Beatrice came to Vincent's mansion with her team of police robots following her. They sealed the entire room and began collecting evidences. From every fingerprint to eyelash hair, everything was collected and clicked.

Meanwhile, Slaine walked through the market and folded the knife back into his pocket. "Oh hey, boy!" A fat man walked out of a knife shop, "Did ya like that chuggie?" He asked.

(Tn// Chuggie--Future slang--Item)

"Oh yeah, thanks grandpa." Slaine smiled at he looked at the knife.
"You've got a weird 'cent"
(Tn// Accent)
"I'm not American actually," He lied.
"Yeah, gured that out!"
(Tn// figured)

"Oh yeah, uncle. Can I ask you something?"
"Yeah."
"Do you know what Ben looks like?"
"That's easy to answer--Look behind you."

Slaine turned back and saw a huge building. At the top it was a huge holographic advertisement. It had a handsome, young, brunette man with shimmering pink eyes that seemed to pierce through Slaine's chest.

They seemed so familiar.

'Revolution is in the eyes
Reach your closest Lazer surgeon and get the best of your look in the signature style of Ben's Beautiful eyes' It read.

"Girls these days are having laser surgeries to get those eyes. Though they never get the same shade as Ben--A tint of light pink, maroon and golden. It's funny how hard they are trying to reach him-- As if eye colour will change their face. Everything that boy does becomes a trend. I've heard he's a humble lad though--Very charming; even from the inside."

Slaine listened to him and looked back at Ben's poster, "He really is pretty. No doubt about that."
"Right? He's very popular among the ladies."
Slaine couldn't stop looking at his eyes--Where did he see them?

Soon, he was inside the expressway, with his hands rumbling inside the pocket of his hoodie. He was on his way back to the lab, busy thinking about all the information he had collected. Usually it was the patterns that led to a solution--And this time it was those patters too.

"They injected her with an anti venom," He mumbled as he sat on the seat, "Anti venom helps to neutralise poison. Maybe that's why those people she bit weren't infected, because her saliva doesn't have that X-DROID virus within it anymore.

But she is still the same, so I guess even after the virus dies, you cannot go back to being a human. Or maybe it's because she wasn't born a human? And why did Ben advice her not to eat meat only after injecting an anti venom?"

He spent his entire night thinking about it but he couldn't solve this problem. He just couldn't understand Ben from that point anymore.

He decided to eat a bit and opened a packet kept inside the refrigerator. It had some blue, spongy tablets resembling marshmallows balls. He ate one and felt full already.

"Wow. What is this?" He turned the packet and read, "Glucon 56, daily energy diet pills. Low carb."

"Yeah, now I'll be surviving on diet pills. I need to get out of here, fast." He looked around and his eyes stopped at that glass chamber with those test-tubes he saw when he first cane into the lab. He didn't pay much attention to them by then because he was so busy with all the volumes. He moved towards them and looked at them. The moment he touched the glass, a hologram opened,

"Open || Cancel"

He moved his hand away and the looked at the hologram. "This will either be very good or very bad. I better be prepared."

Lucifer was walking on the subway. He had some beer bottles in a plastic bag and was returning from the convenience store. Suddenly, he felt a bad aura and stopped. His eyes glowed electric blue and his hair began swindling in the air.

The advert board beside him broke down and fell away in the wind. Emmett was exposed. He glared at her as she rose up in the sky. The wind surrounded her.
"Lucifer, listen to me! I want to tell you something."

The wind suddenly dried down and she fell on the crusty road, right before him. She looked up at him, "If you meet my eyes-- I'll kill you."
She quickly looked down again.

"It--It's about Gotham." She was shivering while speaking.
"Can you make it quick? I'm controlling myself from killing you every second."

"She--She wants to kind of break the time portal so that--that Ben can't reach you and you can't go--go back. I made Slaine see a vision before, of Ben killing him so that he would get scared and m--move away from you guys because--Because she'll be killing you and Assel--Asselyum first."

"Why are you telling me all this?"
"I want you to stop her. She's planing on burying New York alive."
"And why shall I trust you?"
"You don't have choice, your highness."

Valorie stood behind the broken advert board, listening to their conversation.

That evening, when Emmett returned home, Gotham and Valorie were waiting for her at the door.

She smiled nervously, "What is it, Gotham?"
Gotham moved towards her and pressed her fingers on her neck, "How did it feel to talk with Lucifer? It was your dream to talk to him one day, wasn't it?"

"Valorie..." She looked at Valorie and he looked away.
"I bet Lucifer treated you like an eyesore you are"
She looked at her feet.

"I can't do it anymore,
Not with you."

She snapped her neck and Emmett fell to the ground, with blood oozing from her mouth and eyes, "You-You said no killing our own race! We made it a rule!" Emmett looked into Gothan's bright green eyes, "Honey, rules change,"
She crushed Emmett's neck under her feet and she died on the spot.

"Valorie, we are going out tomorrow morning. I will execute the plan before Lucifer makes a move. We don't know how much that bitch told him."

Valorie disappeared in the dark.

. . .

"Gotham is planning to break the time machine and bind us to this world." Lucifer said as he chugged chugged a bottle of beer.
"She's finally gone insane." Norman said.
"But why did she want to do that?" Axel asked.

"To close the time portal, of course!" Norman said, "That way we cannot go back home or communicate with Ben."
"But to think about it--Ben could easily make a new time machine." Jimmy said.

"I think he can't." Asselyum said, "I think he's stuck somewhere."
"I hope he's alright," Norman said.

"I, his majesty himself, shall stop this devil named Gotham." Lucifer said.
"Why do you keep risking your life? To prove a point?" Asselyum asked.
"Yes."

. . .

Slaine stood at the door of the Mechapolis tower, with the fifth volume and longboard in his hand.
"Yes?" A guard robot asked.
"I'm here to meet Dexter."

Dexter was working on his computer when he received a notification from the guard robot with a screenshot of Slaine's picture.

"Who are you?" The robot asked.
"I am Ben." Slaine said.
Dexter's eyes widened as he looked at Slaine through the computer screen.

"Let him into my office."

-To be continued

Emmett
5500 Rebellion