Alright. I did a sad story for Diabolic Esper. I did a sad story for Lunatic Psyker. Better finish the trilogy with Mastermind being the last one. Hope you enjoy this sad story. (No song this time.)
Classes:
Elsword - Lord Knight
Aisha - Dimensional Witch
Rena - Wind Snicker
Raven - Blade Master
Eve - Code: Battle Seraph
Chung - Deadly chaser
Ara - Yama Raja
Elesis - Blazing Heart
Add - Mastermind
Lu/Ciel - Chiliarch/Dreadlord
The gang was impatiently walking around on Add's laboratory. It had been over 6 hours since they waited for him to finish it. They were told to wait until the light went off so that the operation would be over.
"Grr! Isn't he done yet!?" Elsword growled as he glared at the light source. Each second, minute and hour growing his hatred for the illumination.
"Calm down, stupid! Just wait a little longer!" Aisha said pacing around the hallway, back and forth.
"He said it was a very heavy operation. Just wait a little longer." Rena said with a sad look. Moments before the operation he told them the truth behind what he was going to do.
Raven put his hand on her shoulder making her look at him.
"He said it was the only way, hope that he might be safe too." He responded without showing any weakness to them, despite being anxious as well.
In an instant the light went off. Everyone held their breath for what seemed for an eternity before the Nasod queen walked through the two doors.
She tilted her head in question as why everyone looked amazed.
"Eve!" The Lord Knight cried as he went to hug her. He was cut short when Rena was faster than him.
"Eve! We thought we lost you! Are you okay?" She asked in a motherly fashion while looking at her body.
"System check verified. No external damage. Energy status - fully charged." The battle seraph responded to her. She looked around and remembered where she is right now. "We are currently in Add's lab in Velder. Why are we here?"
Her question was met with silence and uncomfortable stares. Each and everyone of them were looking to the side not daring to gaze at her.
"Hey, it doesn't matter! Lets get out of here for now and have fun!" Elsword said with a painful smile, trying to lighten the mood for now.
"Invitation declined. Answer my former question, if you may." She didn't backed down, she might have lost her emotions, but she hasn't lost her logical self.
"It doesn't matter for now. Go out and come back in an hour or two. We'll tell you everything later." Ciel was the first to say to her.
"Yeah! Go out and have fun! Add told us to check a few things around before meeting up with us." Lu tried to reinforce her butlers idea.
"Where is Add? Why isn't he with you?" That single question made a few look to the side in pain and anger. She didn't know why.
"Come on, little doll! Lets get some fresh air!" Rena said while she pulled both Eve and Elsword out.
Outside Add's laboratory
As the two were being dragged by the Wind Snicker, the three reached Velder's shopping district. Everything between weapons to accessories to food supplies were traded here.
"Say Eve, do you wanna buy something? I have to go somewhere real quick so Elsword will be on your care!" She said before abandoning the two of them at high speed.
"So..." Elsword started while scratching the back of his head. "Do you wanna go see some stuff around town?" He asked the Nasod, she simply nodded to him as she needed to buy a few things that concerned the Mastermind. He always asked her to bring some sweets for him.
As they were shopping, the Lord Knight was always giving a few glances at her. As if to make sure she was truly fine.
She saw him a couple of times making him stumble a bit before putting a facade on. When they stopped to eat something, Elsword decided to speak a bit.
"Don't you ever scare us like that again Eve. We really thought you were gone." He said while relaxing a bit on the bench that they decided to stop by.
"What do you mean?" She said in a monotone voice to him.
"Don't you remember anything on our last battle?" He asked her, her eyes glowed for a bit before returning back to him.
"My data bank seems to be corrupted on that day. Please give me details on what happened, in hopes that I'll be able to recall."
"N-No! You don't need to know..." He said while his expression returned to a painful one with the weakest of the smiles.
"Elsword, what happened on that day?" She asked once more, Moby and Remy patiently waited beside her master despite knowing what happened. They went to great effort to make a fake wall on their circuitry to prevent Eve from knowing.
"It's fine, Eve! You don't need to know about it!" He said once more trying to sound more confident, despite the sweat drop on his cheek saying otherwise.
She left the issue alone for now. She would ask the other members soon enough.
As they continued their shopping spree, the arranged time had came which made her starting to head towards Add's laboratory.
"H-Hey, Eve! Where are you going?" He asked while trying to catch up to her.
"The time is 18:36 PM. Exactly two hours have passed and now I'm returning back from where we came from." She responded as her drones followed her.
"...You shouldn't go..." He said with the weakest of voices. This made the queen stop on her tracks and look at proud knight. Or what used to be one.
"Elsword?" She asked tilting her head to the side confused. In front of her was a boy with small tears forming on his crimson eyes, his stare was directly at the floor.
"I-I didn't even liked the guy, but still! Why did it had to end it like that?" He asked as he started to walk away from the scene. "I'm glad that he did that... I really am... But... This pain... Is unbearable!" He said before running away.
Not knowing how to respond to that, she resumed her way back to his home. He did various experiments that made her despise him long ago, now not even anger can come to show it about the vast tests he did with Nasod technology.
