Eva...
It was a lot, they successfully retrieved AX-000's blue print data, saved Tiny Orbit from Vector's attack, as well as completely moving Seekers' base and getting the needed Stunfeel Ingot to make AX-000. With the whole mess, none of them had the chance to go home.
Takya finally decided to give them a break and asked them to see what was happening around after Mizel's interfere with their own eyes. In an official way, investigate Tokio City.
Everyone were deciding quickly on what to do.
Hiro: " Ban-san, what about you?"
Ban: " hm... Let's see... First I have to go there..."
Hiro: " there?..."
Ban gave him a small smile.
Ban: " want to come with me?"...
She jumped at him once he stepped in.
Elie: " Onii-chan!"
Ban chuckled as he returned her hug. Hiro who was right behind him, had his eyes wide in mild surprise.
Elie pulled off her brother and turned to the other boy.
Elie: " Oozora Hiro, right? I saw your battle with Onii-chan on the TV! It was awesome! You're really amazing!"
Hiro: " Th-Thanks so much!"
Elie: " ah, sorry, I'm Yamano Elie, nice to meet you."
Her excited expression was instantly replaced with a shy one as she realized she over reacted.
Hiro: " Oozora Hiro, pleased to meet you."
She nodded at him before her head wiped back to her side as her brother placed a hand on her shoulder.
Ban: " it seems you are doing well, I can see that your face brightened even more."
Elie: " I may get discharged soon."
She said with a bright smile.
Ban: " that would be great!"
Elie's grim solely widened.
Elie: " that aside, I know you did bring something interesting here."
Ban snapped.
Elie: " I feel it's aura from your pocket, you brought a very strong LBX."
Ban: " you really talk to LBXs, don't you."
He said with a chuckle that she returned with a sweet one before Ban handed her his LBX and even Hiro did so.
Elie: " two LBXs that were made to complete each other. They don't know any limits and able to move freely as they want. They're incredibly awesome!"
Ban: " yet, they're still not strong enough to beat Vectors."
Elie looked at his stern face and then down at the two LBXs, her eyes slightly glinting.
Elie: " so dad is making another even stronger LBX."
Ban nodded.
Elie: " I'm looking forward to that LBX, Onii-chan!"
Ban smiled at her words as he patted her head.
Ban: " you and me both sis."
Hiro: " awesome!"
He startled them with his loud shout.
Hiro: " Ban-san you being the older caring brother for your sister is something I first discover in you! You're really the type of anime protagonist!"
Ban: " again with that."
He sweat dropped before smiling at his sister.
Ban: " the truth is... I'm the one who has been taken care of, Elie was always there for me when I would feel down, she is always lifting me up and pushing me forward."
Elie blushed at that.
Elie: " that's not true..."
Hiro: " I see. I too need my sister to take care of me for more than once."
Ban snapped.
Ban: " Hiro you have a sister?"
Hiro: " yeah, although Nee-chan is living in Paris now, but she would always call me to make sure I'm fine and gets angry whenever she finds I forgot to do my homework or the house chores. Maybe without her, I wouldn't have been able to live in the last eight years."
Elie had a proud smirk.
Elie: " sisters are the best."...
Yuuya: " glad to see Jiiya-san doing well. His visits became less when I was at the hospital so I was worried."
Jin: " he just got busier because of the girl he took in around that time."
Yuuya: " the one you were speaking about with him?"
Actually when he went back to visit, he didn't find Eva around, his butler said that she was out doing some chores on his stead after she insisted. So he decided on meeting her later and head to the hospital along with Yuuya.
Yuuya: " by the way, why didn't we join Ban-kun and Hiro-kun when they visited her?"
Jin: " we will just overwhelm her like that."
He said as he walked in front of his friend and stopped at the step of a certain door, taking a deep breath, he knocked and a 'come in' was heard from the inside.
As soon as he entered, she immediately looked up from her laptop and directly through his red eyes with her dark green ones, a smile on her face.
Elie: " I expected you."
She stood up from her studying table to welcome them.
Yuuya: " Elie-kun,it has been a while."
Elie: " I'm glad you're doing well."
Jin: " same with you."
Elie: " well, doctors said that I may be able to get out of here soon."
Yuuya: " I'm looking forward for when you will be out!"
Her smile widened.
