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Title: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 13, 2007, 12:05:21 AM

(Well, this is my very first post here at JPH!P. And this also happens to be my very first fanfiction. It's definitely a work in progress, and as I am not a professional writer by any means, all comments and constructive criticism are welcomed. :) So here's Chapter One. Two should be coming along later tonight after I get back home.)

::Voices of Angels::

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”

~Maya Angelou

:Table of Contents:

Chapter One: The Stranger (You Are Here)
Chapter Two: Awakening (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg328074#msg328074)
Chapter Three: Meeting (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg328811#msg328811)
Chapter Four: Past (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg329607#msg329607)
Chapter Five: Divided (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg332260#msg332260)
Chapter Six: Battle (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg333468#msg333468)
Chapter Seven: Regroup (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg334571#msg334571)
Chapter Eight: The Second Day (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg336531#msg336531)
Chapter Nine: The Three (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg337685#msg337685)
Chapter Ten: Complications (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg337943#msg337943)
Chapter Eleven: Premonition (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg337944#msg337944)
Chapter Twelve: Premonition, Part II (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg337948#msg337948)
Chapter Thirteen: The Search Begins (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg337949#msg337949)
Chapter Fourteen: ProjectHPK (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg337950#msg337950)
Chapter Fifteen: ProjectHPK, Part II (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg338089#msg338089)
Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg338781#msg338781)
Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg339680#msg339680)
Interlude II: The End of Morning Musume (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg341333#msg341333)
Chapter Seventeen: Hello! Project Underground (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg341336#msg341336)
Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg341686#msg341686)
Chapter Eighteen: Reunion (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg341761#msg341761)
Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg342012#msg342012)
Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg342439#msg342439)
Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg342826#msg342826)
Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?topic=9026.msg344069#msg344069)
Chapter Twenty-One (Coming Soon)

Chapter One: The Stranger

Shizuka Genetic Research and Testing Facilities; 2/24/56, 4:00AM (DNA Splicing Room)

Every time the stranger passed through a room in the facility, the electronic hisses and groans of purification followed after him. Because of what went on within these halls was delicate, every nook and cranny had to be sterilized frequently.

He didn’t like it.

The smell of the place was like that of a hospital, and if the stranger could remember correctly, hospitals were for the sick or the injured…

Or the dying.

It certainly wasn’t a place that a healthy person like himself wanted to be. But he had a job to carry out, and he had to do it quickly for several reasons: One, he wanted to get out of the facility as soon as he possibly could, and two…

He was already late.

As he continued to the room where he was to meet his employer, the stranger could be seen carrying a small object in the form of a steel-plated box, and he was holding it like a mother would cradle her baby. He had a haggard, worn look about him, as if it had taken a great deal of effort to obtain said box…

Finally, the stranger entered a small room, eerily lit by a blue glow from the strange fluorescent lights overhead, and before he could even consider turning back, the doors sealed shut behind him.

A lone figure stood at the opposite end of the room, appearing to be busy with one of the consoles on the wall, typing away at the holographic keyboard beneath his fingers. He was tall and slender, and had long, white hair that had been tied meticulously at the base of his neck. He was wearing a white lab coat that trailed down to his ankles, and the light from the screen in front of him reflected off of the glasses that he was wearing, hiding his eyes behind two silvery orbs.

“You’re late.”

The words traveled down the stranger’s spine, startling him as they broke the silence. The white-haired man hadn’t even bothered to turn around when he spoke, but the stranger didn’t need to see the look on his employer’s face to be able to figure out the other man’s mood.

“I ran into a bit of trouble…”

“Such as?” The white-haired man pressed a sequence of keys, shutting off the console before him. He then faced the stranger, dark eyes reflecting the slightest hint of mild curiosity. “All you had to do was deal with an ancient cyborg… don’t tell me you couldn’t handle that?”

The stranger put on a scowl. “He wasn’t exactly all that keen on giving up his collection, Akira. Don’t mistake this for me being sentimental, but I’m pretty sure this was all he had left in life, and he was fiendishly attached to it…”

“Indeed… What you hold in that box is all that remains of Tsunku’s finest creation… I suppose I can imagine how difficult it might have been to pry such a thing from his hands…”

Akira (as the stranger had called him) took a few steps forward, pressing down on one of the floor tiles with his foot along the way, which summoned a holographic table-like surface that floated in the air between the two of them. The stranger set the box down on the table, looking over at the other man. Akira seemed hesitant to do anything, as if realization of what was in front of him had settled in.

“Should I open it?” The stranger asked, looking at the young scientist curiously. “You still owe me my explanation as to what exactly is going on here, you know…”

“Yes… open it. I don’t think that I can… I’m too nervous.”

With a shrug, the stranger reached for the box, popping open the latches that secured it close. He reached in his pocket for an old-fashioned key that he had obtained on his ‘visit’ and inserted it into the lock that hung off of the side, twisting it in the hole. It opened with a rusty scraping noise, and the stranger pulled the lock free of the box before sliding the lid off to reveal the contents.

Inside lay neat rows of tiny glass vials, each containing a clear liquid of sorts. They were individually labeled, and the stranger reached out to pick one up, twisting it so that he could read what was on the vial.

“Kamei Eri… Morning Musume… 6th Generation…” Puzzled, the stranger looked to Akira. “What on earth does that mean? What are these?”

The scientist had been holding his breath in anticipation it seemed, and as he looked at what the other man was examining, he finally let out a sigh of relief. So far… everything was going according to plan.

“DNA.”

“DNA? Of what…?” The stranger picked up another vial. This time, the label read: “Tsugunaga Momoko, Berryz Koubou”.

“Of diseased Hello! Project members.” Akira answered, walking around the table so that he too could look in the box. For a moment, he paused, running his finger along one of the small tubes ever so carefully, as if it would break if he even dared to look at it. The stranger placed the Momoko vial back where he had gotten it, raising an eyebrow at the scientist.

“And what do you plan to do with all of it?”

“I’m going to clone them.”

“Are you out of your mind? You’ll get shut down for sure if they catch you. And even if you do manage to do it… they’ll all be killed. That was a pretty long time ago, but… I’m pretty sure the government hasn’t forgotten. That’s where everything started.”

Akira was silent. He moved towards one of the windows in the room, looking out at the dark city below. His father used to tell him stories of how his grandfather had lived in an age where cities were lit up with artificial light at night, glowing for miles and miles. But now…

“I’m tired of living this life… being forced to create new ways for our government to keep its people under tight control… The entire world is decaying because we aren’t being allowed to move forward. Depression becomes so overwhelming that people are killing themselves every day just to escape it. So that’s why…” He turned to face the stranger, resolve burning in his eyes.

“I’m going to try and change things. It all started when they began to murder the idols… When they stole the music, they stole a little bit of what kept some people sane. That made us easier to control… So I’m going to bring back one of the very things they tried to snuff out of existence.”

“You really think that some pop star clones are gonna be able to do anything?” The stranger looked skeptical as he picked up yet another vial and scrutinized it suspiciously.

(“Matsuura Aya, Soloist, GAM”)

“Well, you see… I’ve always been of the impression that idols have always had some certain quality about them… Something that perhaps separated them from the rest of us.”

“Like some kind of power?”

“I suppose you could look at it that way… In any case, using the techniques and skills I have learned while I’ve worked here, I should be able to tap into such an essence and genetically alter them in ways that normal humans wouldn’t be able to handle.”

The stranger seemed to understand now. “So you’re going to make super-clones. Like you do with the soldiers for the government.” He chuckled, a satisfied smirk upon his face. “Using their own technology against them… how fitting. So how long will it take?”

Akira put on a grim face. “Unfortunately… a little more time than I actually have. I’ve decided that it would not be practical to return them all to the age they were when they were murdered, so I’m going to set their growth to accelerate them all to the age of eighteen. Generally, if everything goes right… that will take only about two months… but since I am also altering their genetic composition… Perhaps a month more.”

“So you’re talkin’ about a serious race here… assuming that the facility big dogs don’t figure out what you’re doing before then.”

“Precisely… But I’m going to try to be as discreet as possible. Hopefully luck will be on my side…” The scientist sighed, before composing himself and reaching into his coat pocket, pulling out a small, iridescent card. “I suppose you’ll be wanting the first half of your payment, though, hm?”

The stranger nodded, grinning hungrily as he took the card and pocketed it. “So… I’ll come back in three months then, to finish the job. I’ve already got the van all fixed up and running, so it’ll be ready when we need it. I figured you were gonna need me to carry something pretty big, but I didn’t think it would be clones…” He started for the door, pulling his ragged cloak tighter around himself as he did so.

“Good, that’s fine then.” Akira replied absently, staring back at the box and what it held. “I’ll make sure to come in contact with you if I require your services any earlier than that…”

But the man was already gone, headed towards the secret exit of the facility so that he could slip out unnoticed. The scientist let out a heavy sigh, slumping down in a holographic chair that rose to catch him from the floor.

What have I gotten myself into?

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Sexykago on March 13, 2007, 12:16:37 AM

Awesome. Yours if sci-fi like mine. :D

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: jafeijai on March 13, 2007, 01:23:23 AM

EHHHH?!?! CLONES?!?!?! O_O Whoa..
Right off the bat, the date hooked me into the story....Me and my liking of sci-fi/fantasy fics :P

Lots of things running through my head as I was reading this: "Tsunku's greatest creation?! What could that be...?", "Disease?!?! What disease?!?", "Murder? I thought the H!P members had some sort of disease...? :S" among other thoughts...It'll be interesting to find out what powers the clones will have :) Keep on writing!! :thumbsup

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Aioros on March 13, 2007, 01:52:06 AM

I like where this is going. Keep it up! :thumbsup

And welcome to JPH!P! :D

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: glcorps2002 on March 13, 2007, 02:56:28 AM

Quote from: jafeijai;327862

What could that be...?", "Disease?!?! What disease?!?",

The disease of being sexy!!!

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 13, 2007, 03:15:05 AM

Wow, I love your writing style! You write very well. :)

Nice story concept too. Cloning? I love sci-fi in general, so I'll stick around to see what happens. :) The world you describe reminds me of George Orwell's 1984, somehow, just more high tech. XD

Oh and welcome to JPH!P. Hope you enjoy your stay. :)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Sexykago on March 13, 2007, 03:22:31 AM

People seem to love this, but not mine.
I guess I'm not very good at writing stories. :(

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: JFC on March 13, 2007, 04:17:50 AM

Idols have the power to change the world!!! (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/J-F-C/buttrock.gif)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 13, 2007, 05:26:06 AM

@Sexykago: Thank you very much. ^-^ I haven't read your story, but if it's sci-fi too, I'll most definitely have to check it out later.

@jafeijai: Haha, thank you for the encouragement. I shall definitely continue on with the story. I wouldn't want to keep you in suspense. (Well, actually, yes I would, that's the point. lol Sorry. :D ) Fortunately, some of the powers will be obvious right off the bat. UNfortunately, some will not, and might take a while to be revealed. But you're welcome to guess.

@wordsworth: Thanks. It's nice to be here. :)

@glcorps2002: Sexy indeed.

@Estrea: Aww, thank you. :heart: That makes me feel good, considering how horribly nervous I was about posting this here. But it seems like my story's being well-recieved so I guess I'm doing okay for my first time. :) I've actually not read 1984, because I never had to, and I was told that it was somewhat boring. lol

@JFC: That they do, my friend. That they do.

Thanks for all the comments on the first part here! I wasn't expecting so many, actually. lol And here's part two before I head off to collapse in bed. (And before my left contact fails me, because it seems to be all fogged up now and I'm ready to take it out.) It'll probably come across as confusing, and maybe a bit rushed because I'm only halfway awake right now, but you'll learn much more in the next chapter anyway.

Enjoy.

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Chapter Two: Awakening

More than three months later…

Shizuka Genetic Research and Testing Facilities; 6/03/56, 2:47PM (Growth and Containment Room)

It was dark.

Dark, but warm…

Warm, but… frightening.

She (at least, somewhere in the subconscious of her mind, she had identified herself as female) could not remember where she was or where she had been… or if she had been before. It was like being woken up from a long afternoon nap and staring at whomever had disturbed you in a hazy sort of manner.

Only… she wasn’t so sure that she had been asleep. Or if she was sleeping now, for that matter.

It was quite a dilemma, and if she hadn’t been feeling so loopy, she probably would have tried harder to figure out what was going on. Thankfully, however, her awareness increased with the passing of time, and after a while she could make out faint sounds from somewhere around her.

First, she identified the loud screeching of a siren wail that blared out at an annoying, quick pace. It scraped at her eardrums and was nearly unbearable to listen to. There were voices, too; deep voices… men’s voices. One was familiar, and the other was rough and foreign to her ears.

They were arguing about something, and though she could understand what it was they were saying, she had no idea what they were talking about.

The female had little time to mull this over in her thoughts, though, for soon she became very alert to her sense of feeling as her skin became subject to a tingling sensation. She was no longer numb, and her limbs flailed about in the liquid that surrounded her body, struggling to grasp anything or everything that was within reach. She also now realized that there were certain wires attached to her, and they began to feed small jolts of painful electricity into her back, forcing her to open her eyes.

Blinding light flooded into her vision, and for a moment she paused, stunned as her surroundings came into view. She had never seen before, and she wanted to look at everything and anything, overwhelmed at the shapes and colors. The female observed that she was suspended in a tank of sorts, which was filled with a glowing, jelly-like fluid. A mask was secured over her mouth and nose, allowing her to breathe.

The two men she had heard speaking were watching her from outside of the tank. Both appeared to be in quite a rush, and only one looked even remotely friendly.

There was a series of short clicking noises, and she felt the fluid around her begin to move, draining itself from the tank. Once it was gone she slumped to the floor of the container, not used to the sensation of gravity weighing down on her. There were a few more mechanical twists as the wires detached themselves from her body, and the mask was removed as well, giving the female her very first unaided breath of air.

She coughed violently as her lungs were forced to get used to breathing on their own, and she began to tremble as she managed to calm down, feeling her heart beating rapidly within her chest.

The man outside with the long white hair began to adjust some knobs on the outside of the tank, and mechanical arms reached down towards her, clothing her naked form in a soft, white jumpsuit of sorts. It was tight, but comfortable, and it allowed her to move with ease as she cautiously rose to her feet.

The two men had continued on to a tank beside her, and were doing the same things to it that they had done to the one she was standing in. And as she looked around the room once again, she realized that there were at least twenty other tanks, each one similar to hers.

Some of them had already been opened, and there were other girls in them, dressed like she was, standing there with varying degrees of confusion and apprehension on their faces. She felt a little better knowing that she wasn’t the only one who had no idea what was going on.

Turning her attention back to the two men, she listened to them speak as they hurried along from tank to tank.

“…And can’t you at least shut that damn alarm off? I’m pretty sure they’re all aware that something’s up by now.”

“Unfortunately, I can’t. And it doesn’t matter anyway. I managed to crash the door lock system a few minutes after you arrived, so that should buy us some time and keep them busy.”

“When you said that you’d be cutting things close, I didn’t think you meant THIS close.”

“I didn’t think so, either, but apparently, time’s up.” The scientist finished inputting the release sequence on the final tank, and turned to the stranger. “The van is ready, is it not? We’re going to need to start moving them into it now.”

“Yeah, for the billionth freakin’ time, it’s hidden and it’s ready, just where you told me to put it.”

“Good. Start leading them out the back. They’ll follow you for now, because they’ll be too dazed to do much of anything else.”

The scruffy-looking man grunted his agreement, and began to coax a few of the girls towards the back of the room, where he slapped his hand down on a panel in the wall, revealing a dark, hidden tunnel. With his less-than-friendly urging, they began to disappear into it, and the female still standing in her tank followed after them out of curiosity, without being told to do so.

A blast of cold air hit her in the face almost immediately, and the metal walls of the tunnel amplified the hellish siren wails to a new level. However, she had this feeling tugging at her insides that pushed her onwards behind the trail of girls stumbling along ahead of her, and she didn’t stop or hesitate for a moment.

After a while, the atmosphere in the tunnel changed, and she stepped out onto a foreign surface: it looked like little rows of green hair were growing up from the ground, and instantly her mind registered the word “grass”.

The female looked up, and her eyes took in the blue sky with wonder. As much as she wished to just stand there and gaze at it, however, the line of girls had all made it out of the facility with her, and the stranger was at the tail end of the group, shoving the stragglers along.

“Come on, hurry up. None of you are safe out here.” He began to usher them towards a large, box-like metal object, which rested upon four wheels and had doors in the sides and back of it. The stranger immediately opened the back doors, waving frantically at all of them. “Get in, now!”

None of them dared to argue, and miraculously, all twenty-one of them managed to squeeze into the back of the van. The doors were shut closed behind them, and the girl began to examine the others more carefully, now that she was able to see them better. Most of them looked normal, but there were a few that stood out: there was a girl with glowing orange eyes, one with a mechanical arm, and one even sported white, angelic wings that were folded tightly on her back to allow for more room in the cramped space.

They were all regarding each other curiously, but nobody seemed to want to speak or make eye contact.

She was startled when the stranger started up the van, and the engine rumbled and growled beneath her feet somewhere, making her uneasy. The stranger was sitting up front behind a wheel, and he pulled hard on a lever, before pushing down on something with his foot, causing the van to jerk forward and begin moving at an alarming rate.

A few of the girls let out little squeaks or screams, but the stranger didn’t make any move to comfort or acknowledge them. He was focused on the dirt road ahead of him, and with good reason.

They were being pursued.

Two smaller vehicles were following after them at high speed, and despite their size in comparison with the van, they looked to be much more advanced technology-wise, and were armed with two gun turrets on either side. They were dark black in color, and once they got close enough, they began to open fire.

Bolts of energy tore into the metal shell of the van, and although they didn’t pierce through, that didn’t stop the vehicle from rocking violently due to the impact.

Many of the girls were really starting to panic at this point; it was slightly hard to deal with all of these things when you had basically been ‘born’ only a few minutes earlier. The female with the robotic arm, however, appeared to be hatching an idea somewhere in her mind, and she turned to press her ear up against the wall of the van. She tapped on it with her metallic fingers, and then without warning she punched a hole into the metal, much like one would poke a straw into the lid of a fast food drink.

The stranger didn’t seem to be amused.

“What the hell are you doing back there?” He asked angrily, but the girl only ignored him, and pulled her arm back into the van. She stared at it for a moment, and before everyone’s eyes it transformed into something similar to a miniature Gatling gun. This she shoved back into the hole and used to fire away at the ones that were hunting them.

The other girls watched through the windows of the van, as the high-tech vehicles were torn to shreds by the projectiles being fired from the female’s metal arm. A few of them sighed in relief as the machines finally turned away and left, too damaged to continue the chase.

The girl with the gun arm grinned triumphantly as she pulled her smoking limb back into the van, watching as it transformed back into a perfectly normal—as normal as artificial arms go, anyway—metallic hand.

Everyone else was just staring at her, and the female from before who had been content with just standing around observing the sky was doing the same, shaken from the experience. She looked over at the stranger who was still driving the van, knuckles white from gripping the wheel so hard.

She had no idea where they were going or what would become of them, but she DID know that she was mentally and emotionally exhausted, and all she wanted to do was sleep. The van was rolling along in a gentle, rhythmic sort of way now, and before she knew it, her eyes were drooping and she began to doze off.

Perhaps it was just as well that she hadn’t taken notice of the metal id tag that had been fastened around her neck while she was in the tank. There was a name etched into the silvery surface, and it would have only served to add to her confusion. But for now, it rested beneath the jumpsuit, the words hidden from view.

“…Mitsui Aika.”

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: JFC on March 13, 2007, 05:53:07 AM

Aw, and here I thought it was Eri for some reason. :P

Anyway, girl with the mechanical arm HAS to be Miki. To be able to punch out the van and shoot at the baddies? Gotta be. :D

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 13, 2007, 06:32:56 AM

^Agrees with JFC

Only Miki could be that badass. XD Interesting, they're all cloned now? Awesome! Let's hope they evade capture for now. :)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Sukoshi on March 13, 2007, 10:26:27 AM

ooo nice plot. It's nice and fresh =) I too thought it was Eri for some reason XD I wonder if this will be the first fic with aika as the main character or will every chapter feature someone different?

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 13, 2007, 12:45:17 PM

Aika? I'm definately interested on your take of the new kid.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Amarghetta on March 13, 2007, 06:07:35 PM

Sci-fi! Count me in as reader, definitely.

Aika? Now, that's... interesting.

Keep it coming. :D

ETA: Just noticed you got my 100th post.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Aioros on March 13, 2007, 06:26:58 PM

Finally had the chance to read part 2 :P

I like your writing style. Those parts where 'she' was trying to comprehend what her senses was telling her was great. (the sirens,'grass', etc.) It makes me picture in my mind what she was actually seeing,feeling, hearing when that was happening. :thumbsup

Aika gets a gatling gun for a hand. I wonder what the other girls' abilities are. At least 20 tanks were opened yet only one has been revealed. Who are the rest? :ONdunno:

I need to know.:ONfarofflook:

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 14, 2007, 04:23:04 AM

@Everyone who thought Aika was gonna be Eri: haha, sorry to disappoint. Though Eri will be making an appearance in this chapter, if that's any consolation. I picked Aika for the main character because we don't know all that much about her yet with her being so new and all, which makes it easier for me, because that I can pretty much do whatever I want with her character. Yay~!

@Sukoshi & JFC: +5 points to both of you for guessing correctly about Miki. lol I suppose I made that too obvious. haha.

@rmdmnweird: You shall have to wait and see, yessss? :D

@Amarghetta: Aww, 100th post! Yay! :heart:

@wordsworth: I really like stories that pull a person in and make you feel like you're the one actually experiencing what's going on. That's kind of what I'm emulate here too, I guess. :) As for who's been revealed... you know at least from the beginning of the story due to the vials that were read that Eri, Momoko, and Aya are three of the clones. Obviously Aika is one of them now, too, and four more are revealed in this chapter. So that leaves... thirteen more to go? lol

And here's the third installment of my story. After finishing it, I realized that I lied. Other than learning who a few more of the characters are, you don't really find out a whole lot in this. It was getting kind of long so I decided to break it into two chapters instead of one enormous one. So um, enjoy! I'm going to try to write a chapter a day if I can, and I also plan on drawing several things for this story (like a cover and the characters and such) when I get the chance.

So um... enjoy!

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Chapter Three: Meeting

“Hey!”

Poke poke.

“Wake up now, the others are leaving us behind!”

Poke poke.

“Come onnnnnnnnn!”

Hard jab to the side. THAT woke her up. Aika stared up drowsily into the face of one of the other girls, who had been kneeling beside her sleeping form for the past few minutes, trying unsuccessfully to bring her back to consciousness.

The other female was smaller than she was, and had short blonde hair that only made it past her chin in length. Her face seemed to light up as she realized that Aika was awake, and she stood up, bouncing a little bit on her feet.

“Good, you’re awake! Everyone else is already in the caves with that man that brought us here. I saw that you were asleep, so I didn’t want to leave you behind.” The girl held out her hand as if to help Aika to her feet. “I’m Mari.”

Aika blinked at her for a moment, brain trying to register the spew of words that had come from this energetic being’s mouth. She took the other girl’s hand and rose to her feet, confused. For the first time in the short while that she had been ‘awake’, Aika spoke.

