Galerians: Reanimation

By
Hihana

Disclaimer
I have yet to find them on ebay, so I guess the rights stay were they belong!

Summary
Cain has finally found Rita, and while he and his sister struggle to get back, concern for his brother is never far away….

Author's notes
The ninth chapter... I can't believe it, it's a bit late cause the damn uploading system is faulty.. grrr. but as tradition demands you get a present on my birthday and okay so that was yesterday, but we don't want to be so picky… I hope you all enjoy the chapter, which revolves around Cain alone!

I wrote a oneshot which was inspired after talking endlessly with SapphireLights on msn…an alternative happy ending for Galerians Ash… please read that as well, because I need all advise I can get to become better…

The novelization of the first game is being worked on and the prologue will be posted next week…

Reviewers from chapter 8
Thank you so much..

SensiblyTainted: Thank you, I'm glad that you like Cain as much as I do and this chapter is dictated to him.. enjoy!!

Shaveza Thank you, I'm glad that you like the chapter. As for me I think the teddy is a lot more frightening, cause I have a lot of homicidal thoughts myself, but a talking teddy. That is just plain scary. Enjoy!!

SapphireLights: Thank you, I'm so glad that you liked this chapter and Cain as much as I do…. So this chapter evolves around him alone…. Enjoy!

Taokitty: Thank you, It's good to hear that you like the other Galerians as much I do. Sadly there is no Nitro Spider interaction in this chapter.. but there will be more!!! Enjoy!!

Warnings
Violence and spoilers... please it's best if you know both games beforehand or have seen the movie..

Read and enjoy... oh and leave a review pretty please...because I need them like fishes need water…

Bye
Hihana

(Annoying notes from the author)
"Speaking"
quotes, thoughts
(telepathic contact)
Scanned scenes/flashback

last chapter….

Back to Cain

Cain cursed, something was wrong. He didn't know what though. He had used the room to prepare a trap for the blue haired bitch and so far everything went as planned. He had hotwired the heating system and manipulated the cable which provided the electricity. If everything went as planned, the bitch would be dead in a few minutes. Something was wrong though, he just didn't know what, and it was driving him crazy.

Then he felt it, pain.. all consuming blinding pain.. pain that was not his own.

Rion..!

Chapter 9 Keep punching until they stay down!

It couldn't be anyone else, there was no one else he shared a telepathic bond with. Rion was in pain. But as fast as the pain had come it was gone. He followed the 'mental path' which was forged of the bond between him and Rion. To his shock he discovered that the link was dead, he couldn't hear random thoughts neither the pulsating energy which powered the link from both sides. If he didn't know for certain, that Rion was in his bed in the hospital room on the 15th floor, he would have guessed him to be hijacked or worse, dead.

But what happened to cut the connection between the two? Hearing a the sound of steps, he hid behind the metallic fence near the elevator leading to the adorning restaurant. Now was not the time to think about it. There she came, Aqua. She looked around, eyes trying to catch something suspicious. Slowing down, studying everything. Then she smiled.

"You must think I'm stupid, dear. That cheap trick won't work." With that she ripped her dress. It was made of leather. With the piece she had ripped out, she isolated the open cable, lying in the middle of the room. Cain watched her, without making a sound he stepped into the other elevator and closed the doors soundly. She heard him, he knew. His feet were getting wet, before the elevator was shut completely. She was so stupid, she didn't know yet, but she had done exactly what he wanted.

Pressing one button, the device moved and he rode upstairs. With this move he had activated the emergency sprinkle system, he had hotwired and connected with the elevator control. The water rained down upon her, soaking her completely. Using the stop button the elevator halted. Grinning he triple powered Breakaron, touched the control cable and let the power loose. With a push of Melatropin the roof of the device burst open and he floated out. Stepping into the old kitchen, he smiled.

A tremor shocked the kitchen and his smile widened, yes overloaded heating systems were fun, especially if hotwired with a few other electricity devices. He briefly scanned the area and his smile turned into a smirk, he couldn't feel her anymore, either she left the data world or she was dead, he preferred the latter. Stepping into the kitchen he was attacked by a arabesque, it ended up being slammed into the wall, he looked around. The busted toilet was empty, there was only one room left. The old restaurant itself, the place where Lilia Pascalle had hidden herself and Rita had met her end at the hands of Rion Steiner.

Opening the door, he stepped into the demolished room. There, on the old destroyed and rotten couch, was Rita. Her red hair was tousled and her clothes burned. Scratches littered her arms along with burns. She looked like she had gotten into a fight. And indeed she had, because at her feet laid the body of a young male in his early twenties. He resembled Birdman a bit and Cain knew that this man had to be the Galerian Rion had called Fahrenheit. The man looked like he had taken quite a beating, lying in a pool of what must have been his own blood.

The fact that some of the spoons, forks and knives were molten only underlined his theory. Scanning the body he noticed that Fahrenheit was not dead, only unconsciousness. Fast and erratic motions of his chest convinced Cain, that Rita had not killed him, how unusual. Wordlessly he gripped the body and floated him in the other room connecting to the dinning hall. After shoving the body inside he positioned bits and pieces of the broken furniture in front of the door, barring it effectively. Only then he turned around to face Rita.

