendis's skin. He decided to accompany her to the grocery center.
"So, BEN, why are you here?" Selendis had trapped Brn against a corner of the room. Many people just thought it was a normal couple and passed by without caring.
"Um, who's Ben?”
"Don't lie, you're the only man in the world I can't fully use
"Please don't tell the others about this, okay?" Ben hurriedly looked around for any onlookers, and requested Selendis with pleading eyes. Selendis was taken aback at the sudden request. She then decided to keep quiet for now.
"Fine, but why did you come here anyways?”
"I just want to know how you guys work. And a raid looks interesting.”
"Hoh~ well then, welcome aboard Nezzica, she was just freshly out from the London star port." Selendis kept her calm and explained, she was casually talking with Ben like before. She truly was an honorable girl.
Ben then took a tour around the ship with Selendis. They went around the 'Nezzica'. Ben was amazed by the technology level. The mother ship's engine was powered by three nuclear fusion reactors. Fusion is far more efficient and safe than fission. Global warming had been solved in a blink of an eye with the invention of these reactors and the sudden drop in human number.
Ben stared at the power core in that radiates with power. It was covered by a special wall made using nanotechnology that is said to be able to block anything, even nuclear.
"The ship can be powered by using only one core, the reason we have up to three is just in case one malfunction. And the other is for shooting the purifier beam. A high energy beam that can immediately demolish almost every Cyclops or Drags on the world." Selendis explained as she pulled Ben closer the the window. Ben's face was red at the short distance he and Selendis were at. Her breast was pushing onto him, but doesn't seem to notice the situation yet.
Ben started noticing various things like hair smell, and her green eyes. He slowly pulled away as Selendis continued her explanation.
"Well, where is the purifier beam?”
"Its in from of the front of the vessel, the area around it is covered with special carbon fibres, the laser moves at the speed of light. Undodgeable, unless the Cyclops senses it charging up." Selendis continued to walk along the corridors that surrounded the reactor. They walk until reaching another section.
"This is Nezzica's living room. Here, you can play games, sleep, eat, and do almost anything as long as you so desired!" She ran to the karaoke sections and sang a rock songs with very extreme melodies. Ben closed his ears at the intensity and endured till the end.
They visited various other parts, like the propeller that flies the ship using magnetic force. And some other practical weapons specializing for each situations, including missiles, bombs, homing missiles, tactical torpedo, and many other strange weapons. It truly gave sense of a real battleship. It looks like the purifier beam is still the king of all though.
They toured for the rest of the day until saying goodbye.
Part 10
"So? Where in the hell did you go Ben?" Sarah was now growing horns of anger. She haven't seen Ben for the whole day after he went off to the cafe.
"Well, Selendis found out who I am and let me tour around the ship for a bit." Ben honestly confessed and was curious why Sarah was so angry.
"You could have asked me.mmm..." Sarah whispered quietly but quickly showed a straight face. She was jealous of Selendis and actually planned on bringing Ben around. It was almost night time and she was in her pajamas. Ben was lavishing the sight of a girl wearing pajamas and was taught of the word cute.
(She wears pink, huh... So cute~) Ben merrily stared at her for a while before taking his place in bed and drifting off to sleep.
Part 11
"Well, well, why are you here?" A voice spoke out in the dark alley of New York academy. It was from a large machine with eight legs, yet it has no sound of movement and seems to blend into the dark.
The boy stood silently, watching the new model #47
"No answer, did you already know about your eventual fate of dying? Well, don't be scared, I will study your body well and know where you come from eventually. I'll have mercy and let you die QUICKLY!!!!!" The spider's large arm/legs swung down at the boy with high speed. But then, it passed right through him and hot the ground beneath him.
BAAAMM!!! The debris scattered around in all directions, but the boy was no longer there, instead, he was on top of the new model machine.
"How disappointing, I thought a new model would be better than this junk, oh well, no new discoveries for me today." The boy casually said out and suddenly, the spider burst up into pieces. A sound of a normal gun was out before this process started. If one were to look carefully, the machine was covered by a thin layer of ice.
"Hey, I've already destroyed this piece of junk, can I go back now?" The boy talked to the man on the other side of the line.
"Hah... Well, at least you brought back the
The academy has its own dark side, after all.
