"You're what?!" Ciel asked the three.
"We're going to go back to where Sigma found me. There are... some things…. we have to check on. Zero is going to stay behind and protect the place while we are gone." Dark looked at Zero. Zero looked back then went back to staring at the wall. "He hasn't said yes, but he also won't say a thing about it, so I suppose it's up to you." He looked back Ciel.
"I don't know, what is it you are going to do?" she asked them.
"We have some of our pasts tied together, we have to go figure out some of the missing pieces." Dark replied.
"And how long will it take for you to do this?" she had a concerned look on her face.
"Three days, at most." Dark held up three fingers.
"I…don't…know…"
"Let them go, Ciel." Zero said, interrupting her.
"Huh… Alright. But I expect to see you in three days, got it?" she said with a cute smile on her face.
After preparing for a long trip they set out in the north-western direction from the base. They were going at a fast pace, Dark and Harpuia holding onto Leviathan because her speed wasn't her main thing and she wasn't very fast. It was about a little over half a days run at their current speed. Both Harpuia and Dark were wondering why they had to drag her and why she couldn't walk on her own. Dark had dressed himself in a black cloak, hood up. Harpuia had on a brown cloak, but the hood was down at the moment, and Leviathan had a blue cloak that didn't have a hood. They were traveling through a vast desert, hot and dry. The two reploids weren't bothered much by the heat but Dark was. He had the first time he had traveled through it as well. After about twelve and a half hours of travel they came upon the laboratory of Sigma. "Well, this is it." Dark said.
It was not as big as the other two pictured it. It was actually quite small, maybe about 3600 sq. feet. For a lab to be good enough to actually work it would have to be around maybe 80,000 sq. feet. I mean after all there has to be enough room for the equipment. They entered the small lab and it was only one room big. There were several capsules big enough to store two whole bodies each, and there were eight of them. They began looking around. It wasn't strange that the power was still on, but it looked like someone had been there recently. "Dark, what if someone did something…"
"I'm the only one with an access code into the computer. Sigma entrusted the password to me, but I changed it when we broke off." Dark walked over to the console and typed some things. Harpuia walked over just in time to see the password.
"How on earth do you remember that?" he asked
"I didn't really, it just came back, why, what is it?" Harpuia looked away and sat down on a piece of rubble. Dark laughed a little bit because Harpuia had a look of hate and disgust upon his face. Dark continued typing, after a few moments the capsules covers opened. In the first capsule was nothing, the second housed a male body with green hair. The body looked like it wasn't that tall, maybe around 4 feet and about 15 years of age. The next was empty and the fourth housed a female body, blue hair about 5 feet in height and probably around 16 years of age. The next two were empty but the last two wouldn't open. "Huh, that's strange, they should've all open." Dark questioned.
"Is that… me?" Leviathan asked, staring at the female body.
"What if I said it was Harpuia?" She looked at Dark with enraged eyes for his joke. Dark just kinda looked away, disregarding his joke for fear of being mulled to death.
"So you mean Leviathan is older then me?" Harpuia asked.
"No, she was just a little taller. And because of the modifications to your bodies things like height and size were altered. Harpuia your body is actually about 22 and your sister's body is 18. Just like my body is stuck looking 15. In truth I am about 20 years old, I think, somewhere around there. It's hard to tell when you've been sleeping for two, three hundred some odd years." Dark did some more typing. "It says here that your bodies are finished. And I'm guessing if I transfer you into them you will regain your old memories back and will know what abilities have been added to them." Harpuia and Leviathan looked at each other; Leviathan was excited while Harpuia was worried.
"Is there possibly anything that could go wrong during the transfer?" He asked cautiously. Dark stayed quiet for some time.
"I will not lie, I have no idea what could happen, for all I know there could be a firewall blocking access to them. That was actually the only real fear I have about doing this. So if you want, you can: if you don't, then don't."
"I want to go first." Leviathan happily said.
"I will go first." Harpuia demanded for her safety.
"I agree with him, it would be safer." Dark insisted. Knowing she was beat she sat down on old, broken table and awaited for her brother's transfusion. Harpuia laid down on the working table, calming himself, reassuring himself, that it'd be ok. Dark began typing on the console. He didn't type very fast but fast enough to get the job done. "You are going to go into a deep sleep type thing in about 10 seconds, and I promise, if anything does happen I'll come and save your scaly butt." Dark joked. Harpuia was put down before he could say anything back.
"How long will this take?" Leviathan asked.
"Hard to say, depends on how much programming I have to plow through to get it done." he replied.
About 3 hours later nothing has happened. Harpuia twitched once but nothing too serious. Dark was still typing, franticly. "This should have been over by now. Hmm?" Harpuia twitched again. "Levi, can I ask you a favor?" He pulled a cord out of the computer and stuck it into the back of his neck. Leviathan walked up to him. "If you hear anything out of the ordinary pull this cord out of my neck, will ya?" She seemed confused but nodded none the less.
Dark did a "dive" into the system, when he arrived Harpuia was there battling a creature that was almost 4 times his size. "Harpuia!" Dark yelled. Harpuia looked back.
"What happened to the password should do it?" He was hurt a bit, more tired though.
"Shut it, I came for you, didn't I." He looked at the monstrosity. "Piece of cake… I hope." Dark pulled out his swords but the beast just knelt at his feet. "Huh…ungh." His eyes turned to red.
"Go, leave him be." His voice was low; he had become the maverick again."
"Where do you go when you aren't in control?" Harpuia asked. All he got was a stare and his eyes went back to blue.
"What was that?" he questioned. Dark shook his head. "Nevermind, I don't want to know. Just continue along this pathway and you should find your body." Dark disappeared.
Back, in the real world. The capsule opened, releasing the liquid stored inside. The male human body fell to the floor in a lump of flesh. Dark stood up and helped him up, laying him on the table Leviathan had been sitting on "How do you feel?" he asked the body.
"Cold." was all the human Harpuia could manage. Dark grabbed a blanket out of a damaged locker and gave it to him.
"That's to be expected when that body has been in cold sleep for over a century." Harpuia looked like a regular person, just like Dark did without his armor, but he had green hair and eyes. "Leviathan, you are up." She quickly walked over to another table. Dark moved Harpuia's reploid body aside. Dark uploaded the program and she was safely put in her body within 2 hours. The same happened with her, Harpuia gave the blanket to her because there was only one. Both of them finally out, they now had to become accustom to their new body, and find some clothes.