Phantasy Star Online: Episode 1: The Unknown
PSOCecil
Upon defeating De Rol Le in the sewer, Chihiro and the party returned to Pioneer 2.
"You almost done in there?" Chihiro called to Fei, who was taking a bath.
"Um... ask again in 30 minutes!" she said, "Finally... I can relax... no monsters... no worms... no goo... just nice... warm... water..." She sank a little lower in the water.
Chihiro smiled, 'Well...' she thought, 'I can wait. I wasn't the one covered in goo at least...' Chihiro shuddered at the thought.
That night... Chihiro felt chills. Something was wrong. Something in mind told her, "This is the end... Chihiro... there's nothing you can do..." And she couldn't wake up.
"Chihiro! Time to wake up!" Fei called. But, upon hearing no response, "Chihiro?" Still nothing.
This started to worry her. "C'mon Chihiro, this isn't funny." She said, and walked into Chihiro's room. "Pfffft, still asleep. Jeez.... C'mon!" Fei said, and nudged her.
Still nothing.
"Well... I'd hate to do this, but I guess I have to..." She picked up Chihiro, and carried her into the bathroom. She put her in the shower, and turned on the cold water. It ran all down her face, and sparkled in her hair. But, still, nothing.
Fei still felt Chihiro breathing, she was warm, and still had a heart beat, but...
"It's like she's in a coma!" Fei exclaimed. Fei pulled Chihiro out of the shower, dried her off, and put her back in bed. "Chihiro... what's wrong with you...?" she quietly asked. The visiphone rang, and Fei rushed to answer it.
"Fei! Is Chihiro ok?" It was Angel.
"No! She's---"
"Asleep, and won't wake up?"
"Yes... how did you know?"
"Come to the Principle's Auditorium. There's a meeting thats going to take place there in a little while. It's going to cover this."
"But---"
"Please, save your questions for later." He said, and hung up. Now Fei was deffinetly worried.
She got herself ready, and went to the meeting.
"Hello, first off, before we begin, are there any Numan's in attendence?" The Principle asked.
Nobody raised their hand.
"As I thought... obviously, something happened to every Numan on or off Pioneer 2, that is, on Pioneer 2, or on Ragol. I have assigned 2 teams to go down to Ragol, one to find any Numan's that may be asleep in on Ragol, in the wild, and another to go to find the perpatrator. Everyone else, stay on Pioneer 2, and try to find anyone who seems to know about these mysterious... events. We will not let these Numen stay asleep!"
Everyone cheered.
The rest of the meeting went off as normal, but at the end, the principle met up with Fei, and said, "Fei Yen-Kn? I need you, Aphrodite, and Fallen Angel to report to my office in the morning. You are the team searching for the perpatrator."
"Thank you, sir! We will do our best!" Fei squeeked, and ran to tell Aphrodite and Angel.
"Hmm..." Angel thought aloud, "No doubt he already found a 4th member to join us, as he didn't ask you to find a 4th member... he most likely already found someone."
"Hmm... maybe he did." Fei said.
Fei heard a beep. She pulled out her portable visiphone, and pressed the Simple Mail button.
'Hi, you don't know me, but I'm Lutz, the other hunter assigned to the mission. I would like to meet you. Come by room 3948 tonight.'
"I think he means all of us." Fei said.
"Well, I'm ready when you are." Aphrodite said.
"Yeah, let's get this mess over with as soon as possible." Angel said.
Everyone got up, and walked to Lutz's room. Fei knocked on it, and Lutz quickly answered. "Yes?" asked the tall male force, dressed in blue.
"I'm Fei, you asked me to come."
"Ah, ok." He noticed the others, "Um... who are they?"
"The other members of our party, I figured that you would want to meet them too." Fei smiled.
"Oh... uh... yeah. That's fine." he said, after thinking for a second. "Um... so, why were you all assigned to this mission? I was because I'm an expert force." He said with obvious content on his face.
