Chapter .54
as the light faded the first unit return to the real world, after clearing their vision they saw the human hannibal aragami unconscious. Know fully aware that it was Lance they grabbed him and called for an emergency pick up.
A day had passed since then, the injured third unit was still in sickbay while the first unit was given the day to rest. Alisa was riding the elevator to the training hall to see Lance, she know Iit would be a bad sight but nothing could get her ready for what what she saw.
Lance was still in the aragami form, chained to the floor with an IV in his arm giving him powerful tranquilizers so he'd stay down. Paylor, Tsubaki, and some other Gods Eaters with their weapons ready stood over the fallen new type.
"Hello Alisa, what brings you here?" Asked Paylor.
"Do I need a reason to see Lance?" Alisa walked past the others, kneeling beside her boyfriend. "What are you doing to help him?"
The director's grin quickly faded away from the Russian's question. "His body is overloaded with oracle cells. We have some ways to remove them from a Gods Eater's body, but Lance has so much that as you see... it's altered his whole body."
"Lan..." Alisa rubbed Lance's hair, it atill felt the same as when they were just laying around in his room. When her hand moved down to the side of his face a resonation accord.
Alisa found herself in the middle of a desert, beside her was a travel of footprints. Alisa fallowed after the footprints for a few minutes till she saw someone, as she got closer Alisa began running after them, knowing it was Lance.
Lance stopped walking and turned around to catch Alisa as she hugged him. "Aly? What are you doing here? Oh yeah resonating."
Alisa held on to Lance like a vice. "It's you, your okay!"
"Not yet Aly, there's still thongs to do." A loud roar echoed across the desert, catching the couples attention. "We need to get moving."
"What was that?"
"Caligula, he's still after me along with the demi god. I've been running from then for a week."
Alisa stopped walking in shock. "A week!? It hasn't been twenty four hours since you disappeared!"
Lance waved his finger with a grin. "The mind has a thousand thoughts a day, time is different here, five minutes in the real world is equal to an hour here." Lance wrapped his arms around Alisa returning the hug she gave him earlier. "Still it was hard going without you, know that your still alive gave me the strength to keep going."
The couple held each other in the embrace, till another roar killed the mood. "Tender block much! Some aragami am I right?"
"Lan, doctor Sakaki is trying to find a way to help return to your old self but it's not going well."
"Okay listen." Lance placed his hands on her shoulders. "The key is to get rid of all the oracle cells, what I'm going to tell you I need you to tell Paylor." Alisa nodded to confirm. "What you need to do is skin me."
"What!?"
"Just listen, under the blue scales is my normal self, so if you peel off the scales my body will use the oracle cells to rebuild it. Then just peel that too."
"And keep doing that untill your body doesn't have enough cells to keep rebuilding it. How did you think of this?"
Lance's grin returned. "I've had a few days to think about this, also I need you to tell Paylor to do two more things."
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the light faded as Alisa returned to the real world. "Doc Sakuya, I know what to do!" Alisa explained to the director what happened in Lance's mind and how to reverse the aragami transformation, as she was getting into the details Paylor told her to fallow him to his lab.
"Interesting, and Lance's believes this will work?" The doctor questioned.
"He's had a some time to think about this, but there is more. When the problem is dealt with there's two other things he need you to do." Alisa took a breath to prepare for what she was about to say. "He wants you to open his head and remove the biometal part of his skull."
Paylor stopped his hands, he stared at his screens for a few seconds before looking at the Gods Eater. "What would that do?"
"It's where the program to turn Lance into the demi god is, and if it's removed he won't have to worry about it taking him over."
"But does he know that it was his demi god self that defeated nova and saved the world? And from Konon's report it saved his life when faced a quadriga, so without it he won't have a something to prevent him from dying should it happen again."
Alisa nodded. "He knows and I asked almost the same questions. He said that it makes him feel like he's a machine, it makes him feel less human."
"Well spoken, I already have the best surgeons I trust on the way. Now what's the second?" Alisa raised her hand to her face, trying to find the words.
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Over the next two days Lance's operation was underway, without being able to see him everyone at the den began to wonder what was happening. Alisa paced back and forth in her room, worrying about Lance.
Her door slided open, allowing Kota to enter. "Alisa!" he shouted. "Lance's sergery is done! We can go see him!" The Russian pushed passed the gunner, making a b-line for the lift. Outside the sick bay everyone was there to get a look at the fallen Lance. Alisa pushed her way through the crowd to get bedside, there she finally saw him.
Lance whole body was covered head to toe in bandages, probably for peeling away the layers of aragami skin that covered him not long ago.
Everyone took a few minutes to speak with Lance, though he couldn't answer back. An hour later everyone but the first unit was started to exit the sick bay, leaving behind flowers in hopes that he'll get back on his feet soon.
Once the others were gone Kota was the first to speak. "Hey Lance, you're going to come back to us right? Don't take too long, everyone still needs a hero."
As Kota got up to leave Sakuya took his place. "Don't listen to him you've fought haider thwn anyone, and you give me hope that Lindow is still alive." Sakuya leaned closer, placing her hand on his. "Rest as long asyou need, we'll be here waiting."
Soma unfolded his arms and stood over Lance. "I know you can hear me, don't even think about dying. You're going to get up and get back to work because I'm not doing your job. Friend." With Soma saw himself out.
With only herself with him now Alisa tried to say something but couldn't find the words, she took a seat beside Lance and just watched him. "This is how it started wasn't it? You watching over me when I fell apart, now it the other way around." Alisa put her index and middle fingers to her lips then on Lance forehead. "Come back to me Lan, we... I need you here with me."
Alisa watched Lance for a few more minutes before leaving as well.
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