A/N: HERE IT IS! ! ! The LONG awaited chapter 9!

I'm dedicating this chapter to my Grandmother Winifred (Winnie) E. Frazier in loving memory. 9/18/1923-7/28/2011 She was one heck of a lady and she will be missed very much. T_T This is for you Gram for believing in me all my life.

Disclaimer: I do not own MGLN or make money from my stories.

This is a Yuri story if you haven't guessed by now.

I hope this is up to par with the other chapters, now enjoy the read.

ZR ~*

Lightning Fingers

By

Zona Rose

Chapter 9-Lightning's Find

Nanoha's? POV

I woke up to a strange feeling in my body, I felt like I was on fire from head to toe so I untangled myself from Fate and went into the bathroom to take a cold shower and cool myself down.

So it would seem that the Dr.'s plan has been put into motion, which means I don't have much time to get done what needs to be done. I have to keep my promises to certain people and one of those promises is to keep Fate safe at all costs. Of course one of the other ones was to stay alive so I could see my love once more.

As the cold water cascaded down my body I could feel the tears leak from my eyes as I allowed myself to grieve for myself. 'I know my time is limited, as far as I know there is no cure for what I have. At least that's what he told me; should I really believe him? After all he lies about everything, why wouldn't he lie about this as well?'

"Nanoha, are you all right in there? You want me to come in and help you wash up?" Fate was saying from the other side of the door.

"No, I'm good Fate I don't want you to get your sling wet. I'll be out in a few minutes, I won't be much longer. Then we can meet everybody to go to the theme parks." I tried to sound as cheerful as possible even though inside I was still crying. Will she be able to feel my emotional state? It wouldn't be the first time that she has sensed something from me that I never intended for her to know.

After quickly washing up I got out of the shower and dried off. I moved to my bedroom and dressed quickly throwing a bag together with a bathing suit, towel and suntan lotion. I wanted to squeeze out as much fun and memories as possible; 'I just hope I have enough time to do what needs to be done. Why do I keep thinking about that, of course I'll have time; I'll force myself to have time. I have to… for them.'

"Well, looks like your shoulder has healed up as if it had never been injured. I guess that's a major plus for being a vampire; don't you think? Now I'll send you two off so you can meet up with Hayate and the others and I'll see everybody when they get back."

"You're not going with us Shamal?"

"No there's some last-minute paperwork I need to catch up on, this at least gives me a chance to do that; now you two go and have fun, Doctor's orders."

We all piled into a 15 passenger van and headed for the theme park. Everybody was talking and excited over the days events coming up. It seems that I hid my worry and my pain pretty well as nobody seemed to notice I wasn't quite myself. Boy is that an understatement if ever I said one.

At the entrance we all decided to split up and then meet back at the center of the park for lunch, then we could go over to the water park in the heat of the afternoon, and then decide what to do after that. Subaru and Teana went one way, Hayate, Vita and Signum went a different way, then Fate and I decided to hit the roller coasters before the lines got too long.

The first roller coaster was just a warm-up for Fate; I didn't want her going on the extreme one first off. It was your average up and down spin around loop to loop type roller coaster. She absolutely loved it; next we went on the bigger one. This one was a little bit more extreme as it had a higher and straighter drop than the first one; they had five loops in a row before you could get off.

The third roller coaster, which I was starting to hesitate on as I was starting to not feel so well and it wasn't just from the roller coasters either, was Mega Typhoon it was the biggest and baddest roller coaster that Nanoha had ever been on. By the time we were done with the corkscrews and the loops and going backwards through those loops I was done with roller coasters for the day.

We decided to walk through the games and see if there was anything that we wanted to win. I wanted Fate to have something to remember the day by even if it was some stupid stuffed animal. She didn't seem to be interested in anything, at least not until we got towards the end of the games. She kept looking over at something I was trying to figure out what she was looking at, it was a teddy bear in what looked like a superheroes outfit with lightning bolts on its shirt and forehead.

When she wasn't looking and preoccupied I went over to the game, paid my dollar and won her the teddy bear. When I presented it to her she blushed like a little girl, it made me feel giddy inside to know that I had brought a very good memory to her as well is something to remember our day together as this was our first day at a theme park.

As we were strolling along looking at everything that was around us I noticed a ride. It was off by itself, and had a good-sized line but not something that would scare us away, so I pulled Fate with me and we got into line for Aphrodite's Love Cruise. With a name like that I couldn't resist to spend a little lovey-dovey time with Fate.

