Chapter 27

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When June was unconscious after her match with Haeji, she dreamt of an underground ruin. Derek was wearing a face mask and camouflage as he brought her to see her little sister. "June!" She looked to her right to see her sister calling.

"Verona." June shouted in the dream. As she saw Verona come closer she saw two silhouetted men come out of nowhere and grabbed her by the arm and dragged her away.

"June! June!" Verona shouted, when she woke up, it was Haeji who shouted for her brother.

"Joon!" Haeji shouted before she had ran out of the infirmary.

First it was the elderly Yamitzu master mentioning the 2nd form, Junu. Now it was a sick patient who had a similar sounding name to hers. Either she was mishearing her name or someone was playing tricks on her.

She had called Derek earlier to ask how his plan was going. "Hey Derek, how is your plan working out?"

On Derek's end he had sent a drone to scout the area where the underground troops were passing through, "Good so far, I'm still tracking the master's location."

"Let me know if you found her."

"Will do." Derek replied before he hung up. June knew that their conversations had to be brief, she couldn't risk getting traced by the underground or the hackers. She couldn't stop feeling that she was being watched.

When she looked over her shoulder it was a golden yellow cat. "Mrrow."

"Hi." June greeted before the cat leaned to the hem of her jeans, the she picked up the feline. She petted her golden yellow fur, then scratched behind her ear as he heard her purr. It vaguely reminded her on how she and Verona found a stray cat on the back porch. June was 8 and Verona had recently turned 4 when they spotted a black and white cat. "Fluffy!" Verona had ran up to play with the cat while the feline had raw meat in it's maw. The stray cat ran away from her though June managed to catch the cat and petted it. Verona walked up to her to pet the cat on the cat, caressing the sullied fur. "You need a bath, Fluffy." The cat hissed at the mention of the word bath. The stray cat jumped from June's arms and ran away. Fluffy was a skinny cat that squeezed through the picket fence and escaped, and she never saw the stray cat again after that. Mewmi purred contentedly at the attention she was receiving, the strokes of gentle hands soothing her.

Eimy and Uiwo were conversing while the young blonde crossed her arms. "Aren't the matches supossed to last from up to 4 hours?" She queried, as she looked at the empty arena.

"Depends on how many contestants are participating. If there are 22 contenders, it could last from up to 2 hours." Uiwo mentioned.

"This is different from the tournaments Faim entered before. First, there are female fighters. Secondly, the tournaments usually have preliminary matches, exhibition matches, secondary matches, semifinals and final matches." Eimy noted with her fingers as she numbered the matches.  "I've only seen the preliminary matches so far."

"The Tryout is going to be an exhibition match, just like tonight's matches." Uiwo mentioned.

"Are you sure?" Eimy asked him.

"Certainly! Back when I used to wrestle with Ximo, we wrestled each other in exhibition matches for a quick buck. And that was way back when we were newcomers. Those matches were held early in the morning, late at night, or in between matches." Uiwo recalled, remembering his adolescence when he and Ximo used to wear spandex and masks and beat each other up out of sport, and fight as a duo in tag team matches as the Beauchamp Bros. The difference between them was that Uiwo stepped down from the fighting scene to find a different profession and start fresh, though Ximo sticked to staying in shape, fighting, and opened up a gym.

Meanwhile, Ximo peered into the gym seeing if there was any activity. His brown eyes darted to the weights, then to the treadmills, the dumbells, the barbells. Yes. He then spotted the kettlebells, the squat stands, two assault bikes. Not bad, but something else is missing. Ximo thought after he saw the parallettes, resistance bands, stability balls and battle ropes. Then he turned to his right to see a 24ft indoor wall climber. Yes! This a real gym! Ximo's eyes beamed as he went to test the indoor wall climber. It started with climbing uo to one stone and stepped over another as his arms stretched and got climbing, his muscles got fired up as his spine motioned to one side as it curved up with the torque, the tingling sensation as his muscles tighten as he lifted one knee as the pressure of the calf and boosted himself up to another stone. Shadow spotted the muscular human and climbed the wall in her Indoraptor form with ease. When Ximo was meters away from touching the ceiling, Shadow was eye level with him, before she licked her sharp teeth at his next meal.

Dirlu walked up to Faim with a vacuum she bought, "Faim, be a dear and hold this vacuum I bought, I want Eimy to test it." She passed the electrodomestic item to Faim. "Where is she anyway?" Dirlu looked around.

"Beats me." Faim replied as he looked at the electrodomestic device.

"You don't know," Dirlu remarked, "why am I not surprised? If you don't keep your eyes peeled, she'll disappear again. She may claim to be a strong independent woman, but that attitude of hers won't prevent her from being taken again. First by that pirate B. Lufn, then she got abducted by the ninjas." Dirlu warned him before she had an idea. "I should buy a bell for Eimy to wear, she needs that bell more than Mewmi." Dirlu stated as she left to go buy a cat bell as she swayed her hips to act refined. Faim looked at the other attachments the mop vac had.