“How do you know?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“…How do you know that you are Mari?”

The shorter girl seemed to be puzzled at first, as if she wondered why Aika was asking such a silly question, but then she grinned. “Well, I just assume that that’s who I am because of this.” She pulled the dog tag necklace out from beneath her suit, showing it to the other girl.

“Yaguchi Mari”

“I figured since it was on me that it had to be my name… even if it’s not, I’m going to call myself that. It’s easier to have a name that’s not yours than to be nobody, don’t you think?” Mari continued, rocking back on her heels as she spoke. She couldn’t seem to stand still for more than a second or so… “Anyway, what does yours say? Who are you?”

Aika hadn’t considered that, and wondered if she even had a necklace like Mari’s to tell her such a thing. But as soon as she reached up to touch her neck, she felt a tiny chain of metal resting there, and she pulled the tag out to read it. Sure enough, “Mitsui Aika” was inscribed there, and for some reason she could not place, she was completely and utterly positive that the name belonged to her.

“I guess that I’m Aika.”

“Well, it’s nice to meet you then. We really should catch up with everyone else, though. I think that the man was going to explain to us what’s going on here.” And with that, Mari grabbed her arm and began to drag the other female off of the van behind her. Being jerked around from place to place was becoming the norm, and it was starting to give Aika a little bit of a headache.

Apparently the van had finally come to rest in the middle of a rather dense forest, which made her wonder how the stranger had managed to maneuver such a large thing through all these trees. As she allowed Mari to tug her along by the arm, she noticed that they were coming upon a rather large rock face, at the foot of which was the dark opening to the cave that the smaller girl had mentioned before.

There was another female stumbling around in front of the cave in a strange sort of manner, as if she hadn’t yet figured out how to walk or something. Mari looked back at Aika, puzzled, and as they neared the girl, she tripped over her own foot and sprawled out onto the ground with a thud.

Mari was the first to react, and she ran over to the girl almost immediately.

“Are you alright? That was kind of a nasty fall you just took.”

The girl on the ground merely whimpered in response, staring wide-eyed up at Mari. It was when Aika caught up with the two of them that she noticed there was something very strange about those eyes. For one thing, the irises were almost pure white in color, and the pupils were tinted gray as if they were filled with smoke. Mari didn’t seem to realize it, but…

“I don’t think she can see you, Mari.” Aika stated quietly, nudging the smaller female’s shoulder. “It looks like she’s blind.”

Mari seemed to take this in, and experimented by waving her hand in front of the fallen female’s eyes.

No response.

“I guess you’re right.” The blonde reached for the girl’s nametag, squinting to read the words as she brought it up to her face. “Kamei Eri. So I guess this is Eri, then… We should probably get her inside… it doesn’t look like she can get there on her own. Come on, help me lift her up.”

The two of them each took one of the blind girl’s arms and lifted her onto their shoulders, which turned out to be slightly awkward due to the difference in height between Mari and Aika. However, with careful steps they managed to carry her to the entrance, and together the three of them entered the cave.

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It was dark at first, and Aika was starting to regret every step they took away from the welcoming light they left behind at the entrance. She began to hear voices, though, quiet whisperings of other females whom she could only assume to belong to the group she had traveled here with.

There was a warm blue glow coming from up ahead, and as they neared it, she realized that from this point the tunnel was illuminated by natural light from rocks that were embedded into the walls of the cave. Looking at them was somewhat calming, and it helped to dull her apprehension.

For the moment, anyway.

They made it into what appeared to be a central room that had been carved out inside of the cave, where the rest of the group was sitting up against the walls of the room. Most were by themselves, curled up in blankets that had probably been supplied by the stranger, whom Aika noted did not seem to be around. She and Mari set Eri down up against one of the walls and plopped down on either side of the blind girl in order to try and keep her warm, as the poor thing had begun to shiver once they had made it deeper into the cave.

The girl with the wings wasn’t sitting too far off from Aika, and when she noticed their predicament, she tossed a blanket over at them.

“Here. The guy left a few extras in case anyone needed them.”
Aika nodded her thanks, while Mari took the blanket from her and wrapped it around their shivering friend. The room was silent for a little while longer, before Aika wondered if the stranger had told the group anything else about what was going on, and decided to ask the winged female about it.

“Any idea about why we’re here?”

“Nope. He said he was going to go get us some food and that when he got back he’d give us some answers. Then he disappeared through one of those back tunnels over there.” The girl pointed lazily at several more entrances in the opposite side of the room, each leading off into other chambers in the cave.

“Food…?”

“Yeah, I don’t know how he’s going to get it, either, but I’m not exactly complaining. By the way, you can call me Koharu.” She smiled, and Aika couldn’t help but smile back.

“I’m Aika. This,” She started, motioning to the blonde, “is Mari, and the other one is Eri. Do you know anything about the others?”

“I heard a few names… but some of these people are kind of scary.” Koharu replied, smile fading into a frown. “The girl with the gun for a hand… her name is Miki. I don’t think you want to mess with her, because she seems kind of hotheaded and mean from what I can tell. And you see that one over there?” She pointed, and Aika’s gaze moved to rest on the girl she had noticed before with the glowing eyes.

The female was sitting cross-legged up against the wall, and she had her hand held out in front of her. She was holding a small ball of fire in her hand, and with the other she was caressing the flames that licked off of it with her fingertips. At first, Aika was perplexed, but as she looked closer, she realized that none of the blaze was actually coming into contact with the girl’s skin. The girl’s eyes were slightly off… kind of wonky… and it would have been somewhat amusing, if not for the dangerous look she was giving the element in her hand.

Aika had a feeling she didn’t want that look to be sent in her direction.

“Yeah… I see her.”

“That’s Tanaka Reina. Once she figured out that she could do that, she just sat down over there and has been like that for a while now… Kiiiiiiiinda creepy. As for everyone else, I don’t know. Nobody’s really been talking and we’ve all been keeping our distance…”

Before Aika could formulate a response, one of the girls on the other side of the room rose to her feet, glaring in the direction of the one called Miki. She was tall and muscular, and looked like a force to be reckoned with.

“What the hell is your problem?” She fired off, directing the question at Miki, who was wearing a very satisfied smirk on her face from her position on the ground.

“Whatever do you mean?” Came the reply, which was dripping with false sweetness.

“You’ve been staring over here for the past five minutes and it’s startin’ to get on my nerves.”

“Sorry. Can’t help it. You’re kind of hard to miss over there…”

“What did you say?”

Miki stood up, rolling her shoulders back and listening to the cracking noises her vertebrae made as they shifted against each other. The tension in the room was starting to rise, and all eyes were on the confrontation.

“I said you’re freakin’ huge. It’s kind of hard to look at all the pretty scenery when you’re in the way like that. I was thinking about asking you to move, but-”

Almost immediately, the other girl had charged up to her with full intent to put a dent in Miki’s face, but she was too quick and caught the muscular girl’s fist with her mechanical hand, holding it off with ease. The female was struggling in Miki’s grasp and it caused her smirk to grow wider.

“Now, now, let’s not be hasty… But since you seem to be so excited, let me show you how you REALLY start a fight.”

Miki let go of the other girl’s fist and brought her mechanical arm back, letting it fly hard into the female’s stomach…

…where it… bounced… off?

Both the muscular girl and Miki just sort of stood there for a moment, processing what had happened.

“Did I miss?”

“No, you hit me… I just didn’t feel it.”

“What the hell?”

“Maybe you should try again?”

Miki obliged, getting the same results. This was rather frustrating, and she began to repeatedly sack the other girl in the stomach, bouncing off again and again until finally she lost it and tried to hit her with her normal arm.

Bad idea.

It was as if someone had thrown a brick wall at her hand, and because it wasn’t made of metal like the other arm, she rebounded painfully this time. She began to curse very loudly and started hopping around a bit, waving her now very bruised hand about. The muscular girl simply stood there, confused, scratching lightly at the spot that Miki had used for her target.

Miki was not pleased, and once her hand stopped throbbing and she regained her composure, she continued on to make sure that everyone was aware of this.

“What the HELL is wrong with you? Are you like made of freakin’ STEEL or something?”

Of course, the other female could not answer this question, and she merely shrugged in response, at a loss for words after surviving Miki’s fist barrage. It was at this point in time that the stranger returned, interrupting the altercation by wheeling in a wooden cart that held several plates of steaming hot food. He eyed the two standing in the center of the room with a frown, before disregarding them and opening his mouth to speak.

“Any of you hungry?”

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 14, 2007, 05:57:45 AM

Eri's blind? Koharu with wings? Reina a pyro? Miki's pretty funny, though. Can't wait to see how you take this.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Sancho on March 14, 2007, 03:07:10 PM

I just read the first part and I say it's very interesting. Sci-fi funfic? That's something really hard to pull off (for me in that case). I'm looking forward for this one too. :D

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: coachie on March 14, 2007, 03:52:54 PM

Quote

“Did I miss?”

“No, you hit me… I just didn’t feel it.”

“What the hell?”

“Maybe you should try again?”

:ROTFLMAO:

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: jafeijai on March 14, 2007, 04:01:03 PM

Laughed quite a bit after reading this one, though I don't think that was the main intent was it? XD Miki's already starting fights within the group haha

[prepares a list of powers]
Reina - controller of flame
Miki - robotic arm
Koharu - wings
Unknown person - High-density body (possibly steel?) & strength
Eri - blind (if that really counts..)
Mari - unknown
Aika - unknown
Momoko - unknown
Aya - unknown

Can't wait until more people (and their powers) are revealed as well as how the story will continue :thumbsup

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 15, 2007, 05:13:42 AM

@rmdmnwierd: Miki is so much fun to write. :D

@Sancho: Glad ya like it. ^-^ Hopefully I can KEEP it interesting.

@coachie: That was my favorite part of Chapter Three. haha

@jafeijai: lol, originally, it wasn't, but then I couldn't resist making Miki be all like... well... Miki. haha

Anyways... this chapter was extremely hard to pull out of my head. It was slightly boring to write, because it's mostly just backstory, but nevertheless it's important. lol I should be able to get rolling a little bit easier with the next chapter.

As always, enjoy. :heart:

Chapter Four: Past

The girls were now all seated back up against the walls, each digging in hungrily to a plate of warm whatever-it-was. Aika didn’t really know. It was the first food she had ever laid eyes on, and though during the past few hours she had been relying on whatever her pre-programmed instinct could tell her, she was unable to identify it.

Not that she cared much. Her stomach had been growling from the moment that Koharu had mentioned the idea of food, and neither the taste nor the smell could keep her from consuming every little bit.

Mari had practically inhaled what she had been given, and after some gentle urging, both she and Aika had managed to get Eri to eat a little bit as well. But… by “a little bit”, it meant that they had gotten her to eat a few bites before she shoved the plate away in disgust and that was the end of that.

The stranger was in the middle of the room, holding a small, metal circular device in one of his hands, and he cleared his throat to get everyone’s attention.

“Now listen up. The doc gave me this message for all of you before we left the facility. He said that it explains mostly everything about what’s goin’ on here. So all of you shut up and pay attention while I play it so we can get this over with. Don’t bother asking me questions afterwards, either. I don’t know anything more than any of you do.”

He pushed the button in the center of the device with his thumb, dropping it on the floor and stepping away. A tiny slot opened on the top of the circle, and light shone through it, projecting a life-sized hologram of the scientist Akira in the air.

Everyone was silent as they watched—even Miki, who had paused in her grumbling about her bruised hand in order to observe this phenomenon.

The image began to speak, the sound slightly obscured by crackling static.

“If you are listening to this message… then you are safe and hidden in the place that was prepared for you, and I am either dead or in the hands of the government. But it is very important for all of you to hear the words that I have to say, for I am sure that you have many questions that need to be answered. I will start off by telling you a story…

Almost half a century ago, this world was different. It wasn’t deprived of technology and music… but that all changed when a man, who went only by Shizuka, organized a series of unexpected and horrible murders. His first targets were in the idol group known as Morning Musume…”

Out of the corner of her eye, Aika could see movement coming from where Koharu sat, and when she turned her head to look, she noticed that the winged girl was twitching a bit, eyes closed tight. It lasted for only a moment, though, and soon she opened her eyes again, staring at the hologram as if nothing had happened.

"Strange…", she thought to herself.

“Shizuka’s followers had somehow managed to get into one of the group’s fan club events, slipping past security unnoticed. The girls were shot and killed, and the men who did it were never found. Over the weeks following such a tragedy, members of a younger Hello! Project group, Berryz Koubou, started to disappear one by one, abducted without a trace. When their bodies were found, it was too late.

The other members of Hello! Project were beginning to fear for their own safety, and many of them resigned at this point. Those that stayed adamantly expressed to the public that they would not let such terroristic acts interfere with what they loved to do.

Unfortunately, the killing did not stop. The duo W, soloists Matsuura Aya and Goto Maki, graduated Morning Musume members Yaguchi Mari and Yoshizawa Hitomi, the young members of the group C-ute, and the groups Biyuuden and Melon Kinenbi were all added to the list of fatalities.

The police were ever alert and tried their hardest to find the criminals responsible for such bloodshed, but Shizuka’s followers were always one step ahead, and eventually other notable Japanese singers turned up dead and missing at their hands. News began to spread of similar events happening across the world, and not only were the idols being targeted, as a handful of talented instrumentalists were slaughtered alongside them.

The music industry came to a screeching halt, and that’s when Shizuka and his group really caught the world by surprise. With his advanced technology and knowledge of human genetics, Shizuka managed to bring every nation to its’ knees, using his super-human army to gain control of everything.

Shizuka completely changed the world for the worst. He ordered that anything even remotely sophisticated be destroyed, and his army scoured the earth, ridding it of anything that threatened his superiority. Electricity was ripped away from the common man and preserved for him alone, and nearly every city on this earth went up in flames. Surrounded by ashes, the people could do nothing but start all over, returning to an oppressed, primitive way of life. Many people were killed during this ‘purification’ process, as they clung desperately to the things they felt that they could not live without.

He set up laws that prohibited any and all forms of music, and anyone caught producing or even listening to even the quietest or simplest of melodies could be punished by death. The law is still in effect today, and many children have never heard a single song in their entire life.”

The scientist paused here, looking around, almost as if his holographic form could actually see them all sitting there.

“And yet, none of this explains who any of you are, or what your purpose for being here is. Simply put… every single one of you is a clone.”

Most of the girls just blinked at these words, trying to comprehend what had been said. A strange feeling was twisting around in the pit of Aika’s stomach, and even though she did not know what the word clone meant… she sensed that something was wrong.

“You were formed from the DNA taken from certain idols in the Hello! Project that were killed so many years ago. This means that you are genetically identical to whoever’s DNA you share. These names are written on the tags each of you wears around your neck. …While you are not the people you were cloned from, I believe it is only proper for you to bear their names, should you choose to accept what I am about to ask of you...

I beg that you restore this world to what it used to be. You are the only ones capable of removing Shizuka and his men from power… The task will be extremely difficult, but I believe that you can bring us out of these dark times.

I’ve given you a few super-human advantages to make things easier. In addition to cloning all of you, I was also able to alter your genetic codes individually in order to give you extraordinary abilities. Each one of you possesses a different power, and unfortunately, I must leave it up to you to figure out what those powers are.”

Well. This was nice. It was the perfect cherry to put on top of her hot fudge sundae of a day. If the cherry was rotting somewhat, and if the sundae happened to be filled with worms, that is.

“The decision is up to each of you individually. You can choose to go on this adventure of sorts, or you can try to slip into this horrific society and live a normal life. But if you try and pick the latter, I can assure you that they will find you, and they will kill you. By now, I am almost positive that they are looking for you so that they can eliminate you, because of the potential threat that you pose. Not only that, but your powers will make blending in nearly impossible.

On the other hand, if you manage to destroy Shizuka, you earn not only freedom for the world, but also freedom for yourselves.

…The choice is yours.

I wish you all good luck.”

With that, the hologram disappeared, and the room was immediately filled with the sound of complete and total silence.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 15, 2007, 05:23:29 AM

I foresee a split in opinion among the girls. *waits patiently for the arguments to start*

Good chapter, I like how you summarised how they got here and why in just that recorded holographic speech. *nods* Must be a shock to be a clone though. I hope you do let some of them have some angst over it or whatever. Haha.

Looking forward to the next chapter! :)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: ferrar1 on March 15, 2007, 06:59:47 AM

I'm waiting for a leader to rise among them.. hmm who could it be

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 15, 2007, 08:42:40 AM

I want to know how fucked up each of the girls are without the memories that shaped them into the idols that we know. Heh heh heh... *imagines*

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: iacus on March 15, 2007, 10:25:01 AM

Liking the fic so far, you seem to have set up the plot pretty well. Can't wait to see how it all pans out.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 18, 2007, 06:36:14 PM

@Estrea: Oh yes. Most of them are none too happy about being clones. Now it's just a matter of who happens to be the angstiest about it. (haha, I invented a word.)

@ferrar1: That IS the question, isn't it... who will it beeeeee? :ONdunno: lol

@rndmnwierd: They're pretty screwed.

@iacus: Thanks! Glad to have another on board with this. :)

After a little delay with me having to go out of state yesterday, here's the next chapter. I'm not entirely sure if I'm completely happy with it, but at least at the end of it I get to leave you all in suspense. :P

Enjoy. :heart:

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Chapter Five: Divided

Seven minutes had passed.

No one in the room had moved an inch, and no one had spoken either.

The stranger had left them sometime while they had been watching the transmission, but that didn’t matter much, as no one would have missed him.

They were too busy trying to wrap their minds around the story they had just been told.

Aika was undecided on the matter, but this was more or less because she had to digest so much all at once that it was a little hard to force herself to make a concrete choice either way.

Everyone was waiting for someone else to say something.

Anything.

And of course, that someone would obviously have to be…

“Well, I think this is a bunch of bullshit. That scientist guy and his buddy are obviously cracked or somethin’… Clones? No freakin’ way.”

…Miki.

“And what if you’re wrong?” Another voice broke the silence. It was smooth and a little deep, and it came from one of the girls sitting next to the wall opposite of where Aika was. Though she was sitting, the female looked as though she was somewhat tall, and she had this presence about her that demanded complete attention. She was slender, and had short, dark, chin-length hair that gave her a sharp, boyish appearance. The girl had some big eyes, and they were focused calmly on Miki. “What if everything he said is true and we really don’t have much of a choice? Then what?”

The girl with the mechanical arm scowled in response, glaring at the one who spoke.

“And who the hell are you?”

“According to this tag… Yoshizawa Hitomi. Or, her clone. Whichever you prefer.”

“Well, Hitomi,” She started, stressing each syllable in a mocking sort of way, “What do you suggest we do? Shall we hide in the forest with the little woodland creatures for the rest of our lives? Or are you seriously considering the idea of becoming some sort of hero?”

“Yeah. I kind of am.”

Miki groaned, rolling her eyes and crossing her arms.

“Spare me… We don’t even know what we’re up against. And if all of this crap IS true, then whatever it is must be pretty damn strong if the guy was able to take over the earth and wipe out virtually any sign of technology… What do you think that YOU can do to make a difference…?”

Hitomi was silent. Miki smirked, and she looked around at the others as if to say, “See, I told you so.” Another female that had been hidden from view in one of the darker corners of the room stepped out into the dim light radiating from the rocks in the walls. She had long, light-brown hair that rested on her shoulders, and her eyes were a pale, golden-yellow color, having black slits for pupils.

The girl sported a pair of wolf ears on top of her head, and to match them, she also had a long, fluffy tail. If that wasn’t intimidating enough, Aika noticed sharp claws on the girl’s hands rather than fingernails, and she was pretty sure she could see the glint of a fang poking out over the female’s bottom lip.

“She can’t do anything. Not alone. I don’t think ANY of us are meant to be alone. Why else would we have all been created together?” There was a murmur of agreement that floated through the room, and for a moment, even Miki looked unsure. “I don’t think that any of this was an accident.”

One more girl stood. She was about Mari’s height, small and petit, and her hair was cut in a style similar to that of Hitomi’s. Little though she was, the girl exuded confidence all the way to her fingertips.

“Okay, but… even if all of what you’re saying is true… we were just ‘born’ today. We only know what we know. Nothing more. None of us have ever fought before. And then there’s the fact that we don’t know how long it might take to discover what our powers might be. Even if we’re lucky enough to stumble upon them soon, that brings up the issue of learning how to use them without killing ourselves and each other.”

“Maybe you’re all just…”
“…Thinking about it too much.”
“Exactly.”

A pair of girls sitting next to each other had spoken after the small female, creating a sentence together as if their minds were linked. They looked almost like twins, and Aika wondered for a moment if the scientist had cloned someone twice by mistake.

“Well, we’re not gonna get anything done by just sittin’ here.” The girl named Reina grumbled over in her corner, contributing to the conversation. The fireball that she had been holding disappeared with a puff of smoke, and she got up, walking towards the tunnel that everyone had entered through.

Hitomi called after the wonky-eyed teen.

“Where are you going?”

“To find a city or something—anything, I don’t care. I’m tired of sitting around and listening to you idiots talk about all of this. That Shizuka guy is probably looking for us, and I don’t want to be trapped in here when he comes.”

And with that, Reina disappeared from view.

“I second that.” Miki stated, and she strode briskly after the other girl and into the tunnel. The wolf girl also followed, muttering something under her breath, and the one called Hitomi wasn’t too far off behind them. And soon, only Aika, Mari, Eri, Koharu, the small girl, and two other females close to her, both of whom seemed to be frightened out of their minds, remained.

It appeared to Aika that they were the misfits of the group…

“Should we go with them?” Mari questioned, breaking the silence and voicing what was on everyone else’s minds. The blind girl beside Aika merely shuddered in response, and the small girl seemed to be thinking really hard.

“As much as I have a really bad feeling about this… I think we should… This isn’t exactly the kind of place I want to spend the night in.” There was an unspoken exchange between the clones that had been left behind, and though none of them were excited about the idea, they were all in agreement. “By the way… I’m Saki. This is Momoko…” The small girl nodded to a female that was clinging tightly to her arm, eyes wide with apprehension. Momoko was about the same size as Saki, but she did not hold the same confidence that the little leader possessed. “And this is Risako.”

The other girl didn’t appear to be quite as terrified as Momoko was, but she definitely looked a bit uneasy, and was standing behind Saki as if she thought the smaller female could protect her. She was very pretty, and looked out of place amongst the rest of them.

Aika and the others introduced themselves as well, and once all of that was out of the way, she stood up. She and Mari helped Eri to her feet, and the blind girl resorted to leaning on only the small blonde for support, as she was getting a little better at being upright and such.

The small group began to exit the cave, with Saki in the lead.

Koharu was still sitting there on the cave floor; she had seemed off ever since watching the transmission, and was now staring blankly up at the ceiling. The winged girl seemed to snap out of it, however, when she noticed that the others were starting to move, and she scrambled to her feet.

She rushed to catch up, heart and mind now weighted with a burden that she did not quite understand…

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It was raining hard outside now, and the clones that had followed after Miki, Hitomi, and the wolf girl hadn’t made it that far from the cave due to this fact. That, and they had separated into smaller factions because they all seemed to have differing opinions of what was going on.

