Let's say you were out on a mission and were fortunate enough to run into him. What would you do if he were an Aragami? Could you kill that Aragami?

-Ren

Fallen Queen

Everything went blank... Umiko could remember nothing. No connections, no duties, nothing... she couldn't even remember her own name. To her, she came into existence and was in a threatening environment. Like the wind, she swiftly came upon the first Ba'al she spotted, the one that she smack away from Empty Eyes, and bit into its neck with her fangs-for-teeth. Separating its head from its body. Once done, she jumped on its body and began to devour it. Savagely ripping into its core and swallowing it whole.

She slowly lifted her head from her crouched position to look up at the other Ba'al. Her hair covering the upper half of her face as blood began to drip from her open mouth. Her crimson eyes slowly started to emerge from their darkened cover. She roared at them as she charged after another, going for an upper bite for the jugular. Ripping off the head and simply thrusting a fist through its chests to extract the core. She ate it gleefully as the remaining Ba'als started to flee.

But she wasn't having that, they threatened her... she was going to finish what they started. Umiko grabbed the tail of one of them, it only had one arm. The other one seemed to have been cut off. Not wanting it to feel uneven, she decided to ripped off its remaining arm from behind. Giving it only a second to roar out in pain, she pushed her fist into its chest from behind to pull out its core. Bringing the core up to its face, she showed it to the Ba'al as she crushed it. Roughly pulling her arm out and tossing the Ba'al to the side as she went after the last one.

Rushing after the Ba'al as best as she could with tentacles, she leaped onto its back to bring it down. Going a different route with this one, she wrapped her tentacles all around its body, looking at it in the eyes as she strangled it to death. The rage that was in its eyes as it changed into fear, made her joyful inside. She couldn't fathom why, but she felt glad for killing those Aragami.

Aragami? How did she know that they were Aragami? Who taught her, for that matter... who was she? Why was she here? Some God Arc Soldiers were coming, perhaps they could explain it to her.

"Excuse me, Sirs." Her voice sounded like she was speaking underwater. "Can you possibly tell me who I am and where I am?"

"!" The Control Room was shocked at the news, more than the savage display of carnage she did moments ago. Did she have a break down? Were the side-effects of the new dosage finally showing themselves?

Three God Arc Soldiers converged at Umiko's locations just as ordered, looking around they analyzed the situation. They registered Umiko's question, but their response to her was not what she expected. The God Arc Soldiers merely made their submarine horn sounds at her and started to glow in the eyes. Their primary objectives where to annihilate all colossal Aragami they came across. Umiko at this point was not register as Gods Eater and more like an Aragami. She registered as an Aragami Infection and must be removed.

"!" Umiko gasped as the first Soldier came at her to strike with his Long Blade. She blocked him with her Caligula arm blades and held him back. "What are you doing?"

Things didn't help much when the other Soldier with a Long Blade went to strike her other side, forcing her to block it with her other arm.

"Stop, cease, uh Desist!" She tried to order to the attacking Soldiers. From what her knowledge told her these giants were suppose to be friendly so she didn't want to harm them like those... Ba'al. But they tied her hands when the last Soldier was going for the cut. He targeted to cut through her middle while her defense was open, and she couldn't have that. "I said STOP!"

Umiko fired a Divine laser canon from her mouth, nicking the Buster Blade Soldier in the shoulder. The Soldier lowered its blade and clinched its wound on instinct.

"G.A.S.5 has taken heavy damage in the shoulder. Total damage is at 32%." An Engineer informed to the Control Room.

Kicking the injured Soldier down with one of her tentacles and out of the way, she pushed back of the other Soldiers. Taking advantage of their temporary exposure in defense, she ended up slicing through the chest area of the Soldier to her right. And then grabbed the Soldier on her left and stabbed her blade into its stomach. Aiming nowhere near the vitals, her main aim was to temporarily immobilize them so she could make a retreat.

"G.A.S.4 has taken medium damage in the chests area, 25%!"

"G.A.S.5 has taken heavy damage in the mid region, damage at 38%!"

Umiko looked around at the injured God Arc Soldiers as they clinched their wounds and moaned with their horns. For some reason it hurt her to see them in pain. She looked down at her large hands, still covered in Ba'al's blood. Looking at her palms she pondered to herself.

"What... am I? Where can I go?" Where could she go where no one would try to harm her? She looked out passed her hands to her tentacles for legs. She had them, perhaps she was meant to be at sea. "Water... I must find water..."

