Sirens blazed throughout the Diclonius research institute. It was the signal to evacuate the facility, the large hole that ripped through the middle of the building out of nowhere caused the island to start to sink. The ground was starting to cave in around the hole and sea water was flowing in by thousands of gallons per minute, which was also helping to corrode the land. Arakawa was alone in her personal lab finishing up on her work before she fled. She was close her, her ultimate project almost complete. She waited impatiently for the sample to finish. She had to leave, but also had to wait for her project to be completed. She heard the door to her office open as someone else stepped in. They hair blonde hair tied up in a ponytail and round sunglasses on. They were wearing a black vest and black pants, along with black combat boots. "Hey, what do you think you're doing here? Can't you tell we have to evacuate?" They asked Arakawa.

"Well I could ask you the same, this is my private lab ya know." She responded. This person looked back out in the hall both ways then closed the door behind them.

"Don't tell anyone, but i'm actually here as a spy from the other research facility." They whispered.

"A spy?!"

"Shhhh!"

"Sorry." Arakawa spoke in a soft voice.

"I've been investigating into Chief Kakuzawa's motives, turn out protecting the human race isn't exactly in his quota."

"yeah, Lebensborn. He's already filled me in on all of that and took me to his under ground grotto."

"Good, then we're on the same page about that." The Agent walked over to Arakawa's work. "I also understand you're working on a vaccine?" She nodded.

"It's almost ready, just a little more-" Ding. The sample were complete. A round disc shaped tray popped out of the machine, loaded with sample of the Diclonius Virus Vaccine. "They're done!" She ran over and collected them. She placed them inside of a bright red cooler along with her research notes on them.

"Good, then let's get out of here. Follow me." The Agent ordered her.

"Hey, why do I have to listen to you?"

"Fine then, sink with the island while I get away on a private water craft." The Agent said as they began to walk away.

"Ah! Wait no, i'm coming with." Arakawa ran to catch up.

"Good." The Agent opened the door to hear the sound of gunfire. They both stepped out and looked to see what was going on. Down the hall a group of guards was firing father down towards a group of nude Diclonii with bags over their heads. Their bullets seems to do nothing to the rouge Diclonii however, and the massive swarm soon clsoed in and killed all of the guards, mangling up their corpses in gruesome way. "Shit, this way!" The Agent grabbed Arakawa by the hand and lead her down the other way, running full speed.

"Wh-what was that?" She asked as she held the cooler with the cure behind her.

"Cloned Diclonius. Each of them put through rough conditions, no doubt they're set out to kill everyone here."

"Oh man, this is bad." After a short while of running the Agent eventually slowed down and let Arakawa take a quick breather, as she was huffing he pulled out a large Colt Anaconda .44 Magnum revolver with a 4 inch barrel.

"That's not the worst of it. Lucy has escaped and is likely somewhere in this facility." Arakawa looked horrified. She had never met Lucy but had heard plenty about the things she'd done. "Not only that, but she's accompanied by another human-looking creature known as a Ghoul."

"A ghoul?" She asked both confused and afraid.

"That's right, I haven't heard about them myself until he came in but apparently they survive by eating human flesh. So if he catches you, he'll probably eat you." Arakawa was mortified. She had never heard of something so gruesome in her life. "This gun is loaded with special tungsten steel rounds, they're too heavy for the Diclonius to deflect. But apparently guns don't work on ghouls, so if we run into him, we're dead." Arakawa placed her head back against the wall.

"Why me?" She complained.

"Come on, enough sitting around. If we wait too long we'll go down with the island." Arakawa stood up and sighed, placing a hand against the wall she was just leaning on.

"Aye aye." She moped. She took a step forward when suddenly the island began to shake. Arakawa tripped and fell face first against the floor. She dropped the bright red cooler and it hit the ground. Part of the wall near her began to collapse, and she scuttled back away from it in a panic. The Agent grabbed her and pulled her back away from the collapse. She failed the grab her research however, and it fell down into the abyss. "No!" She crawled over and reached for it but it was too late. The cooler fell down and when she looked it was gone already.

