Hello guys, here is the part two of the prologue.

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Prologue Part 2

I continued to run the way I came back. Those guys have bigger guns than I do, so I`m not stupid enough to get into a firefight with them. Now all I need is to get to Serah before things get really bad…

Seriously, how did those guys get into the building with no one noticing, well, unless they kill everyone in their way then that`s one way to get into the building. I frowned to myself as I arrived in front of the elevator and pressing the button.

I thanked my lucky stars that the elevator was still there, and quickly stepped inside of it, pressing a button for the floor Serah`s office was. When I heard footsteps, I turned around seeing one of the masked man holding his weapon up aimed toward me, I threw myself to the side as he unleashed a wave of bullets, which hit the inside of the elevator, causing sparks.

Then as the door closed I put my gun there and started shooting forcing him to dive sideway to avoid getting hit before the door closed completely.

"Claire, Claire you`re there?" Serah asked, not keeping the fear out of her voice.

"Still alive," I told her, "What about you? What happened to the building?"

"Bombs," Serah said, "they have blown up some floors in the building probably to announce that they`re here. My office was untouched however."

I let out a breath.

"That`s good," I told her, "Did you call security?"

"The phones aren`t working," she told me, "I can`t get any signal."

"Great," I said, "They must have cut the communication to delay people calling out for help. Look Serah, I`m in then elevator right now, and I`m coming to get you. Stay inside your office…if you see someone with a gun and masked through your window, hide yourself."

"Okay Claire," she told me, "Hurry."

I then activated my line to the G.C. Headquarters and it run for a few seconds before someone answered it.

"This is Guardian Corps headquarters, how can I help you?" the person asked.

"I am Sergeant Claire Farron," I told her, "I need to speak with Lieutenant Amodar."

"Connecting you now Sergeant," the person said.

I had to wait a few moments before I heard Amodar's voice on the line.

"Hey Claire, was diner with the Villiers that bad?" he asked me.

"Sir, Caelum Industries got a breach in security," I told him, "I need reinforcements as soon as possible."

"What?" he said.

"No time to ask questions, just get some help down here," I told him, "I`ve got six men, armed with SPICOM standards weapons, probably more, attacking the building, send some help immediately."

"Okay Claire, we`re coming, just hang tight," he told me, "Then get your sister out of here."

The elevator door opened in front of me as I raised my gun.

"That`s what I`m going to do," I told him before he hung up.

I stepped off the elevator, walking straight toward where Serah`s office was when one of the gunman stepped out of another door. He noticed my presence and I instantly pressed the trigger, hitting him square in the chest with three rounds, throwing him backward.

"Serah, where are you?" I yelled.

The door of the office opened and my younger sister was there. There was relief on her face when she saw me, which turned to horror when he was the masked man on the ground.

"Oh! God Claire, what`s happening?" she asked.

"I don't know," I told her, "But I`m getting you out of here. Stay behind me okay."

She gave me a nod and then I stepped forward, with my gun at the ready to shot anything that move. As I made my way toward the elevator, the lights on the ceiling started to flicker, similar to how it was back in Engineering.

"Look like we`ll have to take the stairs," I told her, "Don`t want to end up trapped inside an elevator without power."

"There are an emergency staircase just a couple of doors down," Serah told me, "I know the way."

"Great, let`s go," I told her.

We both ran toward it and Serah unlocked it using her card and then we started to run down the stairs.

"Who are those people Claire?" she asked me.

"I don't know," I answered, "But they aren`t from Cocoon that`s for sure."

"What do you mean?"

"Well they were speaking in a foreign language when I found them in Engineering, probably killed everyone down there, those bastards" I told her.

"Oh! God," Serah whispered.

"Don`t worry," I told her, "I`ll keep you safe."

She gave me a smile but our moment was cut off by the sound of rapid gunfire and screaming. Damn, those bastards were even firing on civilians. Just what were they after?

We continued to descend the stairs and we got around the 35th floor before we found smoke and fire. It was probably where one of the bombs had gone off.

"Damn it," I said, "We won't be able to continue there…let`s go back up one floor."

Serah nodded at me and followed my lead back on the 36th floor and I pushed the door open, giving the area a quick swipe only to find it empty, even thought they were still smokes everywhere.

Everything was bathed in a red light as the both of us continued to walk.