We waited in line for 30 min. but once we were in the boat we cuddled up and went through hearts, cupids, we even saw wedding bells and chapels. Fate held me throughout the ride combing her fingers through my hair as my face was in the crook of her neck. I was enjoying just our alone time, but why was this alone time causing me to be so sad. I could feel the tears want to come to the surface but I pushed them back, it would ruin her day if she knew how upset I really was.

She tilted my head back and gave me a passionate kiss just as we were coming out of the arch that was in the shaped of a heart. After we had exited off we held hands and headed for the center of the park for lunch.

We could see everybody was waiting for us. As we approached everybody started talking all at once, wanting to know who wanted what and where. Fate and I both said we wanted sushi at the same time; we looked each other and laughed. So we walked over to the sushi and Ramen restaurant, placed our order and waited for it to be made fresh.

After getting our food we moved outside so that we could sit with everyone else. About 30 min. later we were all done eating and once Subaru and Teana were done arguing over who was going to get the last fried dumpling, Subaru hand feed it to Teana in the end.

Now it was on to the water park, I was noticing the closer we were getting to it the more nervous Fate seemed to be getting. I asked her if she was all right, she said she was fine just that she had never learned how to swim. I told her that wasn't a problem, that I would teacher her.

For the first hour I taught Fate how to swim. She learned quickly so thankfully it didn't take long. By the time I was done she was swimming circles around me quite literally too.

After that we headed for the waterslides and then the lazy river. Afterwards we decided to take a rest we found everyone, spread out our towels and laid down. The hot sun felt good until it was starting to make me feel too hot, my body temperature was starting to rise again. It has been doing so well up until now.

I decided to get up and get something cold to drink so I asked Fate if there was anything she wanted to drink also, she said a bottle of water would be just fine for her. After paying for and getting the drinks I turned around to head back towards Fate and bumped into somebody I wasn't expecting: Nanoha's adopted brother, Yuuno of all people to run into especially today.

"Nanoha, are you all right you don't seem to be yourself today? Matter as a fact you don't look like yourself at all, you almost look like someone else entirely."

"What do you mean Yuuno? I'm me the same me that you have know all along."

"That's not what a little birdie told me, it seems to me that the information that I have is that you're a little Jail birdie; but that's all right, as long as I get the real one I don't care. Do I make myself clear on that Na-no-ha?"

"Hey Nanoha is there a problem over here? You were taking so long to get the drinks I came to check on you. Oh hey Yuuno I didn't realize you were here to, you want to come join us all? We're all over here."

"Fate, nice to see you. It's also nice to see that you've mellowed out a bit and you're not hitting me. As I would love to spend time with my sister there's actually some where I need to be, I hope you all enjoy your day here. Have a good day Nanoha."

"You to Yuuno, I'll see you around. Bye-bye."

"Nanoha, are you all right? You look a bit flushed. Have you been standing out in the sun too much? Let's get you into the shade before you pass-out on me."

Fate guided me over to a shaded bench but my mind was spinning with what was just revealed to me. 'How did Yuuno find out that I wasn't the real Nanoha? Could he be the mole that I'm looking for? No; he said that he was told by someone but whom? I've got to find out tonight, I'm going to have to break into the Brig. Gen. Gaiz's file room and hope I find out the right information.'

As my thoughts went swirling around my head I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and turned my head and looked straight in to two beautiful eyes. One was green and one was red with dark blond hair and a very, very frightened look in both her eyes and on her face.

Upon seeing me she came running and I opened my arms to her. The moment she was encircled in my arms and her face buried in my chest, she started to cry. I tried to soothe her as best I could until her tears were spent.

"It's okay Vivio, you're safe now, I won't let anyone hurt you and neither will Fate or the others. Now that you're free of him I'll never let you go back. I promise you little one, you'll never have to go through any of that ever again."

Fate was staring at us as she took in my words. "Nanoha you know this little girl? Who is she? Where did she come from?"

I nodded my head yes. "I met her while I was at Jails laboratory. She was being experimented on like all of his humanlike experiments. I will never let her go back to him. Her screams…I still hear them. We need to get her back to our apartment as quickly as possible; she'll be safe there, as she'll have us to protect her."

"I'm sorry but she's not going with anyone but us." Stepping out of the bushes three young people start to surround us. I looked from face-to-face and I knew their names which means I knew them when I was at the laboratory. I looked at the young man that had spoken.

"Elio, please let her stay with me and Fate, I won't let her go back and be one of his experiments anymore. You have to understand keeping her out of his hands will stop his plans."

"Maybe that's so, what do you really want him to do, go after her sire instead? Because that's who he will go after next if he can't have Vivio."

