New Age

New Age is the 21st arc and final arc of BOT. Following 5 more years of constant work and improvement, Aaron is finally ready to graduate to become a Cadet Officer, while tensions back at home are to have an explosive end. This arc was preceded by the Exams arc, and succeeded by the Wish arc.

Prepared
For the next 5 years after failing the exams, Aaron has sacrificed everything to become the best in his classes, especially in the NightOps. By the last few weeks before the end of the current Senior unit, Aaron is considered by many of the younger students to be the strongest in all of the NightOps and DayCorp, though many of the older students mention that he couldn't graduate with his old unit in the past. The only students that Aaron really knows in the NightOps are those in the Albera division, which include teenaged Ryan, Omi, and a psychic named Jthema.

During practices one day, Jerso notices that the Albera division is missing from the zone hangar, though simply goes outside to the fields to find Aaron fighting with strivyos against his division along with the Maxtra Somaio and Rangers. While the new NightOps assistant Rao is unsure about his old subordinate goofing around as Corporal, Jerso is fine with it, with NightOps having finished all of their operations for the year, and claims that they especially deserve to have a break this year.

Aaron is busy fighting off the Maxtra with their coordinated strikes, while the Rangers fire at him from afar. The Albera division stand in the back, watching the upperclassmen deal with Aaron. They seem relieved, with Ryan still exhausted from only a short clash against him.

Suddenly, Aaron vanishes from the fighting, and Ryan senses him behind them, as he immediately kicks away Aaron.