She tried moving with her tentacles, but her weight and size destroyed all the trees in her path. Not wanting to harm the natural ecosystem, she extracted her enlarged wings from her back and began to take flight. The wind created from her initial wing movement nearly knocked down the God Arc Soldiers. As she flew higher she disappeared behind the gray clouds.

"Armlet has been damaged and removed from No. 2 during the enlargement. We cannot track her down from the system, Sir." One of the Scientist informed to Director Garland.

"..."

"Director Garland, how should we proceed?"

"..." Director Garland closed his eyes, no longer willing to look at the screen. "Call back the Soldiers for maintenance. Have them carry whatever is left of Empty Eyes back with them."

"..."

"Send out a Black Alert to all the Branches." Garland ordered. "We'll need all the help we can get on taking No. 2 out."

"!"

"Sir, you don't mean-"

"No. 2 can no longer differentiate between enemy and ally. She is more Aragami than human now, she must be terminated." Garland commanded, leaving the Control Room and headed for his Office. Once alone he reminisced aloud. "So... the daughter walks along the same path as the father... What a tragedy that family must live."

*** Meanwhile back at the Far East Branch ***

An alarm went off in Dr. Sakaki's lab, while the others where hanging out there with Sora. They were trying to adjust Sora to his rapidly recovering memories and give him as much human contact as possible since he was stuck in Dr. Sakaki's left lab back room. Sora would have to remain hidden until all the preparation for Umiko's curing process was sorted out. Dr. Sakaki immediately went through his computer's continents, looking for information. Already knowing what the sound of that certain alarm meant.

"What's going on Doc?" Soma asked.

"There's been an Aragami infection in one of the Branches, the alarm is signaling for assistance."

"What?!" Alisa gasped.

"Where? Who is it coming from?" Kota inquired.

"I'm checking that now." Dr. Sakaki said, saying in his own way that he was getting on it so give him some space. He typed through his computers with mad speed until his answer made him freeze it place. "I-it's... it's from the Finland Branch."

"What?!" Sakuya gasped in concern while Soma and Sora jumped to their feet.

"Garland's requesting any Gods Eater the other Branches can spare... to Suicidal Assist Umiko." Dr. Sakaki somberly said. "Actually he's requesting for heavy weaponry since she's already taken down three of his God Arc Soldiers."

"What the hell did he do to her?!" Soma growled out with rage. Each time he left Umiko with his uncle she'd end up in worse condition.

"Most likely he has moved forward with the final stages of his Project."

"!" They all turned toward the direction of the voice, by the door.

"Dr. Rumiko, I didn't expect to see you so soon." Dr. Sakaki said seriously.

"Things have changed once I heard the news." Dr. Rumiko replied sadly. "My Intel had informed me that Director Garland had proceeded with his Project, without Sora, by injected a new core sample into Umiko's body."

"What kind of core?" Sora insisted.

"A Colossal class Aragami core."

"!"

"Has he lost his mind?!" Soma roared at the stupidity of putting a massive Aragami's core inside a smaller mass, the stress it would cause on the body would be drastic.

"More like he has become drastic." Dr. Rumiko corrected. "We thrived to put that massive amount of power into a human body to harness it against the Aragami. But the theory was still in its Testing Phase, Garland should have never tried to pull it off."

"What do you mean?" Soma asked, demanding that she would explain further.

"Larger Aragami have more active Oracle Cells since they have a massive amount of moving space. So the side-effects from their core dosage would be more aggressive, active, and noticeable." Dr. Rumiko explained. "Normally an undiluted amount of liquid will attack any memory related to the emotion of pain for a period of time then will become dormant, just like in Sora's and Umiko's case. But Colossal Aragami's Oracle Cells are much stronger, and will most likely not go into dormant. They'll continue to attack the memories related or associated to the emotion of pain, such as sadness, jealousy, loneliness, and anger even as new memories are formed.

"Umiko most likely had experience a significant amount of sadness and loneliness at the disappearance of her brother. As time went by, the dosage must have eaten her memories affiliated with Sora until there was nothing left, even the ones that only partially related to Sora. With time, her memories would be all but gone. Leaving nothing but her, her God Arc and Soldier, and quite possibly Garland."

"Tst," Soma had to grunt in hate at that. His uncle still remained in her mind while he was wiped clean with the others, it just made him want to punch his uncle.

