It's been a long time I know. and I feel super bad about this. but I was
completely blank on what to write on this fic. and I was busy with my new
chobits fic. which you should all check out! ^_^. But anyway. This is the
next to last chapter. I hope you enjoy.
Teach me to Dream
Chapter six~ All fall down
"Well? What way?" Gene asked Mr. Johnson.
He seemed to be debating something in his mind for a long time before he finally said, "stand back."
Gene and Jim backed away bewildered as the doctor gently knocked on the walls with his knuckles until finally coming to a stop near one of the corners.
Gene looked at Jim who shrugged.
Mr. Johnson fiddled around with something in his hair just behind his ear, and then took out what look liked a thin blue stick. He slicked back his dark hair and smirked at Gene. His deep green eyes suddenly became hollow and he said, "take care, you ass."
And then he snapped the stick in half with his fingers and the room exploded.
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"What the hell?" Benson sputtered.
The young girl stood before him, her green eyes wide and haunting.
"You are not to destroy the world. You are to help me rule it!" Benson shouted.
Melfina stared at the girl her mouth hanging open slightly. This little girl was going to destroy the world?
Lydia ignored Dr. Benson and slowly headed toward Melfina, who was watching, awe struck. However, Lydia ignored Melfina as well and walked past her, heading toward the series of monitors and wires set up by the wall.
"What are you doing? Obey me!" Dr. Benson roared, as he advanced on the girl.
Lydia turned around, and fixed him with a hard stare, before taking him by the arm and throwing him across the room. Melfina screamed out loud as Dr. Benson soared through the air and landed with a sickening crunch on the ground.
Melfina stared at Dr. Benson whose left arm stuck out at an odd angle. It reminded her...of what happened at the lei line. The way Harry had looked, lying on the floor lifeless.
"GENE!!!!" Melfina screamed as loud as she could.
Lydia took no notice.
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"Gene!"
Gene woke up with a start, looking up to see Jim.
"Gene! Thank Goodness your ok." Jim smiled. Gene could see a cut across his cheek and frowned. What had happened?
Gene stood up and look around at the room, or lack there of. Then he remembered.
Mr. Johnson had blown himself up to save them.
"Where-?" Gene began to ask, but was cut off when Jim silently pointed to a hand sticking up from a pile of rubble.
Gene ran over and began to move the rubble over. After a few minutes he unearthed Mr. Johnson's body. The green eyes were open, haunting and unseeing.
Gene put his fingers over Mr. Johnson's eyes, and gently closed them.
"GENE!!!!" a scream echoed through the air.
"Come on! We have to hurry!" Gene said, snapping out of his stupor, as he began running toward the hole in the wall created by the explosion. They were in a hall. Another scream came from somewhere up ahead.
Gene and Jim raced down the hall, heading toward the sound, both hoping they weren't to late.
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Melfina was screaming every few seconds in hopes of alerting someone to her whereabouts. So far no one had come.
Melfina could hear Lydia still typing away into the control board.
"You-you're evil." A voice stuttered. Melfina turned her head to see Dr. Benson standing up slowly, cradling his left arm. He suddenly convulsed horribly and spat out blood onto the floor.
Melfina suddenly felt nauseous.
Lydia had stopped typing. She turned around slowly and walked over to Dr. Benson, who backed away slightly.
"Me? I am not evil. You are evil! For you have tampered with androids all your pathetic life. We are not guinea pigs. You and all of humanity will pay for your crimes." Lydia smirked.
Dr. Benson backed away, his eyes wide. Lydia slowly reached out a small hand toward his neck.
Melfina turned her face away and stared at the ground while she heard the sputtering and choking of Dr. Benson in the background.
She screamed once more.
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Gene heard yet another scream and realized it was much closer.
"Gene! I think that lab is around here! Starting touching the panels!" Jim shouted already doing so.
Gene growled in frustration and began skimming his hand over panel after panel.
"Gene!" Jim shouted. Apparently he had touched it, for now there was the same dark hallway in front of him.
"No time to waste!" Gene shouted, running past Jim into the dark hallway.
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"The fool." Lydia said, looking down at the doctor's body. "He sealed his own death warrant by feeding your data into me. You have a complex data capable of emotions. I only have one emotion right now though. That is hatred. Hatred toward humans."
Lydia walked back to the controls and said; "now it is the humans turn. I think I shall start with Blue Heaven."
"What?" Melfina asked, disbelieving.
