The flashback - again about a month after the previous part (chapter two) I know that chapter two wasn't as good as the first one was, but I've tried to make this one better... And I did research the Super-Unified theory (which was what Kagato was looking for - I think) a little, but I made up a bunch of it in this!!! Don't sue me Einstein!! (Yes, I do know that Einstein didn't think of the S-U theory, but please! A little creative freedom eh? LoL!) And it gets a lil' bit sciency in the middle. Tis only setting the scene and making me look like I did my homework!!!
And I apologise to any TM aficionados that know more about Kagato than I do. Bear in mind that this is NOT the truth and that basically I made a whole bunch of it up!!! It starts good, but I think it tails off a little near the end cause I was running out of things to make up (some of the stuff just didn't sound plausible and that was before I changed it!)
Space...
Sheer emptiness. Nothing can survive out there, in the vast darkness. So every living thing strays away from the dark and moves towards the light. They set up colonies around warm, light stars or habituate small planets, in the vain hope that they will be saved from the dark.
I was safe from the dark once. But long ago I cast away the light and embraced the dark - welcomed it. It was all I wanted. I thought that it would make me happy, but it did not. Ah yes. Back in the days when there was still hope for me. When the Professor and I would work together, rather than oppose each other as we would do now - were she not trapped.
I gaze out into space, and try to stop the memory from returning. I have been too busy in recent weeks to bother worrying about events that have already occurred. I cannot change the past, so why should I worry about it? After all, I am not God.
I sigh quietly, and close my eyes. I allow my mind to slip back - back to when we were together. Before my anger and frustration had made me encase the Professor in her glass prison. Why?
Why did I trap her there?
It was many millennia ago, yet I still remember it clearly, as if it happened only yesterday. After the creation of Ryoko and the gems, we were filled with a new kind of passion. We were getting closer - closer to the theory that had eluded man for generations. Was all energy once the same? Before it split into it's seperate parts - the fundamental forces that we now see. I was filled with fierce ambition. If we solved this riddle, then our place as the two best scientists in the whole universe would be affirmed. No-one would be able to do better.
For a while, that was what drove me to continue. Until I realised just how powerful the unified force would be. Imagine the power! No weapon - not even Jurai royal family trees - would stand a chance against the unified force. If we could find a way to harbour it's energy - to contain it's force - then we would be unstoppable. This new craving - not for knowledge, but for power - began to drive me even faster.
But the Professor...
I think to how she is now, locked away in that cage like some beast. Even if I set her free from her prison now, I know she would not forgive me. I doubt that she will ever forgive me.
As I grew more excited at the prospect of an all-powerful force, the Professor seemed to lose interest in it. She started to work on other projects, choosing to work on Ryoko rather than help me. Didn't she see? For all her intellect, she never saw that with this power - with this unstoppable force - then no-one would ever be able to stop her. She ignored the chance - the chance that could have turned her into a God.
She was still helpful - aiding me when I was in need. But soon, I was alone again - faced with that overpowering darkness. And for once, there was no gentle words to calm me - no light to turn to...
The more I was left alone, the more my cravings for the answers grew. And the more my cravings grew, the more frustrated I became with myself and with her. If she had helped me - as she had done in the beginning - then we would have discovered the answers much sooner. Without her, it took me millennia to find an answer to the theory. With her it may have only taken decades...
When I saw her - laughing and joking with her... no, our creation Ryoko - I was filled with such anger and hatred. Had she just used me, treated me like some kind of intellectual slave so that she could fulfil her dream of having a daughter? The more I was left to brood, the more these thoughts entered my mind - poisoning my thoughts towards the Professor and her daughter.
One day I grew too weary of it, and I confronted her... That was when I saw a side of the Professor that I did not think existed. She had always seemed so happy and carefree - strong-minded yet easy to manipulate. But when I showed her my anger, she turned on me. Me! Her most trusted student! She accused me of being power-crazy. Of all things.
'Don't you see...?' I say, knowing that no-one will hear me in the emptiness of the Souja.
'Ambition... You mistake my ambition for crazed desire...' I sigh, hanging my head. I am not proud of what I did next, but it had to be done. In that moment, when I saw that undesirable side of the Professor, I realised that if she were not with me, then she would be against me. She would oppose me all the way. Perhaps she would even try to prevent me from finding the answers.
I could not allow that to happen. The cravings within me were so strong... Strong enough to make me betray the one person who believed in me...
