[Fanfiction] Old Dreams

[Spikey844]

I'm not sure should i be intrigued or scared for what happens next chapter.....

Edited July 23, 2014 by Spikey844

[evafan002]

oh boy this is gonna be messy

[Kalenath]

 

Dreams of Chaos

 

It was... surprising. Even after all this time. Sun could be surprised. The Grineer -Mora- had not lied. Not once. She lay, exhausted in the restraints as he pondered what she had told him. A weak voice sounded and he looked at her.

 

"Will you kill me now?" Mora did not -quite- beg.

 

 "I don't know." Sun said quietly. "You did everything I asked. You obeyed every instruction and answered every question." He shook his head. "You did what I asked. I am neither capricious nor cruel for the sake of being cruel."

 

"Then...?" Mora slumped. "What...?" Sun shook his head again and a golden beam started playing across Mora's face. "What are you doing?" She asked as her eyes slowly closed. Obviously against her will.

 

"Wiping your mind." Sun replied calmly. Mora jerked and then screamed.

 

"No!" She begged, writhing and twisting fruitlessly in her bonds. "No, please..." Her cries and please tapered off quickly to animal grunts of pain and fear. In moment, she lay still, tears of fear and pain falling, but nothing else. The injuries that he had inflicted on her vanished as if they had never been. This wasn't real after all. He could do nearly anything in this virtual world. A lot of power, and easily abused.

 

"I think..." Sun thought hard for a moment and then nodded. "I think I know what to do with you." Mora did not reply. Indeed, she couldn't. Her higher brain functions had been wiped clean. "Institute Slave Package Three." The golden beam that had been playing over her face changed color to brown and she jerked a bit. Then she was crying again as information was put in. "There, there, dear." The interrogator said calmly. "I know of a place where you can do good work. Honest work as opposed to what the Grineer consider to be honest work."

 

"Master?" The voice that came from the Grineer was a far cry from her previous one. This voice was timid, scared and utterly subservient. As designed. "What is thy will?"

 

"I am not your master." Sun said calmly. "I am just a facilitator."

 

" Have I given offense?"  The Grineer said quickly. "I meant no offense." She asked, testing her bonds.

 

"No." Sun said, still in that calm and clear voice."You will sleep and when you wake, you will meet your new master. I have work to do though." Not the least of which was to... alter her appearance a bit in the real world so she wouldn't scream 'Grineer' to anyone with eyes. "Sleep, let the program complete."

 

"Tired." The new slave said softly. "What is my name?" She asked as her lids slowly closed again.

 

"We will keep it simple." Sun replied. "You are Mora." She slumped and was asleep. "Okay..." Sun sighed and stretched a bit. "Exit simulation."  He came back to himself kneeling on the deck of his small ship. He shook his head as he rose and walked to the com system. "Ordis, set course for the changing facility."

 

"Yes, Operator." For once, the ship's Cephalon had no witty or insane babble as the engines roared again. Then again, Ordis knew what lay within that place. Not many did.

 

Lotus, I have information. Sun said in the recesses of his mind.

 

Report. The Lotus' voice was still... off.

 

The Grineer found the ship while mining the asteroid. They attempted access, but the security systems thwarted them. Sun replied. They used slaves in large numbers to attempt to breach the hull. One did manage to get through, but the ship woke in the process. It fled, leaving the Grineer mining array in pieces. The ones responsible were punished. They do not know where the ship went.

 

Why did they not just destroy it? Her? Hate sang in the Lotus' voice now and Sun shook his head. This was... not good.

 

Lotus. Sun said sternly. Be calm. We need you.

 

I... The Lotus seemed to waver a bit and then her voice modulated. I am very emotional about that ship.

 

We all are. Sun said with a sigh. I will continue the hunt.

 

Your prisoner? The Lotus asked, a fragment of her old care and compassion surfacing.

 

She will not remember who she was or why she does not remember. I have programmed her against curiosity. Sun replied. There is a primitive farm on Europa that could use some strong labor.

 

Sun, you didn't! Now the Lotus' voice held horror. That is forbidden!

 

I got the information we needed. Sun retorted evenly. Will you censor or punish me for doing my job?

 

Sun... The Lotus sounded scared now and then she gave a small sound. Almost a laugh. Almost. You haven't changed. Utterly pragmatic.

 

They get labor, I get compensation, she doesn't die. Sun replied. Win, win, win.

 

I am not going to debate the ethics of the situation with you. The Lotus said with a half hearted snarl. But you are needed at the Mercury tower. Sun went still and she continued. They found an oddity. A former Grineer slave.

 

And? Sun prompted when she didn't continue. She wouldn't send him just for that.

 

Apparently before he was a Grineer slave, he was Corpus. Sun paused, digesting the Lotus' words. He was one of the ones who hurt Amelia, who made Sara. At that, Sun went still. Amelia is... irate.

 

Hard to blame her. Sun replied. The Lotus didn't reply and he sighed. Yes, I am pragmatic. But what they did was horrific in the extreme. Even Intelligence wouldn't have done what those Corpus did. Orokin scientists might have, then again... They might not have. There were those pesky rules about using non-consenting minors in robotics experiments, you know.

 

I know. The Lotus replied. And... it gets stranger. Sun waited and she continued. This former Grineer slave was found by an emergency response team as it was on its way back to the hospital. As if... She stopped speaking as Sun inhaled sharply.

 

As if he had been left for them to find? Sun snapped, his unease flaring.

 

Exactly. The Lotus replied. How long until you can get to Mercury? Sun checked the navigation systems and made some rapid calculations.

 

Five hours. Sun said after a moment. I need to do some things and then drop off my 'guest'. Then I will make best speed for the Tower.

 

Five hours may be too long. The Lotus said uneasily. Amelia is going berserk.

 

Tell her I am coming. Sun retorted as he set the ship's systems for faster speeds. I think I made an impression.

 

You did. With that, the Lotus was gone.

 

***

 

It wasn't hard or even really time consuming, but Sun felt every minute. The tiny facility had been built by Tenno Intelligence during the Sentient War. Occasionally, they had use for changing people's appearances. For fair means or foul, they had needed a way to alter people's outward looks. The facility was, to all outside appearances, a rock in a distant orbit in the Oort cloud. Which it was. Far enough from the main system so as to be virtually undetectable, and then given the most state of the art concealment technology known. Even most Tenno had no idea that these facilities had existed. He knew that Alicia had known, but she kept secrets like nobody's business. He liked her.

