Ah, that was a good rest. Thank you to all my readers, I shall be returning to my stories again. Sorry for the wait, I hope you like my new stories. And to get this out of the way, all characters aside from my protagonist and her past associates belong to the game Gods Eater Burst, Namco Bandai Games, and D3 Publisher. Enjoy
The Beginning of the Slumber
*** The Year of 2024 ***
Deep in the heart of Europe in a lab funded by the UN. Scientists hustle about to close up shop. The UN has stopped all funding of their research and has ordered them to shut down all operations. Much to their disappointment and frustration, their job was only half done and now the UN wanted them to disappear out of existence. As the chaos continues on a lone man watches it all through a monitoring room high above the chaos.
"Dr. Nowak, we're ready to terminate all functioning of the facility." Approached the man's intern assistant. Neglecting to give her the order to proceeded he continued to observe the chaos.
"..."
"Dr. Nowak?"
"Why did it all come to this?" He finally spoke to her. Looking toward her with sad tired eyes. "We are canceling the objective without the guarantee that we have reached our goal."
"There's nothing we can do, doc." The intern sighed. "The UN calls the shots, if they want us to disappear we disappear."
"But we can't just disappear... not yet." Dr. Nowak said in frustration. "Not yet, we need more time."
"There is no more time, Doctor. The UN has voted they can no longer afford to waste funds on a facility that isn't suppose to exist."
"Those fools. What fascinations there are on this planet if it chooses to be run by shiftless simpletons."
"The job is done, sir. All the alien Oracle Cells are gone."
"Really?" He said approaching her. "Can you honestly tell me that all Oracle Cell organisms are gone?"
"..."
"What proof do you have that they are gone?" He walked back to observing window to rest his head on the cool glass. "(Sigh) It's funny, when the meteor that carried them crashed down on our surface we thought that they were a gift from the heavens. But now that we look upon them, we can see that they were nothing more than a curse."
"It's a good thing we contained the situation out of the sight of the public. If the people got wind of these creatures, it would cause massive anarchy and world wide panic."
"The only reason we were able to keep these creatures on the wrap is because of their minuscule size. Which also makes it harder for us to track them down." Dr. Nowak lectured. "Think, child, you've seen how fast they climb up the evolutionary chain. If the survivors continue to devour under our radar they'll return to bite us right in the foot times a hundred."
"You're thinking too much about these sort of things, Doctor. Such negativity is not good."
"How can I be anything else when they're telling me to dispatch my specimens. After all that they have done for us, all that they've lost, all that they have sacrificed for us in the shadows, we pay them back by blatantly disregarding their lives."
"We've gone too far, Doctor. The world no longer sees them as human."
"The world doesn't even know they exists! And those imbeciles at the UN only see them as animals!"
"And what about Him, Doctor?"
"... He's gone... there's nothing we can do about that now. But they all do not need to pay for the crimes that he committed. No! They do NOT deserve this! They deserve better than this!"
"And what do you suppose we do, Doctor?"
"..." He paused and he thought. Contemplating and planning until he knew what he had to do. "Tell the computer to gather all the pods into the basement."
"What?! But Doctor-"
"Just do it."
"Yes, sir." She reluctantly complied as he left the room to head down to the facility's basement ahead of his assistant.
Once down there he entered into one of the many back rooms. Approaching the room's main computer board he began to backup files of all of the research done in this facility and constant updating of the files. As he was finishing off his work a pod came down the lab room's opening chamber and came down to rest horizontally in the center of the room. The computer instantly began to connect its wires to the pod's life line, keeping the occupant in the pod alive and control of the main computer connected.
Dr. Nowak walked over to the pod to observe the young maiden resting inside the pod. If she had made it here, that means that the others were properly transported to their respective rooms as well. The poor girl, life has dealt her a bad hand. Perhaps... somewhere out there... she'll find one that's better. Maybe they'll all find something better than this world where they are considered outcast. He had been there since the experiments began, they were his babies, and he'd be damned if he'd let those brutes in suits destroy them.
"All the pods have safely made it to the basement, Dr. Nowak. What do you plan to do now?" The assistant said, finally finding him after looking through the many rooms in the basement.
"... Lock the doors behind us. No human is getting into this place for a long time."
"B-but sir, the Guardians..."
"Will sleep for a long time... until the world needs them again." A small entity had entered the room through the pet door at the bottom, but they paid it no mind. "The backup chargers will keep them alive for many years to come. And their Pars will look after them until their cryogenic sleep ends."
"But sir, they need to eat. They'll go insane trapped down here for such a long time."
"They were always able to sneak out of here, they can do it again." Then Dr. Nowak leaned down to address the creature in the room. "You'll protect her, won't you boy?"
The Par wailed out in confirmation, resting itself beside the pod.
"If you plan to go through with this, it's time to go, Doctor. We have to get the decoys to UN before they suspect something."
"You're going to help me?"
"I'm your assistant and your intern. I'll follow your choice til the end."
"Thanks... this will follow us for the rest of our lives. We must keep it a secret."
"Understood."
"Good we must get going." He gave the pod a light pat before leaving the room. "Sleep well, kid."
And so the two left the facility and its sleeping occupants... forever.