Miki’s group was moving rather slow; Reina seemed to be having immense trouble with the rain, and was lagging behind. The large female that had ‘suffered’ Miki’s barrage earlier on was with them as well, and she was helping another girl along who had tripped and hurt her ankle. The only one of the group that seemed to be able to keep up with the metal-armed woman was a clone named Matsuura Aya, who had followed along after them once they had left the cave.

Her presence there seemed to agitate Miki somewhat, but she said nothing about it.

After a little more struggle, Reina called to Miki out of the downpour, struggling to keep her voice from being drowned out.

“Miki, we’re going to have to stop soon! I can’t take much more of this, and Maasa and Miyabi are getting slower as we go on!”

Miki turned around to face the girl, and Aya was watching the three stragglers inquisitively, as if she couldn’t figure out why on earth they were unable to keep up.

“And where do you propose we do that? Shall we all crawl under a rock and hide until the rain passes? There isn’t anything else out here, dammit! We have to keep going!”

Reina was about to shout out a protest, when a chilling scream pierced her ears, coming from another area of the forest.

Coming from the direction of where the other group of clones had been.

All of them were quiet for a moment, and even Miki looked slightly disturbed by the noise. There was another sharp cry, and then an unearthly roar ripped through the air, causing all of them to jump in surprise.

“What the HELL was THAT?”

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: JFC on March 19, 2007, 12:06:09 AM

Damn, and here I thought the "large" girl that Miki had argued with was Aya (large doesn't necessarily have to mean "fat", after all :twisted:). So if Aya isn't the "large" girl, who is she?

Wolf girl....Yuko? Other girl who was about Mari's height...Asami (Country Musume)?

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: iacus on March 19, 2007, 12:47:16 AM

Quote from: JFC;332518

Damn, and here I thought the "large" girl that Miki had argued with was Aya (large doesn't necessarily have to mean "fat", after all :twisted:). So if Aya isn't the "large" girl, who is she?

(Guessing randomly) Maasa?

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Other girl who was about Mari's height...Asami (Country Musume)?

(Also guessing randomly) Saki?

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: coachie on March 19, 2007, 12:50:36 AM

I like where this is going
I have my bets on Maki for the wolf girl, don't know why XD

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Aioros on March 19, 2007, 02:13:37 AM

I missed two chapters! Argh! :evil:

This Shizuka person is one crazy dude. But if he was able to pull off killing artists in plain sight, then he must be really powerful.

Yay for clone Berryz :yay: and furries :yay: wait...:o :P XD

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 19, 2007, 02:22:33 AM

Aha I knew they would split into factions! XD

Yossi and Miki arguing. How typical. XD Even as clones they retain some of their usual traits. ^__^

Mmm Aya irritating Miki just by being able to keep up with her. :) And the line where Aya wonders why the others couldn't keep up...I felt that was so typical of her. Basically it's the "if I can do it, why can't you?" thing that all self-confident *coughnarcissisticcough* people have. Haha.

Hmmm I wonder what's going to happen next. A monster? Are they going to get attacked? If so, yay for fight scenes? Lol.

Great story, keep it moving! ^__^

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: ferrar1 on March 19, 2007, 02:32:16 AM

Big girl = Iida

Wolf girl = Nacchi because i so want her in this fic

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 19, 2007, 02:38:48 AM

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A pair of girls sitting next to each other had spoken after the small female, creating a sentence together as if their minds were linked. They looked almost like twins, and Aika wondered for a moment if the scientist had cloned someone twice by mistake.

ダブルユです！

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“What the HELL was THAT?”

I second that!

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Ren on March 19, 2007, 07:28:11 AM

If I was the scientist I would have clone each girl twice, and keep the second clones for myself :heart:.

Yay for Musume clones! :D

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 20, 2007, 12:17:22 AM

@JFC: I actually revealed who both of them were, if you look carefully. lol (Or below at my comment to iacus)

@iacus: +5 to you. (I'm not sure my points are worth anything, though. haha)

@coachie: You also get +5. :heart:

@wordsworth: Think of it of having more to read, rather than missing chapters. lol And yes, you will find that Shizuka is pretty much your stereotypical twisted madman. Yay for Berryz, period. :D

@ferrar1: Unfortunately, the wolf girl isn't Nacchi, but I will set your mind at ease by telling you that Nacchi WILL be in this fic.

@rndmnwierd: I have no idea what you said in the first part of your post there. XD

@Ren: I so totally would, too. But he's probably dead now. Probably.

And um, yay for new chapter? I'm not so great at writing battle scenes. Enjoy.

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Chapter Six: Battle

As Saki’s small group made their way out of the cave and into the rain, a shriek echoed through the air, and it was all the little leader could do to keep Momoko from bolting right then and there. Eri began to tremble fitfully next to Mari, and she spoke for the very first time, startling Aika, who had begun to think the girl was mute as well as blind.

“There’s blood in the air… I can smell it…”

The tone in her voice was eerie, and it sent chills down Aika’s spine. Saki looked equally troubled, and as the shower beat down on them, she turned to look at all of them.

“That had to have been one of the others… It might not be anything big, but if one of them got hurt, we should probably go check it out, right…?”

Following the scream was a ferocious roar, a noise that none of them could register as being even remotely human. Koharu was terror-stricken at this point, and appeared to be frozen to the spot.

“You want to go TOWARDS whatever’s making that sound? I’d rather put a lot of distance in between it and us…”

The girls looked out towards the forest, the thick growth of trees not offering any hint as to what lay ahead. Aika closed her eyes, feeling the cold rain run down her face. There was another cry, and the roaring continued, louder this time. We can’t just stand here…

“What if it comes after us next…?” Risako asked, a quiver in her voice.

“Then I want to see what we’re up against before it sneaks up on us. Come on.” Saki began to run towards the source of the screaming, Momoko close behind her. Mari tugged Eri along after them, and even the reluctant Koharu followed, perhaps out of a morbid curiosity.

Risako made no move to continue onwards, and that left Aika to try and coax her along.

“What’s the matter?”

“It’s big… really big…”

“What is?”

“That thing…”

Aika was perplexed, and when she looked at the girl, she noticed that her eyes were glowing slightly. Perhaps she was tapping into her power somehow…

“Can you see it…?” She asked, eyes wide with realization.

The other female nodded. “Yes…” She answered, her whisper of a reply nearly obscured by the downpour. There was another loud roar. Whatever the other clones had encountered was getting really angry. As interesting as this was… Aika knew that they probably needed to catch up to the rest of the group.

“We should hurry, though…”

“Yeah.”

Risako seemed to snap out of it, and the two of them began to run like crazy after Saki and the others.

Towards what, however, only Risako knew…

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Just the stench of the thing was enough to make her sick.

It reeked of death and decaying bodies and the powerful, coppery smell of blood.

Disgusting.

The beast was a giant, lizard-like creature, covered in scales and spikes and possessing four powerful arms equipped with five deadly talons each. It had a huge mouth, lined with rows of sharp teeth that she knew would be the end of one of them if they were unfortunate to get close enough.

It had a long, whip-like tail, which had four pointed barbs on it that were hooked—for extra rip and tear action, she could only assume.

Goto Maki liked to look on the bright side of things, after all.

The annoying, hyper clone known as Sayumi had alerted herself and the others to the beast’s presence by screaming her head off when she stumbled upon it. Unfortunately, that only attracted the thing to them, and now here they were, trying to fight something that was about ten times their size.

And while she had claws and fangs and a furry little tail, all of these were practically useless at the moment.

Hitomi had recklessly flung herself at the thing to start off, but that resulted in her getting hurled across the clearing, and her flight was ended when she slammed hard into a tree. The girl was now unconscious on the ground, and to make matters worse, Sayumi would just NOT stop bawling.

The creature lashed out at them, and it was all she could do to keep the group moving in order to avoid being lacerated or impaled. And it was quickly getting tired of playing with them.

Without warning, one of the clones shot forward like Hitomi had made the mistake of doing earlier, racing straight for the beast. Maki waited for the sickening thud that was to follow, when suddenly the girl leapt out of reach of the creature’s sharp claws, scrambling up it’s arm and onto it’s back. She was the other clone that had been infused with animal DNA, the panther hybrid called Takahashi Ai.

The beast began to growl angrily once it realized that it had missed, and tried to grab the girl off of it’s back, rearing up unsteadily on it’s hind legs. Deciding to use this as a distraction, another clone, a very tall girl named Yurina, began to focus hard on a rather large rock nearby. After a moment or so it slowly began to rise into the air. Using her mind, she lobbed the projectile at the lizard’s head, and it connected, hard.

It let out a horrible wail, and the creature whipped its head back around to face them with a snarl. Though she applauded Yurina mentally for the effort, Maki really wished the girl hadn’t done that, because it only made the thing a lot angrier.

It started to thrash violently from side to side, knocking Ai off balance and to the ground. Before the cat girl could react and get away, the lizard grabbed her and brought her up to its’ face, causing the clone to let out a shriek. Those teeth were dangerously close, and she was mere moments away from being devoured whole, when a rapid succession of shots rang out through the air.

The little blasts of energy bounced harmlessly off of the lizard’s armor-like scales, but it turned nevertheless just in time to see Miki flying towards it’s face. And that was the last thing it saw out of that eye, as she planted a nice kick in the dead center of it.

As it writhed and bellowed in pain, Ai managed to slip out of the creature’s grasp, and when Miki landed on the ground, she immediately dragged the girl to her feet and back over to the others. Maki smirked at the metal-armed woman.

“Now who’s playing the hero?”

“I only did it because where I come from it’s a crime to eat pretty girls like that.”

“You came from a test tube.”

“Shut up.” Miki returned, almost daring to stick her tongue out. Aya, Reina, and the rest of her group emerged from the forest, and as they joined the others, Miki gave the girl she had first tried to pick a fight with a good pat on the back. “Nice throw, Maasa.”
The female that had been gifted with super-human strength merely smiled in reply, shifting her attention to the monster.

“So how do we kill it?”

“Nothing’s worked so far. We’ve thrown big rocks at it, and shooting it doesn’t seem to do much… plus if you try to get too close, you end up like…” Maki nodded over towards Hitomi’s unconscious form. “Well… like that.”

Miki snorted, and looked as though she was about to utter a smart reply, when the beast whipped it’s tail around, aiming right for them. Everyone scrambled to get out of the way, save Maasa, who just gritted her teeth and braced herself.

The barbs on the thing’s tail slammed hard into her body, snapping as they came into contact with her diamond-hard skin. She skidded a little ways away from her original position from the impact, but was more or less unscathed. The lizard, however, was not, and Maki could smell the blood that oozed from the thing’s now broken tail.

Enraged, it charged at Maasa, snapping her up into its jaws with one fluid motion.

It was trying to slice her body up into smaller, swallow-able pieces that was the problem. The lizard’s teeth were unable to do any damage whatsoever, and a few of them actually broke during the process. Maasa was screaming various obscenities as all of this was going on, and the others seemed to be at a loss for what to do.

Fortunately, Saki’s group had finally arrived on the scene, an assortment of bewildered looks on their faces as they observed the sight before them. Apparently they had been expecting something a little more gruesome, and a little less… comical.

“What’s going on here?” The little leader asked, watching as the beast swung Maasa about in its’ powerful maw.

“She made it mad, so now it’s trying to eat her…” Maki replied, looking over the newcomers with dismay, as none of them looked as though they would be any help to the situation.

The beast was finally losing interest in the girl it had captured, and it spit her out once it was completely sure that she wasn’t edible. Maasa looked as though she was about to throw up as she trekked back towards the group, and she was covered in a slimy film of saliva, which smelled just as horrible as it looked. The ground shook as the monster stomped around, and it let out a loud snort before charging at the clones once more.

As everyone else fled, Saki was the one to hold her ground this time, and she raised her hands out in front of her body, eyes glowing a bright white-blue color. The air around her body hissed and crackled, and just as the creature was about to tear her to shreds, she delivered about 20,000 volts of pure electric current from her fingertips to its body.
There was a horrible wail of death as the beast was roasted from the inside-out, and the atmosphere was flooded with the scent of charred and burning flesh. With a snap, the small girl broke the current, and the creature fell to the ground, completely finished.

Silence enveloped the group as Saki turned to face them, her eyes returning to their normal color. Aika was both comforted and disturbed at such a display of power, and was only reassured by the knowledge that the female was on their side. And of course, the battle wouldn’t have been completely over without some words from Miki, who walked over to kick at the carcass after it had finished smoking.

“Damn. If it was that easy, we should have tried doing that in the first place.”

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 20, 2007, 02:42:24 AM

Ooo fight scene!

Ahahaha the beast failing to eat Maasa....that cracked me up! Teeth broke! Haha!

Whoa, Saki sure has a nice power. XD Love how Miki is all blase about it.

I just woke up and am not in any position to speculate since me = groggy now. Haha. Nice chapter though! :)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 20, 2007, 02:47:56 AM

Oh, and I just realized that I forgot to reply to Estrea's comment in my rush to post the latest chapter. :ONsad: (Plus, I think there's something screwed up with the forums, as I can't see some of the posts. :evil: ) Terribly sorry about that. But yeah, I'm trying to have the clones be somewhat similar to their idol counterparts without being completely the same. And haha, writing that part about Aya was fun. She's full of herself even as a clone. :heart:

Also, to update the little list that jafeijai was making on the second page, just to help anyone who's confused about who's been revealed and whatnot:

Reina - controller of flame
Miki - robotic arm
Koharu - wings (avian hybrid)
Maasa - High-density body & strength
Eri - blind (Though, that's not really her power. If you think a little bit about what happens to people when they lose one of their senses, you can probably figure it out. :) )
Saki - able to create and manipulate high voltage electric currents
Maki - wolf hybrid
Ai (Takahashi) - panther hybrid
Yurina - telekinetic abilities

Mari - unknown
Aika - unknown
Momoko - unknown
Aya - unknown
Risako - unknown
Miyabi - unknown
Sayumi - unknown
Hitomi - unknown

"twin" females (But you probably know who they are. haha) - unknown, perhaps able to communicate telepathically with each other?

And there's another girl that's with the group that I haven't mentioned at all in the story, so I'm going to go ahead and tell you that Chinami's there as well. So the identity of the clones aren't really much of a mystery anymore.

It's all about the powers now.

And the bad guys. (Or, girls. There are other members of H!P besides these chosen 21, right? hahaha. I'll just let you think about that and wonder what on earth I'm plotting.)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 20, 2007, 02:49:57 AM

Lol at Miki and yay for battles!

Maybe evil mastermind Yuko?

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: JFC on March 20, 2007, 06:49:28 AM

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@JFC: I actually revealed who both of them were, if you look carefully. lol

:doh:

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The beast was a giant, lizard-like creature, covered in scales and spikes and possessing four powerful arms equipped with five deadly talons each. It had a huge mouth, lined with rows of sharp teeth that she knew would be the end of one of them if they were unfortunate to get close enough.

It had a long, whip-like tail, which had four pointed barbs on it that were hooked—for extra rip and tear action, she could only assume.

Goto Maki liked to look on the bright side of things, after all.

THAT's looking at the bright side? o_o

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The annoying, hyper clone known as Sayumi had alerted herself and the others to the beast’s presence by screaming her head off when she stumbled upon it. Unfortunately, that only attracted the thing to them, and now here they were, trying to fight something that was about ten times their size.

Smooth...real smooth.

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The little blasts of energy bounced harmlessly off of the lizard’s armor-like scales, but it turned nevertheless just in time to see Miki flying towards it’s face. And that was the last thing it saw out of that eye, as she planted a nice kick in the dead center of it.

MIKI~~ KICK!!!

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“Now who’s playing the hero?”

“I only did it because where I come from it’s a crime to eat pretty girls like that.”

“You came from a test tube.”

“Shut up.”

XD XD XD

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As everyone else fled, Saki was the one to hold her ground this time, and she raised her hands out in front of her body, eyes glowing a bright white-blue color. The air around her body hissed and crackled, and just as the creature was about to tear her to shreds, she delivered about 20,000 volts of pure electric current from her fingertips to its body.
There was a horrible wail of death as the beast was roasted from the inside-out, and the atmosphere was flooded with the scent of charred and burning flesh. With a snap, the small girl broke the current, and the creature fell to the ground, completely finished.

Mmmmm...dinner. :P

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Eri - blind (Though, that's not really her power. If you think a little bit about what happens to people when they lose one of their senses, you can probably figure it out. :) )

Ah, the others will be enhanced. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. :thumbsup

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Ren on March 20, 2007, 12:52:06 PM

Does Sayumi have the power to kill people with her singing voice? *kidding* :ONxD:

So wolf girl = Maki? While Aichan is a panther girl? Takitty! :ONwriggly:

I have a feeling that Eri has the power of communicating (like telepathy?) Just my guess though :ONdunno:

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 20, 2007, 12:57:56 PM

I think telepathy belongs to the twins. :) They seem able to read each other perfectly already. XD

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Ren on March 20, 2007, 01:19:07 PM

Um, what I meant is able to hear people's thoughts (erien communication XD) - sorry didn't find the correct word when I posted it. Might be suitable for a blind person XD.
Or dreaming of the future? Super hearing ability? XD

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 20, 2007, 01:48:36 PM

I think super hearing ability might be a win. XD Although it might be difficult sometimes since she might hear things that she rather not hear about...XD

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: coachie on March 20, 2007, 05:55:57 PM

that chapter rawked XD

Yay for Miki, Maki and Saki!

I'm curious now what Yossie and Aya's powers will be

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Does Sayumi have the power to kill people with her singing voice? *kidding*

haha, that would be so cool XD
but if her screaming doesn't kill already...

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 21, 2007, 04:02:27 AM

I'll get to replying to everyone's comments in the morning.

Today has been very long and traumatic for me, and the only reason I'm posting this now is because I wrote in order to escape for a minute and siphon off all of my feelings into something productive.

I think it's a little shorter than the others, and it's probably just going to serve as crappy filler, so I'm sorry.

Please try to enjoy what I managed to eke out with my emotions running wild anyway.

Chapter Seven: Regroup

After Saki had taken care of the lizard, the clones continued on through the forest, together this time. Maki had been right. They needed each other in order to survive.

Especially if they were to encounter anything else like that.

The rain was beginning to let up a little bit, but it was getting darker outside, and everyone—even Maki and Ai, who should have been able to see well at night—was beginning to lag. Aika groaned inwardly as she heard Sayumi ask if they could stop for the thousandth time.

“Please, can we?” She whined, pleading to anyone who might listen, “I’m really tired…”

“Hey, Really Tired. I’m Miki. Do you think you could like, really, shut up?”

Maki growled a low warning, and glared back at the metal-armed female as if to tell her to behave herself. Miki might have answered the challenge, had Maasa not spoken up at this point from her position at the back of the group.

“Where on earth are we going, anyway? Who said something about finding a city?” She had taken up the burden of carrying the unconscious Hitomi under one arm, and was still supporting the injured Miyabi with the other. If that wasn’t enough, the gentle girl had also allowed the identical clones—whose names were Aibon and Nono, as Aika had overheard during their trek—to climb up onto her back, and they were both perched upon either of Maasa’s shoulders.

She didn’t seem to struggle with the weight at all, but she was growing weary of the downpour, and like everyone else, was finding it hard to see.

“Who knows if there even ARE any cities around? We’ve been walking for a while now, and there ain’t anything out here except trees, trees, and… oh! …no, wait, it’s just a tree.” Miki replied grumpily, dragging her feet through the muddy ground they had no choice but to navigate through.

“I wish we had just stayed in the cave…” Aika heard Koharu mumble from somewhere beside her. The winged girl had been miserable ever since they had watched the transmission from the scientist, and Aika couldn’t help but feel a little bit sorry for the girl.

But only a little bit.

The rest of them didn’t have the luxury of being able to shield themselves from the rain with angel-like wings, after all.

A startled yelp broke out from the front of the group, as Sayumi collided with a hard, rough surface and fell backwards into Miki, who promptly shoved her to the ground.

“What the hell is your problem, huh?”

“I hit something!” The poor girl squealed, taking the time to rub her nose, which had connected with the unknown object first and was now probably bruised.

Maki groped around in the darkness to try and find the obstacle that Sayumi had spoken of (but not before kicking Miki, who of course was just groping), and one of her clawed hands brushed against what felt like wood. She tapped on it gently, and to her surprise, the object gave way, sliding forward in the gloom with a rusty creak. She stepped back with realization.

“It’s a door… I think you might have found a house, Sayumi…”

This idea seemed to excite the other clones, who were good and ready to get out of the rain. Maki held them back at first, pulling Reina forward and nudging the girl inside so that she might literally shed some light on the situation.

A dim flame was ignited within the dwelling, and Reina’s eyes glowed as she scanned the inside of the house for any signs of life. But it appeared to be empty, devoid of everything but dusty, cobwebbed furniture. Though it was small, it would be enough to accommodate them for the night.

The exhausted group of girls filed into the place, welcoming it’s dryness and the warmth of the candles that Reina had found and was now lighting around the room. There was a single bed inside the house, and Maasa placed Hitomi on top of it so that the unconscious female might recover quicker from the blow she had taken.

They all helped to move the furniture out of the way, and everyone began to spread themselves out on the floor, ready for sleep. But the group Aika observed now was much different than what she had seen in the cave. They weren’t all pressed up against the walls, eyeing each other warily.

They were curled up beside each other, and some, like Maasa, who had apparently become the twins pet were even being used as pillows for those not as able to adjust to the day’s stressful events.

Miki was even tolerating Aya, although the other female was several feet away and lying with her back to the metal-armed girl.

Aika wasn’t sure, but for a moment she wondered if Miki actually wanted the other female to be closer.

Eri had fallen asleep the second she had curled up on the floor, and Mari was using her stomach as a pillow, lying perpendicular to the blind girl. The latter was babbling away in her sleep in a cute sort of way, and it caused a smile to tug at the corners of Aika’s lips. Koharu had made a cocoon of sorts out of her wings, and was the only one besides Maki (who was probably doing it in order to sleep rather than to be antisocial) who was sleeping a little ways away from the rest of the group.

Aika yawned, and was about to doze off herself, when she heard a quiet shiver somewhere near her. Risako was laying on her side, arms and legs drawn in to her body as though she were extremely cold. Her first reaction was just to ignore it, because she was supposed to be detached from her environment.

She observed the world around her.

She didn’t care to interact with it much.

But… perhaps if the girl didn’t look so miserable she would have been able to overlook it.

Maybe.

With a quiet sigh, she reached out and pulled the other closer to her, sliding her arms around Risako’s waist and entwining her own hands loosely there. The poor thing was chilled, and wet, and shaking all over, and she seemed to be already halfway asleep, as she didn’t respond to the contact.

But after a moment, she seemed to relax as Aika’s body heat warmed her up, and before long she had stopped shaking all together, able to sleep much more peacefully.

Aika smiled, and though her mind told her to let go and roll over back to her original position, she was content to stay right where she was. Besides, there was always the chance that if she moved the other girl would wake up or start her shivering again, and it would have be rather rude to do that, right?

Sleep soon claimed her anyway, making the decision for her.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 21, 2007, 04:22:45 AM

Awww...sweet scene. Hints of GAM, which makes me happy. XD And the twins being cute, even better. XD Maasa sure is nice. ^__^

And Aika and Risako at the end... <3 How adorable.