"We were exploring the mines, and that's where we were assigned to search. Oh, and... a friend very dear to me... to all of us... is a numan so..." Fei responded, looking down.
"Oh, I see." Lutz responded, and the group talked for 2 hours...
"Well, we better be going." Fei said, getting up from a chair.
"Ah, yes. I guess I'll be seeing you all tommarow, eh?" Lutz said.
"Yup, bye." Fei said.
"Nice to meet you." Aphrodite said.
Angel nodded, and left.
And everyone returned to their rooms for the night.
"Oh, Chihiro... don't worry... you'll wake up soon enough..." Fei whispered as she fell asleep.
The next morning, everyone was up and ready to head off early.
When Fei arrived, she saw Aphrodite talking to Lutz.
"What's the origin of your name? I've heard it mentioned in ancient legends or Coral. Do they relate?"
"In a way. My parents want me to be as powerful as the Legendary Lutz, and figured that they would name me after him." he replied.
"Ah... interesting..."
"Fei! You made it!" Lutz said, seeing Fei.
"Yeah, ready?" she asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Angel said.
Everyone prepaired themselves for the mission to save every Numan...
They arrived in the robotic mines, and were surprised at the number of machines and robots all around them. Floating robots, scanning for differences, computers calculating who-knows-what.
"Wow, weird." Was all Fei could say.
"Ok, somewhere in here, someone or something is putting the Numan people into that coma, we must find it and destory it." Lutz said, sounding very profesional.
"I wonder if it is a person..." Aphrodite said.
"I doubt it. Who would be insane enough, or full of so much hate that they would do that?" Angel asked.
"You never know..." Fei said.
Everyone walked through a door, and saw robots, hunched over.
"Hmmm... are they activated?" Angel asked. As he approached, they got up, and started to approach! Angel backed up, and the thing swung its large metalic fist at him, almost hitting.
"They arn't friendly!" Aphrodite said, drawing her Varista.
Fei cast Gifoie on a robot. The explosion barely phased the robot, which kept coming towards them. "Techniques don't work!" she yelled.
Lutz cast Razonde on it, and it chained to hit every robot surrounding it, short-circuiting them all.
"Of course I could be wrong..." Fei said.
"Think, Fei. Robots hate lightning, It short circuits them. Just asked Aphrodite." Lutz explained.
"Yeah." Aphrodite said.
"Ok... I'll remember that." Fei said, turning red from emberassment.
Lutz smiled, "Don't be emberassed. I'm just more experienced then you, that's all."
'Why that little....!" Fei thought, getting angry.
But Lutz suddenly seemed worried.
"Now what?" Fei asked, still angry.
"N...nothing." Lutz said, now surprised, "It's nothing."
"Whatever..." Fei said, continuing on.
But Lutz didn't seem satisfied.
A few hours later, the party was getting lost, and discouraged.
"Argh!" Fei complained, "Every room looks the same!"
"Don't worry, Fei." Lutz said, "I'm pretty sure we arn't going in circles. If you've been noticing, I've been dropping small pieces of a monomate, to mark our path." He smiled.
Fei smiled back. "Good idea."
"Thank you." Lutz said, still smiling at Fei.
Angel smiled, and quietly elbowed Aphrodite, "See that?" He quietly said, "They're really hitting it off."
"They go from hating each other, to praticly loving each other... boy, you humans are really weird." Aphrodite quietly replied.
Fei noticed that Angel and Aphrodite were quietly talking, and falling behind. "C'mon." she said. They hurried up. When they caught up, Fei asked, "So, what were you two talking about?" She asked.
"Nothing!" Angel and Aphrodite said, almost simutaionsuly.
"Whatever... it wasn't about me and Lutz, was it?" Fei asked, smirking.
"How did you---" Angel was elbowed by Aphrodite.
