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KodiaX987
Mar 20, 2002, 09:34 PM
Sky.

Blue sky.

Clouds.

White clouds.

Sun.

Bright white sun.

Blue. White. Good colors.

Hell. Red. Fire. Burn.

Burn...

I cannot help it. I want home.

They all turned at me. All those lives. Uno in particular.

Uno was the first life. It was the creator of the Endless Song. The disc of imagination, dreams, power, and amazement. It looked like something, spoke like someone... My personal nickname for it was Uno. We all respected Uno.

I had been feeling rather odd these past moments. I had been watching from a distance all these happenings to my friends. I was disturbed.

The Twisted Song has warped you, one life said.

My mind went blank, drops of sweat covered my face. I fell to my knees on my little cloud, and cried. O, how I cried.

I wiped my tears, and hid myself behind my hair. Stealthily, I peered at the world down below. My friends. My very dear friends.

And me, up here. So comfortable on my little cloud in my little world.

I want them here. They are good people.

Uno stared at me. The being shook its head.

I say we rather close it up, he stated. I say that we turn our backs to the world, and call the game a statlemate. Both kings cannot move, and both queens have been eaten. We are both helpless. It would be useless to lose any more souls.

But what about them? Those down below? They saved my life... They saved our little secret... They saved our world.

How?

By making a difference in their own world. They are on our side.

Uno retreated. I had won the argument.

I neatly backflipped down onto the world. I landed on the flower path, and carefully sat down among them. I began tapping my foot to find myself a beat, and then searched the world to find them.

One.

Two.

And... Three. My mind extended to all of them at once. I tied the bonds together, and began telling them, no matter what they were doing.

My friends. Severance Seven. Mortimer Kirk. Lara Blackhawk.

To the attention of you all... I have come back for a tiny fraction of time, to tell you of something wonderful.

I - we - have all seen you defend the Endless Song, and you have suffered through lifetimes worth of warth and pain.

But now, you all know our little secret. What the Endless Song is, what happened to it, and how it can be used. The bad news is that what you know is true... The good news is that this is not all of the truth you know.

The Endless Song was sung first by something I came to nickname Uno. Uno had a vivid imagination. All the time, it would think about characters, places, fantastic realms where the physics are limitless and changed, where the chemistry of the world is taken to a new and strange level, where events beyond the understanding of language could happen once every second. Uno thought so much about it, that it became this world. Uno encompassed the Endless Song into itself. Many mistook it as suddenly autistic, but it was because it did not need to talk to anyone anymore. Uno was perfectly in ease with its new and perfect world, with everyone happy, and Uno doing amazing things in the real world, without noticing it too much. Uno did it simply by fun. And it amazed people.

And when Uno died, it cut a little piece of Heaven and brought it into a nice, comfortable little spot for itself to be alone again. But when he died, the Song died as well... because no one could experience its effects anymore. So Uno recorded the Song on a disc, and sent it back into your world, to someone who would know how to appreciate it.

But, as soon as the Song hit its second life, it was discovered by Master, a relative of Uno. We did not know the name of master, nor his relation to Uno. Uncle? Cousin? Son? We do not keep information about those who want to hurt us, because we are not interested about them.

Master stole the disc from its owner, and copied it for himself. What he had all along was an imperfect, burned disc. The sadness of early technology. With this new copy, Master could do everything Uno could, and used his knowledge of his newfound powers to extend his life. Whenever his body would get old, he would steal a new one, and use it.

The first soul, a ball of problems for Master's first attempt. In the fury of the capture, the soul stole the original Endless Song, and flew away with it. As soon as it was away, the soul peered at the odd patterns drawn by Uno, and began listening to it. Seeing that person to be a good one, Uno created a body for that person to use.

That person used the Endless Song for good. He sang some new parts to it, and whenever Master would steal a body, Uno would grant the Engless Song to that soul, and tell that soul "You have been stolen of your rightful body. Please accept my donation, and use your newfound power for the good of the people and yourself."

The Song went on, from life to life, embedded into each soul.

Then came me. I was born out of two newmen: Gregory and Helene Nainsev. Their short life span made it that I was born before Master had found a new body. He was still in a young one at the time, but in a clash, killed the owner of the Endless Song. The disc spinned away, never to be seen by him again.

The disc was found by my parents. They had no disc player, and thus the Song stayed unused...

As I was born, and brought to my home, the disc was the first thing that I saw. It looked so beautiful, with its patterns, its perfect circle. I picked it up. It merged with me. Like the souls, my brain became a disc player and writer, listening to bits of the Song, writing new ones describing my life, what I saw, what I could imagine.

In the meantime, Master had been experimenting with the Twisted Song. He created copy after copy. Some survived, some were snapped, some incinerated, some never to be seen again. What Mortimer had shot was one of those copies. What Severance Seven had shot was, too, one of those copies. The first one, in fact. You two had erased the last of the Twisted Song. The world is now safe.

You now know the possibilities of the Endless Song. I am sorry for being so selfish, and never sharing it with you...

I waited for an answer. Before I could hear anything, I saw a cheery face pop in front of my eyes. It was the sixty-fourth life. She handed me a disc, which I peered at... It changed colors, whirling and dancing colors. It was beautiful.

She opened her mind for a few moments, and let me in. What I saw was truly beautiful. Circles, triangles, shapes danced in front of her eyes. Letters and numbers were colors, feelings could be tasted. Sounds could be seen. Music could be touched.

Why didn't she let anyone else know before?

Because, she answered, I thought all along this was the normal way to view things.

...

What a concept!

She was gone.

My friends. Please come and see me, on the flower path. I have an incredible feeling to give to all of you.

I waited for them, comfortably bundled up within my hair...

M_BlackHawk
Mar 21, 2002, 01:26 PM
Oh, good one, Kodi. OK...here's Lara.
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It was early in the afternoon as Lara BlackHawk had decided to take her new child,Sera, for a walk in the flower path she walked with Rhiana, so many years before. Just to be safe, the HUnewearl had carried a red handgun with her, and a red saber at her side.

She doesn't know why she decided to take this walk today, but it just felt right. She and her husband were not long before retiring from the Hunter's Guild, and letting Jessica and Rhiana continue on in their stead.

Sera seemed to enjoy these walks with her mother. She always did have this smile about her when they were out here on the flower path. When she was born, Rhiana told Lara that she coud sense a strong tech ability in Sera, and promised to teach her the way of a force when she was old enough.

Jessie, on the other hand, usually teamed up on quests with her sister, and the two androids, Galveris and Maya. They were out on a mission today. It was too quiet at home, with Mike out taking care of other business, so Lara was out here on the flower path.

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That's it for me for now

later.

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Mar 21, 2002, 03:13 PM
That's right, it's the return of my bad spelling....

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"Are you even going to do something? Don't you even care!" she screemed in my face.

"Of course I do!" I yelled back, "it's just that a job like this one takes time!"

"Time? Time! You've had a week! For all you know these theives could come back to my house and hurt me!"

"Settle down now," I said, "the thing is I've been trying to trake these guys down and I haven't found anything. Even still, I doubt they'll hit your place again. If you are in trouble call my number and I'll be there in a jiffy." I handed her my card with a smile.

"Well...ok...thank you anyway," she said. Then she left.

I slumped back in my chair and gave a sigh. My mercinary work was going great, a little too great. I got the most pointless jobs in the world. But then again during all the time I've been open I've gotten enough mesta to get by and some extra to go out and have some fun. I guess I can't complain.

What I basicly did was turn my appartment into an office. It was a nice little place.

I went out back and fell on the bed. My head was throbing like crazy!

The phone rang. "It let it ring," I thought, "I don't want another call today." The mechien picked it up.

"Hey Mort! It's Oliva. Just wanted to make sure our date is still on tonight. I know you got lot's of work to do at the office so cal me if you got the time."

"Oh great!" I said to myself, "another thing I have to think about." Oliva and I just started going out. She was a great person, but at that moment all I wanted to do was sleep. Maybe try to zone out al my problemes.

My friends. Severance Seven. Mortimer Kirk. Lara Blackhawk.

"AH!" I jumped out of bed. I thought I was going crazy.

To the attention of you all... I have come back for a tiny fraction of time, to tell you of something wonderful.

I couldn't believe it! I was hearing her voice inside my head. I listened to what she said silently.

When I was sure she finished I walked over to the door and stormed out. One of my employers was there.

"Oh Mr. Kirk. Am I glad you're here!"

"Talk too me later. I have to go out."

"But sir..."

"Later!" I said.

The flower patch...could she really be back?

Hikosaka
Mar 22, 2002, 04:11 AM
The flowers were starting to bloom again.

Plants seem to engineer their own resurrection. They die, but only with the promise of returning stronger, brighter, and more beautiful. There are none that are alone for long; even the loneliest flower soon makes its own company within a season.

If I had a choice, I'd like to be a flower in my next life.

I took my shears and clipped a few dead leaves off of a potted plant, one of many that lived in the small room I used as a miniature garden. It was warm; the sun was streaming through the high window on the main wall. The piece of sky in the window was a perfect eggshell blue, streaked occasionally with short-lived contrails left behind by transports, moving busily from one place to another.

There was a sound behind me, but I didn't turn around. I knew who it was already. The turquoise mark on my left forearm started to pulse with a soft light as the Mag got near.

"What's wrong, BWS-1?" I said.

I turned around to look at the Mag as it floated uneasily at the door. It had fully evolved into a spiky, purple shelled Madhu. Yet, there was something not quite right with the color of his single glowing "eye"; usually Mags take on the color of their masters, but this one glowed a bluish-green, the same color of the mark on my arm.

It was to be expected. To describe this Mag as unusual would have been an understatement.

I opened my mouth to speak again, but -

'My friends. Severance Seven. Mortimer Kirk. Lara Blackhawk.

To the attention of you all... I have come back for a tiny fraction of time, to tell you of something wonderful....'

That voice! But, she died a long time ago...didn't she?

I stood motionless as I listened to her speak, telling the story of the Endless Song, filling in the gaps and answering questions I didn't even know I had. The voice faded softly away as she finished, leaving me to sit in the quiet of my garden once again.

"Zinackst," I murmured.

I stepped out of my garden room and looked for BWS-1. I found him floating beside the main door, waiting. His turquoise eye flashed at me impatiently as I quickly grabbed a handgun and donned some armor. Though most of Ragol had long since been tamed, there were still a chance of danger in the deep forest.

"Let's get going. The others are probably waiting already," I said to the Mag, who merely flew past me, leaving me to follow as he made a beeline toward the transport rental station.

The transport ride was uneventful. There were few hunters working the forests these days, so the skyway to it was practically deserted, leaving me to drive as fast as I wished. Though it was much slower than a telepipe, I preferred driving; it gave me time to think.

I landed the transport a short distance away, then stepped out into the forest again, and got back onto the Flower Path, where everything began.

M_BlackHawk
Mar 22, 2002, 10:32 AM
Welcome back, Hiko, Moo. Let's make this chapter as great as the first TFFOMP, and Reunions.
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Lara continued to walk along her usual path in the flower field of the forest. She had been here numerous times, but no time had ever had this distinct of an effect on her.

"Sera," she says to the infant in her arms, "I don't think we're alone. But that voice sounded so much like Zinackst. She's been dead for years." The HUnewearl then begins to hear footsteps along the flower path. She turns around to spot Severence 7 coming up behind her, and Mortimer to her side.

"Did you two hear that explanation of the Endless Song, too?" she asks of the two rangers, "I could have sworn that was Zinackst's voice."
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That's it for me for now.

Later

M_BlackHawk

Hikosaka
Mar 22, 2002, 04:57 PM
Great to be back. ^_^
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"Did you two hear that explanation of the Endless Song, too? I could have sworn that was Zinackst's voice."

I looked to see Lara standing a short distance ahead of me, the path seeming to have branched. I waved, quickening my pace until I reached her. I could see Mortimer off to the side and waved him over.

"Yeah, that's why I'm here. It sounded a lot like Zinackst, but if it is her or not, I'd just like to know what's going on," I replied.

I noticed the infant in Lara's arms, and I stepped back a little. Babies make me nervous for some reason.

"Is this your child?" I asked, autoscanning the small being, "What's her name?"

M_BlackHawk
Mar 22, 2002, 08:08 PM
It is great to be RPing another fic, isn't it?
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Lara looks to Severence. "Yes," she replies, "She was born just a few weeks ago. Her name is Sera. Sera LeighAnn BlackHawk. I bring her for a walk around the flower path regularly, just like I did for Rhiana when she was still small. It got a bit too quiet at home today, so I brought Sera out here." Her face then takes on a more serious look. "However, who besides Zinackst would know so much about the Endless Song, and about Master," she thinks out loud, "Let's continue on, and find out what's happening."

KodiaX987
Mar 22, 2002, 09:29 PM
Just a quickie note; as I was formatting some fic, it hit me that non PSO-ers might read the stuff. So I took care to filter out PSO terms as much as possible, such as class names, techs, and some rare weapon names. So Severance's Varista is now known as "Varista handgun" and Lara's Gae Bolg known as "partisan", etc. I advise you do the same thing as you post. It will make it much easier to edit afterwards. M_Blackhawk, good luck in proofchecking all that fic you people did! I usually have to re-read a page 4 or 5 times to find all the mistakes and make sure the text is perfect.

Also, I uploaded new parts to the fic. Not all images are linked though; I will do the ones I know by heart, then insert the rest. Enjoy!

http://www.geocities.com/mistertabarnak/tffomp/tffomp1.html

You may safely surf until page 5 inclusively. Page 6 and following don't exist yet.
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I could hear some people talking just beyond the small bump in the path. I recognized their voices and soul.

I had no clothes on; they were in my coffin...

I stood up, ready to meet them. My ears were pierced by rings. From these, a small chain ended in a hook to hold a disc on each side, as fancy earrings. They felt a tad uncomfortable, but the pressure would relieve later.

The people seemed to have stop. I took advantage of this moment of peace to dress myself up with some more precision. I loosened the toga of hair covering my body, and let it fall to a free state. Then, I moved the strands into different directions, playing with the shades, until I was into my most presentable formal dress of hair. Some complex straps went over my shoulders and around my neck. My arms were bare, but my entire torso was covered. The arrangement was tight into a swimsuit pattern, to then fan out in the usual ripples.

I then picked up several flowers, most of them dark blue and white, and lifted up the rest of my hair. I made a basket shape, and dropped the flowers in it. Then, my hair madly turned around and over to catch all the flowers, tying a knot around each of them, fastening them in place. Once I felt all the flowers would remain still, I stopped the movement, and let the rest my hair tie itself into my usual, favorite style; the lower half freely hanging down to my knees, and the upper half neatly tied into a ponytail, which immediately fanned out again to seem to merge with the rest. As a plus, it covered the hair on my back which was used to link to the robe.

Seeing no mirror, I attempted a neat trick. I felt my mind compressing into a tight ball at the back of my head. And then in one short moment, it shot through my forehead, turned around to peek at myself, and then back into my body. I had had just enough time to see myself enough, and conclude that everything was perfect to the last hair.

Now comfortable within myself, I turned to face the origin of the voices, and stopped moving, a tiny welcoming smile upon my face.

Moo2u
Mar 22, 2002, 10:29 PM
"Let's continue on and find out what's happening," said Lara.

I have been unusualy quite. I didn't even say hello or a comforting waves or anything. I was getting curious.

"To tell the truth I almost forgot how to get to this place. It hasn't seemed like it, but it's been a long time." Maybe a little too long...

I let out a sigh, "Why are we even here? Do any of you know? Did all of you happen to hear a little voice inside your head, or am I just going crazy?"

A russel in the bushes near by. I put my hand infront of the pack, "Hold up. Something's there." Slowly I prepared my Varista handgun (the only weapon I had on me at the time) and pointed it at the bushes.

And then there she was. I lowered my gun in amazment. A sort silence.Finally I spoke.

"Zinackst...Ha! It is you!" I said with a smile with quickly turned into a laugh, "I can't believe it! Zinackst, back from the dead..." a few tears overcame my eyes, but being who I am I quickly rubbed them away, not wanted to show my emotions.

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Hehe! Fun! ^_^

M_BlackHawk
Mar 23, 2002, 08:18 PM
Oh,I plan on taking an entire day to work on the page for Reunions. That should make it interesting. ^_^
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Lara stopped in her tracks upon seeing Zinackst. A smile came to her face and a few tears welled up in her eyes.

"It's great to see you again, Zinackst," the hunter says, "So you are alive again."

Sera reaches out toward Zinackst, smiling and laughing.
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later

M_BlackHawk

Hikosaka
Mar 23, 2002, 09:32 PM
Good luck with the fic; I'm sure it'll turn out great. ^_^

Hmm...though, perhaps it'll be easier instead to include a small world background and a glossary of terms for the fic.

It'll involve less editing, and it'll give the reader more information into each term, especially when trying to explain just what a Mag is, not to mention what Pioneer 2, Ragol, various weapons/healing items/techniques, enemies, etc.
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I noticed that Mortimer was unusually silent as we walked on the path. He seemed a little preoccupied; he didn't even try to tease me like he usually did whenever we met.

"Why are we even here? Do any of you know? Did all of you happen to hear a little voice inside your head, or am I just going crazy?" he asked.

"No, we heard it too," I replied, deadpan, "But then, you've been crazy from the start, so never mind."

"Hold up. Something's there."

I also drew my handgun at the sound in the bushes. With Lara and her baby with us, I didn't want to take any chances. My eyes widened as the bushes parted to reveal a small clearing of flowers, the path we were on suddenly seeming to lead naturally toward it, as if it had always been that way.

And standing there, seeming to be dressed in strands of the sky, was Zinackst. She hadn't aged a bit, but then again, I guess death does that to someone.

I compared how she looked right now to my visuals of her in my archived memory, matching various key points of her facial bone structure. It was an exact match; if this wasn't the real Zinackst, she had done her research well.

I put my gun away, but kept it powered up in case I needed to draw it quickly. Mortimer seemed convinced that this was truly Zinackst, but I remained slightly on edge. After all, it took a special sort of motivation to come back from the dead, and usually it wasn't good.

BWS-1 moved from his usual position over my left shoulder and slowly floated toward Zinackst. He made two slow circles around her then returning back to me, the glow of the Mag's eye flashing softly.

[What's with you? Can you tell if she's the real thing?] I said to him, tranmitting in a high frequency, coded language that only androids and Mags could hear, enabling communication between them. He ignored me, continuing his flashing patterns. Sometimes, I wonder just what goes on in that mind of his.

I turned back to the one who looked so much like Zinackst. I hoped deeply that it was indeed Zinackst herself. I wished I was more trusting, but that suspicion saved my life more times than I wished to count.

"Indeed, back from the dead," I said, "Is that really you, Zinackst?"

KodiaX987
Mar 23, 2002, 10:10 PM
Strands of the sky; why you are flatterimg me, Hiko! ^.^
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The girl had been the center of my attention since these past seconds. I opened my arms and gave her a warm hug, then picked her up and lip-synched a hello when her eyes wandered over to my face. My widest smile met her look. She seemed very cheery today. After satisfying myself with a few giggles with the girl, I set her back onto firm ground. I then turned to my friends.

I'm happy that you all came today. I have amazing news for you. Today is the day which will be marked by the closing note of the Endless Song.

I hummed the last note, which was written on the disc on my left earring. I took it out of the hook, and threw it upwards. It flew at high speed towards the sky, and then came back into my hand just as quickly. I had everyone above know of what the last note was.

And now, no one will tamper with the Song anymore. I know it by heart, the other Signers do. Uno wants now to keep the world safe.

Using three fingers, I snapped the disc in halves. They fell to the ground, and insantly vanished from view.

You might not know much of the Song now, but you will later. Soon, like all of us, you will know the Endless Song from the first to the last note.

I have invited you here to tell you that you were heroes in defensing the Song. All the thanks of the world are not enough to show our gratitude. So, I have concocted something wonderful as a gift for you all.

You have been invited to join us into our personal heaven, and leave this world of dangers. You will become almost just like me, and you will all have a little special thing that will make you unique from the rest of us.

I took the other disc from my right earring, and held it up in front of me.

You will be known as the ones who saved and ended the song. The Synesthesian Children. If you wish to experience the new perspective of the world, then I invite you to put away your weapons, your shields, your armor; you will not need them anymore.

Moo2u
Mar 23, 2002, 10:41 PM
This was all going a bit too fast for me and it became somewhat of a shock.

"Heros?" I repeated, "personal heaven? Hold on here! Slow down a bit!"

"When you say 'personal heacen' do you mean that we would be...dead?" I looked over at Sev, "or offline, or whatever. It's not that I don't trust you Zin it's just that...well...you died."

I started to pace, "I don't know. I thought that this was the last I'd see of the song. I mean, Master was destroyed, my copy of the song was destroyed, and I could live my life without worry that someone would be hunting me down over a disc. I thought this was all over," I let out a sigh and repeated, "I don't know. I'm so confused."

M_BlackHawk
Mar 24, 2002, 04:24 PM
Lara looks down at Sera, then to Zinackst. "I still have a family to raise," she says, "Sera here was just born a few weeks ago. I would love to see her grow up like I did with Jessie and Rhiana."
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Later


M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Mar 24, 2002, 08:32 PM
I was taken aback by Mortimer's comment. Truely, I had not expected that question to come up. I had to clarify.

No, you will all be alive and healthy, until your natural death of course. I could have switched back and forth between both places at will if I wanted to.

It really has no name... I like to call it heaven simply because it is simple and beautiful. But you can name it any way you want. "Place", "field", "world", or even "Buenos Aires." You will be free to go wherever you want. You can travel around Ragol, and drop by and have a chat with us, or you can do the other way around. It's like your own, personal place to sit down and talk, and relax.

Hopefully, I had taken the death idea out of their minds. I turned to Lara, with her daughter in the corner of my view.

And your family is invited as well. They took part in saving the Song, and deserve the honors just as you do. Your daughter too. She seems to like the Song a lot. She'll have fun!

I peered at the disc for a second... I then looked at Severance 7, although I was addressing the group.

Your life will go on as usual, only, with some little amazing differences.

To demonstrate my last sentence, my hair bounced up and down once, by itself.

Hikosaka
Mar 25, 2002, 03:29 AM
I looked at the disk Zinackst held in her hand. There were patterns on it...they seemed to spin slowly, changing color. They seemed to sing to me...the air around it seeming to shimmer...

I tore my eyes away from it with some effort, shifting my gaze back at Zinackst.

The end of the Endless Song? From what she had told us, the Song reached through the aeons, continuing and being added to by each soul that was fortunate enough to be able to hear it. But what now that it is ended? It would be safe, yes, and yet with no new entries...it might stagnate...

A sudden wave of sadness took me by surprise; if we were the ones to cause the end of the Song, then we were hardly heroes.

This escaping a "world of dangers"...keeping the world safe by locking away one of the few things that could save it...it seemed more like cowardice than altruism. The offer of becoming one of the Synesthesian Children was tempting...but what of the others of this world? There must be others that are just as worthy of receiving this gift...there is still so much beauty in this world, it seemed not fair that someone like me should receive that gift, when all I ever did was finish something I should have taken care of long ago.

Your life will go on as usual, only, with some little amazing differences.

My life?

My entire life has been a struggle for identity. I had downgraded from an advanced humaniform body to that of a common Ranger model as an assertion of my rights over my own body. I choose my own upgrades, I alter my grid as I wish. I choose, for finally I am my own master, and I know who I am. Even death is on my terms. Barring any accident, I can choose when I wanted to die, if ever. And when or if I die, I want to die as myself.

Nothing enhanced. No special powers. I want to leave the world as I came, from nothing, to nothing.

But...

Maybe I'm just afraid.

Zinackst was offering something truly amazing. I'm certain that many would jump to accept it. Who wouldn't want to live in an enhanced world, like some kind of a minor demigod, floating between this world and the next? I can be more than I am...it would be the ultimate upgrade. I would be stupid to pass this up.

But still, something else still nagged at me.

"What about BWS-1?" I said, pointing to the Mag floating over my shoulder, "Will he be a part of this too?"

I felt slightly foolish that my question wasn't as deep as I wanted, but still, it needed answering. I wanted to consider all options before accepting anything.

KodiaX987
Mar 27, 2002, 11:22 PM
I made a few monumental blunders on those last posts. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_mad.gif Gotta watch my wording there!

Okay, this one will be a tad fast-paced in order to get us out of the bottleneck and get something going; I don't really like following this one-way procedure but if it's to pick up some speed, might as well go for it. Also, since I'm talking leave tomorrow right after school to pass Easter among the family, I'll have no chance to check in, so I'll try to make the next events be able to go on without Zin's comments or intervention.
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Whoops.

I peered at the mag. It was indeed white, with this glint of blue in its solitary eye. It was BWS-1 all right... But he was much different than last time.

I found out I had been staring for several seconds now, so I gave my red friend a nod of the head.

I know it appears like a hard decision... But it is my reward to you. Other people in this world might not earn the same, but they will get their own rewards, from their own friends. Services, gifts, favors, money... And most will like that they receive. And some will ask for nothing at all in return.

I placed the disc on my right index finger, and gave it a spin with my left palm. With a flick of my hand and finger, it went flying straight into the sky, followed by a very dim trail of light and clouds.

If you would like to experience the Song, then close your eyes now. When you open them, you will see different, hear different, feel different.

I let a brief pause interrupt my words. I had just noticed the presence of my hair, and quickly added

You might also look slightly different.

M_BlackHawk
Mar 28, 2002, 08:45 PM
Been one heckuva past few days. Haven't been able to check in until now. So, I'll continue on here.
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Lara looks right at Zinackst, not knowing what to think. She then looks at Sera before making up her mind. "Zinackst, I trusted you before," she tells the other newman, "back in our adventure together. I still trust you." she shrugs for a second, before closing her eyes, and telling Zinackst, "Let's do this."
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Later


M_BlackHawk

Hikosaka
Apr 1, 2002, 04:55 AM
"If you would like to experience the Song, then close your eyes now. When you open them, you will see different, hear different, feel different."

I glanced at Lara, who had already closed her eyes, and then at Mortimer, who had yet to respond. Then, I turned my gaze to BWS-1, who lightly bumped into my shoulder, as if chiding me on my hesitation.

I pushed my fears aside; this was a chance in a lifetime. I knew I would have regretted it for the rest of my life if I didn't take it...and androids can live for a very long time. Though something tickled faintly at the back of my mind, a minor blip from my archives, I ignored it for now. After all, the past cannot haunt me anymore. I planned to figure it all out later.

"All right," I said softly.

I gave BWS-1 a slight nod, then faced Zinackst again. I closed my eyes.

You might also look slightly different.

"Just as long as I don't sprout blue hair, I'll be okay," I murmured under my breath.

Moo2u
Apr 1, 2002, 02:47 PM
"Just as long as I don't sprout blue hair, I'll be okay," murmured Sev.

"I don't really think you have to worry about that, metal-head" I wispered back.

I was the last one there. A bit scared as to what would happen to me but ruluctently I finally closed my eyes.

"Ok guys," I said, "let's get this show on the road!"

KodiaX987
Apr 1, 2002, 08:45 PM
Hiko... Well... PFOUAHAHAHAHA!!! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

Neways. If you don't know what synesthesia is yet, then let me give you a tiny briefing. It basically is a mixing-up of the senses. Smelling colors, seeing sounds, tasting objects with your hand, giving a color to words, a gender to letters and numbers, etc. You decide how synesthetic you feel like being. Any combo goes, and more! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif If you want to know more, just type the word on Yahoo! and you'll get about a dozen websites.
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I had to summon all my might to keep myself from laughing at the image of a Severance 7 with blue hair. It might just have looked cute after all!

The disc fell back into my hands while my companions' eyes were closed. Actually, three discs, the same one in three copies, one for each of them. I threw them up again, let them fall on my right thumb, and I flicked the discs towards my friends in a perfect arc. They vanished as they approached their heads.

Open your eyes. What do you see? What do you feel? What do you hear? What do you taste? What do you smell?

I chose a piece of the Endless Song with various high and low notes, and different kinds of sounds, and began signing it, quietly. I also had a handful of grass and flowers in my hand. I put it in front of me, and released each blade and flower one by one into the air, which flew on, past and around my friends.

Hikosaka
Apr 4, 2002, 05:47 AM
Open your eyes. What do you see? What do you feel? What do you hear? What do you taste? What do you smell?

I didn't feel any different. Perhaps this didn't work with androids?

I opened my eyes, just in time for a flower to fly right into one. Naturally, it didn't hurt, but it was a surprise...a surprise, which strangely enough, that felt a lot like pinpricks of ice on my face.

Wait a minute...that usually didn't happen.

I noticed that the numbers in my visual display suddenly seemed to have a distinct color of their own...and they seemed to make a tone, like soft music, as they changed. Another blade of grass flew past me, and I could hear the green of it sing to me as it drifted to the ground.

Everything seemed mixed up...very much like the time the connections in my sensor relays were damaged by a careless Force's lightning attack. It was very disconcerting; I ran a self-diagnostic three times before I determined that nothing was physically wrong.

I glanced at the others, noticing that they still had their eyes closed, and turned to Zinackst, who seemed to be waiting for some kind of response. The Song was all around me. I could hear her sing it, and I could see it move through all things. I had a feeling that I could sing it too, if I wanted to.

So this is the gift she has given us? Strange...but still, a gift.

It would be enjoyable, I hoped, once one got used to it, but for now, it took almost all of my willpower just to keep from turning off my external sensors from the sensory overload.

And...something was wrong. I couldn't put my finger on it yet, but something just seemed...off. Or maybe it's just me.

Yes, that's it. I just needed to get used to all this.

"It's a little strange, to say the least, Zinackst," I said, "but, thank you."

I turned to see how BWS-1 was doing, only to realize with a jolt that he wasn't there.

What? Where could he have gone to?

I made the special Mag whistle, trying to call him back, but to no avail. He seemed to have disappeared. It wasn't like him to just leave without a sign, and the deep forest was no place for a Mag to be wandering alone.

"BWS-1! Where are you?!" I called out, then looked back at Zinackst, "Did you see where he went off to?"

M_BlackHawk
Apr 4, 2002, 09:29 PM
Oh man, this is going to be a tough one to respond to. But, what the hey..I'll adapt.
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Lara looks all around her, after opening her eyes. She then feels as if she's ascended to a new level of consciousness. Colors, sounds, the whole world looked, sounded, and felt very different, yet she felt a lot better about this world, too. She then looks at Sera, who, like her, is looking at the world with a renewed sense of wonder.

Where's BWS-1?

the newman looks around, still trying to become used to the new senses, but finds no sign of the mag.

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later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Apr 5, 2002, 04:16 PM
Agh! I been here for a while but had no idea what to post. I think I finally got something.
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Ok...you can open your eyes whenever your ready I thought to myself but another part of me was thinking, but what will happen to me. You don't know that!

Finally I builded up the courage to open my eyes. I was that last one. What I felt was...indescribable, but I'll try. I could feal everything, not feal as a regular sence everyone has but. Take a flower that was near by. I could feal it's enery, it's own soul. It was amazing. I wondered if this was just the only this that was new about me.

"Where's BWS?" asked Sev.

"Maybe mini robo didn't like the gift?" I said, "or maybe he liked the gift and if off on enjoy it."

Then Severane made I hight pitch screeching noice. I had to cover my ears but it was still hear it clearly. It was so painful to hear that I coldn't hear anything for a breif periode after Sev was done. It looked like I was the only one to hear it.

"Agh! What the hell was that, bolt head? I don't think that a helty android sound! You might want to check a doctor about that! Ouch."

There was still a loud ringing in my ear from the sound. It was giving me the bigest headack ever. Just when my last headack was going away, just my luck I guess.

"Wait a minute," I was hearing sounds from inside the forest, not sounds I usualy head, "I hear something in the forest, it might be BWS."

BWS-1
Apr 5, 2002, 05:49 PM
in the deep forest, away from the pack, a strange little light was flotting over the ground.

it was barelly visible because of the high grass and flowers of the area, yet it seemed to be flotting over something, over a body

KodiaX987
Apr 5, 2002, 06:49 PM
I picked up the faint sound as well...

I took a few steps forward and motionned my friends to come along. I took notice of Mortimer's rather surprizing reaction to the whistle. I did hear the sound as much as he did, but forced myself to concentrate on something else and block off the high-pitched sound.

By the way, Severance 7; I assume BWS-1 accepted as well. If he did, you would be able to call him without a whistle!

I gave her a smile, and proceeded along towards that other sound.

*KA-CHINK!*

My arrival into the clearing was greeted by such a loud metal sound, but I could not see its origin... I had missed it.

Nervous, I looked behind me, wondering if my friends had followed...

Hikosaka
Apr 6, 2002, 07:19 PM
"Agh! What the hell was that, bolt head? I don't think that a helty android sound! You might want to check a doctor about that! Ouch."

