Mission 03: "Entry to the Agency"

Allesky took hold of the nearest knife she could grab and intentionally threw it to the masked guy but it was deflected so smoothly before the guy managed to catch the knife with his hand. He even played it in circles with his fingers not shifting his directive gaze towards Allesky.

Heart pounding in a state of fear along with the trembling of her body, Allesky has no opening to escape that she could only step aback being reminded that the young maid was still lying behind her.

The masked guy flicked a marble shooting it to Allesky and it penetrated into the refrigerator the moment Allesky dodged it swiftly after it was shot.

It also multiplied the anxiety in Allesky's mind when she rolled her eyes to see the marble just above the young maid's right shoulder where it was holed in the refrigerator.

"You have to come with me whether you like it or not, Miss~" Was the remark of the unnamed intruder and he shot off the knife aiming at the young lady before him.

In a blink of an eye, Allesky froze in place when she saw her hand in front of her face holding the blade of the knife as if she just easily caught it mid air.

The sudden action and impulse made her realize that there was something strange about her already and she could explain it not.

Meanwhile, the guy of no known identity standing before her traced a visible smile on his face not verily comfortable for Allesky to see.

"Can't you realize it yet? You're beyond your normal abilities. It's because we've detected you're positive. And specifically, the only one~" This guy spoke once more with his words even more confusing for Allesky to comprehend leading to her brows furrowing together.

"You've ingested a portion of the Zero Tonic from the ice cream you bought yesterday, Young Miss. Interestingly, you were positive with all your vitals and abilities enhanced and improved since last night." Added he, speaking with all the calmness of his voice as if he sounded so gently.

"Wait. Whatever are you talking about?" Was the response of the confused Allesky who could not keep herself calm.

"Hm. Again I am Agent Nickel but you could call me Nick. I need you to come with me whether you like it or not. Or I'll have to reveal your whereabouts to your father, Mister Quantum Zerclaire. We have gathered all relevant information about you. There's nothing to hide. So you would either come with me peacefully or suffer the consequences..."

It was as if her world darkened with the flashbacks of her bad memories in the care of her father that Allesky bit a portion of her lower lip letting go of the knife at the same time as it slipped out of her fingers falling down to the floor.

"Nick, Huh? Where will you take me?"

That mischievous smile retraced its curve on the masked guy's face before he escorted Allesky out of the mansion having her willfully surrendering herself to be brought to whatever agency he was mentioning about.

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"Chill, will you? It's not like I'm kidnapping you~" Nickel can be heard to have spoken while driving the car looking at the reflection of the young lady from the front mirror sitting at the back seat.

Allesky's gaze was full of tension looking rather doubtful than calm. Her arms were crossed over her chest in the same way were her legs one over the other. She never redirected her sight but only up front right where she could have her fixed and steady gaze at Nickel who only took a deep breath continuing on driving.

"Ksh~ Isn't this kidnapping enough?" Allesky retorted with her brow raising an inch that eventually ignited a light chuckle from Nickel which changed the atmosphere hovering between the two.

"This is just my mission. Don't take it personally... And we're finally here~"

The car they were riding in proceeded through a tunnel whose interior was dark enough to not see anything. Then all of a sudden, a line of bright lights from the road lighted up as if tracing a runway in an airport but at this point is more of a tunnel version.

This radiant display caught Allesky's attention for a matter of seconds as the sight was nothing like she had seen anywhere before. She immersed herself in the somewhat blinding lights on the road as they were moving on along until they managed to reach the exit of the tunnel from far ahead.

Right then, another strange display was introduced to Allesky upon seeing the path that they were driving on to be a pathway made of a long glass resembling a big pipe afloat in the air with golden rings segmenting it along the way. The whole structure gave off a vibe of a portal pathway to another dimension as it was somewhat beyond what Allesky's imagination could have pondered long ago and that which she only deemed possible in the movies she has seen.

It was unexplainable, mysterious, and awe-inspiring. It is one that could only exist in the television plays Allesky knew about but is now already right in front of her very own eyes.

"Ah~ Wait~ Where exactly are you taking me??" Allesky asked from her seat with her tone in apprehension the moment she realized her situation.

From the glass pipe pathway afloat in the sky, she looked down below and she could already see the houses, buildings, and roads as the car continued to maneuver its way until the other end of the glass pipe pathway that meets a blinding light upon entry through it.

At first it was blinding which forced Allesky to close her eyes against her will.

With the attempt to open them again after some while, her wonder increased that she subconsciously drew her face near the window of the car to behold the sight outside.

"What the-"

The car parked along with the other cars parking in the vicinity and the design and structure matched with all of them. It became a newly designed car as if it had transformed into one that is cooler and way better than normal ones.

"The car just now~ It's different! Who exactly are you?" Allesky could only ask in wonder as she pondered what exactly happened a second ago right when they entered the exit of the glass pipe pathway.

Nickel opened the door of the driver seat's part and went out that Allesky quickly followed after him and confronted him firsthand. She was filled with questions with her eyes painted in total confusion while glancing back and forth to the car.

"Ah~ This transformation? It's the agent thing, you know. We can't let the public see these cars in their true form so they camouflage as normal cars when in public. But if it's here in the agency's vicinity or in specific missions, this is the original design and look of the agency's cars. Love it??" Nickel replied with his somewhat calm demeanor and he even fixed his hair a bit seeing his reflections from the side mirror of the car.

