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Chapter 21 - Truth

Isao was getting closer to the location marked on his phone.

He gets a call from an unknown number.

"This is Tyson!"

"Isao, this is James"

"Who?"

"James O'BRIEN."

"Oh! How are you my friend?"

Some glass noises are heard from the other side.

"Listen Isao, I'll offer information with my power, and for your knowledge my orb is like yours, it has personality. Do you have headphones?"

Isao pulls out some wireless headphones and connects them to his phone.

"Never leave home without them."

"I forgot that. This is a high priority mission. You need to go all out or you and everyone near that building are in trouble. In the building are 25 guards 5 of them have powers one of those 5 is top 4 The Magician. The Magician won't be a problem, he got beat up pretty bad by that Remnant guy."

Isao looks at his phone. 00:00 am Sep. 26th.

"Let's start operations at midnight!" Said O'Brien.

Isao gets into the building unseen. He sees a giant structure with clocks made out of metal, gold.

"Alright Isao. Two guards, they are normal, take them out silently. Both of them on your left."

Isao taps his phone as "affirmative." He looks and sees them talking, he does not understand. Isao turns his hand into a flying robotic fist and controls it to knock both of them down. Both of them sleep like little piggies after the blows Isao served.

You can now go back to where you seen the Time Arena dispatch.

"The rest of the people there are scientists working for Duncan."

Isao sees a lot of people dressed in lab coats trying to maintain the.

"You can hurt them if you want." O'Brien gasps. "Isao on your left!"

Isao dodges a bullet in a second.

"Miss this time too… Shit!"

"That guy is Black Bullet. Basically he shoots unlimited bullets at the same speed as an ar sniper or pistol. It depends on him."

Isao rushes him. Black Bullet tries to shoot him down.

"You are already dead."

A blink later Isao's hand was piercing his chest. Black Bullet falls forward as his nerves try to act. He wiggles and screams. The science team saw what happened and tended to run away.

Isao let them go.

He jumps down and goes to destroy the object.

The Magician appears coming from the shadows.

"Listen kid, Duncan is gonna be mad if you play with the toy."

"And I am mad because Duncan played dirty. So this will settle the score."

Isao puts his mask on.

"I Wildcard will make a promise to never let you feel any pain. AGAIN!"

Isao moves slowly towards the top 4.

The Magician does the same. They stay one in front of another.

"You're weak!" He said. Isao looks at him and closes his eyes. He moves past him. The Magician pulls out a card and explodes it. It did not harm Isao in any way.

"I guess you're right. Someone is weak, that's you bud."

Isao breaks the guy's spine and pulls it out. "You've had spondylosis, poor you."

He then leaves The Magician on the ground, unable to move.

Isao now faced the object.

"What now James?"

"Destroy it, punch it and you'll see results."

Isao makes his punches 10x the strength of an elephant and punch the big object.

With every punch a memory appeared, but it faded and he couldn't understand anything. The more he punched the more he saw. He understood nothing.

Eventually after 100 punches. The object exploded. Isao turns himself into Vedrinium, top to bottom. The transformation prevented him from being turned into pieces.

He was now in the air.

A second explosion occurred that brought the same memories to Isao. Isao sees everyone around him, Clara, Rebecca, Vlad, Shreds and his father wanted to exploit him or already have exploited him. Isao, seeing this, realized everything was recorded while the time stop was active. He saw everyone that had power orbs and their abilities, their skills and what they'll do if they fool Isao.

Isao got mad. He didn't see anything bad about O'Brien and his sister. He sees how O'Brien was forced into following him and how he wanted to actually help Isao, even if he was restrained by Duncan.

"You saw that?" Isao asked O'Brien.

"Everyone with an orb did! I'm so sorry brother…"

Isao was now on a building, at his power limit. Isao's trust is now unstable as he seen how everyone actually treated him. Clara calls him, Isao answers.

"Isao listen~"

"NO! YOU listen, I don't fucking care what you guys want I'm out. Fuck Duncan and fuck you all! I AM OUT!"

Isao gets off the building and walks.

"Where are we heading?" Kalista asked

"Out of this city…"

At the new Shreds safe house, everything was in chaos. Everyone is scared that Isao will retaliate.

"EVERYONE CALM THE FUCK DOWN!" James shouted. "Isao is going out of New York. He doesn't want any other altercation with you people. You fucked up!"

Clara punches O'Brien. "And? If Isao runs out of the city what problems is he gonna solve? How am I gonna dominate the world?"

Jasmine chokes her with a hand made out of wind.

"You're not gonna do it!"

Vlad punched the air and the hand dissipated.

"Fighting won't solve our problems, and neither what happened tonight will. WE. FUCKED. UP."

Isao got on a bus and sat in one of the back seats. His hoodie was covering his face, he didn't have his mask on because his powers ran out.

Kalista was panicking.

"I fucked up did I not?

Isao got his phone at his ears and starts acting like he is on a phone call.

"No you did not fuck up. Neither did I."

"But you were misled by so many people. I should've foreseen that."

"K. listen. Before you came into my life, everything was the same as it is now, only it was gray and black. Now everything is painted in rainbows, but it's the same shit."

The bus stopped in Southfields. He exits and runs away because he didn't have money for the ticket.

The driver leaves for his next station.

Isao walks alone on the street he sees a sign, 'Toxico Motel' He searches his pockets and find nothing.

He moves forward trying to get as far as possible from this place, with no money and no help.