She was awake and had apparently watched him. Her face was expressionless, though his small gift of empathy told him, that she was full of despair and sorrow. From what Spider had told him, she and Nitro would get along just great.

"Cain.. is that you?"

He fought the urge to roll his eyes, she wasn't fooling him. She had known who he was since he had set a foot into this building, and they both knew it. It was a tradition though, a semblance of family to ask after one another. Rita had been the one with the most evolved personality, in Cain's opinion that is. But because of that fact she had suffered most and in the end it had drove her to suicide. Yes suicide, it may had been Rion's hands, but it had been her will. Her will to join her dead family, especially Rainheart, her baby brother.

"Of course, whom did you expect? Santa Clause?"

She gave a weak laugh which turned into a cough. A small trail of blood left her mouth, her hands were tainted equally red. Carefully she stood up, intending to meet him in the middle of the room. Stumbling a bit she reached him. He hugged her and immediately he could feel her body tensing. Naturally she tensed, he had never hugged her before. They may had regarded each other as family, but hugging or showing affection, no, never been there. Especially with Dorothy watching them like a hawk.

"Why am I here? Why are you here, Cain? Why are we here? I died, I asked Rion to kill me. I shouldn't exist anymore."

"I know. Rion destroyed Dorothy, she is dead. You are backup data, from the family program and Rion's mind. We both died ten years ago."

"Ten years? Being here in this room's felt like eternity. Then the man showed up, claiming he was a Galerian. I didn't believe it, but then he attacked me. He threw molten cutlery at me. It hurt."

"I'm sure it did. Come on let's get out of here. Let's go back to reality."

"I don't want to, I wanted to die, I still want to."

"Rita!"

"No Cain, my mind's made up on this. I do not want to suffer anymore. I want to stay here!"

Cain sighed, silently he damned Rita's stubbornness. He knew, that he couldn't change her mind, but he knew someone who could. Disheveled hair hid his face from her as he turned and broke the embrace. She thought he was pouting again. The truth was far from it. If Cain's hair had only been slightly shorter, she would have seen the smirk the boy wore.

"Alright Rita. You can stay here. I'll go back and tell Pat to erase this part of the data world."

She tensed again, of course. She knew him. He was, at least, just as much if not more stubborn than she herself, so why would he let her get off the hook so easily. She studied his face. Trying to find an answer to her question without asking. After a few minutes he grew bored and decided to make his next move.

"Is there something wrong with my face?"

"No, but you are surprisingly agreeable. Normally you would fight tooth and nail to change my decision."

"What good would it do. You don't want to go back and you don't like life. We will have to fight and you don't want that either. Wed don't need useless persons, besides there is really no reason for you to come back. It'll be harder but we will manage this war without you."

"We? Who do you mean?"

"Well there's Rion, me, then there is Spider, Rainheart and a few others, who will join us later."

He saw out of the corners of his eyes as Rita's mouth dropped open. Gotcha! She always had a soft spot for Rainheart. And to hear that he would be fighting a war. Of course first she would be angry for involving him in the first place, but as soon as logic would overtake her mind, she would see that Rainheart needed her. Then she would come with him.

"Tell me you're joking!"

She was not angry as expected, no she was downright furious. Suddenly he was lucky, that she was exhausted from her fight with Fahrenheit. At least she wasn't that much of a threat, or so he hoped. Currently she looked like she was about to strangle him.

"Why should I Rita? I want to have a chance to live a full life and I will fight for it, as will the others!"

"Why did you draw Rainheart in it? He hates medicine and you cannot tell me that he willingly accepts the drugs he needs to live!"

"Pat built a special beeject for him."

"That's it? Who is taking care of him?"

"We all will. We've got a mansion. Then we'll go to school. Besides the best psychiatrists of Micheangelo city are helping us. We will take care of Rainheart. Don't worry about it."

"Don't worry about it. You bastard! That's my little brother you are talking about. Psychiatrists cannot help him and you know that."

"Then tell me how to take care of him. We will do all we can Rita."

"That's not enough!"

"Then what is?"

He watched as she struggled with herself and then her shoulders slumped in defeat as she noticed, that he had cornered her. She gave him a glare. He suppressed a snicker, and wasn't quite succeeding.

"Sneaky little bastard."

"You flatter me."

"How do we get out of here? I will come with you, if only to take care of Rainheart."

"Sounds fair, the only exist I found is near the entrance to Hotel Babylon. Come I'll show you."

Rita turned around and grabbed an old rusty looking beeject before following the blond Galerian. He simple gave her a bit Nalcon, which was the only PPEC she could use. She was an expert though. Her grasp on Melatropin and Nalcon was something Cain had always envied. True, he could use more PPECs, but he lacked the ability to do so in the precise manner Rita could.

A crash pulled them both out of their self-induced silence. Behind something had crashed.

"It seems as the little mouse escaped it's prison."

