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Year: 8167
Venue: City Hall of Xectar City
3 days after the defeat of Commander Glitch
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"Albur! Albur!"
Mysty shook Albur, Albur snapped out of daydreaming.
"What are you daydreaming about? Mr. Meval is telling you to go up to the stage."
"What, wha- oh."
"Mr. Filix, where is he? Is he present?"
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Turns out, the escape spaceships never left, when they were about to hyperjump and escape the solar system, on the Earth, a huge explosion occurred, and the spikes on the energy reading is completely gone. When they sent drones to investigate, they found out that Commander Glitch is no longer there.
After they returned, they started reconstructing Earth. Using the R.E.C.O.V.E.R. systems, they fixed Earth and recovered every chunk of Earth. The core energy was secured and the whole planet is no longer withering. They also helped repairing sky scrappers, houses, shops, and every CI that wasn't atomically destroyed. The remaining glitches which are digitalized and given knowledge were slowly killed with the help of the RNP robots.
The crew is now a legend on the planet. The Glitch Wipeout Crew is now a name everyone knows, to celebrate their victory, Oswald Meval, the ruler of the planet held an award ceremony at Xectar City, honoring the crew's help.
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Albur walked up to the stage, old Oswald shook hands with him.
"This is our hero! Mr. Albur Filix! One of the defenders of Earth! And us! Humanity!" Oswald announced. Oswald then turned to Albur, Albur bowed before him. Oswald took out a golden medal. He pinned it at Albur's clothes.
"Now, you are given the title, the Last Hero of Earth."
Albur couldn't hold the excitement in his heart, he never knew he would receive such a huge honor.
"And Ms. Mysty Robin, where is she?"
Mysty quickly stood up and walked up to the stage, Oswald also shook her hands, and gave her the same golden medal as Albur.
"We couldn't forget about Ms. Robin, the agile fighter of the crew."
Mysty raised her eyebrow, she turned around and looked at Albur.
"Oh uh, aren't you the agile one? Haha..." Albur laughed awkwardly.
"I think I am kinda just a support...." she muttered.
"Oh yeah, we also couldn't forget about Mr. Hamilton and his R.E.C.O.V.E.R. assistant, where is the assistant now?"
Mysty signaled Covie who is sitting at the seating area to come up to the stage. She noticed it and quickly flew up to the stage. Oswald shook her hand and also gave her the golden medal.
"The R.E.C.O.V.E.R. drone of the team, the healer who helped the team when they are injured."
"No way! I got this medal as well?" Covie flew to Albur and Mysty, looking at her medal, overjoyed.
"You're a part of our team, of course you get a medal as well." said Albur.
"Unfortunately Mr. Hamilton couldn't join us in today's ceremony, could uh, Mr. Filix you give him this medal?" Oswald handed another golden medal to Albur.
"Oh, sure thing! I will give him this after this." said Albur.
"Well after the medals are given, we couldn't forget our special gift." said Oswald.
The crew looked at Oswald, confused. Oswald snapped his fingers, the giant cloth behind them was taken off. Its a 20 meter tall statue of the crew, consisting Albur, Mysty, Johnson and Covie.
"Damn! We got a statue as well?" exclaimed Albur.
"Wow, that's really a special gift." said Mysty.
"How did they made my statue levitate?" asked Covie.
The crowd cheered for them, fireworks and rainbow lights could be seen in the sky. The crew raised their medal up in the air, happy and overjoyed.
"Man I wish Johnson was here, I want to see him have social anxiety." said Albur in a sarcastic tone.
Mysty and Covie glared at him,
"Kidding!"
"Do the heroes have any speech they want to give?" Oswald handed over the microphone, ALbur looked at the gals. They chuckled awkwardly and shook their head. Albur rolled his eyes, and took the microphone.
"Testing, hello?" Albur cleared his throat.
"On behalf of my team, I thank all of you for granting us this honor. By the way, first things first, who it the sculptor of the statue of us?" he asked.
A guy raised his hand,
"Me! I made the statue!"
"I gotta say, that is a DAMN GOOD statue! Nice work! That is what I call art!"
"Thank you!"
"Ok, um, everyone says that I am the one who saves Earth right? Just because I am the one who killed Commander Glitch. But that is not true, I was able to kill Commander Glitch, because I have a team. " Albur turned around and looked at Mysty.
"Mysty, the person that tried super hard to keep our team together, without her, we will break apart very soon. And also, if it wasn't her, we would've died so many times."
Mysty blushed, and turned her face around.
"And also Covie, our magnificent healer. To be honest we could still be alive is all because of her, the cute little healing drone."
Covie winked at the crowd, and giggled.
"And Wilton, ugh, that betrayer, where is he again, I remember he isn't dead right? Your, highness." Albur looked at Oswald.
"Oh, yeah, well he is now in Prison That Shift Persona, he wasn't that sinned to get a death penalty, but he got a life sentence." said Oswald.
"Good, that terrible blud should be there for life. But really, how did he survive falling into a lava crater? That is insane....no wonder Breach want him to join glitches.....bro is a god of survival...." Albur stopped thinking of that.
"And also, Johns...John, if it wasn't him, we wouldn't even survive the time the glitch's invasion, and captured by them like everyone here. Every achievement we got, and every reward we got, he takes 90% credit."
"But according to his employees he ain't someone good, and he is like very mysterious, he won't be after this though, he couldn't live on the moon anymore."
"Because his employees don't understand him. That's why." said Albur.
"I understand him, he's not someone bad." said Covie.
"Yeah, see? His little drone said this as well."
The crowd laughed, Oswald also laughed.