"However, the lost of Empty Eyes must have made her lose the remaining shred of memory she had left."

"!" Sora, Dr. Sakaki, and Soma snapped at that news. They all exclaimed at the same time. "Empty Eyes is gone?!"

"Yeah... perished on the battlefield while she was still in the core." Dr. Rumiko sadly confirmed. "From what I've heard it was not a pretty sight. And yet through it all... Empty Eyes had disconnected their Resonance and protected his core until his last breath. No God Arc Soldier has ever shown behavior like that... it was like it had a will of its own. But what do you expect coming from Empty Eyes origins."

"What do you mean?" Soma asked.

"Each God Arc Soldier is created from Aragami parts gathered and connected together from various Branches. Each part collected by a set God Arc and its Gods Eater is influenced by the will and characters of the Gods Eater, thus effects the characteristics of the Soldier for the most part. So each Soldier is created from the parts from the same Branch, and mostly by the same Gods Eater. Each one categorized and logged into the system for further usage or study."

"And... which Branch was Empty Eyes made from?"

"Isn't it obvious?" But Soma remained silent, his mind had an idea but he still held his doubts. "Yours."

"!"

"More precisely from the Far East Branch's First Unit, but mostly yours." Dr. Rumiko explained, paying no mind to the shock coming over Soma. "Originally, Garland had Empty Eyes created to see if he would react differently from the other Soldiers due to your unique differences from other God Eaters. The Resonance and connection Empty Eyes and Umiko had with each other was an uncalculated added bonus. So in a way... Empty Eyes was a piece of you."

"!" So in the end... Umiko had become close to a piece that came from apart of him. And... it protected her, even to its death... and she mourned for it. Driven over the edge by its loss... as wretched as he felt for feeling this way... Soma felt good that she reacted so strongly at the piece of him. And though he thought he would never say this, but he was glad that the others from his Den were looking so teasingly at him, it distracted him from his inner struggles. Making him annoyed as they silently laughed in already-knowing-but-now-there's-proof way at his now subconscious affection toward their former leader. And even though things were going down hill, turns out she felt the same.

"Damn it all Garland, you made it this far with the Project, you should have stopped there and be done with it." Dr. Rumiko said aloud, mostly to herself. "Now we've gotten our hands dirty again."

"You speak as if you were apart of all this?" Lindow questioned accusingly.

"I was," Dr. Rumiko gravely admitted with her head down. "I was the one who began the Project with Garland."

"!"

"You monster!"

"Soma!" Sora barked at him.

"No, he's right... I am a monster for trying to play God with human life." Dr. Rumiko grievously spoke. "I destroyed lives all in the name of science and evolution. Yours... your sister's... and your father's..."

"!"

"What...?"

"Listen, Sora. I've been trying to tell you this for a while now, but I've been pretty scared of what your reaction would be." Dr. Ruiko pulled out a disk from her labor pantsuit's pocket. "This disc explains why Fenrir could never give you back your father's body. And why I've tried so hard... to atone to your family..."

She walked over to Dr. Sakaki's Terminal, which was connected to the big screen on the back wall. The video started off with video fuzz, then cleared off to the beginning where it all started.

It was ten years ago, the video started somewhere far in the wasteland of Europe. Dr. Rumiko at that time was in her mid 20s, freshly out of college with her PhD. She had a sparkle in her eyes full of wonder and excitement that had dwindled out of her eyes long ago.

She happily skipped over to the corpse of a Dyaus Pita while an older model Gods Eater in his early 30s followed closely behind. The man remain cool and yet still alert as he guards the young scientist out in the Wasteland. Sora remember this man... His wavy onyx hair that he let flow down a little past his shoulders. The peach hairs that grew on his strong chin... and those crimson eyes. It was his dad. He remembered as a child how he would look up to his father as such a strong figure he would want to grow into. The man would hold him and Umiko up with one arm with no trouble, sometimes playfully carrying them like potato sacks or a football when he needed to do a chore for mom.

"Whoa, isn't it amazing Mr. Yukino?!" Dr. Rumiko asked with excitement and glee.

"Amazing when it's dead, but alive (hiss)... not so much." Mitsutsuki chuckled while subconsciously tightening his grip on his God Arc Pistol.

"This thing is one of the strongest species of Aragami in our time, maybe even ever." The others silently laughed at Dr. Rumiko's young ignorance as the tape went on. "Thank you so much for bringing me out here, Mr. Yukino! I know how much you were against the idea."

