Yumi began to walk towards the camp. She didn’t look like she po stop until she marched through the guard post.

  Fumiko reached out a futile hand towards Yumi g the words. She didn't think Yumi of all of them, at least while she was in trol, would go off recklessly to attack the Atnteans. However, it didn’t surprise her to see Seiji eagerly joining her. They left her behind. She o do something, quickly. Fumiko rushed forward to catch them. “Wait! We ’t just go in without a pn!”

  “Of course we !” He turned his head over his shoulder to look back at her. “Who needs a pn? We’ll just plow the shit through them all!” His hand tightened into a fist as proof of his strength and fiden his words.

  More than a little unimpressed by Seiji, Fumiko’s face tur to icism. “Need I remind you that you were the only ohat lost to them i fight? You ’t just plow through, they aren’t weak.”

  A sed paused for Seiji as though it actually seemed to have some impa him, but he flipped quickly to excitement. “Then it’ll be a good time!”

  She sighed listening to his endless enthusiasm fhting. “I’d normally say I ’t believe you said that, but I’ve learned better to question your motives. The fact still remains we need a pn! Even if we are going in now!”

  “And I said we don’t damn need one! The less thinking the better, it’ll just fuse me.”

  “You actually realize that you’re stupid?”

  “I’m not stupid!” He fully turo face Fumiko, no longer tent to let her words just slide by him. “I just fet about everything when I fight. I don’t rategy, just my intuition!”

  “Your intuition…”

  “You don’t have to worry, Fumiko,” replied a voice behind the both of them. It startled them and made them jump away from the voibsp; Ohey focused, they saw Yumi standing in front of them. Fumiko looked over at where she thought Yumi ran off to only to find it empty. She looked back still trying to figure out what happened with Yumi.

  “Wh-ha-what? You?”

  “Why did you stop?” asked Seiji.

  Fumiko nearly fell over at Seiji’s question. “That’s what you ask?!” She quickly forced a recovery back to the more critical topibsp; Leaning over to Yumi, Fumiko looked around trying to see if something was wrong with her. Nothing immediately jumped out to her. “Is something wrong?”

  Yumi shook her head lightly. “Not at all. I just wao stop yuing and assure you that I have a pn.” fiden her words exuded from Yumi’s voibsp; The unsure version of Yumi pletely went into hiding to no longer be found anywhere on Yumi. The strange ge she made occurred again. Fumiko knew she shouldn’t argue with the difference, sihey he way she acted now to see them through successfully. If she stayed as she was, Fumiko had o worry.

  A pn from Yumi had Fumiko curious. The sudden walk away from them ed her, but she was gd to know that she didn’t start taking lessons from Seiji. “What’s the pn?”

  Chapter 141 – Treadiween Lines

  “What’s the pn?” asked one of the members of Vangelis’ team. It came after their agreement, though it seemed an expected agreement rather than a mutual one. Even still, they discovered new i aement in their job. Vangelis offered them something different and not ordinary. Anything different would have been weled for them, but this seemed more than they could hope for.

  Relegating Iole to driving, Vangelis sat in the back of their specialized trubsp; It ran almost pletely silent and ued by the terrain. Leaving no trail behind as well, the vehicle hovered over the grass blowing it gently aside as it sped away from the camp. The camp already was almost pletely out of sight for them. Four chairs made a circle in the vehicle’s rear, making them all face the other.

  Vangelis leaned a little forward to address the question, as he still left things out for them. “We’ll be searg along the route they took fns of them returning to rescue their rade. We’ll be standiween them and the camp.”

  “Would they really take the same path for us to follow? They are MP users. They aren’t going to leave a trail to follow.”

  He shook his fi them in disagreement. “No, from the information the Captain gave me, these guys are a bunch of upid teenagers. They have been moving in a purposeful manner making it very easy to follow them.”

  “We still have to find them. It ’t be that easy. Aren’t they also traveling by some transport?” “No, sidering the time that’s passed so far, they are still on foot.”