"We honestly don't have any idea what your talking about... we were talking about.. um... Chihiro! Boy, she's crazy, isn't she?" Aphrodite said.
"Seriously... it's about me and Lutz, right?" Fei asked again.
"Uh.... well... the thing is..." Aphrodite stammered.
"I knew it!" Fei exclaimed.
"So... do you like him?" Angel asked.
"Well... sortta... he's kindda egotistical.. but yeah." Fei said, blushing.
Angel smiled, "My little sister is growing up, I'm sure that you will tell him when you're ready."
"I... might. I dunno yet if he feels the same." Fei sadly said.
"You guys coming?" Lutz asked, far ahead.
"Oh! Sorry!" Fei said, and ran up to him.
Aphrodite looked at Angel, who smirked.
"They really are hitting it off." Angel said.
Fei and Lutz, who didn't hear them, were just looking at each other, smiling.
Hours later, they were getting even more discouraged.
"At this rate... we'll never save Chihiro..." Angel said.
"Yes we will! We have to!" Fei exclaimed.
"Hey, I see something" Lutz said, pointing to a enterance to a large circular room, with computer moniters all over. They walked in, and a large shutter slammed shut behind them.
"This... can't be good." Fei said.
"Hmm... I don't know, I'm not reading any movement." Aphrodite analized. And, as if on cue, a large symbol appeared on a moniter.
"What is it?" Angel asked.
"It's... an AI!" Aphrodite said, surprised. "It's getting weapons ready!"
"What?!" Fei gasped.
Everyone drew their weapons, except Aphrodite, who walked up to it.
"Why are you doing this? We mean no harm." She said.
"I am doing what my master commanded." It responded.
"Then, who is your master? We'd like to speak with them"
"My master is Rico Tyrell."
That caught everyone off guard.
"Rico Tyrell gave you the orders to attack us?!" Aphrodite demanded.
"Correct."
"What were her exact orders?"
"You are not authorized to recieve that information."
Aphrodite grumbled.
"This conversation is over, you shall be erradicated." The party heard weapons heating up.
"Get ready, everyone!" Lutz called.
A bolt of lightning shot at Angel, who quickly jumped out of the way. A group of moniters turned red, and a symbol appeared.
"It's moving itself, destory the moniter it's on!" Aphrodite called.
Lutz cast Razonde at it, and a moniter exploded, but the symbol had already moved.
"Get it!" he yelled.
"It's mine!" Aphrodite pulled out her Varista, and shot, destroying a small screen, and Angel finished it of, with a swing from his Black King Bar, destroying the 3 others surrounding it.
Everyone continued destroying the screans, one by one, until none remained. A harddrive appeared.
"That's its CPU! Destroy it!" Aphrodite said.
Everyone kept hitting it, and they heard a voice.
"Download complete." It said, and the harddrive blew up.
A large rumbling came from the ceiling, and parts of it started to fall to the ground. A large robot, with tons of cannons and lasers equpted on it.
"No one will interfere with Rico Tyrell's plans to disable Numans!" it exclaimed. A large piller shot down above Fei, who screamed. She prepared herself to fall under it's weight, to help cushin the fall, but she was pushed out of the way. Lutz pushed her, and he was now stuck under the piller.
"Lutz!" Fei screamed.
"Destroy it, I'll be ok! Just.. hurry!"
The piller lifted, and Fei leaned him up against a wall gently. The then glanced at the robot, identified as Vol Opt, her eyes burning with rage.
"You shall be anililated." It said.
" No... we won't let you! We will defeat you, and save the Numan people, and Chihiro!" Fei yelled, and shot her strongest Razonde at it, not knowing that she even knew the spell. "Lutz saved my life... this is the least I can do!" The electric serge traveled all throughout the machine, short circuting it. But that didnt stop Fei, who kept firing away. Meanwhile, Angel was tending to Lutz's wounds the best he could, and Aphrodite was shooting it. Parts were being scrapped, one by one.
