Authors note: Hey people! Let me say that I really, really appreciate all
the support that I've goten for this fic. If you guy's wouldn't have kept
reviewing, I probably wouldn't have continued. Thanks.
Now with all that said and done...
CHAPTER 9
Cloud sighed, he was sitting alone in the hanger, once again on his Blade Ligars paw. Next him, LightStrike was sleeping. He was thinking about everything that had happened, and wishing that there was some way he could have prevented all of it.
The door to the hanger opened, and in walked Izumi, followed by everyone else. The group walked up to the Blade Ligar, and stopped, looking up at Cloud.
"Cloud." Izumi stated, "We think you know what could be going on."
Cloud looked down at them and shook his head, "Im not sure what's going on."
Izumi clenched her fists, "Bull! You do know what's going on! We want an explanation damn it!"
LightStrike jumped to his feet, suddenly surprised by Izumi's shouting. He turned to face the group, looking over his masters shoulder. Cloud turned away from them and said, "I can't tell you. I don't want any of you involved... not now anyway."
Izumi jumped onto the Blade Ligars paw, anger written clearly on her face. She grabbed Clouds jacket, and looked him strait in the eye, "This is all about Rain's past isn't it? Well let me tell you something... Rain risked her life to save me and Brad," She let go of his jacket and stood up strait, her eyes flashing, "and then she went and saved me again in the air against the GunGyarados. Now I don't know if she's dead or alive, but I do know this... she's my friend no matter what. No matter how terrible, or sad her past is, she's still going to be my friend, and I'll stick by her to the end of everything."
"That's right!" Lavender and Tyra yelled together. Various agreements and comments came from the others. Cloud stood up and looked at Izumi, then at the rest of the group, and frowned. He looked strait at Jemie and pulled a small disk from his pocket.
Cloud tossed the disk to Jemie and said, "Go break the password, and read the files on it. Then come to me."
Jemie nodded as he took of toward the computer room, with everyone except Izumi right at his heals.
"What's on the disk?" Izumi demanded.
"Rain's past."
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Orihime walked down the halls of the base, heading toward the admirals office. She reached the door and knocked gently.
"Come in commander." Came a voice from the other side.
She opened the door and walked in, her soft brown eyes adjusting to the dimness of the room. She saluted," You said you wanted to see me?"
"Yes." The admiral stated. She had long blond hair, and olive green eyes. She was thin, and had a nice figure, "I am very happy in you commander. You have managed to retrieve both MCME zoids... and their pilots! Very well done."
"Thank you miss Gabrielle." Orihime said, lowering her eyes to the ground, "may I ask a question?"
"Yes, go ahead."
"Is the girl alive?"
Gabrielle grinned cruelly, "Yes she is, barley, and she could still die. That's why we have decided to use the MCME on her soon."
"What!?" Ori yelled, "You can't! It's wrong!"
"I can do as I please." Gabrielle stated, "Don't worry though, we plan on using it on Zero first."
Orihime stared, she thought only Copper himself could be so cruel. She shook her head, "I refuse to let you use it on one of my soldiers."
"You do?" Gabrielle said, chuckling slightly, "You seem to forget that your father sent you to work with us, so he could get some money. Well, as you know all to well, we made sure you would work for us, by taking you parents into our custody."
Orihime cursed under her breath, and nodded.
"Good. The tests will be taking place at 2 pm tomorrow. I ask that you be there."
"Yes ma'am."
"That is all. You may leave now."
Orihime turned to leave, returning to her own office.
*****************************
Zack sat in his cell, wondering why he had been locked up. He looked through the bars, and down the hall, noticing that the admiral was walking in his direction.
"Hello Zero." Gabrielle said, stopping in front of his cell.
"Ma'am," Zack answered, giving the salute, "May I ask why I have been locked up?"
Gabrielle smiled, "Zero, do you know what the MCME are?"
Zero shook his head, "No ma'am."
"I see." She said, "How did you ever come across the Bahamut?"
