It was like she went to a medical checkup at the hospital. Many wires and tubes were being put on Jody and

a continual Beep sound in the background.

Next to her was a monitor showing things such as her heartbeat, blood pressure, temperature, brain function, Nervous system, and more.

“ Please put this on.”

The physician gave her the oxygen mask.

“Why do I need this?”

She asked Vega, the Indian scientist, standing behind the physician.

“ When Gargantuan cell is eating each other, you will be extremely exhausted. Thus, you need a lot of oxygen.”

“ Normal air isn't enough?”

“ Yes. Normal air isn't enough. Unless you want to risk.”

He replied.

Then Vega's henchman brought him a suitcase. It was so outstanding because the color was solid black with a white text written “ RED-Gc0 ” on it.

Seeing the word Red, Jody immediately knew.

The thing inside was Syd's Gargantuan cells.

“ That's his cells? ”

She said.

“ He already told you? Good. It'll be easier.”

Vega put on the gloves.

“ Hopefully.”

Jody replied, even she was still anxious.

*Crick*

The suitcase was opened.

Inside was a small syringe in size of a middle finger, surrounded by a thick gray foam, Inside the syringe was a Dark-Orange liquid. Although it didn't look so grand or monumental, the way Vega treated it shown her that this tiny thing is the real one.

While Vega was preparing the syringe, Jody asked him.

“ What do you think I'll become?”

“ No one knows. The ability of the Elementalist changes by generations. But the principle of their abilities remains the same.”

“ Like?”

“ Take a look at Syd. He's the fire. The principle is the ‘Red’ flame he summons. But the ability is to annihilate everything even the ‘time’. The earlier generation of ‘The fire’ is the general of the Nazi army. His flame was Red too, but the ability was way different.”

“ Which is?”

“ His fire could melt everything single thing. It's not like an ordinary fire because its lowest temperature was 5,000 Kelvin.”

“ That's... The same temperature as the sun...”

“Now you see the differences? Both of them have Gargantuan cells, both of them are the Fire. But their abilities are incomparable.”

Vega shook his head,

“ For yours, there's no report The Wind user can do fantasy things like that. It tends to more like you unlock your full Ability potential but who knows?”

“.......”

“ Who is the earlier “Wind” ?”

“ You can read that later.”

Jade tapped on the screen, suddenly a new document has been sent into Jody's phone.

As she opened it... there are so many things being written on pages.

The headline of the document file was “Wind” and followed by a weird set of numbers and characters, guess it's the code for something.

Jody kept staring at the phone until she gazed her eyes up to Jade.

“ Did all of them work for ‘Thrak’ ?”

“ ‘Most’ ”

Jade said,

“ Thrak has been gathering the elementalists for generations. If we don't do it, the world can not remain balance.”

“ What about those who refuse?”

Asked Jody.

“ It depends on what they'll do. If they remain silent and keep on their lives, We watch over them. But if they don't and be a rebel, then, they need to be annihilated.”

“...To remain the world's order?”

“ That's what we've been doing.”

“.........”

“ How much you guys are getting paid here? ”

Asked Jody.

Jade twisted her eyebrows.

“ You're interested?”

“ Just asking.”

As Jody replied that back, Jade chuckled.

“ It's classified.”

The syringe was ready. Vega brought it near her arm.

But before that, he rubbed the cotton pad moist with alcohol around Jody's skin.

“ It's like when I took a vaccine last year.”

Vega then put the cotton pad away then injected the Catalyst into Jody's arm.

The liquid was flowing from the syringe tube into her arms.

“ Yes. But it'll hurt a little bit.”

“ I'm old enough for the syringe.”

“ Not the syringe.”

Jody was pulled back as he said that.

What?

Too late, because a sudden heat had risen within her entire body.

“ Hggg---?! ”

Inside her body, Jody's gargantuan cell is acting as a magnet.