  “You really certain that these guys will be a challenge?”

  The longer Vangelis spoke, the more uain the group became. Everything he said made them out to be inexperienced and foolish. He he same things they were in front of him when speaking with the Captain. However, the results ged his mind. He was less ined to believe the rumors of their defeat. The actual details on the fights spoke more than anyone could on words alone. “They’ll be of more challehan you think. They have already defeated four MPs.”

  One of them nodded, having also heard the rumors of the return team. “I heard they eveed Eusebios, he was the first one.”

  “What the little spoiled bastard that the General trained? I guess it just proves he isn’t the genius everyohinks he is to be defeated by a bunch of rebels.”

  Vangelis watched the exge fuel their i. He saw a little fear aement growing amongst the ranks. Some taste of fear he felt was a good thing to have. Fear would be good fuel to grow stronger and bring out the best. He wahem sharper. All of their missions before dulled their senses and made them too pt. It was the reason for their failures in the past. He wouldn’t see that happen again.

  “This is not public yet, but Eusebios was defeated by one boy and soundly ihan a minute.” His words brought a stop to all of the talking. It had their attention. He removed a file from his bag at his feet. The papers iurned a little in the loose grip. Pg the sta the ter on a knee-high pedestal, a light filled the chamber. Following the light, water like particles shot up and cascaded down around in a drical wall. “This is all of the information gathered on this boy.” Along the wall dispyed the file data in four copies perfectly fit to the flow.

  It only took them all a few seds to turn to surprise. They all leaned in pointing at the data point that turned all of their stomachs. “This ’t be right!”

  “This is all observed data, some room for error is possible, but this is what is known.”

  “How a rebel have a Field radius of greater than hundred meters with this data?”

  “If he was in the military they’d have him in the Omega Division with rankings like this.”

  “Is he the leader of the rebellion?”

  “Acc to history, the st rebellion’s leader was a teenage girl sidered a prodigy. It would make sense someoh great power would motivate others.”

  “You’re being pretty casual about this.”

  Vangelis dropped his foot down on the pedestal disrupting the particle flow. “You don’t have to worry about this one, he’s mine. I’m only showing you this data so that you uand how much distao keep.”

  They all looked at him a little surprised. They could see the fiden his face that easily appeared as arrogance, but difficult to know. The data was imposing without even seeing the boy in person. It created images in their minds of the potential he could have. Su image grew their fear strohahought possible from mere text.

  He retrieved several more files from the bag and removed his foot from the devibsp; Vangelis spped the files down. On top of the st stack of papers, more personal files of their targets appeared in the rec stream. “You should be more ed about those who you’ll be fighting.”

  “But how are you going to fight someone like this?”

  Their persistent fear and w started to get to him. Even the amount of fear had limits. He leaned ba his chair rexing with a smirk on his fabsp; “I never said I pyed fair.”

  Floating above the camp, Yumi gazed down at the movement below her. Everything still ran quietly in the night, unsuspeg of what would happen soon. She tried to locate her brother from the vantage, but failed to get anything more specifibsp; No doubt existed ihat he was inside, but she could see no further. The path she followed became weaker and muddied the closer she got. Almost like someone purposely blocked her. She didn’t give it much further thought. It only meant that they had to do things the hard way.

  She hoped that she could find him and just pull him out without having to fight through everyone. Unlike before, hundreds of normal humans filled the area. They were all soldiers and she uood intellectually that they were different from civilians, but she didn’t like the idea anymore. Her brother was inside and she would do anything, even distasteful as if necessary. ‘It’s about time…’

  Yumi sed the camp a final time for any hint of her brother. Her feelings gave her nothing, once more. She began dropping in altitude. The final s also gave her the location that she would begin. ‘Time to do something reckless…’ Her chosen spot had three soldiers parked around a fire chatting. None of the words meant anything to her.

  Her haend out aimed down at the ground. Behind the men, a few objects floated up out of their sight. She flicked her firiggering them into a.