 

Mora screamed again.

 

"No more! Please!" She begged as the golden energy rearranged her body again. "Please, I will be good! I swear!" He had no time to be gentle, so she was awake as parts of her body were rebuilt.

 

"Relax." Sun said quietly as energy played over her again. He sighed. This was... inefficient. "It hurts, but it is not permanent."

 

Her body had been scanned down to the genetic level and then altered. Where before, her skin had been pale and clammy, with the tell tale signs of cloning disease, now? She was covered in new skin, healthy dark toned skin. Her bare head was growing hair. Long, straight brown hair. There was no free lunch however, and it was excruciating as bits of her grew far, far faster than nature had intended. Finally it was done and she lay sobbing on the table. She looked... like a normal human female, which she was down to the genetic level. If a sterile one who was programmed to be a slave. A large and unremarkable looking human female.

 

"All done." Sun said calmly as he stepped forward, a long smock in hand. "Get up." The ingrained need to obey people in authority that Sun had implanted in her subconscious had her jumping to her feet despite her residual agony. "Put this on."

 

"Yes, sir..." Mora said weakly as he handed her the smock. It fit. He made a gesture and she was kneeling and then lying on the floor before her mind could catch up with her action. "No..." She begged as he held a hand over her. She screamed loud and long as she was digitized again.

 

The facility defined tiny. It was  matter of five steps from the room with the table to the airlock. Sun keyed the facility to shut down as he moved. He had time to stop off at Europa, but not a lot. He would haggle price of course. He had to keep up his cover with the disreputable elements of the Solar System as a nasty sort who peddled slaves. It was hardly the worst thing he had done in his career. Not even close. And truth be told? It was a just fate for a Grineer. They enslaved people, so it was only fair to enslave them.

 

The sooner he got her off the ship, the better. He needed to wake Maxine up. The puppy would help calm things down. He hoped so anyway. But then something chimed. He stared at the com system in disbelief.

 

An email? From... Serene? He read it quickly and then slumped.

 

Lotus? He sent.

 

Yes, Sun? The Lotus asked.

 

Tell Serene, the answer is 'Yes'. I swear it.

 

***

 

"Let me by!" Amelia did not -quite- scream at the pair of drones that blocked her path.

 

-Access is restricted, Doctor Amelia.- The Tower systems were calm, but firm. -You are not permitted.-

 

"Look, I am not armed." Amelia spun in place, hands out at her sides. "I have questions. That is all. Questions. No more."

 

Amelia. Kori's disapproving voice came from behind her and she slumped in place as she turned to see the Kubrow. You heard Iriana. You are not allowed. You should be asleep. The Kubrow stepped close and nuzzled the doctor.

 

"Can't sleep." Amelia said softly. "Even with drugs, the nightmares... I can't..." She sobbed as she knelt and hugged the Kubrow. "I just want to know why."

 

Iriana says he doesn't know. Kori said gently. She did a scan. You saw the record. His memory is... what was the word she used? 'Trashed'?

 

"Serene killed the one in charge." Amelia sobbed, burying her face in the Kubrow's fur. "But it still hurts!"

 

My friend... The Kubrow leaned into Amelia, offering her strength. Please, come away. They cannot let you in. You are not rational and no one blames you. What the Corpus did to you... The canid whined a little in sympathy. Please.

 

"I can't get past this." Amelia sobbed. "Every time I try, every time I seek to understand, it hurts again. I can't... I can't keep going, Kori." Everything stopped as a cold, hard voice sounded.

 

"That is what they wanted, doctor." Amelia stared up at the long curved horns of the warframe that stood in front of her. She gave a small squeak and recoiled, hugging Kori tighter, who tensed. "Think, Doctor Amelia." Sun said calmly, ignoring the Kubrow's warning growl. "How do the Corpus control their slaves?" Amelia stared at him uncomprehending and the white Loki Prime warframe shook his head. "Doctor, you know better than many what they do to their 'recruits'." He made air quotes around the word 'recruits'.

 

"They.. they scan the subject's mind... They find a weakness and they use that to break the subject..." Amelia said with a wince. "I...I broke..."

 

"Did you?" Sun asked softly.

 

"I did!" Amelia screamed. "I am broken! In pieces!"

 

"Are you?" Sun asked, still calm.

 

"What do you care?" Amelia spat. "You are a monster!"

 

"Yes, I am." Sun agreed. Amelia paused and Sun pressed his advantage. "Self deception is a weakness an enemy can exploit. Doctor, what I do is needed. Is it right? By most cultures' standards, no. But it is needed." He shook his head. "I am not going to pretend I do not joy in it at times. I was trained to do what I do. By the best. I do it well, with no conceit intended. There is a certain appeal in conquering others."

 

"So you are going to conquer me." Amelia swallowed hard Sun shook his head and she snarled. "What then?"

 

"Doctor, you are an asset." Sun's voice was still calm and clear. "A powerful, useful asset. The Tenno need you. Iriana needs you. You are self destructing as the Corpus intended." Amelia went still and Sun shook his head. "I won't let you."

 

"What do you-?" Amelia's words were cut off as a beam of golden energy slammed into her from behind. She fell, instantly unconscious.

 

Amelia! Kori screamed, placing herself protectively over the still form of her friend. Get back!

 

"She needs help." Sun said quietly, not moving. "You know it. I know it. She can't get past this, Iriana cannot get past this. I can."

 

You will hurt her! Kori screamed.

 

"Probably." Sun agreed. The Kubrow went still and the Loki Prime shook his head. "Kori... what she endured would have broken many Tenno. It broke Serene in two. And Serene was one of the toughest and smartest Tenno I knew." He chuckled a little. "Not to mention one of the scariest."

 

You... You know Serene? Kori asked, confused.

 

"Yep." Sun said softly. A soft cry came from nearby and Iriana hurried into view, going to her knees beside Amelia. "Healer, she is unconscious. She was losing it. She was going to go for the scalpel in her pocket." Iriana tensed and patted Amelia's pocket, finding the tiny surgical tool. "On herself, on Kori here, or on me? It makes no difference."

 

"Nothing works." Iriana was nearly in tears. "We have tried everything."

 

"With all due respect, Healer..." Sun said quietly. "Not everything."

 

"What are you..?" Iriana stared at the Tenno interrogator and went white. "No..."

 

Iriana? Kori asked softly. What?

 

"You cannot do that. Not to her!" Iriana snapped. "Security! Expel this Tenno!" Nothing happened and impossibly, Iriana got paler. "What have you done?"

