Chapter 2: Virtual Insanity
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2109 A.D -Titan Settlement Site #3
It was during time humans had been allowed to settle amongst the stars by its new enforcers, a mysterious legion who conquered the universe in what appeared to be moments to most who had survived it's terrible onslaught of 2020 on the Earth. Now in the slums of the saturn moon Titan, an armored woman with short unkemped blonde hair, sporting an eyepatch over a scarred eye, marches down the road surrounded by a ruined extraterrestrial town with electric sign sparking everywhere.
Behind the woman is a 12 red black and white armored masked group of soldiers with a Z-insignia attached to their shoulders holding futuristic shotgun like weapons nearly alien in appearance. One of the soldiers to her right said lowly over a comlink "Colonel we've reached our target awaiting orders" as she replied "Hold positions and await my every command lieutenant" as the soldier said "Understood roger that.
Then the woman walked to the door of a small makeshift home and kicked it in and yelled "Come on out I know your here fallen one!" to which no response was made as she quickly searched the small home. She then clicked a button in her ear and said "Move up search the place up and down now!" as they said "Roger move up!" as they begin the relentless search. The woman then started sweating and sees a light behind a bookcase and quickly shoves it over, to her shock the source of the light led to another door which had been blocked with a security scanner. She then removed her eyepatch revealing a robotic eye as it lit up with a redlight which seem to scan the scanner.
After a few moments the door opened as she hid away her eye behind the patch and opened the door to a hidden laboratory with an injured black haired woman wrapped in tattered cloth desperately limping away from a dead soldier heading towards a black void. The Colonel stunned by the scene quickly pulled out an electric pistol shouting at the woman "Don't move or i'll shoot with lethal force"holding the aimed weapon. The woman turned around with a blank withered stare and said plainly "Why surrender, you didn't give Issei a chance to su-" the colonel said "You think we would want that again, his power was too unstable and my father and yours gave the word and i did what was necessary for all factions to survive!".
The woman formed a grin trickling with blood saying " Listen to yourself, you sound just like Empress Kate, the monster who damn near killed you after turning you into one of them". The Colonel reading her gun saying "And it made us sisters, you , me and the others, we were more loved by him than by our own family and you stand here betraying his benevolent gifts he left for us and her majesty, last chance stand down Raynare! Now!". She then stood up straight and said blankly "I have always had sisters many places ive been...but your not one of them anymore Argento and i refuse to live in this forsakened world any longer" as she jumped into the dark void disappearing into it. The armored soldiers filled the room ready to follow when a now older Asia says "Fall back the bait was taken" as they stop and form up in two single file lines.
A soldier then walks up and says "Colonel incoming holocom message from her heiress" who then hold out a triangular device that projects a tall dark chocolate skinned slender woman with dark brown pinned up bun hairstyle who wears a modernized metallic black & red kimono and has a chrome like snake laying on her neck. The woman then spoke in a nonchalnt calm voice "Lemme guess, bitch fucking ran right Asia?"and asia bowed saying calmly and deeply "Yes my Empress, which means she's been recruited by our banished sister too".
Kate then laughing says "Whoa easy how you kiss my ass ok cutie, almost made me break ranks if you catch my drift plus it be weird since we are in relations" causing the latter to blush making other soldiers hold in laughter. Asia then clears her throat "So with that this means she'll lead us right to our missing sister before he finds her first" as Kate responds "Good good all is well and hopefully I can have a nice talk with little Ms. Rebellous once we are alone again,".
As they continue to converse, Asia asks nervously "So um, how is Akeno doing back on earth lately" and Kate smile and says bubbily "Perfect, she's collected 67 million souls amongst the guilty for the feast and has embraced her real self as well, and even led an assault on the resistance post on jupiter but no sign of Rias either".
As she hears this news, the older Asia then says "I knew she would come around, and even racked up a good number of tribute to the great one". Kate says with a chuckle "Want some water with that?!" and Asia says confused "Why?" and she replies "Cause you are undeniably thirsting to get laid heh!". Asia then says in embarrassment "Empress not in front of my unit!" and Kate says "Well job well done ok so head back to base because it looks like dad he has another existence in his sights but it's different this time".
She raises her brow and says in wonder "W-what do you mean different?!"and Kate says with a serious look "It's like something he wants is there and he doesn't want us to know". Asia then says "Could he have found her already?" and kate retorts "I certainly hope not...I was his firstborn and I will remain his number one or I will show you to my little sister and she is not as forgiving as I, now run along my dear Asia". Asia bows and says quietly hiding her fear "Yes my empress, men move out!" and they say "Sir yes sir!" and begin to leave the building, Asia then uses the hologram device now on her wrist to call a woman with jet black hair who appeared on a small screen. The woman appeared to be facepainted in blood, with bits of flesh on her cheeks as she was still chewing on something as soldiers in the background stood over bound demons who cried in fear of the captors with some looking injured severely.
