Almost Invincible (Invincible SI) ENG

20: Curse

20: Curse

Once the selected members were announced, everyone who had failed was escorted out of the venue. The injured were attended to as promised, although fortunately, the most serious injury of the day was a couple of broken bones.

The public announcement would be made the following day, where the new team would be introduced to the world, but for now, they needed to get to know each other.

Soon, everyone was gathered in one of the conference rooms at the Pentagon.

Yasuka looked around the place with some nervousness; it was her first time in a conference room like this. In fact, it was the first time she had been in such an "official" place. She had heard of the Pentagon before but never imagined that one day she would be inside it.

Her previous ordinary life seemed a little further away each day, which made her a bit depressed, but part of her was also somewhat excited. If you took away the constant danger of the last six months, it was actually pretty cool to have "powers" or whatever the thing on her left wrist gave her.

"Alright, now that we're all gathered, I think we need to discuss several important things," Invincible spoke. Yasuka looked at him, paying attention. Although she had no control over her actions when she let the dark influence inside her emerge, she could still feel what it felt and, in a sense, see what it saw.

The interaction they had after she successfully passed her test made her a bit embarrassed, making it difficult to look him in the face. At the same time, she realized why the man in front of her had called himself "Invincible." When the dark influence took control of her body, it awakened an ability in her that allowed her to sense the strength of others. When their eyes met during the previous test, Yasuka instantly knew that Invincible was dangerous, extremely dangerous, so much so that her dark side longed to fight him.

Of course, Yasuka didn't want that, so she forced herself to regain control and step back, which was quite difficult.

"Shouldn't we be discussing this at our headquarters? Wait, do we have a headquarters?" A girl with short blonde hair spoke. Yasuka remembered that she was the first to participate in the trials, Throwbolt or something like that.

Invincible looked at her and answered her question.

"We will have one; that's one of the things we need to discuss, and I think it's a good point to start with. Robot, if you could." The one called Robot nodded, and a projected screen unfolded over the conference table, showing an extremely detailed three-dimensional Blueprint.

Yasuka looked at the projection with interest. The futuristic aspect was the most obvious, but she could also see many small details; this had clearly been carefully designed.

"Speaking of our headquarters, the GDA considered letting us take over the old Guardians' place, but we felt it wouldn't be appropriate. We're not the Guardians of the Globe; we're a new team, and we need to work with that in mind. That's why Robot and I designed this proposal."

"Wait, you mean they'll build a new headquarters specifically for us?" The boy named Bulletproof said, amazed.

"It's already under construction," Mark said, smiling, causing the new members to widen their eyes in astonishment.

Indeed, Mark would have preferred to finish it before the team was formed, but a project like this requires time. Fortunately, it was almost ready.

"Wow, it seems like this is pretty serious, huh?" Monster girl said, whistling as she looked at the data of the headquarters design.

"If I may ask, why does this look like something that wouldn't be on land?" The one who asked was Black Samson.

"Because it won't be. Having a base on land has many disadvantages, so we decided that the best thing would be to situate it in space," Robot answered this time.