Project 59 by Bonez aka HappyNoodleGurl
Chapter 29
Lan led him outside the building of cheering teenagers and stuffed the gun back in her garter. "You know of me?" His eyes never left the ground as he nodded slowly. "Yeah.......your team is the head of the special ops for the Swollen Eyeball." She stared at him sadly, wishing she could do something. "After all this training, it finally comes down to this. Tch, and I thought Rosewell sounded hard." She giggled a bit, and then saw he wasn't coming 'round.
"Listen, I can help you get her back," she said slowly. He looked up at her, and gripped the ring tighter in his grasp. "How? How can you help me?" She smiled and winked. "Let's just say our eyeballs aren't THAT swollen." A hopeful smile appeared on his face as she led them to her van.
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The ship was floating in Earth's orbit, and it was very quiet. Project 59 was kept underneath the ship in a big capsule. As it slept, Raye woke up to find only darkness. It was a wierd feeling, to exist only in the back of your mind. It was like being possesed. She was in a dark nothing, just floating.
She had cried herself to sleep earlier, and when she woke up she cried some more. She pulled herself into a small ball and buried her head in her bare knees, weeping like a child who had just lost their parents. She was alone in this starless space. Not a soul was around. She shivered and thought of Dib, with his pleading eyes.
("Don't give up Raye! I know you're in there, I can feel it! Wake up Raye! I love you! No matter what anyone says, I love you more than anything in this world and nothing will stand inbetween me from you! I'll come for you, I promise!")
Her hot tears ran down her face like rivers as she went from a small cry to a large wail. Gasping for air, she started crying uncontrollably. She felt scared and unloved, cold and alone. She wanted him with her, to hold her and tell her it would be allright.
("Dib.............I love you..........I'm alone, save me! Please! Someone please.........save me........)
Suddenly, she felt as if someone was holding her. Slowly, she opened her eyes to see a woman standing infront of her. Her aura was so kind, that it embraced Raye's cold body, warming it in a peaceful glow. She was wearing a long, graceful white dress that sparkled with invisible starts. Removing a strand of shoulder-length dark purple hair from her brown eyes, she smiled gently. Raye had seen that smile before. It was Dib's smile.
The woman kneeled down infront of Raye and took her head in her palms. Kissing the tears away from her cheeks, she hugged her like a mother would her child.
("Do you know who I am?") the lady asked in an angelic voice.
("I'm sorry, but no,") Raye replied.
("I'm Claire Membraine, darling, Dib's mother.")
Raye couldn't move at first. Was it true? Was she really talking to Dib's dead mother? For a while they said nothing and she layed limp in Claire's embrace. Then, feeling her soft touch, she knew for a fact it was true. She pulled closer to her warmth.
("You are her............")
That was all she could say. She felt all the fear evaporating as Claire held her. She felt safe in those arms, she felt Dib in those arms. But, even though she didn't want to ruin the moment, she had to ask the one question that plagued her.
("What happened to you, Claire?")
Claire smiled and hugged Raye tighter.
("Dib doesn't remember?)
Raye shook her head.
("That night I was taken, dear. The ambulance that got me broke down for no reason and me, Dib, and the driver was abducted.")
("But I thought you were dead?")
("There are all kinds of death, sweety. I was merely on the first level. Like you, you're dead as well.")
Raye flinched at that. The fear of her being dead made her even more scared, but Claire rubbed her back gently, making that fear go away once again.
("Don't be afraid of death, you're like I was, dead to the body but alive in the mind, and the Veleks knew this.")
("Veleks?")
("Ah, yes, the aliens that patrol our solar system. They're the ones you hear about all the time, abducting people and such, the tall green ones with black eyes. They're a friendly bunch, they just merely want to do research, that's all.")
("But what did they do to you?")
("Well, you could say they 'put me back together.' They were going to let us go, until they got a distress call from their home planet to drop whatever they were doing and return. I felt like something bad was to happen, so I begged and pleaded with them to atleast send my son back. Having pity for me, they granted my wish, but he remembered nothing of the visit or the last time I told my son how much I loved him.............")
("But, that's so sad............")
("Ah, yes it is, but I'm glad just knowing he's alive and allright.")
("So did something bad happened like you thought?")
For a second, Claire was quiet. Then she cleared her throat and began again.