"Not a healthy android sound, indeed," I replied, "Normal humans can't hear the whistle, but then again, I guess you're hardly normal."

"Wait a minute," Mortimer said, "I hear something in the forest, it might be BWS."

I turned toward where Mortimer was pointing; there were faint sounds coming from within the forest. A quick frequency analysis indicated that it did not come from any known animal. It seemed that Zinackst heard it too; I fell into step behind her as she moved toward the sound.

By the way, Severance 7; I assume BWS-1 accepted as well. If he did, you would be able to call him without a whistle!

"It was worth a shot," I shrugged, "Besides, it carries farther than my voice."

I knew that I could have tried out the newfound powers of the gift to call BWS-1...the whistle was a force of habit. But, that wasn't the only reason I whistled.

You see, there are only a few things in my life that cause me to feel fear; losing someone I was responsible for was one of them. So...I panicked a little. As a Mag, BWS-1 needed someone to protect him, and since I had failed in saving his original body, I felt doubly responsible for watching over this one-

*KA-CHINK!*

What was that?

I met Zinackst's gaze as she looked back. I tried tracing the sound to the source, but it was too brief to get a lock onto. I moved forward, standing beside the newman, gun charged and ready for whatever showed itself. Still struggling to organize my new senses, I decided to follow her lead.

Please be safe, BWS-1...

Moo2u
Apr 7, 2002, 05:38 PM
Just thought I'd point out, KodiaX, that on tffomp wed pages that you made all the pics from the 3rd page and on arn't showing. I wanted to print it out, but then thought it wasn't wort while until all the pics show up. Anywho, back to the story!

KodiaX987
Apr 7, 2002, 06:35 PM
I know; sorry about that. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif I'm just lazy converting the fic right now because there's a lot of work involved. Sometimes I need to make adjustments, edit words, or sometimes whole sentences.

Pics are even harder because some of them I don't remember where they came from. It makes things even harder with the numbering system: I numbered the files in the order Hiko posted them in... Not in the order of the story. x.X Fortunately, thumbnails rock!

On a good note though, I have finished formatting all other parts, so Zinackst's adventures is the last one to do. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif I'll work on the stuff right away and put up a temporary menu for you guys. I'll also have to work on a cast list and a glossary for the non-PSOers out there.

BTW, Hiko; I said I didn't have AVs for some characters, but I remembered you did a picture of KodiaX in front of a DC. Unfortunately, I deleted it from my hard drive. >.< Can you please send it again? So now the only ones left really are Minishuri and Tamica. I'll be using IceBlink's rendition of Shuri to put up as her avatar.

Now let's get to work! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

Hikosaka
Apr 9, 2002, 03:01 AM
Ah, I remember about the need for avatars. Sure, I can send you the pic again...just let me see where I stuck it in my hard drive. >_< (Check your PMs).

Now, back to our regularly scheduled program.

M_BlackHawk
Apr 9, 2002, 12:39 PM
I am really at a loss as to what to post here.
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Lara looks around the forest, trying to see if she can find any trace of the small mag.

"I'm sorry, Severence," she tells the android, "I don't see him anywhere, and frankly,I wouldn't want to search around other parts of the forest with Sera around. No offense, but I do have to look after her."

KodiaX987
Apr 9, 2002, 03:52 PM
Screw the wait for BWS-1. I guess he doesn't know what to write either. I'm kinda glad, because I was anxious to kick in Plan B. *evil grin*
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I stayed there, not moving.

I couldn't detect the source of the sound. It was not the body on the ground; whoever it was. I could usually point a general direction of something I could feel was near, but the source seemed shielded, invisible.

Who's there?

Who's there?

My own thought ricocheted back to myself. Still no source.

All I could do now was stay here, and wait, and pray that I would see it coming quickly enough.

What met my eyes first was sound. Then a mass of metal recovering from a hard landing onto the soft ground. Hands familiar to my eyes placed themselves at the being's sides, yet her form stayed slightly bent over, not much as a hunchback, but quite enough to recall the character.

Shurikane's arms were dangling left right and back. She looked at us through perfectly functionning eyes, yet broken lids, and a destroyed face. Her mask was but a series of shredded stripes, and behind, more overly obvious, was the set of internal circuits and organ. Criss-crossed motherboards like conflicting planes, neighbors to several parts of pulsating brain matter. Several eye modification component and lens; laser pointer, zoom, glow, headlight; the one in use perfectly visible through the absence of lid-orbs. And several teeth, on a rugged bicycle-like chain, pulled back by a complex and entangled mass of stretchers and adjusters, which released an odd grinding noise at each of her movements.

And as I stared at her, I noticed that the grass beneath her shadow was gloss brown. Thick, dirty oil still leaked from her mouth, the zombie's jaw wide open, her face in an expression of what I could as well place as astonishment or soullessness.

She walked around me. Her movements were jerked and sudden, smooth and slow. Half animal, half undead.

She seemed to be peering into my very soul, feeling the shape of my mind. I couldn't detect an emotion, but I knew the android had one.

I simply knew it.

Only a few seconds later did the android find herself in front of Mortimer...

Hikosaka
Apr 10, 2002, 01:24 PM
This whole story concept is rather challenging, isn't it? Hopefully it'll catch fire soon. :/ And...Shurikane is back?! O_o;;;
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"I'm sorry, Severence," Lara said, "I don't see him anywhere, and frankly,I wouldn't want to search around other parts of the forest with Sera around. No offense, but I do have to look after her."

I nodded, glancing at the child. She seemed so fragile; it was a wonder how the species survived infanthood.

"Perhaps you should head back to the clearing. You should be safe there," I replied.

I looked back to notice that Zinackst seemed transfixed on something before her. I followed her gaze and caught sight of a hideously damaged android, standing somewhat in the shadows. Instantly, I drew my gun and pointed it at her head, the handgun buzzing as it charged to full power. If there was any hint of an attack, I would shoot.

The android's appearance was unnerving. I had seen a lot of damage in my time, but this one seemed to be moving through pure force of will than any virtue of her hardware. I scanned her, noting that she was heavily modified, the organic bits and pieces showing through parts of her broken exterior pulsing, shining wetly in the harsh daylight. She was hardly recognizable as something that was related to my model design. She would be a formidable opponent, even in this state.

I tried sending a broad frequency transmission, a general android greeting, but there was no response. However, I could sense something from the android...it was hard to describe, but I knew I didn't like it.

I watched as the android made her way around us, seeming not to even acknowledge that anyone was there at all. Despite the level of damage, she moved with deceptive speed, and started closing in on Mortimer within moments. No time to try out these new powers; he needed to get out of the way now.

"Mortimer! Watch out!" I yelled. I fired a warning shot at the android's feet, hoping to distract her away from the ranger.

BWS-1
Apr 10, 2002, 03:37 PM
ack ... -_- I should have give more details in my last small post. Now I don't even know where I'm supposed to stand in this fic ... and as who or what I am suppose to be O_o

KodiaX987
Apr 10, 2002, 04:16 PM
Sorry dude. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif I saw you online quite a few times, and since you didn't put up anything, I went "Ahh, screw it!!"

Don't worry, you have not been eaten or anything! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif I guess you're just off the stage waiting to make your re-entry into the play by whatever means you feel like using. o.O;;

BWS-1
Apr 10, 2002, 07:05 PM
As far as I can see, I don't have my place in this for now. Maybe I'll return in 5 pages or so http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif, depends on how things turns out

*sits back and enjoys the play

KodiaX987
Apr 10, 2002, 08:46 PM
Hey! Mags can still do some cool stuff. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif Now get to work!!

M_BlackHawk
Apr 10, 2002, 09:52 PM
Good posts, guy. My turn...and BWS, get into the story somehow, ok?
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Lara spotted the unknown android in front of Mortimer, and decided that a retreat would be in order. She ran back into the clearing, where she dropped a telepipe back to her home.

When she arrived,her husband, Mike,had aleady been back for a few minutes. So,the HUnewearl handed Sera to him to care for, and piped back to the clearing, with her red saber in had. She ran as fast she could to get back to her friends.
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later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Apr 11, 2002, 03:07 PM
http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_eek.gif Now there's a twist! Shurikane's back, and just as freeky as before! Didn't get to see the thred in a while. Well here I go, I'll try to make things interesting...
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What was this thing? For a second I didn't even belive it was even an android. It moved towards me like a beast in the wild, slowly. I backed off slowly. It was a most horrifing sight. It looked old, bashed, smashed and like it wouldn't even be able to move, but it did. And towards me of all people. One thing I noticed was its face...its grusome face.

"What is this...this...thing!" I said.

Sev fiered a warning shot close to where it was, but it didn't even twitch. It just kept on moving towards me. Then suddenly I felt my back get pined to the tree behind me, there was no more room to move.

Pulling out my Varista handgun I yelled, "Don't get any closer! I'll shoot!"

It didn't stop. My hands started to shake. I tryed to fire, but something was holding me back. There was something about that face, I didn't like it at all. It then smashed the gun out of my hands. It whent flying straight into the forest and the android continued to come closer. What was I going to do, or more importantly, what was it going to do?

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Agh! Now I'm going to have nightmares about Shurikane traping me in the forest...*shudder*



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KodiaX987
Apr 11, 2002, 04:25 PM
I could only stand and watch, a weaponless spectator.

Shurikane glared at Mortimer, and walked until she was but an inch away from his face.

She stared on, and on, and on. And she was shielded. Unpredictable.

Her chin seemed to be shaking...

The next thing I knew, she had jumped to the side of Severance 7...

Breezblok
Apr 12, 2002, 01:39 PM
Great stuff guys! It's great how all your writing styles seem to flow into each other. Keep it up guys, this rocks. ^_^

M_BlackHawk
Apr 12, 2002, 08:03 PM
Thanks for the compliment, Breez. After all, this is the 3rd part of the "Endless Song" trilogy. How long have we been doing this, Kodi? When did you start "TFFOMP: The Half Naked Mind"?

later

M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Apr 12, 2002, 08:11 PM
*Clicks on sig*

*checks*

I posted the first episode of TFFOMP on August 12, 2001. And Zin's part came in on August 27, 2001. So we've been at it for a good eight months!



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KodiaX987
Apr 12, 2002, 10:00 PM
The fic's editing has been completed!! All images work, so do all the pages. Page 1 is located right there:

http://www.geocities.com/mistertabarnak/tffomp/tffomp1.html

Hikosaka
Apr 13, 2002, 05:20 AM
Thanks for the compliment, Breez. Keep on reading! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

And the fic is finished?! Great job, KodiaX! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif ::goes off to read:: Ahh, the memories...I can't believe we've been at this for eight months now. Time flies by so quickly. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif
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One moment, the android was staring Mortimer down.

The next, she was beside me.

I whirled about to face her, my gun pointed at a pulsing mass of brain matter. I wasn't sure how effective her outer plating was, but my gun's photon bullet should scorch that organic matter quite well. It probably would not kill her, but I hoped it would be enough to give her pause.

Standing my ground, I stared back into those ruined eyes. There was something familiar about that gaze, full of a strangely angry emptiness; sometimes that same look would gaze back at me in the mirror. Her misaligned chin seemed to be shaking...but why? Was it a laugh, a cry, an effort to speak or bite? Or just the result of damage?

The android seemed to flex her clawed hands slightly, as if sizing me up. I transmitted the same general android greeting again, to no response. I debated briefly whether to activate my own blades, but decided against it, since it might be taken as an invitation for attack.

"Whoever you are, I don't want to fight. However, if you attack, I will shoot," I said.

I kept the gun steady, waiting for a response.

M_BlackHawk
Apr 13, 2002, 09:10 AM
Great posts, guys..let's keep this up.
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Lara stood back for a moment, watching the unknown caseal as she stalked both Mortimer and Severence. The strange look of this android shows that it had suffered quite extensive damage, yet it still was fully functional. She gripped her saber in hand as she walked closer to Zinackst, who appeared to know this android.

"Zin, just who is this?"she asks, "And does this robotic monstrosity have any weaknesses that can be exploited?" She brought the sword up to where she could defend herself and Zinackst if need be.

Moo2u
Apr 13, 2002, 03:33 PM
I was short on guns, but I wasn't out yet. I pulled out one old double saber that I haven't use since the attack on the A.D.S.S.F.. I wasn't very good at saber combat, but it would have to do for the moment. Lara was over by Zin who I suspected knew what this thing was, and the unknown android was advancing on Sev. I wasn't going to stop myself this time.

"Whoever you are, I don't want to fight. However, if you attack, I will shoot," shouted Sev. She needed back up.

"And if she shoots," I said while activaing the double saber, "I'll attack."

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The web page it finish you say? Hurra! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Oh happy day! By the way, are we going to have a page for Reunions too, or do you think that would take too much work? After no one likes work.

KodiaX987
Apr 13, 2002, 06:36 PM
Mini-update: I moved the fic to another folder so you can't access it through the previous link anymore. Just hop over to http://www.geocities.com/mistertabarnak/ and check the right column, the fic will be listed. Know why I did all these re-arrangements?

Because the ENTIRE fic is finished! w00000000tness! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Yep, everything's been edited and uploaded. If you see a mistake somewhere or a typo, tell me right away!

M_Blackhawk is working on editing Reunions, I think. Once we get done with this one, I'll take care of it. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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I approached my mouth to Lara's hear, as if to whisper.

She is... Shrike "Shurikane" Nainsev. The most disturbed, frustrated, sorrowed member ever known to my family.

As I stared at the android, I noticed her eyes looking down, just a little bit.

It's envy! She is--

My thought was interrupted by a shout from Severance 7, followed by a supporting argument from Mortimer.

Weapons?...

Shrike turned around, stared at Mortimer for a few seconds, and then back at Severance 7. She began backing up... Faster, and faster.

I could only stare at the metallic form in frozen panic as I found out she was unknowingly backing up into me.

"Hey--"

I was cutoff by a bump. We both fought for balance with our arms, but lost; me, with an unexpected landing on the grass, her on top of me, in the most resounding crash known to my ears.

I attempted to move, but her body was too heavy. And she would not move. She simply lay there spread-eagled, chin shaking, while I acted as her mattress, a powerless figure pinned to the ground, a mass of flesh and hair.

Hikosaka
Apr 13, 2002, 10:06 PM
I watched as the android backed up quickly away, more surprised than anything else.

She did not seem to be on the attack...rather, it seemed like some sort of effort to retreat...a rather strange one, since she ended up right on top of Zinackst.

I paused for a moment, unsure of what to do, then realized that the android's weight could easily crush the air out of the newman's lungs.

Almost without thought, I holstered my gun and grabbed the android by the wrists, avoiding the nightmare of claws on each end. I pulled her up off of Zinackst, placing her beside the newman.

I stepped back, watching the android, ready for any reaction. She seemed...distracted. I hoped this was a good sign.

NIGHTMAREN
Apr 14, 2002, 09:25 AM
nice job guys. I just came back to see what was going on, and I am quite impressed. Do write more.

BWS-1
Apr 16, 2002, 01:35 AM
as the android stood aside Zinackst and the RAcaseal, we could see that the beast-like droid was distracted by something.

from inside the left part of the ''monster's'' chest, was a traped mag sending incoherent distress signal ...

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O boy, sorry for my absence for soo long, I was busy trying to solve personnal problems ... Man, such an idling behavior for so long, I'm almost worthy to be kicked out of the fic or somethin lol. Anyway, I do as much as I can (well I try to) ... it's harder then I thought to be a mag -_-;

Moo2u
Apr 16, 2002, 03:09 PM
Lol! Don't worry about it BWS! This isn't surviver! I know because if it was I would have been gone by now!
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beep! beep!

I could hear a small sound like the one Severance made erlier, but it was much softer. I could barly hear it.

"Sev, do you hear that?" I said, "It sounds like a miniaute you coming from that thing!"

"Wait a minute," I thought to myself, "a miniature android..."

"Oh no, Sev," I exclamed, "Do you think that thing did something to BWS?"

Hikosaka
Apr 17, 2002, 02:49 AM
Awww...now, don't say that. The fics wouldn't be as great as they are today without you guys! ^_^
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Zinackst seemed to be all right, despite being nearly flattened. I helped her to her feet, still keeping a watchful eye on the android, who hadn't moved.

Suddenly, my display suddenly came alive with rows of scrolling numbers, a few flashing red, as I received a transmission.

//RECEIVING TRANSMISSION:
--||||| ||| |-|----|||||| ||| |-|------//

It's distorted...wait...

//ANALYZING SEQUENCE:
--||||| ||| |-|----|||||| ||| |-|-----
--VERIFIED: DISTRESS.
--VERIFIED: SOURCE - NATIVE: MAG.
--TRACING....UNABLE TO COMPLY.//

The mark on my left arm suddenly glowed to life, pulsing almost like a rapidly beating heart.

"Oh no, Sev," Mortimer shouted, "Do you think that thing did something to BWS?"

Quickly, I turned my gaze at the android still lying on the forest floor, my eyes widening with horror as I noticed for the first time a faint turquoise light flashing frantically through a partially cracked part of her skin. It seemed to grow fainter by the second.

She ate BWS-1?!!

Instantly, I was kneeling down beside the android, trying to get the Mag out of there as soon as possible. I tried looking for an access panel in her chest, but she was so heavily modified, her configuration was foreign to me, and I had no time to go exploring.

Frustration quickly turned to anger. I grabbed the android by the shoulders, staring directly into the nightmare of broken optics. A laser from within one of those sockets shined directly back into my eye. I guessed I had her attention.

"Android, you have got my friend inside you...you must let him go right now!" I had no idea if she understood me or not.

Zinackst knew her. I had overheard some of what she told Lara about the android. I called out to the newman standing nearby, not taking my eyes off of the android.

"Zinackst, tell her to let BWS-1 go! Please...I don't think he's going to survive being in there much longer."

KodiaX987
Apr 17, 2002, 12:32 PM
I gave away a sigh, and felt shameful I would have to torment this person again.

Shurikane, it's your cousin.

No answer, but she had abruptly sat up. Her expression grew more shocked. More fearful.

She somehow knew where the message had come, but she didn't comply. Did she actually hear me, or was it only a distant wavelength within her mind?

I knelt down, and whispered, my hands around my mouth.

"Regurgitate, or curse the hands."

It was sharp, but I knew of nothing else to reason her.

I punched her lightly in the stomach. The plate was hard against my gentle fist, but her organics were fooled by the sensation. In a few seconds' span of time, the little mag was back on the ground within a pool of oil. He quickly shook off the worst of it, before flying towards his owner.

I calmly sat back, hands crossed in front of my legs, simply watching Shurikane look at each of us in turn, defeated, to then slowly, calculatingly bury her face into her hands.

BWS-1
Apr 17, 2002, 04:05 PM
the mag, lightly damaged and scared, started to ''jump'' in the air over Severance 7's shoulder. It had acumulated too much photonic energy while being stuck in the android.

It was ready to unleash a powerfull photon blast ... but it was the first time the mag had to release that much energy ... the first time since BWS-1 took that form. The ''mag'' form was the most stable for B's grid or ''soul'' to exist, but none knew if the blast would affect his grid stability ... What if the mag's body disolve in the blast? what if it attacks everyone around instead of enemies? what if it just ... overheats and dies?

*hovers near Shurikane

''beeep! bee beeep! bee bee beep! beep!''

*casts Resta

casted Resta to the android but it wasn't the photon blast ... he knew she ''might'' have needed it more then Sev. he hovered back over Severance's shoulder, making light noises, showing he started to have trouble holding the blast.

Moo2u
Apr 17, 2002, 06:40 PM
"Ok, we got the mini BWS-1 back," I said, "Now do you mind telling me what exactly is this thing?"

I walked over to Zin, "She's your cousin, I can get that, but I don't really see the family resemblence. And it looks like she's been though alot, any idea what happened to her."

Those claws, those teeth, those eyes. There was something not right about it, and I wanted to know what.

"One things for sure, I wouldn't invite it to any of my family reunions. Just look at that that killer-bot. It's jam-packed with weapons. And the way it acts, I don't know if it's confused, or wants to rip us up lemb of limb. Do you think maybe we could knock it out and take it somewhere safe. You know, to examenit it and such, maybe get a better idea as to what happened to it."

Hikosaka
Apr 17, 2002, 09:32 PM
"One things for sure, I wouldn't invite it to any of my family reunions. Just look at that that killer-bot. It's jam-packed with weapons. And the way it acts, I don't know if it's confused, or wants to rip us up lemb of limb. Do you think maybe we could knock it out and take it somewhere safe. You know, to examenit it and such, maybe get a better idea as to what happened to it."

I grew more than a little annoyed at the ranger as I listened to him speak.

"We're not talking about a car or something. She's an android...and she deserves more than being just "knocked out" to be examined," I said.

I looked at the android, sitting there with her face covered with her hands. She seemed both dangerous and vulnerable. While I would not hesitate to attack if she did, I also felt a little sympathy toward her.

A sound interrupted my line of thought.

"beep! beeepbeeepbeep!"

//WARNING: MAG PHOTON ENERGY AT CRITICAL LEVEL!
--SELECT BLAST:
-1. GOLLA
-2. ESTILLA
-3. MYLLA AND YOULLA
--SELECTION CANCELLED.//

BWS-1 had started to move in an all too familiar pattern, indicating his losing struggle to hold back the rising photon blast. However, I hesitated in selecting a photon blast; how would releasing all that energy affect him?

If it was back in the first days of the Ragol colony, I could have just teleported back up to Pioneer II. The ship's security field would have automatically neutrallized any photon energy, in both weapons and Mags.

But now, there was no ship to teleport to.

The sounds BWS-1 was making had started to escalate...he would not be able to hold back much longer. There was no option other than allowing BWS-1 to release the blast and hope for the best. I had to act quickly.

"Whatever you do, don't follow me! I'll explain later!"

I grabbed BWS-1 out of the air and started to run as quickly as I could away from the group. I could feel the Mag twitch in my arms, growing hot as his photon levels grew too much for him to hold back anymore. Satisfied at the distance I had covered, I let him go, letting him float up into air before me.

Runed rings of light surrounded me as BWS-1 started to release his energy. Time seemed to stop as the rings started to spin, the air charged with glowing motes of energy. It had a low tone to it, sounding as if a giant temple bell had been rung. I was anchored in place as the blast took hold.

//SELECT BLAST?
--AFFIRMATIVE.
--SELECT BLAST:
-1. GOLLA
-2. ESTILLA
-3. MYLLA AND YOULLA
--SELECTED: 3. MYLLA AND YOULLA
--ACTIVATION IN 0.45 SECONDS.//

Mylla and Youlla, a non-lethal blast...the defensive nature of it would focus all of the energy that was released onto me, keeping the Mag safe from any possible damage or burnout. At least, the Mag would survive. I didn't know if I was going to.

I watched as BWS-1 started to spin, spikes extending as the photon blast activated...

BWS-1
Apr 18, 2002, 05:18 AM
-blast-

''sev ... shuri ... wanted ... needs ...'' said the echo of a voice familiar to the caseal. But before he could finish what he had to say, the spell started.

as the energy is unleashed, the spining mag casts Shifta Deband ... but the spell didn't seem to do anything ... anything positif that is. The air around Severance 7 and BWS-1 started to smell different, as if the photon was the air. And as MYLLA and YOULLA colide, all the air around them burst instantly into a purple-green fireball trowing the RAcaseal at least 6 feet away from where she was standing and the mag, well, a good 50 feet away.

They both only seemed burnt on the outside ... but over the mag's body, was glowing a bright and visible twinkling little star-like ball of light; similar to the one of a fallen hunter ...

M_BlackHawk
Apr 18, 2002, 08:53 AM
Sorry I haven't had a chance to post lately. Man, living on your own doesn't give you a lot of online time.
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Lara looked at Shurikane, thinking silently. She then turned to Zinackst. "Well, what can we do?" the HUnewearl asks, "I know that Rhiana and Jessie are skilled in android repair, but looking at her, I can see various organics involved in her internal systems, as well as the standard mechanics. THose two are good, but hardly doctors. Besides, they're still on a quest with Galveris and Maya."

Moo2u
Apr 18, 2002, 09:45 PM
Time to get into character! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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I went over and sat on a stump near by. I watched until Severance 7 was out of sight to do whatever she wanted to do, I didn't really care.

"Man! She dosen't have to get all whined up like that!" I said, "Bla bla bla..not like a car...bla bla bla...she deserves more. What I'm saying is it...she, whatever, dosen't act like a normal android. Heck, she dosen't act like an android periode! Anyone with me here?"

Maybe I was being a jack-ass. It almost seemed like I was acting my old roaten self again, but I had a reason, I was trusting my gut!

"Well if we don't take my sugestion, what do we do? We can't just leave it here."

I got a message from my BEE unlink.

"Mortimer here...WHAT? ...when? ...I see...ya...ya, thanks for the heads up..."

I hated to be the one with bad news, "I...I got word from the Guild. They said they resently found a guy in an alley, murdered over 3 hours ago. They finally got contect with me. The guy stayed alive long enough to say that the attacker was an android...a RAcaseal..."

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Bring on the plot twists! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif

M_BlackHawk
Apr 19, 2002, 03:28 PM
Good one, Moo.
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Lara looked over to Mortimer. "Murdered 3 hours ago?" she asks, "The attacker was a RAcaseal?" She thinks for a minute and then looks down to the broken shell of an android on the ground in front of them, noticing the Delsaber hands.

"Well, I'm not going to jump to conclusions," she thinks out loud, "but with those hands, I'd have a hard time finding any doubt that this RAcaseal is capable of it. Did the guild say which hunter was on the case?"

Moo2u
Apr 20, 2002, 10:01 PM
"Well," I relpied, "they didn't tell me, but they did includ that they'd be willing to have my help, if I can give it. They usually just cross-referance with me to see if their cases have anything to do with any other cases I have, but this time they want my help for some strange reason. I'm sure they got some of their own people working on it too, if it's this sirious."

Hikosaka
Apr 21, 2002, 04:11 AM
Gah...it seems that the season for accessing errors has started for my computer. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/eviltongue.gif I hope my luck stays with me long enough to post.
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//WARNING: SYSTEM INTEGRITY BREACHED!
--ALL SYSTEMS DISABLED.
--INITIATING EMERGENCY SURVIVAL PROCEDURES.//

It hurts.

The last thing I remembered was watching the two familiar figures of Mylla and Youlla colliding into each other with a violence I've never seen before. My shielding was useless; it was calibrated to allow the effects of this blast through without resistance. I could feel the energy burn through my body in a parody of its normally beneficial effects.

Then a blur of forest, a loud crash, total darkness...then nothing at all.

The energy blast disrupted nearly all of my major grids. I was reduced to a mere brain in a box, unable to move, see, feel, or hear. I had no idea how much time had passed, or where I was. The only thing I could hear was the rising din of warnings and alerts as my systems struggled frantically to repair themselves. I didn't even know if I was emitting a distress signal.

I hoped that BWS-1 was doing better than I was. I wondered if the others were going to look for us, remembering my last words to them.

The only grid that was left mostly intact was memory. There was one memory I wanted to examine before devoting myself to repair procedures.

//ACCESSING ARCHIVES: DATE 21391:93:231111+ERROR+
--WARNING: CORRUPTED OR UNKNOWN FILE TYPE
--PLAY ARCHIVE?
--AFFIRMATIVE.//

"Android Severance 7, designation ADSSF-01X7, right?"

I whirled about, facing a man who was standing at the end of the alley. I had taken this route since it was a shortcut to my apartment. The man stood there calmly, apparently reading the information from a few notes, occasionally writing something on them with a stylus. He wore no identifying badge or uniform.

"What did you say?" I replied, shocked.

It was my designation number, but I had it changed long ago when I transferred to this body. With the destruction of the A.D.S.S.F, I was the only one who knew my original number. At least, that's what I thought.

"During your possession by the A.D.S.S.F, you performed a path reconfiguration directed by the one you call 'Master,' using a variation of something called, 'the Endless Song.'" The man did not look up, seeming to read directly from his notes.

I took a few steps toward him, shock turning into suspicion and anger.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

"You can say in a way, I'm a fan of different types of androids," he replied.

"What are you talIALS09A09Q 020= Q-//3/.46//4.6/----------?
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//DAMAGED MEMORY SECTOR.//
--ESTIMATED TIME OF REPAIR: UNKNOWN.
--CLOSING ARCHIVE.//

The file was too full of errors to even determine the date and time in which it was created. For all I knew, it could have been a few hours, a few months, or even few years ago. I couldn't do anything about it at the moment, however. All of my systems were dedicating themselves to repair; I had none to spare for a nonessential sector.

The only thing I could do was wait. I did not have time to think, devoting my mind totally to directing repairs. My last thought was of hope that someone would find us soon.

M_BlackHawk
Apr 23, 2002, 11:14 AM
Ok...let's continue the story, folks.
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"Something's not right," Lara thinks out loud, "Severence should be back by now. She was just going somewhere to help BWS-1 bleed off that photon charge. We should look for her."

With that, Lara BlackHawk goes off into the forest to find her android friend.
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later


M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Apr 23, 2002, 06:31 PM
Worried about one of my friends, I sat up, took Mortimer's hand in mine, and ran after Lara, dragging the ranger after myself.

It was with a hint of surprise that I heard familiar sounds of machinery, accompanying Shurikane as she speed-walked to catch up with and go alongside the three of us...

I sensed a presence. I pointer a strand of hair in that direction.

Take a left.

M_BlackHawk
Apr 23, 2002, 07:22 PM
Lara follows Zinackst's instructions, taking a left where the other newman pointed. She keeps her saber at the ready, in case there are hostile creatures in this neck of the woods. She then hears the sounds of Shuri following. Unsure of what to do about Shurikane, she just shrugs it off and let's the android follow along.

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that's it for me for now

later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Apr 28, 2002, 10:52 AM
Hmmm...I think it's about times someone updated this thing! :)

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"Where is she?" I asked, "We should have seen her by now."

We wandered into a thicker part of the forest. There were so many trees above us that hardly any day light could be seen.

"Wait, do you guys here that?" I asked, "I think I here something over there, by those bushes."

Slowly I kept up to the bushes and out popped BWS-1. Man, was he even freeked about something.

"Come on," I said, "I think he wants us to follow him."

I follow him a little deeper into the forest until we found Severance laying on the groud.

"Oh man!" I exclamed, "what happened here? Is she alright?"

BWS-1
Apr 29, 2002, 12:12 AM
...

I'm dead ... dead? no wait, I fainted. yet it's not commun for a mag to have a sparkling soul over it's body once on the ground ... only humans, newmans and androids have that ... hey, I can move

the sparkling little light wandered in the bush area for a while and then returned over his body

Hey, what if ...

*merges with teh mag

''beep beep''

I'm me again ... but how come I can think clearly? I can't talk ... but I can think, as ... an android.

"I think I here something over there, by those bushes."

!

Now where is Sev. I can sence she is nearby ...

*hovers

"I think he wants us to follow him."

She's ... agonizing, they couldn't see it, they only saw what might looked like an android in sleep mode, but she wasn't sleeping, she was still emiting to much energy to be in sleep mode.

*falls on the ground

huh? ... come on, I can hover, I've been hovering as a mag for a while now, it's like breating for humans, it's not hard at all, then why am I unable to hover??

''beep ... bee ... be... beeeep ... bee be .. beeeEEEEp ... BEe ee ..''

That reminds me of the day, the day I couldn't be an android anymore. Only now, it seems I can't be a mag anymore. Must have been the photon blast. But how? ... or could it have been Shurikane?

I stood there, unable to help sev, unable to help myself. All Sev needed was time, but time; is what I was runing out of ...



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M_BlackHawk
Apr 29, 2002, 04:18 AM
Excellent posts, guys.
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Lara looks down at Severance, seeing the pain her android compatriot is in.

"I wonder what could have done this," she thinks out loud, "We're the only ones out here."
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later



M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Apr 29, 2002, 07:06 PM
"Whatever happened," I said, "we can't just leave her here. I don't know much about androids, heck I don't know anything aobut androids, but I do know that they don't just fall down in the middle of the forest on perpose."

There was something going, and I had a feeling it was something big, "Soming is wrong here. The psycho-bot come in out of nowhere, someone was murdered by an android on Pioneer 2 and now Sev just decideds to take a little nap in the forest."

I picked Sev up. I was beginning to worry, "We should get her to somehwere safe. I we could go to my place, try to understand what's going on here."

KodiaX987
Apr 29, 2002, 09:49 PM
I watched, without a word to think...

I didn't know what to do about Severance. It was physical damage. I am good at physical things.

Shurikane suddenly found herself right in front of Mortimer, holding the red android. My green cousin seemed to sniff the inert body, or maybe it was some kind of spasm?

