Okay, I guess I should explain a few things. I also have a few matters to deal with here in this blurb.
In the last few months, I began working with The Toltec on her "Supersuit Chronicles" fanfiction. In the beginning, I was just the beta-reader. However, I started to like it so much that I began contributing my own ideas and scenes. I'd like to think that I've become the co-writer of it. So, go check out "The Supersuit Chronicles" and leave some reviews. The Toltec and I would really appreciate it.
Milna and Dimitrius are my original characters, and I also wrote in more dialogue for the wrest of the cast and expanded the narrative at points. But don't get me wrong, The Toltec has a good story here; I'm just helping to try and make it a bit better.
Okay, now someone asked mentioned my reference to someone called Robert Holmes. Who is he? Well, Robert Holmes was a British screen-writer in the 1960s till the 1980s. I really learned about him from watching "Doctor Who" as a kid on PBS. Holmes first started writing for the series in season 6 (1968-1969) and then became a favorite writer for the producer and script editor of the show for the next five seasons.
He wrote some of the most controversial stories in the series- including ones with scenes of people being killed by shop dummies, strangled by dolls, smothered by living couches, etc. As the script editor from 1974-1977, he wrote stories that got the show in even more trouble- in one, the scene of the villain holding the Doctor's head under water to drown him. This got the show in so much trouble that a new producer was brought in for the next season. Holmes wrote for the series off and on till 1986 when he died suddenly.
Robert Holmes was a man who didn't care about the opinions of the sensors- he enjoys pushing the limits of content in a country that was relatively conservative with its viewing. He had a wicked sense of humor and was a superb writer.
The reason why I said that I took inspiration from him was because he wrote a story in 1984, "The Caves of Androzani", where the Doctor was in a non-stop struggled to stay alive- poisoned and being attacked from all sides, his body pushed to the breaking point- till he did give out and 'Regenerate" into a new form. I sort of wish that Dianna and Hayami could have been struggling though gunfire or explosions!
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THE HYBRID'S SONG
Chapter Sixteen: Deliverance
.o.o.o.
The boat crashed up onto the shore line roughly. Hayami lost grip of the wheel and leaned to the side. He fell over and finally lost consciousness.
Dianna, who had been jostled awake by the impact of the crash, looked over at him and crawled over towards his unmoving form. "Damnit." She swore and pulled off his vest. "Bleeding out. . ." She remarked. "Why didn't you say anything?" She asked him, shaking him.
He coughed and looked up at her. "Not enough time."
Kino and the others made their way outside as they remained in the boat.
Hayami handed her the antidote. "Here, take it." He told her. "Get it to Emma."
"Not without you!" She exclaimed and took the phial and stuck it in her pocked and pulled him up and tugged his arm across her shoulders and held his wrist while snaking the arm around his side.
She made her way up the top the dunes, but stumbled and fell.
Some called out to them in the distance.
She put her arms under his and rapped them around his chest and pulled him with effort up the sandy dunes, closer towards the complex.
"Dianna! Dianna!"
She looked over shoulder. "Kino?" She asked weekly. She then noticed Kisaki and Warlock and Dumont. She fell onto her back.
Everyone raced over to them. "What happened to you two?" Kino asked frantically.
Dianna turned to Warlock. "Here," She began, giving him the phial. "Use this to synthesize the antidote for Emma- quickly!"
He nodded and rushed off with Dumont.
Dianna then turned to Kino and Kisaki. "I'll be fine, but Hayami is in bad shape- he's bleeding out!" She told them.
Hayami opened his eyes slightly and looked up at them. "Kino?" He spoke, regarding her. "Tears?" He asked, looking up at her. "Don't tell me my tough girl is crying?"
Her eyes burned. "Hayami!"
He held up his hand and wiped a tear away. "No, don't cry- when there's hope, there's life." He reasoned. "Hope got me through this. . ." He finished and his eyes slid shut and he went limp.
"No!" Kino exclaimed. "You can't die- you have to survive, this isn't the end!"
"She's right," Dianna began, lifting him up. "After all this, I just can't imagine a world without a person like you in it."
Kisaki helped Dianna Move Hayami up the dunes, towards the complex. Kino fallowed after them.
.o.o.o.
Katsumo looked down at him. "Man, don't you know anything- guys like us don't die. You know this isn't the end."
The image faded away.
'Katsumo. . .?'
Hayami then bolted up as he regained consciousness. "So, I'm alive?" He remarked as he glanced around. He looked down and saw that he was bandaged up and that his torso was a bit sore. "What happened?"
"We thought that you might die at one point." Dianna said, walking into the room, her wet hair hanging limply around her. She was wearing a white shirt and shorts. "A piece of shrapnel from the structure hit you and you started bleeding badly." She explained, sitting down next to him on the bunk he was on.
Warlock walked into the room. "Yes, we were all very worried for a while." He remarked setting a glass down on the table next to him and filling it up with an amber-colored liquid from a crystal bottle. "Have some brandy, you'll feel better." He offered.
Hayami nodded and picked up the glass and sipped the warm liquid. "Yeah," he began to say. "Um, where are the others?" He asked hesitantly.
Dianna poured herself a drink. "Kisaki left to go and draft up the report for this mess, and Kino and the others are with Emma."
