Ok... I might have lied. But not on purpose I promise.

Hahaha...... enjoy the chapter xD

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Looking through the room I just wondered about one thing.

"How in hell did they install such an amount of cameras and equipment at that location? I mean, if chose this room for a reason so how did they do it?"

Looking to the side the armored figure of Karen showed no signs of emotion. Her voice over the com sounded harsh.

"If I told you, you would get killed in a matter of seconds. There are some things that even I cannot openly give anyone that information."

That shut me up quickly, though I still had to ask.

"That bad?"

It was a simple question but Karen took her helmet of and revealed a pale face. Then she looked through all of us.

"I entrusted you six with information that would already mark me a traitor with the clan but there are some things that I cannot allow anyone to know. It has to do with powers out of our control so try never to openly ask this to anyone else ever again. How the clan does things is unimportant. They are just simply DONE."

With that she puts her helmet back on though all of had been shocked by her aggressive behavior.

"Ok, we have approximately three hours to get ready. The room we're currently looking at is only a few hundred meters away from this position. I want Chris and Ignar on the roof taking care of the main entrance. I want everyone important that walks into this building cataloged and reported to me. Liam, you will stay here for now. Keep an eye on the monitors for any changes to happen. The rest, check your equipment, we'll be working together with the personal squadrons of the Commander. You'll know it's them, they wear a tag on their arms and I doubt any of them will walk outside without military gear."

We nod at her orders and do as we're told. Chris' heavy steps resound over the roof as he slowly makes his way towards the edge. Afterwards they cover him with some kind of reflecting metal sheet that blends in with the concrete. Ignar takes his place next to him and I can know they're talking silently over a personal frequency.

The rest of us prepared our equipment over and over again.

I felt weird. I would probably face Lane and my old group again and even though I still harbored a certain amount of hate towards her I had calmed down considerably. I now had a new family. I wouldn't endanger the mission. The only thing I would give her was a quick death from a bullet.

My will was set. For now I would follow my Captains orders until the end. Before I knew it the time had passed and Liam called over for Karen.

"It's beginning Captain."

With only those words all of us charged inside to look at what would happen.

had remained on the table with an unchanging expression the entire time and even after a man in his 20ties walked in wearing jeans and a t-shirt. She barely seemed to notice.

The man had blonde hair barely touching his shoulders and light blue eyes. He eradicated an aura of greatness and power even through the monitors we were watching. I recognized him and the sharp breaths my comrades took confirmed my thoughts. The first one to arrive had been Arthus himself, leader of the "Arthus Welten". The same one that had deployed who had caused the New Hampshire massacre.

Talking about the devil. Clenching my fist I see a figure walking behind him. He was wearing a long cloak even inside of the building and hid his face. It was the exact same person I had fought before and the one that had tortured me.

CRACK!

Ey? I look down at chair handle I had grabbed onto and noticed that I had broken it. Luckily nobody seemed to have noticed and I quickly let go of it.

Behind the two of them was another face I only knew through briefings. Her eyes were only set upon Arthus, ignoring everything around herself. She had a dark brown pony tail and wore simple fitting clothes of the same type as the one she idolized.

As far as we knew her codename was . Her power was not of the offensive type but no one would be able to put even a scratch on her and her allies while she did not will it.

We doubted that he only brought those two with him but we did not know who else was outside or in the city.

"Alice, what's the meaning of this?"

His voice was surprisingly calm considering he faced one of the strongest espers we knew of. Besides me I can hear Liam talking to himself.

"So her names Alice, we've already gotten something out of this."

With a snarl Karen shuts him up so we can hear the rest of the conversation.

"Shut the fuck up Arthus. I've had enough of your shit, do you have any idea what you're causing? What problems I have to clean your mess up constantly?"

seemed insanely mad but Arthus only met her with a surprised face. Behind him shot a look filled with hatred towards her but refrained from taking any action.

"... We will wait for the others. I'm sure you've called all the big shots over."

"Do that. Just sit down and shut up for one goddamn second, I don't want any of your preaching inside here."

With that the three of them took a seat and silently talked in silence.

The next ones that walked inside -again in groups of three- were powerful espers from the HALO and the fallen.

The first group consisted of multiple members wearing Ski masks and goggles to cover their faces, though it was clear that two of them where male and one female.

Songe pointed at the female one.

"That's . She's missing a finger on her right hand."

I look closer at the picture and he was right. As such one had been identified, as for the rest we could not be sure.

The last group was lead by a woman with bluely dyed hair. We could only guess her age since she seemed timeless. She wore a long raincoat very similar to the one was wearing. Her name was and her gender had been a mystery for a long time. She could easily control water even on a molecular level. As such she was even able to break the molecules up into H2 and O2 and able to cause huge explosions because of it. Next to her was an old acquaintance of ours. looked older than when we had last met him but he still had the same expression. The last one was someone we did not know. An old woman seeming to frail to even walk in a straight line.

The instance they walked into the room glared towards Arthus and .