Her head raised, not staring at Mortimer, but at a blank spot. Her eyes were glowing brightly, and behind her half-ripped mask, her teeth shaped a most shocked expression.

She pointed a claw at the little white mag, moaning and screaming as if to announce the end of days.

"Ash... Ash-- Ashol..."

She coughed heavily, the sounds a distorted mixture between a recorded crash and a shriek.

"Ashol..." She resumed. "A hate hey-- Ahh!!"

Shurikane reached for her throat, and fell to her knees, seeming to reach for breath... Although she was lungless.

Her head raised itself just a little, just enough to stare at the mag.

Moo2u
May 1, 2002, 07:20 PM
I watched as it pointed at the mag, at BWS-1. What was it's intention with the mag? What did it wan, or an even better question did it have anything to do with the murder downtown.

"Ack, is that thing trying to eat BWS again?" I asked, "and what exacly did it say to it? Ash? Ashol? It was trying to say something, I'm sure of that. Or maybe..." I looked into it's face once again, "It knows something that we don't know."

I had to say what was on my mind. I didn't care what anybody thought, "They're nothing to prove it yet, but I'm thinking we found our killer."

Hikosaka
May 2, 2002, 02:51 PM
Dead guy, hmmmmm? Let's see what we can do with that. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif
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It's not dark. There is just nothing. I wish there was even the smallest hint of a sound, a touch, a dim vision. I wanted a reassurance that the world outside still existed, and I had not died, falling into some kind of purgatory reserved for killer androids, former or not.

Not that I was very far off from death at the moment.

My grids were still very unstable, sectors often failing as quickly as I could repair them. There were small signs of improvement despite this, and I could feel basic sensors slowly going back online.

Hearing came back first. It was still very faint and full of static, but I could hear air currents moving around me, as well as a voice.

"Ah, back from the dead." The voice was very familar, but I could not access my archived memory to pinpoint who it was.

"So, you killed him. I didn't think you still had it in you."

"IIIiiII DdiDINtt kKkkill any nnNNee," I rasped, my voice full of interference. My systems shrieked in warning at the strain.

"Liar. Father told me about you. I'll never believe anything you say. The only reason why you're still alive is that we need your pathway structure while it is still functioning. As soon as we collect the Mag BWS-1, and the android Shurikane, we can complete our task."

My friends. Once they realize I am missing, they'll look for me-

The man seemed to read my mind.

"And don't worry about your friends in the forest. They seemed satisfied with a drone replica. It was a lucky break, you getting so extremely disabled all alone in the forest. It made the planned imposture all the more easier. I only regret that we didn't have the foresight to make a Mag replica as well. In any case, the drone's systems will enter a fatal failure cycle in about five beats. By all accounts, Severance 7 will have died a tragic death.

"Anyway, it seems that you're a little...busy, trying to stay alive, so I'll come back later. Hopefully by then, you'll be a little more talkative."

This was madness. I had to escape, but I couldn't move. There was nothing I could do. I could only hope that the others could protect BWS-1 and that other android, Shurikane, when the time comes.

KodiaX987
May 2, 2002, 03:46 PM
I ignored Shurikane's ranting. I could have translated her thoughts into words, but doing so would upset the already tense situation we were all experiencing.

I knelt down beside the corpse of Severance 7. I couldn't sense anything coming from her. No thoughts, no life, no energy.

She apprears dead...

A beep followed my own thought, and a small motor whirl that I had been unaware of until now died down.

She died... Again?

How could I have not sensed any life from Severance if the body had still been working a few seconds ago?

Shurikane knelt down, first staring at me, then at the corpse.

That can't be Severance 7... I told her.

She didn't panic at the thought entering her head like before... Probably because she was more concerned with the body of a fellow. Yet, she took a quick look and shook her head at me in disbelief. She inspected the corpse under all angles, and came back staring at me, not understanding the concept of auric vision.

She snarled in exhasperation at my powers, and briskly stood up, looking away. I knew from intuition that her face was twitching from frustration.

I stood up myself, and looked at my two - three other friends.

I guess... Now is a good time for you all to experience what the Endless Song can do for you.

I took care not to let my thoughts wander over to Shurikane.

Look at the corpse of Severance 7... And compare what you see to your own selves. Imagine a halo of light should surround all life forms.

A pause...

It should. I repeated, carefully balancing the challenge of the exercise between giving away the answer.

I felt ashamed to introduce such a thing at a moment where it would have been more appropriate to mourn and dig the grave, but I knew we would all prefer to wonder at what had happened.

Mourning was the least of my concern. A little voice inside me told me we hadn't reached the end of the tunnel yet.

I made a silent prayer for someone to light a match and show us a better clue...

BWS-1
May 3, 2002, 10:21 AM
BWS snap out of it!

I'm no longer the mag nor the android. I decided like the other to accept Zinackst's proposition. All I need to do now is, to discard of this body ... again.

FLASH

-Programation center: A.D.S.S.F. HQ-
-Time:year:day - 0-0-0

<BWS-1> : '' ... different , I feel different ''

<Master> : '' You are not different, you are unique ''

<BWS-1> : '' but ... ''

<Master> *walking away : '' Try not to die too much ... ''

FLASH

So I had that ability since the very begining, that explains a lot of thing ... but what body could be used now?

I can't use sev, I've messed her grid up enough already ... maybe Shuri ...

argh ... what is that presence, that energy? It's something I haven't felt in a while ... sounds like ... something harmful, something bad.

Sev? Severance 7? what the? talk to me

I'm far too vulnerable in this shell, this mag, I must escape!

*and the sparkling light breaks free, smashing out of the mag's eye leaving nothing but an empty peice of metal in the grass. It fly as high as it can and disapear in the sky.

I must, escape, I don't like what I feel, I feel attacked, I feel ... fear.

*in orbit around ragol, the lil light falls back in the atmosphere, drained.

I know ... it might work.

*the light ,at the state of UV, fell trough the ground, into what once was a military base, where in the past ... he died.

M_BlackHawk
May 10, 2002, 09:02 PM
Lara watches the light come from the mag's eye. She then sees the small mag fall to the ground. Idly she wonders what's going on. the hunter then gives a look at Severance 7, and comes to a conclusion.

"That's not Severance 7," she states, "This android appears to be losing power. Severance wouldn't lose her power system like this, since her circuits are run off of a group of subnuclear cells. It's an almost endless source of energy. This is just an imposter. However, where could Sev be?"

KodiaX987
May 12, 2002, 08:50 AM
I could see Shurikane taking immediate notice of the ball of light. She looked at it fly away, and then shook her fist towards the sky.

"Hawad!!" She seemed to say in her oily yet rasp voice. It was almost becoming a dialect in itself...

She then looked at all of us, completely silent, simply staring at the fake Severance 7. She suddenly took hint that we were completely ignorant of the whereabouts of the real android. A triumphant grin took place on her face, followed by a satisfied snarl.

She slashed her right arm into a straight position, giving us witness of a sinister snap in her interior machinery. A few slots in her arms appeared, and she turned around and around, that arm raised high up into the air... And then froze for a moment, to lower her arm in a swift movement, pointing in one direction.

You found her?...

She was about to speak, but before her first word came up, she had to reach for her throat. She took a few seconds to arrange her internals, and then coughed up some oil.

"Freakin oil... Aaah!!"

She fell to her knees, taken by convulsions. Her angers firmly planted themselves into the ground to prevent her from moving too much. And then, she vomited on the body a spectacular mixture of oil, fluid, and gore.

There she stayed. She dared not to find out the origin of the oil leak, for fear of cutting herself in the process as she did before.

And I knew no one would dare let his or her fingers even close to her mouth...

I picked up the mag. Creating a pocket into my hair robe, I carefully placed it inside, and the hair knotted itself together to keep it secure within the garnment.

As I raised my eyes, I saw Shurikane already standing up, and then walking towards the direction she pointed at.

Moo2u
May 12, 2002, 09:39 PM
"If it knows where Sev is, the real Sev that is, then I guess I'll follow it."

For some strange reason I began to feel sympathy for this hurt android. We really had no idea where it had been or what happened to it, and to tell the truth I didn't really care. But she was our ticket to finding Sev. If anything happened to it, we'd have no clue where Sev was.

Then it hit me.

"I'd hate be the one to mention it, but do you think Sev's disapearance has anything to do with the murder? Or an even more disturbing question," I said, "do you think it has anything to do with the A.D.S.S.F.? Remember last time Sev took off? That creepy Master guy did some crazy robot mumbo-jumbo on her, and the next time we saw her she wasn't really the most friendly to us. You know, she started to attack us."

I took a deep breath, "all this is making my head spin. We're slowly getting somewhere, but it's not fast enough for me," I took a quick glace at BWS, "there's really only one person here who could shed us some light on this situation, and unless humans can now understand those annoying high pitched pinging noised that MAGs make, we're just wandering around in the dark."

M_BlackHawk
May 13, 2002, 02:22 AM
Great posts, folks
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"in that case, let's follow BWS-1," Lara states as she starts off after the light, "Also, I don't know. I've been commissioned on a couple of occasions in the past couple of years, along with the rest of my family, to take care of remnant forces of the A.D.S.S.F. that has popped up here and there. I wouldn't count it out as a possibility, but frankly, it's a thin possibility."

BWS-1
May 15, 2002, 08:23 PM
This place, it changed much since last time ... what I remember is that we got in the pipe just in time before all the base collapse. It'll be harder then I expected to find my original body again.

Let see ... there, if I go trough that wall and all those remains, I should be there. I'm starting to think that I should stay as a ball of light, it's much more easy to wander around then with a body.

What I first saw in the room was a ton of peices of metal filling it to the ceiling. The entire floor has been smashed and it would be impossible to anyone to get to that level of the base.

"Ok, I said to myself, now how am I gonna get myself outa here once I'm into my body?"

Once I found the body, intact, well, in the same position as I left it: torso twisted to the right, my arm ready to strike ... the orotiagito, on the other hand, was broken. Half of it was left, and it was the part I was holding. The other part must have been lsot somewhere, during the destruction of te base.

''So, now I gotta work out those ''powers'' of mine.''

I started to wander around the joints and all the melted parts that were stuck together and tried to consentrate as much as I could to liberate enough energy to unblock every joints so that the body can move again.

It's working ... but I think it would work better if I'd get in the body. Here I come.

/...................1//
._/??????????/44
..........................
. y.3333 ...

All these informations, none that I can understand ... all I want is to move the body, and make it speak. That way the others will be able to communicate with me, and i'll be able to reply, I hope the voice system isn't too damaged.

I'll start with the eyes ... I can't see a thing in there, except dust, rust and melted polymer. Ack ... instead of cleaaning them, it just made them melt together and block my vision field ... I guess I'll have to break those; once I can move.

...

Got the right arm and fingers to move, what's left intact from the Orotiagito is the first half of the blade, the handle broke into peices as I moved the fingers ... it makes a crispy rusted sound but ... it's ok. I still can't figure out how I can interact with the body, high level of telekinesis? I can't tell, but I don't feel my body as I used too, as if I was completly appart of it ... strange. Gah, I think in 20 beat I'll be able to move completly again.

*breaks cryped polymer eyes

Now I can see, good. But can I talk? I'll try to get into the VS.

'' ... ''

'' . waaaan twoooo ... teeeeeeeesssshhhhhhshiiiiing waann ''

*spark spark

...

It's not dead yet.

A few more beats and I'll be on my way out of there ...

KodiaX987
May 16, 2002, 05:18 PM
I finally got to upload the converted Reunions fanfic at my website. Also check out MWSEIFER's thread for a new piccie of Zin. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

I won't be there this weekend since I'm going away, as my Monday is off and I'm going over to mom & pops to spend some time. There's chances I'll actually only be able to log in on Tuesday next week. Anyways...

Let's pick up the pace! My online time will drastically go down once school is out, so let's get a good part done before mid-June!

Hikosaka
May 17, 2002, 11:40 PM
Have a nice weekend, KodiaX. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif
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//SCANNING ALL FREQUENCIES...
--SURVEILLANCE DEVICES DETECTED: 8
--DEVICE TRANSMISSION STATUS: ACTIVE.

//INITIALIZING JAMMING SIGNAL SEQUENCE...
--UNABLE TO COMPLY: TRANSMISSION GRID DAMAGED.
--DEVICE TRANSMISSION STATUS: ACTIVE.
--END SCAN.//

I waved sarcastically to the cameras mounted on various parts of the ceiling, and sighed softly. Even though I knew my systems were still too damaged to perform any speciallized functions, it was worth a try.

The past frantic hours of repair had gradually relaxed into a continously running repair cycle, a hierarchy of vital functions determining which systems received attention first. I had been able to restore very basic functions, focusing on motor and sensory systems. However, I was still very far from fully repaired, so while I could walk, (unsteadily), see, and hear, (both static-filled), that was about the extent of my ability.

The man who had spoken to me hadn't returned, though I had a feeling he would make his appearance soon enough.

I looked around the room, searching for any clue as to where I was. The room I was in was about six square meters in area, the ceiling about seven meters high, a rectangle with rounded corners. The walls and ceiling were lined seamlessly with metal that was coated with a matte, pure white substance. Small cameras in two rows of four lined the sides of the ceiling, their round lenses shining like tiny eyes as they tracked my every move, servos whirring. The floor consisted of thousands of tiny, rounded clear glass tiles embedded into a white, luminous polymer, absorbing sound and providing light, which the white walls reflected effectively. There was a single wide door on one side, featureless and smooth, blending almost completely with the wall.

The only thing that relieved the monotony of the room was a tall, long steel table which I had found myself on. The table was bolted to the floor, with a single deep groove running down the center lengthwise, running to two small gutters on either end. There were various small holes seemingly placed at random, the function of which was unknown. However, I could easily guess the function of four alloy manacles placed at the farthest corner of each quadrant. I had a feeling that these would not be easily broken, even at my maximum power. I sat on one end, facing the door, elbows resting on knees, my feet dangling about five centimeters from the floor.

What was this place? It was obvious that they had significant funds. What did they want from me? How did BWS-1 and Shurikane figure into this? Were my friends safe?

I wondered who was this "father" that the man spoke of, and from where or when he knew me.

The white of the walls seemed to give off the sharp scent of glacial ice, very much like the northern wastes, where the Sil Dragons live. It grated along the edges of my mind like grit in the joints. The gift only seemed to cloud my senses even further, confusing them with extra information. I tried concentrating, extending whatever power I had, only to end up with nothing.

The Endless Song that I heard in the forest, running through all things, was silent. When I tried to sing it in the silence of the room, it came out strange, distorted, the notes not falling into place as they should. My vocal generators can replicate any sound with pinpoint accuracy; so why can't I even sing a single phrase of the Song correctly?

Something was wrong...but was it the result of the damage, or was the problem present from the beginning?

I stood at the sound of the door opening. A man walked in, dressed simply, looking like any common human walking on the street. There were no badges or tags that would give me any clue to who or what he was. He had rather unremarkable features, dark haired and dark eyed, and would easily blend into a crowd.

"I see that you're feeling better." the man said. I recognized his voice as that of the one who spoke to me before.

"Who are you? Why did you bring me here?" I asked, leaning against the table slightly to maintain my balance.

"It seems our initial observations were incorrect. There are three more who would be of some use to us," the man continued, ignoring my questions, "I have dispatched a unit to collect them, though it seems that they are heading this way of their own accord. I'm surprised they are even heading in the right direction. They must be quite resourceful."

"If you harm any of them, I'll-"

"You'll what? You can hardly stand, much less fight. Your systems are barely working as it is. I suggest conserving your energy to your repairs than voicing empty threats."

I lunged forward, trying to grab the man. However, my motor systems couldn't compensate for the speed, and I fell forward, landing on my hands and knees. I staggered to my feet, swaying, and tried attacking again.

The man stepped forward and grabbed my face in a quick, fluid motion that my damaged systems prevented me from reacting in time. He shoved me backward with surprising strength, sending me crashing into the side of the table. I landed on the floor heavily on my face, my legs spasming as my systems screamed reports of various errors and new damages.

"Spirited to the end," the man said, sounding amused, "I feel almost sorry that we'll have to dismantle you soon."

"Who are you?! What do you want from me?!" I asked again, trying to push myself from the floor but unable to, my legs paralyzed.

"The repayment of an old promise, made by your master to my father. You can say that we're brother and sister in a way," he replied.

I watched as he opened his shirt, then opened his chest, revealing welter of grids, softly glowing neural nets, and fiber optics. However, that wasn't the main source of my shock.

Rather, it was the fact that his inner structure almost exactly matched my own.

I had been custom-built by hand. My complete plans were kept secret, due to the illegal nature of various parts of my configuration, so there was really no way of anyone other than my creator of constructing another model, which she denies ever doing. Did she lie? With enough money, she would build anything...could it be she made another android for another patron, who this man...android...refers to as "Father"?

The only other who had a remotely similar construction was BWS-1, whose body I had rebuilt with a configuration based off my own. But, that body had sustained massive damage and was discarded within the ruins of the former A.D.S.S.F headquarters...

He closed his chest back up and buttoned his shirt casually, as if he did this sort of thing every day. I couldn't speak, still too surprised to do anything but stare at him.

Turning to the door, he said over his shoulder, "Take the time that you have left to make some peace within your soul," and left, the door whispering shut behind him.

I lay on the floor, unable to do anything else until the function in my legs was restored. I wondered just how much time I had left. I hoped my friends were safe.

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M_BlackHawk
May 18, 2002, 06:06 PM
Ok...I guess it's time to continue this.
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Lara continues pondering over all that she's learned over the past few hours as her BEE uplink starts beeping. She checks to see that it's from now Colonel Morgan, Ragol militia.

Lara,
After doing some examination on the material on the A.D.S.S.F. that you and your family had provided after raiding their compound 6 months ago, we have come across some information you may find useful in the hunt for the remnant forces. Please come by my office and I'll share it with you.
Thank you
Colonel Morgan

"Now, what could he possibly know from that little bit of info we got from the central dome computers in the Pioneer 1 area six months ago?" she thinks out loud as she continues walking, "Guys, I think the A.D.S.S.F. remnants may have something to do with this, so why not go find out what the Colonel has to say?"

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Later

M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
May 25, 2002, 08:12 PM
I kept on walking... It is there that I realized Lara had been speaking into a microphone.

Severance is in danger. Can he tell you everything through your link? I asked. I was not sure whether Severance was really on the edge of life or death, but in doubt, I did not want to take chances.

Shurikane suddenly took a dash into the forest. Within a few seconds, she was out of my sight...

Nevermind. I finally thought, and I stopped. I had nothing on myself to reach the city, so I stood by Lara, waiting.

Moo2u
Jun 1, 2002, 10:19 AM
Ahoy hoy. Ya, so it's about time I write something in this fic again! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif I warn you, it's lest then a week until I have to write my exames, so I'm not going to have much time to write stuff. Keep the story going tho, I'll pop in and out whenever I can. And on with the show...
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"What are you guys doing!" I said, "she's getting away!"

I know it would have been wise to stay with Zin and Lara, but I wasn't realy thinking straight. All I cared about was that Sev was somewhere out there, and I needed to bring her back. She's been threw so much already! It just didn't seem right for this to happen to her.

I watched as the beat up android ran into the forest, clear from view.

"I'm going after it," I said as I ran in the same direction, "I'll try to meet up with you guys later!"

The forest grew darker and much grow got in my way, but I didn't stop running. So far this android was the only link we had to finding Sev, and I would let her get away from us.

I stopped at a small clearing. That's when i realized I didn't have any weapons with me except my double saber. Not a handgun or anything.

I also realized that the android was gone and I had no idea where it was. Then I remebered when Sev made that hight pitched sound with her voice to call BWS-1. Maybe if I head something like that, I could hear where that other android was.

Closing my eyes, I tryed to concentrate on the sounds around me. It didn't take me long to zone out the distracting sounds and find the sounds that were of use to me. I hear squiking and a russle in the bushes far away.

I opened my eyes and pointed west. "That way," I said to myself, "That's where the android's heading."

Once again I started to dash threw the forest, "Don't worry Sev, I'll be there soon..."

KodiaX987
Jun 1, 2002, 11:00 AM
Use of clairaudiance... Moo, you are a genius! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

Moo2u
Jun 2, 2002, 12:13 PM
On 2002-06-01 09:00, KodiaX987 wrote:
Use of clairaudiance... Moo, you are a genius! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif



Ya, well...I try. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_innocent.gif

BWS-1
Jun 5, 2002, 10:03 PM
Cause of work and all, it took me 6 hours to come up with this one. So I kept wishing that no one came up with a post to put in before me http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

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Made it, all basic systems are ready to go and my motricity is operational. It's funny to move agin, in a body I have at least a chance to defend myself with. Not that it was bad to be Sev's mag for awhile but ... I felt and knew I always was the one that needed protection in my innability to do what a mag could do, I was nothing but a flotting shell with a soul in it ... and that I had trouble accepting it, but at least I was, ''alive'' and I wouldn't have been what I am right now if it wasn't of those time spent as a mag.

*looks at self

Well sure I knew better but, hey, I'm in me again.

As I walked down the corridor, I couldn't recognize myself, I was closing into a storage room ... the same storage room I first got into the base with Sev, as we were about to go face Master ...

FLASH

picks his sword up

''Severance, I'm sorry for Ciel5 but ... this is not the right time to cry his death ...''

I grab Severance with my right arm and tell her:

''Let's do this for him ... let's avenge him, he did not die for nothing, beleive me.''

On those words, I head for the door of this small storage room we were in.

Must ... not ... go bersek. This is the proof of the weak. Being overwhelmed by ''emotions'' is even worst for androids. Must ... contain ...

''Ok,

*sigh

let's do it ...''

FLASH

That was a point of entry, but now, it's just a dead end, a closed room with no exit. I have nothing to do here anymore.

'' I'll just have to ''dig'' my way out of here I guess.''

...

FLASH FLASH FLASH!

* riflelights turns on aiming at BWS

!!??

''This will not be necessary''

No way! a trap!?

*takes cover in the storage room

''Hide for as long as you want unit BWS-1, but know that you can't run ... now that's amusing isn't it?

''Beee gOoone you whoooEVerr yOOUuu aree!''

I have no weapons, no way to run, no time to waste hidding here ... what did they do to find me?

''I see you want us to hold seige on your little stronghole, mind if we talk for the time being? Did you ever wonder why you were the only one to keep your original body? Simple, it's because he knew that, no matter what, you'd always return for it, you just aren't made in dying to much and wandering from body to an other even if you have to ability to do so ...'' the last few words seemed forced out of his mouth for some reason.

Why don't they enter and get me? are they afraid if so ... of what?? did they have the time to see how destroyed my body is. I have nothing to defend myself ... nothing but ... myself, my soul, do they know about ... the gift? If they do, I can't tell I know much about it, except I think it's seems more of a cursed then a gift if you ask me ...

''Alright, enough of this, get him outa here''

Damn ... it would be foolishness to fight in such conditions, it might be at my advantage to just surrender for now, at least so that I can know where they are bringing me somehow.

*a black RAcast takes him by the right arm, 2 others at a few feet of BWS-1 aims rifles at his head as they walk toward a telepipe in an other room

I ... hate this .,... I will not let them ... I can't ...

''Gah haaaaaaa ....

*falls on his knee, losing his balance since the RAcast still holds his arm

''I' mm AfraID I wiLLll not Beee able too COmmplie''

As I look at my left, as if I was trying to see my arm that I no longer had, I see a greenish-blue flame like arm forming itself from my shoulder to the hand, I have ... a fire-arm, fire from my soul is now my arm!? could this be ... the gift?

''Gaaaaaaaaahhh!!!!!!!!!!''

*animaly waves fire-arm from right to left making instantly melt the RAcasts around BWS-1

Fury ... rage ... revenge ...

Is this gift animated by all that I kept inside for all those years? Why does it feel so .. dark then? I must know how to use this ability, it seems like in an unstable phase, I must control it, I can't allow myself to ...

''Just as I expected, send in the special units FOmars, freeze this thing and then take it to the Cell.''

''Whaaaa, noo yOUU can'T free zzee MMeee!!''

''Sure we can, Gibarta him all you want, you can't harm him but at least we can capture him''

!!

Aaaarrrrhgh... must counter ... my fire is growing weak... it's gone ... I' m... freezing .....

*the flame disappear, and a cold statue falls on the ground making a loud noise and is then transported into the pipe

-a few beats later-

''Good ridance", says a RAcast guard.

*dumps BWS-1's still cold body into the Cell with Severance 7.

*shuts door

I, see the ground and a part of the wall, my head hit something but I can't see what, I can't move ... where am I?

I can't feel ... I can' think ... I think in such cases, I' have an emergency shutdown, but now none of those functions are part of me anymore ... I sence a presence, it's too cold to think ... I think in these cases, what is left to do is faint ... but I can't what if I'm not safe, what if they get rid of me while I'm offline, what if ... they ...what if ...

*faints.

Hikosaka
Jun 6, 2002, 09:11 PM
It took much more longer than I had liked to repair my paralyzed legs. The impact against the steel table had completely broken an already damaged power conduit, effectively shutting off the lower half of my body. Thankfully, there were other less damaged conduits that I could reroute power through, restoring most function. I paced around the room unsteadily, one hand resting on the wall to keep my balance.

I turned awkwardly around as the door hissed open, expecting another round with my android captor. Instead, someone was tossed in, the door closed shut immediately after.

"Hello?"

No reply.

I moved cautiously toward the prone body, not sure if it was friend or foe. I could tell it was an android, but with my scanning functions down, I couldn't run an ID signature check. The only thing I could tell was it was a white Hunter model android, showing extensive damage. A thin layer of frost covered his armor, a mist of cold rising around him.

'A white android...but, it can't be...?'

I knelt down beside the body and carefully turned the android over onto his back. He was extremely cold to the touch, and I was careful not to move him too quickly, lest any frozen fluid-filled vessels snap. I brushed away the frost on the android's section ID.

'Viridia sector, missing arm, same height...Now, one last thing to check.'

Pressing a few key points on his chest, it snapped open to reveal the android's inner workings, now dark due to the stasis state created by the cold. There was significant damage, to the point where I wondered if the android was even functional, but it was all there: the grid patterns, the internal structure, the modified power core, glowing a faint turquoise blue that was slowly starting to grow stronger...pulsing in time with the mark on my arm, which had suddenly started to glow.

I closed him back up, and sat there for a moment, staring at the android.

'BWS-1...so they got you too...'

Gently, I brushed away as much of the frost off as I could, then lifted him onto the table, since I didn't want him remaining on the floor. I held his remaining hand, keeping watch for any signs of life.

I looked up quickly at the sound of the door opening, watching silently as the humanlike android walked in. I could catch a glimpse of two hulking black Ranger-type android guards on either side of the door before it closed.

"I see you've noticed your new cellmate," he said, "You should be proud to know that he put up quite a fight."

"Why did you bring him here? He's badly damaged; what use is he to you?" I asked, still holding onto BWS-1's hand.

"The same reason why you are here: he has something I need. Besides, I know how you better than you think. BWS-1 is insurance. My scanners picked up unusually elevated energy signatures coming from you. Self-destruction to take out your enemy is a honorable death, but not unless you kill friends or innocents in the process. Do you have any idea where we are right now?"

"Another A.D.S.S.F. stronghold."

"Wrong. The A.D.S.S.F. died along with your Master. A few factions may exist, but they are under my control now. Actually, we're in the lowest level of the Governing Sector. You blow up, you'll take out the central sectors of the city, and millions with it."

"Tyrell would not allow someone like you to exist, much less operate right under his nose. He'll find out, sooner or later," I said.

The android smiled, shaking his head.

"No need to worry about that. Father knows full well what's going on down here. He continued to protect you only because he still knew your Master was alive. How do you think a murderer like you could have ever been authorized to be a hunter? Now that he's dead though, he's free to let me pursue the fulfillment of the promise that your Master had made.

"Now, I want you to power down. I doubt you'd want to decimate the colony and kill your friend just to get to me."

The android turned and left. I had charged my core, just as the absolute last resort, but now that option was lost to me. Though I didn't trust the android, I couldn't take the risk if he was telling the truth.

'Tyrell...is his father?'

I didn't know what to think anymore. Tyrell supported, and in part, created the A.D.S.S.F., though he broke ties with Master after Rico's death. He was one of the very few who knew what I was in the past, and I thought we had both left those dark days behind.

I gripped BWS-1's hand a little tighter. I wished that he had escaped, but I could not avoid feeling relief that I wasn't alone anymore.

I hoped he would regain consciousness soon.

Moo2u
Jun 7, 2002, 05:00 PM
"Come here android...where are you..." I said as I worked my way threw the forest. It was taking long to find this android, but I wasn't giving up hope. I took my time so that I could hear every little sound.

I looked up to a bush infront of me. Slowly I walked towards it,trying to make as little noise that as possible. Once close enough I ripped the bush out of the way forcfully. Behind it I found the wild andoird as it's head sharply turned towards me. We both looked at each other for a second, trading glances.

I was much more use to its hidius face now. "Ok, android. No more running of into the woods. You're going to..."

But before I could finish, the beast-like android ran into the woods once again.

"Damn it!" I yelled, runing after it once more. Pushing back more and more growth I ran faster and faster.

Suddenly, I stopped and looked up. Instend of going deeper into the forest, I was runing out of it!

I was right next to the city, but why? Was the android coming to commit another murder? I didn't really care. I just needed to get some weapons since I was here. Maybe get some time to clear my head. I'd worry about the android later.

I whent straight to the REDRIA sector and checked out a pair of mechguns (having my best pair lost in the battle) and slowly draged myself to my appeartment. I was getting another headack.

I opened the door to my appartment to see the angry greens eyes of Olivia.

"Ah!" I yelled, "what are you doing here?"

"What dose it look like I'm doing here!" she argued, "I'm waiting for you!"

"Um...that's nice," I said, trying to sound like I knew what she was talking about, "why...exacly are you waiting for me again."

"Agh!" screemed Olivia angrly, "you idiot! You forgot you date tonight! I've been waiting here for hours."

"Well sorry!" I yelled, "I had work."

"You always have work!" she yelled back.

"Well, this was different!" I said.

"Oh really?" said Olivia, sounding as if she didn't care, "well the least you could do is call me, or something! Bla, bla, bla, bla...boyfriend...bla, bla, bla...respect!"

I kinda zoned out after that. She kept on going, giving me one of her many speachs. Olivia was a great person, but she has high expectaion. And when she starts on something, she always finishs it, sort of like me, which if what made that relationship so interesting.

Olivia kept on blabing on, when my attention was cought by my phone behind her. It had a blinking red light, which ment I had a message.

Something was up. I quickly moved past Olivia, "how long was this message here?"

"What?" asked Olivia, "I don't know. It was like that when I got here, I think. Why?"

I pressed the button to listen to the mechine.

Attention RAmar Mortimer Kirk II. Your possition as investigator of the recent murdor has been called off. We thank you for your co-oporation during this time. The Pioneer 2 Governing house.

"The Governing house," I said as I picked up my mechguns, "I'm off."

"Wait!" said Olivia, she looked much more understanding now, "is this something sirious Mort? What's going on?"

"Well, I said it was different."

"Do you need a drive or anything?" she asked.

"Well, no offence Olivia, but it might get dangerous, and stuff, and I just don't want you to get hurt."

"Hey!" said Olivia,"I'm not some inosent little girl here! I am a ranger after all."

"You're not even a real ranger yet," I said, "and even so, I've never heard of a RAmarl before."

"You just wait! I'm just one of the first!" she said, "now come on, let me help you out."

"Fine," I said, "just don't get too involved. You can think of this as our date."

"No way!" she said, "I want a replacment date. And you better show up to that one!!"

I gave another sigh, and we left.

With Olivia's car it didn't take us long to get to the building. I hoped out, followed by Olivia, and whent straight to the front desk. I asked the secretary there about the android that got inprisoned and if I could see it. Since I did work on the job, they let me go by. She summond a large Racast who lead both me and Olivia to an elevator which started to travel downwards.

It was wierd. They got that crazy android pretty quickly. Maybe it didn't know where Sev was after all.

We got to the basement. The android pointed to a cell near by. I peared inside it, but didn't see the android I followed. Insted there were two different androids, both who I knew.

"Sev," I asked, not beleving what I saw, "is that you?"

Hikosaka
Jun 9, 2002, 03:19 AM
There was muted buzzing sound that came from the door.

I looked up to see that somehow, it was open, and Mortimer was standing there, looking somewhat puzzled. His mouth moved, but I could not hear a sound coming from him.

I quickly made my way to the door, feeling immensely relieved to see the ranger. I reached out to grasp his shoulder in greeting, only to have my hand suddenly stop short on the threshold.