"As long as you play it safe, I have no reason to hold you from your demands."

"I've got to take a sample back with me!" She ran to the Aragami, twirling around for a second to call back to Mitsutsuki. "Come on, Mr. Yukino!"

"(Chuckle) There's no need to rush. The Aragami isn't going anywhere." Mitsutsuki teased at her as he calmly walked to her. He admired her spirit, must have been coming from her youth.

Then the video stopped and started again inside the meeting room of a Research Facility. The two of them were present for this meeting, but this time... so was Garland. His expression was much softer, lacking in its usual calculating and scheming. Both eyes were present at this time, but his leg... was still missing. Garland and Rumiko sat at the table, while Mitsutsuki stood. He acted as the bodyguard, but was also allowed to participate due to their permission. And whatever they were talking about before, he must have been extremely against.

"Dr. Rumiko, I cannot support any of this. This is beyond the rights and power of mankind." Mitsutsuki protested.

"These are troubling times, Mr. Yukino. If it takes us reaching for the gods to defeat the gods then so be it." Garland responded.

"Please Mr. Yukino, try to understand. We're doing this for a good cause." Dr. Rumiko pleaded with him, crestfallen that the usually cheerful father figure was against her Project. She actually looked up highly to his opinions.

"By genetically fusing a human with an Aragami's core?" Mitsutsuki angrily hissed. "You have no idea of the consequences this could have. This could easily backfire on us, or worse... needlessly wreck and destroy a human life."

"Need I remind you that similar experiments have been tested directly before. It was my brother and his life partner that had injected Aragami cells into my nephew while he was still in the fetus." Soma flinched at the mention of him. "Creating a half-breed and enhancing our defense against the Aragami."

"..." Mitsutsuki stared at Garland in all seriousness. "As a father of twins, I do not approve of the usage of children in experiments, especially their own. The child didn't have the right to chose his own fate, and I will die before the same thing happens to my own."

"Sacrifices must be made in order to progress, Mr. Yukino." Garland stated. "But you're right, sacrifices were made. Everyone on the Project, except for my older brother and my nephew, Soma, had died during the final stage. And whether you like it or not, my nephew is a hero that has paved the way for future generations to prosper. And now another sacrifice must be made again. I have already lost a leg to those damn monsters on the other side of these wall, I'm not going to give them more."

"This is madness? Do we really have a right to survive as a species if we have to keep on sacrificing our own?" Mitsutsuki rhetoric.

"Please, Mr. Yukino. We'll test the samples on smaller subjects before injecting it into a human. It'll work out, I know it'll work out! Okay...?" Dr. Rumiko determinedly pleaded with him, silently begging for his approval.

"... Very well... I have voiced my opinion. You two have no intentions of stopping... so I will silently watch in the background." Mitsutsuki relentlessly said, crossing his arms together as he yielded to their borderline idea.

The video stops there, fuzzing out for a while before instantly coming back. The three of them were standing inside a sterile lab room. Mitsutsiki leaned on the wall, arms crossed as he watched over the two. In the center of the room was a steel lab tube with a developing sample of Oracle Cells encased in bullet proof glass. Garland was circling around it, taking notes of the changes and progress it was making in evolving. While Dr. Rumiko was checking its data through the computer module in the room, connected to the sample tube. She typed through the computer with speed and reckless excitement, changing the levels of condition inside the glass to gather results.

"Aren't you two moving a little too fast with this?" Mitsutsuki voiced in concern, silently telling them it was about time for them to call it a quits for the day.

"You shouldn't jest, Mr. Yukino." Garland playing retorted back with a grin.

"In a moment, I want to get a little more of the data in this stage." Dr. Rumiko said with a smile on her face, still typing on her computer. Not looking away from it even as she spoke to Mitsutsuki.

"(Sigh) Rushing into this will get you no where." Mitsutsuki lectured at the two of them. "!"

Suddenly the Oracle Cells in the glass started acting up. Their movements became violent as they expanded and began to pound on the glass. Mitsutsuki got up from the wall and got into a defensive stance, Garland slowly backed away from the glass while Dr. Rumiko moved away from her computer to get a better look at what was happening.

That's when the Oracle Cells broke out, shattering the glass as they escaped. One of the glass shards had flung into Garland's left eye, making him cry out as he covered the wound with his hand. The sample, however, shot out toward Dr. Rumiko. She cried out and shielded herself with her arm as it came at her.