Her cells were releasing the Blue energy. They instantly rushed towards the newcomer from the outside with a mad speed, then they started to consume those outsiders by the Phagocytosis method.

As fast as a chemical reaction, Syd Barrett's Gargantuan cell was continually getting eaten like a pray.

This resulted in Jody an extreme level of heat and pain.

Her throat suddenly felt dry, her shoulder felt like they're being pressed, her entire body felt like it was being squeezed and about to be exploded.

Jody tried her best to remain calm and press down the pain she's going through.

Every number and rate on the monitor screen increased drastically.

Right now she already understood why she needed the oxygen mask.

Because she seriously couldn't properly breathe, if she didn't wear them, she would have been knocked out.

“ That's right. Bear a little.”

Vega always swapped his sights between Jody and the screen, the physicians around Jody treated her like a professional. They prepared things for the next steps and also looking after Jody Johanson.

Another wave began to hit.

This time a sudden headache strikes, Jody felt like she was going to fade but she fights it. She wasn't going to surrender.

The intense blue auras have been released from Jody to every direction in the room, The tables are shaking as it passed by.

Everyone around Jody could feel the hazardous energy from her.

Suddenly, The physician taking care of Jody started to cough.

*Cough* *Cough* *Cough*

Vega and Jade gazed their eyes at him, but then... The other staff also did the same thing.

*Coughing in the background*

“ What the-?! ”

The coughing was going on and on.

Then... Vega started to feel the change.

Because he feels like he needs to inhale more...out of nowhere...

!!!!!!!!

Vega was the first person to know what is happening.

He quickly turns to the guards, covering his mouth and nose.

“ BRING THE MASKS! THE MASKS! QUICK! THE AIR HAS BEEN DRAWING OUT OF OUR LUNGS! ”

He shouted, then coughed.

Same as everyone.

The well-trained guards did their jobs perfectly as the order had been given.

They quickly rushed into the staff, then wore them an oxygen mask.

“ GUH! *Gasp* *Gasp* *Gasp*.....”

Vega was not different from the others.

He quickly breathed in the fresh air given from the mask to replace the lost one inside his lungs.

Jody holds the steel bar tightly, grinding her teeth with a painfully moaning, reflecting that she's in a torturous situation.

The blue aura got bluer, the documents or small objects started to shake, then... Finally...

Out of nowhere, A forceful wind was summoned within the room.

Every object is all flying around, crashing against the wall, some colliding with each other.

Vega, Jade, and the others needed to hold their oxygen masks tightly and covered their faces with their arms because the wind is flowing insanely in this room. So insane that the other 2 guards need to get to Jody from behind and tried shaking her body and pressed her down to call back her consciousness.

“ AAAAGGG----!!!!!!!!! ”

Jody randomly grabbed the guard's arm, moaned.

She squeezed his arm hoping it'll help her release the pain.

Inside the body, If Jody cells are blue and Syd are Red, even the cells were still eating each other but there's not many left now until...Nothing left.

The Red cells completely vanish among the Blue cells.

Consequently, The forceful wind in the room has finally come to stop.

Jody released her hand from the guards, sweat dripping down her body.

The physician wiped Jody's sweat out of her brow with shaking hands.

The numbers on the screen slowly decreasing back to normal.

The steam from her gasping stuck around inside the oxygen mask.

The physician brought the bandage and wrapped around the injected spot.

“ *Gasp*... This is not just a little...”

Said Jody, receiving drinking water from the physician.

“ Wait... Syd didn't tell you?”

“ Tell what?”

“.... Oh....”

Vega smirks,

“ He didn't tell you that by injecting the cell in a body, It will be very painful?”

“ *Gasp*... No?”

She replied.

Suddenly, Syd Barrett's showing his middle finger while making a troll face appeared in Jody's head.

She chuckles. Because she knew she got played by him.

Vega gazed to his side.

Seeing the numbers finally went back to normal in just a short amount of time, It surprised Vega and other staff around.

“..... What?”