Filler or not, it was enjoyable. :)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: JFC on March 21, 2007, 04:31:16 AM

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Aika groaned inwardly as she heard Sayumi ask if they could stop for the thousandth time.

“Please, can we?” She whined, pleading to anyone who might listen, “I’m really tired…”

“Hey, Really Tired. I’m Miki. Do you think you could like, really, shut up?”

(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/J-F-C/rimshot.gif)

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She had taken up the burden of carrying the unconscious Hitomi under one arm, and was still supporting the injured Miyabi with the other. If that wasn’t enough, the gentle girl had also allowed the identical clones—whose names were Aibon and Nono, as Aika had overheard during their trek—to climb up onto her back, and they were both perched upon either of Maasa’s shoulders.

Holy crap, it's Super Berryz! o_o

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Maki groped around in the darkness to try and find the obstacle that Sayumi had spoken of (but not before kicking Miki, who of course was just groping)

:lol:

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Miki was even tolerating Aya, although the other female was several feet away and lying with her back to the metal-armed girl.

Aika wasn’t sure, but for a moment she wondered if Miki actually wanted the other female to be closer.

Awwwwwwwwwwww...I think.

Wait, we don't know Aya's powers yet...:scratch

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 21, 2007, 05:31:08 AM

*imagines the twins walking Puppy!Maasa* Lol, it's pretty cool to see that they warmed up to each other. Sorta.

Hope you feel better! I'll be waiting for the next installment patiently.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Aioros on March 21, 2007, 06:08:36 AM

Whoa! Captain Saki saves the troop with her powers! Who would have thought that a small girl such as her could generate that much energy. (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/ekimayulac/10.gif)

Miki seems to be trying to lure Aya in with her 'reverse psychology' (http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a224/ekimayulac/5.gif)

Maasa as W's pet :MKlove2:

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: ziggurat on March 21, 2007, 06:23:00 AM

Hi FeverInducedMadness!

I'm glad that I discover this fanfic of yours earlier before it expands to a bunch of long chapters. All this thank to wordsworth that telling me you got something relevant to my interest :D

There is this fanart off Maasa that really fit for your fic lol. But I dare not to post it because it's awful. Momo and Risako both such a handful company :D I'm uneasy thinking of what Momo can do. The image of Yurina concentrating her power on the rock is revolving in my head lol. Captain saving the day really made me a happy boy ^_^

I really like this combination of humour and details of yours. Keep it up!

* ziggurat adds Voices of Angels into his fanfics' reading list.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: ferrar1 on March 21, 2007, 06:37:13 AM

Eri always starts out weak :ONwahaha: but i'm sure she's the strongest

This is 1 group of girls that will never appear in other fics so i'm going to sit back and enjoy your next few chapters :ONstuffed:

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: iacus on March 21, 2007, 08:12:26 AM

Quote from: Estrea;334579

Filler or not, it was enjoyable. :)

I support this statement wholeheartedly.

Quote from: FeverInducedMadness;334571

She observed the world around her.

She didn’t care to interact with it much.

And this right here just made me much more interested in Aika.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Ren on March 21, 2007, 11:53:31 AM

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but if her screaming doesn't kill already...

The fact that the lizard is still alive, means her screaming is not enough to kill people XD.

*imagines W on top of Maasa* :heart:
I am not a fan of Berryz but this image makes me heart Maasa!Pet so much XD.

Groping Miki FTW, and Reina as a lighter is also FTW XD. She is like, the group living lighter XD. Hints of GAM? Definitely yes :heart:.

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I support this statement wholeheartedly.

Me too :D.

Quote from: Estrea;333993

I think super hearing ability might be a win. XD Although it might be difficult sometimes since she might hear things that she rather not hear about...XD

Like Miki/Aya secret night together? :D

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: coachie on March 21, 2007, 07:37:31 PM

Miki just cracks me up!
nice chapter and it didn't feel like a filler at all

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Yuuyami on March 21, 2007, 09:01:30 PM

Finally got around to reading it xD

I see this is one of those Survival of the Fittest kinda plots, or at least it seems to lead to it. Nonetheless, I would love to elaborate more, but I fear those rambles would be utterly useless and out of whack because the story is still young xD!

I look forward to the rest of everyone's powers~! <3

Now for my obligatory action! -gives you a hardhat to protect yourself from writer's blocks- Use it well! <3

<3

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on March 23, 2007, 06:40:34 PM

@Estrea: GAM love is wonderful. You can never have too much of it. And you can never have too much of the world's greatest duo, either. :heart: Maasa was actually going to be really badass at the beginning. Because when I was laying out the outline of the story and stuff, she was going to be the one with the metal arm. But then I scratched that idea, and I'm glad I did. It just works better for Miki. lol

@JFC: Aya has a rather... different sort of power. haha

@rmdmnwierd: I want to draw that image you've just given me. lol And thanks. I do feel a little better, but it'll take some time.

@wordsworth: It's the little ones that you have to watch out for. They'll kick your butt, no lie.

@ziggurat: -thanks wordsworth for spreadin' the news- lol. Momo's power fits her. In fact, it's already been speculated on, but the speculation was directed towards someone else. (Whoo~! I'm sneaky. haha) Captain's secretly a superhero. We all know it. :heart: Thanks for the encouragement. :)

@ferrar1: Oh, don't worry my friend. Eri will have her share of butt-kicking to do, let me assure you. And yes, please enjoy. (Or... I hope you do. haha I'll try really hard to make that happen.)

@iacus: Aika is a sneaky one. Like me. It's going to be hard to figure her out, mhm.

@Ren: Miki’s not Miki unless she’s touching someone else. Lol And had Reina not been so glad to get out of the rain, she probably would have torched Maki instead for shoving her inside.

@coachie: Thanks. I felt at first that I was just kind of shoving something out there, but I’m glad ya’ll liked what little bit I wrote.

@Yuuyami: Hopefully I’ll give you enough to ramble about pretty soon. I’m trying to be careful to hide things that people might try and pick up and speculate about. (And then blow their minds by showing them they’re wrong. Lol It’s fun.) –puts the hardhat on- Thank you very much for your comment and the hat~! <3

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Wow, so many comments to catch up on. I’m sorry for my absence these past few days… My life was literally turned upside down Tuesday night by something that’s happened, and I’m just now starting to be able to cope with it. I don’t really want to talk about it, but I wanted to say that stuff’s just been going on, and that’s why I haven’t been around. But it’s starting to calm, so hopefully I’ll be able to return to some sort of state of normalcy soon.

Which means more writing from meeeeeee~!

Expect a lot over the next week, because I’ll probably have a little more time to write then, and you may even get another chapter today later on since I’m in a better mood today.

Enjoy!

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Chapter Eight: The Second Day Begins

“Have you taken care of things yet?”

“Yes sir. The scientist has been eliminated.”

“And his little project? What of them?”

“They escaped the facility, sir. Apparently he had an accomplice, but we haven’t been able to locate him.”

“But the clones… you are aware of their position, yes?”

“Just a ways away from one of the Steam Districts, sir. We were able to determine where they were when we got a report that one of our Stalkers had suddenly become diseased. No normal human being would be able to kill such a beast, and the people don’t dare to cross the city boundaries into the forests, so it has to be the clones.”

“Very good. Start making preparations to dispatch the Three.”

“Right away, sir.”

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Aika did not expect to wake up to a pair of chocolate brown eyes staring at her, and naturally she was startled, and she reacted quickly, rolling away and up into a crouched position, now fully alert. The owner of the eyes merely rolled them before stretching herself out with a sleepy yawn.

“Well, good morning to you too.” Risako whispered, trying not to wake any of the other, still sleeping clones up, “I was going to ask you how we got in such a position, but I didn’t think you were going to be that jumpy about it…”

The other female merely blinked at her for a moment, and as Aika was only halfway awake at the moment, it was taking her longer to remember what had happened.

“Oh… that. You were shivering and making a lot of noise, so I had to figure out some way to get you to stop… and… well… there you go.”

They just kind of stared at each other for a while, before Risako rolled her eyes again, turning over onto her other side and curling up in order to go back to sleep.

“You are so weird.”

Aika scowled indignantly at this, sitting back on the floor with a huff. So much for doing something nice…

Hey…

…wait a minute.

“And what about you? Were you watching me sleep or something? Just how long were you staring at me?” She hissed, but the other girl was either already resting again or just ignoring her. Aika grumbled, but she quickly forgot about it as Saki got her attention from where she was sitting in the room, trying to wave her closer.

The little leader had finally managed to pry herself free of Momoko, who had claimed Saki during the night as her own personal teddy bear, and appeared to be the only other girl awake.

“I’m going to go outside and look around. I heard voices near the window earlier this morning, so we might be close to a city like the others were talking about… do you want to come with me?”

Aika shrugged, and Saki took that as a yes, so the two of them maneuvered their way through the mass of bodies on the floor, slipping out of the little house.

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The forest was less intimidating during the daytime, and Aika didn’t feel that same gripping sense of apprehension that had plagued her when she had first been walking through it. Perhaps this was due to the fact that if they were to be attacked, the girl she was walking with would be more than capable of handling the situation.

As they put some distance between themselves and the house, she began to notice that the trees were starting to thin out, until there were barely any around at all. Up ahead, Aika could make out the vague shapes of what she assumed to be other buildings.

And indeed they were; great, rusted, metal structures of varying heights that were lined up to form streets and alleyways for people to walk through. However, there wasn’t a single soul to be seen, and it was somewhat unnerving. Saki seemed to be wary of the sight as well, and she slowed to a halt, looking around.

“I have a feeling something bad happened here…” She said quietly, walking up to what appeared to be a large, square piece of metal that was being held up by two rusty poles that had been hammered deep into the earth. A makeshift sign, perhaps. There were words dug into the metal, and Saki ran her fingers along the grooves that made up the letters, unable to decipher them. The sign had been too weathered by the elements, and whatever had been written there was now obscured.

“It says Steam District Nine, Population: 10,000, under the reign of the Three.”

The duo turned to see that Risako had followed them, and Aika raised an eyebrow at the girl, frowning.

“How do you know?”

“Because I can see it.”

Saki blinked. “Well… I can see it too, but… all I see are slash marks. So… I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“No, I mean… I can see it like it used to be. When it was being made.”

“Is this like the thing with the lizard?” Aika questioned, after thinking for a minute and making the connection. The other girl’s eyes were glowing again after all, and that was the only way she could figure out how to explain the phenomenon. “Can you see into the past?”

Risako shook her head, eyes returning to normal.

“I think it’s more complicated than that… maybe more like seeing across time… forwards and back. But it’s not something that I can control yet. So far it’s just being triggered by random things…”

“I wonder what this means then… what’s a Steam District? And who are the Three?” The inquiry hung in the air after the little leader had voiced it, and it went unanswered, for soon the clones heard voices nearby. It sounded like a group of children playing, and Saki motioned for the other two to follow her, wanting to investigate.

They soon came upon a few young boys that couldn’t have been much older than ten or so, who were kicking around a ball in an alleyway between two of the buildings. All of them were wearing clothing of varying shades of brown, the fabric of which had probably seen a lot of wear and tear over the years. They were incredibly dirty, for even though the streets of the city were unpaved, the kids probably hadn’t taken a bath in a long time, given that they even knew what one was.

One of the boys spotted the clones as they approached, and he alerted his friends, who all turned around to stare at them warily. They started whispering amongst themselves, and Aika could barely pick up what was being said.

“Who the heck are THEY?”

“Look at what they’re wearin’…”

“D’you think it’s the Three?”

“I dunno, I’ve never seen ‘em before… Just heard stories…”

“Just keep quiet and do what they tell us to do. Maybe if we’re good they’ll just let us go and leave.”

The kids seemed to have reached a conclusion, and one of them stepped forward: a rough-looking kid who wore a grimy headband in a failed attempt to keep his unruly mane of hair out of his eyes. He was taller than the others, and was obviously the ringleader of his little group.

“We don’t want any trouble…” He started, and though he was trying to be tough, Aika could see that he was shaking a little bit. Saki just blinked at the kid, and would have said something like “We don’t want any trouble either,” had Risako not been using her brain and stepped forward to clap a hand over the little leader’s mouth.

“Good, then just answer the questions we ask of you and we’ll be on our way. Other wise, I’ll let her go and she’ll take care of you, got it?” Saki was wriggling within Risako’s grasp, and the kids eyed the small girl warily, as if they expected her to explode like a bomb if the taller female were to let go of her.

“We’ll tell you anything!”

“Where are we, then? And why aren’t there any people outside today?”

The boy with the headband blinked at her, confused. “Um… you guys rule over this district… shouldn’t you-”

“We rule over a LOT, kid, so stop being smart and just answer the question.” Aika snapped, playing along with Risako, who thanked her with a glance for taking care of the slip up.

“You’re in the Ninth Steam District, which is currently under probation as punishment from the great Lord Shizuka, and that’s why everybody’s inside, miss!” The boy’s words came out in a rush after Aika had spoken, as her harsh tone had convinced him that they weren’t playing around.

“Punishment for what?” Risako questioned, and when the kid was a little hesitant to answer, Aika stepped forward, causing him to cringe and speak rapidly once more.

“We didn’t make enough food this year to supply the other districts. The Ninth district is in charge of makin’ all the provisions for everyone else, and in return we get what we need, like clothes and steel, and stuff. We’re stuck inside everyday, and we’re only allowed to leave our houses at night and all our supplies have been shut off for a month.”

He was still trembling as he finished talking, in a ‘please don’t hurt me’ kind of way. Aika, Risako, and Saki all exchanged glances, and the little leader mumbled a muffled “That’s kind of extreme…” into Risako’s hand. Before any of the kids could pick up on it, though, Aika stepped forwards again and lifted the boy off of the ground by the collar of his shirt. Immediately she regretted it, because he smelled pretty bad, and was a lot heavier than she first thought, but she had to keep up the act nevertheless.

“So basically… you’ve overstepped the boundaries of your probation. But since you’ve been so helpful, I’ll let it slide, as long as you and your friends get back to your homes and don’t tell anyone of what you’ve seen… Otherwise…”

The boy’s eyes got wide, and Aika figured he was thinking of all the things that could come after that ‘otherwise’. She decided to let him use his imagination, and as soon as she set the kid down, he and his little group hightailed it out of sight, leaving a cloud of dust in their wake.

Risako had forgotten that she was still holding Saki, and it was only when she felt something wet brush against her hand that she squealed and released the little leader from her grasp.

“YOU LICKED ME!” She screeched, flailing a little bit while wearing a very disgusted expression on her face. Aika merely snickered, and Saki put her hands on her hips, glaring at the taller girl.

“Well it was either that or I was going to have to bite you. I figured I would be polite and give you a warning first. Why on earth did you feel the need to hold me captive anyway?”

“Because you were about to do something stupid.” A very offended Risako replied, wiping her hand frantically off on the leg of her suit. “Those kids thought we were the ones in charge of this place. The only reason they answered our questions was because they were afraid of us.”

“More like, afraid of me.” Aika countered, “You almost messed up for a second back there with that little slip-up.”

Risako rolled her eyes, and decided not to answer, both of which were starting to grate on Aika’s nerves. It was quiet for a moment, and though Saki had been watching the exchange with interest, she felt it was time to move on.

“Well… if you guys are quite done… we should probably get back to the others and tell them about what we found out, right?”

Both of the girls grudgingly agreed, and the trio began to walk silently back to the house.

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When Maasa woke up, she was greeted with the sight of Nono and Aibon beating the crap out of each other, laughing their heads off. Or, that’s what it appeared to be at first… She sat up quickly, rubbing her eyes to try and clear her vision so she could better analyze the situation.

They were punching each other really hard, but each blow bounced off of their bodies harmlessly and left them to do it many times over with the same effect. Almost like…

Maasa let out a cry of alarm when the duo noticed that she was awake and promptly tackled her, pushing her flat on her back again. She stared up into two pairs of mischievous eyes, one pair flecked with pink, and the other with blue. That was the only way she had figured out how to tell them apart.

The pink, Nono, spoke first.

“Good morning, Maasa-chaaaan~!”*

Then the blue. Aibon.

“We figured out something cool.”
“Watch.”

And without warning, Nono slammed her fist really hard into the side of Aibon’s cheek. The twin receiving the blow didn’t even flinch, and her head didn’t recoil from the impact at all. It was like the other had merely poked her or something.

“I think we copied your power.”
“Actually, we’re pretty sure of it, really-”
“-since we already tried it on Maki, and well-”

Oh.

Maasa hadn’t quite noticed until this point that the duo was sporting little fluffy tails. It would have been cute if she had managed to sort the idea out of her bewilderment.

“-yeah, but it wears off.”
“We had fangs and everything-”
“And Nono wanted to show you-”
“But Aibon thought that it might freak you out so-”
“-we decided to wait until you woke up.”

“Well… um… thanks? I guess?” She replied, not really sure what to say after all of that.

“You’re welcome~!” They chimed, before going back to their roughhousing.

They have more energy in their pinky fingers than I have in my entire body…

She yawned, getting up in order to go check on the injured members of their group. Miyabi was still sleeping peacefully where she had been set down, her ankle much less swollen than it had been last night. Maasa was glad for this, but she was soon struck with panic as she realized that the bed Hitomi had been in was empty.

It was then that she also noticed that several other clones were missing from the house: the little one, the weird, quiet one that was always watching everything, the pretty one, the one with the wings, Miki, and the one that was annoying Miki.

Maybe they went to go check things out… Maasa thought to herself, slumping down onto the bed with a sigh.

The point of a group was to be a group.

Still…

I hope they’re okay.

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She loved to watch them sleep.

So peaceful, so quiet… so deceitfully innocent they were.

Shizuka might have owned them, but the two of them were her faithful little pets in reality, and they wouldn’t lift a finger unless it was okay-ed by her.

They did his work on their own terms, and he couldn’t do a thing about it because they always carried out their jobs exactly the way he wanted every single time. Now, the amount of time they did it in was a different story, but with the results he got, he couldn’t really complain.

She smiled as the youngest yawned and rolled over slightly, and she stroked the girl’s hair gently.

It was then that the door to their cage was opened, and she didn’t even have to look up to know that one of his lackeys had come to summon them.

It would be the last thing the boy ever did.

“Shh…”

The sound came out as a quiet, dangerous hiss, before the messenger could even open his mouth to speak. She smirked, her fangs brushing slightly against her bottom lip.

“You wouldn’t want to wake them up…”

She continued to stroke the other girl’s hair, and the last thing that the boy would see before he died were two, paralyzing red orbs that sent a shiver down his spine.

Soon, his world turned to black.

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*The twins will be the only ones with color-coded dialogue. Pink is Nono, Blue is Aibon, and the reddish color is both of them speaking at the same time.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Estrea on March 23, 2007, 06:55:52 PM

Ahahaha I love the twins!! Omg they're so cute! Haha! And their powers are awesome!

Nice intimidation technique with Risako and Aika, though Saki almost blew it at first. XD

Hmm this Shizuka person seems quite sadistic. Fascinating!

*waits patiently for you to reveal more* :)

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: Aioros on March 23, 2007, 07:05:36 PM

Risako has clairvoyance (I think) and W can absorb powers. Awesome! :ONcool1:

I can picture them hitting each other(under Maasa's power) with hammers and wrecking balls and they'll be laughing the whole time they're doing it :lol:

Clairvoyance seems to be the most frightening power IMO. Sure, you can see the winning numbers for the lottery but you can see what'll happen to you and your friends and there's always the dilemma of should I tell him/her that she'll end up/die this way, should I make up a story to give her hope so that he/she'll won't feel like it's going to be his/her last day alive? Things like that. It's more of a burden rather than a power. :ONdepressed:

"Under the reign of The Three". Evil henchpersons of Shizuka I presume.

Before I forget: MOMOXSAKI!!! :MKlove2:

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: coachie on March 24, 2007, 12:07:48 AM

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“YOU LICKED ME!” She screeched, flailing a little bit while wearing a very disgusted expression on her face. Aika merely snickered, and Saki put her hands on her hips, glaring at the taller girl.

“Well it was either that or I was going to have to bite you. I figured I would be polite and give you a warning first. Why on earth did you feel the need to hold me captive anyway?”

A "warning lick" XD
that was so crazy/cute/adorable

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: JFC on March 24, 2007, 02:49:38 AM

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I’m sorry for my absence these past few days… My life was literally turned upside down Tuesday night by something that’s happened, and I’m just now starting to be able to cope with it. I don’t really want to talk about it, but I wanted to say that stuff’s just been going on, and that’s why I haven’t been around. But it’s starting to calm, so hopefully I’ll be able to return to some sort of state of normalcy soon.

Don't worry yourself over not being able to update so often. We'll still be here.

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“Very good. Start making preparations to dispatch the Three.”

“Right away, sir.”

Dun dun duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun....

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“We don’t want any trouble…” He started, and though he was trying to be tough, Aika could see that he was shaking a little bit. Saki just blinked at the kid, and would have said something like “We don’t want any trouble either,” had Risako not been using her brain and stepped forward to clap a hand over the little leader’s mouth.

“Good, then just answer the questions we ask of you and we’ll be on our way. Other wise, I’ll let her go and she’ll take care of you, got it?” Saki was wriggling within Risako’s grasp, and the kids eyed the small girl warily, as if they expected her to explode like a bomb if the taller female were to let go of her.

Smart move by da Socko. :thumbsup

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Risako had forgotten that she was still holding Saki, and it was only when she felt something wet brush against her hand that she squealed and released the little leader from her grasp.

“YOU LICKED ME!” She screeched, flailing a little bit while wearing a very disgusted expression on her face. Aika merely snickered, and Saki put her hands on her hips, glaring at the taller girl.

Strange, I always expected to hear something like this from Aya (saying it to Miki :P ).

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“I think we copied your power.”
“Actually, we’re pretty sure of it, really-”

Ah, they're mimics.

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She continued to stroke the other girl’s hair, and the last thing that the boy would see before he died were two, paralyzing red orbs that sent a shiver down his spine.

Soon, his world turned to black.

Sounds like Yuko.

Title: Voices of Angels
Post by: rndmnwierd on March 24, 2007, 06:05:21 PM

The whole chapter was great as usual, but this is what really got me.

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the duo was sporting little fluffy tails.

I almost squealed out loud at the thought. Thank you very much. :)

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 01:36:12 PM

Chapter Nine: The Three

Miki was PISSED OFF.

It wasn’t HER fault that the two of them had come to find themselves in such a compromising position, after all. She didn’t even want to be within five feet of the girl, much less wake up with the other in her arms.

Okay.

So maybe that was a little bit of a lie.

BUT STILL.

She was fairly convinced that Aya had been the one to move closer in the middle of the night, and thus whatever Miki had done in her sleep was more or less the other girl’s fault because she had slipped within groping range.

However, she didn’t seem to see things the same way, and she had slapped Miki very hard in the face, waking her up from her peaceful slumber.

Now the metal-armed woman was charging through the forest, trying to get as far away from that girl and the house as she possibly could. She wasn’t aware that Aya was pursuing her now, and that Hitomi, who had witnessed the scene upon stirring, wasn’t far behind, either, with the winged Koharu in tow.

The boyish leader was suffering from a tremendous headache, and her whole body was sore, but after her experience with the lizard, she was fairly sure that any splitting of the group was a pretty bad idea.

