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Chapter 2: 30 Years Later
December 21, 2053
The sun shines down at the snowy village, where the people go to their usual work like always, kids chasing each other and some other children are pranking the working people. Not much change in this peaceful village since 2031 where the Japanese Government recreated the Kirijo's Anti-Shadow Program to create their own androids; to serve them, their people and anyone who orders them.
In addition to that, any people who have disabled bones or dismembered arms/legs will replace it with robotic arms or legs and because of that, many retired armies took this chance to return back to the Japan Self-Defense Forces (which now became the Imperial Japanese Army once again) after they got discharge for losing a limb or two in their past wars.
However, since they released it from around the world. Terrorists from their countries like the Iraq and Syria Terrorists stole the androids for their ongoing war with the US and their allies and what's worse, tensions between the US and Russia have almost reaching the tipping point that they going to war with each other, thanks to the androids, which the Japanese supplied them also. Thankfully, none of them make a move until they want to and still kept busy attacking Iraq and Syria Terrorists for interrupting their military expenses.
Nonetheless, while the Toyama Government accepts the androids. The Gokayama Village and others as well, denies androids from them and continue their work as their village never changes.
Well, save for one that is…
Aigis, now working for the villagers since their arrival with Fuuka 21 years ago, is wearing an Asian hat to hide her blond hair from the sun and wears yellow shirt with a sun in the middle and brown pants to hide her robotic legs. She uses a sickle to cut some rice fields before putting them in her large leather basket on her back.
"Oh hi Aigis, I didn't see you back there."
She turns around and see a Japanese young man, wearing a brown leather jacket, blue skinny jeans and a brown rain boots. He has a brown short hair and black eyes.
"Hey, I was just busy helping with your neighbors Daisuke." Aigis stated.
She and Daisuke met each other when she and Fuuka brought some supplies for our new home in the hill. Aigis was clearly annoyed when he begin to follow them and ask 'Where you been made' and 'how do you get these emotions' or something like that. I told him that her dearest friend gave me this. He asked me that I'm in love with him but I denied it since I know that he doesn't want to be loved like a couple if he wants to.
But as years passed on until this year, he graduated from his school thanks to Fuuka-san for teaching children in the longhouse and prepares to leave his hometown but not before…
"Isn't Fuuka-san's 61th birthday in tomorrow evening?" Daisuke asked.
She almost forget Fuuka when she realized she's been here for hours till almost evening. "Yeah, I almost forgot." Aigis removed her leather basket and her hat and gave it to Daisuke. "Take it, I needed to get to Toyama City to buy some medicines for Fuuka before she do something…wrong."
"Come on Aigis, Fuuka-san is a good old woman. She doesn't hurt anyone or even you."
She muttered. "You have no idea…"
He quickly turns around. "What?"
But she shook her head. "It's nothing Daisuke, I need to get to Toyama City as soon as possible."
He smiled. "Sure. See you in the longhouse Aigis." He waved goodbye to her as she leaves the rice patty fields. Before Aigis leaves the rice fields, he shouted to her. "Aigis!"
She turns around, only to get a wad of yens from Daisuke. "You need it for Fuuka-sans condition."
Aigis politely bows her head before she leaves.
As Aigis passes through the Gokayama Village, she saw several villagers are gathering birthday supplies for Fuuka-san birthday tomorrow.
A villager saw Aigis and said. "Aigis, good afternoon."
"Aigis, don't forget to bring Fuuka tomorrow night at the longhouse okay?"
A purpled haired young girl pops out of the window, greeting Aigis. "I hope you be there Aigis-san!"
Aigis politely bow her head to her young neighbor. "Of course, I'll be there with your teacher."
"Yay!" She cheered to Aigis before heading back to her house.
Once she exited the village, she heads for her limo that she and Fuuka kept since their escape and drives to Toyama Village to buy medicine for her ailing friend. She turns on the limo's radio to listen for news, music or something just to ease herself.
'Hello everyone! This is the Valez Radio Station and we going to bring you another news!'
'News Eban? I thought were going to talk about some rogue android who blow up another train station just near us!'
'Of course were going to talk about the rogue android you moron! I can bet those Iraq terrorists again are scaring us to death but I have a heart of steel baby!'
'Oh shut up you pussy! We both know that you been hiding inside the restroom during that attack.'
'You take that back!'
'I bet I didn't.'
'Why you little…'
Aigis quickly shuts off the radio, not hearing another arguing news. Why Fuuka-san is watching that in nighttime is beyond her.
