SWA: Diclonius End Game.
A Gunslinger Girl X Elfen Lied Crossover, by Elfen Magix.
Gunslinger Girl is © Yu Aida
Elfen Lied is © Lynn Okamotto
I would like to thank Boomer Gonzales for his help against Writer's Block, the scourge and dreaded disease of writers everywhere!
Chapter 12: 3 Days Later; A Talk Among Telepaths
Nana wakes up from her bed, staring at the ceiling for a moment. She feels odd in an unexplainable way. She raises her right hand above her face and looks at it. Then she realizes that she has not used her vectors to move it, but rather it is moving on its own, as she can feel the sensations going through its skin registering into her brain. Though it was a bit dulled and off, she was still feeling it as she was able to move it on her own. She then raises her other hand and feels her arm with it. Where her old arm was connected to her body, there was a definite indentation, here there was none. It was as if it was really part of her body, and best of all, it did not pop off!
She sits up, throwing the blanket off herself and looks at her naked body, at her legs. Her toes wiggled on command, ankles rotated and knees bend at will. She curled up into a sitting ball, holding herself in a tight embrace, with a happy tear running down her face, for Nana was whole again.
Dr. Bianchi and Ferro walks into the room and towards Nana's bed where they stood.
"Everything OK?", Dr. Bianchi asks.
Nana slowly lets herself go, turning and kneeling on the bed towards them, needing to take hold of the bed rail on the side of the bed. She can only nod with a smile.
Ferro leans towards Dr. Bianchi, whispering, "She has no sense of modesty…"
"If you were raised naked in a lab chained to a wall as a test subject, you would have no modesty too.", Dr. Bianchi whispers at Ferro as he takes her a couple of steps away from Nana's bed.
"I see…", Ferro responds in a whisper before returning to Nana's bed side. She places a package on the bed next to Nana.
"What is this?", Nana asks.
"While you were recovering from the operation by sleeping these past couple of days, we took your clothes and washed them for you. Open the package and put them on.", Ferro explains.
Unsure what to do, Nana slowly takes the package and opens it by ripping the paper exterior.
"Nana. Be honest with me; is everything alright?", Dr. Bianchi asks.
"Uhm…", as she spreads out the contents of her clothes on the bed. "Everything is… fine!"
"No numbness or tingling?", Dr. Bianchi asks.
"Uhm… Well.", Nana started to say.
"Yes?", Dr. Bianchi asks.
"It feels like I'm touching everything through really thick gloves.", Nana explains.
"Not a problem, Nana. We just have to get you into the lab and adjust your cybernetic inputs to get them calibrated properly. Every cyborg goes through this.", Dr. Bianchi explains. He then turns to the night table, filling a glass of water and hands it to her, along with a pill he took out of his pocket from a small bottle inside. "Take this. You will be needing to take at least 1 of these pills a day for the rest of your life now."
Nana takes the pill and the glass of water. She swallows the pill, following it with a chase of water from the glass. She then hands the glass back to Dr. Bianchi.
"Get dressed, Nana. You got a long day ahead of you today.", Ferro tells her.
"Will Yuka be seeing me today?", Nana asks.
"I do not know. But you will be with Dr. Bianchi, making adjustments to your new arms and legs. Then I'll be seeing you on testing them.", Ferro answers.
"Oh… When can Yuka come see Nana?", Nana asks.
"After everything is done first. Maybe tomorrow.", Ferro answers.
Nana looks at the large mirror at the end of the room, looking at it, at herself and everything about it.
"Satisfied with the results?", Dr. Guilliani asks, as he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a sealed packet of pills, giving it to the woman next to him.
"She's moving the arms and legs like we do our own?", Yuka asks as she slowly takes the pills as they look out through the two way mirror.
"Yes she is.", Dr. Guilliani answers. "Now, Yuka. She will be needing to take a pill a day. It is to condition her to the cybernetics she has."
"I see.", Yuka says as she looks at the package of pills, noting that there was only 75 in the package. "Uhm… how can I get more for her?"
"Bring her here, so we can exam her and make any adjustments to her medication and refill the prescription at the same time. In time, she will no longer need to take the pills, but that is not for several years from now.", Dr. Guilliani explains.
"Uhm…", Yuka started to say.
"Don't worry about most of your expenses. At most you just have to figure out how to get her here. Everything else will be paid for her. Besides, though it is just for a couple of days, we can arrange a medical flight for her, slashing travel costs for you.", Dr. Guilliani explains.
"I see…", Yuka replies.
"Now, as Dr. Bianchi explained, Nana needs to go through a few adjustments and testing, but she will be fine when we allow her to walk out of here on her own.", Dr. Guilliani explains. "There is not much you can do here. Go to your hotel room and enjoy the day like tourists." He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a set of movie tickets, handing them to her. "Here, this should kill a couple of hours for you."
"Uhm… thanks.", Yuka says.
Yuka remains looking at Nana for the moment as she puts on her clothes, and then gets off the bed, walking to a wheelchair and being rolled away out of the room. For a moment, she smiles an uncertain smile before leaving the room and heading home to her hotel room.
"If you were but a sparrow in the limbs of a great oak tree, what would be the issues of your life?", the question was asked by Fernando.
"A sparrow?", Keiya answers with a question.
"Oooo… that's so simple!", Rachel shouts out!
"Calm down, Rachel. I know I taught you all this, but Kieya is new to this kind of thinking.", Fernando tells her sternly.
"What do birds have to worry about?", Kieya asks. "Nothing!"
"Put yourself in the mind of a bird.", Fernando starts to explain. "The days will be filled with singing for your mate, keeping your nest clean, feeding the chicks if you have any, and so on. The worries of the world of man are not yours to behold nor are the politics thereof to bother you into illness."
"Eh?", Kieya says.
"Not many people can think like you can, Fernando.", Juanita says.
"She has too.", Fernando says.
"And why should I?", Kieya stated.
"To gain a better insight on life and its goals.", Fernando tells her.
"I already have my life planned out.", Kieya says.
"Then what are you going to do, where are you going to be in 5 years?", Fernando asks.
Kieya thinks for a moment, but it was a moment too long.
"Then you don't know and you do not know where are you going to be in 5 years, even if you survive that long!", Fernando points out at her.
"What do you know- old man!", Kieya shouts back at him.
"He's not an old man!", Rachel yells back at her.
Kieya turns around to Rachel, about to unleash a vector at her but Fernando was already in her mind before she could release it, stopping it. With a psychic hand pressed upon her mental forehead, he speaks to her from within.
"You need to stop being reactive and start being proactive."
"How the hell do you do that…!"
"I told you that as a telepath, we can out-think anyone in making decisions and taking actions. As such, I can stop you from releasing your vectors at anyone, especially those I care about like my daughter."
"She is not your daughter."
