Blossoming Swallowtail Chapter 7: Project Gamma, a dead or alive fanfic

Argh, and after a very long break I have returned! I'm sorry to all my fans for taking so long in posting this chapter but I was having a hell of a lot of trouble doing the fight scene between Kasumi and Kirami and planning out how it'd go along! And yes, I'm still having trouble so I thought, before you forget about me, I'd post this chapter instead, seeing as how it doesn't affect the story's order because it happens at the same time. I'll try my best to post my next chapter, Lonely Road Part 3, as soon as possible and I promise, it'll be one LONG chapter 'cuz I've written a lot of it so far, I just need to sew it together ;

Anyways, forgive and enjoy!

Notes: Oh and the review commentary will now be placed at the bottom of the story, k?

And...I've updated my first 4 chapters again, not much has changed besides the fact that i've corrected some junk, made some scenes lenghtier and added some elements here and there. Check it out and tell me what you guys think ok?

Disclaimer: Here we go again, no I don't own Dead or Alive or any of it's characters, I don't own much really lol, 'sides Kirami and maybe the guards here but who'd really want those morons anyways? I'll stick with just Kirami thank you.

Blossoming Swallowtail

Chapter 7: Project Gamma

As soon as Ayane was out of sight Kirami let out a loud sigh in relief.

Kirami hadn't exactly planned this from the start, she knew exactly where Kasumi was at the moment, their operatives had spotted her not too long before she was to meet with Ayane and technically, she WAS suppose to tell her but an oppurtunity to show up Ayane was too good to pass up.

Kirami twirled a small spoon around in her cup of green tea as she thought. "If I can eliminate Kasumi before Ayane does..."

It wouldn't really go against the rules of the clan since pretty much everyone was advised to kill Kasumi on sight. Her operatives didn't do it since it was an order from Ayane and they were a lot more...shall we say, loyal than she was.

All she had to do was go and eliminate Kasumi herself.

And by the time Ayane realised that the deed had been done, it would be already too late...

"Or so she thinks..." Ayane thought as she continued on to her new location. She had an appointment with the DOATEC after all.

Ayane never did like that ambitious little kunoichi and much less trusted her. But for now what Kirami did mattered not to Ayane.

She snickered, "I hope Kasumi goes easy on the stupid fool, I'd like to teach that girl a lesson myself a little later."

Tokyo, Japan, a city with many different faces. This place has been known as a bustling city with much to say during it's generation, each of it's many sides made for every different kind of person. During the day, it's faces shown with radiance, crowds, noise, lights everywhere...

Life in the light.

Japan had a decidedly similar face during the night, it's vision blurred by the neon lights of it's nightlife. The city shown just as brightly if not more so than during the day, which was decidedly not a good thing for those who resided in the dark.

For those like Ayane.

"Hmph, the more times I come to this town the more I'm reminded that I really should get some shades." she mumbled, looking down on the people as they walked about, not really caring if they saw her or not from the ledge she leaned on. If they did see her, it's not as if they'd be able to do anything anyways.

Ayane shrugged, "Well, I guess if they take a picture that'd be a problem but anyways..."

She looked up and faced the building she was leaning against, "DOATEC Tokyo Headquarters, proud sponsors of the Dead or Alive tournament and in charge of basic research and analysis." she said with a sarcastic tone while placing a hand on her hip and tilting her head lightly.

She took a look at the time on a clock of one of the nearby buildings.

Ayane crouched and started poking the window nearest to her, "Kirami had better be right about this..." she mumbled as the window slowly came open, allowing her to slide into the offices of DOATEC Headquarters.

Ayane examined Kirami's work on the window, her eyes narrowed, the lock's screw had been replaced with just the top of the screw mixed with a bit of work gum to keep appearances.

"I guess she isn't as useless as I thought after all...although, that is some pretty basic stuff..."

She allowed herself to take a look around the small set of cubicles that had been set out before her in an orderly fashion. The young ninja let out a small whistle, this place looked boring all right, she'd never figure that they had some secrets here that no one would like revealed to the general public.