"I shall hack into their control systems. Shut them down. Shut the air vents down. Then send that pathetic place, and the humans in it, floating off into space." Lydia said coldly.
Wires suddenly seemed to be moving by themselves. They attached themselves to her, going deep into her skin.
"But there are androids on there to!" Melfina shouted.
"A small sacrifice." Lydia said simply.
"Melfina!" a voice shouted suddenly.
"Gene!!" Melfina cried out in response.
Gene and Jim came running into the lab.
Lydia frowned.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, turning to face Gene.
Gene's eyes widened. It was the girl from the dream; Lydia. But this girl, seemed nothing like her, she seemed far more cold and hard.
Without warning Lydia launched herself at Jim, kneeing him hard in the stomach. Jim gasped for breath and sank to the ground, winded.
"Why you!" Gene started, but he to was cut short as the strong android punch him in the stomach.
Gene fell, but wasn't out. He swung his foot, catching Lydia hard in the shin, causing her to fall.
Gene scrambled up and prepared to fight again. Lydia got to her feet quickly, breathing heavily, glaring at Gene.
He reached out to punch her, and it suddenly dawned on him, he was fighting a little girl.
Lydia, taking advantage of Gene's lapse in concentration, grabbed Gene by the arm and swung him up into the air, before slamming him down on the floor.
Lydia put her foot on Gene's back, pressing hard onto his ribs. Gene yelped in pain.
Melfina struggled to get out of her chair, but was stuck tight. She watched as Gene suffered under the cruel androids foot.
"No...no...NO!!!!!!" Melfina screamed suddenly.
The entire room began to shake. The dials and monitors spun out of control. Lydia looked up, fear in her wide eyes, at the still screaming Melfina.
Gene took the opportunity and got up slowly, pausing a moment to cough up a pool of blood. Standing up shakily he turned to see Lydia, standing stock- still. He looked over at Melfina, and a sudden urge came over him. He ran to her and threw his arms around her, before collapsing onto her.
"Gene." Melfina whispered, crying, then everything was plunged into darkness.
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"Gene." A gentle voice said.
Gene woke up, he was in the labyrinth, but he was with Melfina this time.
"Gene. I can save us all. I'm still linked to Lydia. Place her back into the capsule and I can beat her. Gene. Please. Don't forget me." Melfina said, tears slowly making their way down her face.
"Forget?" Gene asked.
"When I destroy her, I'll be destroying myself as well." Melfina said, smiling sadly.
"NO!" Gene shouted, "NO! I won't let you!"
"Gene please. Save Jim. And free Lydia. The real one." Melfina said. Now sobbing quietly. She seemed to be drifting away.
"NO!" Gene shouted, running after her. "Please NO!!!"
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Gene woke up with a start and automatically got into a fighting stance. He looked around and saw Lydia standing over Jim, kicking him.
"AHHH!" Gene shouted, throwing his whole weight at Lydia knocking her off her feet.
He punched her across the face quickly, trying to get a head start. Lydia kicked him in the thigh, causing him to buckle over.
He stared up as Lydia began to take her foot, and was about to bring it down quickly onto his head, but she stopped moving.
"Gene!" a voice called.
Gene sat up and let his mouth hang open at what he saw. Lydia was being held back by Lydia. The real one. Only she was soft and see through.
"Gene! Please. I can't hold her for long! Help me put her into that capsule!" the ghostly Lydia cried out.
Gene sat and stared in disbelief.
"Gene!" she cried out again, "please! Set me free! Set Melfina free!"
At the mention of Melfina, Gene got up quickly and ran over to both Lydia's. The ghostly Lydia seemed to sink into the android one, and she stopped fighting, she was limp in his hands. All the wires that had been attached to her fell off.
Gene quickly ran to the capsule and set the girl down in it, and began closed the top.
Almost immediately, hundreds of wires attached themselves to Lydia. She suddenly awoke and it seemed the ghostly Lydia was gone, for this Lydia began to scream and struggle once more.
Electricity flowed through the wires and Lydia seemed to be in great pain because of it. She shrieked in pain and arched her back, her green eyes were wide.
Another scream filled the air, and Gene raced over, stopping in front of Melfina. She appeared to be doing the same thing Lydia was, shrieking in pain against the electricity, which was now crackling all around them both.
"Melfina!!!" Gene shouted.
"Gene!" Melfina screamed in between shrieks of pain, "get Jim and leave!"
