Galerians: Reanimation

by Hihana

Disclaimer: If anyone of those characters would belong to me, Lilia would have lived along with Rion
and all other Galerians, but alas I'm not.

Summary
The retieval of Spider continues and Rion meets someone new...

Author's notes
The seventh chapter... I can't believe it took me so long, but I'm so busy at the moment. But this story will be finished even if it kills me.

Reviewers
Thank you so much
SensiblyTainted: Thank you!! We'll see if he gets better... I'll try to update faster...
Yami Silverdramon: Thanks, I'll try...
Heart of Dreams:
Yes, Rion and Lilia have a kid, how? Well I'll think I'll keep that to myself a little
longer, but it will be explained... eventually... when I feel like it... as for Rion and
kissing guys. I hate to break it to you but the second time around he did that of his own free will.. and I don't think he had to transfer the virus that way so...who knows, I tend to think it meant acceptance and fondness.. I don't really consider Rion gay per se as he is an AI in a physical body... but I also don't know what kind of relationship he and Ash are going to have in this story.. you'll have to wait and see... I assure you at the moment Rion has only remotely romantic feelings for Lilia...

Warnings
Violence and spoilers... please it's best if you know both games beforehand or have seen the movie..

(Annoying notes from the author)
"Speaking"
quotes, thoughts telepathic contact
Scanned scenes/flashback

So that is it... the seventh chapter.. thanks for waiting so long and please review I'm totally dependant on your approval... o

Bye
Hihana

Last time ...

"Joy." It was apparent that Cain was ecstatic. He looked ready to kill something. The sad thing was that not even one rabbit was near. The whole upper floor was devoid of enemies. Rion didn't like it.

"Déjà vu.."

Cain nodded. The situation was exactly the same, the difference yet was that they hadn't found traces of blood.. yet. Something Rion was grateful for. Ten minutes later they had searched the upper floor and decided to search the lower levels separated. With the help of telepathy they would stay in contact. At least that was the way they had planned it…

Chapter 7 Dangerous Retrieval

Rion took the Uranium storage. The rooms were dusty, and apparently hadn't been used in ages. He noted that the entrance to the reactor was still open. That confused him a bit, he knew that the entrance had been opened once as Lilia had fetched him but after the investigation concerning them was finished, the entrance had been sealed. So why was it open in the data world? He couldn't feel anything around and for once that was what upset him since he couldn't even feel the energy of the Uranium, fishy.. really fishy.

Something or someone was blocking the energies in this room meaning that his scanning abilities concerning people was useless.

Cain…CAIN?

Great! Telepathy didn't work either. He was in deep shit and the fight hadn't even begun. He couldn't inform Cain and to top the case he had no idea where or who the enemy was. Since scanning didn't work he looked around and tried to find anomalies. Sadly there weren't any. Then a locking sound and he realized immediately what that meant. The exist of the storage was locked and with that the only entrance to the room. Damn.

There was no sound except his own breathing. Where was his opponent? As a wave of Nalcon slammed him against a Uranium tank he knew: Behind him. Immediately he jumped up and landed on the small gangway in front of one of the terminals just as a second wave of Nalcon hit the tank he had been pressed against second before. He didn't like the sounds that actions produced, even in data, he knew he couldn't survive an exploding Uranium tank let alone more.

Looking around he finally spotted his attacker, a man this time. He resembled Birdman in appaerance with his long black hair which fell past his shoulders. The skin was tanned which was unusual for a Galerian, the eyes were brown and the smile was full of maliciousness. Unconsciously Rion shivered not even Parano had managed to make him feel so cold. He rubbed his hands in order to stay warm. Exhaling he knew that the temperature in the room had to have fallen below zero since his breathing produced foggy clouds.

"What do we have here? Nice to meet you Rion Steiner. My name's Fahrenheit."

Another wave of Nalcon, Rion dodged. He winced as the felt something warn trickle down his face and an icy cold spread through his cheek. Blood was splattered on the ground. Of course the temperature had sunk far below zero and it was cold enough that ice shards had formed on the wave of Nalcon. He could see as the terminal behind him freezing, light sheens of ice appeared on the Uranium tanks.

"What do you think will happen when the temperature rises again?"

Rion knew immediately what the Galerian meant, physics had been Rion's best subject, the tanks were made of metal. Every metal pulled itself together when the temperature sunk and with rising temperature it would widen. If the cycles were repeated rapidly the tanks would crack most likely at the same time which would result in a explosion. The explosion would probably tear a chunk into the continent, if this wasn't the data world. Regardless of reality or data world, HE would certainly die! Rion nodded, he could feel the heat spreading in the room.

