Chapter .25

"Sakuya I need to see you." Alisa pounded on the door trying to get her attention.

"Alisa! please come in."

"Sakuya you need, oh sorry."

Stepping inside Alisa and saw Kota and Soma inside with them too, "It's okay, what's up."

"I spoke with Lance a little while ago and he told me about-"

"We know Alisa, Paylor told us too." said Soma.

"But you don't know everything." Alisa took out the data disk from her pocket and put it in the computer, "This was in his room." everyone huddled around Alisa as she opened files, "There. Project black light was to make humans stronger and live longer, it started in Italy and a whole town was destroyed and everyone into was killed."

"But Paylor said one woman survived."

"Yes Kota, and that woman was Lance's mother. Alma." Alisa one a photo of the woman, she had long brown hair, emerald eyes and had a gorgeous face she looked just like what Lance described

"Wow, she's very pretty."

"She was given eternal youth and never aged past twenty five for thirty years."

Sakuya nodded, "Then the aragami came and they started project origin."

Alisa closed the file and brought up the next one, "Origin was to use Alma to give birth to children stronger the any normal human being, Alma had a daughter and she showed sighs of enhanced ability but after eight months she died. They did this three times the first two was girls again and died after eight months, on the fourth try Lance was born and lived for a year till he was dieing too."

Kota raised his hand, "Why did they all die again?"

"Because Alma was impregnated artificially, they're weren't born with all the DNA need to grow and live." confirmed Sakuya.

"That's right, they saved Lance by ripping out parts of his sisters and replacing whatever they had to. Project lazarus" Alisa show the file and video of the operation. Everyone was sick but the fact that no one vomited was a miracle.

"And he thinks he's a monster." muttered Soma.

"What was left was melted down will a metal called elerium to make biometal for his right arm."

"What is biometal?"

"Here it is biometal, a mix of organic and synthetic it's stronger then steel and grows and reacts like a normal arm."

"What's that there? Cover skin?"

"They even made a skin to cover the biometal to look like normal it grows and mimics the biometal, it can be cut and bleed."

"Anywhere else they put the stuff?"

Alisa scrolled down and found the answer "The left side of he skull was decayed so they're cut it out and covered it in more biometal."

"Who could have done this?" gasped Sakuya.

"Let's find out, There! Armacham Technology Corporation, ATC for short and Gentek, a genetic engineering company."

"I heard of them, they funded the gods eater project five years after the aragami came. There was a lot rumors about them testing on anything dangerous and mostly illegal for supposedly the good of mankind. What's that last one labeled nanomachines?"

"You're not believe this one." Alisa opened and read the info, "Nanomachines or nanites for short, they're tiny machines that flow through the blood and repair damaged tissue, bone, organs and massage the muscles to releave tiredness and pain, in other words they heal all of Lance's injuries."

"Wait. That time Konon said she watched Lance die and when they got back there wasn't even a scratch on him." said Sakuya

"When he and I went on that mission on the carrier I saw the aragami cut into his chest with it's tail and when I checked there was blood but no wound."

"So ATC and Gentek rebuild Lance, changed his DNA, and injected little machines him to make him fight longer."

The girl in red closed the file and continued on the last on, "After the operation was a success they moved Lance and Alma to America, there they stayed for eight years, till project Sparta was to begin." everyone looked to Alisa for an explanation, "No one knows about it because it was never officially started, it was to kill Lance and clone him and create an army of mindless killing machines to fight the aragami."

"How did he get out?" asked Kota.

With all the information shown Alisa closed all the files and took out the disk, "Lance told me that Alma woke up from the coma they drugged her into and she killed everyone there with some mental powers like control or crush their minds."

"Wait a minute." Sakuya tried to put it together, "So not only could Lance's mother live forever she was also a psychic?"

"That would explain how he connected to that orgetail, maybe Lance has some psychic power in him."

"Still why would he hide this from us he seemed like there was never anything wrong?"

"There's an old saying Kota, sometimes it's the happiest that are the most troubled."

"By the way what's that under your arm?" Kota point to the sketch book Alisa held, she turned back to everyone and show them the first page. It was a drawing of Lance, he stood in the wailing plains with his left hand to his head and two fingers in a saluting motion, "That's really good I didn't know he could draw."

"He plays the guitar too."

"How did you know that?"

"I heard him playing from his old rookie room, he said he never gave back the key and goes there when he wants to be alone." Alisa turned the page and another picture of Lance this time with his first god arc jabbed in to the ground with his hand on top of the handle. The next page was of Lindow, he held his god arc in one hand and a cigarette in the other. Everyone felt a little hurt remembering they're old leader, the next page was of Lindow with Lance in his room, Lindow held a beer laughing while Lance held up his hand talking.