("Turns out the distress call was for a battle. These other beings were trying to take over their planet and they needed whoever they could for a fight. But, when we got there, there was nobody left. Only a dead planet. I remember looking out of the window and seeing a huge, ship with a strange symbol on the front. Taking no pity on us, they burned the ship, killed the Veleks, and hoarded whatever they could. Including me.")
("This is unbelievable, what happened next?)
("It felt like 1000 years. They took me aboard and did experiments. They measured me, stuck things in me, operated on me, took picutres of my body and insides. All sorts of strange things one must question. It wasn't until you were half comlpete I knew my purpose."
("Me? What does this have to do with me?")
(Honey, you're modeled after me. I was merely a blueprint for your construction. They were to make you into the perfect killing machine, with all the technology that could never be used again. You are a weapon, dear. With one blink of an eye you could wipe out a whole city. That power is not ment for ANYTHING except God.")
Raye started to remember her reaccuring dream. The one she had everynight. The little girl was her! She had jumped off that operating table, walked down that hall of shadows, and the two Tallests were her creators! When she got lifted off of the ground by that "thing," the shadow hiding its face evaporated, as Claire ran with a small, trembling Raye towards an emergancy Voot cruiser.
("You! You saved me!")
Claire nodded with a smile.
("If they were to use Project 59, then it would've killed you. I saw you sleeping on that table, and I couldn't just let them destroy such an innocent child. So, before the announcement of your birth, I stole you and ran as fast as I could. Grabbing the closets Voot I could find, I flew you back to Earth. Of course they followed, and infact they had shot me, my ship, and you had a couple bruises as well, but I got you there.")
("But, why did you die?")
("They had shot me in the stomach with a laser. I was internally bleeding, and I think the reason I survived that long was because of my determination to get you home. When we came into the atmosphere, the Voot spun out of control, so I held you tight in my arms as we crashed into that field. You were frightened as we layed in the crashed ship. The sides and top were crushed in from rolling several times, and with the last ounce of my strength, I threw you as far away from the ship as I could.........")
Raye remembered a bloody Claire inside the now totalled ship with a serene smile on her face. She whispered "Goodbye........." as the ship blew up into a million pieces. Raye's heart was beating fast as all the memories filled her mind. Claire just stared at her like the wisest, oldest woman in the world.
("The ship blew up. I remember thinking if only I could save you-----and send you to my son. My poor, dear son. I wanted you to be a gift from me, so he wouldn't be so alone. I knew one day you'd fly to him...........and you did.")
Raye started to cry again. A total wave of sadness engulfed her. Claire held her again and silenced her tears so she could go on.
("You gave him the love he always wanted, the love I couldn't give. Most of his life he missed out on his mother's love, but I didn't want him to loose yours. To loose his true love.")
Suddenly, Claire let go of her. She simply got up and started to walk away, leaving a dumbfounded Raye.
("Wait! Where are you going!?!")
Claire stopped, and looked back at Raye's pleading eyes. She smiled warmly.
("I need to go now, my work here is done.")
She turned around as if to walk off again, but Raye stopped her once more.
("Thank you! Thank you for everything, Claire. Without you, I'd never have met him, much less be alive! We both love you, Claire! Thank you for saving me in every way I could be!")
She started walking into the nothing, fading more and more as she called out to her one more time.
("Raye, never loose your light. Tell Dib I love him and thank you for saving my son. I love you as my own daughter, Lain Leblance. Know this.")
With that said, she disappeared completely. Raye stared in confusion.
("Lain.........Leblance?")
Then, another voice emerged. Only this voice was cold, and it had a mechanical tone to it, artificial life.
("That was you're birth name the Tallests gave you.")
It came from all around her, yet she saw no one around. That's when it dawned on her. She was talking to Project 59!
("Actually, I should say us. We are one, you know.")
("No! I'm not like you! I'm not a machine!")
("Oh, but you are. Raye Manslaughter is a dream, an illusion. The only real thing that exists under the hat is us-----Lain Leblance, Project 59, assigned to Impending Doom. Our only parents are those that create us, we belong to the Irken Empire. Forever we are a perfect machine.")
Raye shivered at the thought of her being an illusion, a magic trick. She felt alone again, in a world of nothing and metal life. She stood up slowly.
("You're right, maybe I'm just a machine built by some Irken scientists, but I'm also much more. See, unlike you I can feel emotions. I HAVE emotions. When I cry, you'll never feel the sadness. When I laugh, you'll never feel the happiness. When me and Dib kissed and touched, you never felt the love. I am NOT a perfect machine! I am soon-to-be Raye Membraine, a human being!")