When every part was broken off, they heard, "No... can stop... the revi... of Da... Force...." and Vol Opt exploded.
At that time, every Numan woke up, screaming, as if from a nightmare.
"Lutz! We did it!" Fei said.
"No, you and Aphrodite did it..." he tried to stand, but started to fell. Fei cought him. "I...just need some help back to Pioneer 2."
"Certainly." Fei cast Ryuker, and carried him through the teleport. Aphrodite followed. But Angel saw a large hole, from when Vol Opt exploded, leading to a odd temple. He opened a telepipe there, and returned through Fei's.
Back on Pioneer 2, people were rejoycing in the streets. The Numan people all had the same message told in their mind as Chihiro, except for one part, which only Chihiro heard. Red Ring Rico Tyrell had appeared, and said, "I sacrifice all these numans to you, master... do not worry... you will break out of your feeble mortal body... and be reborn, oh great Profound Darkness!" Rico then laughed like a cold hearted monster.
Chihiro shuddered. 'Who... or what is Profound Darkness? Who's its master... I wonder if they are any closer to finding anything out...' Chihiro ran out to meet her friends.
"Chihiro!" Fei exclaimed. Chihiro ran up to the guy Fei was carrying, and helped. "Thanks." she said.
Once they dropped the guy-- Lutz-- off at the hospital, Chihiro told Fei of the dream.
"It was only a dream, Chihiro." Fei pointed out.
"But I felt Rico. She was talking, I felt it." Chihiro explained.
"I have no idea..." Fei said.
Angel came running in, and when he saw Chihiro, he ran straight to her, and hugged her. "You're all right!" he smiled
"Yup!" Chihiro said, smiling.
"Well, I came in here to say, we need to return through my telepipe! I opened a new one, where I saw a odd temple, deeper in the mines. It's where the creatures of Darkness came from!" Angel exclaimed, "When Vol Opt exploded, it created a huge hole. Through it appears to be ruins of an ancient space ship, or temple. Dominions were everywhere!"
Chihiro shot up. "I'm going!" she exclaimed.
"Coming, Fei?"
"No... I'm going to stay with Lutz..."
"You like him, eh?" Chihiro said, smirking.
"Yeah... isn't he great?"
"Uh... he seems like just the right person for you." Angel said
"Yeah, thanks." Fei said. still smiling.
"Well, Chihiro, let's get Aphrodite, and we can go."
As they were walking out, a hyper little Numan force girl ran into Chihiro.
"Whoa, careful there." Chihiro said. The little girl smiled.
"I've finally found you!" she said, and it finally clicked for Chihiro.
"Fiona!" Chihiro squeaked.
"You do remember!" Fiona exclaimed. Chihiro and Fiona hugged each other.
"Who?" Angel asked.
"We grew up together on Coral, and she was basicly my family on Pioneer 2! But we got seperated when we arived at Ragol." Chihiro explained.
"We were like sisters!" Fiona said.
"Why haven't you talked of her before?" Angel asked.
"I... hadn't heard from her.. I figured that she had forgotten me..." Chihiro said, looking down.
"Chihiro... you know I would never forget you..." Fiona said.
"I know... wait a second, how skilled with techs are you?" Chihiro asked.
"I know them all, except Grants." Fiona replied, matter-of-factly.
"Wanna join us? We discovered an ancient ruins..." Chihiro went on to explain the whole story.
"Wow..." Fiona remarked, "Thats amazing..."
"It's a little overwhelming at times... but would you like to join us?" Chihiro asked.
"Well... why not? I need experience..." she pointed out.
"Great, lets go get Aphrodite, and get going." Angel said.
"Right!" Chihiro said, getting excited. But something in the back of her mind hurt... 'What was that voice... did it call ME master...?'
To be continued...
"I'll be waiting, Chihiro... you will awaken to who you truely are... and you friends will be murdered by your own hand... they won't stand a chance, master..."