Kouta and Lucy were wandering around some of the lower levels of the research facility. Kouta was carrying a nude Anna over his shoulder as they made their way up and out. "Turn right here." Lucy instructed him. He did so, using her like a GPS to navigate through the facility. She had been wheeled through enough times that she knew her way around the place. So she told Kouta which direction to go in order for them to escape the sinking island. As he made his way down the hall the island began to shake violently, more of it sunk into the abyss. Part of the hall they were in fell down and they could now view the open hole. Both of them had taken a step back when the wall next to them suddenly began to vanish and fall.

"Geez, that was close." Kouta responded in shock. He stepped closer and looked up. "Looks like I can see the surface from up here, how about we climb up instead?"

"Climb up?" She looked at him confused.

"Yeah, you should be able to climb using your vectors right? I should be able to with my rinkaku."

"You're what?"

"My kagune." He explained.

"Why did you just call them rinkaku?" She asked.

"I'll explain later, first let's get out of here." They both stood near the edge, ready to climb up to the top. Before either could unleash their special weapons however, something fell in front of them and Lucy caught it with her vectors. Kouta looked over and stared at the bright red cooler. "Hey, what's that?" He asked.

"I... I don't know." She brought it closer to herself and grabbed it with her real arms. "But I have a feeling to destroy whatever is in, like it's a threat to my very existence." She opened up the small cooler and looked inside, finding a small notebook along with a plastic disc that contained several small capsules of a blue liquid inside. Lucy pulled out the black notebook and opened it up to the page. "So that's why..."

"What is it?" Kouta asked.

"It's a cure, a vaccine for anyone infected with the Diclonius Virus, preventing any further Diclonius births." She told him, then placing the notebook carefully back in the container. "We have to take this with us, I can't allow this to continue any farther. Enough people have gotten hurt already." She picked up the container. Kouta stared at her for a moment, surprised to see her so concerned about this. But he then replied back.

"Alright, but you're carrying it since i've already got her." He told Lucy. He faced back towards the massive gaping hole and his left eye shifted into a kakugan. He sent out his kagune scales and used them to penetrate into the remaining walls. He used them to climb upwards, Lucy followed shortly behind him using her vectors to scale the destroyed wall. However, when they got about 2 floors away from the surfaces one of the walls on the last floor began to collapse. Kouta's kagune went into it and it suddenly began to fall out of place. His ghoul appendage fell out with it and he nearly fell off the wall, dearly holding on with his other three while he held tightly onto Anna. The wall then began to fall out of its place as debris flooded out and by luck managed to miss Kouta.

"Kouta, are you alright?" Lucy called up to him.

"Fine, but we can't go up this way any farther. We're only two floors below so lets just go it here." He shouted back down to her. He climbed into the second to last floor, retracting his rinkaku as he landed on his feet. Lucy was there behind him about 2 seconds later. He led the way again as he exited the small office space, now emptied as the employees had fled.

Arakawa was still being led out of the facility by the mysterious agent. The two of them were taking back halls and corridors to flee to a back exit and arrive to an already placed escape boat. On the other side of the facility, the remaining staff were fleeing or being torn apart by the horde of clone Diclonii. "It's just a little farther." The spy told Arakawa. They took another left. "Straight down here." She was told. They continued straight down that hall and came to one last intersection. "It's just a little..." The Agent stopped speaking when they found they two of them were not alone. Right as they came to the intersection, someone else did. A teenage boy with snow white hair, and when he saw them he gave them a rather menacing look. As if they were just another bother to them. Behind him, the two of them instantly recognized the Queen Diclonius. There was silence in the halls as they all met there. Arawaka noticed something in Lucy's hands. It was the bright red container she had put her vaccine and notes in.

