AN: Hello everybody! This is my first piece of fan-fiction, so thanks for reading! Any and all comments will be greatly appreciated.

Rated M: violence, sexual themes, overall craziness from the luverly Albedo, and Jr's potty-mouth.

I hope to update every Saturday or so. If I miss a date, I plan to get on it as quickly as possible. Should I not update for two weeks or so, you are free to send me hate male and the like so as to get my ass into gear. Also, when I do update, those chapters are bound to be MUCH longer than this little introduction here.

Have fun!

The URTV-O

Prologue: The URTV-O

"Rubedo! Rubedo!"

A girl, possibly in her early teens or younger, was screaming apparently to no one as she sat alone in a laboratory room. Computer monitors flickered nearby, their speakers silent, though images of war and bloodshed were clear. They contrasted greatly with the sterile white of the room, but matched perfectly with the blue-haired girl's anguish.

"Rubedo!" she sobbed. She knew that Dr. Yuriev wanted her to stay logical and calm during times like these, but she couldn't help it. She was emotionally attached to the URTV variants, and now they were in danger. "N-number 666, can you hear me? Number 666?! Rubedo?!"

The girl was sitting in the corner of the room, rocking back and forth with her cries. While her hair and eyes were both an unnatural shade of aqua blue, a red screen had flicked down over her left eye from seemingly behind her eyelids; data and various numerical values flickered across the screen and she went over them quickly. An image of a boy appeared along with his name and number. Then, next came the sin figures of his unique wavelength. Instead of reading his values now, she could feel him.

"Rubedo..."

Her eyes began to pulsate a deep shade of blue, and next to the image of his wavelength came an image of her own. The pulses varied in speed and intensity, and her wavelength altered with the flashes. Thoughts and emotions that were not her own began to enter her mind, and in the background of the red screen she saw flashes of images, flashes of what he was seeing. Briefly their wavelengths synchronized and everything was clear and crisp, and her eyes suddenly flashed to the exact same shade of blue that Rubedo had in his eyes.

"Number 666, Rubedo," she breathed. "Can you hear me?"

The images on the red screen were clear. She saw everything he was seeing. Then, she felt his shock at hearing her voice in his head, and he responded through thoughts.

"Nikko?" came his voice in her head, loud and clear. She read the data again on the red screen and saw that their wavelengths were matching perfectly.

The girl, Nikko, smiled and wiped tears out of her eyes. "Thank God you've responded!"

"Why aren't you connected with Albedo?"

Through the red screen she saw how Rubedo looked at his white-haired brother, who stood beside him. The other URTV looked terrified.

"Albedo pushed me out of his mind," she explained. "You know how he is. He wants to be only with you, not me. Rubedo, be careful. He's always been a little unstable but this time, things are getting extreme. I don't think he's ready for this. You're going to have to calm him down before you begin."

She felt his understanding, but there was also something else. It was hesitation.

"Yes, but Nikko... I don't think I can do this either."

Nikko blinked. "What? Rubedo, you're already connected with the other URTVs. U-DO is right there! You can eliminate it now!"

"No... I can't."

Anger and fear rose within him, and suddenly he swore.

"Damn!"

Nikko bit her lip. "Dr. Yuriev feared this would happen. Listen to me Rubedo. You must continue no matter -- "

The sudden fit of anger was overwhelming. "Dr. Yuriev thought this would happen?! He knew I would hesitate? That bastard knew! Dammit, that bastard knew!"

"Knew what? Rubedo, what is going on?"

"If we eliminate U-DO, the energy has to go somewhere. It will convert to heat energy and there will be enough to destroy this whole damn planet! That bastard knew it all along!"

She looked at his stats. "Rubedo, calm down. Your blood pressure and anxiety are skyrocketing. If you don't stay calm -- "

"I'm ending the connection!"

She saw everything through his eyes. He spoke to the other URTVs and they gave him shocked looks; then he glanced at Albedo and she saw his fear mounting.

"Rubedo, listen to me! You must destroy U-DO!"

"I can't! Miltia will be destroyed!"

Something flashed nearby in his gaze. She could hear sobbing from nearby and she knew it was Albedo.

"Rubedo! Destroy U-DO or it will destroy you!"

He was ignoring her now. Instead, he was looking at his brother. "Albedo, let go of me!"

The white-haired boy was frantic. "Rubedo, don't let go! Don't let go!" Tears were leaking out of his eyes.

There was another flash in his gaze and Nikko recognized what it was before he did. "Rubedo, look out!"

Several standard URTVs were hit first with the bright flashes of U-DO. They fell away in spasms, some immediately shutting down from the immense power, and others submitting to the contamination. The Song of Nephilim played eerily in the background as they were struck.

Rubedo's wavelength altered from his heightened stress. Nikko's eyes pulsated again as she altered her own waves to meet his, but the images began to blur and his thoughts weren't clear. The tears welled up in her eyes again.

"Rubedo!"

She caught catches of noise, of screaming and of crying. There was a flash of an image and she saw Albedo... and U-DO.

"No! Albedo!"

Nikko abandoned Rubedo then. His statistics left the red screen built over her eye and instead she focused on Albedo. His name and number appeared along with his image, but when the section with his wavelength came up, there was nothing more than static. She couldn't feel his wavelength at all.

