Galerians: Ash - Alternate Destiny
**DISCLAIMER: This is a short story based on one of my favorite Playstation 2 games, "Galerians: Ash." The characters and original storyline are not mine, except the character later known as Gia (pronounced Guy a.)**
File 16651: Gia, the Key - Goodbye Rion!
Rion landed swiftly on his feet and stood before Ash, unafraid and undeterred. Ash and Rion stared eachother down for what seemed like forever. A painstaking silence filled the destructed Mushroom Tower, as Gia watched helplessly. Her powers were immensley strong, yet Ash was still above her. Merely because of his intimidation he had over her.
Within seconds, Ash and Rion dashed towards eachother at an immensive speed of light. They both bounced off of eachother's shields, continuingly dashing into eachother, hoping to find a crack in each other's shield for the first attack. Gia cried as she watched, worried for her Rion as well as scared of what Ash was truly capable of. Suddenly, Gia could feel an all too familar presence. It made her heart beat fast and her breath become rapid. Mother? Dorothy? Gia thought to herself. There was no doubt ... Dorothy .. her presence in her back up memory was there. Its presence called out to Gia, due to the fact that she held a part of Dorothy in her. Ash was made as the one to resurrect Dorothy, and so it came to no surprise that Gia felt her. Gia peered around the room of Mushroom Tower and her eyes fell upon the destroyed robotic piece that used to hold Dorothy. Feeling unafraid for once, yet drawn to it, Gia slowly rose to her feet and started making her way to the base that stood before a destroyed Dorothy.
Rion raised his hand in the air, placing all his strength in using his psychic ability to raise Ash and throw him back to the ground. Ash flew up in the air, yet as he fell to the ground, he stopped himself and flew towards Rion, punching him hard in his stomach, sending Rion back. Ash then took Rion by the throat and started sending electric shocks through his body, making Rion scream in agony. Rion fought back and placed both his hands on Ash's wrists, burning them with his fire ability as Ash dropped him, as he used his mind to calm down the flames and cool them. Both of them started breathing hard, feeling the battle wage against them.
"You've gotten stronger ..." Ash replied, flexing his hands.
"Its not over yet ..." Rion replied angrily.
Ash laughed. "Yes of course. Perhaps your strength comes from emotion. For Gia no doubt. But how long will that hold out?" Ash asked. Rion's eyebrows arched in confusment. "What the hell are you talking about?" Rion demanded. "You haven't realized it yet have you? To think ... your love will prove to be your demise!" Ash yelled, running towards him and lifting him in the air by his neck.
Gia stopped and stood before Dorothy, at the exact spot where Lilia and Rion once stood six years ago to launch the virus program into Dorothy. Suddenly, Gia could hear a voice in her head. Gia ... Gia ... I know you can hear me Gia ... Becoming frightened, Gia started backing up, as she could of sworn the voice belonged to Dorothy. Gia ... I knew you would return to me. Gia's eyes became confused as she covered her ears to try and ignore the voice. "No ... what do you want? Your gone ... stop it ... leave me alone!" Gia screamed. "Where are you coming from?" Gia replied. Dorothy laughed. Silly child ... I'm talking from the back up memory ... Dorothy replied. "Back up memory? But ... where is it? Your destroyed." Gia asked. No ... Gia, I am in the backup memory ... and that back up memory is inside ... of you ...
"What?" Gia replied, her eyes dropping.
Ash smirked wickedly as he held Rion by his neck. "Rion, how stupid do you think mother is?" Ash asked. Rion stared at Ash, confused yet again and angry. "You and your humans are so pathetic. You had it in your hands ... the chance to destroy mother for good ... and it was right under your nose." he replied. Rion's eyes opened wide in shock and slowly looked over to where Gia stood. "N-no ... Gia?" he stuttered through choking words. Ash laughed again. "You would think that girl, Pascalle would have found it in Gia while rummaging through her memory. When Mother made lovely little Gia into a Galerian, and downloaded her emotions into her, she also downloaded the back up memory ... inside of Gia. But knowing Pascalle would try to hack into Gia, mother created a barrier around the memory ... making it untraceable, even for your humans obselete technology to comprehend."