Lain growled at this, but didn't reply. Something happened, she heard something tapping. Raye looked around nevously, not knowing what was going on, but what ever it was she couldn't tell because she fell underneath a heavy trance. She fell asleep once again, ending her conversation with Project 59.
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Red and Purple walked down to the lower chambers and stared at their most perfect creation. She was inside a long capsule, floating in a thick, clear liquid. Her spider legs hung limply at her side as she slept.
Red grinned at Purple. "It's Lain, we have her. Finally." Purple stared at Red's homicidal smirk, and felt disgusted. "Don't think we're going to go kill everything in sight. She's used for war purposes ONLY, Red. Do you read me? NOT for entertainment."
Red stuck his claws up to the glass lovingly. Suddenly, he tapped on it repeatedly until she opened her eyes with a certain snappiness that made both Tallests jump with surprise and fear. She stared at them with a blank expression. "My Allmighty Tallests, how may I be of service to you?"
He smirked as Purple shuddered. "Nothing, I was just admiring your beauty, Lain. How empty you are. You hate everything equally, except us. You only obey us." She stared ahead, still no expression. "Sir, you programed me to love you like a father. I love only my Tallests." Purple stared at her empty sould and closed his eyes. He couldn't help but think one thought over and over again. "What oh what have we gotten ourselves into?"
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A/N: Whoo! This was great, eh? So the truth finally comes out. It saddens you, no? I thought the whole Claire-sacrificing-herself-for-Dib-and- Raye's-love was rather sweet of her, don't you? What about the whole emotionless machine deal? What is to come for the two star-struck lovers and the alien who loves her? Oh, in the last chapter I forgot to say the song "Fire Fire" is an orignal song of mine. I wrote it and everything. **gleam gleam** Yea, and I added a Nirvana song for Invader Jed, since she just luvs Kurt as much as I do! **happy face** Yeah, it's sad he died though.......**sad face** Oh, anywhoo, R&R and thanks for those who did. Also, if anyone wants to read a good story, I recommend Doom Witch by Invader Jed. It rocks with a mountain named Flurry! ^_^ yea, uh just check it out! Okies, bai!
~*~Bonez~*~
Lan led him outside the building of cheering teenagers and stuffed the gun back in her garter. "You know of me?" His eyes never left the ground as he nodded slowly. "Yeah.......your team is the head of the special ops for the Swollen Eyeball." She stared at him sadly, wishing she could do something. "After all this training, it finally comes down to this. Tch, and I thought Rosewell sounded hard." She giggled a bit, and then saw he wasn't coming 'round.
"Listen, I can help you get her back," she said slowly. He looked up at her, and gripped the ring tighter in his grasp. "How? How can you help me?" She smiled and winked. "Let's just say our eyeballs aren't THAT swollen." A hopeful smile appeared on his face as she led them to her van.
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The ship was floating in Earth's orbit, and it was very quiet. Project 59 was kept underneath the ship in a big capsule. As it slept, Raye woke up to find only darkness. It was a wierd feeling, to exist only in the back of your mind. It was like being possesed. She was in a dark nothing, just floating.
She had cried herself to sleep earlier, and when she woke up she cried some more. She pulled herself into a small ball and buried her head in her bare knees, weeping like a child who had just lost their parents. She was alone in this starless space. Not a soul was around. She shivered and thought of Dib, with his pleading eyes.
("Don't give up Raye! I know you're in there, I can feel it! Wake up Raye! I love you! No matter what anyone says, I love you more than anything in this world and nothing will stand inbetween me from you! I'll come for you, I promise!")
Her hot tears ran down her face like rivers as she went from a small cry to a large wail. Gasping for air, she started crying uncontrollably. She felt scared and unloved, cold and alone. She wanted him with her, to hold her and tell her it would be allright.
("Dib.............I love you..........I'm alone, save me! Please! Someone please.........save me........)
Suddenly, she felt as if someone was holding her. Slowly, she opened her eyes to see a woman standing infront of her. Her aura was so kind, that it embraced Raye's cold body, warming it in a peaceful glow. She was wearing a long, graceful white dress that sparkled with invisible starts. Removing a strand of shoulder-length dark purple hair from her brown eyes, she smiled gently. Raye had seen that smile before. It was Dib's smile.
