Earth Warriors (Undergoing Revision)

Chapter 84 - Leave It All Behind

9 hours later. Unknown location. 

The corridors are wide and spacious and highly lit surrounded by a metallic material, enough for many beings to pass around it to head to any business they can contend with without the risk of bumping or stumbling with each other or anyone else in their path. It's almost as if the base, compared to most others, was created for the purpose of carrying a higher amount of personnel on board to carry out any operation as efficiently as they can be, and as ruthlessly if they are needed to by their own commanders and comrades. 

But not everyone who passes around do so for the purpose of heading to a favorable mission to them, for some, it could be a passing routine to go to a place back and forth, almost like a chore to deal with in most aspects of the Zlocan way. When there's an empty room in a spacious place like this one, one can tell that most have more important matters to attend, outside of their own needs and vices, all in the name to carry out the will of the Kujar, and the path to true strength and evolution. 

The elevator doors from the other side open, revealing the Quripeno twins back in action. It's been a while since they had to leave the frontlines after the incident in San Diego, as their smileless faces indicate, yet this one carries a different form of control and emergency in the way they immediately depart from the elevator while heading to the right side of the room. Something important must be going amiss. 

"You sure about this, sis?" Rioso asks as he glances at her with circles forming around his eyes and wrinkling his brow and even holding her hand as much as he can. 

"Trust in me, I know you'll do it right," she replies without glancing around, and with a near-emotionless tone as well. This is not enough to relax Rioso as he still clings tightly to her hand as they still walk in the seemingly endless corridor, almost with no door on each corner of the room. 

Soon enough, they turn to the left, where they can see a large and steel door on the far end of the corridor, engraved with lots of symbols of Zlocan warriors raising their swords and the image of the Grand House of Tormentradi, a black tower itself. 

Rioso gulps at the sight of this while blinking as well, not used to seeing these kinds of symbols in front of him, and even Mora as well, despite her unfazed look on her face as they walk towards the steel door, all in preparation for what's to come next. As they continue to walk, each footstep gets louder and louder, almost as if this is something that they want dealt with as soon as possible. 

"Rio, if there's some consolation on the Starza test..." Mora mutters. 

"You mean we have Master Kedris for support, right?" Rioso asks back. Mora can only answer with a slow and firm nod as the door opens on itself in the form of a slide, which reveals a room near a railway with many lights in the distance, and many starfighters and some bombers stationed in there as well, almost like it is a hangar of sorts. 

Once they step inside, it seems that there's no one else present in the room, in spite of what seems to be an important event to them. Maybe they must be running late due to an external matter? Or something else entirely? 

But just as they are about to take another step, a voice stops them. 

"You two are right on time, enough to prove what you are made of," the familiar voice says, which prompts the twins to around to see the source of the voice. It's from none other than Kedris, the general and the master with the Zlocans on Earth, all while carrying a firm expression on his face, no sign of fear or intimidation in it as far as one eye can tell. Alongside him are the four armed Zlocan guards, and also Dakrin Cavendish as well. 

"Yeah, ready to see how either of you are willing to lose?" Dakrin says with a sneer on his face, while the Zlocan guards remain static in their positions, not bothering with any sort of response to any of this as the twins still stand there still, eyes wide open from seeing their master in a place like this.