"Arthus. I didn't think we'd ever see each other again. Where it not for I'd already have you covering in front of my feet begging for mercy."

He did not react to her threat and simply gestured at her to leave him alone. Infuriated raised her hands seemingly ready to already attack him but before she could react appeared in front of her. Grabbing said limb.

"Don't. Just don't. After I'm done with you fucks you can kill each others as much as you'd like. No, scratch that. After you've told everyone what I'm about to tell you THEN you can kill each other off for all that's worth. At least then I'll only have to clean someone's mess up ONCE and not whenever any of you fucks up again."

Seemingly nervous backs of and sits down with her two followers. The three masked HALO members do the same not directing any words towards .

The next three that came into view made us gasp in surprise.

The one in front was a certain blonde woman we had seen before, though she actually wore clothes this time. Walking next to her was the red haired man that had fought with Rose before. The last one following behind the two was a rastafarian with grey brown hair. When we looked closer we were astonished to see that there was only two holes were his eyes should be. Though he walked with the same confidence as his comrades. Though he seemed more like a beggar concerning clothes.

"Alice, why have you called us? We normally don't come together like this, you know we don't like that."

snapped towards the speaking blind man.

" shut your dirty manipulative mouth. Do you have any idea what you've caused in other places? NO YOU DON'T! Sit down now."

Without saying anything else the woman and blind Rastafarian sat down in some of the remaining chairs. The red haired man on the other hand stood tall.

"Hey Alice, I don't care how you talk with the others but I won't let you just handle me like that."

We could clearly make out a twitching eyelid of . Then she shouted back at him.

" you too, sit down now or I'll make all your valuable blood freeze inside of your veins and throw you somewhere the sun doesn't shine."

The man's breath came out in short bursts and clouds of smoke gathered in front of him and we could make out frost covering different areas of the table. After ten seconds of holding her gaze he finally backed down.

"Fine. I'll listen to what you have to say."

Instantly everything returned to normal and he took his seat.

Behind me Karen talks in a soft voice.

"Only the Raiders are left. Let's see if they come in peace or if we have to intervene already."

Only seven minutes and thirty five seconds later she arrived. The first one to come in was Lane herself, still having that stupid long pink hair and walking inside as if she owned the place. It made me instantly hate her again. Behind her following closely was a man with short spiked hair. I only knew him from reports. His codename was and he seemed to be able to freely control his hair, whether it was still attached to his body or not.

The last one to enter the room was one of the two 'new' recruits we had heard of. Only distinguishable by their gender both of them had always wore long black coats and a white mask without any expression. It was not any different now. But we saw that the person was female, as such we could deduce that she was and esper with unknown power and rank.

Everyone turned around to Lane and even I could feel the hostility over the cameras that shot at the three newcomers. Lane though only sneered with disgust in her face.

"So the entire scum has gathered. I will make you pay for the crimes that you have committed."

With that multiple balls of fire appeared around her while the masked figure of slowly lifted off the ground. Karen herself got ready to give an engage order to us and the Commander further down probably was about to do the same when once more stepped in.

"You stupid girl. Cease this immediately. I have more important things to deal with that the stupid muttering of a crazy girl. But you're powerful enough that you at least have to listen to what I have to say. So. SIT. THE. FUCK. DOWN!"

Everything around the two of them seemed to flicker in intense heat and multiple members of the gathering held up their hands to use their powers. Then behind Lane stopped floating and poked Lane in the shoulder. They seemed to communicate through means we could not listen to but whatever they did Lane calmed down and after sending everyone a hatred filled glare she finally seated herself while and stood behind her.

In the end also seemed to calm down considerably and moved to the middle of the room.

"Haaaaaa. Thank you for coming all and thank you for at least not making a mess the moment you stepped inside of this room."

The double doors leading out of the room suddenly closed with a loud bang. Startling everyone safe for the red haired man, and Arthus. Then Alice started talking again.

"For now I have closed everyone off from the outside. We will talk now. About what every single one of you fucks did to the world. You are the most important and strongest members of the esper race. As such you fucks have a responsibility that you're clearly not fulfilling"

For now everyone seemed to calmly listen to what she was saying. We did not know whether they were afraid of or simply interested. Or both. But nobody interrupted her though Lane seemed close to attacking any moment and almost shouted at her.

"And you're here to preach at us? You? The killer of dozens and destroyer of entire landscapes?"

Alice turned towards her in a flash.

"I'm not here to preach, I'm here to fucking tell you how to use your power. Or didn't you know about what you were doing child!? Of course you don't, nobody of you can even fathom what you are doing when you're using your freaking power like this!"

Finally asked the question everyone was on the verge of shouting out.

"So what exactly are we doing Alice?"

Snapping around again glared at everyone of them before finally answering.

"You idiots truly have no idea."

Then with a sigh she looks at the ceiling and weirdly enough directly at one of the cameras in the room. It seemed as if she was staring directly at A3.

"You are destroying earth and some of you are even endangering the entire universe."