-Meanwhile-
"Impossible!! That model was made to counter espers!? How could it-“
"We've received reports of liquid nitrogen being used to instantly freeze our model. The hardware is missing, so we suspect this is a burgling act.”
"That model is a frig'ng weapon!! How can any one just 'steal' it?!”
"W-we don't know sir, our spider is supposed to Jam the esper power of any human facing it. But it didn't work. However, our other experiments contradicts this statemen-“
The New York conference continued to elevate further and further.
Part 12
"No, don't. Hah..no...NOOOOOOOO!!"
Ben opened his eyes suddenly, a girl was looking at him worriedly. The boy noticed something wet flowing down his face. It was the nightmare again. Billions dying right in front of his very eyes, the burdens the previous Ben held still weighs heavily upon him.
He saw Cyclops and Drags thrashing through the city, a crying girl mourning for her mother. Countries falling... Even if he wasn't the Ben, he can't seem to get rid of the 'Ben' guilt.
"Are you all right?" Sarah worriedly asked Ben. She woke up when she heard Ben shouting words like 'Run!!' or 'Don't!!!!'.
Ben stood there, sweat was covering, but he knew that he can't make Sarah too worried about him.
"I'm okay, just having a little bad dream, that's all." Ben cheerfully said out with a smile while wiping his tears off with his sleeves. Sarah stared at him for a second, before getting up and walked back to her bed.
The nightmares probably was a curse for using 'Hope' and 'Rift'. Ben could be said to be a replica of the man who destroyed humanity. Yet he wasn't. But the guilt still weighs heavily on him.
(Go away...) Ben closed his eyes, the moment he did that, it seems bloody bodies of victims were pulling him, making he screamed in despair quietly. He was sinking slowly in despair, and wakes up panting hard.
Part 13
The Nezzica slowly approached the main base of the Monsterous beasts, the Hatchery. This place is the place that breeds different Cyclops, but it can't breed Drags. It's named after a base in a certain game.
The hatchery itself could be said to be 'alive'. It was pulsing with life, as if breathing. Cyclops and Drags are silicon-based beings, according to the official statement.
Sarah was on the veranda that is covered by a force field that protects her from almost anything, including air pressure. She looked at the infested buildings below. It was covered by a strange murky liquid that seems to feed the little 'eggs' and 'youngling' below. It was the cyclop's food, after all.
The Nezzica was on a cloak mode, and it can't be detected for a while, this time, their goal is to destroy this and all the remaining hatcheries around. But…
"Impossible... A lair!?" The captain of the ship saw a large base that is thrice as large as the Hatchery. It was a Lair, a base for producing low-level class C drags. If this basr is allowed to grow a level higher, it would be a dangerous event. The European union would be attacked heavily. They need to destroy it, now.
"Alert the crew about this, and cancel the cloak to charge up the thermal lance. All laser systems to be put online in 5 minutes. Deploy our 'savior' to guard the mother ship while we charge up!" The enemy would detect the thermal hear anyways, so giving up the cloak makes no difference excel wasting even more energy.
"Captain! 3 Bombarders coming our way! They are reaching assaulting range in 4 minutes!" Bombarders are a different strain of Cyclops that specializes in air attack.
"Change the vector of our ship to manuvering mode! Those basta*ds will snipe us down in minutes if we get hit!”
BAMMM! The ship trembled at the attack. The attacks are hardened heavy shells of skletons. The base is obviously not carbon, but silicon. It fired one shell after another, damaging the mother ship.
"We can't let those bastards do us in alone! Lock on target! We shall launch the missiles on my Mark!!!... Fire!!!!!!!" 4 missiles were launched out of the mother ship, and it slammed into the monsters. The Cyclops were bombarded and pulverized into thin air. The air trembled before the mighty explosion of the homing missiles.
"3 hit! 1 miss captain! Enemy vessel closing in! Shipfall to be expected in 5...4...3...2....1!"
BAAAM!!!! The flying Cyclops slammed into the mother ship, many crew was thrown about randomly, they were taken by surprise.
"Shields left at 20%! We can't take another hit from that!”
"Are the saviours ready for deployment!?”
"Yes, Ms. Sarah will be engaging the monster soon!”