Asked Jody.

“ This is weird... Very weird... You're quickly adapted to the change... The graphs already go back to normal...I thought you would take a rest a little bit longer.”

“ I'm used to this sort of torture. The ‘Swapping Technique’ Syd taught me was as painful as this.”

“ Oh... The swapping technique...”

Vega quickly got the answer.

He knew the existence of the swapping technique.

To master it, the ladder she needs to climb is torturous. But he heard Jody can finally achieve the process even the swapping time is not so long as his.

“ Do you feel the change?”

“.... I don't know... I feel...normal...”

The physician helped Jody get down from the bed.

“ Can you stand?”

“ I'm good.”

She replied to the physician.

“ Do you feel anything weird?”

“ No....”

“ Want to take some rest before moving on?”

“.... Yeah.... Would be nice.”

Jody replied Jade.

Vega then walked closer with an iPad, took off his oxygen mask.

“ We didn't expect you to pull the air out of our lungs and summon a typhoon into our place.”

He said while gazing back at the crashing lab tools in the background.

“ Sorry. I didn't intend to do that.” Replied Jody.

“ It's a reflex. You did it without knowing. ‘Just like him’. Seems like the effect after receiving an injection can't be predicted at all.”

“ ‘Like him’? (Syd)”

“ Yes. Except he's running around like a dog.”

Vega showed the video footage in the device.

It was Syd Barrett, 2 years ago. He's been receiving the injection just like Jody has.

[ AHHHHH!!!?? WHAT THE FUCK AAAAAAAAAHHHH.... FUCK!!!! FUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!!!! DO YOU THINK THIS BITCH ASS, STUPID PUSSY ASS CELLS CAN DO ANYTHING TO ME???? DON'T BE FUNNY!!!!! I DON'T FEEL ANYTHING AT AL--- AHHHHHHH ]

It was like as Vega said, Syd ran around and was cursing like a mad man.

Somehow, to Jody, seeing such a cocky person like him trying to act like he's cool was pretty hilarious.

“ Just him being him.”

Jody chuckles.

“ If you feel like you are ready to continue. Tell me. The recovering time is up to a person, I assumed.”

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Jody was reading the documents about the earlier Elementalist on her Ipad while she's taking a break.

The information was quite interesting which its record is rewind back to the Romans.

Although this line of elemental power is not as outstanding as the fire, Jody catches a pattern that ‘The Wind’ is a kind of silent danger ability.

While she's considering, she realized 15 minutes had passed.

Gazing up, the physicians and staff were cleaning the mess Jody's storm had done.

An idea popped up in her mind.

“.......”

Jade felt a wind flowing pass between her shoulders, suddenly, the scattering papers on the floor and every object lighter than that were flowing in a spiral, amazed the staff around there, before they all stopped in the middle and landed in order.

Needless to say, Jade knew who did that.

She turned to Jody.

The girl looked like she had figured out something.

“.... Wait a second....You said when I was injected, I summoned a typhoon?”

“.......”

They both turned to Jody.

“... Yes....”

“ And also tried dragging airs out your noses?”

“ Why?”

Jody didn't reply but instead, she asked them.

“ Can we go on the test now?”

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At the practice range.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The target dummies were flying away by Jody's air bullets.

“ Just what I thought... It seems that the Air-bullet is getting a lot of buffs...”

Jody walked closer to the shot dummy.

The air bullets created a bigger hole and more severe damage than they used to do.

This surprised Jody a lot, she began to feel that something in her body was upgraded.

“.... It was my stamina...”

Said the girl to Vega, “ I can do things that earlier consume lots of my energy without getting exhausted easily...”

“.... Then let's demonstrate. If what you said was true or not.”

Said Vega.

Then all people around Jody put on the oxygen masks, except her.

Jody walked away from where target dummies were laying.

Then she started to focus and used her ability to them.