"Look out!" Mitsutsuki shouted at her, pushing Dr. Rumiko out of the way as he took the hit for her. "Ugh!"

The Oracle Cells dug into his right arm and sunk into his body. Making him shout in pain as he fell to his knees, holding his injured arm with his left hand. Dr. Rumiko slowly rose back up from the floor and look around at the other two's condition.

"Garland!" She then turned to Mitsutsuki as he rose back to his feet, the Oracle Cells were starting to take effect as his arm began to change. But he gritted his teeth, hiding the pain as she ran to Mitsutsuki's aid. "Mr. Yukino, are you alright?!"

"Ugh! I'll be fine." Mitsutsuki huffed out through gritted teeth as he gripped his infected arm. "Geh, get Garland to a doctor."

The video ended, then started again... days later. The three of them where in a different lab room, in a different atmosphere. Garland now sported the eye-patch he was known for today, and a sadness now coated over Dr. Rumiko's face. But Mitsutsuki... Mitsutsuki was in the worse shape of them all. The infection had spread all over his body, with the neglection of his neck and head. He was all spiked and Aragami armored, it nearly resembled Sora's transformation. Garland and Dr. Rumiko had gathered many samples as they could from him, but they could find nothing to help him. The Oracle Cells inside him were unstable, lacking of order and control that normal Aragami used to keep them together. The only thing keeping Mitsutsuki together right now was his unique genetics and his stubborn will. He was strapped to a steel lab table, up right, shaking compulsively and breathing like he was choking on something. Dr. Rumiko came up to him in concern, while Garland panicked about his worsening conditions from the side.

"Mr. Yukino!" Dr. Rumiko cried out in angst, trying to reach him with her voice to help him stay with them.

"Ugh... to think... that it would all end like this." He tiredly spoke. "How I long to see my beautiful Sunshine again."

"No, we'll fine a way! We'll make you better! Just stay with us, okay?" But Mitsitsuki sadly shook his head at her.

"It's no use... my body is... at its limits." Mitsutsuki huffed. "I can't go on much longer."

"No!"

"To think... I'll never see my little ones grow... I'm going to miss that." He sadly continued on, looking up at the ceilings head lights. "I hope Taiyoko will forgive me for this..."

"Mr. Yukino!"

"Tell my wife and children that I'm sorry." He requested to them for the last time, frightening them as he broke loose one of his arms from the bindings. With a great force he ripped his hand into his chest and pulled out his heart, morbidly bringing it up to his face as it slowly stopped beating. "At least... I still have a heart."

"NO!" Dr. Rumiko cried out as his body went limp. Closing his eyes as he dropped his heart on the ground, a look of peaceful slumber gracing his face. "Mr. Yukino! Mr. Yukino!"

"Rumiko... he's gone..." Garland sadly stated, placing a hand on Dr. Rumiko's shoulder to comfort her.

"No!" She twirled around, grabbing on to Garland's coat as she cried into his chest. He let her cry out her woes as he embrace her back to soothed both their pains. "Why did he?! Why did he have to go away?! Why did he have to die like that?!"

The video ended there, the room was silent. Mournful tears, began to escape Dr. Rumiko's eyes as she relived the memory.

"HQ... didn't want the public to find out what they were doing in their labs." She tearfully explained what happened next. "Because of this... we had to bury him in an unmarked grave out in the wasteland of Germany. And left out the details to the family..."

"..." Sora remained silent as he waited for her to finish. His silence frightened her, like the sound of cold judgement.

"We were young, careless of what our actions would bring... I made so many mistakes." Dr. Rumiko confessed. "I know that... I can never truly repent to your family for my sins against you all. But... even so... I just want you to know that... I'm so sorry."

"..." Sora remained silent for a bit longer. "Perhaps my family is cursed."

"?!"

"Sorry, I was just thinking aloud." Sora tiredly sighed. "Beating yourself up about it won't change a thing. What's done is done, and right now I have to go save my sister. But later on... once this is all over, I would like for you to tell me where you buried my dad."

"!" A sad smile came over, that was as close as a forgiveness she was going to get from him. But she would take that, it was better than nothing. "Yes, of course!"

*** Later at the Finland Branch Region ***

Branches from all over the globe had sent Finland a handful of their best God Eaters, and a load of heavy artillery. They intended to light Umiko up before she became a threat to the other Branches. Garland noted how the Far East Branch didn't send anything, but he expected that. The Branch would never indorse the destruction of one of their own, even if she no longer associated with them. Not even his God Eaters would participate in this, as they saw Umiko as one of their own, even if she did... change.