I did think about killing her. The first thought that entered my mind was the thought of her death at my hands. My frustration at her sudden defection almost drove me to spill her blood. Hatred is not a strong enough word to describe how I felt about her sometimes. But when I watched her - no matter what she was doing - I knew that I would never be able to harm her. I always hated feeling so... weak, yet she never even realised.
Until it was too late...
I had synthesised a small sample of the unified energy. It's power was nothing compared to the true force, but it was obviously strong enough. I still don't believe that I managed to trap her. It seems so laughable now.
'You... The almighty, all-knowing Professor... Caught by me... A mere assistant turned criminal...' I cannot help the chuckle that forms in the back of my throat. How could she be so foolish? I expected much more of her, but my expectations were not lived up to.
I did not mean to fuse myself with the sample. To plan such a thing would have been utter foolishness. Originally, I had planned to power an energy field with it... To trap the Professor. She would never have known it was me - had my original plan worked of course. Instead, the field rejected the sample, causing some sort of energy reaction. Not even I have the eloquency to describe it.
When I awoke, I felt it. The power coursing through me, brought on by my fusion with the sample - a rather unexpected yet... pleasant side-effect.
A thought had struck me just as the field and sample had reacted. Why waste my energy on building a field that she could escape from when I could just use the reverse world of the Souja?
And so I attacked her, when she least expected it. I had no idea that she was as powerful as she is until she started to fight back. But I had the element of surprise, and the thought of having the unified power taken away from me. I could not let her do it! Almost blindly I took led her to the Souja and to the reverse world. I was ruled by my hatred and anger - my frustration brought on by my failure. Using my rage, coupled with my new-found power, I imprisoned her there. The snake seal was an afterthought, more to prevent me from regretting my actions than to stop the Professor from escaping... To break that seal, the person would either have to be very brave...
Or extremely foolish...
And the Professor remains, in an endless sleep - never to awaken. I will never let her go free. I may not be able to harm her, but I will never allow her to stop me. She is the only person who could possibly prevent me from fulfilling my destiny. And no matter how strongly I feel about her, she will not stand in my way. No-one will.
And if they do...? Well, we will have to solve that problem when we come to it.
IF we come to it...
(Author note: Only one more chapter to go. Then I'm done with this one. If you want to see the more usual side of dear Kagato, then go and read my other fic about him. It too is in parts, but it's much more action/adventure than this ever will be!)
And I apologise to any TM aficionados that know more about Kagato than I do. Bear in mind that this is NOT the truth and that basically I made a whole bunch of it up!!! It starts good, but I think it tails off a little near the end cause I was running out of things to make up (some of the stuff just didn't sound plausible and that was before I changed it!)
Space...
Sheer emptiness. Nothing can survive out there, in the vast darkness. So every living thing strays away from the dark and moves towards the light. They set up colonies around warm, light stars or habituate small planets, in the vain hope that they will be saved from the dark.
I was safe from the dark once. But long ago I cast away the light and embraced the dark - welcomed it. It was all I wanted. I thought that it would make me happy, but it did not. Ah yes. Back in the days when there was still hope for me. When the Professor and I would work together, rather than oppose each other as we would do now - were she not trapped.
I gaze out into space, and try to stop the memory from returning. I have been too busy in recent weeks to bother worrying about events that have already occurred. I cannot change the past, so why should I worry about it? After all, I am not God.
I sigh quietly, and close my eyes. I allow my mind to slip back - back to when we were together. Before my anger and frustration had made me encase the Professor in her glass prison. Why?
Why did I trap her there?
It was many millennia ago, yet I still remember it clearly, as if it happened only yesterday. After the creation of Ryoko and the gems, we were filled with a new kind of passion. We were getting closer - closer to the theory that had eluded man for generations. Was all energy once the same? Before it split into it's seperate parts - the fundamental forces that we now see. I was filled with fierce ambition. If we solved this riddle, then our place as the two best scientists in the whole universe would be affirmed. No-one would be able to do better.
For a while, that was what drove me to continue. Until I realised just how powerful the unified force would be. Imagine the power! No weapon - not even Jurai royal family trees - would stand a chance against the unified force. If we could find a way to harbour it's energy - to contain it's force - then we would be unstoppable. This new craving - not for knowledge, but for power - began to drive me even faster.
But the Professor...