"The cure..." She spoke as her eyes widened. The Agent looked and noticed it too. Lucy was holding the future of humanity in her hands. But the two of them were giving rather intimidating looks, as if they were expecting a fight.

"Yeah..." The Agent responded. "I'm afraid we're going to need that." The other two were informed. The Agent reached for their gun, ready to do battle. But instead, both of them were surprised to see Lucy casually walk past Kouta and extend her arm out to them, offering them the container.

"Here, take it." She told them, taking them both by surprise.

"J-just like that?" Arakawa asked. Lucy nodded.

"I know it seems odd, but I don't want this to continue any farther either. Too many people have already gotten hurt because of me, I don't want it to continue anymore either. So please, take this and just help me stop this, all of this." There was a moment of silence as both the agent and Arakawa were shocked to Lucy willingly hand over the vaccine. The agent reached over and took it from her, half-afraid that she might chop his arm off as he tried. Instead she offered no resistance and let them take back the cure.

"Here, take her too while you're at it." Kouta handed over Anna to them. The agent handed the cure to Arakawa, and took Anna to carry himself.

"Who is she?" The agent asked.

"Her name is Anna, she's the Chief's daughter." Kouta told them.

"His daughter?"

"Yeah, he had her down in his little hole in the earth, he modified her to a gigantic size to make her smart, like an organic super-computer." Kouta told them.

"Alright, we'll get her out of here." Kouta nodded. He and Lucy continued their way out, after they had passed the agent and Arakawa continued on down the hall.

"Hey, who was that kid?" Arakawa asked.

"Consider us lucky, that was the ghoul." She gasped in shock at hearing that, her face full of fright. That boy was the ghoul that could have easily ripped her apart and eaten her like she was prey. Plus he was right next to Lucy. The two most dangerous people in the facility right next to each other, and she just ran into both of them. She considered herself lucky to be alive. The agent continued to lead her down the hall to an escape hatch. There was a ladder leading straight up and out to the hatch to the outside world. The agent stepped out first, taking a peek around to make sure there was no one in sight. When it was all clear, the agent opened the hatch all the way and stepped out. Arakawa came out right behind and the two of them made their way to the nearest part of the island's edge. There was a small inflatable boat right against the coast with a motor on the back of it. This would held them get back to the shore quickly and escape with the cure in tact. The agent jumped down onto it first, then helping Arakawa as she came down with the cure. The Agent started up the boat and the two of them made their escape from the island.

Back at Kamakura on the peaceful nighttime beach, a small wooden boat reached shore. A young male jumped out onto shore and outstretched his arms. "Man, it is so good to be home again." He exclaimed as his bare feet touched the sand. Kouta was finally back home after the worst month of his entire life. Lucy stepped out soon after, still dressed in nothing but a white lab coat. She went over to his side and admired the sight of the town she felt like she had not seen in a long time. It was quiet at night, no noise of people and the stars were out in the sky. She looked over to her long time friend next to her, he was still in the dark blue guard pants and blue t-shirt from the facility. She knew in her heart he must have undergone horrible, unspeakable things at the facility. She knew he was acting different too, but they were finally back together and back home, and that was all that matter. "We should go back home to Yuka and the others, they're probably worried sick." Kouta turned to her and spoke. She nodded, smiling gently at him. She looked down the beach of Kamakura and noticed something farther down shore.

"Hey, look... over there." She pointed.

Kurama and Mariko were sitting outside against the small shack they had been using for shelter for the past few months. They were both staring up at the night sky star gazing. They both enjoyed spending this time together, staring up into space at the bright dots of light in the sky.

"They're so pretty." Mariko commented. Kurama nodded above her as he held his daughter on his lap and in his arms.

"Your mother would have enjoyed this." He told her. "I only wish she were here."

"It'll be ok daddy, cause we're together now." She smiled up at him. Their tender moment was interrupted when Bando came out of the shelter grunting.