Zero sighed, "I was trying to steal it, but I was caught by Commander Orihime. Instead of capturing me, she offered me a job, so I took it."
"Very interesting. And since then, you have gained complete control over the zoid?"
"Yes ma'am." he answered.
"Perfect."
Zero looked at the admiral strangely, and asked, "What's perfect."
"You are. Tomorrow, you are going to find out what the MCME are."
***************************
Jemie sighed and looked over at the clock. It read 4 am.
"Man I've tried everything..." He said with a yawn. He looked over his shoulder. The others where all asleep in the room, some on the sofa's, some on the floor.
He yawned again, thinking of what word he hadn't tried yet. He just couldn't break the password. LightStrike walked into the room and looked around.
Then it hit him. He typed in "memories" and hit the enter key. Waiting several seconds, he was brought up to a folder entitled MCME.
He clicked on the name and read the file, both shocked and amazed. 'This explains alot...' he thought, pressing on the next page button, coming up with various pictures of the Bahamut and Ryuu.
Jemie read on, and when he had read it all he whistled, "Wow." He said to himself.
"Hey guy's wake up!" He yelled, "I got it."
The group aroused, some groaning, others looking at their watches. Leena sat up and yawned, "What is it Jemie...?"
"I figured it out! Come look at this you guy's!" He answered, walking over to a panel on the wall, and turning on a light.
"Damn it," Lavender said, "Turn that stupid light back off."
Izumi walked over to the wall, turning another light on, "Come on everybody, rise and shine. The kid has finally broken Clouds password."
"Bring it up on the main screen," Leon said, rubbing his eyes.
Jemie nodded as the group got themselves situated and comfortable on the couches. A large screen appeared in front of them, at the top saying MCME, and showing various pictures of the Bahamut and Ryuu. The writing was too small for any of them to see.
"Well, come on Jemie!" Leena said, "Read it to us!"
Jemie nodded again as he began, "The sync experiments began 6 years ago under the two highly respected scientists, Koh and Nadia Light-feather...."
"Those names sound familiar..." Izumi said, "Sorry for interrupting, go ahead Jemie."
"The two scientists where trying to discover a way to make people and zoids interact more clearly, through the concept of thought. They where trying to make it so people could understand and control their zoids more efficiently, through a device they called a sync helmet. By attaching it to the pilots head, they could interact and control the zoids by thought... or that was their theory. The projects where never completed, for they had been stolen by a woman named Gabrielle Light-Feather, the sister to Koh Light-Feather."
"Gabrielle Light-Feather destroyed all traces of the sync experiments, changing them into her own MCME--Mind Control & Manipulation Experiments. She hired a team of highly known scientists, to develop a way to control a pilot through the zoid. Gabrielle kidnaped the two children of Koh and Nadia, and began the experiments on them. Through excessive testing, she discovered that it would only work with some people... for example the experiments worked on the younger of the two Light-Feather children, but not the older.
"She continued her experimentation's, trying to force-control the pilots into fighting. Eventually, she gave up that idea, and went on to another experiment. To manipulate a pilot into feeling no emotion, pain, or thought during a battle, which would make the pilot virtually unstoppable. Also, by doing this, it would put the pilot under her control. In this, she succeeded, but again, only with the younger of the two children, and with bad side-effects.
"Her experiments lead her to create the two dragon zoids, Bahamut and Ryuu, which where the only zoids that had the program inserted into their data. By attaching the helmet through an extra input, only found on these two zoids, then placing it on the head of the pilot, Gabrielle found out that her experiments where a success, but at a cost. Once again, the experiments had bad side-effects.
"Two years ago she finally completed her experiments, ignoring the side- effects that where put on her pilot. She used her experiment to attack the home of Koh and Nadia Light-Feather, killing them both. Unfortunately, the pilot endured too much strain, eventually causing permanent memory loss, and physical deterioration and changes.
"The older of the two children managed to escape, along with the younger..."
"Does this answer your questions?" Cloud asked, he had watched them through the entire thing. Everyone turned around, completely surprised by his voice.