 

"I have authorization to help her, Healer." Sun said softly. "From the highest levels. The Tower systems are very worried about her too. Please. I can help her."

 

You will hurt her! Kori snapped, interposing herself between the Loki Prime and the still form at her feet.

 

"Kori." Sun chided her gently. "In order to heal some injuries, you have to hurt someone." Then he stilled. "I have authorization." He repeated.

 

"You move, you die." A  soft, pain filled voice sounded from nearby and all eyes turned to where a Tenno in robes held an Attica crossbow on Sun. Two was weaving, but her aim was steady. "Get away from her! I won't let you hurt her."

 

"Tenno Two." Sun said quietly. "You have Serene's memories. Search them."

 

"I have." Two declared. "I know what you are. What you do. I won't let you hurt her!"

 

"And when she kills herself?" Sun said, his tone slightly sharp. That mild sharp was the equivalent of several screams of rage in a less controlled being. "Maybe you can bring her back, but what then? The next time? And the next? She is self destructing, Two. Iriana cannot help her. I can. My methods are harsh, but they work."

 

Why help her? Kori demanded as Iriana knelt over Amelia's still form protectively. What is she to you?

 

"She is an asset." Sun said, his calm returning. "A strong and powerful asset. She is a good ally. A strong and capable doctor. We need her. You need her." He nodded to Iriana. "I can help her."

 

"I..." Iriana shook her head. "I can't, Sun. She is a friend. I can't give her to you."

 

"I know." Sun said quietly. Then the world went white. Iriana screamed, Two and Kori both flattened to the floor, but nothing else happened. When they could see again, Kori and Two both screamed.

Sun was gone. So was Amelia.

 

***

 

Amelia woke on a bed. She was... comfortable. Everything was soft, hazy. She stared around wildly, but nothing happened. The bed was warm and soft. The night gown she wore was also soft, if a bit flimsy. It was familiar!

 

"No..." Amelia said softly as she tried to rise. But her body would not obey her. "I can't do this... No... Not again..."

 

"You are not alone, doctor." Amelia went still as the white Loki Prime appeared beside the bed. "I gave my word to help you through this and I will."

 

"This is where they made Sara!" Amelia screamed. "This is the room I gave birth in!"

 

"I know." Sun... sounded sad for a moment. Amelia paused, staring at him. "What they did to you was awful. But... you do not face it alone."

 

"You can't help me!" Amelia curled into a ball on the bed and sobbed.

 

"Yes, he can." An utterly unexpected voice had Amelia pausing. A chair appeared beside the bed. And in it... "He helped me past the same thing."

 

"S...Serene...?" Amelia said softly. "But... You are... I..." The female Tenno in the chair held out a hand and took Amelia's closest one in a gentle grip.

 

"For the mother of my daughter..." Serene moved a bit so the stumps of her legs were more comfortable and nodded. "I will do far more. Sun helped me past this. He can help you." Amelia gave a shrill cry and pulled Serene close, hugged her tight. "This won't be fun, Amelia. But you can do it. Sara needs you."

 

"What do I do?" Amelia asked after a moment, her voice muffled by Serene's shoulder.

 

"You don't have to do anything, Doctor." Sun said quietly. "Serene. Go."

 

"Once was enough, yes." Serene said with a gulp. "But Sara and I are waiting, Amelia. Do not keep us waiting." Another hug and she was gone.

 

Amelia swallowed hard and the bed vanished. She was lying on something hard and things clicked around her, locking her in place. Sun appeared nearby.

 

"My name is Sun." The Loki Prime said formally. "My rank is Interrogator First Class. And we have a lot to talk about."

 

[Shadow977]

I have no idea what to say or think about this....

[Spikey844]

Hmmm....

Extreme counselling would be the best description I think.

[evafan002]

I take back what I said... this aint gonna be messy this is gonna fubar the universe is it too late to place an order for 20 million rolls of toilet paper? I think I am gonna need it to clean up once this S@#tstorm is over

[renleech]

I read about such methods in two graphic novels. "V for Vendetta" and "Y the last man". Eve Hammond and Yorick Brown, respectively, passed through similar methods.

[ThePandarine]

"My rank is Interrogator First Class. And we have a lot to talk about."

 

Read that the first time, sent shivers down my back. Read it a second time, shivers were added onto the shivers that never stopped from the first reading.

[Kalenath]

 

Blood

 

The preliminaries were done. Amelia was weakened. The screams had tapered off. Now, it was just sobs. Pain had mixed with pleasure until her body and mind were so fuddled she couldn't even see straight. Sun stood away, let Amelia recover. Finally, she spoke.

 

"Why does it hurt so much?" Amelia begged. "I want it to stop hurting!"

 

"No, you don't, Doctor." Sun said calmly. "If it does... you become like me. You are better than me, Doctor." He stepped up to the frame again and Amelia shied away. Not that she could go far. "You were fooled, Doctor. You know it. You admit it. The one who took you fooled you. He took you, and then he hurt you. With the help of others."

 

"I... No..." Amelia begged as a screen lit up on one wall. On it, Amelia saw herself strapped to a table, The other her's belly was huge. An odd machine was wrapped around her skull. The Amelia on the screen jerked and screamed, the real one did the same. "No! Don't! Not again!"

 

A snap drew Amelia's gaze from the screen to where a small flame was burning. An old fashioned looking candle sat on a table nearby. It just sat there. It did not move. But her eyes were draw back to where the Amelia on the screen was jerking, writhing in agony. Agony that she shared.

 

"Focus on the flame, Doctor." Sun commanded. "See the flame. Nothing but the flame. Bright, clean. Clear. Nothing but the flame. No pain. No anger. No violation. Just the flame."

 

"I... I am cold... wet and cold..." Amelia said in a weak voice. "Shocks... to my brain... B...broken..."

 

"Focus on the flame, Doctor!" Sun commanded sternly. "Come on, doctor. Your lover and your family think you are strong. Show them how strong you are. Focus on the flame!" A long finger tapped her nose, drawing her eyes from the screen. They followed his finger and then they caught the flame and held it. "Good..." Sun said softly. "That's it... Keep it..."

 

"I..." Amelia felt... light. "Wha...?"

 

"Fire burns, doctor Amelia." Sun said quietly as she relaxed , almost against her will, her eyes entranced by the dancing mote of fire. "It can purify almost everything. Even a broken soul." His voice was whisper soft now as the screams from the screen became louder. "Focus on the flame..." He crooned.