"Do you want to die?"

"No!"

"Really, you really want to live in a world without your precious Lilia?"

Rion flinched and he knew that Fahrenheit had seen it. How had the bastard known about Lilia?

"We know you from the inside out Rion Steiner…."

Apparently Fahrenheit could make his telepathy work and Rion had no means to defend himself against the intrusion. Aquamarine eyes narrowed. He knew from Pat that the data from the fusion reactor terminal had been hijacked. The data and him had been coded and Pat hadn't found signs of someone managing to crack the code. Then again they hadn't left traces of kidnapping him in the first place.. damn…the temperature was rising again, falling, rising.

The metal groaned, Rion was busy firing doses of Red and Nalcon at the other Galerian. Fahrenheit on the other hand seemed to have the time of his life. The temperature fell and the doses of Red were useless. Then a crack and the first tank broke. The radioactivity in the room doubled and Rion felt droplets of sweat forming on his brow. He wasn't the only one though, Fahrenheit looked a bit cheesy as well and he was trembling?

"Fahrenheit?"

It was just a whisper but the other Galerian had heard it. Rion suppressed a gasp, there was fear in the dark brown eyes and he seemed to mumble something. Luckily the blonde Galerian had learned to read lips in prime school. With that method he had been able to read lips of the top student who had the bad habit of mouthing the answers silently while they had written exams.

The black haired Galerian repeated: "Master please, let me out. Master please, let me out."

Then Rion understood, the other Galerian was supervised by his master and couldn't leave the data world without his/her consent. If the master was really nasty, Fahrenheit would die here with him. A screeching noise told Rion that the next two tanks were garbage. The radioactivity rose again. He shuddered, it was as if he could feel the poisoned rays working through his systems. He sank on his knees, the radiation was almost unbearable now.

Cain!!!.. Where ….are….. you…?

Rion...

Don't give up now… help is coming…

He could feel arms around his waist. Was someone lifting him up? He didn't understand. Help.. who could help him now? The world grew darker and darker, finally after a few seconds he succumbed to the darkness. He didn't feel as someone heaved him off the ground neither as his lips were briefly touched.

Two days later…Michelangelo hospital

"Do you think he'll make it?"

"I'm confident that he will wake up within the next twenty-four hours. What worries me is the high amount of radiation Rion was exposed to. As a Galerian, you possess a high resistance against radioactivity, but the radiation I recorded in the data world was higher than the one we found in the storage room from Ash's time in this world. It shouldn't be possible to manipulate the data world like that."

"What does that mean for us?"

"It means that our opponent is technical much more advanced than we are. He or she is able to manipulate the data world taken from your minds. Besides the Galerians you've met can use different powers as you have seen with Aqua. She used the ability to control water."

A groan stopped the discussion. Rion had opened his eyes and was staring at the ceiling.

"Rion? You are awake? Since when? How are you feeling.."

"Since you started discussing this interesting topic. Oh and I'm just peachy."

"Daddy…"

Only now Rion noticed Elsa, the young girl was sitting near his feet, clutching her favorite plushy animal. At the end of the bed stood Cain with Pat and sitting on the only chair in the room was Spider. How had Spider gotten out of the data world. Apparently Pat noticed the glance.

"Cain found Spider in the enriched Uranium Storage which is connected to the General Sick Bay. It took him a bit to persuade him to come but in the end Spider followed Cain."

"After Spider and I arrived at the terminal in the control room near Earth door. I tried to contact and tell you to come back but.. but I couldn't reach you. Spider said that he couldn't feel your presence at all and neither my own. I realized that someone was messing with our scanning ability. We searched for you in the lower levels and found you in front of the Waste Uranium Storage. You looked ….dead."

There was a carefully concealed note of worry in the younger one's voice but Rion ignored it. Cain would have gotten uncomfortable, it was enough to know that he cared...

"We first thought you were but then you tried to breath uneven but you did. Cain carried you back and with your help I could be brought back too."

"Daddy.. hurt.."

Rion sat up and reached out to pull his daughter close, he didn't want her to worry. For the other? That didn't matter but his daughter… Taking her plushy he placed it on the nightstand and hugged her even closer, for minutes he ignored the others completely. Only after he let go he acknowledged them again.

"How long have I been out?"

"Almost two days. The radiation was too high for you to take. What happened anyways?"

"You said you found me in front of the Waste Uranium Storage, correct?" Pat nodded.

"And you have no idea how I got there?"

"What do you mean Rion?" Pat frowned now.

"Simple I and the other Galerian named Fahrenheit were locked in the Storage not outside. As I collapsed the doors were still locked and the temperature was impossible high without taking the radiation into account."

