To all my friends from "The Second HeartBeat forum" who have stuck with this journey; I thank you and I give you…the last chapter.
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"Mayu get back!" Calvin yelled as he charged for the men at the door. Calvin pushed Mayu out of the way with his vectors and ran past the men. "He's making an escape! Don't let him get away!" one of the men said as he started to chase him. Another man grabbed his radio. "Deploy S.A.T. teams in this area. We need to keep this contained," he said. 'How did they know I was at the Kaede House? Was it the people I killed two weeks ago?' Calvin thought to himself. The images of the bodies on the beach flashed into his mind as he ran down the street. He runs through an intersection and is nearly hit by a car. He jumps over it and continues to run on foot. 'I've got to lure them away from the others. Hopefully they don't know that Lucy and Nana are there.' He rounds a corner as the men start to open fire on him.
"Mayu, Yuka what happened?" Kohta asked them. "Kohta I want you to stay here," Lucy said resolutely. "Why? What do you mean?" Kohta asked her. "Stay with the others, I've got to go help him," Lucy said as she chased after Calvin. "These police men or whatever had a hand drawn picture of him. Someone must have seen him some place," Mayu uttered out. Her and Yuka sat on the floor crying. "What is happening?" Nana asked Kohta as she entered the room. "Someone is after Calvin and Lucy chased after him," Kohta replied as he sat down. "I'll go help him too," Nana said. "No please stay Nana," Mayu cried out as she tugged on Nana's dress.
Calvin uses his vectors to launch himself over a fence. He glides through the air and lands on the roof of a house. He crouched down and hid in the shadows. The men continued down the street then stopped. "Damn, we lost him," one of them said. Two helicopters flew over and stopped above Calvin. Suddenly a spotlight shined down on him and machine guns opened fire. Calvin jumped from the rooftop and ran across the street into another homes backyard. Forty S.A.T. members scaled down from the choppers on ropes and followed Calvin on foot. 'They must want me really bad,' Calvin said as he cleared the fence of the next-door neighbors house.
"That's one hell of a party for one Diclonius," a man riding in one of the helicopters said. He was dressed in a suit and tie. "Well Mr. Harada, it's necessary to make sure we catch him. It doesn't matter if we make the headlines of the newspaper tomorrow. What matters is that we destroy this monster before it infects the human race," a man in a white coat replied to Harada. "I guess your right, do you think we will have to use Eve?" Harada asked. "I can make the call," the man with the white coat said as he held up his phone. Harada noticed that Calvin was taking out the S.A.T. members that caught up to him. Harada looked around then nodded. "Do it," he said. The white-coated man dialed his phone and waited for an answer. "Hello? Yes this is Shimabara. He's headed for the bridge. Meet us there, and bring Eve," he said as the helicopter followed the chase.
Calvin neared the bridge and saw Lucy standing there. She grabbed him by the shirt. "What do they want with you?" she asked him, frustrated. Calvin pulled himself away. "I don't know, they probably know about those people I killed two weeks ago. They had a sketch of me," Calvin responded as the helicopters landed on opposite sides of them on the bridge. Lucy and Calvin's eyes widened as they both looked out over the ocean at a far away approaching helicopter. "Do you feel her?" Calvin asked Lucy just as S.A.T. members poured out of the helicopters. "I've never sensed her before," Lucy replied. "Fire!" one of the soldiers shouted. Calvin and Lucy quickly turned their attention to the S.A.T. teams and split up. Calvin ran to his right and Lucy ran to her left. Calvin tore into his victim's bodies like a lion would to a zebra. Their gunfire did nothing but slow the inevitable. He picked up the helicopter and threw it over the bridge. When he turned to see Lucy he noticed that she wasn't kill the S.A.T. members, she was throwing them off the bridge. "We should get ready, its almost here," Calvin said, looking at the approaching helicopter.
"So what is the target?" a young woman said as she rode a helicopter. She had short green face forming hair, blood red eyes, and she was dressed in a soldier's uniform. "You must destroy these two Diclonius," a man in the helicopter said. He held up pictures of Lucy and Calvin. "Diclonius huh? I love fighting Diclonius. They always give me a challenge," the young woman said again. She strapped a belt of grenades around her and smiled as she opened the hatch. "Eve are you not taking a gun?" the man said to her. "I won't need it," Eve replied. The helicopter hovered over the bridge and Eve jumped out.
"Let's go this way," Kohta said to Nana as they ran towards the highway. Nana stopped, her eyes widened. 'What is this? Who is she?' Nana thought. Kohta stopped and ran back to her. "What is it Nana?" he asked. "There's another Diclonius with them," she replied. Kohta was shocked to here what Nana was saying. "We have to hurry," Nana said as she took off towards the bridge. Kohta followed her down the street. 'Please be safe Nyu,' Kohta thought as her ran.