  Striking the back of the neck, the three men colpsed unscious in their seats. Yumi dropped down to the ground, billowing a light breeze away from her. She immediately flipped her head around cheg on all the surroundings. Above, she saw no one in the area, but checked again for certainty. Once secure, Yumi darted off to the nearby tent. ‘…brother…’

  The tent was smaller than some she found, though she didn’t know the significe of the size for any. She hoped that the smaller ones had more of a finding her brother. If necessary, she would search every tent. Nothing would stop her from finding him. She eled that fuel into her to wipe away aation that remained in her body. ‘…it begins…’

  Yumi slowly bent the fp until she got a view of the insides. ‘…nothing immediately…’ The search was still inplete. She looked around from her vantage point trying to find anyone, but saw nothing. Cautiously, Yumi threw opeent fps and stepped in. The er of her eye caught someoartled awake by her noise. She cast out her hand at the soldier summoning a barrier around them.

  The Atntean looked a little scared and fused. He shouted demanding an answer, but his voice did not make it out of the barrier. She never heard him. After he went ignored for a few seds, he pulled out his sword from o his cot and attacked the barrier. Only a small flicker of light bouhrough the green yer like a ripple. He quickly realized his futility after a few more attempts. However, the search finished already.

  Walking back to the exit, Yumi threw up her hand casually bsting an invisible force at the man through the barrier. The force slung him up against the inside of the dome and a moment ter back to the cot. His unscious body dropped the sword soon followed by the barrier. “Not here. One down…”

  Striding out of the tent with driven purpose, Yumi searched out for her hrough narrowed eyes. Her area still remained vat of new arrivals. She had more free time to search.

  The couple of tents ended in the same manner. One had an oct, the other not. She tinued her systematic search out only to meet face to face with a soldier. A female soldier this time, she leaned back a little surprised to find someohat she didn’t king the tent. Once she went through the mental process to uand she found an intruder, the woman tried to back away to draw her on. However, a force dragged on the woman and threw her through the fps of the tent. She colpsed roughly to the ground.

  Standing above the woman, Yumi looked down for a moment before knog her out. “That was close.” Yumi wiped away a little nervous sweat from her forehead. She wasn’t certain how much longer she would keep up the stealth. The eventual expected end would e.

  Yumi stepped through the tent in search of a new pbsp; While above, she tried to map out as much as she could. It was difficult to keep track of it all, but at least her sense of dire stayed long after her memory faded. ‘Where now…’

  A new sound of footsteps alerted her to an ining soldier. Another patrol she assumed. She shifted out of the light and moved around the tent keeping it between them. Watg over the fabric for the soldier to pass, Yumi waited in silenbsp; A sigh of relief came out of her mouth o seemed that she was safe again.

  However, wheurned around to resume a number of shadowed figures stared at her. She slid a step back suddenly surrounded. “Oh, hey everyone!” she cheerfully replied, raising her hand to wave at them.

  They all greeted her politely, fusing the moment further. The moment didn’t st as they all reverted to being serious. Swords drew against her.

  Yumi casually sliced her hand through the air. An arc flew from her bsting all of the soldiers away from her. She began to march away, not watg where they fell into tents and crates. However, the noise was enough to alert the immediate area of the camp. None knew what happened, but they all came to find out the trouble.

  A disappointed sigh came from Yumi. “I guess this is as far as I go. It begins now!” Multi-yered and segmented barriers erupted from Yumi to surround her. Wind whipped up around her body gathering up loose dirt from the earth. Spinning arouhe debris grew rger as the fairength. Waiting no further, she sent it all away from her in a circle dispelling soldiers from all dires. Following the attack, the wind built up again around her glowing green over so slightly.

  It drew into the sky like a pilr of torn wind. It sucked ihing near and cast away anything not. In the ter, Yumi stared out with narrowed features carved iermination. She directed her hand out at the ining group of fused soldiers. “e before me! All that would keep a sister apart from her brother!”