I think to how she is now, locked away in that cage like some beast. Even if I set her free from her prison now, I know she would not forgive me. I doubt that she will ever forgive me.
As I grew more excited at the prospect of an all-powerful force, the Professor seemed to lose interest in it. She started to work on other projects, choosing to work on Ryoko rather than help me. Didn't she see? For all her intellect, she never saw that with this power - with this unstoppable force - then no-one would ever be able to stop her. She ignored the chance - the chance that could have turned her into a God.
She was still helpful - aiding me when I was in need. But soon, I was alone again - faced with that overpowering darkness. And for once, there was no gentle words to calm me - no light to turn to...
The more I was left alone, the more my cravings for the answers grew. And the more my cravings grew, the more frustrated I became with myself and with her. If she had helped me - as she had done in the beginning - then we would have discovered the answers much sooner. Without her, it took me millennia to find an answer to the theory. With her it may have only taken decades...
When I saw her - laughing and joking with her... no, our creation Ryoko - I was filled with such anger and hatred. Had she just used me, treated me like some kind of intellectual slave so that she could fulfil her dream of having a daughter? The more I was left to brood, the more these thoughts entered my mind - poisoning my thoughts towards the Professor and her daughter.
One day I grew too weary of it, and I confronted her... That was when I saw a side of the Professor that I did not think existed. She had always seemed so happy and carefree - strong-minded yet easy to manipulate. But when I showed her my anger, she turned on me. Me! Her most trusted student! She accused me of being power-crazy. Of all things.
'Don't you see...?' I say, knowing that no-one will hear me in the emptiness of the Souja.
'Ambition... You mistake my ambition for crazed desire...' I sigh, hanging my head. I am not proud of what I did next, but it had to be done. In that moment, when I saw that undesirable side of the Professor, I realised that if she were not with me, then she would be against me. She would oppose me all the way. Perhaps she would even try to prevent me from finding the answers.
I could not allow that to happen. The cravings within me were so strong... Strong enough to make me betray the one person who believed in me...
I did think about killing her. The first thought that entered my mind was the thought of her death at my hands. My frustration at her sudden defection almost drove me to spill her blood. Hatred is not a strong enough word to describe how I felt about her sometimes. But when I watched her - no matter what she was doing - I knew that I would never be able to harm her. I always hated feeling so... weak, yet she never even realised.
Until it was too late...
I had synthesised a small sample of the unified energy. It's power was nothing compared to the true force, but it was obviously strong enough. I still don't believe that I managed to trap her. It seems so laughable now.
'You... The almighty, all-knowing Professor... Caught by me... A mere assistant turned criminal...' I cannot help the chuckle that forms in the back of my throat. How could she be so foolish? I expected much more of her, but my expectations were not lived up to.
I did not mean to fuse myself with the sample. To plan such a thing would have been utter foolishness. Originally, I had planned to power an energy field with it... To trap the Professor. She would never have known it was me - had my original plan worked of course. Instead, the field rejected the sample, causing some sort of energy reaction. Not even I have the eloquency to describe it.
When I awoke, I felt it. The power coursing through me, brought on by my fusion with the sample - a rather unexpected yet... pleasant side-effect.
A thought had struck me just as the field and sample had reacted. Why waste my energy on building a field that she could escape from when I could just use the reverse world of the Souja?
And so I attacked her, when she least expected it. I had no idea that she was as powerful as she is until she started to fight back. But I had the element of surprise, and the thought of having the unified power taken away from me. I could not let her do it! Almost blindly I took led her to the Souja and to the reverse world. I was ruled by my hatred and anger - my frustration brought on by my failure. Using my rage, coupled with my new-found power, I imprisoned her there. The snake seal was an afterthought, more to prevent me from regretting my actions than to stop the Professor from escaping... To break that seal, the person would either have to be very brave...
Or extremely foolish...
And the Professor remains, in an endless sleep - never to awaken. I will never let her go free. I may not be able to harm her, but I will never allow her to stop me. She is the only person who could possibly prevent me from fulfilling my destiny. And no matter how strongly I feel about her, she will not stand in my way. No-one will.
And if they do...? Well, we will have to solve that problem when we come to it.
IF we come to it...
(Author note: Only one more chapter to go. Then I'm done with this one. If you want to see the more usual side of dear Kagato, then go and read my other fic about him. It too is in parts, but it's much more action/adventure than this ever will be!)