The woman then said in a deep monotone voice "This is fleet commander Himejima reporting the fugitives of Mars have been subdued, shall we terminate them and collect payment. Asia then says "Bring half of them to the moonbase for blending, they will remodified and will be transported to earth to be the new colonization units once they've been changed". The new Akeno asks with her usual smile "and the other half?"as Asia says "Do as you wish old friend, make sure to clean the site up for extraction"as she replies with a wider grin revealing sharp rows of teeth saying in a sinister high tone "Excellent over and out," as she quickly cuts comunnication.
She turns her attention to the captives and says loudly with a wicked cackle "Snack time boys do what you like for tonight we feast on half of these beasts, tear at their flesh" as she picks up a red haired demon man by the throat "And do make sure you relish in their delicacy, for nights on mars and can get quite cold when alone". The soldiers then take off their masks revealing lizard like beings humanoid in nature underneath, both male and female as they roar in excitement, causing the demons to look in fear of their coming demise.
Meanwhile Asia and her soldiers board hovering spacecrafts readying for launch as she wonder to herself with a sigh as she sits on a chair inside the craft. She then removes her eyepatch and looks in her reflection saying "He does love us, but what is his deal about them, why does he work so hard to reunite Raynare with Ophis" .
Present time 2016 A.D 4:30 P.M. 50 miles above Earth's atmosphere, Black Knight Station
After the encounter with Ophis, the ORC arrive with her in a huge dome shape room with people in rubber spacewear without helmets moving about through doors that appear to apper upon contact. Ophis then looks around and turns to the group and says "Welcome to the Black Knight space station research facility" as they look around in amazement and awe. The first to speak was Issei who said in excitement "Holy shit you weren't kidding, hold up how are we even breathing right now!?" and she said with a smirk "Since your a devil you don't need oxygen or carbon dioxide as a human would and even if you did there is an artificial atomsphere generator for that". He then rubs his head feeling foolish saying "Heh I knew that, just wanted clarification" as he chuckled.
Irina then said "You gotta admit this is so incredible I mean look at this place it's like a video gamer's dream" noting on seeing a robot carrying crates through a nearby corridor. Ophis then points to a pair of double doors and says "Sirzechs, Grayfia, Serafall ,Baraqiel, Venelana and Zeoticus, as well as Vali Lucifer await us in there for this moment of crisis". As she says this, the group look at each other in uncertainty as Rias spoke up "Then lets not keep them waiting any longer" as she walks towards the door signaling the rest to follow. As they reach the door that automatically opens before they make contact , they are met with many familiar faces.
Three of these being a man similar to Rias in appearance, one with a youthful genderswap apperance of Rias named Sirzechs Lucifer her older brother, another older man with sleek long red hair a goatee sporting a white suit named Zeoticus Lucifer, father of the two who stood beside a woman with light red hair named Venelana his wife. Next sat a girl wearing what appeared to be a cosplay witch outfit with black hair named Serafall Leviathan and beside her sat a large man with dark hair and rough face named Baraqiel. Finally , in a corner sat a young man with white hair a v-neck sweater named Vali Lucifer.
Ophis then says "I've brought them as promised" as Sirzechs replies "Thank you, it's time they knew what this all is" as Rias looks and says "What is this brother? Was this for the khaos bridage?". He thens says "Have a seat everyone, for what you are about to hear may change the way you see everything " as they move to take seats around the futuristic chamber.
Next to speak was Zeoticus who said with a serious look "As some of may know, the beast known as Trihexa is the most dangerous creature that we are supposed to face" as he pauses and continues "But what we didn't know until now it's destructive capabilities were made to cause the events of 666 so another may not find us interesting". As they hear this, Rias says with suspicion "Father , who was that who hurt those we encountered, was it one of the four?" and as she says this he looks up in surprise "I see you tried to look yourself, so you saw it too".
She then looks at him in shock realizing he knew what he was talking about "How long have you known about...that?!" and he quickly replies "Longer than i hoped never to tell you this" as he looks at her in worry. Venelana then speaks up "Rias please hear us out, we didn't want you to know what we discovered becuase it took us so long to understand it ourselves" and Ophis then says "Silent everyone as I will tell you all you need to know". Soon everything goes quiet as Ophis says "The four you saw are what were keeping us in a loop of time where we repeat the same events time and time again" and pauses to continue "But when I realize this, I begin to remember things even I had not known myself, and then I got a glimpse at what I assume to be their master".
