Isao was talking with Shreds after the fight he had with Mike in the cage a few days ago.
"I've read his mind."
Shreds gets closer to Isao.
"So what do you get on him?"
"He is a cheater and a traitor to your office, something is going to happen sooner or later. Keep an eye on him."
Present day. September 25th. Isao still found nothing of top 1, nothing of her location, or her brothers.
He hasn't slept in days and that has been seen on him. Vlad comes to him and gives him an energy drink.
"This will probably help you sleep."
Isao looks like he is made a fool out of him.
"You realize I don't have the same illness as you do, right?"
"Just say you don't want it. Jesus!"
Isao puts the drink on the table and sits in a chair. He looks something up on the internet and then slowly sleeps.
Vlad lets the sleeping beauty sleep and moves around the gym talking with people, most of them preparing to leave somewhere.
Everyone had teleporting shards except for Mike, Isao, and Vlad.
Isao was in a profound state of sleeping, he didn't know what was going on around him, all the noise didn't bother him.
""What the fuck is Isao doing?" Said Shreds.
"He is sleeping, let the kid be. He worked hard the last few weeks" Theo added.
Isao wakes up
"Fuck off! Kalista!"
He smashes his head onto the table.
Theo comes to him worried.
"Isao, are you ok?"
Isao looks at his father. Isao's facial expressions were like those of a man who had seen WWI and WWII, combined with the japanese-american post war bombings.
"No, I DO NOT! I haven't slept in 14 days, my orb tries to make me stronger to prevent my death from Remnant, and I can barely stand on my feet. I get dizzy with the minute, and I think I am starting to get dementia. That's not the definition of FINE! Is it?"
Theo was seeing his son in pain and didn't know what to do.
"How about medicine?"
"Tried that, Kalista still puts me in a blank space to evolve my skills. I am not a rockymoon Kalista!."
Isao gets off his chair and soon after falls. He sleeps again. Now with a smile. He sleeps normally after weeks of work.
A few blocks away Isao's mother is preparing an assault on Shreds's building.
There was Jasmine as the main damage output. James was not agreeing with the mission, but he had to do it so his sister could be free.
They stop time and rush in front of the building.
"Today Isao is ours to take home," said Miss Tyson.
They open the door only to see Isao, Vlad and Mike. Isao was sleeping on the floor. Vlad was looking at them smiling. Mike was terrified.
"Where is everyone else!?"
Isao was woken up by his mother.
"What the fuck is going on?" He looks at the people that entered the building.
"Mom? Wait, have I drunk any energy drinks?" He looks at Vlad, Vlad shakes his head.
"Holy shit! Mom? What are you doing here? Am I hallucinating?"
Vlad punches Isao.
"Nope! You're fine. Wait, Chief Tyson is your mother?"
The awkwardness of this conversation is rising.
The top 1 comes forward. She looks like she wants to kill Isao. Isao looks at Vlad, Vlad looks at Isao. Isao nods.
Vlad charges Mike and pushes him through a wall, he starts fighting hit.
"So, you're Jasmine? Fancy dress you have there kiddo."
She summons ice boulders and throws them at Isao.
Isao charges at her. He breaks two boulders.
"I didn't know you wanted me to break the ice" He smirks and continues his run towards her. She charges at Isao with a giant tornado in her hand.
She points the tornado at Isao. TThe tornado sends Isao into a wall. He feels that some bones in body have been cracked.
"Sorry, but I have some issues. I'm a bit VULCANIC today."
The tornado turned into magma.
"Is it me or are you getting hotter?"
He turns from the torso up into obsidian.
"Let's dance"
He goes through the magma tornado, and reaches Jasmine's face but it's again thrown into a wall, to evade shattering he turns back to normal.
"Do you know any tricks other than this?"
"I'm no dog!"
Isao concentrates, he breathes in, holds it in. His hand was turned into Vedrinium, his eyes are now red. The eyes were analyzers. With them he creates a path to her, and how he can manage to read her mind.
He exhales.
He jumps forward and moves counterclockwise around the tornado, in the middle of it he punches it, it gets destroyed. "You're no dog, but surely you're a bitch!"
He jumps once more and reaches her forehead, he touches it. He reads her memories.
"I have a deal for you. You become my associate and your family will be protected. I know you have only your brother now, but that still counts as family."
"I accept Mr. Duncan"
Isao viewed that memory, looked at Jasmine's brother.
"Gacha!"
"He runs toward him, and bullets are fired in his direction
"O'Brien if you want your sister to live a free life, you need to let me hit you!"
O'Brien shoots all of the other guards and runs forward.
Isao reaches him and punches him hard in the stomach.
He whispers in his ear.
"Play dead for a bit"
Isao drops him on the ground.
"Now that I've killed your brother you have nothing against me."
"Brother!" She screams. A thread appears. The same black thread Clara had.
He moves at it.
"I don't know if you hear me Duncan, but you lost this one"
Isao rips off the thread.
"You're free now girl."
"You've killed my brother!"
He chuckled.
"Go check on him. I have a family reunion to attend."
He faces his mother.
His mother pointed a gun at him. Isao laughs.
"You dare point a gun at your only child?"
"I can alway have another!"
Isao closes his eyes, takes the gun and puts it on his forehead.
"This is your chance to do a favor to you and Duncan. Pull the trigger!"
Jasmine and James both looked shocked at the scene.
"Listen Isao, Chief~"
"I don't give a shit O'Brien! Pull the fucking trigger! Thats what mothers do right? They put their son in danger just because another man tells them to do so, you are so a good mother."
Her hands shake. She throws the gun.
"I can't"
"Then go back to Duncan and say to him that Wildcard will come for him and everything he loves." His mother runs out of the building. The time starts again.
Isao goes to the two siblings.
"Wanna come with us?"
"Us?"
Isao clears his throat.
"VLAD!" He shouts. Vlad appears out of a room covered in blood.
"Is he alive?"
"Yes!"
Jasmine looked at Vlad.
"Vladdy!"
Vlad moves closer.
"So where do we go, Isao?" Said Vlad.
Isao goes into the office, grabs a knife.
"To our new secret location." He grabs Jasmine's hand. "Vlad O'Brien. Hold me by the shoulders." They put their hands on their shoulders. Isao concentrates and they teleport to the new Shreds Gym and Office..
Everyone was happy to see Isao and Vlad, but when they saw Jasmine they were more scared then the last time when they saw Clara.
"She fine guys, I cured her"
They hold their guard up.
"Imagine they don't believe that I beat the top 1."
Rebecca comes to welcome him.
"We believe you, but Storm caused us lots of problems, we can't just welcome her."
"The same was with Clara. And look at you two, already besties. Now where is my father." Rebecca points to Shreds's office.
Isao enters the office. "You didn't tell me that my mother worked for Duncan!"
"So you found out…"
Isao, enraged, gets out of the office and runs towards James.
"O'Brien! How can I hurt Duncan hard enough he can barely recover, like ever?"
James thinks a bit.
"The time arena device. Basically this little toy is connected to a bigger one. Even a little budge and the toy goes to hell."
"Where is it?"
"Do you have a phone?"
Isao pulls out his Android phone and opens google maps. O'Brien puts on the location.
"Give him hell!"
Isao nods. He rushes out of the building ready to create some chaos.