SWA: Diclonius End Game.
A Gunslinger Girl X Elfen Lied Crossover, by Elfen Magix.
Gunslinger Girl is © Yu Aida
Elfen Lied is © Lynn Okamotto
Elfen Magix is my online name since 1984 when the first BBSes and Hologate Email relays were online, long before the internet as you know it went online in 1992. It has no connection to Elfen Lied, and no, I did not lied!
An Appology; been trying to put this into the Gunslinger Girl Cross over section, but the site has been giving me problems. I'll try to get it fixed on some future date. PM me if you have a possible fix.
Chapter 1: Elfen Truths.
Three long weeks had passed since the final Diclonius Battle of Lucy vs. The Facility has happened. With damage and casualties in at least a Trillion Yen, The Corporation decides to lay low to lick its wounds while restitutions are paid to fix the damages and pay for funerals. It seems that director Kurama had left more than just a huge amount of cash in Nana's carry bag. At the bottom there also contained two envelopes, each with assorted paperwork and documents for Nana and Lucy. Yuka and Mayu both counted the money for Nana, as well as teaching her basic social survival skills for Nana to live on when these envelopes were found.
"Look what is in the bottom of the bag!", Mayu stated as she pulled out the envelopes.
"More money?", Nana asks.
Yuka took the envelopes from Mayu, "I don't think so… these seem to have your and Lucy's names on them."
"There is a note at the bottom too!", Mayu says as she pulls out a piece of paper from the bag.
"A note?", Nana asks.
"A letter…", Yuka asks as she takes it from Mayu. "Do you know how to read?"
"Read?", Nana asks.
"You know… be able to tell what markings on papers and other things are saying to you?", Yuka asks.
"Uhm…", Nana started to say.
"Alright. You do not know how to read. So I will read it to you because it could be something important.", Yuka says.
"I am not as dumb as I look…" Nana says. "I might not be able to read but they learned a lot from me back at the facility!"
"Nana… I think you should calm down.", Mayu stated to her. "We're a family now, and we are trying to help you."
"Right. You have so much to learn, and so little time to learn it in. So, let me read the letter to you.", Yuka says.
Nana does not know how to answer. Yuka starts reading the letter Mayu had found.
"Dearest Nana,
I hope you have had found some good friends to live with while I prepare myself to find you again. Someday soon I will leave this facility and find a place for us to stay and live. If for some reason I am caught or killed, I want you to continue living on without me. There are many things I need you to do, but first and most importantly, do not go after Lucy. She nearly killed you the first time, no doubt she will succeed where she left off.
Understand I still want you to be a good girl, and good girls will do good things. Perhaps your new found friends will continue to teach you how to be a good girl. Understand that money will not buy you happiness but it will buy you the things you need like food, shelter, and clothing.
In case you do find Lucy, there is an envelope I want you to give her. It's the one with her name on it. There is another with your name on it. In them are very important papers you two will need to survive in society. They are government documents stating who you are, they are papers that Identify you as who you are. It also states who your parents were- don't go looking for them for they are dead.
In case I have been caught or died, I want you to go to Italy. I have friends there in an agency called the Social Work Agency, that can give you new arms and legs that will work with your body and not like the ones you have which you need to use your vectors to use. They will do this favor for you if you mention my name to them. The information is in your envelope. There is also a set of mini-info sticks you can use if and when you need my advice or information on a standard pc.
Remember that papa always loves you."
Nana sits there looking at the stuff that they had counted over, then looks over the envelope Mayu was giving back to her.
"It's your personal information, you should open it.", Mayu said.
"No. You open it. I do not want to break anything.", Nana said.
Yuka takes the envelope and shows Nana how to undo its looped string on the back, then opens the flap, slowing spilling the contents inside:
- A small plastic bag with memory sticks, number 01 – 16
- Assorted folded documents, including a birth certificate and parents' death certificates.
- An agency ID-Tag
- A last will and testament of Director Kurama
- Director Kurama's credit and agency ID cards
Yuka takes a look at the bag of memory sticks then she gets an Idea.
"I'll be right back!", as she gets up and runs out the room with the bag of memory sticks.
"Where do you think she maybe going?", Nana asks.
"I don't know, but I doubt she would not be leaving the house.", Mayu answers.
In the background there is some yelling and screaming by Yuka, which suddenly ends. This is followed by the patter of running feet, and Yuka entering the room. She was holding a large screen Sony laptop tight to her chest. Soon she was sitting down, setting the laptop down and turning it on. The 'Windows XP' Logo comes on the screen, followed soon by its login screen. Yuka manages to login, getting a desktop and other 'Windows' functions.
"What is that?", Nana asks.
"That is a laptop computer.", Mayu says.