Rion's eyes striked a sense of fear as Rion slowly started to become afraid. "So ... to destroy Dorothy... we'd ... we'd have to .. -"
"Yes. KILL GIA!" Ash yelled.
Gia heard Ash, as fear struck her heart and she fell to her knees. Her disbelief, made her fearful. She was to be the end of the humans ... the end of this world she loved so much. She wanted nothing to do with Dorothy ... she wanted her humanity back. She wanted to be human again and stay with Rion ... she didn't want Dorothy to be reborn. Rion could feel tears weld in his eyes, knowing there was no way he could kill Gia ... there had to be another way. "Are you scared Rion? Its all over. You shouldn't have wasted your love on such a creature ... then it would've been so much easier to kill her." Ash replied.
"SHUT UP!" Rion yelled, opening his eyes as they had shone a blinding white.
Ash felt the inisdes of his body feel as if they were being crushed, feeling Rion's power intensify with his raging emotion. Ash was jolted back to the opposing wall, stuck there as Rion's hair stood on end, eyes blinding white as static electricty danced around him, as he made his way to Ash. Ash suddenly began to feel weak against Rion's growing power. "W- what? What is this?" Ash demanded, for once, fearing his life. Rion's eyes still teared as he held his palm to Ash's forehead. "IT'S OVER ASH! I WON'T LET DOROTHY BE REBORN ... AND GIA WON'T DIE!" Rion yelled. Ash found it in himself able to cackle at Rion as he stayed glued to the wall of the Tower. "Poetic Rion, quite poetic. Yet there is no alternative. She is the Key ... Gia is the Key to ending the last of those humans. You can't end it." he replied. Rion smiled. "I can end you!" he exclaimed, pressing with all his might against Ash's forehead, sending an overpower of electric shocks and overriding Ash's system. Ash screamed a bloodcurdling scream ... sending a echoing wave across Michelangelo City.
Ash ... was dead.
Rion calmed down his powers, and watched with an expressionless face at Ash's dead body. "Goodbye ... Ash." he replied. Suddenly, a blast of energy surrounded the room of the Tower once more. Rion looked over his shoulder, noticing Gia was surrounded by this burst of energy. Gia screamed in pain, as Rion ran towards her. Unable to get close enough, yet inches away from her, Rion watched as Gia was being controlled to resurrect Dorothy from inside. "R-Rion ..." she cried out. Rion used an ability of his to stay his ground and fight the force of the overwhelming energy. "GIA!" he screamed out. Oh Rion ... Perhaps if you hadn't gotten close to her ... watching this woudl be so much easier. Rion was shocked to hear Dorothy's voice. "Dorothy? LEAVE HER ALONE!" he demanded. Dorothy ignored, as she continued working through Gia to awaken her. "R-Rion ... you have to get out of here." Gia softly replied.
"NO! I WON'T LEAVE YOU! THERE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER WAY!" Rion yelled out, crying yet again.
"There's only one. I have to die." she softly exclaimed.
"NO! NO! NO I WON'T LET YOU GIA!"
"We don't have a choice ... Rion, I want you to live on. You've done you part. You've killed Ash. Its my turn to protect you ... Rion ..."
Gia then closed her eyes, as she started focusing all her power agaisnt herself ... for her own destruction. "NO! Gia, what are you doing? You can't short out! You can't leave me!" Rion cried, falling to his knees. "You'll be fine ... you have Lilia. You have a reason to live -"
"I DON'T LOVE LILIA! I LOVE YOU GIA! I WANT YOU HERE ... WITH ME!"
Hearing this, only made Gia cry, yet her smile stayed upon her lips. The words she had longed to hear. They were said. She reached her hand out and placed it softly on Rion's cheek. Rion immediatly held her hand with his, as he slid her hand to his lips, kissing her palm. "Please ... please, Gia ... don't leave me." Rion pleaded, for once, crying more then he had ever done in his life. "Rion ... I'll always be with you ... but you know just as I do ... this is the only way. Thank everyone for me ..."