"It has a blender attachment? I could use that to make a protein shake." Faim commented.

Ruben scouted the area searching for the prize money, he had finally passed the restricted halls that one of the supervisors prevented him to tresspass. To his delight, he found a trophy wall that was a block away from the medium sized gym. The more he perused from room to room, the closer he felt from finding the prize money. Sara and Sajid stood on guard, on Sajid'd left, he saw two caretakers bring the damaged drone. The male security guard nudged Sara to look at it.

"It's been a while." Sara commented, giving a curious glance at the dented device.

"Another one bites the dust." Sajid said as if attempted espionage was the norm.

"No, this one is still working." Jayshree replied.

Jubilant, Sajid shouted, "Dibs!" He moved from his position to take a closer look at the white drone and saw the eye of the camera. "The lens is tight." Sara had almost forgotten that he was a tech nerd. "It's welded too." Sajid had turned the drone from the back to check the battery, ending the recording.

"Nononononononono." Logan's connection to the drone got severed.

"Great, what now?" Ash asked monotonously, arms crossed.

"We get the drone back." Tr responded as if were the most obvious solution.

"Don't be stupid." Ash scoffed.

"I concur with TR, we're getting the drone back. Alexander, TR, you're coming with me." Logan confirmed as Tr walked next to the team leader.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Octavia asked him.

"That drone has 1 terrabyte's worth of footage stored. I'm not gonna let 'em take out its parts for bootlegging." Logan reminded them as Alexander followed.

"Good luck." Astrid said before Alexander gave a thumbs up.

Stella had shown Carina's mugshot to Baci Llus, "No, I haven't seen her." The blue skinned extraterrestrial looked at the usurper's original profile. "Why are you even showing her original form if she could be usurping anyone for that matter?" He questioned.

"It contains all of her information including a copy of her original DNA. The teleporters and scanners have the generic codes of the inhabitants archived. An usurper can be traced by their original DNA, any usurper can copy the victim's DNA and RNA, but their nucleus can be identified, even if the usurper has altered their appearance. Usurpers are like counterfeit currency, a copy. The database identifies the DNA and compare the nucleus to the original. If the individual has been weeded out as an usurper, an alert is sent." Stella explained.

"Instead of showing the fraud, point out their modus operandi." Baci Llus suggested.

"They act similar to hackers that swipe data and web accounts. Only that they want to swipe is your blood, saliva, follicles, mucus, anything to obtain your DNA and use it to their own benefit." Stella mentioned.

Tantetra heard something similar while Micah explained it. "The usurper is capable of acquiring your powers with a sample of your DNA. The usurper could use your elemental powers to cause a disaster, an eyewitness can identify you and accuse you of damaging private property despite that you weren't there to begin with. Is like identity theft, but far worse, they could use a strand of your hair as incriminating evidence, by the time a case is formed against you the usurper moves on usurping the identity of the next victim. That's why it's crucial to capture one to prevent further confusion with a sample of their original blood."

Tantetra looked at the screen of Carina in her original form with a copy of the blood sample and genetic code archived.

"I can manipulate blood. As for the other information provided, I do not know of your human or rather your world's technology and terminologies." Tantetra explained as she looked at the Amoebian whom she had mistaken to be a human child.

Micah exhaled an annoyed sigh, "Very well." The Amoebian walked away to regroup with her colleague. The usurper could sneak in from under their noses and they could care less. Micah had walked past Carina without her knowledge.

Fortunately, she had taken a sample of Micah's saliva to test it. She opened the slot of the atom-morpher, and inserted the sample. Waited for the weapon to load as she adjusted the percentage. Carina entered the ladies' room and locked the stall, as the weapon finished loading she shot herself.

Chris walked around the stadium as he memorized the area, observing for any exits. He could teleport out of the stadium out of his own volition, though he prefered not to attract much attention to himself. So he entered into the men's restroom.

Carina opened the compact mirror inside her purse to see the results. She looked just like Micah, from her short dark purple bob to her white skin and beady eyes. After closing the compact mirror she could feel her black skirt falling off, her white blouse flopped down below her pelvis and her boots crawled up to her thighs. Upon waddling out of the stall she rolled down the collar of her boots and adjusted her outfit.

The Venusian had exited the men's restroom while Carina walked out of the women's restroom nearly at the same time.

As she looked from side to side she saw Chris's blue suit as he walked out. He looks a lot larger from here. The usurper kept her distance as she had her eyes on the Venusian.