I looked from face-to-face I realized the truth on every single one of them. 'They were right, if he didn't have Vivio then he would go after… no I can't think of that, I won't let that happen. I made a promise to protect.'

I lifted my head up and looked Elio right in the eyes. "I'm sorry Elio but I can't let any of that happen. He will have them over my dead body. I will protect them with my dying breath."

"I'm sorry you feel that way because she is coming with us."

Without waiting for their first move I spun around kicking Elio in the stomach, sending him flying into the trash behind the refreshment stand, hitting his head as he landed. I just hoped that he wasn't too severely hurt as I knew he was a good kid and was getting a bad rap by being associated and working for Jail.

Fate taking my cue attacks Lutecia which left me with Caro. She looked between me and the unconscious Elio and slowly backed up with her hands up in front of her to show that she would not resist me. I quickly glanced over to Fate just as Lutecia crumpled to the ground from a quick punch which released all the air in her lungs.

Fate and I ran into the woods heading for the exit. As we were running I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. Expecting it to be an enemy I was ready for anything except for what I saw, Subaru and Teana were going hot and heavy. I made sure that Vivio's face was facing away from the little tryst that was going on about 50 feet away from us.

"Oh God Subaru deeper and faster I'm almost there… ah, Ah, AH SUBARU!"

I decided to cover Vivio's ear that was exposed so that she wouldn't hear what was next as I could hear Teana's release and orgasm. I glanced over at Fate and she had a beautiful blush painting her cheeks as apparently she heard the same thing I did.

Once we got to the edge of the woods near the exit we slowed down so that we wouldn't attract attention. I put Vivio on my hip and she wrapped her arms around me as if she were my daughter. Once we got out to the parking lot Fate was looking for something in particular. I was wondering how we were going to get back to base and safety.

Fate finally spotted a vehicle and walked over towards it. "I hope Hayate doesn't hold it against me for my little indiscretions." Placing her hand on the door I heard a little zap and then she opened the door. I looked from her to the door, smiled and got in.

She repeated the process on the drivers' door and then once inside she held her hand over the ignition and then the car roared to life. Driving back to base Fate kept to the speed limits and before we knew it we were back safe and sound; at least I hoped we were.

On our way up to our apartment we didn't run into anyone that was suspicious. Once inside I went straight over to the couch, cradling Vivio in my arms, waiting for someone to burst through the door and take her back to that inhuman beast Jail.

Fate sat down next to me with concern written all over her face as she looked between me and Vivio. I knew she had questions but there was no way I'd be able to tell her the answers without revealing some very important facts. The biggest fact that I'm not the real Nanoha and that the real one is being held by Jail to lure Fate into his clutches.

Jail has many different ways of trying to get Fate back, the first is for her to find out that I'm not the real Nanoha, the second would be if I died Fate would go insane thinking I was Nanoha and go after Jail, the third would be if Fate found out that Ali is alive.

Shamal's POV

'Why does my head hurt so much? And why am I on the floor too? The last thing I remember was… I was coming back from lunch wishing I had gone with everyone to the parks… when I walked in my desk was a mess and the computer was on. After I walked up to it to see what was on it I felt pain and blacked out.'

"I need to go and see Dr. Hunter and see if I have a concussion or not." An hour and x-rays later I finally make it back to my infirmary to check in to what it was that, that person was looking for.

As I click on the back button a porn site comes up and I quickly close out of it. So I check past History and it was empty. This bothered me so I called Shari to see if she could bring back the missing History. After 30 minutes I had the missing information and I was stumped as to why someone would go to all this trouble to hide and cover there tracks. Until I saw the files that person was looking at.

"I can't believe that they ditched us at the water park like that, if they're not in here then they better be dead or dyeing some place." Hayate came storming in the door and after three steps she stopped dead in her tracks.

I'm quite sure that the bandage around my head and the glazed look in my eyes didn't help. Signum was around Hayate and by my side in 1.5 sec. I think that was a record for her. She gathered me in her arms and I gently put my head on her shoulder; finally I was able to relax and know I was truly safe as long as I was in Signum's arms.

"What happened darling? Who hurt you? I'll make them wish they were never born to even lay a hand upon you."

My heart fluttered at her words and I could feel the warm blush painting my cheeks. "I was coming back from lunch and saw that the computer was on and my desk was a mess, so I walked up to it to see what was going on and the next thing I knew I was waking up on the floor with a headache. So I went up to Dr. Hunter to get checked out, she said that I have a mild concussion but nothing to worry about. I'm all right now that you're here."

"Shamal, were you able to find out what it was someone was looking for?"