Elie: " when I will be out, let's all have LBX battles, ok."
She looked at Jin.
Elie: " I will battle you first and beat you to make it up for leaving like that."
Jin smirked.
Jin: " you talk like if you're already discharged."
Elie: " you talk like if you want to avoid that."
Jin: " very well then, I will be looking forward for that battle."
Elie: " you better..."...
That night, when Jiiya opened the door, he was met with a disappointed Eva.
Jiiya: " oh dear, what happened? Come in, quick."
The girl walked into the living room and sat down on the sofa with a sad look. Jiiya sat next to her and gently placed his hand on her back.
Jiiya: " what's the matter, young lady Evangeline?"
Eva tried her best not to cry, but her voice gave her away.
Eva: " Jiiya-san, why don't people like my ability?"
Jiiya softened his look at her.
Eva: " back at the lab, when I fix something, the adults became satisfied and I'm... I'm treated a bit better than usual. But now... When I fixed the broken machine at the park, everyone else were looking at me like if I... wasn't even human."
Jiiya: " it's different, lady Evangeline."
He spoke softly, rubbing her back as to give her comfort.
Jiiya: " what you had been through in the LAB is different from real life. I'm afraid that people won't come to accept you easily, for humans always fear what they find strange, what they can't understand, and mostly, fear what's different from them..."
Eva looked down in thoughts.
Eva: " then... Do you fear me as well?"
Jiiya shook his head as he held her hands tightly in his.
Jiiya: " I would never. And I'm sure you'll meet other people who won't mind your ability as well. But until that time comes, please, let's keep it a secret, between both you and me. That's the only way you will get to live safely in this world..."
Eva: " by hiding who I really am."
He felt bad when she voiced it out that way.
Jiiya: " just until you find people who will come to understand you the way you're. Alright?"
Eva looked back at the old man and nodded. Jiiya smiled softly at her.
Jiiya: " very well then. I'll have your dinner ready."
Eva: " no, I-"
How did he manage to reach to the kitchen already, she didn't know. She sighed before suddenly a glitch appeared on her glasses. The reading were intercepted and green static suddenly showed themselves on it.
She quickly took her glasses off, turning it around as to find out what was wrong, and the glitching stopped.
Eva: " hm, is it the battery? I'll have to check it later. Not that I actually need it to see anyway."
She said placing it on the table and heading to help the old butler.
Unbeknown to her, the glitches appeared again on the lenses...
It was hard to believe that O-Legion caused that much destruction just a few hours after Mizel stole it. What made things even worse was that they couldn't get any more Stunfeel Ingot to creat another one to stop it.
Just as they were in their desperate state, Jin's CCM rang and his eyes squinted at the screen as he saw the caller's ID.
Yuuya: " Jiiya-san?"
He said peeking from his side. Jin quickly answered him and he couldn't help but worry when he heard his tone.
Jiiya: " young master, I'm sorry for calling at this time..."
Jin: " what's the matter, Jiiya?"
He urged him to talk.
Jiiya: " it's lady Evangeline..."
Haruka narrowed her eyes at the name.
Haruka: " Evangeline...?"
Jin: " what's wrong with her?"
Jiiya: " I'm not sure either... It's like, she went blank..."
On the other side, the man looked back at the girl laying on her bed her eyes half open but void from anything, staring at nothing and not moving at all, much like a corpse.
Jin: " went blank?"
Jiiya: " I thought about taking her to the hospital but... What if it's something about her AI..."
Just hearing that one sentence made Haruka jump at Jin's CCM.
Haruka: " bring her to Tiny Orbit!"
Jiiya: " pardon me?..."
Hiro: " mom..."
Haruka: " just hurry and bring her here! If she went blank then it must be something serious!"
Jin: " Jiiya, bring her here."
Jiiya: " alright then, I'll be there in five minutes..."
And he ended the call. Haruka quickly turned to Yuuki.
Haruka: " have the quantum computer activated, we will need it to scan her."
Yuuki hesitated but Takuya nodded at him and he rushed out the room.
Jin: " Dr. Oozora, do you happen to know her?"
He said facing the woman who nodded, pinching the bridge of her nose.
Haruka: " yeah, I know her very well. I'm the one who created her AI."
Jin squinted his eyes while everyone were baffled about the whole thing.
Hiro: " what are you both talking about?"