Not for long, every scientist and guards around there felt a forceful wind passing through them to the range, the wind was very powerful that the scientists need to hold their lab coat and their equipment tightly so as Vega and Jade.

Not only the dummies started to float, but every heavy object such as chairs, ammo boxes, and heavy guns began to float too.

And they're all shifting right and left as Jody desires. They even moved in a spiral when she wanted to.

“ Aero telekinesis...”

Vega said, “ Just like what she did to those papers....”

After that, all the objects which are floating were crushed into each other, not for long, the dummy exploded.

Boom!

Because Vega knew that inside the target dummy is nothing but the air.

He can summarize what he saw in just a second.

“ Air pressure generation...”

The next step is creating a storm.

The atmosphere around the shooting range draws many interests from other people around there.

Because a “Cyclone” was summoned in the middle of the field, It quickly destroyed everything around there.

“.....?! ”

Suddenly...

Jody coughs out... She's choking.

“.... ?!?!?! ”

She can't breathe properly.

So...she stopped, the cyclone slower the spin before it faded and disappeared, returning the normal air to the shooting range again. Leaving huge destruction of the range's equipment scattering all over the floor.

Jody couldn't believe her eyes either. But something more important is that she felt that her lungs were being squeezed badly.

“........”

The physician approached her and gave her the oxygen mask.

She's gasping, but also, beginning to understand it.

(... The ability even pulls out the air from my lungs when I'm creating a storm...)

She thought.

“ What's wrong?”

Asked Vega.

“.... Nothing.... Just discover that when creating a storm, it drags the air from my lungs too.”

She replied.

Jody's hands were shaking because of the unexpected air pulling, however, the rest is still fine.

“... If this was my previous self, I would have been laying down on the floor, gasping...”

She said before turning back to Vega.

“ I can easily make people deaf all at once by controlling the pressure inside their ears...or kill them by dragging the oxygen out their lungs...”

“ But you wouldn't do it.”

Vega replied, taking out the oxygen mask.

“ This power is too dangerous...”

Said Jody.

“ Always has been. That's why we need to keep an eye on you.”

Jade said to her, “ The higher-ups will consider this as good news.”

“ Don't you guys afraid If I would use this ability in the wrong way?”

Jody decided to ask them straightly.

“ Then what do you think that makes us decide to inject the cells into you, Jody Johanson?”

Being asked back, Jody was cleared.

“ Because we've been keeping an eye on you for a long time since the first day “Red” had reported. And you have proved yourself to be worthy to risk.”

Said Jade.

“ The complete pack of Air manipulation... That's OP.”

“ Let me have a test on it for a bit longer...”

Jody requested.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Crash!

*** Storm sound ***

The chaotic sounds were running in the background. It was mainly objected colliding with each other at a full speed.

Half of the shooting range has been covered by the gray mist, more precise, a mini hurricane.

Targets being continually blown away by the forceful air bullets. Both one by one and many at once up to the number of Jody's fingers she's pointing at a time.

After being satisfied with the result.

Jody stopped the trail.

The typhoon began to cease, the gray mist faded away again.

“.......”

“ Imagine if a person is getting all that...”

Jody turned back to the team of Vega.

“ That's right. But -”

Vega argued,

“ Your ability, when you began to go aggressive, The detector detected the Air around the range had been randomly drawing towards you in maniac...which means...”

“..... Whoever is closing to me...will not be able to breathe. Even myself...”

“.......”

Vega nodded.

Jody could know this by seeing all the people around her was wearing an oxygen mask.

“ But If I used a bit of my power... It would be fine... I guess...”

This is the fact she knows from the demonstration.

An oxygen mask is not that necessary if she used her ability in calmness and composure.

However, It'll be on the other hand if Jody tried to do something aggressive or go violent. The mask will be needed.

Because she cannot control her ability not to pull out the air from the lungs of individuals including herself.

“ Congratulations. On that.”

Vega said.

“ Hey... Vega... There's something I've been questioned...”