"Impossible, how did you end up outside of the room?"

"I don't know and somehow I doubt that Fahrenheit carried me there."

"What abilities has the other Galerian, as soon as you two split I lost your signals completely."

"Fahrenheit is male, around 5ft. 6inches and in his twenties. His ability is as his name suggests to control temperature. I also suspect that he messed with our telepathy and scanning abilities and he definitely possesses telepathy himself."

"Strong?"

"Depends on the surroundings, the organism of a Galerian can easily withstand drastic rises and falls of temperature. But with the Uranium stored in the tanks in the room it was a time bomb. Three or four of the tanks had already been broken by the time I lost consciousness. Maybe Fahrenheit died in the room as well, I can't confirm it though."

"We'll see. For now we should concentrate on rescuing the others. Along the way we try to gather as much information as possible on the other Galerians. And even more importantly on their 'master', we need to know how he manages to hack the data from your head and manipulate it."

"I also want to know what his plans are. It's been four years, so why now? Our data was taken years ago so why do they act now?"

"Good point, we'll keep our eyes open. Now Rion, the doctors have ordered rest for you so Cain and Spider will go and retrieve Rita and Nitro."

"I thought every two days?"

"Normally yes, but with the present circumstances I've been given order to fetch the remaining Galerians as fast as possible and the two are of the same age. After them we will search for Birdman and then Parano and Ash."

"What about Rainheart?"

"Why don't you look into the bed right next to you?"

Rion turned his head and really there was Rainheart, sleeping peacefully and unaware of the happenings.

"When did you get him out?"

"Yesterday. He is a bit younger than planned but it will have to do."

"I'm sure he will get used to being six months younger than before. We should get going, I want to have Rita here as soon as possible. God knows what is happening in the moment."

"See you later Rion. Elsa you stay with your daddy, won't you?"

Rion watched as the three left his room, only now he noticed that he was in the same room he had woken up barely a week ago. The equipment had been moved into one of the many storage rooms. Now two beds were placed here. New different kinds of devices and equipment, specially tuned to the metabolism and needs of a Galerian had been placed here. In short the whole ward was made just for them.

He studied the Galerian in the bed next to him, Rainheart had been older than him by a year as they had fought. And yet the boy had always reminded him of a young child, a bit older than his daughter perhaps. He had seen a brief flash of Rainheart's life as the boy had been dieing. How he had been tortured with the medicine by the doctor. Rainheart had been the second life he had taken from the group of Galerians, from the ones he had once called family.

Rita and Cain had followed, all of them had suffered and death had been their salvation. Even his own would have been his freedom, if his backup data hadn't been found. His conscious would have floated in the rest of the family data for eternity and he would have lived in the cycle of Dorothy's destruction, blissfully unaware of the real world. That would have been enough for him.

It wasn't meant to be for anyone of them. Six years later he had been drawn into another battle. Back then he had told Lilia, that it should have been his fight, but now he knew that he had lied. He never wanted to come back to life, he had been… happy? No, not happy but satisfied, content. And now four years after his second deserved sleep, he had been torn away again and his 'family' would follow. They were all connected, if not by blood then by the suffering they all had endured at Dorothy's hands.

"Daddy…"

Elsa, he had totally forgotten that she was still in the room. He studied his daughter, she was really Lilia in essence. He knew if it weren't for her, he would have killed himself as soon as Pat had left him alone. He didn't like humanity had come to despise them and the feeling was mutual. Four years ago and now? He doubted, that someone would accept him or the others if they knew, what they were. After he had helped before and all he had gotten had been loathing a hate from the rest. There had been few who had seen beyond the word Galerian...

Sighing he took a picture book from the nightstand next to his bed. Elsa had probably been staying in Pat's quarters while he was unconscious. Opening the picture book he started to read Elsa's favorite fairy tale: Cinderella. She was perched in his lap and looked outside the window. It was an odd habit he decided, she always stared out of a window when he read her a story, perhaps she saw something he didn't or couldn't.

He was halfway through the story, as he began to feel it. It was as someone had slammed a fist in his gut and the pain didn't dim, it only grew worse. He halted and Elsa looked up at him. She gasped, why he didn't know and at the moment he didn't care. All he could think about was the pain, which was driving him towards insanity. In the distance he could only dimly hear a bell ringing. Then a sharp pain ripped through him and he only knew darkness.

TBC...

Well we made it to chapter 7 which has some action and a bit of looking into the dephts Rion's head... except that well Rainheart's back along with Spider.. I will write more about them later...

until then see ya
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Bye
Hihana