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Dangerous encounters

 

“Damn!” A Randel's fist hit his desk on Section III, leaving the mark of his fist marked on the wood, “We have to go and get her!”

Behind him, Machs, Stekkin and Oreld stood as far away from him as the walls let them. Only Alice had the guts to approach the furious man. She placed a hand on his back and he turned around.

“I am going to get her out of there” He said, walking towards the door, but Alice walked faster and stood in front of the door.

“You are not going anywhere, Corporal. The arrest was made legally and there is nothing we can do about it”

“Have you any idea of what they are gonna do to her inside those laboratories? Do you have any idea on how the Invisible 9 section was created? We were their lab rats; they made us freaks, all of us! Remember the incident in the sewers, Lieutenant! That man was part of the Invisible 9! Kaplan took all his chances of being normal away from him just because she wanted to play with us, use us as puppets on her war games, trying to win a war that caused nothing but pain and suffering to everybody! I don't give a damn if I am gonna be considered a criminal, but I am getting Helena out of there!”

Randel lifted Alice from the ground and pusher her aside. He opened the door and walked out the room.

“He is right” Oreld said, “its time for all that crap to end.”

“But we can't do it like that!” Alice said to him, rage building inside her, “I know that the Corporal thinks I don't care, but there are ways of doing this” She opened the door and walked outside. Alice walked quickly by the halls, asking anybody she saw if they had seen the Corporal. She walked to the gardens of the facility and saw a familiar figure sitting on a bench.

“Corporal!” She hurried to his side and sat next to him. The wind blew his brown hairs in every direction. Alice sighed when she looked at him. There is something we can do.

“We were getting married” She heard him say.

“You were?” She asked him, very surprised. She never pictured him as someone who would get married. “That's the reason she had a ring hanging from that silver necklace?”

He nodded.

“I proposed to her right before my unit left for our final mission. She couldn't have the ring on her finger, so she placed it on the necklace. That was the same time when we vowed to search for one another once the war ended. That was the last time I saw her before yesterday”

“Why did she run?” Alice asked him.

“Kaplan found out she was pregnant and forced her to terminate the pregnancy. I remember coming to HQ to report after the war ended, but the next thing I remember is waking up on a bench in the park. Last night, Helena told me what really happened,” his hand rested on his lantern, “she told me that after she woke up in the infirmary, Kaplan told her that if she searched for me, I would kill her if I ever turned the lantern on.”

“What is the lantern connected to all of this?” Alice asked him, “I never fully understood what the lantern did”

“Inside the lantern burn some drugs they tested on us, all the 901 troopers,” he sighed, and continued, “the drugs suppressed the rational side of our brains and left us using our primal instincts, pretty much like animals. That was they only way they could make any of us have the guts to face a tank without running away. That was the only way we could stand the injuries we got. Kaplan told Helena that combined with some sort of psychic treatment, the drugs on the lantern will make me kill her if when I lit the lantern she was in my sight.”

Randel kept on looking to the scenery before him.

“Without the lantern I can't go in there and rescue her, because I wouldn't be strong enough. But if I use it, I will kill her and I would never stand that. All I can do is sit here and wait for the news of her death to come, for Kaplan to do some sort of experimentation on Helena and screw her life more!”

He stood and walked away, but Alice followed him.

“You are not going in there alone. I'm going with you”

Randel turned around in shock.

“LT! You can't go with me! You would get thrown away from the army, even if you are not killed in the process!”

She smiled to him.

“I am tired of letting the rules guide my life, Corporal. The only way to accomplish something on this times it to break the rules.”

A sound of clapping was heard behind them and both of them turned to see Oreld and Machs standing behind them, Oreld clapping at Alice.

“I never thought that you Lieutenant, of all people would talk about breaking the rules. Maybe I should report you to our Commander”

Alice frowned at the blonde man.

“Are YOU gonna do it?”

Oreld just burst in laughter.

“Of course not! We just came by and ask you guys if you needed help to break in the Kaplan Institute!”

Randel looked at his co-workers.

“Why are you helping me?”

Mechs took a step forward to the tall man.

“We are a team. If they hurt one of us, we all strike back. You saved my life that time on the mechanic's warehouse. This is a way of paying you back”

“So it's settled then! We are breaking into the Kaplan Laboratories tonight!” Alice said, pulling her sword out, “we are freeing Helena, no matter the consequences!”

