(A/N: IMPORTANT. See Author's Note at the end of this chapter. I also want to warn you, this chapter gets a little violent, so read at your own risk. I tried to keep the violence PG-13, but I may have crossed the line.
Also, I'm currently writing two other fics along with this one, so may updates may be delayed a little longer than normal. I'll try to update one chapter for each story before updating the same story again. Normally my plot bunnies tell me which story to update on, but popularity and reviews have a big impact on my updates as well. Just food for thought.)
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Chapter 2: The Escape
Director Kakuzawa was in a good mood. Things had been progressing nicely ever since Lucy was brought back. And what was even better was that she had stopped fighting, stopped resisting the tests. He wasn't sure exactly what happened to her while she was out, but he was glad it did. She seemed almost dead on the inside, which made it much easier to gain her cooperation.
Even more curious was the development of this new personality. Nyu it was called, if he remembered correctly. Quite different from the cold emotionless Lucy. His doctors had determine that Nyu was most likely all the innocence and within Lucy from her childhood that she had to keep locked away in order to survive.
'Perhaps it will be easier to break her to my cause if I can get the Nyu part of her to dominate her mind.'
He was brought out of her thoughts when his assistant/prisoner, Arakawa entered the room. He frowned at being interrupted. As amusing as he found her at times, and as useful as she was, she could be a bit of a nuisance. But he kept her around because she had her uses. She was rather knowledgeable about Diclonius since she had worked with his son, until Lucy killed him for trying to rape her. But the woman had a bad habit of digging up information that he didn't want her getting into. Why couldn't she just do as she was told?
He also had a feeling that she was lying about not remembering the boy who was with her when his son was found dead. But being traumatized was a convincing excuse, and so he believed her… for now.
"What is it this time?" he demanded.
She winced at his harsh tone. She was still afraid of him. Good, she should be afraid. He had shown her that he wasn't a man to be messed with after he shot her. He still remembered the fear in her voice when she asked if she was going to die a virgin bleeding to death on the floor.
'A virgin, eh? I may need to take care of that?"
"Um, Director," she said nervously, "I just thought you might want to see this." She handed him some papers. "There's are printouts of the readings on Lucy's brainwaves. They've been changing recently. It seems she they're becoming more… how should I say, mentally aggressive. More primitive. They've been appearing more and more."
Kakuzawa raised an eyebrow. "And what does that mean?"
Arakawa sighed. "Her instincts seem to be taking over her intelligence."
Kakuzawa growled impatiently. "Explain it to me in the simplest of terms."
He watched as his prisoner tried to break it down. "Ok, take a dog for example. On it's own, in the wild, it will act upon instinct; it's behavior not too unlike a wolf's. But we train them, educate them, so they learn how to act beyond what instinct tells them. But if you abandon even the best-trained dog, it will revert back to its primitive nature. That's what's happening to Lucy. She's reverting."
Kakuzawa sat back, thinking about this for a bit. Slowly a smile crept up his face. "Then this may work out for the best. We could learn a lot from the queen of the Diclonius in her natural state."
But Arakawa didn't share his opinion. "With all due respect, sir, I think that allowing her to revert is a big mistake. If a Diclonius' instinct tells it to kill all humans and increase its species' number, that could be dangerous for us."
The director waved off her concern. "You don't have to worry about that. Even if she does revert, we can break her. She's unstable enough as it is. And besides, we know her limitations. She won't be able to escape."
Arakawa knew she was being dismissed. "She escaped once." she muttered, as she left.
But Kakuzawa heard her. "That is only because my deranged son let her go, thinking that if he could impregnate her, and that his children would be the new generation of Diclonius."
Arakawa turned back to him. "Right, sir, I actually had a question about that. Our studies show that Diclonius can't reproduce other than infecting others with their vectors. You're a Diclonius-"
"A secret, I trust, you've kept." He interrupted.
She nodded. "Of course, sir. But how could you have had a son if you can't reproduce, especially since you have no vectors."
Kakuzawa laughed. "Very perceptive of you. Yes, by all rights I shouldn't be able to reproduce. But you see, for a male Diclonius, it is capable to impregnate a woman infected by another Diclonius' vector. Female Diclonius are more common, because they infect humans, allowing the males to impregnate the infected woman, and for the infected men to impregnate non-infected woman."
Arakawa thought about what he said. It made sense, she supposed. "So male Diclonius can't have vectors, so they can't infect humans?"
Kakuzawa shook his head. "No, they have vectors too. But my son and I come from a long line of Diclonius that have been watered down by inter-breeding with humans, which is why we have no vectors and such small horns." He grinned. "But breeding with humans will soon come to an end. Lucy is the next step in evolution."
Arakawa narrowed her eyes. "Sir, I still don't know what you're up to with all this, but I know that you have a hidden motive."
Kakuzawa chuckled. "Do you, now? Well, you'll keep that theory to yourself if you know what's good for you."
Knowing that the conversation was over, Arakawa bowed and left. Once she was gone, the director's grin faded. "She sees too much."
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"How'd she get out?" a guard cried. "Check the security cameras."
