Dizzy screamed as she realized what had happen to her. She was falling, along with someone else who tried to catch her. She saw as the person hit several tree limbs as they fell into a nearby forest, Dizzy's green wing, Necro, sensed Dizzy's distress and quickly acted on his own. He wrapped himself around her shielding from the initial blow that the trees delivered to her. After falling past the tall trees, she landed hard next to where the other person fell. Nerco, who was still possessing Dizzy at the time, took the majority of the blow of hitting the ground.
Not too long after they both fell, Dizzy felt the ground give way underneath her. The ground opened into a cave and she, along with Robo Ky, fell into it. They fell for another ten feet and hit a hard surface. After a few moments, Dizzy regained her consciousness and slowly stood up. She was in little pain, thanks to Necro, but she still felt a little banged up and confused.
Dizzy looked around the cave and tried to figure out just where she had landed. She had no idea where she was. The cave was a little dark and couldn't see everything inside right away. She looked behind her and noticed the other victim of the fall, it appeared to be a man. His body was on his side facing away from her. She put her hand on his shoulder and shook him to see if he was awake. When she touched him his head spun around behind his back, and he had two big square yellow eyes that were glowing.
"Aaaahhh!" Dizzy screamed at the sight of the person and the fact that his head was on backwards. Necro, once again acted on his own, and smashed the person with a giant axe. The force of the axe caused Robo Ky to shatter. Dizzy was once again startled at Necro's harsh reaction and also because the person broke apart.
"Now look what you've done," She scolded at him. "He's fallen into pieces." Both Dizzy and Necro looked at the broken Robo Ky, still trying to figure out what it was. "I'm sorry," she apologized to the pile of parts, "I'll put you back together, ok?"
Necro looked at Dizzy, "Child, the thing is quite dead, why are you talking to it?"
"Well, I just can't leave him here," She picked up two pieces and started to put them together. "I have to try at least." The two pieces weren't working so she went onto another.
"That thing could be dangerous, who knows what it will do if starts working again?!" Necro protested.
"Oh would you stop with your 'Everything Is Dangerous' talk." Undine, Dizzy's other wing, decided to make an appearance and formed at Dizzy other side.
Nerco gave a scornful look to his other half, "I'm trying to look out for the child's welfare, we don't know what this thing is?"
Undine pointed at the green demon, "Oh don't give me that! I recall your idea for looking out for her welfare was to kill all the humans!"
Nerco turned the other way, "I think its good plan," Then he said under his breath 'bitch', but Undine could hear him.
"You want to say that to my face?!" Undine was upset with Necro's immaturity towards the situation.
Nerco looked back at her, pointing his boney finger towards her, "Alright, I think you're a bitch, happy!?"
Undine didn't say anything and just put her finger to her under eyelid and pulled it down while sticking her tongue at him.
"Gggrrrr!" Nerco shook his fist at her.
Dizzy couldn't take much more of their bickering, she put down the pieces she was working on, "Will you guys please stop arguing?"
"She started it!" Necro pointed at Undine again, trying to make his outburst seem justified.
"Bull!" Undine reacting to his statement, "It's his attitude and ego that's the cause of this!"
Dizzy grasped her head with her hands, "I don't care who started it! Just stop arguing and let me concentrate!" With that statement both Necro and Undine gave each other vicious looks and reverted back to their wing status. "Thank you." She said and went back to work on putting Robo Ky back together.
After about a half an hour of putting the massive puzzle that was Robo Ky, it was finally back together. Dizzy stared down at it, still not moving. "He reminds me of someone, I can't remember." She said to herself, "Now, how do we get you moving again?" Dizzy looked around him for a button or switch and found no such object. Then she spotted a small crank on the side of his neck. Dizzy reached for it and started to turn it, but the machine remained motionless. After a few moments she sighed, "Well that was a waste of time." She looked around the cave again, "There must be someway out of here."
She got off her knees and stood up, her legs were still a little sore from the fall. The cave had a high ceiling and rocky walls. To the left she noticed a tunnel that led straight and beyond her sight, seeing it as the only way out of the cave, besides up, she headed down the corridor.
