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The girl with metal wings; Anyone is welcome to join in
Topic Started: Nov 26 2006, 01:38 AM (4,253 Views)
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Misery began to head out the door, but made a pit stop and took the creme that helped with the pain in her back, then got into Asher's car hesitantly.

She had never been in a vehicle. As far as she knew anyway. There was still the possibility that her current life was all a lie. She looked down at the ground as they rose up, then was jerked back a little as he took off.

She made sure to memorize every single turn, so she would know how to get back if need be. When they pulled up, Misery looked at Asher, "But this is a crime scene, we cant go in there. Are you sure you have the right place?"

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He nodded a little bit at what she asked, and he ripped the tape off the door, then he pulled out his special key and unlocked it.

"Yeah... the police still havent figured out exactly what killed him. They just know it wasn't natural. I have several friends in the police force, so thats how I found out about it. I was curious because... well that bird that followed me home... you make them, right? They're such an advanced level of technology, I mean... it's beyond any illegal advancements anyone done here since humans came from earth, it's hundreds of years ahead... so I asked if there were any deaths involving technology noone else understood, and my friend Tagert told me about this place... thats the short version anyways"

He pushed the door open, letting her go in first again, and he closed it once they were inside, smiling a little.

"Here we are... just let me know, theres one other very important thing you need to see..."
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Misery nodded, "I made all of them but one, actually...."

Misery didnt feel right crossing over police boundaries like this, but Asher did say it as okay. She entered the place and looked around at everything. Most of the stuff appeared to be broken in some way or another. She walked up to a large tube that was intact and touched it. If this is where the man lived, then he must have been a scientist.

She closed her eyes and another image filled her mind, but this time it felt as though she were there, looking out of a fish tank or something. She took a step back from it then. Has she been in the thing at one time or another?!

She moved around and came to a desk and sat at it. She picked up a schematic drawing that looked exactly like her self. Her brow furrowed slightly as she looked at it, "I...I am a robot?" She said after the longest silence.

She open the folded sheet of paper up to reveal even more drawings of different styles and types of wings. It looked like she was some doll that came with extra accessories to interchange. She looked over to the side of the desk and spotted something instantly recognizable. It was the toy she had just built a little while ago! That wasent possible, was it?

She stood quickly, knocking the chair over as her heart began to race. "This isnt happening! Whats going on?! This is scaring me!"

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"Not a robot... even those birds were somehow alive, they heal, don't fit our definition of robot... you on the other hand, you think, you feel, absolutely everything any human does, you just... the only difference between you and I is that you were created differently than most of us... it doesnt make you a machine, Freya."

He was moving to try and comfort her when she moved back, and ran tight into him, almost knocking him over. He just put his hands on her shoulders, though, letting her lean against him if she needed to, trying to make her feel at least a little bit better.

"If you were just a robot the man from the picture wouldn't have cared so about you... I know he loved you, and you loved him back, that makes you as sentient as any creature, alright...? Don't be scared..."

He looked down at her, his glasses were still off, and his eyes didn't glow, but they had a warmth to them - he meant what he said.

"I'm here, and I won't let anything happen... I promised..."
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When Misery ran into Asher, she winched and hunched over. Thats right, she wasent a robot. She wasent anything like a robot. She only had robotic like wings as all. And if she could feel pain, bruise, and cut herself on glass, she wasnt a robot right?

Misery didnt have to look in Asher's eye to know he meant what he said. She could hear it in his voice. She stood there silently for a minute or too, collecting herself, then moved over to the book case and read the various titled of books, trying to get her mind off the whole robot idea. "Gerald Smyd, Gerald Smyd, Gerald Smyd, Smyd, Smyd.... The same person has written almost all of these books." Misery said quietly.

Misery stepped on something then and suddenly a small hologram video popped up. There was the old man and apparently herself in the video.

"Ah! Father! Dont point that thing at me!" Freya said with a smile, trying to cover herself. "Especially when I am working!"

The video stopped then came back into show them sitting at a dinner table eating together. They were talking and laughing and then it cut out again and brought the two up outside. Freya dashed up behind the old man and gave him a one arm huge white grinning broadly and giving a 'v' for victory.

Without even pausing this time, it went right into something else as though the video had been over written. It showed Gerald visiting with a man, but she couldnt see who it was from behind. He turned though to take a tray from Freya and when Freya left, he pulled two cubes that resembled sugar and plopped them into a drink, then handed it Gerald.

A few minutes later, Gerald was choking and Freya rushed in, but by the time she did Gerald had stopped coughing, "Sorry." He said, "It went down the wrong tube."

The video went on for awhile, then it showed Gerald turning the video off with a sad distant look in his eyes. It was as if he knew this was going to happen.

The hologram flickered, then died away as it ran out of power. Misery picked it up and held it do her. "The man who dropped the cubes into the drink was Lahziel." You never saw his face, but Misery knew because of the marking on his hand. "He killed that man...the man that has to be my real father."

Misery held her head, feeling out of it. "I know he is now, but I still dont remember.... I dont...." Her voice faded off as her vision began to blur. Misery though it odd that she seemed to suddenly grow shorter as she headed towards the floor, "...re...member...." She hit the floor then, exhausted from the emotional and mental strain.

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He almost jumped when the hologram came on - where the hell... that projector was way too small... where was this guy from, anyways...? The video, though, proved to be everything... he had been killed by the man in black... and he had been Freya's father... so then everything was true, his vision had been right...

