"He may be the best scientist of this century but who could have imagined that he would win the Tenkaichi Budokai two times in a row?" Said the pretty T.V host.
"Indeed Jaina, and Ferbolg's aggressive attack on the fitness industry is not so surprising, as the training program was completely scientifically validated, now, let's hear..." The T.V news went on but the boy watching the program started to zone out.
"Theft, driving without licence, vandalism... this time you run out of luck eh?" Said a fat policeman, but the two teenagers in front of him didn't listen.
The blond young woman just slumped down and stared at the shiny hand cuffs on her wrists, while she kept her eyes closed forcefully, as to squish out the anxiety out of her mind.
"No parents, no family, it is you second week in the Youth Centre, and here you are, believing you will get away as you did before, unfortuna..." Continued the policeman. But the young man in front of him got the genius idea to kick his desk files into his face. "Dam you!" Yelled the policeman and hit the delinquent with his baton right in the stomach.
The young woman flinched and looked at this scene with horror, as during their previous detentions no policeman ever dared to use violence. It started to sink in her just now, that maybe they did really screw up this time.
Just before the smirking adult was about to drag the youth back up, pulling him by his hair, the bureau's door, suddenly, got slammed open, and four men in black entered the room.
"What's the meaning of..." Was asking the policeman, but one of the men put him swiftly on the floor while immobilising him.
Soon enough the lieutenant followed suit and ordered for the man to be detained, this time the witnesses of police violence were ranked far above him, and nothing could cover this disrespect of civil rights and police protocols.
"So what now?" Asked the young woman, trying to act unbowered.
"I'm special agent K, we have been requested by the Minister of Defence to bring you somewhere. Now either you follow us, or you disappear."
"Are you kidding?" Demanded the young man, who managed to recover from the hit.
"Agent K has no sense of humour, but neither do I. Now get up and follow." Said another agent in black.
What else the two youth could do? As the lieutenant didn't pipe a word in their defence, the two delinquents exchanged a helpless look and went with the flow.
Meanwhile, far away under the earth, Gero was training in the Hell Forge training room. The gravity was multiplied by one hundred twenty times, and the never ending mercury flow fell from above like a giant metallic waterfall, on the hight speed of twenty-six thousand two hundred eighty-one meters per hour. Each move, each hit, each action Gero took, was crushed under twenty seven million Newtons. But was it? Any one witnessing this insane training regimen would witness the mercury flowing back to the top after each kick and hit directed upwards, the android that he was didn't flinch, he was like a monster under the rain. Each time, Night Dog was providing trough the Noosphere the stats, variables, and calculations for more perfect and more efficient moves. The power level was continuously calculated again and again, and converted in an average of all numbers. One year passed since the last tournament, and except for the dinner and the night he was spending with Mai, he was training like a machine. As for the research? He was multitasking it at the same time, everything was possible trough the Noosphere. His mind was so close to Nigh Dog's that it was frightening.
"DATA CONFIRMATION= INTEGRITY <1.
SUPPLEMENTARY UPGRADE REQUIRED.
NERVOUS TRANSMISSION=1.
ESTIMATION POWER LVL AFTER UPGRADE:12000 or >."
"Launch upgrade protocol immediately." Commanded Gero trough the Noosphere. The gravity was pulled back to normal and all the liquid mercury was cleansed at once. The chamber's heavy door opened and ten cherub like robots flew to him, to transport him to the relevant work bench. As various components were added and internally processed as per Nigh Dog's calculations, the machine that was the Omnissiah of Perfection got even more complete. During the process, however, Gero received a priority communication from the Minister of Defence.
"Minister Shelf, good news I imagine?"
"Hello Doctor, yes indeed, we found them! They are literally just like in the video footage you provided! If only the public knew..." Explained the enthusiastic minister Shelf.
"It is for the best they don't. The less people in contact with it, the safer we are, time travel is totally forbidden by the Gods. I imagine the footage was destroyed, right?"
"Indeed doctor, we are only six in the knowledge, and K and his agents are the best of the best, there is no risk of information leaking."
"Good. Drive them directly to my residence, the promised payment is already processed, you can check yours and ministry's accounts."
"Yes Dr. Gero, I am on my way, we should be there in about an hour."
"See you then." Gero ended the call.
As he was finishing his body's completion, he sent a quick message to Uncle Cookie: "C19, our guests will arrive in one hour, please cook something tasty for seven."
At that moment, above the ground, in a large room packed with window displays, displaying entire collections of magical girls, the eyes of a fat android blinked in red then blue lights. As all the kids moved away, C19 immersed entirely himself in the otaku and gamer culture, becoming a filthy no life king. And lately, he discovered a manga centred around cooking. As you can imagine, the whole kitchen got upgraded to an absurdly advanced level at his request, as the Gero couple kept spoiling him just because he was the family's roach uncle.
As soon as he got up, he used all his one hundred fifty million power levels to rush to the kitchen without braking the house, and starting the most epic cook off never recorded in history. He was duelling against himself, jokingly Mai qualified it as shadow cooking. At that instant, various top chefs shivered for some reason, as feeling that a hidden monster woke up, and took from them the position of number one chef.
During this time, an armored van was tailing a limousine, escorted by four military cars and two helicopters. The two delinquents were squeezed between the four men in black, questioning all their life choices until this instant.
Their parents were killed in front of them during a bank robbery just after they turned six. They were placed in an orphanage soon after, and all their personal belongings were confiscated under the guise of equality, to prevent the other kids to be jealous. Not knowing how to externalise their pain and frustration, at first they started with casual mischief, then stealing from the kitchen, then beating and stealing from kids on playgrounds as they very soon learned themselves that the world allowed the survival only of the fittest.
The three adoption attempts failed, as for the two first times they got separated, and the third time, they set the house in fire as the couple they were living with, locked them up in their room most of the day.
Then they pushed the boundaries a bit further and further away, until they turned sixteen and moved to the Youth Center. However they soon understood that the Center was taking a share of eighty percent of their salary, and not happy to be exploited nine hours per day in a meat processing factory, in horrible working conditions, they shifted to do what they were good at. The three car thefts paid them sixty thousand Zennis, and they didn't have to share it with anyone. But here they were now, packed in a van with the authority and shipped somewhere only Haruhi Suzumiya knew where to.
Then the convoy stoped. As the doors opened, they saw that the military escort and the helicopters were turning around and going away. However, yet different security agents brought them into a military building, and surprisingly, a short, round and old man they recognised as the Minister of Defence, was searched and controlled with them. And at their dismay, they got controlled at nine other additional check points. The panic intensified, the young woman's eyes struggled to contain the tears while the young man clenched his sister's hand, attempting to reassure her the best he could under the surveillance of the men in black. And finally the van stopped again, they expected another check up, but the metallic sound of an opening portal was heard and the van continued forward slowly. Then it stopped again. As the doors were opened, they expected to discover a military camp or a secret facility, but as they got out of the car, all their expectations were shattered. It was a beautiful garden full of exotic flowers and trees, and in front of them stood a giant manor like propriety.
As Mai opened the door just to discover a smiling official and two kids, trembling and tears in the eyes, squished between four men in black, she could only ask: "What the fuck?"