 

Amelia jerked one final time and then a wailing cry came from the screen. A form wearing Corpus medical garb moved into the view and pulled a squirming mass from between the legs of the bound woman. Then it walked away with it, ignoring the restrained woman's cries and pleas.

 

"Sara..." Amelia said weakly. "I..."

 

"Keep the flame, doctor." Sun said calmly. "Hold it tight. It may burn, but it will help." The flame on the table... vanished. "That's it doctor." Sun encouraged her. "That's it. Hold it tight."

 

"Ow..." Amelia said weakly. "Hurts... inside my head..."

 

"Hold the flame, doctor." Sun said softly as he moved a machine so it sat over her restrained form. "It is your flame. Your mind. Your power. Your love and fear, and everything. Yours. No one else's." Part of the machine slid down to enclose most of Amelia's skull. "Now the rough part. Hold the flame, doctor." He encouraged her.

 

"I can see it..." Amelia said softly as energy flared from the machine on her skull. She gave a whimper, but did not react otherwise. "The flame... It is... wavering, but there..."

 

"Good." Sun said calmly. Then he flipped another switch. Amelia gave a long, drawn out scream. She convulsed and then collapsed unconscious. Sun sighed and retracted the apparatus. Now, he would have to wait and see.

 

***

 

"Sara!" Amelia screamed as she came awake.

 

She jerked, she wasn't strapped down. She was... Where was she? She was lying on a cot in what looked like a small room. Orokin style, but... not the tower. She felt... odd. She could feel the memories within her. The memories of horror, of fear, of violations so monstrous that they boggled the mind. But... they did not touch her. Or, they did, but she was beyond them. Somehow.

 

"Sara is alive and well." Sun's voice came from nearby and Amelia jerked as he rose from where he had been kneeling near one wall. "Do you still see the flame, Doctor?" Amelia stared at him and then her gaze turned inward. She nodded slowly. "Good." Sun said with a nod.

 

"I was... breaking." Amelia said with a gulp. "The pain and fear were too much."

 

"Yes." Sun agreed. "The damage that you took was extreme. Your  own skill and the skill of other mind healers -Brianna and Iriana included- allowed you to function, to go on. But it was still there."

 

"Won't ever go away." Amelia agreed. "But I was...coping. Seeing that one again..." She bowed her head. "It brought it all back."

 

"No one can be strong all the time, doctor." Sun said in a voice that was almost kind. Almost. "Not Tenno, not human, not Corpus, not Grineer. No one. It is just not possible."

 

"What did you do?" Amelia asked, her voice dazed. She felt her body where phantom pain lingered, but nothing really hurt. Just memories that faded as she thought about them.

 

"I made you face it." Sun was calm and controlled. "I weakened you and made you face it."

 

"Iriana will be madder than hell." Amelia said with the ghost of a laugh. "Two and Kori likewise..."

 

"You were falling apart." Sun shrugged. "Now you are not." He held out a hand to her. "Are you?"

 

"I... feel..." Amelia stared at Sun's hand and shook her head slowly in confusion. "It's... muddled. I can't... quite describe what I feel." Her hand came up to take Sun's hesitantly.

 

"That is normal." Sun gave her hand a gentle squeeze. Then he released her hand. "Getting past such horrors is not easy. But then again... I don't do easy." His chuckle was dark and cold but Amelia wasn't afraid. Not now. He raised a finger in warning. "It is entirely possible you could relapse. But if you do..." Amelia nodded.

 

"I know what to do. I see the flame." Amelia said with a firmness in her voice that hadn't been there before. "Thank you, Sun." Her voice turned warm. "Interrogator First Class."

 

"Don't thank me." Sun said with another dark chuckle. "Thank Serene. She is the reason I did it." Amelia stared at the Loki Prime and he shrugged. "I don't usually work on people who are not enemies. I... bother people."

 

"Can't imagine why." Amelia said dryly, a ghost of Sun's dark chuckle escaping her. "Serene asked for your help?"

 

"Not quite." Sun said quietly. "She told me she would kill me if I didn't help you." Amelia's eyes went wide at that and he shrugged again. "I like living. I am needed, so..."

 

"She threatened you?" Amelia asked, stunned.

 

"Just like she did the last time." Sun agreed. "She was... a mess. We had to know what the Corpus had done to her, so I was called in to screen her. To search her memories. In the process, I helped her past the anger and fear that the Corpus had tried to implant in her. They didn't quite succeed with her. They did with you."

 

"Why didn't anyone see it?" Amelia wasn't sure about this. Not at all. "All the scans I was subjected to, all the probes? Why didn't anyone see it?"

 

"The Corpus are not stupid, Doctor." Sun said as he moved to a bank of machinery on one wall. "The programming that they do is easy to detect and counter, if time consuming. But emotional conditioning? Deep seated emotional triggers?" He asked. Amelia winced and he nodded. "Much harder to find, since they are not externally imposed. They come from you. "

 

"So... you took me past my fear and pain." Amelia felt faint, remembering.

 

"I took you to a place just shy of your breaking point." Sun agreed. Amelia looked thoughtful and he shook his head. "Do not try it, doctor." He warned. "I have centuries of experience in doing this and I could not be a hundred percent certain you would be sane when you woke. There is a great deal of danger in what I do and how I do it."

 

"I... see..." Amelia swallowed hard. "Now what? Do you digitize me?"

 

"Yes." Sun said quietly. "It is faster and easier. For both of us. But... you do not have to be awake for it."

 

"Once was enough." Amelia said with a small smile. "But... Sun..." She rose from the bed and took a slow step towards the Loki. "May I touch you?"

 

"I would rather you didn't." Sun said, not moving. Amelia sighed and nodded. She sank to the floor gracefully and lay down. "Here." The Loki laid a hypo by her hand. She stared at it. It was a common sedative.

 

"Why..." Amelia asked slowly as she took the hypo and readied it. "Why not just do it? You are..." She broke off, unwilling to give offense.

 

"I am what I am, Doctor." Sun said with another dark and sinister chuckle. "But Serene scares me. And coming from me? That is saying something."

 

"You know?" Amelia said as she injected herself. "She scares me too..."

 

***

 

Sun was ready for the anger. He was ready for the bitterness. Those he knew well. He released Amelia's still form to lie on the exam bed and stepped back as Iriana snarled at him and moved to check the slumbering doctor. Her anger he had expected. It was the angry female Tenno warrior and the furious Kubrow that made him very cautious.