As Dizzy traveled down the corridor, the texture of the walls shifted from a rocky structure to a more refined stone wall. She began to see something forming at the end of the corridor, it was a large metallic door and looked fairly new. There was a console on the side of the door, as Dizzy approached the door, she noticed that it was broken. The door was slanted and torn off its hinges. Dents were all over the front of the door, what ever did this was very strong. The console on the side was smashed and hanging by the wires that connected it to the wall. Dizzy peered beyond the door and saw a long hallway with florescent lights down the hallway, a couple were still on, while others were flickering as they, like the door, have been smashed. Dizzy began to walk past the door wonder where the hallway led to.
The Mayship was in total havoc. Johnny managed to land the ship safely on the outskirts of the forest that Dizzy fell into. Johnny was giving everyone job assignments, the first order of business was to find what happen to Dizzy and to get the ship up and running again. He already sent a couple of girls, one of which was May, to go looking in the forest for Dizzy. He would catch up with them later after he got everyone else working on getting the ship back in order.
The explosion they had earlier was one of the ship's left engines, it would be impossible for takeoff until they got it running again. The engine wasn't badly damaged, but would take time to repair. "Who did this to my beautiful ship?!" He said as he stared up at the dismembered engine.
"Just great." Johnny told himself, "Lady Luck isn't with me today, what else could go wrong?" As Johnny thought he noticed a figure coming out of the forest, at first he thought it was one of the girls coming back with news on Dizzy, but the person was far too tall. Johnny tipped his sunglasses down to see the figure better and saw it was Testament. "Uh-oh."
The tall Gear appeared from the forest, "For pirates you guys sure are noisy, I could hear your ship comedown from inside the forest." Testament said approaching Johnny. "Having ship troubles?"
"Yeah well we're all in kind of a tizzy right now and I'd like to welcome you with open arms, but could you come back later?" Johnny said trying to draw Testament away from the ship.
Testament looked around as girls were scrambling back and forth on one of the engines, which appeared to be broken. "Don't flatter yourself, I didn't come here to see you. Where is the person I allowed you to keep here?"
Johnny became nervous, he remembered how protective he was of Dizzy and if he found out what had happened to her, he'd be in trouble. "Welllll......you know, this and that." He was struggling for an excuse, Testament knew he was trying to hid something from him.
Before Testament had a chance to question his strange behavior, one of the girls came up to Johnny, a small girl carrying a stuffed penguin doll. "Johnny?" Johnny looked down and saw the small girl, March, trying to get his attention. "Is it alright if I can go looking for Dizzy too?"
"Ah crap." Johnny thought.
Testament's eyes lit up, "What happened to Dizzy?!" he proclaimed.
The little girl looked towards Testament, "Oh, you're Dizzy's friend aren't you? She fell off the ship into the forest, we're looking for her." Johnny was extremely nervous, now the cat was out of the bag.
Testament's eyes looked like they were on fire. "I put her in your care and this is the thanks I get! Where did she fall!?" Testament grabbed Johnny by the collar of his trench coat as he demanded an answer.
"W-We don't know alright! She in the forest somewhere, we're looking for her as we speak!" Johnny was very unsettled from Testament's actions and the look he was getting from his bright burning crimson eyes.
Testament let go of Johnny, "This is what I get for entrusting her to a group of mere humans." He stormed off, intended on looking for Dizzy no doubt. Johnny breathed a sight of relief.
"Johnny, did I say something wrong?" Johnny looked down and noticed that March was still by his side.
"No, we just need to work on your timing." He said as he patted her on the head.
Dizzy reached the end of the hallway to yet another busted down door. Inside, the room was circular in shape, computers were lined up all around the room. There was an even larger console display in the middle of the room, in fact, it was the middle of the room. Above the console was a large glass tube, it was broken in half. Chairs and glass riddled the floor of the room, most of the computers were smashed and destroyed, this was becoming a recurring theme to Dizzy.
