Innocent Venus: Operation V.E.N.U.S
It's been over five years since Phantom fell with Logos. Know things have gotten a lot quieter. Toraji Shiba and Renée Vikro have taken over the new military. They seem to be doing extremely well. Of course me, Mia Teikoku, am in charge of his new division called V.E.N.U.S. Virus Experimental Neural User Specials. Basically I come up with new weapons for his army. Ones that are nothing like what Phantom come up with, like the gladiators. I can not run tests on any human's unless it is deemed worthy of doing so by Shiba. So it limits my work and many projects where scraped because we could not fix the bugs in the systems. Its hard work but I live with it. Sana is living happily with me in my apartment. She comes with me and helps a lot when I work. Shiba said it was fine so I continue to bring her. I think she just doesn't want to be alone now that Jo's gone. She still seems a bit distracted by it, but I think she'll live. I mean I still can't help thinking about him either, about both of them. I feel bad for Sana having to deal with Jin's betrayal, it was hard on her. I still think she thinks about it more then me. As for Jo Katsuragi we still don't know where he is. I'm sure he'll turn up sooner or later.
Teikoku, Mia
Mia closed the lap top as she saved her journal entry for the day. She was sitting
in the dinning room for her apartment. It was all white with hints of colors, the chairs where all wood with white cushions. It was very open place. All the rooms flowed seamlessly into each other. They where all connected with White. In the kitchen was stainless steel with all white cabinets and a black and white checkered pattern on the floor. The living room was filled with white modern looking sofa and chair. While a black coffee table lined the L shaped furniture. The walls where lined with black and white paintings and off to the right of the wall where a bedroom door. On the other side of the room was the other bedroom. The bathroom was connected to the bedrooms so there doors where not visible by just standing in the large area.
Mia sat in the chair with her jet black hair pulled back in a ponytail, her laptop on the table in front of her. Sana was sleeping in her bedroom as it was getting close to one in the morning. Mia had her glasses on when she was typing her entry. She also had a stack of papers scattered around her laptop. They where all the different projects that V.E.N.U.S had taken on. Mia took in a deep sigh as she leaned back in her chair wanting so much not to work on these projects. But as her job required she had to. Taking one paper in hand she scanned it over. This project was ready for human use but had to go through Shiba's inspection first. And this project to the left of her had to be evaluated by him tomorrow also. It was hard work like always. The silences was broken suddenly with a scream from Sana's bedroom. Mia jumped to her feet and ran into her bedroom to fin her upright in bed and panting. Mia let out a sigh of relief as she come to her. Placing a hand on Sana's back she asked.
"Something the matter Sana?"
"I had that dream again."
"Again? Sana that was over 5 years ago. I know it must still hurt, but its something you have to get over. You're losing sleep."
"But Jo. Mia do you think something happened to him? Like some Rebellions killed him or something?" Sana began to get worried and clenched onto Mia.
"I'm sure Jo is fine Sana. You worry too much. Do you really think Jo's that easy to take down? I know Jo will come back to us one day Just give it some time." She told little Sana as she hugged her reassuring everything was fine. Mia then began to hum 'Noble Roar' to her. Sana loved that song as she began to feel more comfortable. She began to drift back to sleep as Mia waited till she was fully asleep before leaving.
The next morning was filled with sun. It pecked through the large windows in the living room and through Mia's bedroom window. Mia was already up and fixing the bugs out of her report for Renée. It was the big day for the debut of the new Gladiator, Experiment number X-P908. This one was different from what Phantom created. It was completely remodeled and revamped, one of Mia's pride and joy. Sana came out a short while after Mia gathered her papers. She smiled at the small pink haired girl as she packed her briefcase.
"Ready?" Mia asked the little girl.
"Ya ready as ever." She told Mia before coming over to her.
The lab was well spaced as Mia told Sana to go and get some food so she could have time to prep. But then Shiba and Renée came walking in. Renée held a clip board and Shiba came in with his normal appeal.
"You ready for the briefing Mia?" He asked n the smart ass tone of his.
"Ready as I'll ever be. Come this way…we have to go down to the testing floors to show you the X-P908." She told the two of them as she guided them to the testing floor. It was huge and wide open where there stood a model that look exactly like the gladiator. Shiba didn't look to thrilled.
"What is this abomination of Phantom doing here…I didn't permit you to work on this." He said snarling at it and seemed to be quit upset. Mia didn't let it faze her as she let out a glow.
"Abomination? Oh but Shiba this in completely different. This mecha is special. It may look like what phantom created but its not. The inside and how it runs in so different from that of phantoms." She said crossing her hands and faced him once again. "This Model is going on Brain waves. It is operated by the pilots emotions. It reads the different brain waves the pilot gives off in a battle. Basically it act upon there emotions. It reads them carefully and analyzes it and then makes the proper adjustments to get the pilot to calm back down. But we have been having troubles with it. It can't read the emotion of compassion. It was very hard to get the Mecha to even act upon a human emotion. But I did it but there are so many other emotions that I need to program into it. All I'm asking for is some data. I need some humans to test on while there in battle."
"NO! I will not let you test humans just so you can have your little project work. They will not be getting into a thing like that!"
"But Shiba! This is safer they will not be harmed! And it can change the way we fight!"
"I said NO!"
"Shiba please… I'm not asking them to be in the Mecha…All I want is some data to see what other emotions soldiers feel on the battle field."
"No! I want this project terminated! I will not have another one of these things in my sight ever again!"
"SHIBA! Please I beg you and promise you no one will be hurt."
"No! That's final." Shiba said before leaving the area as he stormed off with Renée.