V2|N

After flying for not so long while following the instructions of the hostage insect, Morpheus reached a place that resembled a wasteland far away from barnet, in fact, it was already out of London.

'It's here...'  The insect said and struggled to move away from the grasp of his element output.

He looked to the front and furrowed his brows, if he hadn't been using the <Elemental Output: Stone> he might not have been able to detect it.

*RUMBLE*

In front of him, a metallic object that had been previously invisible finally appeared within his gaze.

It was a vehicle, one that belonged to a particular kind of group.

The police.

The Vehicle ceased floating and moved towards the ground, intending to land as he followed.

It was after landing that the door finally opened giving way for a beautiful silver-haired lady with her eyes covered to come out, she was entirely dressed in a black futuristic attire that shone with purple lights.

"Nice to meet you, Zekron..."

"V2..."

"You can call the current me, V2|N... I have been curious about you ever since you first appeared." The woman leaned against the vehicle and uttered, not really looking at him straight in the eye as she well... had her eyes covered.

"...?"

"The blackout, it was you, right?"

"..."

"I know because of that darkness, that mysterious darkness that covers you, it's the same one that appeared back then..."

"What do you want? state your intentions clearly, don't waste my time..."

"...  I see, you don't want to waste your time chatting with me... so, it's simple, you can work for me and in exchange, I'll give you everything you desire... so long as you follow my orders."

"Denied."

"... why? you should know by now, that your actions won't pass as discretely as you expected... you concealed your appearance yet I still managed to point towards you, what's stopping others from doing so too?"

"Nothing... and when they come, they will meet the same fate."

"You can protect yourself with those mysterious capabilities of yours, but what about those you hold dear?"

"I hold no one dear..." He furrowed his brows, if there is something he doesn't like is to be threatened, especially by a weakling.

"Really? What about Rachel and Sarah-!"

*THUD!!!*

She didn't even notice when her neck was already within his grasp.

"V2 whatever I advise you not to meddle where you're not called... my existence is not something you can phantom... whether you're a human, an AI or a robot... I don't care... I will destroy you if you mess around with my people..."

"L-Let me... speak..." She struggled to try to release his palm and to some extent, she even achieved it, surprising him.

It seems her 'enhancements' are no joke... she's way stronger than any other he has faced so far.

He released her neck and she fell, holding it slightly and coughing.

"I'm not... threatening you... I'm just advising you... right now, to others, they're your weakness, I can cover this weakness of yours... even if you don't follow my orders, so long as we form an alliance, I'm willing..."

"Why would you do that?"

"Because you're unique, just like me..."

"You're unique...? aren't you being narcissistic? now I definitely know you're human..."

"..." She held her neck and stood up straight once again, awestruck at the strength he displayed despite not having any enhancements.

"Are you willing to form an alliance with V2?" She asked once again, ignoring his previous question.

"What is your objective?"

"I seek revolution... to change this world..."

"To accomplish what...?"

"... I... don't know... something better... for humans."

???

How can you become one of the most infamous terrorist groups without a clear objective in mind?

"What about you, Zekron, what do you want to achieve?" She once again used his 'name'...

"Stop this planet's pollution, recover it's vitality... that's my objective... I want information... V2, what exactly are you humans doing to destroy this planet in such a swift manner...?"

"Do you not consider yourself a human...?"

"Answer me..."

"If we're going to be allies... we have to be equal..." She moved ahead and only stopped when they were in very close proximity... slowly raising her robotic hand and touching his chest.

"I will answer your questions but in exchange... I want a favour."

"My favours can be quite expensive." He took her roaming robotic hand and held it in place.

"How expensive is the information you want? ask it and I shall judge..."

"I already told you... what are you humans doing to destroy the vitality of this planet? tell me the location of these devices or organisations so that I can destroy them."

"... very expensive... you're asking me to give you information that in your hands could lead to the end of civilisation as we know it...? perhaps even one of your favours won't be this expensive, Zekron..."

"Your call..."

"... I will think about it... meanwhile you can also think about the terms of our alliance, I'll cover your back and in exchange... you will cover my back, it doesn't sound like a bad deal, right?" The lady say inside the car and switched on the radio.

"Reports about an assault of the V2 group against a lorry in Walthamstow, high alert... officers must report immediately to the scene!"

When he heard that he furrowed his brows, the V2 group?

"It seems those troublemakers from V2 are causing trouble, Zekron... I'll have to go and arrest them~ it was a pleasure to meet you, if I want to contact you... I have my ways... if you want to contact me, you also know who V2|N is..."

Having said those words, she started her vehicle that immediately camouflaged and flew away.

'V2, huh... this world is really quite interesting... they have such an elite group like this one.'

With only enough divinity in his core to use another two tier 1 speels, he decided to move about before going straight to barnet while thinking of something interesting that he had never thought of before.

'Invisibility huh...'

Perhaps he could achieve that with the light laws.