"That's Lindow." said Sakuya holding back tears. The next page was of Sakuya, she stood proudly in the ruined city with her god arc on her shoulder, the one after that Lance was limping toward a vajra hold is side and dragging his weapon, Sakuya behind some cover shot a green laser at the boy.

"He's really captured you Sakuya." said Kota patting her back. The next page was of Kota in the tranquil temple, it showed him rubbing his head to think while behind him Lance was in the air with an annoyed look as he was shooting at a prithvi mata, after that Kota was pointing at Konon and Gina walking by and Lance stood beside him with his eyes closed and rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"He captured you too Kota." the next one was Soma in the sunken grid watching the aragami roam, next he and Lance were surrounded by ogretails, zygotes and cocoon maidens, but nether looked sacred instead looked as if they knew they'd win.

"He's even got you in this thing Soma."

"I see."

"Wow didn't expect that." said Kota. True was that Lance was the only one Soma would even call a friend as he too knew the pain of be a weapon. Brushing off Kota Soma turned the page to picture of an orgetail and Lance patting it's nose,after that it was Lance riding it and charging after an ouroboros, then it was one that everyone seemed to agree was a little heart warming. In the wailing plains Lance and the orgetail took shelter from the rain in some building, the aragami laid down and curled up around Lance while the boy rested his head on it's side, the two looked content out of the rain.

"He's got a creative mind and a lot of heart, even though it has a lot of scars."

"Hey Alisa why aren't you in here?"

"It's fine Kota, wait!" the boy took the book from her and turned the page.

"Wow." the drawing was of Alisa and the most detailed, she looked out over the ocean running her hand through her hair. The one after was of Alisa shacking hands with Lance on the day they met, after that Lance held her on his back runing form the city with his god arc point at a prithvi mata to keep it back, after that Alisa was in the hospital, Lance stood beside her holding her as she rested her head on his chest.

"So you didn't want us to see this." assumed Sakuya. Turning the page it showed a downed chi-you with Lance and Alisa mirroring each others moves as the held out their god arc's in predator mode ready to bite, the next was ghor-ghoro with Lance's god arc in it's head being pulled back by the vine from Lance's armlet and Alisa slashing into it's exposed underside. The next drawing was Lance running to attack a borg camlann with Alisa giving cover fire, after that was one in the den Alisa was giving Lance a bunker shield to Lance, his eyes were on the gift while her eyes were on him.

"You gave him a shield?" asked Kota.

Alisa face blushed like crazy, "I wanted to give him something to thank him for helping me." the next picture was Lance holding Alisa's hand and dropping a control chip in it, both of them locked eyes.

"And he returned the favor." said Soma.

The next page was hard for Alisa to turn, to was the vajra she shot to save Lance she was drawn with a fearless look but she knew the wasn't what really happened, next was the two on the carrier looking out over the sea with Alisa waring Lance's battle blue jacket.

"What happened there?" asked Sakuya.

"Lance took me up on top of the carrier to watch the sunset over the water with him."

"And?"

"Nothing happened Kota!"

"Why so defective then?"

"I, I..."

"Alisa likes Lance! Alisa likes Lance!"

"You want me to break you? Because Lance..."

"What?"

"Lance showed me how to fight hand to hand as well as with a god arc." Alisa's gaze dropped back to the sketch book and turned the page, it was Alisa and Lance again but Alisa laid on her side bleeding and Lance held up both of their god arc's to block an attack for a white ouroboros, next was Lance holding his arm, it was black with spikes sticking out of the shoulder, Alisa stood in front of him with her hands on it.

"Lance wants to protect you Alisa."

"It's more then that. Look on the last page." on it the new types held each other in an embrace, they both looked at peace. The background was black out and written at the bottom was three words, "My only wish."

"Alisa?" muttered everyone. The girl in question closed the book and put it down on the table then turned to face the team.

"His only wish... Is me."

Sakuya patted her back to settle her, "And how do you feel about that? do you feel the same?"

"I don't know."

"Maybe you should talk to him and then see what happens."

"Lance just had revealed his past to me and I not know if he'll be happy with everyone now knowing."

"She's right, he opened an old scar and we just made it bigger." said Soma.

Kota flailed his arm to get their attention, "But we can't do nothing."

"Alisa's might be the only one he listen too, besides right now he needs time to close the scars."

"You know a lot about this Soma why's that?"

Soma left the soon fallowed by Kota, Alisa said good bye to Sakuya and left as well. The girl walked the hall with one qeustion in mind, does she or does she not love Lance Firestar.