"You where the..." Izumi said... suddenly interrupted by Cloud.
"Yes, I was the older of the two children." He said, "and the experiments didn't work on me."
"So Rain..." Leon said, turning back to the screen.
Cloud nodded, "The experiments worked on her."
"What where the side-effects, besides the memory loss?" Bit asked.
"Sometimes Rain used to come back with a fever.... sometimes she would come back with a headache that hurt so much she couldn't even move. Other times she would be unconscious. Every once and a while, nothing would be wrong." He answered.
"And the physical side effects?" Jemie asked.
"Rains eyes changed color, they used to look like my dads, which where dark blue. She also became weak, and frail." He said, letting the info sink in, "Im headed to the base later today. I know exactly where it is."
"We're going too." Izumi said, "Right girls?"
Lavender and Tyra nodded.
"Us too, " Bit added, the Blitz team nodding in agreement, along with the Flugle team.
Goji nodded, "Im going also."
"No." Cloud said, "You can't."
Izumi laughed, placing both hands on her hips, "Ya know what Cloud? Too bad. We're all coming, whether you like it or not. Even if you where to leave by yourself, you know that we would just follow you."
Cloud sighed, "Fine..."
"all right everyone!" Doctor Tauros said, "Lets head out!"
***********************
"Miss Gabrielle," Copper said, giving a salute, "I have a request."
"Yes.. what is it?" Gabrielle asked, sitting in her office. It was now 8 am, and she was drinking her morning coffee.
"I've heard that you plan on testing the MCME on Zero." Copper stated, "I want to watch."
Gabrielle smiled, "If you wish. It will be taking place at 2 pm today."
Copper nodded, then left. He wanted to see just how this MCME stuff worked.
*************************
Orihime looked at her watch, it was now 2 pm, and she was to report to the front of the base. She made her way there, finding the Bahamut standing just outside. Zero was strapped into the cockpit, and the helmet was placed on his head...
Authors note: Hmm.. this chapter took a long time to write. Hope you liked it, now you know what the MCME zoids are! Anyways, don't forget to R+R!
Now with all that said and done...
CHAPTER 9
Cloud sighed, he was sitting alone in the hanger, once again on his Blade Ligars paw. Next him, LightStrike was sleeping. He was thinking about everything that had happened, and wishing that there was some way he could have prevented all of it.
The door to the hanger opened, and in walked Izumi, followed by everyone else. The group walked up to the Blade Ligar, and stopped, looking up at Cloud.
"Cloud." Izumi stated, "We think you know what could be going on."
Cloud looked down at them and shook his head, "Im not sure what's going on."
Izumi clenched her fists, "Bull! You do know what's going on! We want an explanation damn it!"
LightStrike jumped to his feet, suddenly surprised by Izumi's shouting. He turned to face the group, looking over his masters shoulder. Cloud turned away from them and said, "I can't tell you. I don't want any of you involved... not now anyway."
Izumi jumped onto the Blade Ligars paw, anger written clearly on her face. She grabbed Clouds jacket, and looked him strait in the eye, "This is all about Rain's past isn't it? Well let me tell you something... Rain risked her life to save me and Brad," She let go of his jacket and stood up strait, her eyes flashing, "and then she went and saved me again in the air against the GunGyarados. Now I don't know if she's dead or alive, but I do know this... she's my friend no matter what. No matter how terrible, or sad her past is, she's still going to be my friend, and I'll stick by her to the end of everything."
"That's right!" Lavender and Tyra yelled together. Various agreements and comments came from the others. Cloud stood up and looked at Izumi, then at the rest of the group, and frowned. He looked strait at Jemie and pulled a small disk from his pocket.
Cloud tossed the disk to Jemie and said, "Go break the password, and read the files on it. Then come to me."
Jemie nodded as he took of toward the computer room, with everyone except Izumi right at his heals.
"What's on the disk?" Izumi demanded.
"Rain's past."
***************************
Orihime walked down the halls of the base, heading toward the admirals office. She reached the door and knocked gently.