"Bring the ship repairing system ready, and charge up our purifier beam at once!”
(Saviours, please show us your miracles given by god...) The captain of the ship prayed, and continued giving out his orders.
Part 14
'It' stared at the mother ship, continuing making calculations for all the available scenarios, and ordered more Class A Cyclops to attack. The drags musn't yet be deployed, they are too rare, and the 'Lair' can't just breed it. But it requires human with enough malice in the heart.
Yes, 'it' and the other Cyclops are after all, created by all the malice of humanity. They are just the creature they are. But by humans with strong esper abilities and unique malices, they were able to create a higher being, the Drags. Although second to the 'Central', it is still considered the strongest warriors they had.
Then 'it' sensed a power signature never seen before. It was similar to other humans, yet different. The energy was something foreign, something that shouldn't exist or possible.
This enemy was dangerous, the 'it' was sure. He sent this information to every single 'mind' in case 'it' fails to kill it. Possibly, 'it' may need to reveal itself.
Part 15
Sarah was now hovering above the sky, she glared at the different strains of Cyclops. This much diversity is strange, but usual near the lair and hatchery.
She made a small gravity barrier around herself. It will crush everything that approached her at a near distance. She had already manifested her sword and it was as light as snow. This is due to gravity manipulation making it that way. She can increase the gravity if she swung down her sword by ten folds, and crush her enemies.
She accelerates herself towards the abomination below, and prepared her gear. All weapon systems are online, and she fired 2 normal missiles away. It exploded in mid-air and blocked the Cyclop’s vision. It panicked for a while before Sarah closed in and increased the gravity in her sword by ten folds, then swinging it down. SWISH!
The beast cleanly got chopped in half. And it crash-landed into the battle field below, Alicia, Selendis, and Christina are currently fending off the attack on the ground below while the mother ship is sending down supplies to make a temporary base, a base setting in an enemy territory is usually not recommended due to the process of building. At least that was before mother-ships and fast resupply is built. It made setting up a base easier and faster, until the cyclops also came and destroyed it with pure force.
The Saviours are there for this very reason, to guard it while they are quickly setting up a base. Alicia was now lifting Cyclops and smashing it together to make a deathball, then rolling it towards her enemies. Cyclops toppled over row after rows, and Christina shot burst of hardened air at the cyclops that flinched.
The Cyclops kept closing in one after another. But Sarah had slowed down them dramatically with her powers to manipulate gravity. But she was currently dealing the big guns. Rank S are the strongest, and they work alone because of their immeasurable strength. Sara sliced one after another the Rank As, and some Rare Rank Ss Cyclops. Rank S are hard to deal with, so she also needs the fire power of the mother-ship for support.
Then, suddenly, two Rank S burst out from the ground below, they were the Goth strain. And their speciality is tunneling. If they are allowed to live for too long, they would sabotage the newly built base. The reason these different strains of monsters didn’t attack the academy was because only A ranks can change into a different strain. And they take time and resources to build. Well, that only applies to somewhere far form the Lair and the Hatchery.
Then, a majestic white figure crashed down upon the Goths, and smashing it to mince meat. The figure spread out his pure white wings, and he looked down upon his enemies. The Cyclops suddenly lost focus on anything else. Like their very genes tell them how dangerous this man is. They sensed a strong opposition and looked at the white figure.
Right, they were something created by ‘Rift’, something that should’ve been deemed impossible, but here they are, staring at <‘Hope’>’s proudest creation. How could the cyclops look over this creation. This
‘It’ looked at the figure, and recognised how dangerous this foe is. And then slowly calculated, if this thing is allowed to continue existing, the ‘Rift’’s grand plans can’t be realised. The Rift must attack that. They already almost have enough forces to wipe out humanity. But all that was left, is this last grain of humanity’s hope. Ben. And one candidate for a drag creation.
Part 16
Ben had just single-handedly killed four drags, but what terrifies him most was something else. Alicia was showing a strange expression, her face was the one of despair. Like she knew what was coming, and was shaking in terror. Then her face twisted in pain. Hatred, Grief, despair, all of these emotions were welling up in her.
Something was assaulting her brain, installing memories about when she ran away while her parents died. She remembered all of it. She was breaking down. Then she heard a sweet, tempting voice.