"I'm so sorry..."

He stepped towards her to put his hand on her shoulder, but as she started to fall he dropped to a knee and caught her, careful of her wings.

"Oh you poor thing... I didn't want to bring you all this pain... better this, though, than staying with that man..."

He looked around for a moment, then he picked her up, laying her head against his chest. They couldn't stay here very long... carefully he took the hologram cube and as many of the books as he could, and knocked them down into the bag he had brought with him, then he managed to get that over his shoulder somehow without dropping her before he looked back and started towards the door - some of the books might be useful... but of the others... carefully he pulled a small round disc from his pocket, and tossed it to the ground. The dark man wouldn't be following them...
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When Asher opened the door, he would not be able to step through it as a broad shouldered man with black hair was blocking his way. he glared down at him through his glasses. "I suggest you hand her over to me, or I will take her from you forcibly." He said in a low voice. Then again, if this man was holding Misery, he would be able to fight back that well. This could be Lahziel's chance to kill him.

The sais appeared in his hands again and he glared down at Asher, "You will pay for kicking me in the head like that."

With lighting speed Lahziel lashed out and plunged one of the sais into Asher's shoulder. He had to be careful not to hit the girl though, he began to wonder if it would even matter. She would probably just heal herself.

There was a sharp squeal that filled the air and with a flash of glinting red metal, Lahziel glasses lens broke and blood squirted from his. He cried out, releasing one of his sais to grab at his eye. Blood poured from the now near empty socket.

"DAMN BIRD!" he yelled, whirling and pinning the thing to the wall. It cried frantically, then slowly but surely stopped moving all together as the blue blood oozed down the wall.

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"I don't fucking think so... she knows now. Knows you killed her father. And I'm sure as hell not letting you take her..."

What could he do, though, carrying her like this...? Even with his power and all the training he had, he was a sitting duck as it stood, and he couldn't just drop her... As soon as the Sai came towards his shoulder he pulled back slightly, so much as he could with her, but the blade still bit into his shoulder and he yelled out as he felt it rake across him, hot blood flowing from the cut... not deadly unless he poisoned the blades, though, and Asher knew then that he didn't... now that he was down, though, he could do something, unless the man... what? bleeding...? He watched the bid collapse to the ground, and his eyes widened slightly. The thing had saved him...? But why...? Why would it do that...? He didn't have time, though, his mind was already eight steps ahead, and his hand went into his coat, drew the vicious looking weapon out, and leveled it at the man, eyes narrowed.

"So that was for your head... this is for Freya, and Gerard, and that bird you just killed, you son of a bitch..."

He pulled back on the trigger, and the gun, which had already started to glow blue, suddenly crackled as though lightning ran through it, and a brilliant blue beam of light shot from it, thin at first, and then it expanded into a blast at least three feet wide, a blazing pillar of energy that would blow through the roof of the apartment building they were in, walls, and the man if he didn't move in time... Modifications to the PT cartridge indeed....
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Lahziel's eye went wide and he suddenly brought his hand up. A wrist band on his wrist suddenly began to fold outwards into a giant weird looking shield. "RRAAAAAGGHHHH!" He shouted as the blast hit him. The shield began to absorb the energy, but when it could take no more, he was blasted backwards through the wall and lay unconscious under a pile of rubble.

Since the shield absorbed most of the blast, the apartment was mostly spared. The blast didnt even wake Misery and she still hung limply in Asher's arms.

Over on the floor, then blue blood of the bird began to travel back towards it in an attempt to repair itself. It was uncertain if the bird that held the knowledge of the old man would be able to fully 'operational' again.

It was 'programmed' to be a guide to Freya and those who would help her, but even so the bird was still a living thing and had taken an instant liking to Asher and wanted to do anything it could to protect him.

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Asher's eyes widened slightly at the shield - it was actually blocking a PT cannon? That should have been impossible... the man apparently couldnt block all of it, though, and when he was slammed through the walls into the next room, he decided he would have to be satisfied - wasn't worth another PT cartridge to make sure. He clicked a switch on the weapon back, and the whole frame slid back, ejecting a massvie shell from the weapon that clattered to the floor. He pulled another from his pocket, slid it into the weapon, and pushed the frame back into place, where it snapped once, and he holstered it again, getting ready to pick Freya back up, when he saw the bird start to repair itself...

"What the... that's incredible..."

He waited for it to be at least in one piece again before he scooped it back up and put it in Freya's arms, then he lifted her again and walked out of the now rather larger doorframe with her. He carried her all the way back to his car, where he gently put her in the backseat, leaving the bird in her lap before he moved around and got into his seat, and drove off into the night.

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It wasnt long before he was back to his home, his real home, and he had layed Freya on his bed, covered her up, and walked back into his kitchen, where he pulled a few things out - mostly sandwiches... he really wasn't the best cook, even if he could rebuild a car in three hours, or invent a new propulsion system in an afternoon, he still had trouble making spaghtti... and he didn't even have any of that. Funny how some people had blocks like that, and now he did... once he had made a mean beef wellington, and other things, but ever since he started having those visions... never had time somehow... still, he put them back in the fridge, got out some meat and other things, then he went over to the stove, and lit it. He was going to give it a try, at least... give the poor girl something to eat when she woke up...
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