"Damn it, we're outta canned goods again!" He yelled. "Grrr, can't wait till I get out of this place next week. After that it's all yours."

"Thank you Bando." Kurama responding, half-laughing.

"Bando!" A young girl was heard calling out. They all looked up to see Mayu there along with the other members of Maple House. Mayu came running down first, she was pressed in a black skirt than reached down past her knees, along with a black sweater and black hairband. She went right up to Bando. "Sorry i'm late today." She handed him over a paper bag. "Here you go, more onigiri!"

"Ah, thanks kid you're a lifesaver." He thanked her with a smile as he took the bag. He looked behind her to notice the other members of Maple House moving towards the ocean. They were all dressed in all black as well. Yuka was wearing a black mofuku kimono, Nozomi and Nana were both in black dresses. "Hey, what's with them?"

"Oh, Yuka wanted to bring some flowers in remembrance of Kouta." Mayu responded somewhat sorrowful. "This was the last place he was before he was taken so we we thought this was best. Don't worry, she's sending them out to sea."

"Ah, alright." Bando responded, deciding it was best not to interfere with such affairs. Mariko got up off her Papa's lap and tugged on him to get up. He stood up as well and she bowed her head in respect, he followed suit. Yuka knelt down at the shore, the ocean calmly in place against the beach. She placed a bouquet of roses on the gently waves and pushed them out to see. They others all watched as they floated away towards the open ocean.

"Kouta, it's been a month since you left us." Yuka began softly. "We've been doing our best to get by ever since. It's hard missing two members of our family. We all miss Lucy too, you are forgiven for what you have done." She began to tear up. "I wish that you were still here, that you could still be with us..." She was now crying. "Kouta please... don't leave me!"

"What are you talking about Yuka?" She heard a male's voice call form her right side. She raised her head up a bit at the familiar voice. She then looked to her right to see her cousin standing right there, with Lucy by his side. For some reason his hair was white now as well. "You're overreacting." Everyone on the beach there was now turned to the two of them, surprised to see them. Yuka suddenly shot up and wrapped her arms around her cousin.

"Kouta! You're ok, I was so worried about you." She cried out. "I thought... I thought you were dead." She began to tear up again, this time out of happiness. She was overjoyed to see Kouta alive again. He stood there surprised by her sudden reaction. "Kouta, what happened to you? Your hair's white as snow." She asked, loosening her grip on him and giving him a worried look. He glanced at her still surprised, but then gave her a warm smile.

"Don't worry about it, the important thing is we're home now." He responded with a gentle tone. Just then, there were more people heard on the beach. Kouta turned behind him to see a small raft land on the shore behind them. The agent from the facility stepped off onto shore carrying Anna, who was now wrapped up in a blanket. The agent noticed the group already on the beach while Kouta was turned back. The two of them exchanged glances, Kouta giving the same grim look as before, as if the two of them were making sure the other wouldn't suddenly attack. Instead the agent walked over to the wall at the opposite end of the shore and placed Anna down there, then sitting down as well.

"Kouta, who's that?" Yuka asked.

"No clue." He responded. Arakawa then stepped off the raft as well, clutching the small cooler in her arms. Kurama recognized her from across the group. he made his was over to her.

"You, you were Professor Kakuzawa's assistant that the chief brought to the facility, right?" He asked her. Arakawa nodded.

"Mhmm."

"What happened?"

"The whole island sank." She told him. "A big hold appeared in the middle of it that seemed to go down forever, the island began to collapse inward and the ocean rushed in. The whole place in underwater now." Everyone aside from those who were there was shocked. Yuka let go of Kouta.

"Kouta... did you two have something to do with that?" She asked.

"Ah, well sort of." He responded rubbing the back of his head. "She's the one who made the giant hole though." He pointed over to the currently unconscious Anna.

"Who is she?" Nana asked.

"Anna Kakuzawa, the Chief's daughter." Lucy told them. Kurama looked over to the girl shocked.