As she was a few minutes reaching the door, Rena appeared with a few flowers in a jar. Her cheerful expression was locked away and now one that bore the feeling of sadness plastered her face.
"Rena, what are you doing here?" Eve asked towards the elf. She in returned looked at her surprised, coating her saddened face with her old cheerfulness.
"Oh, E-Eve! I didn't know you were back!" She said trying to disguise her feelings, even if her voice had doubt in it.
"I was asked to come back in two hours. I will enter the facility now." She replied back without any emotion attached to her words.
"T-Then lets go together!" She said while opening the door for the both of them.
As they entered, the bright neon lights of purple reflected through the white clean marble stone, making look like it was full of life. Though the Nasod queen couldn't feel it, the air was filled with dread.
At the distance, an argument was having between the group.
"...-Hy did he do that!? She's just a walking robot!" Elesis yelled towards Raven with anger. The Blazing Heart was absolutely livid.
"You have to respect his decision, Elesis. Many were against it, but he said it was the only way to save her." The Blade Master responded calmly to her.
"He didn't had to do it..." Chung said in a crestfallen manner to them. The Deadly Chaser had his guns dangle freely on his hands, while his cannon was resting beside him.
"..." Ara didn't spoke a single word, having tears speak more than her words. The Yama Raja was simply devastated.
The Dreadlord and Chiliarch left the operation room, looking gloom, not daring to make eye contact with them.
"We've been with Eve longer than him, so when he said that he could fix her we took his word without a heart beat. But now... Now I don't know..." The Dimensional Witch said, her cheerful mood was completely obliterated.
As the two walked closer to the group, Elesis looked at the Nasod queen. Anger rising once more.
"This is all your fault!" She said while pointing at her. "If it wasn't for you, he would've! He would've...!" She broke up in tears as she fell to her knees.
"Let it all out, Elesis..." Rena said while kneeling next to her friend.
"..." Eve kept quiet as she heard it all. Her expression never faltering. She looked around and she still hadn't found the Mastermind.
She wasn't able to identify the mood of the room, for when she lost her emotions empathy was lost as well. The room was very heavy, no matter how one would look the sense of dread was everywhere in the room except for the one she emerged from.
"Where is Add?" She asked with a sack under her arm. She bought sweets for him like he always asked.
None responded before Ciel pointed with his thumb inside the operating room.
"Look behind the throne. You'll see him there." He said while leaving with Lu, both with their eyes faltering with tears.
She ignored all the feelings around her and looked for him.
Once inside the room, she found it was rather spacious. At the end of the room was the throne that she woke up and towards the side was a doorway to another room. This one was much smaller and darker compared to the other one.
Everywhere there were charred wires, computers on the fritz from extensive damage. However, there was one computer intact that emitted some light. It was purple, the color that Add had taken a like to.
She saw that there was only one folder with a recording from him. She selected it and played the message.
"Log date number 4331.
Eve has been fully repaired, but I haven't found a powerful enough source of power to charge her up. Time is of the essence, if she doesn't receive any power in less than than hours, I fear she'll lose every memory she had with everyone. I won't let that happen, if we can't find anything then I'll be the source to power her with my mind.
But by doing that, I'll become... It doesn't matter. She deserves this. She still has much to live for, me? I have nothing to live if she isn't there.
Eve, if you're hearing this. Thank you for becoming the light of my life. If I never found you, I would surely done something that I would regret it later. And... I'm sorry. I pretty sure you bought my snacks for me.
I think I won't be able to eat them if what I think will happen to me will occur."
At that point Ara entered the room with a couple more members.
"Eve... He's over there..." She said grabbing the attention of the battle seraph towards a throne with the Mastermind sitting on it. His eyes lifelessly looking at the ceiling.
"I'll probably will become brain dead when I transfer my mental energy to you. There is a chance that I may recuperate, but that has a very, very low percentage of that'll happen. So this is my goodbye to you.
Live queen Eve... Live the life that I couldn't live and achieve your goal to revive the Nasod kingdom..." The recording stopped as she began to approach the Mastermind, he didn't react when she was standing in front of him.
"You were too damaged on our last battle and used the rest of your energy supply to defeat the opponent. Add did all that he could to fix you up, but we couldn't find anything to power you back up... He gave his life for you." Raven explained to her while looking at him, to him he was now dead.
None spoke when she tried to stir him up.
"Wake up." She said to him, he didn't react. "Wake up." She said it once more, he still didn't react. "Proceeding to use force." She announced as she readied her hand.
"If you slap him, I'll slay you right where you stand!" Elesis growled to her before tears threatened to escape her. "Don't you see that he's dead because of you!" She yelled at her.
She didn't changed her expression, but her actions were different. Instead of letting him go, she hugged him. She didn't know why she was doing it or why her eyes were beginning to blur.
"Is she..." Rena said surprised as to what she was watching.
Eve was crying on the deceased Mastermind. Her face never changed, her voice never faltered, but her eyes were releasing tears. She didn't know why, for she had lost her emotions. And now, she had lost someone precious that was in her memories.
Two sad stories in two weeks, that's goddamn weird. Anyway I hope you enjoy the feels for this pair. This is a story I'm proud of.