 

"What did you do to her?" Two demanded.

 

"I got her past her fear." Sun said quietly.

 

That is not an answer! The Kubrow barked loudly. What did you do? Her demand was a snarl.

 

"You do not want to know." Sun kept his voice calm and sure. "She will sleep for an hour or so and wake hungry. She will need rest and care, but she is not self destructing now."

 

"She is... whole." Iriana sounded perplexed. "I could feel her falling apart before and now... she isn't." She stared from the slumbering doctor to Sun. "Why?"

 

Instead of answering, Sun looked at Two who slowly lowered her crossbow. Two inhaled sharply and Sun nodded. Kori looked from one to the other, confused.

 

"She didn't..." Two said, stunned.

 

"She did." Sun said quietly. "Guard your feelings well, Tenno Two. They do you credit, but they could be made to serve the enemy." Two slumped in place, her bow hanging forgotten.

 

What? Kori demanded. What is going on?

 

"Serene got him to do this." Two's soft words were not a question. Iriana and Kori both froze in place. "Got him to... help Amelia... his way. But... why?" She asked, her eyes starting to stream.

 

"Do you really need to ask that question?" Sun asked with his trademark dark chuckle. "What is the one thing that Serene protects more than anything else in the universe? The one thing that drove her berserk? All the times she went berserk, that one thing was what pushed her there. What pushed you there." Two jerked. She had killed the entire crew of a Corpus ship to protect...

 

"Family." Two stammered and slumped to the floor. "I... Sun, I am sorry. I didn't understand..." Kori went still and then knelt as well.

 

"I don't care." Sun said quietly. "Other people's misconceptions of me do not matter. I do what I do because I must."

 

"She is...stable." Iriana said softly, setting monitors and stepping away from Amelia. "Long term?"

 

"I gave her a tool to help her cope." Sun said with a nod. He liked working with professionals. "The emotional triggers were buried deep. In her memories of her torture." Two winced and Sun nodded. "She will need you, Tenno Two. Now more than ever. But she should be all right, given time and rest. Don't let her stress herself too far, too fast." This was a command.

 

"Thank you." Two's voice was a shell of its normal timbre.

 

"Don't thank me." Sun said with the ghost of  a laugh. "Thank Serene. I like living."

 

"She threatened you?" Iriana tried to keep the disbelief from her voice but failed. "You?"

 

"She said and I quote 'Help her or it will take a week for you to die.'" Sun said with a shrug. Kori inhaled in shock and he shrugged. "She would do it too." With that, he turned to go.

 

Wait... Kori's voice was unsure but Sun turned back to scrutinize the Kubrow. Can you do that for any? Iriana and Two both hissed, but relaxed when Sun shook his head. Why not? If I ask...

 

"You do not know what you are asking." Sun replied without heat. "And frankly? All you could do is kill me quickly." He said dryly. "Serene's methods are far more refined." Kori gave a whine but he continued. "Be at ease. You are hurting, but not broken. You are grieving for the one who sacrificed herself to save us all. You are not falling alone into the darkness within your soul." All three females were staring at him as he shook his head. "You don't need me. Be glad." He turned on his heel again and left the room.

 

"Sun!" Iriana's voice came from behind, but he did not slow. "Sun, wait..."

 

"I need to talk to your newest patient, Healer." Sun said quietly, not slowing or turning. "I bet he was the slave that the Grineer accessed the ship with."

 

"Do you think he remembers?" Iriana asked, her tone slightly dubious. "From our scans, his memory core is trashed."

 

"Only one way to find out." Sun said quietly. "But I won't remove him from the tower. There was no time with Amelia. She was falling too fast and I couldn't do what needed to be done here. Too many people with too many emotional ties."

 

"I know." Iriana said sadly. "I will observe. Monitor his vitals."

 

"Healer..." Sun said in warning.

 

"Interrogator." Iriana said sternly. "I have assisted in such before, when I was a med tech." Sun turned his head to look at her. "I know interrogations do not have to be brutal."

 

"Violence often causes more problems than it solves." Sun agreed. "Some are immune to the soft approach, Grineer in particular. But if that man was Corpus, I can get through to him without violence."

 

"If he was..." Iriana said quietly. "Then he may have information that we can extract even for the remnants of his memory. I will assist."

 

"Healer..." Sun said as he walked with Iriana right beside him. "Can you remain quiet if he starts screaming?" It was an honest question. "I do not doubt your courage. But this is not healing."

 

"It can be." Iriana said softly. "Finding bits of one's past can be traumatic or aid in healing."

 

"Or both." Sun commented, neither agreeing nor diagreeing.

 

"Will you do it virtual?" Iriana asked after a moment A set of doors ahead started to change color, from red to yellow to green.

 

"If the neural trauma is as bad as you say, then I can't." Sun said with a shrug. "I will be careful. Healer..." He pressed. "Are you sure?"

 

"Amelia will want whatever answers we can find." Iriana said quietly. "Karl's people as well. They like her and love Sara. I am not skilled enough at parsing bits of memory. Fixing damaged minds? Sure. Searching them for information? Not my skill set." Sun looked at her and she flushed a bit. "You are in charge, even without the authorization codes that told the Tower what you were going to do." She managed to keep the irritation from her tone. Mostly.

 

"Before, there was no time." Sun said as they stopped just beyond the range of the sensors that would open the door. "Now, we have time." His warframe shimmered a bit and a holo of a human in a lab coat appeared over it. "Let me do the talking."

 

"Unless his condition becomes life threatening, I will let you handle it." Iriana said with a nod as her own garment shimmered a bit and she appeared to be wearing a lab coat. Sun shook his head and Iriana smiled. "I have been practicing."

 

"The Infested have an agenda, Healer." Sun said without heat. "Everyone does."

 

"That we do." Another voice answered Sun and he went still as a young human female appeared nearby. She wore a gown that did nothing to hide the growing bulge in her stomach. "But right now? We want the Tenno in this system to be focused on helping this system. Not hunting vengeance for the past."

 

"Lisa..." Iriana warned but Sun just chuckled darkly.

 

"Point taken." Sun agreed. "And it likely doesn't help that the Caretakers feel as the rest of us do. They were Tenno first." Iriana hissed and Lisa nodded. "Are they... coping?"

