Disclaimer: I don't know what happened, but my Geass didn't work on ATLUS... wait, this is the wrong fandom? My bad... ATLUS continues to avoid my control.

A/N: So it's been a while, but the response was well-versed. =D I've gotten far ahead into my other fics, including fixing a mistake that would have been devastating to the organization of this other fic... oh right, you guys don't care.

So it's about time it begins, does it not? I'm still accepting OC's, of course, but let's see what I can do with the ones I have now... *chuckles* I sure am lacking suitable 'terrorist' OCs... and males. =P Oh well~! And the first of the OC's already submitted are featured in this! =D

*laughs* Ahah... a fire truck!
...You'll get the joke soon.

Enjoy!


"So I guess you can stay here for now, Derek, Angie."

Tomoe gestured them into an office on the first floor. It has only been an hour since the group left the District Court and returned to Resurgam in order to begin preparations for what they were to do. The couple thanked the Japanese endoscopic surgeon and took a peek at the room given to them hastily.

The office itself was of a moderate size with one desk, a TV, a bookshelf lined with titles of books they had never seen before, and a nice window over-viewing the front of the hospital. Angie wheeled Derek in as the two took in their new surroundings.

"So I guess we'll be working here for a while." Angie sighed before she turned to Tomoe who remained standing at the door and smiling lightly at the couple's satisfaction of the room. They were lucky to find it at such an inconvenient time. Fortunately, a doctor had retired the week before and that was how this empty room was born. Hank had run into here and set up another desk for the two before Tomoe gave the tour of the hospital and lead the couple in here.

"So what do you think?" Tomoe asked hesitantly.

"It's great!" Derek turned one of the wheels of his wheelchair to turn and face the endoscopic surgeon. "I'm glad to see that you are taking well to provide us with supplies, though we could just work at our hotel room..."

Angie kicked Derek's wheelchair, causing him to yelp. It was funny how he still wasn't used to Angie's sudden violence, but he figured he'd be seeing it every day, so he might as well try and cope. "No, it's great." Angie admitted before leaving Derek's side and walking up to take a nice view at the scenery outside the window. Below the ground, she spotted CR-S01 and Maria talking with each other as Gabriel and Hank began walking further out front. "Hmm... I wonder what they're talking about..." Angie asked herself.

Tomoe noticed the commotion as well and became slightly worried. "So I guess I will be taking my leave now." Tomoe bowed politely. "I hope you enjoy your stay and we will accommodate to your needs to the best of our abilities."

"Hey, no need to be so polite; we're partners now." Derek flashed the surgeon draped in a pink kimono a light-hearted smile. "And it's not like we're in a castle either... Angie and I can handle ourselves. Just do the best on whatever you have to do."

"Th-thank you, Dr. Stiles."

"Not a problem, Dr. Tachibana."

And with that, Tomoe walked off to meet up with the others out front.


"What happened?" Tomoe called out to the two in front of the main entrance doors. Maria and CR-S01 stopped their chatter and turned to face the Japanese woman.

"Oh nothing." Maria replied. "Just that, y'know, Gabe and Hank went to check out some kid who fell off her bike out front. They think she sprained her ankle..."

"...It's much worse than that, actually."

Tomoe, Maria, and CR-S01 turned in surprise to look at the man who had interjected along with the other carrying a severely injured girl in his arms. Her limbs were limp and her face lacked life as her blood seeped into the clothes of the hero.

"Wh-what happened to her?" CR-S01 cried out. "I thought she only fell off her bike!"

"I... I'm not exactly sure." Gabriel admitted sorrowfully. "Yes, she fell off her bike and we went to ask her if she was alright. She was telling us that she was fine when, out of nowhere, this 18-wheeler..."

"Bring her in now then!" CR-S01 exclaimed. All he needed to know was how there was a patient in need. "Hank and I will operate on her."

"Right, Dr. Muller." Hank and CR-S01 then sprinted into the hospital to get ready, leaving the three alone.

"We should probably help out the driver of the 18-wheeler then." Maria declared. Tomoe agreed and the two began to walk towards to the scene when Maria realized that Gabriel had stayed behind. He had more of a sombre look on, not the usual lazy but wise one he had on when around her. "C'mon, Dr. Cunningham... you comin' or what?"