"Again, by blood no. But by relationship, yes. I took care of her, raised her up, she is me in what I put into her, taught her right from wrong, and she is what I made her out to be."
"But she is a cyborg."
"I took her out of her programming years ago. Everything besides the mechanicals that is there is truly her. Now relax and withdraw that vector. If it comes out lashing at somebody, anybody, consider your brain fried with a side order of toast."
Like in real space, Kieya can only stare at him cold before withdrawing her vector slowly.
"Good girl."
Between the two of them reality slowly fades in. Juanita turns to Fernando for a moment and nods.
"You need to learn that a person is more than the sum of their parts. That is why people are hunting you down because they see you as a demon-spawn Hellion bent on killing everyone around you. But you are not. Horns and special abilities or not, you still are a person. Mechanical Implants and Neural Programming or not, Rachel is still a person, and my daughter. Do you understand where I am coming from?", Fernando explains to her.
"Yes…", Kieya says frustratedly.
"Good. Now get dressed. We're going for a walk.", he tells her.
"A walk? Where?", Kieya asks.
"If you want to stay here for another day being cooped up like some caged bird, fine by me. But I want some fresh air and a mile or so passing under my feet.", Fernando says.
"Uhm…", Kieya started to say.
"You have a 1/2 hour to get ready. Girls, I'll be back. Make sure she's ready when I return.", Fernando tells them as he walks to the door before leaving. Soon he was out the door and taking a stroll down the hall to the elevators.
"You heard him. Get dressed.", Juanita tells Kieya.
"Don't be telling me what to do.", Kieya tells her back.
"In all my years I have learned not to keep that man waiting when he tells you to be ready. Now hurry up before we tie you up and dress you ourselves.", Juanita tells her some more.
Kieya gets up, taking a towel from the dresser. "Alright then…", as she steps into the bathroom, closing the door behind her.
The elevator door opens, and Fernando absent-mindedly walks in. A young woman inside tells him, "Excuse me, this elevator is going up…"
Fernando looks up towards the young lady, and both freeze in place as the door closes. "You…", Fernando says to her. He quickly reaches for the elevator panel, pressing the Elevator Stop button, stopping the elevator between floors. "What are you doing here?!!", He tells her.
"We have been staying here for almost a week now.", the young woman tells him. "And you?"
"Never mind me. Where is your friend, the one with the horns on her head?", Fernando tells her.
"Like you stated to the others, she's in the hospital getting her new arms and legs.", she tells him.
"And are you going to continue with the hunt?", Fernando tells her.
"In order to pay for the new arms and legs, yes. But what is it to you?", she asks.
"Everything.", Fernando tell her.
"Everything…?", she asks.
"Shit…", he says to himself. "When is she coming out?"
"Again, what is it to you?", she asks.
Fernando reaches to the elevator panel, pulling on the Elevator Stop button, restarting the elevator ride back up.
"Again, everything.", he tells her.
"You are not staying here, are you?", she asks.
"How about I go to your room and explain everything.", Fernando tells her.
"How about we don't and say that we did.", she says to him.
"Sometimes I swear I wish I did not had to resort to things like this…", Fernando says to himself.
"Things like… what?", she asks.
"This…", he says as steps to the furthest corner and pulls out his AA .45ACP, aiming it at her. The elevator stops and the door opens to her floor. "Go ahead, I'll follow. And no funny stuff."
"Uhm… I have friends in my room.", she tells him.
"The more the merrier. Besides, this gun has 16 bullets that can be shared. I doubt you have 16 friends in the room.", Fernando says. "But like I said, we need to talk."
They continue walking down the hall. He puts away his gun as they stop at her door. She opens the door and steps inside, he follows her in.
"Take a seat.", he says as they walk into the living area of the room.
"Uhm…", she started to say.
"All I have is a couple of questions. Answer them with answers I want to hear, and I will be on my way.", Fernando tells her.
She takes a seat opposite his. A young teen girl walks out of a room, "Oh, I did not know we had guess…"
"Uhm… Mayu, get Kouta out here.", she says.
"OK, Yuka.", she answers before walking into another room.
"Yuka is it? My name is Fernando.", he started to tell her.
"I remember it from the last time we had met.", Yuka tells him.
Kouta steps out of his room, followed by Mayu and Nyu. They all gather around Yuka's seat, looking at Fernando. He looks at Nyu.
"Another one.", Fernando says to himself.
"Another what?", Kouta asks.
"A Diclonius. Tell me, does the agency knows about her presence too?", Fernando asks.
For a moment, no one answers.
"No they don't.", Yuka finally says.
"Maybe that's a good thing.", Fernando says to himself. "Wait… Red hair… It cant be."
"Cant be what?", Kouta says.
"She cant be Lucy, is she?", Fernando asks.
"No.", he tells her.
"Uhm…", Mayu starts to say. "She is."
"What are you saying?!!", Kouta says to Mayu loudly. "Nyu is not Lucy!"
"They share the same body.", Yuka says.
Kouta sighs. "Alright. This is Lucy, but she is not Lucy now. Now, tell me how you know about her, and what are you going to do about it?"
"Do? That depends. But the moment, nothing. Know? I had work for your imperial government years ago and found out about the Diclonius research center during that time. What they wrote about her is… impressive to say the least.", Fernando started to say. "But… Yuka. Just like you are hiding a vicious murderer with a split personality, I am hiding Italy's most wanted and trying to give her the help she needs. Now that answers your questions?"
"And you are rooming in this hotel…", Yuka started to say.
"Yes.", Fernando finishes confirming the information for her.
For a moment they stare at each other.
"You are not going to say or do anything…", Kouta started to say.
"I was thinking of the same exact words.", Fernando tells him.
"Why are you hiding here?", Yuka asks.
"Because… all those she had killed, she killed in self defense.", Fernando started to answer. "She does not attack unless attacked first, and yes, they probably told you that she has killed many, she did so to keep herself alive. Ever had an unruly mob after your stinking hide?"
"Why don't you turn her in for a fair trail?", Yuka asks.
"Why don't you turn Lucy in for the same?", Fernando asks in kind.
"That is not possible!", Kouta holds back from yelling.
"Then you know what is going to happen if I turn Kieya in.", Fernando says. "We live in unjust societies. But I work within the machine and maybe I can do something for her. But you… you have become part of that machine and have become her hunters. She is going to hurt you, if you are lucky- kill you outright. Then what? All I have tried to teach her has been for not."
"Teach her?", Yuka asks.
"Teach her… that killing is wrong. That it is unacceptable except when saving your own life or lives of others. It is that simple. But when people like you are out there hunting her down, she has no other choice but to do what she know how to do, and that is killing.", Fernando tells her.
"But… it was not our decision to make…", Yuka tried to say.
"Not your decision to make?", Fernando almost mocks her. "Who was the one who decided to do all this?"