Puzzled, I reached out again, only to meet up with a solid, but invisible surface. I realized then that the door was not open, merely transparent. It was most likely composed of a reactive alloy, which created transparency with the application of an energy source. It allowed safe viewing of android or unusually strong prisoners without the need to install windows or grates and compromise the structural integrity of the door.

"Mortimer, we need to get out of here," I said, "I don't know what's happening, but I don't think it's good."

Mortimer didn't seem to hear a word I said. I noticed that the two black android guards still stood on either side of the door. There was also another woman there I didn't recognize.

"Mortimer? Mortimer! Can you hear me?!"

I started to pound on the door, trying to make myself heard. Suddenly, it turned opaque again, hiding the ranger behind a wall of white. The slightly resillient surface of the door popped back into its original shape, the dents I made disappearing.

"Mortimer!"

What was this? Who was that other person? There was no way the ranger was a part of this...was there?

I stopped hitting the door, knowing it was no use, and went back to the table where BWS-1 lay. I rested against the table and turned to watch the android, looking for any sign of life.

Moo2u
Jun 9, 2002, 09:08 PM
The door closed right infront of my face. I just couldn't believe what I saw. I knew who Sev was, and I knew she couldn't have murdered someone...could she? She did use to be a killer android for the A.D.S.S.F.
and to tell the truth, I didn't know all that much of her. But I did know she was a good person...android...whatever!!

"Mort, what's going on here?" asked Olivia. I ignored her.

I turned to one of the black Racasts, "There's a mistake here, that's Severance 7."

"Yes," it replied, "unit Severance 7 and unit BWS-1 are both inprisoned."

"But, they can't be. There must be some kind of confusion here," I said.

"No confusion, ranger," said the other racast, "we know for sure."

"But I know this android! She couldn't have done something like this," I said, but I wasn't even sure of myself.

"You know this android," said the first hucast, "how exacly do you know this android."

"We met a while ago," I said, "we both fought this thing called the A.D.S.S.F., waybe you've heard of it."

"So that's the android you talked about!" said Olivia in the background, "she dosen't look like an over-grown toaster to me." I tried to ignor her again.

"What did you say your name was?" continued the android.

"Mortimer Kirk the 2nd," I said, getting impationt, "I'm curently working as a mersonary and have conections with the Hunter's Guild, REDRIA sector."

"We have no need for the guild here," said the android, "but you did say you know these androids, both of them?"

"Yes!" I said as I raised my voice, "now let them out now!"

"Hold on," said the other racast, "Calm down, sir. "I'll take you to see our boss. If what you say is true, he'll be happy to see you. Follow me please."

I took one last look at the cell that held Sev and I said quitly, "I'll be back...don't worry."

M_BlackHawk
Jun 12, 2002, 09:15 PM
after a hectic few weeks...FINALLY, M_BLACKHAWK HAS RETURNED TO PSO WORLD!..ahem..sorry, bad WWE Reference. ^_^
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Lara has since walked on to the office of Colonel Morgan, in order to find out all she can about the remnants.

"All we can figure out by the information that you and your family has given us," the colonel states, "Is that they have some new backer. The remnant forces of the A.D.S.S.F. are working for some new person, who's backing them with both technology and finances. We've been unable to figure out an identity, but there are sources that show that they may be back in the old mines of Pioneer 1 again."

"Thanks, Colonel," Lara answers, "I appreciate this. Now, I'm going to check this out. keep track of me on BEE, and if I send any messages from the front, send for Maya. I may need her."

With that information, Lara sets off for the teleporter to the Mining complex of Pioneer 1.
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Later

M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Jun 12, 2002, 10:01 PM
YAY! I can post now that the plot on this side is moving.

Dammit, I've been left alone. T.T Noooo problem.

BTW Moo, it's "through", not "threw". You've been saying throwing to the past tense for the entire 3 episodes of the fic! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif
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I sat down for a moment... No one would need me for the time being, so I made an assessment of the situation. I closed my eyes and looked at the images.

There was a lone android within the abandonned mining complex. She was not Shurikane though... Her skirt and bow were missing, and her plates were of an unfamiliar pink, set on very realistic, almost translucent white skin. Her hair was organic... Pink, with black streaks and highlights. Her legs were black too, embelished by a swirl of pink dots... She seemed at the same time in shoes and barefoot. It was as if her feet were shoes. Her bases were soles and high heels, but I could see toes as well. In her hands was a radio device of sorts. Two displays were visible. One of them was an oscillator, which jerked and tumbled as transmissions flew out. The other was the same thing... Only much less impressive. The jerks were tiny, the sound unhearable. In fact... None of the transmissions could ever enter or leave the mines. The device was blocking them.

She sees Lara entering the complex. She stands up, and picks up a dark red trenchcoat, and puts it on. The sleeves are ripped full of holes, but the ends are almost intact. The trenchcoat is full of weapons. In fact, there are two shotguns strapped to the back of it.

I see something else! Mortimer... He is somewhere in the city... That dirty city... And he is in danger.

I opened my eyes, stood up, and in one step, I was on a concrete street.

In front of a gloomy building.

Mortimer is inside. I must help him.

I stepped inside.

M_BlackHawk
Jun 15, 2002, 08:44 AM
took me a while, but I finally planned out what to do now that I know who's watching me in the mines.
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Lara stood at a computer terminal inside the lair of the former main computer of the mining comples, code named: Vol Opt. She had been here on a few occasions before, both during the exploration of this world before landing, and after, when she and her family were facing a threat to both them and to the world. This time, she's just downloading partially encrypted files to be hacked back home.

"The encryption looks almost basic," she thinks as she continues to download the information, "I'll bet I can decode this at home easily." She then spots a shadow looming over her. She turns around to see an android that looks similar to Shurikane, but it wasn't Shuri. She looks at the strange mechanical creation's face, then decides on a course of action. She slowly starts to back away from the android, drawing her handgun.

"I don't know who you are," she begins, "But I'm only here to find out about whether my friend's disappearance has to do with the A.D.S.S.F. remnants."
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later



M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Jun 15, 2002, 10:00 AM
I had not even passed the second front door that I found myself looking at the mine scene again.

The pink android had raised an eyebrow, and then crossed her arms over her chest.

"I don't know who the hell you are either," she replied "But put that freakin' gun down.

"In the meantime, maybe you could tell me if you have seen this person anywhere."

She opened a slot on her side and drew out a small photo. It was a group of six androids. The pink one was in there, but her index finger pointed to the image of a green one sitting next to her on the photo. The subject had black simu-skin, a sharp-toothed smile, knives in place of hair, and a ridiculously large pair of hands, armed with unretractable Anger Blades. It was Shurikane.

"She was part of the good ol' Insa-series NewS SAcaseal androids. Maybe that rings a bell?" She continued. "Speaking of which, I'm Insa-Elenor Camuel."

Moo2u
Jun 15, 2002, 11:56 AM
Woohoo! I'm done exames! Anywho, back to the story.
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"Is it usual for them to keep us waiting this long?" asked Olivia.

"No it's not," I replied.

"Do you think they'll be coming soon?" she asked.

"For the third time, I don't know," I replied. The black android brought us to a gigantic room with a long metal table. Olivia and I waited at one end of it, and have been for quite a long time now.

"What do you think's taking them so long?" asked Olivia.

"I don't know. Something not right," I said, "I think we might be in for a little scuffle. I wish I have a better weapon then this damn mechgun."

"Well I can help you there!" said Olivia as she tosed me a Red Handgun.

Surprised I said, "Olivia, where in the world did you get this?"

"You'd be amazed what people sell on the street!" laughed Olivia.

Suddenly the doors opened. A man and another black android (this time a hucast) walked threw.

"Mortimer Kirk II, I presume," said the man.

"Ya that's me," I said, "and who are you?"

"My name's not important," he said with a smile, "sorry for keeping you waiting so long. Care for a drink."

"No thank you," I said.

"I'd want one!" pipped in Olivia's voice.

"And who exacly are you?" smiled the man.

"Olivia Ruse. I'm a ramarl."

"In training..." I added, "enough of this. I came here to find out why Sev is in that jail cell."

"Unit Severance 7 is in jail because of murder, you should know that," said the man, "you did work on the job."

I gave him a cold stare, "is that the only reason she's here?"

A long pause occured in the room. We both exchanged glances. The hucast behind him started to advance towards me, but the man put up his hand to stop him.

"I do believe the lady wanted something to drink," said the man as he got up, "Now let's see what we..."

"Don't change the conversation," I said, "Did Sev commit the murder or not?"

"I see then," said the man, "I guess I'll cut down to the chase then. We believe Severance 7 did commit the murder, but you're right. It's not fully why the android is here."

"What about the name Shurikane," I said, "dosn't that ring a bell?"

"Mr. Kirk," replied the man as he passed back and forth, "I do believe you know more then what we knew about you."

I really didn't know anything about that strange android, but I was hoping to get some additional information about it. "Well then....wait a second," It all came clear to me then, "Did you just say 'what we knew about you?' You didn't want me to work on the murder case. You wanted me to come here! But why?"

"Very smart of you," he said, "we knew of your past affiliations with Severance 7 and BWS-1. And your tangle with the A.D.S.S.F. We know all about you. And that's why we need something of you, something you have."

"Something I have?" I repeated, "but I don't have anything important. Well I did at one point, but that was..."

"You did?" said the man. He suddenly turned from his smile to a sharp forceful look, "what you mean 'did?'"

"Oh my god," I said, "this better not be about the disc. If it is you guys are a little too late. I destroyed it years ago."

"You what?" he said, "do you know what you threw away? The power that you could have had?"

"Yes," I said, "and that's why I did what I did."

At first he was shocked, but then the man's face turned into a smile once again, "well no matter. You still have what we want, inside you." He turned to the black hucast and said, "Capture him! I want him alive!"

On that the hucast charged towards me at lightning speed. Before I could grab my gun, it rammed me aganst the wall. It started to strangle me, but I was quick to react. I grabed it's wrists and twisted them outwards. Now that I was free from it's hold, I could attack. I gave it a forceful punch to the head, causing it to sudder back.

Then the android unleased a red saber and charged towards me once again. I was quick to draw my gun this time and fired three shots. Using the saber, he reflected my shots and was still charging towards me. It jumped above me ready to strick, when a shot from the left of me came and hit the hucast directly on its head. The force from the shot blew the hucast to the right of me where it smashed threw on of the many large windows.

I looked to my left to see Olivia, still pointing her own red handgun.

"Wow Olivia," I said, "I'm inpresed."

"Now you know what will happen to you if you're late for a date!" she said, "hey, where's that guy? He was here just a little while ago."

Before I could answer we heard on the intercom system, "Attention all forces. There are two wanted suspecs in conference room #2. Use extrem force to capture."

KodiaX987
Jun 15, 2002, 02:13 PM
I closed the door behind me. By a twist of fate the occupants of the building had been too stunned by my unusual appearance to think about chasing me. Which gave me a reminder... My elegant hair robe would not make a good combat suit. But I didn't dare change to anything else.

Mortimer!

I was on time, he was still alive. As I gave him a quick hug to show my worry, I heard a muffled scream from behind the door.

"Looh ka i hrot!" Was all that I understood before the door flew out of its frame in a spin, missing my left ear by an atom, to stab one of its corners into the door on the opposite wall.

In came Shurikane, who effortlessly smashed the body of a huge black android on the ground. She ripped its throat open, to retrieve a speaker unit inside. Her other hand carried out the dangerous task of ripping her own speaker out. What she threw to the side was barely recognizable. The old speaker was disformed, covered in an insoluble mix of dark, dirty brown oil and deep purple blood. She switched hands, this time inserting the new unit. Her hands were shaking, like a drug addict missing its daily dose. And when the unit snapped into place with the help of her organic wires, she threw here head back, shuddering at the sensation of a new speaker unit to express her thoughts with.

"Sounds pretty late..." She slowly said in an overly mechanized voice. "...But at least I found Sev."

She took a few steps to the side, and leaned against the door frame. She seemed to be breathing heavily, even though she was an android. A visual show of her weakened state.

"Battery!" She exclaimed, before turning around and diving a spike straight through the dead android's body. For the first time in my life I saw under the light the origin of that spike. It wasn't her normal factory-set fiber-optic material. This one came from a little further up her arm, but still in the infected region. The spike was placed on a black ropelike appendage, oozing a purple and black substance. It was not blood, however. But I couldn't guess what in the world it was.

Mortimer, what happened? Did anyone come?

And before I even waited for his answer...

No one will be able to get anything out of us. Ever. But no one will ever believe it. Remember what I gave you in the forest? You used it once. Let's use it again. Let's find a way to solve the problem.

"Well in the meantime..." Shurikane muttered. She had retracted her spike. "I don't think you'll be able to provide help in fighting, right cousin?"

I nodded.

"Fine. That's a small corridor. I can handle this with no problem..."

This is where I noticed...

"...I don't detect any communication unit on all of you so I won't wait for a signal. I'll fight whatever comes..."

No! Hold on!

"...After five minutes, or after I beat them all, whichever comes first, I'll see if I can catch up..."

I dove for the floor, just in time to catch a chain, full of sharp blades.

I stood up.

Your jaw was working, I thought. Please watch out next time.

With no precautions at all, I quickly put the chain back in its proper sockets, and joined the two broken ends together as well as I could. It would work for now, but the defect was very visible behind her stripe-shredded face.

I noticed something else...

Say, your right eye is working now! I thought with satisfaction. In fact, both optical units were now covered behind brand new opaque neon-green lenses

"It took work." She answered. "Now go."

I had to agree. I could already hear the building's little army climbing up the stairs.

M_BlackHawk
Jun 15, 2002, 06:25 PM
Lara puts the gun back in its holster, before looking at the photo a little closer. "Her name wouldn't be Shurikane, would it?" the HUnewearl asks as she remembers the face, or what's left of it, "I saw her earlier, but she disappeared with my friends, Mortimer Kirk and Severence 7. I'm looking for any clue to Sev's disappearance, which lead me to the A.D.S.S.F. remnants. Apparently, they have a new backer. I'm trying to figure out who this joker is."

Elsewhere, in the building where Mortimer, Olivia, Shuri and Zin are, the sound of moving androids on the upper floors seems to lessen, and numerous explosions in rapid succession are heard on the floor above.

BWS-1
Jun 16, 2002, 02:03 PM
T-T Holy ... noooooo I gotta write my part !!!! ... but only wednesday night will I have the time to stay more then 5 minutes on the net -_-, o well.

KodiaX987
Jun 19, 2002, 10:29 PM
I hurried for the doors, but turned around and carefully watched Shurikane dealing with the massing amounts of androids... Why were they all androids?

Explosions, coming from the far side of the corridor. Pieces flew into the room. A black android stepped in while Shurikane smashed a body to the floor. She took a fist into the chest. I barely had the time to close the door, and then her full weight went into printing the shape of her body on it, so hard I was nearly pushed forward into the corridor myself.

For a brief moment, our minds were close enough...

It hit me...
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The pain... Headache... Bodyache... My own body rejecting me.

Ha... You're in me aren't you, huh? Speak up Zin. I know you're in there. I know you are reading this even as I'm processing it. There's no hiding from my instinct.

There's no hiding from an animal.

I am an animal.

A pure, brainless animal.

I was made to scare. And then I was modified to fight. And I used to like it. You see me all happy and looking badass. You see me running around doing the wildest stunts people could ever imagine.

Do you know what I have been through, kid?!

"What the hell are you? Get out! Get out!!"

"But I just want to buy a--"

"Shut up you monster! You'll never get any upgrades from me!"

"Why you motherfucker..."

I ask, I sadden, I explode, I holocaust. I am a temper tantrum on a motherboard. An animal. Whenever threatened, bites, claws, kills. Because that's what I am programmed to do. That's what the animal is programmed to do.

I never asked to be this way. I was made scary. And then I was made worse. Now, I am one of the best fighters of the guild, and I hate myself.

There's a sound at the window... Come here, butterfly...

She would enter the small botanic garden, stretch out her hand, and try to accomodate a little flying insect onto her finger.

And just as beautifully, the insect would split into two bloody halves.

Little... Little butterfly... Come here...

Present time. She sobbed.

May I quote Hamlet today?

Past time. She would approach her hands to her face, and in an act of ultimate emotion, press both together. She would cut her jaw, slice her wires, tear her cheeks apart, open an oil leak. And then she would look into her reflection on her angers, and would find out that all this time, she had bottled up the angers. And the angers came back to her. She had the angers at herself.

What would you expect!! I want to die... But I can't. I have the instinct of survival.

I am an animal.

Past time. She saw her friend, and she would run to her. And when they would meet together, she would hug her, and then would the friendship end forever.

My hugs kill.

My kisses shred.

My tears are dirty oil.

All love I give out, comes back to me as a gloomy, very gloomy death.

I am a little child inside a shell. I want to be like you, Zinackst. I want to be like you. I swear. Sense the truth in my voice! I am just too frustrated... Too scared, too angry, too stressed. But I want to be like you. To stop giving death when I don't want to. To start giving love and get love back. To start giving love without being afraid to do so.

To become a stable person. A nice, good, sane person.

Present time. She would curl up in a ball and hug her legs with her hands. And those legs would bleed beyond recognition.

I can't even love myself, Zinackst. I can't love anything. I want to lose the angers, but how? Tell me the how.

Past time. She would fight. And she would always win.

I am crazy. I am a fighter. I have no conscience of my actions but I have conscience of my thoughts. I do projects, and I am doomed to failure.

Present time. Whenever she would see defeat approaching, she would resort to violence.

I am an animal.

I am about to get beaten up.

I will not allow it.

I will win.

I will kill them all.

I will slash all those fuckers to death.

I will kill all those who hate.

I will kill everybody!

No one will stop me from cleansing this world into my angers!!

No one!

NO ONE!

NO ONE!!!
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It released me.

I was always upset when it happened. And I could see it coming now... Please don't do it.

My sibling shrieked. Hundreds of decibels assaulted my ears, my sight, every single sense of my body and soul was being attacked by a burst of anger and desperation. I screamed as well. It was one of the times I experienced such unbearable pain. Such uncalled for pain.

I knew she would come out alive. I knew she would soon follow us as if nothing had happened.

But her thesis still rang into me like a call I dared not to answer.

I am an animal!

I am an animal.

I am an animal...



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BWS-1
Jun 19, 2002, 11:56 PM
"Attention all forCes Fforcess forccess. fOrces ..."

I'm, regaining consciousness, yet, it's cold, my body and soul is numb ... it felt so good, this escape, I felt almost as if, as if I was dead, if only I could ...

... bang! *photon bullet hitting a wall nearby

huh? Gun shots, people looking for trouble, people fighting, I am not safe again. Come on, get up, get up ...

GET UP!

!

*the body twithes and falls on the ground

"arg ... ?"

*quickly manages to get back on his feet

"Who's ther... Severance?"

As I look at her, I feel confused and desoriented, I feel my body turning numb again, I fall on the ground on my knees, I still had enough reflexes to put my hand down so I couldn't completely smash my face on that ... weird looking ground.

"How ... long have I been held in here, and you and what's happening out there? Sorry, you probably know as little as I do. It just, happening so fast, I can't beleive I fell in their silly trap, going for my body again ... whatever, I don't know if it's the body or me, but I found strange powers in my journey into those ruins."

I could barely recongnize my voice again ... was it due to the fact that I haven't heard it in a long time or just the fact that my vocal system is almost burnt out? It felt strange, talking again, talking so much ... I'd have so much to say, it's been a while since I could just do that, talk. But now is not the time, even if last time I said that I ended up "dead" but I can't allow myself to waste this time right now; not for the sake of my friends.

I can't stand doing nothing, I looked at my left arm, well, at where that strange fire arm burst out of me in the facility, and waited for a second ... nothing happend. Severance seemed to be wondering what I was doing, no wonder, she know nothing, well, neither do I. Anyway. I walked toward her, and grabed her forearm, I noticed a mark, and I started to feel something; pulses, and it was clearly visible that at every pulse I'd feel, I could see the mark glowing, more and more ... then pulses became stronger, I started to feel as if those were attacking me, it quickly turned into painful stabs, hitting my from inside ... I started to hold Sev's forearm real tight, at a point that as I heard metal bending, I quickly stepped back, looking at her ... horrified? only she could tell, yet I knew I damaged her arm. I couldn't beleive what I just ddid, WHY? argh ... I tried to get away from her as much as I could in the small cell but nothing would do, I still feel this pain.

"Sev, aSorry, I diDn'T mean toO ..."

"AAAAAAARRGH"

I grabbed my head with my right hand and started to tremble ...

"The ... the heat, the comforting heat is ... comming back again, yes ...."

I could feel the remaning ice on my armor melt, and I started to feel this ... force again coming back, why does it always have to be painful? ack ... I looked at sev, and then at the door.

"We're ... going out of here"

I steped forward, and puched the door as hard as I could with my right fist only to hear it break from inside ... the body material was weak and ready to crumble into tiny peices of metal ... I then grinned, and prepared to hit the door as if I had a left fist, only I had no arm and all.

"Rwaaa!"

The fire-arm appeared as I did my motion and the fist didn't even hit the door, the entire door melted, like butter. It was funny to see those guards all stunned, but they quickly took there guns and called for back-up, I walked out of the cell, using my fire-arm as a shield to absorb the photon bullets and rushed at a firing RAcast, removed his rifle from his hands and trew it back in the cell, hoping Sev would pic it up then I grabbed the RAcast's head only to see it melt before contact, as the fire-hand went through it.

*RAcast's corpse fall on the floor

There was 3 RAcasts on my left with rifles, 2 HUcasts on my right with mech guns, all armed with guns and ready to shoot me ... I slowly turned my head to see behind me where the cell was and waited ... I could hear Sev inside, was she having problems with the gun? I dunno, I had to make my move.

"No where to hide", said a RAcast at my left.

"Hmmff, I could dispose of you if I'd want to, but I have informations to take from you first"

I didn't dare to move, but I had to make it back into the cell, and burn a hole through the ceiling, the walls, anywhere to make us escape, but as long as I still burn ... huh, damn.

*fire-arm suddenly fades away

"Shit."

I quickly turned back and ran to the cell, only 2 meters to go, that's not long, only a long step and I'm in! yet I wasn't fast enough, the HUcasts started to shoot first, they totally turned my legs starting from the feet into dust then as I crawled to the cell, the RAcast shot into my body ... those powerful bullets ... my only comfort was that at least Sev had one of those rifles ... they must be AA rifles or something.

I'm almost there ... only the top of my torso remains, my arm has entered the cell, I can see sev from the corner of my vision field as I enter, she looks at me. I try to strech my arm to her but I see my fingers and hand and forearm and entire arm quiclky blasted in peices ... then I hear a shot and nothing ... I only see black, was I dreaming?

"They said we couldn't kill it, huh? What a weak ... weak .... weak ..."

...

I wasn't ... dreaming.

I hear people coming, are those my friends? Please, help Sev out, she's oddnumbered ... if only they could hear me. Please ... if only ...

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Wanna know something funny? part of this post has been inspired of a dream I once had ... I could see my arm then my fingers cut by a disk that was coming at me, then it cut my head and I saw all that you could see when you get your head cut, which means, for 4 seconds, I saw the sky, then the ground, then my headless body fall over me then ... it was over, I was dead and I felt all of this ... funny dream huh?

Hikosaka
Jun 22, 2002, 05:41 AM
That is a scary dream... O_o;; Now that I read it, I hope I don't get something like that in my dreams tonight...
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"How ... long have I been held in here, and you and what's happening out there? Sorry, you probably know as little as I do. It just, happening so fast, I can't beleive I fell in their silly trap, going for my body again ... whatever, I don't know if it's the body or me, but I found strange powers in my journey into those ruins."

I had felt a surge of relief when BWS-1 woke up...I was starting to fear that he never would. I shook my head at his words, not really knowing what to say, lacking any useful information.

It was good to hear his voice again. I was able to communicate with him when he was a Mag, but that language was too limited to convey much more than raw data.

I opened my mouth to ask him about these strange powers, but was interrupted when he grabbed my left forearm. As his fingers closed over my arm, the turquoise mark on it blazed to life, pulsing brighter than I had ever seen it before.

Flame.

Rage.

Hatred.

Death.

A jolt of agony shocked me out of my reverie when his fingers crushed my forearm. He let go quickly, but the damage was done; I could feel small broken parts skittering around inside the now-deformed exterior plate, my hand dangling uselessly, neural net blocked or severed.

"Sev, aSorry, I diDn'T mean toO ..."

Softly glowing green fluid started to leak from a massive stress fracture at the joint, dripping from my limp fingers to the floor. The pain subsided, leaving numbness in its place.

A chill rose unbidden as I watched him utter the apology.

Was that a grin on his face? A hint of dark laughter in his voice?

No, that's impossible. He's...he's my friend. It was an accident, that's all.

Just an accident.

Nevertheless, I stepped back a little as I watched the blaze of fire erupt from his shoulder, my broken arm twitching slightly as if in empathy. One thing stuck in my mind as I watched him melt the door down like low grade lead alloy.

The fire from his arm was the same as the vision of fire I saw when he touched me.

I could hear the drum of footsteps coming from either direction. Automatically, I estimated how many enemies were coming our way. We were outnumbered and outgunned, arm of fire or no.

"We're ... going out of here"

"No BWS-1, wait!"

He didn't seem to hear me and moved forward into the corridor, easily dispatching the first android and throwing his rifle back at me. Automatically, I tried catching it with my left hand, only to have it bounce off my dead fingers, skidding on the slick tiles to the wall. Cursing under my breath, I scrambled after the rifle.

I looked up just as BWS-1 tried to leap back into the cell, his fire mysteriously extinguished. I watched with horror as his body virtually disintegrated under boosted photon fire, his torso skidding halfway across the threshold before coming to a rest, a ruined, smoking mass of fused metal.

Instantly, I dragged the torso further into the cell, my optical spike already out and ready to perform a grid transfer into myself, trying to save him before his core went out for good. Ripping open the sparking mess that was his head, I jacked directly into his brain.

Only...to find nothing there...nothing at all. He was nothing more than an empty shell. I retracted my spike and let my hand fall limply to the floor.

Too late. I'm always too late to save anyone it seems.

I stood, staring at the corpse, listening as the androids whispered amongst themselves.

"Idiots, you weren't supposed to kill BWS-1! Our orders were to bring them both back with grids intact!"

"He gave us no choice! Didn't you see that fire coming from his shoulder? He melted X72's head right off!"

"Serrus is going to have us dismantled for disobeying his orders. I think he needed them both for that experiment to work right."

"Maybe if we bring Seven back to him alive, he won't be that mad? Better one than none?"

"I don't know. Might as well try; he seems a lot more forgiving than Master ever was, anyway. At least he treats us like equals."

"Yeah, I wouldn't know where we'd all be without him."

"You all done? All right, let's go!"

Hmm...so his name is Serrus...where have I heard that name before? It seems familiar, like something half-heard from a holovid news program...

I didn't react as the androids rushed into the cell and aimed their weapons on my head.

"Don't move or we'll shoot!" one of the androids yelled.

"Then you better shoot me," I replied.

"What did you s-" the android never got to complete his sentence, his head flying off in the opposite direction as his body.

My left arm might be broken, but the Sinow Blade upgrade in my right was working just fine, shearing through the metal as easily as air.

Taken by surprise, the androids seemed transfixed as they watched the head of the android, (still screaming), fly to the far wall and bounce off solidly, landing on the floor with a metallic thump, finally silent.

A quick scan had confirmed what I had already guessed. These androids were a typical product of the A.D.S.S.F. factories: solidly built, but ultimately inferior due to deliberate flaws in mental capacity to increase submissiveness and loyalty. It was a safeguard added after an incident of android revolt in the ranks. The flaws made those androids process unexpected events slower than usual, intelligence factors sharply decreased in favor of combat subroutines and targeting systems. My own speed and reflexes were greater by a factor of ten in comparison, even in my damaged state.

They seemed like they were standing still as I whirled about with my glowing red blade, slicing through guns, heads, and bodies with equal ease. The androids had just enough time to twitch before their bodies fell apart, the white floor now cluttered with the black of mangled armor.

Suddenly, there was nothing to kill anymore.

Faintly disappointed, I stood in the middle of a huge pile of dismembered machines, with all manners of fluids pooling about, staining the once pristine white of the floor. The photon blade generator switched off with a click, and retracted back into my arm, the red exterior plating locking back together securely.

I gathered up what was left of BWS-1 and placed him on the table, away from the mess. I knew that he wasn't much use to Tyrell's "son" anymore, so I didn't feel badly at not being able to take him with me. Besides, he was just a shell now; the most important part of him had already flown far away.

Sifting through the wreckage, I picked up the only undamaged weapon left: a modified handgun one of the hunter-type androids used. It was locked out to prevent anyone else using it, but to my surprise, my old A.D.S.S.F. access key still worked. The gun glowed back to life.

A soft whirring sound caught my attention, and I looked up to see that all eight observation cameras were trained on me. I could already hear the drumming feet of the reinforcement teams coming my way.

Let them come. If they're so willing to rush into death, I'm content to give it to them.

I started running down the corridor, gun charged and ready.

My only wish now was to find Serrus and destroy him. Anything else that happens to me afterward, I'll think of something then.

BWS-1
Jun 22, 2002, 09:05 AM
I just had to post back http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

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go go go !

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Those voices are unfamiliar to me


She's comming right at us, take cover!

Who's speaking?

C59-s, C59-s, HUcast C59-s! you hear me?

huh?

FLASH

*HUcasts and RAcasts running ... the're all black ... I run with them ... why don't they see me? Why don't they attack me?*

FLASH

!!

*wakes up

no time for day dreaming soldier!

I look in front of me, I see a black RAcast holding a rifle but strangely, not to point it at my head, weird, I look down at my gun, and notice my armor color, I'm all ... black?

"Now C59-s, go first, we'll cover you, be quick, I heard she disposed of Squad-8 not long ago."

"huh, yes, sir"

As I approach slowly to the corner of the corridor, I hear the footsteps are getting loader. I look back, and see my ... "team" waiting for me to attack ... they most likely seem to be waiting for me to be turned into a pile of junk or something ... cowards.

!!

It's coming

I rush to the middle of the corridor and point my gun searching for targets, only to see one, red target. Red RAcaseal, with a ... some kind of weapon attached to her arm, she looks mad ...

"You there, stop!"

...

What the ... she looks familiar, no wait, don't tell me. Sev !

ARgh ... I'm not who I appear to be, the temporary loss of memory must have been caused by the constant disterbing frequencies of the grid inside me.

I feal so happy just to think that she could get out of there without any help, I guess I underestimated her, or cared to much? I dunno. I just feel happy now.

As I lower my gun and strap it back to the side of my armor, I say, reassured:

"Sev, phew, you're ok."

But then fear just strick me ... she doesn't know I'm me. She sees an enemy in front, not a friend, then I slowly walked backward and looked at my squad and heard the RAcast apparently in charge order me to just trow a "grenade" at her ... that word reminds me something, it's an old balistic weapon used many eras ago ... but do I have such primitive weapon on me?

I can't have access to an inventory, what kinda of HUcast am I? I realize that my weapons are strapped around my armor, I have my gun on my left and a belt of "grenades" ...

I pick one off my belt and I could see the squad backing off quickly; geee what kinda damage does that thing do ...

*press the green button on it

-greenlights flash-

*reads on the grenade

- A.F.E.C. grena. -
- type_09 -
- AREA EFFECT 37 -
- FORCE: RAfoie 48 -

"wow ...!"

What? No, I'm not trowing this at Sev, what's with me?

*does 90 degree turn

-green flashing lights turns to red and beeps-

Huh!?

I take a look at the squad, they're all looking at me stupified as I am, and I trow it at them.

"Nooo shit idiot!!! run!!!! "

BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!

I only have the time to turn back and run into Sev and push her to the floor trying to protect her from the incredible blast.

But in her eyes, I can see she saw that more like an assault then a rescuie and I get off of her and stands there as I stand clumsily on my damaged feet from the blast, my two hands away from my gun and grenades; waiting for her move desperatly wishing for it not to be an attack.

Hikosaka
Jun 23, 2002, 02:54 AM
So far, so good.

The various enemy encounters I've had so far only left me with a few scorch marks on my back where a lucky shot grazed it. Dead soldiers had yielded a good shield generator, a better gun, and a few repair units which greatly sped up the rate of system regeneration. With the help of those units, my systems were finalizing repairs, and I was able to function almost normally now, making my flight through the corridors of the building even faster.

My left arm was still broken, however. If I could only just find a self-repair/maintenance kiosk around here...but I didn't know anything about the structure, nor had the time to look through every door I passed...

"You there, stop!"

The black android's gun was pointed at me, but a single stream of bullets is easily dodged, and I started rushing down the hall toward him. It was going to be a close quarters attack, so my blade was activated and ready.

