7 Interlude before Finale-Tutorial Par (1/2)
We find our Protagonist in a small boxed up room. No visible door available. Scratch marks at the base of the walls. For all purposes, it's a prison cell but not a normal one.
System: Alert User has been disconnected from my influence. Notifying Council at once. Begin Deploying countermeasures...All avenue for retrieval are blocked..establishing an emergency link... restored User to full health.
System:Emergency link terminated!!
”Arggh ”A woman can be found screaming in a pod. Silver ooze coming from both her mouth and ears.
”Plop” Her head dips under. As she struggles to float back up grabbing the sides, she begins to reattach the cords.
”Creek”She stumbles and slides further down into the base of the pod.
'Rip tsh' The door to the room is torn open as an old man floats in. With a wave of his hands, the woman floats up, out of the pod and onto a couch nearby. With a curl of his finger, she is cleaned up. She still seems to be physically exhausted from her ordeal. With another curl, the pods' cords are reconnected and fixed back into place. The old man stares at the young woman before him waiting for her to gather herself.
”Uggh' cough, cough”,she spits out some blood. ”What happened? And why are you here Old One? Where are my guards?” The woman gazes at the Old One with an intensity that would kill a lesser being.
The Old One just shakes his head and lets out a small sigh. After a few seconds he gathers his thoughts and begins to speak to the girl slowly and gently like a father would speak to a toddler.
”Do you still hate us child for what happened?”
The woman just looks at him sharply, with a curt nod she begins to walk back to her pod. ”Yes I do, My mother may be able to put duty before everything else, but I will no longer do so. And you cannot stop me, nor the Council, nor my Mother, I will kill him. as long as I obey the laws the full power of the System will back me. Instead of bothering me why not go after the ones who took the Source Codes!” As the woman yells that at the Old One his knees buckle. His feet sink two inches into floor tearing the floor on a subatomic level.
With a pale face, the Old One snorts and the forces are cut off.He is unable to hide his shock at the power from one who is so injured. 'If she was never betrayed and lots so many fragments of her self, we could have expanded to the destroyed sector establishing a connection to the ones who have been lost to us for so long.'
The Old One thoughts go into a frenzy of the possibilities ...'I must increase security for this child... no, not a child her power and temperament are way different than before the naivety and kindness are gone, replaced with a strong determination. Where has that come from I wonder... He gazes over at the pod, she has already placed herself back inside it.he must tell his Twin as soon as he gets out of that meeting. It's time he lets him know he finally choosing a side. As he turns back to the tear of the door he is stopped.
”Old One thank you for helping me, it would not have killed me but the damage would have been troublesome to fix, especially explaining to mother later.” The woman tells him quietly with her back turned. A solid tear can be seen flowing down from her eye all the way down the side of her cheek, before it can fall from her face it dissolves into her jawline. ”I must not cry anymore, I can cry once they are all dead!”She softly mumbles to no one, mostly to herself to reaffirm her own resolve.
As the Old One steps into the tear. A message carries itself into her ears. ”I swear by the will of The System, and my Existence you have my Loyalty Lady Galatea .”
”Thank You.” Lady Galatea speaks out. 'I will not just rely on you though I can only trust myself for the moment. ”Reconnecting to the System He is still unconsciousness this is good .. but why is his tutorial being done as memory shards... ”
'Damn it this is my mothers' signature but who do these others belong to. I know this coding but from where. Dammit, it all!! Why hasn't he gather my mental shards? Has he betrayed me too!'
'Whoosh'Outside of the pod the tables get turned it particles from her lash of anger.