Ban: " and who is this Evangeline?"
Jin: " she is a girl Jiiya had taken in the last year. I actually didn't meet her yet, and what I know about her is from what Jiiya told me."
He looked back at Haruka.
Jin: " but it seems you know more than I do."
Haruka narrowed her eyes, not that it was visible from beneath her thick lenses.
Haruka: " it's quite a complicated story. But first let's focus on the matter at hand."
Less than five minutes, Jiiya was already there, holding the girl in his arms. Haruka led him to the quantum computer room where she ran an overall scanner on her body.
While waiting for the computer to finish the scanning, she addressed the old man.
Haruka: " did she come into contact with any Verctors?"
Jiiya shook his head. As far as he knew, she didn't.
Jun'ichiru: " you think it may be a ghostjack?"
Haruka: " it's the first thing that comes to mind right now."
Jin had his eyes glued at the stoic face of the blonde, finding it familiar.
Yuuya: " it's her..."
He looked back at his friend who had wide eyes as he glanced down at her.
Jin: " you know her?"
Yuuya narrowed his eyes as he looked into Jin's red ones.
Yuuya: " she was in the same facility I was in with the Innovators, only a different LAB. I've seen her a couple of times actually..."
Haruka: " what's the meaning of this!"
They all shifted their attention to the blunette woman.
Ban: " what's the matter?"
Haruka: " her AI, it's gone."
" Eh!"
Haruka: " I can't detect it. It's gone! Like if it was deleted!"
The short old man next to her skimmed through the data.
Otacross: " hold on deyo~."
He pointed his cane at one of the readings appearing on the screen.
Otacross: " this part deyo~."
She read through them once more.
Haruka: " this... It wasn't deleted. It was transferred!? Out of her body!"
Jin: " was transferred?"
Haruka rubbed her chin in thoughts.
Haruka: " but how, she can't transfer it on her own... And where could it be?"
Ran: " am I the only one who extremely need explanation here!"
Haruka looked back at them.
Haruka: " I'm not sure it's a pleasant thing to share..."
Ban looked at the unconscious girl, and for an instant, he saw Elie in her place.
Ban: " but she needs help, right... If we want to help her, we need to understand what's happening here first."
He looked up at the woman and the blunette took off her glasses.
Haruka: " needless to say, she is in danger. If left like this, her whole body will start dying slowly if we don't retrieve her AI."
Ami: " die..."
She shivered at that word. Most of them did. Haruka closed her eyes.
Haruka: " 9 years ago, Evangeline got a serious head injury back at the Tokio Bridge incident. And..."
Her eyes flinched back at Jin for an instant and he knew he had to prepare himself mentally for something bad to be said.
Haruka: " Kaidou Yoshimitsu wanted to use her as a test subject for Optima..."
And there it comes. Another horrible deed of Kaidou Yoshimitsu.
Rina: " Optima you say! Then back at that time, it was already completed!"
Haruka: " well, it still needed to be tested. But unfortunately it almost failed. For her brain Optima to work, an AI was needed to support it and I was hired to create it."
Kazu: " does this mean she is... An Android... No, maybe a cyborg? Or something like MizeOUCH! AMI!"
Rhe girl had punched him hard on the arm.
Ami: " that's not nice."
Haruka: " she may have an AI for a brain but I can guarantee you that she is the same human as she was before I placed it!"
Her voice was slightly harsher, like if daring anyone to bring the subject again.
Asuka: " can't you create another AI for her and the problem is solved?"
Haruka shook her head.
Haruka: " I can't... Her AI is special, it contains all of her memories, feelings and her character, basically what makes her Evangeline Mech. And it can only be created once..."
Asuka: " then... What will happen if she doesn't regain her AI?"
Haruka: " the Optima is actually supporting her whole body, if we don't retrieve her AI, it will decay soon."
Everyone swallowed in fear.
Ban: " decay... In how long?"
Haruka: " four days... Five at best..."
Jun'ichiru: " we can slow it down though."
Takuya nodded.
Takuya: " we'll have a special room for her and lower her temperature. It should give us more time."
Kirito: " it won't be helpful unless we find out where he AI is."
He pointed out, earning with that worried looks from everyone.
Jin: " Jiiya, can't you recall anything helpful?"
Jiiya seemed to think about it.
