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Ch. 3 Data Transfer

After what seemed like a long wait the doctor finally returned. He made sure to smile and all that to keep them content. He did not want to worry them, but he was a little bit worried about the situation. They had never had anything like this happen.

"She is doing well now. She has not regained consciousness." He said. He was holding Elle's file and tapping it uncontrollably. "We looked at her records...she was the first to have full body prosthetics am I correct?" They both nodded. They were happy that she was fine, but they still looked worried. "It might take some time for her to regain consciousness. Her brain data is slightly deteriorated. She may lose some memory." He said calmly as if it were nothing. They both felt otherwise.

"How much memory loss should we expect?" Her father said.

"Not much...it is to be expected though. It is a hazard for those with prosthetics like hers." He said trying to assure them that there was almost nothing wrong. He was not sure what was going to happen when Elle woke up.

They both went in to see her. They wanted to talk to her, but she was sleeping. Her mother sat beside her bed crying and wiping her eyes. Her father held her hand silently praying that she be alright. She looked fine from their point of view, but they couldn't actually see what was going on in her head or otherwise. They had not seen the scans of her brain.

Outside the doctor was conferring with a more qualified physician. It was the doctor that had done the data transfer and given her the prosthetic body. In other words...Elle didn't really exist anymore.

"I'm sending you a copy of the scan." The doctor said. I hope I'm wrong or she might never wake up. He waited for a few minutes so he would have time to look over the scan. After a few minutes he heard a gasp on the phone. "Well?"

"Are you sure this is correct." He said almost shouting. Obviously he thought that this was very wrong. All he could do was answer yes and wait for the answer. "If this is right then Her data is missing, but it looks like there is some kind of anomaly in the data. There is dormant data where hers should be." He said sounding a little confused.

"How could something like that happen? How could there be an anomaly like that?" Neither of them could understand it. It had never happened before to anyone. "She was electrocuted and we still aren't sure how that will affect her later on."

"If she wakes up. There might be a chance that when she wakes up she won't be the same person...if she responds at all." He sighed and took a few moments to think. "Keep her there. I'm going to come in myself and have a look at her." He said before hanging up. The doctor put down the phone and looked over at her room. This had him very concerned and he was not sure how her family would react to that sort of information.

He went in to see how things were going and found them in the same exact position he had left them in. She was no better and they were both crying. "When can we take her home?" Her father asked.

"We would like her to wake up before considering that. We aren't entirely sure how this is going to affect her. We want her to stay here until we are completely sure she is ok." He paused for a moment. He could see that he was only making them feel worse about this. "It is just a precaution." He said.

"How long do you think that will take?" Her father asked still unsure about this.

"It's hard to say." He said. Before they could question him further a nurse came in and whispered something to him. "You'll have to forgive me, but I must go attend to something. Try not to worry too much." He was actually glad to leave. They were starting to ask a lot of complicated questions that he didn't want to answer.

Elle woke up not really knowing how much time had passed. Things here changed little since there was no one playing her games. She looked up to find all of the final fantasy seven characters there. She did notice something a little bit off though. Tifa wasn't moving like the rest. She just sat on the ground like a lump. Elle couldn't see anything wrong with her. She decided to ignore it for now. They were all just made up of data anyway.

It's not like they really matter. She thought. She got bored of being there and decided to see where else she could go. She made her way back to the long corridor and decided to keep going. She walked on for a long time still seeing things she knew were stored inside her computer. After a while she reached a wall of sorts. Something that looked like a door was also there. All of the lights around her went there forming the door shape. She lightly touched it hesitating a little bit.

She had no idea if it could hurt her or not. Part of her thought maybe it would and she could die completely. That worried her, but not enough to stop her from trying. She found that it did not hurt, but she could not push past it whatsoever. She guessed that if someone were using the data then maybe she could. With that curiosity satisfied she went the other direction. Everything still looked the same.

She walked until she was back with the final fantasy seven characters. Tifa still sat there unmoved. Something about that was now beginning to worry her. Elle was not sure what that meant, but she knew it had something to do with the fact that she was here. Although now she did notice something else. Tifa was not the only one not moving. She went closer and found Cloud sitting down with dim eyes.

"Did it happen again?" She said looking around. She did not see anyone else there with her so she guessed if they were stuck like her they were stuck in their own computer, but this event affects all of the characters no matter what computer the data is stored on. It all comes from the same place. It's originally stored on the net, but the save go to the user's computer. "I guess I don't get anyone to talk to." She said grimly. She did not wish this on anyone, but she wanted to talk about it to someone.

She actually wondered if they would meet when someone played the game or not. If they could then maybe they could start to figure it out. What was going on and how could this possibly happen? Those were the most prevalent questions in her mind at the moment. She found herself sitting down too unable to really do anything else. She guessed that no one in her family was going to play on her computer.

She was actually wondering what they were doing. Was her body still out there and was she ok? She sighed and then pulled her legs in close to her. She felt kind of isolated right now. Can't leave, and there is nothing to do. If only I were like them while here. They don't think or worry. She thought watching the characters aimlessly walk around in the small area. It was all they could do. Here they weren't playing the game so they had nothing to do. No life at all.

Author: Slowly it moves along. I don't know why this one seems so difficult for me to write. Maybe it's just all the things I would like to do with it that don't seem to pan out. In the next one expect the new doctor to show up and someone plays the game (of course). Can't have her trapped in there forever bored to death.