"Then I'll ask her myself." Stacey stood from the table.
"No, I'll go." Sora followed her while Thomas took another bite of the baby back ribs.
Violet took a sip of green tea with Jacinto when they saw Stacey pull back a chair to sit in front of them though Sora preferred to stand.
"Can I help you?" Jacinto asked them while Violet drank the tea.
"No." Stacey bluntly responded.
"It's between me and Violet." Sora casted an accusatory glance at the earthly Dimension Guardian. Stacey whipped her braid back while she saw Violet took her sweet time drinking tea.
"What game are you playing?" Stacey asked her in a domineering tone, "You can send this airhead Arivex for a loop but you can't fool me. I won't buy into your mind games."
Violet gave an indifferent glance at Stacey as she put down her cup.
"I don't expect someone plain and simpleminded as you to understand." Violet steepled her fingers.
"Try me bitch." Stacey retorted.
"Stacey!" Sora chastised her.
"That's not lady-like." Jacinto commented absentmindedly before Sora and Stacey looked at the sailor as he awkwardly slurped his tea.
"Violet, you warned me earlier about the other contestants. Who am I supposed to watch out for?" Sora asked her, then Violet saw Mirror come forward as he saw a glint in his eye, then Shadow appeardd shapeshifting between her human form and Indoraptor form trying to control her split personality. Violet blinked as she came out from one of her visions.
"Whom." Violet responded.
"So there's more than one." Sora said.
"It's a fighting tournament, what did you expect?" Stacey stated.

Haeji yanked Ratu by the collar of his shirt as he was brought back into the stadium. "Let me go!" Ratu yelled before Haeji pushed him away. 
"Where's the locket?" Haeji interrogated him while the red haired bandit crossed his arms and craned his neck derisively.
"As if I'm gonna tell you." His retort was met with fingers digging to his skin while she checked through his pockets and then touched the fabric of his abdomen, making him laugh.
"Stop laughing." Haeji ordered.
"Stop," Ratu chortled.
"You think this is funny!?" Haeji gritted through her teeth while she kept rummaging through his hanfu for the locket.
"No!" Ratu laughed uncontrollably.
Where is it? Haeji looked for the locket while her fingers prodded for the metallic chain of the locket.
"Stop it." Ratu said between sniggers, "I'm teeheehee-"
"Ticklish?" Mochi asked him which gave Haeji an idea. Tickle torture. She kept tickling him as he kept laughing against his will.
"Gimme the locket." Haeji insisted while she tickled him, digging her fingers on his ribcage.
"I don't ha ha ha ha!" Ratu doubled over from getting tickled to the ground.
"Then who!?" Haeji asked, while the locket was in Ruben's front pocket while the fat Cinnabar stood firm to ensure that Ratu stayed out of trouble.
Ratu had stolen Joon's locket while he was recovering, he was about to leave the informary when Haeji got back and caught him red handed with the locket. She couldn't snatch the locket back beacause of the EMCuff as it sent her an electric shock to keep her from stealing. He took advantage of her circumstance and ran out snickering. His victory was short lived when he accidentally slammed himself against a large uniformed man before he looked up to see Ruben disguised himself as a security guard.
"I'll be taking that." Ruben snatched the locket from Ratu's hands.
"Oi!" Ratu hollered, then the little thief saw Ruben take out a baton.
"Scat! I'm going in for the big one." Ratu caught on to the code he was signaling. "Stay out of trouble." Ruben looked down at him with a clenched jaw before he turned away.

Haeji let him go before she headed out to find Ruben. The large man blended in as he stood next to Sara while Sajid and Jayshree were examining the drone. "Wow. The RAM of the drone has 60 terabytes." Sajid looked at the memory stored, impressed at the storage.

Sara stared at the drone while Ruben entered the room to search for the prize money. Logan, Tr and Alexander spotted them tampering with the drone. "My drone!" They saw Alexander and Logan ran up to get the drone while TR walked towards them.

Ruben found the two golden trophies next to each other while he looked for the money. Where is it? Ruben rummaged through the cabinets and found a key. Then shoved the key through the locked cabinets. Nothing.

Vilma headed out of the reception and on her way to powder her nose, she found a white haired janitor mopping the floor. She clicked her tongue. Well if it isn't Patty's lap dog. "Juuzou." Vilma called as he raised his burgundy eyes to see her.

"What is it?" Juuzou asked, uninterested in whatever Vilma wanted him to do. He already has one problem to deal with.

"I want you to do me a solid." Vilma requested.

"Not interested." Juuzou replied while he mopped the bathroom floor.

"Consider it a trade. You do me a favor and I'll return the favor with interest. Depending of what you ask of me." Vilma responded.

"What do you want me to do?" Juuzou asked as he stopped mopping to look at her.

"I want you to keep an eye on June." Assuming that it was Joon Wen Ji she was referring to, he accepted.

"Where is he?" He asked.

"She's at the waiting room." Vilma responded.
"She?" Juuzou raised an eyebrow.

"Of course, you nitwit! Who else was I referring to?" Vilma retorted, realizing that it was about a blonde teenager with a similar sounding name.

You gotta be kidding. Juuzou thought as he looked at her. She seemed to be a nice girl as she petted a stripped golden blonde cat.

"Since you have a thing for blondes, you won't have a problem keeping an eye on her. If you can extract any information out of her, the better." Vilma commented before she turned her heel to resume with her job. Juuzou had nothing against this green eyed blonde, the only blonde he had to watch out for was Patricia. After he had spotted her taking Joon away, he followed them to the stadium without realizing that she had them at her mercy.

I have to find them.

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