Koharu was only there because she had had the misfortune of being the only other one awake when all of this had been going on, and Hitomi had the idea that if any of them got lost within the forest, that the girl could just fly overhead and locate the house from there.

There was only one problem.

“I don’t know HOW to fly, Yoshizawa-san.”

“You might want to learn how really soon, then. Especially if we can’t find our way back. And, please stop calling me by my surname.”

“Well, first off, I don’t think we’ll get lost, since Miki seems to have charred a path through here with that gun of hers, and secondly… you don’t even know my name, so I think it would be rude to call you by yours until you do.”

Hitomi stopped, turning back to face the girl. “Fine, I don’t have time for this. What’s your name, then?”

“…Koharu.”

“Good, now that that’s done, can we move it? Miki can run pretty damn fast, and I’m starting to get dizzy.”

Fortunately for Hitomi, Miki couldn’t run forever, and she started to lose her breath after a while, which forced her to have to stop and rest. She was leaning up against a tree, panting heavily, when she heard movement coming from nearby, and her metal arm changed into a gun with a few clicks in case she would have to deal with something like the lizard again.

Her breath quickened as the noises got closer, and without really giving it much thought, Miki turned around and shot into the forest, ridding a few trees of their branches and leaves. Aya nervously poked her head out from behind one such smoldering giant, and her appearance there caused Miki to scowl.

“Damn. I missed…”

The gun transformed back into a hand, and Miki started to walk away, when she heard footsteps behind her. She stopped. Aya stopped. And thus the pattern continued for a while until.

“What the hell is your problem? First you hit me and now you won’t leave me alone! Are you crazy or something?” Miki screamed, thrashing about a little bit as she glared back at Aya, all wild-eyed.

Aya merely grinned, giving the other girl a look that said, “You’re the one that looks crazy right now.”

The metal-armed woman huffed, and everyone knows that if looks could kill, Miki’s would be lethal.

“And another thing. Are you like, mute, or something? The constant silence is starting to freak me out.”

Aya gave Miki a wry little smile, as if to say, “I don’t really need to use words to get what I want.”

Unfortunately, Miki wasn’t very good at reading these looks just yet, and she let out a frustrated groan at this, stomping on the ground. This was the scene that Koharu and Hitomi stumbled upon, and both of them surveyed it with slightly concerned looks on their faces.

“At least we know they aren’t dead…”

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Maasa had nearly started to doze off again while she was trying to keep an eye on the twins in order to make sure they weren’t going to kill themselves, when she heard a loud thud coming from the roof of the house. The noise startled Maki awake, and she jumped to her feet, looking up at the ceiling.

“…what on earth was that?”

A few of the other girls had been rather rudely awakened at the sound, and they were wearing varying degrees of annoyance on their faces as they too took the time to get up. Maki held up a hand, however, motioning for the others to stay put.

“Wait. I’ll go look outside first.”

The wolf girl opened the door, and stepped cautiously out onto the grass, her pointed ears sure to detect any sounds if someone were to try and sneak up on her. With grace and ease, Maki climbed up the side of the little house and onto the roof, where she discovered…

…absolutely nothing.

Something was not right here. Her sensitive nose was picking up some unfamiliar smells. Someone or something had definitely just hit the roof, regardless of whether or not they were still around.

Her ears twitched at the sound of a low giggle, and she turned quickly to come face to face with a girl who couldn’t possible have been completely human. For one thing, she possessed these great, bat-like wings, each of which were twice the girl’s height, length-wise, and she was staring at Maki with cold, blood-red eyes that had very tiny pupils swimming in their depths.

She had short, dark hair, and fangs that showed as her lips curled into a sadistic smirk. The girl also possessed ten crimson-colored claws that had to have been at least two inches in length, and very sharp. She was dressed in black, and looked almost as though she had walked straight out of Sukeban Deka.

“Mmm… aren’t you just adorable… it’s so sad that my job is to make sure that you cease existing…”

Before Maki could react, those claws hit her hard in the face, and the force of the blow knocked her backwards and off of the house, so that she landed hard on her back on the ground. Dazed, she could barely make out the figure of the girl as she took to the air, and it was only by sheer luck and instinct that the wolf girl was able to roll out of the way as the other female dove for her body and ended up pulling up a handful of dirt instead.

Maki got to her feet, and she winced as the scratches on her face began to throb, feeling the warm blood drip down her cheek. She looked around at the trees, trying to spot the girl again, before she felt warm breath brush against her ear. She froze. How on earth…?

“I’m over here.”

She saw stars as the girl’s fist collided with the back of her head, sending her flying once more. Maki landed hard, skidding a bit on the ground before coming to a halt. She wouldn’t be getting up as quickly this time, and the bat-winged woman started to slowly walk in her direction.

She tried to move, but even a single twitch of her finger sent shock waves of pain through her body. The gashes on her face were only starting to hurt more, and for a brief moment, Maki wondered if she had been poisoned somehow. She was helpless to do anything but listen to the girl speak.

“It’s such a waste, really… I wonder if Rika-chan would let me keep you as a pet…”

As the winged female began to walk towards her, all Maki could think over and over was: Please… someone come out of the house…

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They were… huge.

Aika was fully aware that the being standing in front of them was probably dangerous... but…

…She just had to ask.

“How do you manage not to fall over with those things weighing you down?”

Immediately she regretted asking the question, because as soon as she did, Saki shot her a ‘shut up’ glance, and she felt an elbow dig hard into her side, courtesy of Risako.

The three of them had been trying to find their way back to the house, when a figure had swooped down from the sky, landing in their path. She had shoulder-length, wavy blonde hair, and might have looked like a normal young woman, were it not for her gigantic bat-like wings… and creepy red eyes… and the fact that she was clad in black leather that helped to show off her more… prominent attributes.

What you’re thinking about at this moment is probably right.

Aika was thinking about it, anyway, and Risako jabbed her in the side again, just for good measure.

The winged female only smirked at Aika’s inquiry, and stretched out her wings, motioning for any of them to dare try and get past her. Saki was annoyed, and Aika could hear the crackling of static electricity at her side as the small girl began to build up the charge in her hands.

“I don’t really care who you are, but you’re in our way, and if you move you won’t get hurt.” She held up one of her arms, little blue jolts pulsing erratically around it.

“How cute.” The being replied, giggling just a little bit, “Okay… I’m supposed to do this quickly, but… I don’t mind playing with you if you want to do things the hard way…” And then, before their very eyes, the girl’s body morphed into the form of a little white… kitten?

What the hell?

Without warning, the little creature leapt at Saki’s face while the girl was distracted by what she had seen, and forced her to break the charges in her body in order to try and pry the kitten off. When Risako moved to try and help the smaller girl, the kitten simply turned on her, morphing into a psychotic, screeching monkey.

And since Risako could scream with the best of them, she and the shifter-turned-monkey were making quite a lot of noise between themselves. Aika was NOT having any of that today, thank-you-very-much, and so, using one hand to keep Risako still, she hit the monkey rather hard.

Hard enough to make it let go of the clone it was terrorizing, anyway, and the creature dropped to the ground, wobbling away from them before she shifted into a large, hungry-looking tiger.

The beast eyed them with her dangerous, blood red gaze, and Aika had a sinking feeling that they were about to be in some serious trouble…

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She was watching the four of them navigate back through the forest from the treetops, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. The clones had made things difficult for herself and her partners because they weren’t all in the same place, and so, they had had to split up in order to make sure that all of them would be eliminated.

And though she was slightly concerned about the well being of her companions, she felt that they could handle being on their own for an hour or so.

Assuming it would even take that long to finish the job.

She had picked the little cluster of clones that she figured would be the most difficult to handle, because with the exception of the winged girl, the other three looked quite formidable and if her intuition was right (and it almost always was) they were probably the ones leading the group.

Which meant that if she took them out first, the weaker clones would be much easier to destroy.

These four were pausing every so often in order to catch their breath, as if they had been running a few minutes ago, and she was biding her time until they stopped again so that she could make her appearance.

And… there.

The metal-armed girl had flopped down onto the ground, causing the others to have to stop and wait for her to get up, and this provided an opportunity for her to dive down out of the trees. She landed gracefully on her feet, and the group was staring at her, bewildered. She grinned dangerously at them, and even Miki, who always had something to say, found herself trapped and paralyzed by the being’s ruby-colored orbs.

“Now, now… it’s kind of rude to just sit there with your mouths open like that… I suppose I’ll just have to teach you a lesson, then, won’t I?”

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: Rick-e on April 01, 2007, 03:38:48 PM

Quote

She examined the beings that she had pinned to the ground with wide eyes, and barely managed to strangle a chuckle as she turned her head to call to Koharu.

“You might want to come check this out…”

what is it? O_o

hmm... from this chapter I think Konno might not be one of the bad guys after all! she might be a leader of a resistance or something? *hoping*

Can't wait for the next chapter ^_^

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: Ren on April 01, 2007, 04:05:57 PM

I hope Konkon still looks young and not old <3.

And the thought of Konkon saying "Holy Shit" owns big time XD.

Welcome back from your vacation! Glad you are back with the new chapter >:D

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: Loser87 on April 01, 2007, 05:30:55 PM

>w<
I <33333 U!!!!!!
So could this mean the rest of the H!Pkids are robots too?? =O

I love the H!Pkids coversations
the other two robots has gotta be maimi and erika right?

>_>......erm....
...*goes back to my evil god of cheesecake mode*
GET BACK TO WORK YA YA!! * throws some stuffed rabbits at you*
YAA!!

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 08:21:01 PM

Chapter Ten: Complications

“She’s been out there for a while now…” Sayumi mused, sneaking worried glances towards the door every five seconds. The clones that remained in the house were waiting for their leader to return and tell them everything was okay.

Well… she would, right?

“Maybe someone should go out and see if she’s okay…” Mari suggested, blinking when the others began to look pointedly in her direction. “I don’t mean me!”

Reina cracked her knuckles, which smoked a little bit as she did so. “I’ll do it. It’s not rainin’ anymore so I got nothing to hold me back.” She stood up, and so did the cat girl Takahashi, along with a clone called Risa, who was very talkative and almost as annoying as Sayumi.

“We’ll come with you.”

The little firebrand poked her head out of the door first, Ai and Risa close behind, and she would have told them to back up and give her some room, had she not spotted the great winged creature several yards away. The woman hadn’t yet noticed their presence there, and so Reina cautiously stepped out of the house, motioning for the other two to follow her with a finger over her lips.

Quietly…

The woman was saying something at this point, and Reina noticed that Maki was lying on the ground a few feet away from the being, and she looked as though she had gotten the crap beaten out of her.

“It’s such a waste, really… I wonder if Rika-chan would let me keep you as a pet…”

Ai looked as though she was about to pounce, and Reina had to hold her back, forcing the girl to look at her. “Wait… just a few seconds more…” She whispered as quietly as she could, watching as the being stepped towards the wolf girl on the ground. Just as the winged female was about to bend down and pick Maki up, Reina let the cat girl go, and Ai sprang forward through the air.

She landed on the creature’s back, and tore into her leathery bat wings with her sharp claws, causing the being to back away from Maki and let out a horrible screech. The being immediately turned and ripped the cat girl from her back, throwing her to the side. Ai bounced back up onto her feet as she landed, unharmed, her black, ropey tail thrashing back and forth violently.

“How silly of me…” The woman started, glaring at the other clones with her dangerous eyes. Her wings were now bleeding a bit, but Ai apparently hadn’t caused her too much damage, for the being started to lift herself into the air with them without even so much as flinching. “I had forgotten that there were more of you little pests inside… How annoying… Let’s see if we can’t draw the rest of you out here, hm?”

She swooped down onto the roof of the house, landing with a hard thud. A scream came from inside, and if Reina had to guess, she would have said it had come from Sayumi. The wonky-eyed clone didn’t want to give this thing the chance to do whatever she was thinking of doing, however, and she lobbed a fireball straight towards their new enemy.

Unfortunately, the woman was faster than she was, and reacted quickly, moving out of the way with a smirk.

“You’ll have to do much better than that, little girl.”

She continued about her business, and Reina, Ai, and Risa watched with gaping mouths as the winged woman tugged on the edge of the roof, ripping an entire section of it free with ease. What on earth IS she?

The being hovered above the hole she had made, peering down at the clones inside the house, who were in a quite a state of shock, to be sure. The twins and Sayumi had already scrambled out the door, and Mari barely managed to pull Eri behind her and after them as well before the winged creature dropped in on the clones, smirking devilishly. Maasa stood protectively in front of Miyabi and Momoko, the latter of whom was beside herself with fear and had been so ever since she had noticed Saki’s absence.

Yurina’s eyes were glowing brightly, and several small items in the room began to shake and rattle, any of which she would use as a projectile if need be. A boyish little female by the name of Chinami was standing behind her and eyeing the intruder warily, as if she wasn’t exactly sure what to do.

“Aww… what’s the matter? No one wants to play?”

“Come closer. I dare you.” Maasa replied in a low tone, cracking her knuckles. Momoko began to whimper, and she was holding her head in her hands as if she were trying to hide. The creature smirked at this, and ignored the clone’s warning, inching ever so closer to the small group of females.

“Obviously you must be the weaklings of the bunch… otherwise you would have been outside like the others… I could crush the lot of you easily…”

Momoko was starting to talk to herself now, and Miyabi was beginning to feel disturbed by the small female’s behavior, watching the girl with her dark violet eyes. She’s really freaking out over here… If that thing gets any closer, she might lose it…

Maasa clenched her fists tightly as the creature continued to approach them, and she stared fiercely at the winged female, wavering just a bit as she saw the woman raise her hands so that the group could get a better look at those dangerous claws.

“The only question remains is… which one of you would like to go first?”

That did it. Momoko let out an earsplitting shriek, but this time it served to do much more than just be annoying. Anyone in the room that was standing fell to their knees, and everyone was forced to cover their ears to protect their hearing from the supersonic outburst. Yurina was forced to release her hold on the objects in the room, as she couldn’t concentrate her mind under such a condition. The windows of the house shattered after enduring only a few seconds of the painful scream, and the winged female was writhing in pain on the floor, paralyzed by the sound.

It hurt to move, but Maasa knew that if she didn’t take the chance while their enemy was stunned, they might not get another one. Keeping her ears covered, she stumbled over to where the creature lay, and she had to force herself to tolerate Momoko’s scream as she removed one hand in order to pick the being up off of the ground.

With a mighty effort, she threw the girl hard at the wall, using enough force to cause the intruder to smash right through the wood before skidding a few feet and rolling to a halt on the grass outside. That took care of that.

But Momoko didn’t cease her hypersonic wailing, and Miyabi was starting to get a headache. She removed her hands for a second, forcing the smaller girl to look directly into her dark eyes, which glowed when they made contact with Momoko’s. Almost instantly, the female stopped screaming…

…but then Miyabi was the one to begin bawling her eyes out, and the others stared at her, concerned and confused.

It was when Momoko looked up at them that Maasa realized what was going on. The smaller girl’s eyes were now tinged with a glowing purple sort of color, and she looked to be exceedingly calm for someone who had just been screeching her head off a few moments ago.

“…Well… I got her to shut up… But I think we might have a problem now.”

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Saki, Aika, and Risako were running for their lives.

The tigress had given chase soon after transforming, and she was actually toying with the clones, stalking them just quickly enough so that they were barely out of reach. Aika was beginning to tire, and she turned to the little leader sprinting alongside her.

“Okay, new plan! Why don’t you just turn around and fry her?”

“Because, number one, she’ll EAT me before I charge up enough power to do anything about it, and number two, she’s not just a lizard, she’s part human somewhere in there, and I don’t feel like killing someone today!”

“I hate to interrupt, but I don’t think that she has ANY reservations about killing US!” Risako screamed, continuing to hurry along as fast as her legs would carry her.

And then… IT happened.

As Aika was running, she failed to notice one particular tree root that was sticking up out of the ground on the path ahead. She would later on in life refer to said object as “the Tree Root of Destiny”, because quite frankly, had she not had the misfortune of stumbling upon it, several other things could have happened this day.

But she was clumsy, and she did trip on it, falling flat on her face with a startled yelp. Because the three had been running so fast, it took Risako and Saki a moment before they realized that a third of their trio was missing.

They stopped and turned around, just in time to see the tigress spring into the air, fully intent to pounce on and tear apart their fallen comrade…

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Miki was the first to break away from the newcomer’s gaze.

“Don’t look at her eyes… there’s something wrong with them… You won’t be able to move if you do.” She warned, closing her eyes. That blind kid would come in handy right about now…

Her voice seemed to snap the others out of it, and Hitomi shook her head vigorously, the feeling coming back to her limbs. Aya still seemed to be in somewhat of a daze, but at least she was able to move again. Koharu’s will wasn’t powerful enough to match the that of the winged female, and she was still frozen to the spot, mouth agape.

The being clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth.

“It’s no fun when they figure out my secret… It’s so time-consuming when you actually try to resist…”

“What do you want with us?” Hitomi inquired, moving over to Koharu to try and shake her out of her paralyzed state, all the while refusing to make eye contact with the newcomer.

“…Your whole existance is illegal. The fact that you’re even breathing here in front of me means that I haven’t taken care of my job yet…”

“Which would be?” Miki snapped, getting a bit impatient.

“I’ve been sent to terminate you. Well, my partners are with me, too. In fact, if I’m not mistaken… Erika-chan has probably already finished up matters at that house you all tried to take cover in… and Yui… well, the three that wandered into the city… she’s probably still playing with them, but she’ll tire of that soon enough and take care of them.”

“Bitch!!” Miki screamed, firing off a salvo of rounds at the being’s head. The creature was unphased, however, and merely stepped out of harm’s way. But the metal-armed woman didn’t stop there, and she leapt at the intruder, attempting to slam her fist into her opponent’s face.

Her fist only managed to make contact with the winged female’s palm, and Miki felt the being’s fingers wrap around her hand in a painfully crushing sort of grip. This wasn’t like when she had been trying to antagonize Maasa. The person she was up against now wasn’t defending herself in a gentle way; she could and probably would snap the bones in Miki’s real hand if she felt persuaded to do so.

“Still the same old Miki… even if you are just a clone now…”

The metal-armed girl couldn’t help but make eye contact with the winged female upon hearing her name, as she didn’t remember ever mentioning it to the intruder. What she saw in those blood-red orbs struck fear into her very core:

Those were the eyes of a murderer.

“You’ll still die just the same.”

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 08:22:02 PM

Chapter Eleven: Premonition

“What do you mean: ‘I think I’m stuck in Momoko’s body?’”

Miya-Momo rolled her eyes. The clones had regrouped outside the house, now that the potential threat to their lives was laying harmlessly a few feet away, unconscious. Only Maki had really ended up getting hurt during the fight, and though the state she was in was troubling, she was tougher than the rest of them, and was probably going to be okay.

Probably.

For now, the clones were trying to figure out how to switch Miyabi and Momoko back into their rightful bodies, and Maasa looked as though she was still trying to wrap her mind around what Miyabi had been able to do. Thus, the question.

“I mean… I don’t know! It just happened, okay! I was just trying to make her stop screaming and then THIS-!” The small female, who up until now hadn’t been so animated, was waving her arms around in a frustrated fashion, before she decided to cross them, glaring at the others with a little pout. “The only good thing about it is that my… I mean her ankle doesn’t hurt.”

Momo-Miya was sitting on the ground, still crying her eyes out. It had been a stressful day for her: waking up without her little protector beside her… only to find out that they were being attacked… and then being ripped rather rudely from her own body and shoved into someone else’s.

“How exactly did it happen?” Mari questioned, those gears in her head turning. “I mean, maybe if you do exactly what you did before you’ll go back to normal.”

Miya-Momo shrugged and turned to her sobbing counterpart. “I just kind of looked at her eyes and concentrated really hard…” She placed her… or… Momoko’s hands on the other girl’s… her face, and forced the girl to look at her, staring hard into those watery eyes.

Within a matter of seconds the transfer was over, and Miyabi found herself wiping the tears Momoko had cried off of her face. She stood up, ankle throbbing slightly, but she knew she’d have to walk on it at some point.

“Ah. I see. Okay, so problem solved. …but man, you cry a LOT…”

Momoko, now safely back in her own body, merely hugged her arms tightly to her body and sniffled a bit.

“I think she does better when that short girl’s around…” Risa started, earning a snort and a glare from Mari, who had started to tap her foot. “Not you. Where did that kid get off to, anyway? And a couple of the others are missing too…”

“Aika’s gone…” Eri stated quietly, and everyone turned to stare at the blind girl, confused.

“How can you tell?” Reina asked, looking skeptical. “You can’t-”

“See, I know, I’m aware of that.” Eri replied, her tone an irritated one, “But I’ve figured out that my other senses are super powerful… I don’t even need Mari to help me walk anymore… I can feel the vibrations in the earth through my feet, and they help me to map out where things are in my mind. As for Aika… I know her scent and I can recognize the way she breathes. It’s the same for the rest of you.”

Ai tilted her head curiously. “So that means you could probably find her if you had to, right?”

“I guess… it’s not that strong, but I think I might be able to figure out what direction she and a few of the others went in… Why?”

“We should probably go and look for them.” The cat girl replied, “I have a feeling that there might be more of whatever she is out there,” She paused, gesturing over at Erika’s prone form, “and they could be in trouble…”

“We’d better hurry if we’re going to do that, then.” Maasa walked over and carefully hefted Maki onto her back, trying not to injure the girl any more than she already was. Aibon and Nono hopped with ease onto the super strong female’s shoulders, perching there as if Maasa belonged to them.

Eri nodded, her faded eyes serious. “Okay. Follow me.”

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Risako couldn’t believe her eyes.

Aika had been there one moment, and just as it seemed that the tigress was going to make a meal out of her, the girl vanished into thin air. Apparently the shifter couldn’t believe it either, for she had been so startled that she changed back into human form, and was now staring dumbstruck at the spot the clone had been just moments before.

“What on earth…?”

“Close, huh. I really thought I was a goner there for a minute.”

Risako and Saki spun around to see Aika there, shaken and grinning like a fool, but unharmed. Even the shifter was stunned, and she blinked multiple times at the clone, mouth slighly open.

“How did you…?” Yui started, unable to finish purely out of astonishment.

“Oh, I dunno… I think it went a little something like this.” Aika suddenly disappeared from the spot where she was standing, a little wisp of smoke left floating upwards in her wake. Without warning, she reappeared in mid-air above the winged female, who barely had time to register what was happening before the clone landed a hard kick right down the middle of her spine, knocking the shifter out cold.

There was another strand of smoke left above Yui, and Aika reappeared in front of Saki and Risako. The little leader shook her head, snapping out of it.

“It would have been nice to know that you could do that before now…”

“Way to sound like Miki.” Aika replied, sticking her tongue out childishly at the other girl. “Anyways, we should probably go before she wakes up…” She felt something slip into her hand, and noticed that Risako was clutching it with her own tightly, and she looked at the other girl, confused. There was something there in Risako’s eyes that she could not read… it worried her, but she gave the other girl’s hand a gentle squeeze nonetheless, tugging her gently after Saki, who had already started to move on.

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She would have finished things right then and there.

