(Author's notes: Hi and welcome back to the "Dreamland Virus" This summer has been busy and hectic and with Anime Con season coming up into full bloom I'm not sure just how fast I can crank out the final chapter or so of this fic, but I will try my best. This Chapter itself was very VERY hard to write, only because alot of the story ties together. I hope it went ok, but let me know)

(Notes: I don't own any of the rights to Cyborg 009)

Incubus:

Rolling his chair away from his lap top, the meek scientist let the two doctors see the results of his latest findings. " 009, though he hasn't been infected, seems to be surging out some kind of energetic brain waves ..."

Dr Eekamen was looking so intently at the charts on the computer that it almost appeared he'd fall though the screen. Obviously, none of what was said was making even less sense to the clueless doctor than anyone else.

Giving Dr Eekamen a stern shove out of his way, Dr Gillmore saw his fill of data and turned towards the meek scientist for a deeper explanation.

The poor mentally spent meek scientist only dropped his arms at his sides not wanting to have to give anymore horrible news. "Dr Gillmore, I'm sorry to say that the mutation in the virus has only caused it to spread faster."

DR Gillmore remained speechless. His emotions had already taken too many blows in the past few hours that he wasn't sure anymore of how deep the mount of sadness ran for his lost cyborgs. However, there was still one last glimmer of hope. "Those strange brain waves coming from 009 what exactly was it..."

Awakening in almost one of the last places undiscovered in 003's dream world, 005 and 006 began to awake into the dream world. The scenery forming around them was one built only of the purest forms of peace and serenity. Gentle warm breezes blew past the pink cherry blossom covered trees making the petals flutter to the ground like pink frosted snow. Streaks of sunbeams peeked though the trees and onto the winding porch that stretched around the temple. However, the part of the porch they where standing on acted like a bridge for the small trickling stream running underneath it.

"Strange." 006 peered over the porch railing as he gazed across the clam waters of the creek. A single cherry blossom petal disturbed the peace of the waters as it touched the surface leaving small ripples. " We're in the same dream?"

005 turned as well towards the direction of the waters, resting his massive arms against the red wood stained rail. "Perhaps, it's a better sign of things."

"Perhaps." 006 nodded in agreeance. " 003 was always talking about how she loved the Japanese cherry blossoms in the spring."

005 gazed deeper at his surroundings. The garden past the stream was finished in perfect beauty. Large posts hung over the cobble stone path leading up to the bridge part of the porch. Where the stream began there was a small sprit statue blessing the natural spring where the waters came from.

The soft warm breeze blew once again in welcoming and 005 turned to 006 one agian. "The style of this temple, is it Chinese?"

" No." 006 shook his head. " This is a Japanese Shinto temple."

Still wearing their cyborg senshi uniforms, they seemed somewhat out of place with the serenity and peaceful intent of the surroundings.

Soft footsteps graced the wooden planks of the porch and 005 and 006 had realized that they where not alone. Turning in alarm, both 005 and 006 were not sure what to expect in this strange new world. However, they soon began to relax once realizing who it was. Dressed in a beautiful silk kimono as pink as the tree's cherry blossoms, tide with a saintly white sash, stood 003. As delicate and charming as ever, her hair was done up in a classic geisha bun held in place with sparkling flower hair trinkets.

"003!" Excitedly, 006 ran towards his favorite kitchen helper embracing her in a hug. "No one did anything to hurt you ... did they?"

Beaming in her naturally cheerful way, 003 welcomed the chubby cyborg's hug. " No, I'm perfectly fine , in fact more than wonderful."

" More than wonderful?" 006 stepped back from her embrace in question. "What is it that could be more than wonderful?"

Sighing happily as if her heart felt it could fly, she turned gracefully catching a fluttering by cherry blossom petal in her hand. " Love. I feel so deeply in love, so deeply in love with the man of my dreams."

"Man of your dreams! " 005 and 006 chimed in unicent.

"Yes. " 003 spoke with starry eyes as she opened her hand letting the stray flower petal slip into the wind. " The man of my dreams ..My lover... The kindest and sweetest man ever to exists. He always puts his feelings before others and is the strongest and bravest."

006 seemed at a loss for words but added his comments anyways "..All that..?"

"And then some. " 003 chuckled lightly in hiding her glee. However, in nervousness she seemed to be tugging at her kimono sleeve. For some reason, her right hand was always hidden from view. "He's been saying all day how he would like to meet the both of you. Would you like to meet him?"