PSOCecil
Upon defeating De Rol Le in the sewer, Chihiro and the party returned to Pioneer 2.
"You almost done in there?" Chihiro called to Fei, who was taking a bath.
"Um... ask again in 30 minutes!" she said, "Finally... I can relax... no monsters... no worms... no goo... just nice... warm... water..." She sank a little lower in the water.
Chihiro smiled, 'Well...' she thought, 'I can wait. I wasn't the one covered in goo at least...' Chihiro shuddered at the thought.
That night... Chihiro felt chills. Something was wrong. Something in mind told her, "This is the end... Chihiro... there's nothing you can do..." And she couldn't wake up.
"Chihiro! Time to wake up!" Fei called. But, upon hearing no response, "Chihiro?" Still nothing.
This started to worry her. "C'mon Chihiro, this isn't funny." She said, and walked into Chihiro's room. "Pfffft, still asleep. Jeez.... C'mon!" Fei said, and nudged her.
Still nothing.
"Well... I'd hate to do this, but I guess I have to..." She picked up Chihiro, and carried her into the bathroom. She put her in the shower, and turned on the cold water. It ran all down her face, and sparkled in her hair. But, still, nothing.
Fei still felt Chihiro breathing, she was warm, and still had a heart beat, but...
"It's like she's in a coma!" Fei exclaimed. Fei pulled Chihiro out of the shower, dried her off, and put her back in bed. "Chihiro... what's wrong with you...?" she quietly asked. The visiphone rang, and Fei rushed to answer it.
"Fei! Is Chihiro ok?" It was Angel.
"No! She's---"
"Asleep, and won't wake up?"
"Yes... how did you know?"
"Come to the Principle's Auditorium. There's a meeting thats going to take place there in a little while. It's going to cover this."
"But---"
"Please, save your questions for later." He said, and hung up. Now Fei was deffinetly worried.
She got herself ready, and went to the meeting.
"Hello, first off, before we begin, are there any Numan's in attendence?" The Principle asked.
Nobody raised their hand.
"As I thought... obviously, something happened to every Numan on or off Pioneer 2, that is, on Pioneer 2, or on Ragol. I have assigned 2 teams to go down to Ragol, one to find any Numan's that may be asleep in on Ragol, in the wild, and another to go to find the perpatrator. Everyone else, stay on Pioneer 2, and try to find anyone who seems to know about these mysterious... events. We will not let these Numen stay asleep!"
Everyone cheered.
The rest of the meeting went off as normal, but at the end, the principle met up with Fei, and said, "Fei Yen-Kn? I need you, Aphrodite, and Fallen Angel to report to my office in the morning. You are the team searching for the perpatrator."
"Thank you, sir! We will do our best!" Fei squeeked, and ran to tell Aphrodite and Angel.
"Hmm..." Angel thought aloud, "No doubt he already found a 4th member to join us, as he didn't ask you to find a 4th member... he most likely already found someone."
"Hmm... maybe he did." Fei said.
Fei heard a beep. She pulled out her portable visiphone, and pressed the Simple Mail button.
'Hi, you don't know me, but I'm Lutz, the other hunter assigned to the mission. I would like to meet you. Come by room 3948 tonight.'
"I think he means all of us." Fei said.
"Well, I'm ready when you are." Aphrodite said.
"Yeah, let's get this mess over with as soon as possible." Angel said.
Everyone got up, and walked to Lutz's room. Fei knocked on it, and Lutz quickly answered. "Yes?" asked the tall male force, dressed in blue.
"I'm Fei, you asked me to come."
"Ah, ok." He noticed the others, "Um... who are they?"
"The other members of our party, I figured that you would want to meet them too." Fei smiled.
"Oh... uh... yeah. That's fine." he said, after thinking for a second. "Um... so, why were you all assigned to this mission? I was because I'm an expert force." He said with obvious content on his face.