"GIA!"
"Rion ... I will always love you. Don't forget me ... and live ... for me."
Gia closed her eyes again, and used her psychic power to lift Rion up in the air against his will, as Rion hysterically cried and yelled out Gia's name, struggling against Gia's power, to make his way back to Gia. "GGGGIIIIAAAAA!" he screamed. Without warning, Gia released her power onto herself, attacking herself internally, overriding her system and the back up memory that was present inside of her. A rumbling and bright light blasted from Mushroom Tower, as Rion was taken to safety as the base of the Tower.
***
Rion awoke on the cold ground of Michelangelo City, as it slowly started to rain. Immediatly, when Rion focused his eyes and realized what had happened, he ran through the rubble debrie that once was the Mushroom Tower. He looked for Gia, calling out her name and hysterically fearing for her. Then, he froze in place. He noticed Gia's pale arm sticking from under a large piece of the tower. Lifting it with his power, he witnessed as Gia, laid there, as if she were sleeping, with a smile on her face and her chest no longer contrasting to show breath. She was truly dead.
Rion fell helplessly to his knees, and laid beside Gia, hysterically crying yet again. Placing his forehead upon Gia's head and wrapping his arms around her body, Rion repeatedly called out Gia's name over choked up tears. Rion brought himself back up and picked up Gia's body from the floor, holding her close to his chest, repeatedly kissing Gia on her forehead. The rain started letting up, as the sun shone, embracing Rion and Gia in its light.
It was over.
Dorothy ... her Last Galerians ... were finally destroyed.
And the last humans were saved. Rion could live amoung them and have a life.
Looking upon Gia's face once more, Rion smiled, his eyes still weeping. "Its all because of you Gia ... you saved us all. I just wish you could see this ... I wish you could be with me now." he replied, finally resting his lips on hers. "Wait." Rion thought.
"Lilia! The chronogenic chamber ... where she had placed me when I died ... maybe ..."
*****
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**DISCLAIMER: This is a short story based on one of my favorite Playstation 2 games, "Galerians: Ash." The characters and original storyline are not mine, except the character later known as Gia (pronounced Guy a.)**
File 16651: Gia, the Key - Goodbye Rion!
Rion landed swiftly on his feet and stood before Ash, unafraid and undeterred. Ash and Rion stared eachother down for what seemed like forever. A painstaking silence filled the destructed Mushroom Tower, as Gia watched helplessly. Her powers were immensley strong, yet Ash was still above her. Merely because of his intimidation he had over her.
Within seconds, Ash and Rion dashed towards eachother at an immensive speed of light. They both bounced off of eachother's shields, continuingly dashing into eachother, hoping to find a crack in each other's shield for the first attack. Gia cried as she watched, worried for her Rion as well as scared of what Ash was truly capable of. Suddenly, Gia could feel an all too familar presence. It made her heart beat fast and her breath become rapid. Mother? Dorothy? Gia thought to herself. There was no doubt ... Dorothy .. her presence in her back up memory was there. Its presence called out to Gia, due to the fact that she held a part of Dorothy in her. Ash was made as the one to resurrect Dorothy, and so it came to no surprise that Gia felt her. Gia peered around the room of Mushroom Tower and her eyes fell upon the destroyed robotic piece that used to hold Dorothy. Feeling unafraid for once, yet drawn to it, Gia slowly rose to her feet and started making her way to the base that stood before a destroyed Dorothy.
Rion raised his hand in the air, placing all his strength in using his psychic ability to raise Ash and throw him back to the ground. Ash flew up in the air, yet as he fell to the ground, he stopped himself and flew towards Rion, punching him hard in his stomach, sending Rion back. Ash then took Rion by the throat and started sending electric shocks through his body, making Rion scream in agony. Rion fought back and placed both his hands on Ash's wrists, burning them with his fire ability as Ash dropped him, as he used his mind to calm down the flames and cool them. Both of them started breathing hard, feeling the battle wage against them.
"You've gotten stronger ..." Ash replied, flexing his hands.
