Chapter 9

A/N: Okay, here's the next chapter. Note: I wrote this before I was the Matrix: Revolutions, I swear it. So, if you can sense some similarities, it was an accident -maybe I was subconsciously influenced! Yes! That's it! That's why I'm now yumemi 01 - a yumemi is a Dream Seer -someone who can foretell the future in their dreams... and that's kinda like me and my fan fiction... ^^'

Anywho, I love Canti! I had to bring him back... he plays a really important role in this chapter. I love this chapter, I think this has to be my favorite in the whole story, other then the one where Naota's thinking on the station... anywho -you what the fic right?
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Canti -we're going down there!

Haruko followed Canti over to a hole in the floor that she was sure wasn't put there on purpose and jumped down it. They were now on the last Lab Level. There was a loud rumbling noise that resounded through out the whole floor. It wasn't that big, for a large wall blocked off the rest of the floor. A high pitched alarm was repetitively sounding, and getting on Haruko's nerves. She walked up to two large sliding door in the wall, which would allow entrance to the rest of the floor.

A glowing red and purple energy crackled from the crack in the door, like lighting, drenching the dark floor with magenta light. Her heart raced.

This was it. This is what she had been after most of her life.

Atomsk.

Right in front of her.

Waiting.

Her mouth cracked into a grin as she felt the pull on her wrist increase.

Haruko's eyes shifted over to him. He was standing a few feet back, watching the doors. He turned to her. Give it up. she stated.

Words flashed across his screen again:

But your head doesn't work.

DO YOU THINK I CARE ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW?! she yelled at him, her voice echoing along with the rumbling that came from the doors in front of them.

Canti shrunk and sweat dropped. He nodded and stepped over next to her. The rumbling seemed to become louder. Canti's arm turned into a power cord and it snaked between the crack in the doors, into the red and purple abyss. Atomsk's symbol flashed onto his screen and the color red washed over him. A loud cry, like that of a titanic bird, shrieked. His other arm also turned into a power cord as it reached out and pulled Haruko to him. The end of the cord, which was familiarly shaped like a needle, proceeded to penetrate the base of Haruko's skull. She gasped and the bracelet she almost always wore around her wrist shattered.

Suddenly, the world around her changed. She was nothing, and everything. No longer standing in the Lab Level, but flying through a hell of glowing red and purple flames, naked and bathed in it's light. Time moved at a century a second, and she felt as if her body would burst with energy -when it all stopped.

She was lying down, facing the sky -which was supposed to be dark and full of stars, but was now illuminated with a familiar magenta color. She noticed a form of a person by her side, a dead man who's eyes were open in terror, positioned as if he were trying to shield her from something. It was then she noticed the blood which dripped from her forehead to her chin, and the spilt lip she had. Around her, things were burning, and the metallic smell of blood was unavoidable.

Then... there it was. Above her, in the sky... the godly form of a bird, that consumed the heavens and spit them out in a wave of magenta energy. Something was attacking it, something emblazed with the symbol that read: MM, and she felt that these intruders were attacking the very core of her being, in that fierce power in the sky.

It was her, in the sky, that power.

It was hers.

In an inseparable force that she would never let go, that power was hers.

The moment she first saw Atomsk. The day she became obsessed with making Atomsk's power her own.

Haruko was thrown back to the present. She felt power surge threw her veins, power pumped by her heart. Her vision penetrated all. Nothing could stop her. She pulled herself from the stiff hold of a no longer moving object, and felt her feet leave the ground. Walking was unnecessary.

With a longing feeling in her, she called out what was missing. With a few far off explosions, she felt the Gibson EB-O in her palm. She closed her hand.

Suddenly, a strong force called Haruko's attention. It was great. She had a longing to extinguish it, absorb it, consume it. Concentrated her energy on the location of that power, and with no effort, thin pitiful layers of metal peeled away for her path. Quicker then a blink of an eye, she was there. Across the pentagon shaped pit, was the glowing holy white form of Him.

The universe was silent.

A noise like a shotgun rang out as two Gibsons clashed against each other.

