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Isabella paused as Eva stood and went to fall. She was immediately up off the bunk and caught Eva, with odd speed. She looked at the girl with puzzlement, before looking to me.

I lifted my head and looked to her. I didn't want to get up, and she nodded to me.

Isabella furrowed her eyebrows and laid Eva down on the bunk before heading back to the kitchen. She got a glass of water for Eva and returned, very carefully pouring the water down the girl's throat as to not choke her.

Her eyes conveyed panic as the time dragged on, minute after minute. The green blur unstopping, easily cycling through what were probably millions of digits. She could see the top bunk and Isabella hovering over her, could feel the coldness of the liquid seeping down her throat, could hear the rustling of fabric as any of them moved. She could do anything but move or speak. Finally the blur slowed, again reaching a comprehensible pace. The very last number came into focus and remained there, burning itself into her memory. Sixty-seven.
Eva tried to move again, but was still paralyzed. A dull ringing resonated in her mind, like the sound of a bell amplified. The noise grew, until she was deaf to anything said or done by Isabella and Scarlet completely. Her vision started to fade white.
It was a perfect voice that broke the new silence. It was genderless, ageless, and lacked any accent. Yet, it still had personality in its tone. It pronounced every syllable without err, "Eva, you are different. You were made to be different. You have purpose, a very vital one. The numbers you just saw were part of your purpose. Memorize them."

Dante was fighting a hopeless battle and he knew what would happen if he dropped or faltered. "You know, you guys are a real pain, but you're a lot easier to deal with than the Name-Brands, compared to them, you're nothing but cookie-cutter knock-offs!" Dante yelled as he destroyed another Caretaker. I don't know how long I can keep this up. Dante thought grimly, feeling exhaustion seeping into his body, it was the one thing he hated about his nanobots, they drained him, but they did work well and against Caretakers they provided defense, offense and ways to cheat. I just hope this helps outside.

Eva tried to reach out to the voice with her own consciousness, feeling its presence off in the distance. She was completely blind and deaf to the outside world, stuck in this halfway-realm of nothingness. As her mind came into contact with the very edge of the voice's, she was flooded with sensations. The most overwhelming of all was a sense of odd familiarity, as if she had met a stranger that ended up being a long lost sibling. The presence wasn't malicious in the least, but it was guarded. She thought directly at it, "Who are you? Why am I like this? And...those numbers flashed by so fast, I didn't even see all of them. How can I memorize so many?"
She could feel its hesitation to answer. It gave off a peaceful vibe, as if trying to calm Eva before she could hear the truth. It responded in a more gentle tone, "I suppose you could call me your parent, Eva. You exist for a reason vital to the lives of millions. Speed is inconsequential; as you awaken, they should gradually come back to your memory." It paused as she considered all of this, "We will meet someday soon, if current events continue as they have... However, you may not... accept me from first glance."
If it was possible to fall on one's knees in their own consciousness, Eva would have done just that. She was speechless. The other presence was fading quickly, and she reached for it in desperation, but was too late. The calming vibe was gone, the familiarity was gone, and she was left with nothing but panic-stricken confusion. The ringing noise came back, then returned to normal sound. She blinked, and her eyes re-focused on the outside world.
Eva sat up on the bed in silence, ignoring anything Isabella or Scarlet may say. She concentrated on the numbers, trying to recall anything. Her head whipped around in search of something, and eventually she turned to the other two, "I need... paper. Lots of it. And a pen or something."

"Thanks." Eva muttered absentmindedly, setting down the stack on the nightstand. She hovered over the paper a moment, twiddling the pencil in her hand, then wrote down the first numbers which came to mind. Five, one, three, nine, twenty-six. No... She erased twenty-six, thought a moment, then changed it to twenty-one. She started slowly, writing down only a couple numbers every few minutes, but her pace picked up when she got the hang of it. All she had to do was think of random numbers, and as soon as she imagined the color green, she was sure that was the correct digit. Eva filled the first page, then moved onto the next without any pauses.

Eva had written seven full pages of numbers before she halted abruptly, a look of frustration creeping on her face. She focused, attempted the green-number tactic, then set down the pencil altogether. Nothing else came to her mind. She reread the last two digits she'd written. Thirty-four. Something seemed wrong... Eva remembered the very last number in the sequence: Sixty-seven.
She sighed, "It's incomplete... I can't remember what comes next." She picked up the full sheets and set them down in order on the bed, forming a long line. It was then that she noticed a pattern in the numbers. On each page was the outline of a letter, composed of zeroes:





She descended from the sky upon bladed wings, a comet of white and orange. Reborn as an angel. Nemesis landed on the rooftop above the Corrupted man, watched as he destroyed several generic Caretakers. The robotic half of her face shifted as her eyesight adjusted, locking onto the target. She jumped off the building, rolled in mid-air, and landed a few feet ahead of Dante. Her wings clicked in preparation, "You have destroyed public safety devices, a clear indication of malicious intent. I shall have to take administrative actions..."


((Annnnnd a TekTek of neo Nemesis:


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"Well hot damn, the b***h who took my eye. You know we really do have an "Ahab/White Whale" relationship going on here, but right now, it's not about me, then again, you don't really care. Well I guess I should count myself honored that I get to be the one to break you in." Dante said with a smirk as swarms of nanobots began to rise. "Nice to know these little guys have been multiplying nicely." Dante said as he sent a cloud of the nanos at Nemesis while taking another cloud and forming them into a miniature Hadron Cannon. Dante pointed it at Nemesis, charging up the deadly beam of energy in the hopes that he'd pull off a miracle like Odessa pulled.

((Yes. blaugh ))