“ Yes?”

“ What happens if you injected the Gargantuan cell into people that are not the Elementalist? Will they be upgraded?”

“....... That's a very good question. But... No. It's not. Gargantuan cell, If not living in the body of Elementalist like you. It'll die. Trust me, we've tried.”

“....... I see...”

“ Time for putting your information into the server. You may need to continue on a little bit more tests. What name do you want for an Alias? ”

“ Alias? ”

“ Yes. Like Toshi, we call him ‘Joker’. Roxxy, ‘Ice Cube’, Syd… ‘Red’… ”

“.......”

“ Does it have any rules or?”

“ Just don't make it too long and cringe.”

“......”

Jody quietly considering before a name popped up in her head.

She then gazed up too Jade.

“ Air born...please.”

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An hour later.

Jody had just taken a break in her room after going through a lot of field tests with Vega and the scientist's team.

There's more in the evening. But this is ber free time for now. Because using too much energy won't good for herself, we don't know what's gonna happen, the physician suggested.

At this moment, She carefully scrutinized the documents about "The Wind" for a long time...

After finished it all.

It seems that from the record, the previous users of this ability she had has mostly been female. Of course, there's male too but from the big picture, the woman was a lot more.

Are sexes relate to types of abilities? She wondered.

But no one can answer that. These were all accessible sources she was allowed for now.

However, Jody quickly ignored that ridiculous doubt.

Her lips went a bit curve up. A small, calmly grin had been shown secretly on her face.

To be thinking that Syd Barrett's cells would have given her this much of ability's growth. She couldn't help but sincerely thankful to the cell's owner.

Gazing up to the watch, It's been passed an hour. Suddenly, she remembered something she had in a mind but didn't have an opportunity to ask Jade.

Jody quickly raised from the bed and got out of the room.

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At Jade's office.

She's writing a report about Jody's ability demonstration to the higher-ups. Suddenly, the electric doors notified that there's someone outside wished to enter the office.

“ Enter.”

Doors automatically opened. Revealing Jody Johanson.

“ What is it, Jody Johanson?”

“ I had just realized some important matter. It's not a big deal but just a little request.”

Said the girl.

“ A request?”

Jade paused from the laptop.

“ Yes. I've heard that Elementalist has many special privileges as they're under the control of Thrak, do it?”

“.......”

Jade gazed at her with unreadable eye sights.

“ Yes. It's true. However, you've yet to affiliate with our organization. But as long as your request does not go beyond my authority, I'm willing to accept the task.”

“ Can you grant me permission to enter the information of every teammate I know?”

“.......”

“ Why you want to know? ”

“ Just my curiosity. I want to study my teammate's ability in deep detail, that's all. Can you do it?”

“......”

Jade took her time thinking, but not for long, she proposed with the new one.

Jade turned back to her laptop.

“ Sure...I can give you that.”

Truthfully, Jody has a right to know about the deep detail. Because she almost died so many times working with all of them.

“ ....... ”

“ Thanks.”

After Jody left the office, Jade was still staring at the back of the girl.

She did know the real reason why Jody asked for a request, but she intently chose to look over it instead.

(...What an inquisitive girl...)

She thought.

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Getting back to her room, Jody didn't waste time. She clicked the file opened and started reading the information she just got, Mickey Mannix, Toshi Ishii, Roxxy Barrett, and most importantly, Syd Barrett.

Jody started with Mickey Mannix.

[ Confidential ]

Mickey Mannix : Alias: Electrik.

Gender: Male

Status: Alive

Age: 18

National: Israel, german.

Ability: Electricity manipulation. Can generate an electric current within any conductors. Self-transformation into electric current. Generate the electric field. May lead to the Magnetic field.

Ability tier: Dangerous.

Medical record : ( A very long texts)

Weakness: Non-conductor materials.

Relatives: None.

Record: … ( Texts )

With Mickey's info, Jody was surprised that their ages were the same, and was a little shocked about his life record but not so much. Maybe because Sera had told her his life story a long time ago.

