The greenhaired alien - Inazuma Eleven

51

A shorter one, sorryy

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I stared at the boy in front of us. His eyes were completely emotionless, like an alien robot.

"Jordan? What the hell," Nathan said quietly after a long silence. Jordan smirked. "Ah yes, Jordan. That is how I revealed myself to all of you. The broken, little orphan, desperate for some appreciation. I thought it'd be hard to infiltrate into your little friend group, but you all just made it so easy. Pathetic really." My heart dropped, and I got nauseous. Was he kidding?

"You tricked us?" Mark's voice cracked when he spoke, something that didn't happen often. It made Jordan- no Janus smile again. "Obviously."

"Oh." This wasn't happening, it's not possible.

"No," I said after a while, "you didn't." This wasn't Jordan, this wasn't the team's friend, the cute teammate, and my boyfriend. It just couldn't be. Nobody acts that good.

Right? Maybe he was an alien and not a human. For all we knew, he had some ridiculous acting skills. I shook my head, I had to stop telling myself those things. Jordan was brainwashed or something, he had to be. But I couldn't get rid of the 'what if' thought.

"Janus, care to explain yourself?" Dvalin asked with raised eyebrows. For a moment I forgot the alien was there, or as he claimed, ex-alien. Unless of course, he betrayed us. Janus, who he now was, furrowed his brows when he saw the Epsilon captain. 

"Dvalin," he slowly said. He just glared at the green-haired alien. Zel and Dvalin shared a meaningful look. "What," I asked, "what is it?" Zel sighed and looked back at Janus. "No Master anymore? I really liked that title." I snorted and received death glares from all Epsilon members. 

"Of course not, you have betrayed all of Alius." There was a hint of fear in his voice. He continued talking, but I couldn't stop focussing on the purple glow in Janus' eyes. He almost looked insane. I inspected the pipes with the glowing purple running through them. It was the same shade as his eyes. Was the liquid in his body, or radiation maybe? I noticed that Jude observed the alien quietly with a stern face. I followed his gaze to Janus his left arm saw something weird. There was a spot of light skin, instead of his usual tan. Was he not Jordan then? He probably wasn't a robot, but what else could it be? Insane makeup skills perhaps, or one of those masks like in the movies. Maybe he was an alien shape-shifter. I laughed at my own thoughts and received some weird looks. Nobody said anything about it.

"Janus, what even is the point of this?" Mark asked. The alien smiled. I wanted to punch his stupid grin off of his face.

"To announce that you are, as Rhona always phrases it so nicely, screwed. We have all the information we need about the team." I noticed that he wore a mic in his ear. 

"Seems like you're sure that you're not some random alien then, getting information through an advanced airpod," I stated. His gaze hardened, and now it was my time to smirk. "I must say that this is a terrible attempt at deceiving us," Jude added, "I didn't expect such a poor performance from Alius." The rest of the team needed a second longer to realize what was happening.

"Well, they didn't have a long time to change their plans. Everything was probably built on the idea of having Jordan at Fuji," Dvalin explained. Janus didn't speak for a long time while we were discussing the things Jordan was going through.

"You won't find him," he suddenly said. "Even if you will, after weeks maybe, he won't be Jordan anymore. He'll be nothing but a shadow of his former self." I felt powerless. I wanted to break the guy's bones, cry and yell all at the same time. But instead, I just froze. After all, that wasn't going to help us. Unless we'd torture answers out of him of course, but nobody was going to let me. 

"I think I know what place he's in," Zel said suddenly with a look of horror on his face, "I just don't know how to get there." His expression was broken, I really wanted to scream now. How did Zel know it anyway?  I looked around and saw confused faces, everyone was thinking the same. 

"Janus please tell us," Kevin begged. That never happened before, Kevin doesn't beg, he says so himself. The alien eyed the forward with an unimpressed look. I sighed in disappointment. "Looks like we have to find him ourselves then," Mark said with a smile. Something about his happy grin was off, fake.

"Why would I let you?" the Jordan- wannabe asked. The purple in his eyes intensified, and I could hear Jack squeak. "Because we would really appreciate that?" I tried. 

"Tell them, creature," Dvalin ordered. Janus flinched, and everyone noticed. He was below Epsilon, I realized, he had to be from Gemini Storm. "Don't you want to save your captain," I asked softly. The alien clenched his fists. "I have been chosen for this task by father himself, I won't let him down!" I sighed, we weren't getting anywhere. 

"Where are you teammates," Jude asked with an indifferent tone in his voice. The Gemini player dropped his shoulders, but the fury in his eyes was still there. I wasn't sure if he was mad at us though, or at his fellow aliens. He for sure did have problems with emotions. 

Problems with emotions, that sounded familiar. And then I remembered something Jordan told us a while ago.

"Anyway, if you observe Diam, you realize that he can be a little aggressive. He also thought that Rhona caused your victory as a new player. He got mad and decided to attack you."

"Diam?"

Zel tilted his head. "Is it really you?" he wondered. I saw Janus' eyes transform. the pupils turned blue, the eyes smaller and his eyelids changed shape as well. Then his skin color changed too. Within seconds there was no Janus anymore, just Diam, and God did he looked awful. He had a blue eye and there were so many bruises on his legs, it was ridiculous. 

"Father chose me for this task, I'm doing this for him," he repeated again. "But why? Look at you, you're hurt. No father does that," I said without hiding the pity in my voice. There was another silence.

"I'm not doing it just for him," Dian admitted finally, "It's for the team. We'd be left alone if I managed to do this. But I failed, again." He stared at the ground. "You know, you could help us," Dvalin said. Diam desperately shook his head and started to tremble. "No, we'll all be punished, please, I don't want to be punished!" I got a nasty feeling in my stomach, this so-called father was horrible. 

"Walk away then." The person who spoke was Willy, and I didn't expect that at all. The little nerd had a determined look on his face, and we all looked at him in surprise. 

"Do you really want to be part of Alius? A place that destroys, hurts and murders?" The last word made Diam flinch."That's right, a school building crashed on a little boy, he was just playing basketball on the fields." I didn't know that, nobody did, judging by the looks we gave each other.

"The question is, do you want to be a criminal Alien puppet despised by the entire world, a villain? Or a hero perhaps, helping his friends and protecting the planet and the ones he loves?" Willy was a weird guy, but he could turn so heroic sometimes. I loved my little know-it-all friend.

"You're right." I wanted to cry in relief, but I couldn't. At least not yet. "I will point you the way, but that's all. I need to gather some people." Or guards, I thought by myself. But this was the only lead we had so far, we had to try it. For Jordan.