Wartime Reverie

"Phisoxa, just stay with us for just a while longer." said Dr. Traken as he still held onto her and followed Robert to the house he had mentioned. Once inside he laid Phisoxa down on the bed and began preparing some medical treatments for her.

 

"Its subjective girl, just because some is dead right now doesn't mean they will be when you go back, in fact they will be alive, thus you can save them, but if you change anything you change everything that happens before it" Father said to Shero before looking to Allen "You don't kno0w what the stations are? Hmm, they are ancient battle stations built to protect the world, all the technological power at the end of the war paled in comparison to one running at minimum power, but it was still for naught" the man said. The group walked for hours until they reached a massive ruined city, what they couldn't see was that the city was the actual station and the bottom half had become buried underground. "Here we are, this is as far as I can go" Father said stopping at the edge of the city.

 

Nny looked at the man suspiciously "What do you mean? What's stopping you from going any farther?" asked Nny. He looked at the old man intently, he wasn't going to just be thrown into some trap by this guy.

 

Phisoxa was slipping even farther from consciousness. Her sight was now going blacker and blacker with each moment that the pain coursed through her body. " I'm going to die am I?" Phisoxa asked.

" But I can't get this heavy feeling on my heart from thinking that my best friend is dead..." Shero said with a sad sigh as she followed them.

 

"That's because right now she is dead, or worse" Father said to Shero and then faced Nny "I can't go any further because the Station AI Hates me and won't let me. Now at the centre of this city is a massive tower, or what remains of it, that is where you need to go, and I would hurry, something approaches" Father said to Nny.

 

Allen looked at Father. Unwilling to let him go without answers, but unable to bring him any further. For a moment he considered going with the old man. "How do you know so much about the past? And how can learn about it? Specifically about what happened to Jen and the organization that killed her."

 

"Very well." said Nny ready to face any trap that might await him in the city as he walked casually in. Nny didn't wait up for the others, instead wanting to go off on his own.

"No, you will be fine." Dr. Traken then pulled out a syringe from his coat and a vial from another part and sucked the liquid from the vial into the syringe. "Now, this will only hurt for a second but it will get rid of all your pain, and it might have a slight drowsy side effect. So feel free to sleep if you want to." The doctor injected her before wrapping up her wounds with gauze and other materials.

 

"The Station has records of everything that has happened, though I don't know the condition of said records, as for the organization, look around you, the destruction you see is took almost everyone and everything save for the most powerful, not even the gods survived" Father said to Allen "Now I would stop wasting time, she approaches"

Robert watched Traken carefully, when Traken was done he leaned against the wall and looked outside threw a broken window "Get back here Claire" he said quietly.

 

Allen looked at the old man for what he figured might be the last time. "Goodbye." He then ran into the city as well, hoping it would be safe. He needed all the time he could get if he was going to get the information he wanted. As he ran into the city he was already thinking of how best he could find the information he wanted. He also thought some of if he could find any way to defeat the consumers or stop the world from becoming what it was now. Mostly though, he thought of how he could save Jen from the fate that had befallen her in the past.

 

" I hope you are right..." Phisoxa said before drifting off into sleep as a result of the substance.
" The destruction was that bad?" Shero thought as she followed.

 

As soon as the group was gone Father vanished with a smug smirk.

"I thought I killed you" a female voice whispered in Nny's ear, though there was no one around A dark presence fell over the group as the light started to vanish. All around them was the sound of movement, but no one was there. As the minutes went by it got harder and harder to see, but something was following "You don't stay dead" the voice whispered again to nny.

 

Nny heard the voice but ignored it. Clearly it was a trick. Soon the trick became too real for Nny and he could not see in front of him. Nny turned to Allen "Allen, prepare yourself." Nny could feel the presence getting closer. Clearly the girl Father had talked about had come sooner than expected.

 

"I think we might've walked into a trap," Allen said to the group, attempting sarcasm to hide his fear. Then to the air around them, "you think I'm scared of the dark?" He held up his hands and summoned a dome of light around them, the dome served the dual purpose of making everything within it visible, and keeping anyone outside the dome from seeing inside it. Thus forcing any potential threats to reveal themselves to the group.

 

"Come on Allen, you can do better" Raxtion's voice echoed echoed to Allen and Allen alone, no one else could hear what was said "You failed after all, the academy, my home and even the world itself, all you have ever known is long gone" the voice continued, the group faded from Allen's vision leaving him alone as the city around Allen started to change, for Allen alone it was like the city was repairing itself into what it used to be.

"That's not like you Nny" The female voice whispered "What happened to the demon who scoffed at everything? Your acting as if you are human" she continued as the group faded from Nny's vision leaving him alone, around Nny the city crumbled away leaving a lone Tower in the distance, light came from the tower as if calling for him to come closer.

 

"Clearly this is some kind of game to you. Very well, I will play." said Nny as he walked towards the tower. Clearly it was an illusion, but Nny had no means of breaking through it and knew this. He simply had to play along and hope that he could break free when the time was right. Nny arrived at the tower and looked up and down it before yelling out "What now?"

 

A part of Allen knew that this was some kind of illusion, but his reason was over powered by the guilt Raxtion was causing him. "This will do just fine to protect the group." He was attempting to resist his guilt by saying this, by reasoning with himself. "Besides, until I get something to fight, the best I can do is set up defenses."

 

The side of the tower opened up revealing a corridor for Nny "Do you think I am lying, or that this is an illusion?" The girl's voice asked Nny. The rest of the world vanished leaving nothing but the tower and the ground Nny stood on.

"Defence against what? me? Am I your enemy now, since you failed to save us you want to kill us to get rid of your guilt? Like your guilt for failing to save Jen?" Raxtion's voice said as the city became populated, none of the people stopped to acknowledge Allen, they simple passed right threw him when he stood in their way.

 

"Both." Nny simply said as he walked into the corridor, knowing what might happen, but having to take the chance anyway. He walked down the corridor silently, waiting for it to end or for some clue to be given as to where he would go next.

 

Allen was about to speak in his defense when Raxtion accused him of wanting to kill him, but when he brought up Jen it got to him. He summoned his sword without meaning to. "I WAS UNCONSCIOUS AND BEING SENT THROUGH TIME. I COULDN'T HAVE POSSIBLY SAVED HER!" He was entirely just trying to convince himself at this point, and his temper was beginning to get the better of him. "AND IT'S NOT LIKE YOU DID ANY BETTER WITH ALICIA!"

 

"I know, and it killed me, just like it will kill you" Raxtion whispered to Allen as an image of an older Jen and Allen appeared with children having a nice day in the city "And just like me you will never have this" Raxtion added as the happy family passed right threw Allen.

The corridor started to change as Nny went down it and started to resemble a hospital hallway, the sound of doctor could be heard as well as nny's screams. Eventually the hallway lead to an observation room looking over a operation room with a restrained Nny on the Table pathetically trying to escape, next to the observation window had the words 'Nny Type 1' written. "Have you always wondered why you feel superior to everyone else? Its because you were once"