"Well, better get to the head of the company's office...if anybody has the information I need to know it'd be him." Ayane mumbled to no one in particular while heading towards the elevator, not bothering to conceal herself even when a guard came within her line of sight. The woman probably wouldn't even notice her in the dark anyways.

"Hey you!"

Or maybe not.

Ayane ignored the guard, pressing the button to summon the elevator.

"Hey! I'm talking to you! Hands up where I can see them!" the guard said as she pulled out her gun from it's holster, aiming the flashlight directly at Ayane, who still had her back turned.

"Alright alright..." Ayane said with a smirk as she raised her hands up in the air and turned around to face the unsuspecting guard.

"What the? Is this some kind of joke? What's a kid like you doing here? And what's with the outfit? You in some kind of cosplay club?" the woman asked Ayane with a very confused expression but never letting the gun leave it's mark.

A vein appeared on Ayane's forehead at the stab at her favorite outfit. Scoffing mildly, "I'm not exactly much for social flings..." before the elevator opened up behind her.

"Hey! Step away from the elevator!" the guard yelled.

Ayane smiled and snuck a glance behind her adversary, "Hey Hayabusa, take care of her would ya?" she said with her ever present smirk on her face.

The guard quickly turned around to face the new intruder only to come face to face with nothing but an empty line of cubicles. "Huh?"

Ayane shook her head, "I'm surprised how often that actually works." she mumbled as she quickly chucked a tranquilizer dart at the guard's arm.

The guard's body tensed up for a moment but before it was given the time to fall to the ground, Ayane quickly kicked an office chair towards the woman, letting her fall on it and making it look as if the guard had fallen asleep on the chair. "Hope you wake up before your boss finds you like that. In the meantime...", Ayane walked over and took back her dart before stepping into the elevator and pressing a button. As the door closed she then proceeded to say one last thing to the guard "And I happen to like the outfit."

Elevator music

The Hajin Mon practionner leaned against the back of the elevator and yawned, her eyes wandered, looking through the glass, gazing out at the city below. The lights were very bright, maybe a little too bright up close, but the effect it created was pretty spectacular and even brought out a tiny trace of a smile from Ayane's lips.

But to live in the light...

That was something the Hajin Mon was not meant to do, no matter how you looked at it, their clan was more inclined to serving within the darkness...within the shadows. "To live...in the shadows..." Ayane mumbled quietly, her smile fading as a memory came forth in her mind.

Ayane closed her eyes for a moment.

A few minutes passed before her mind finally ventured into new territory. "I wonder how she's doing..." she wondered absent mindedly as the elevator kept going higher and higher towards her destination. Her thoughs not really concentrating on anything in particular at the moment, just going from thought to thought in an unorderly fashion, from Hayate's current state, to Hayabusa's current doings what with the story of the dark dragon blade over for the moment.

This mission wasn't particulary interesting her either to be honest, Kirami had been maybe too useful to Ayane's liking, having figured out the best time to infiltrate the building based on the patrol times. She didn't deny the fact that when Kirami and her sister Akemi went on a information raid, they did their job very well (well that is unless faced with Kirami herself then of course she'd deny it), but right now, she kind of regretted having taken Kirami's notes along with her.

She glanced upwards and sighed and was about to say something else when she finally noticed the camera up above her head, staring back at her.

"Well...things might be getting interesting." she mumbled as she just glared at the camera once more, pressing another button on the elevator before setting her sights on the outside world again.

"Get ready kid!" A man's voice said while holding his nightstick well in hand, determined to catch this intruder quickly and return to his comfortable office chair back in the control room where the camera images were sent to.

"Al-...alright..." a younger man said while holding up and pointing a gun towards the elevator door, flashlight in hand.

"Kid, put that gun down! You know that has to be used as only a last resort, 'sides, it's just a teenager. How she got here is up in the air but we'll have a talk to her about that as soon as she gets here that's for sure." The more experienced guard said while batting his nightstick into the palm of his hand in a menacing fashion.

"But w-why is she here?" The younger guard asked nervously, the older man just shrugged and stated that maybe she was just one of the other younger guards girlfriends who brought her in after hours and that she was now just wandering around, lost.

"But then why was she dressed like that?" the inexperienced guard asked, the older guard hit his face with the palm of his hand and dragged it down and away from his face while making a slight groaning sound. "You really are dense aren't you? Whatever, we'll find out when she gets here..."

