20

It is the dead of night, the city is asleep as it should. However, in another place, alarms are whirling, everyone is awake and moving. One section of their building was just demolished by a massive explosion. The bridge that is connecting to it is being burned to the ground, disabling them from backup.

And it got worse as the lights within begin to flicker while the alarms begin cutting out.

"The generator!"

Shouted a guard and soon darkness came. Even with their emergency electricity, it is only to keep the prisoners in place.

"Why are no heroes coming?"

One of the veteran guards asks, looking at the inmates visible with fear. There has never been such an attack in Tartarus in decades!

At least none this successful!

All guards immediately put on their night vision and scan their surroundings. They were the guards in the deepest area, hence they were the best in the workforce. But with few years with peace had made their claws blunt.

They were slightly trigger-happy.

A sudden movement causes one of them to shoot which create a domino effect as more shots were fired. In their panic, a few bags on fire were dropped near their feet gaining their attention.

Instinctively, a few of them took a deep breath to hold, unfortunately inhaling the fume from the bag. Instantly, the scene in front of them appears wavy.

One of them muttering in disbelief,

"Weed?"

Amidst this chaos, a woman with dark blue and pink two-tone hair was unmoved on her chair, there was a glimpse of surprise in her eyes at the current happening before it passed. It has nothing to do with her anyway.

She holds her breath the moment she smells the smell of marijuana/weed/cannabis, planning to breathe bit by bit to prevent the drug from her system.

"Tsk....tsk....tsk...tsk"

Clicking could be heard coming closer to her cell before stopping in front of her door. She watches as dents begin to come from her door before becoming a hole.

A figure could be seen and suddenly sinking. A black mist begin to appear in front of her and the same figure came. She can see him clearly now. But she didn't panic, whatever comes, comes.

To her surprise, the man suddenly came close to her causing her to glare. The man blue eyes clash with her glare for a moment before returning to her hair.

Ichiji see that all description match and mutter so she can hear,

"So you're Lady Nagant, right? Give me one grunt for yes and two grunts for no. Or you could lie but you're just making it harder.*

...

1 week before,

Ichiji warps into his room and sees the clone of himself sleeping while johnny just sat on the ground. Ichiji picks Johnny from behind, making it struggle in surprise for a moment before relaxing in his arm. He taps his clone and it immediately melts into nothingness.

It seems doctor Garaki didn't come here.

This is the reason why, Ichiji was willing to take the risk and go out at day. Because ever since his 'betrayal' was known, Doctor Garaki had stopped checking on him.

Of course, once in a while, he will whine out loud for Doctor Garaki to keep him blind.

Sitting down on the ground, Ichiji rests against the wall and wait for night to fall.

...

At midnight, instead of warping out like he usually does, Ichiji decides to sneak up to Doctor Garaki's lab. He stopped near the door and focus on his senses.

The sound of regular breathing and a calm heartbeat. He is asleep.

Ichiji went through the door, and see a white room, with a couple of tables. There were some instruments on the table, but what caught his eye the most is the incomplete body on the table.

It is a white torso with only a left arm. Ichiji sees that Doctor Garaki is sleeping on the ground under his table peacefully and moving to the body.

There were no documents or such on the table, so Ichiji deduce Doctor Garaki is doing something he had done before, so a Nomu.

Truthfully, he expects something more. After all, he, Ichiji, the strongest Nomu and probably the top 3 strongest in the world is found out to be a betrayer, surely Doctor Garaki would create something to take him down.

But no, it seems that Doctor Garaki would just make another Nomu.

'Unless that chip planned for me can kill me somehow.'

Ichiji thought it was just a regular tracker but maybe it could be like an electrical death pill?

'Thank you johnny.'

Ichiji gave Garaki one cold stare before truly warping out.

...

"Let's get down to business!"

Ichiji announced to the other figure as he slams his fist to the table. The others stood in attention, waiting for Ichiji to begin.

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I know, it's shorter. But you can consider this one a prologue.

Well, we barely reach 32 last week, so let's again maintain a minimum of 30 power stones.

So 5 stones a day. And once again, please leave a review.