A/N;
Hey guys, so I will still continue Beloved Darkness, but I want to possibly redo it, now that I have a little more practice with writing and hopefully it'll be better than the old one. The only one was missing a lot of details and seemed just about too jumpy and random. I wanted to organize it a little more, and hopefully give more a feel to how close Axl and Ala actually are. :3
I will still finish the old version, but I'll be taking a small while to do so, as now I am doing more than one story at once.
Enjoy~ :3
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~Prologue~
With the recent attacks lately, our Facility has been locked up even tighter than before... These attacks weren't put on our own home, but rather... on others around it. Any place supposedly that was considered useful and worthwhile of information. The specifics the crooks were after, being DNA data, most of that data was being ripped right out of Reploids. These Reploids, hadn't done anything wrong, so what was going on was out of pure cold blood. Before this... group of vigilante's used to only attack Mavericks, after X's retirement information got out to the public, I suppose a few fools decided to try and step in... mind you, this group wasn't legalized, and was against the rules of the society me and my family inhabited.
I learned a lot from Doc's conversations, just because I'm connected with his computers, doesn't mean I can't hear. I could barely see through the blue stained glass I was behind...
"Are all of the entrances locked up?"
"Yes Professor, everything is locked away safely and tightly."
My Doctor, my creator, was Professor James Wellington. An elderly man in his late sixty's... He now needed support to just get in and out of bed. He created me, he created this place, the devices here, and all of the Reploids who lived here with me... my family...
"I need you to protect Ala, no matter how much it will cost... We cannot let this, 'Red Alert' Syndicate get their hands on her... I've already lost a few friends of mine in their attacks, but now it's becoming all too concerning." The Professor demanded. "She has as much DNA data as they'd want I'm sure... my greatest fear, is them killing her for it..."
The Droid in front of him nodded hastily. "I understand Sir, I promise we will keep Ms. Ala safe... how is she?" The Droid asked, Doc turning to me. "She's doing alright, I had to give her, her weekly check up, but she seems to be doing okay..."
My Professor, however loving to all the Reploids he created, took a strong fatherly love towards me. To him, I was his flesh and blood, his almost real daughter... sometimes, asking that I call him Father. He was elderly, so I guess him believing I was his flesh and blood was a natural thing for him, seeing as how his mind isn't as it used to be. I would just humor him... so long as my basic father was happy, I was happy...
The door of my Capsule opened, and my hand was taken by my Professors. "Come now, it's alright to walk around. You're doing alright Ala..." he smiled, his smiles though made me happy, for whatever reason gave me a sense of... unease. I pushed my feet to the floor, wobbling for a moment before I officially got back my footing, and began walking. "I'll... come see you for work tomorrow right?" I asked, he nodded. I turned my head back to a straight direction, as I walked out into the hallway. The Door shut behind me, and I sighed as I returned to my human form. Like pretending to be his daughter, I sadly pretended to like the armor he made me within. It's not very comfortable for me sadly, so I'm normally in human form... if I can be at any rate.
"So, how did the test go?" Thorn, a close friend to be ever since my birth, asked, a smile across her face. "They were fine, nothing was found... I knew it was just an error code." I replied, sighing. "I know he loves me and all, but he's so protective. I'm fine see?" I insisted, Thorn giving a small and short snicker. "Ah, but we all know how the Professor is. He cares too much to let you even have the sniffles." she replied. I rubbed a hand through my pitch black hair, sighing as I followed behind her. It was late at night by this point, I was exhausted... as much as you'd think I could sleep like most Reploids, I couldn't. I never liked Capsule's, and me being put in one to rest is the least fun thing I'd want to do. Claustrophobia, as one point came to mind, but really anywhere else that's small I have no problem with. Thorn walked me to my room, and I smiled and waved as my door closed with her behind it, and she went off to do what Thorn did at this hour...
Doc went through papers hastily, groaning. "God damned these greedy fools, they want nothing but money and Droids these days..." Doc grumbled, the Droid who was assisting him could only watch sadly as Doc struggled with his paperwork. He barely had any time to even use the restroom...
"Doctor? If you'd like I could help you." The Droid offered kindly, but the Doc gently denied. "I'll be alright.. Please, got rest, you've helped me enough." he insisted, the Droid nodding as he left the Doc to work alone in his Laboratory... Just a regular day, with the Doc distant from the others...
"Alia, how have the repairs been going?" X asked, though in retirement, this didn't mean he'd have to stop caring about the people of the city.
"It seems like their alright but... Red Alert just seems to have vanished, aside a few of the tragedy's that had been recent."
In short, after the few events that happened with this group, they simply... went under the radar. They weren't detected anywhere by that point, it was almost like they simply stopped attacking, and returned to normal somehow...
"It's awfully strange. I doubt a bunch of Mavericks would simply stop their wrongdoing." Zero implied, Signas glaring at the large screen as if it'd stare back. "It could just mean that their plotting something else... Alia, please, keep an eye on them. The last thing we need right now are more tragedy's." X insisted, I was always in question to myself even now... if X had the feeling something would go wrong-I know he's a good guy and doesn't want to hurt others or fight-why didn't he step up and help stop it...?
"Alright everyone, let's all just get some rest. If anything does happen we know what to do." Signas advised, and like that everyone headed to bed...
During this time... things were going on in the dark... Everyone believed it'd all be okay, even with the suspicions... but what was happening in the dark, was a lot more dangerous that anyone had hoped...
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In the dark depths of their base, where Red Alert lurked, their leader sat with what he referred to, as a prized Conrad...
"Hey, cheer up buddy... everything will work out." The Elder stated, the boy he sat with however, didn't seem so pleased. His head sagged, as he looked down from the rooftop to the city street below, the ground cracked and cars toppled over... wasn't that much of a fun place to be around at night.
"You know what to do next right...?" The Elder asked, the boy's eyes widened, his green eyes seeming almost fearful... the last place to go after, was the one I hoped would never have been hurt the way it would be...
"B-but, she's there..." The boy responded, his hands clutching his knees tightly. "If you remember, she betrayed us... remember what I told you?"
"Yes but, what if she didn't mean it? What if she's still there... we can't do this, she's our friend remember?" The boy kept insisting... he never wanted for any of this to happen...
"Please Red, I want everything to go back to normal... what happened to us? What happened to Red Alert the way it used to be?!" the boy's words turned into a loud question, 'Red' looking to him with a look of disappointment.
"You know, I thought you'd grow to like this."
"How could anyone like this?! We're killing people Red! I can't take this anymore! And now we're going where she is, just because she didn't come back?! I know we're all hurt, I'm hurt to, but we can't kill a human..." the younger's look seemed almost like a tearful one, Red, chuckling. "You don't love this human do you? You know that's a taboo... look, she hurt us, and we all know better than to trust a human. Now then." Red got up, brushing himself off. "You know very well what to do... we attack in the next few weeks... work up your courage by then, I advise it..." Red said, as he made his way back into the building, leaving the boy to himself. His eyes looking downward, pain in them, almost teary... His fists balled up, as he later curled up to hold his knees in a tight embrace, the pain he felt being there, couldn't possibly compare to anything else...
He knew what would happen, and even now... I believe he couldn't have stopped it. But, in the end, blood was going to be splattered, and people were going to suffer, all because of greed...