 

***……***

 

 

Helena woke up and found herself lying on a bed, her hands and feet handcuffed to the steel posts of the bed. She struggled to free herself, but all her efforts were useless.

“Stop doing that 001. You are only hurting yourself.”

Kaplan was standing next to her bed. Helena ignored her and continued pulling the cuffs. Soon her wrists and ankles began to bleed, cut by the steel of the cuffs. She turned to face the white haired doctor.

“What are you gonna do to me this time? I have no baby for you to kill!”

The doctor smiled at her.

“No, you are not pregnant now, 001. I presume that last night you and Corporal Oland were busy, right? Catching up the wasted time you two were apart?”

Helena spited at the doctor's face.

“You bitch! What are you planning to do with me? So what if Randel and I slept together last night, there is nothing you can do with that fact!”

Kaplan continued smiling, while she wiped her face with a cloth.

“Actually there is something I can do, 001. We have been developing a technique here in the lab. We are gonna make you get pregnant, with the Corporal's child, and after you give birth to the child, I am gonna do some experiments on that kid. This technique is called “In-vitro fertilization.””, she moved closer to Helena's face, “You are gonna be the mother of a whole new race of Invisible 9 troops, mixed genes of perfect infantry soldiers like you and mindless killing machines like the Corporal. We are going to win the next war, and there is no one that is going to be able to stop us”

Kaplan rose from the position she was and turned to leave.

“Of course that after the child is born; you are not going to be necessary anymore. And since I can't leave any witnesses of my experiments, I am going to be forced to terminate your existence as well as the Corporal's”

Helena lied on the bed, horrified of what she just heard. I am not letting her use my children like that! She promised to herself, even if that means that I have to kill myself.

 

***……***

 

Dark shadows covered the walls of the Kaplan laboratories. It was a dark night and most of the scientists were leaving their posts to go home and rest. The only light on of the endless rows of windows were the ones of Muse Kaplan's zone. Most of the regular scientists knew that something was going on there, but none of them had the courage to investigate it. The older ones remembered watching the groups of young infantry soldiers, men and women, entering the big steeled double doors of that zone and only a few getting out, their faces different, gloomier, as if their souls weren't inside of them anymore. Then, a few months later the war began, and those soldiers were sent to the front lines, where a lot more died, and only ten of them came back to the laboratories after the war.

Four black figures walked to the side door of the building and tried to open it, but it was locked.

“Let me do it” one of the figures whispered and took out two wires. The other three smiled at him.

“Growing up in the streets teaches you a lot of stuff” The blonde man said to the group, and proceeded to crack the lock. A few moments later the door clicked open and they all slid inside the dark building. They walked through the hallways and approached the double steeled doors.

“Are you sure this is the right place?” a female voice whispered to the tallest of the shadows.

“Yeah, this is the place where we were supposed to come once the war was over. Kaplan's offices are right after this door. I presume that Helena must be inside there somewhere”

“Cover your faces.” The woman ordered the three men and them all put black ski masks over their faces. They pushed the door and entered inside the room. Once they were inside, they found themselves in a room, with pictures hanging all over the walls. Machs took out his mask and approached the wall.

“Look, this is the Corporal's unit”

The other three turned around and walked to the picture he was staring at. On the wooden frame, there was a golden tag, the words 901-ATT engraved in Italics. In the picture there was the image of a group of twenty tall men, all with lanterns hanging from their belts, smiles all over their faces. Randel was in the back of the group, with a small smile and covering his eyes from the sun.

“This was taken before the war started.” Randel said to them, “Before all this nightmare began.”

Oreld walked to the other pictures, looking for one.

“This is Helena's unit, right? 912-SAT?” he said, pointing at another picture. Randel walked next to him and looked at the picture. Thirteen good looking girls stood facing the camera, a younger Helena on the right corner of the group.

“It was an all-girl unit?” Oreld asked.

“Don't be fooled by their looks. They were cold blooded assassins, and they were attractive women to make them blend. You would never fear of a little girl to come and kill you, right?”

Oreld nodded and Randel walked away from the wall.

“We should hurry.” He said to Alice, and she turned to face him and nodded. Then she looked at Machs and Oreld, who took out of their pockets several charges of TNT.

“You two are going to go and place the charges on the main pillars of the building. The Corporal and I are going to get Helena out of here. Once your job is done, go to the meeting point. If by dawn, one of us hasn't arrived, pretend that we are dead and return to your obligations on Section III. Act normal and surprised to hear of the attack on the laboratories.”