"Come in commander." Came a voice from the other side.
She opened the door and walked in, her soft brown eyes adjusting to the dimness of the room. She saluted," You said you wanted to see me?"
"Yes." The admiral stated. She had long blond hair, and olive green eyes. She was thin, and had a nice figure, "I am very happy in you commander. You have managed to retrieve both MCME zoids... and their pilots! Very well done."
"Thank you miss Gabrielle." Orihime said, lowering her eyes to the ground, "may I ask a question?"
"Yes, go ahead."
"Is the girl alive?"
Gabrielle grinned cruelly, "Yes she is, barley, and she could still die. That's why we have decided to use the MCME on her soon."
"What!?" Ori yelled, "You can't! It's wrong!"
"I can do as I please." Gabrielle stated, "Don't worry though, we plan on using it on Zero first."
Orihime stared, she thought only Copper himself could be so cruel. She shook her head, "I refuse to let you use it on one of my soldiers."
"You do?" Gabrielle said, chuckling slightly, "You seem to forget that your father sent you to work with us, so he could get some money. Well, as you know all to well, we made sure you would work for us, by taking you parents into our custody."
Orihime cursed under her breath, and nodded.
"Good. The tests will be taking place at 2 pm tomorrow. I ask that you be there."
"Yes ma'am."
"That is all. You may leave now."
Orihime turned to leave, returning to her own office.
*****************************
Zack sat in his cell, wondering why he had been locked up. He looked through the bars, and down the hall, noticing that the admiral was walking in his direction.
"Hello Zero." Gabrielle said, stopping in front of his cell.
"Ma'am," Zack answered, giving the salute, "May I ask why I have been locked up?"
Gabrielle smiled, "Zero, do you know what the MCME are?"
Zero shook his head, "No ma'am."
"I see." She said, "How did you ever come across the Bahamut?"
Zero sighed, "I was trying to steal it, but I was caught by Commander Orihime. Instead of capturing me, she offered me a job, so I took it."
"Very interesting. And since then, you have gained complete control over the zoid?"
"Yes ma'am." he answered.
"Perfect."
Zero looked at the admiral strangely, and asked, "What's perfect."
"You are. Tomorrow, you are going to find out what the MCME are."
***************************
Jemie sighed and looked over at the clock. It read 4 am.
"Man I've tried everything..." He said with a yawn. He looked over his shoulder. The others where all asleep in the room, some on the sofa's, some on the floor.
He yawned again, thinking of what word he hadn't tried yet. He just couldn't break the password. LightStrike walked into the room and looked around.
Then it hit him. He typed in "memories" and hit the enter key. Waiting several seconds, he was brought up to a folder entitled MCME.
He clicked on the name and read the file, both shocked and amazed. 'This explains alot...' he thought, pressing on the next page button, coming up with various pictures of the Bahamut and Ryuu.
Jemie read on, and when he had read it all he whistled, "Wow." He said to himself.
"Hey guy's wake up!" He yelled, "I got it."
The group aroused, some groaning, others looking at their watches. Leena sat up and yawned, "What is it Jemie...?"
"I figured it out! Come look at this you guy's!" He answered, walking over to a panel on the wall, and turning on a light.
"Damn it," Lavender said, "Turn that stupid light back off."
Izumi walked over to the wall, turning another light on, "Come on everybody, rise and shine. The kid has finally broken Clouds password."
"Bring it up on the main screen," Leon said, rubbing his eyes.
Jemie nodded as the group got themselves situated and comfortable on the couches. A large screen appeared in front of them, at the top saying MCME, and showing various pictures of the Bahamut and Ryuu. The writing was too small for any of them to see.
"Well, come on Jemie!" Leena said, "Read it to us!"
Jemie nodded again as he began, "The sync experiments began 6 years ago under the two highly respected scientists, Koh and Nadia Light-feather...."
"Those names sound familiar..." Izumi said, "Sorry for interrupting, go ahead Jemie."