As she keeps driving, she remembered that day when 2 years after their friends got killed by the two agencies, anyone who can summon their personas is captured and put them in a test like she and Labrys had to intend to awake their full potential. As years go by, only few Persona-Users are left and hiding from the rest of the world like she and Fuuka.
How stupid they are since their power can be only awoken if they know of their true self like Narukami-san and his friends back in inaba. But then again, that is possible since Strega can do that, only they cannot control them like Junpei's girlfriend when he visited her after school.
She shook her head, she didn't want to dwell in her past memories with everyone else near her as she sees the sights of the new Toyama City.
"Number 199, please come here."
After waiting in this sofa for nearly an hour with full of sick patients, Aigis heads to the counter to get her friend's medication.
The chubby woman hands over a small plastic bottle filled with suppressants pills and 3 injection of suppressants as well. As Aigis grabs the plastic of medications, the chubby woman looks at her appearance. "Are you an android ma'am?"
"Huh?" she looks back at the woman who gave her the medicine. "Yes ma'am, I'm just buying for my only friend."
"Oh I see! You must be that android girl who been helping around Gokayama Village." She said. "Not many villages accepted technology but you…" She pointed at Aigis. "You have emotions that many in the world did not have. Where did you get those?" she asked her.
Rather than questioning her words, Aigis bowed her head. "I need to leave." Aigis heads to the automatic doors, ignoring the chubby girl's questions.
Once outside, she gazed at the buildings. The Toyama City is still the same but with added floating small androids for assisting people who are lost or show direction, the old buildings from before are demolished and replaced it with an android factory to sell some parts to the people who needed android parts for missing or broken, and furthermore, there are people who have the body parts of an android called cyborgs; a half human and half robots or androids if Aigis wanted.
But for her, she had other reasons to decline such upgrades despite the Gokayama Villages ask her to. She shook her head, now is not the time for thinking herself than Fuuka, who needed these medicines to cool her down for days.
Aigis kept walking to the parking lot, where she parks her limo at the parking lot. She heard a clatter sound behind the front of the limo and decides to check it.
She goes behind the limo slowly and sees a group of teenagers wearing a gangster clothes is trying to steal the limo's wheel.
"Excuse me." Then they stop what they're doing and looks at Aigis. "I think you teenagers are trying to steal my limo. I want you to go back before…."
Before she finishes what she is trying to say, a Green Mohawk teenager pulls out a pump-action shotgun and shoots Aigis in the left shoulder, marking her fall into the ground.
The Mohawk teenager blows out the smoke from his shotgun's barrel, happy that he believed he killed her while his teenager friends are spooked by his carelessness. One of his friends say. "What the hell man?! You just killed a person you jackass."
"I was trying to save you guys by killing the witness who saw us robbing her limo." The teenager defended himself.
The 15 year old woman with a short pink hair retorted. "You just making the police thinking that we are stealing and killing people Kevin!"
Kevin faces her. "It's not like we have a choice!" He sighed as he scratch at the back of his head. "Let's just hide the body and…"
The fat teenager behind the woman, interrupted him. "What the fuck?! Look at the woman, she's standing up!"
"What?!" Kevin turns around and shocked as Aigis is using her upper body to move forward before she fully stands up on her own, much to the teenager's surprise. But they regain their senses since they now know that the woman in front of them is an android.
Aigis looks at her damaged shoulder before she turns her gaze at the teenagers who shot her. "You shouldn't have done that…"
Aigis slowly activates her metallic blades on both of her arms as the teenagers looked at the android in horror, fully knowing that they messed up big time. Before Aigis could take action, someone hit her at the back of her head with a hard weapon, staggering her. The fat man decided to take this chance and hit Aigis in the left cheek with a wrench.
As they proceed to beat the android up, the pink haired teenager shouted to her friends. "Please stop this you guys!"
But her words fall on deaf ears as muscle-mustached teenager strikes Aigis in the legs with his metal baseball ball, making her kneel before striking her into the ground. Then they continue to beat her up since androids felt no pain as they believed. As they punched and kick her, Aigis thoughts about her friends in the past; hanging out with Yukari-san, annoying Junpei-san when he was playing video games in his room and keeps advising and following Akihiko, much to his annoyance.
After the teenagers think that the android is beat up, Kevin pulls out his shotgun and pointed to Aigis's head as the pink-haired teenager pleaded them to stop. As the teenager reloaded his shotgun, Aigis remembers her fellow teammates got killed when those intruders invaded their building without mercy. She imagined Yukari shouted her remaining teammates to run as she saw her blooded hand reaching out to her. She wanted to grab her friend's hand if not for Junpei, who told them to run for their lives as he hold the invaders back.