"We were exploring the mines, and that's where we were assigned to search. Oh, and... a friend very dear to me... to all of us... is a numan so..." Fei responded, looking down.
"Oh, I see." Lutz responded, and the group talked for 2 hours...
"Well, we better be going." Fei said, getting up from a chair.
"Ah, yes. I guess I'll be seeing you all tommarow, eh?" Lutz said.
"Yup, bye." Fei said.
"Nice to meet you." Aphrodite said.
Angel nodded, and left.
And everyone returned to their rooms for the night.
"Oh, Chihiro... don't worry... you'll wake up soon enough..." Fei whispered as she fell asleep.
The next morning, everyone was up and ready to head off early.
When Fei arrived, she saw Aphrodite talking to Lutz.
"What's the origin of your name? I've heard it mentioned in ancient legends or Coral. Do they relate?"
"In a way. My parents want me to be as powerful as the Legendary Lutz, and figured that they would name me after him." he replied.
"Ah... interesting..."
"Fei! You made it!" Lutz said, seeing Fei.
"Yeah, ready?" she asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Angel said.
Everyone prepaired themselves for the mission to save every Numan...
They arrived in the robotic mines, and were surprised at the number of machines and robots all around them. Floating robots, scanning for differences, computers calculating who-knows-what.
"Wow, weird." Was all Fei could say.
"Ok, somewhere in here, someone or something is putting the Numan people into that coma, we must find it and destory it." Lutz said, sounding very profesional.
"I wonder if it is a person..." Aphrodite said.
"I doubt it. Who would be insane enough, or full of so much hate that they would do that?" Angel asked.
"You never know..." Fei said.
Everyone walked through a door, and saw robots, hunched over.
"Hmmm... are they activated?" Angel asked. As he approached, they got up, and started to approach! Angel backed up, and the thing swung its large metalic fist at him, almost hitting.
"They arn't friendly!" Aphrodite said, drawing her Varista.
Fei cast Gifoie on a robot. The explosion barely phased the robot, which kept coming towards them. "Techniques don't work!" she yelled.
Lutz cast Razonde on it, and it chained to hit every robot surrounding it, short-circuiting them all.
"Of course I could be wrong..." Fei said.
"Think, Fei. Robots hate lightning, It short circuits them. Just asked Aphrodite." Lutz explained.
"Yeah." Aphrodite said.
"Ok... I'll remember that." Fei said, turning red from emberassment.
Lutz smiled, "Don't be emberassed. I'm just more experienced then you, that's all."
'Why that little....!" Fei thought, getting angry.
But Lutz suddenly seemed worried.
"Now what?" Fei asked, still angry.
"N...nothing." Lutz said, now surprised, "It's nothing."
"Whatever..." Fei said, continuing on.
But Lutz didn't seem satisfied.
A few hours later, the party was getting lost, and discouraged.
"Argh!" Fei complained, "Every room looks the same!"
"Don't worry, Fei." Lutz said, "I'm pretty sure we arn't going in circles. If you've been noticing, I've been dropping small pieces of a monomate, to mark our path." He smiled.
Fei smiled back. "Good idea."
"Thank you." Lutz said, still smiling at Fei.
Angel smiled, and quietly elbowed Aphrodite, "See that?" He quietly said, "They're really hitting it off."
"They go from hating each other, to praticly loving each other... boy, you humans are really weird." Aphrodite quietly replied.
Fei noticed that Angel and Aphrodite were quietly talking, and falling behind. "C'mon." she said. They hurried up. When they caught up, Fei asked, "So, what were you two talking about?" She asked.
"Nothing!" Angel and Aphrodite said, almost simutaionsuly.
"Whatever... it wasn't about me and Lutz, was it?" Fei asked, smirking.
"How did you---" Angel was elbowed by Aphrodite.
"We honestly don't have any idea what your talking about... we were talking about.. um... Chihiro! Boy, she's crazy, isn't she?" Aphrodite said.