006 pulled at his thin mustache in wonderment. " Um...Let me have a minute to talk with my friend here..."

Grasping 005 by the hand, the chubby little cyborg yanked 005's massive body to the conner of the porch crouching down with him in a huddle. 006 tried to quietly whisper without being heard. " What do you think of this ...?"

005 glanced towards the blossom covered trees as if looking for and answer ." This place IS very Japanese and 009 is of part Japanese, plus we all know how much 003 is in love with 009? Could this be that 009 was the one to finally break the dreamland virus?"

"So, is this a yes then?" 006 was beginning to grow impatient as 003 began to walk over.

005 felt rushed in his response but went though with the only choice. " Yes, it could be a good possibility that she'll lead us to 009 or it could be a trap, but standing on the bridge will lead us to no place.

006 bolted up from the huddle. "Yes, then it's a deal we'll be happy to meet your new boyfriend!"

" Wonderful!" 003 sounded as happy as a Japanese school girl on the first day of school as she pressed her hands together in a clap though her long flowing sleeves. "Right this way then."

Walking under the porch and towards the front entrance of the temple, 003 seemed to drown on endlessly about how happy she was but both 005, nor 006 were really listening. 005 continued glancing around the temple grounds. Two small birds fluttered past from the blooming trees and onward into the afternoon sunlight. Despite the land's peace something suddenly didn't feel right.

"005?" 003 stood slightly behind the temple's sliding door waiting for 005 to pass." Aren't you gonna join us? "

" Huh?" Never realizing that they had arrived at the entrance, 005 aloud his mind to slip back to current reality.

"What's gotten into you 005?" 006 snorted in a moment of inpatients. By now 006 was almost certain in his mind that this was the true 003. " We've discussed everything that could happen before, it's not like anything is gonna hop out and get us now."

006 paused only in a minute of wonderment in his statement before continuing on with 003.

Funny how the rolls of thought could be reversed in minutes when the situation is thought over carefully.

It was already too late to question, too late to turn back now. In a way 006 was partly right, if he turned away now the outcome good or bad, they would never know the truth.

Walking past the rice paper sliding door, 005 entered the temple. Once inside the temple, the feeling of peace instantly grew darker. The temple was kept dimly lit. Even the walls and floor were kept in dim and dismal colors. Thankfully for the day, most of the only light offered was let in by the rice paper doors and a few tiny windows.

" This way.. " Silently and with eloquence, 003 motioned them to turn down the nearby dark and narrow hall.

Despite the hall's shortness didn't mean the journey was any less creepy for the other two cyborgs. Sliding open yet another rice paper door, 006 nearly jumped out of his skin at the wood frame's creaking sound. Strangely, 003 remained confident lost beyond belief in the lies of her dream world. Behind the rice door's wall reviled a large hall like room kept the darkest of all. One of the walls of the room had an abysmal mural painting of a bloody feudal Japanese war scene. At the other end of the room stood a folding screen also covered in dark theme decorative paintings next to a sword rack. The rest of the room however was barren as if this room was used for some sort of marshal arts training.

"Wait in this room. He'll be here in a minute. " Both 006 and 005 walked hesitantly in the room. Almost in the instant the two cyborgs walked in the room 003 began to slide the door shut behind them with a strange crooked smile. " You wait here for him, and I'll be right back with some tea. "

"Strange house this new boyfriend of her's lives in. " 006 spun in his surveillance of the room.

Placing his large hand on 006's head 005 stopped 006 from his dizzy spin. " I wonder how long we'll have to wait to meet this mystery man."

" You mean 009...?" 006 waved his pointer finger at 005 in taunting the obvious outcome he expected to happen. Hearing the sound of something moving behind the folding curtain , 006 froze his know it all attitude.

"I'm not 009, and I suggest you stop calling me by that horrid number..." From the darkest conner of the room where the folding screen stood, stepped the memory of a man that the cyborgs had met before. 003 had gotten to know him on a more personally basis than the rest. Regardless his memory was still trouble. 006 nearly cowered into 005's arms as this man stepped into the only remaining soft flashes of light. " O ..I'm sorry. 003 must have not realized that I was in this room when she went looking for me. No matter, now's our chance to meet more formally."

The mysterious man stood tall and strong. Dressed in what was to resemble the old shinsengumi samurai outfit , he kept two long katanas by his side. With his right hand gripped frimly around the handle of one of the swords, his left hand brushed back his bushy kept brown hair showing off it's silver streaks. His confidence was almost mocking the two cyborgs watching.