"To be honest, I don't know.", Yuka says.
"So you are being tricked into doing this?", Fernando asks.
"Doing what?", Kouta asks.
For a moment Fernando turns to Kouta and stares at him.
"You mean you don't know…", Fernando says.
"No. Now who are you and what is going on?", Kouta says.
Fernando turns to Yuka to see her response. For a moment she does not answer, so he tries to do so before she can after having lost the chance earlier.
"Your friend that is in the hospital needs to do the government a favor in order to pay the bill.", Fernando tells him.
"What kind of favor?", Kouta asks.
"Hunt down one of their kind, fight her and kill her if necessary.", Fernando begins to say.
"That's Not True!", Yuka shouts back.
"But…No Secrets… We're a family, right?", Mayu started to say.
"Well Yuka?", Fernando asks.
"Are you withholding something from us?", Kouta asks.
"Kouta, understand that I am doing this for everyone's benefit.", Yuka tries to explain.
"Everyone's benefit- how?", Kouta asks.
"It was explained that Nana's operation along with her new arms and legs is going to cost over 10million Euros. We just don't have that kind of money…", Yuka started explaining.
"And instead of paying the 10million Euros, she is going to have to work it off somehow?", Kouta asks.
"Yes… if she finds and helps captures a fugitive, then we owe nothing.", Yuka says.
"Is that all?", Kouta asks.
"I'm afraid not.", Fernando tells him.
"Again, who are you?", Kouta asks.
"How did the Rolling Stones said it? Oh yes. 'Please to meet you, I'm a man of wealth and tastes'; well actually- more like information and power. I work for a couple of agencies, including the SWA here in Italy. My name is Fernando.", Fernando tells him.
"Sounds like a lot of bull shit to me.", Kouta says.
"Have it your way. But I wanted to speak to Yuka about this situation she is in, and how wrong it is for her and her friend at the hospital to be doing this.", Fernando tells him.
"And your involvement in all this?", Kouta asks.
"My involvement? Heh heh… I swear, 'That' is funny.", Fernando says with a smile on his face. Then he turns quite serious before continuing, "I am housing the so-called fugitive in this very hotel. Unfortunately, you people are here too. Now I am not asking for trouble, but I want you to understand that the person they are after is innocent for one. And two, We are fighting for the same side, because if we fight each other, it is going to be very bloody. I know what Diclonius like Lucy here and Nana in the hospital are capable of doing, and that is what I am trying to stop. Understand what I am telling you… sir?"
Kouta gives Fernando a mean and hard stare before giving a slight nod of his head for acknowledgement.
"I have no quarrels or problems with anybody here. If things were different, I would invite you to lunch or dinner, but that would seem like interference on my part on this case. So Yuka- since you now have my observational supervisor as your boss, I'm letting you know now that she is going to lie, cheat, and otherwise persuade you into doing things you don't want to do. My advise, you do what you can without going in too deep. Unfortunately, that means that we are going to met again. Lets not fight when we do.", Fernando explains to her.
"How can I trust you?", Yuka asks.
"Outside of my word as a gentleman and a scholar- you cant… but…", Fernando says to her. Then he reaches into his jacket and pulls out his AA .45 pistol, handing it over to her. She nervously takes it. "That is one of two. Its twin is also on me, but when all this is over, I want you to give that back as a token of our trust."
Kouta takes the gun from Yuka as Fernando buttons up his suit jacket. Fernando slowly gets up to go to the door, only to have Kouta aim the gun at him. Fernando stares back to Kouta.
"I would advise you to put the gun down before you are the one that ends up hurt.", Fernando tells him.
"I am not going to let my helplessness get in the way of doing something for those I love and care for.", Kouta began to say.
"Have it your way, then…", Fernando stated to him. He then takes a couple of steps to Kouta, letting go of his eye-seeing cane stand on its end off the floor. He grabs Kouta by the wrist and twists it until Kouta lets go of the gun from the shear pain Fernando was inflicting on him. He catches the gun as it falls, then head butts Kouta, making him fall hard to the ground. He then turns to Yuka, handing her the gun again, as the cane finally hits the floor from its fall. Yuka can only look at him, unsure what to make of what just happened.
"Trust is not having me kill anyone in this room. But then again, I have no quarrel with any of you here. Neither should you of me. And what I just did, I was being nice; usually I take off the head of those who dare draw a gun on me.", Fernando tells her.
Yuka sits there in frozen awe, not able to say a word, make a sound or do a move. Fernando then gently places the gun on her lap. With a slight flick of his foot, the cane stand up straight off from the floor. He catches the end of the cane with his hand and pulls it towards him. He takes slow and deliberate steps to the door. He takes the doorknob and turns it but keeps the door closed.
"I'm in room 2703. You are welcomed to drop by if you want, but I prefer it if you don't bring any of the SWA Personnel or your friend here with the headache. I would like to sit down and talk about what we are going to do with all these Shivas in our midst.", Fernando tells the room. The door then slowly opens, and he walks out the room. He takes the walk to the elevator to see if anyone would walk out to follow him. As he waits, the door opens and somebody walks down the hall to the elevator. Oddly, the sound of the door closing is never heard.
"Mister…", a young voice asks for his attention. Fernando turns to face the girl, Mayu.
"Yes?", he asks.
"Why did you come to us?", Mayu asks.
"It was an accident, meeting Yuka here that is. Now that I know you people are here, I would want that this hotel building be a neutral ground where we do not fight. If possible, I would not want us to fight at all, but Yuka has already made such deal insuring that when we may, will comes to an ugly term.", Fernando explains.
"Then, can I ask, what are you doing here?", Mayu asks.
"Her name is Kieya, and I am protecting her… because like your two friends Lucy and Nana, they have special abilities that can hurt others if they are driven to anger. I do not want Kieya driven to anger.", Fernando explains.
"Then, can I give this back to you?", Mayu asks holding his gun to him, handle first.
"Yuka is to keep that until our next meeting.", Fernando answers.
"Why?", Mayu asks.
"It is a token of trust.", Fernando begins. He opens his jacket, showing off the other gun in his holster, "Though I have another one, at least she can have that one until we meet again, knowing that in the least, I will not be shooting at any of you with that gun- because you would have it."
"What about your other gun?", Mayu asks.
"I do need something to defend myself with while working…", Fernando stated. "It is not that I would shoot any of you, but in the least, the possibility thereof has been reduced to half. And mind you, I only shoot back in order to defend myself."
"Uhm…", Mayu started to say, but the elevator door opens behind Fernando. He slides his foot against the door closing sensor to keep it open.
"Look, as long as nobody tries to shoot me or my friends first, I wont shoot back. Now, I do have to go.", he tells her before stepping into the elevator. Mayu steps closer but does not cross the threshold. The door closes in front of her.