The forces had gather along the coast of Norway, blockading the way to the beach. Umiko had stated that she needed to head to water, judging by the projectile of direction when she took flight she would be heading to this location. Fenrir news had gathered close to the area, as the event was broadcast live across the globe. Everyone with a television or a radio stood on the edge of their seats as all the world and the forces stood on standby.

The First Unit and most of the Den, including Dr. Rumiko and Sora, took to watching it all go down on the big screen in the Entrance. All waiting, for whatever was left of Umiko to finally show up.

"As you can see, all is quiet on the front as we go on the second hour of standby and still no signs of the Aragami Infected Gods Eaters, No. 2." The news-lady reported with a professionalism that still leaked out her nervousness and fears for what was to come. Her pass-her-shoulder length onyx hair blew in the ocean breeze as she nervously pushed up her glasses over her blue eyes. Garland had requested for Umiko's specimen codename to be used in order to conceal her identity. "Our brave men and women are getting restless at the calmness while the possibly threat is approaching, all of us here and at home are standing at the edge of our toes. Hoping that this line of defense can put a stop to this calamity, and put an end to this tortured soul."

"Hn." Soma hissed through his teeth at the sound of them 'putting an end' to Umiko. Suddenly events began to roll as the loud sound of wings flapping came closer and closer to the barricade. "!"

The sound grew louder and louder, out from the sky something emerged from the clouds.

"This is it everyone, I think the Infected Gods Eater is approaching!" The news-reported informed with slight excitement. But that excitement soon went down to the pit of her stomach as Umiko fully emerged from the clouds. All around the world a gasp and scream went out at the sight of her. "My God..."

Umiko slowly landed close to the barricade, retracting her wings back into her body as she decided to walk the rest of the way to the ocean... or in her case slitter and slide her tentacles there since her back was sore. She paid the people and their weapons no mind as she made her way to the beach.

"Almost there... just a bit further." Umiko said aloud to herself, still... her voice made many flinch at the sound of it. It sounded like that time before.

"Target spotted, open fire!" The command went out on the battlefield. The God Eaters' rifle squad were the first to take fire, the bullets having little to no effect on her.

"Ha haa!" Umiko laughed at their attempts, moving passed them and using her tentacles to smash the man-made barricades. Slapping away the others to scare off the rifle squad as the barricades came flying at them. "Unwelcomed company return from wince you've came."

Breaking through the first defenses, the Choppers were sent in to make it rain fire on her. She flinched as their bullets hit her head in all directions, making her bring her hand up to block the ones going for her face.

"Alright it's only a flesh wound, heh ha." Umiko sighed as she rolled off the slight discomfort on her face. She lifted up her other hand. "Be afraid," and then smacked one of the Choppers out of the sky, "NOW."

The Chopper crashed landed on its side, the pilot shaken up but for the most part still alright as the propellers were destroyed on impact. Umiko then began swapping at the other Choppers as if they were flies.

"Stay away. You're unwanted here." She commanded at them as she grabbed one of them. The propellers sliced into her hand then got stuck in her flesh. She hissed as she spoke to it, looking down as the wound lightly bled. "You're stuck. These antics must be aborted."

She threw the Chopper far off in the distance, allowing her wound to start closing up. Another line of Gods Eater Gunners lined up to try and block her path. Aiming their God Arcs, they all flinched in fright as her eyes met theirs. She had bent down to meet them at face level.

"Remember what happen last time this happened." She lectured to them like children, warning them to leave her be. "Remember how frightening it was."

But they refused to back down, they had a line to protect. Standing their group, the Unit open fired. She closed her eyes as their shots hit her face, angrily opening them again once their OP ran out.

"Ugh, you guys are shiftless, aimless, haunt-less!" She whined in annoyance, gently smacking them away with her large hand. "Go away, there's no reason to bother me."

She had made it through the last line, where most of the last chance forces where located. The tanks and God Arc Soldiers held the final line between Umiko and the Ocean. She couldn't understand why these... humans... were trying to stop her from reaching the ocean. All she wanted was to find the place where she belonged. Did she have to suffer for it?