The woman kneeled down infront of Raye and took her head in her palms. Kissing the tears away from her cheeks, she hugged her like a mother would her child.
("Do you know who I am?") the lady asked in an angelic voice.
("I'm sorry, but no,") Raye replied.
("I'm Claire Membraine, darling, Dib's mother.")
Raye couldn't move at first. Was it true? Was she really talking to Dib's dead mother? For a while they said nothing and she layed limp in Claire's embrace. Then, feeling her soft touch, she knew for a fact it was true. She pulled closer to her warmth.
("You are her............")
That was all she could say. She felt all the fear evaporating as Claire held her. She felt safe in those arms, she felt Dib in those arms. But, even though she didn't want to ruin the moment, she had to ask the one question that plagued her.
("What happened to you, Claire?")
Claire smiled and hugged Raye tighter.
("Dib doesn't remember?)
Raye shook her head.
("That night I was taken, dear. The ambulance that got me broke down for no reason and me, Dib, and the driver was abducted.")
("But I thought you were dead?")
("There are all kinds of death, sweety. I was merely on the first level. Like you, you're dead as well.")
Raye flinched at that. The fear of her being dead made her even more scared, but Claire rubbed her back gently, making that fear go away once again.
("Don't be afraid of death, you're like I was, dead to the body but alive in the mind, and the Veleks knew this.")
("Veleks?")
("Ah, yes, the aliens that patrol our solar system. They're the ones you hear about all the time, abducting people and such, the tall green ones with black eyes. They're a friendly bunch, they just merely want to do research, that's all.")
("But what did they do to you?")
("Well, you could say they 'put me back together.' They were going to let us go, until they got a distress call from their home planet to drop whatever they were doing and return. I felt like something bad was to happen, so I begged and pleaded with them to atleast send my son back. Having pity for me, they granted my wish, but he remembered nothing of the visit or the last time I told my son how much I loved him.............")
("But, that's so sad............")
("Ah, yes it is, but I'm glad just knowing he's alive and allright.")
("So did something bad happened like you thought?")
For a second, Claire was quiet. Then she cleared her throat and began again.
("Turns out the distress call was for a battle. These other beings were trying to take over their planet and they needed whoever they could for a fight. But, when we got there, there was nobody left. Only a dead planet. I remember looking out of the window and seeing a huge, ship with a strange symbol on the front. Taking no pity on us, they burned the ship, killed the Veleks, and hoarded whatever they could. Including me.")
("This is unbelievable, what happened next?)
("It felt like 1000 years. They took me aboard and did experiments. They measured me, stuck things in me, operated on me, took picutres of my body and insides. All sorts of strange things one must question. It wasn't until you were half comlpete I knew my purpose."
("Me? What does this have to do with me?")
(Honey, you're modeled after me. I was merely a blueprint for your construction. They were to make you into the perfect killing machine, with all the technology that could never be used again. You are a weapon, dear. With one blink of an eye you could wipe out a whole city. That power is not ment for ANYTHING except God.")
Raye started to remember her reaccuring dream. The one she had everynight. The little girl was her! She had jumped off that operating table, walked down that hall of shadows, and the two Tallests were her creators! When she got lifted off of the ground by that "thing," the shadow hiding its face evaporated, as Claire ran with a small, trembling Raye towards an emergancy Voot cruiser.
("You! You saved me!")
Claire nodded with a smile.
("If they were to use Project 59, then it would've killed you. I saw you sleeping on that table, and I couldn't just let them destroy such an innocent child. So, before the announcement of your birth, I stole you and ran as fast as I could. Grabbing the closets Voot I could find, I flew you back to Earth. Of course they followed, and infact they had shot me, my ship, and you had a couple bruises as well, but I got you there.")
("But, why did you die?")
("They had shot me in the stomach with a laser. I was internally bleeding, and I think the reason I survived that long was because of my determination to get you home. When we came into the atmosphere, the Voot spun out of control, so I held you tight in my arms as we crashed into that field. You were frightened as we layed in the crashed ship. The sides and top were crushed in from rolling several times, and with the last ounce of my strength, I threw you as far away from the ship as I could.........")
Raye remembered a bloody Claire inside the now totalled ship with a serene smile on her face. She whispered "Goodbye........." as the ship blew up into a million pieces. Raye's heart was beating fast as all the memories filled her mind. Claire just stared at her like the wisest, oldest woman in the world.
