Notes.

Hi to everyone.

As you have red in the notes, this is a short fanfic (we could call it a one-shot, but for a matter of opportunity I will publish it divided in 4 parts, a Prologue and 3 Sections) about Kuromukuro. When I saw episode 21, something in my mind made me think about a side-story of a couple of survivors which try to escape alive from a military base now turned into a hell of aliens and possessed humans (Half-Life style, YEAH!^^).

I hope you'll enjoy it.

See you soon with the first part!^_^

Cj Spencer


When Captain Klein Freeman reached the UN research facility in Kurobe he was prepared to face any sort of situation, but nothing in the world was comparable to the chaotic, unthinkable confusion he found when he came down from the coach in front of the main entrance.

As a member of the EU United Army he had been sent to Japan to give his personal contribution to the protection of the implant, now that the war against Efy Dolgh was finally beginning to show some progresses.

«Captain Klein Freeman, from Bundeswehr 3rd Spezialkräfte of the Eurocorps!» he introduced himself to the first officer he managed to talk with among all the soldiers and scientists that were running everywhere in that moment. «I've been assigned to this base as supporting military force.»

«Sorry Captain, this is not the right moment.» cut the officer short

«I see it. What's happened exactly?»

«The Black Relic is escaped, and the Chief Director has been put under arrest for mutiny.»

«What!? Mutiny!? They told me this was a perfectly efficient plant!»

«At the moment we're occupied to take into custody all of the Chief's followers. If you want to have some more information, go to Major Graham. He's in the Main Room.»

«Of course I do. Thank you, sir.»

Klein then reached the main entrance and crossed the door, but inside there was the same confusion of the outside, not to mention the arrests that were taking place directly in front of him.

«And I thought I had seen any sort of things in my soldier's life.»

While he was still searching for the main room on the third floor of the base, someone hit him on the back while running.

«Look where you go, you idiot!» he protested

«Sorry Sir, my fault!» answered a female, joyful voice.

Hearing that, the Captain remained stunned, and even before note the pale hair, the minute appearance and the dark, Mediterranean skin, he immediately recognized the little, energetic young soldier which was run away toward the end of the corridor.

«Rita!?»

The soldier stopped, turning to him.

«Klein!?».

Then, after a brief moment of disbelief, they both ran the one toward the other, with the young soldier which directly jumped on the Captain's shoulders, completely forgetting the difference in grades.

«Klein, it's really you!» she cheerfully said.

«And you're the same as always.» he replied with no resentment while she was hugging him in happiness

«What the hell are you doing here!? I thought you were in Ramstein!»

«In fact. I've been sent here by the high command as part of a Eurocorps' division. The other ones will arrive by next week.»

«Yes, the reinforcements from the EU. I never thought you was among them.»

«And you? Why are you here? Life in Spain was not so much fun for a crazy hacker like you?»

«I joined to the UN's international force last year. They needed a pro technician for the informatics systems, so I asked to be sent here. You know me, I cannot stay in a single place for too long.»

«Yes, I know it. And I know that this is an incredibly dangerous place for someone which never even learned how to shoot properly.»

«What, are you really still thinking about that thing!? I was just a newbie, and you were a pro-soldier already. That's not been a fair match.»

«You've been the one to propose me that challenge. And you lost. I'm still waiting for that drink you owe me.»

«Well.» she maliciously winked. «Since we'll work together from now on, I suppose I'll have the opportunity to repay my debt soon.»

In that moment Klein managed to stop a sudden yawn, and judging by his eyes Rita noted a clear sense of drowsiness.

«Still problems with the jet lag?»

«This goddamn time zone. I'll never get used. It's almost forty-eight hours since I slept.»

«Do you have a place to stay?»

«Not yet. I just arrived from Tokyo.»

«If you want, you can rest in the guest room. Given the situation, it seems I'll not use it for a bit. It's completely soundproof and alarm-proof, with the obvious exception of the first-class alarms, so all this mess will not be a problem for your sleep.»

«Are you crazy? I must report to Major Graham immediately, not to mention that you're in full alert for this supposed mutiny. There's no time to rest.»

«At the moment, there's not much we can do. The Black Relic already left the planet, and all of Director Shirahane's followers have been already put under arrest. Plus this, I fear that at the moment the Major has more than enough to do to give you a proper welcome.»

Then Rita took her guest room's access key from the uniform's pocket and gave it to Klein.

«Trust me, this is the best choice. Obviously there will be need for you very soon, and I think that the Major too will be really happy to have a more than ready officer at his orders instead of a sleepy, exhausted German which can barely stay awake.»

Klein couldn't do nothing but admit that she was right about the fact he was terrible sleepy, and since there was no apparent hope to see Major Graham soon maybe to be in perfect shape for when he would has finally been able to meet him was not a bad idea.

«It will be better for you if you call me by time» he replied taking the key and heading to the elevators «Or your debt, instead of one, will be of one-hundred drinks.»

«Don't worry, sweetie.»

«And don't call me sweetie.»

«Oh, sorry. Then, keine sorge, schätzchen.»

«You, little…»


Alyx was not a newbie in the Kurobe's Research Center, but surely she wasn't even a high responsible.

As a respectable, still young professor with a university degree in cyber-technologies her work was to provide studies and researches inheriting the alien technology with the final purpose to find new and better weapons against Efy Dolgh, but the truth was that she was nothing more of a simple assistant.

