An Assassin's Hunt [Open]

The grim look disappeared, and Darkman couldn't help but to grin at Alec. Despite all of the shit he'd gone through in his life he was still willing to fight on. Darkman decided to keep even more of an eye on things than he'd already been. He had grand kids and other family members now; he couldn't let them get involved in this if he didn't have to.

"...Alright. What i'll do is go and have myself a look around in Edge's underworld. See if I can't hear a thing or two about these Templars. I'll keep you posted... Jayr, you can trust Alec, my grandson Jr, and everyone else in this building. If you trust me, you can trust them. Everyone here is loyal, they'll help you get to the bottom of this. I'll never be too far away if anyone needs me..."

Darkman gave a wave as he turned and headed out of the office...

[Exit]

Alec nodded his head to his father before he walked out of the office. He went around and sat in his old chair, the Angel Sword fading into the Kane Tattoo on his back beforehand, typing some on the holographic keyboard. Alec then pulled out his Company Cellphone and scrolled through the list until he came to Niala's name. He pressed a finger to her picture and put the phone to his ear.

"Hey, Niala. Could you come to the office a sec? I know it's late, but something serious has come up and we need your skills."

Company Cellphone:

Alec wondered if she would even recognize his voice, since like his looks, it had changed too. He still wondered how Avery and Artemis were going to take him looking like a kid again too. Jr took things pretty well. Destiny and Demi were probably going to make fun of him, knowing them. He sighed thinking of that encounter, but it was more of a grumble...

Niala had been busy making a sandwich for a late night snack when her phone going off caused her to pause. Brows furrowed together as she crossed quickly to the counter and answered it. The voice on the other side didn't match the identification of the caller, but that was only because it sounded younger then she had been expecting. However; it was still recognizable as Alec – mostly because he had allowed her to see into his past and she had seen all of it and heard all of it too.

While he didn't say exactly what he needed her for he said it was important; something she knew it had to be considering the late hour. ”Be up in one sec.”, she said quickly before hanging up. Sandwich still in hand she made her way out of her suite, down the hall, and took the elevator up the single floor that separated her and and the office. As she walked she took bite after bite of her sandwich, quickly silencing the growling beast that was lurking within.

She swallowed yet another bite of her sandwich as she walked into the office: she was thankfully in appropriate enough pajamas considering she had aged herself up to roughly seventeen at this point – a black cami and white baggy pants with her feet in some flip flops and her long black hair back in a ponytail . ”What's up?”, she asked curiously, noticing the female she had never seen before as she popped the last bite of her sandwich into her mouth and began to chew.

Her gaze then rested on a much younger looking Alec. ”Huh.. A younger looking you... that would explain why your voice sounded like it did. I was having a momentary flash back to the past when I heard it...” At that she gave a wiggle of her fingers, indicating her sight without fully mentioning it in front of the company she didn't know.

She then glanced to Jayr, figuring she was being rude. ”I'm Niala by the way.”

Jayr nodded to Darkman's words before he left: she trusted him completely which of course meant she trusted his judgment. If he said that anyone in this building could be trusted, then that was what she was going to do. ”Got it.” She watched him leave then and turned her attention back onto Alec who had pulled out a phone and was calling someone he called Niala.

Jayr refolded her arms across her chest and shifted her weight from one leg to another comfortably as she waited. Apparently that wait wasn't to be long as less then a minute later a black haired female walked into the office eating what looked to be the remains of a sandwich. The female commented about Alec's voice and appearance, making it clear that Alec didn't often look like that – or at least hadn't for a while.

And then the female was introducing herself and Jayr waved her left hand: her ring finger missing. “Jayr... or Jayr of Locksley if you prefer.”

"Looking kind of different yourself. This rewind wasn't exactly something I had planned, but ah well."

His trusty dufflebag that contained all of his guns and doomsday devices still rested next to the desk, where he'd put it after returning from that other world full of shit talking scared shitless ninjas. He'd sworn off using them in favor of using his newfound ninja skills, but all that reminded him of was the shitty time he spent in that shitty world full of cowards. It still frustrated him at times that those losers over there talked so big but in the end did nothing.

So since Alec had been aged down some, he figured it'd be best to return to his roots, and re-adapt to his original way of fighting. He didn't want to carry around a big bulky bag, so perhaps he'd ask Jr to create one of those "invisible pockets" for him.