Allesky only raised an eyebrow as her reaction. She still hasn't fully comprehended just what is this place in which she was brought into and whoever this Nickel is as well as what's with all the agency things he speaks about.

Beyond her questioning state, she was forced not to utter even a single word when Nickel suddenly placed his index finger over her lip causing her to stand in silence.

Nickel then retreated his finger and bade her, "Follow me."

"Hey, you!"

Nickel did not bother the shout that Allesky reverberated at him. With that, the young lady remained silent afterwards and chose to follow after him keeping her series of questions to herself.

The two have not yet gone further from the car when Nickel used his whole palm this time to cover Allesky's mouth and dragged her to hide behind the parked cars.

"Shh~ There's something odd around here~" Whispered Nickel with his observant eyes roaming around them and he gestured for Allesky to follow after him quietly and keenly towards a door.

Allesky rolled her eyes around finally figuring out what Nickel meant about the odd thing regarding the place even without her hearing anything more from the male agent.

"It's so quiet that it's deafening~ This is not right..." Nickel uttered softly still keeping his careful pace before pulling Allesky by the hand since she was starting to lag behind.

At that moment, there was this electric-like wave energy that sparked in Allesky's head along with the certainty of this presence of a threat from somewhere near them. This sensation triggered Allesky's greater consciousness and a higher level of alertness to her surroundings.

"A dangerous feeling or a threat? There's two of them..." Allesky subconsciously spoke out in a serious tone with Nickel shifting his attention and line of sight to her.

Nickel led Allesky to hide at a nearby post instructing her not to go anywhere and just remain hidden there before he left.

A while later when Allesky heard these clashing sounds. The sound of metals clashing against each other followed by this sound of a deafening system alarm.

The young lady dropped to her knees with her hands covering her ears right before she felt someone's presence coming towards where she is hiding at the moment.

In a blink of an eye, Allesky moved in a quick manner as if her reflexes had taken control of her body. She shoved the unidentified individual and dodged the attack in which she was almost caught by the collar.

Her instant action caused her to reveal herself and come out of hiding where she stood there and faced the unknown opponent.

It was a person with this costume closely resembling that of which is Black Panther except that it wasn't black but silver and the left eye was left unmasked revealing the person's sapphire-hued irises whose sight was fixated only upon Allesky herself.

There was something strange about the person although there was nothing that Allesky could better do but to position herself according to her instincts that caused her to be on defense. After which he sought for Nickel's whereabouts but he was nowhere to be seen nor spotted around her.

The unknown individual clicked a button on the left arm of its costume causing a coin to come out of it.

The coin was tossed in the air and, right at the moment it was caught by the hand, it stretched to a seven-feet long pole and was swirled by the mysterious masked persona.

Seeing it happen left Allesky in wonder with even her eyebrows raised that she could not help but ponder upon how it so happened. Her awareness only returned to her when her instincts alarmed her once more of its discernment for an attack.

With that, the masked persona used the pole and swirled it to attack. Allesky was agile enough to dodge smoothly as if she had the precognition of the way her attacker will move against her. She was indeed able to predict her opponent's every move but her physical body could not keep up with her sharp and strong movement of dodging and deflecting. This drained her energy and strength and gradually slowed her down a few minutes passed.

It was not until she was cornered between two parked cars and a wall behind her that she was inclined to refrain from her exhausting movements allowing her opponent to relax a bit and drew closer to her this time.

The masked persona took each step carefully towards Allesky creating a noise by hitting the other end of the pole of the ground. It was a sound like a threatening signal counting down to when Allesky would be attacked any moment now.

Seeing this, Allesky could only bite a portion of her lower lip along with the tightening of her fists on her sides.

In a short moment, she saw a scene. It was the second her opponent took the initiative to attack her already playing in her mind as if a premonition of what is to happen allowing Allesky to expect how to dodge it and counterattack.

When it really happened, Allesky dodged the way she saw it in her mind and she grasped the pole with her hand pulling it towards her to make the distance closer between them. Afterwards, Allesky used her elbow to attack the masked persona from behind the back with another attack that knocked down her opponent.

The pole shrunk back to a coin the moment the masked persona was down on the floor and Allesky stepped back being still wary of her surroundings.

Then there was another alert from Allesky's senses coming from behind her but she failed to dodge this time around. She received a strong force of a kick from her side that she flew right off where she stood after she felt it. She ended up hitting her back against a parked car that not only inflicted her pain but also took her strength. The pain of it stirred up her consciousness she could barely open her eyes.

There was no one around her nor in front of her but there was something strange in her state of vision. She saw this haughty image of a person that took her back to a memory when she tried using 3D glasses for the first time in a game center.

Before her stood a person in red figure as if she was viewing something from an AI computer and the mysterious person walked closer towards her.

She then figured out that it was a girl.

It even so happen that Allesky's vision glitches overtime causing the image of the person to disappear at some point as well. It dawned on her that she is actually facing an invisible person at the moment and this strange, mysterious ability only allows her to at least get a glimpse of the girl before her.

The image of the girl pointed her finger to Allesky gesturing a hand gun right before a streak of light that of an electricity paralyzed Allesky like that of a taser.

By then, Allesky lost total consciousness before the invisible girl revealed herself without being invisible anymore before she narrowed her unsatisfied look on her face at the unconscious young lady who already fell to the floor.

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Quantum Zerclaire - 45

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