"Seriously... it's about me and Lutz, right?" Fei asked again.
"Uh.... well... the thing is..." Aphrodite stammered.
"I knew it!" Fei exclaimed.
"So... do you like him?" Angel asked.
"Well... sortta... he's kindda egotistical.. but yeah." Fei said, blushing.
Angel smiled, "My little sister is growing up, I'm sure that you will tell him when you're ready."
"I... might. I dunno yet if he feels the same." Fei sadly said.
"You guys coming?" Lutz asked, far ahead.
"Oh! Sorry!" Fei said, and ran up to him.
Aphrodite looked at Angel, who smirked.
"They really are hitting it off." Angel said.
Fei and Lutz, who didn't hear them, were just looking at each other, smiling.
Hours later, they were getting even more discouraged.
"At this rate... we'll never save Chihiro..." Angel said.
"Yes we will! We have to!" Fei exclaimed.
"Hey, I see something" Lutz said, pointing to a enterance to a large circular room, with computer moniters all over. They walked in, and a large shutter slammed shut behind them.
"This... can't be good." Fei said.
"Hmm... I don't know, I'm not reading any movement." Aphrodite analized. And, as if on cue, a large symbol appeared on a moniter.
"What is it?" Angel asked.
"It's... an AI!" Aphrodite said, surprised. "It's getting weapons ready!"
"What?!" Fei gasped.
Everyone drew their weapons, except Aphrodite, who walked up to it.
"Why are you doing this? We mean no harm." She said.
"I am doing what my master commanded." It responded.
"Then, who is your master? We'd like to speak with them"
"My master is Rico Tyrell."
That caught everyone off guard.
"Rico Tyrell gave you the orders to attack us?!" Aphrodite demanded.
"Correct."
"What were her exact orders?"
"You are not authorized to recieve that information."
Aphrodite grumbled.
"This conversation is over, you shall be erradicated." The party heard weapons heating up.
"Get ready, everyone!" Lutz called.
A bolt of lightning shot at Angel, who quickly jumped out of the way. A group of moniters turned red, and a symbol appeared.
"It's moving itself, destory the moniter it's on!" Aphrodite called.
Lutz cast Razonde at it, and a moniter exploded, but the symbol had already moved.
"Get it!" he yelled.
"It's mine!" Aphrodite pulled out her Varista, and shot, destroying a small screen, and Angel finished it of, with a swing from his Black King Bar, destroying the 3 others surrounding it.
Everyone continued destroying the screans, one by one, until none remained. A harddrive appeared.
"That's its CPU! Destroy it!" Aphrodite said.
Everyone kept hitting it, and they heard a voice.
"Download complete." It said, and the harddrive blew up.
A large rumbling came from the ceiling, and parts of it started to fall to the ground. A large robot, with tons of cannons and lasers equpted on it.
"No one will interfere with Rico Tyrell's plans to disable Numans!" it exclaimed. A large piller shot down above Fei, who screamed. She prepared herself to fall under it's weight, to help cushin the fall, but she was pushed out of the way. Lutz pushed her, and he was now stuck under the piller.
"Lutz!" Fei screamed.
"Destroy it, I'll be ok! Just.. hurry!"
The piller lifted, and Fei leaned him up against a wall gently. The then glanced at the robot, identified as Vol Opt, her eyes burning with rage.
"You shall be anililated." It said.
" No... we won't let you! We will defeat you, and save the Numan people, and Chihiro!" Fei yelled, and shot her strongest Razonde at it, not knowing that she even knew the spell. "Lutz saved my life... this is the least I can do!" The electric serge traveled all throughout the machine, short circuting it. But that didnt stop Fei, who kept firing away. Meanwhile, Angel was tending to Lutz's wounds the best he could, and Aphrodite was shooting it. Parts were being scrapped, one by one.