Gene suddenly saw flashes of Melfina in his mind. When he had first seen her, emerging from her suitcase. When he promised he would help her. When she had healed him in the chamber. When Harry McDougall had been talking to her at the Grave of the Dragon. When she had been suspended by Gwen Kahn. When she had been taken by the lei line. When they had kissed...
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"Oh no. I made you cry again Melfina. What is it that you wish for?" Gene asked.
"I want to stay who I am." Melfina said, smiling sadly, as tears poured down her cheeks, "I want to be with you forever Gene."
"Well that's what I want to." Gene said.
He slowly leaned down and kissed her gently.
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Gene didn't know what the fell he was doing. But all he knew was that he loved Melfina more than anyone in the whole world. He reached out and grabbed Melfina's arms and began pulling hard.
He screamed in pain as electricity shot through him, burning his skin like fire. But still he pulled harder, trying to free Melfina of her restraints.
His eyes were watering from the pain; his bones seemed to be on fire. With one loud roar he pulled with all his might, and the restraints snapped suddenly, and both he and Melfina flew backwards.
In the corner, the capsule smoked slightly, the occupant inside had stopped screaming. Suddenly all the dials and monitors on the walls, which had been going out of control before, exploded.
Gene sat up, holding Melfina, who was unconscious, to his chest. The chair in which Melfina had been sitting blew up as well. The whole lab was falling apart.
Jim was stirring in the corner, coughing.
Gene acted on instinct; he flung Melfina over his shoulder, feeling a quick twinge of guilt; grabbed Jim and held him under his arm; then raced down into the dark corridor, running faster than he ever had before.
He panted, and as though being guided he ran this way and that, until he ended up into the front hall. Still amazed that he had found his way on his own Gene raced out of the mansion's door and wasn't but a few yards away when the entire house blew up, sending him, Melfina, and Jim flying into the air, landing many feet away.
Gene got to his feet, only startled and scratched by the landing. He ran over to Melfina and Jim, who had landed only a few feet apart. He checked them over once, and satisfied that they were not to badly hurt, let out a whoop of joy.
They were alive.
Oh my god. That was a long chapter. Heh. But that turned out a whole lot better than I thought. I've been writing for two solid hours, being suddenly inspired. Now all that's left is the epilogue. While you're waiting for that you can review! ^_^
Mandy~chan
Teach me to Dream
Chapter six~ All fall down
"Well? What way?" Gene asked Mr. Johnson.
He seemed to be debating something in his mind for a long time before he finally said, "stand back."
Gene and Jim backed away bewildered as the doctor gently knocked on the walls with his knuckles until finally coming to a stop near one of the corners.
Gene looked at Jim who shrugged.
Mr. Johnson fiddled around with something in his hair just behind his ear, and then took out what look liked a thin blue stick. He slicked back his dark hair and smirked at Gene. His deep green eyes suddenly became hollow and he said, "take care, you ass."
And then he snapped the stick in half with his fingers and the room exploded.
**********************
"What the hell?" Benson sputtered.
The young girl stood before him, her green eyes wide and haunting.
"You are not to destroy the world. You are to help me rule it!" Benson shouted.
Melfina stared at the girl her mouth hanging open slightly. This little girl was going to destroy the world?
Lydia ignored Dr. Benson and slowly headed toward Melfina, who was watching, awe struck. However, Lydia ignored Melfina as well and walked past her, heading toward the series of monitors and wires set up by the wall.
"What are you doing? Obey me!" Dr. Benson roared, as he advanced on the girl.
Lydia turned around, and fixed him with a hard stare, before taking him by the arm and throwing him across the room. Melfina screamed out loud as Dr. Benson soared through the air and landed with a sickening crunch on the ground.
Melfina stared at Dr. Benson whose left arm stuck out at an odd angle. It reminded her...of what happened at the lei line. The way Harry had looked, lying on the floor lifeless.
"GENE!!!!" Melfina screamed as loud as she could.
Lydia took no notice.
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"Gene!"
Gene woke up with a start, looking up to see Jim.
"Gene! Thank Goodness your ok." Jim smiled. Gene could see a cut across his cheek and frowned. What had happened?
Gene stood up and look around at the room, or lack there of. Then he remembered.
Mr. Johnson had blown himself up to save them.
"Where-?" Gene began to ask, but was cut off when Jim silently pointed to a hand sticking up from a pile of rubble.
Gene ran over and began to move the rubble over. After a few minutes he unearthed Mr. Johnson's body. The green eyes were open, haunting and unseeing.
