EP:2
Upon reaching the diner before it rained, Jame rushed inside, "Phew almost wet all my clothes". he took a good look over the Diner, it was pretty much empty, there was only a dude staying at the reception table while other tables were empty. then there's a voice from a lady seemingly working here, "Take a seat honey, I'll be right there!" from the kitchen.
Jame decided to go to the table in the corner, looking outside the window, watching the rain, then take his phone out, he needed to figure everything out, where he is right now, and why suddenly he got shut down automatically.
Jame: "No signal..." he talks silently, noticing his eyes where not soo human, he turns them into one, the deep red iris covered his true identity from everyone, "Perfect, but i need to get a signal now..." he looked around a bit, then take his left hand out from the pocket, his index finger turn into some small mechanical wires to connect to his phone.
while he was doing so, the waiter lady came to his table, she placed on his table a fork, spoon, and knife, Jame was surprised, he quickly put what he was doing away, luckily the lady didn't notice it while checking on her small flip book.
Diner lady: "What can i get for ya honey?"
Jame: "Uhh..." he takes the menu, checking what to order. "Coca-Cola and pancakes please"
Diner lady: "Good choice, we have amazing syrup for that amazing pancakes, is that all honey?"
Jame: "Yes"
Diner lady: "alright, your food will come soon, thank you"
when the lady left, Jame take big relief, he take the phone out, after the enhancement, he can only get a bar of signal, taking this opportunity, Jame go online to look at everything, but the thing he take confused the most, that's is why there isn't a single news about the thing happened, and the time, it was 5:45 PM afternoon now. "what?" for he knows, it was just only around 7 AM today, did he teleported to different country? or was he gone blackout for too long? why the time is messed up?
Jame continues thinking, but that only makes him more confused.
a ring from the bell telling someone has entered the diner, Jame not bothering looking, he only focusing on his phone, the Diner lady tells the boy to wait, Jame hears the boy mumbling something with someone, a distorted voice of a girl going slightly up, doesn't bother his frustration. the boy passes him to go into the restroom.
after nothing gathered, Jame lay back in the chair, closing his eyes, facing up at the ceiling and then outside the rainy day. suddenly a very distorted sound went up, making the light flicker, Jame turns back to the Diner surround, and he noticed a girl around 15 to 16 years old on the second table, holding the menu, she got very long dark purple pigtails on two sides of her head. the lady went out of the kitchen, place Jame order on the table, "Enjoy honey" and then go to the girl's spot "What can i get for ya sugar".
not bothering much Jame took a bite out of the pancakes, then went into the restroom to check on his body.
when he steps inside, he takes the hoodie off, but when looking back, he saw a boy with orange-yellow goggles on his brown pointy hair, he was around the same age as that girl out there, and he got a white lab coat, orange T-shirt with blue jean. Jame looked at him confusingly, why did he scratches his face skin, making it bleed, and why did he put his blood inside a testing tube?
the boy after washing his face, look up and is surprised when sees someone looking at him doing questionable stuff.
the boy: "Woah! uhh... how long have you been standing there"
Jame: "Why- never mind, what are you doing?"
the boy: "I uhh... testing... ehehe"
Jame: "Suuurrrreee.... by the way, the tube went blue"
the boy: "Huh?" he looked at the testing tube, seeing the water turns blue, he took relief, then looked at his Nokia 316. "Can i?"
Jame: "Yeah sure" Jame then went inside a toilet, he turns one of his right fingers into a sharp knife then started to tear off his chest skin. almost hearing the boy talking with someone on the phone, talking about something... cube..? origin of all evils? he thought this was some kind of game or role-play stuff, so he put it out of his mind to focus on examing his body.
after some moment, he finally reached the inside, he scanned them all, seeing they were still at maximum, Jame still don't know why suddenly he got shut off, so he put back his metal chest, then regenerate back his skin. when he step out of the toilet, he didn't forget to flush to hide what he did, but he still see the boy talking, Jame make his way out of the bathroom, and he saw the girl looking at the hoodied figure with the cup of something, and on his hand, staring at the girl was a black cube.
Jame: "What the..."
the boy then takes off his hoodie, from behind, was a school-like uniform, but with the shirt opening, revealed his body, the boy with yellow hair speak up, something in Japanese, "I Krow? Something all of my fourth form power?" then he raised the cube, 3 rings of symbols like from anime showed up with the cube float up, then it shows on " with pink purple Japanese words, then with one X in two square and pink purple glowing represent the eyes, then the mouth she also speaks Japanese "let's do this, big bro!". Jame was beyond confused, then the light went bright from the cube with the explosion making the whole place go boom. Jame got blasted in the debris then the only thing he heard afterward that's the voice of the boy in the restroom said: "uhh, Kirie? I'll have to call you back, we got competition" before slowly lifting his head off the debris, he wants to watch what's going on right now.
the boy open the door, then close it, the door frame collapsed to the ground, nearly half of the building got blown away. the boy looks at the three from afar and then at Jame, he worried, crouches down, pulling Jame out of the ruin, making his left leg fall off, thinking Jame was hurt.
the boy: "Are you alright?!"
