"What do we have here~"

When was the last time did I manage to get myself caught? The answer was never. Without giving any glance, I transferred my energy through the arms before releasing an energy wave from my palms. Whoever was standing behind me was suddenly flew backwards. How did I know? I heard something hit a hard surface and I took the advantage by turning around while getting myself into the fighting stance.

"I really don't expecting for another mutant like you here."

My eyes widened, seeing a woman with shoulder-length brown hair and a pair of red eyes. The most shocking was that woman looked exactly like Katelyn Jackson! "Katelyn Jackson?" I whispered, but unfortunately, she heard I spoke her name. "How did you know my name?" She growled, then her hands started to warm up in orange aura. "My name is Irene Reynolds." I introduced myself. "I'm here to help you! I know what happened, the one when you use your ability for the first time." I said.

"I don't need help from someone like you!"

I yelped, dodging the fireball, which was been shooting out from her hands. "Stop right now! I'm here to help you controlling your ability!" She ignored me and shot another fireball. I growled, realizing it was useless to convince her that I wasn't the bad guy. By using my telekinesis, I lifted the small rocks before releasing them towards her in super speed. She started to gather the flame, creating a huge fireball and shot at the rocks. They collided and created a huge explosion, surprising me with the high temperature.

"A human?!"

Unfortunately, our battle alerted the Decepticon and I clicked my tongue, seeing the purple robots were summoning their cannon gun due to an order from the robot with high heels. "Shit." I cursed, then hearing a laugh from Katelyn. "That's it? I was hoping for an intense battle here!" She mocked, which I narrowed my eyes at her. I had two questions: Did she join the enemy's side? Were they the one, who were responsible for the lack of information and disappearance? They started to shoot at me and I tried to dodge them as best as I could. I commanded the leftover bracelet to form a special bow.

(A/n: I can't find any red coloured bow, so think of it as a normal red bow. Not flaming bow)

Placing a hand on the string, I pulled it and created a flaming red arrow before I shot it at the target. It didn't released one arrow, instead it went multiplying and hit more than a target on the head.

"Access!" I said, then a 'rose' suddenly appeared on their head before attacking each other by my command. "Avoid her attacks!" Katelyn ordered, and then taking out her whip. Well, I guess that was the answer for the first question. She was a part of Decepticon. Now, how am I going to capture her?

I yelped, avoiding a flaming whip, which was nearly missing me by an inch above my head. "You want a fight? Then, I'll give you one!" I felt my eyes were changing from blue to red. My hands were glowing in red aura, letting the energy flowing through the veins and into my palms. "Shoot her down!" I created a shield around myself while gathering the energy into my right hand. "Game over, Katelyn Jackson!" I activated the thruster and went straight to the ground with the energy in my fist. My fist collided with the ground, sending a huge earthquake around the cave and also causing the cracks appeared on the walls.

This cave was going down . . .

The robots were running away, avoiding themselves from burying under the unstable cave. "Help!" I spun, searching for the voice. My eyes spotted a figure was been trapped underneath the rocks. I flew towards her and offered my hand. "Grab my hand!" Her red eyes glanced at my hand with hesitation. "Come on!" I yelled, then she grabbed my hand. Instantly, I activated the thruster and flew out from the cave with the structure slowly falling apart. My eyes stared at the entrance in front of me and I transferred the nano-tech to add more power to the thruster, increasing the speed.

"Go!" I shouted. With a miracle, we managed to escape and I sighed in relief before my consciousness started to slip out. The last thing that I remembered was we were falling to the ground.

※«~~~*****~~~»※

"Is it beautiful?" Where am I? Opening my eyes, I found myself standing in an unknown white room with nothing except a screen in front of me. Walking towards it, the image in the screen was starting to become more visible in few seconds. I gasped, seeing it was a memory I had with my brother, Allen.

"The stars are sparkling and shiny like a jewel!" My younger-self spoke, pointing at the sky. It was long time ago, when I was a child. We were doing stargazing for each time we want to spend time as brother and sister. Allen chuckled, ruffling my usual brown hair. "Indeed they are." He replied. "Before having an interest for technology, I had a dream of becoming an astronaut." My younger-self gasped in shock. "Really?!" He chuckled at my expression and nodded his head. "I want to explore the space to see—"

"If the Earth is flat?" Really? Did I say that? I felt wanting to slap myself for thinking that or going back to the past to change that.

Allen deadpanned, looking at my younger-self's face and the little Irene chuckled. "Sorry! You can continue, Allen!" Then, the video stopped. My eyes stared at the little Irene, noticing the smile she had was the brightest one I ever saw. I really changed a lot for the past few months. I missed him so much. I loved my brother, Allen more than anything. He was the light while I was the shadow.

