Trigun: Knives Millions 7
(On a minor note the beginning starts with Iris dreaming about Vash and Knives as children and experienced the events in the spaceship as though she were there.)
"NOOOOO!!!!!" she screamed in horror and opened her tear filled eyes. Instead of the blazing inferno, she found herself within a pitch dark room and a soft bed beneath her person. Frightened pants were exhaled while hugging her legs to her chest. "Those poor people..." she softly whispered. Iris decreased her ventilation in order to reassess her state of mind and reminded herself by muttering: "Big girls don't cry." She pulled her knees away from her chest and found her black dress to be missing as it had been replaced by a white nightgown. "Huh? What the hell?" she said with arched brows in wonder. Obviously someone had put me in a hidden place. It could be well guarded so I better use my abilities for this one. The emotions won't be pleasant but I have to tolerate it. she thought and closed her eyes. Her senses allowed her to feel a malevolent presence who had the obsession of shedding of blood. An icy river of chills flowed down her spine as she felt the presence approach her area. "Oh shit.." she whispered and tiptoed across the room. Her hands felt the smooth walls of the chamber and detected the cool metal doorknob. She grinned, placed her back to the wall and awaited for her prey to approach. The door creaked during the opening and heavy footsteps clacked against the concrete floor. Iris spotted the silhouette of a tall man with shortened bristly hair and held her breath. "You make this too easy..." she remarked. He quickly turned to his right to look for the source of the voice and had been attacked by a hand that grasped his face! The fingers delved into his temples and cheek bones mercilessly and felt searing pain that had the identical sensation of hot poles drilling into his brain. The pain had been intolerable enough to where he collapsed to the floor and held his white gloved hands to his face as he cursed to express the incredible agony.
Iris flipped the switch to her left to illuminate the nearly unfurnished concrete room.
She identified the man to have bleach blond hair and a white suit with shoulder armor. "Alright pal. I don't know what the fuck you are trying to pull but you better let me out here if you know what's good for you! If you don't listen I'll have to gouge your eyes out and use your skull for an ash tray!" she shouted in rage. "So the daughter of the scarlet has guts after all.." the man remarked. "What did you just say?!" she shouted in the same tone. "I meant that you're stronger than that whore your father married." he replied. "What do you know about my mother, you bastard?!" she shouted once more. "She's a two-timing bitch." he said with his ice blue eyes meeting hers. "I don't know...Maybe she made the right choice!" she remarked and her barefoot struck the side of his head. He shouted once more and continued to be sprawled upon the floor. "You're lucky I don't have my boots or I'd squash your guts out of your mouth!" she added. "Enough of this! I brought you here to give you something that your mother had been too cowardly to bestow on you. To inherit this planet over these pathetic homo sapiens." he said firmly as he stood erect from the floor. "Okay...I don't want this responsibility Mr...?" she asked and paused to allow her captor to end the sentence with his name. "Millions. Knives Millions. Don't be stupid like your mother. Either you deny your destiny or I'll deny your future." he said firmly. "But you're incorrect Mr.Millions. Yes, fate can give you things that you were meant to do. It is the person's will to decide their destinations on the road of life. You may be powerful but I have a force that is stronger than yours." she said confidently. "Is your will more selfish than the destiny of your bloodline? Your mother thought so and now she is dead like the rest of these pathetic humans." he said. "It seems your will is more selfish than mine. My will is to spread the message of love and peace. I have compassion to all creatures. You would be alone with no one to respect and care for you. You're lucky I have enough love not make you spontaneously combust." she said sincerely. "If you have enough compassion then you would join my cause and cooperate like a good little girl. We are here to control and have our race prevail. Don't be like my brother, Vash who made that stupid mistake. I'm giving you a chance. Please help us restore our great empire." he said in a pleading manner. "YOU LEAVE VASH OUT OF THIS YOU ASSHOLE!!!!" she bellowed and furrowed her brows with an outstretched hand. Knives had been levitated by invisible hands that flung him to the other side of the room. His form collided into the wall and fell to the floor. "Did I just strike a nerve? As for your boyfriend I'll give him a dishonorable death and having him whimpering like an inferior ape. His suffering will entertaining." he said mockingly. "I would love to see you try. His wrath is going to be unbearable to tolerate. I should know because of my talents." she said. "If you truly know Vash then you know how weak he has become around these humans. Feelings are weak and irrelevant. It is why humans die and suffer. So that will be Vash's fate. Don't make it yours as well." he warned. "Well it seems to me that you have feelings as well. You have regret and hatred. Rem must be very disappointed in you. So that will make you inferior as the rest of them." she added. "So then you'll let our race die? Just to love these beastly human pets?" he asked. "No, not die. Like you said I can't deny half of my heritage but I can make it stronger with a new method." she said "New methods is what destroyed our race. You revolutionaries don't have the backbone to support your goals. It is not a matter of feelings but to survive." he said. "That's why I'm here. My backbone can tolerate it better than yours. I would say its superior than those actions that you have performed on the ship about a century back." she said confidently. "They turned on us because we were weak like the humans. Don't you see that? If they took over we would be obliterated and you would never have been born. I am returning the strength that is in your blood. Ignore the human within you its they would've killed you. If they knew me now...they would be proud...let them be proud of you, too. Cast off the shackles of humanity and embrace the proud warrior heritage of plant that is in you." he insisted.
Iris approached Knives and gave a sorrowful look. She lowered herself to his level, looked at him directly in his eyes and said softly, "I feel sorry for you. I know these people have hurt you but they are not all that bad. My father knew what my mother was and he loved her all the same. They can do the same thing for you. I don't want to keep arguing with you because it seems to be pointless.". "I see that you have made up your mind....If you are going to side with the humans over your own race then I have nothing left for you in my heart. Because you are half of what I am then I shall let you leave this place alive. But if you or Vash get in my way, I will kill you as I would a human.
Now leave before I change my mind." he said coldly. "Very well. Mr Millions.
I hope you do think about what I said. Even if you brush it off at least you heard what I had to say. Good bye and I hope for the best towards your happiness." she said and departed from the room. Knives watched Iris walk through the threshold and muttered, "That's the most stubborn person I have ever met..."
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