They all nodded and parted in different ways.

 

***……***

 

Helena was lying on the bed, after the procedure of fertilization was over. She was staring at the roof, while silent tears ran down her cheeks. She felt used and raped. She hated feeling helpless, but right now she was powerless, knowing that the cuffs that held her hands and feet were impossible for her to break. Soon she heard steps coming to her room, so she tried to dry her tears with her shirt. That bitch is not having the pleasure of seeing me cry; she vowed to herself, she is not breaking me that easily.

“So, you are awake, 001. I am pleased to see that the results of the procedure are going as expected. If everything continues this way, soon you are making me a happy grandmother.”

Helena looked at her, terrified.

“What do you mean?”

“I guess we are not as alike as I thought. Do you still wonder why you happened to earn a military scholarship? I pulled my strings to make my only daughter a part of the Invisible 9 series, knowing that those soldiers were the only ones with bigger chances of survival.”

“You are my mother? How is that even possible? How could an ice-hearted bitch like you have a child?”

“I made some mistakes in my youth, I recognize that. Getting pregnant while I was working as an assistant for your father wasn't the smartest thing to do. He forced me to give you away, and I must say that it was something I gladly did. I couldn't raise you because that was something that would affect my work. But I decided to keep an eye on you, knowing that you could be of some use for the project I was starting, the Invisible 9. So I decided to send you a scholarship for the military academy, and as soon as I knew that you were one of the best ones in your unit, I decided to recruit you for the SAT series. I was proud of you, I must admit, but the fact that you get involved with the Corporal was something that let me down. How could my offspring get involved like that with such an inferior person? And the news of your pregnancy was shocking. So I decided to kill that kid, not seeing that it could be the start of a new Unit. So now I want to set things right, making you have another child and making you the mother of a new race of soldiers.”

Helena was silent for a long time. This can't be possible… Kaplan is my mother? No, she is not my mother, I have no family.

“You are not my mother.” She said, “A mother is someone that cares about you that wants your happiness no matter what. You are nothing but a psycho-bitch that wants to destroy everything and everyone around you!”

Muse was about to add something else, when sirens began to rang on the building. She walked to the phone that was hanging from the wall and dialed a number.

“What is going on?” she yelled at the person on the end of the line.

“There is a breach on the perimeter. We found a guard knocked down and tied up in a closet. He said that two individuals attacked him, but he didn't had a chance to look at their faces”

“Deploy all the security units to my quarters! I want them to shoot as soon as they see them. Shoot to kill!” She hung up the phone and turned to face Helena, “So I think that your lover came for you. Too bad he is gonna get killed in the process”

 

***……***

 

Alice and Randel were running to the containing cells located in the basement when they heard footsteps approaching them.

“Here!” Randel said, pulling Alice to a dark corner of the building.

A group of thirty soldiers were running down the hallway, rifles in hand.

“They are gonna see us!” Alice said, her voice muffled for the mask on her face.

Randel stood up and walked to the center of the hall, in front of the soldiers. The group stopped and pointed their guns at him.

“Freeze!” The leader of the group shouted. Randel's hand reached his lantern and turned it on. A blue ghostly light flooded the dark hallway. His eyes were bloodshot and wide open. He took out his 13 mm gun and pointed at the group. The men kneeled down and aimed at the tall man standing in front of them. A loud gunshot was heard and the soldiers fell like domino pieces. Randel slid the fabric that covered his arm and pulled another bullet from the holster with his teeth. He placed it on the gun and shot again at the soldiers. Blood spattered everywhere and corpses fall down the hall. The thick bullets designed to penetrate armored tanks killed four of five soldiers every time. Soon all the soldiers were dead, their bodies covering the hall. Alice stood from her hiding place and walked next to Randel. What she saw scared her: Randel still had the lantern on and seemed to be scanning the place; his face was covered in blood and an expression that couldn't be described as nothing else as longing to kill covered his face.

He knows Helena is here, Alice thought, scared to realize that fact, he knows that she is here and is looking for her to kill her.

“Corporal!” Alice shouted at him, but he seemed to ignore her, “Snap out of it!”

He turned to face her and pushed her back. Alice fell and saw him charging his gun. He lifted it and pointed it at her. Alice's eyes widened in terror, knowing that there was nothing she could do to stop him. Her breath quickened its pace, as the seconds seemed hours and she was staring at the end of the gun.