"Its not over yet ..." Rion replied angrily.
Ash laughed. "Yes of course. Perhaps your strength comes from emotion. For Gia no doubt. But how long will that hold out?" Ash asked. Rion's eyebrows arched in confusment. "What the hell are you talking about?" Rion demanded. "You haven't realized it yet have you? To think ... your love will prove to be your demise!" Ash yelled, running towards him and lifting him in the air by his neck.
Gia stopped and stood before Dorothy, at the exact spot where Lilia and Rion once stood six years ago to launch the virus program into Dorothy. Suddenly, Gia could hear a voice in her head. Gia ... Gia ... I know you can hear me Gia ... Becoming frightened, Gia started backing up, as she could of sworn the voice belonged to Dorothy. Gia ... I knew you would return to me. Gia's eyes became confused as she covered her ears to try and ignore the voice. "No ... what do you want? Your gone ... stop it ... leave me alone!" Gia screamed. "Where are you coming from?" Gia replied. Dorothy laughed. Silly child ... I'm talking from the back up memory ... Dorothy replied. "Back up memory? But ... where is it? Your destroyed." Gia asked. No ... Gia, I am in the backup memory ... and that back up memory is inside ... of you ...
"What?" Gia replied, her eyes dropping.
Ash smirked wickedly as he held Rion by his neck. "Rion, how stupid do you think mother is?" Ash asked. Rion stared at Ash, confused yet again and angry. "You and your humans are so pathetic. You had it in your hands ... the chance to destroy mother for good ... and it was right under your nose." he replied. Rion's eyes opened wide in shock and slowly looked over to where Gia stood. "N-no ... Gia?" he stuttered through choking words. Ash laughed again. "You would think that girl, Pascalle would have found it in Gia while rummaging through her memory. When Mother made lovely little Gia into a Galerian, and downloaded her emotions into her, she also downloaded the back up memory ... inside of Gia. But knowing Pascalle would try to hack into Gia, mother created a barrier around the memory ... making it untraceable, even for your humans obselete technology to comprehend."
Rion's eyes striked a sense of fear as Rion slowly started to become afraid. "So ... to destroy Dorothy... we'd ... we'd have to .. -"
"Yes. KILL GIA!" Ash yelled.
Gia heard Ash, as fear struck her heart and she fell to her knees. Her disbelief, made her fearful. She was to be the end of the humans ... the end of this world she loved so much. She wanted nothing to do with Dorothy ... she wanted her humanity back. She wanted to be human again and stay with Rion ... she didn't want Dorothy to be reborn. Rion could feel tears weld in his eyes, knowing there was no way he could kill Gia ... there had to be another way. "Are you scared Rion? Its all over. You shouldn't have wasted your love on such a creature ... then it would've been so much easier to kill her." Ash replied.
"SHUT UP!" Rion yelled, opening his eyes as they had shone a blinding white.
Ash felt the inisdes of his body feel as if they were being crushed, feeling Rion's power intensify with his raging emotion. Ash was jolted back to the opposing wall, stuck there as Rion's hair stood on end, eyes blinding white as static electricty danced around him, as he made his way to Ash. Ash suddenly began to feel weak against Rion's growing power. "W- what? What is this?" Ash demanded, for once, fearing his life. Rion's eyes still teared as he held his palm to Ash's forehead. "IT'S OVER ASH! I WON'T LET DOROTHY BE REBORN ... AND GIA WON'T DIE!" Rion yelled. Ash found it in himself able to cackle at Rion as he stayed glued to the wall of the Tower. "Poetic Rion, quite poetic. Yet there is no alternative. She is the Key ... Gia is the Key to ending the last of those humans. You can't end it." he replied. Rion smiled. "I can end you!" he exclaimed, pressing with all his might against Ash's forehead, sending an overpower of electric shocks and overriding Ash's system. Ash screamed a bloodcurdling scream ... sending a echoing wave across Michelangelo City.
Ash ... was dead.