**

**

"You have been doing well, Sarah."

"Ah... thanks... it's just cutting vegs, granny..."

"No, really... you haven't burned anything so far..."

"..."

It's almost the end of the day, today, a Saturday... one of the days that's usually the least active for them, she had a total of twenty customers... following Morpheus' example, she first cooked for the vagrants and the needed people, giving them a single soup meal in exchange for causing a 'conmotion'... this is something she could do leisurely due to the fact that they still had stockpiled food that Morpheus got, but... even then she was determined to follow up with this 'culture'.

Because she thinks it feels nice to feed those that are hungry.

Still, just as efficiently and also perhaps due to Sarah's new neon around the stall, they had more customers than any other Saturday.

When the people would get outrageous, Sarah was strong enough to counter them surprising her grandmother who all along didn't know she was the fighting type.

She believed Sarah got the enhancements just to look cool, nothing farther from the truth.

As they took care of everything to go back Sarah glanced at her grandmother in bewilderment, they had already taken everything and yet she is still standing there.

"Granny?"

"We have to wait for Morpheus..." She said kindly, expecting the young man to come any time soon.

"But... okay... he might go straight to the house you know?" A part of her didn't know if he would really come back again, she thinks he's hiding something... with that strength why would he bother to attend some stall with some granny? initially, she thought he had some kind of ill intentions but... why? he had only helped so far and even bothered to teach her how to cook.

He might have just found someone to pity... and at any moment he might just disappear, that's what she thought... not aware that the thought didn't sound to appealing to her.

"No... he always helps me take the stall saying that it's too heavy for me... such a cute and dependable young man, Sarah... you should try to get in his good eye." The grandma immediately began her operation considering that she has a small gap before the sweetheart comes back and helps them.

She has faith that he's going to come back, he promised.

"... I'm still supposed to have a boyfriend you know?" The girl moved her head away with her bionic hands inside her pockets, a boyfriend she's likely going to break up with supposing he lives... she will know next Monday when it's time to go to school.

"Yes, and I too had one long ago, but you see now?" The granny giggled and placed her bionic hand on her cheek.

"...?"

"Now I don't have any~"

"..." For some reason, she heard that not like the cute hummings of a grandma but rather... like the recollections of a psychopath.

'Are you telling me to kill my boyfriend? is that it!?'

...

Just as expected Morpheus came back right at the moment when they usually depart, as punctual as a British.

"Oh, you're here sweetheart~" Rachel who had started to have doubts immediately rejoiced and moved her gaze all around his body, trying to see if he was injured or anything took place, he looked the same.

Sarah did the same but... she also had some other thoughts as she did so, 'You look like a hunk with those clothes but... you need 'new' clothes...'

The beauty wondered how she was going to introduce the notion to him as she blushed slightly, 'Hey! let's get you some new clothes!' or something like that... for some reason she who could easily get any boy she wanted with her beauty and the racks, didn't feel as confident.

The fact that she had tried to kill him in his sleep the other day also didn't make things easy, as much as he doesn't seem to care, she does.

"Rachel, didn't you say yesterday that you had some things to do? you didn't do it because of the volume of customers." He asked as the three of them made their way to the house.

!!!

"O-Oh... indeed but, don't worry sweetheart, it's just paying some bills, I can do it on Monday..." She only needed to go to the bank to pay some bills, nothing that she couldn't do later... with the high volume of customers that they're having and that promises to increase... how could she bother to do such a meaningless thing rather than cook?

"Can't you do it with that chip of yours?" He furrowed his brows slightly, does she even need to go to the bank at all?

"Oh, deary… I can't evade taxes that way~ I pay with cash I claim comes from pension~" For some reason she didn't feel ashamed at all when telling him this cash in hand is cash in hand… now or hundreds of years ago, a hundred years to the future too, likely.

"…"

'Guess this world has its ways…'

"Why don't we go after I finish school, granny? I'll accompany you, and you can also come... I will get you some new clothes." Sarah bit on her lips and squeezed those words out.

She almost wanted to kiss her granny's feet, she introduced such a convenient preposition!

"I don't need new clothes, I don't like that shiny neon stuff, it dirties my eyes..." He spoke with clear disdain about those clothes as he left the stall to the side of the entrance.

'W-What are you, a god?!' It's the first time she hears someone saying that the 'filthy light is staining their eyes'.

Who doesn't like neon!? It's cool!

Still, she wouldn't give up.

"You don't need to get neon clothes if you don't want you but... with that attire of yours you're calling for too much attention, where do you think you are, the medieval era? moreover, you haven't changed those ever since I first saw you, that's dirty!"

"... this girl."

Rachel couldn't help but giggle in acceptance, indeed, he's been having the same clothes over and over, and he also hasn't taken a shower, how is that acceptable?

She was rather surprised that despite all this he always looks pristine and clean... this young man's identity is truly a mystery.