"But…", Mayu started to say but it was too late as the elevator floor indicator starts to count down. Yuka and Lucy/Nyu gather behind Mayu.
"Lets go back to the room.", Yuka says. Disappointed, Mayu joins the others in returning to the room. The door is closed behind them.
Fernando steps onto the main lobby of the hotel, looking about. He has a feeling that he is being watched, but can not immediately point out who it was. Nor was he going to waste time searching for his pursuer. Instead he goes to the hotel café and orders a strong cup of coffee. While he drinks his coffee, he takes out his keys and looks them over. Both the Porche and Alfa Romeo keys were in the set. He pockets the keys with a smile before taking the last sip of brew, putting the cup down onto a 5 Euro note he had placed on the table. He gets up and goes back to the elevator. In a couple of minutes, he was unlocking the door to his room.
Kieya was on the bed putting on her shoes. She was wearing some barrowed clothes from Juanita; a Black wrap-around skirt of her with a matching suit jacket and a white silk blouse that slightly showed the traces of her pink bra underneath. Disrupting the professional look was her wool cap. Fernando puts his hand onto his face and shakes his head for a moment.
"Juanita…", Fernando started to say.
"She has no clean clothes to wear.", Juanita tells her.
Fernando just sighs. He then walks into the closet, reaching into the rear of it and sliding out a hidden panel. From inside he pulls put a small traveling case and takes it to the bed. Juanita looks at it and nods.
"I thought this was just a typical room.", Juanita stated.
"I only rent the Agents' Rooms. Too bad the large suite upstairs is already taken by an unsuspecting group. At least they wont be able to find the goodies while they are screwing themselves up there.", Fernando explains as he opens the box and takes out a few female hair implements and places them on the bed. "Unless it is on some no-name town in the middle of bum-fuck nowhere, only then will I rent non-agent rooms."
He then looks at Kieya, more actually at her horns. They were not as big and noticeable if first glanced at, but they do stick out of her hair about an inch or so. He looks at the items on the bed for a moment, picking up a hair band.
"Hmmm….", he says to himself.
"What?", Juanita asks.
Fernando holds up the hair band to her.
"That is to hold back one's hair when its combed back.", Juanita says.
"I know. But what if it holds it loosely enough to puff out the hair a bit to hide the horns?", Fernando asks.
"You would need a thinner one than that. This one is too thick and meant to hold the hair tight.", Juanita explains.
"Well, I'm not a girl, so I don't know these things.", Fernando says before tossing the hair band at Juanita. She catches it as Fernando walks away. "You figure it out so it hides her horns."
Rachel goes into the box and pulls out a thinner hair band. She also takes a comb with a long thin and pointy handle, taking them to Kieya. She stands on front of her, holding up the items to be seen.
"Stay still and no one needs to get hurt.", Rachel tells her.
"Wait a minute now…", Kieya started to say.
"Let Rachel fix up your hair.", Fernando tells her. "We need to cover those horns of your without looking out of place. That wool cap was nice in school, but you are not in school anymore."
Kieya looks like she had lost a friend, be it an imaginary one.
Rachel reaches out and puts the hair band on Kieya's head, using the pointy handle of the comb to move the hair about to hide the horns. She finishes in under a minute, also managing to hide the hair band too.
"All done", as Rachel steps away from Kieya.
"Good… Now will it stay in place if she shakes her head or the wind blows?", Fernando asks.
"Well, it should…", Rachel says confidently.
"We better make sure of that…", Juanita says as she approaches Kieya with a can of hairspray. She covers Kieya's eyes and starts to spray her hair, making adjustments to it. Another minute of adjusting and spraying, Juanita steps back. "There!…"
"Good.", Fernando tells them. "Lets go, Kieya. Francesca- I'm leaving the Porsche behind for you and the others. I'll be taking the Alfa."
"OK.", Francesca replies as Fernando slowly stepped to the door. He signals to Kieya to go with him. Reluctantly she obliges. They both step out into the hallway and head to the elevator.
"Where are we going?", Kieya asks.
"Someplace safe, quiet and a long way from Rome.", Fernando tells her.
"Would you mind telling me where it is that we are going?", Kieya stated in question.
"A small town not too far from here, but far enough to keep you safe while we eat and explore some options. I'm sure you may heard of it, its called Nemi.", Fernando answers her.
"Nemi?", Kieya asks. The elevator open up and the two of them enter. Fernando puts a control key into the elevator panel, making it run express for him to the basement garage.
"Its about 50 miles south east from Rome, next to Nemi National Park which has Lake Nemi inside. It's a beautiful place to be at during these spring and summer days.", Fernando explained.
"You're not going to try any funny stuff, are you?", Kieya
"Funny stuff? As I recall, you were the one who pounced on me when we were discussing stable DNA.", Fernando stated as he held back his anger.
"Can you blame a girl for trying?", Kieya tries to joke but fails in delivery.
Fernando shifts his eyes away from the elevator panel, towards Kieya. "No. But I'm a married man. And you're 10 years younger than I am.", he says in a low tone.
Kieya just sighs for the moment. "You don't know how it is. Being loney, having people hate you all because you have horns growing out of your head.", she says.
"I know how it to be loney…", Fernando started to say.
"But you have friends, and something you can call a family.", Kieya interrupts.
"That is not true. Even if they were in the same room with me, I would still be alone. Alone because I have to make decisions for them and for myself in which they would not agree upon if I told them. Alone because I have to do things by myself without their support. Alone because they do not agree with me nor do they share the mindset as I do.", Fernando explains.
"What about your friend who is your other self…?", Kieya asks.
"Just because we share the same brain frequencies and patterns, that allow us to communicate like twins, does not mean that we agree. Most of the time we disagree, and she often puts judgment upon me like some righteous bible thumper pointing his finger to sinners in a crowd. It is not easy to deal with that kind of opposition.", Fernando answers.
"But… don't you love her?", Kieya asks.
"Love? What feelings we may have had for each other left a long time ago.", Fernando explains.
'Why?", Kieya asks.
The elevator stops on the basement garage level, opening its door.
"You ask more questions than a 4 year old.", he tells her, again holding back his anger. Kieya looks at him as if she had done something wrong, which she probably did by asking one too many questions. Fernando points out the door. "Step out so I can remove this key.", he adds.
"Oh…", Kieya says before hopping out of the elevator. Fernando removes the key from the panel and steps out of it. The door closes and it continues to function normally as it goes back up to the lobby level.
Fernando starts to walk to the rear of the garage where the more fancier cars were kept. They stop in front of a black Alpha Romeo Spyder. Fernando points to the passenger side door for Kieya to enter as he walked to the driver's side. Opening the door with his key unlocks both sets of locks, they enter and sit down inside the car. The doors lock themselves when they were closed. Fernando puts on his seat belt, then he looks at Kieya.