Rion calmed down his powers, and watched with an expressionless face at Ash's dead body. "Goodbye ... Ash." he replied. Suddenly, a blast of energy surrounded the room of the Tower once more. Rion looked over his shoulder, noticing Gia was surrounded by this burst of energy. Gia screamed in pain, as Rion ran towards her. Unable to get close enough, yet inches away from her, Rion watched as Gia was being controlled to resurrect Dorothy from inside. "R-Rion ..." she cried out. Rion used an ability of his to stay his ground and fight the force of the overwhelming energy. "GIA!" he screamed out. Oh Rion ... Perhaps if you hadn't gotten close to her ... watching this woudl be so much easier. Rion was shocked to hear Dorothy's voice. "Dorothy? LEAVE HER ALONE!" he demanded. Dorothy ignored, as she continued working through Gia to awaken her. "R-Rion ... you have to get out of here." Gia softly replied.
"NO! I WON'T LEAVE YOU! THERE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER WAY!" Rion yelled out, crying yet again.
"There's only one. I have to die." she softly exclaimed.
"NO! NO! NO I WON'T LET YOU GIA!"
"We don't have a choice ... Rion, I want you to live on. You've done you part. You've killed Ash. Its my turn to protect you ... Rion ..."
Gia then closed her eyes, as she started focusing all her power agaisnt herself ... for her own destruction. "NO! Gia, what are you doing? You can't short out! You can't leave me!" Rion cried, falling to his knees. "You'll be fine ... you have Lilia. You have a reason to live -"
"I DON'T LOVE LILIA! I LOVE YOU GIA! I WANT YOU HERE ... WITH ME!"
Hearing this, only made Gia cry, yet her smile stayed upon her lips. The words she had longed to hear. They were said. She reached her hand out and placed it softly on Rion's cheek. Rion immediatly held her hand with his, as he slid her hand to his lips, kissing her palm. "Please ... please, Gia ... don't leave me." Rion pleaded, for once, crying more then he had ever done in his life. "Rion ... I'll always be with you ... but you know just as I do ... this is the only way. Thank everyone for me ..."
"GIA!"
"Rion ... I will always love you. Don't forget me ... and live ... for me."
Gia closed her eyes again, and used her psychic power to lift Rion up in the air against his will, as Rion hysterically cried and yelled out Gia's name, struggling against Gia's power, to make his way back to Gia. "GGGGIIIIAAAAA!" he screamed. Without warning, Gia released her power onto herself, attacking herself internally, overriding her system and the back up memory that was present inside of her. A rumbling and bright light blasted from Mushroom Tower, as Rion was taken to safety as the base of the Tower.
***
Rion awoke on the cold ground of Michelangelo City, as it slowly started to rain. Immediatly, when Rion focused his eyes and realized what had happened, he ran through the rubble debrie that once was the Mushroom Tower. He looked for Gia, calling out her name and hysterically fearing for her. Then, he froze in place. He noticed Gia's pale arm sticking from under a large piece of the tower. Lifting it with his power, he witnessed as Gia, laid there, as if she were sleeping, with a smile on her face and her chest no longer contrasting to show breath. She was truly dead.
Rion fell helplessly to his knees, and laid beside Gia, hysterically crying yet again. Placing his forehead upon Gia's head and wrapping his arms around her body, Rion repeatedly called out Gia's name over choked up tears. Rion brought himself back up and picked up Gia's body from the floor, holding her close to his chest, repeatedly kissing Gia on her forehead. The rain started letting up, as the sun shone, embracing Rion and Gia in its light.
It was over.
Dorothy ... her Last Galerians ... were finally destroyed.
And the last humans were saved. Rion could live amoung them and have a life.
Looking upon Gia's face once more, Rion smiled, his eyes still weeping. "Its all because of you Gia ... you saved us all. I just wish you could see this ... I wish you could be with me now." he replied, finally resting his lips on hers. "Wait." Rion thought.
"Lilia! The chronogenic chamber ... where she had placed me when I died ... maybe ..."
*****
END OF FILE 16651 ..... END OF TRANSMISSION ... SHUT DOWN .....
END.