"The emergencies light are active," Serah said, "We must be using the back-up generator."

"So they had cut off the power also," I said, "Well this is turning out to be a great day."

"Let`s hope some people made it out alive," Serah said, "Earlier, we heard them killing civilians."

Then in front of us, a machine stepped around the corner. It was crablike walking on those legs. It`s turning around and the eyes found us, and it had two machine guns hanging from its side.

"This is one of the prototype we were working on," Serah said, "How did it…"

The machine let out a hail of bullets toward us and I quickly pushed Serah down unto the ground as the wall was drilled with holes and the decorative stuff around the wall were destroyed sending pieces of glass all over the ground.

"Let`s go," I told her, taking hold of her arm and we were both running away from it.

"It's not supposed to be activated yet," Serah said, "They have another three months of testing to go through."

"It looks functional to me," I told her, looking back toward where the machine was.

"Something is wrong here," Serah told me, "Those machines shouldn`t be active…no one knew how to do that except the scientists that worked upon them…and me."

I glance at her.

"You?"

"I am Head of the Science Department," she told me, "Everything that have to do with augmentations and machines have to do with me. Could someone have activated them…"

Before she could finish what she was saying the wall behind us was blown away throwing the both of us flying forward.

"Here she is," a voice yelled, "The Scientist."

I turned toward them and found that it was the masked men again; coming through the wall they had just blown up. Serah was slowly getting back up.

"Serah run," I yelled at her, picking up my gun and opening fire at them.

I put down two more of them as Serah took off in a run down the hallway behind me, limping a little. She must have been hurt in that blast. I quickly took cover behind a pillar as bullets when flying my way digging into the pillar but not getting to me.

Then I returned fire, taking aim toward one of the guy that was hiding behind another pillar, hitting the pillar only. I quickly took cover again, reloading my handgun. They continued to fire at me and I deduced they must be at least three to four of them now since I took down two of them when they were entering.

I dove behind another column and stayed there, and since they weren`t firing at me, I took a peak to see where they were. I saw one of them aiming toward the pillar I was before, his upper body exposed and I took aim at him and pressed the trigger taking him down.

Then I quickly took cover again as bullets started to plunder the tower behind me. When they were done, I returned fire aiming toward the figure at the far end of the corner and I was pleased to hear a yell out of pain and a body hitting the ground.

Then I stepped out of my cover, stepping back toward the hallway Serah had ran down to, before another popped up. I opened fire upon him taking him down also and another one popped from the other side, opening fire at me.

I quickly dove to the ground and fired toward him as I slid back, my bullets hitting the target. I quickly stood up looking around the room before taking off in a run down the hallway Serah had run to.

"Serah," I yelled out as I arrived in a room.

"Stop right there, Sergeant," a voice said.

A masked man, the one with the white mask was standing there, holding Serah with a gun at her head. I quickly aimed the gun toward him and he hid behind Serah.

"Now, now you don't want to shoot your own sister now would you?" he said.

Damn bastard, I thought.

"Let her go," I yelled.

"If I do that, then you shoot me," the white masked guy said, "It`s not a really fair bargain."

"You let her go right now or…,"

"Or what? You`re going to kill me," he said, letting out a chuckle, "You shouldn`t really make empty threats…after all, you know what an empty threat can do to someone. It can make them act…irrationally."

I tightened the grip on my gun as I grit my teeth. I can see Serah`s eyes widened in fear, and some tears falling down from her eyes.

"Now, where were we before big sis come along?" he said moving the gun around, "Ah, yes, I was about to ask you a question. The data for the Perfect Cyborn, where is it?"

"I…I don`t have it," Serah said.

"You don't have it?" the masked man said, "But you created it didn`t you? You are the one that thought it up and bring it into existence…it was your entire fault. After all, you wanted to make the world a better place with it. Let`s just say, some people, like me, see that as a threat to our Humanity...so,"

BANG!

For one second, I thought I was the one who pressed the trigger. But soon enough, I was watching something I thought I would never see. Blood was starting to appear upon Serah`s shirt forming a big bright red spot upon her chest. Her mouth was open as if surprised she was hit. Then her eyes found me and she whispered my name.

"C..Clai…Claire."