"Put on your seat belt.", he tells her.
"Don't trust your own driving?", Kieya asks.
"I don't trust other people's driving. Now, put on that seat belt…", Fernando tells her sternly.
Kieya does as she was told. Fernando puts the key into the ignition and turns on the engine as she does. Putting the car into gear, Fernando drives the Alfa out of its parking spot and heads out of the garage's rear entrance. A red Ferrari Dino slowly follows behind, as Fernando makes it into city traffic, heading for the highway. Soon they were on the highway, with Fernando pushing his foot onto the gas pedal and pressing it against the floor.
He takes a glimpse into his mirrors, spotting a spot of red on them.
"It is of no concern to you, but I think we are being followed.", Fernando says.
"Somebody is following us?", Kieya asks.
"No doubt its our friends from the agency.", Fernando says. Then he sighs before speaking again, "I'll take care of him. You just stay behind me and do not make a move unless I tell you too."
Kieya does not say a word. Fernando then slows the car down to allow his pursuer to quickly catch up. Fernando uses the traffic around him to hide himself for a few moments, confusing his follower and forcing him to unknowingly pass the Alfa. Fernando then stomps on the gas pedal and shifts gears as his twists the steering wheel to come out of hiding and appear right behind the red Ferrari. He lights up his headlights and flashes them at the Ferrari before pulling to its right and lining up with it door to door. The windows on both cars roll down. Fernando nods at the driver of the Ferrari.
"Ernesto, only you are dumb enough to follow somebody in such a fancy car.", Fernando tells him.
"Well, I have my orders.", Ernesto tells him.
"Just don't get in the way of my orders.", Fernando tells him.
"We'll have to see about that.", he tells him.
"Just don't. I would not want little Pia to end up on the chopping block like others were.", Fernando tells him.
"You go worry about yourself. Pia is a big girl now and is more than capable of handling things the other failed on.", Ernesto almost brags.
"Well, since you are not going to listen, you know where I will be…", Fernando says loudly, as he reaches down between the seats and starts turning a knob under his seat.
"Nemi again? You are so damn predictable!", Ernesto yells back.
"Nemi, yes! But where in Nemi? That remains to be seen!", Fernando yells as he reaches for the shifter. He pries his thumbnail against the shifter knob, popping off a flip top cap, and presses a red button on it as he shifts to a higher gear. The engine revs loudly as Kieya is slammed to the back of the seat and is pinned there like on some wild rollercoaster ride. Fernando holds on to the steering wheel, as he twists and turns through traffic with the speedometer arching passed the 120 mph mark, getting stuck on the pin at the end of the dial. Ernesto can only scowl in frustration as the Alfa disappears in the distant traffic miles ahead of him.
For every 3 miles Fernando gets, Ernesto regains 1. After a while, Fernando makes it to Nemi in mere minutes instead of an hour. The first stop he makes is the gas station, to fill up on fuel. The next stop he takes is to assorted grocery stores and bakeries. Kieya waits for him on the passenger seat as he buys some needed items that he places into the trunk. Soon they were driving again. Fernando drives through town, then passes through its main street onto the highway, where he gets off at the Nemi National Park entrance. Though the gate of the park is closed, he uses the smallness of the Alfa to get past them. Once inside the park, he drives around the various pathways to a secluded spot overlooking the large lake this area was known for. He shuts off the engine, pocketing his keys before take a step outside. He stands in front of the car, looking out to the lake. Keiya steps out and stands behind him.
"It looks lovely…", Kieya says to herself.
"You have been a city child all your life. Well, so was I.", Fernando says.
"What do you mean by that?", Kieya asks.
"Simple- this view would not be so awe inspiring to you if you had seen it or anything else similar to it. You are too used to the canyons the buildings make in the city.", Fernando explains.
"You seem to know it all, don't you.", Kieya stated.
"I dont know it all, but I have lived through what I do know. And I do know…", Fernando started to say. Then he suddenly steps away to the rear of the Alfa, opening its trunk. Kieya looks at him puzzled, seeing that he has placed a large object on his shoulder and reaching inside the trunk for another object. Closing the trunk, Fernando walks over to Kieya, handing her a picnic basket. He then takes a few steps from the car to a nearby tree and lays down a large blanket he had placed on his shoulder. Kieya steps over to him, looking at the blanket he just laid.
"What is this all about?", Kieya asks.
"Its called having some free time to relax.", Fernando begins. "Look, though you might be well above the drinking and consent age, I'm not here to take advantage of you. We are just going to sit down, eat, drink and discuss your future plans. Then we are going to implement those plans. That is if you want to live out a new life without killing people."
"And if I don't want to live a life without killing people?", Kieya asks just to taunt him.
"You choices would be: you die here, you die elsewhere like a hunted down rabid dog, or that little brain of yours gets fried and you live your life as a vegetable connected to machines to keep you alive. Then again, you could be reprogrammed and made into a pleasure slave for me.", Fernando stated.
"A pleasure slave? Please, you are so uptight, if I shoved coal up your ass, you'd shit out diamonds." Kieya stated.
"So you would want to believe. Look, just because I don't like to party does not mean that I don't know how too. I just don't party anymore because I lost my party-girl a long time ago.", he tells her as he sits against the tree.
"You mean your wife? But you're married…", Kieya started to say as she sat down on the far end of the blanket.
"Francesca is not a party-girl. And if she were, she is not into my type of parties. We may be married, but we are very different. In the least I can say is that I can trust her to be by my bedside.", Fernando explains.
"Trust?", Kieya asks.
"It takes a lot of trust to have somebody share your bed. You would have to trust them and then would have to trust you in that neither one wont do harm to the other. As easy as it may sound, it take a lot in emotional investment alone with time and trust. In short- you have to love them as they love you.", Fernando explains.
"So you love that red headed Robo-Chick?", Kieya asks.
"Love to a degree. Trust with my life. I wont abuse her for she wont do the same to me.", Fernando says.
"I see…", Kieya says.
"You have been in my mind, you should know what it is I feel and how I feel for whom.", Fernando tells her.
"Yes, I do.", Kieya replies. "But sometimes it is better to hear from you."
"I know, you cant build trust if you must read minds all the time.", Fernando says.
"But you don't know how much trouble these horns have given me.", Kieya says.
"I have had my own troubles. They may not compare to yours but just for being different, people wanted me dead too. Making it worse, being in an interracial relationship and eventually marriage, people did not to see me or my wife happy. They involved themselves in our business, lied about what the other one of us was doing, tried to destroy us. In the end, she was killed and I had to suffer for it. But no, I don't have horns, nor do I have a uterus or a period- so I don't know these things.", Fernando explains.
"You and your other self have switched, so you know what it is to be a woman.", Kieya stated.
