EXT. FIVE-STAR HOTEL - ROOFTOP - GREECE, ATHENS - JULY 20, 2019 - 4:00 PM

Same things never change back in Athens, the lights around the city glow altogether, seeing it like starts on the ground pair it with the howling cold wind makes it more relaxing. Keith Schmidt earned this, he really did. It was a small celebration party in a bar, him dressed in his best, his men were enjoying their time, until that brat came in. Yeah, he ruined the entire party, single-handedly beated them, but it was just one child. Despite he sliced two of his best men's balls, he clearly realized that kid was the one who's parents were murdered on a business trip. However those minor setbacks won't be a problem as the fat lard stands near the edge of the rooftop, smiling evily. His one hand in his pocket; the other is holding a cellphone. He dials a phone number, and waits for an answer. For a moment there was a brief static that was incoherent to hear.

"We got the money.", Keith replies boastfully.

The static comes in again,

"You saw those photos I sent you, right? The looks on their faces?", he chuckles at whatever he's thinking.

The static is back for a third time.

The response made Keith narrows his eyes confoundly, "What? No, of course not. But I have added a bonus for you. Let's say I did a little work on my own.", And lastly, the noise cuts off for several seconds, like a cryptic sentence.

"Yes, you will like her. Thank you very much. I'll see you at the airport later." He smiles politely while ending the call.

A thug wearing a military outfit comes at him. An M4A1 assault rifle is slung behind his back, along with several mags around his waist.

"Boss?", the man called him.

Keith's smile disappeared and faces the man. "Is everything ready?", the man just nodded in a second.

"All set. The bags are full and the boys are taking their time with her. Should be able to quiet her down on our way to the airport. If all goes wrong, our ammo is good for 30 cops max.", he summarized and heads to the door leading down inside the building.

"Good. I've had enough problems to deal with.", he said with relief. "But boss, what about that kid? What if he comes back?", Keith turns back to him,

"What? And slice your balls the second time? Don't make me laugh, son. He's just a brat.", Keith exits the rooftop, even the heavy footsteps echoed from inside can be heard clearly from here.

INT. HEADQUARTERS - ALO'S ROOM - 4:20 PM

Alo covers his face with a white fluffy pillow, lying on his now messy bed. Regretting his brash self for endangering his little sister's life and blames himself for the death of his beloved uncle. The airconditioner hums quitely inside his room, but it wasn't helping at all. The lights are dimmed to set his depressing mood.

I might as well leave, while I still can. Richard can probably use Johan as my replacement.

Alo gets back up, not even surprised to see Richard, squatting down as if he feels the cold floor. His back is completely backed against the wall, his eyes are locked on the floor.

"What do you want?", he asks the hologram with sadness.

The doctor stares at him with pity and just smiles at him, "I thought you might need some company."

"Fuck off.", that reply made Alo even worse, everybody has said the same lines over and over and over and over again, and it didn't help him, not one bit. Right now, he doesn't even care if someone just kept spouting hopeful quotes, it's easier said than done, as they say.

Richard sighs longingly, "My parents left when I was a young boy no higher than your knee. Had my relatives take care of me for a long time. Going fishing, touring around America's greatest landmarks, and eating at the parks full of happy families that don't even care of the war that brewed behind them miles and miles away. Unlike mine, who had to go to support and fight."

"Until the news of their death reached my house. You know how it is.", he snickers and looks at the nature through the glass wall. "Gerald and Clarissa. Hmph. I still remembered their names etched on their gravestones. And how they smiled whenever they arrived from work."

Alo, wanting to hear the rest of the story, pays attention to Richard, sitting on the bed. "How did they die?"

Richard didn't want to remember any of his memories, which is why the only reason why he is cryptic regarding the history of the mansion, and most importantly, the ominous crystal itself that passes on from host to host. "Gerald died from a failed experiment, the military didn't even bother to save his works, just abandoned them for the German Nazis to make more weapons."

"Not so soon after, Clarissa committed suicide in her office building. She wished for a happy family. But who could blame her, she was naive after all. Reports says she jumped off from the room and shattered her skull, while Dad...he...he was...", Richard tries his best not to glitch out.

Around Richard is static that covers around his body, a sign of negative emotions running through the system, which it does not comprehend human feelings. Richard didn't speak for a moment.

"... he was melted...down to the last tissue and bone. If your family died by the guns, imagine if they died far worse than mine did. You can imagine me shouting at the top of my lungs, holding my mum's dead body and seeing my Dad's liquefied form inside a glass jar. And at that point, it made me go for revenge, eventually I met the one who's responsible for everything."

"And? What did you do to him?", Alo leans forward, eager to know about Richard's past, or at least, a chunk of it.

Richard outright smiles at Alo innocently, "I let him go...",

That answer made Alo scream mentally at Richard's actions. Sure the guy knows what he's doing, but he's clearly haven't tried revenge in its core, to Alo, it's illogical for someone to deny that life is unfair and the only way to deal with it is to fight back until it goes your way.

"Of course, I know what you're thinking. The guy was a chief of my Dad, a higher-up. He ordered him to create that experiment. The blood and, techincally his fluids, were on his hands. And I just let him go for it.", he pauses for a moment.

"Like I said, I was your age, I never knew what's the feeling of getting back at someone, especially that turned your whole life upside-down.", he chuckles sheepishly. Then his smile changes to a distressed frown. His hologram structure begins to glitch on and off, another sign of negative emotions, albeit a little more stronger than earlier. "Because everytime you think about those kinds of memories, it strays you from who you really are. And that's...", the glitch begins to take over his body, starting from his heart. "...utterly terrifying."