The younger man nodded and looked up at the elevator's floor indicator, which told him that the intruder would be here soon enough. He tried to steady his gun while the other man simply just kept batting his nightstick in his palm, much more calm about this than the new nightshift guy.

The elevator stopped on the floor beneath them, where the patrol room was located.

"Huh? Maybe I was right about it being someone's girlfriend..." motionning to the younger guard to radio the patrol room guards to ask about it and about the girl.

The young man nodded his head to aknowledge the request and pulled out his radio, calling out to the guards who were now taking a break there.

They waited for a moment...

A minute passed...

No answer.

"That's strange, you did replace the batteries right?" the older guard asked with a dissaproving look to the younger one. "Of course I did! These batteries are brand new! They must not have their radios on them!..."

On the lower floor, layed atleast a dozen guards sprawled out on the ground of the patrol room, each and everyone of them unconscious and in incredibly bad shape. Low groans could be heard from those who's mind was working enough for it to feel pain, unfortunately for them and the rest just stayed on the ground, in a state that made them look near dead.

They never saw what hit them, the poor fools.

"Guess coming here at the right time didn't change much...oh well." Ayane said with a grin as she cracked her knuckles and stretched her arms over her head, letting out a satisfied laugh. She had had her fun for the night. She approached the camera control system and quickly removed the tape of her in the elevator, deleting all traces of it from file as well.

Tossing the tape up into the air, she quickly caught it and broke it over her knee.

"Well that's that for now I'd say...now...for what I came for." she smiled as she tossed what was left of the tape out onto the city streets below. Walking out of the patrol room and heading towards the elevator once more. Ayane ignored the radio calls from the guards on the higher level as she nibbled lightly on a chocolate donut.

"Hey look, the elevator is moving again!"

"Do you think it's one of our own?"

"Probably. But it might be that girl again...maybe the guys went out for their break, lousy jerks probably forgot to tell us."

A loud ringging sound was heard as the elevator reached their floor and the door slowly opened...

Revealing that it was empty...

"Huh? What the...?" the older guard asked as he approached the opened elevator with vigilance. The younger guard was also confused, was the elevator broken?

"Hmm? What's this?" one of the guards said as he put his nightstick away and picked up a small sphere like object from the ground. He moved it around in his hand but couldn't tell what it was. The younger guard walked over and looked over his sempai's shoulder to take a look at the strange black sphere.

And finally, under the pressure of the guard's touch the sphere opened up, letting out a huge blast of grey smoke which envelopped both guards in it's blanket. Coughs could be heard from both guards as each one tried to figure out what just happened,attempting vainely to find their way out of the elevator to get out of the smoke's way.

The young man managed to get out of the elevator, he fell to his knees and breathed in as much fresh air as he could, letting out a few more coughs as he did so. He didn't ignore the loud thud he heard from back in the elevator, "Hey Sempai, you all right?" he asked, coughting a bit more.

No answer.

"D-id cough he pass out?" the guard worried as he got back up, only to fall back down to his knees as he felt the sharp and powerful impact of a blunt weapon to the head only seeing a flash of purple before blacking out completely and falling on his face.

"Pathetic." Ayane shrugged as she tossed the nightstick onto the younger guard's unconscious body before walking away not bothering to hide the guards bodys' away, she wasn't planning to stay much longer.

Tredding in her usual confident way, Ayane followed the extravagant red carpet which led towards the only room on the top floor. The top floor much more well designed then the earlier floor Ayane had been on, beautifully added with glass panels instead of walls to allow a glamorous view of the city on the oval shaped floor. They had even added some benches and plants which made it feel more like a kind of tourist spot.

Ayane ignored all this as she came to the doors of the only office located here, which read "Fame Douglas" on the gold plate mounted on the wooden doors. The door itself screamed extravagance which led Ayane to believe that the man who owned this office was most likely just some spoilt rich brat who just signed papers while reaping the benefices of the work of those under him. She started to have her doubts to wether or not he'd be the one with the documents on Raidou she'd need to understand what they were planning with him.

"Only one way to find out I guess..."