"He had a daughter?" He asked in wonder.

"Yeah, he did some sort of experiment on her and made her a gigantic monster to increase her brain size, make her able to know almost anything. But she was still there in the middle of the thing." Kouta explained. Just after he did, Anna began to slowly open here eyes and come too.

"Where... where am I?" She asked in a groggy tone.

"Kamakura." The Agent told her. Here eyes were now wide open as she viewed the nighttime beach. She then looked down to see her own flesh and blood hands for the first time in years.

"Anna is... alive? Then father didn't modify me." She was astounded. "He meant it, he really isn't such a cruel father."

"Maybe, maybe not." Kouta told her, causing her to look over to the familiar white haired boy in surprise. "Maybe he did do it out of what little goodness was left in his heart, or maybe he intended it to be a fail-safe. Give his great creation a mortal core, that way if you ever disobeyed him he could terminate his creation. I really don't know." Kouta then turned away from her, staring out into the vast ocean. Anna looked down with a grief stricken face as she began to think about what Kouta had just told her.

"Then... is head dead? Chief Kakuzawa?" Kurama asked.

"No..." Kouta replied in a darker tone than was usual for him. "He got away." He began to ball his fists.

"Then I suppose he will get to see his dream become a reality." Kurama began to look off. "In just 5 years, the virus released over the bay will take full effect and humanity will be wiped out." Yuka, Mayu, and Nozomi both looked at him horrified. They were the only ones who did not know what he was talking about.

"No it won't." Arakawa responded. "I have the cure right here." She nodded down to the red cooler in her hands. Kurama gave it a very surprised stare.

"Then... the virus can be stopped. Humanity has a future."

"It's over." Lucy stated, walking over to her friends. "We can finally all go back home." She smiled at her room mates, glad to finally be able to return home. Kouta stayed where he was, still a bit away from everyone else but he smiled at her too.

"No it's not." Anna spoke up, all eyes were on her now. "Father had a contingency plan, in case the Lebensborn ever failed. Dr. Nousou had made cloned Diclonii. He tried to keep it as a surprise to father, but father has a way of learning about things. He had an army of them planned in case his Lebensborn didn't succeed for any reason. He has ready to make about 5000 clones, of the strongest Sipleit." She pointed over towards Mariko, who looked stunned. "He has them all stored on another island that I do not know the location of. They are still embryos though, so it will take some time for them to mature, but he can accelerate that. I had predicted that it would take about 5 months, and he would attack the area that would yield the most results. His backup plan is an all out war on mankind, starting with an invasion of Tokyo." Everyone was silent. Chief Kakuzawa was crazy enough to attempt an all out assault on mankind, a full fledged Diclonius War.

"I see..." The Agent said disheartened before standing up. "I suppose I should alert Saseba, they'll want to know about this."

"Well, then they'll stop him and we'll be ok here right?" Mayu asked, sounding like she wasn't fully convinced and was still concerned.

"Of course Mayu." Yuka smiled over at her. She noticed Kouta seemed rather angry however. He was making a face like he was trying to hold his rage back as he stared at the ground. He was also balling his fists again. "Kouta, you should probably change your hair color when we get back home too." She tried to snap him out of it. He looked up at her like he was just pulled out of a trance, then smiled at her. "People might think things seeing you walking around with-"

"I'm not coming back to Maple Inn." He suddenly told them, giving the other residents all shocked looks.

"Oh, I see.." Yuka responded with some sorrow.

"I'm sorry, but... there's no way i'm going to let that maniac get away with something like that. Besides, I have friends in Tokyo. Friends I have to warn and protect."

"But Kouta, then what will you do?" Mayu asked.

"I'm going to train and get ready, and in 5 months time i'll be waiting and i'll stop him... then i'll kill him." This was a shock to everyone there who knew him. Kouta did not kill people, this was not normal for him to say. Kurama remained silent but he understood. He knew that a person's hair turned white after going through a great deal of stress. He knew the boy must have been undergone unspeakable experiments, and that must have very negatively affected his psyche.