"You don't need me... I mean, I can't even lift a scalpel and save some guy's life. There's no point in me coming." He sighed, hiding his shameful face from the two women. "I think I'll stay behind and help out Dr. Muller and Dr. Freebird." Gabriel spat the cigarette stub in his mouth before walking in. However, just as he opened the door, he paused and turned back to see Tomoe and Maria still staring at him intently. They had stood still on their spot.

"Dr. Cunningham, do you really think that matters?" Tomoe murmured. "The two can handle themselves... shouldn't you help us ladies out instead?"

"You don't know... what it's like to be trapped in a cage of metal... what it's like to die in a cage of metal..." Gabe groaned softly. "The truck crashed into a tree and the driver was bleeding profusely. I tried to help her before Hank and I returned here, but she was already dead."

"So why didn't you stop us from going then?" Maria protested. "If you knew she was dead, then why didn't you tell us?"

"... I figured that you'd find it out, so there was no need for me to tell you."

"Screw that, you're coming with us whether you like it or not!" Maria then ran and pulled Gabriel away from the doors and dragged him toward the site. Oddly enough, the diagnostician didn't bother fighting back. "You're acting too weird for my taste." the first response medic continued on. "I'll figure you out eventually, but—"

She paused as soon as the three of them arrived at the site. There was a large truck on fire to the side by a tree and its products, boxes of groceries, had spilled all over the ground. Serrated metal stuck up in grotesque poses as the truck seemed as though it had been ripped violently into three pieces.

But there was one last piece of the puzzle that caused the three's eyes to widen in unison.

The driver stood to face them in all her bloodied glory.


"H-how are you alive?" Gabriel exclaimed in utter surprise. He released himself from Maria's grip and ran towards the supposedly dead woman, but in reaction, the woman pulled out a switchblade from her back pocket and pointed it towards the diagnostician.

"Get away from me, you filthy doctor." the girl muttered.

Gabriel simply raised his hands to show that he meant no harm as he retraced his steps and returned to the side of the two bewildered women.

"She was the driver of that 18-wheeler?" Tomoe couldn't help but be surprised. She had always imagined truck drivers to be fat middle-aged men with giant bellies and stains on their clothes from all the fast food they ate. She hadn't imagined this young teenage girl to have a life as a driver. Even if she defied the conventional stereotype, Tomoe just knew that the woman was too young to even possess a driver's license.

The girl appeared to be about sixteen, though it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say she was one or two years younger. She had short layered hair in a deep black with dark violet eyes. By the looks of her skin tone and bone structure, the three guessed that she was Asian; a 5'4 woman of Japanese descent. She wore a collared black and purple jacket with rolled up sleeves and a fitting black shirt underneath along with grey combat pants and a white, blue, and periwinkle DCs.

The strangest thing about her appearance would be both the peculiar silver machine that resembled an arrow which rested on her right arm along with fact that she had just been victim of the truck accident, according to Gabriel, but she showed no signs of damage. In fact, despite the fire and blood the three could see from even where they stood, the teenage girl didn't seem to be injured or even slightly cut. Blood caked her face and clothes, but there wasn't a gash in sight.

"We're only here to help you!" Maria called out. "So please, there is no need for any violence... please put the knife away now."

Gabriel couldn't help but chuckle.
It was odd hearing Maria herself telling someone that there is no need for violence.

The girl's arm wavered slightly, but otherwise, the blade still remained in her hand. She turned behind to look at the flaming truck as another crackle was let on by the scorching fire. However, Maria and Tomoe took this as a chance to try and apprehend the girl and pounced. Tomoe kicked the blade out of the woman's hand while Maria pinned her to the ground. In the surprise, the girl let out a startled gasp and clenched her teeth in the strain of trying to fight back. Even so, she said nothing.

Out loud, at least.

"Wh-wha—Don't just stand there...!"

A strained voice was directed to Gabriel who remained in the sidelines, unable to act. He continued to stand there in stunned silence. "Who... are you...?" he whispered.

"C'mon! H-Help me!"

"R...right—!"

Gabriel then bent down and vehemently tossed Maria away from the strange girl against her protests and lifted his arms to their full length from his sides as he stood up and defended her from any more harm. "Stop." he declared. "Please... stop hurting each other."

"Gabe, what are you doing?" Maria exclaimed as she got off the ground after the diagnostician had pushed her down. She wiped off the gravel on her cheek and glared at her unwavering colleague. "Do you even know her...?"

"Err..."

