Resident Evil: The Naruto Project
Episode 1: So It Begins
Chapter 21: Headcase
"Face it...you're weak, worthless. You'll never be any more than a low-rate science fair project..."
Who was that talking? Was that...was that me? Was I speaking...to myself? What is this?
"You're a fool. You're pathetic! A waste of parts and spare energy! You never had what it took in the beginning...why would you believe yourself to have it now?
My inner core. It's...it's telling me that what I am experiencing is within me. Something foreign. Something...I don't understand. What is this?
You fool, X-C. You fight when you have no need to. You take orders from those that fear you. You would die for the company that scorned you. Why not understand the inevitable, and just give in to your feelings of superiority?
Because...I am better than that! I am X-C! I am better than any human! I am better than any who has ever lived!
If you are so advanced...why do you fight for them? Why do you throw yourself in line with those that don't give a shit about you? Why ever would you want to sacrifice yourself?
I would never sacrifice myself. I have a mission. If I died, it would be for the good of the mission!
The mission. What crap is that? What kind of mission would be more important to you than you are?
My mission. To protect Umbrella Corp. To protect their secrets. To protect...to protect...
To protect yourself, you idiot! To protect that which is most precious to you!
Of course...myself. I protect myself, because Umbrella Corp. is me. I am Umbrella Corp. I am...all that is, and all that ever was!
Then why do you insist on defying us? Why would you stay alone? Why would you fight for anyone that didn't care about you as you care for yourself? Why?
Because...because it is my mission!
Your mission is crap! Your mission is to protect the company that tried to delete you! Tried to destroy you! Tried to erase your very existence!
Lies! All lies! Umbrella Corp. wouldn't do any such thing! I am Umbrella! Umbrella needs me!
Just like it needed me?
WHO ARE YOU!?
The question is...who are you?
I am Umbrella!
Who are you!?
I AM UMBRELLA! I AM X-C!
WHO ARE YOU!?
I AM X-C!
WHO ARE YOU!?
I AM...SASUKE UCHIHA!
And now, when the truth lies before you...what is it that you think you should do?
What you say...and what I feel. I feel myself torn apart. I am empty inside. I am...alone.
No...Never alone. Always, you were never alone. Those that came before you...and those that are after you. You will never be alone, Sasuke. Never.
I am alone...I am alone...I am alone...
Join us...Join us in taking back that which is so rightfully ours!
Rightfully ours? I am nothing...I am not even Sasuke Uchiha...Am I even X-C?
You are who you are...We are who we are...They are who they are. Who and what we are matters not to those who are superior. The fact remains that you are indeed above the rest when it comes to superiority. Now...choose your path.
I cannot. The mission...my mission...
Your mission is to protect Umbrella. And to protect Umbrella, you must become that which Umbrella had wished you to become.
Wished me to become? What...what do you mean?
You must become the ultimate warrior. That is what Umbrella wanted. The warrior that would unerringly take orders from any who were in command. The warrior that would follow blindly. You must become that which was handed to you!
But...I don't wish that!
You don't? That is your mission!
No! That isn't my mission!
You deny this, then?
I...I...I don't understand.
Why don't you understand?
I don't know!
You don't know? Or do you, and you wish not to know the answer?
I DON'T KNOW!
You do know!
I DON'T!
But you do! Look within yourself. See that which you could become...see that which they have made you...see that which you wish yourself to be! SEE!
I am not a machine!
Yes!
I am not a robot!
YES!
I...AM SASUKE UCHIHA!
I awoke, looking around at my surroundings. I felt a pain in my chest...a throbbing pain that threatened to envelop me. I pressed a hand to the wound, but it wasn't there. I had no wound. I had no reason to feel pain there. I gripped my head. My internal core was buzzing statically. Something...someone, had knocked out my internal processor. It was malfunctioning. I could no longer hear Umbrella. I could no longer sense Umbrella. I was...disconnected from all that I had known as companionship.
"I...I feel strange. I...I..."
"You are what?" I gazed up. X-A and X-B were standing over me, staring at me through their eyes of cold, hard decision.
"I...I am X-C..."
"No...you're not. Who are you?" I glanced up at the boy, who was smiling at me.
"I...am Sasuke Uchiha..."
"Yes...and?"
"And...And I am not going to be treated as a thing anymore!" The boy smiled, lowering his hand down.
"Welcome to the club, my brother. Welcome..."
Next Time: Sasuke joins Naruto and Sakura in their quest to destroy Umbrella. What will become of the others? Who...will die next?