When every part was broken off, they heard, "No... can stop... the revi... of Da... Force...." and Vol Opt exploded.
At that time, every Numan woke up, screaming, as if from a nightmare.
"Lutz! We did it!" Fei said.
"No, you and Aphrodite did it..." he tried to stand, but started to fell. Fei cought him. "I...just need some help back to Pioneer 2."
"Certainly." Fei cast Ryuker, and carried him through the teleport. Aphrodite followed. But Angel saw a large hole, from when Vol Opt exploded, leading to a odd temple. He opened a telepipe there, and returned through Fei's.
Back on Pioneer 2, people were rejoycing in the streets. The Numan people all had the same message told in their mind as Chihiro, except for one part, which only Chihiro heard. Red Ring Rico Tyrell had appeared, and said, "I sacrifice all these numans to you, master... do not worry... you will break out of your feeble mortal body... and be reborn, oh great Profound Darkness!" Rico then laughed like a cold hearted monster.
Chihiro shuddered. 'Who... or what is Profound Darkness? Who's its master... I wonder if they are any closer to finding anything out...' Chihiro ran out to meet her friends.
"Chihiro!" Fei exclaimed. Chihiro ran up to the guy Fei was carrying, and helped. "Thanks." she said.
Once they dropped the guy-- Lutz-- off at the hospital, Chihiro told Fei of the dream.
"It was only a dream, Chihiro." Fei pointed out.
"But I felt Rico. She was talking, I felt it." Chihiro explained.
"I have no idea..." Fei said.
Angel came running in, and when he saw Chihiro, he ran straight to her, and hugged her. "You're all right!" he smiled
"Yup!" Chihiro said, smiling.
"Well, I came in here to say, we need to return through my telepipe! I opened a new one, where I saw a odd temple, deeper in the mines. It's where the creatures of Darkness came from!" Angel exclaimed, "When Vol Opt exploded, it created a huge hole. Through it appears to be ruins of an ancient space ship, or temple. Dominions were everywhere!"
Chihiro shot up. "I'm going!" she exclaimed.
"Coming, Fei?"
"No... I'm going to stay with Lutz..."
"You like him, eh?" Chihiro said, smirking.
"Yeah... isn't he great?"
"Uh... he seems like just the right person for you." Angel said
"Yeah, thanks." Fei said. still smiling.
"Well, Chihiro, let's get Aphrodite, and we can go."
As they were walking out, a hyper little Numan force girl ran into Chihiro.
"Whoa, careful there." Chihiro said. The little girl smiled.
"I've finally found you!" she said, and it finally clicked for Chihiro.
"Fiona!" Chihiro squeaked.
"You do remember!" Fiona exclaimed. Chihiro and Fiona hugged each other.
"Who?" Angel asked.
"We grew up together on Coral, and she was basicly my family on Pioneer 2! But we got seperated when we arived at Ragol." Chihiro explained.
"We were like sisters!" Fiona said.
"Why haven't you talked of her before?" Angel asked.
"I... hadn't heard from her.. I figured that she had forgotten me..." Chihiro said, looking down.
"Chihiro... you know I would never forget you..." Fiona said.
"I know... wait a second, how skilled with techs are you?" Chihiro asked.
"I know them all, except Grants." Fiona replied, matter-of-factly.
"Wanna join us? We discovered an ancient ruins..." Chihiro went on to explain the whole story.
"Wow..." Fiona remarked, "Thats amazing..."
"It's a little overwhelming at times... but would you like to join us?" Chihiro asked.
"Well... why not? I need experience..." she pointed out.
"Great, lets go get Aphrodite, and get going." Angel said.
"Right!" Chihiro said, getting excited. But something in the back of her mind hurt... 'What was that voice... did it call ME master...?'
To be continued...
"I'll be waiting, Chihiro... you will awaken to who you truely are... and you friends will be murdered by your own hand... they won't stand a chance, master..."