Chapter 11: Revelations.
Everyone appears out of nowhere. Neither of them felt like they were moving. It seemed like the others came to them from Space. All the Nephilim 'Ghosts' also pulled together. There is only one solid one again.
Otacon: Whoa! That was cool!
Allen: Yeah! Everyone just came out of nowhere!
Jin: That was quite an interesting journey.
Ziggy: Yes. That has helped me greatly.
Everyone: Huh?
They are surprised to hear the emotion in Ziggy's voice.
Ziggy: From now on, I will be a human again. I can't run away from myself any longer.
MOMO: I'm glad for you, Ziggy!
Jr: Me too. You were annoying as a cyborg.
Ziggy: …
Jr: I ah… mean that in a good way. But I'm glad you have faced your old self. I'm sure all of us have had to do that. Anyway, I'm sure Nephilim has more to tell us.
Nephilim: Yes. There is much more for me to tell you. You will find it very shocking.
Snake: Trust me, I can't be shocked anymore.
Shion: It doesn't matter. We've gone this far now. There's no point in stopping. I'm sure everyone agrees with me. Let's hear what you have to say.
Nephilim: Very well. This will be specifically painful for you MOMO, for it begins with Joachim Mizrahi.
MOMO: Daddy…
Nephilim: Yes, we know. Urrm, well… He became highly interested in the beings known as the Gnosis. Back then there were very few appearances of them, so most reports were lost as unofficial. But he investigated and learned all that was known at the time. After much study, he came to the conclusion that these beings were lost human souls. That these souls had been punished for their sins by God and that they exist to punish other sinners still living. These beings were the key to Pleroma, or in other words, heaven. It is a place of eternal happiness where only the pure and innocent were allowed. He also came to believe that this place was found in humanity's home word. You may know it as… Lost Jerusalem.
Snake: I stand corrected.
Shion: This is all so shocking…
Nephilim: I told you it would be.
Snake: You said punish those still living, right? Does that have anything to do with humans turning into Gnosis after being touched?
Nephilim: I will get to that, but good observation. After these discoveries, he began looking for a way to use the Gnosis for his goal. And then, he found it. The Zohar…
Snake: That thing. I sure have appreciation for that damn thing…
Nephilim: He discovered that it attracted the Gnosis. But he found a way to seal its energies so they could not be detected. He founded the Mizrahi Central Sciences Research Center on Miltia and hid the Zohar within. That's where he began his search for finding Lost Jerusalem. He began studying the Zohar intensely. He was fascinated by the infinite energies within it. He also wondered why those who touched it disappeared for there had been accidents trying to retrieve it. That was until an Uber human touched it. There was a reaction. The first to touch it was a child that Mizrahi named… Abel.
Shion: Abel…
Allen: Able to do what?
Snake: Otacon, you've told me you wanted to do this to your old self. This is as close as it gets.
Otacon: Do what? Oh, yeah. This guy's worse than me.
Otacon moves over to Allen and shoots out his foot at him, striking him in the groin
Allen: Arrgh! What did I do! DAMN this hurts!
Shion: Oh my.
Jr: That's gotta hurt.
Ziggy: He can't have kids anymore.
Otacon: She said the kid's name was Abel, not that he was able to do something. Look, if I didn't do it, someone else eventually would.
Allen looks at everyone for confirmation and they all divert their eyes, including Nephilim.
Otacon: You should be happy it was me and not Ziggy.
Ziggy: Oh, yeah.
Otacon: Just look at his feet. They must weigh 50 pounds each!
Ziggy: Hey! They only weigh thirty.
Otacon: Oh…
Nephilim: Urrm. With that out of the way…
She began, while Allen still was bent over in pain.
Nephilim: …Let's continue. Mizrahi needed specimens. For he had much financial backing, he got away with many things. One in particular was that he hired doctors to prescribe a type of medicine that would damage the mind of the user.
Shion: Can't be…
Nephilim: This would cause them to be placed in a psychiatric evaluation hospital. The biggest one being the one founded by Mizrahi. Shion, your mother was indeed one of the victims.
Shion: I can't believe it…
MOMO: No…
Allen: Damn this hurts… But anyway, what do you mean 'no'? Nephilim wouldn't lie to us. It was obvious he was a maniac bastard that- oh.
Shion was making faces at him, trying to make him shut up.
Allen: Oh, sorry…
Otacon: I think it's MOMO's turn now.
Allen: NO! No more, please!
MOMO: It's okay. I just can't figure out how Daddy could do such things…
Shion: Don't worry MOMO. We will stop the events that he set in motion.
