Chapter. 39

"That was close." Alice took a long sigh once the three got past the garden accessories. They went through a couple more rooms till they found the server room.

"There it is!" Beatrice point to the terminal in the center. "I Believe this is what we were looking for. Shall we take a look?" Beatrice began typed on the terminal.

"Find anything?" Asked Alice.

"There are no records under that name..." Beatrice hits a few more keys. "Hmm... Perhaps there is nothing here, after all."

"Or, you're not looking in the right place." Leon got closer to the terminal. "May I?" Beatrice stepped aside. The accessory got to work, opening and closing files faster then the eye could track. "There we go, 2,419 matching records. You may continue." Leon backed away so the girls could see.

"Ah, I see! So you searched the data related to transmissions made during operation!" Beatrice read through some the files. "Of course! My father may have been register under a false name, but some of his comrades must have called him by real name!"

"Great! Leon, can you download this data?" Asked Alice.

"Done!" The accessory connected to the terminal and started uploading the data ti his systems.

"Yes! We must give this to Julien to look at!" Beatrice was over joyed with the find they made.

"Wait I want to check something, for myself."

"What is it?"

Alice typed on the terminal. "My parents. Nat-I was never told how they died, I have to know the truth." Alice search for her parents names and found a file. "There, this is it. My mother Rosawyn and my father Matthew. Wait, what is this?"

Beatrice leaned closer. "What?"

"My mother's date of birth isn't here, my father's is but why not her's?"

"Let me see." Leon started typing. "It's not here because you're mother was never born in this Panopticon."

"Then were is she from? Another con?"

"No, if she was it would she where she came from."

"There where... oh God." Alice brought her hands to her mouth.

Leon nods slowly. "Yes, you're mother came from On High."

"How?!"

"Let me read." Leon scrolled back to the top of the file. "Rosawyn was a top class fighter. She was charged with raiding missions until her team betrayed her;details are unknown as for to why. She talked about it, only swearing to find and kill them. Some believed her to be a fallen but was never proven. She ended up in a crossfire with Matthew's recon group and was captured."

"What happened then?"

"Matthew went to see her almost everyday, to the point where he was the only one Rosawyn would talk too. The panopticon added Rosawyn to their list of sinners and was kept on a very short leash. After three years Matthew and Rosawyn started a relationship and married after two years. One year later they had a child, Alice."

"This is wonderful!" Beatrice looked to Alice. "You're the proof that people from On High and the surface can come together in harmony."

"Really?" Alice held her hands over her heart. "I'm the proof... the proof of a better future." Leon ruffled Alice's hair. "Stop it! Please Leon, find how they died."

"Both of your parents were on a scouting mission twelve years ago, near the Arcadia panopticon."

"The great loss!" The girls shouted.

"They killed them. On High killed them, along with all those people." Alice's body was shacking.

"Alice?" Leon leaned closer.

"I'll kill them."

Leon's sensors were going off. "No, it can't be..."

Alice's eyes turned sky blue. "I'll kill them!" The sinner punched the terminal, her fist went through the screen. Alice pulled her arm back as the glow faded. "What was that? What just happened to me?"

Alice fell to her knees and Leon wrapped his arms around her. "Alice... You're a fallen."

"A fallen? Am I... am I gonna become a monster?!" Alice started to panic.

"No. You must have gained this power from you're mother but you're will'o level is lower then Connar's. You won't turn insane, but you must not get angry. Anger seems to be the trigger."

"So there's more then one fallen." Said Beatrice.

Leon nods. "And where there's one more, there could be a hundred more."

"Maybe we should leave now. We'll return to Julien with the data later."

"Agreed." Leon helped Alice stand up and held her arm over her shoulders. "What do you want to do Alice?"

"I don't know." Alice was at her limit and just started crying. "I don't know!"

...

Connar opened his eyes to find himself in another lab, this time Connar was looking over a monitor. "Devarja your work will bring about the end of humanity!" A voice spoke from an intercom.

"I don't want to hear this again Lucius! Just look down at the world, it's ended a long time ago. Now filthy surface dwellers fight over what's left. My research will further the greater good of On High."

"And what about that woman who escaped?"

"And? I have plenty more to use."

Connar's body to see some people in tanks. "What the hell is this?!"

"Now unless you have something important to tell me, Goodbye."

"Don't you-" Connar's body turned off the intercom.

His body went to the only empty tank and opened it. "I will be the god of this ruined world." Connar stepped inside the tank and closed himself in, letting the tank fill with will'o.

...

"Ahh!" Connar woke up in the warren.

"Connar!" Elfriede sat beside her friend. "You okay?"

"I don't know? What happened?"

"Some officers came for us, you changed again and killed them."

"Wait, I think I remember it this time." Connar tried to stand but his legs gave out. "I need to get back to my cell to rest, I feel dizzy."

"Okay." Elfriede helped Connar up to his feet.

"Thank you Elfy." The two went to the elevator to get back to code level four. Once there they get to Connar's cell and opened the door.

"You better rest and get better, okay?"

"I will." The door closed between them. Connar waited a minute before looking out his door window to see Elfriede walking away. When she was Connar stood in the center of his cell. "Aries! ARIES! Where are you Aries?!" Connar punched his monitor wall. "Where the hell are you Aries?!"

Connar sat down on his bed, his hands on the sides of his head. "This was so much easier when it was just about getting my sentence down." The thief laid on his bed to try and sleep.

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