"I have seen them being carried around the facility, but I never knew what they were for.", Nana said.
"It is for viewing, creating and updating information.", Yuka explains. "Almost everyone has one once they get to a certain age."
Yuka opens the plastic bag with the memory sticks in it, removing memory stick #01 from it. Putting it into the laptop's memory stick slot, it only takes it a few seconds for it to be recognized as memory drive. It auto-loads a program and starts running a multi-media file.
"Are we finally going home?" Rachel asks.
"Hopefully by the end of the month, if not the middle of next month.", Fernando answers as he fills out some paper work, "If there is no more funny business. 5 years in this place is enough for anyone."
Rachel smiles, as this is the moment she has been waiting for ever since she had arrived here so long ago. Juanita enters the room.
"I just want to know one thing, Fernando. Are you going to set fire to bridges and intend not to ever return here?", Juanita asks.
"I'm thinking about it.", Fernando answers.
"I swear, Fernando!", Juanita almost yells.
"Swear at what?", Fernando asks.
"You're impossible at times!", Juanita holds back from yelling.
"You just hold on a minute yourself. All this time we were here, you always took me too seriously! I need this place for Rachel's needs, so it would be to my advantage to be friends with everyone here.", Fernando explains rather loudly. "This is not like high school when all of us were in each other's minds and making demands upon one another that most would not pay! You remember where we came from and the things we did together!"
Juanita bows her head for a second.
"We are just turning 30, woman. And yet of all our friends of that time, out of the 40-odd members of the Shortfellow Society, only 8 of us are still alive? Don't you think that was too high a price to pay?", Fernando says to prove a point.
"I see your point.", Juanita answers as she turns away to walk out the door.
She could not as Ferro walks to the door, both of them facing each other momentarily in the doorway.
"You should stay as I do have to speak to the both of you.", Ferro tells her.
"Uhm... Sure.", Juanita says as she steps backwards into the room.
Ferro waits a couple of seconds for the distance between them grows a bit more before entering the room. She takes a couple of steps into the room, taking count of who was there.
"Good afternoon, everyone.", Ferro started to say.
"What's so good about it?", Fernando asks.
"Always negative, aren't you?", Ferro says.
"Every silver lining has its cloud in my world, ", Fernando says, "But you should know that by now. So, what's up?"
Ferro gives out envelopes to Fernando, Juanita, and Rachel. "Its been five years, though the naturalization process is shorter here than in the states, you three have been here on work visas for too long now. You three have done more than most, done so without want or demand of rewards. You have been given Italy's highest honors, and yet that is not enough. So, as an officer of the state, I have to proclaim you three as members of the Italian Citizenry."
"Italian Citizenry?", Juanita asks.
"Citizens of Italy, Juanita. Big deal.", Fernando stated. "Being a citizen only means that they can rule over you by their laws. I am a citizen of the United States of America by birth, and a citizen of Spain and Japan by actions of honor. But all I wanted was peace."
Fernando sits on his bed. Meeshie trots over to him and allows him to pick her up and place her on his lap, petting her. Rachel sits on the bed next to him and leans against him.
"Rachel understands. Juanita knows but does not understand. But you Ferro, you never been through my hell. And though my life here in this institution has been rather calmer than much of my life, it is still not peaceful. So excuse me if I decide to rescind this gracious gift, for it pale in comparison to what I gave so that others can sleep at night knowing that they are safe in their beds. Now, if you don't mind, I have a headache and am going to need some time out to deal with it." Fernando tells her.
Rachel gives him a kiss on the cheek before getting up off the bed. She then walks over to Juanita and takes her wrist, pulling her towards the door. "Daddy wants to be left alone. So lets go.", Rachel says as she drags Juanita, and then starts to push Ferro out the door. In a few moments, the door closes behind them and a loud discussion can be heard, with Rachel saying the final word, "My father wants to be left alone. So leave him alone unless you want to regret what actions may happen if you don't!"
Fernando waits as the footsteps and the voices in the hall fade into the distance. Once he is unable to hear them with his sensitive ears, he gets up and walks over to his clothes closet, and digs through one of his suits. He pulls out a bottle of pills from one of the pockets, taking them to the bathroom. He opens the bottle and pours the contents into the toilet.
"It has been 10 long years I allowed myself to take this poison. Ten years of having my senses dulled. Ten years of having not heard another's mental voice inside my head or read another's mind. Not being able to sense the world like I used to do. It ends today. Even if it means having to deal with the pain of being hypersensitive again, so be it."
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Notes:
Shortfellows – A private and semi secret organization that started out as a high school club of intellectuals and experimenters. In their tenure in school, they has saved the school from various forms of internal acts terrorism and crimes by other groups and individuals seeking to corrupt or take over the system.