Unexpectedly, the android holstered his gun, looking relieved. I paused my attack. Despite being the enemy, I would not attack those who do not pose a threat. I watched the strange android, waiting for the next move.

"Sev, phew, you're ok."

He talked to me in a familiar fashion, as if we were friends. However, I didn't recognize the android at all, and tensed for an attack, guessing that it was a trick to try and distract me.

His squad leader yelled something in that strange argot that had developed between the factory-built A.D.S.S.F. soldiers, and the android before me responded by pulling a grenade from his belt and arming it.

With the presence of a deadly weapon, my systems sprang back into action, my body making a rush toward him and throw that grenade toward the rest of the squad before the three second delay ended. I knew the best course of action would have been to retreat, but I was just close enough to risk it, and there was a significant reward at success.

To my great surprise, the android whirled around and threw the grenade back at his comrades, then rushed forward and slammed into me. The force of the explosion knocked both of us off our feet and onto the floor. My blade was raised to slice off the android's head as he lay on top of me, but I realized that, instead of attacking, he was trying to to shield me from the blast.

'What the hell is wrong with this android? His loyalty index should have been cranked up so high that betrayal should have been an impossibility.'

The android got up quickly, standing unevenly on damaged feet that barely escaped the blast. I noticed he kept his hands well away from his weapons, a sign of good will. I got to my feet as soon as he was clear, my gun aimed at his head.

I stepped back a little, unsure. It didn't seem like he wanted to attack, especially after he saved my life. I lowered my gun, but kept the blade activated, just in case. I wanted to avoid needless killing, so anyone who didn't attack would not get attacked.

Also, there was something familiar about this android, a feeling I couldn't shake, though I was certain I never met him before. However, he acted like he knew me, so perhaps I did know him, but that memory was damaged or deleted for some reason. I would have liked to have spent some time figuring it out, but time was something I had very little of. In any case, I knew I wouldn't kill him.

I considered disarming him, but I sensed I could trust him for some reason. Besides, if he wanted to escape alive, he'd need all the help he could get.

"I don't know who you are," I said, "but as long as you don't draw your weapons against me, we'll get along fine. Last time I read the A.D.S.S.F. manual, traitors are shot on sight, so I suggest you get on your way. I need to get going on mine. Or if you'd like, you can come with me. Strength in numbers would increase our chances of getting out of this place alive. Your choice. Either way, I need to be going now."

I turned toward the blackened part of the corridor where the grenade exploded, then paused and looked back to the android standing there.

"And thanks. I really appreciate what you did. I'm in your debt."

I started running down the corridor again, heading for the next level up. I wondered what that android would do, but decided to think on it later, the sounds of the next approaching android squad rapidly growing near.

M_BlackHawk
Jun 23, 2002, 03:45 PM
Ok..time for a cameo appearance. ^_^
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the floor above Severance and the other android is crawling with A.D.S.S.F. androids. However, they all seem to be falling apart by some unseen force slicing them to pieces.

after clearing a path for the RAcaseal and RAcast, a strange light blue, ninja-looking, female android, armed with a pair of red sinow blades, stops and shows them to the stairway leading to the roof.

"Come with me," the android says in a voice that should be familiar to Sev, "I'll drop a telepipe to a safe location, then we can get the hell outta here."

Elsewhere, Lara had taken a telepipe back to her family's computer room, and has started to decode the information on the disk that she had downloaded. "Strange," she thinks out loud, "I'm seeing two different sources in their financial information. One is labled A.T., and the other is labled G.T. They have rather deep pockets, to be able to afford all that mass production equipment." She continue to think silently to herself as she still decodes the rest of the information.
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Moo2u
Jun 23, 2002, 03:53 PM
Bad news guys! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif I'm off this summer traviling a bunch of places and probably won't be able to get close to a computer for a while. (abuot a months time) I leave this sunday and return home on July 21. This week I'm going to have to post as much as possible so I can get as far as I can in the story. Remember, even when I'm gone you can continue the story, just remember, I'm not here to post back! Thus begins the week of posts! Let the chaos, begin!

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So many quesiton raced threw my mind. The biggest one was how I would get out of this situation. I was being hunted down, and by our own goverment! I became a right hand man for the Hunter's Guild to a wanted criminal in seconds. And what exacly did I do? I don't think I did anything illigal. At least, not anything to deserve this. But that man said I had something... but what?

Then I heard it. Far away, the sound came to me in an instent. The sound of a fight, and the sound of a friend.

"...I'm in your debt."

"That way!" I pointed to a stairwell. I zoned out everything else. The fight, my friends, my troubles, to find her. I consentrated only on that, and nothing else.

Suddenly I felt a power. A power I've never felt before. A power that made me feal like nothing was going to get in my way.

If the others wanted to follow me that would be fine. I didn't mind, and at that moment I didn't care. As said before I was consentrated only on that, and nothing else.

I ran down the stairs to the bottom floor. This was where Sev and BWS-1's cell was held, but they wern't there anymore. I heard her, somewhere else. A ran down a coridor on my right to find an army of black android rush straight into me.

"Who's this?" asked one.

"He's in the way, just blast him!" yelled another one.

Before the army had a chanse to fire a shot, I raised my red handgun and fired like mad. The hallway was narrow, so the androids in the back had a ruff time to get ahead of the already inactive androids. Having the androids slowed down I continued to run with all my speed down the hall, firing a few shots when I got the chance. As I got further down the hall, I worked my way past the mangled bodies of past androids. A fight was here.

At the end of the long hallway I turned a corner to my left to see another one of those black androids over the Sev.

"Get away from her!" I yelled. I pointed my red handgun, ready to trash another useless killer android.

Moo2u
Jun 27, 2002, 12:03 PM
Come on people! I only have 4 days left!

...oh, and Hiko, you're post count is 666! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif Just thought that was amusing....

M_BlackHawk
Jun 27, 2002, 05:16 PM
OK, Moo...here's one more post.
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the female android sees Mortimer's gun, and reacts quickly, grabbing a slicer and knocking the handgun out of his hand. "That android helped Severance," she says in a voice that SHOULD be familiar to Mortimer, "Now, Mortimer, Severance, and whoever you are, let's get to the roof. I'll them drop that telepipe out of here. I think you'll run into an old friend at the pipe's destination."

Elsewhere, still cracking codes, Lara comes across some information in the government databases, while cross-referencing them with the A.D.S.S.F. info. "Things are starting to make sense," she thinks, "A.T. is Ash Tyrell. This huge suppliment to the military black budget also coincides with a deposit made by the remnants. Great..another government conspiracy."
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Moo2u
Jun 27, 2002, 08:57 PM
"What?" was my first response to this sudden android's appearence, although I probably could have thought of ton of better things to say.

Another android? There seemed to be so many already! And she said that the other black android saved Sev. Whatever...

And this new android...something different about it. Its voice I recondnized...but I wasn't quite sure. I didn't really know that many androids. It didn't really matter at that moment, if I knew the android or not, we need to get out of there.

"Um...ok..." I said slowly, trying to understand the situation. I walked over and picked up the red handgun that fell from my hand, "well people...um...androids...we can go back the way I came. It's going to be a bit tuff getting all the way from this basement to the roof, but it's a start. Zin's still in that room, I hope, and the psyco Racaseal's holding off the guards, I think."

I wasn't really sure of anything, but I was possitivly sure that we need to get out of that place, as quick as possible. I had to fight with all I had, lucky me. Sev looked to be in the worst shape. I tried to help her as much as I could as we ran down the hallway and up the stairs, until finally the three bots and I got to the room where I left Zin, but Olivia wasn't there.

Again, like before when I was finding Sev, I was too consintrated on the sistuation at hand. I hoped that maybe she got out of the building after I left, or something like that, but eather way I trusted that she could take care of herself.

"Hey Zin," I said, "look what I found just laying around!"

BWS-1
Jun 29, 2002, 01:33 AM
I didn't hear Mortimer shout at me, well, I didn't know it was him; the blast of the explosion must have slightly damaged my hearing system. So much was going on at the same time, as I was listenning to Severance 7, I could see from the corner of my vision field Mortimer aiming at me then suddenly being disarm by a strange looking android. I tried not to act suprised since Sev didn't seem to have noticed anything.

"And thanks. I really appreciate what you did. I'm in your debt."

I can see her start running down the corridor again ... I'm in your dept ... she really has a greater sence of honor then I could ever imagine. Ya sure I didn't attack her but still, I'm an enemy ... maybe I was the one being dishonorable all this time to my ... enemies, assuming that if they couldn't defend themself or just not hear me sneak up their back would only proove in their lack of skill and therefor, this kill would be seen as a skillful and honorable one ... O Idola the monster I was ... no time for recalling all that, funny I thought I "forgot" about that time long ago.

Gah ... Mortimer's busy, I'll hide before he can think of fallowing me, he doesn't seem to be in a mood to let me live.

I ran awhile in the corridor Sev just came from, and looked back as I saw her take an other way.

"Sorry sev ... I can't run with you this time." I said to myself.


I got in the closest room I saw, as I placed my hand near the door of a storage room, I emidiatly got the access granted; pays off to be on the bad guys' side after all.

I could hear Mortimer closing on Sev to assist her ... I can't just fallow her and say "Hey! it's me! B!" ... might only make matters worst, she could see that as an insult to her intelligence I mean really, I have no way to prove that I'm ... wait yes, their's a way, the mark if only I can get close enough to feel the mark again, the pulses ... hmmm, might not be as easy as it seems.

I have to find a way to get to Lara, I know she can hack to this droid's grid and find maybe nothing about the big secret plans but at least a map of the area, or maybe his model ID.

Lucky me, I went in a weapon storage room. I looked for an other belt of those grenades, well I found 2 of them, 2 complete belts of 5 grenades each. I disposed of the one I had on me, and equiped the 2 others straping one over the other in an X form.

"Now, all I have to do is configure a connection to each of them, and make sure that by pressing one of any of the buttons twice, it would make them instantly explode"

That was the most sadistic idea I ever had, yet with probably the maximum chances of success I could imagine ...

The 2 scenario I had in mind was , if I get cought, I blow myself to the heavens ... and if I don't, I just push the buttons once and leave that hell fire behind me. in either way, I win. but ... what if I detonate while the others are still inside.

This grid, I can feel the soldier inside me fighting to regain the control, it must be hard on him, yet I can't allow myself to leave this body with him alive in it, he already knows too much.

Then I guess I have no other choice then escaping with them. If I remember right, Their was an elevator not far from where our cell was.

I consentrated as hard as I could, improvising in trying to get in contact with Zinackst.

"Zin ... ZIN! where are you? if you hear me, plz give me a sign when you'll all be safe outside, plz. I want to make them pay ... the hard way ..."

I got out of the room, and started to walk deeper in the base, the more deep you go, the more security levels you break, the more important are the things you damage ... that the basic way of thinking of the suicidal commandos when a mission fails or, when THAT's the mission's objective... and that's what I've become, but I'm not afraid, I know it's not my last mission.

I found a weird shield in this storage room and decided to use it to protect the grenades from eventual attacks ... it was some sort of tower shield named STANDSTILL SHIELD or something, has great defencive attributes, I should be o.k. with that and the single RED MECHGUN I picked in one of the box for as long as I have to hold in there ... then ... boom.

I can hear a squad coming ... I can feel the upcoming carnage resulting from the enconter ...



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M_BlackHawk
Jun 29, 2002, 09:01 AM
Ok..time to finish up the "Conspiracy Research" arc of Lara's.
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With her HUmar husband helping her, Lara had hacked into the military and the Ragol bank's records, and started cross-referencing several transactions with what she had gathered.

"Hmmm," Lara tells her husband, "From what you told me a few minutes ago, there was a huge supplement to the Military's Black Budget made by the Senate's committee on defense, AND a payment made from the Tyrells' accounts to a numbered account. These coincide with what we've seen of account deposits in the A.D.S.S.F. funds. It looks like the Tyrell family is now using government influence, and thier own wealth, to finance the A.D.S.S.F. Tracking Maya's guild signature, it would appear she's in a government building. I'll take a telepipe to their location, and see what I can find out there." With that stated, Lara saves her information to an optical disk, and then drops a telepipe to find her friends in the Government installation.

Surrounded by HUcasts and RAcasts when she arrives, her anti-android twin brand slices her way to the first room she can find, an arms storage room, where she finds a single black RAcast. She readies her Twin Brand in case it attacks her.
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Hikosaka
Jun 29, 2002, 04:01 PM
Time to fix that evil post count. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

Have fun on your trip, Moo2u. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif
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The sudden appearance of both Mortimer and Maya was very welcome in a building full of enemies. I recognized Maya almost immediately after she spoke; though her body might have changed, her registered ID transmission signature had not.

I noticed that the black HUcast that had saved me had run off in a different direction. I wished he would have stayed and joined with us, but I guessed he had his own escape route. Wondering if I would see him again, I hoped he would be safe.

"Hey Zin," Mortimer said, "look what I found just laying around!"

"Yeah, laying around. It was so relaxing here, I thought I was on vacation," I muttered, punching Mortimer lightly in the shoulder with my good arm.

Zinackst looked completely out of place, standing there in her delicate blue gown, seemingly untouched by the chaos that was going on all around her. There were screams and slashing sounds in the next room, leading me to guess that Shurikane was somehow involved.

A double flash of light in the window caught my eye, and I walked to it, looking outside, wondering what it was.

My eyes widened at the swarm of police hovercars that seemed to be scanning every meter of the building with ultrabright lights. I looked down to see that the building was surrounded by both police and military guard. They looked prepared for the worst, all weapons drawn, the Force divisions already sparkling with fire, ice, and lightning spells, forming a barricade around the base of the structure. There was a small gap in the barrier as a continuous stream of people were being evacuated from the building.

It made sense. We were in the central sector of the colony, fighting a war in miniature in one of the main government buildings. Then, I noticed a large seal on the opposite side of the room.

All right, scratch that. We were fighting in the most important government building of all; the Principal himself resided here.

Suddenly, all of the hovercars blared a message in unison.

"SURRENDER IMMEDIATELY. THIS BUILDING IS SURROUNDED. THE TELEPIPE DAMPENING FIELD HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. THERE IS NO ESCAPE. I REPEAT, SURRENDER..."

I ignored the message as it cycled through, giving false promises that we would be treated fairly if we gave ourselves up. I knew that with Tyrell and his android "son" Serrus working from within the government, we were the ones that would be seen as the criminals. I doubted that there would even be a trial if we were captured.

I knew that Tyrell and Serrus had already escaped, most likely the ones that alerted the authorities in the first place. And, when the building was fully evacuated, there would be nothing stopping the police or the A.D.S.S.F. from hunting us down, destroying the building if they had to.

We needed to escape and regroup. Once our faces were transmitted to every media distribution hub possible, the whole city would be after us. I knew of only place that we could hide safely, but we needed to get out of here first.

The only way out I could think of was to steal one of the government-issue hovercars in the port on the roof of the building. With telepipes now useless, and the building surrounded, an escape by air seemed like the most logical choice.

"I have an idea," I said, "C'mon, we need to get to the roof quickly!"

I turned and ran for the nearest stairwell, hoping that the rest would follow close behind.

M_BlackHawk
Jun 29, 2002, 08:33 PM
Maya gets the idea of what Severance was thinking after Sev walks off. "Ok, I'll help you all escape. Severance, you may want to cover us with your ranger skills after we get out of here, ok?"

Elsewhere, Lara had disposed of the RAcast that was looking around the storage room, then headed out a second door, and spots a HUcast, armed to the teeth, about to face a group of A.D.S.S.F. androids.

"And here I thought I'd seen it all," the HUnewearl thinks out loud, "This is beyond all I've ever seen from their forces."
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BWS-1
Jul 9, 2002, 07:14 PM
Huh? I heard a metalic body fall on the ground ... sounded like someone just died, but who. I then took a peeked at the corner of the corridor and saw a dead RAcast, sliced to dead apparently by someone with great skills ... Micheal? O good, I couldn't have find a better person in this mess only, how are we going to get the hell out of here. I got distracted by the squad coming by, I then forgot about her for a split second, concentrating on my aproching enemies.

My Mech gun at hand, my shield ready, and my grenades ... my grenades! If I'm hit, it'll wipe out at least all the people in the hall in ... Stupid grid, I've resist Ciel5's grid, how come I could be slightly influence by a mere grunt???

I heard a voice, Lara's voice, it was really her. I then stood there, staring at her, her staring at me. I froze, I then saw an odd look on her face, 3 RAcasts were standing right behind my back, ready to give me cover to shoot her. Apparently they didn't know I wa there to beat the crap out of them.

No, I heard a shot shoot, spreading photon in front of her.

''You there! Slowly deposit your weapon on the floor!, said one of the RAcast aiming Lara with a RED HANDGUN.

I subtly placed my left hand to one of the grenades' button and sent Lara a BEE message, that way she'd know that I would be one of the good guy, she'd know I'd be BWS-1. The message was simple:

Run

I then knocked the RAcast with the handgun behind me with the STANDSTILL SHIELD making him fall on the ground, yet undamage.

''What do you think you're doing???'', said the confused RAcast on the floor.

The one with the spread shot 3 times and I had the time to block them all, only my shield was heavyly damage.

I couldn't see what Lara decided to do, I was to busy to take care of those RAcasts. All I hope was that she was on her way to meet the others in the confusion of the situation.

I picked the RED HANDGUN on the floor before the RAcast had the chance to take it and started to shoot him with it and with the Mechgun, I emptied my clip on the RAcast behind reading a rifle. Then I got shot in the back, it was the one with the S class shot. it ripped my back open from the left side of my neck to the right side of my leg. All that happened so fast ...

He then charged the shot to do a hard attack. I was there, on the ground, paralized, I slowly moved my hand to the grenade and pushed the red button on it; 3 seconds before everything goes boom. I sighted, so much for trying to retrive the data from this cast, and heard the RAcast shoot then ... nothing.

...

I hear the engine of an hovercar ... in who am I now and where?

BOOM!

I hear an explosion from the other side of the building ... I'm outside, but where?

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sorry to have make you all wait for my reply _-_ I've been mostly consumed about the health problems of one of my relative then about the story latly.

M_BlackHawk
Jul 10, 2002, 08:50 AM
Confused by the actions of the black HUcast, Lara made up her mind to help the renegade android.

"I don't know who you are," she tells the HUcast, "But we're not going to die here, that much I do know."

She notices the grenade. "3 seconds," she thinks, "not much time, but oh well." The explosion rocks the corridor, and, she noticed, knocked the hell out of the renegade droid, while destroying the enemy RAcast squad. "Lucky," thinks the HUnewearl, "Remind me to thank him. May as well get him and me out of here." She braces the heavy android on her shoulder, and carries him to a hovercar hangar, where she starts one of the vehicles up, and flies it out of the base. She spots another flown and defended by her long time friends, and decides that maybe this might be the right time to take this droid to where she can figure out who he is. She flies to a small laboratory in Oran sector, the former home of her adoptive father, Prof. Marcus Greene, which she kept up, after his death following the landing of Pioneer 2.

Hikosaka
Jul 13, 2002, 03:33 AM
Running through the corridors, I shot at anything that moved, hopefully clearing a path for the others to follow. I reached the roof and gauged the situation.

Searchlights from various police hovercars were scouring the roof of the building, apparently also knowing that an aerial escape was the only option left for us.

I slowed my pace down to a light run, crouching in the shadows as the lights moved past. I spotted my target in the center of the roof, the carport sitting darkly in the midst of the ultrabrights scanning the building. It was a small stroke of luck that it was the police who took charge of the air, and the military with the ground. If it was the other way around, the military's proprietary night vison technology would have made this a futile exercise.

Concentrating on getting to the port without being caught, I hoped that the others were doing their best to follow.

I made it to the port without incident, save a few close calls when a light would brush right in front of me. The lock broke easily under my hand, and I was in.

Scanning the area using infrared to avoid attracting attention by turning on the light, I counted three cars. I chose the one nearest to me, it being the largest of the three, and able to accomodate all of us.

I had no time to search for a key, so I ripped off the door and sat in the seat, my optical spike in the android link port that was a popular option in cars made these days. A few seconds of breaking through various attack barriers, and the car roared to life under me, rising a few centimeters off the ground as its hover components initialized.

There was the familiar, yet strange sense of connection I had whenever I linked to a car. It was as if the car was now a part of my body. My will was immediately translated to action, and even now, the car hovered back and forth impatiently as I waited for the others to make their way here. I hoped they would arrive soon.

M_BlackHawk
Jul 24, 2002, 09:35 PM
BWS, Moo, Kodi..we're waiting on you.

later

M_BlackHawk

BWS-1
Jul 25, 2002, 12:11 AM
Actually I've been waiting for Moo or kod, or both to post something X_x

Pharlicia
Jul 25, 2002, 05:46 AM
*yaaawns*
this place doesnt get any better then this does it.
I need a new pso.

M_BlackHawk
Jul 25, 2002, 10:14 PM
not by my experience, Pharlicia. Why do you think I don't post in General very often?

later.

M_BlackHawk

Xeyer
Jul 26, 2002, 02:05 AM
This is a great story. I cant wait for the rest of it. Keep up the good work.^_^

Moo2u
Jul 26, 2002, 02:42 PM
Good news one and all! I have finally returned! And the first thing I'm going to do is...sleep...http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

I'll check out all the story stuff on Saturday or something, and then I'll write another part. Sorry to keep you al waiting...now for my sleep.....zzzzzzzzzz.....

Moo2u
Jul 27, 2002, 01:29 PM
To speed some things along I'm going to take controle of some of the character, just for a second.

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I rushed onto the roof shortly after Sev. It would appear that she was in the process of stealing a hovercar.

Runing up to the car I said, "You could have picked a better one. It one's short of one door."

This was going to be one chaotic get away. Security was everywhere.

I could see that the others were running towards the hover car as well, with the exception of Zin's insane robot friend. Maybe we should have waited for her, but I think it was better that way. She would give the army something to keep busy on while we made our excape. It was now or never.

Once I helped the last person in, I think it was Zin, I took one final look around for Olivia. I sure hoped she got out before the millitary came.

I popped my head back in the car and said, "ok everyone hang on tight, this is going to be a rough ride."

Then I saw a small box in the back corner of the car. "Hello, what's this?" I asked myself. I opened the box and to my delight I found 6 hover traps, packed with a hight powered photon explotion, all waiting for use.

I tapped Sev on the shoulder and said, "It's your show now Sev. Take the wheel and get us out of here. Using what I've found, I'm gonna make sure no one's following use."

M_BlackHawk
Jul 27, 2002, 09:30 PM
now we can continue..thank you, Moo.
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in the hovercar with Severance, Zin, Olivia and Mortimer, Maya pointed out a hovercar headed toward Oran sector. "Sev, follow that one," the HUcaseal tells her comrade, "I think I know who's inside. Don't follow too closely, or Tyrell's goon squad will figure that out too."
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later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Jul 28, 2002, 10:18 AM
Just thought I'd point this out, M_BlackHawk, Olivia is not in the car, she just took off somewhere when Mort went off to get Sev. I don't really knnow where she is right now. Ok, continue on with the fic!

Hikosaka
Jul 30, 2002, 02:44 PM
Hmm...hope KodiaX comes back soon.
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After waiting for an eternity, (actually, 1.43 beats), I could hear the running footsteps of the others as they made their way to the hovercar. I revved the engines, the hover units under the car glowing brighter in anticipation.

"You could have picked a better one. This one's short of one door," Mortimer said.

If I had the ability to roll my eyes, I would have right then.

"Stop complaining and get in," I snapped.

Connected as I was to the car, I didn't use my mouth to speak; my voice was transmitted directly through the car's speakers. Nice surround sound.

I noticed that Shurikane was visibly absent, and I considered refusing to move until she caught up with us. I hated leaving anyone behind, especially in the growing mess of soldiers and security that was filling the building. However, the needs of the many outweighed that of the few, and I knew that if we waited any longer, we would all be captured. Besides, I had a feeling I would see her again soon enough.

"I hope everyone's strapped in," I said, releasing the hover limiter, the car rising quickly to a meter off the ground.

The car roared to full power, and I sped out the open hangar door, darting in the midst of the flock of policecars that surrounded the roof. I screeched past one in order to break through, the sides of the car scraping against the other with a shower of sparks, knocking it off to the side and breaking out of the crowded airspace.

I spotted the hovercar that Maya pointed out, heading toward Oran Sector. I started speeding toward it, trying not to stay too close, but also keeping it in sight. I wished that I had specific coordinates, in case I lost sight of the car as I evaded the growing number of policecars that were gathering behind us, but there was no time to ask. I could hear loud explosions going off behind me, the shockwaves making the car rock back and forth, but I could not be sure if it was an attack or Mortimer making good use of those hovering mines.

I zig-zagged through the narrow spaces between closely-built buildings, often tilting the car onto its side or fully upside down. At times I would fall into a steep dive, only to pull up centimeters from the ground, then zoom forward, weaving through the chaos of ground-based traffic, forcing screaming pedestrians to leap out of the way. I hoped no one in the car was prone toward motion-sickness.

My connection to the car allowed me to navigate with greater speed and precision than organic beings, and the initial crowd of policecars slowly weeded out until there were two remaining, both driven by android officers. I raised the car high into the air, speeding above the rooftops.

One of them eased up beside me. I could see that he was connected the same way I was, directing the policecar like he would his body. A human partner sat in the passenger seat, activating the speaker system.

"LAND YOUR VEHICLE AT ONCE OR WE WILL USE FORCE," the policecar's speakers blared, flashing lights coloring everyone in the car in alternating red and blue.

In response, I cut the power to the hover units, causing the car to drop like a rock, leaving the two police units high above. The one disadvantage of hover cars is the relatively slow descent speed due to the constant need to maintain force against gravity.

The car soon started to nosedive, plummeting in a death spiral. I gauged the distance we were falling by the number of skyscraper windows speeding past the car, then reinitialized the hover components, sharply bringing the car level and speeding forward once again. Looking up through the moonroof, I noticed that the police were far behind, police android safety programming making it impossible to perform the same risky manuever. They are completely incapable of causing humans harm, their human partners a major disadvantage in situations like this.

Sometimes it pays to be a killer android, former or not.

After doing a bit of driving along the course I projected for the car that Maya had originally pointed out, I found it parked in front of a house in Oran Sector. I landed beside it, letting everyone get out, then hid the car in a public parking structure a few blocks away. I ran quickly back, and noticed that Lara was emerging from the other car, helping up the same A.D.S.S.F. android that had saved me before. He seemed inactive, and I wondered if his grid was still intact.

"Let's get inside quickly, wherever we are," I said, "Saying that we stick out is an understatement."

War_Child
Aug 8, 2002, 06:34 PM
Special message from Kodiax987 via telephone!

He has little to no comp access. THus, he wants you to take over Zin for the rest of the fic.



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: War_Child on 2002-08-08 16:35 ]</font>

Moo2u
Aug 8, 2002, 09:20 PM
Just a bit of clarification for me WC...who exactly is you?

And for the whole fic? Nooo! KodiaX! Come back to us!

M_BlackHawk
Aug 9, 2002, 12:10 PM
Yipes..that sucks that Kodi has little to no comp access. I hope you can get access soon, though.

I still think we should continue the fic, too. I'll wait for Moo, or BWS to post to continue, though.

later

The BlackHawk Family
Mike (HUmar), Lara(HUnewearl), Jessie(HUnewearl), Rhiana(FOmarl), Sera(FOnewearl), Maya(soon to be HUcaseal), Galveris(HUcast), Kirumi(RAcaseal)

War_Child
Aug 9, 2002, 02:25 PM
On 2002-08-08 19:20, Moo2u wrote:
Just a bit of clarification for me WC...who exactly is you?

And for the whole fic? Nooo! KodiaX! Come back to us!



Eh? He wants everyone to take over the character of Zin for him so you gu ys can finish the fic o_O

BWS-1
Aug 21, 2002, 04:22 PM
I haven't, died yet ... or have I?

I fell unconscious for an unknown period, the same question I seem to have asked myself over and over again for as long as I can remember: where am I?

I feel waves of electric shocks spreading into me, as if I my entire connections were heavily damaged or something ... now I remember, the grenades, the racasts ... the shock wave of the explosion couldn't do anything good to the body I'm in. Do I have some sort of memory? I feel no one else in this android, I am ... alone? Where is the original "ghost" that used to be the android? Vanished? Formated?? Have I ... consumed it!? The grid ... it's all messed up. I am not part of this grid and my "memory" does not match the grid's, I'm like a virus in a program ... not even close, I can't define what I am so, how can a grid know what is invading it?

I turn my optical systems on, and see Lara nearby, she seem to be looking for a tool or something, I dought she noticed I just got online. I hear a door closing on the other side of the room, with the little energy I have left, I turn my head to the left and see many familiar faces. Mortimer, Maya, argh, I'm losing my sight, Sev and ... and, ack, ...

*moves left arm toward the group and opens his hand as if he'd want to grasp them only to deactivate itself and falls inanimated, balances itself then stop.

*faints

I'm not going to let this body die, with this body, I'd be able to infiltrate the agency better then anyone here ... even tho it's the most primitivly built HUcast model I ever seen, it's our only chance ...

...

I miss my status readings from my former HUcast life, I'd really apreciate to know the conditions of the body ... I feel like a human, unable to identify the problems in the system by myself, guessing only by the "pain" that the body sends to the "brain" ...

M_BlackHawk
Aug 21, 2002, 09:44 PM
Great one, B. Now, let's continue.
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With Maya's help, Lara hoisted the large HUcast into the lab. "If we're not fast in repairing him, and scanning his grid, we may lose him," the HUnewearl states as she starts the computers up. Maya, on the other hand, had put the android on the exam table, and has started repairing his physical systems and armor.

"This is interesting," Lara notes, "I'm seeing 2 different AI grids here. I'll partition the matrix and transfer one to the separate partition." Her fingers move quickly over the computer's keys as she initiates the computerized actions. After that was finished, she scanned the different grids. "One is just a standard A.D.S.S.F. mud grunt," she notes, "but the other one just happens to be an old friend." Lara smiles as she turns to Severance 7 and Mortimer, "It looks like this android has BWS-1's grid, and the grunt's. I'll just format the partition with the grunt's grid and then let BWS-1 take over the body."

"That's not all he's got," Maya points out, "No wonder he was able to survive that explosion. The A.D.S.S.F. produced this HUcast using Montague's schematics for Galveris. Repairs are going well, since I've had to help Rhiana on several occasions on repairing Galveris himself. He should live after we finish the repairs."
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that's it for now.

later

M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Sep 4, 2002, 01:26 PM
Alright, you'll notice I found a way to access the net. But, I won't be taking back control of any character. This is due to quite a few reasons:

1) School is indeed taking up some of my physical time, but it's taking a shitload of my mental time as well. I have to think about math and chemistry problems, plan out my workloads, and on top of all this study my multi-engine books for my pilot license attestation. As some of you might have seen at VM, my creative mind is on a slowdown; I posted only two short texts in two months.

2) Any creative ideas of mine are stamped onto a huge project I plan to do as soon as I get some home computer time back. No details on what it is but there are two things I know are certain. One, it's gonna take 6 books to write it all up. Two, you guys will be stars for part of it. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif That's my thanks for all the work and effort and participation and whatnot you put into that group fic. You people rock. ^.^

3) I never know how my day is gonna work out. So I could go one week sitting there and picking my ass, and then the other week with work up to my neck.

4) Although going cold turkey really gets on your nerves, it somehow managed to lessen my urge to go on the internet.

5) I have no access to my own website account... Because I don't have my files. So even if I wanna update anything, I can't put up any HTML file or graphic file, because I don't have the tools to format the stuff like it should be. So this fic here most likely won't be uploaded to my website until I actually get my old drive back and installed, time which can vary between one and five years...

So far as the story is concerned, to date I've put in three characters: Zin, Shuri and Insa-Elenor. Elenor ended up a cameo so she can be considered out. Zin is one of the main characters, so she stays until the end. ^.^ Shuri is at your discretion. She could or could not pop in, depending on how the fic runs along.

That's about it... See y'all later!

Hikosaka
Sep 4, 2002, 11:51 PM
Well, I guess we'll try to direct your characters as well as we can without you. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif It's been great being part of this thing since the beginning.

Now...to get to writing my part...and fixing my computer so I can finish the re-illustration...>_<

BWS-1
Sep 5, 2002, 01:20 AM
Well Kodi, feel free to jump in once in a while if you feel like it http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif And I hope you get that pilot liscence of yours! Knowing that I can't be a pilot, well, I'd be damn happy for you if I knew you could get your wings http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

Don't worry about your part Hikosaka, time is on your side http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

M_BlackHawk
Sep 5, 2002, 09:07 AM
BWS has a very valid point...it's not to worry about the story here. We've got time on our side. Beside, I'm also trying to write "Steel Spirit", based on "Soul of Steel".