Those last words trigger a memory in MOMO's mind.
Joachim Mizrahi: This is the extent of my power... Nobody can stop the events that are about to unfold. All I can do is delay the inevitable for just a while longer. But at the least, I can entrust this to you... The events are starting to come together. Soon, you will meet them... So, until then...
MOMO: I remember Daddy telling me that no one can stop the events that where about to unfold. Maybe he was talking about the Miltian Conflict.
Snake: It's likely he was the cause of it. But why did he do that to people?
Nephilim: The doctors were told only to prescribe the medicine to Uber humans for their reaction to the Zohar. But he soon discovered that the results weren't as promising with adults as with children. The adults would gain various psychic powers, but none as strong as Abel's. He believed it was due to the purity in their hearts.
Jr: How did he capture children?
Nephilim: He also used the medicine trick as well as kidnapping.
Otacon: Kidnapping… Well, wouldn't the children be useless to him if their minds where damaged from the medicine?
Nephilim: He had a counter medicine to cure them.
Shion: He could've cured my mother! I'm sorry MOMO, but that was despicable. But, wouldn't the patients tell their families after being cured?
Nephilim: Before they were cured, the families were told they died, and the families were given a cloned body to bury. The families could never tell the difference, so they ended up mourning a false body.
Otacon: That's terrible…
Snake: These people felt the pain of losing a loved one just so this man's dreams could be fulfilled? This is outrageous.
Nephilim: After much research on Gnosis, he discovered the being named U-DO.
Jr: U-DO!
Nephilim: He believed that this consciousness was what controlled the Gnosis. And that this being, along with the Zohar, would lead humanity into Lost Jerusalem. After much study and calculations, he began trying to form a being to lead them through unknown space and into Lost Jerusalem. This being he called… Bio Weapon System Deus. He believed that the knowledge and power of this being would lead the ship carrying it to Lost Jerusalem. There where many parts and steps to creating this being. First, it was U-DO, whose physical form would be Deus. Then, a human vessel to become it. This vessel will give up their life so U-DO can take a physical form. Then there is Kadamony. This machine is meant to control, run and supply energy from the Zohar to the being. Then there is he whom will help guide U-DO into the vessel. And lastly, he who would use the Emulator's power to combine everything to create Deus. Since the Zohar was a key point in all this, he called his plan… the Zohar Project.
Chaos: …
Nephilim: This too will be an Uber human that has touched the Zohar. But he will not know until he is 'awakened'.
Snake: Awakened?
Nephilim: To get the results that he wanted, Mizrahi 'prepared' his subjects prior to coming in contact with the Zohar. In one particular result, the subject would gain immense powers, but they would have to die as they lived then, and return to the world of the living in a new form. The death and rebirth of the subject is referred to as the 'awakening'. It was a difficult procedure… therefore few survived it. But the few that did would awaken with no knowledge of whom they were and ready to serve those who created them.
Chaos: It is their purpose. They cannot go against it.
Everyone: Huh?
Shion: How do you know?
Chaos: If someone came back with no memory of their past and were told they came back for a particular purpose, I am sure they would follow it. For that is the only reason to exist they know.
Shion: I see…
Snake: Sounds like this guy really wanted to reach Lost Jerusalem. But how did he figure out all this?
Jr: Although he was considered a lunatic, he was still a genius.
Nephilim: Indeed. After many sacrifices, he obtained what he wanted. Abel was one of the children that were used. He was the one that gained the ability to guide U-DO into the vessel. He was one of the parts. And I was another.
Everyone: What!
Snake: The Song of Nephilim…
Nephilim: Abel's abilities are referred to as Abel's Arc, and mine were referred to as The Song of Nephilim. It is a song-like frequency that can lure the Gnosis even more so than the Zohar. He created the machine Song of Nephilim to lure them in and use them as a power source, which was another attribute from the Song while intergraded with other technology he invented. He then created Proto Merkabah to harness the power that was gained from the Gnosis. This was just a side project, along with others. One being the founding of the U-TIC organization, which was meant to serve as military power for Mizrahi's plan.
Snake: The U-TIC! This is making more and more sense. Perhaps we should pay Pleroma a visit. Wait…Pleroma? Isn't that where you said Mizrahi was trying to go?
Nephilim: Perhaps they named their headquarters that as a reminder of their goals.
Allen: What, you think they'd forget?
They all turn around to face him with an annoyed look. He instinctively covers his groin.
Allen: I'm sorry! That was rude. Please continue, Nephilim.
Nephilim: Another thing Mizrahi was doing at the time was experiments on Gnosis.