Do you want to be free?
Do you want to forget all of this despair? To give up on this horrendous world and no longer carry the burden?
Do you want to meet your parents again?
If someone was to summarise it in one word. It would be god. Alicia was given a choice, to abandon her guilt. And live a free life. The ‘god’ was soothing her, filling her and told her she would be alright. Filling her with memories with her parents. The ‘god’ was giving her illusions of a perfect world.
(No!) She quietly thought out, as if her mind was muddled up, and she was unable to think clearly. She gave up and was almost giving in to the temptation.
Ben saw a strange phenomenon, suddenly, Alicia’s body pulsed, suddenly, something burst out from her back, She was crouching down, making a praying stance, as if praising something. Suddenly, a wave of information entered his brain. It was as if it was there all along, just seems to pop out of his subconciousness. Memories from unknown origin assault his brains. He knew what was happening to Alicia, she was turning into a Drag.
Ben shot towards Alicia with immense speed, using his dark matter wings to make new energies that shouldn’t exist. Alicia was now slowly changing, her body was getting hot and sweaty. Ben landed down besides her, and grabbed her head. Alicia’s eyes were hallow, she was not even looking at him. She was looking at nothing.
Ben created a huge imprenetratable wall of Dark Matter, it takes a lot out of his power, and he was exhausted from using it, yet it is necessary. Then, he used his Dark Matter to create a leeway to her brain. It was like looking into her spirit. Yes, he was looking into her memories.
Bright light shown, and what he saw was stunning. A warm scene of an adult male and female caressing a cute little child. This was one of Alicia’s main memories. He looked on, and discovered that the little child with red hair was Alicia. She was having a happy tea party with her family, enjoying the cheap cheese cake. Ben smiled at the sweet scene, before remembering what he came here for.
‘Rift’ was created from Malice, so to destroy it, ‘Hope’ was needed. Ben ventured through the thousands of memories. Usually they were childhood ones, and happy. Then he entered found something similar to a locked wall. He slowly forced it apart and what he saw was…
“No, NOO, Mama, Papa, don’t go!” She was being pulled away by an unknown person away from the city she was living in. Her parents were still in there, but she was forced to evacuate. She cried, and lamented. She tried to run back, but failed to. Ben looked as the cyclops tore through the city. Killing all the people within.
Ben looked at the scene in horror. He felt a huge wave of guilt coming in his way. This was all his previous self’s fault. But the burden still weighs heavily upon him. He exited the room and go on. Alicia started growing up, becoming an esper. Entering the academy, and joining Eelendis’s squad. And then…
A large black mist covered the scene, eating away the happy memories and emphasising more and more of the bad memories. Ben knew what it was, ‘Hope’ had given him all the information he needed. Alicia’s body was there crouching down, crying, and the black mist continued entering her head.
You left your parents…
“No, they were unable to be saved!”
You have no one…
“But, Selendis…” Alicia was fighting a losing battle against the black mist. It was thrashing around her precious memories, ripping off her defences and excuses. Making her just another weak girl. Ben closed in and he lifted his hands slowly, the ‘it’ was then quickly blown away.
Alicia stopped crying, and she was panting hardly. Ben closed in on ‘it’.
Impossible, how could someone enter the mind’s realm!?!?!
The panicked ‘it’ took shape of something terrifying, but Ben blew it away again. He wasn’t afraid, and he continued pushing ‘it’ away. The ‘it’ make its last stand. And took a large form to kill him. But Ben just swipe his hands and the ‘it’ was blasted away, dissipating into normal mist.
Alicia was still there, crying. Mourning for her family. Ben closed in and he knelt down besides her.
“Its ok…” That was all he could say to the crying girl.
Part 17
“Hm?” Alice opened her eyes, there were still tears trailing down her eyes, but what had just transpired seemed more like a dream then reality. She had faint memories of her parents dying. But then, when she was about to give up, fresh memories of the love her parents gave her came rushing back again. Then, she noticed the sky, no, the area around her was pure white. And a man was standing besides her.
“Oh, so you’ve woken up.” Ben cheerfully looked at Alice. The situation outside was still furious, but the humans are winning.
“Who, are you? Wait…” Alicia asked the boy. Then the memories from just now, matching with the boy perfectly. She remembered now, this boy was Ben. “Ben?”
