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"I know..." Raowan nodded lightly, "But now that it's started, they cannot leave until every Corrupted has been annihilated. That's how the security system works."



Genesis observed Lukas's bowing, and felt it appropriate to return the gesture. He smiled peacefully, "I hope that one day I can recall who I was, and continue to live out that memory..." The Caretaker unfocused briefly, his radar detecting something a long distance away. It was a living creature...a human? But it gave off an odd reading of high radioactivity. His head turned in the direction of the cavern's exit, "There is something unusual at the forest's edge. It seems to contain radioactivity... I believe it's human, but that should be impossible."



This time, her autonomous reflexes failed her. Odessa's kick impacted with her side, and Eva was sent flying. She hit the floor a few feet away, pain throbbed up her entire side. That would leave a huge bruise if not anything more serious. She grunted as she stood, hunched slightly over in defense, one arm guarding her affected side.

Mord was beggining to relax but just barely as he chose to believe it was a dream. He looked around at the woods and the girl again. "So if this isnt some magic garden dream girl then what on the ruined earth is it? when the whole plannet burned how did this place survive? I wanna know what my brain can pull out of its a**." It was then he barely spotted something moving in the woods... something with electromagnetic cast off radiation, the only time he saw that was when an old radio played way back when. This thing was moving though and he sure as hell didnt hear any music...

Eva realized that Odessa wasn't going to make the next move, and hesitated to so much as budge. She was unfortunately very conscious of her own actions now. Apparently, the same program did not apply to offense. She ran straight toward Odessa, then feinted to the right as she spun into a kick.



The stream of electricity cut off abruptly as the robot disconnected himself, his battery now charged enough to at least last a few days. Genesis followed at his own pace, almost passing Lukas and Isabella altogether. He halted not far from the strange man and Scarlet, gathering data about his physical status. This seemed wrong, for such high levels of toxicity in a living being...

I blinked.

You ever seen a robot before, Mr? This is Genesis. One of the few friendly ones running around.

Lukas stepped into the clearing, followed by Isabella. They both looked at Mord, looked at eahother, then hurried over to me, picking me up and sheltering me from view from the now hostile man brimming with radiation.

... Can't I just take a nap?

Lukas was watching the man carefully... he was older then Lukas, and he seemed different. The man seemed to have an oily sheen to his skin, Lukas noticed, and his eyes were such a pale blue like a blind man's... but not cloudy. He was, indeed, full of toxic radiation, yet it seemed... to the Northwesteners, anyway, natural, for this man.

{My gods... is he...}

Isabella looked at Lukas. I perked up.

{An evolved human?}

Genesis remained motionless as the man approached with hostility. The knife itself did not seem as much of a threat, but his speed and strength were what caught the robot's attention. This man was unlike any other he'd seen outside of a lab. The Caretaker looked him straight in the eye with nothing but peaceful sincerity, "I mean you not harm. I was simply curious as to whom discovered this forest."




Raowan sighed and half-turned away from Virgil, shaking his head, "If they left now, the whole damn world would collapse from the sudden absence of so many bodies. Everyone here would die instantly. It's like removing stars from the universe; they would leave black holes which could destroy everything." He responded with mild annoyance, "I don't like this any more than you or they do, but what's done is done. At least the majority of the populace will remain intact."
Something stirred at the corner of his vision, and the Guardian turned fully to face it. Down the walkway on the opposite side of the street was a figure, incorporeal and stumbling. The girl's face and body were translucent, while her all-black clothes, brown eyes and brown hair appeared closer to solid. The scars on her face were illuminated with a blue-white light. She fell against the wall for support, then slid down to the pavement on her knees. Raowan had started to head off in her direction, but four Caretakers quickly descended and surrounded her.
She looked to the one ahead of her, not in the least bit scared. All four approached with their blades. The girl's right eye began to glow blue, while she closed her left altogether. The robot directly ahead rose its blade to strike...
...And vaporized in a burst of light. Just as the one behind her charged to attack, she looked toward it and sent out another invisible attack, again resulting in light and then nothing. The last two backed away from the girl, completely unsure of what just occurred. An anomaly of the highest sense. They, too, were immaterialized by her unknown power. Slowly, the glow subsided from her eye, and she looked up to Raowan and Virgil. Her expression was blank.


(( Okay, so I fail at trying to describe how the robots were killed... Imagine something similar to Anima's attack in Final Fantasy 10; how she would just look at an enemy, a slight disturbance would occur in the air, and the enemy would just burst into light and then fade to nothing. The actual game scene. ))

Lukas and Isabella looked to one another, then at me. I just blinked sleepily and dozed off, falling alseep in my parent's protective embrace. My breathing was quiet and gentle.

Lukas was looking the man over. In their energy sight, the radation was obvious... When lukas looked closer at the man himself, he saw the slight oily sheen on the man's skin, and the pale pale blue of his eyes...

Lukas was fascinated.