 

"For now." Lisa agreed. "We offer our assistance in finding the Elena Greensky." Sun looked at her and Lisa shrugged. "It will benefit everyone." Sun didn't move and Lisa smiled. It was not a nice smile. "Otherwise? We are neither for you nor against you. We are neutral." Sun inclined his head slightly, but she wasn't done. "We do remember you though, Interrogator." Now her voice was cold.

 

"I do my job." Sun said quietly.

 

"Yeah, you do." Lisa agreed. "And you are very good at it. But do not ever expect trust from us."

 

"No." Sun agreed. "You are not that stupid."

 

He shook himself slightly and moved to the door. Inside, a single bed sat in the middle of the room. A bank of medical gear was against one wall. Iriana moved to that, Lisa following. Sun moved to the bed and scrutinized the human male who lay on it. But he went still as the human's lips moved. He was asleep, according to the monitors, but an unexpected voice sounded from the human's lips.

 

"I might have known she would send you." The voice of the Elena Greensky was soft and scared. "Hello Sun."

 

[Shadow977]

S#&$ is about to go down.

[FiveHours]

I don't get any of these stories, they just make no sense whatsoever :I

[Temperance000]

I recommend reading from the beginning. Thoroughly and slowly. All if Kal's work is interconnected; the later tales will not make sense if you do not know the backstory.

[FiveHours]

Take note of the fact that I said "these stories", implying that I had read them. And they still are very confusing.

[Temperance000]

Might I ask precisely how?

[FiveHours]

It's just the sheer amount of characters and so many tiny scenarios going on, as well as the amount of just telling without really explaining. If there was a solid story with about 3/4 less characters throughout the series, I think that I would understand it better. But that's just my opinion.

[22tankmaster]

I dunno, I understand basically everything, even though I missed out on the first 2 stories. I read onwards from... Er, What Price Honor? Yeah, that's it. 

[Suzaku]

I read from the start and I understood at first, though gradually I got confused as well. I don't know, I think I started to get lost halfway through the one with Kori and that Dragon Nikana thing. After that things started to confuse me.

[22tankmaster]

I read from the start and I understood at first, though gradually I got confused as well. I don't know, I think I started to get lost halfway through the one with Kori and that Dragon Nikana thing. After that things started to confuse me.

Yeah, that last one was a little harder to follow than the rest. Largely due to the fact the PoV switched a lot, and certain important events were referenced vaguely, and then carried out, with no actual indication of what exactly happened. The plot was in constant motion, it actually felt like a movie plot. And transferred on-screen it would likely be easier to follow.

 

Kal, the bar has been raised, we need a movie!

[Kalenath]

Yeah, By The Sword was kind of confusing. It was odd, writing from two VERY different points of view virtually at the same time. I will try to keep them less convoluted. Sorry it took so long to update. Life is getting... interesting again.

 

 

When you anger Tenno...

 

"Hello Elena." Sun said calmly, ignoring both Lisa and Iriana's stunned looks. "Where are you?"

 

"Like I am going to  tell you that?" The voice of the sentient starship from the sleeping man's mouth was amused. "Sun, there are limits."

 

"You know what will happen, Elena." Sun said, still calm. "You know why. All you do is waste time."

 

"You two... know each other?" Lisa said in a dazed voice. Iriana hissed for her to be silent, but the voice of the Elena Greensky was sad when it spoke.

 

"We did." The female AI said sadly. "Long ago, we worked together a few times. Got to know each other well. We... fit. He had his methods, I had mine. But it was for Orokin."

 

"Elena." Sun said calmly. "Let him go. Now." This was a command.

 

"Don't hurt him, Sun!" Elena said sharply. "He is not involved in our quarrel!"

 

"Quarrel?" Sun asked, still calm. "Elena, this is way beyond a quarrel. You aided and abetted the Separatist attack on the Citadel."

 

"It wasn't me!" Elena protested. "Sun, if you believe nothing else, you have to believe that!"

 

"Believe? I believe the facts. A five hundred megaton nuclear weapon went off near the Citadel, Elena." Sun continued relentlessly. "The Citadel was behind powerful shields. Others were not. Dozens of small settlements were obliterated in the blast. Tenno and families of Tenno who lives near the Citadel for isolation or to assist their kin." Lisa went still and Iriana paled, but both remained silent. "I know how many died. Do you?"

 

"I..." Elena was crying now. "Yes. I am responsible. Yes, I got the military to stand down. Yes, I wanted peace. Yes, I am to blame! Sun... he isn't!"

 

"When not in battle, I don't hurt people when I have any choice, Elena." Sun said, still calm and sure. "But my hand is being forced here. Where are you? We need to end this. Now."

 

"I... I can't..." Elena said sadly. "Not yet. I need... I need to figure some things out. Sun, he helped me. Please don't hurt him." She begged.

 

"Elena." Sun's voice turned cold now. "Don't make this any harder than it already is."

 

"Sun, I am sorry." Elena said through tears. "But I need to try and make amends."

 

"Can you bring back the dead?" Sun asked, his tone reasonable. "Can you undo what was done?"

 

"I can try." Elena said into the stillness that came from the interrogator's words. Sun... stilled.

 

"Elena, that is forbidden." The Interrogator said slowly. "For good reason. It doesn't work. Didn't work."

 

"And if I can fix it?" Elena said quietly. "Undo some of this... this horror?"

 

"Elena..." Sun said softly. "I have to stop you."

 

"I know." The Elena Greensky said sadly. "For what it is worth, Sun? I am glad you survived." Sun made a curt throat cutting gesture to Iriana who nodded. A hiss of static came from the man's mouth but he remained unconscious.

 

"It was listening this whole time." Iriana said with a sigh. "Probably accessed all kinds of information. Tower? Status?"

 

-No intrusions detected.- The tower systems reported quickly. -No Orokin era codes attempted.-

 

"Or hardwired." Sun said with a shrug. Iriana and Lisa both looked at him oddly. "She had access to all kinds of secrets. She was a high level diplomat."

 

"'She'?" Iriana asked after a moment. "It is an AI. Gender neutral."
 

"She is a hybrid. She was human once." Sun corrected her. "Like the Lotus." Lisa hissed and he nodded. "From what I gathered... she was the Lotus' mentor when the Lotus... merged and ascended."

 

"Then no wonder the Lotus is angry..." Irina said with a wince. "But what was that...?" She shook her head. "How could the Elena Greensky 'fix' things?" She went still as Lisa gave a small cry of fear. "Lisa?"

 

"It wouldn't..." Lisa said weakly. Sun shook his head.