Cain agreed, Fahrenheit had apparently woken up. Not that he tried very hard to stop the man, stopping meant killing and where would be the fun in that. They stepped out of the elevator, to stare at the still body of the Galerian named Aqua. She was dead. Her eyes wide open, her mouth formed a silent scream. Cain somehow was reminded of the dead Steiners, the same expression of shock and surprise had been written on their faces, too, as they had died at Rainheart's hands. She looked like them now, her overconfident smirk had been wiped off her face.

Without acknowledging the body otherwise he stepped over it and left the room with Rita following.

"Who was that chick?"

"The bitch back there was Galerian Aqua. She nearly killed me. I was trapped in the hand of god in the data world before Rion fetched me. I simple repaid the extended courtesy."

"I see nothing has changed. Where is Rion anyway? I thought someone had contacted you a while back. I sensed a disturbance."

"I felt his pain and then the link went dead. Either he's dead or has been hijacked. By all means, both should be impossible as he was still in his hospital bed as I left and nowhere near a terminal into the data world."

"I see."

Both got up the stairs and had already passed half of the lobby as the ground began to gleam red, before the dry wood burst into flames. Both Galerians jumped back just before the fire would have fried them, as well. A body floated out of the newly created hole, which turned out to be the Galerian Fahrenheit. He looked more than a bit ruffled. Cain supposed Rita had had her fun with him before he fell unconscious.

"That asshole again."

Before Cain could answer, the redhead leapt into action, she threw a powerful wave of Nalcon at the man before giving him a kick in the midsection… no not in the midsection but in the groin. Fahrenheit screamed and Cain flinched. He had seen part of such a experience in Rion's memories and to say it was painful was something of an understatement.

Charging Red he threw into the general direction of the hostile Galerian, only to have the flames frozen in midway. But had been what he had waited for, he threw Nalcon and the frozen flames shattered forming dozens of shards. The pressure from the Nalcon wave was enough to sent the projectiles into the direction of Fahrenheit. For good measure he threw a second wave of Nalcon, triple charged.

Gulping a Delmetor down, he dodged the flames with his shield before attacking Fahrenheit with his thunder blasts. He discovered that he couldn't float, but jumping worked almost as though as if he was floating.

After Cain had hit the man with the ice shards, Rita took pleasure in tossing him around the room like a rag doll. Then she tightened her mental grip on his body and held him above the ground, just in time for one of Cain's thunder blasts to hit home.

Rita willed herself not to listen to the screams of pain. The young man screamed, whimpered and pleaded but Cain showed no mercy, only as the screams became quieter, the begging faded and the whimpering ceased, only then the blond Galerian stopped his attack. He studied the young man. Blood trickled out of nose, ears and mouth, the eyes were opened in terror.. and dead. Every sign of life had faded from the body.

Nothing on the blond's face betrayed his feeling, only the faint shake of his shoulders, told Rita that Cain felt something, what she couldn't tell though.

"We should leave before the maniac, who is responsible for their creation, is sending other play mates for us."

They reached the terminal and without further complications, Rita returned in the world of the living, after ten years. Cain followed with the distinct feeling that something had happened, while he had been here.

Reality

The minute Cain appeared back in the 'room of corpses', as Pat had affectingly named this place, he knew something was wrong. Next to him Rita coughed the rest of the fluids out of her body and she attempted to cover herself. Cain was family, but seeing her naked was not his privilege. Pat was absent, that alone was enough to ring several bells in the blond's head. Without waiting for Rita he sprinted into the room next to him.

The room, where Rion and Rainheart recovered. He almost blew the door from it's hinges, as he still felt nothing, not the buzz, which had become so familiar in the last days. Like a small almost unnoticeable bell, that told him, that his twin was alright. No there was no bell, and his twin was supposed to behind this door. He stepped into the room. Rita, wrapped in a bed sheet, right behind him.

Pat was here, as was Elsa, Rainheart and Rion. Rainheart was sitting on his bed and looked.. lost, for the lack of a better term. Rita immediately went over and hugged him, hard. Tears were gathering in her eyes as she wept in Rainheart's hospital goon. But then her eyes were drawn to the bed beside her little brother. A little girl, looking suspiciously like Lilia Pascalle, was sitting at the end of the bed and cried. Near the bed almost one dozen instruments and devices had been placed and a young brunet man was working on them. The man named Pat she assumed.

At last her gaze fell on the person connected to the instruments and devices. She stifled a gasp. It was Rion Steiner, without a doubt. The blond hair was tousled and clung to the forehead. The whole face was sweaty and the aquamarine eyes open, staring at something neither of them could see. Rion's back was arched almost to the point of breaking, the breathing was erratic and uneven. The mouth opened in a silent scream, fingers were clawed into the bed sheets. He looked like he was seeing an unfathomable horror.

"Pat?! What's wrong with him?"

"Nice question Cain, I'll give you an answer as soon as I have one."

Tbc….

and that's it for this chapter… an entire chapter dictated to our favorite homicidal twin brother…

please review and tell me what you think about Cain…