Chapter Nine: Strange Occurrences
Glenn twitched as a nurse in a different hospital, about fourteen miles from Metro City, poked at his arm that was still a large weapon of mass destruction. Cammy watched from behind a window along with Guile, whom got to the hospital due to researching the Blood Ruby. "Sorry I couldn't make it sooner!" He said out of breathe. Cammy only looked to him at the verge of tears and nodded to the window. The militant looked into the window and grimaced at the sight of Glenn's new appendage. "What in the name of..." He trailed as Guy came in followed by Sakura. See the weapon automatically, even Sakura seemed to take control over her erg to be stupid. She whimpered and hid behind Guy as he looked on with a sense of amazement and sadness.
"What happened?" Guile asked. Cammy was teary and broke up in times, but managed to lay the problem on the table. Everything that happened at the bombing, the hotel room, everything. The three were amazed and took glances to Glenn as the nurse came out of the room. Cammy rushed to her.
"Is he..." She asked. The nurse shrugged.
"To be honest..." The nurse trailed, "I've never seen anything like this..." She said before moving on down the hall. Cammy had a nervous break down in the middle of the hall. Guile helped her up and Guy walked down the hall. Sakura started to follow. He sighed finally and turned to her.
"Do you have to follow me everywhere I go?" He asked. Sakura gave it some thought and made an Anime style happy face as she nodded silently. Guy sweatdropped as he shook his head. "I'm pretty sure I can go to the bathroom all by my self... Go help Cammy! She needs to be comforted..." He said as he continued his way to the restroom.
Later that night, Guile and Cammy stayed with Glenn as he finally went to sleep and in turn dozed off themselves, Guy and Sakura were elsewhere, but not in the hospital. Little did the dozing duo know that copper cords were appearing from each phone jack in the room, each electrical outlet and crept towards Glenn as silently as snakes, ready to strike.
Soon, Glenn found himself in the cybernetic world Valance once called CyberSpace. But instead of Valance himself being there to greet him, a masculine, flowing blond haired man with a black vest on and white baggy pants, no shoes and two golden gauntlets on both of his wrists. His arms were crossed and he smirked. Glenn felt belittled by the man, but continued to proceed to him, letting the floor under his moving feet disappeared as he came closer to the man. The blond man chuckled and shook his head as he eyed the cannon on Glenn's arm. "So... Omega unleashed the Cybornaught within you?" He asked. Glenn looked around and looked back to the man.
"Mind telling me what's going on here?" He asked. The tall one chuckled more.
"What makes you think I'll tell you anything?" He asked. Glenn shook his head.
"Didn't think so... I don't-"
"Want to fight me? I know... I'm not here to fight you..." He said. This took a lot off of Glenn and made him a little more at eased. He raised the cannon in front of himself, which covered his entire face.
"Mind telling me what in the name of all that's good and Holy this thing is?" He asked. The man nodded.
"Maybe giving your Cybornaughtic powers were not to happen yet... this is a premature growth! But this is indeed the Psycho Cannon."
Glenn gave him a look. "Does this mean that I'm some kind of robot?" He asked.
"Not entirely... A Super Human is only below a Cybornaught... A Cybornaught was a project conducted by Shadowlaw to create better and more efficient killing machines and they did, indeed proceed more than the Shadowlaw Dolls...They used random people with a special and rare blood type by brainwashing and implanting cybernetic Nanobots into the victim, and choosing a weapon that best suited the Cybornaught. That was, until the prototype began to feel emotions. Alpha... That was you..." He said as he pointed to Glenn. He recoiled.
"What do you mean by that? I was once under Shadowlaw?" He cried. The man smile.
"I should know... I was to destroy you... That is why you were deactivated as a Cybornaught and I was destroyed by Omega, Alpha." He said.
"Who are you?" He asked. It took the man a while, but he eventually spat it out.
"I am the one Omega wants to revive... I am Delta..." He said as he looked away. "I am both yours and Omega's eldest brother..." He said. Glenn was taken aback.
"No wonder you seem to know." He looked at Delta and the to the ground. "Why did they terminate me?" He asked Delta. He turned to his younger brother.
"You were to kill a malfunctioning Shadowlaw Doll..." He replied as he waved his hand and a picture of Cammy appeared in a blue uniform. "You were to destroy Cammy White..." He said as Glenn took in the view. "I was to terminate you after her escape and I failed because you were my brother... the most I was able to do was deactivate your Cybornaught abilities." He waved his hand again and the picture faded. "Omega is after the Blood Ruby shards-"
"So I can figure... but he kept saying something about ruling the galaxy and world domination... but he can't simply do that with a few pieces of a myth!" Glenn thought aloud. Delta nodded.
But there is more..." He said as he took one of his hands and plunged it deep into his body, just below the ribcage, letting blood flow out of his body, and pulled out a stone. "This is in me, Omega, and sadly, you too, my brother..." he said as he placed the stone back into his body and flesh wrapped around his stomach, healing the wound. Glenn grimaced and looked at his hand and cannon. "I can help you... This is only a computer image of me, my mental self, so I can only do all I can for you... Do not let him revive me!" Delta said. Glenn was in confusion.