"Long story short though, those cross people that kidnapped Cala, they're called Templars. They used to be in conflict with another faction called Assassins. Jayr here is the last of them. there's these artifacts known as "Pieces of Eden" that grant people powers... powers to do almost anything. Powers that even exceed that imagination of yours. it's why Cala was kidnapped, because my dad has one locked up here, deep inside the tower. These Templars want to find them and rule the world. the one we have here should be secure, but we need to find the others. There aren't any Assassins anymore - none that we know of, anyway - and i'm not gonna just sit here with this kinda threat going on. So what we need you to do is use your imagination and try to see if you can find any more pieces. These Templars are everywhere and seem to have their fingers in everything; we need to act before they do."

”Yeah, I kind of got tired of looking like a young kid. Kinda caused me to get funny looks when I went down to help Demi with her club.” It had been more then one occasion after all that she had been carded, and then that her identification had been questioned – of course, the moment Demi had stepped in that had been fixed. But, it wasn't a situation she wanted to repeat.

She focused her attention on the rest of what Alec was saying: about the Templar's, Jayr being the last Assassin, and these things that they were trying to hunt down. From the sounds of things no good would come from such powerful artifacts being in Templar hands – especially if they made her Imagination Manifestation ability pale in comparison. And so she nodded and then looked towards Jayr as she removed her usual fingerless glove from her right hand. ”Alright. I'm going to have to touch you; it'll be painless but the connection will allow me to see into the past – your past, and anything that you left your imprint on. When I find an object linked to you I can trace it further.”

She would wait to see if the female would voice any objections and if not she would reach over and touch her arm. The instant the connection was made Niala's head would snap back somewhat as if she were electrically shocked – but she didn't break the connection. Memories of Jayr's past flooded through Niala's mind and she watched it all like a movie going in reverse. It would take minutes for her to reach the beginning of Jay'rs life – given how old she was. From there she was able to sift through everything and concentrate and focus her attention on specific instances in her life.

While she kept going her body began to react from the long use of her power; a single droplet of blood trailing down from her nose. But, she didn't break the connection and she didn't stop – this was nothing she hadn't done before. As she pressed forward she saw what she was looking for, or rather, she didn't see – by following trace after trace she was able to come across blank spots. This same blank spot appeared when Jayr had traveled to Edge and had given whatever this blank spot was to Darkman. She knew then that the pieces of eden were naturally protective against people with her gift – however, she knew how to work around this. Instead of searching for them she searched for the blankness – giant areas of gray that she couldn't actually see. She found them; and she also found something else she didn't want to see – not only was her father still alive because Junior's attack hadn't killed him due to him no longer being human, but he was a Templar... and they knew all about her.

She broke the connection suddenly, painfully. ”God damnit it.” Okay, she wasn't normally one for cursing but the situation had called for it. Her nose was bleeding, her head hurt, and she had goosebumps all over her body because of fear – an emotion she didn't like feeling all that well. ”I saw the pieces of eden and their locations – or rather, I didn't see them. They're naturally blocked it seems, but I was able to search through her memories for the gray areas and find those. There's one in the desert, one in Soubi Shigai, one in Neutral City, one here, and... somehow, there is one underneath of the land that Sunset Isle is on.”

She stopped talking then for a moment and folded her arms across her chest; ignoring the bloody nose and the pounding headache. She was holding herself together physically, because mentally she was falling apart. ”I saw something else too... the Templars? They know about me, and they know what I can do. My father's one of them... and he's not dead like I thought. He's not human anymore so when Junior attacked him that day he tried to kill me it just knocked him out. He wants revenge...”

Jayr listened as the female explained what she could do; and how she had to touch Jayr to make it happen. Jayr nodded her agreement and allowed the other female to touch her arm. She watched her head jerk back, and then watched as her eyes took on a glazed appearance and she simply stared into the air. Jayr remained motionless, not wanting to break the other female's concentration as she apparently sifted through all of Jayr's memories and her past. She didn't mind of course – Darkman had said she could trust them and so that's what she was doing.

The whole process took longer then she expected, perhaps about ten minutes or so, and the girl seemed to suffer effects from it before she was finished – her nose was bleeding, at the very least. When she broke contact she listened as the female explained where all of the pieces were – or rather their general locations. She was about to ask if Niala could be more specific when she revealed something that was a bit startling: not only was Niala's father a Templar, but the man had attempted to kill her on one occasion already, with plans for another. That, and they knew of her power... that wasn't good.

A frown instantly formed on Jayr's face. ”They know about your power? That's not good.” Jayr pinched the bridge of her nose as she often did when frustrated: the last thing she wanted was for another of these people to end up kidnapped and tortured over a situation that was out of control.

