Disclaimer: Burst Angel is the exclusive property of Gonzo and this fanfic is not ment to take any claim of the series from the production company. I claim only this fanfic and the characters listed at the end of each chapter.

The Truth

Shots were being fired all around them. Meg peeks her head out of the building, then quickly ducks back into it as several bullets find their way into the wall.

"Damnit all! We were setup!" she yells, looking over her shoulder at Silver. The man had not said a word, and had barely moved since they'd gotten into the building. Separated, she was alone with the man, and for all she knew Onimusha and Justice were dead. Closing her eyes, Meg leans against the wall and takes several deep breaths. A loud shot is fired from... infront of her? Snapping her eyes open she focuses on someone in the shadows infront of her. "Who are you?" she demands. Slowly from the shadows the man steps forward. "Onimusha..." sighing she leans back. "We're dead, you know that?"

"No. Only the traitors are dead." he says coldly, dropping a bloodstained bag onto the floor.

"W-what do you mean?" Meg leans forward, pushing the bag to the side, looking at the contents of it.

This entire mess started when they followed Revolution and Blade from their meeting place into the jungle around Panama Canal. From the start of the evening Meg knew something was up. It had been the both of them that'd met her and Onimusha's HAS team at the restaraunt. Onimusha had given her one of his fifty calibur guns as well as three extra magazines, 'just in case'.

That was nothing, Meg hadn't given it too much thought beyond a slight note of having the stronger weapon. It wasn't when they entered the small three-building that Meg thought something was wrong. Unfortunately, it was right before it happened that Meg knew. Silver had grabbed her, pulled her away from the building and into the surrounding jungle. Shots had been fired, she heard Justice scream as well as yells come from all around them. Looking at Meg, Silver puts a finger to his lips and she nods. Slowly he moves with her back towards the buildings.

The cover on the bag falls to the side, and Meg stares into Justice's cold, dead eyes. She would've screamed but Onimusha was right there by her side, his hand over her mouth and the weapon he'd kept was raised, firing. Meg could hear the bodies of several men drop before he finally released her. Looking scared, she slowly turns her neck to look at the bloodied bag that contained Justice's head.

"You have a problem?" Onimusha's voice was cold still, unfeeling. And those damned sunglasses!

"You... did you..."

"They are traitors. All four of them." he doesn't look at Meg, instead he moves to the first building they had been in. He returned minutes later, Justice's sword in his hand, the severed heads of Revolution and Blade in the other. "Or..."

"Or what?" Meg looks away, her eyes tearing, trying to avoid looking at the heads. Two soggy drops are all that Meg hears, then the shuffling of Onimusha's feet towards what she could only assume was Silver. Cringing she tries to block out the sickening sound of metal parting human flesh. "Do you have to do that here?"

"Yes. The only concern you should have is of your safety."

"Huh?" she turns to face him. The man's hands were bloodstained, the scimitar driven into the ground.

"How often are you ordered to kill your own flesh and blood? I assume Justice gave you the 'two sides of the same coin' speech."

"Silver called it that too..."

"ONE and ZERO. I also assume that Justice tried to shake off the Genocide Demons as well." chuckling, Onimusha sinks to the floor beside Meg. "Of course, she doesn't know the half of it."

"What... what are you meaning, Onimusha?"

"You'll see, once you're as deeply entrenched in ONE as I am." and now was where Onimusha lost it, he began laughing like a madman. You know all those movies where the villian has his maniacal laugh? Onimusha was having one of those moments right now. "Of course, I can't have my new partner running away on me, can I?" a small 'twang' is heard, and Meg slumps over, passed out from a sleeping-poison dart.

The overhead lights were painfully bright. Meg lifts her arm to block the light, and finally notices the machines she was hooked up to.

"Ahh, good. You're awake finally." comes Onimusha's voice from off to the right. Slowly Meg turns her head to watch him, and was in for yet another surprise. The man's entire right arm was stripped of it's skin, and in the place of muscle and bone was a complex array of machinery.

"Your arm..." she says softly, then cries out as a wave of pain overtakes her body.

"I wouldn't speak if I were you, Miss." a doctor comes from around Onimusha and checks some of the machines that Meg was on.

"Blaze, take it easy. She's been out for about a week. Let her talk some. She's the right to know what's happened."

"What... what has happened?" Meg lays back, not letting her eyes move from Onimusha and his mechanical arm.

"First, I'll tell you about this thing." the odd-eyed man says, rotating his wrist to a near-impossible position and waggles his fingers. "I was... born with it shorter than my left. I was a bit of an oddity in my family. About seven years ago, I was injured horribly, my arm became useless. ONE, as resourceful as they were, amputated the flesh and muscle, then grafted the metal into the bone. Everything from elbow down is cybernetic, and the onlything left in my upper arm that's mine is the bone." he explains, turning to look at Blaze, who'd gone from the machines to a door. "Blaze, don't tell me that you guys really did get that girl."

"Huh? What girl?" Meg tears her eyes away from Onimusha's arm and looks at the doctor. Opening the door, a young woman is shown in, moving her to the light Meg's eyes widen. "Yoko?" she nearly shouts. The blue-haired girl looks up, but cannot see because she's been blindfolded, and she was also in a straight jacket.

"Good, you do know her. Saves the trouble of introducing you to her." Blaze undoes the straps on the straightjacket and lets Yoko's arms drop down to her sides. "However, Onimusha needs an introduction to his new partner."

"Partner?" Yoko turns her head towards the source of Onimusha's voice, jerking the blindfold tighter around her eyes and out of Blaze's grasp.

"Let her go! She doesn't have anything to do with this!" Meg protests, pushing herself into a sitting position.

"M-meg? Is that you?" Yoko turns back to the other's voice, reaching a hand up to try and remove the blindfold.

"Leave it on. Send her back, Blaze." Onimusha sighs, laying down.

"I cannot do that, Onimusha. She was a victim of ZERO. She's the fortunate one. ZERO got to all the others before we did." Blaze unties Yoko's blindfold, then steps over to Meg and begins unhooking her from the machines.

"Damn this hellhole." he whispers, pushing up to his feet and moves over to Yoko. "You'll be fine, kid. Meg and I'll protect you."

"No! I refuse to do anything that might harm Yoko!" Meg pushes up and shoves away Blaze.

"We really have no choice, Meg." Onimusha steers Yoko towards the other girl, placing his hand onto her shoulder. "As long as we've got Trio, then we'll be just fine."

"Trio's not ready yet, though. You've got another week before it becomes operational. And just how exactly does the damn thing work?" Blaze demands, looking at him. "Forget it. It'll be ready in a week. After that, you'll get no more help from me. This's my last job for East."

"You're moving to West too, huh? Guess it can't be helped, what with Ang-..." he falls silent, turning his eyes towards Meg.

"Yeah, you've got it. She's here... again. How long ago was it the first time? Two, three years?" Blaze nods, watching Meg as well.

"No. Shorter than that. But, Blaze, if you're done here, I don't wanna leak anything more than we must. So get going as soon as we're done here." nodding, and as if taking it as an order, he turns and leaves.

"Umm... hey, you two..." Yoko says softly, tugging on Onimusha's metal hand. "I need some clothes."

OC intro:

Blaze: A doctor of ONE East. He knows much more than he lets the superiors of ONE East know. He was the one that found an odd person nearby.

yes, yes, i know, not much on chapters, but i'll do my best on later ones. hopefully i can get longer scenes too.

ahh, and another thing, i'm sending out notices to my reviewers when i update, so it benefits you if you review me!