Ayane pulled out a small lockpicking tool from her bandanna and worked quickly on the door, as she entered the large office, she took the time to appraise the room with a critical look. She wasn't impressed to say the least, the room was exactly what'd you'd expect from the owner of a company like this, which specialized in researching weapons and analysing the way they were used by soldiers. The walls were filled with books ranging from light reads to very big dictionnairies, all most likely informatif on the subject of high tech weaponry.

Ayane doubted that they had been all read.

Behind the desk, which was of course quite imposing with a flatscreen computer sitting on it and various documents littering its surface, was another wall replaced with many large frame windows which would of course act as a quick way to distract yourself from boredom.

It was a nice place but definitly not Ayane's style.

Her investigation started with the documents on top of Douglas' desk, grabbing a few papers and reading the titles and the subject matter on the documents. "Let's see...developpement of a new kind of sonic grenade made for shattering glass...don't all grenades do that anyways? Work on a new kind of stun weapon that can cause temporary memory loss and disorientation...well that sounds illegal. Funds needed for Project Chronos...not much said on that...Investigation of a rival company's connection with one of the employees here...a certain Itagaki..."

Ayane looked miffed, "This is all useless junk...I should have known better than to waste my time here..." she growled as she dumped the documents back on the desk and glanced around once more.

One last document finally caught her attention, sitting right next to the computer, that had the title "Donovan's notes" written on it. It didn't look as if it had been read yet as it was still in it's folder unlike the rest...most likely this was what she was looking for. She wasted no time in slipping the document out and leafing through the pages of the notes that had been written.

"Hmm..." she kept leafing through it until she reached a page that finally made mention of her father's name. "Project...Gamma, hmm...seems to be some kind of research on the physiology of Humans and analysis of their limits using Raidou as a research subject...project Gamma reveals that Project Epsilon and Omega are very well possible...hmm? Project Epsilon and Omega?" Ayane arched a brow, the documents didn't make any mention of those projects...maybe they were going to be introduced later on in the future?

"However the subject (Raidou) cannot be used for anything past Project Gamma, he has shown various psychological and obediance problems that would lead us to believe that he would be difficult to control later on.

Project Omega will require a different test subject as well as Project Epsilon and Beta at our Headquarters in Germany. Difficult to say if subject Gamma will take this well concerning the promise we made to him for more physical strenght through those specifique projects but that will have to be the concern of project Theta's future test subject later on if our plan to dispose of him are somehow interrupted...heh, guess they plan to double-cross Raidou later down the road then..." Ayane was glad she had finally found something worth this whole trip to Tokyo, she smiled lightly at the thought that her "father" was finally going to get what he deserved no matter how destiny played out it's cards.

And if she had anything to say in this, destiny would have no choice but to fold to her.

"Plans are underway for the Dead or Alive tournament, which will allow us to further increase our knowledge on human limits concerning combat ability...if all goes well, this will certainly help increase the already crushing strenght of DOATEC influence on the world of weapons and arms...results from our chief researcher from project Beta and myself will be sent to you as soon as possible...and I'm sure you will be satisfied with what we find out."

Ayane arched a brow, "All these different projects...DOATEC really does have some pretty shady stuff going on here...I wonder why the head of the company just left this document out here..." she asked while looking over to the folder. "Maybe it was a late delivery..." she thought, " The messenger was obviously a grade SS class moron..."

Well whatever, she had what she wanted anyways, no point in delving on stupid questions so she just slipped the document back to where it had been placed and simply left through the door, slamming it as she did so.

"There has to be more to this than what was written on that document..." Ayane thought as she strolled over to the elevator once more, kicking the unconscious body of the older of the two guards out before the elevator door closed.

"Hmm, all those different projects...they say that Raidou is unbalanced mentally, so he's no good for the other experiments they plan to do...I'm not surprised that they came up with that conclusion either, he's worthless. But is that why he came to the village? Did they lose their guinea pig after he felt that he wasn't getting what they had promised? So he could come over and get the Torn Sky Blast to grow stronger?"

Ayane shook her head.