Then she falls down on the ground, like a marionette without strings. Then she lied there on the ground unmoving, dead. For a second nothing moved as I watched the life leave my sister`s eyes, the eyes that I loved and treasured with all my heart…

Then a white hot feeling was cursing through my veins. It was burning me straight into my heart as I aimed my gun straight toward the man in the white mask with all intention of killing him right now…

When another shot rang out and pain suddenly burned into my back as it send me on my knees and into the ground, my gun slipping out of my hand. The pain was more excruciating than I ever felt and my legs refused to move…

From the corner of my eyes, a figure was materializing from out of thin air.

A cloaking device, I thought, but I thought only military used these. How did these bastards get a hold of them?

"You didn`t think it was that easy will you?" the white masked man said, as he kneeled beside me, "Many had tried what you tried to do and they had all failed. What makes you think you`ll be any different."

I glared at him.

"I swear I will kill you,"

He stood back up, and then started to walk away.

"How will you be able to do that?" he said, his voice echoing around the room, "When you`ll be buried into tons of concretes?"

He continued to walk away leaving me on the ground with the pain in my back. My legs couldn't move, I couldn't even feel them anymore. It was then I realized the shot in my back had paralyzed me from the waist down. I glanced toward where Serah lay, a pool of blood forming from underneath her body. I crawled toward her, feeling tears falling from my eyes.

This can`t be happening, I thought, This can`t be happening.

"Serah," I whispered, voice trembling, "Serah, wake up…we have to go see that idiot fiancé of yours…you`re going to get married soon remember…please wake up."

I reached her form, my body getting wet from the blood on the ground, but I simply hold on to my sister as the world around us started to shake and flames, smokes covered my visions until everything turned black.

Normal P.O.V.

"In this morning news, tragedy strikes Caelum Industries. Sometimes during the night between 9 and 11 P.M., the multi billionaire company suffered a major setback as one of their major buildings was in smokes. Averia Summers have it for us, Averia?

The scene changed showing the image of a building which had smokes coming out of it and a number of Guardian Corps cars parked all around the parking lots.

"This is the tragic scene you`re seeing right now that the resident of Bodhum are waking up to this morning," Averia spoke, "We don`t have many information as to what happened during the night but as we can see, the Guardian Corps and the Fire Department had managed to put out the fire. A number of wounded had been taken to a nearby hospital which some had been near death. Based on what they said, it would seems that someone had attacked the building sometime around early 10 o`clock last night and many had lost their lives including the young child genius, Serah Farron."

December 26

Caelum Industries Meeting Room

10: 45 A.M.

"I`m sure that you all know the reason you are all here," Noctis Lucis Caelum said, as he glanced all around them.

"A blow like that," one of the Board members said, "It is a heavy lost that could hurt the price stocks on the market. Most of our technologies prototypes had been destroyed and we`ve lost a good number of scientists too."

"What were they after?" another Board member asked.

"That we don't know," Noctis said, dressed in his suit, "No one else could tell us what happened that night, except if they were already there and which is why I`m bringing up this point right now."

He looked around them all.

"Serah Farron`s sister, Claire Farron, had been present during the events that took place a week ago, but she is in critical conditions at the moment. She is one of Guardian`s Corps best soldiers and I think will be a perfect subject for the Perfect Cyborn project. She is the only one that had direct contact with those who attacked the company and could give us information on what they were after."

The group stayed quiet, thought not for long as the elder man at the end of the table looked up at him.

"Do it," he said.

Noctis smiled before nodding.

"Don't worry about the money," he said, "I`ll pay it with my own money, while you worry on how to fix the mess that had been done."

He walked out of the room, finding a young man standing beside the door. The young man looked up at him as he approached before falling to step beside him.

"Her injuries are severe sir," he said, "Part of her body was crushed, and most of her bones were reduced to nothing but ashes. A hundred years ago, we wouldn`t be able to keep her alive."

"She is still alive isn`t she?" Noctis said to him, "Start Project Perfect Cyborn."

The young man beside him seems shocked.

"But sir, we never tested it yet," he said.

"Well, we just have our first test subject," Noctis told him, "They have given us the green light Mr. Estheim, I suggest you deliver. I will show those terrorists what exactly they have messed with."

The second part of the prologue is over. Hope you have enjoyed reading it...

Jacques0 out.

R&R.