"Yes but I had to have Shari retrieve the information as the history for the search had been deleted. Also Hayate, when I went to look for the history a porn site came up. There's only one person that I know of in this building there that would be that grotesquely perverted."

"So he's starting to make his moves, is he? Ambrose has always been showing up at the wrong times almost too conveniently. I think he's gathering information for someone but I'm not exactly sure who that person or persons are. When I find out who they are I'll make sure that they're all court-martialed."

"Hayate, I think I know who he is trying to dig up information on, and you're not going to like it one bit. They were the medical records of…."

Nanoha's? POV

I was able to tell Fate about Vivio without giving away certain details, thankfully. She seemed to be satisfied with the information that I gave her. At least I think she believed me, I hope so anyways.

Fate wanted to make love but I told her that I didn't want Vivio to walk in on us. She reluctantly agreed that that would be a good thing for a kid to see. And if this kept up the kid was gonna have to find somewhere else to stay. If only she knew who that kid really was she probably would think differently about her.

Fate finally fell asleep it felt like forever but it was really only three hours to make sure that she was deeply a sleep. I crawled out of bed and quickly got dressed; sneaking out of the apartment wasn't that hard, Arf was sleeping in with a Vivio.

But sneaking into the Brig. Gen. Gaiz's file room was a whole different story. Fortunately Ali taught me well on how to bypass certain types of security systems that the TSAB would use. Next I had to find the files that were most important, the files on the different team members of the 6th Mobile Division.

Now with all of their files pulled on some more important ones, the ones that have been working on the inside of this establishment, they're the real reason that I'm here. I'll scan their files really quickly but the person that really needs to read them is Commander Yagami.

After finding and speed reading the information I put these files into a separate bag then the first set. I carefully make my way through the halls to Commander Yagami's apartment. After picking the lock I walk over to the dining room table and set down two separate bags one larger than the other.

"Nanoha, what are you doing in my apartment? And what are those bags?"

I spin around and there in front of me stands the Commander. I guess it's time that I come clean with her, after all if I can't trust the Commander, who in fact was the only one that can probably do this, then who else could I possibly trust with this information?

"I'm sorry, Commander Yagami, I don't have much time before I need to leave. There are some important things that I need to tell you, one of them being: my name is not Nanoha. It's Destiny and I am a Bioroid. I am a perfect copy of Nanoha in every way, from her memories or lack of memories at the time to her emotions to every physical aspect of her. I truly am the perfect copy of her the only problem is, is because of what I am my life expectancy is considerably short.

I had already been created and was placed in stasis for the time when he would kidnap Nanoha. He thought that I was unprogrammed and continues to try and program me in the short time that Nanoha and I had met. I pretended that his programming worked so that our plan would go off without a hitch.

You see, Commander, Jail needs either Fate or Vivio to control a ship that he created from ancient technology. The race that created this technology was actually from another world and he used special DNA he found to create the perfect vessels to operate the ship. The only way to stop him is to prevent him from getting his hands on either Fate or Vivio."

"Wait Nano… I mean Destiny, how do I know that I can trust you? How do I know that this is not part of his programming? Give me something to believe you or I will have no choice but to arrest you right now."

"Commander, the one who programmed me was none other than Fate's sister Alicia. If I don't get back to the cavern than Alicia will think that something has gone wrong. She will attempt to rescue Nanoha without my help and they both could end up dead because of it. I'm sorry, Commander, but I can't let the love of my life risk her life when I am the one that is expendable."

"No one is expendable, Destiny, don't think of yourself that way because you would be wrong in thinking that of yourself. How can we help you save Nanoha?"

"By reading the files in these two bags you'll have a better picture of both your team and some unsavory characters here and your own TSAB. You can also help me by keeping Fate and Vivio safe and sound from that madman. Oh, and one other thing, have Shamal do a DNA coding on Vivio; I think you will all be surprised at what you find."

I walked to the door to set out on my mission when a thought came to me. "Just an FYI I got those files from the Brig. Gen. Gaiz he may end up taking notice that they're missing. You may want to hide them well if you don't want be caught with them. Goodbye, Commander. I hope to see you again someday, if not than it was a pleasure to know you."

Stepping out into the hallway I moved to leave the building and notice Vivio standing in the doorway of Fate's apartment. So I stopped and knelt down and gave her a hug. "I'll get her back, little one; I promise you I'll save your mama."

A/N: Well there it is I hope this was as good as the other chapters.

For you that caught my refrains to Appleseed "Bioroid" cookie's for you.

Again I will be going on Hiatus for a few weeks. When I get back I will dive right back in to my writing.

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Thank you for reading my stories.

In Love & Light,

Zona Rose ~*

7/30/2011