From behind the diagnostician, the girl struggled to get up. She looked up to find that the man that had encountered her earlier was now defending her. The sheer mood of the situation and how quickly the tables had turned caused her to flash him a soft smirk.

"Keep them distracted..."

She crawled slowly over to where Tomoe had kicked her knife away. She picked it up slowly to try and avoid too much attention on her personage and hid it in her pocket. She then looked at the strange machine on her arm and discretely pressed a few buttons. A small syringe then popped out from one of its compartments containing a transparent liquid that almost resembled water. She held it between her fingers and a slick smile crawled onto her face.

"And now..."

Tomoe's attention suddenly gazed away from Gabriel's protests and landed upon the strange teen on the ground. The sun bounced off a metallic item in her hand, the tip which was now pointed at Gabriel's leg. The realization of what the girl was about to do with the sharp pointy metal object clicked instantly in the Japanese surgeon's mind. "Gabe, watch out!" she screamed as she bolted to her partner's defense.

"...Thank you, Dr. Gabriel Cunningham. Thank you... for everything."

The girl stabbed the syringe into the back of the diagnostician's leg and pushed the medication in with her free thumb. The diagnostician collapsed in an instant and landed on her shoulder. Carrying him fireman style, the girl got up and gave a brutal kick to the oncoming Tomoe, knocking her to the ground. Needless to say, the teen wasn't helpless and knew how to defend herself. Unfortunately, Tomoe didn't possess this knowledge and was caught by surprise as the kick lashed out knocked her over to the side and gave her a pretty bad concussion.

"It... It was just a sedate!" The girl exclaimed in an almost reassuring tone as she pressed as few buttons on her watch like mechanism. "There's no need to be too concerned over your friend!" A strange hawk-like item burst from its main compartment and in an instant, a surf board with peculiar claw-like 'wings' and a crescent tail formed. What was even more peculiar was how it was hovering over the ground. The girl placed the unconscious Gabriel on the metallic surface as she jumped on. The board flashed yellow in reaction to the contact of her soles and began to move forward.

She rode it like a child would a skateboard.
A hovering skateboard.

"Th-that's not possible..." Maria stammered as she sprinted to try and save Gabriel. "That technology shouldn't even exist yet, let alone in the hands of a teen carrying Gabe off to who-knows-where... STOP!" Her legs seemed to move even faster than the speed they already were in as she tried her best to catch up to the two, but it didn't take long for the girl on the hover-board to get away. There was no way Maria could catch a fast-moving machine, let alone a flying one. She stopped in her tracks and raised her fists in the air in utter frustration before screaming her anger out at the sky where the hover-board along with its two passengers once was.


She then sprinted back to where she was to aid Tomoe who was dusting herself off. At the sight of Maria alone, Tomoe's expression turned from one of pain to one of utter worry and desperation.

"Wh-where's Dr. Cunningham...?" Tomoe asked exasperatedly, hoping that what she had assumed wasn't true. Maria only shook her head and slumped onto the grass to the side. Tomoe followed her, punching the ground. "The defeat... it is unbecoming to me. I should have tried harder."

"Don't beat yourself up over it..." Maria sighed. There was a long pause as the two simply watched the flames in deep thought and mentally scolding themselves for failing to rescue to diagnostician. She looked over her shoulder towards the hospital and then looked back to Tomoe. "We should probably tell the others... they should know."

"You're right, Maria." Tomoe admitted. The two got up slowly, Maria purposefully ripping a handful of grass out of the ground to quench her anger. "We should probably also check up on Dr. Muller and Dr. Freebird and see how the new patient is."

The two headed back up to the hospital, trying their best to cast their sadness away for the loss of their fellow doctor when, as though on cue, Hank burst out with a huge smile on his face and sprinted towards them.

"Guess what?" he exclaimed as soon as he reached their side. "Do I have some good news or what?"

"Heh, that's good. I just hope it is good enough to counter what happened just now."

Hank looked at Maria and Tomoe confusedly and turned his head towards the column of smoke rising from the truck until it instantaneously burst. "...What happened to Dr. Cunningham?" he inquired strictly.


"For the umpteenth time, I wasn't the one who saved you!"

CR-S01 groaned as the young girl continued to hug his waist tightly. The doctor tried his best to walk, but the girl seemed to be holding her back. The girl was rather young, a Caucasian girl about twelve years of age. She had extremely short beige hair and deep purple eyes; about the same shade the teenage woman Tomoe and Maria had encountered just recently. She wore a green hospital gown and, like the other girl, despite the accident she had just gone through, the young girl didn't seem to bare a single scratch.