I'll look forward to seeing a new post in this thread, but keep working on the new fic.

later
The BlackHawks

KodiaX987
Sep 5, 2002, 09:22 AM
On 2002-09-04 23:20, BWS-1 wrote:
And I hope you get that pilot liscence of yours! Knowing that I can't be a pilot, well, I'd be damn happy for you if I knew you could get your wings http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif



I am a pilot already! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif I also gained my night rating a few months ago, and right now I'm working on a multi-engine airplane to get the rating for that too. If you ever read VM, I flew over to Brantford in a Cessna (8:10 hours total flight time) met WC and Merlin, and flew back to Montreal. It's ironic that I didn't even meet either you or Riel yet!

BWS-1
Sep 5, 2002, 03:20 PM
GAH! the worst thing is, I bet I know at which airport you landed >_< (well, looks more like an feild where lil class planes lands, you know, on the side of the highway, Anyway, that's the place I have in mind http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif[unless it was Mirable or Dorval, but I think those are for commercial airlines and big planes and all])

Yeah, I knw you had your liscence, but when I read what you just wrote I told myself, does he REALLY have is liscence YET? Cause I know I heard you talk about this once or twice somewhere on a board or two http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Multi-engine huh? That's nice. If I can't make it as a fireman, I'll try get my helicopter liscence. If I can't be a fighter pilot, then I ain't gonna be a pilot at all, a plane pilot that is, I've always been amazed with the potential of the helicopters and there versatility, there challenging maneovrability and ... the sound they make is soo cool! I dought I'll ever get tired of hearing the engine run, even if it's really loud http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

Although the classes are waayy expencive, if I can just get to have an other compagny to pay the training for me, I'll save a good amount of money (on the other hand, the you need to sign a 5 or 7 year contract with the compagny that gave you the training since, in the first place, they train you to be THERE pilot)

Anyway, next time you plan on going to Montreal, PM about it a week in advance since I'm abviously gonna miss the info if it's on any message board cause I can't really tell whenever I'll be online or not http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

Moo2u
Sep 5, 2002, 03:39 PM
Wow, flying plains, that would be sweet. Mind you, I'd deathly afraid of hights, but all in all it's still really cool!

Ya, we probably should get this crazy fic going again, but I've been kinda busy, not nearly as busy as Kodia, but busy none the less. I'll try to make another post this weekend, and if I don't...well...um...I'll post one rather soon! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif:

Also, just for fun I'm trying to do a pic on our first fic, but I can't seem to get what BWS-1 looks like! Gah! Oh well, it was good to hear from ya Kodia.

BWS-1
Sep 5, 2002, 04:13 PM
You can find pics of me there -> http://www.b47.homestead.com/bsig.html

http://www.b47.homestead.com/picshrine.html <-and there

You'll see that the site itself isn't up to date, for some reason I can't access my homestead account anymore -_-



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: BWS-1 on 2002-09-05 14:16 ]</font>

KodiaX987
Sep 11, 2002, 10:38 AM
Yep, B, the airport's Mascouche. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif I live too far from Mirabel, and anyways small planes like me don't have the right to even go close to Dorval! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

BTW, if you guys want to know some more about the "big project" just shove a PM my way. I trust in you guys to keep all that info to yourselves. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Alright, I have some free time so I'll un-stick Zin's brain a bit. Yay, once again it's a bitchin' I'm-going-but-not-coming-back-whoops-actually-I'm-coming-back scheme but... Well, I have nothing more to say! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif
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I had trouble willing my body to move. All I knew was that I was picked up and dragged about, sometimes on ground, sometimes in air... But I was not caring about this. I had more important problems to solve, within me.

Shrike was right. It all felt like an infection. Hate, frustration, insanity. The jealousy of others more fortunate, the fact that you cannot achieve what you want, the fact that for a reason unknown to you, your body is going to scream and move, while your soul prays for it to calm down.

I was living it. Just like her. My face did not shed tears. My face was stone. But had a spirit seen me, he would have seen the thousands of emotional tears trailing behind the car I was riding...

Passenger seat? Back seat? Trunk?... I do not even recall where in that car I was. And now it has all changed. Now I am standing in some location unfamiliar to me.

I blinked, looked around, saw everyone. I couldn't remember how much time had passed between my headache and now...

Headache.

Insanity has a headache.

I could feel a pulsation. It was not blood. It was a signal that Overclock Mode was still on. I could faintly hear the sounds of steel, scissors and sharpnel. The sound seemed so far away, but it was all too loud for my liking.

And then, it all died down. It was over. Overclock Mode had been switched off, and my nose could pick up a smell of cold metal and smoke.

I tried to concentrate on what really was in front of my eyes. I could see friends, working on something. I was lost. I think it was all visible. So, I loudly cleared my throat in preparation to speak... Which, I just remembered, was useless for me. I do not need vocal cords.

What... Happened? Where am I?... I feel lost.

A beep came in answer. I didn't look yet, but I instantly knew what it was. Somewhere close to us, a computer unit was merrily displaying on its screen...

"You've got mail."



<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: KodiaX987 on 2002-09-11 08:39 ]</font>

Hikosaka
Sep 17, 2002, 04:14 PM
I leaned back against a nearby lab bench, watching as Lara and Maya continued their repairs on BWS-1. They seemed be in control of the situation, so I decided to step back and give them room to work. My own damage was not life-threatening at the moment, and I could afford to wait until I could somehow gain access to my apartment and the spare parts stored there.

I remember thinking how it was a little strange that I didn't really feel the need to mourn him when I thought he was dead. It was if I had a feeling inside that told me that he wasn't gone at all...

What... Happened? Where am I?... I feel lost. Zinackst apparently had awakened from the semi-catatonic state she had been in.

I shrugged, dented plate creaking slightly.

"Welcome back. We've escaped, and now we're in a house in Oran Sector," I replied, "I think Lara's familiar with the place, since she let us in. I guess it'll be explained once they're done repairing BWS-1."

A beeping sound nearby attracted my attention. I turned away to see that a previously dormant computer had come online, an annoyingly cute image of a smiling mail envelope flashing on the display, the only vestige left of an archaic postal system.

"You've got mail."

I watched as the mail opened automatically, which was pretty unusual in itself, especially with the prevalence of hacking these days.

It was a video mail, showing a scene of utter destruction. Shattered android bodies seemed piled five high, wisps of smoke rising from them here and there. The camera jerked around 180 degrees, to face the equally shattered visage of Shurikane. One of her harshly bright eyes dimmed slightly in a macabre wink, then the screen went black, the mail completed.

I smiled in spite of myself. Knowing that she was still alive took a weight off my mind that I didn't realize was there before.

I looked around the room, feeling strangely restless after being in the midst of so much activity before. There was a small holovision unit in the corner, so I turned it on to the news channel, wondering what was happening outside.

A well-groomed newman appeared, wearing an expression of sincerity-free gravity as he stood with the towers of the Governing Sector standing behind his left shoulder, the swarm of policecars still flying around it like angry fireflies.

"Only a few hours ago, the Governing Sector was a scene of chaos as six known criminals attacked the headquarters of Principal Tyrell. Fortunately, the Principal was away at a conference at the time and was not present at the time of the attack."

"The six criminals have been positively identified by Serrus Tyrell, who had come in contact with three of them as they tried to infiltrate into the building."

The scene cut away to an earlier interview with Serrus. His claims to being Tyrell's son were not the rantings of a malfunctioning android, after all. He looked appropriately shaken as he made his speech.

"I will do anything it takes to help the police capture these extremely dangerous criminals before they strike again. I just want those people to know that no matter where you hide, we will find you and punish you to the full extent of the law."

It cut back to the reporter, still standing in front of the spotlit buildings, the crowd of police and military guard only now starting to clear.

"The names of the criminals are as follows: Lara Blackhawk, BWS-1, Mortimer Kirk, Zinackst Nainsev, Severance 7, and Shurikane. They are all to be considered armed and extremely dangerous. A reward has been set up by Serrus Tyrell for the one responsible for their capture. Anyone who sees them should call the police department immediately."

The reporter disappeared, showing pictures of each of us with our names underneath, most of them taken from the I.D. vaults of the Hunter's Guild. Then an edited reel of surveillance video from within the building was run, showing each of us, (except for Zinackst), killing A.D.S.S.F. soldiers and causing general destruction as we made our escape. I winced slightly as I watched myself cleanly chop the head off an android as I ran past him, then turned off the holovision.

I turned to the others, looking at each of them in turn.

"So, anyone got an idea of what to do next?"

KodiaX987
Sep 17, 2002, 04:40 PM
...

...

...I did.

I grabbed the nearest solid object to hold myself up. There was more to this mail than a video...

Much more.

The androids are coming! The androids are coming!! THE ANDROIDS ARE COMING!!!

M_BlackHawk
Sep 17, 2002, 10:08 PM
Lara looks to Severance 7. "Not off-hand, but I did come across something in my own research." She hands a small optical disk to Maya, who puts it in a disk reader. "On that disk is evidence that Governor Tyrell and his son, Ash, have been financing the A.D.S.S.F.'s remnants actions. I don't know what their motives are, but there must be a way to find out. And just what did Serrus want with you, Mortimer and BWS-1 anyway? That's another piece to this puzzle we need to find."

Hikosaka
Sep 20, 2002, 06:34 AM
"On that disk is evidence that Governor Tyrell and his son, Ash, have been financing the A.D.S.S.F.'s remnants actions. I don't know what their motives are, but there must be a way to find out. And just what did Serrus want with you, Mortimer and BWS-1 anyway? That's another piece to this puzzle we need to find."

I shook my head at Lara's question.

"I'd tell you if I knew. As for Tyrell and his son Ash, I have a suspicion it might have to do with Tyrell's past associations with Master. Serrus talked of a "promise" that Master made to Tyrell years ago; perhaps he'd been created to help fufill that promise for Tyrell and his son without risk of public exposure of them if something was to go wrong."

The androids are coming! The androids are coming!! THE ANDROIDS ARE COMING!!!

I turned around quickly at those thought words to see Zinackst looking alarmed. Never having seen her look less than serene, I knew that something must have been very wrong.

Suddenly, I felt a sinking suspicion at my core, and I rushed to the lab bench where BWS-1 lay. Pushing Maya aside, I grabbed a field separator from a nearby toolbox, and neutralized the magnetic seals in the central shield plates around a secondary data core in the chest, hinging it up and out.

I scanned the faintly glowing neural nets and displays, looking for the one thing that I knew had to be there. A flash of red caught my attention, and I pulled out a small cylindrical unit, one end flashing a constant pattern, beeping softly with each flash.

"I should have known," I muttered disgustedly, crushing the unit to scrap in my hand, "A homing device."

I turned to the others.

"Look, we've got to get out of here. They're probably only minutes away, if that," I said, "The car's in parking garage nearby. I know of a safehouse outside of the city. They'll have a hard time finding us there. But we've got to hurry!"

Moo2u
Sep 20, 2002, 04:49 PM
Damn! We're continuing the story now! Super cool. And I finally figured out what to write. It took me long enough, so it must be good...hoopfully...maybe...
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The androids are coming! The androids are coming!! THE ANDROIDS ARE COMING!!!

Zin's sudden outberst took me by surprise. I saw as Sev rushed over the rested bedy of BWS-1 and revail a homing device.

"Let me see that," I said as I snached it from her. I couuld hear something from it. A faint beep came from it. It was hardly anything, but I could hear it. Then I heard a second beep, but this one was beeping much faster then the homing device. I frainticly looked around for the sound, until I finally found it. The other sound was right under my nose, in was in my red handgun.

It started to beep even faster now. My eyes widened in fear. The beeping from my handgun wasn't a homing device, it was a bomb!

"It's gonna blow!!" I yelled, "everyone down!"

I rushed over to the window and chucked the red handgun through the glass. I jumped back as the gun exploded in a firey infero outside. Bits of gravil and glass flew our way.

Then, very slowly I got up, "Damn it, they plained that. I'm beeting once the homing device was activated, the explosion set in my gun was activated as well. Once they see an explosion in the city, if it didn't kill us, they'd come and finish the job. They're going to be here any second now." I looked at Sev, "just tell us what to do, and we'll be right behind you."

M_BlackHawk
Sep 21, 2002, 05:51 PM
Good one, guys. Let's keep this up.

Lara spots the homing device inside BWS-1, after having it pointed out by Severance 7. "Great," she thinks out loud, "This is tied into his primary power cells. IT won't be easy to remove. However." She pauses as she grabs the red handgun from Mortimer. "This is easily dealt with." She drops a telepipe to a random location outside of the city, and throws the handgun through it. She then hands Mortimer the handgun she carried wtih her. "This will have to do until we can raid my weapons cache at home," she tells the RAmar, then thinks out loud, "It should be simple enough to bypass this homing device and then remove it. Maya, go back home and tell the others not to worry about me. I'll be fine. Also, tell Mike that I love him." She continues her work on BWS-1 while Maya teleports back to Skyly Sector. A tear comes to her eye as she works, but she says nothing else while working, except, "We'll need BWS-1's help if we're to finish this. Sev, Mortimer, buy me some time, ok?"

BWS-1
Sep 23, 2002, 03:58 AM
I've regained conciousness, something just woke me up, sadness, someone' sadness, I feel ... sorrow, yet, I feel determination and devotion. I open my eyes only to see Lara working despretly in my core So that's her emotions that I felt, I know she can hear me then ...

Lara ... do not be sad, everything is ok, please, get rid of the idea that "you'll possibly die" off your head, while you were and still are working in me, I happened to be very close to you, I was in direct contact with your soul ... I know you don't want Michael to mourn your death, well that won't happen, trusth me. But do not worry, as I realized that I could read trough your emotions, I didn't wander into your memory, I have respect for you and I wouldn't even go into the memory of my enemy, I just can't allow myself such an act of violation.

I rise my arm slowly to wipe the tears of her face, rise up and place myself in a sitting position resting my forearms on my knees, and my face staring at the floor. Just that suprised me, I thought I wouldn't even be able to lift a finger. I stayed that way in inactivity for 2 long seconds, thinking ... about what we should do, what I should do, and also, what I COULD do, If there was one thing that was obvious now, is that no matter in what state the body I had was, I was not as connected to it as I thought I was. I can no longer talk with it, if the fonction would have allowed me to, I would have talk. But since it's broke, I can only communicate when in direct contact with the person I want to speak to. Enless ... I focus on everyone's soul and want them to hear me, in there mind, like Zinackst did to contact us before all this started ... I am starting to truely understand the "gift" she granted us ... and also why Serrus wants us, he wants to have this gift, there is no dought about this.

Everyone

wow ... just as I said, I mean, thought that I could sence a feeling of rejection from what was coming to them. That's easely understandable, after all that happened and that is about to happen, even there minds are not letting there guard down that easely.

I moved my head and looked at everyone. And tried a second attempt in getting in contact with them, focussing as much as I could on only them:

Everyone, BWS-1 there, hope I didn't caused you too much trouble, since we don't have much time I'll make this quick. The body that you see siting here is fried, as Severanve removed off the main homing device, it permenetly short circuited the entire thing. So Lara, don't worry on scrapping the electronics in there, and if you don't mind, I'll go remove the second homing device for you.

*punches into his chest and rips the device off, spilling oil and peices on the body and the floor

See? I am not dead, I just don't belong to this body. I presume that I have been in this state ever since Ciel5 and I merged, back in the base. The difference between me and Dark Falz is that I can only take over a single body; Dark Falz on the other hand, could possess a million bodies. Like the booma being a pupet to the Dark Force, this android, even if beatten to death, can be controled ... which can explains why the enemies on Pionneer 1 kept coming back since they where never really dead ... only, again, unlike Dark Falz, I don't have the ability to regenerate the totally broken body, once it's destroyed I gotta look for an other one

*takes the armor plates and places them back on his chest to mask the hole

Ok now Sev's plan sounds perfect, *sorry sev this has been soo on your mind since the past beats that I couldn't get around and NOT feel you were thinking about this*, what I fear is that they might bring those special FOmar units I've encountered in the ruins of the base. And that would mean heavy resistance ... they froze me to the soul last time so I don't want to think of the effects it would have on human/newman bodies.

I stood up, getting near the damaged window and thought:

maybe I shouldn't come with you, they probably expect to find you guys where I will be so if I go in an opposite direction, if they get to me, they'll find no one else, but if it's what they want us to think then I'll never get to be caught and I'll be stuck miles away from you guys unable to back you up ... so little time. so little ... time ...

*notices a red lazer pointer in the building in front, and sees it's pointed at his chest

*loses focus

!?

Ack, they've ... !

BLAM!

*dodge

An agent would have never missed such an easy target, I even wonder why it took him so long to fire the shot. I'll peek on the side and check ...

No way this can't be, it's an infant, a young human girl tried to shoot me with wait, someone's coming and talking with the girl, it's a tall man, must be the girl's father ... now that's better, he takes the rifle off the girl's hands to ack! He takes aim!

BLAM! BLAM! ptioot! ptiuu!

I tried to find a weapon on me, not finding any strapped at my chest only to find one accidently by pushing a button on the side of my right leg, it reveiled an S class Handgun. I grined as I saw it and quickly took it. I positionated myself right in front of the window taking aim as best as I could, being unable to rely on any targeting systems anymore only to see the guy cursing at the rifle while trying to reload it only then, he grabed his daughter as he saw me aiming at him, completly putting his back undcovered, and protecting her ... ready to sacrifice himself ... I just can't. I ducked and sat on the ground my back at the wall, handgun glitching in my hands. They are innocent people, yet they are being manipulated ... this is discusting me, it's insane.

Besides, with us behing the most wanted criminals of Pionneer 2, and our heads showed every 10 beats in special edition programs it's hard not to be hated or to go unoticed ... especially after something detonated trough that window, hmmm

*picks up half melted peices of Red HandGun

Bomb in a red handgun, I wouldn't have thought of that one ...


Ok now let's run to Sev's car but since they might ahve started to besiege this building, in the run, me and sev will adopt a "human/newman sheild formation" so that you guys have less chances of behing hit, just in case ... it's not that I don't have fate in your skills but I'm afraid that with the caliber of guns they'll be using, one well placed shot could be your last.

I approched Sev and gave her the handgun I had, placed my hand on her shoulder and stared at her, no one could hear but her, I was telling her:

The last thing I want you to do is to give me cover, we can just hope they'll try to hit me, that way, one bullet in my head is one less bullet in one of you guys. I know you'll make good use of that lil' toy, now show 'em that the A.D.S.S.F. didn't put you in an elite squad for nothing. I know I can count on you to give us the best fire assistance a team would wish for but now remember, I'd rather see you shoot yourself in the foot then see you shoot someone aiming at me ok?

I nodded and then focused on the group.

Hope you guys ready, 'cause I'm out so fallow closly behind!

I got out and headed for the car, trying to spot any potential ambush, having my sensors out, I can only rely on what I feel. Might sound stupid but, I appreciate this feeling, makes me feel as if I was somehting else then a machine, I feel like, a beast ...



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M_BlackHawk
Sep 23, 2002, 09:30 AM
Woah...killer post, B.

"So,"Lara thinks to herself, "BWS-1 still exists as the artificial Falz, in a way. Wait a minute..FOmar units? Are they the ones that Rhiana told me about from her class at the Academy?" She doesn't have time to think further as her instincts kick in at the first hint of the gunshots.
"Severance, let's get to your car...and make tracks for Skyly sector. We'll need to be better equipped to deal with this situation, and my Twin Brand just won't cut it. Maya should be able to use OUR systems to set up a homing device cloaking system where the authorities won't be able to find us for a short period of time..then, we can come up with a better plan. I'm still curious about this Serrus. How could he know about this gift." The HUnewearl fires off several shots into android soldiers in front of her. "LET'S ROLL!"

KodiaX987
Sep 23, 2002, 10:20 AM
I THINK Ash is still in the story... Right? Or some other major bad dude? o.O; Oh well, if I ever get the names wrong, I'll just change them in the edited version of the story.

Mini-note: The bold characters in this part of the story are not comments; but since I can't use colors, well...
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I could only start to follow my friends, but our runaway was instantly cut short.

"Freeze." Ash said in a cold tone, an automatic pistol in his right hand. He had broken the front door and this floor was now full of armed forces ready to take us dead or alive. They had come through back doors, windows, panels, whatever entry they had found, they had used. And the next thing I knew, was that all exits of this room was blocked off by heavily armored androids with shotguns in their hands, and next to them several men in long robes, brandishing a rod as weapon. I couldn't see them, but I knew by simple logic that other androids were waiting in the other rooms. And that all outside the building, the air was saturated with parked cars.

Ash looked to his left, then to his right. He carefully checked the status of each of his fellow men, and then took a few steps towards us.

"You have stormed a prison, you have participated in doing thousands in damages, you have fled from the law, driven dangerously, killed several agents of the law, and, as my sources have told me, possess an android hybrid that has apparently been running amok for the past fifteen years. Since her original owner is dead, responsibility shifts to the nearest family member alive. This happens to be you, ma'am."

He pointed the gun at me. At first, I felt offended by being responsible for someone I had no control on... But then, family is family. I guess I need to protect what's left of it. Even if that member happens to be named Shrike.

"I also recall this android to have instigated a riot fifteen years ago as well." Ash continued. "She was labeled a terrorist, an enemy of the state, mentally dangerous, aggressive, and also... Some kind of mad scientist."

He reached into his pocket and drew out a photo. The pictured girl was in a monstruous state. She was the bearer of three pairs of pink eyes, her face was twisted in an odd display of pain, and from her forearms, two immense blades had grown out. She now couldn't reach for anything without breaking it first.

"This person was named Armi Prosys. She's the heroine who saved the governor from certain death. Although she found herself to be permanently changed from this event, she managed to live long enough to appreciate the honors we gave her. She was a very good soul to save us from this, you know. Who knows what might have happened if we were to be governed by Shrike "Shurikane" Nainsev, right here, right now."

If she was governor, you wouldn't be here pointing a gun at me...

Ash obviously was deaf to my reply. He simply put the photo back into his pocket.

So that's it... I am to die in front of several evil creatures after having done nothing?

This is wrong, isn't it?

Very.

You are going to die. All he's waiting for, is for you to do a move, and then he'll shoot your head off.

Pain!

Your face will be shredded apart, you will be skulless, jawless, eyeless, faceless, you will leave this world with a photon bullet as your only souvenir.

Please don't talk to me like this!...

Hey, who gives a shit about my way of saying stuff to you? You are gonna die the second you move your pinky finger. You won't even be there to tell me off after it's all over.

I am not going to die!

Okay! And why?

Be... Because...

You are STUCK! You gonna show some backbone, for once in your lifetime?!

Who's speaking?

Don't play stupid, you know who is speaking, as much as you know the sky is blue.

I gulped, slowly, trying not to provoke Ash. He was completely unknowing of the conversation going on inside my head.

But I suspected my friends could hear me. Loud and clear, five over five, with no censorship. I felt so ashamed to talk to Shrike now...

You gonna die, soldier?!

No!

Come on, a bomb's gonna blow up, waddya do?!

I... I...

Tic-tac, tic-tac, tic-tac...

Uhh... Cut the wire.

Which one? Come on, clock's ticking.

...

Tic-tac-tic-tac-tic-tac...

!...

Mind games... Mind games... Tonight. Mind games... Mind games... Tonight. I like to play mind games... Mind games.

Cut all the wires!!

Boom. He just saw your fear, he's gonna shoot.

He can't! Good people can't die!

They can.

We can't surrender! They'll take over the Song! They'll use it for evil! They'll... They'll...

You're out of arguments. But nevertheless you're right.

...

Alright, now get yourself out of the trap.

I don't want to fight! I can't do this!

Fight or die.

F... D... Ad... Ack...

Think faster!

I can't... I ca... I...

Clock's ticking, nuke's in front of ya, kill him or your head blows!

I can't kill someone! This isn't right!

SOIL YOUR HANDS! GET DIRTY!!!

No, I can't!

Then DIE!
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Don't post yet guys... I'm outta time and gotta do this in one shot. Part 2 of my post will come after chemistry class. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif



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KodiaX987
Sep 23, 2002, 12:52 PM
I can't die. Not now. Not in front of someone who wants the Song.

I focused on Ash, and without using my vocal cords, mouthed:

"You want the Song, right?"

Ash didn't answer. He most likely was the only one to know the real meaning of this operation. Everyone else was accessory. Under his orders.

"This isn't in the law," he said, "but I am willing to let you all go. See, I am in some financial trouble and need to pay a debt by next Thursday, so if any of you would be kind enough to provide me with a... release fee right now."

He winked at me! His story was a complete lie. The only three important letters I grasped from his speech was Y, E, and S.

I can't let the Song go.

Protect it!

I can't protect it.

Then die!

I can't die!

Then let the Song go!

I can't!

Get the hint?!

There was no escape. I just had to face it. Give away the song, and let my friends survive. I'd rather live for a few more years in the company of people, than be telepath with no one to talk to.

Or do I?...

HELP ME!!!

Fine, here's the answer. Wrestle the gun away...

...Here. I'll help you.

I instantly found myself under the prey of a horrible headache. I expected it, and didn't react just yet. But it was becoming harder to endure. Now, instead of getting shot at, I was facing the coming event of my head disappearing in a fabulous explosion of brain matter.

I was also facing all my past adventures. The warp gate. The death of Dabra. The family's suicide. The attempt to abduct BWS-1's soul. The destruction that lay behind us only because someone wanted power, but wasn't inclined to politely ask for it. Ash, hear me out...

Even though I have been staying mute since the Song, even though I have been spending little and eating little, even though I did nothing but wander the woods to pick up flowers, even though I was next to invisible for the average person, someone somewhere still found a reason to tirelessly follow my trail and rip away the few gold coins I had on me. Each of them knew I was weak. This is true. I am a pacifict. But each of them was oblivious to the fact that I had a bigger sister. And each of these someones was hurt or killed by my friends, by people who want to protect me. But what will happen when I will be alone?

It's over. I will take the hint. Today, I revolt against those tailgaters. Today, I show that a Signer isn't some good samaritain you can take davantage of. And more importantly, today, I show that I can take care of myself!!

My war cry was clear and loud beyond belief. I let go of grace and beautifulness for a while, and before I was out of breath, my hand had picked up a pointed piece of broken plating from the table, and slashed at Ash's hand. He didn't release the pistol. He held mordicus to his idea of stealing from me.

That could just fuel me to overflow. I rushed forward, gripping the sharp plate with both hands, swinging and stabbing, no matter the method, as long as I could land as many blows as possible in the shortest time. Fear me! Fear me for the last seconds of your life!!

Ash stumbled from one of my blows. I kelt down, both hands grabbing the piece of metal like a stake, and rammed it into my opponent's body I could only hear the sounds of metal against metal behind my screams, the sound of inner components breaking apart, short circuits lighting hot sparks and spreading to destroy what was left of the man before me. I then saw my face reflecting off a hard drive, that face with buldging eyes and brandished teeth. Only after I saw this did I decide I could stop now.

*Clump, clump, clump...*

I picked Ash up by the collar, still fuming and holding the piece of sharp metal between my fingers, and seeing the wall nearby, pushed him against it without any ceremony.

*Clump, clump, clump...*

For the first time in my existence, I was tasting victory after a hard fight. I think it was one of the most refreshing drinks I had ever swallowed. I was insanely beaming now. The angry face was gone. Inside my head, I was dancing and celebrating my first true victory. And with this happy face inches from Ash, I thought...

Who's your mommy...

Footsteps rang in the corridor. I turned my head to face the origin, and there stood Shurikane, her face cold as stone, pointing a double-barreled pistol at Ash's temple...


*BANG!!!*

Ash was headless now. He fell limply to the floor. All the androids around him were frozen in place. They responded to only his orders. The fellow men in robes were reserved at the perspective of a fight.

Shurikane turned to the fellow assailants.

"Your leader is dead. Leave this building now, do not write a report, and do not speak about this ever again to anyone nor anything. We leave with each other labeled as neutral forces, with nothing against or for each other. If anyone wants to counter-argue this proposal, I am willing to listen."

No one moved, nor spoke.

"You are cleared from any of this man's orders. I say this because you are all of equal rank as far as I see it, and you thus have no one to lead you for the time being. This is a private property. The sooner you leave, the sooner I can call the carpenters to repair what has been broken; I will pay the fees. You all have nothing to pay back, you are innocent. Now, if you please would, I need to discuss in private with my friends."

She spoke with such a control and defiance I dared not speak even a word in agreement. The men left, leading the now-drone androids to the cars.

With more time left to think now, I suddenly realized that I had attacked someone with the intention of killing him.

I looked at my hands. They were dirty with oil.

I couldn't see any cloth in range, so I simply rubbed my hands against each other, hoping to smudge the marks. In the meantime, Shurikane had passed an arm around my shoulder, and as I was still busy worrying about my hands, she gave me a friendly nudge.

I was forced to look and give her attention. And with the lips she still had on her face, she was beautifully smiling.

Outside, I could hear the cars leaving the building. More importantly, leaving us alive.

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*pants* Man, what a typing marathon! Better go catch lunch now...



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Moo2u
Oct 4, 2002, 10:08 PM
Well, friday was a bit longer then I expeted. Now I'm much too tired to start writing anything worth while, but I'll write a reaction to all of KodiaX's stufft 2moro. If I don't, promise to yell at me and all me a moron. It's the only way i'll learn...

Hikosaka
Oct 4, 2002, 10:16 PM
Don't worry. I've got some time to write the next entry, so something will come up by Sunday. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wink.gif

Hikosaka
Oct 5, 2002, 07:17 AM
I could only stand there as I watched the most serene and peaceful person I've ever known transform into some kind of hissing, screaming animal, stabbing into the chest of the android with the mindless intent to kill.

Even though my earliest memories were of brutality and murder...I could not help but look away momentarily as she continued her attack.

A part of me was saddened by the fact that it had come to this. Yet another, older part was darkly pleased that Zinackst had finally learned to defend herself in a world that would not give a second thought at her death.

There was a still silence in the room after the troops left, the others seeming unsure of how to proceed next. There were still many questions that I knew had to be answered before we were free of this spectre of darkness created by the actions of the past.

My gaze fell onto the headless body of the android that called himself Ash. He did look exactly like the true son of Tyrell...could it be that Ash was just another fake, a simulated son, much like what Serrus claimed to be?

I knelt down beside the slightly twitching corpse, using my good arm to open the front of his shirt and tear away the shredded remains of the synthetic skin and muscle that had covered the chest. There was still oil oozing out of various rents in the metal, the type of oil indicating an older model android.

Yet...I knew this model type.

The basic schematics and repair procedures had been loaded into my memory grids prior to my first activation. I had personally helped build and repair many of these during my time in the A.D.S.S.F. It was different from Serrus's configuration, but there were certain familiar hallmarks of the design, the creator of which I knew all too well.

I wiped my oily fingers off on the dead android's shirt and stood, turning toward my friends.

"I think I have an idea of how Ash and Serrus was made," I said, "I need to go and pay a visit to an old...friend."

M_BlackHawk
Oct 5, 2002, 05:49 PM
Lara looks at Severance 7 as she mentions paying a visit to an old friend. "I'll go with you, Sev. I also think I know a reason behind Tyrell's recent 'interest' in Master's Endless Song Project. This year is an election year. His opponent knows more about him than Tyrell wants to be let out..and he may want the artificial falz to silence his opponent." She cues up a small radio receiver to tune into the upcoming gubernatorial debate, as she looks kinda worried.

later, folks

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Oct 5, 2002, 06:41 PM
An old friend...she couldn't pssibly mean...

The situation grew more and more clearer. Tention grew in the air, everyone could feel it and it was time for me to do something about it, though I did not want to.

"If that's the way it's going to be," I said, "then I'm afraid I have to leave." We were close, yes, but not nearly close enough to finally putting this tired old song to rest. I had to take action, quickly.

I looked up at the small crowd of friends, fighters, and now fugitives, "If you need help I'll be around there's just...something I've got to do."

I walked over to Sev and placed a friendly hand on her shoulder, "we're still all wanted criminals, and if you're going to do what I think you're going to do, it's going to be dangerous. Just, be careful out there will you? Besides," I said with a chuckle, "I'd hate to see you get blown apart. It would be like seeing my favorit car getting blown up!" Man, I crack myself up!

I was about to leave when I saw Zin and the android Shurikane. "Thank you," I said to both of then, "thank you very much." I don't think I needed to say much more then that.

I was about to leave, when I saw Zin. After her explosive outrage, she was back to her normal meloncoly expersion, but with a slightly more depressed or worried look to it.

"Don't worry Zin," I said to her, "I'm sure everything will work out in the end. I promise."

It was a promise I wasn't sure I could keep. I didn't know how things would turn out. But I wanted her to smile. Maybe if I could only get a few of us to smile, just on of two people, then maybe we would stand a chance.