"Anna doesn't want her father to die..." She began. "But I also understand... he must. He has abandoned Anna anyway." She buried her face in her knees. Kouta glanced over to her.

"Yuka, why don't you take Anna back to Maple Inn with you guys?" Both Yuka and Anna looked surprised to hear Kouta say that. "She doesn't have any other place to go, so why not take her back with everyone."

"Ok, but..." Yuka looked down and began to trail off. "Kouta, after this will you come back home?" She asked softly.

"Yes." He smiled at her warmly.

"Promise?" She asked him through tearful eyes.

"Promise." He responded back. "I'll be back after 5 months time."

"I wanna come with!" Everyone looked over surprised to see Mariko suddenly shout that out.

"Mariko?" Kouta asked.

"It's because of you Kouta that I got to live and spend this wonderful time with my father. I wanna help you out in order to repay you for what you did." She explained, taking him totally by surprise. "Besides, those clones are of me. I can't just let someone make thousands of clones of my and use them for nefarious purposes."

"Alright." He responded. "You can come with." He looked over to the Queen Diclonius. "What about you Lucy?" She looked surprised. "This is your fight too, this man has done terrible things to you. Do you want to get your revenge?" She was silent for a moment.

"No, I don't care about revenge anymore. I want to come with to be alongside you." She smiled gently at him, and he smiled back.

"Nana wants to come with too!" She exclaimed.

"Alright Nana, we could use your help too." Kouta told her, partially chuckling.

"This might seem odd but..." The agent approached Kouta. "I would like join along and offer my support as well. I can offer you the support of Saseba, we're another military group funded directly by the government. We were doing research into using vectors as weapons. I should be able to help find you all a place to stay and cover living expenses, as well as give you strong support. What do you say? Shell we form our own army?" The agent offered their hand to Kouta, who looked at it for a second, considering the offer.

"Alright." He shook the agent's hand. "Let's work together."

"Hey, you're not forming a killing party and forgetting me are ya?" Bando shouted in a gruff voice.

"Ah, Bando. You want to come with us as well?" Kouta asked, giving him a suspicious look.

"Look, I know I tried to kill your girlfriend and all but i'm being honest here. No way in hell am I gonna let some psychopath invade a whole city and try to wipe out mankind. You can count me in on this, I promise I won't try and her this time or nothing." Kouta continued to give him a suspicious look.

"Alright fine, but I warn you. If I find you being 'unnecessary' i'll kill you." Kouta warned him with a dark tone, and menacing glance.

"Heh, don't worry about a thing." Bando grinned, relishing the company of someone so strong and now no longer holding back.

"Kouta, I want to come with too!" Yuka declared.

"Yuka, finals are next week for this semester right?" Kouta asked her. "You should finish up at the college, then next semester you can find a better college. You don't have to go to this safety school for me anymore. I know you can get into a good school, so go and live your life. Find a better school and stop holding yourself back for my sake."

"Kouta..." She responded, not sure what else to say.

"Besides, everyone else can take care of themselves in a fight. I don't know what I would do with myself if you got hurt because of me." He stared down at the ground. "I'll be back when this is all over, I promise." The two cousins stared at each other for a moment.

"Ok, you better." She finally smiled him. He nodded back to her and turned to leave down the beach. Mariko tugged on her Papa and he came with. Then Kouta, Lucy, Mariko, Nana, Kurama, The Agent, and Bando all left Kamakura for Toyko. They had 5 months to prepare before a total invasion of Tokyo would commence. They were getting ready for an all out war. Meanwhile Arakawa took her vaccine and went to get it mass produced, while Yuka, Mayu, and Nozomi took Anna back to Maple House with them. Yuka took one last look at the unlikely alliance as they made their way down the beach, and she had a sinking feeling as if this was the end of an era in their life.