"She is weak, I am near superhuman. She is emotional, I am cold. She can't handle alcohol well, I can. And that is not just her being a woman, but being a normal human. She does not have what I have, though she may have the telepath genes. But in me being a woman through borrowing her body, I know what it is like. I would not want to be a woman because I am too much of a man who happens to love women.", Fernando replies.
"So…", Kieya started to ask.
"The reason I can stop you is because I am super fast. Juanita may be able to stop you like I can, but your vectors would have reached her before she can act upon you.", Fernando answers for her.
"Why is that?", Kieya asks.
"Simple. Using you as the example; If you put the picnic basket down and I told you to go in it and take out the bottle of wine inside it, it would take you longer to put your physical hand in there and take it out than it would if you would have used your vectors. Why? In using your hand, the nerve impulses takes time to take action, using your vectors, you are just moving its energy and it become instant. Understand that?", Fernando explains.
"How does it apply to you?", Kieya asks.
"I just told you. Its faster to manipulate the energy of your being than it is to manipulate the physical you.", Fernando throws at her.
"Uhm…", Kieya starts to say.
"If you cant figure it out as what you are, you will never figure it out.", Fernando starts to say. "Now, there is some bread, cold cuts, cheeses and wine. Take what you want. I'll take a bit of bread with some ham, cheese and mayo."
Kieya puts down the picnic basket, and then reaches inside with her vectors, pulling out the items and cutting for Fernando what he had asked for. Wrapping them in a paper towel, it floats over to him, where he reaches and grabs it.
"That's pretty good. Many Diclonius don't learn fine motor skills of their vectors because they use them for hack and slash tactics.", Fernando pointed out.
"I had many years of practice.", Kieya stated.
"Good. Maybe you can use your abilities for good after all.", Fernando stated.
"Hmph…", Kieya says to herself as she pulls another made sandwich for herself.
For a while, a very long while, they peacefully eat a small meal of sandwiches and wine. They listen to the lapping water against the shore, the birds singing and the rare jetliner that passed overhead. She sits closer to him, to see what he points out as they discuss things few take for granted. A red Ferrari pulls up to the gated park entrance, a window roll down. Its driver looks at a hand-held device.
"Predictable as always, Fernando.", the driver says to himself. "Pia, rip open the gate so I can drive in."
"Sure thing, Ernesto…", the silver haired cyborg says as she got out of the Ferrari. She walks over to the gate and rips it off its hinges, tossing it to the side of the road. Ernesto slowly drives the Ferrari through the opening and waits for Pia to get back in the car once he crossed over the thresh hold.
Ernesto drives through the path slowly, as the Dino barely fit onto the road, unlike the Alfa which was thinner and longer in build. Soon he had the Alfa in sight, stopping the Ferrari in the middle of the path to block it from going anywhere. Both he and Pia get out of the car and walk the rest of the way, Pia getting her gun ready. Fernando and Kieya were tossing peanuts to the squirrels, until they were spooked away. Ernesto and Pia were walking past the Alfa, approaching the, with arms drawn and aimed.
"The game ends here, Fernando.", Ernesto says
"Only you play the game, Ernesto. I play for keeps.", Fernando reminds him.
"Just get up slowly no one needs to get hurt.", Ernesto says.
"I'm not getting up, no matter what you may think.", Fernando began. "I had a deal with Ferro that we would be left alone for a week while we all try to resolve this matter with our friend."
"She's not a friend, Fernando. She's a mass murderer.", Ernesto stated. "She should be arrested, tried, convicted and executed."
"Like you should have? Gee, Ernesto. I think I remember that you received a damn good reprieve to go work with Section 2 despite what you tried to do with Pia and the high cost it took to bring her back from the dead. Remind me, how many people had to die for that little stunt?", Fernando taunts at him before slowly getting up. "Now put away those toys before you get hurt.", he says as he stood his ground.
Kieya slowly got up, standing beside Fernando, concentrating hard, putting herself on a hair trigger to release her vectors on the silver haired cyborg who had her .50 Caliber Dessert Eagle aimed at her.
"Kieya Don't…", Fernando tells her.
"She has a gun aimed at me.", Kieya says.
"Don't what?", Ernesto stated. "We got you while you were unarmed. We have you to our advantage. We are in control of this situation here."
"You have totally underestimated us, Ernesto. That is why I'm warning you- no- TELLING YOU- To Stand Down!", Fernando stated, getting louder with each word.
"Ha!", Ernesto said in mock laughter. "Just put out those arms and be ready to be handcuffed. Pia, One funny move from them, shoot to kill."
"I already have my eye on this one", Pia says as presses her trigger just slightly, turning on the laser pointer, shining a bright red dot on Kieya's left breast.
"Good. Now Fernando, where is the weapon?", Ernesto stated in question.
"There is no weapon.", Fernando answered.
"That makes it even easier.", Ernesto stated as he stepped closer to Fernando, pulling out handcuffs from his jacket pocket. "I'm placing you under arrest for harboring a known fugitive."
"I'm warning you not to do this…", Fernando stated.
"Warning?", Ernesto asks.
Fernando concentrates to get into Kieya's head until he stand in front of her in her mind.
"I want nobody to get hurt. If anything, use your vectors to take and destroy the gun and then hide up in the trees. I will take care of Ernesto."
"I cant guarantee what is going to happen if she shoots first."
"Just don't hurt them!"
"I'll try not too… But…"
"No Butts!"
Fernando reenters reality, having only spent a micro second in the telepathic realm.
"How long will you think it will take a medi-vac helicopter to get here while either one of you or both lay bleeding to death?", Fernando stated sternly at Ernesto.
"You are so sure that you are going to win this…", Ernesto mocked. "If it were up to me, I'd let you die right there and let Section 2 pick up your body for Identification."
"OK, have it your way… How long you think Francesca and Rachel is going to allow you walk the Earth after I am dead? Pia- you know better- Rachel took you on and won without firing a shot. If she would have fired, you would have been dead. Remember that.", Fernando says.
"Rachel does not scare Pia.", Ernesto stated.
"Yeah? Then why is she silent?", Fernando says.
"ENOUGH OF THIS!", Ernesto yells. "You Are Under Arrest! Cooperate Or Die Where You Stand!"
"Gee, what options.", Fernando mocks back, taking a side to block Kieya from Pia.
"Take Her, Pia!", Ernest shouts out as he tries to reach for Fernando.
Fernando takes his arm and pushes Kieya behind him, distracting her as she draws out her vectors towards Pia. They swing out towards Ernesto as she was pushed, passing through his extended arm, cutting it off just past the wrist. Ernesto howls in pain. Fernando draws his .45 and aims at Pia's head, both fire with deadly accuracy; his shot hitting just above her eyebrow, her shot hitting him left of his chest. She passes out from the concussion of the heavy .45 round hitting her, her skull rung like a bell in a church tower. He falls back against Kieya and the tree behind them, thanking god that his dual layers of bullet resistant clothing stopped the bullet from penetrating, but breaking a couple of ribs in the process. They all fall to the floor at about the same time.