"Beautiful, isn't it?"

I spun, hearing a voice from behind me. The room was suddenly turned dark in a blink, leaving the small light from the screen. "Who's there?" I shouted, letting my voice echoed in the darkness. "Allen is a wonderful boy, the Hope to erase our darkness but . . . it's really unfortunate that he died." Why does this voice sound familiar to me? I yelled at it, demanding the voice to show themselves than hiding behind the shadow like a coward.

"Coward? I don't think myself as a coward . . . How about you?"

I growled. "I'm not a coward!" I shouted, then turning to see a pair of visible red eyes through the darkness. "What's your wish?" Huh? I raised an eyebrow with confusion before the unknown figure repeated the question once again. "What's your wish, Irene Kanzaki?" Oh shit. It knew my real name! Why does everyone know my name? Soon, I remembered the figure was asking the same question I had from the first clue card. It must be a part of it but . . . why here? I still couldn't figure my location. It was like trapping in an unknown room without having white Camalia around me.

If you watch Anime, I would gladly take you as my partner!
(Author: Stop breaking the Fourth Wall 😑)
(Irene: Can't promise that, chief.)

I think I knew what my wish was. "My wish . . . is to protect everyone from having same fate as me and kill the murderer once and for all." I answered, then those red eyes stared into my eyes. We had our staring competition for few minutes until the figure nodded.

"Very well. The game shall start, Irene Kanzaki."

"What? What do you—" Then, I felt something grabbed me as the figure slowly disappeared in front of my view. "Wait!" I yelled, struggling against the invisible force on my body. Soon, I gasped when it pulled me underneath the ground and into deep cold water, slowly bringing me to the bottom. I tried to swim up but the force was strong, preventing me from escaping.

Damn it . . . I couldn't let myself died from drowning! My eyelids started to drop, and then my consciousness slipped for second time.

※«~~~*****~~~»※

"—rene! Irene!"

Slowly, opening my eyes and I flinched from the sudden brightness before covering with my hand. I blinked my eyes until I could opened them properly. My head turned, looking at my surrounding to see I was in another white room but in this time, I was laying on a bed with an IV stuck to my arm. "Irene, can you hear me?" I turned, glancing at a young man beside me.

". . . Daniel?"

Daniel smiled, nodding his head. "It's me, Irene." He said, softly. I tried to lift my body but he stopped me by placing a hand on my shoulder. "You need to lay down. You don't have much energy to do anything." He said. "What . . . happened?" I asked, having trouble to remember any past events except Katelyn Jackson. "Someone found you laying on the ground with a huge cut on your head." My hand reached for my head, feeling the texture of the bandage. "You were almost out of energy, so the person called for the ambulance. Luckily, I registered myself as your family, so the hospital called me instead of your grandfather." He added.

Mentally, I shivered when he mentioned that. If my grandfather know about this dangerous mission, he would order me to go back to his mansion. He wouldn't hesitate to kidnap me if I refused. Sometimes, he was way more overprotective than Dad.

"Sorry for becoming a troublesome girl to you." He shook his head. "As long as you're fine, I don't care if you're a troublesome girl or bossy fighter." I rolled my eyes at his response. "So, did you found the one which you placed a tracker device on?" He asked, which I sighed in reply. "I was almost there until . . . Katelyn Jackson attacked me." I answered.

"What?! What was she doing there?! In the enemy's territory?"

My head snapped, looking at him. "How did you know?" I asked, curiously. I didn't say anything about her in Decepticon's territory at all. His eyes widened, realizing what he just spoke. I looked at him, asking for an explanation until someone stepped into the room. "Thank goodness that you're alright, Irene!" June said, relieved.

Hey, 'Mom'.

Then, June smacked my head. "Ow! What's that for?!" I exclaimed, rubbing my head. "For mind controlling my son! You shouldn't do that when he was only worried for your safety!" She scolded. "It's for his own safety." I replied. "Still, that was an unacceptable decision!" I sighed, looking at Daniel, who was glancing between me and June, awkwardly. "Meet my overprotective Mom." I gestured. No, she wasn't my real Mom if you all forget.

"It's nice to meet her brother." June smiled. Oh, now he was acting as my brother?

"Pleasure to meet you, June Darby." Daniel said, shaking hands with her.

"I would like to talk with you about her current condition." He nodded and left the room with June. I lay down and stared at the ceiling with a question hanging above me.

How did Daniel know of Katelyn's location with Decepticons?