Jame thinks that he doesn't know, but when looking at the girl and the sudden appearance of a pink-haired girl with the black cat headphone, a black fluffy hoodie with a small top, and short black jeans, standing in her black shoe next to the yellow hair boy, he noticed now, her eyes and the pigtails hair girl also got the similar X on their eyes, one is green, one is pink. "they are... cores?" he thought to himself"
the boy: "Hey you alright" *snap snap*
Jame looks at the boy, he doesn't want to reveal himself yet soo he fakes being in pain: "Arghh... i need to lay down... you go do anything, I'll just... stay here a while..."
the boy looks at the two who start to fight, "Stay here" then run to the pig hair girl.
the pigtail girl rolls back to dodge a laser beam from the weeb-looking girl, the boy named Krow telling her what to do, like an administrator controlling a machine.
Krow: "Sister! use thunder strike!" *in Japanese*
pink hair girl: "Alright brother!" *also in Japanese*
the pigtails girl looks at the two quite scared, the anime-looking symbol appeared on the pink hair girl, then many lightning strike with the same color of her hair flies toward the girl,
pigtail girl: "MAAAXX!"
the brown hair boy's name is Max, he jumped into the girl, helped her dodge the attack in time, but they soon get attacked again, this time the pigtail girl telling Max, "Give me the code to attack back now!" she grabs on his shirt.
Max: "I.con engage!"
the pigtail girl's name is I.Con, she let out a big smile with her sharp teeth, then two of her pigtails got longer, a metal claw hands formed from each end of the tails. she levitated up, blocking the lightning strike from the two using her claws. "hahaha it's my turn now!" she created a stinger gun thingy with light pink liquid glowing inside of it, it was like an injector, she pointed it at the two, pulled the trigger, the liquid flew out from the head tip with fast like water cut.
the pink hair girl created a circle, making the liquid ricochet away, hitting a broken building block, then the liquid glowed brighter fast, before exploding, causing the rest of the building to collapse.
the pink hair girl: "Ha nice one, but I, I.C-313 will not be defeated that easily"
Krow: "sister, bring out the sword!"
the girl, I.C-313n, does a very weeb pose with his brother, she created a katana like how I.Con formed her claws, then dashed to attack her.
"crap" I.Con, or maybe I.C-0n perhaps, pushed Max away, then stopped the blade from cutting her face using her own hand, dropped the gun away, and her claw slashes 313n, but she blocked it, then jumped, did a backflip on the air, and then standing like samurai.
I.C-0n's claws attack back, even with two more weapons, but somehow she got overwhelmed, Krow and Max can only stand there looking, Krow was confident, and he keeps stroking his hair while Max was worried.
somehow, I.C-0n slashed the 313n's sword away, then give her a direct slash, but 313n rolled back, and she only get her party glasses.
I.C-313n: "hmp nice one"
Krow: "Do it sis"
I.C-313n: "Let's end this fast" the click her fingers, suddenly, many guns and weapons arsenal formed in the air behind her back, they all pointed directly at I.C-0n.
I.C-0n: "MAAAAXXX I'M STILL ON SAFE MODE!!!"
Max: "Uh oh... uh, then run!"
when Max finished, tons of weapons all together fired, rockets, bullets, all fire forward I.C-0n, making her doesn't have time to dodge or do anything. "AAAAHHH"
seeing this, Jame doesn't know who to help, but surely after 313n said "want to or not you'll coming with us" line from the weeb duel, he knows.
Jame accelerated, making everything around almost stop, his halo formed with his claws, and his blades, Jame hold it firmly in his hands, then dashed in action. [suppression: engaged]
I.C-0n screamed before her death, the bullet hell coming close, Jame with a very fast motion, deflected all the bullets using his Absolute Solver, then slashed all the rockets using his blades, and claws.
explosions from the rockets went up, causing a very big cloud of smoke, 313n makes all the weapons away, smiling in victory with her brother.
Krow: "We did it, now, let's collect the cub-"
313n stopped him, and she pointed at the smoke, Crow: "What it is?" he looked at it, then two of them were all shocked.
Max: "ICON!!!" he look at the fading smoke, totally shocked and surprised, "you?!"
when I.C-0n opens her eyes again, she sees a tall boy standing in front of her, with two blades in stance, levitating claws on his sides, the halo on his head, she was flabbergasted, then stay down, Max run to her, he checks on her first then turns his attention to Jame.
Max: "What... are you...?"
Jame stand up and turns around to look at the two, his eyes went back to the two red Xs, and he smile "Stay back" then walk forward.
I.C-313n and Crow sweat, they take a step back, while looking at Jame. his blade sheath formed back on his waist, Jame looking at them, eyes sharp like his blades glowing red, and vaporizing the rain falls near it.