"Is this a comedy lecture or something?" he laughed and said.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"Also, uh, everyone also asked why do I have that good fighting skill when I was just an ordinary news reporter. Well, I think I played too many games. I gotta thank my parents, they didn't kill me because I played too many games."
The crowd laughed again.
"You little brat! What potty humor is that?!" Albur's dad stood up and yelled.
Albur's mom simply laughed,
"Oops, I'm in trouble..."
The crowd laughed even harder, Oswald also couldn't stand it. Mysty laughed while crossing her arms, only Covie is confused, not able to understand the humor.
"Let's just be serious, I have to thank my parents, and....wait..."
Albur saw a booth across the city hall, he looked closely, and it was his uncle's noodle booth.
"Was that...Unc? What are you doing there?" asked Albur.
His uncle noticed Albur speaking to him.
"Don't mind me! Just selling noodles here, continue your speech!" his uncle laughed after that.
The ceremony ended in Albur's 'potty humor' speech. Everyone went back home, the crew said good bye to the staffs of the ceremony and left the hall.
"Well Covie, looks like you and your master have to live at me and Mysty's place, the moon hut is taken away." said Albur.
Covie didn't reply, like she didn't hear him.
"Covie?" Mysty tapped her head.
"Wha- uh, yes?" she asked.
"What are you thinking?"
"I-uh, I wish master was here, it feels empty without him."
"Oh yeah, I gotta give him this medal. I will have to go to visit him."
"Me and Covie will take a taxi and go back home."
"Alright, be careful."
Albur hopped onto his car, he activated manual mode, he would wish his car can drive him there automatically, but he haven't fix it completely. Albur drove to the highways, and after a couple minutes of driving, he parked his car, and hopped off the car, in front of a facility, the word written on it is 'Prison That Shift Persona'.
Albur walked into the facility, he entered the visitor zone. The security made sure he was an approved visitor and checked him for security screening, after that, he led him into the place.
Albur sat down in front of a glass wall and waited. There is a window next to the glass wall, which views the prison court. After a few minutes, a guard brought a person to that same partition where Albur is sitting. Its that familiar figure, but in orange jail uniform, Johnson Hamliton, or John Hamilton. He took the phone on the wall, Albur took the phone as well.
"How you doing here?" asked Albur.
"Pretty good, I just, couldn't really adapt to the live without a right arm." Johnson sighed.
"Mr. Hamilton, there's a package for you." a guard entered the room, and he handed over a small box to Johnson.
"By the way, this is a gold medal given by the ruler of our planet, as a honor for our help of saving the planet."
"O, k....."
"They didn't find out who you are right?" Albur whispered.
"No, still good. Don't worry about it."
"Ok, by the way, what crime have you done to get yourself ending up here?"
"Oh, let me think, hmm, I shoplifted, I lived on the moon which is surprisingly unallowed, I nuked the military base, I enter systems to kill glitches without permission and...that's it."
"Wow, these gave you a life sentence?"
"Yeah, now I get to live here for eternity, yipee...."
"I could...mail you a shovel. And you will be a free man in....."
"HELL NAH! I don't want my sentence to become a death penalty! Hell no!"
Albur laughed, but stopped after seeing Johnson's serious face.
"Well then, wish you could adapt prison life." He said.
"Mmmm...actually it's not that bad...at least I have a human betrayer that I can beat up." Johnson said as he looked outside the window. Albur looked out as well. At the court, he saw a familiar person, Wilton Notlim. He is holding a camera, when facing against 5 guards.
"Hey! Prisoner Notlim! When are you gonna take that photo? Aren't you a cameraman?"
"Shut up! I am looking for a better angle!"
Albur laughed as he looked at Wilton, Johnson simply shook his head, and smirked.
"Bring Covie next time you visit, I would crash out if I didn't see her for a long time."
"Bet."
But then, the door behind Johnson opened, a man with a grey moustache and grey hair wearing a uniform and a neck tie walked into the room. He approached to Johnson, and cleared his throat.
"Prisoner Hamilton, I got some news for you." said the man.
Johnson turned around to him.
"What?"
"Who is that?" Asked Albur.
"I'm Lucas, Lucas Shiftlock. The warden of Prison That Shift Persona. " said the man. he then cleared his throat.
"Anyway, prisoner Hamilton, the court had confirmed your sentence. It won't be a life imprisonment. "
Johnson raised his eyebrow, but a bad feeling rose in his heart.
"Well....what is it?"
"The judge looked through your records. Even though you did many terrible crimes, but because you gave extremely big contributions to the planet and you are one of the Earth savior, the court has reduced your sentence from life imprisonment to three months in custody." Said the warden.
Johnson's eyes opened wide, he couldn't believe the warden's words.
"What....really...Warden Shiftlock, you're not kidding?"
The wardens smirked and adjusted his neck tie.
"Enjoy your 3 months here." The wardens then walked away.
Johnson could not believe it, his contributions turned into karma and returned to him and helped him.
"Well, looks like someone isn't staying here forever."
Johnson chuckled, despite his face is still emotionless.
"By the way, I heard that you left 'New News'."
"Yeah, my boss pulled my leg and begged me to not go. But I don't care, the other News reporting company offers way better stuff."
"Congrats, when are you gonna go to interview then?"
"The day after tomorrow, I still need to practice and prepare my resume."
"Need me to help with anything? I am a CEO of a company after all, I have been the interviewer of interviews many times."
"You can help?"
"Welcome to the company, may I know what is your name?"
Albur noticed it, he smirked before sitting straight, and cleared his throat.
"Hi, I'm....Albur, Albur Filix."
The End
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