" Carl Eekamen!" 005 dropped 006 from his arms like a hot potato and prepared to strike back in fighting mode.

Carl Eekamen, Dr Eekamen's long dead son. His memories and personalities were once in the Computertopia's City programming to keep the city running under somewhat of a human touch until his programing was warped by his lust for 003.

Carl snorted a snotty laugh as he pulled his sword from it's resting place. It all made sense now, why everything appeared so Japanese. The Eekamen family was very Japanese, but why ..why would 003 listen to him. In his computer form he once stalked 003. At one point even kidnapping her into his computer world. His program should be deleted, but why is he back!

Pushing 006 behind him 005 took ready for his fight between Carl to take place. " What did you do to her you twisted ..."

Shifting in to proper fighting stance, a sick smile washed it's way over Carl's face "I know what you've come for but it's useless. She won't come back with you...

You see I've made her very happy in her own world. I've given her everything she could ever want. For you see, the thing she wanted most was true love. The love that 009 idiot could never seem to grasp and understanding of."

One flick of Carl's swords reviled a sliver flash off of it's razor sharp blade. " Now I ask ..are you willing to fight me?"

With no wish in caring on anymore conversation with this cocky nut, 005 lunged forward in attack. Not a man of much conversation to begin with, he would settle this the only possible way left. He would take his friend back by force.

Wile taking his first steps into battle, time to 005 felt as if it was slowing down. The faster he tried to move, the slower it felt he was moving. Flashes of silver streaked around him, flashes that later where dulled by searing pain. As quickly as the moment of still time occurred it passed over and the mighty giant cyborg dropped to his knees like a broken rag doll. Streams of blood flowed down from his open wounds dripping into pools on the wooden floor.

Wait, he was a cyborg. Something like this for a man with his strength should have little effect.

Quivering in pain, 005 fell helplessly into the pool of his own blood that now stained the floor. " ...What's happening to me..?"

All 005 could hear was the footsteps of Carl walking across the wood finished floor as he came to stand over him. "It's kinda obvious now. 003 and I have just borrowed some of your cybernetic powers. All of you dreamt of being human men again, so the force of taking them wasn't much trouble at all."

" You monste..."005 was never aloud to finish his peace when Carl Eekamen took his sword and stabbed it though 005's giant heart ending his pathetic suffering.

Pulling back his sword in swift motion from 005's lifeless body, Carl coldly flicked the blood from his sword's blade. After watching the last drops of remaining blood leave the swords sharp edge Carl turned his gaze towards 006. " I believe it's your turn to die..."

Carl Eekamen fully expected 006 to cower away into a conner and hide. He was quite taken by suprize when with a burst of unexpected speed, 006 bolted across the room, his chubby belly shaking a step behind the rest of his body.

Grabbing a knife from the rack of weapons, 006 grabbed the weapon by it's sturdy decorative handle and whisked it from it's holster. Sporting a few fancy marshal arts moves, 006 finally settled into proper Chinese fighting stance. " I suppose you thought too that I was just another fat comic relief. You'll soon find out that 002 isn't the only one that can make good use of a knife."

Carl only scarfed at 006's pathetic attempt to scare him. " Fool"

In the flash of a heartbeat Carl disappeared and then re appeared before 006's eyes. " Despite the fact that you may of had a chance in the real world, you see my friend the fight is already over."

Trembling with pain and growing dizzy, 006 took whatever energy he had to look down at his wound. Stabbed straight though the heart in a blow so forceful blood sprayed against the rice paper covered door behind him. Carl ripped his sword from 006's body letting his now lifeless body drop to the floor. Flicking the blood from his sword's razor blade for the last time, Carl slid his sword in it's holder and proceeded to walk out of the room.

As he calmly slid the door shut behind him, he turned to 003 who was silently waiting for him just outside.

Still holding the tray of tea she had promised for her cyborg friends, 003 only gazed at Carl with blank eyes as one of his rough hands cupped her delicate face by the chin.

Brushing back a few stray golden locks of her hair, her silence almost seemed just as golden as she stood before him just like the perfect doll he had always dreamt her to be. " Don't worry my dear, I've taken good care of our house guests."

Carl smiled an inward smile as 003 remained vacant and blank. " Soon my love everyday will be as perfect and wonderful as this.."

Carl's hand let go of holding it's place under 003's chin, but not without leaving behind blood marks still left behind on his dirty hands from the previous fight. " Ah yes my love... very soon you'll be my wife."