Alec watched Niala do her thing, but didn't remember her nose ever bleeding like that back when he was boss. A while passed while Niala seemed to be taking a look into Jayr's past, which must have been vast if she knew his father way back when this city was nothing but a village.

In the meantime, Alec had a look through the cameras for old time's sake. First he took note that there was a new area to the world, one that looked like a giant desert wasteland. Several ruined cities were here and there. He noticed that there was massive damage to some areas of Edge City; damage that looked like a fight took place. He squinted his eyes some as he looked at the holographic screens. What the hell happened? Things were peaceful now though, so what ever went on had to have been resolved.

Alec looked back toward Niala again when she said "god damn it." It wasn't like her to cuss, so it had to be something serious. She said that there were other pieces: one in the new desert area, one in the city near Velo, one in Neutral, which also looked like a fight took place there, the one that was here in the tower, and also one in Sunset. Finally, Niala said that her father was a Templar, that he'd tried to kill her, and that Jr had knocked him unconscious. Now he wanted revenge?

"That many, huh... Well uh, I seem to be out of the loop on a lot of things. How is it that Jr and your father got into it in the first place? And, i'm looking through the cameras here and see a big desert place. A storm was covering that area for as long as i've known, when did it clear up?... I'm also seeing damage; the kind of damage like when Dez and Demi used to get into their infamous play fights. Only it's not just here, there's major damage and people dead in neutral too. What the hell is going on? Is the damage here and there related?... Don't tell me it has something to do with this Saiyan thing Ka'lara told me about..."

Niala had momentarily forgotten how far out of the loop Alec had been: with one adventure after another he hadn't been here for all of the drama that had taken place. Niala moved over to her desk and pulled a tissue out of the box. She used the tissue to wipe the blood away before sitting down in her chair. Her head was pounding, but the pressure was slowly beginning to subside. ”I forgot you weren't here for a lot of the drama. Out of the blue my father sent me a message saying that he wanted to meet me and to talk. He claimed he was dying, and that he wanted to square things away before he passed. I think I told you at some point that him and I weren't close? He blamed me for my mother's death ---”, she paused suddenly, realizing there was something else that Alec didn't know: she was part phoenix.

”So, I decided to go and meet him; but I made sure I sent Junior a message of where I was going because something in my gut told me not to trust the situation. I got to his house, we start talking, and he starts dropping bomb shell after bomb shell on me... It wasn't my fault my mother died, it was his. He also revealed to me that she was a phoenix, but my powers had been somehow locked away. I think it was by my mother in her attempt to protect me.” She paused then, both to collect her thoughts as well as give Alec a chance to process this new information. ”So, it was about that time that my father revealed that the whole reason he was telling me all of this was because he planned on killing me. He was going to shoot me when suddenly Junior was just... there. Junior hit him hard enough that he should have been dead – had it been human.”

She then nodded towards the monitors. ”As far as that mess goes? Yeah, that was the Saiyan. The guy's got it out for V, and perhaps Ka'lara too. They battled twice here. Then, a few days later there was a fight over on Sunset Isle – if you could call it that. Ka'lara's brother showed up and the Saiyan just put him down instantly. V and Ka'lara have had a few close calls with death recently... that Saiyan is a beast, and he always comes back more powerful then the last time. 'Course, V and Ka'lara have been becoming stronger off this too from what I've noticed.”

”That desert cleared up just a short while ago; Emiko and Kinzoku were asked by Junior to go over and take some pictures of the place. He gave them each a Company cellphone. They waited until Kurai was back in Makkura before leaving though.” Niala paused then, wondering if there was anything else she was forgetting to mention – anything else that Alec might have missed being as gone as long as he had.

"Oh, I also went over to Velo after I realized that my grandparents were still alive and that's where they were living. Apparently, I get my Imagination ability from one of them and my Sight from another. They're living here though now. Nova met us when we got there, but there wasn't any trouble."

Jayr simply wandered over to the windows with her hands folded behind her back. She stared out at the city as she listened to Niala catch Alec up on everything he had missed while he had been gone. There had been a lot of things happening lately, and it all sounded crazy enough. Now, they had to deal with these pieces of Eden on top of that... perhaps the old saying of 'never a dull moment' was indeed true. At least it was when it came to them.