Among all members of the group, Mickey has the worst life in all of them.

He has no one, plus he'd been abused in various ways by a mental sickness mob's daughter for years.

She respected him in the part that he can manage to retain his sanity she couldn't even imagine what she'd be if it was her instead.

Then, her eyes caught an interesting label of information she had never thought it should be written here.

[Be compatible with]: Red, Joker, Ice Cube, Deadman Denji.

“ Compatible? ... Get along?”

She was quite surprised.

So this means in each mission, Thrak is not only concerned about each agent's ability but also how well they get along with the selected colleagues.

This ‘Get along’ thing doesn't suggest that it needs to be their personalities.

It also means the “Get along” of their abilities as well.

[ Confidential ]

Toshi Ishii : Alias: Joker

Gender: Unidentified.

Status: Alive

Age: 17

National: Japanese.

Ability: Disguise. Appearance manipulation.

Ability tier: Hidden Gem.

Medical record: None.

Weakness: Disguise can be exposed by water.

Relative: None.

Be compatible with: Red, Electrik, The Wall, Notorious, BlackJack, Deadman Denji, Rosaline.

Jody only knew the first two, the others are Thrak's agents she didn't know.

Then as she came to his record, as known as a brief history of what he had been through, It caught up her eyes.

“.......”

It was very interesting info about this Japanese boy she read.

“..... Hah, I finally understand why she acts so cold towards him.”

[ Confidential ]

Roxxy Barrett : Alias: Ice cube.

Gender: female.

Status: Alive

Age: 15

National: Australian, Thai.

Ability: Necromancer, aka Ice manipulation.

Ability tier: Dangerous.

Medical record: None.

Weakness: The Ice will melt in a short period after being summoned. The strength of the ability depends on the user's mood. The more stable the mood, the more powerful it becomes.

Relative: Syd Barrett.

Be compatible with: Red, Electrik.

Record: ( Texts )

Because the record was just a brief, Jody already knew most of them from Roxxy's mouth. So, no surprise.

And finally.

She put down the three of the documents on the table, there is another one she hasn't opened yet.

“.......”

She felt a little bit excited to open the last person's info.

[ Confidential- TOP secret. ]

Syd Barrett : Alias: Red

Gender: male.

Status: Alive

Age: 17

National: Australian, Thai.

Ability: ELEMENTALIST, THE FIRE.

Ability tier: Elementalist.

Medical record: Heart surgery.

Weakness: The ability behaves as a fire, thus, could be limited by manipulating the fire triangle to stop the burning. However, the severe effect of the ability, Time demolition, still needs to be treated with high caution.

Relative: Roxxy Barrett.

Be compatible with: Joker, Electrik, Deadman Denji, Ice Cube, Cadence&Cascade (Exanimate).

As she had expected.

Looking into his info, she finally gained something new.

“ Syd has been in heart surgery?”

She was quite surprised. Syd never told her before, nor anyone around him.

She's been living under the same roof as him for months but she had no chance to get to see him without a shirt. Because she never went out of her room while Syd was still showering. So it's fair enough for her not to know.

“.......”

Many things were going on inside her head.

Jody was planning for the next move to gain more of the information to full fill her curiosity about this boy she's interested in. But had to be stopped as she spotted a strange name appeared on the paper.

“ Cadence and Cascade... Exanimate... So this person is dead. ”

But that wasn't the point. The point is, Jody was not feeling well whenever her eyes gazed passing through this name.

It was like it has drawn a lot of attention from her.

Why didn't they split into two?

Cadence... And cascade?

Jody noticed that every alias was split in the compatible section. But why not with this one?

“ Syd is not a person who'll easily get along with others well... To think that there's someone other than them (the team)...”

Her fingertip touched on the alias.

Jody glared at the name.

“.......”

“ If my sense was right... I want to know more about this person and Syd.”