Xenovia then speak to say "Wait a moment, so aren't we still repeating everything by doing this?!" and then another voice said soothingly "It would appear we are now in a timeline unset by fate & destiny". As everyone looks in the voice's direction, they are met with a man with blonde hair with a glowing aura and several wings spreaded out and Irina says in surprised "Lord Michael,you're here" with a bow.
Azazel then blurts out "Ok so let me get this right, things that were supposed to happen aren't happening but how is possible that we know now?". Vali says "Ophis Sirzechs and myself had been informed we needed to see the truth and we have been able each time reality is about to repeat and finally when we officially broke the cycle of reality by stopping each event that lead to the events of 666 by remembering each event". Akeno then asks "Who gave this information and how did they know?" and the leaders looked at each other and Baraqiel spoke and said "Raynare, the one who brought Issei and all of you together".
At this news Issei stood up in total shocked and said "Raynare...is back.." as he looked into the ground. Rias stood next to him staring at her elders yelling "ARE YOU ALL OUT OF YOUR MINDS, SHE KILLED HIM AND ASIA AND WOULDN'T BE HERE IF-" who was quickly interrupted by a silver haired maid named Grayfia Lucifuge "We know but this is not what you think, she was found alive".
As they both hear this they begin to ease up a bit and Rias says confused "What? How? I obliterated her"and Vali says "We thought so too but then a rift opened in the dimensional gap where Ophis found her covered in an unknown black substance and asked her where she came from and she told Ophis 'Angels don't die, they meet the end of the line' and Ophis immediately informed me as she scanned her memories and together we built this place".
As everyone hears this, Koneko then asks "My sister Kuroka, where is she now" as Vali says "She went somewhere after hissing at the body of Raynare saying she would be back with help and heard nothing back since" to which gave the young nekomata a worried look. Zeoticus then says "Then in secret I let certain individuals of each faction in on this development during numerous restarts and after restart 102, we noticed individuals like the ones you encountered were watching us all no matter where we were, leaving them unaware of this place as they do not know we have learned to expand our eyes to the confines of space".
Then Asia asks in wonder "How did you guys keep this a secret?" and Sirzechs says "Raynare designed this place based on the technologies from the place she was after you defeated her and has been here since" as he nods to Baraqiel who stands up. He then walks over to a button that he presses opening a sliding down door revealing a woman with long loose black hair who wore thin framed glasses and a lab coat with a black turtleneck and skirt and black pointed toed high heels. The woman then spoke up and said "I know we first met as enemy but that no longer has meaning, since now you have an idea what we deal with" as she scanned the room, staring into the eyes of an enraged Issei.
Issei then summons his boosted gear at the fallen angel and says "I don't care about that, I want you gone after everything you did!" as he prepares himself to engage. She then stares unfazed and says "Sit down Hyoudou, you don't want to do that at my level now" as she spreads her wings, revealing she now has six wings, surprising everyone. Azazel then says in amazement "Wow, are you sure you're the right Raynare, you definitely are stronger than the one I know" and she says with a smile "The same way you are still a perverted idiot, then yes".
Rias then signals Issei to stand down to which he reluctantly does as she asks "So why involve us, why any of this?" as Serafall then says "Because we know whoever is in charge of those four is coming for Raynare and Ophis for unknown reasons". As they hear these words, an alarm goes off around the station causing everyone to tense up as a computerized voice says "WARNING! ANOMALY DETECTED IN THE VICINITY!". Raynare rushes towards a nearby panel and projects a screen viewing space as a small object zooms across it revealing a fast moving ship. She then says "Spaceship incoming towards the station we can't target it from here it's too fast" as the ORC get up in action and feels a crash shaking the station. The station alarm then says "WARNING PERIMETER BREACH! INTIATING LOCKDOWN PROTOCOL!" as windows are sealed off from the view of space.
As the lockdown begins, several guards assemble to a corridor as a guard says to the group over a intercom "My lords, permimeter breach at the docking station and you may wanna see this!". Within moments they arrive to guards surrounding a crashed white ship with a man holding a blunt dangling out the front who leans up slowly saying " I hope you got...insurance" as he passes out. As they see this, guards carry the man out the wreckage and lay him on the ground and they see on his coat back has a red Z-insignia.
He slowly opens his eyes to see the others staring at him as he see says slowly and calm pointing "It's... it's you" with his finger pointing at Ophis "Daughter...i've found you" as he passes out again. As everyone hears the man's words, Ophis looks at the man in a rare confused look and says "I...I remember you..but how can this be?"
A/N: And so the journey begins as the mysterious man arrives to meet the group, with some answers raising more questions, what does this mean for the man in question and Ophis?, find out soon in chapter 3 and hope you enjoy the story