"No time!" cried another. "She's coming! She's com-"
The rest of his sentence was cut off as he was struck dead. Lucy walked around the corner, bathed in blood, as naked as the day she was born. She looked at the other guard and smirked.
"Hello." She said coldly.
The guard aimed his gun at her and fired repeatedly. Lucy easily deflected the bullets without even trying. The fools never learned. Guns were useless against her. Aside from her six-foot vectors, she could also create a telekinetic force that allowed her to control nearby objects within her two-meter range. Meaning no bullets could touch her.
Grinning, she mentally picked up one of the bullets. "So you like guns."
She shot the bullet right back at him. The guard went down, the bullet buried in her chest. He looked up fearfully as the Diclonius moved in.
"Please, Lucy." He begged.
She chuckled. "Lucy's not here right now." she said. "Call me Kaede."
She then proceeded to dismember the guard, one limb at a time, grinning all the while.
"Oh my God."
She turned to the new arrivals, who looked at the bloody mess in horror. She grinned. The idiots were within her two-meter range. She lashed out with her vectors. One, two, three guards went down. She left one alive to play with a bit, wanting to have some fun after being confined for so long, and she didn't mean in the test room she had been locked in.
The guard struggled to find his voice. "Get away from me, you demon! Y-You monster!"
Kaede laughed. "I find it amusing how you humans make up such creative titles to give to those you fear. Demon, monster, evil villain, spawn of Satan, minion of Hell, creature of darkness. You call me by these names, yet you don't consider yourself in the same category when your kind do such things. Even worse. Rape, torture, murder, molestation, cannibalism, beating, slavery, abuse, imprisonment, war. Am I leaving anything out? You humans have done things far worse things than any other of God's creatures. Yet it's always the ones that harm your kind that you refer to as evil. Perhaps other species view you as evil for the crimes your race has done." She bent down so she was eyelevel with him, her vectors grasping his head. "So tell me, who's the real monster here? The race who brutalized its own kind, even though they were the dominant species on the planet, or the new race that was born to take over the old one?"
With those words, she crushed his head, basking in the feeling of sniffing out his life. What a rush. Unlike her counterpart, Lucy, who felt nothing when she killed, Kaede felt a thrill of it. The thrill of the kill. Just like a predator did when it hunted down and killed its prey. That was the difference between her and Lucy. Lucy killed to survive, Kaede killed because it was in her nature. It was just a shame that Lucy couldn't learn to enjoy this. But no, her moralities had to get in the way. Which resulted in the split personalities. Well, that and the psychological damage done to her. Maybe if she had been showed even a little kindness, things would have been different.
Suddenly Kohta's face appeared in her head, and she felt her hold on the body slipping. It was a real bitch having three minds in one body. Psychiatrists would have a damn field day with her.
'Time give her what she wanted.' Kaede thought. 'I will give Lucy her greatest desires. She wishes to be with Kohta, so I shall take her to Kohta.'
Reaching down, she retrieved the deceased guard's cardkey. It was time to leave this damned place. She wasn't sure exactly where to go to get to Kaede House, but she knew that somehow she would find her way back to Kohta.
After all, it was almost instinctual.
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"WHAT?" Kakuzawa bellowed.
Slamming the phone on the receiver hard enough for it to crack, he stormed out of his office, down to the security room. How could Lucy have escaped, again? He'd just finished bragging to Arakawa about how it was impossible for her to escape a second time. Talk about karma. Fate must be laughing at him.
He burst into the security room. The staff all jumped at his entrance. They were scared out of their wits. Even though they had seen Lucy leave the facility themselves, they still expected her to come back and tear them apart.
"Let me see the tape." The director growled.
"Y-Yes, sir." said a woman, who was looking rather pale.
She immediately played back the recording of Lucy's massacre and escape. Kakuzawa stood in front of the TV, watching the events take place. Lucy certainly hadn't lost her touch. In fact, if he didn't know any better, he might say that she was enjoying the killings.
"How did she get loose?"
"We don't know, sir. She suddenly broke through her restraints."
Kakuzawa growled at the lack of information as he continued to watch. Something suddenly caught his attention. "Wait, play that back. A little more. There freeze it."
The image frozen on screen was a close up of Lucy looking directly into the camera.
'That's not her.' he realized. 'That's not Lucy. It's her body, but it's not her.'
It was the eyes that gave it away. He'd look into Lucy's eyes before. He'd seen pain, sadness, and emptiness in them before, but not this. Even when Lucy had killed, it had always been emotionless. But what he saw in her eyes now… he couldn't describe it. There was something dark and sinister in them, something cruel, inhuman… evil. These were the eyes of a killer.
He suddenly remembered what Arakawa had said about Lucy reverting. Had Lucy reverted to such a state that all that was left of her was the part to wipe out humanity?
Not waiting for his employees, he pressed Play, playing back a single sentence Lucy had said to one of the guards before she killed him.
"Call me Kaede." ~ "Call me Kaede." ~ "Call me Kaede."
His eyes narrowed. 'Who are you, Kaede?'
(A/N: Ok, so like I said, things got a little violent. I need to know, do you think I should change the rating to M for the violence, because there will be other chapters like this one. Let me know, and give me some reviews. Remember what I said about reviewing having an impact on which story I update.)