I would just like to state that I don't own the rights to PSO or to the Bionic Man if anyone catches that reference. These characters come from actual characters on Phantasy Star Online after an incident while we were playing.

The Tale of Three People:

By: Andersonfanandadmierer

The massive arm was flying towards her as she looked into the Belra's lifeless eyes. Her lover was too far away and too injured to possibly get to her in time. Once more, just before the arm smashed into her chest, she felt that odd twanging in her stomach and she wondered briefly about it. Maybe it had been that bean dip from three weeks ago. Her mother had always said not to eat food that had blue mold on it. Served her right then, she would go to heaven or hell with an upset stomach. At least there were good memories to go with the stomach, like working in that new strip club on Pioneer 2. That was the real source of all her meseta and she jealously guarded the secret….not that it was much of one. It had even been in that strip club that she had met Kane, when he had tried to slip a meseta crystal into her top. Damn that had hurt! Couldn't he see the damn thing had edges? Who would have thought it would have lead to the two of them screwing like monkeys who had gotten a hold of the doctors Viagra bottle? She never even knew someone could bend that way. A jarring pain drew her attention back to the present, the slight twang in her stomach had made her a second too slow in getting her shield up to block the missile. The arm blasted straight through and had continued through to slam into the wall but she didn't notice that. She was too busy laying on the ground as the light began to fade from her eyes. This time she was to far away for Kane to grab her soul back before she got to the gates. All because of that stupid feeling in her stomach too. Damn all the bean dips in the world…

Kane crouched down beside the fallen newman having finally gotten away from the Dimeniens that had kept him occupied for those crucial seconds. Now the air smelled of roasted dark flesh and whatever weird substance that made up Dark Belras. The product of an over zealous Rafoie spell after he had seen what had happened. It was probably the last time he would ever think of a barbeque the same way again, but he was getting sidetracked. That stripper he had taken to Hunting with was laying on the ground in front of him. …What was her name again? Oh well he only needed to know for the tombstone. After all who would believe the great Force Kane had hooked up with a stripper he had found one night? Granted she had been the most flexible thing he had ever seen but that wasn't the point. He would attempt to Reverse her death but he didn't have the strength in him or the items in his inventory. So what did he do in this moment of tragedy?

"Oh no. She died. Ah well. Now where are those special cards she showed me earlier…" He spoke out loud as he rummaged through the loot in front of him through the variety of weapons and enhancers in front of him. What he couldn't use, he would sell to feed his ever growing drug addiction to monofluids and the like.

"Hmmm this well fetch a good….what the?" Kane stared, wide eyed, at the thing that had moved just barely in the stripper's stomach. He jumped back quickly and with the speed of a Zen monk called down the awesome power of his Granz spell on the twitching lump.

"Die foul be….baby? Oh shit…" Kane gulped loudly as he went over to the badly injured baby and picked it up. The baby girl glared at him as if to kill him with her mere gaze. For a second…okay maybe a half hour, Kane debated if he should Granz the thing again or save its life. In the end the little kid seemed to make up her own mind and pulled out one of his telepipes. Before he could stop her, the item was activated and the two of them were back on Pioneer 2 with a crowd of people gathering. Damn it! Now he couldn't blast it 'cause then the people would think him as a murderer. Reluctantly he went to the hospital and checked the girl in.

The doctor stood in front of the moody Force and looked him over with a critical eye. This was hardly a man given to charitable acts like bringing an injured child to the hospitable. That wasn't the point and in another moment the doctor's voice spoke out into the room.

"Mr. Kane? The child you brought in is badly injured. I'm not too sure if I'll be able to save her life without using new cybernetic research…" At the blank look on Kane's face the doctor continued. "It means I'll have to make her into an Android. I hope that's okay with you because you really have no choice in the matter. The Principle has already decided on the matter. Don't worry Mr. Kane…we have the technology…we can rebuild her…make her stronger…faster…better. Oh and on the by and by I took a sample of your blood from your wounds and tested it. Congrats Class A Force Kane. You're a father. Kane? …Uh oh."

Not two minutes later Kane was laid out in a hospital stretcher right next to the girl, victim of a vicious heart attack.