Professor Norstein, professor Kowalczyk's second in command and her direct supervisor, was a brilliant researcher, but his head was always in the clouds, and his researches were the strangest ones among the entire examination division.

Alyx was initially so happy when they told her she had been accepted to work to the Black Relic and alien technology, but after months spent to work as the most useless rubber-stamping her pride was strongly suggesting her that was time to say enough.

That day was expecting to be like all the other previous ones, an anonymous day of work in a little laboratory close to the hangars in search of the most stupidest things; obviously, Alyx couldn't image what that day was about to become.

«Interesting.» professor Norstein suddenly said.

The room's lights made its bald hair shine like a glass sphere, and for this his nickname among the base's researchers was Umibozu; despite this, and his classical carelessness, he was also a brilliant scientist, so somehow Alyx had a great respect for him.

«What's, professor?»

In that moment Norstein was more than occupied to carefully observe something on his microscope, then when Alyx approached he moved to let her watch.

«Look at this.»

She obeyed. At the center of the slide, apparently off, there was a tiny, insect-resembling machine, with four legs and a red circuit similar to a jewel for body.

«Is this that thing you spoke me the other day, professor?»

«Precisely.» he replied sitting at his computer «We keep find them inside the cactus units we defeat. Initially I thought they were some sort of maintainers to ensure the robots' functions, but we couldn't find a single data in support of this theory.»

«And then? What could it be?»

«I can't say it precisely yet. But when I searched inside its database in search for more informations, I found out something that could help us to find it out.»

Then professor Norstein opened a graphic, showing it to her assistant.

«What does it seem to you my dear?»

«It seems almost… an electroencephalogram.»

«Yes, but not yes. This is a completely artificial impulse which mimics a human cerebral impulse. Initially I thought it could be an alien attempt to study our structure, but when I tried to overlap it to a normal cerebral impulse…»

Norsein replied the experiment, using his previously extracted electroencephalogram and making him resound with the artificial one. The result was that both the impulses merged creating a third one, completely new.

«They fused together.»

«Not exactly. By my calculations, the impulse generated by the Efy Dolgh's creature has interfaced itself with my own, altering it and pursuing it to modify its structure.

Something similar to the months' stratagem to distort the bats' radar to avoid being eaten.»

«But what sort of utility could have something like this?»

«I don't know. But I'm worry for the use they could decide to do of it. We should inform Major Graham as fast as possible.»

Unfortunately, right on that moment, the alarm resounded in the entire base.

«Alarm!» both of them heard on the speakers. «Massive attack force approaching! Repeat! Massive attack force approaching! All non-combatant must reach the refuges as fast as possible! Repeat! All non-combatant must reach the refuges as fast as possible!»

«Hell, again.» mourned the professor. «It seems that we'll be forced to wait for our report to the Major.»

«Professor, we must hurry!» said Alyx

«Just a moment! First I want to put these data on safe!»

Both of them were too much bury to note that the apparently dead creature on the microscope was now shining a pulsing light.


The guest room was so well protected from any sound coming from the outside that Klein managed to sleep in complete quiet for an indefinite period of time.

However, the awaking proved to be more than traumatic the moment the first-class alarm made him jump out from the bed in fear.

«All personnel! This is an order from Major Graham! Evacuation! Repeat! Evacuation! Evacuate Kurobe at once! All personnel reach the extraction point immediately! This is not an exercise!»

«What!? Evacuation!?»

As fast as possible Klein recovered his uniform and left the room, but the things he found the moment he reached the panoramic windows could not be described.

Both the inside and the outside of the base were devastated, and the outside in particular was full of armored enemies beyond belief, while on the other side there was not a single trace of human forces, with the sole exception for the already defeated ones.

Plus this, directly over the building, Klein noted a massive, menacing alien ship floating into the sky above the base, and despite having never seen one of them before he immediately recognized it as an Efy Dolgh mothership.

«Shit. This is going to become the worse day in my life.»

While he was still in searching for answers, the young officer noted an UN soldier not too far from him: he was strange, almost absent, and was walking along the corridor in the most apathetic and lame manner.

«Report, soldier!» he said reaching him. «What's the situation? Where are our forces? Have the GAUS been deployed yet?»

That one stopped, but when finally turned toward him Klein remained stuck in astonishment: his eyes were strange, almost creepy, with no natural light but covered in a pale tone.

«Soldier…»

«To Efy Dolgh's peace and prosperity.» he said in an emotionless, robotic voice.

Then, with no apparent reason, he took his mp-5 and begun to shoot against Klein, which however proved to being strong and cautious enough to avoid the first hail of bullets hiding behind a big flowerpot.

«Soldier, have you lost your mind?» he tried to say, but that one continued to shoot without listening.

Klein tried to avoid fight as much as possible, but since that crazy seemed more than determined to kill him at the end the officer had no other choice than properly answer; when the enemy's loader finally end, he quickly reached him, easily avoiding his punch, then he hit him with a single, powerful blow behind the neck which sent the soldier to dreamland.

The situation however was still dramatic. There was no other sign of human presence in that section of the building, and when Klein tried to reach the closest elevator he quickly noted that the entire base was now full of enemies; among them there were even many other humans, all of them with those pale eyes and the absent, mindless attitude.

«What the hell is happening here?»