“You are not her” She heard him whisper and he turned away, leaving her lying on the floor, paralyzed with terror. Randel walked out of her sight and when he disappeared, she managed to get up.

He is looking for her, She thought, as the image of him raising the gun at Helena sent cold shivers down her spine, I need to stop him, but how? Suddenly the realization hit her, Of course! The lantern! If I turn it off, he will snap out of the trance! She lifted her sword and took one of the rifles of the dead soldiers. I am going to stop him, no matter what it takes. She ran in direction of the containment cells, hoping that she could make it on time.

 

***……***

 

Helena was lying on the bed, Muse Kaplan sitting on the chair next to the bed. They were waiting for the news to come, for the results of the war raging on the upper floors to come. Doctor Kaplan decided to sedate Helena, so she wouldn't scream and let her rescuers know where she was. Soon the young girl fell asleep and the woman standing next to her bed watched her, studying her face. Kaplan was thankful that Helena didn't look like her. The only thing that made them look alike was the shape of their eyes. The rest of her face was like her father's, but still beautiful in her own way. She will make a beautiful experimentation subject, was the first thing Muse thought when she saw her walk through the door. The memory of the day flooded to her.

 

Flashback

 

Muse Kaplan was sitting in front of her desk, her mind tired of the multiple interviews she made for the transfers from the Academy to the Institute. She had just finished the interview of the Private Oland, a tall teenager that was transferred to the new unit, the 901. She lifted the file of the next soldier and her eyes widened. “Private Helena Dawn” She smiled when she saw the last name of the private. She knew that was the last name given to privates that were orphans. Finally, after all this time she thought while she called her secretary to let the girl in.

The door opened and revealed a young soldier, with her brown shoulder-length hair cascading down. The girl seemed to be between 16 or 17 years old.

“Private Dawn reporting ma`am” She said, making the usual salute to her.

“Please, sit down, Private. Do you know why you were transferred here?”

“No ma'am. I was ordered to come here and put myself under your command.”

“Good. The things we are about to discuss are classified, so you can't talk about this to anyone”

She proceeded to apply test to her, which ended in her insertion to the SAT unit.

 

End of flashback

 

The door opened and a tall figure entered the room, surrounded by a blue light. Muse's eyes grew wide, he lit it up. He is gonna kill her! She stood between Helena's unconscious form and the man in front of her.

“Stop!” She commanded to the man, but he lifted his gun and pointed at her.

“Get out of my way” He said in a monotonous tone of voice.

“Corporal, stop! You are about to compromise a mission for your superior, which is me! Stop it right now!”

A loud gunshot was heard and blood spattered everywhere. Muse Kaplan fell to the ground, a big hole in the middle of her chest. Under her lifeless body a pool of crimson blood began to rise.

Randel pushed the corpse out of his way and walked to the bed where Helena was lying. He stood there looking for her a long time, a battle going within him.

“Totën Sië” his mind seemed to chant all along, “Totën Sië, Totën Sië, Totën Sië”

But his heart was fighting over his mind. (AN: Totën Sië means Kill in German, in case you haven't seen the anime)

“Stop it, don't kill her!!” His heart seemed to yell, but somehow it wasn't as loud as the voice in his head. He felt his hand grab the girl by her neck and pull her out the bed.

Helena regained consciousness when she felt a hand held her by her throat. She slightly opened her eyes and felt a blue light blind her and the shape of Randel beneath her, with his hand holding her and beginning to apply pressure on her.

“Randel… stop” she chocked the words out, trying to snap him out of his trance, but she saw in his eyes that he wasn't himself. She began to feel the lack of air in her lungs, and she began to feel dizzy. She thought that she was about to die when she heard a gunshot behind Randel. He let her go and turned to see the assailant, while Helena fell to the floor. She looked at the door and Alice was standing there, her rifle pointing at Randel.

“Corporal, stop! You don't want to kill her!” She yelled as she pulled out her sword, threw it and cutting the lantern out of his belt. The object fell next to Helena, who grabbed it and stood up, arduously. She shut the lantern off, but to her horror, Randel raised his gun and pointed at Alice.

 

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(Huge sigh) Finally I finished this chapter. Seriously, this is one of the longest chapters I have written in my entire life!! My fingers hurt!!!