"What is this?!"

His wavelength was now completely unknown to her. Not knowing what to do, she beat her fists against the floor and began to sob.

"N-no! It's never been like this before!" she screamed. "I've always been able to connect with them! Always!"

Why oh why did Dr. Yuriev send them out like he did? She couldn't care less about the standards, but the variants (with the exception of Citrine, whom she was not assigned to) meant the world to her. They were the reason for her existence. Rubedo was an absolute riot and Nigredo was incredibly nice... and sure, Albedo was a bit unstable but he was an okay boy, she thought... but now the three of them were in a terrible situation and it hurt Nikko to see them suffer.

"I... I shouldn't have gotten so emotionally involved!" she cried. "That's what Dr. Yuriev sa-said. But... I'm the URTV-O! It was un-un-unavoidable!"

The little girl felt like a failure, and for many reasons. She had been created to observe Units 666, 667, and 669 and to monitor their emotional progress and stability. There were many lab technicians around that studied their physical progress, and much of the emotional progress as well, but it was Nikko's main job to offer a helping hand to the boys whenever it was needed. The researchers were good at their jobs, but they could never act as a friend. Nikko was always there in every sense of the word; she talked with them and played with them, held their hands and cried with them, and was mentally linked with them during training. Whenever they felt afraid she would do her best to remove that fear and give them a push in the right direction. She was a friend instead of a mere sibling or comrade, but had been created to act almost motherly in certain situations. But, now her own emotions were taking over, and she had failed her duties. The URTV Observer had lost control of both herself and her variants, and she didn't know what to do.

There was a hiss as the laboratory doors suddenly slid open and someone walked in. Nikko didn't look up, instead trying to find Albedo's wavelength and sync with it. She was still failing. Her sobs were growing now, and the person who walked in rested a hand on her shoulder.

"Why are you crying, my poor little Nikko?"

It was Dr. Yuriev. Nikko choked back another sob and looked up at him. She had always thought of him as cold. Yes, he did treat her well and he spoke calmly and almost lovingly to her, but she was certain it was a ruse. His eyes never matched his words.

"I... I failed!" she burst out. "I w-was connected with Unit 666, but..."

"Yes, go on," he said softly. She didn't like his eyes at all.

"He... he grew fearful and... angry."

"Angry?"

"Sir, he hesitated. I tried to convince him to keep going but... he said that the planet would be destroyed."

"I see." He held a clipboard at his side, and he tapped the metal with his fingers. He removed his hand from her shoulder and slipped it casually into his pocket, and she noticed for the first time that there was something oddly shaped in there.

"And Albedo... he is lost to me. He came in contact with U-DO." Her cries were dying down but she was still sniffling greatly.

"And what of my other son, Nigredo?"

"I haven't ch-checked in with him yet, sir."

"Do it now."

She tried to calm her self and only half-managed it. Then, once again she was looking at figures and values on the red screen. She found his wavelength immediately and saw that it was growing unstable, and that he was very fearful and his blood pressure and other statistics were spiking, but that he was otherwise okay.

"Unit 669 is operational," she said. The tears were gone but she was shaking.

"Good, very good," Dr. Yuriev said. "But it's such a pity that those miserable failures didn't succeed in eliminating U-DO, don't you think?"

Nikko's eyes widened. "Miserable... failures?" She had never heard of him talk about his sons in such a manner.

"Yes. It's as you said. Rubedo hesitated. I feared it might happen but I had hoped that you, Nikko, would have been able to steer him away from such foolishness. But, you failed."

His right hand began to move out of his laboratory coat pocket, and she saw that he held a gun. He held it casually, lightly, as if he didn't understand the importance or the power of the weapon. Then he aimed it right at Nikko's face, giving her a soft smile all the while.

"You're all failures," he said. "Worthless, miserable failures. What a pity."

Nikko trembled. "S-sir, I'm so sorry, it will never happen again!"

"Oh, how very right you are," he said, and the smile widened. "You won't ever have the opportunity."

Nikko was thinking quickly. She glimpsed Nigredo's data and his wavelength. There was no way he would be able to help her, nor could Albedo or Rubedo.

"Dr. Yuriev... please..." she begged.

His smile was sinister and for the first time Nikko saw his eyes brighten. No longer were they cold and filled with false emotion. Instead, they were glowing with power. Now he held the gun very firmly.

"Don't cry, Nikko," he said. "You are an object, nothing more. You don't have a need for something as useless as emotion. You are going to be disposed of, just like any other object. You no longer have a reason for existence."

Out of fear she tried to sync with Nigredo. All she wanted was someone to shoulder her fear. For the longest time, she had been shouldering it for everyone else. She had helped the variants and dealt with their insecurities because it was her job. Now she wanted someone to take her place. She wanted someone else to be a URTV-O for once.

Dr. Yuriev saw the pulsating glow in her eyes and only smirked. "You're such a child, Nikko."

Her blue eyes went green to match with Nigredo and she felt his presence only briefly as they synched.

"Ni--"

BANG.

The shot went off and she never finished saying his name. Instead, all she had left him with was her fear as the world then went dark.