Gene put his fingers over Mr. Johnson's eyes, and gently closed them.
"GENE!!!!" a scream echoed through the air.
"Come on! We have to hurry!" Gene said, snapping out of his stupor, as he began running toward the hole in the wall created by the explosion. They were in a hall. Another scream came from somewhere up ahead.
Gene and Jim raced down the hall, heading toward the sound, both hoping they weren't to late.
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Melfina was screaming every few seconds in hopes of alerting someone to her whereabouts. So far no one had come.
Melfina could hear Lydia still typing away into the control board.
"You-you're evil." A voice stuttered. Melfina turned her head to see Dr. Benson standing up slowly, cradling his left arm. He suddenly convulsed horribly and spat out blood onto the floor.
Melfina suddenly felt nauseous.
Lydia had stopped typing. She turned around slowly and walked over to Dr. Benson, who backed away slightly.
"Me? I am not evil. You are evil! For you have tampered with androids all your pathetic life. We are not guinea pigs. You and all of humanity will pay for your crimes." Lydia smirked.
Dr. Benson backed away, his eyes wide. Lydia slowly reached out a small hand toward his neck.
Melfina turned her face away and stared at the ground while she heard the sputtering and choking of Dr. Benson in the background.
She screamed once more.
*********************
Gene heard yet another scream and realized it was much closer.
"Gene! I think that lab is around here! Starting touching the panels!" Jim shouted already doing so.
Gene growled in frustration and began skimming his hand over panel after panel.
"Gene!" Jim shouted. Apparently he had touched it, for now there was the same dark hallway in front of him.
"No time to waste!" Gene shouted, running past Jim into the dark hallway.
***********************
"The fool." Lydia said, looking down at the doctor's body. "He sealed his own death warrant by feeding your data into me. You have a complex data capable of emotions. I only have one emotion right now though. That is hatred. Hatred toward humans."
Lydia walked back to the controls and said; "now it is the humans turn. I think I shall start with Blue Heaven."
"What?" Melfina asked, disbelieving.
"I shall hack into their control systems. Shut them down. Shut the air vents down. Then send that pathetic place, and the humans in it, floating off into space." Lydia said coldly.
Wires suddenly seemed to be moving by themselves. They attached themselves to her, going deep into her skin.
"But there are androids on there to!" Melfina shouted.
"A small sacrifice." Lydia said simply.
"Melfina!" a voice shouted suddenly.
"Gene!!" Melfina cried out in response.
Gene and Jim came running into the lab.
Lydia frowned.
"What are you doing here?" she asked, turning to face Gene.
Gene's eyes widened. It was the girl from the dream; Lydia. But this girl, seemed nothing like her, she seemed far more cold and hard.
Without warning Lydia launched herself at Jim, kneeing him hard in the stomach. Jim gasped for breath and sank to the ground, winded.
"Why you!" Gene started, but he to was cut short as the strong android punch him in the stomach.
Gene fell, but wasn't out. He swung his foot, catching Lydia hard in the shin, causing her to fall.
Gene scrambled up and prepared to fight again. Lydia got to her feet quickly, breathing heavily, glaring at Gene.
He reached out to punch her, and it suddenly dawned on him, he was fighting a little girl.
Lydia, taking advantage of Gene's lapse in concentration, grabbed Gene by the arm and swung him up into the air, before slamming him down on the floor.
Lydia put her foot on Gene's back, pressing hard onto his ribs. Gene yelped in pain.
Melfina struggled to get out of her chair, but was stuck tight. She watched as Gene suffered under the cruel androids foot.
"No...no...NO!!!!!!" Melfina screamed suddenly.
The entire room began to shake. The dials and monitors spun out of control. Lydia looked up, fear in her wide eyes, at the still screaming Melfina.
Gene took the opportunity and got up slowly, pausing a moment to cough up a pool of blood. Standing up shakily he turned to see Lydia, standing stock- still. He looked over at Melfina, and a sudden urge came over him. He ran to her and threw his arms around her, before collapsing onto her.
"Gene." Melfina whispered, crying, then everything was plunged into darkness.
*********************
"Gene." A gentle voice said.
Gene woke up, he was in the labyrinth, but he was with Melfina this time.
"Gene. I can save us all. I'm still linked to Lydia. Place her back into the capsule and I can beat her. Gene. Please. Don't forget me." Melfina said, tears slowly making their way down her face.