“lol, so you found out. It was kinda hard bringing you back, but looks like I made it just in time.” The smiling boy was jovially replying. He had wings from his back, and looked around as if it was natural for him to be here.
“What happened to me?”
“Well… you kinda was going turning into a drag. So I must come in and stop you first,” Ben said out as he checked Alicia’s condition. Everything was normal, except, “but looks some features still remained.” Ben pointed at the pointy wings sprouting from Alicia’s back. Alicia looked at it, and she tried to use her mind to move it. It started swinging, and she excitedly looked at it.
“Now now now, playtime’s over~ let’s get going.” Ben recloaked his Jacket, and he covered his face again. Alicia looked around, the white wall was breaking apart, and cracks were appearing all over the place. Alicia was still confused, and was about to ask Ben further questions, but…
“Wait!”
The moment the walls broke down, sounds of battle returned. She instinctively put up her amor, and Ben was gone from sight. She showed an annoyed expression, and continued joining Christina in her fight. Ben had already exited the battlefield, seeing that they are winning, and plans to answer later.
Alicia had already joined up with the others. They inquired her about her wings and her sudden vanishing. Surprisingly, no one seems to see the white barrier. So she refrained from mentioning Ben or about the strange turmoil in her brain, nor the real origin of her wings.
The Cyclops and drags are already starting to retreat. After 'it' was blown away by Ben. It ordered a retreat due to the fear for Ben. Ben was already back on Sarah's room. Secretly reading a comic book.
Sarah smashed down another class C Drags with ease. And she slaughtered the Cyclops one after another. Christina continued blasting away the Cyclops, luckily, with the temporary base completed, they got immediately supported when needed. The hard part was over, and they continued wiping away the monsters.
Selendis sensed the growing power in the mother ship reaching its peak. Now, it was completely charged and ready to fire. The saviours retreated back and looked forward to the spectacular sight.
-meanwhile-
"So what was 'that'. Liutenant?" The captain of Nezzica questioned his eyes. The radar just now showed a certain area suddenly being influctuated with power. Something incomprehensible was there. But it suddenly disappeared. The captain gave up and resumed his main work. The purifier beam was ready, charging up to full, and shot towards the 'lair's. It got melted and burned up instantaneously.
The whom crew cheered in triumph and hugged each other. The captain smiled at the warm scene and looked at the scanners, the beasts have retreated, the raid was a success.
Part 18
Sarah returned to her room, and was relieved Ben was still there. He was casually reading his book and eating the fruits left on the table.
He was still the same boy, not caring too much about the world, and was like a checkpoint for Sarah. It was like a private time for her to calm down.
"Oh, you're here already Sarah. The ship was rock'n rolling for a while now. Is it over yet?”
"You sure are calm, yes, its over already, we'll be due course home in 2 days as usual.”
"Ho Hoh, looks like I'll be sleeping here for 2 more days." Ben mischievously restated his existence and earned a brutal Taekwondo fist right in the belly from a red-faced girl.
Part 19
"This is a huge problem for our academy." Gallen, one of the directors spoke out this sentence slowly.
He was standing in a small hallway, and a figure was standing beside him. Gallen saw the scenery below, it was the tech from the new York academy.
"Tch! I don't accept any more jobs this week, y'know! Just getting to new York was such a bother." The man who single -handedly took down the
"Not yet, we still have time until we reach a conclusion. Their guard is probably maxed out for now. But humans tend to get sloppy after some time. Let's wait for now." Gallen stopped the boy from venturing out again. He may seem crafty, but he had a decent heart. And certain rules for himself.
The video behind them continued playing. It was a human getting injected by something, and turned into something else. Gallen may love experiments, but not to torture someone intentionally.
"Looks like they are creating new 'soilders' based on the information of humans turning into drags. This experiment had been going on for a while now, meaning that they are hiding the information from us all along." Gallen continued theorizing, if this was true, then that would mean they have a bigger plan.
(Don't tell me they're preparing for a war after the Cyclops are gone? How ridiculous! We haven't even reach its main base of operations yet! Must be one of their stupid Republicans.) Gallen continued thinking, unaware of the boy besides him that had already faded into the dark, gone from the place he was just standing before.