 

"If she got desperate enough?" Sun said quietly. "Oh yes, she would. No matter the cost."

 

"I don't understand." Iriana said quietly. "The past is past. It cannot be changed." Sun just looked at her and she winced. "Oh no... Don't tell me..."

 

"There were... experiments..." Sun said with a matching wince. "...with time travel." Lisa and Iriana shook their heads and Sun shrugged. "As far as we know, none were successful."

 

"'As far as you know'?" Iriana repeated, her voice scared.

 

"I didn't keep up with the experiments." Sun replied. "All I know is that people vanished and didn't come back. They managed to send small recorders through a stable wormhole. But nothing else."

 

"You are telling me... that Orokin managed it...?" Iriana said weakly. "Time travel?"

 

"Sort of." Sun said with a shrug. "For some definitions of 'managed'. Every recorder they got back was fried. So they sent volunteers. None of whom came back. I was called to... assist the investigation. After."

 

"I don't see it being possible." Lisa said quietly. "The mind mass is saying that the power required would be... exponentially greater than anything available. Those requirements alone..." She trailed off and Sun nodded.

 

"It took most of the output from two planets' combined reactors to send and recover a tiny recorder the size of a human hand and then three planets' reactors to send two volunteers." Sun agreed. "But one way? The Elena Greensky is far larger than those recorders or a person but... it is technically feasible. I think. I will need to do some checking."

 

"One way?" Iriana asked.

 

"You heard her, Healer." Sun said with a shrug. "She doesn't expect or want to survive. If she sees a way to fix what she did, even with -at best- a marginal chance of success, she will take it."

 

"And damn the cost for everyone else." Lisa said softly. Sun nodded. "We have to stop it -her-."

 

"Are you saying what I think you are saying?" Iriana was -if anything- even more pale.

 

"I am saying she will use any power source she can access." Sun said with a sigh. "And yes, she had access to the Orokin database. Codes anyway. Physically accessing the network as it is now will be... difficult, even for her."

 

"She will destroy the database." Iriana said with a gulp. "Drain it all. Won't she?"

 

"It is the largest single source of power that I know of." Sun replied. "Of course if she does, the uncounted billions of Orokin shades will be destroyed in the process. Including the shades of our ancestors." Iriana shook her head and Sun nodded. "We have to stop her."

 

"And to do that, we have to find her." Iriana gave herself a shake and perused her instruments. "He is waking." Sun looked at Lisa who nodded and knelt by one wall, out of sight. The camouflaged Loki stood and waited. He didn't have to wait long.

 

"Elena... No..." The human moaned as he woke. "No... don't..."

 

"The Elena Greensky left you for us to find." Sun said calmly. "We have removed the prosthesis. How do you feel?"

 

"Odd." The human looked up at Sun, blinking his sole eye. "I feel... strange. As if I am not all here."

 

"You slept for some time." Sun said with a nod. "You will be out of sorts for a bit. What is your name? I am Sun."

 

"I don't remember." The human said with a wince. "Elena said to choose a name and I chose Zachary. It feels... close, but not quite."

 

"Do you mind if I call you that?" Sun asked. Zack shook his head a little and Sun nodded. "With me are Iriana, a Healer and Lisa, an observer."

 

"I am in no position to say 'No', am I?" Zack asked with the ghost of a chuckle. "At least it isn't the Grineer again. Hello to everyone. I will not resist. I will not move unless given permission. And yes, you may call me that."

 

"Hello Zachary." Iriana said quietly from where she stood. Lisa did not speak, just watched. "We will help you as we can." She closed her mouth and waited. Sun nodded to her and focused on the human.

 

"We need information that you have." Sun's voice was till melodic, gentle almost. Almost. "What do you remember?"

 

"Not much." Zachary said with a sigh. "I remember working, chained to a Grineer machine. But before? It is all spiky, hazy."

 

"This will not be quick or fun, Zachary." Sun said with a nod. "But we may be able to help you order your memory, either using technology or other means. We will try to keep it from hurting. What are your earliest memories?" Iriana focused on her machinery as Sun focused on his subject.

 

"I was..." Zack paused and then spoke slowly, carefully. "A voice. Female. But I cannot make out the words she is speaking. A gentle touch? A caress?" He made a noise of frustration. "It isn't clear."

 

"We will help." Sun said as Iriana hit controls. "Keep that voice in mind." He ordered as a beam of golden energy started playing across the back of Zack's head. "And focus on it. Was she old? Young?"

 

"Old..." Zack said slowly. "I... think..."

 

"Well, that is a start." Sun said with a nod. "From even the barest of beginnings, we start down the road to knowledge." He shook his head. "What do you feel when you hear that voice?"

 

"Fear." Zack sounded a bit dubious. "But that doesn't make any sense, does it?"

 

"I don't know." Sun admitted. "But we will find out."

 

***

 

Zack was asleep. It had been a grueling four hours of work, but Sun was content. They had managed to get more information from his memory, both what he remembered and what Iriana could pry loose. While they did not have an unlimited amount of time, they did not need to stress Zack too far. Sun nodded to Iriana who nodded back and extended a hand to Lisa. The girl took it to rise and all three left the room.

 

"Healer?" Sun inquired.

 

"He will sleep for a couple of hours." Iriana said quietly. "His readings peaked a number of times. You saw." Sun nodded. "That was... very skilled. Every time he got stressed, you calmed him down and back on track."

 

"Getting information is what I do, Healer." Sun said noncommittally. He paused as Lisa looked at him. "Yes?"

 

"What will you do with him?" Lisa demanded. Sun just looked at her and she snarled. "He is not the man he was."

 

"Not my call." Sun shrugged. "I get information. I give it to others, they act on it. He doesn't know where Elena went. I go back to the hunt. He is not the subject of my hunt."

 

"A Corpus agent..." Iriana said softly. "Captured by the Grineer. Interrogated and enslaved to work until he died."

 

"Written off by the Corpus." Sun agreed. "Probably." He cautioned the other two. The other stared at him and he shrugged again. "Could be a long laid plot of some kind. That is just the kind of twisty thing the Corpus Clergy would do."

 

"You think... he worked for them?" Lisa mused.

 

"Maybe." Sun shook his head. "Either way, it is not germane to my own hunt. Can he stay here?"

 

"He shouldn't." Iriana said after a moment. "Amelia is better, but that will strain her control."

 

"Or help her with it." Lisa said quickly before Sun could respond. Both looked at her and she flushed. "She needs a focus. Closure. She needs answers."