When Niala mentioned that her mother had been a phoenix she glanced over, half expecting to see the other female sprouting wings or fire, but there was nothing of the sort and so Jayr had simply returned her attention back to the window while listening to everything else that Niala explained. This world was definitely a crazy one... and she found herself wondering exactly what this “Saiyan” they kept talking about was, and who he was. A threat like that sounded dangerous...

Portal Creation:

Jr entered the office from one of his "doors." He was wearing a wife beater and knee length black shorts. His white hair wasn't slicked back as it usually was now, and hung messily in his face. He looked like he'd recently been asleep, walking in as Niala was catching his father up on what he'd missed out on while adventuring on Sunset.

He caught sight of the girl dressed in the strange robes from somewhere in the middle ages, scratching the top of his head, getting a close look at her now. Picking up on tidbits of the conversation that went on earlier when his grandfather was here, he understood that they were old acquaintances, and that she was part of a dead order of Assassins. She had Hidden Blades just like his father and he. Perhaps through his grandfather's mysterious machinations that he and his father also ended up with these weapons too.

"There's more to it than that, dad," Jr said, leaning on the desk, reaching over to press a few buttons. the video of the fight came up. "That Saiyan dude, he's insane strong, but he can also turn himself into a big monkey. It's why some of the city was torn up like that. He could be a real problem if he decides to come back here. Seeing as how he hates Vigilante, he just might, sooner or later..."

He'd missed a lot. Niala's father was one of these Templars. He tried to kill Niala, but Jr prevented that. An ordinary human probably would have been killed, but he survived, meaning he was no ordinary human. He wanted revenge too, meaning he was going to have another go at Niala if he could. These Templars were becoming more and more of a nuisance.

There was also the matter of this alien Saiyan. To be just a kid - according to the video he was watching now - he was absurdly strong. He could fly, he was fast, and looked to have the ability to control his energies at will. When Jr appeared and pressed some buttons, it was revealed to Alec that this kid could also transform himself into a giant ape.

"Heh... this kid is something else. Maybe we should try to recruit him..."

A grin appeared at Alec's lips. To have an alien around here honestly sounded kind of cool, but if he had a rivalry with Vigilante, the two of them in the same place at the same time probably wouldn't be a good idea. Niala said her grandparents lived here in Edge now, and when they went to get them they encountered Nova. Alec still didn't know how to feel about the kid. While pointing a sword at his grand daughter would usually harbor the pointer having his head cut from his shoulders, Alec wasn't one to really hold a grudge anymore.

"So not only do we have Niala's father on the hunt, we have his Templar pals wanting the artifact that's locked up in here, and a crazy alien that gets stronger in every fight... this ought to be interesting. Jr, do me a favor?... I need one of those pockets you always seem to have. I'll need to start back carrying my bag around, but out of sight, if you catch my drift..."

Niala looked over as Junior came out of one of his 'doors' looking like he had just come out of bed too. Turning her attention back to her bloody nose she noticed it had stopped and tossed the tissue in the garbage: it disintegrated upon making contact, completely destroying every last ounce of blood as well as the tissue itself. Niala opened up the little mini fridge hidden under her desk and pulled out a can of soda. She wasn't going to go back to sleep now, so caffeine it was!

A touch of her 'smart desk' caused it to light up and several strokes later of the glass like surface showed her that her grandparents were in her suite, still awake, and watching a late night movie. Safe and sound. She didn't doubt that her father would try and target them if he couldn't get to her – and she knew she wouldn't be leaving the tower anytime soon, especially not alone.

”Anyone else want some pop? Or water? Or.. juice?” She didn't mind sharing after all.

Jayr looked over at the fight that Junior pulled up, an eyebrow raising as she got a look at the giant ape thing that the monkey had turned into. It was no wonder the Templar's were after these pieces of eden so badly – with the kind of power that was out there in the world, and the fact that the majority of them were human, there was no other way to keep up. Of course, their use of the pieces wouldn't even be for defensive purposes, and she knew it... no, they wanted control.

”Lots of interesting things in this world now...”, was simply what Jayr said before she looked back out the window.

”You said one of the pieces of Eden was under Sunset Isle? What did you mean by that?”, she asked suddenly, curiously.

"That's what I was thinking too. Better to recruit this dude than fight him. But if we do, we'll have to keep some distance between him, Vigilante and Ka'lara," Jr said in response to his father's suggestion that they recruit the alien. To Niala's question Jr shook his head no.

His father then asked that he give him one of his "pockets," sort of like the ones he frequently used to carry around things like weapons and his bags of chips. Since things were looking like they were going to get action packed again, he would want to start carrying around his dufflebag again. Creating his father a "Pocket" would be a simple task.

