Chapter 21: Voyage

This was definitely not the news Levi had wanted to hear. Although the journey was originally scheduled the next day, he felt he needed a day at least. Curse that man!

Levi looked at his reflection in the huge mirror back at his 27th floor room. He was about to put his life in danger in an unrequired expedition. He scanned himself with the mirror as he got into his lavender. Look at him, he used to be a diseased kid with no further ambition in life. Levi gave a poignant chuckle, he was supposed to be rotting six feet below the ground with no one mourning him, no family, no friends. That is, if anyone would be generous enough to bury him.

Now, here he was. A sudden change of life has given him a new view. Which is better, dying slowly of an excruciating illness or getting ripped apart by regenerated creatures? Levi smiled and completed his clothing. Either of them, there will be pain or fear. But now, at least he could die alongside some friends he made, alongside Brody, Abby and...Jamie.

They will surely give him hope and the driving will, even Meera the doctor had wished he would return. He would return, he has Lexi with him, doesn't he? And of course he just unlocked Azure yesterday, that could be enough to protect him, wouldn't it?

He sighed and put on his boots. Where was he in this life actually? Four days of drastic change and he can't remember some events, now he has a talking voice in his head that says it can give him abilities. Crazy, they call him.

After all this, what next? Another raid? He has never experienced the Ròkks before but he has heard lots of stories from older people. And the way it sounded, it seems the world could be split in two, darkness and bright sky.

Levi wished his father was here, he was a smart man. He needed someone he knew to be with him, someone extremely close, like family. Everyone here is so foreign, that is except Brody. Everything is so new and too fast for him to comprehend and perhaps, this could lead him to a psychotic break. He was stupid for ever running away from home, infantile and stupid! He wanted to cry, he needed to cry.

There was a knock on his door.

Levi comported himself and wiped away the hanging tears. He opened the door, revealing Abby and his best friend. Abby had completely loosed her hair and it was full afro now, while Brody had a black band around his.

Levi forced a smile, maybe he had forced it, he wasn't sure. They are really with him.

The three went down the elevator and outside into the open space. The sun was out and it wasn't scorching, it only emitted red gentle rays on their faces, from the bright light beamed onto his face, Levi could hardly make out what he saw.

Far away, next to the horizon of the open space, there was a huge aircraft, sleek, pointy and metallic. Wow, Levi exclaimed.

He could see Jamie walking towards them with her hair yielding to the gentle wind. She approached them and gave her usual smile. "Can I borrow him for a second?" She asked, taking Levi's palm.

[Not her again]

Brody excused himself away and Abby had succumbed too, only because Brody had. She gave Jamie a hostile glare and Levi, a better one, before walking the opposite way.

Jamie wrapped her arm around Levi's as they walked towards Loras who was next to the jet.

"Would this be your first time on an aircraft?" She asked.

"Yeah," Levi replied. She was tall, but he was still taller by a few inches.

"You know the funny thing? This is the last voyage to The South Wing. So, we're kind of the iconic ones," she chuckled with a turn and smiled at him. "The Academy can't provide Meetegen anymore and that..." She pointed at the dark blue painted VTL jet, "That runs on Meetegen."

[I could tell]

From far away, Levi could see a lot of academics crowded together, bounded by a long rail and the securities. Wow, they are all here to see them off? He could swear he spotted Chase and his casted arm.

"Okay!" Loras hollered with excitement as they approached him. Abby and Brody arrived a few seconds later, while Nate and Paige emerged from the jet. "We call this baby Gravity Fall!" He proclaimed, caressing the bunker of the jet.

"Here we are," Robert said from behind, he had just arrived in one of the golf-cart vehicles with two security details with him. Robert talked with Loras for some time while the ongoing academics returned to their hostility. Levi could notice Robert's domineering attitude and how Loras was nodding to everything he said. "Alright," Robert said with a swing of his hand. "Bon Voyage."

The academics climbed the short steps into the door of the sizable jet. Inside was definitely not what Levi expected. It was quite small, a low ceiling with a few double seats and a narrow aisle. It was hued in light blue and the jet's edges had the same hydraulic movement as the raegers and phasers do. The other parts were just black, which gave availability for the blue to glow calmly on the seats and was embellished with the new leather smell.

Levi could see Box already seated at the end, so that's where he had been all this while. The rest took their seats, Brody sat with Loras at the cockpit, Paige on her own, Nate and Jamie together while Abby and Levi together. Abby had taken the seat next to the window, while Levi sat next to the aisle.

The door closed automatically by itself and the engine turned on. "Brace yourselves," Levi could hear Loras say. The jet rose vertically...