Hayami flinched. "So, she's alright then?" He asked.
"Why not go see for yourself?" Warlock offered.
Hayami finished off the drink and looked up at him. "Yeah, that sounds like a good place to start." He then got onto his feet, somewhat uneasily, and left.
.o.o.o.
Hayami walked into the lab, where Kino and Dumont were looked over the sleeping Emma.
"Is she going to be alright?" He asked.
Dumont smiled. "Thanks to you, she'll be fine."
Kino reached into her jacket and offered Hayami a cigarette, but he waved it off. "Hey, when did you stop smoking?" She asked.
He ran a hand through his hair. "I don't know." He answered. "When did you start smoking?" He asked.
Kino smiled. "I didn't," She tucked the carton into her jacket. "I jus thought that you'd like one when you got back."
Hayami then turned away briefly, and then looked back at her. "Macintyre," he started. "He's dead, you know- it's over."
"I hope so." Kino spoke in return.
.o.o.o.
Hayami walked up to the edge of the swimming pool and looked down into the water. He reached down and touched the surface, sending ripples outward when he broke the tension. He moved his finger around in circular motions for a few secants and then looked away. "Mutio?" He spoke softly.
"Hayami?"
He looked down at her and smiled. "It's good to see you again." He then placed his hand on her cheek and rubbed the smooth skin.
She blushed as she looked up at him expectantly.
He laughed slightly. "Sorry, I can't get wet right now." He offered consolingly.
Mutio pouted and stuck out her lower lip slightly. Hayami could see his reflection in the female's deep red eyes.
"Hey, come on- that's not fair." Hayami tried to tell her. He must have been a sucker for a girl with a sad face.
She then submerged and swam off to the side. He glanced over to follow her path, somewhat at a loss as to what she was doing.
Mutio then splashed out of the water and pulled herself onto the tile edge. She smiled at Hayami. "Not. . . upset." She remarked and leaned her head against his shoulder, rapping her arm around his.
.o.o.o.
Everyone was in the indoor pool area, off to the side, sitting in chairs. Hayami was wearing his shirt over his shoulders and holding a drink in his hand.
Kino smiled at everyone. "I think it's time I went home- I'll come by some time to check up on things." She told the others. She then turned to Hayami. "And I'll see you around too." She said with a smile.
"Later, kid." Hayami waved. Mutio looked up at her from the water and smiled.
Kino nodded and made her way down along the side of the pool, and stopped when Dianna walked in. The short girl blushed at the taller one. "Good luck." She said to her nervously.
Dianna smiled at her. "Yeah, I hope I'll see you around."
Dianna plopped down on one of the chairs with the three men and smiled. "Emma is doing well." She remarked. "I think things are looking up."
Hayami nodded. "Yeah." He then looked over at Dianna. "So, what are you going to do now?"
The green woman smiled. "I think I'll stick around here for a while and help these two with their work." She then leaned back and closed her eyes. "And after that- well, we'll just have to wait and see."
Hayami set his glass down and stood. "Well, I think I'd better head on back home, I'll bring Mutio with me in the morning to check up on Emma."
"Good luck then, Lad." Warlock replied.
Mutio snaked her arms around his neck as he lifted her out of the water and then picked her up into his arms. "Later, Doctors."
They all watched him leave. Dianna looked over at Warlock. "Hmm, so- did we do alright?" She asked oddly.
The older man smiled. "I'm not sure, time will tell- it always does."
(- End of Chapter Sixteen -)
.o.o.o.
(BONUS SCENE)
O.O.C. THEATRE: "The Game", Part 1
C: run.bluelove.exe
Copyright "Blue Dreams" 1998
BLUE LOVE
Setting: Hayami (18 year old High school student) is riding the subway home from school in the Fukaido Prefecture.
Hayami: (to himself/ audience?) 'Man I'm tired, I can't wait to get home. Sometimes, I think the only reason that I go to classes is to see Kino or stare at the teacher's chest when she's not looking. . . Uh on, can't get a nosebleed now. . . Hmm, it's that weird foreign girl, Dianna I think. She's kind of weird, and she gets mad easily, but she had a pretty nice chest and hair. . .
(Girl appears in blue Upperclassmen's uniform- she had fair skin and spiky red hair with green eyes.)
Girl: (arms crossed) "I know you, I've seen you at the school. . . you're Hayami Tetsuyo. Right?"
Hayami: "Yeah."
Girl: "Do you know my name?"
a. Um no, sorry.
b. Your Rei from gym class, aren't you?
c. You're Dianna, the transfer student from England. (Choose)
Hayami: "You're Dianna, the transfer student from England."
Dianna: (smiles cutely and hold up hand) "Hey, you're a pretty smart guy."
(Subway train stops and the door opens.)
Dianna: "Hey, it looks like we get off at the same stop?"
Hayami: "Yeah, I live around here, what about you?"
Dianna: (smile deviously) "Me, where I live is a secret- you'll have to try hard to find that out."
Hayami: (to himself/ audience) 'She left, darn! Now I want to know more about her. . . like her bra size. . . I mean, her hobbies!
TO BE CONTINUED (MAYBE. . .)
.o.o.o.
Anyone who's played one of these games will get this. The next chapter will be the epilogue and wrap things up.
-Bojack727