But there's another image in Aigis mind that feared the most; seeing Mitsuru got shot by an unknown person without regret and remorse as we watched the person turned around and retreats to the shadow.
This image, combined with the death of her friends has made Aigis became angrier as she realized the teenager who shot her is preparing to blow up her head.
'I'm not dying here and I'm not going to leave Fuuka-san herself behind.'
In a spilt second before the gun could ever discharge, Aigis quickly stands up and in her rage, sliced Kevin's arm that holds his weapon falls into the ground simultaneously. The shotgun suddenly discharge and instead shoots the windows of her limo.
Seeing the damage to the limo, Aigis shouted. "No!" Seeing this opportunity, the fat teenager tries to hit Aigis again but is futile as Aigis punched him in the face before she activates her blades to stab him in the face, killing him instantly. Then the muscle-mustached teenager rushes to the android that killed his friend but Aigis activates her blades again and brutality stabs him repeatedly before slicing his cheeks all the way down to his chin as the teenager falls down.
Before Aigis could turn around, Kevin uses his left remaining had to push Aigis to the limo before kicking her. But before he could strike again with a wrench that he grab when Aigis killed him in a brutal way, Aigis slashed his neck, pouring out blood quickly as he hold his wounded neck with his hand before falls down to the ground, slowly dying from his injuries.
Aigis gazed at the pink-haired teenager, who sees her friends died in front of her. Aigis makes her way to the girl angrily, who falls down to the ground as she raised her hand in a pleading manner. "Please…please let me go."
As soon as Aigis heard the girl's tone, Aigis stops her tracks. Seeing the girl pleading was enough for her to regain her senses. She looks at her blooded hands before turning her head at the dead teenagers that she killed.
"What have I done?" She thought.
She turns her head back to the pink-haired teenager. "Leave..."
The teenager girl obeyed in fear as she quickly stands up and head to her friend's van and leaves the area. Aigis watched as the teenager leave before repairing the wheel and drives back home quickly. Along the way, police cruisers pass Aigis limo. No doubt that the teenager somehow managed to contact the Japanese police but she didn't mind it and all that matters is her friend waiting for her.
Finally, Aigis arrived in a nick of time and looks at their home in the small hill; the exterior upper walls are made with brown straws and the roof is covered in snow due to the cold weather. The lower walls are made of a dark wooden design but the slide doors are still the same as the other villages and made with bamboo design.
Aigis exited the limo before grabbing the plastic that has Fuuka's medication and heads to the main entrance. Aigis slides the door open and heads inside before closing the door shut. She goes forward to the living room to find a tear-blue old woman, sitting in a wheelchair at the wooden balcony, gazing far at the Gokayama Village. She didn't notice her friend is behind her until she hears a footsteps behind her.
Fuuka turns around the wheelchair to greet her arriving friend. "Welcome home Aigis."
Fuuka Yamagishi is an old woman; her once beautiful face is now wrinkled, she removed her braided teal-blue hair years ago and it nearly turns white. She wears a leather jacket to keep her warm while wearing underneath her aqua green sundress, back when she was a teenager before and wears a teal-blue sandals.
"You shouldn't be out there Fuuka-san, you're going to get cold." But Fuuka shook her head. "Don't worry Aigis, I was just remembering our old times together, back where we hang out with each other when there are no missions given by Mitsuru-sempai."
Aigis eyes widened when Fuuka mentioned Mitsuru as she remember Mitsuru shot by the unknown person 3 decades ago. Fuuka, noticing her mistake, decides to fix it. "I'm...Sorry Aigis. I didn't…"
But to her surprised, Aigis returns back to her original state as she shook her head. "It's okay Fuuka-san." Then she notice her damaged shoulder and began to worry. "Aigis, what happened to you?! Are you okay? Come on, let's get your repaired." The two of them head in a room filled with tools, parts of androids in a large metal box besides the steel worktable.
Front of them, is a steel dental chair that is almost similar in Aigis's room back in 2009 but without a tube covering it. Instead, at the top of the chair, a metal visor is attached, along with wires attach into the nearest machines nearby. Once the machines were in full power, Fuuka told Aigis to take off her clothes. Aigis removed all of her clothes one by one. Her left arm are nearly covered with rust but not reaching in her left hands nor her upper left shoulder, which is still damaged by a shotgun. Slice marks were in her lower body and her upper body is still have huge slice marks. Other than that, her legs, right shoulder, arm and hand are still remain function, despite having past 30 years.
Aigis relaxed in the dental chair before Fuuka put the visor to her eyes and attach the wires in her body to recharge her still operative battery as Fuuka repairs her damaged shoulder with an electric tool that repairs the wires and some CPU that damaged in Aigis's battle. After repairing for 2 hours, Fuuka sat in the nearby stool, exhausted.