Richard wearily stands up on his feet, images of him moving erratically and mismatched colors can be seen visually, similar to the scary glitch effects of DDLC (Doki Doki Literature Club). His grunts are now distorted, his voice also changing to a deep, out of pitch, tone.

"I imagined myself, looking like a meager delinquent, holding a rusty, yet bloodied shiv, losing my mind as I wait

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Much like the Blue Screen of Death, Richard glitches out of the hologram system, then comes back seconds later his hologram color went back to normal, however Richard's cheerful side did not for the time being. "I'll go check on our hacker, see if she's found Keith's location."

"Richard, I -", Alo was about to say something before the hologram disappears before him, without even looking directly.

INT. CENTRAL COMMAND

Richard comes back in the Central Command room, seeing Johan impatiently tapping her fingers on the desk. He approaches her, clearing his throat along the way to catch her attention. "Any leads?"

Johan, in turn, looks at the doctor, "Yeah, and it's a big one. Check this out.", she clicks on an audio file and plays it for Richard to hear. As soon as the recording ends, Johan goes to Google Maps and collect the information of the recording to locate it's source. "The call is originating from a five-star hotel in Athens. Based from what I heard, Keith's already got the money from the Green Bank, thanks to his bank account. He also has a hostage and lotta men with a lotta guns. It's gonna be a massacre at the airport."

Richard tries to think further on the recording, "What about the other caller? Did you found out who it is?", Johan frowns on her desk, moderately bothered.

"Nope. Caller's using a new kind of voice synthesizer. God, I hate those things!", she crosses her arms and huffs. Richard nods cordially, in spite of the unfavorable response.

"It's alright. The problem is how stop Keith from killing all those people and get away without a scratch.", he starts to pace around the desk, thinking of a solution to this problem but all possible ways leads to a bad outcome. Johan could send the information to the police on that country, but that would risk their location being found, and this whole "saving the world" will be nothing but mainstream entertainment. Not only that, he has only two people on his group, sending a group is a plausible plan, yet one is plain suicide.

His thoughts are halted when the elevators suddenly opened itself, accompanied by heavy footsteps.

"I'll do it."

Richard and Johan see Alo, wearing a dark blue hoodie jacket, thick pants, and hard boots. Alo's determined look made Richard instantly knows what's his plan is. and the doctor, who just thought of every possible way is a bad idea, immediately disagrees.

The hologram maldy walks up to him, "Oh ho ho ho NO!, you're NOT going anywhere! Keith has goon soldiers - "

" - They're amateurs...They probably don't know where the safety mode is. - ", Alo replies with no concern.

"You barely even mastered your powers - ", Richard retorted, knowing the brawler has only acquired one or two skills that involves offensive capabilities, as for the defensive? Not so much.

Alo raises 3 fingers to specify his counter statement, " - I destroyed 3 groups of deadly robots that survived decades ago with a few punches. - "

Richard thinks of something, then finally concluded of a situation, the teen couldn't answer, "The public eyes will SEE you! - ".

"Then? I'll get rid of them if I have to. Just pretend it was collateral damage.", It was his turn to be appalled by Alo, giving him a disgusted look. This is a different Alo he's seeing. No longer the lazy violent drunkard that he is before, but a developed, powerful yet vengeful man.

"I'm giving you a choice here, either you let me sneak me to Greece with that teleporter, or I could expose myself to everybody by buying a plane ticket.", Alo finally does an ultimatum for the doctor to choose.

Richard lets out a long exasperated sigh, "Okay. But for both of our sake's, don't die out there. The teleporter has already been activated, all you need is the coordinates for the airport.

Alo paid no heed to Richard's advice, confident of his electrifying powers and his thirst for revenge has been pushed to the limit, he then takes out his phone and types in the latitude and longitude of Keith's location on the keyboard of the control panel. Once done, the teleporter glows in bright blue and Alo quickly steps on the platform. He glances at Richard, who frowns and looks somewhere else, presumably doubtful on Alo's revenge quest, whilst Johan is surprised to see a real working teleporter and watches as Alo disappears to nothing but pixels much like Richard disappears in his hologram form.

Johan watches Richard going to a server block with a blank face, "So, that's it?".

Richard heads to a server block, looking for something, "Yep."

"Not to jinx or anything, but he''s going to die out there.", Johan tries to convince Richard to do something, yet stating the obvious isn't going to help.

"Yep. I can only do so much within a 1000 radius.", saying the same answer, still looking around the server blocks of the supercomputer until he stops at one far from Johan's line of sight. "Besides,", he takes something that glows brightly similar to Alo's gauntlets, " - I'm not going to stop him.", he peeks over at her with a reassuring smile. "You will."

Johan unconsciously opens her mouth, now looking like the "Surprised Pikachu Face" meme, "What..."

Richard, despite being a hologram, he holds a piece of the crystal that Alo has and carefully places it on the desk of the supercomputer. "Mrs.Estrada, I understand you have no idea what our goals are or how do we manage to exist with little to no contact. But I would like to ask a personal favor from you...along with a proposition.

Johan tries to piece everything together, and gazes at him suspiciously. "You planned this one, did you?". He just freely laughed at her.

"What can I say? I always. ALWAYS. Have contigencies."