"Oh let me be, no need for this to go further." She warned, almost pleadingly to them as she wish to pass through without anymore trouble. But the tanks started to fire at her, one landed a good shot into her side. She curled up into herself, holding the wound in pain. And still they bombarded her with shells. "Ugh ha! AH! I hurt..."

"!" It pained Soma to see her suffering like that as the tears started to flow from her eyes. She didn't understand what was going on, and it frightened her.

"Ow oohy!" She cried out as harpoons with titanium-steel chains where shot into her body, causing her to fall off her tentacles and onto the floor. More were shot into her in attempt to tie her down. She began to cry in pain as the God Arc Soldiers stabbed into her back with their God Arcs to keep her down. "Pleaseeeee, go away...! Leave me alone. Why must the Ocean suffer at the hands of Earth and Sky?"

"!" Did she remember... the legend? Was she forced to relive it as a child of the sea?

"God, this is too cruel, I can't watch." Alisa cried out as she turned her head away from the television. The others cringed at Umiko's cries of pain, and bit back their tears of outrage as the blood and tears began to flow from Umiko like falls.

The clouds in the sky began to get more violent as purple lighting began to dance within them. Umiko's look of sadness and pain slowly turned to anger and determination. Disregarding the God Arcs still in her back, she lifted her body up to rise onto her knees.

"I'm still FREE!" She cried out, looking to the sky as Divine lighting rained down around her. A blast of a Divine beacon consumed her and pushed all around her away, God Arc Soldiers and their God Arcs alike.

Rising to her feet, she broke free from the chains wrapped around her. Even if some of the harpoons still remained lunged in her, she continued to the ocean. All obstacles were removed from her, but she was hurt. Soon she found herself crawling toward the ocean as its cold waters gently splashed her hands and tentacles. The salt from the waters stung into her wounds, but she paid it no mind as she enters the waters loving embrace.

Like a whale she dived underwater, slow and dramatic due to her size. A great wave crashed onto the shore due to it, and a cold breeze blew to land. Umiko had gone down under, exposing nothing but a shadow as she swam further off into the ocean. She had gotten away... with her life.

"And there you have it folks, No. 2 is still active and live in our waters." The news-reported summed up the report. "The Infected Gods Eater is massive and extremely dangerous. If ever sighted, report to your local Fenrir Branch and remain distant. That's all for today, until next time."

The news went off, leaving everyone hanging on what was to come next. They all remained silent as they thought of what was needed to be done. Also to find out where Umiko was going.

"..." Sora remained calculating until he came to a conclusion. "She's heading to South America."

"?!"

"How do you know this?" Soma questioned, not wanting to get hopes up just yet. He was unwilling to have them crush again, Soma had had enough of that.

"Because of her trajectory." Sora simply answered. "Her shadow was heading southwest at a sharp seven o'clock. Calculating from there, I'd say she was heading for the area around the border of Venezuela and Guyana."

"Then what are we waiting for, we gotta get to her fast!" Kota stated with determination, riling up the others.

"Hold on, this is just a theoretical calculation. We have no idea if she'll be going there." Dr. Rumiko protested.

"She's heading there." Sora repeated again, stating it as a fact. Looking down at the clenched fist that made its way over his heart. "I can feel it in my core."

"So now you're relying on feelings? We can't go on the whims of a twins' bond. We need facts and trackers, things that we don't have." Dr. Rumiko said flatly.

"You're still young, Dr. Rumiko." Dr. Sakaki tapped on her shoulder, grinned at her. "Somethings come into place by faith alone."

"But-"

"We have to believe in our God Eaters if we ever want to solve things that logic has failed to. I've learned that many times around."

"!" She looked to Dr. Sakaki then to the determined looked of the First Unit and the Dark King. "Alright, I'm putting my faith in you God Eaters."

Reaching into her pocket, Dr. Rumiko pulled out a hand sized case, thick in width. She handed the case to Sora, carefully as if it held precious cargo.

"Inside this case are four needle samples of the cure. I don't know if they'll work with Umiko so far in this stage, you'll have to injected directly into her system to make sure. Do not try firing it at her from your God Arcs, the needles can't handle that amount of force when it impacts." Dr. Rumiko instructed. "Remember, you've only got a certain amount of shots. Umiko is moving, and there will be no guarantee that we will find her again if I have to make more of the cure samples."

"Good luck, we're counting on you guys." Dr. Sakaki encouraged to them. "Bring her back, you all have to come back alive."

"Yes sir!" They all responded.

"First Unit! Move out!"