Eve landed in front of Calvin and Lucy. Calvin wiped blood from his eyes. "Who are you?" Lucy asked her. Eve smiled. "What does it matter who I am? I'm not one for introductions," Eve said with a smile. "Don't play games," Calvin yelled. 'She doesn't have horns,' Lucy thought. Eve shrugged. "Fine I will introduce myself. I am Eve; I take care of the dirty work for this organization. I have been killing your kind all over this area," Eve said. Calvin shook his head and ran at her. "Wait Calvin!" Lucy shouted. Calvin ignored Lucy and sent his vectors after Eve. She smiled and sent hers after Calvin. He stopped her vectors with his but was swatted away and went flying into the guardrail. "Calvin!" Lucy shouted. Lucy ran over to him. "Are you ok?" she asked him. "Yeah I'm ok. Be careful she has more than four vectors," Calvin responded. Lucy helped him to his feet. "Alright we have to help each other, so we'll coordinate our attacks," Lucy said. Suddenly Eve started pulling grenades off her belt with her vectors a flung them at Calvin and Lucy. Lucy picked up Calvin and threw him out of the way and then jumped towards Eve. The grenades exploded behind her as she landed. Eve sent her vectors after Lucy and picked her up. Lucy screamed and hung upside down. "Well now all I have to do is hold you up out of the reach of your vectors and I'll be fine," Eve laughed maniaclly. "Put her down," Calvin shouted. Eve turn her attention to him. Lucy tried to make her vectors reach but it was no use. She noticed a light flickering above her and saw a street lamp. She grabbed the light with her vectors and threw it at Eve. The light crashed into Eve's head and she released Lucy. Calvin ran at Eve and pulled off one of her arms. Eve cried out in pain and swung a vector at Lucy and knocked her over the bridge. Calvin looked towards Lucy then grabbed at his throat. "Are you ready to die?" Eve said to him as she punched him repeatedly with her vectors. Calvin started to spit blood. Dozens of memories and past experiences race through his mind. 'I'm sorry Nana for everything I put you through. Kohta thank you so much for letting me stay with you in that house. Yuka I'm sorry I didn't get to spend time with you,' Calvin thought to himself. Eve flung him into the air and smashed him down onto the bridge. More blood came from Calvin's mouth. His head started to blood as well. "This is what I live for," Eve shouted as she smashed him into the bridge again. "Yuka…" escaped Calvin's mouth as he went silent. Eve stopped. She walked over to him still holding him down with her vectors. "Is my fun over yet?" she asked him. He opened his eyes, "We aren't the monsters. People like you are," Calvin muttered. Eve growled and grabbed his limbs and pulled in every direction. "Calvin! Lucy!" Kohta shouted as he and Nana arrived on the bridge. Eve turned to them then was smashed in the face by Lucy's feet. Calvin grabbed Eve's legs the torn them off. Eve's body went flying into the guardrail. Nana ran up to Calvin and knelt beside him. "Are you ok?" she asked as she lifted his head up. Calvin coughed and sat up. "I hurt…everywhere," Calvin replied with a smile. Nana hugged him tight and Kohta ran over to Lucy. "Nyu are you alright?" Kohta asked, hugging her. Lucy nodded. "Can you move?" Nana asked Calvin. Calvin eased himself to his feet and held himself up by his vectors. "I'll manage," Calvin said smiling. They all let out a relieved chuckle. "You think you've one don't you!" Director Harada shouted from a distance. He smashed down a trigger that he held in his hand. A high-pitched squeal came from Eve's body. Calvin froze because he knew what it was. Kohta shielded Lucy. Suddenly the bridge was ignited into a ball of fire and was completely destroyed.
Calvin awoke to a void of darkness. He tried to reopen his eyes but it was still dark. His face felt cold. He tried to move his arm to check his face but he couldn't. His torso was wrapped in a suit of some kind. His head was encased in a metal helmet. He shook his head. 'I would gave anything for that to happen,' he muttered to himself. His body was strapped to a table that hung vertically in the air. The lights in his room came on. "Number 4, are you awake?" Shirakawa asked over the intercom. Calvin moved his head. "Number 4 it's time for your testing to begin," she said again into the intercom. Calvin's mask locks released and it fell to the ground. He hung his head as the table was lowered to the ground. "Alright number 4 don't do anything stupid," Shirakawa said as she entered the room. Guards surrounded Calvin. 'Just once in my life could there be a happy moment?' Calvin thought as he decapitated his first guard for the day.
Das Ende
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