Axel got enough of the missions the Universe Group is operating.
The project that was led by him was not making any progress. He started to organize plans for counterattacks. "Listen everyone."
Regulus' purpose was to continue the project of the Neutrino. Searching for the pieces of Quanta regaining each part to supply enough source of power for the Tetrahedron QuadCollider. To produce more Quanta to create more powerful weapons and to create more technological advancement.
The organization is not recruiting volunteers for the experiment. Human samples are prohibited by law even if they are tasked by the government itself. The people who make laws. They still need to be careful about the eyes and ears around them.
The organization is forcing people and making death row prisoners the subject of their experiments even though it is illegal.
".. Are you sure about this?"
"Would it not be too risky?" The twins asked.
"The damage would be on us. It would be very detrimental."
"Show a bit of a little optimism here," Axel replied to the organization's disdainful words.
"Not for them but for us..."
"Detrimental for us!"
"We would lose more of the Quanta that we had." Paulo gossiped to Peolo. In a low voice.
"We will not use the Quanta wielders; I'll go by myself. I'll be the bait."
"We will be using manpower."
But Axel is still hot-headed.
"I'm so tired of the nuisance. If you will not agree, I can handle them by myself."
The twins planned to recruit people even non-Quanta users to supplement their organization needs for a while temporarily as guards. They lost manpower because their operations were always discovered. But Axel wanted to acquire more Quanta for personal reasons and pleasure.
NARAGA
The reports came in. Axel found out where one of the quarters was located. Naraga.
"I'll annihilate them."
"I will be mowing our paths; the grass has been so tall obstructing our way."
Axel showed himself in front of the organization's building alarming everybody about his entrance. "The systems warned."
"INTRUDER!"
"DANGER!"
"INTRUDER!"
"DANGER!"
The bell rang and the people were in chaos. Everyone was panicking and the alarms kept ringing. The people were already in the stampede.
Raj immediately heard the news and marched his way to Naraga.
The headquarters was very far from where he was from, he feared that when he arrived it might be too late.
Raj asked permission from Strawberry which immediately followed. He requested to take her at her speed.
Axel let out a scream. The back of his jacket bulged upward, then split open from the side.
A black shape lashed out almost too quickly to be seen; the screams of the people in Naraga headquarters ceased abruptly as everything from head to shoulders vanished without a trace.
Had Axel devised some new form of attack? That did not explain his doing. What is he depending on? Showing himself alone.
When Raj and Strawberry came the building was already in flames.
"This is too much."
"He is just avenging the people we have taken from them."
Axel created his sun. The energy from his Quanta was so overwhelming that it even matched the size of the building he was about to blow. No. It was far more even larger than the building itself. He was like an ant beside an apple with the energy he was charging.
"I mean this if he can do this by himself then why..."
"Unable to stop him?"
"You can also burn a building if you try. It's just that you didn't... try."
Axel was a top. Above the skyscrapers watching how the two were talking.
Leaving his final message. Dropping a single huge ball of burning golden blue flames.
The building for the second time burned more dramatically.
An explosion occurred. Three explosions followed in a row.
They looked up.
Axel left already.
Raj's hatred towards Axel started to sprout even more.
When the masked man suddenly crossed his mind. It agitated him even more.
Raj practiced more of his skills and Quanta in the Universe training room. Not limiting himself testing his powers to the utmost.
"Stop exhausting yourself."
"Let me guess, you did limit yourself in your last encounter with him."
He was still an amateur compared to them. His experience is far less from the actual likes of Axel, Strawberry, and especially Socrates.
"Maybe?". Sighs.
Something was stopping him.
"You do still fear something you don't know."
"That's why you are putting limits on yourself."
Strawberry knew it. She was that way herself.
"I might harm the innocent people surrounding....". Raj worries.
"On the battlefield, you need to risk something always. And if you already mastered your Quanta why would you doubt yourself?"
Thinking about the words that he just heard. Attempting to assimilate and process it.
"...yeah. Thanks, Strawberry."
"Try unleashing your potential. Maybe their leader is still on the upper hand but even if so, you can match him up."