Perhaps later on she would have regretted not doing so, too. But the bond that connected her to Erika and Yui alerted her to the fact that her faithful pets were in trouble, and she could not very well ignore that.

Rika scowled, letting go of Miki and pushing her to the ground. The metal armed woman just sat there, staring blankly at the dirt below.

“Unfortunately… we’ll have to continue this later… It would seem that your friends are stronger than I assumed… I won’t make that mistake again a second time, so prepare yourselves for when I return.”

With that, the leader of the Three beat her gigantic wings and took off into the sky, to collect her fallen comrades.

Almost immediately, Koharu was released from the spell-like trance the creature’s gaze had put her under, and she nearly fainted, falling backwards into Hitomi’s arms. Aya stumbled a bit as she regained control over her body, and once the dizziness of it all wore off, she ran over and knelt down beside Miki.

“…Are you alright?”

Miki didn’t reply at first, and it was only when she felt Aya’s hand on her shoulder that she slowly began to speak.

“I saw something there… in her eyes… that maybe I wasn’t supposed to see…”

“What did you see?”

“I watched her die just now… I watched Fujimoto Miki die.”

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 08:24:58 PM

Chapter Twelve: Premonition, Part II

Eri hushed the other clones behind her for a moment, her sensitive ears picking up the faint sound of footsteps pounding against the ground… headed straight in their direction. The blind girl could feel the earth shaking gently beneath her feet as the three (at least, by the number of vibrations, she assumed there were three) continued to approach, and she could sense the others were getting nervous because of her behavior, as the sound of their heartbeats were beginning to quicken.

“It’s okay everyone… I think it’s just-”

Without warning, little Saki shot out of the brush ahead, unable to stop herself before she collided with Mari, knocking both of them off balance and onto the ground with a series of strangled yelps. Moments later, Aika and Risako also came into view, peering cautiously out of the overgrown flora after the shorter girl.

“…the others…” Eri finished lamely.

“Why is everyone out here in the middle of the forest?” Saki questioned after detangling herself from the little blonde… only to have Momoko immediately attach herself to her arm, holding on tight enough to nearly cut off circulation.

“We got attacked by this thing…” Maasa replied simply, being careful not to drop Maki as the twins climbed not-so-gracefully off of her shoulders. “Long story short… the house was pretty much destroyed.”

Aika blinked. “We just got attacked too. …Let me guess: red eyes and big wings?”

“Yeah. How did you-”

“We’ve got a hunch, but it might be better until all of us are together before we try and talk about it.” Risako interrupted, and Aika and Saki nodded their heads in agreement. “Where are the others, anyway?”

“Dunno…” Ai replied, shrugging. “The only reason we were able to find you is because of Eri’s super-senses. She remembered what you smelled like and followed the trail until we found you guys here.”

“Ah… I see.” The teleporter patted the blind girl on the head, a smile on her face. “That’s cool in a really creepy sort of way.”

Eri merely grinned, proud of herself no matter how strange her abilities might have seemed. At least they were useful.

“So should we stay here?”
“Or should we try to look for Miki and the others?”
“…Risk the chance of getting lost even further?”
“…Or maybe something will eat us here.”
“Or maybe WE’LL eat something…”
“Nono, that doesn’t make any sense.”
“Well… you started talking about eating… and I’m really hungry…”

The twins paused in their musings as they realized that everyone was staring at them. “What?”

“Okay… So I guess that means we’ll rest here for a little while… if they don’t turn up we can start searching for them…” Ai stated, and the clones all nodded their agreement, as they sat down to wait…

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“I watched her die just now… I watched Fujimoto Miki die.”

Those ominous words hung in the air, and nobody dared to speak after that. It wasn’t as though there was much to be said, anyways… But after a moment or so, Aya gathered up enough courage to ask a question.

“Did you see… w-who… who did it?”

Miki shook her head, still staring blankly out at the ground. She was completely out of it, which was understandable. Watching someone that looked completely identical to herself be murdered just like that… it was unnerving. She hadn’t really seen all that much, either… Just… the idol had been singing one moment, a grand smile on her face, and then… shots rang out, and there was blood... and the girl had crumpled to the ground…

Hitomi was worried. She hadn’t yet seen something that was enough to spook Miki. And she decided that she probably didn’t want to. But they couldn’t just sit around here. She carefully helped steady Koharu back on her own feet again, holding on to the girl’s arm in case she started to fall.

“Are you alright?”

Koharu blinked at the taller girl for a moment, her eyes looking somewhat glazed over.

“Yes… I think so. …Did something happen? I just… froze… there was a lot of screaming… Where did the…?” The winged clone was very much confused, and she looked around, squinting a little bit.

Hitomi sighed. “I think you’ll live, then… You’re just a bit dazed… We can’t rest here, though. I think we should get back to the others as soon as possible. You’re going to have to fly up and find them.”

“What, me?”

“The rest of us don’t have wings, Koharu.”

“But… I told you, I don’t know how…”

Well, that reply was aggravating. “Do you think you could possibly TRY?”

Koharu bit down gently on her lower lip. She supposed that she should make herself useful… even if the prospect of falling from the sky scared her to death. The other three clones were counting on her, and she couldn’t help but think that Hitomi might try and use some powers of persuasion to get her up into the air if Koharu didn’t do it herself, taking into consideration the annoyed tone the taller female had in her voice.

“…Fine.”

She took a few steps back from the other girl, stretching out her feathery, angel-like wings, and looking very timid, she flapped them a bit, squealing as her feet rose a bit from the ground. After a few more rhythmic beats, she was completely in the air, and Hitomi watched as Koharu clumsily made it over the tree tops and out of sight.

It was hard to get the hang of at first, the rushing air currents both exhilarating and frightening all at the same time. But Koharu slowly got used to the feeling, and eventually got down to business.

But not of course, before taking a look around.

The forest they had been in was much more vast from this point of view, and she could literally see for miles away. She spotted the city that, unbeknownst to her, Saki, Risako, and Aika had visited, and she could even see one farther off in the distance that was much larger. There was also a very ominous-looking structure beyond even that, and it seemed to be shrouded in black clouds and smoke. Just looking at it gave her chills, and she quickly returned her gaze to the forest below.

It wasn’t long before she spotted the group of clones, as they had wandered close to the place where Miki and the others were, and they wouldn’t be too hard to get to at all.

Taking one last look at the dark tower, Koharu turned around in midair, heading back to where Hitomi was waiting for her.

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“You two are complete and total failures…”

They were back in the cage again, and Rika was pacing back and forth like an angry lion. The now-conscious (if not gifted with a few new bumps and bruises) Yui and Erika were sitting on the floor, staring at the ground and waiting tensely for the biting words that were sure to be delivered to them.

“I can’t believe I was foolish enough to trust you with that many all at once, Erika-chan. I thought you could handle it… I thought that maybe you’d be strong enough. But you completely let me down.”

The stronger of the two on the floor winced at this, but she did not dare whisper an apology. Rika wasn’t finished yet.

“And you…” Yui could feel her leader’s gaze burning on her skin, and she resisted the urge to shudder. She would not look up. She wasn’t powerful enough to look into those eyes. “Actually… I should have expected something like this from you. So careless… So childish of you, Yui… to let them get the better of you like that…”

“…It’s not my fault the kid could disappear into thin air…” The youngest muttered, and she would soon be made to regret it.

Rika nearly exploded, picking the blonde up and pinning her hard to the cage bars. Yui could feel the metal digging into her spine and wings, and she whimpered, closing her eyes shut. Don’t look at her eyes… don’t look at her eyes…

“If you had taken care of her instead of playing with them, it wouldn’t have happened! And now, thanks to you idiots, one of them has seen something that she wasn’t supposed to see! They aren’t supposed to know! They aren’t supposed to remember, because the memories aren’t theirs, and most of all, they aren’t even supposed to exist! And you have screwed up one of our chances to wipe them from this world!”

Yui was shaking now, and tears began to roll down her cheeks. Erika continued to sit silently on the ground, and though she felt sorry for her partner, she was mostly just glad that it wasn’t her. After a moment, Rika released her hold on the youngest, and Yui fell to her knees, clinging onto one of her leader’s legs and sobbing against it.

“I’m sorry…”

Rika’s blood-red gaze softened. “…Perhaps you are. But you do not seem to understand the gravity of this situation… we cannot allow them to live for long. They will only get stronger, and will eventually pose an even greater threat to our master and our world.” She knelt down, lifting Yui’s chin to force her to make eye contact.

“We’ll try again tomorrow. Do NOT fail me again.”

The blonde nodded wordlessly, and the tension in the room disappated. Rika detached the youngest from her leg, and walked over to the side of the cage, staring out into the darkness.

“What happened in the past must stay there…”

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 08:25:59 PM

Chapter Thirteen: The Search Begins

The group was back together again, and they had begun to discuss what had happened and what they were going to do now. Saki told the others of the city they had stumbled upon, as well as the strange punishment it was currently undergoing. She also mentioned the Three, and the general consensus was that this name probably belonged to the group of winged females that they had fought with.

Miki wasn’t up to talking much at this point, and so Aya tried to piece together what had happened to the two of them, Hitomi, and Koharu during their encounter with Rika, while the other clones listened with wide eyes.

“…and she says that she watched Miki… die.”

“Wait… like… she watched herself die? Or… How is that even possible? Are you psychic, Miki?” Risa inquired, though she was not the only one having trouble wrapping her mind around the story.

“No. It wasn’t me… I’m sure that it was the person that I was cloned from. And I’m not psychic, but… You wouldn’t understand. You just had to have been there. Something about that thing’s eyes… She had some kind of… weird power.” The metal-armed female replied, looking around at the others for the first time since the incident. “She also… somehow, she knew my name. Or… the woman’s name. …I’m not sure I want to keep it after seeing that.”

Miki shuddered, refusing to talk anymore. Hitomi took this point to back up the other girl’s story with what she had to say.

“…it was almost like… if you looked at her eyes… we were just paralyzed for a while. Koharu even said that she heard screaming… Whether they were sent by that Shizuka guy or not… I’m not exactly sure what we’re dealing with… I think we all just got lucky this time.”

“So what do we do now, then?” Everyone’s eyes shot over to Reina, who had lapsed back into her nervous habit of holding a small fireball in her hand. “We can’t just wander around in the forest forever. Especially not now that the only shelter we had is nothing but a pile of dirt. And if those things come back… well, I know that I don’t want to end up like Maki over there…”

The wolf girl in question was lying on the ground, her breathing staggered and unsteady. She had a fever, and the scratches on her face weren’t looking so great. Unfortunately, all the others could really do about it was to let her rest, since none of them happened to be doctors.

“It really looks like we don’t have much of a choice other than to go into the city and try and find some help…” Hitomi replied, sighing a bit, “Maybe someone will help us out. Maybe they won’t. We have to try it.” She stood up, gaze wandering over to where Aika, Risako, Saki (and Momoko, who probably wouldn’t have let go even if someone had taken a crowbar to her) were sitting.

“You three… Show us the way.”

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<action: running></action>

<receiving signal from home base>

<retrieving message…>

<…>

<Sender: Konno Asami> <Accept? Y/N>

<opening message…>

<play transmission>

<Konno: Are you lost, Maihabot? I’m pretty sure I gave you the right coordinates… The Steam District needs those supplies really badly, so stop messing around.>

<Reply to message? Y/N>

<Opening instant messaging client…>

<…>

<Sending reply…>

<…>

<ProjectHPK001: Coordinates are correct. I stumbled upon something interesting. There is a dead Stalker here in the middle of the forest. The beast has suffered severe electrical burns and it’s tail has been lacerated by causes unknown. It also appears to be missing some teeth, and those that remain are broken. There are footprints leading away and into the forest. Shall I investigate?>

<Konno: What on earth…? There’s no way! The only things capable of bringing down something that big are the Three, and they’d have no reason to…>

<ProjectHPK001: Would you like me to send you a picture?>

<Konno: …You’re not joking, are you?>

<action: capturing image></action>

<attaching file to response>

<…>

<ProjectHPK001: I am a robot, Konno-san. I do not understand jokes.>

<Konno: …Holy cow, you really weren’t kidding… Maybe you SHOULD check this out… How many sets of footprints can you make out?>

<ProjectHPK001: Exactly twenty-one.>

<Konno: Okay… New plan, then. Get your delivery to the steam district as fast as you can, and as soon as you’re done, start gathering data on this thing. Don’t screw around, Maihabot.>

<ProjectHPK001: Understood.>

<closing connection w/ User: Konno Asami>

<…>

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 08:27:17 PM

Chapter Fourteen: ProjectHPK001

“This is stupid.”

“Well, you’re the ones that found the place and decided you’d masquerade as the Three, so now you’ve got power here. Just go find a really big, nice-looking house and start terrorizing the crap out of whoever owns it until they let us stay.”

“Risako’s the one who started acting like- OW!”

“You’re just as guilty because you helped!”

“Will the two of you shut up and knock it off?! How are we supposed to convince them to let ALL of us stay, anyway? There are only supposed to be three of us. Not twenty-something.”

“Just say that we’re prisoners from another… district-thingy. And order them to fix Maki up, cuz this Shizuka guy likes his detainees to be healthy. In fact, might as well use him as your excuse to bring us all in. If this guy has the power to punish thousands of people the way that he has, I’m sure they’re not going to go against what he wants done.”

Momentary silence.

“…Fine.”

“You get to do all the talking.”

“What? Why ME?”

“Because YOU were the one that freaked the kids out. It was all thanks to you that we were convincing, remember?”

“Ah, Momochi… you’re going to have to let go of me now. I promise I’ll be back reallly soon.”

“Just get out there and do this already!”

Aika, Risako, and Saki were shoved rather rudely out of the cover of the forest towards the front of the city they had stumbled upon before, as they had been volunteered by the rest of the clones to search out a resting place for the night. The shortest girl out of the group led the other two onwards through the dusty road that winded through the core of the place, and they began to look around for any building that looked as though it could hold all of them…

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<action: resting></action>

<receiving signal from home base>

<retrieving message…>

<…>

<Sender: ProjectHPK003> <Accept? Y/N>

<opening message…>

<play transmission>

<003: Hey, Maiha? Erika and I are making our way towards the Steam District to meet up with you. Konno-san thought you might need our help with the investigation.>

<001: Negative. I do not require assistance.>

<receiving transmission from ProjectHPK002>

<002: Well, it’s too late, ya big baby. We’re already like halfway there, so you’re going to have to just deal with it.>

<001: The two of you weren’t designed for such a task. My calculations indicate that there is an 80% chance that your presence will only endanger the mission. Turn back now.>

<003: …Just cuz you were the first doesn’t make you the best.>

<001: Irrelevant.>

<002: Well, whatever, I’m closing off communications now. We’ll see you there, Maiha.>

<ProjectHPK002, 003, connection terminated>

<…>

<action: sigh></action>

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This place is just deserted… how are we supposed to ask anyone for help when no one’s around…? …or if they never answer when we knock on the doors…

The trio was now at the door of the fifth house that they deemed good enough to keep all of the clones safe for the night. Aika rapped on the metal’s surface with her fist, but the result was the same as it had been with the other five dwellings: silence.

Perhaps the citizens did not answer for fear of getting in trouble for even looking outside…

Either way, Aika was beginning to get frustrated. She had half a mind to just kick the door down, and probably would have attempted to do so, had her ears not picked up the sounds of voices farther down along the way. The trio peered cautiously around the house, spotting a short, portly sort of man standing in an alleyway, talking to a figure whose back was to them.

They weren’t talking very loudly, and so Aika motioned for the other two to follow her quietly, inching behind some rusted metal boxes that provided them some cover and allowed them to get close without being seen.

“…I can’t thank you and your master enough for this. The people have been starving lately, and they’ll be glad to get their hands on some food.” The man was saying, and he reached out to shake the dark figure’s hand vigorously. Aika could make out the glint of metal as the light briefly passed over the figure’s fingers, and she was instantly reminded of Miki.

“You are most welcome. I shall be sure to inform Konno-san of your gratitude.” The other voice was female, but it was slightly obscured by what sounded like static, making the words sound robotic rather than human. “…you’ll have to excuse me for a moment, however… my sensors are indicating that we are being watched.”

The trio let out a simultaneous gasp as the dark figure turned towards them, stepping out of the shadows. Robot was right. It stood the height and shape of a normal human girl, and was made entirely out of a silvery-white, very polished metal. Intricate designs were etched into the surface of the metal, and they were a dark blue color, standing out against the robot’s body.

Her eyes were the same color as the designs, although they were glowing somewhat, and they had no pupils, irises, or whites to them; they were just eerie blue orbs that showed no emotion. Her hair was made of wire-thin, individual strands of metal, that allowed it to look as realistic as possible.

<scanning for forms of life…>

<found: 3>
<registering identities…>

<…>

<DNA match: Mitsui Aika; deceased>
<DNA match: Sugaya Risako; deceased>
<DNA match: Shimizu Saki; deceased>

<error: matches do not exist // Run scan again? Y/N?>

<rescanning…>

<…>

<DNA match: Mitsui Aika; deceased>
<DNA match: Sugaya Risako; deceased>
<DNA match: Shimizu Saki; deceased>

“This does not compute…” The robot whispered to herself, artificial eyebrows furrowing. Nevertheless, she had a job to do. “Intruders! Come out with your hands up! You are not welcome here!”

Warily, the clones stepped out from behind their cover, slowly raising their arms above their heads. None of them had ever seen an android before, and they didn’t really want to find out what she was capable of, either.

<sending message to: Konno Asami>

<001: Konno-san… I have some surprising new information to send to you…>

<transmitting DNA match data…>

<awaiting reply…>

<Konno: …Okay… the dead Stalker I’ll believe, but… this isn’t funny, Maihabot. They’re dead.>

<capturing image>

<attaching file to message>

<001: Regardless, the three of them are standing here in front of me.>

<Konno: …holy shit.>

<001: I’m not fond of your vulgar language, Konno-san.>
<Konno: This is… oh my… Y-you’ve got to bring them here, Maihabot. This is… I can’t believe… holy…>

<001: Affirmative, Konno-san.>

<connection terminated>

“What are you going to do with us…?” Risako questioned, a slight quiver in her voice. The bat-winged creature they had encountered earlier had been frightening, but the robot in front of them looked to be even more… deadly.

“I’ve been given orders to escort the three of you to the nearby Metal District. You may either comply peacefully and follow me, or I shall bring you there by force.”

<WARNING: Detecting high levels of electrical current nearby. Contact will bring about possible system shut down.>

<Detecting source of current…>

<Shimizu Saki>

“Well, you’ll have to use force, then… we aren’t going anywhere.” The little leader replied, static dancing about her fingertips. Aika nodded in a determined sort of way, while Risako still looked rather unsure.

<sending message to: Konno Asami>

<001: Forgive me, Konno-san… this might take a little longer than I had previously calculated.>

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Koharu was dozing off a bit as she waited with the others for Saki, Aika, and Risako to return, resting her head in Hitomi’s lap. The temperature and humidity of the forest was making it almost impossible to take a little nap, though she had almost slipped into unconsciousness when she detected little voices coming from nearby.

“I think we’re lost, Maimi-chan.”

“My GPS is working JUST fine, thank you. It’s not my fault you’re so slow it’s taking us longer than you want to get to the Steam District.”

“Shut up.”

“No, YOU shut up.”

The winged clone sat up, startling Hitomi, who HAD been asleep, trying to sleep off her headache from before.

“What’s your deal, Koharu?” The boyish female asked, a grumpy tone in her voice.

“Someone’s out there, Yossui…”

“…Did you just make up a nickname for me?”

“This is serious! I heard voices!”

“You’re probably just tired. If anything were nearby, Eri would have said something about it.”

“She’s asleep, Yossui…”

“…Oh.”

Hitomi rose off of the ground then, brushing the dirt off of her legs. She could hear movement nearby, too, and looked around at the rest of the clones. Most of them were in varying stages of sleep, and so perhaps it was extremely lucky that Koharu had been awake enough to hear the noise. The little sounds were getting closer, and she crept quietly over towards the nearby bushes, crouching there for a moment. Then, without warning, she shot through the brush, landing on the intruders, eliciting frightful squeals from the both of them.

She examined the beings that she had pinned to the ground with wide eyes, and barely managed to strangle a chuckle as she turned her head to call to Koharu.

“You might want to come check this out…”

Title: Re: Voices of Angels
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 01, 2007, 08:34:30 PM

Quote from: Rick-e on April 01, 2007, 03:38:48 PM

hmm... from this chapter I think Konno might not be one of the bad guys after all! she might be a leader of a resistance or something? *hoping*

Can't wait for the next chapter ^_^

Perhaps, perhaps... X3 She's not evil, though, I WILL tell you that to calm your fears.

Quote from: Ren on April 01, 2007, 04:05:57 PM

I hope Konkon still looks young and not old <3.

And the thought of Konkon saying "Holy Shit" owns big time XD.

Welcome back from your vacation! Glad you are back with the new chapter >:D

We shall see, we shall see...

I thought it was amusing too. <3

Thanks. It was okay, I suppose. I came back to learn some not-so-great stuff, though. >< But ah well.

Quote from: Loser87 on April 01, 2007, 05:30:55 PM

>w<
I <33333 U!!!!!!
So could this mean the rest of the H!Pkids are robots too?? =O

>_>......erm....
...*goes back to my evil god of cheesecake mode*
GET BACK TO WORK YA YA!! * throws some stuffed rabbits at you*
YAA!!

XD Um, thanks.
It could mean that, indeed. lol

-pelted with bunnies- o_o Yes master! -slaving-

Quote from: JFC on April 01, 2007, 07:02:51 PM

More HPK 'droids!!! Gotta love their 'droid-ish mannerisms (especially Maihabot's XDDDD)
Konkon swearing...still hella cute! :D

XD Maihabot's going to be more robot-ish for a reason. Which you will find out... eventually... XD
Yes indeed. I figured Konkon's the type of girl that would never swear unless she was completely and utterly floored by something. (Which, I'm sure that if your robot found someone you thought to be dead, you'd probably be a bit startled, too. lol)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 14: ProjectHPK]
Post by: rndmnwierd on April 01, 2007, 11:55:23 PM

Quote

“You might want to come check this out…”

What? What? What?!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 14: ProjectHPK]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 02, 2007, 03:12:36 AM

(I think ProjectHPK will only have three parts to it... I'm not sure. It should really be just one large chapter, but I'm having trouble with it... So I'll just keep writing in snippets...)

Chapter Fifteen: ProjectHPK, Part II

<DANGER! DANGER! Imminent system shutdown! Severe electrical damage to main computer.>

<sending distress signal to all HPK units>

<shutting down>

<…>

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Hitomi had captured a pair of robots, or so it seemed, both only about a foot tall, with childish, chibi-like faces that were giving her the dirtiest looks they could possibly muster since they were only artificial life. One had short ‘hair’ that was pulled back with a metallic headband, and her glowing eyes (much like that of the Maihabot), along with the twisted markings that covered the entirety of her little body were colored hot pink. The other’s wiry strands were tied back in a messy ponytail, and she looked as though she was trying to burn a hole into Hitomi’s face with those bright red orbs of hers.

Koharu had let out a very girly squeal when she saw the little robots, and probably would have tried to pick one up in order to hug it if the boyish clone weren’t keeping her away.