She looked up at the main display in the center of the room, she gasped. Half of it was cracked and covered in dry blood, something terrible happened here. The dry blood ran from the display and down to the controls, part of the keyboard was missing, huge gashes from a sharp object were stabbed into the console several times. To her right she saw one of the intact buttons and it was blinking a dim red color. The button was begging to be pushed and Dizzy for filled its need.
The broken display flickered and sparked a little, not long after it started to show images. She could just barely make out what the display said, 'Replaying All Log Files'. The computer hummed for a few moments and video started to appear on the broken display. It showed an older man, he wore glasses, had gray hair, and was wearing a white coat. He was looking back at Dizzy and he put his hand to his mouth as he cleared his throat.
"Log 1, Day 1. My name is Professor Allens and this is a recording of the progress of the underground Gear lab. With the sealing of Justice all Gears have ceased to function. Before Justice's defeat, we managed to retrieve a DNA sample of the one and only Commander Gear. In this underground lab, we've been assigned to make a clone of Justice. The project will be known hence forth as Phoenix."
The display flickered again, "Log 2, Day 17. Analyzes of the DNA is complete. The structure of the DNA helix is like none I've ever seen before, even for a Gear. The genetic structure is far too complex compared to that of a regular Gear, currently working on injecting the DNA into an egg."
"Log 3, Day 19. The egg has rejected the DNA several times. Because of the incompatibility of the DNA into a human egg, further research will have to be made in order to find ways to make the DNA compatible with that of a human's."
"Log 4, Day 37. We've received a Gear Cell Crafter from our sister lab in Switzerland. Working on injecting the DNA into a full grown adult, one of the scientists has volunteered to be the test subject."
"Log 5, Day 38. The test subject went under the cell crafting and his body rejected it, sadly this caused the subject instant death for reasons unknown. The Gear Cell Crafter is too risky to use and more research will have to be made."
"Log 6, Day 50. After careful study, we've found that a clone of Justice is inconceivable without help from the Gear's original creator, with this in mind, Project Phoenix has been scraped and have instead decide to try and make a hybrid with the Gear's DNA and that of a human's. We'll reset the logs and begin next week."
The display turned off and the computer hummed for a moment. After the computer finished processing the display came on once again, revealing the same scientist as before.
"Log 1, Day 1. My name is Professor Allens and this is a recording of the progress of Project Hybrid." The man said. "In this underground Gear lab, we've been assigned to create the first human-Gear hybrid. We've received the supplies from our sister lab in Switzerland and have begun working on the hybrid using a human's and Justice's DNA. We're currently working on mix the DNA into a base form that we'll use trough out the experiment."."
"Log 3, Day 12. The DNA mixing is completed, the process took longer than expected due to the complexity of Justice's DNA. We shall begin working on fertilizing the base DNA with some human embryos."
"Log 4, Day 20. We've successfully fertilized six eggs, five are currently frozen and we'll begin working on the first one today."
"Log 5, Day 21. The Embryo has developed and is currently growing, the growth rate is astonishing, it's been only a day and the embryo is already in its second growth cycle!"
"Log 6, Day 22. The Embryo self-aborted today. Reasons unknown, we're looking into the matter until we've found the cause."
"Log 7, Day 30. After another abortion, we found that the abortions appears to have been caused by the unstableness of the Gear DNA in the hybrid mix, currently working on ways to 'balance' the DNAs."
"Log 8, Day 42. After several tests we believe we've created a 'system' to control the Gear DNA, the prototype is ready and will inject it into a new embryo tomorrow."
"Log 9, Day 43. Everything went smoothly today, the embryo accepted the 'system' and in two days we'll see if the embryo is stable."
"Log 10, Day 45. The embryo is still alive and is growing well."
"Log 11, Day 48. The 'system' has mutated and we were forced to abort. Instead of controlling the Gear DNA, it manipulated it and took control and 'enhanced' the DNA. The embryo grew unstable and was terminated. We'll have to create a new 'system' to replace or control the other from its necrosis behavior."
"Log 12, Day 58. A new 'system' was created, currently testing how the systems react to one another."