"Fernando…?", Kieya asks as she holds him. He breathes heavy coughing up a bit of blood.
Fernando moves to look at Pia and then Ernesto who was holding the bleeding stump of his arm with his free hand.
"Make… sure… she's… alive…", Fernando says between his breaths.
"But You're Hurt!", Kieya shouts back.
"Take… Care… Of… Them…. First…!", Fernando stated. "There… Is… A… First Aide… Kit… In The… Car's… Trunk!", he says, before coughing up some more blood, bright red in color. He wipes the blood of his lips with the sleeve of his arm.
Kieya does as she was told, running to the Alfa with the keys he had gave her, opening its trunk and pulling out a large plastic box that is marked First Aid. She runs back to Fernando, who points to Ernesto. She looks at him in disbelief before attending to Ernesto. She takes out the large rolls of gauze and wraps the stump of his arm with it. It takes much of the rolls that were in the kit to effectively close the wound and stop the bleeding. Fernando then instructs her to take Ernesto's decapitated hand and put it a large plastic zip lock bag with as many cold compress packs that could fit with it. Kieya then checks Pia, finding her out cold but still alive. A simple gauze bandage covers the wound above her eye.
Fernando takes his cell phone from his pocket and calls Ferro, explaining to her what had transpired. Ferro argues back but Fernando's demand for a medi-vac copter is made and then hangs up.
"Its your turn now.", Kieya stated to Fernando, as she knelt next to him.
"No…", Fernando stated.
"You're Hurt!", Kieya shouted back at him.
'Keep… An… Eye… On… Ernesto… He's A… Wounded… Animal…", Fernando says with each breathe. "Wounded… Animals… Are… Dangerous…" He raises his arm and puts his .45 to her chest, "Take it…"
Kieya holds the gun to her chest with his hand on it. But it was too late, Ernesto had his gun out aimed at Kieya. He can be heard saying to himself, "Die you stinking bitch…" as he pulled the trigger on his .50 Caliber Dessert Eagle. Instead of a shot being fired, the gun falls apart in his hand. His jaw drops in disbelief.
"I… Told… You… You… Under… Estimated… Her…", Fernando says to him. "Now… Just… Sit… There… Until… Help… Arrives…"
"This is not over, mister…", Ernesto scowls at Fernando.
"Ernesto… *cough… cough…* Fuck… You…", Fernando tells him.
It was an uneasy 1/2 hour until the helicopters arrived. Ferro, Pricilla and Olga ran out to survey the scene with the EMTs right behind. Pia was loaded onto the helicopter first, followed by Ernesto, along with his hand in the ziplock bag that was placed in a freezer box. The first helicopter leaves the scene as the other crew tries to tend to Fernando, as much as he fought back.
"Look,… Who… Told… Ernesto… To… Take… Us… On…?", Fernando asks, Ferro.
"All handlers have their stand down orders, Ernesto acted on his own! So who shot first?", Ferro says and then asks.
"Pia… Did…", Fernando explains.
"And What Happened To Ernesto's Hand?", Ferro asks further.
"Kieya… Acted… In… Self… Defense…", Fernando explains.
"That is not good…", Ferro says out loud but to herself.
"What… you… mean…?", Fernando asks.
"Look, you are in no shape to argue.", Ferro started to say. "You are going to the hospital…"
"Kieya… goes… with… me.", Fernando argues.
"I'm afraid that Kieya is under arrest.", Ferro explains to him.
"What… For…?", Fernando asks before he tries to get up. For him getting up was not the problem, but the sharp pain around his chest as he moved was. He manages to get up with a bit of help from Kieya, then takes a couple of steps to Ferro, holding the side of his chest tightly. He puts his right hand into his jacket, noticing how the SWA personnel is drawing their guns at him he pulls out his hand from inside slowly. Between his thumb and forefinger was the .50 caliber round from Pia's gun, which he put at Ferro's face.
"Self…! Defense…!!!", Fernando tells her as loud as he could before doubling over in pain and coughs up more bright red blood onto Ferro's feet. Her expensive in season Pradas and Microfibre Silk Stockings were splashed with his bright red body fluids. In all this he managed to clench his hand into a fisted ball, keeping the bullet from getting lost.
"AHHH!!! MY GOD! THAT'S IT! TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL IMMEDIATELY!", Ferro yells for all to hear. Several of the medics try to grab onto Fernando's arm, only to have him block their advances. He then takes Kieya and leads her to the helicopter that would take him to the nearest medical facility: Nemi General Hospital. A small facility for a small town, which rarely gets any excitement outside of a bad car wreck off the nearby highway.
"If you want to live, do not leave me out of your sight, no matter where they take me in the hospital.", Fernando tells Kieya as the helicopter door closes. In under a minute it leaves the scene.
Soon the area begins to clear out. Ferro, Priscilla and Olga tell the helicopter crews to leave as they would take the cars left behind by their owners. "Priscilla, you take the Alfa. Olga and I will take the Ferrari", Ferro tells them. Priscilla hands Ferro a bottle of sterile water from Fernando's medical kit, which she pours onto her shoes and shins to wash off his presence. Taking some paper towels from the kit, Ferro finally dries herself off. She complains to herself for a moment before dumping the paper towels on the floor. The three walk to their respective vehicles, using a set up back up keys, enter them and drive away.
Ferro takes the time to call Juanita as she drives to Nemi General Hospital. She explains that has happened as far as she knew what happened to her, and where Fernando was being taken for medical care. Their conversation ends with Juanita saying, "I see…"
"Rachel, Francesca- lets go.", Juanita tells them.
"Where are we going?", Rachel asks.
"To meet your father. He's in Nemi General Hospital after a fight with Ernesto.", Juanita says.
"THAT's It! That Bitch Pia Is Dead Meat!", Rachel almost yells out.
"Pia might already be dead. And Ernesto is pretty fucked up himself- thanks to Fernando and Kieya. We just don't know.", Juanita tries to explain. "Now get in the car so we can go."
"I'm Driving!", Rachel yells out.
"You cant even reach the pedals!", Francesca tells her.
"Yes too I can!", Rachel argues back.
"LADIES!", Juanita yells. "I'll be driving."
"Swell, we'll get there by tomorrow.", Rachel says.
"As long as we get there.", Francesca says.
"Time is not on our side.", Rachel says.