" No ...something isn't right. " Tasting the ultimate panic of fear, 009 searched franticly for the dragon's whereabouts. However, the cloud bank beneath them was too thick and dark hiding everything around them. "Jean Paul..."

Suddenly, the cloud banks in front of them parted in two, rolling aside like ocean waves revealing the hellish dragon screeching towards them at bullet speeds. Fangs ready for death.

Jean Paul turned to 009 gripping by the neck of his shirt. "JUMP!"

"What!" Impossible, he'd die for sure on impact.

" JUMP ! What are you waiting for! "As Jean Paul gripped his shirt tighter, the look on his face as he looked 009 straight in the eyes said it all.

"No .. Jean Paul ..." Not given the chance to argue, Jean Paul knocked 009 over the edge of the biplane into the abyss and confusion of the raging storm.

Falling over the edge of the plane and into the darkness, 009 dared to look behind him. " Jean Paul..."

No words in his mind could describe the emotions running though his mind in watching the tiny red biplane that stood for his last ounce of hope in the strange new land explode into a rain for unrecognizable shards under the crashing furry of the dragon's teeth. The world around him began to shake with more furry, sorrow and rage, he already new the last two remaining cyborgs that could help him where taken by the virus.

This was the end, this was the end and there was nothing left.

Falling faster and faster though the blacked swirling clouds, 009 closed his eyes feeling nothing but the rush of the passing wind blow past his body. He knew the dragon was on it's way down rushing past the cloud banks that he had already plunged past. However, there was nothing more he could do. His thoughts drifted towards the final images he wished to see. Only one thought remained, only one person he wished to see. The faster adrenaline rushed though his body, the more intense in emotion his images became.

The way she smiled at him, her patience with him, her soft touch. The errors of his previous ways and lustful actions were all too painfully real.

"003 ... I'm sorry, I'm sorry I couldn't live up to be your hero or the lover you always dreamed of me to be." 009 gasped for strength to keep his words under his breath as the dragon was only seconds away. " I realized too late just how much you mean to me, and now this is the price I'll have to pay for being such a fool towards you..."

Seconds felt like hours in waiting for his death. Just when things felt at their absolute worst, a strange calming emotion began to awaken within his heart. Warm and magical, washing over his entire body. "Open your eyes..." His feelings seemed to call out to him.

Hesitantly, 009 began to give into this new feeling. Opening his eyes, something seemed to glowing in a raging light though the darkness ahead of him. A strange gold gleaming object.

He could feel himself falling faster than ever before, but it was by his own force. What was it that was ahead of him? Reaching out, 009 grasped the glowing objet in his hand with such force that the chain nearly wrapped around his arm.

" Jean Paul's gold watch?" Tracing his long fingertips over the polished finish design, his fall seemed to slow and almost halt. Mysterious, yes but not good at all. The dragon was grinding it's blood stained teeth waiting for it's next feast behind him. As the watch opened under his touch, the hands spun wildly and the watch began to play a beautiful melody. Absolute peace and love was all 009 could feel under the watches enchanting song. Ready for the dragons attack, 009 was ready for the worst of his fate. However, he had no fear in his heart.

"I understand now." Lunging at him in his final strive, the beastly dragon was blown away by some mysterious force surrounding him before making contact. The beautiful melody had surrounded him and there was nothing to fear, because how he felt stronger that ever before. " Thank you Jean Paul, I understand now so many emotions that I couldn't understand before."

The warmth of his true emotions begin to form around him in a glowing light, transforming his red cyborg outfit into one of angelic white. The moonlight sliver buttons on his uniform sparkled in the remaining light of his transformation as a gentle wind unrolled the scarlet scarf wrapped around his neck. Fires and evil surrounded 003's dream world and now he was her only true last hope. In a soft tap, 009 touched his boot down on the marble steps of the pavilion." I know now that this isn't just my dream or your dream anymore, it's our dream ... "

( What's to happen next? Something exciting I hope, but I can't tell you just yet )

( More notes that I couldn't tell you before:

What's an Incubus? Well... Ever have those lustful dreams of prefect men that you wake up with a smile after having? It was myth that they were brought on by a beautiful male demon called an Incubus. All he would have to do is touch your forehead when you were sleeping and he would give you dreams of the most prefect and ideal man.

What's with 009's new outfit? In the first Cyborg series, 009's outfit was white with a red scarf. I just thought it would be cool to add in.

"You'll soon find out that 002 isn't the only one that can make good use of a knife." In 002's origin story, 002 was running from a gang knife fight. It's how he was picked up by Black Ghost)