Kevin opened his eyes, now in a glass tube that was covered in water. "Where the hell am I!?" he screamed, banging on the glass as he cried for help. "Oh, you're awake!" Natalie exclaimed, appearing right behind Kevin's tube and scaring him. "Who the hell are you!?" he screamed. "Why am I in here, LET ME OUT RIGHT NOW!"
She silently giggled, watching as he continuously struggled. "Don't worry, I have no intention to kill you! You have a nice body though!"
"What the hell ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?" he screamed. "What happened to me, TELL ME RIGHT NO-"
Suddenly, the door to the lab opened, and a woman holding a chainsaw walked through the door. "Oh, he's awake," Vinnie watched, glancing back at Natalie. "Are you going to let him go now?" Natalie stared closely at him. "Sure!" she said willingly. She opened the door to the tube, draining the water completely and giving Kevin the authority to walk out. "My name's Natalie, and this is Vinnie!" she said. "Sorry for kidnapping you, it's not my fault that I like to scientifically examine people's bodies." Kevin screamed, dropping onto the floor as Vinnie looked at him silently. "You're scaring him," Vinnie commented.
"My name's Kevin," he said, still shivering from the temperature of the water. "Thanks for randomly picking me up and bringing me here, I guess."
"No problem!" Natalie exclaimed. She placed her hand on Kevin's shoulder, and her other hand on his head. "See, Vinnie? I'm not the soulless scientist you think I am!"
Vinnie sighed, putting her hand in her face. Natalie and Vinnie were childhood friends - however, they both had opposite personalities. "So, did you have an encounter with your archenemy again?" Natalie asked Vinnie. "Yep," she replied. "He finally revealed that he wanted to kill me because of his best friend's death, but I managed to get him out of it for the four hundredth time."
"Mhm," Natalie said, changing a poster labeled "VINNIE'S BOYFRIEND ENCOUNTERS" from 399 to 400. "I thought I asked you to change that name," Vinnie reminded her. Natalie ignored this reminder, and pulled Kevin to her computer seat. "I also apologize for my inventions in the sea, I made sure they didn't inflict any life-threatening injuries on you, though!"
Kevin laughed nervously, remembering the fact that he had destroyed multiple waves of them. "Yeahhhh," he replied.
Volume 12, Chapter 5 - Welcome to ART!
It is now 24 hours before the meeting between LUO and Dreamalia commences. In the meeting place where they are scheduled to meet, it is said that there is a door named the "Great Jorgen Door," which was known as not only the biggest set of doors in the world, but were created by great scientist Jorgen, who had lived in ART for 5 years and had caused multiple scientific breakthroughs on the island. Ever since he had left, however, the quietness refused to envelop ART when an 11-year old Natalie occupied his lab and gave it a few renovations. Since then, the island of ART has continued these achievements, and is crowned as one of the most advanced islands in the world of entities.
Gerald continued to snoop around the crowded streets of ART, which were filled with humans and robots that scurried across the island. Behind him was Team ENTITY (except Kevin, who was at the lab with Vinnie and Natalie.) "Flying cars, free cotton candy, what doesn't this island have!?" he delightfully exclaimed, accidentally sticking the cotton candy he was holding in Samantha's hair. "I wonder if Kevin's okay," Michael said to Victor, looking at the giant screens that stood on the buildings. "Of course he's okay, you piece of shit!" Alex chimed, starting yet another quarrel with his rival. "Wait," Victor whispered to everyone, watching as the roads around them cleared. "Why are people making way?"
Samantha glanced across the now-empty roads, watching as Notch and Princess Layla of Dreamalia were walking straight in their direction. "They're going to notice us!" Alex panicked, hiding behind Victor as they continued to walk closer. Without saying a singular word to each other, Samantha passed Princess Layla and her bodyguards along with her friends, but both sides felt something from each other that wasn't normal. Taking a few more steps away from Samantha, Layla squinted her eyes. "Are you okay?" Notch asked her, instantly noticing she felt uncomfortable.
"It's nothing, I just felt something weird between me and that girl back there." she replied mysteriously.
Meanwhile in the lab, Kevin, covered by black smoke alongside Vinnie and Natalie, stood in silence as they all stared at the shattered test tube on the floor. "Don't worry, Kevin!" Natalie reassured, "This is an everyday experience for a top-notch, high-quality, alluring scientist like me!" Vinnie glanced back at her. "Maybe you chose the wrong words to describe yourself with."
Vinnie picked up the test tube and threw it into the broken glass disposal box, taking a towel and wiping the smoke off of her and Kevin's face. "Anyway, do you guys want to see a prototype I made last night!?" she enthusiastically asked. Before they could agree, however, she pressed a red button, revealing a spaceship-like flying car that could fit about 6-7 people. "How many all nighters did you pull to make this, Vinnie?" Natalie asked.
"About 6 or 7."
"Of course."
Nearby the laboratory, Princess Layla, accompanied by Notch and her bodyguards, met up with the six LUO generals. Itsura, standing in front, held his hand out and expected a handshake from both Notch and Layla, which was returned with respect. "Remember the plan, and don't disappoint Nana," he advised. "You seem like you've already submitted to us, but in case you try anything, I have an assassin in your country as we speak, ready to kill everyone if you betray us."
"I won't try anything, this is for the better of not only Nahata, but for the world," she replied. However, in the country of Dreamalia, the assassin watched the lively country as he held a transponder in his hand and a knife with mysterious marks in his other. "I am in position," he said on the transponder. "You promise that I'll be able to get revenge on my country once this meeting finishes?"
"Yes," another masculine voice replied to him, deeper than usual. "Carry out this mission like a good little dog, and I'll get you to the Land Of Trila, former president Uma Sahua."