Shion: What…
Nephilim: After the Hilbert Effect was discovered, he used it to materialize Gnosis and then captured them. Most of what is known about them came from his experiments. But he also began experiments on the effects of being touched by them. He used some of his specimens to be touched by them so that they could be turned. He also discovered that it had an effect on Realians as well. They turned into beings he named Athra 26.
Shion: So that's what they were…
She could tell there was something wrong with Nephilim. She seemed to be struggling to continue speaking.
Nephilim: One day, Mizrahi's daughter, Sakura, went to visit him at his lab. She sneaked in deep enough and entered one of the rooms where the Athra 26 were being created. There was an accident and one of them escaped. It attacked Sakura and before it could be subdued, it stripped her of her life. Mizrahi felt guilty. He blamed himself.
Snake: He was right to do so. If he hadn't decided to play God, his daughter would've never died.
Allen: She would have died eventually.
Snake: Another word autta you and Ziggy is giving you a good one.
Ziggy: I will.
Allen: Okay, okay. Just saying is all.
Jr: We don't have a lot of time. So quit wasting it, Allen. Please continue, Nephilim.
Nephilim: After this happened, he lost purpose. He decided to make a copy of all his data, and put it inside a Realian to replace his daughter. That was you, MOMO.
Jr: So that's what Albedo was after! He's definitely with the U-TIC, too.
Nephilim: After he backed up the data and sent MOMO out of Old Miltia, he unleashed the Song of Nephilim. He told his scientists that it was to capture U-DO, so the URTVs were released. He knew they would fail. He wanted to destroy everything that he had done. He wanted no more sacrifices. But some scientists survived. They and the U-TIC continued with the Zohar Project up until now. But they need the Y data to find the remaining parts. Some of which are living. And Abel, who is stuck in my world.
Shion: Tell us about the emulators. And who was funding Mizrahi?
Nephilim: Emulators could mimic some of the functions of the Zohar. And they are also meant as the power source to complete the process to create Deus. But for the Zohar Project they need the original Zohar, as well as you, Shion.
Shion: What…
Nephilim: Although the Zohar's energy was contained within the Mizrahi Central Sciences Research Center, some small amounts managed to seep out. Most of the energy went to the Mizrahi's psychiatric hospital, which was the nearest building. This had little affect on normal humans, but Uber humans experienced increased Ether control over time. Because you constantly visited the hospital, you were affected by this.
Jin: But Shion was never able to control Ether. Not without the help of nanomachines, which she obtained later on.
Shion: Yes, that's true.
Nephilim: You had and have abilities, but they come in different forms. And being able to hear the Song… my Song, without succumbing to it, was one of them.
Shion: Is that also why I can hear it, and others can't?
Nephilim: Yes.
Jr: So that's why…
Nephilim: You are also very physically strong. Stronger than you know…
Shion: I see… But how am I part of the Zohar project?
Nephilim: Mizrahi had people searching for candidates to become the parts to create Deus everywhere. They eventually found you. They kidnapped you after your father dropped you off at school.
Shion: I… can't remember any of it…
Snake: How is that possible? Did she just forget right after it happened, so that's why she didn't tell her father?
Nephilim: After they were done, they played with her mind to make her forget, and created false memories of her at school.
Jin: Those bastards! So that's how!
Shion: What did they do to me…?
Nephilim: They found that some of her abilities made her a good candidate for the Zohar Project. They 'prepared' her like Abel, others and me so that she would be the vessel for Deus.
Everyone is shocked to hear this.
Shion: No…
Snake: What!
Jin: Can't be!
Shion brings her hands to her chest and looks down. She doesn't know what to think.
Jr: What does this mean?
Nephilim: Shion is part of the Y data. She is meant to become the vessel for U-DO, which will be guided in by Abel. That is his purpose. But the Y data is required to find him, and they surely will.
Otacon: You mentioned other parts. The machine that will run that thing, Deus, and the person that will use the Emulators' power to make it all happen. Have they acquired these yet?
Nephilim: The machine that is meant to control it is… KOS-MOS. She is Kadamony.
Shion: NO! Not her too! Is… are those functions what all the black boxes are for?
Nephilim: Most likely.
Snake: Much of this doesn't make sense.
Nephilim: The rest… you will have to find out on your own…
Shion: Nephilim? Is something wrong?
Nephilim: This is all taking much of my energy… I can't go on for much longer… and maintain KOS-MOS dormant…
Snake: Just tell us about the funding. Who is funding the U-Tic? It could be the key to it all.
Nephilim: Their funding comes from… Vec…
Everything becomes white, and they all exit the Encephalon.
