"If you don't mind me asking, how did Miss Havishma figure out that we were gone?" Storm 01 asked Ishary who had just finished running some tests on him.
"Your wrist," she answered.
He looked down at his wrist. The bracelet Ishary had placed on it when he started his training was still there. "Oh."
"We were in the lab running some experiments when the bracelet suddenly turned on and sent a notification. Your heartbeat had spiked and you were about to unleash more than a thousand volts of electricity."
Storm 01 looked down at his hands. If Sox hadn't stopped him, he would have killed someone.
"But because of what Sox injected in you, your powers were temporary- destroyed I'd say," she explained. "Now, if you don't mind me asking, who was it that you had the desire to kill?"
It had been a week since then. A week since Storm 01 took a trip to Winter Weir. He hadn't heard or seen Sox. He had been inside a container in the laboratory and had only just gotten out.
"People. Terrible people from my past," he answered.
"Your high school bullies," Ishary chimed in.
Storm 01 remained quiet for a few seconds before getting off the chair he was sitting on. He picked up his jacket and put it on. She could see that he had no intention of answering her.
"Look," she started. "Your powers are meant to be the world's saving. You are to protect the people of this planet, not kill them. You need to put yourself in check."
She stopped for some moment before speaking. "Department H is trying to bring hope to everyone in Winter Weir."
"Cause what? The 'H' in 'Department H' means hope?"
"This is not the time for jokes. Miss Havishma didn't choose you as one of the candidates so you can fight with the past..."
"I wasn't chosen by her, I had the Z cells in me that's it."
"01, a lot of people out there want what you have to be able to protect themselves and their families-"
"Well, I am the one with the powers. So why don't you just do what you are assigned to do, run tests!" he yelled.
He had lost control again. He had let his anger take over him. Ishary gazed into his eyes. She sobbed and turned away. "You're right." She picked up her tablet from a table and walked towards the door. As she got to the door, she stopped and turned her head. "You know the route to the training section," she said before pacing out of the door.
He fell on a chair that rolled back and bumped into a wall. He dug his hand into his hair and sighed. Once again, he had thrown someone out with his words.
...
Storm 01 walked into the Storm troopers' training section. Miss Havishma and Ishary sat on a chair behind a desk that had a headphone and a microphone on it. The other Storm troopers were all there as well. He looked around searching the room with his eyes and finally he found Sox standing by the shooting range. She turned and looked at him with a smile.
Unlike before, there was a huge box made of glass in the middle of the place. It surely wasn't there the first time he was there. He slowly paced up where Miss Havishma and Ishary were with a 'what the hell is happening' look on his face.
"Storm 01. I am pleased you decided to cherish the time assigned for this training," Miss Havishma praised.
"Is that a compliment?"
"Please step in through that door." she immediately dismissed his comment and ushered him into the box.
They watched his mouth move but didn't catch what he said. He gently hits the glass with the side of his fist.
Miss Havishma puts on the headphone and pulled the microphone to her mouth. She cleared her throat before clicking a button which enabled her voice to reach Storm 01.
"01, can you hear me?"
"Yeah, I can now," he answered.
With the headphone on, Miss Havishma was also able to hear when the agent speaks.
"Why am I in a box?"
"For your training," she answered. "That is a GD-IU reinforced glass. Strong enough to withstand an explosion."
"Okay. Are you expecting an explosion?"
"Storm 01, proceed with the training. Any further questions will be answered after the activity. If I feel the need to," she concluded.
A target dummy emerged from the ground in front of him. Storm 01 cracked his neck and made his battle stance. everyone there had their eyes on him. He cared too much about what people thought about him and was determined to get it right this time, not fall face flat on the ground like he always does. Just as Percy completed the training years first, Storm 01 was dead last in the first five years of training, and would have been dropped if he wasn't a candidate for the experiment.
As he stared at the dummy, his mind wandered to the past when he was in a somewhat similar situation.
He stood in an arena, pacing around with Percy in front of him grinning from ear to ear. His entire body hurts from the beating he had just received.
"Come on. Jesselyn's not gonna help you. Fight me!" Percy taunted as he clasped his fist together.
Storm 01 yelled and launched himself at Percy, who immediately closed the distance. He made it look as if he was coming straightforward, but swiftly swerved to the right and collided his fist with Storm 01's face.
Storm 01 snapped out of his thinking. When he did, he could see sparks of electricity forming around his body which fried the bracelet that was on his wrist.
"I'm out," Ishary said to Miss Havishma who was on her toes.
Her hands were cold and shaking. It was the closest she had ever been to achieving the full power of the Z syrup.
Feeling the powers surging through his veins, he harnessed the electricity to his hands. The shock waves dispersed in all directions. Causing the GD-IU reinforced glass to start to crack.
"Get down!"
He released all the energy at the dummy. The impact caused it to explode and shattered the reinforced glass into pieces on the ground, sending a strong wave all around the place.
Miss Havishma stood up from the ground. She wiped the dirt from her coat and looked around the place. The other Storm troopers and Ishary got up.
The dust cleared to reveal Storm 01 still standing tall in the middle of the pieces of glass. He turned his head to look at Miss Havishma.
"That was the GD-IU reinforced glass, created by the Quantum Realm Corp to withstand explosions," Ishary pointed out.
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