With one hand on his father's shoulder, so the pocket was connected to him, Jr did an "open" motion, making a rift in front of him in time and space. The rift, or pocket, would now follow his father around where ever he went, invisible when closed.

Dimensional Storage:

"There you go...It's big enough to put your bag and maybe a few other things in, but don't over fill it... It could be bad."

Jr went to work and created him a pocket to carry stuff around. He could "feel" the pocket, as to know where it was at all times. Jr said not to put too many things inside of it, because the results could be probably disastrous. Alec didn't plan on using it for anything other than his bag.

"Much appreciated son. I'll have one of those pops if you don't mind, Niala?"

Assuming she'd give or toss him one, Alec cracked it open and took a swig. After putting his dufflebag of weapons into his new pocket, he started looking through cameras again, looking to see that this alien kid was currently in Velo City, where Maxi and his folk went to inhabit. It looked like the fight was about to turn into a major brawl, yet Maxi or Nova was nowhere to be found. Typical. Alec just shook his head, trying to figure out why his so-called "friend" just seemed to stop caring one day, even when his daughter had her head cut off.

But then again, it didn't really matter anymore. Alec sat back in the leather seat, watching the fight transpire, waiting to see what would go down.

Niala tossed Alec a soda when he said he wanted one and then opened her own and took a sip out of it as she changed the camera's around on her own monitors: directing them towards Sunset Isle as she thought about the locations she had found that contained the Pieces of Eden. She watched out of the corner of her eye as Junior gave a 'pocket' to Alec for him to store his weapons in without having to lug around his duffle bag.

At Jayr's question she glanced over to the female and a thoughtful look came upon her face. ”The sea seems to like to claim things back to it every so often; and in this instance it was no different. Where Sunset Isle was originally created there had once been a temple that that particular Piece of Eden was hidden within. When the island was created it ended up housing this hidden temple and thus the piece inside of it. When the island was transported across the river the temple and Piece of Eden was likewise brought with.”

A thought occurred to her then as she turned her attention back to the cameras that Amaranth had long ago given her access to. ”Do the Templar's have a means of tracking these Pieces of Eden? I mean... they figured out that one of them was located here, right? But, do you know if they have anyway to actually find them outside of guesswork?” She felt it was a legitimate question: if they could locate them by some means then chances were Sunset Isle was going to, sooner or later, be paid a visit by these Templar's in their quest for the Pieces of Eden.

Jayr thought over what Niala described as she nodded in understanding: it had made sense of course. She had been alive long enough to realize that things did have a tendency to disappear. Volcano's erupted, land shifted, and the sea swallowed things back up. So, all in all, the explanation made sense to her.

However, Niala's other question made her frown. She had no idea outside of guesswork how the Templar's had located the Piece of Eden here: the Templar that had explained things earlier could have very well been leaving details out because he knew that either way he was going to die very shortly. It wouldn't surprise her, though, with all of the technology they seemed to possess if they hadn't devised a way to track these pieces. ”Honestly, I don't know. But, I wouldn't put it past them. It's exactly the sort of thing they would create to give them the edge they needed. Even if it didn't tell them the exact location, with their resources, they could find them easily enough.”

She looked away from the window and towards Niala. ”I take it, with that particular question and the place your looking at, that you know the person who runs Sunset Isle?” All Jayr knew of course was that it was a favorite tourist destination – and one of the most peaceful places on the planet. It was also exactly the sort of place the Templar's would target first considering they would think it easy prey. ”If they discover that there's a Piece of Eden on Sunset Isle – or in it for that matter – they'll target it first...”

It looked like things were starting to heat up over in Velo, with no signs of Nova, Maxi, or anyone else trying to put a stop to things. As a fellow Boss, it just made him frown. Would that girl alone be enough to take on that Alien? it took Vigilante and Ka'lara both to beat him when he was here. It wasn't looking good for Velo.

The alien went down, but Jr knew that it was far from over. The girl was the only one trying to take that kid on. There didn't seem to be anyone else in the vicinity, besides a bunch of innocents. How long was Nova or Maxi going to sit back and watch before something serious happened?

"And as usual, no one's coming out to stop this mess..."

It was a good thing that his father went to go get Seraphina and Sicarius out of that place if they allowed this kind of madness to go on unchecked. Jr knew it was just a matter of time before things really got heated...

