Little Battlers eXperience

Taken Over 2

Kenbishi Hannah:

After hearing what happened, we all rushed to the medical room, where we found Arata lying on the bed while Muraku, Haruki and Hikaru were looking after him. Arata had been fighting Seredy and he used his power, the Overload, but then he used up too much energy and fainted.

"He's awake!" Cathrine silently exclaimed.

"Arata..." Yuno sighed his name out happily. Everyone else was smiling down at him.

"Everyone..." Arata muttered. "Seredy. I couldn't stop him... Kaito! What happened to Kaito?!"

There was a long pause before Hikaru replied, "Kaito joined Seredy. He betrayed us all..."

"I thought he was acting strange ever since that lecture, but..." Bunta trailled.

"Does this mean we have to fight him soon?" Nozomi asked.

"Let's take him back!" Yuno declared.

"That's impossible." Bunta stated. "Once he sets his heart on something, he becomes blind to everything else."

"Then we'll take him back by force!" Tadashi stated.

"And if that doesn't work?" Nozomi asked.

"Well..."

"I guess we really do have to fight him."

~~~~~

Nikolai Yezerverk:

Once the day is over, we walked out the school doors. I was with Hannah, Muraku, Arata, Hikaru, Haruki and Sakuya respectively.

(Nikolai: Oh hey! Did you know that islf you jumble up Haruki's name, it'll become Hikaru? And vice versa? Huh? Oh yeah, you probably already know.) (Author: NIKOLAI, YOU'RE COUSIN DID THIS ONCE BEFORE. STOP COMMENTING WHILE I'M WRITTING THE STORY!)

Hannah hadn't been talking to any of us since Seredy took over. Maybe somethong's wrong, but it's not like she'd reply when I asked.

"He shouldn't need us students anymore." Muraku stated. "So why won't he make us leave the island?"

"We're hostages..." Hikaru muttered. "Or maybe he's planning on using us somehow."

"I'd rather die than take orders from him." Arata stated boldly.

"You know, a lot of people are like that in the army." I told him. "They kept saying the same thing. 'I'd rather die than...' But when they got into war, the last thing that they want is to die."

Right by the gates, we met up with Mr. Kaidou. Arata ran up to him, but almost fell. Luckily, Muraku and Mr. Kaidou caught him.

"Are you alright?" Muraku asked worriedly.

"Yeah. I just got a little dizzy is all." Arata stated. "I'll be fine once I get some sugar. Right?"

"No... It might not be that easy." Mr. Kaidou stated. He looked up at the two guards by the gate. "Let's go before they start suspecting us."

Now we're walking through the forest on our way to the dorms.

"Things are different than before." Mr. Kaidou stated.

"What do you mean?" Arata asked.

"Your overload is evolving too quickly." Mr. Kaidou said. "Your body might not be able to handle it."

"I thought so." Muraku muttered.

"This much is nothig." Arata said. "I'll be fine. The Overload is the only thing that can beat Seredy!"

"But what if it had detrimental impacts on your mind?" Mr. Kaidou countered. "A number of countries used to study the Overload, but since it put too much of a burden on the brain, most of them stopped their research. Humans are not meant  to use all the functions of their brain. They subconciously keep their power in check to survive. The Overload removes that limiter. It's too dangerous. Don't use it anymore."

He sounded almost as if he has witnessed someone becoming a test subject for this 'Overload' thing. Either way, we got the message and headed back to our dorms.

~~~~~

Kenbishi Hannah:

"Security cameras..." Muraku stated.

"They're everywhere on campus." Haruki said. "What is he trying to do?"

The moment I walked into the school, the first thing I saw were cameras. Security cameras' recording every move anyone makes. As if the guards wasn't enough. This invades privacy, but it wasn't like he didn't plan on doing it anyway.

Then Ms. Mito came in and Arata rushed to her. "Mito-sensei. What are those cameras for?"

"I don't have a clue either." Ms. Mito shrugged.

Then, Seredy's voice can be heard from the speaker. "Good morning, students of Kamui Daimon Coprehensive Academy."

Good morning my a**. I mentally scowled. Yeah, I know rough language. I got influenced when I was 12, when Nikolai introduced me to Niara and Kirito, who kept fighting all the time. But of course, they don't know that. And yeah, Nikolai and I have been friends for that long. We went to elementary together until he moved to Russia, but we didn't expect to see each other again two years ago (school trip to Tiny Orbit and Seeker Base) and here, at Kamui Daimon.

"As you've likely already noticed, I set cameras within the school." Seredy stated. "The footage here is being broadcasted to the world this very moment."

"What the hell?" Arata muttered.

"With this, the people of the world will know everything about this school." Seredy stated. "Well, let's begin War Time. I hope you all remember that I control when it starts and ends. Start."

"15 minutes to War Time. All players, prepare for battle."

We all got to the control room and Seredy explained the 'mission'. The World Sabers against the World Allied Forces at the Lost Area. He also mentioned there will be a special feature in our control pods through he didn't mention what. Then Ms. Mito came in and begged us to save the professor, in which of course we can't refuse.

"So are you playing as a mechanic or as a soldier?" Nikolai asked.

I shrugged off the question since he obviously knew the answer. We all went to our own control pods and I went into the one next to Nikolai's.

I flew to the Lost Area on my own like last time and arrived with the rest. This time, instead of battling on the outer edge of the hole, we had to go in it.

Soon, we found the Ezeldarm members led by Kaito  who was using a riding armor. And with that, the war began.