("The ship blew up. I remember thinking if only I could save you-----and send you to my son. My poor, dear son. I wanted you to be a gift from me, so he wouldn't be so alone. I knew one day you'd fly to him...........and you did.")
Raye started to cry again. A total wave of sadness engulfed her. Claire held her again and silenced her tears so she could go on.
("You gave him the love he always wanted, the love I couldn't give. Most of his life he missed out on his mother's love, but I didn't want him to loose yours. To loose his true love.")
Suddenly, Claire let go of her. She simply got up and started to walk away, leaving a dumbfounded Raye.
("Wait! Where are you going!?!")
Claire stopped, and looked back at Raye's pleading eyes. She smiled warmly.
("I need to go now, my work here is done.")
She turned around as if to walk off again, but Raye stopped her once more.
("Thank you! Thank you for everything, Claire. Without you, I'd never have met him, much less be alive! We both love you, Claire! Thank you for saving me in every way I could be!")
She started walking into the nothing, fading more and more as she called out to her one more time.
("Raye, never loose your light. Tell Dib I love him and thank you for saving my son. I love you as my own daughter, Lain Leblance. Know this.")
With that said, she disappeared completely. Raye stared in confusion.
("Lain.........Leblance?")
Then, another voice emerged. Only this voice was cold, and it had a mechanical tone to it, artificial life.
("That was you're birth name the Tallests gave you.")
It came from all around her, yet she saw no one around. That's when it dawned on her. She was talking to Project 59!
("Actually, I should say us. We are one, you know.")
("No! I'm not like you! I'm not a machine!")
("Oh, but you are. Raye Manslaughter is a dream, an illusion. The only real thing that exists under the hat is us-----Lain Leblance, Project 59, assigned to Impending Doom. Our only parents are those that create us, we belong to the Irken Empire. Forever we are a perfect machine.")
Raye shivered at the thought of her being an illusion, a magic trick. She felt alone again, in a world of nothing and metal life. She stood up slowly.
("You're right, maybe I'm just a machine built by some Irken scientists, but I'm also much more. See, unlike you I can feel emotions. I HAVE emotions. When I cry, you'll never feel the sadness. When I laugh, you'll never feel the happiness. When me and Dib kissed and touched, you never felt the love. I am NOT a perfect machine! I am soon-to-be Raye Membraine, a human being!")
Lain growled at this, but didn't reply. Something happened, she heard something tapping. Raye looked around nevously, not knowing what was going on, but what ever it was she couldn't tell because she fell underneath a heavy trance. She fell asleep once again, ending her conversation with Project 59.
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Red and Purple walked down to the lower chambers and stared at their most perfect creation. She was inside a long capsule, floating in a thick, clear liquid. Her spider legs hung limply at her side as she slept.
Red grinned at Purple. "It's Lain, we have her. Finally." Purple stared at Red's homicidal smirk, and felt disgusted. "Don't think we're going to go kill everything in sight. She's used for war purposes ONLY, Red. Do you read me? NOT for entertainment."
Red stuck his claws up to the glass lovingly. Suddenly, he tapped on it repeatedly until she opened her eyes with a certain snappiness that made both Tallests jump with surprise and fear. She stared at them with a blank expression. "My Allmighty Tallests, how may I be of service to you?"
He smirked as Purple shuddered. "Nothing, I was just admiring your beauty, Lain. How empty you are. You hate everything equally, except us. You only obey us." She stared ahead, still no expression. "Sir, you programed me to love you like a father. I love only my Tallests." Purple stared at her empty sould and closed his eyes. He couldn't help but think one thought over and over again. "What oh what have we gotten ourselves into?"
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A/N: Whoo! This was great, eh? So the truth finally comes out. It saddens you, no? I thought the whole Claire-sacrificing-herself-for-Dib-and- Raye's-love was rather sweet of her, don't you? What about the whole emotionless machine deal? What is to come for the two star-struck lovers and the alien who loves her? Oh, in the last chapter I forgot to say the song "Fire Fire" is an orignal song of mine. I wrote it and everything. **gleam gleam** Yea, and I added a Nirvana song for Invader Jed, since she just luvs Kurt as much as I do! **happy face** Yeah, it's sad he died though.......**sad face** Oh, anywhoo, R&R and thanks for those who did. Also, if anyone wants to read a good story, I recommend Doom Witch by Invader Jed. It rocks with a mountain named Flurry! ^_^ yea, uh just check it out! Okies, bai!
~*~Bonez~*~