"Oh hey, more doctors!" The young girl finally let go of CR-S01's ribcage, allowing him to breathe freely and watch as the girl ran up to the three and took a curious look at them. Her hand instinctively reached for a particular item located behind her, but it only grabbed air. "Oh no, where's my camera?"she exclaimed. Her eyes whipped back and forth, but after an unaccomplished attempt at finding her precious treasure, she sulked.

"Looks like you have a new fangirl." Tomoe chuckled lightly. CR-S01 chuckled back sarcastically, but returned it with an annoyed glare. Tomoe ignored him and bent down to face the sulking twelve-year-old with a large smile on her face. "Hey, what's your name...?"

"I'm... Eira. Eira Pierce!" With the question, Eira looked up at the endoscopic surgeon with a confident with beaming radiance. "I'm the greatest photographer slash doctor alive!" Her arms immediately found their way to her hips as she pulled off a confident pose. "Or rather... I'm not sure what to be when I grow up. I've always wanted to be a photographer, but at the same time, I wanna be part of the medicine people!"

"M-Medicine people...?" Tomoe repeated with a dumbfounded tone.

"Yeah! But Daddy tells me I can't be both and one day, I have to choose one only." Her large smile turned into a pout as she crossed her arms and looked away. "Life's unfair." she muttered.

"Hehe, tell me about it, sis!" Maria chimed in. She then looked up to CR-S01 with a look that read 'What happened?' and he returned it back with a shrug.

"I'm not sure..." CR-S01 replied. "You see, Hank and I scrubbed up and readied an operation room to 'save' her. However, just as I picked up the scalpel, Hank noticed that any form of injury Eira had sustained during the accident had... healed completely." He thought back to their bewildered looks in the OR. "We checked to make sure and found that she had become completely okay... almost as though what had occurred outside about an hour ago didn't happen."

"But I saw her when you brought her in! She was half-dead!"

"What's this about being half-dead?"

The five turned around to find an indigo-haired man in glasses wearing the green uniform pullover and dark slacks. His eyes flashed to a particular girl with them who suddenly came at him screaming his name.

"Darnell!" Eira exclaimed happily as he ran into his open arms. Darnell joyfully lifted her off the ground, spun her in the air, and placed her softly on firm floor. "It's been the longest time!" she chirped.

"It's nice to see you again, Eira!" Darnell exclaimed. "I haven't seen you since your dad brought you along with him in med school! How in the world did you find me?"

"Well, it took a while. I searched the Internet, the phone books, everything! But then eventually, I heard that you landed a job here and I begged my dad to bring me to see you!"

Darnell looked up to find four doctors looking at him intently and he returned their gazes with a look of embarrassment. His face immediately turned into a blush pink. "You were saying something about her being 'half-dead'...?"

"Oh right, I was biking over here when this giant truck came out of nowhere and ran me over before bursting into flames!" She said with such a large smile; it seemed as though she hadn't been affected by the event at all. "But then this angel came and saved me... they had the strangest eyes... I passed out, but when I woke up, that guy over there..." She pointed enthusiastically at CR-S01. "...I think he's the guy who saved me. He also has strange eyes which felt like that angel, so he must be him! Except... angels are supposed to have wings, right?"

She then walked over to CR-S01, giving him looks as though she were sizing him up. "Mr. Angel... Are you like one of those wingless angels who gave up their wings to come down to Earth and save people? Did you come for me...? If so, I'm so happy, but my love belongs to Darnell!" Eira flashed the medical engineer a lustful look and Darnell's light red cheeks flamed up into a full-on tomato red.

"Hey..! Don't say that in front of them!" Darnell ran to her and covered her mouth. Eira bit his hand in response, causing him to jump up and wriggle his arm in the air as though shaking off the pain while Eira laughed hysterically.

Maria, who was too deep in thought to laugh at the situation, looked at her eyes once more. "Hey Eira... do you remember if you saw a teenage girl at the scene...?"

Eira turned to face her. "Erm... no, sorry!" she replied while knocking on her head playfully. "Silly me, I can barely remember what happened."

"Do you happen to have an older sister...?"