“Ah, they’re so cuuuuuuuute~!”

“Yeah… but what are they doing here? Kind of suspicious… maybe we ought to destroy them. They could be working for that Shizuka guy.”

Apparently the little robots didn’t want to hear that, and they began to squirm in Hitomi’s grasp, failing miserably to get away. That is, until the one with the shorter hair decided to bite down on the boyish female’s hand, causing her to let out a yelp and release her grip on the two.

The one with the red eyes was trying to tug the other away, while they had the chance to escape, but her companion drew herself up to her full height of twelve inches and puffed out her chest.

“That’s whatcha get, ya big bully!” She huffed, kicking at the clones with her little foot.

“Erika, come on, let’s get out of here before she makes good on her threat.”

“Heck no! Nobody messes with me like that. PLUS, how DARE she associate us with that… that… ugh… I hate his name. I can’t even say it.”

The little thing looked to be horribly distressed, and Koharu couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. She got down on her knees so that she was almost on their level, and while Hitomi continued to nurse her bruised hand by sucking on it, she decided to try and make amends.

“Sorry if we offended you… Yossui wouldn’t really try to hurt you. She just has to be careful… We’ve been through a lot in the past two days… we’re really not supposed to be alive.”

Erikabot merely snorted and turned away, while her counterpart (Maimi) was now eyeing Koharu curiously.

“Who are you, anyway… let’s run a scan, shall we?”

The winged clone squeaked as a line of red light fanned out from the little robot’s eyes and began to run down her body, causing her to feel just a little bit violated.
<registering identity>

<…>

<DNA match: Kusumi Koharu; deceased>

<error: matches do not exist // Run scan again? Y/N?>

“What the…” The Maimibot might have blinked had she owned a pair of eyelids, but because she did not, she could only just stare at Koharu, confused. She turned to Hitomi, who was watching her with interest, and decided to scan her as well.

<registering identity>

<…>

<DNA match: Yoshizawa Hitomi; deceased>

<error: matches do not exist // Run scan again? Y/N?>

“What’s the matter, is your scanner broken, too?” The short-haired android grumbled, obviously NOT in a good mood.

“No… it’s just… the DNA… according to it, these two are supposed to be dead.”

The two little robots didn’t have much time to analyze this, however, for distress signals began to go off in their heads, and they had no choice but to respond. Before Hitomi could stop either of them, they darted out of sight, heading towards the city. She scratched her head, trying to figure things out.

“What was up with them?”

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Aika kicked at the now unmoving metal body, which was still smoking on the ground. Apparently Saki had done a very good job with frying the android’s circuits, and she jumped back a little bit as a stray spark crackled within the Maihabot in response to her contact.

“You might have overdone it just a little bit…” Risako mused, although she was eyeing the robot as if she didn’t believe it was truly out of commission.

“Y-yeah… I don’t really know if I can control it all that well…” The small female replied, somewhat disturbed. Though she could build up as much energy as she’d ever need, Saki needed to be able to channel it better. Otherwise, anyone else nearby was in just as much danger of being shocked as her target was.

Aika snorted, giving the Maihabot one last good kick. “Well, whatever… I think we’ve basically ended any chance of staying here for the night. That guy hightailed it out of here as soon as we started fighting. And I bet knocking on any more doors will get us nowhere. We should just go back…”

Risako sighed, and Saki seemed to be just as disappointed, but all three of them knew that to continue on would be pointless. Just as they began to walk out of the city, Risako spotted several tiny figures in the sky, that might have looked like birds, were they not shiny like metal.

Her eyes widened as she realized that the figures were headed straight for them.

And they were moving fast.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: rndmnwierd on April 02, 2007, 03:48:52 AM

I could just imagine Aika, Risako, and Saki being swarmed by hundreds of little robots.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: Sukoshi on April 02, 2007, 04:21:21 AM

The robots are just too cute! Nothing like feisty little robots, konkon has good taste XD However this couldn't possibly be the real Konno right?

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: Loser87 on April 02, 2007, 04:41:23 AM

O_O....
You...You FRIED MAIHA!! >_< EVIL EVIL EVIL!!
BRING HER BACK OR ELSE I'LL BEAT YOU WITH A FISH!! *shakes you violently*
HURRY UP AND POST THE NEW CHAPTER AND BRING MAIHA BACK YOU TWERP!!

*ahem* oh the side note, chibi-bots >_< Erika and Maimi are so cute >w<
Konkon is awesome, now...
MUSH MUSH!

*pelts you with tylenol pills because i ran out of stuffed bunnies*
hurry up and Post and BRING MAIHA BACK YOU YOU KID!!!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: JFC on April 02, 2007, 05:13:17 AM

Quote

<Konno: …holy shit.>

<001: I’m not fond of your vulgar language, Konno-san.>

More HPK bots!!! Gotta love their bot-ish mannerisms (especially how Maihabot talks XDDDD)
Konkon swearing...still hella cute! :D

Wait, the bots are only a foot tall? That's gotta sting for Erikabot and Maimibot, considering how in real life they're the tall ones. :D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: iacus on April 02, 2007, 09:04:51 AM

The new developments with Konno and her vast army of insanely cute robots (and her cursing!) is pretty interesting. And I have no idea where it's going.

I picked the Challenge option in the poll. My challenge? A hard-boiled detective story done in full-blown noir style. Imagine it, if you will: random hp! member #1 stumbles upon random hp! member #2's dead body. To find out the truth about random hp! member #2's death, random hp! member #1 will have to navigate a seedy underworld of singers, backup dancers, variety talents, and all the other scum that populate the mysterious organization known only as Hello Project.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: coachie on April 02, 2007, 12:01:07 PM

oh my, chibi-robots I LOVE THEM!!!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: Ren on April 02, 2007, 12:26:29 PM

Aika kicked Maihabot... WIN XD.

Now I'm sure Konkon doesn't work for Shizuka :D! Yay for Prof. Konkon!
Can't the robots just run as a phone or something so Konkon can talk to the clones? XD

Konkon should clone them as many as she can instead of making them robots :3. So we can make Hello! Project War: Attack of the Clones XD

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: ziggurat on April 02, 2007, 01:41:25 PM

I just got back home last nite.. And there already a bunch of new chapters to follow! @_@

Can't really explain the awesomeness of your writing.. It makes me feel i'm inside the story following captain closely :3 Lol at momo x saki. She really that attached to captain?

Heil the leaders! (and i feel bad for W abusive action to maasa. She needs more loves! :D)

viyuden the villains! They just fit that job.. lol

Omg, what loser87 said! ;_; well, just in case she still can be repaired :P

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: orangesocks on April 02, 2007, 04:35:30 PM

Hum, seeing as KonKon has appeared, will Mako also make an appearance anytime soon?

I love how Koharu just up and gave Yossie a nickname. :)

So...KonKon's good but pretends to be bad, right? I see, I see... ::strokes chin::
Hope Aika, Risako, and Saki meet up with the others soon to beat some baddies(?) up!!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 02, 2007, 09:07:27 PM

Quote from: rndmnwierd on April 02, 2007, 03:48:52 AM

I could just imagine Aika, Risako, and Saki being swarmed by hundreds of little robots.

>:D

..Thankfully for them, there are only nine in all.

Quote from: Sukoshi on April 02, 2007, 04:21:21 AM

The robots are just too cute! Nothing like feisty little robots, konkon has good taste XD However this couldn't possibly be the real Konno right?

Quote from: Loser87 on April 02, 2007, 04:41:23 AM

O_O....
You...You FRIED MAIHA!! >_< EVIL EVIL EVIL!!
BRING HER BACK OR ELSE I'LL BEAT YOU WITH A FISH!! *shakes you violently*
HURRY UP AND POST THE NEW CHAPTER AND BRING MAIHA BACK YOU TWERP!!

*ahem* oh the side note, chibi-bots >_< Erika and Maimi are so cute >w<
Konkon is awesome, now...
MUSH MUSH!

*pelts you with tylenol pills because i ran out of stuffed bunnies*
hurry up and Post and BRING MAIHA BACK YOU YOU KID!!!

XDD She's a robot, and Konkon's a genius. It's going to be okay.

Just wait until you read about the others. <3

o_o Ow. Tylenol isn't as cuddly as bunnies are... -slaves-
(I've got half a mind to change my custom title to "Loser87's Fanfic Slave". XD)

Quote from: JFC on April 02, 2007, 05:13:17 AM

More HPK bots!!! Gotta love their bot-ish mannerisms (especially how Maihabot talks XDDDD)
Konkon swearing...still hella cute! :D

Wait, the bots are only a foot tall? That's gotta sting for Erikabot and Maimibot, considering how in real life they're the tall ones. :D

X3

Maihabot is the only one that isn't. And... you'll find out why. Soon. (Like, within the next few chapters, probably. ...Probably.) <3

Quote from: iacus on April 02, 2007, 09:04:51 AM

The new developments with Konno and her vast army of insanely cute robots (and her cursing!) is pretty interesting. And I have no idea where it's going.

I picked the Challenge option in the poll. My challenge? A hard-boiled detective story done in full-blown noir style. Imagine it, if you will: random hp! member #1 stumbles upon random hp! member #2's dead body. To find out the truth about random hp! member #2's death, random hp! member #1 will have to navigate a seedy underworld of singers, backup dancers, variety talents, and all the other scum that populate the mysterious organization known only as Hello Project.

Good. That means that I'm doing a good job of keeping some things concealed and not giving it all away at once. :3

Ooh... your challenge intrigues me... I might have to attempt something like that... (Though, I've never written a detective-type story before. ...Being that THIS story is my first, and all. X3)

Quote from: coachie on April 02, 2007, 12:01:07 PM

oh my, chibi-robots I LOVE THEM!!!

I want one. ;-; I was thinking about that when I described them.

Quote from: Ren on April 02, 2007, 12:26:29 PM

Aika kicked Maihabot... WIN XD.

Now I'm sure Konkon doesn't work for Shizuka :D! Yay for Prof. Konkon!
Can't the robots just run as a phone or something so Konkon can talk to the clones? XD

Konkon should clone them as many as she can instead of making them robots :3. So we can make Hello! Project War: Attack of the Clones XD

Aika could very well turn into mini-Miki. XD

Konkon's a rebel, stickin' it to the man. :cool:

lol. Attack of the Clones had a war with robots and clones. The HPKbots can just fight the clones. (Though they'll probably just... lose. XD)

Quote from: ziggurat on April 02, 2007, 01:41:25 PM

I just got back home last nite.. And there already a bunch of new chapters to follow! @_@

Can't really explain the awesomeness of your writing.. It makes me feel i'm inside the story following captain closely :3 Lol at momo x saki. She really that attached to captain?

Heil the leaders! (and i feel bad for W abusive action to maasa. She needs more loves! :D)

viyuden the villains! They just fit that job.. lol

Omg, what loser87 said! ;_; well, just in case she still can be repaired :P

Haha, sweet. I had that same feeling when I got back from vacation.

Aww, well thanks. <3 And glad that you feel like you can be inside the story, I love reading things that I feel like I can be a part of, so like I stated at the beginning (I think... somewhere... o_o) that's kind of what I'm trying to do here. And yeah, Momo loves her Captain. She's kind of neurotic as far as the other clones go, so she's got to have someone to keep her stable... ish. XD

The twins do love Maasa. They just show their affection in strange ways. lol

Indeed they do. That's why they were picked. >3

Seriously, don't worry. Konkon's a genius. ^-^

Quote from: orangesocks on April 02, 2007, 04:35:30 PM

Hum, seeing as KonKon has appeared, will Mako also make an appearance anytime soon?

I love how Koharu just up and gave Yossie a nickname. :)

So...KonKon's good but pretends to be bad, right? I see, I see... ::strokes chin::
Hope Aika, Risako, and Saki meet up with the others soon to beat some baddies(?) up!!

Maybe. ;)

I was wondering if anyone would catch that. It's important.

We shall see, we shall see...

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: Loser87 on April 02, 2007, 09:18:40 PM

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XDD She's a robot, and Konkon's a genius. It's going to be okay.

Just wait until you read about the others. <3

o_o Ow. Tylenol isn't as cuddly as bunnies are... -slaves-
(I've got half a mind to change my custom title to "Loser87's Fanfic Slave". XD)

*Shakes you violently*
YOU BETTER BRING HER BACK OR I KILL YOU WITH ANCIENT KOREAN SECRET!!!! .......THAT IS....CAT SCRATCH!!
*throws some radioactive kittens at you*
NOW GET BACK TO WORK!! YA!! *throws some more radioactive kitties at you...and your face...*

Please do change your custom titles to loser87's fanfic slave otherwise you shall die horribly by cows and sea monkeys! >_O
...and post a new chappie already GAWD!
...
..
*huggles* ^w^ XDXD

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 03, 2007, 03:07:07 AM

Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One

She was still sitting there in the midst of her underground technological lair, vaguely aware of the low hum the machinery was making as she stared blankly ahead at her glowing computer screen. There on the monitor was the picture that the Maihabot had sent her of Aika, Risako, and Saki, and though it was somewhat grainy and the kids were much older than she last remembered them… there was no mistaking who was in that picture.

The genius brushed a strand of her curly hair back behind an ear, leaning forward to rest her elbows on the makeshift desk, as if to scrutinize the image more closely.

There’s just no way… it’s impossible… They’re dead. Dead people don’t come back to life. …They just don’t.

“I swear, it’s almost like you’re living down here nowadays, Konkon…”

A normal person would have jumped if someone else had snuck up behind them and started speaking like that. But not Konno Asami. She was far too used to the way Makoto greated her. When you live with someone for nearly fifty years, you can pretty much predict everything that they’re gonna do.

“I wonder if I’ll be able to leave this room at the end of the day sometimes myself. Anyway… you might want to look at this, Mako-chan.”

Asami felt her housemate’s arms slide around her neck as Makoto leaned forward, resting her chin on the genius’s shoulder in order to get a better look. It was an affectionate gesture, which was usually returned with a kiss or a snuggle, but Asami was much too deep in thought to respond at the moment.

The slightly younger girl (and that fact had been argued over many times; technically, the two of them were immortal in the sense that they would never grow old. Konkon had invented a genetic inhibitor of sorts back in her days at the university, and it allowed the user to stay young physically… well, basically forever. The genius wasn’t exactly sure if or when the inhibitor would expire. Anyways, it was two years after this and the horrific deaths of many H!P members that Makoto actually met up with the genius again, and it was at that point that she was exposed to the inhibitor as well. So technically, Konkon was forever nineteen, and Makoto was forever twenty-one…. Physically. But that was neither here nor there, and is a story for another time) tensed against Asami’s shoulder as she realized what the image was of.

“Konkon… that’s… where did you get that?”

“Maihabot took a picture of them in the Steam District. …They have the same DNA, Mako-chan… and that doesn’t lie… I tried to get her to bring them here, but I think she went all gung-ho on them and probably scared them into fighting her… Her signal disappeared from the tracker about five minutes ago. The other units should be there now… so I’m going to try and talk to them using the Maimaibot.”

Makoto’s mind was reeling.

“So… you think it’s really them, then?”

“I don’t know. Looking at all the facts… They should be dead. And perhaps what worries me more is that maybe someone got a hold of Tsunku’s DNA collection… I thought giving it to him would ensure it’s safety, though…”

“Wait, so they could actually be clones, then?”

“It’s more likely than the idea that they’ve come back from the dead.”

The two of them were silent for a moment, and Asami could hear that annoying hum again. Annoying, now that she had been pulled a bit out of her thoughts and was more aware of it. She’d have to fix that problem later. For now, a question was nagging at her mind.

“Where’s Maiha?”

“Sleeping on the couch upstairs, I think. Poor kid got worn out playing tag with me.”

“She’s really too old to still be playing tag.”

“Technically, she’ll be perpetually sixteen for the rest of her life thanks to you, so I don’t think so.”

“So are you saying I did the wrong thing by saving her? Her parents were dead, her house had been burned down, and… that man… he left her to meet the same fate as the rest of them…”

“I didn’t mean that…”

Silence again. That stupid annoying mechanical buzz. Asami might have kicked it, were the machines in the room not so sensitive.

“…why did you save her, though? Why not Murakami-chan, too?”

“I didn’t know he would be targeting the children that had left the project… I had just assumed that he would leave them alone like us… But I was so wrong. He went after those kids, I realized, because he wanted to make sure that they would never return to doing anything idol-related ever again. Because they were young, they still had potential. And I suppose he was afraid of that. When I finally figured all of this out… he had already gotten to Murakami.”

“So that’s why after we heard the news… that’s why you wanted to find Maiha right away?”

“Yes. I believed that she would be next. Thankfully we got there in time…”

Click, click, click. Patience, Asami… don’t attack the computer… be nice to it… be gentle with technology…

“What should we do about her, then…?”

“You mean… when the others get here?”

“Yeah, two of those kids… they’re Berryz, right? Or they used to be. She’s going to remember them, and they won’t know who she is… That’s gonna hurt…”

“…I don’t know. For now, I don’t think we should tell her. She’ll find out when she wakes up, anyway…”

Unbeknownst to Makoto and Asami, a figure had been watching them from the crack in the door that led to the makeshift laboratory, and as the conversation ended, she stepped away, heart pounding in her throat. She had come down to ask for a blanket to perhaps make her nap a little more comfortable, and well… she hadn’t expected to stumble on this…

Maiha turned and walked quietly back up the stairs, biting her lip as she tried to hold back the tears that threatened to come.

She just couldn’t decide if they were happy, sad, or grateful ones.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: Estrea on April 03, 2007, 03:13:04 AM

Interesting, very interesting. Konkon is a genius indeed! I want that chip. Lol.

Mmm, I foresee so many possibilities... *strokes chin* Can't wait to see where you go with this! ^__^

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: glcorps2002 on April 03, 2007, 03:14:52 AM

So them being alive is going to break the HPKbots brains? Sweet. But I just realized something: Couldn't the evil ruler make clones of the heroes to infiltrate the group?

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: Loser87 on April 03, 2007, 03:31:25 AM

;_; Poor Maiha...Okay I forgive you for not frying th real maiha >_>
But......*throws some turtles at you* THAT'S FOR MAKING EVERYTHING SO DAMN TRAGIC, YOU BROUGHT ME TO CLOSE TEARS DAMN YOU!!
You and your...your...tear-bring writing stuff!!

But....>_>...Good-job otherwise =)

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Asami felt her housemate’s arms slide around her neck as Makoto leaned forward, resting her chin on the genius’s shoulder in order to get a better look. It was an affectionate gesture, which was usually returned with a kiss or a snuggle, but Asami was much too deep in thought to respond at the moment.

*french accent* ohohoho! my, my so makoto and asami are...'how we say...a sweet couple? >w<

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Maimaibot.

XDXD >w< So cute!! is she gonna be like...uber chibi since she is technically the shortest person in h!pkids >_>

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“Technically, she’ll be perpetually sixteen for the rest of her life thanks to you, so I don’t think so.”

=O forever young Maiha but then again, konno did say she wouldn't know when the inhibitor would expire so hmmm >_>

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Why not Murakami-chan, too?

Hmmm...if megumi died would that mean she's a clone now >_>....hmmm
I wonder...if you're as sick and twisted as me >_> Would you be writing chapters with how the members died >_>
Ew...I just got all horror ficcy...thingy...er...hm..

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“What should we do about her, then…?”

“You mean… when the others get here?”

“Yeah, two of those kids… they’re Berryz, right? Or they used to be. She’s going to remember them, and they won’t know who she is… That’s gonna hurt…”

“…I don’t know. For now, I don’t think we should tell her. She’ll find out when she wakes up, anyway…”

Unbeknownst to Makoto and Asami, a figure had been watching them from the crack in the door that led to the makeshift laboratory, and as the conversation ended, she stepped away, heart pounding in her throat. She had come down to ask for a blanket to perhaps make her nap a little more comfortable, and well… she hadn’t expected to stumble on this…

Maiha turned and walked quietly back up the stairs, biting her lip as she tried to hold back the tears that threatened to come.

She just couldn’t decide if they were happy, sad, or grateful ones.

This part here I should choke you for but....I'm a drama/angst lover sooo i can't choke you for this
...You can have a cookie....only this one time >_>

Yes, I, Loser87 god of cheesecakes ownz you BUAHAHAHA!! XDXDXD
......
.....o_o...>w<..
NOW GET BACK TO WORK MUSH MUSH!!
*throws some more radioactive kitties at you and that writing brain of yours*

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter 15: ProjectHPK, Part II]
Post by: ziggurat on April 03, 2007, 03:32:32 AM

;_;

I see Maiha!

Konkon and Mako ganging up, yay!

Wish to read more. :D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One
Post by: Aioros on April 03, 2007, 04:29:47 AM

Konkon's immortal? And Mako-chan and Maiha's alive too? Seems the graduates had better luck than the ones they left behind. I smell Meguru, Miuna and Asami somewhere ;D

P.S. I want a Maimibot ;D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: rndmnwierd on April 03, 2007, 05:20:55 AM

So, are the other C-ute girls alive or is it just Maiha?

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One
Post by: coachie on April 03, 2007, 10:13:29 AM

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Click, click, click. Patience, Asami… don’t attack the computer… be nice to it… be gentle with technology…

that line cracked me up ;D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 03, 2007, 12:24:07 PM

Quote from: Estrea on April 03, 2007, 03:13:04 AM

Interesting, very interesting. Konkon is a genius indeed! I want that chip. Lol.

Mmm, I foresee so many possibilities... *strokes chin* Can't wait to see where you go with this! ^__^

I'm not sure if I'd want one or not... lol I'd get tired of being sixteen. XD

Quote from: glcorps2002 on April 03, 2007, 03:14:52 AM

So them being alive is going to break the HPKbots brains? Sweet. But I just realized something: Couldn't the evil ruler make clones of the heroes to infiltrate the group?

Like, make clones... of the clones? o_o

Quote from: Loser87 on April 03, 2007, 03:31:25 AM

;_; Poor Maiha...Okay I forgive you for not frying th real maiha >_>
But......*throws some turtles at you* THAT'S FOR MAKING EVERYTHING SO DAMN TRAGIC, YOU BROUGHT ME TO CLOSE TEARS DAMN YOU!!
You and your...your...tear-bring writing stuff!!

But....>_>...Good-job otherwise =)
*french accent* ohohoho! my, my so makoto and asami are...'how we say...a sweet couple? >w<
XDXD >w< So cute!! is she gonna be like...uber chibi since she is technically the shortest person in h!pkids >_>
=O forever young Maiha but then again, konno did say she wouldn't know when the inhibitor would expire so hmmm >_>
Hmmm...if megumi died would that mean she's a clone now >_>....hmmm
I wonder...if you're as sick and twisted as me >_> Would you be writing chapters with how the members died >_>
Ew...I just got all horror ficcy...thingy...er...hm..
This part here I should choke you for but....I'm a drama/angst lover sooo i can't choke you for this
...You can have a cookie....only this one time >_>

Yes, I, Loser87 god of cheesecakes ownz you BUAHAHAHA!! XDXDXD
......
.....o_o...>w<..
NOW GET BACK TO WORK MUSH MUSH!!
*throws some more radioactive kitties at you and that writing brain of yours*

Sweet. I almost made someone cry. ^-^

Yes. Yes they are. Because it makes me happy. <3
And actually, yeah, Maimai will be the smallest robot.
If/when it does, they'll just keep growing from the spot where they left off, so they've still got good long lives after the chips break, regardless. X3
No, she's not a clone. None of the C-ute girls were cloned.
Yes, and no. X3 I'll let you figure out what my ambiguous answer means.
-nibbles on cookie-

...-then flees the radioactive animals to get back to work- o_o Yes, master.

