Ghost in the Shell:

A Ghost in the Android

Disclaimer:

Ghost in the shell and all there characters are not mine. Though some things about the GITS characters may seem different from what you would have expected, I still try to keep that as original as possible.

I own my OC 'Kyle' and 'Marian'

Chronology:

This story is set behind the second season of GITS, but with a slightly modified ending.

The nuke was never launched by the American empire thru an unexpected delay.

The Tachikoma's never crashed there satellite.

Other then these minor changes, the rest of the setting are the same.

Legend:

"sp" spoken dialog.

"(sp)" spoken dialog thru cyber link.

" sp " Spoken dialog in a foreign language.

'sp' dialog in thought.

Chapter 3

Date: Monday 07-06-2032.

Location: Kyle's safe house.

It's been a whole week since the assault on Section 9, and a lot of things have happened since then. Marian, an android who obtained a ghost thru unexplained reasons had killed two enemies in combat out of self defense.

As luck would have it, the enemy was an assassin that was after Kyle's life. No others hostiles were found minus the one that was also killed by Marian after he shot Kyle. Since Marian had a Ghost and was well aware of what she was doing, she was accepted officially into Section 9. An Identification card was made for her with the name that she had picked for her self. This was needed in order to make the recruiting official and legal; she also got paid like any other member and shared a save house together with Kyle.

But before all that Kyle had gotten a replacement Body, his old prosthetic body was running on its last breath and it was hurting Kyle in the process. This body had no custom job what so ever. Only his physical appearance was changed a little. The operation went as planned, and he was secure in his new body.

Marian was relieved to see that Kyle was ok. They were handed keys to there new apartment and Marian was given her ID card which made her an official person and also a member of Section 9.

Though some people gave them problems about the fact that Marian was considered an actual person while she was originally an android, those people where silenced when they had a look at Kyle's life records and how he and Marian were getting along with each other.

"Come on Kyle, we don't have all day." Marian called out as she was ready to go to work.

"Right I am coming." Kyle answered as he put the finishing touches on yet another weapon; he had constructed another Bull Pup Pistol but this one was meant for Marian as a welcoming gift for joining Section 9 and her gaining an ID card as a normal person. He put it into a box and wrapped it in paper. Hiding it on his duffel bag he headed out to join Marian who was waiting in the drivers seat of the car which Aramaki arranged for them to use.

"Well that took long." Marian noted as Kyle entered the car. "We are going to be late."

"Yeah I know, I just hope there is no traffic jam again."

"(Kyle it's me.)"

"(Hello chief. Why the early mornings call?)"

"(We got a bit of a problem here.)"

"(What kind of Problem?)"

"(A problem in the form of a 10 year old girl who does not seem to understand any other language then Dutch, she also has no cyber brain so we have no means of talking to her.)"

"(I understand. Where are you?)"

"(We are at the airport right now; it appeared that she was a stowaway. As we have no means of communication there is no way to be sure.)"

"Head for the airport Marian; the Chief is waiting there with a job for us."

"Ok."

"(We are on the way now.)"

"(We will be waiting.)"

"What's wrong?" Marian asked.

"the Chief just told me that they had a 10 year old girl at the airport who appeared to be a stowaway, but she only talks Dutch and has no cyber brain so they unable to talk to her." Kyle answered. "It's so great to be able to talk a language that no one else here can understand at times."

"Well I don't know Dutch my self as the availability of cyber translation programs for Dutch is none." Marian explained "I really do wish I could learn it though."

"Well I can synchronize my language speech centers with yours so you will be able to speak and understand it." Kyle offered.

"That would be handy" Marian agreed.

"Waar ben ik!" the girl screamed

"Oh boy, here we go again." Bato noted as he plugged his ears "(I really wish that this kid would shut up.)"

"(Don't take it so hard she is just scared, Being in a place with strangers with out being able to understand what there talking about.)"

"(Well sure you know that Togusa, you're a family man, and a father to boot.)" Bato commented. "(Hey since you got a kid why not let you take care of it so I can go home?)"

"Ik heb dorst, mag ik wat te drinken?" she asked.

"What the hell is she talking about?" Togusa wondered.

"Heck if I know let's try and find out." Bato muttered.

"With out being able to speak the same language; Good luck with that one." Togusa joked.

He got on his knees in front of the girl; He made a gesture asking her to make it what she meant.

"Water" the girl answered as she pretended to hold a cup and she started drinking from it. Then she pointed to her hand that held the pretended cup and they made a flowing motion as to indicate water.

"I guess she is trusty." Bato noted as he looked up with a smile.

Togusa chuckled. "Nice one big guy, even though of razing a family?"

"Now that you mention it… yeah actually I had."

"(I bet that he still had that photo we made for that mission with that old boxer dude, you know the only with Motoko, some kid and him in it?)" Ishkawa joked.

"ik heb dorst, mag ik water?" the girl repeated again.

"(Just shut up and get some water for her already.)" Bato ordered.

"(Yes sir!)" Togusa answered with a salute and they walked off, leaving Bato alone.

'Man just my luck…' Bato thought to him self. 'First day of the week and I get stuck with some Dutch kid.'

Moments later Togusa returned with a cup of water for the girl. He held it to her and she wasted no time in drinking it. She held the cup out to Togusa with a smile.

Togusa took hold of the cup and he bowed his head slightly as he sat down. "So where is our own Dutch translator then?" he wondered.

"The chief said that he would be here." Bato answered "where is Ishkawa?"

"He went to get a liter bottle filled with water incase she wanted more." Togusa started. "If she truly was in there as long as they say she was, then my guess is that she must be pretty thirsty."

"Ik moet plassen." The girl called out.

"Oh boy, what does she want now?" Bato wondered.