"The two scientists where trying to discover a way to make people and zoids interact more clearly, through the concept of thought. They where trying to make it so people could understand and control their zoids more efficiently, through a device they called a sync helmet. By attaching it to the pilots head, they could interact and control the zoids by thought... or that was their theory. The projects where never completed, for they had been stolen by a woman named Gabrielle Light-Feather, the sister to Koh Light-Feather."
"Gabrielle Light-Feather destroyed all traces of the sync experiments, changing them into her own MCME--Mind Control & Manipulation Experiments. She hired a team of highly known scientists, to develop a way to control a pilot through the zoid. Gabrielle kidnaped the two children of Koh and Nadia, and began the experiments on them. Through excessive testing, she discovered that it would only work with some people... for example the experiments worked on the younger of the two Light-Feather children, but not the older.
"She continued her experimentation's, trying to force-control the pilots into fighting. Eventually, she gave up that idea, and went on to another experiment. To manipulate a pilot into feeling no emotion, pain, or thought during a battle, which would make the pilot virtually unstoppable. Also, by doing this, it would put the pilot under her control. In this, she succeeded, but again, only with the younger of the two children, and with bad side-effects.
"Her experiments lead her to create the two dragon zoids, Bahamut and Ryuu, which where the only zoids that had the program inserted into their data. By attaching the helmet through an extra input, only found on these two zoids, then placing it on the head of the pilot, Gabrielle found out that her experiments where a success, but at a cost. Once again, the experiments had bad side-effects.
"Two years ago she finally completed her experiments, ignoring the side- effects that where put on her pilot. She used her experiment to attack the home of Koh and Nadia Light-Feather, killing them both. Unfortunately, the pilot endured too much strain, eventually causing permanent memory loss, and physical deterioration and changes.
"The older of the two children managed to escape, along with the younger..."
"Does this answer your questions?" Cloud asked, he had watched them through the entire thing. Everyone turned around, completely surprised by his voice.
"You where the..." Izumi said... suddenly interrupted by Cloud.
"Yes, I was the older of the two children." He said, "and the experiments didn't work on me."
"So Rain..." Leon said, turning back to the screen.
Cloud nodded, "The experiments worked on her."
"What where the side-effects, besides the memory loss?" Bit asked.
"Sometimes Rain used to come back with a fever.... sometimes she would come back with a headache that hurt so much she couldn't even move. Other times she would be unconscious. Every once and a while, nothing would be wrong." He answered.
"And the physical side effects?" Jemie asked.
"Rains eyes changed color, they used to look like my dads, which where dark blue. She also became weak, and frail." He said, letting the info sink in, "Im headed to the base later today. I know exactly where it is."
"We're going too." Izumi said, "Right girls?"
Lavender and Tyra nodded.
"Us too, " Bit added, the Blitz team nodding in agreement, along with the Flugle team.
Goji nodded, "Im going also."
"No." Cloud said, "You can't."
Izumi laughed, placing both hands on her hips, "Ya know what Cloud? Too bad. We're all coming, whether you like it or not. Even if you where to leave by yourself, you know that we would just follow you."
Cloud sighed, "Fine..."
"all right everyone!" Doctor Tauros said, "Lets head out!"
***********************
"Miss Gabrielle," Copper said, giving a salute, "I have a request."
"Yes.. what is it?" Gabrielle asked, sitting in her office. It was now 8 am, and she was drinking her morning coffee.
"I've heard that you plan on testing the MCME on Zero." Copper stated, "I want to watch."
Gabrielle smiled, "If you wish. It will be taking place at 2 pm today."
Copper nodded, then left. He wanted to see just how this MCME stuff worked.
*************************
Orihime looked at her watch, it was now 2 pm, and she was to report to the front of the base. She made her way there, finding the Bahamut standing just outside. Zero was strapped into the cockpit, and the helmet was placed on his head...
Authors note: Hmm.. this chapter took a long time to write. Hope you liked it, now you know what the MCME zoids are! Anyways, don't forget to R+R!