Jiiya: " I don't know if it's important or not, but Twilight, her LBX, is no where to be seen."
Hiro: " could it be that her AI got transferred there, mom?"
Haruka: " no, an LBX's AI chip is not compatible with such advanced AI. It can't be..."
Takuya: " seems it's a dead end for now. Let's have her transfered to another room. And we will try to figure out something"...
" Onii-chan... Onii-chan... Onii-chan!"
He snapped back to reality when she flicked his forehead.
Ban: " that hurts!"
Elie: " if you're going to be distracted then we can do your homework another time."
Ban: " sorry about it Elie?"
The girl stared at his bothered eyes.
Elie: " what's the matter?"
He looked up at her and a memory went through his head.
" 18... No, maybe even less... That's how long she will live."
His mother shook her head in disbelief.
Marie: " that can't be..."
" Her body is getting weaker by the time. She could have been saved if it was discovered earlier. All we can do now it slow down the inevitable."
His mother kneeled down, devastated and his father tried to help her up. While for him, he was still trying to let it sink.
His sister won't live long. Her fate was already sealed...
He quickly closed his eyes as he tried to burry the memory back.
Ban: " I'm fine, Elie."
She softened her look.
Elie: " is it about Eva?"
Ban: " eh? You know about her?"
Elie: " Ami."
She shrugged and he rolled his eyes.
Ban: " figure..."
His eyes narrowed and he clenched his fists tightly as he recalled the girl's situation. If they don't find her AI, she will...
Suddenly a hand reached for his and he looked up at Elie.
Elie: " it will be fine, she will be saved. I know you'll all save her."
She smiled.
Elie: " you have LBXs, remember."
He smiled back at her.
Ban: " ah!"...
She entered her room and took her spot on her table, pulling her kit and LBX.
Eva: " I've still got a lot of ideas to try."
She said taking the armor appart and started working on the core box, focusing on her task. Before she realized it, she could sea a tear falling inside the robot's core.
Eva: " eh..."
It was then when she realized she was crying.
Eva: " what's gotten to me all of a sudden... Why am I..."
Her hands flew to wipe away her tears.
Eva: " why am I..."
She finally stopped and looked down at her hands, more tears streaming down her cheeks.
Eva: " What am I..."
" I may have an answer for that."
She snapped and looked at her window, only to see a green haired boy sitting on the edge, smiling down on her.
Eva: " Mizel..."
She knew him from the time he addressed the whole world through the screens.
Mizel: " you don't seem afraid of me."
True, she was rather calm although the one person sending the world into chaos now was standing in her room.
Eva: " I..."
She looked down.
Mizel: " you somehow know it, that we're similar, both you and I, sis."
Eva looked up at him.
Eva: " sis?"
She rose her eyebrow questionably.
Mizel: " both our AIs were created by the same person, don't you agree that it makes us somehow siblings."
He stood up and walked off to her.
Eva: " What do you want?"
Mizel: " to save you sis. This is not your place to be in. Your ability isn't meant to be hidden away."
Eva : " but, Jiiya-san said..."
Mizel: " he is afraid of you as well, you know it don't you. Else why would he ask you to hide it, even if it means hiding who you're?"
Eva: " no... He... He just... He can't be..."
She seemed torn about what to believe.
Mizel: " it's alright sis, it's okay for humans to fear us."
Eva : " is it...?"
Mizel: " to rule the world, they need to learn to fear us. Come with me sis, together, we'll build a better world."
He extended his hands at her. All of a sudden Twilight, now assembled by some miracle, floated over to him and hovered over his extended hand.
Mizel: " now sis, join me, and you will be free to be who you really are."
Eva hesitated before her hand reached to the LBX that shined in purple as she approached before a burst of purple light filled the room and even outside through the window...
The purple LBX had its visors shining in pink as she awoke.
Mizel: " Morning sis, did you have sweet dreams?"
She looked over at him and then at his hologram screen which was showing a battle held within the infinity net, a place she has visited a couple times during her experiments.
Mizel: " I'll sum things up for you. Those guys don't know when to give up and they're still wanting to defeat O-Legion so I though it would be fun to destroy their hope, don't you think so?"
Does she? She didn't know...
Disclaimer: Eva's background story is taken from her original story by EinAr_17 on wattpad. Go check her work :)