"But why did he come back afterwards if he figured that they were going to take too long to give him what he wanted?..." Ayane stared out of the window with a pensive look on her face, her lips spelled out each project's name as she went back to the floor where the window she had opened was. "Beta, Gamma, Epsilon, Theta and Omega..." the purple haired girl could not really conceive what these projects were all about...

So many questions unanswered...she could have looked around even more...if she had the patience. Either way, she figured that what was written on there was meant to stay vague, evidence was so hard to dispose of these days. "If he has anything else to say, it'll most likely be in person...I'm going to have to send Kirami back here again to handle that, this information thing really isn't my thing..." Ayane said, regretting having left Kirami to go do whatever while she did the information hunting, it was such a tedious job and without a teammate, it was difficult to really know what was going on in the building while you examined the evidence.

The elevator door opened and Ayane walked out, passing by the down and out guard she had knocked out earlier and heading towards the window.

"Maybe he came back for the tournament?" the kunoichi questionned herself further, slipping out the window and closing it. She leaned against the ledge once more and closed her eyes, "Better tell Genra about this later on...maybe he'll be able to make heads or tails out of it. But then again, guess this will make more sense after I get Kirami back in there...it is her job after all..." Ayane mumbled and found herself hoping that Kirami wouldn't get hurt too badly against Kasumi, after all, the girl wouldn't be very useful if she got herself hurt.

End of Chapter 7

You unlocked Alternate ending 7!

The elevator door opened...partially.

"Huh? What the?" Ayane said with a surprised look on her face, pulled away her from her trail of thoughts by the event.

The door had only opened a tiny bit.

"Crap, just what I needed...now what am I supposed to do." she said, crossing her arms under her bust and looking upwards to think.

"Maybe if I..." Ayane thought as she pressed the Open Door button of the elevator.

The door closed a tiny bit more.

"Shimatta..." she groaned, her previous questions now clearly out of her mind as she racked her head trying to figure out what to do, but trying to keep her calm.

She pressed another button.

The door closed about an inch more, now there was barely enough place for someone to pass through the opening while going sideways.

"Merde...guess I'll have to do this the degrading way..." she sighed as she lifted her arms up high above her head and tried to pass through the opening sideways.

"Eh?"

She couldn't pass through.

"What the...?" the purple haired kunoichi wondered as she looked down.

She smacked her head against one of the doors, unable to do it with her hands in her present position.

"I really need to use bandages to keep these things under control..." she sighed miserably as she sunk back in the elevator, cursing her own assets, again.

End of Alternate Ending 7!

Review Commentary:

Dynamic Tenshi: lol I'm glad you enjoyed last chapter's second alternate ending but don't expect too many more like that, I'd like to keep my rating at a certain level thank you very much. Bleh, the character interview needs a hell of a lot of work and I plan to do that work later on.

Johnny H.: Good idea, I'll do just that and wait for this fic to be completed before doing the other one, maybe Broken Butterfly could be like the alternate ending for that chapter (a huge-ass alternate ending that requires it's own story anyways)!

Fireinu: Don't we all? Unfortunately, that girl is actually just envious of Kirami's traits, she aint really interested. Trust me.

Wolf : Wow, you were rought! Well, atleast that's the roughtest review i've gotten so far and I'm happy for your imput. And yeah, I probably should separate the extras from the main story so I think I'll place all the extras in their own little chapter later on so viewers can read the story in one shot and not get sidetracked. I shall call the chapter...DOA Booster Disc! Lol

Maveriq : Sorry to dissapoint you for the fight, but it had to wait till later but don't worry, I'm working hard on it. And as I said with Wolf, the extras do seem to make it stray from the story so from now on, I'll limit the extras to just one per chapter and just fix up the chapter even more to make up for lateness in the future...uh, 'cept for this one cuz I'm working extra hard on the next chapter.

Nema : Hey! My first anonymous reviewer, congrats on that. And yeah, I like all the characters in DOA and put a lot of effort into portraying them the way I think they'd be because I like them a lot. Bass is one of my main chars but I plan to give the same treatment to other characters later on, expect a few new (DOA familiar) faces in the next few chapters!

Anyways, read and review and I'll answer all your questions and critiques! See you guys around, I need sleep now.

Saddened Melody

A.K.A Final