After being repaired by Fuuka, Aigis said. "I almost forgot." Then she reaches from the plastic she brought and gives her a bottle of pills. "Here, I brought the medication to suppress your…" She was interrupted by Fuuka tired sigh. "This again, why do you always buy that for me?"
"We already know what will happen if you don't." Aigis stated as she open the bottle and gives Fuuka three red and white colored pills.
Fuuka was getting tired of swallowing this pills down to her throat but Aigis has a point; if she doesn't drink those pills, everyone around her will die in minutes like 3 years ago when…
Despite her hesitation, she gives one final sigh before taking the 3 pills from Aigis and swallowed it before drinking a small bottle of water to shallow it completely, which Aigis brought for her. After taking her medication, Aigis lifts her friend up in a bridal style as Fuuka uses her left hand to support. Then they head to Fuuka's room; filled with stuffed teddy bears in either side of Fuuka's green colored bed, as well as the blanket with yellow flowers in horizontal patterns.
Aigis puts down Fuuka in her bed before covering her with the yellow blanket. As Aigis cleans up Fuuka's mess, the latter told her. "I sense someone last night." Aigis stops for a while before continuing her duties, not bothering to turn around. "I sense a young girl who wanted us to help her."
Somehow Aigis doubted it. Fuuka never used her power before, not since the incident 3 years ago. And in this afternoon, she decided to tell her now? "Oh yeah?" Although she doesn't believe Fuuka-san's words, still believing her rambles again, pretends to listen. "What does she want?"
However, Fuuka is not stupid, despite her age and knows that Aigis is pretending to listen to her and asked. "Why you always ignore my words whenever I speak to you? You almost listen to me when we were in Abyss of Time."
"Abyss of Time was a long time ago Fuuka-san." After cleaning and organizing her friend's room, she sits the bed near Fuuka. Then suddenly Fuuka used her hand to force Aigis to stare at her with a frown in her face. After a brief moment of silence, Fuuka said in a disappointed tone. "I'm disappointed in you Aigis."
Not liking the answer, Aigis used her hand to grab Fuuka's arm that grabbed her cheeks and push it away gently. "When Minato found you at the forest when my friends spend our summer vacation together, you were an android who have no emotions back then." When Fuuka mention Minato; their lifelong ally, she gets up and takes the dishes from the table to leave but Fuuka still speaking. "An android who follow orders and doesn't feel emotions. But we became your friend soon after…" Fuuka gazed at Aigis, who is about to leave. "…and we gave you a sister you never have."
Then Aigis stops her tracks after Fuuka mentioning her sister Labrys and turns around to look Fuuka in her half-awake eyes. "They all gone now Fuuka-san."
"Aigis, I saw what happened in the news before you returned here." Fuuka asked Aigis, but didn't get a respond from her. "What did you do?"
Instead of an answer, Aigis turn around as she prepares to leave the room. "Aigis?! What have you done, answer me! Why did you kill them, we didn't do shit to people when we hunt shadows back when…"
Aigis interrupted her. "It's for your own good, Fuuka-san."
"No, no! It's not…"
But is too late when Aigis slide the door shut, leaving Fuuka in her bed alone. Shortly after Aigis leaves, Fuuka spoke to herself as she stares at the celling.
"You waiting for me to die."
A/N: Yes! Finally the second chapter of Persona: Aigis is done. Sorry for long wait but like I said, I'm still practicing my writing and grammar that the fighting scene here is short and I can't describe real life cities like the Toyama City, I just made the buildings up because you know, is in the future. My chapter here mentions in real life terrorists such as ISIS and I think US and Russia are preparing for another world war but highly doubt that it's going to reach their tensions in the future.
Before I finished this chapter. Days ago, I decided to practice drawing a character using WikiHow's instructions but is very, very hard than writing, which is still hard but not completely hard though I still practicing. Until then, I'm going to play Skyrim with mods, using internet or whatever, as I need to rest my head after writing this. But don't worry, I still working an idea for Chapter 3 of Persona: Aigis. By the way everyone, did you read Fuuka just swore at the near end of the chapter? I know is Fuuka is not the same girl you all remember, her reasons to do that is because something happened to her 3 years ago before the events of Persona: Aigis begins. I will explain that in future chapters.
Anyway, looks like I'm done writing this chapter, feel free you reply or put fav/follow into this story. Thank you for reading this chapter and see you in the next one.
PS: if there's any mistake in this chapter, feel free to PM me as well.
Updated in 22/04/17