"Good luck everyone!" I said, and I ran out of the small house. There was a deep, hevey feeling in my heart, as if I would never see them again, ever.

Quickly my mind drifted back to the situation at hand. I started to run down the street to my destination. Time was rapidly passing us by, and much like Sev, I too had someone to meet.



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KodiaX987
Oct 7, 2002, 01:14 PM
Found a sketch of Shuri on lok's site. I thought I had lost it forever!! ^.^

http://members.lycos.co.uk/lokC/psosketch/page6.html


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Shurikane let go of me and walked into another room. From the following clicks and clunks, I assumed it was a storage area of sorts.

I sat down. Seconds passed. I thought they were years.

Suddenly, I heard the characteristic sound of something melting off and oozing onto the ground. What then followed was a muffled sound, something like a body falling down. I was looking down all the time.

Someone tapped me on the shoulder. It didn't hurt, to my surprize.

What I saw was unreal. Shurikane just was not herself anymore. Her knife hair had changed from their after-fight look to a completely different hair piece. The new hair was a more standarized plate, which simulated chest-length hair. Her simu-skin had changed from matte black, to a chalky and soft white. Her arms had completely changed. Any black part had changed to white, and I noticed with a combinaison of shock and happiness that her angers were gone. Instead, I saw forearms, ending in fingers covered by simu-skin, looking very human aside from their pure white color. Her legs hadn't changed though... It was normal. They did not need any fixing. Aside from this, her Greenglo parts were still there, but their dim glow didn't invade on the perfect white of her skin. I thought about the time when she was black, and needed all the light she could get to show the contours of her complex face.

She smiled. Behind her mouth was a set of teeth that would have made it all the way to toothpaste advertisements. They were that beautiful.

There was something behind her. Looking, I saw a bag stained by purple blood. Inside were her old forearms and angers, her sharpened shoulder plates, her knife-hair, her old organic components, and her old teeth.

The only thing ruining the picture was the double-barreled handgun she had in her right hand. In the left one was a saber handle, which she handed over to me.

"Grab this." She said in a new, softer voice. "I trust you'll make good use of it."

I took the device from her hand, and without giving it much of a look, put it in a pocket inside my robe.

We both sighed at the same time. A happy sigh. Shuri leaned towards me, and we embraced each other in a hug. Her body was warm. It felt human.

For the first time in her life, Shrike "Shurikane" Nainsev was giving and receiving a genuine hug.

She opened her eyes, and raised her right palm.

"That's our last run." She whispered to me. "I promise. With you on my side, it's going to be a piece of cake."

I closed my fist on the palm, a friendly "buddies forever" symbol if I remember well.

I'm glad to have you back on my side as well. I told her, without letting anyone else hear this. We both looked at each other for a few more seconds, and shared a small, genuine laugh. We both were happy at the same time.

I looked at the others, beaming. Mortimer was gone, as usual.

Let's go!!

M_BlackHawk
Oct 8, 2002, 09:12 AM
Ok..time to add my 2 meseta worth again.
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Lara looks over at her comrades, with her small radio receiver broadcasting the opening comments by Nol Rinale about the coming debates.

"Governor Tyrell's opponent this year is a retired hunter, and an influential member of both the hunter community, and in the Ragol military, training our army in the arts of combat," Nol Comments, "Right now, there is no telling what he will say when he is faced off with Governor Tyrell, who some critics have said has lost his touch both in government and as a speaker. Also, there is the fact that the wife of Mr. Tyrell's opponent is now wanted for storming a government facility with five others. Will the specifics of this be brought to light? I, for one, sure hope so. The candidates are taking the podium. This is Nol Rinale, reporting for Ragol News Network."

"If Serrus is to pop up anywhere, he'll probably show up there," Lara points out, "Zinackst, I'd like to take Shurikane with me to the convention center, to confront Tyrell and Serrus."
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That's that from me for now.


later

M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Oct 8, 2002, 09:24 AM
Say what?...

Shurikane passed an arm around me again and almost shouted:

"Nah-uh! If I'm going anywhere, she is going with me. You people ready? Quite frankly, I'd like to get this over with as soon as possible. The sooner we are done, the sooner we can go lie down in the fields and enjoy the sunset."

I nodded enthusiastically.

KodiaX987
Oct 8, 2002, 04:33 PM
Well, my off-week from school has just started. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif Let's double-check those next posts to make a flawless and beautiful grand finale. Until then, see you next Wednesday!! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif

P.S.: B, her b-day is on the 27th, huh?... How about we bring her up for a surprize-flight? Think she'll like it?

Moo2u
Oct 8, 2002, 05:42 PM
I got a bit of insperation reading Kodia's Republic Insa! ^_^
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Since I was in a rush, I needed to get this over with quickly. I took the a cab to the REDRIA sector, where I would grab a few weapons at my appartment, then hurry off to the ORON sector.

"Hey buddy!" said the newman cab driver in some kind of accent that was hard to understand, "you some kind of hunter or something?"

"Or something," I replied, "take a right here."

"I could have been a hunter, you know?" he said, "but the guild, ya know, it wouldn't let me in! Said I had, umm, week knees of something, ya know?"

I wasn't listing to him at all. In stead I was busy listening to the radio, which was tured on inside the cab.

...I, for one, sure hope so. The candidates are taking the podium. This is Nol Rinale, reporting for Ragol News Network...

Something was going to happen; I should have stayed with the others.

The cabbie stopped outside my appartment and I tosed him what meseta I had on me. I rushed into the building and straight into my room.

The whole placed was trashed. Compeatly torn down. Looked as if they already came here looking for me. At least my weapons were ok. I opened a closet that held all of my weapons and chose my reliable Anti-Android rifle, the best weapons I owned. I also packed a Varista Handgun, just in case.

I rushed as fast as my legs would carry me to the ORON sector where I entered into a deep maze of alleys and backalleys. The place was dirty, and deserted. At the end of this laberath was an old door, borded up so that no one would enter. I pulled off the cracked pieces of wood esily and entered the dark building.

The reason no one has came here in such a long time was because this was the lab of the late Dr. Jean-Carlo Montague. Probably the most brilliant man abored Pioneer II, yet he met a most grusom death. I heard some news about what the media dubed "The Insa Revolution," and how his own android, Elenor, or Insa-Elenor, or whatever, killed him, but I didn't know all the facts.

I was there was because before his death, and before our fight with the Master, I had Dr. Montague look at the scar caused by the Master's own twisted version of the Endless Song. I thought that maybe I could look into the late Doctor's old files and possibly find a clue as what the ADSSF where up to. It was a long shot, but it was worth a try.

I found a couple of papers that read, "Mortimer Kirk II's condition is simply amazing. Never have I even incountered such an injury before. The emmence physical and even magical pain that was brough upon him is something that I think much more tests should be applied onto. However, I fear his scar will never heal." Well, he was wrong about that. My scar did heal. I needed to find more notes from his research. Sudenly I heard a small voice behind me.

"What are you doing in my home?"

M_BlackHawk
Oct 8, 2002, 06:55 PM
Ok..let's make this one great. I'm more than up for it.
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Lara looked to Severance, Shurikane and Zinackst. "Well, do what you three have to," she states, "But I'm going to the convention center. If my instincts are telling me the truth, Tyrell will most likely try to pull something there, and..." She trails off in her speech before dropping a telepipe. "I'm sorry, guys, but I have to," she says, finishing her thought, "Mike is the one facing Tyrell in this debate..and he knows a lot more about Tyrell's offenses against not just the Endless Song, but against people in general, Human, Newman and Android, even going back to the supply ship, Parma, on our way here to Ragol. I have to make sure he lets the public know just what the Governor is guilty of. If I'm not mistaken, Serrus may just pop up there too." She disappears into the telepipe, headed directly to the Convention Center.

BWS-1
Oct 10, 2002, 09:41 PM
I think it's about time I post something
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The 2 soldiers got shot down by Lara giving me a good straight line to sprint to the car. It didn't take long before I met other soldiers coming from nearly everywhere. Instead of running away from them, I decided to walk aside them in the opposite direction as they saw me, pretending to be heavily damage and that I needed repairs.

"You there, don't you have you're weapons on you?", a HUcast asked me.

I couldn't answer him because of the dead vocal system in the body I was in so I made myself understood with signs, trying to tell him they took them from me.

"Then take this"

*he hands me a grenade

" we found the renegades, thx to your trackers, I'm suprised you are still functianal after they got rid of all the devices in you", he says, looking at me with a septikal stare.

I acted, as if I was in there team once agian, and it seemed to work pretty well. I was not able to see what was happening in the room because I has been assigned to stand garding the entry door that lead to the parking ... I was so close, I could see the car from where I was, yet I couldn't run, or else they'd automaticly know. I then heard a cry, a mad, desperate cry fild with rage and anger ... that was ... Zinackst.

What are they doing to her ... stop this, ack stop it! I then activated the grenade and ran to the nearest FOmar and held him.

10 ...

9 ...

I could see they've all noticed me, yet they stayed still, staring inside the room, guns pointed at the people inside.

8 ...

I'll kill you! You murderers! you... you..., I said to the FOmar

7 ...

I then heard someone speak, it wasn't Zinackst, I peeked inside the room just to see what I thought was a HUmar, on the ground. It was Ash, and he was an android all along ... darn, Human-like androids ... last time I heard of them was in my A.D.S.S.F. service. Zinackst was there, and I could see the feet of a RAcaseal, Shurikane. She asked to all the forces to retreat, hmmm, why would they even listen ...

4 ...

Well at least, no one got hurt, except Ash.

3 ...

They will listen because we found what we came here to find the FOmar said to me.

2 ...

I held him tight against me and placed the grenade that had only 2 seconds left before detonation near his throat.

1 ...

The only thing you'll find is eternal sleep with the dead!, I answered him, still suprised he answered me and could communicate with me.

0 ...

"Hmmph, BWS-1, you should know that you never put the highest in command on the front line.", he whispered to me with a smile.

Boom, have a nice day. Training grenade (c) ...

That was a fake!? How did he ...

He then gave everyone the signal to retreat and before I could even run inside the room, 4 RAcast stood behind me and grabbed my arms and legs to hold me.

The FOmar then placed his hand on my chest, I tried to move as much as I could, I couldn't free myself.

I then started to feel the heat inside me, I was feeling the inside of my body burning, I could feel that this time, I'd get more then an arm of fire, I'd litterally "be on fire".

No, you'll stay cool with us this time, this won't kill you, it'll just freeze you, to the core, to the soul... and it might hurt you, a lot, but that, I don't care

No ... not that again ... no, NOOO! O what I'd do to be able to scream right now!!!! NOOO!

All my body became frozen, then, I slowly started to feel my spirit freezing, it was as if I was being caught in a spiky vice, and drowning at the same time in a very, very cold sea, slowly losing sight, slowly passing away.

I'm being draged by a RAcast, held by the right arm, an other holds my legs, I can't even see in the room, I can't even tell them ... I ... I can't ...

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P.S.: Kodiak, she'd looooooove to! That'd be a hell of a cool b-day present! I know she'll be happy to have a suprize-flight! Can I come with her? Now can I? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime1.gif

KodiaX987
Oct 16, 2002, 12:29 PM
Sure B! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif Which plane? There's the single-enging Cessna 172. It's a bit cramped, but it's slow, so you have all the time you want to sightsee. Then there's the twin-engine Piper Aztec. It's more comfy, but goes twice as fast as the Cessna. That means you must not miss your photo shots! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/anime2.gif

Now to get to the Convention Center and finish this whole thingie.
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Shurikane jumped into the pipe right after Lara. I followed with a decisive step, feeling ready to conquer the world.

Not more than one second later, I found myself within the Convention Center, next to Lara and Shurikane. It was only then that I found out within myself that we had no real plan whatsoever... How could we find and get Sarrus?...

Nervously, I began humming the Song. Shurikane stood still for a few seconds, a few whirrs coming out of her abdomen, before she finally shook her head at Lara.

We walked forth, eyes peeled...

The_BlackHawks
Oct 16, 2002, 10:36 PM
M_BlackHawk here. Been having trouble logging in under my original account, so I created a second until I find out what happened to that first one. I'll try to post something tomorrow, though.

later

M_BlackHawk

Hikosaka
Oct 17, 2002, 07:32 AM
Sorry to hear that. Hope that can be fixed soon. :/

Phew, sorry it took so long. Bad case of writer's block.
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THinngs were ssstartin to breaAk aPpart. I graBbed the edge of the DeSk near me to steady mmyssself.

I shook my head, trying to dispEL the buIlding sTaaaatic. My grids were still funcCTioning onLy tHrough a combination of hasty rerouting and desperation. I needed to get real rREpairs soon.

//SYSTEM DIAGNOSTIC...INITIALIZED.
--MOTOR FUNCTIONS: 86.9%
--NEURAL NET: 54.1%
--PRIMARY COGNITIVE GRIDS: 95.2%
--POWER GRID: 102%
--EMERGENCY REPAIR PROCEDURES...INITIALIZED.
--STATUS: STABILIZED.
//WARNING: GRID STABILITY AT 85% AND FALLING. CHECK INTO THE NEAREST REPAIR CENTER IMMEDIATELY.//

If only it was that easy.

As the emergency repairs ran their course, my legs felt steady enough for me to let go the desk, albeit cautiously. I looked up just in time to see Lara, Zinackst, and Shurikane step into a telepipe, most likely headed to find Serrus and Tyrell. The pipe knitted itself closed after them, the light fading from the room.

I needed to get on my way as well. Time was running short, and I had yet to get the information I was looking for.

Holding the gun that BWS-1 had given me, I stepped cautiously outside, wondering if any remnants of Ash's forces still remained. A movement in the corner of my visual field caught my attention, and I ducked back into the doorway, gun raised and ready. Carefully, I leaned forward and peeked around the edge of the doorway, trying to keep my body out of sight. Most of my plating was damaged or missing, but the red of what was left stood out like a beacon against the neutral greys of concrete.

I spotted two hulking androids trying to maneuver a rather unyielding and awkward object into the back seats of a military transport. Another stood guard with a rifle. My sensors kicked in, and a scan of the area revealed that these three seemed to be the only ones in the area. I decided to wait until they left before heading to the hovercar hidden in the nearby public parking garage.

As I watched, one of the androids moved aside for a moment, revealing that their burden was a black hunter-model android.

BWS-1? I thought he had left to infiltrate an A.D.S.S.F. facility...guess they got him before he could make an escape.

I didn't hesitate. I had the advantage of surprise, and I could tell that those androids were A.D.S.S.F. issue...not quite the fastest or brightest of the ranks.

Jumping out from the doorway, I squeezed off three shots, hoping that the three shaking crosshairs in my visual display were on target.

The head of the guard android disappeared in a satisfying blast of debris and fire, the body flopping nervelessly to the ground. The second shot caught one of the other androids in the chest, slamming him into the side of the transport, leaving him crumpled on the ground beside his headless comrade.

However, the third shot sailed harmlessly overhead, and I leaped back into the doorway as the android immediately returned fire, photon bullets taking fist-sized chunks out of the wall and doorframe where I had stood. I returned fire blindly, unable to put my head out to see, lest it get shot off.

Suddenly, the volley of photons stopped. The silence stretched on for a few beats, and I could not hear any other sounds that would indicate movement. Cautiously, I put my head out the door.

There was no sign of the android anywhere. I scanned the area, only to come up with nothing. I guessed that he decided to call for reinforcements, so time for me to act quickly.

I ran to where BWS-1 lay. Grabbing his cold-stiffened body about the waist, I carried him to the hovercar, kicking out a seat to make it easier to get him into the car. A quick glance over to the military transport showed that the android returned, most likely holding his position until reinforcements come.

I started the engine and blasted the car into the sky. The android noticed and shot at us, photon bullets hissing as they flew too close for comfort, but thankfully they missed vital parts.

Taking a seldom-used road in the ruins of the old colony that bordered the Oran sector, I flew low and fast, trying to get as much distance between myself and the city. There was no sign of pursuit, so I relaxed a little, taking almost random, circuituous routes through the ruins of old Oran sector.

I made my way to the outskirts of the city, then into the forests beyond them. Much of Ragol was still unsettled, and covered by uncharted wilds.

That was an advantage for those who didn't want to be found.

Deep in my core, there is a homing device that has been dormant ever since my days in the A.D.S.S.F. All of the older members had them, kind of safety device for Master's benefit. He always wanted to make sure we knew our way "home" as it were.

I could feel it activate...and suddenly a tiny map of the forest appeared in my visual display, the flashing of a small red dot increasing in frequency as I steered the car closer.

I glanced back to check on BWS-1. There didn't seem to be any change. I hoped that the person I was looking for still lived there...

Carefully sinking below the canopy of trees, a complex framework of metal struts and beams revealing that the "trees" weren't really what they seemed. A very large facility stood in the center of it all, looking old and deserted through years of disuse.

I lifted the still frozen BWS-1 and carried him to the front gates, pushing them open and entering the building.

Suddenly, the barrel of a gun was pressed against my temple, freezing me in place.

"Sev? Sev...is that you?"

I relaxed a bit, but not much, since I also knew what the person was capable of.

"Yes. I need your help," I replied.

"That much is obvious...you're falling apart. Come inside, and I'll see what I can do."

"Are you going to lower than gun?"

"No. Now come into my lab so I can take a look at you and your friend."

"All right."

The_BlackHawks
Oct 17, 2002, 10:17 AM
I'm going to try something later that may work..or I can just keep posting under this account..it's not like I don't have options. All I lost was my post count here.
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Lara looked around, spotting not only her family, who is acting as her husband's security detail, but also Tyrell's security droids. A quick look over verifies her guess, that the new Security droids protecting the current Governor were actual A.D.S.S.F. models. She heard the debate begin, as Tyrell began to yammer on about how the colony had actually thrived under his tenure. She, however, knew otherwise, as did Mike, who stood ready to drop one mother of a bomb on the citizens of the Ragol colony. Tyrell finished his lengthy spiel about how he only wants what's best for the people, and relinquished the floor to his opponent, who stepped to the front. Lara kept her eyes open for anything suspicious, as she notes Galveris and Maya looking up. "Oh no,"she thinks,"It looks like Serrus is up there. The Androids' scanners have picked him up." She starts to advance slowly toward the stage where Mike began to speak.

"People of Ragol," the retired HUmar begins, "While my opponent wishes you to believe that he only wants the best for the people of this planet, I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that his real objectives are just the opposite. Allow me to tell you the specifics of Governor Tyrell's true objectives and just how this colony has managed to thrive, despite the Governor's best efforts."

Lara then spots Serrus in the rafters, as he drops down, diving at the retired hunter at the podium. She rushes as fast as she can, drawing her saber just in time to parry his strike. "What in the hell are you waiting for?" she asks her husband, "Hurry up and finish this speech. I can't hold him off forever."

"Right," the blonde man responded, "I was given information by an old friend of mine, who has been investigating Gov. Garlan Tyrell for over two years. His research, and findings are on an optical disk, which I shall play for you all now." The HUmar hits one button on his wrist and an image appears on the large screen behind the candidates, and the two combatants. It's the image of a man, roughly 50 years old, his hair graying, wearing the uniform of a military brigadier general.

The image begins to speak. "Mike," it says, "You know that since the fall of Master, I've been investigating Tyrell's involvement in the A.D.S.S.F. I've found a wealth of information by going secretly through personal logs, and other sources that I feel that the public must know. Garlan Tyrell's involvement with Master began even before the Pioneer Project. The destruction of our homeworlds was no accident. It was the result of one of Tyrell and Master's early experiments in the "Endless Song Project". Master found a disk of what Lara referred to as the Twisted Song many years prior to the beginning of the Pioneer project. While he was already quite wealthy, his experiments with the song became more and more costly. The project was pitched to Tyrell roughly 9 years prior to Pioneer 1's take off. Tyrell decided to give Master the grants he needed to continue his experiments. In return, he got the use of Master's expertise in robotics and android construction. The A.S.S.F. was founded not long afterward. Tyrell became even more involved in the project, when Pioneer 1 launched. The probes found signs of Dark Falz on Ragol, and that is why Tyrell chose this planet over all other alternatives. He knew that if he could get data on Dark Falz, then the project could go even further. He advised Master of this development. That was when Pioneer 1 was green-lighted to launch. Master and Tyrell's involvement went into the shadows from there. While he said he cut off all ties to the A.D.S.S.F. after the Silencer compound, he actually didn't. An executive order passed after the compound incident shows that he moved them to the list of Black Ops. The government continued to fund the A.D.S.S.F. until Master's death two years ago.

Lara continued to fight Serrus while the disk played. She parried each strike of the warrior's, while listening to the gasps of astonishment coming from the crowd who had gathered.

Tyrell, on the other hand, tried to run. He was stopped, however, by a small pink RAcaseal carrying a Visk rifle. The cowardly politician began to back up, running into the huge HUcast, Galveris.

The General continued, "While Master was killed by Ciel 5/BWS-1/Yukiel, Tyrell continued to support them, through the use of his "sons", who were actually special model androids created by Master to pass for human. Their names were "Ash" and "Serrus". These two were placed with Tyrell when Pioneer 2 launched. They played their parts well. They fooled everyone, including me, into thinking that these two were actually Garlan Tyrell's sons, when the only child he ever had was his daughter, Red Ring Rico. Their objective after Master's death was to continue the research into the artificial Falz, Yukiel, in order to create a newer, more perfect Falz that will follow Tyrell's orders, to the letter. The main objective of the Artificial Falz, was to wipe out all life.

If you get this disk, Mike, it means that Tyrell found me out and has already had me killed. I wish I could be here to watch you deliver this information to the people, but you can bet that I'm watching you from the right hand of the great light himself. Your friend and former comrade, Brigadier General James Morgan."

Mike then finished his statements, "Ladies and Gentlemen of Ragol. The real reason behind the thriving of this colony wasn't Tyrell's leadership. It was all of you. Your blood, swear, and tears, in order to make this a new home for our people. It was the blood shed by my comrades in the Hunter's guild, to defeat Dark Falz, and to thwart Tyrell's plans at every step. Now, let your voice decide. Who do you want leading you? One who really cares for your well-being, or one who wants you all dead?"

Serrus, on the other hand, had let his guard drop just slightly, watching his father being held prisoner by the small ranger. This gave Lara the opening she needed, to slice the android into two separate halves, ending his so-called life. The last image that the android warrior sees, is that of Ragol authorities taking Garlan Tyrell into custody to stand trial for attempted Genocide.

"That was too close," Mike tells his wife, "We're getting too old for this."
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Stay tuned for more from me.

Later

M_BlackHawk

KodiaX987
Oct 17, 2002, 11:51 AM
While I stood there, simply watching Lara do all the job, Shurikane raised whatever would have contained an eyebrow.

"Gosh, fighting really isn't what it used to be."

I turned my face towards her, my pupils were most probably shaped in question marks.

"I mean, look!" She pointed at the destroyed Sarrus. "He let himself be a punching bag all the time."

I merrily corrected my friend's insolence using a good slap on the back of her head.

It's over. There's nothing to analyze now.

"Oh yeah?" She sighed. "And what about me? I'm just chop liver in this big epic?"

I don't follow...

"Not only did Tyrell attempt genocide... He was also one hell of a racist! Look over there."

I took a look towards Tyrell. The small pink android had dropped her rifle and was now holding the sharp point of a bastard saber just an inch off the governor's neck.

That, and her black legs had gone to more than twice their normal length.

I couldn't hear what she was saying to him, but it had to be good, since Shurikane beamed.

"She's alive!"

Needless to say, I still wasn't following. Partly because I had no clue on who the pink android was, and partly because I was trying to find a reason why guards would let her speak to Tyrell at saber point just like this...

A shadow passed in front of me. I looked up, but the shadow's owner was already gone.

...And then, as I looked back down, I noticed the pink android was gone from view. Both me and Shurikane walked over to Tyrell.

"Unbelievable!" Shurikane said to him. "Fifteen years, it took 'em fifteen years to finally find a flaw in your plans!"

The ex-governor looked up. By his wide open eyes, he obviously recognized Shurikane.

"You're alive too?..." He said in a weak voice. Shuri nodded, and she crossed her arms over her chest.

"For once, justice is served right." The android replied in a surprizingly serious tone. "ADSSF, powers, experiments, all over for you. I trust you'll be a better leader when it comes to being the king of sixty-four square feet of concrete."

I couldn't help but giggle. I had to stop though, because I found the need to concentrate on the task of stopping Shurikane from resting her hand on her gun.

Not now.

"Right... Anyways, all is well that ends well. For us, that is." She said coldly. "Major thanks to you by the way. So, what's the sentence?! Heck, where is the judge?"

Moo2u
Oct 17, 2002, 02:50 PM
Hold on a second guys, I'll be posting my part in a bit! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

Moo2u
Oct 19, 2002, 09:50 PM
I turned around quickly, "hello?" I couldn't see much into the dark lab, and I couldn't tell for sure where the voice was coming from.

"What are you doing in my home?" it said once again.

I raised my rifle, getting ready for anything that may happen, "show yourself!" Infront of me walked out a small pink android fromt the shadows. It looked like...but i couldn't be...could it? "Elenor?" I asked, "but how..."

"Negative," it said, "Elenor is gone. I am Elenor II, assistant to the great Dr. Montague, now state why you are here, or I will have to use force."

This android seemed much different then the one's I've been hanging around with. This one seemed...well to put it quite bluntly, mindless. It didn't sound like it was thinking for itself. It thought that Dr. Montague was still alive. Perhapes this was something the Doctor was working on before he bit eh big one, I thought that I might as well use this to my advantage.

"I'm here to see Dr. Montague," I said, interested to see if I was right.

"Negative," said Elenor II's monotone voice, "the Doctor is curently not in." I was right.

"Perhapes you can help me then," I said, "I'm looking for the records of one Mortimer Kirk II, do you know where they are."

"Follow me please," it said. So, I did just that. She led me through the lab, which was a total mess. It was amazing she knew where anything was, but then I remembered, she's an android. Androids don't forget.

Elenor II pointed to few random papers that were scattered on a long table, "the records you are looking for are there."

"Thank you," I said, and quickly walked over to the table. It didn't take me long to find what I was looking for.

The document I found read like this, "The first test on Mortimer Kirk II was a failure. I was not able to understand anymore of this scar then I could before. Unfortunatly, this will be the last time I test Mr. Kirk. The A.D.S.S.F. has now taken interest in my projects and would like me to start working for them. I fear my days for working directly for the government of Pioneer 2 will be limited." If only he knew how true he was.

Then suddenly while I was reading these papers, I felt something sharp poking into the side of my neck. "Ahh!" I cried, then I fell to the floor. I was beginning to black out. Someone injected a knock-out drug into me. My vision was going but just before I passed out, I turned over to try to get a glimps of who did this to me. I could hardly believe my eyes.

"Olivia, is that you...?" then all was black.

M_BlackHawk
Oct 20, 2002, 11:15 AM
Great posts, people..now, let's see where this takes us.
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With the chaos at the convention center passed, and Tyrell having been taken to prison to answer for his crimes, Lara explained everything to her family, then returned to Zinackst, and Shurikane.

"Now, comes the interesting part," the semi-retired HUnewearl tells her friends, "I think we should split up from here. Severance 7 will need help, as will BWS-1 and Mortimer. Shuri, Zin, if you find Severance, you'll find BWS-1, I'm almost certain of it. I'll see about finding Mortimer. If I know him, he's probably still looking for answers about Master's Endless Song Project. I have a hunch where he may be." She then hands a BEE uplink containing Severance 7's information to Shurikane, before setting off herself for Oran sector.

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Later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Oct 20, 2002, 08:58 PM
I awoke in a much cleaner and brighter room. Actually, the room itself wasn't bright at all, only the secton I was in. I tryed to move, but couldn't. I looked down and saw that someone had cuffed both my legs and arms to the hard steal bored I was laying on. Then from one on the dark corners of the room came Elenor II. She walked calmly to one of the tables near by and started messing around with this and that.

"What going on!" I yelled at her. She didn't say anything. She didn't even act like I was there at all. "Tell me what's going on! Where am I?" I yelled out again.

"She's programed not to respond to you," said a semi-robotic voice. It sounded vagly familier, yet totaly different, "you are in a secret lab, belonging to the A.D.S.S.F. of the Department Twisted branch." Then, from the same shadows that Elenor II came from, walked what I could best discribe as a machine that was...well...alive. Most of it was constructed out of what looked like robot parts salvaged from the old mines, but parts of it was pulsing, even bleeding in some areas. Parts of it was deffinitly made out of flesh. Then once I saw its face, I knew who it was.

"Doctor?" I said, unbelieving my eyes, "Dr. Montague?"

"Yes, it's me," it replied.

"But...but how..." I stuttered, "you died. Reported to be ripped apart..."

"True, Mr. Kirk," the Doc replied. He walked over to Elenor II, who was still doing who knows what with the things on the table, "First of all, you should know that I do not hate the android that killed me."

"You mean Elenor?" I asked. He chuckled. I could hear his circets buzz as he did so.

"No, I don't blame my Elenor," said Montague. He began to get more frustrated , "I blame the one who put these radical ideas into her sweet head. Shurikane. How I loath her! Free-chip mode! Androids having souls?!? Such things are...are...aganst the very nature of things itself!" He paused and started to cough and hack. I could barely see out of the corner of my eye that he was coughing up what looked like a mixute of blood and oil, much like Shurikane did so when we first met. What exactly had he become? He then started to talk again, "on the other hand, I suppose I should be greatful to the android responsible for my death, for it too was responsible for giving me life once again. You see, there were some who still needed me, an orginization by the name of the A.D.S.S.F. Thanks to the prosess of half robotics and the newly discovered Insa process of Department Twisted, I am alive once again, but barly. The tranformation left me week, unable to conduct my exparaments. So, I needed a partner to aid me in what would eventually lead to the capturing of you."

"That would be Elenor II?" I asked.

"Hevens no," he said, "I progamed this Elenor to be loyal and mindless. She is no good for such a job as I wanted, but she is what androids were ment to be, and that is to be controled my humans and newmans alike. Wouldn't you agree, Mortimer?" I didn't say a word. Maybe I would think that way a long time ago, but now his words only made me sick. "Hmm...fair enough. Oh here comes my assistant now."

"Is our subject ready for the tests doctor?" said Olivia. She grined a evil grin a me.

"You!" I said, "how could you! You mean all this time you were working for the A.D.S.S.F.? I took you as a friend! How could you!"

She still smiled at me, but was talking to the Doctor, "preparing for exparaments." Then Elenor II walked next to me and injected another shot of knock-out drugs into my system, which quickly began to work.

"You'll never win," I said as all around me started to turn dark.

"Sorry, Mort," said Olivia, "but it's bussince, you know? Now Doctor, let's see if any of that twisted song is still lurking inside him..." Again all went black.

KodiaX987
Oct 21, 2002, 09:53 AM
Shurikane picked up the unit and installed it on her left arm. I was ready to go, but she held me by the shoulder. Her stare was empty. It wasn't visible on an android, but her state of mind was completely blank. A trance of sorts, that lasted at least a second.

"Okay, let's go." She then said.

What was that you did?...

"Wireless." She said bluntly.

Huh?

"Android telepathy." She grinned, but it wasn't sincere. "We need to find the nearest shop and fetch a bit of artillery. Then, we'll go to the location I just received. My friend has some good and bad news for us. Good news: she knows where we can find our objective. The bad news: if we don't hurry, everyone is screwed to the core."

I gulped. Partly because it was time to, and anyways I was right in cue for this worried look I gave her.

Well, if we had to go, we had to go.

The next thing Shurikane knew, was that she was in front of a city map, two miles away from our original location.

She screamed in surprise and looked around her. I believe she took conscience of ehr state of mind in the nick of time to avoid a system crash. I had forgotten androids simply were not familiar with this mode of transportation.

In the meantime, I was looking at the map.

The orange dots... That's weapon shops, right?

"Yes, they are."

I chose the nearest one, took one step, and we were there, in front of its windows proudly showing swords and guns. This time, Shurikane didn't discuss my initiative. Instead, she went straight into the shop without waiting for me.

I followed her in. She extended her hand to me.

"Your saber, please."

I gave her the device, which she put on the cashier's desk.

"I need a Harrison number 12, and a Micatech Pro 500, with this saber here as credit."

The man took the saber, examined its markings, and went to fetch the demanded merchandise. I was handed a saber cylinder, and a shield. I had no shield in the first place, so I gladly put this one on, but the saber was suspicious.

Looks like the same thing I had...

Shurikane shook her head.

"Yours had a red band. This one is gray and brown. It's better than what you had before."

Now, where to?

We walked out of the store. Shurikane discreetly verified her gun, and stored it into a side panel of hers.