"Well you're the current expert on talking to her with Sign-language.

"She just needs to use the bath room." Marian answered as she walked in with Kyle.

"Hey Marian, How can you understand her?"

"Some synchronization was needed for that." Kyle chuckled. "I just synchronized my speech centers with Marian so she can also understand Dutch now." Kyle turned to the girl. "jij moest naar de w.c?"

"Ja" the girl answered.

"marian zal je wel helpen."

"Ok!" she cheerfully replied. And Marian took her hand and walked out towards the toilets

"Boy hearing that Dutch of yours is making my mind spin." Bato grinned. "How can you even keep the languages apart?"

"It comes natural really, but I can't explain it." Kyle answered. "I'll go and ask her questions later when she is more at peace."

Every one agreed after Kyle had explained that this girl was kind of scared from the way she talked. Letting her settle down would be the best approach before starting to ask questions.

3 hours later

"So what did you manage to get out of her?" Aramaki wondered.

"Not much Chief." Kyle answered. "She states to have no recollection about boarding the aircraft. Also she says that both her parents are dead. I have tried to ask if she had any other family to speak of, but she only ignored the question out right." Kyle paused for a moment. "Well we know that she is called Sonja. But she does not want to tell us her last name sadly."

"So where dealing with a Dutch girl with out a cyber-brain and she can't even understand English." Motoko noted. "Anything else to make the start of the week more rotten then it already is?"

"I doubt it major." Aramaki answered as he took his reading glasses off. "We have some good news, Proto is coming back again."

"Proto?" Togusa wondered. "The same from back then or is it another one?"

"The same, they managed to repair him. He will ones again be assigned to Section 9 on my request."

"Going soft chief?" Motoko commented

"Not at all major, Proto already had us fooled with that fact that he was a bio-neural-android prototype. And he was so affective that I felt bed of treating him like an object."

"If you don't mind chief there is something that's been bugging me for a while now." Kyle started.

"What is it?"

"Well about Marian; she is an android, and her blood is white, while I am full prosthetic with none of my organics intact, but still my body's blood is red. How is that?" Kyle wondered. "Because if you look at it from a different angle; my body is the same as that of an android, so why is my blood red and not white?"

"I think that the Major would be able to better explain that. Major?"

"Of course chief." She agreed. "Well the blood in you're body only really has one purpose right now, to keep the skin around you alive. But as you used to be human, you're blood contained you're DNA code. Which is also imprinted into you is cyber brain. Now this is used while reproducing, you're body will create sperm cells by micro machines by breaking down other materials like the food that you eat, they use the raw material to create the organism's as sperm and while making it, they utilize the DNA imprint inside you're cyber brain so the offspring is still from you, even though you're body and face may change. It will still be you're biological child." She explained. "Now for an android, there blood does not contain a single strand of DNA, as they have no ghost. And so to better identify an android there blood is plain white, only to sustain the clone tube grown skin."

"That explains it major, thanks." Kyle replied. "But one last question; do you still have your monthly period? Or is that a Function that you can just turn off?"

"Why on earth would you want to know that?" Aramaki asked as the rest where grinning and chuckling away.

"Well chief I am just trying to know more about full prosthetics, as I want to start a family of my own someday."

Silence was the sudden response Kyle had gotten from his answer.

"Are you honestly being serious about this Kyle?" Aramaki wonderd. "You can't begin to imagine the trouble I went thru to get Marian an ID and her own legal rights with in the system. But this is taking it a bit far don't you agree?"

"Sorry chief, but I am already making plans to marry. How can I not think of starting a family?" Kyle stood up and he walked to the window looking out of it. "When I came here at section 9 I felt like nothing had changed, even when I was transferred into this new body of mine. I assumed that it would be just like in Holland; 'Fight for you're country!' and 'Soldiers don't need families' you know what I am talking about right?" Kyle sighed. "I realized that I had been given a second chance in life, here in Japan for section 9. I could try and start a family just like I always wanted to, even if I need to go thru hell and back again. I won't let anything hold me down from reaching that goal of mine."

"I understand that Kyle, but what about the opinion from people around you?" Aramaki wondered.

"Others who disagree can screw them self's for all I care." Kyle Gritted.

"It's a strange mentality for a strange love life." Motoko noted. "Are you really that serious?"

Kyle nodded stiffly as he clutched his right hand.

The door opened and Marian together with the girl walked in. "Kyle?" Marian started. "I have found out some more details about her."

"Really?" Aramaki wondered.

"Yes chief, it appears she is from a very rich family who's members were reported assassinated almost 2 weeks ago." Marian explained. "The family's servants smuggled her out of the place and put her in a plane as a stowaway to escape the same fate as that of her family members."

Kyle kneeled down before the girl. "Wat is je achternaam?" he asked.

"De bruin." She answered

Kyle was stunned.

"Kyle? What's wrong?" Aramaki asked. "What did you just ask that girl?"

"I asked for her last name."

"Well?"

"Sonja the brown..." He stammered. "She is a relative if mine."

End chapter 3

Notes:

There are a few lines that you might not be able to understand. The reason being is that it is actual Dutch.

Even though the some of the Characters can understand it and have translated it for the others. I felt the need to include a One-On-One Translation of it anyways.

Translations:

"Waar ben ik!" "Where am I?"

"Ik heb dorst, mag ik wat te drinken?" "I am Thirsty, can I have something to drink?"

"Water" "Water"

"Ik moet plassen." "I have to pee"

"jij moest naar de w.c?" "you need to use the bath room?"

"Ja" "Yes"

"Marian zal je wel helpen." "Marian will help you."

"Wat is je achternaam?" "What is you're last name?"

"De Bruin." "The Brown."