"How is hew gonna do that if you are probably rotted into the ground by now?" He asked as his vision went fuzzy and suddenly turned to static.
"You think we did the right thing, Guy?"
"Don't be stupid, Sakura! Those wires are the last thing that Cammy needs to see again!"
"I know, but those things could be helping him... I mean... His arm is a... uhhh... robo thingy, what makes us so sure that he's not an alien from outerspace and is here to help us with something?"
"You need to stop watching that Sci-Fi crap and think straight for once! How many times have you done that?"
"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Hmmmmmmmm... Nope, no come back!"
SLAP!
"Just get these wires and do something with them!"
"Okee dokee, uncle Yogi!"
Cammy woke and found Glenn in the bed with the cannon still attached to him. She frowned and looked at Guile. He snored loudly, but was indeed asleep. She sighed as she made her way to Glenn and reached out to touch the cannon. So familiar... She thought as she looked at it, inspecting it. It was rounded smoothly and had small red lights in random places. some blinked, but the rest were not even active. Three prongs were in the end that pointed inward to each other. She looked back to Glenn and a tear ran down her cheek as she ran her fingers through his red hair. "I promised that I would be here for you... And I still am..." She said softly. Suddenly, a rag-wearing figure appeared in the room and his white eyes narrowed.
"Ah, Cammy, my love!" He said as he walked to her with an arm outstretched and hand extended. She knocked it away as she looked at Glenn in an upright position.
"Don't try, Bison, I'll never go back to you... even if we were in love..." She said as she turned around and gave him a death stare. "Or so you say..." She spat as she walked back to her seat next to Guile and sat down. Bison walked to her and started to float in the air.
"There, there, my dear... it seems that you're love is very familiar to me..." He said as he crossed his legs Indian Style and floated next to her. She looked at him in the eyes.
She spat out, "What do you mean by that?"
He smiled, "Why... it seems that... No I should mind my own matters..." He said as he let himself land on his feet and walked to the window with his arms crossed.
"Tell me!" She demanded as she stood and marched to him.
He smirked and sighed. "What I say will make you think twice about your little pet!" He said. Cammy started to fume.
"Tell me!" She demanded again. He said nothing as he vanished, leaving Cammy clueless on what he was meaning about "thinking twice about her pet". The door opened suddenly and Guy came in, followed by Cody and Sakura. Cammy walked back to her seat after greeting her friends and sat, sighing and staring at Glenn in his bed.
"So..." Cody started. "How's he hanging?" he asked. Cammy shrugged.
"I don't know..." She trailed. Cody walked over to the bed and examined the arm.
"So this is Glenn?" He asked and looked back to the others, receiving an slow nod as he looked back to the red haired boy. "He looks like a weakling, but with that arm..." He said as he looked the cannon over again. Sakura walked to the window and sat in a chair that was located underneath it. She smiled as she sat in it and looked outside. She could see mile for mile until she could see a smoldering area of Metro City. A tree caught her attention outside and she looked at it and smiled. A pigeon fluttered and landed on a visible branch and walked around on it for a moment before looking right at Sakura. Her smile suddenly faded as the pigeon suddenly used both of it's wings and made obscene motion at her, ending it's little game of charades with a thumb across the throat and flipping a bird. Sakura gulped and slowly looked back inside the room.
"So.. What does anyone suggest?" Guile asked as he stretched and yawned. Cammy looked at Glenn again and remembered all the times before he ate, before he slept, he put his hands together and prayed. She got up and walked to the bed and looked back to the others.
"If none of you have any objections..." She said as she glanced at Glenn and back to the group. "I'd like to pray... as a group..."
Guile got up and took one of her hands with a smile. "In God we trust, right?" He asked with a nod. Guy looked at Cody who walked over to the small group and joined hands. Sakura slumped over to the group in fear and followed suit. Guy shrugged and walked to the group.
"What could it hurt?" He asked himself and joined the group. The group joined their hands around the bed, letting Cammy and Guy lean inward, grasping their hands. She smiled at Glenn. For you, babe...
"Lord... If you're there... please help our friend Glenn..." She started and suddenly, she started to speak in tongues. The group looked at Cammy in amazement and suddenly, Glenn bolted upright in the bed, his cannon arm suddenly spreading and thinning out into small poles of metal, reshaping it into the form of a hand and flesh wrapped around it, making the hand whole again. . He looked around in confusion.
"It sounds like someone died!" he said. Cammy stopped instantly and looked at Glenn's new arm and back to his face.
"Glenn!" She cried as she let go of the group and hugged him tightly.
Outside, Bison floated and his face was filled with shame. As long as she's happy... He thought... But how long until she figures out the occurrences of his true self?
Vega Strife: Hola, People! Hopefully you haven't lost ALL hope in my getting back to ya! Sorry for the wait, and hope that this makes up for it! I'm gonna make it a habit to update whenever I can!
Enjoy and R&R!