"I have the location, but it's twelve miles away. You should have carried me south, not north."

How could I know?!

"Good point... All right. Let's go."

She just stood there. It took me a second to understand what she meant exactly. I took her by the hand, and took a step on the sidewalk.

Nothing.

A sound went through my ears... It was something like an airplane engine going out of control...

Did you hear that?

No answer.

Shrike! Did you hear?

She was looking at the passing cars on the street. I snapped my fingers in front of her face.

"What?!" She said.

Did you hear that wierd sound?

The response was completely incoherent with my question.

"Well, waddya want to say?!"

That sound!! Did you hear it?

I was gesturing to her in exhasperation... And then:

"Stop miming and tell me!" Shurikane tapped her foot. She wasn't liking it, whatever I was doing wrong.

I took her by the hand again, and took one step. Then two, then three, then four. And then I stopped.

It just couldn't be true.

I turned to Shurikane, looked around me, and whispered in her ear:

"Damn..."

KodiaX987
Oct 24, 2002, 01:12 PM
FYI guys, I have begun a surface reformatting of this episode. Taking off the sigs, comments, you know, the usual. When the entire fic's finished, I'll then make a second pass to correct the spelling, add text color, and fix the plot holes. ^.^

BTW got a mini-idea, but, of course, it takes a unanimous approval for it to work. How about we take a picture of ourselves, to put up on the fic menu? Just like authos put a pic of themselves at the back of the book, we could do the same. Piccie, author's screen name, another piccie, another author's screen name, etc.

Moo2u
Oct 24, 2002, 03:58 PM
Correcting spelling...hehe...http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/blush.gif

I like the idea of having pics of us, the probleme with me is lack of digital camera...and my computer's so old it dosen't support digital cameras! I have one pic of me taken at a Helloween party, but I'm dressed as an evil clown, and to tell you the truth, the pic freeks me out! But I'll try to find one of my friends who might own a digital camera, unless you think the clown picture is good. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif

BTW, I'll wait till Hiko, BWS, or M_Blackhawk post something before I write again. Strange, I actually know what I'm going to write next! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif



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Hikosaka
Oct 25, 2002, 04:52 PM
I'll post something by tonight if it's the last thing I do. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif

I like the idea about the author pictures...but I'm also not that comfortable about putting my picture on the net. >_>;;

How about if I draw one instead?

Hikosaka
Oct 27, 2002, 03:53 AM
"I'm sorry, but I can't help you."

I stared at her for a moment, unable to believe what she was saying.

"What are you talking about? You built me, Lucien. You know me inside and out."

I glanced at the gun in her hand, still trained on my head, then looked back into her face.

The years living in solitude had not been kind to her. Her red hair had faded somewhat, and was shot with thick streaks of white. There were hard lines carved into the sides of her mouth and the corners of her eyes. However, she still dressed in the same black standard-issue force uniform, as if trying to retain a residue of her past youth though it...or perhaps as a denial of her increasing years.

Hers was the first face I ever saw, and my own original humaniform configuration was modeled after her. It was almost a joke; I was created in the image of my creator.

Once a brilliant scientist, Lucien Darck was now a major figure in the black market for android parts and upgrades. For the appropriate sum of money, she would build anything, for anyone, no questions asked. Money erased remorse...she felt no qualms about building an android with illegal subnuclear cells with an internal detonation switch, just as long as she was given fair warning before the explosion.

"You're not the android I know anymore. You've been changed by something...even your energy signatures are different now."

"There have been some things that have been happening in my life as of late," I replied, not sure how to explain it all in the limited time I had left.

"That Endless Song foolishness? I really couldn't believe you got caught up in all that," Lucien said, sighing, "I can see it's damaged your grids beyond my ability to fix. And for what? I've seen no evidence of any special powers."

I was surprised. Just how many people knew about the Endless Song?

The scientist read my expression and anticipated my next question. She idly scanned BWS-1's rapidly thawing body as she spoke, opening various access ports to see the extent of the damage. The gun she was carrying was placed in a holster on her hip to free her hands. She seemed to realize that I did not intend to kill her...though that gun was never too far from either hand.

"Tyrell told me about it when he ordered those two androids from me. It's kind of funny, but he actually warned me about you. He's under the impression that you're still that same A.D.S.S.F. assassin that had been ordered to kill him and blow up the city. He never forgave your Master for that, you know."

"So, my suspicions were right. You're the one who built Ash and Serrus. But why? And why did you base them on my design? I thought you said that you would never build another like me, after what almost happened on that last mission."

She didn't reply, seeming to be more preoccupied with removing the armor around BWS-1's central core. A muttered exclaimation escaped her lips as she looked into the thoroughly wrecked interior of the android. She started pulling out clumps of burnt fiber-optic threads by the handful, shaking her head in disbelief.

"You brought me a corpse, Sev," she said, "There is no way this android would be able to function."

"You'd be surprised. Just wait until he thaws out completely and have one of those extra Hunter android bodies handy," I answered, "But, you're just avoiding my questions, and I've got no time left. Tell me what I need to know...please."

"The world must be ending, for you to say please," Lucien replied dryly, "But I'll help you out. You are my daughter, after all."

She sighed, leaning back against a nearby lab bench wearily.

"As you know, you were expressly requested to be built as a memory bank of sorts. The other androids could upload their grids entirely intact into yours at will. Your Master experimented extensively with this Endless Song, trying to find artificial means in recreating it. Each android was vital in his tests, so any possibility of loss had to be avoided. You were a prototype, but it was enough for his purposes, so no more of your line was to be created.

"That changed once Tyrell and Master parted ways, and Tyrell needed android guards of his own. However, Ash and Serrus were built to be more than bodyguards for Tyrell. They were also supposed to be repositories. So they were built like you...but with modifications.

"Androids have come a far way since those early days, when your kind were nothing more than automatons with a pretty paint job. The intricacy of their neural nets have reached, and sometimes surpassed that of humans...leading to interesting possibilities.

"Ash and Serrus...Though for the most part, I used existing parts, but their neural net structure has far surpassed even yours, Sev. It is still theory, but with the right equipment, it is possible for a human to transfer their neuroelectrical patterns into them...an organic version of the android grid. And Ash and Serrus possess a remote "grid overwrite" function...so it's possible for them to first destroy a host's grid patterns, then replace it with their own. And...with the appropriate power boost, they can even take over human neuroelectrical patterns, though only temporarily."

Madness. That was just not possible. She must be mistaken.

If those the likes of Tyrell had that kind of power at his disposal...

"But why? You know how he would use androids like that! How could you build them for him?"

Lucien shrugged slightly.

"I just build androids for whoever's willing to pay my price. How they are used afterward is of no concern to me."

Suddenly, my body felt extremely heavy, as if all of the planet's gravitational pull had concentrated on one spot. I would have fallen to the floor if Lucien hadn't moved to help prop me against a table.

"Look, there is only one thing I can think of that can help you," Lucien said, "But you're not going to like it."

"I already know, but there's no time anyway. Focus on thawing out BWS-1, and once he's awake, we've got to get to Tyrell and Serrus. Ash is dead, at least...there's only one we have to deal with now," I answered, remotely surprised at how weak my voice levels had become, "After that, I'll consider it."

"Stubborn until the end," the scientist replied with disgust, but turned back to BWS-1 nevertheless, flicking on various heat lamps around him to help speed up the thaw.

I sat down in a chair unsteadily, my knees giving way. The corners of my visual field flashed red for a second, then my systems stabilized again.

Maybe Lucien was right...maybe the Endless Song was killing me. Those experiments Master performed on me...would they have had any effect on that?

I didn't know. I didn't want to think anymore. I just wanted to finish this, once and for all...and just finally be at peace with the past.

I rested my chin on my good hand, and watched as Lucien went about warming BWS-1 up. My time was growing short. I hoped he would awaken soon.

M_BlackHawk
Oct 27, 2002, 06:44 PM
Sorry for taking so long in posting a reply. I took a short vacation to Missouri for a 2 day long Cowboy Action SHooting match. If you want, I can put some of my pics up on my webspace so you can see them.
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Lara had looked long and hard around the laboratory where she had first found traces of Mortimer's guild signature. She found nothing there but old files. She read them over just for a moment before realizing what was going on. She had to find her friend fast. She looked up Mortimer's guild number on the BEE tracker, which turned up a set of coordinates. She dropped a telepipe to this location, and stepped through, her red saber in hand.

She got there just in time to see Olivia knock Mortimer out again. This enraged the newman as she lunged at Olivia, knocking her out with the hilt of her weapon. She eyed Montague and Elenor with disdain. The twisted genius lashed out at Lara, but she was not to be denied this chance to vent at all that's happened. She went airborne, and descended at the twisted FOnewm. A couple of quick slashes, and Montague was finished, and that only left the RAcaseal, Elenor. The weak ranger tried her best to fend off the veteran hunter, but Lara was too pissed off to even feel it. She lashed out with numerous Razonde techniques, shorting out the android, before cutting it to pieces.

That done, her violent lashing out was complete, as she picked up her friend, and carried him into another telepipe, to her home. "Ok, Mort," she thinks, "It's time we found you another occupation." She puts him down on her sofa before retiring to her little computer room downstairs to await her husband's return home, and the election returns.
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Ok..your turn, Moo2u.


later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Oct 27, 2002, 08:35 PM
Well...that changes what I was going to write http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif I'll try to think of something else. I think I got an idea, but it will take some fine tuning. Feel free to post while I'm thinking everyone!

BWS-1
Oct 28, 2002, 05:14 AM
DAMMMMMMMMMMNN!!!!!!!!!!!! >_< sorry about that, I just lost my part that I've been working on for an hour now(PC rebooted) ... that shouldn't be long to rewrite. That's funny, during the time I was writting, I was telling myself: "Things happen for a reason, also, things that don't happen don't happen for a reason." I guess I saw it coming and thought of that to prepare myself. O well, life is funny sometimes, better laugh of it. ^-^ Also, sorry for I haven't posted sooner X_x.
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Hmmm, warm heat. How long have I slept? It didn't felt like a nice nap ... I think those spells just sent me into deep coma. But how can I be frozen? I thought I wasn't matter, I thought I was just a ghost. Maybe ghosts are made of matter afterall. That coma, if it wasn't of that heat, I think I would have never awoken from it. It's as if I was litterally frozen in time, that FOmar is a real psyco ... who was that FOmar anyway, I remember seeing him back in the ruins of the A.D.S.S.F. hidden lab with an other bunch of FOmars when I fell in their trap, just who IS he?

...

Most importantly right now, from where is this heat coming from? have I been sent to melt into the star of Algol? I think not, I would feel more then this light heat I guess, but then again, all my physical sensations are disarranged ... I hear people speaking, I can't recongnize one of the voices tho, I'm slowly getting rid of that numb feeling that seem to have been there for so long that I almost forgot about it. Argh, my soul, it hurts ... I feel exposed, I feel stuck in myself, like a clautrophobic traped in a chimney. This is giving me a headache ... I mean, "soulache" or whatever since I don't even know if I still have a head ... Can't stand this ... sensation ... no words ca discribe how annoying it is ... must ... break free ...

The body started to tremble and then the eyes went all bright with lights again, but not the usual red they'd normally have with the HUcast's body BWS-1 was in, they were all turquoise.

Who the..!? First thing that couldn't do anything but to catch my attention as I moved my head and woke up was the sight of an aged FOmarl that seemed to have had her hands durty after playing inside my body. We were both astounded, but for very differnet reasons I believe. If I could have showed any emotion on my face, it would have probably look like the one that FOmarl had. I slightly pulled my body back while looking around, not far away I noticed Severence 7 was there. She was in a bad shape, almost as damaged as I was ...

Sev!? Are you all right? Where are we? Who's that FOma ...

As I looked back at the FOmarl, she was pointing a gun inches from my face. I was kind of amused but I couldn't just let her turn me more into something that is close to a Dubchic then I was right now.

I quikly grabed the handgun with my left hand, I was suprised by her strenght, I have to admit it is harder then I expected to take it off her. But all happened so fast, she squeezed the trigger and then, I had nothing but a left wrist. But the shot got further, I slowly moved my wrist toward my right eye only not to feel my wrist get in contact with my face, I moved it around and could touch parts of my head; the shot had blown off a good 1/3 of my head, leaving me with one eye and a little more then half of a head. There goes my chances to walk around incognito in sociaty for awhile again ...

It was just an accident ... just an accident, she didn'T mean it ... shE juSt waNnTed to ... to tO ... KILL ME AAAAARRRRGHHHH!!!!

The heat, the pain ... my hand, no more, yet, it hurts ... I recall this sensation ... no, I mustn't let that out ... I must not ... it was an accident ... beside why would I care about my body anymore!? ...

I held my forearm real tight, my hand was hurting, my left hand, even gone it kept hurting ... then the heat became no longer tolerable, and the flame broke free from my wrist, I had a burning hand of energy ... I felt like I've just awoken the beast inside of me, I stared back at the FOmarl and grabed the gun in her hand only to melt it down to dust.

I couldn't control myself anymore ... I jumped from the table on her while holding her throat with my right hand and immobilized her to the ground, left burning fist ready to strike at her elderly face ...

I was just standing there, leaned over her, body glitching, looking at the look on her face ... the look of someone fearing to die ... the look of someone about to be killed, I was the one about to kill her.

"NaaoeorRrrr No oaoo earr IIIII dssshh..."

Those where the only sounds that came out of my vocal system, suprised it could still emit some. I wanted to apoligize, but I was too traumatized to focus and tell her with my mind ...

I pushed myself off her, still shaking not understanding the violence of my acts ... I was just there sitting on the ground, looking at my wrist and right hand, having somehow extinguish the left hand of fire. Not conscious of what was happening around me, I was just lost in my mind, trying to understand those events that seemed all too irrational, illogical to me.

why ... rage ... fury ... passion ... despair ... violence ... why ... all this ... why ...



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Hiko, I hope you didn't mind that I took control of Lucien a bit here. I just wanted to spice things up a litte^^

KodiaX987
Oct 28, 2002, 10:26 AM
Ah, fuck!!! My own plan got totaled as well by this weekend's posts...

Oh well, guess I'll have to think up of something else.

Yeah, I guess a drawing will be all right for the author AVs.

B, I tried PMing you but the block didn't come off. Tell me when to try again.

Moo2u
Oct 28, 2002, 04:41 PM
Hehe...I think I got something now, thanks to B's last post http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gifI need some free time to write it. I'll see if I can post something tonight.

Moo2u
Oct 28, 2002, 09:35 PM
Again you make a grave mistake...no matter...

What...who are you?

The power...yes, it's coming back to me. Revived, revenge...my hatred can live on...through you my song survived...and through you they shall recive their death!!


* * *

I opened my eyes to reveal a familiar surounding, much to my surprise.

"Olivia?" I asked outloud, but she wasn't there. I was in the house of the Blackhawks. No Doctor, no Elenor II, no Olivia, nothing. What exactlly happened to me?

I got up from the couch only to find that my legs were very week and tired. I could not see Lara anywhere at the moment, so I ony walked around the room, thinking to myself.

The scar, the song, my friends. So many thoughts racing threw my head, like they have done before. I wish they would all be quite! Just go away! Leave me be!!

The scar, try to remember more about the scar!

Something the Doctor said...my scar would never heal. But it did heal! After the Master was defeated...no wait...I remember Olivia saying that the song was still inside me. The faintest idea of that didn't even cross my mind...until now.


Look into the miror! Do it now!

Hanging on the side of the wall was a miror. For some reason I was drawn to look into it.

Finally! I Have to power to controle whom I wish. Go now! Look and see what power lurks inside you!

I looked into the minor and was compleatly shocked at what I saw. The reflection I saw was not my own, but of another's. I looked down at my own body, and saw for sure that I was still myself. But then how...


Yes it's all coming back togeather! I am coming back into existance, as well should my artifical Falz...

Oh course, the shocking truth made sence now! His life was binded to the song, and the last bit of the song stayed within me. Once I was aware of its place, he could return freely into me. There was nothing to do but look at the hatred that staired back at me in the miror.

"The Master!" The twisted, wrinkled, gray face simple chuckled at me with a sinister smile on his face.

I return...

KodiaX987
Nov 5, 2002, 06:50 PM
Let's see if I can get this moving... http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_smile.gif
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Shurikane and I had decided that taking a taxi with the current traffic would take too much time. Seeing as she knew the city better than I did, she led me alley through alley. Had I been a normal living person, my feet by now would be bloody and cut apart from stepping over all those broken bottles and shards of junk.

"Faster!" Shurikane yelled at me. I couldn't keep up; my powers involved communication but I was not expecting to face a trial of endurance...

She slowed down for me...

"By the way, are you gonna speak regularly now?" She added. I didn't answer.

"Okay, we have a few more steps to go; I think I know where this is all coming from."

I nodded.

"Still got your weapons with you?"

I nodded.

"Think you can survive one last little fight?"

I shrugged.

"Got some more info from my buddy. She's waiting about a klik away. Keep the pace up!"

I nodded.

Shurikane looked at me for a second... And then I felt a hand slapping the back of my head.

"Ow!" I yelled.

Shurikane smiled boradly.

"You spoke." ...And she began to run faster.

I took a sprint, muttering "Why you little..." And without really noticing it, we had just doubled our running speed. Shurikane's normal running speed.

A crimson-colored car came into view.

"See that one? The little compact? That's ours." Shurikane pointed it out. The doors opened just before our arrival. She went for the front seat, and I went for the rear."

The driver turned her face towards me. She was an android, with white skin and pink hair with black highlights.

"Good day to you!" She said.

"Do the formalities later." Shurikane ordered. "Go, go, go!!"

Hikosaka
Nov 7, 2002, 12:38 AM
It all happened too fast. My failing systems barely registered BWS-1's attack on Lucien before it was over, and both were on the floor.

Glancing at BWS-1, I knelt by Lucien's side, waiting until she felt ready to get to her feet. She was unhurt, though shaken.

"How...how did he do that?" she said, looking up at me as she lay on the floor, as if too much in shock to think about rising, "Everything inside him had been turned to scrap. Nothing should have worked. And that energy! That was incredible!"

I shook my head slightly, sighing. Typical Lucien. She was more concerned about how an android works than the fact that she was almost killed.

I helped her to her feet, then turned to BWS-1, who hadn't moved. I approached him slightly warily, remembering that he was the one that crushed my arm. The force coming out of him before seemed to be under control, so I risked touching him on the shoulder.

"Hey, are you all right?" I asked gently.

He didn't seem to hear me, and I stood, allowing him some space to resolve any demons that might be inside him. It seemed almost illogical, but I thought I sensed a deep pain...but it could have just been my faulty grid...

"Just what caused it, Sev?" the scientist asked, still staring at BWS-1 with a mixture of curiosity and fear, "What can make an android do that?"

"A ghost that just won't die," I replied wearily, my broken arm hanging nervelessly as I moved back to my chair.

Lucien glanced at it critically, then said, "Well, I can't help you with your grids, but at least I can replace that arm for you. And you mentioned a new body for your friend here. That can be easily arranged."

I nodded, and sat back down again, watching as she hurried out of the lab to gather the needed parts. BWS-1 hadn't moved, and I continued to watch him. As soon as he was able, we needed to find the others. If what Lucien said about Tyrell's two android "sons" was true, then death would be meaningless for them.

As I waited, my mind drifted back to something that had been bothering me for a while now. There was a hole in my memory that I still could not resolve. I could blame it on the current juryrigged state of my systems, but none of my other memories were affected.

//ACCESSING ARCHIVES: DATE 21391:93:231111+ERROR+
--WARNING: CORRUPTED OR UNKNOWN FILE TYPE
--PLAY ARCHIVE?
--AFFIRMATIVE.//

"Android Severance 7, designation ADSSF-01X7, right?"

I whirled about, facing a man who was standing at the end of the alley. I had taken this route since it was a shortcut to my apartment. The man stood there calmly, apparently reading the information from a few notes, occasionally writing something on them with a stylus. He wore no identifying badge or uniform.

"What did you say?" I replied, shocked.

It was my designation number, but I had it changed long ago when I transferred to this body. With the destruction of the A.D.S.S.F, I was the only one who knew my original number. At least, that's what I thought.

"During your possession by the A.D.S.S.F, you performed a path reconfiguration directed by the one you call 'Master,' using a variation of something called, 'the Endless Song.'" The man did not look up, seeming to read directly from his notes.

I took a few steps toward him, shock turning into suspicion and anger.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

"You can say in a way, I'm a fan of different types of androids," he replied.

"What are you talIALS09A09Q 020= Q-//3/.46//4.6/----------?
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//DAMAGED MEMORY SECTOR.//
--ESTIMATED TIME OF REPAIR: UNKNOWN.
--CLOSING ARCHIVE.//

I knew that this memory meant something. Was Serrus right? Did I kill that man? If so...what did he say that would make me want to do that? How come only that particular memory was corrupted?

My thoughts were interrupted by a sudden spike of pain racing through my core. I put a hand to my chest involuntarily, my eyes widened in shock. I had no pain sensors installed inside my core...this feeling was impossible.

You were always closest to my heart, 7. And I will always have my hand around yours...

I jumped to my feet, looking around the lab. The blade in my working arm had unsheathed itself automatically, as if expecting combat.

"Who said that?" I asked, though I already knew who it was.

"Is something wrong?"

I whirled around to see that Lucien was standing in the doorway, holding my spare arm. A Hunter model android stood behind her, but from the way it acted, I knew it was only a drone, lacking a grid and remote controlled. BWS-1 could upload his into it without any trouble, if he still had a grid to begin with.

I retracted my blade, shaking my head.

"No, it's nothing."

The scientist opened her mouth to ask another question, but my bleak expression encouraged her not to take it any further. Instead, she directed the drone to stand beside the door, and she held up my spare arm.

"Then let's get started with that arm," she said, "And I got an extra body as you asked, but I think I'll let your friend do whatever he needs to do himself."

I nodded wordlessly, and watched as she quickly, but carefully disconnected my broken arm, and got to work. I glanced at BWS-1, wondering if he heard the same voice as well.

Master...

Moo2u
Nov 7, 2002, 03:53 PM
Good posts guys! I'm just going to say that I won't be poping up here as much as I usualy do cause I'm in two different musicals, and between that a school work I don't got much time! (For those who know Les Miserable, I made final call back auditions for Thenardier! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif Keeping my fingures crossed!) Anywho, hmm...I'm gonna try to post something today or tomorow, just to let you all know.

Moo2u
Nov 8, 2002, 10:41 PM
The face I saw in the miror was gone now, but what really happened? Could I have still been tired from the drug?

What power...in all of you. I feal it. said a voice inside my head.

"Where are you!" I yelled out.

A new version of the song? Yes, that's what it is. I can hear everything! There's one downstaires, I can here her typing. Another one is heading here. Listen to his steps as he walks closer. I wonder what other powers might have developed while I was gone...

"What do you want from me?" he didn't respond.

Synesthesian powers. Powers from the song, I'd have no doubt! Now, let's see what such a week body like yours can do...

My legs started to move without my control. At first I tryed to fight the movment, but the force simply became too strong. Slowly I started to move towards a set of stairs leading downwards. My hand started to reach for my Varista Handgun.

Remember this fealing, Mortimer Kirk? The day I thought the disc would be returned to me! For a few brief seconds, I controled you. Now, inside you, I fully control your actions, and you are helpless to do anything!

Slowly I crept down to the end of the stairs and saw Lara, busy working infront of a glowing computer screan. She didn't even hear me coming. I watched horrified as I raised my Handgun, pointing it directaly to the Blackhawk. I tried to call to her, but it was useless. No words could come from my mouth. My hands tremmbled, resisting the orders to fire. My eyes closed, just before the photon bullet was shot, I was able to spurt out the few words, "Lara! Watch out!"

M_BlackHawk
Nov 9, 2002, 06:12 PM
Great posts. Let's keep this up.

Lara looked up from her work, to see Mortimer's gun pointed right at her head. Her reflexes kick in as she dodges the photon bullet, and lunges, grabbing Mortimer's arm, slamming him to the ground. "Whatever in the blue hell do you think you're doing?" she asks the ranger, before finally seeing the truth through the song. "You're possessed by Master," she thinks out loud, looking around for something, "There's not much I can do while I'm having to restrain you, but once the Mike and the others get back, we'll see what can be done." She then grabs a pair of photon cuffs off of her belt, and uses them to restrain Mortimer, before continuing her search for some elusive item. "Now, where did I put that thing?"

well, that's it for me.

later

M_BlackHawk

BWS-1
Nov 21, 2002, 05:14 PM
Everyone, I know it's my turn to post, and I DO plan on posting something, but I don't think I'm ready anytime soon. Latly, "Fate" has been a bitch with me and seems to want to tell me something, and that thing is: "Look, I know you don't like it but I'll do all that I can to turn to your knees into nothing more then broken bones and ripped off flesh" ... or something like that.

I'll turn the long 'n boring story into a shorter one just so that you can understand better why I can't think straight for the past 2 weeks now.

I've had a VERY bad monday evening at my judo class on the 4th of November, since I've injured my right knee badly, 3 times at 3 different points, what a luck. As if it wasn't enough, I've damaged some muscles in my legs while doing some exercises that same night. That sucked

Then, wednesday, at my judo class again, I couldn't push myself to my limits and the sensei was mad at me because I had a tournement next saturday and that I should be putting more energy into my work then what I was doing ... I guess I should have tell him about my knee. That sucked but, o well.

Friday morning, I return from work after a good ol 16 hour night shift. Everything is cool, the road conditions are good, so I wasn't paying to much attention about it. We had a lot of snow falling in the night but it melt during the morning ... almost all of it. My street was still full of snow and, as I turned the corner of the street to get home, I drifted and fell hard on my left knee, I felt the shock wave trough all my leg and, deep into my spine. That sucked HARD ...

Saturday, judo tournement, got 3rd place, but I ain't proud of me at all, I sucked, I was more conserned about NOT getting my left knee injured more then winning ... bleh, afterall that might just have been the smartest decision I've taken this week. It didn't suck that much.

Monday, can't go to my judo class, I haven't been able to sleep today after I got from work (shift from 0:00 to 8:00) and fell asleep at 15:00 in the afternoon, woke up at 6:00 Tuesday morning. That sucked.

Tuesday, around noon, I went to see if I could get a job at the "Insectarium" of Montreal. That would have been a cool, well payed job, where I could get to play with insects and all ... that was too good for me, or maybe I was just to busy to go get the job while it was still available. It was taken already. That somewhat sucked

Tuesday, the same day, I return home, I get hit by a truck, I was on the sidewalk and I got pushed away to the middle lane ... I couldn't feel left arm and it was shaking by itself , I guess it was the stress or something. My legs were in pretty bad shape (more specificly the knees, both of em) since the left knee got hit by the truck, then hit the frame of my bike and the right one just got smashed on the asphalt. I got into a garage to check on my bike, and when I came back to talk to the Jackazz that hit me, he went off, that dam sunday-driver litterally commited a "hit and run" offence ... I knew I should have take his liscence number. That really really ... you know the rest.

Wednesday. Judo. I tell myself that I'll get the chance to see how bad the injuries from the accident are by seeing what hurts when I try to do moves and all. At that point, the most damaged knee was, and still is, the left one. Guess what we've been doing all the class? Stuff that inculded the use of the knees in all the possible, painfull ways that you can imagine. Talk about NOT having fate on my side. And, as if it wasn'T enough, just before the end of the class, my good brown belt sparing partner fails a trow, and that resulted in a very very not amusing sensation in the knee. I was crying, crying because I couldn't lift my leg anymore, I was mad, not at him, my sparing partner, but at myself, at my cursed, weak, body of flesh that seem to be a handicap in itself. The "pain" was weird tho, weird and strong enough to make me choke and see dots of light. I won't be doing judo anytime soon. Sucked

Now, the next days, and nights, I've fell into depression. Why? Well, just because, for what will be the 4th time, my dream of finding a job I'll like will have been destroy because of an handicap.

1st dream: Fighter Pilot in the US AirForce
Destroyed by: weak eye sight, impossibility to regain 100% of it with current surgeries.

2nd Dream: Be part of an elite infantry unit in the canadian army.
Destroyed by: the fact that I am flat-footed will result in being part of the last to be sent to war. (I thought that didn't matter anymore today)

3rd dream: Be a professional Diver
Destroyed by: the troubles I've had during my childhood related to the breathing system won't allow me to do Professional Diving, or to find insurance that will cover me for doing such job.

4th dream: Be a Fireman
Destroyed by: Weak, probably permenently injured knees AND weak eye-sight.


My only reason to live right now, is a reason NOT to die. I just can't allow myself to leave all those I love behind, although it is inevitable, death will strike one day, but for now, that would be plain stupid from me to just, let myself die. Some of you here are part of my reason to stay alive. I wouldn't call that an obsession, but more like a dream; I'd "die" to meet some of my "online friends" one day, and as long as I'll be alive, I'll try my best in meeting as much of my friends that I can.

Awww damn, I ended up as doing the long 'n boring version instead of the shorter one. Hope it didn't bother you.

Thx for understanding, I'll try to think of something for the fic ... soon I hope.

EDIT: I should copy paste that post, I think I never made that much typos in a single post in my life ... gonna go sleep now, 36 hours is not a healthy recommended amount of time for being awake.





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M_BlackHawk
Nov 21, 2002, 09:15 PM
[b] Damn, B. You have had a bitch of a time this month. I'm sorry to hear about that. Honestly, I understand about not being able to live out your dream as far as an occupation. My dream was to be a band director. However, I let my grandparents talk me into a business major, now I'll probably never pick my horn up again.

anyway, take your time, and if you need to vent, just send a PM my way. I'll be glad to listen/read/whatever.

take care, my friend.

later

M_BlackHawk

Moo2u
Nov 22, 2002, 11:21 AM
Oh man! That's horrible! And I thought I was having a ruff week!

Don't worry B, just take it easy for a while. We're not in a rush to finish the fic, and by the sounds of things I'm guessing you have bigger things on your mind right now. Here's hoping some good luck comes your way, and take care of yourself!

BWS-1
Nov 29, 2002, 06:40 AM
Paralized

Frozen

Frozen in time and space ... that is how I feel.

I've detached myself from the body I was in, uncousciously. Yet, I still feel like I can slightly move the arms, but I don't dare to try, who knows what I might do. It all feels like a "dream", it doesn't feel real. I think I'm waking up now, I'm losing my sight now, as I will close my eyes, I will most likely open them back in reality. No longer I pay attention or can hear what is said around me ... wait, I'm not waking up, I'm falling asleep, wha...

"Hey, are you all right?"

yes ...

That answer went nowhere, I can't seem to focus anymore, could it be that I am suffuring from energy shortage? Non-sense, I AM energy ... then again, uncontained energy just disolves in space and is absorbed by matter. But I am contained energy, or maybe ... could it possibly be? Could someone be blocking my psychic emissions? But... how?

I'll try again, but this time, I'll surround Sev with my energy, that way whatever tries to interfer, will have to pass trough me first, theoricly.

*gets out of the body, letting the damaged HUcast in his sitting possition, only now, it is souless.

Severance?, I said, staring at her, trying to be in most direct contact with her core as possible while remaining at a a safe distance, just so she doesn't feel like her vital enviroment is being violated, in other words, just far enough for her not to feel any presence at all.

"Who said that?"

What do you mean who said that? It's me, B

"Is something wrong?", said Lucien.

I instinctly moved away even tho I knew she couldn't see me nor harm me as I saw her blade coming out of her arm, apparently unable to identify the source of the emission.

Sev?

"No, it's nothing."

Something's not right.

Severance 7!?

That's hopeless, I just can't communicate anymore, I could almost say that she's looking at me right now, but she's just glancing at the body I used to be in, I'm just the invisible cloud in between, I can really say that I do feel like a ghost at the moment, then... one thing is for sure, she didn't react to anything I've said, so there has to be someone else that has said something to her ... why do I only have one name that comes in mind.

Master...


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I'll need to cut this short right here, I can't concentrate on the fic at this time of the morning here at work, the phone keeps ringing every minute or so, I'll see what I can add later, if I'm not too tired as I get home. And thx guys for the kind words, I've seen the doc and my knees will only take a few months to recover IF I don't get any contact on them, otherwise the regeneration process is to be restarted, that's the good news, the bad news is that I have a minor chest wound that could get worst with time, and it's closly related with a spine problem ... or it is causing a spine problem ... anyway, the doc ain'T sure yet, that's why I have to go see him again next week -_-. Well, he could tell me that I'd have 24 hours to left to live and I'd feel like I'd saw it coming http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_razz.gif no really, I do enjoy living, I'm just ready for anything. Death doesn't scare me at all, at a point that it should scare me ...bleh I need sllep now X_X will that night shift ever end? ... an hour and a half left ... almost done ... z-Z