"You didn't do that much in your first mission in your last encounter. What you did was just hiding, if you didn't feel that unwanted emotion in the battle you might have saved that person."
Strawberry was merciless. She realized she could help that time, yet he decided not to.
"I know. I know. It is my fault. I accepted my fault."
"It'll be the last time that I'll limit myself."
"If he can do it, why can't I?"
Strawberry is now begging to see the spirit.
"It depends on experience and struggles you've faced."
"The more they are fearless doesn't mean they are already strong or courageous enough to face that fear."
"Sometimes these people still fear it and are fearless. They only got used to it."
"I see. So, do I still have to understand him? Even if they killed your loved one?"
"If that's the case then it depends on the person's level of understanding."
"How can you understand something you don't". Raj puts on his clothes. "I'll rest for now."
Raj planned his attack locating Axel and hoping for vengeance.
Hoping to see the same person it the battlefield.
"What a coincidence." Strolling down the streets of Cube.
"YOU!" Grabbing the guy's mask off his face.
It was the same mask that murdered her grandmother.
It was a bizarre episode. Raj never expected to feel a similar outrage once more.
"Thomas!?!"
"But I saw you?"
His feelings already started to rush as he tried to get a hold of himself. They are in a public area and people are passing by the streets. He knows he cannot let out his rampage.
"You!" Reaching for his phone.
Thomas pretended that he was going to report to their headquarters. His battery life was dead, it left him no choice but to fight.
"Don't even bother reporting."
Raj already thought of his next move in case Thomas tried to escape or even try to report. He will try to retrain him.
"Okay, sure."
Thomas dropped his arms dead.
"What's your purpose...?"
Raj was angered that even if he wanted to cry, he could not. Thomas kept his poise while facing his opponent before him.
To battle Raj was one of his points at the time. To test where he figured out how to bring himself up and to perceive how he developed.
"The organization was thankful when we already figured out what you are and..."
"But why!!"
Years had already passed, and he knew that it was pointless to ask such questions at the moment in the middle of a commotion.
What Raj means here is "why" is "why he killed her grandmother.". He has a lot of questions to ask.
"Did you already know me even before I came here? What is that that you are doing in my province years back? What is it that something that you have to do with my grandmother? Or my house?"
"If you wish to chat you are wasting my time."
"I must capture you now." Baffling his way to Raj. Thomas needs to add wood to the already burning flame.
They cannot act recklessly and unleash power blasts in public. It would alarm both of their organization. They both knew they needed to settle this on their own hands swiftly.
Raj found a way to confront him.
"But before I fight back. I request a duel. Not here."
"... and you would speak of your reason if I won."
"I need to speak of you with several questions that you need to answer."
That only comes to the best scenario if Raj has the upper hand and wins the fight. It is only a scenario for him if he won, but like all other duels the probability of winning in a one versus one is always half the percentage.
"If I did?". Thomas was confident. His capacity to combat and level of experience have higher expectancy than Raj.
"You didn't yet. But if you, I'll surrender..."
They went to a place somewhere barren.
It was on the outskirts of the city. To the very famous garden of Flouver.
The wind blows.
It was both their first strike.
"I don't know how you find me in the province...!! But what was your reason for killing my..."
"HYAAAH!" Thomas throwing a hook, with its arms glowing.
Raj blocked. "She was my only family." Using his Quanta giving a blow.
Thomas walks out of the smoke. "This place is so good. You can just surrender and avoid destroying this wonderful place."
". And I do not know what you are talking about."
"LIAR!!"
Bang.
The first bang erupted followed by a sequence and series of serious blows. An average person cannot follow up with the movements of the two.
It was clear to them how they both evolved as time passed. An obvious match-up to see how Raj closed the gap between the other wielders.
"The organization together with the government was searching for your father. Luckily, we found out that YOU!"
Silver threads were curving from Thomas' palms.
"Your father was subjected to treason. He was a traitor."
Although Raj is still curious about his father it does not change the circumstances that he is facing right now. Whether or not his father was still alive he cared less. But there is still a sense of urgency and curiosity embedded in his mind.
"I don't care no more of my father!!" A strange object had appeared in silence in battle.