 

"Answers she will not get from him." Sun was still calm, not disagreeing. "He doesn't know. The information was..." He paused. "Taken..." Lisa and Iriana both looked at him and he shook his head. "I don't have time to go hunting through Grineer archives for interrogation information."

 

"Maybe you don't." Iriana had a truly nasty smile on her face now. "But I know some people who care a great deal for Amelia who might. Can you give us a starting place?" Sun shook his head, but then nodded.

 

"They usually transmit such to Luna, Healer." Sun said with a sigh. "It will be in their most secure archives. Hard to get in and out of."

 

"But not impossible." Iriana said with a nod. "You have been there, yes?" Sun did not reply and she shook her head. "Sun, please?" She begged.

 

"He cannot say, Healer." Lisa said quietly. "If he has, then it was a covert operation and he cannot talk about it."

 

"The Lotus will know." Sun said with a shrug. "I need to find the Elena Greensky before she does anything irreparable."

 

"One thing..." Lisa said as the Loki turned to go. "From what she said, she wouldn't help the Grineer. Would she help the Corpus?" At that, Sun went still. Iriana paled and Lisa continued. "After all, they revere Orokin technology and she is Orokin technology. Could she get access that way?" Iriana and Sun looked at one another. Lisa wilted. "It was just a thought."

 

"A good thought." Sun said with a nod. "She may think she can run rings around them. The rank and file, she likely can. Maybe even a few of the Board. But not the Clergy."

 

"If they get hold of her..." Iriana breathed, horrified.

 

"They won't." Sun promised and then, like a waft of white dream, he was gone.

 

"So... now what?" Lisa said with a wince. "Healer thinks she has identified the bioagent Jal was contaminated with, but we need to run more tests. If we get it wrong..." She swallowed hard and Iriana nodded.

 

"Jal dies." Iriana agreed. "We run tests. We find somewhere Zack can go, something he can do. Away from here. And then..." An alarm sounded and she was in motion, Lisa on her heels, back the way she had come. "Oh no! What now?" They came to the door and froze as a growl warned them.

 

She needs this. Kori said softly as she rose from where she had been lying in front of the door.

 

"She will kill him!" Iriana protested. "Kori!" The Kubrow sniffed loudly, turned and went into the room. Iriana and Lisa followed slowly. What met their eyes had them both freezing. Amelia sat on the bed, Zack beside her. Both were crying.

 

"What did I do?" Zack begged. "What kind of a ... monster was I?" He demanded. "If I can do that... to someone like Amelia here..."

 

"It wasn't you." Amelia said quietly. Two stood near one wall, her posture worried, but not hostile. "You were there, but... not in charge."

 

"Doesn't matter." Zack said firmly. "I wronged you and I wronged your child. If you want my life, it is yours." Iriana stiffened, but Amelia shook her head.

 

"No." The human doctor's voice was stronger than it had been for some time. "It hurts, even now. But vengeance will not end the pain. Will not undo what was done. And..." She shook her head. "It doesn't solve anything."

 

"How can I help?" Zack asked, not -quite- begging. "I need to help. I need to fix this. Whatever I can of this." He held out a hand and Amelia took it. "Your pain calls to me. I caused it. I do not know if I intended that or not. But..." He gave her hand a squeeze and laid it back in her lap. "Anything I can do, I will."

 

"You said that Elena thought you were a priest?" Amelia said quietly. Zack nodded. "It has been... a long time... since I talked to a priest."

 

"Amelia..." Iriana breathed, but Kori sat down by the bed and Lisa... smiled, nodded and left the room! "What?"

 

Both need closure. Kori said quietly. Both need to move on. They are not and will not be alone. Two nodded from where she stood.

 

"I..." Iriana swallowed hard and then nodded slowly. "There are many humans here who could use guidance."

 

"You cannot trust me." Zack said sadly. "If I was one of these... Corpus... you cannot trust me at all."

 

"Oh?" Amelia said with a small, sad smile. "I think we can."

 

***

 

"This had better be good."

 

The Reverend Mother of The Corpus Clergy was not in a good mood. Not at all. Her dreams had been haunted of late. Shadows of fear and pain, but none she knew. She had woken to an urgent call on a secure com, one only her most trusted agents had access to.

 

"Report." She demanded as she sat at the console.

 

"You are...as he remembered." An unfamiliar female voice sounded from the com and the old Clergywoman stiffened. How the hell? She reached for her controls, but paused as the voice spoke again. "Before you do anything, I am not your enemy."

 

"Whoever you are, how did you get this com code?" The Reverend Mother demanded as she started a trace.

 

"It wasn't easy." The voice replied. "The human mind I got it from was a mess. It took me nine hours of extrapolation to reassemble the codes and several more hours of experimentation to access your systems, primitive as they are. You left him to die. He didn't. The Grineer hurt him so badly he will likely never remember he was one of your agents, one of your priests."

 

"What?" The Reverend Mother asked, perplexed. None of her agents were unaccounted for. She went still as the trace came back. It said the origination was sitting at her desk! "Who are you?"

 

"Someone who wants what you want." The voice replied quietly. "Peace."

 

"And I should believe you... why?" The ancient leader of the Corpus Clergy demanded.

 

"You shouldn't." The other replied, still with that impossible calm. "I have not given you cause yet. But for now? My name is Elena and I want to talk to you. No more."

 

"Elena, huh?" The Reverend Mother felt something odd about that name. The ghost of a shiver? But she was tougher than her fear. "So... talk."

 

This might be... interesting.

 

Edited August 6, 2014 by Kalenath

[Vahlak]

..how freaking old is the 'Reverand Mother'?

[Kalenath]

..how freaking old is the 'Reverand Mother'?

 

You REALLY want to ask HER that?

 

You are brave. Foolish, but brave.

[Shadow977]

..how freaking old is the 'Reverand Mother'?

Did you know that a gentleman should never ask woman's age?

[Piranah1]

A gentleman who wants to stay alive I think.

[renleech]

Kal, i need to ask you something about the reverend mother: in one of your stories, "Wings" i believe, you mention her with a plastic head dress covering her face. I remmbered a few days ago about technopope Albino, a character of the "Jodoverse" whose head dress was very similar to hers, at least in my imagination. Did i find another of your inspiring sources?

[evafan002]

wait a second if elena is planning to go back in time to stop the attack and everyone believes she was directly responsible.... then if she made it then its possible that they detected her iff codes just before the bomb blew and if thats the case......