"Log 13, Day 59. The 'systems' appose each other greatly, but neither one has over come the other, we'll see how they react with one another inside the embryo."
"Log 14, Day 60. The embryo became instantly dehydrated and became dormant. Something went wrong with the second system and we're currently working on ways to fix it."
"Log 15, Day 65. The second system seems to feed off of water molecules, currently working on using water magic to fix the problem."
"Log 16, Day 73. We've managed to successfully integrate water magic into the second system, it feeds off of it and with further tests, it won't feed off of other water sources."
"Log 17, Day 75. Injection of the 'systems' into another embryo has started, hopping for the best next week."
"Log 18, Day 82. The embryo is stable and is growing well. The embryo will be planted into a mother and, with some luck, we could be in the final process."
"Log 19, Day 147. The embryo has fully developed, it a girl. From scan data from the mother, the child will be born any day now."
"Log 20, Day 151. The mother gave birth to the hybrid. The eyes of the hybrid were spinning after the birth, temporary side affect. Because of this, we've adequately called her Dizzy. If the hybrid's grown pattern continues she should be an adult within three years and be ready for training."
Dizzy's eyes grew wide, they were talking about her. This lab, she was born here. She was a science experiment. She didn't recognize any of the scientists, she only remembers living with her grandparents during her childhood, what happened to her and the people here?
"Log 21, Day 152. The hybrid is missing. We're currently under lockdown and are investigating the matter. We suspect a traitor."
"Log 22, Day 153. One of our scientists is missing. We believe she took the hybrid for reasons unknown, HQ is currently handling the investigation. We have unthawed the last embryo and begun working on it."
"Log 23, Day 154. The base is under attack, if this continues we'll lose the last embryo. We expect that the attack is from the IPF or the PWAB. If they get past the gates we'll all be either arrested or killed. Many of the scientists have moved into the–" A large explosion happened across the room, it was the door being blown off. A couple of fast figures emerged from the doorway and were circling the room. Screams fill the room as the figures quickly detained the scientists and Professor Allens. One of the figures was still standing by the door, as the smoke cleared it revealed a man with red hair and yellow coat with a black trim. He approached Allens who was being held by a blonde man in a white and blue coat who was faced away from the display.
The red haired man looked around the room and then at Allens, "Dear me, you have been busy Professor Allens." He said with a smile, "Don't you know making Gears is a serious crime? What would the IPF think about this?"
"So you're from the PWAB, I should have known, was that traitor that escaped with our hybrid your doing?" Allens said.
The man's smile faded, "Traitor? Hybrid?" The man thought for a second, "You mean you've already created a Commander Gear and now someone in your ranks stole it?"
"Then it wasn't you?" Allens asked.
"Well if that's the case, then there really isn't a reason to keep you alive." The man turned away back to the door, "Kill them and destroy the evidence." He said and the blonde man that was holding Allens took out his sword and stabbed him. He then took Allens and threw him backwards towards the display.
There was a loud crack as the scientist hit the display and blood escaped out of his shattered body. At that time the display flickered off, now displaying 'Last Recorded File'.
Dizzy was covering her mouth, she couldn't believe what all she saw. All of this, her birth, her existence, everything was hitting her at once. "Am I an experiment?" Too many questions were hitting her at once, she couldn't think straight and had to lie down, she fell to the ground still staring up at the display and the dry blood covering it.
As she contemplated these thoughts a voice from behind her spoke, "So, we've finally found you Dizzy." She jumped realizing there was someone else in the room with her. She turned to see who it was.
Testament made his way through the forest, searching for any sign of Dizzy. He called out to her ever so often, but didn't get a respond.
"If she's hurt I'll never forgive that pirate." He thought as his search was going nowhere. The crow on his shoulder let out a loud caw that snapped Testament out of his deep thinking. "What's gotten into you?" he asked the crow.
He looked around and realized that if he took another step he would have fallen into a hole that was in the ground. It looks like a cave in of some kind, there was a rope tied to a near by tree and went into the hole. He looked around the surface of the hole and noticed some green and white feathers around the entrance. Dizzy was down there, and someone else.