"Uhh... nope! I'm an only child! You can even ask daddy!" She glanced over at her friend behind her. "Or Darnell!" Maria looked up to face him, but Darnell shook his head silently as an answer.

"Hmm..." Maria could only groan inwardly. She thought that maybe the girl would've seen the woman they had seen and may know something about Gabriel's assailant, but it looks like she was wrong.

Seeing Maria's rare disappointed look, CR-S01 spoke up. "So what happened out there? Did you get a good look at the driver's condition?" He looked across at the three. "And where's Dr. Cu—"

"Hey, have you guys seen Gabe around?"

Everyone turned to find Derek and Angie walk in along with a young boy with the same scruffy hair as his father. Derek, in his hands, had a bunch of files labelled 'Caduceus' on the cover page. Angie remained behind him, wheeling the crippled surgeon in. The boy came in right beside the couple with a joyful look to be reunited with his doctor friends, but when he set his eyes on Eira, his jaw dropped.

The young boy, about Eira's age as well, ran up to her and raised a slick eyebrow. "Hey." he said smoothly. "I'm Joshua Cunningham... What's your name, beautiful...?"

Eira slapped him across the face and frowned.

"My love belongs to Darnell!" she protested. Her nose pointed up agitatedly as though to prove her point.

Joshua looked up at the medical engineer who was still blushing. When the recognition of who that man was clicked in the young Cunningham's mind his face instantly became cross. "Oh, I see how it is!" he exclaimed angrily. "You stick in the background quietly and play along, but your true plan was to pounce at the right moment and steal my love away from me!"

"Wha—what, no, that makes no sense...!"

"Well then study harder, pretty boy!" Joshua began to punch the medical engineer hard, causing Darnell to groan before running away from Joshua who instinctively began to chase him. Eira followed the two gleefully, excited about how two boys were fighting over her. Everyone watching couldn't help but laugh.

"So, have any of you seen Gabe?" Derek repeated. "Because it looks like everyone but he is here, I'll wait for you guys in the conference room so we can begin with Caduceus-style orientation."

Just as Angie and Derek began making their way down another hall, Hank called out in a way that made them stop immediately.

"Gabe... he's been kidnapped."

"...What?"

"You heard him." Maria retaliated. "Gabe's been kidnapped... and it's my entire fault!" Her fist balled up in an attempt to restrain her anger upon herself and her failing actions earlier to save her beloved colleague.

"No, the fault is mine!" Tomoe defended. She then burst into tears while Maria's lip quivered.

"Hmm... I see." Derek paused in thought. When he spoke once more, the tone he spoke in showed no signs of guilt or remorse. In fact, it seemed as though he thought nothing of what happened to his old friend. "Did the assailant happen to possess a strange machine on his or her arm?"

Maria and Tomoe stopped their emotional breakdown for a minute at the sound of the question. "Actually... yeah, she did." Maria replied, a bit hesitantly at how serious the legendary surgeon had become in almost an instant. "It held a syringe and turned into this board that could fly..."

"...Which she used to get away with Dr. Cunningham!" Tomoe finished off.

"Well, it looks like the plot thickens..." Derek muttered. He looked up to Angie with an expectant look, but she returned his gaze with the same expression. "Come with me. I'll try my best to explain a bit more where it's less... public."


A/N: OHMAHGAWSH WHAAA...! Did I just update... in the same week? This is very un-Oki of me! Then again, without my author buddy, I refuse to make more detailed chapters that would probably brutally murder your eyes... or any well-written piece of fanfic for that matter.

So here we go! I think I dipped into the plot a bit too quickly and orientation is still much needed. However, CLIFFHANGER! Mwu ha ha ha ha! So I was only able to fit one OC in this chapter, which is quite a surprise because I was only expecting the canon characters to feature in this particular part.

Well, because I LOVED your instant feedback, I couldn't help but NOT disappoint you all and create this chapter much more quickly. This long weekend didn't hurt too much as well (though I somehow have to finish my chemistry project and that book report on a book I never read in the two hours I left for it... crap). I had to hide in my bedroom while my family sang karaoke downstairs (gah, I was blasting music to drown it all out). I had nothing to do, so I worked on this.

Feel free to review and leave an OC! =D (preferably male ones!) Even you guys that already contributed... there is still a major deficit of OC's and I promise that 90% of them will make it onto here! =D Alright, I'll see you all next chappy then!

Eira Pierce (C) DreamVII