The three of them leave the hotel room for the car, and are soon off on their way to Nemi. Ferro also had called Dr. Bianchi, asking him to bring Nana with him, whether she was ready or not. Despite the argument not to bring her out into the hunt, priorities and demands overweighs the needs of details and recovery. In his view, Nana maybe functioning well, but the limits of her abilities have not been determined nor has she been totally accustomed to her new body though she may believe that things are what they seem to be. For her, this would be a baptism of fire.
Fernando spends three hours in Emergency, trying to avoid surgery as best as he could, forcing the doctors to older treatments of care for him. Kieya does not leave his side despite the doctor's wishes of her needing to leave. With a lot of tie grabbing and threats, Fernando gets his wish of being treated as per his instructions, despite warnings contrary to his treatment. "Another blow to the ribs like that and you could be killed." Fernando does not care for such warnings or of such advanced treatments. He believes that he knows what is best for him and that is what he wants for himself. In the end, he sits on the examination table, putting on his bullet resistant t-shirt against the soft rib cast and adjusting it to minimal pain from it. The shirt comes on next, leaving the top few buttons opened as the cast made the shirt tighter than normal. The holster and suit jacket were put on last.
"You don't look good.", Kieya tells him.
"I'll take my chances.", Fernando tells her back.
"Why don't you stay and get the medical help you need?", Kieya asks.
"Because of what happened out there. People are after you despite orders being given to them. I would not be surprised if there was a multi-million euro reward on your horny little head.", Fernando explains. "Now, my offer still stands, but guarantees no longer applies. Then again, they never did."
For 3 hours, Ferro and the others were denied access to Fernando in the hospital. Now that he has delayed them for this long, the others begin to arrive, including one who can bypass all medical restrictions on personnel access: Dr. Bianchi. He arrives into the room looking over Fernando and then glancing over to Kieya. He puts the medical clip board on the examining table next to Fernando.
"Four Left Thoracic Ribs, from the third to the seventh, broken and a punctured Pulmonary Lobe. You should be in intensive care on heavy pain medication and connected to a respirator.", Dr. Bianchi stated to him. Then he asks, "This must be Kieya…"
"That's none of your damn business…", Fernando scowls. "I'm fine enough to walk out of here and that is exactly what I am going to do."
"And what? You are in no shape to fight anyone. And why fight? To help a fugitive? She took out 3 cyborgs- Pia makes 4.", Dr. Bianchi started.
"I shot Pia, for shooting at her but she missed and hit me instead.", Fernando says as he takes the bullet from his pocket and tosses it to him.
"Then who chopped off Ernesto's hand?", Dr. Bianchi asks.
"She did accidentally. As Pia shot her, she raised her vectors at her in defense. I threw Kieya behind me and the vectors went through Ernesto's wrist; but he also about to shoot us as well.", Fernando stated. "No one in this room is an angel, but in the least, Kieya was defending herself in this and in all situations she had to lash out with her vectors."
"She killed over 30 students in the soccer field.", Dr. Bianchi stated.
"30 who were after her and wanted to do the same to her. So what she has an advantage with her vectors. I have an advantage with my guns. But at 30 to 1 odds? What would you do if somebody went after you like that? Somebody who wanted to see you dead?"
"Does not excuse anyone for their actions.", Dr. Bianchi stated.
"I would like to see you as the hunted.", Fernando stated.
"Unfortunately for you, for siding with her, you are the hunted as well, that is unless you relinquish her over to us.", Dr. Bianchi says.
"And if I say no?", Fernando asks.
"Then you and her will be placed under arrest.", Dr. Bianchi stated.
"Then you give me no other option than to call on my powers of Diplomatic Immunity, and extend such rights and freedoms to her under the endangered persons act.", Fernando tells him.
"You fucking dog…", Dr. Bianchi tells him before storming out the room.
"What did you just do?", Kieya asks.
"I'm giving you an extension of the powers that protects me under the laws of my country.", Fernando explains. "I thought I would not have to go that far but he leaves me no choice in this matter."
"I do not want anybody in trouble because of me.", Kieya says.
"Please, I have been in more trouble for stealing candy from the candy store when I was a kid. This is nothing.", Fernando explains to her. "Look. If you are capable of not using your vectors in self defense by killing others unless in extreme situations, then you should have your place in society. You understand where I am coming from with this?"
Kieya nods with her head bowed. At the same time, the patter of running feet towards Fernando's examination room. The patter stop as Rachel and then Francesca step in to the room. Rachel pounces on her father but is halted and kept at a distance by him. Francesca stays by the door for a moment.
"Everything alright? You seem fine.", Rachel asks.
"No, I'm actually hurt, I'll get better.", he explains.
"So what happened? What is this I hear about Pia being dead?", Rachel asks as Francesca approaches.
"I don't think she is dead, she should not be…", Fernando started.
"But what happened?!!", Rachel almost yells.
"That idiot Ernesto told Pia to shoot Kieya but I moved her behind me and that little blonde haired bitch shot me instead. Kieya let her vectors out to get her but in me moving her, she chopped off Ernesto's hand by accident.", Fernando explained. "Now, I shot Pia in the forehead. In the very least that would have knocked her out and not killed her."
"So, what is the next step?", Francesca asks.
"Look. You all don't have to side with me on this one. But I have extended diplomatic immunity on Kieya to keep her from getting arrested and tried unfairly.", Fernando answers.
"What makes you think that she will be tried unfairly.", a voice asks at the door. It was Ferro with Priscilla, Olga, Juanita, Dr. Bianchi and Nana; all who entered the room after she asked.
"You all have already decided to hunt her down and to terminate her.", Fernando started. "You know that Italian law does not cover murder by telekinesis when there is no murder weapon to be found. In fact, how can you convict someone when you can not explain or demonstrate how it was done?"
"She's dangerous.", Ferro stated. "She is a danger to the people around her, a danger to society."
"I have taught her otherwise!", Fernando said.
"In just 3 days?", Ferro stated. "Bullshit! Nana- go get her."
Nana steps up from behind the group, unleashing her vectors to grab Kieya. Kieya unleashes her vectors out, pushing everyone out the way and sending Nana out of the room flying to the end of the hall. She then sends a couple of her vectors through the window, ripping out the glass panels and frame outside. She then flies out the window, using her vectors to propel herself through the air. Though having quite a considerable distance ahead of her, Nana does the same and follows her.
"Look at what you fucking done- Ferro!", Fernando holds back from yelling at her. "If people die today, it is on your head!"
Fernando storms out the room. But stops when Olga stands in the way.
"Where are you going?", Olga asks.
"Trying to put a stop to this before more people get hurt or killed.", Fernando says.
"In following agency orders, you are under arrest, sir. Now cooperate or I have to get tough on…", Olga started to make her statement loud and clear but soon finds herself flat on her ass unsure how she got there. Rachel and Francesca follows Fernando out of the hospital ward. They get out onto the parking lot and take the Porsche to the direction where Kieya and Nana were flying towards: Lake Nemi.