The gate to the Lab Levels was blow upward as she quickly spun and swung the Gibson bass at him. He lifted the neck of the guitar and stopped the hit from connecting with his head. The gate proceeded all the way up, and as if someone slowed down time, it crashed into the glass floor of the hanger. Like rain, chipped pieces and shards of glass fell. They ascended in their battle. He was now on the offense, and twirled the guitar around his head and smacked her across the face with it. She retaliated with a sideways flip and kick to his jaw. He tired stabbing her in the abdomen with the neck of the guitar but she caught it on the side of the Gibson bass. They were stuck like that for a few moments, twisting around in midair in order to regain their ground -the ground itself not relative to them, sideways and upside down by now.

She had to defeat this power. It was a threat that had to be ended. That power was going to belong to her. She was going get it.

She charged at him full force and swung directly into his head. Something pulled at her heart as he was caught off guard and flew hundreds of feet downward, or upward... away from her. He slammed into the railing on one of the floors. What was that irritating her inside her chest?! His figure returned towards her slowly, clearly angry -for the falling glass had finally reached them and all of the glass bounced off an invisible force surrounding him. Something tugged at her heart more and more as her gaze fell on his face... his empty eyes.

Realization hit her like the Flying V that connected with her chest and she felt herself thrown away... Naota.

Flashes of the past screamed inside her memory, breaking free of power restrained bonds.

You came here with my father, why don't you go stay with him?!
You're the one I saw first, Ta-kun.

I don't like scary stuff, and I don't have a helmet!
You're scared, even though your brain's missing!

So, what's up for supper? You're probably going to insist on curry again, right?
I hate spicy stuff!
That's why we're going to buy you... Little Prince Curry Brand!

A real slugger imagines an arc inside his heart, aching directly to heaven. There! That star'd make a perfect target.
It's kind of flickery, though...

Now, if you do it just the way I showed you, it'll be just perfect.
... It's okay?

It's dangerous to go waving that thing around.
Use your guitar again, one more time, Ta-kun. Ka-kiiiiing, you did it so great last time.
Not interested.
I should teach you how to be a man, Ta-kun.
Yeah, like you know!

Are you asleep? .... Who are you, really? What are you? ... Where did you come from?

Why'd you come back anyway?
Just to see you. You head's the only one that works, Ta-kun.
... You're a liar.
It's the truth.
Are you gonna go away again?
Wanna come with me? You wanna throw everything away and come with me?
You mean it? Why are you being so nice?
Come on, Ta-kun. You're still just a kid.
......... Where'd did you go?! You left without saying anything...

I tried to tell you, you can't get some off brand just cause it's jumbo size -you have to stay with the good kind, like I said.

When you act selfish like that, bad things are bound to happen, you know.
Oh well, I'll just have to deal with the bad things then.

They took something from me, something I really want, so I'm trying to get it back. That's the deal.
Can you do it?
As long as I have you.

Ta-kun, it's time to get what I want but I need your help, okay?


I love you.



That was Naota... and she was Haruko. Suddenly, she became aware of the universe around her, although the power still pumped threw her veins. Medical Mechanica HQ... the place was falling apart.

They had to leave, it was unstable. She had to get Naota out of there.

She could hear her heartbeat at the mention of his name, and she glanced upwards. He was there, looming a few stories above her... poised, and about to attack.

She had to stop this.

Haruko knew how to stop him.

The figure of Naota charged at her, she waited for a moment, then spun up into the air, so that he missed her by inches. Just as he recovered from the missed attack, he turned sharply to rush after her -only to be caught around the waist by one of her arms, which caused them to spin upward from the force. The other arm had placed itself on the back of his head, completing her spin -and she pressed her lips to his, dropping the Gibson.

Haruko's heart leap in her chest, if this didn't work, she was dead. A few moments of stillness, despite their spinning, passed.

Suddenly she felt a surge of power against her body and lips. A pair of arms had wrapped themselves around her waist, and a tongue slid into her mouth. For a few moments, the broken and tattered building spun around them as Haruko tangled her hands in Naota's hair, and his right hand caressed her down her spine while his left arm gripped her waist. Her tongue ran over his lips until she found his mouth again as their breath intermingled. Power pulsed between them, until Naota pulled back with a gasp.

He fell unconscious in her arms.

Still feeling the tingle of power on her lips, she glanced around. She had to get them out of there.

Please evacuate immedialately. System generator shutdown in 5 minutes. Please evacuate immedialately....

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I had to go through all of my three dvds for those quotes from the show -I wanted them to be exactly as they were from the show(the dubbed version anyway, I kicks ass, and I usually hate dubs). There's still more to come, so ... love it? hate it? wanna kill me? marry me?

Review. X3 -Seiri