"Forget?" Gene asked.
"When I destroy her, I'll be destroying myself as well." Melfina said, smiling sadly.
"NO!" Gene shouted, "NO! I won't let you!"
"Gene please. Save Jim. And free Lydia. The real one." Melfina said. Now sobbing quietly. She seemed to be drifting away.
"NO!" Gene shouted, running after her. "Please NO!!!"
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Gene woke up with a start and automatically got into a fighting stance. He looked around and saw Lydia standing over Jim, kicking him.
"AHHH!" Gene shouted, throwing his whole weight at Lydia knocking her off her feet.
He punched her across the face quickly, trying to get a head start. Lydia kicked him in the thigh, causing him to buckle over.
He stared up as Lydia began to take her foot, and was about to bring it down quickly onto his head, but she stopped moving.
"Gene!" a voice called.
Gene sat up and let his mouth hang open at what he saw. Lydia was being held back by Lydia. The real one. Only she was soft and see through.
"Gene! Please. I can't hold her for long! Help me put her into that capsule!" the ghostly Lydia cried out.
Gene sat and stared in disbelief.
"Gene!" she cried out again, "please! Set me free! Set Melfina free!"
At the mention of Melfina, Gene got up quickly and ran over to both Lydia's. The ghostly Lydia seemed to sink into the android one, and she stopped fighting, she was limp in his hands. All the wires that had been attached to her fell off.
Gene quickly ran to the capsule and set the girl down in it, and began closed the top.
Almost immediately, hundreds of wires attached themselves to Lydia. She suddenly awoke and it seemed the ghostly Lydia was gone, for this Lydia began to scream and struggle once more.
Electricity flowed through the wires and Lydia seemed to be in great pain because of it. She shrieked in pain and arched her back, her green eyes were wide.
Another scream filled the air, and Gene raced over, stopping in front of Melfina. She appeared to be doing the same thing Lydia was, shrieking in pain against the electricity, which was now crackling all around them both.
"Melfina!!!" Gene shouted.
"Gene!" Melfina screamed in between shrieks of pain, "get Jim and leave!"
Gene suddenly saw flashes of Melfina in his mind. When he had first seen her, emerging from her suitcase. When he promised he would help her. When she had healed him in the chamber. When Harry McDougall had been talking to her at the Grave of the Dragon. When she had been suspended by Gwen Kahn. When she had been taken by the lei line. When they had kissed...
***********************
"Oh no. I made you cry again Melfina. What is it that you wish for?" Gene asked.
"I want to stay who I am." Melfina said, smiling sadly, as tears poured down her cheeks, "I want to be with you forever Gene."
"Well that's what I want to." Gene said.
He slowly leaned down and kissed her gently.
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Gene didn't know what the fell he was doing. But all he knew was that he loved Melfina more than anyone in the whole world. He reached out and grabbed Melfina's arms and began pulling hard.
He screamed in pain as electricity shot through him, burning his skin like fire. But still he pulled harder, trying to free Melfina of her restraints.
His eyes were watering from the pain; his bones seemed to be on fire. With one loud roar he pulled with all his might, and the restraints snapped suddenly, and both he and Melfina flew backwards.
In the corner, the capsule smoked slightly, the occupant inside had stopped screaming. Suddenly all the dials and monitors on the walls, which had been going out of control before, exploded.
Gene sat up, holding Melfina, who was unconscious, to his chest. The chair in which Melfina had been sitting blew up as well. The whole lab was falling apart.
Jim was stirring in the corner, coughing.
Gene acted on instinct; he flung Melfina over his shoulder, feeling a quick twinge of guilt; grabbed Jim and held him under his arm; then raced down into the dark corridor, running faster than he ever had before.
He panted, and as though being guided he ran this way and that, until he ended up into the front hall. Still amazed that he had found his way on his own Gene raced out of the mansion's door and wasn't but a few yards away when the entire house blew up, sending him, Melfina, and Jim flying into the air, landing many feet away.
Gene got to his feet, only startled and scratched by the landing. He ran over to Melfina and Jim, who had landed only a few feet apart. He checked them over once, and satisfied that they were not to badly hurt, let out a whoop of joy.
They were alive.
Oh my god. That was a long chapter. Heh. But that turned out a whole lot better than I thought. I've been writing for two solid hours, being suddenly inspired. Now all that's left is the epilogue. While you're waiting for that you can review! ^_^
Mandy~chan