Alec's eyes widen some as he watched the screen in front of him. The alien kid made short work of an old ninja-looking dude, knocking him around like he was nothing. Alec, who'd always been about speed for most of his life, could almost barely keep up with the movements. This kid was something else it seemed. He didn't even appear to have any weapons, fighting with nothing but his hands and feet.

But then, he was taken by even more surprise when the girl on the roof of that school seemed to be even faster and stronger, knocking the alien kid through a building with just one punch. Who the hell was that? Nova had this kid of people over there? And speaking of Nova, he wondered where he was to be just allowing this kind of action to be going on in his city.

"Man. I don't think this is gonna end well..."

That couldn't have been the end of the Saiyan kid, one punch, right? If he did manage to get up, Alec knew he wasn't going to take being flattened like that very well...

Niala glanced over to the fight that was escalating over in Velo City: she couldn't imagine something that bad happening here with no one stepping in and wondered where everyone was: had they left? Shaking her head slightly she turned her attention back to what she was watching as she took another sip of her soda. The caffeine was thankfully beginning to take effect as she shifted the views around on her own monitors. As she went she picked up on a speedy red blur moving towards Edge from Sunset Isle – Amaranth arriving at the tower not even a second or two later.

She shifted to another camera that showed Amaranth entering into the R&D department where Devon was busy making robots that looked exactly like herself. ”That's a bit creepy..”

She then looked over to Jayr and couldn't help but grin a bit. ”They might target that place if they find out... but it'd be the biggest mistake of their lives for doing so.” She then glanced back over to the fight, noticing that it was ending: they were definitely going to have to do something about this Saiyan - recruiting him would be for the best but she wondered how much issue that would cause between him and V and Ka'lara.

Jayr kept looking out the window, staring out at what she could see of the city, though her attention was more focused on the paradise island across the way. What would happen to that place if the Templar's discovered a Piece of Eden was hidden there? Niala said then that it would be the biggest mistake of their life to target the place, and it made Jayr assume easily enough that Sunset Isle probably had some sort of connect with Edge – though what that connection was she wasn't quite sure of at the moment.

Before she could ask though something else caught her attention – the fight that they had been watching. Eyebrows rose as she turned her attention away from the window and onto it.

"If anyone tries anything on Sunset they'd have Ghost to deal with. He's like, everywhere at once over there. Let's not forget Dez's crazy ass. She's the one who made that island in the first place..." Said Jr to add onto what Niala said.

The girl with the shoolgirl outfit on punched the Alien and knocked him through a building. There was more to her than met the eye too, it seemed. The alien didn't go down for long though. After getting extremely angry from the looks of things, suddenly he started glowing a gold color. His hair turned gold, and his eyes turned green. His body expanded some. It appeared that he'd gotten much stronger. Was this some sort of advanced form, sort of like Vigilante's "super mode?"

The kid went up in the air next, above the city. While the girl was trying to evacuate people, the kid created something in his hands, then shot it towards the ground. There was a huge explosion that wiped out the whole city

"Shit..." Jr said, shocked. "That kid... whatever he did, it just made him a whole helluva lot stronger... He leveled a city by himself, and he's just a kid..."

Yeah, this really would be a problem if they had this kid as an enemy. He was very tough, and came back stronger after a beating. He had some crazy techniques, and now had three methods of getting stronger: the first being whatever it was when he would glow a red color, the second being the transformation into a giant monkey, and now this... whatever this gold thing was. It was a massive power boost, as he effortlessly leveled Velo City. He wondered about the fate of Nova, but it wasn't as if he actually cared.

Someone showed up to the tower. It was Amaranth, the grand daughter, and after an elevator ride she was on the floor below, probably in the R&D department.

After getting knocked on his ass, the alien kid underwent a big power up, indicated by his expanding body and gold hair. He went up above the city, charged up and fired an attack that destroyed everything. It was a bad situation, but it made Alec grin. He'd never had love for that place, back when Himitsu ran it, or even now, being controlled by Nova and Maxi. It was a shit stain on the world, and Alec wasn't sad to see it go.

"Definitely gonna have to get this kid on board. Imagine how strong he'll be when he grows up..."

That girl was strong too. If she survived, he'd have to try getting her on board as well. If not here, possibly in Makkura. With the way she moved, she seemed like a Shinobi; Alec had spent enough time in that other world to know the mannerisms of a ninja.

So Velo City was gone... it would probably be another burning hole in the ground, just like Ground Zero. Was Maxi dead? Was Nova? Or were they both off somewhere farting around like usual?