Jame: "I need some answers and you two are going to help me with it" he let out a smile, his teeth like a sharp blade, with four fangs like a lion or vampire, the AS symbol appeared on his side then it forming out a giant round of high caliber, right leg stands on a small rock, he looks at them, raising his blades back and front.
Krow: "Another Internecion Cube? we might need to get him too, sister! destroy him!"
I.C-313n: "Take this" She pointed her right hand at Jame, she was about to launch another strike, but then nothing happened.
Crow: "... sis?"
I.C: "Impossible... i can't"
Jame: "You are being suppressed, using or trying to will result in nothing, you can't use your abilities no more"
Krow & I.C-313n: "NANI!!"
Jame slashed the air, using his right blade, a red cut slashed behind them, creating a big mark on the rest of the building. then Jame made the newly formed giant round at them, he said: "Ready to answer my questions?"
Crow and 313n are now scared, they both hug each other, then cries, trembling then fell on their leg.
Jame: "Wow, that's one way to do it"
Max: "Dude.." he and I.C-0n walk up to him, they are curious, also quite terrified, "What kind of I.C are you?" Max asked.
Jame: "Huh? Internecion cube? heh..." Jame put his blades back into the sheath, "I am Death-Core, DC-404-J, you can call me Jame"
Max: "Death-core...? what is that?"
Jame: "What? you don't know what it is?"
Max and I.C-0n look at each other, they shrugged, clearly don't know anything.
Jame: "... I guess it truly is... I'm in a different part of the timeline..."
Max & I.C-0n: "What...?"
Jame: "I need some information, what year it is?"
Max: "2057, why do you ask?"
Jame widens his eyes, now he knows. "alright... this might be complicated... since the timelines get fused together, I got here, and... in the past?"
I.C-0n: "Are you a time traveler or something?" her voice is quite distorted.
Jame: "Never mind, what are we doing with these two?"
the three look at the brother and sister, thinking while they are afraid like hell before Jame.
I.C-0n: "I know! let's crush their bones and-"
Max: "Let's just tie them up"
I.C-0n: "boo...."
Jame: "alright" Jame levitate a piece of broken building up, and reconstructed it into a metal chain. and tie them up against the signal tower next to the diner.
Krow: "We will come back!!!!"
afterward, Jame tells Max and I.C-0n where he is from, and the two are surprised to know that their universe and his got assimilated together, meanwhile, I.C-0n feels excited when Jame told them about his past when he used to be a murderous A.I and when he was a human, Max feels sorry for him, it had all been alright.
them three all together get to the road.
Max: "My bike got crushed at the diner"
Icon: "Want me to make another one?"
Max: "No no, i don't want you to take two more lives and a helicopter to make a bike for me"
Jame: "She what now?"
Max: "Nothing"
Jame: "Alright since ya don't have another vehicle, guess I just make one" he then summons his AS, the symbol wide up on the ground, [collecting material] then slowly forming out a high-power motorbike.
Max: "Woah..."
Icon: "Wow, you can create stuff like that?"
Jame: "Yeah, hop on, let's go meet your friends to do something whatsoever"
Icon: "I take the back seat!"
the three get on the bike, Jame handles the driving with the two from behind. the bike start-up, it roars up, exhauster blows out flames, Icon seems excited, she keeps giggling while Max is holding on like a scared cat. then they all blasted off the road, tearing down the highway to get to the town where Max's friend named Kirie is studying in her school.
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back at Jame's place. Minty and Vinny have successfully got to their safe house, they put their stuff from the car to the place, meanwhile, a bright light is tearing the sky bit by bit. Minty looks at it with unease.
Minty: "Where are you... Jame...
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(on the road)
Max: "Dude, i have to ask, can you be invisible or turns into different shapes?"
Jame: "I can, why?"
Max: "Well, Kirie, my friend she doesn't like I.C, like Icon here, and maybe you too"
Jame: "Understandable, also, ICON! SIT DOWN!"
Icon: "Heheheheh" *her pigtail claws are scratching the road*
the bike goes on a rainy day, passing the turns and going around the town, they finally reached Kirie's school. they all get off the bike, Jame makes his halo disappear. they walk into the front of the school, "Wait, can you?" Max said
Jame: "Yeah lemme" he shrunk down to the same height and size as Max, and his eyes went into disguise mode. "eh? c'mon it's perfect"
Max: "alright, hope no one noticed, Icon turns back into Cube"
Icon: "Fine" She sounds bored, then with a quick second, she turned back into the black cube with the red face. Jame is quite surprised to know this I.C thingy has a cube form similar to him. Max put her in his backpack.
the three go into the school, Jame is still questioning why he is interested in helping Max with something, but "meh" he has some time, maybe, might have some time to understand what is this all about.
when the three got into the hallway, an uncomfortable feeling hits Max, why are the lights off, it's all quiet and unusual, a thunder struck down, lighting up the hallway for a brief moment, but enough to notice a black trail on the ground.
Max: "Oh boy..."
Jame created flashlights to light up the path, he give Max one, and the two walk down the hallway.