Chapter 8: There's Something About Glenn...
He couldn't see anything.. even the hand in front of his face.He walked aimlessly in the darkness, wondering where he was... alone... in this darkness... a hand clasped around his mouth and pulled him to a chest. struggling, he managed to see his captor... a green haired man with red eyes. He laughed at the boy and smirked, sending chills down his back. "You and I are alike, brother... We are the same!" He closed his eyes and cried out into the darkness.
"NO! LORD! HELP ME!"
"Glenn? Glenn wake up!" He awoke to find a girl with brown hair and striking features as he sat up.
"Who?" He started but she put a finger to his lips and shushed him.
"Glenn... My baby... I will be here for you..." She said with a smile as she pulled her hand back and stroked Glenn's hair. He looked at her attire and found her dressed in a white robe with a golden sash around her waist.
"Who are you?" He asked. She smiled and stroked his hair again.
"I'm your Guardian Angel..."
Glenn bolted upright and found himself in the hotel room where he was last before his dream... He looked to the bed and felt that Cammy was not there. "Are you okay?" He heard Cammy ask. He stood from the floor and looked into her eyes in the darkness of the room and advanced to her.
"I... I just don't know anymore..." He said. It had been a couple of months since the hospital incident... Bison had joined as a volunteer for the Zero Strikers... Giving off mischief himself. Guy and Sakura had handled themselves well and helped Glenn and Cammy any way they could. Cammy knew what Glenn meant. She stood and walked to him and put her hands on his shoulder.
"Don't worry... I bet it was just a lie... just to make you feel worse about yourself..." She said. She hoped that it would make him feel better... She knew how it was, being a Shadowlaw Doll, an enhanced fighting machine herself. He took her hands into his and smiled.
"Yeah... You're right..." He trailed as he walked to his spot on the floor. Cammy guided him to her bed and laid him down.
"If you keep sleeping on the floor, you'll be a worthless fighter!" She said as he laid down. Glenn smiled. He knew what she was thinking.
"Thank you..." Was all he said as he closed his eyes and went back to sleep. Cammy walked back to the chair and sat, watching him sleep peacefully. She shook her head. He can't be one of Shadowlaw's minions... She herself knew that Glenn was thinking this and refused to believe it... This was all it took... She knew where she stood with a relationship... She was in a secret love.
"I'll protect you if I have to, babe..." She said before nodding off to sleep.
Metro City Streets:
Cody stretched as he hunkered down next to Guy, keeping a watch on Bison... Where Sakura was, He had no clue, but he knew that he had to stay with Guy, for he was his friend and rival. He got up and leanded on the wall. "What are we doing here, Guy?" He asked. Guy shook his head.
"We have to keep an eye on Bison! What if he suddenly comes at us?"
Bison: Zzzzzz…..Zzzzzz….Zzzzzzz
Cody and Guy have watched the man as he "stayed awake" and soon got tired. Guy looked at his watch. "Well…I guess Bison's not gonna do anything…" He said as he walked over to a Mustang. He offered Cody a ride, but the ex-prisoner refused.
"I can't… I'd be putting you and your friends in danger…" He said as he walked into the alleyway. Guy watched him walk into the darkness and looked around the area.
"Sakura?" Suddenly, Sakura rushed and jumped into the car.
"GETINANDDRIVE!" She cried in fear as pigeons flew and landed on the car. Guy looked at the birds.
"What? Them? I think they're cute…" He said. Sakura looked in the back window.
"You wouldn't be saying that if you were me…" She said as she watched one actually bare it's teeth at her and growled at her.
Hotel Room:
Glenn slept on and Cammy had woken many times to make sure that he was okay… She feared for him…. Loved him enough to die for him…. And she was sure that some green haired freak was not going to get the better of her love.
Shadowlaw HQ:
Valence walked into the base tired, sweaty and beaten. A soldier ran up to him and saluted him. "Sir! Permission to speak!" He asked. Valence gave him a look that could kill and continued to his throne as the Soldier talked aimlessly and had to shut the door in the soldier's face for him to get the picture. He sighed as he sat in his throne and wires flew from the throne, plugging into the back of his head, in his back, shoulders and temples. His eyes closed as a screen appeared with an old scientist on the other end.
"Lord Valence… How goes the mission?" He asked. Valence looked up and let his head drop.
"All went according to plan… But my brother still won't join us…" He said. The scientist smirked.
"With all do respect, sir, but should you let the Cybornaughts take care of him?" He asked, looking to his left and back to the screen. "Akuma Alpha is a tough opponent besides Akuma Delta…. You should let one of our puppets take care of Alpha, Omega!" He said. Omega looked up as his face melted away to reveal a skull Cyborg prostheses.
"Fine….. Do it…" He said as a new face covered the cyber skull. I'll try to convince him one last time…
Hotel Room:
Glenn slept soundly and Cammy fell into her slumber… Just in time. The phone cord fell from it's socket and allowed wires and circuitry to silently creep into the room, onto the bed and behind Glenn, plugging into the back of his head and into his temples, making his sweet dreams into a cybernetic reality. He found himself walking in a place with chips and mother boards. Wires crisscrossed all over the walls and platforms moved in the air on their own. He stepped onto one of them and let it carry him to a higher level were a green haired man waited. "Valence!" He cried as he reared back his fist and charged it… with nothing. "My Ballistic Blaster!" Valence laughed as he came closer.
"You can't fight me, and I can't fight you … Fair's fair!" He said. This put Glenn into a creepy kinda of peace. But he still had questions.
"Where are we!" He cried confused. Valence laughed.
"You understand nothing… This is CyberSpace! We cannot fight each other…. We can only chat… and in this case, I'm requesting that you join me…" He said as he brought up a hand. Glenn looked to the floating platforms which had disappeared and back at Valence.
"I told you once… I can't go around killing innocent people!" He said. This made Valence laugh.
"Fool! You had nothing to say when you fought your girlfriend!" He said. Glenn looked at Valence with hard and cold eyes.
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean that you were once one of the best of us before they tossed you out! Alpha! Join me and we can resurrect our brother, Delta! Then we can-"
"Shut up! I'll die before I do something as twisted as you say! I'll kill you before you achieve your goal!" Valence let his head drop and sighed.
"I didn't want to do this…" He said as he raised a hand, lifting Glenn's right hand.
"OH MY GOD!" Cammy cried out as she flipped on a light and looked at a Glenn with a root system of circuitry flowing out of his head. His right arm was raised into the air.
"AHHHH!" Glenn cried as Valence smirked.
"If you don't believe that you are one of us, then I'll have to show through example…" He said as he watched Glenn's right arm suddenly bulge twice it's normal size…
Cammy screamed as her love's arm suddenly bulged twice it's size until blood trickled from opening tares in his flesh.
"WHAT….ARE….YOU……DOING!" He cried in pain. His arm suddenly bust and blood flew into the air, chunks of flesh fell to the ground and exposed a large cybernetic cannon with three prongs in the cannon. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH-
AHHHHHHHHHH!" Glenn awoke to see Cammy trembling in fear. The wires tore from his head as he got up and looked at his right arm. A cannon replaced his normal arm and blood trickled off of it. He looked back to a frightened Cammy and raised the cannon to the ceiling, tears starting to flow from his eyes. 'WHAT AM I? WHAT IN GOD'S NAME AM I?"
Vega Strife- Talk about a bad day…. Well, R&R… This'll earn the story a teen rating… Hope you enjoyed this!