Quote from: ziggurat on April 03, 2007, 03:32:32 AM

;_;

I see Maiha!

Konkon and Mako ganging up, yay!

Wish to read more. :D

Yes, yes... Maiha and Maihabot. It's a mystery... -w-

And you shall get your wish. Tonight, sometime. XD

Quote from: wordsworth on April 03, 2007, 04:29:47 AM

Konkon's immortal? And Mako-chan and Maiha's alive too? Seems the graduates had better luck than the ones they left behind. I smell Meguru, Miuna and Asami somewhere ;D

P.S. I want a Maimibot ;D

I dunno anything about Country Musume, so... don't count on it. XD

P.S. Me too... ;-;

Quote from: rndmnwierd on April 03, 2007, 05:20:55 AM

So, are the other C-ute girls alive or is it just Maiha?

None of the C-ute girls are alive. Maiha is the only survivor of the H!P Kids. (Even though she technically isn't still part of Hello! Project. X3)

Quote from: coachie on April 03, 2007, 10:13:29 AM

that line cracked me up ;D

Konkon's got self-control. :3

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One
Post by: JFC on April 03, 2007, 07:57:54 PM

Konkon, Mako, and Maiha are ALIVE!!! And...immortal? :o

Somehow I figured that members who had left H!P would have been safe and not targeted, but he still went after the Maiha and Murakami!!! That bastage. :k-mad:

Just how the hell DID Konkon get everyone's DNA? O_o

Genetic inhibitor...Konkon's so S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T! :hee:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: C60533 on April 03, 2007, 08:07:30 PM

Such a good story. I'm completely addicted, but what is with the Three? They're like vampires, but...they know something. What is it? :confused: And Konkon and Mako and Maiha are still alive! And they don't look old! Yay! And I seriousy want one of those bots. Adopt-a-bot.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One
Post by: orangesocks on April 03, 2007, 08:39:43 PM

Yay, Makoto has made her appearance! And she's immortal! :D KonKon really is a genius! I thought of KonKon (until this chapter) as having greying hair and everything.

Hum, I wonder how the three of them have managed to escape Shizuka's grasp for so long? I'm glad the clones have allies now. :)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: Blizzard on April 04, 2007, 12:26:33 AM

I'm curious as to how Mako is going to react to seeing Yossui again. Afterall, it is Yossui, and Mako! And I also wanna know what other powers the girls have. And, and, and... I'm sure everything will be answered in time, so I'll just have to wait. Looking forward to more!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: Ren on April 04, 2007, 10:06:30 AM

Yay! Reina is winning the poll :heart:!

KonMako is just so cute! Do they know that Biyuuden is still alive too? Do they have the superhuman power?
And the purpose of those kids bots army is for battle against Shizuka?
If they know about Biyuuden's power, maybe its to avoid Rika's eyes that she decided to build robots instead.. o_O
And wonder what KonMako will do if they see the girls again face to face... Break down into tears? ;_;

So the C-ute girls are all still alive beside Murakami Megumi? :D
The C-ute girls don't have superhuman power?

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 04, 2007, 12:13:07 PM

Quote from: JFC on April 03, 2007, 07:57:54 PM

Konkon, Mako, and Maiha are ALIVE!!! And...immortal? :o

Somehow I figured that members who had left H!P would have been safe and not targeted, but he still went after the Maiha and Murakami!!! That bastage. :k-mad:

Just how the hell DID Konkon get everyone's DNA? O_o

Genetic inhibitor...Konkon's so S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T! :hee:

Yes indeed they are. :3

Yeah, he's not-so-nice. But in going after the kids too, it shows that he's afraid of something...

lol Konkon IS a genius. Probably wouldn't have been too hard. XD

Quote from: C60533 on April 03, 2007, 08:07:30 PM

Such a good story. I'm completely addicted, but what is with the Three? They're like vampires, but...they know something. What is it? :confused: And Konkon and Mako and Maiha are still alive! And they don't look old! Yay! And I seriousy want one of those bots. Adopt-a-bot.

Well, really and truthfully, only Rika really knows stuff.
The other two only know what they've been told.

Adopt-a-bot. I might have found a way to make that possible. X3
(But not like... real robots... haha)

Quote from: orangesocks on April 03, 2007, 08:39:43 PM

Yay, Makoto has made her appearance! And she's immortal! :D KonKon really is a genius! I thought of KonKon (until this chapter) as having greying hair and everything.

Hum, I wonder how the three of them have managed to escape Shizuka's grasp for so long? I'm glad the clones have allies now. :)

Old lady Konkon would have still been cute... just old. XD

It's a secret... ;)

Quote from: Blizzard on April 04, 2007, 12:26:33 AM

I'm curious as to how Mako is going to react to seeing Yossui again. Afterall, it is Yossui, and Mako! And I also wanna know what other powers the girls have. And, and, and... I'm sure everything will be answered in time, so I'll just have to wait. Looking forward to more!

lol Good things come to those who wait. <3

Quote from: Ren on April 04, 2007, 10:06:30 AM

Yay! Reina is winning the poll :heart:!

KonMako is just so cute! Do they know that Biyuuden is still alive too? Do they have the superhuman power?
And the purpose of those kids bots army is for battle against Shizuka?
If they know about Biyuuden's power, maybe its to avoid Rika's eyes that she decided to build robots instead.. o_O
And wonder what KonMako will do if they see the girls again face to face... Break down into tears? ;_;

So the C-ute girls are all still alive beside Murakami Megumi? :D
The C-ute girls don't have superhuman power?

Lol I've actually figured out what I'm going to do with those poll results, too. Expect new stuff sometime at the end of this week. <3

Konkon and Mako do not have superhuman powers. With the exception of being basically immortal... they're pretty normal. XD And as for the three, you'll have to wait and see...
The robots' purpose will be explained in the next chapter. (I think. Not the one I'm about to post, but the one after that.)
It'll be emotional, that's for sure.

Nope, none of the C-ute girls are alive. There are robots that have been built in their likeness and carry their names, but the girls themselves are dead. ;-; Maiha is the only one who is still alive, but she also has a robot counterpart.

(New chapter coming in like the next... few minutes.)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 04, 2007, 12:17:34 PM

I had INTENDED to post this last night, but unfortunately a storm was going on and our power went out a couple of times, so I just gave up and went downstairs. (Thankfully, I had saved the story several times before the power cut out on me. X3) Oh, and also, this post marks the 69th page of my story. XD

Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III

“Y’know… when I saw all these things flying at us from the sky… I was scared at first. Now that I can see what they are, though… I’m not really worried…”

“Don’t make them angry…”

“They won’t stop staring at us…”

Eight minature robots were standing in a circle around the trio, which meant that sixteen electronical eyes were focused on the clones, and it was slightly unnerving. Even if the tallest barely reached a foot in height…

Though the little machines had made quite an impressive landing, dust billowing about on impact and whatnot, they hadn’t moved since they had made it to the ground, almost as if they were waiting for something.

“Do you think we killed their mom…?” Saki whispered, earning a glare from Risako. The three of them jumped as the smallest of the robots stepped (or waddled, depending upon how you look at it) towards them, and craned her head upwards, looking at them with her colorless eyes. Aika was reminded of Eri for a moment, but she was pretty sure that the robot could probably see them very clearly.

The little thing opened it’s mouth, and a voice laced with static began to speak.

“Hello? Hello, can you hear me? …ah, I can’t see anything… Maimaibot, activate your holographic projectors, please.”

The robot obliged, and soon, two faint beams of light were streaming from her monochrome orbs, merging together in the air to form a life-sized image of the genius, much like the image of the scientist the clones had seen in the cave. It was somewhat hard to see the hologram, because the sun was still out, but if Aika squinted, she could make out the girl’s fuzzy shape.

“That’s better. Anyways, hello there. My name is Konno Asami… I’m terribly sorry that my robot decided to attack you, but it seems that she misinterpreted my instructions… I simply want to meet you, that’s all… but she tried to use force rather than asking nicely.”

Aika scowled. “Why do you want to meet us? How do we know this isn’t some kind of trap?”

“…I suppose I should have expected that you would think that… The three of you DO look like you’ve had it rough lately… especially if you are what I think you are.”

“Which would be…?”

“You’re clones, are you not? It’s the only reasonable explanation I can come up with… And if that’s true, I think I know more about you than you may expect.”

“How’s that?”

“Because without me, the DNA that created you wouldn’t have still been around.”

Well, that got Aika to be quiet. Risako and Saki were wearing similar masks of disbelief on their faces, though the latter’s mouth wasn’t hanging open… It had to have been a trick… some sort of ploy to get them to drop their guard so Shizuka and his vampire-esque cronies could kill them.

…Didn’t it?

“There are more of us… more than just us three… If we come, the others come too.” Saki stated, finally breaking through the silence.

“More than… more than just three? H-how many of you are there?”

“Twenty-one.”

“Oh… so those footprints… You were the ones that killed the Stalker? Oh my… … …well, I think there should be enough room here for all of you, anyway… The little robots will lead the way if you decide that you want to come, so… please, at least consider it?”

And that was that. The transmission ended, and the Maimaibot returned to normal, waddling back to her place in the circle. Like a little penguin. A little CUTE penguin. But that wasn’t the point. The tiny robots had gone back to staring again, waiting in that creepy way they did, and while Saki seemed to be contemplating what she had done to the Maihabot, Risako turned to Aika.

“What should we do…?”

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It had only taken about half an hour for the HPK bots to lead the clones out of the forest and past the Steam District city, and they continued to make slow progress towards the mystery destination where the genius was waiting for them. They (mainly Maasa, since she was doing all the work) had to pause every so often along the way to let Maki rest, and to keep the weaker clones like Sayumi and Momoko (though the latter was trying much harder to keep up, and didn’t complain even once) from passing out due to the heat and all the walking.

To be honest, the sun was making the journey difficult for everyone (with the exception of Reina, who was actually thrilled about the hot weather and was walking with a bit of a skip in her step) as it was a little bit past noon, and the giant star was in a good position in the sky to fry everyone… or at least make their lives a little more miserable.

The robots kept ahead of the group, stopping briefly every few seconds to make sure the clones were still following before continuing a little bit farther on. They had left the beaten-up Maihabot in the city, stowing her metal body in the local dump. Aika had thought this peculiar, but when she asked about it, the robot known as Airibot informed her that it was okay.

She had said (with quite a condescending tone, actually) that they weren’t the same as humans and didn’t need to worry about bodies or anything trivial like that. “All Konno-san has to do is reupload her programming into another spare shell and it’ll be like nothing happened… You ask such strange questions…”

The other clones (namely Miki and Hitomi) had been skeptical about meeting the genius, but once they had come to the conclusion that they were running out of options for shelter, and that Maki was getting worse and needed medical attention soon, they reluctantly decided to follow along.

“How much longer until we get there?”

It was Sayumi who asked the question, of course, as she was starting to fall towards the back of the group again.

“It will take us approximately 30.6 minutes to reach our destination from this point.” One of the little robots replied, not even bothering to turn around to look at the clones. It sounded slightly annoyed…

“At least we aren’t walking through the forest any more…” Risa muttered, glad to be rid of the bugs and the irritating plant life.

“I’m not sure I like being out in the open like this, though…” Ai replied, cat-like eyes keeping a wary, close watch on their surroundings. They were out in a field now, the city, forest, and mountain range to their backs and another row of peaks and an even darker-looking jungle ahead.

Did we make the right choice… by coming this way? I feel as though I should have a bad feeling about this, but… for some reason I also feel like I’m going to meet up with some old friends…

Strange…

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: Estrea on April 04, 2007, 12:30:25 PM

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“Do you think we killed their mom…?”

That cracked me up. XD Maihabot a mommy to all the other HPK bots. XD Ahem. I want a bot too! XD

Anyway, I look forward to the meeting. ^__^

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: ziggurat on April 04, 2007, 01:23:53 PM

Quote from: FeverInducedMadness

Did we make the right choice… by coming this way?

Yes! (I think so, lol)

If the clones joint Konkon faction, nothing can destroy them! (I hope so)

Go captain! (I'm addicted to your fic now FIM, don't break my heart!) :D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One]
Post by: Loser87 on April 04, 2007, 05:55:26 PM

Sheesh the H!P Kids bots are a bit >_> Mean but thats okay I guess? XD
Well I must do my god like duties into scolding you, because...
YOU TAKE TOO LONG TO POST!! YA!!YA!! POST FASTER MUSH MUSH!!
*sits in a rocking chair* You know in my golden ages i use to post a new chapter once a day ya lazy whippersnapper!! *throws my cane at you*

I want the drama! THE EMOTION! THE ANGST!! and of course some humor lol
SO POST FASTER DAMMIT!
>_>....don't say i didn't give you nothin' *gives some cheesecake-of-non-doom as a treat*
NOW MUSH MUSH! *goes back to throwing some things at you*

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude I: The Genius, Her Friend, and the Lucky One
Post by: JFC on April 05, 2007, 02:59:25 AM

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“Do you think we killed their mom…?” Saki whispered, earning a glare from Risako.

Damn that was cute. :D

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“Hello? Hello, can you hear me? …ah, I can’t see anything… Maimaibot, activate your holographic projectors, please.”

Introductions have been made, time to meet Konkon! :heart:

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“I’m not sure I like being out in the open like this, though…” Ai replied, cat-like eyes keeping a wary, close watch on their surroundings. They were out in a field now, the city, forest, and mountain range to their backs and another row of peaks and an even darker-looking jungle ahead.

Yeah, assuming htat they don't want to get spotted and/or attacked again, being out in the open like that is not the smartest plan. Then again they may not have a choice, depending on how many ways there are to get to their destination.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III]
Post by: rndmnwierd on April 05, 2007, 03:49:29 AM

Follow the robots! *breaks out into song*

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III]
Post by: Ren on April 05, 2007, 06:14:44 AM

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“Hello? Hello, can you hear me? …ah, I can’t see anything… Maimaibot, activate your holographic projectors, please.”

LOL Konkon seems like a sloppy professor XD. Like the one who is strange or weird but is actually very genius XD.

Ahh so the C-ute kids are dead, and no DNA of them is left? Maybe Shizuka will try to clone them to counter the Morning and Berryz clones XD.

Can't wait for them to meet KonMako... Oh the upcoming drama! ;_;

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III]
Post by: Blizzard on April 06, 2007, 06:24:23 PM

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto? :rolleyes: Sorry, I couldn't resist that one!

So, the meeting is coming up. Emotions will most likely be stirred up a bit. Nothing like some good drama!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 08, 2007, 03:14:20 AM

Interlude II: The End of Morning Musume

“Leader, you’re shaking.”

“Am not. It’s totally the ground. All the fans outside moving around and stuff, that’s all.”

“If you say so, Fujimoto-senpai.”

“…”

“…”

“Okay, so maybe I’m just a little nervous. This is the first time I go out there as the leader of Morning Musume, after all…”

“You shouldn’t be ashamed of being nervous… None of us would think any less of you for it… I bet Yoshizawa-san got nervous sometimes when she started out as leader, too.”

“Yeah… she did. But she had me. And now I don’t have her.”

“You have Takahashi-san…”

“…”

“…She’s not that bad…”

“…”

“…Okay, so maybe she IS easy to walk all over… But you’re doing okay, you know? All of us really respect you.”

“…I know.”

The fan club crowd was starting to go wild outside, and the stage hands backstage were giving them all the signal that it was about time to start. Miki shifted on her feet apprehensively, adjusting her costume for what appeared to be the thousandth time, if Aika had counted correctly. The poor woman seemed to be beside herself, which was unusual, unless Aya had something to do with it. At least they had gotten through the traditional pep talk and cheer already…

“Ready, Micchi-chan?”

“Yeah.”

A roar of appreciation ripped through the crowd as Morning Musume ran out onto the stage with the music, dancing and singing to the opening act. Miki was able to focus all of her built up anxiety into the first song, and about halfway through it, she felt herself relaxing and was able to begin enjoying the performance.

This isn’t so bad… I can do this… I can lead these girls…

When it came time for her to sing a line by herself, Miki broke out into a grin, stepping forward confidently into the spotlight. She didn’t even realize when the bullet pierced into her side, and at first she just stood there, almost as if she was in a daze. Something warm and thick was dripping down from near her ribcage, and she was starting to have trouble breathing, almost as if fluid was starting to collect in one of her lungs…

She could vaguely make out the sound of one of the other girls crying for help, and as her vision began to blur, she saw another member’s form slump to the ground in front of her, lifeless. The crowd was in a panic, and shots continued to ring out while she staggered to hold on.

The pain had become so much at that point that she was relieved when the second bullet finally came to take her away.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Sixteen: ProjectHPK, Part III]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 08, 2007, 03:16:33 AM

This took so long to write... ><;;

Chapter Seventeen: Hello! Project Underground

“We’re here.”

Miki scowled. “I know you think we’re stupid and whatever, and though I may have only just been born yesterday, I must inform you that this is just a tree.”

And it was. Just a plain old ordinary tree standing at the edge of the dark and creepy forest that the group had been so far away from only a half-hour ago. No matter how you looked at it (and Aika tried several ways, such as tilting her head to the side), a tree was still just a tree.

The robots said nothing, however, and were just standing around the trunk, waiting. They did that a lot, and it was starting to get a little bit creepy, like they were communicating with aliens or something.

“Wait a minute…” Eri was shifting about on her feet, her face deep in concentration. The blind girl suddenly crouched down, and she ran her hands along the earth before rapping on the ground with one of her fists. “…There’s something beneath us. Something really big and hollow.”

Everyone looked down at their feet, skeptical. Miki stomped at the earth, but she did not have Eri’s senses, and therefore felt and heard nothing. The metal-armed woman crossed her arms, unconvinced.

“I don’t—” She started, but her words were cut off as the ground began to shake and tremble violently, startling everyone but the robots. The group began to back away as the tree began to rise up and slide backwards, supported by a large slab of metal that had been hidden beneath it. After a few moments, the metal groaned and lurched to a halt, having revealed a very large hole in the ground. There was a mechanical hiss, and a spiral staircase rose to meet the opening of the hole, leading down into the unknown.

Miki was aware of twenty pairs of eyes on her, and she threw her hands up into the air.

“OKAY, so maybe it WASN’T just a tree. I can be wrong, too, y’know?” And with that, she was the first to begin the descent, the other clones following quietly after her.

It was damp and cold underground, and Aika was reminded of the cave they had stayed in the previous day, though this was much bigger, and the only illumination was that of the hole in the ceiling. The stairs were slippery from the moisture, and though there was a thin metal railing, it was freezing to the touch and hard to hold on to. Once everyone had made it onto the stairs, the robots included, the tree began to slide back into place over the hole, and soon the clones were enveloped in complete and total darkness.

Sayumi let out a shriek, and Aika could hear Momoko begin to whimper from somewhere behind her, which was coupled with Saki’s quiet attempts to get the girl to calm down. She could feel hands grab onto her shoulders, and she assumed that Risako wasn’t exactly having a great time either.

A resounding slap echoed through the darkness, and Miki’s snickers followed, as did Aya’s rather-peeved voice.

“Reina, would you mind helping out a bit here?”

Dim light came from farther up on the stairwell, and Aika could make out the wonky-eyed female’s form from above her, staring down.

“I was waiting for someone to ask.”

The group continued on down the treacherous spiral, using the firebrand to light the way, since the robots didn’t seem to be inclined to try and help them out at all. When they reached the bottom, Aika found that the floor was made of some sort of tiled metal, and it seemed to be just as slippery as the stairs. Almost as if the taller female had read her mind, Hitomi spoke up to warn the others of this fact.

“Be careful. We don’t want anyone to fall and split their head open.”

Nice. Nice and graphic. Risako’s fingers were starting to bruise a little bit. Good job, Leader.

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The little genius was just crying her eyes out.

She was a fountain of tears, hiccups, and sniffles at the moment, and most of the clones were just standing there, rather confused about the entire matter. Well, Aika was only slightly confused. For the most part, she didn’t really care, and had lost interest in the situation about five minutes ago.

They had made their way through the underground chamber into a brightly lit laboratory that had been carved into a room beneath the earth. It was much like the one they had escaped from, though it was bigger, and didn’t feel evil… or like death.

The little robots were trying to comfort Asami, and Makoto was standing behind her, staring at the clones like someone had punched her in the stomach. It was shocking enough to know that they even existed, but it was much harder to see the group face to face.

“Ah… Excuse me…” Ai was the first to speak up, though she did so timidly. She felt some kind of strange connection with these people, and it tugged at her heart a bit to see the chubby-cheeked female crying, even if she didn’t know why. “I’m not really sure why you’re upset… and I’m sorry for whatever it is, but… we came here to find out some answers… answers that we need. If you have something to do with why we were created, then maybe you can explain some important things to us…”

Asami sniffled, trying really hard to compose herself. Seeing this girl… it wasn’t her… but at the same time…

“You’re absolutely right, I’m terribly sorry… I’ll be glad to answer any of the questions that you have… But first, let me introduce you to my friend Ogawa Makoto here, and welcome you to the Hello! Project Underground.”

“Hello! Project? …Underground? I don’t know about the last part, but… isn’t that the name of the place… where we… or well, where the people that we came from… didn’t they work there before they died?” Miki asked, sitting down on top of a rusted metal box that just happened to be behind her.

“Yes, that is correct. Hello! Project was a name given to all of the groups and artists that were produced by a man named Tsunku. To honor everyone that was killed, we named this place after it…”

“You said that you were responsible for getting the DNA that created us…” Aika was paying more attention now that things were getting back to the point, “What did you mean by that?”

“In order to explain that… I have to tell you this: Makoto and I used to be a part of the Hello! Project ourselves. Until today… we assumed that we were all that remained of it… Anyways, the last time I actually saw any of the H!P members… before the incidents began to occur… was at the Winter 10th Anniversary concert that the organization was holding. I had been there for two members that were graduating from a group that I used to be a part of, in order to give them support and encouragement.

While I was there, I collected samples of DNA from certain members, because I was going to use it for a project I was working on outside of my homework for the university I was attending at the time. I actually had forgotten that I even had it until about a year after the shootings occurred…”

“…Wait a minute…” That little lightbulb in Risa’s head had gone off, and the clone of the Reaction Queen was staring at Asami with wide eyes. “If you survived… I mean, if you were a part of H!P back then… then that makes you… you should be…”

Asami rolled her eyes. “Very, very old, I know. And technically, I am. However, I invented an inhibitor chip a long time ago that keeps my body from aging. Makoto is under the chip’s influence as well, and so is the other survivor, Maiha. Though, physically she’s younger than we are. I suspect you’ll meet her later…”

Reina narrowed her little wonky eyes at the genius. “Why did you give that scientist the DNA to clone us? Was it just because you missed your friends or something, because if that’s the reason, I’m gonna be pissed…”

“I never gave it to any scientist. I actually left the collection to Tsunku, who I thought I could trust to keep it safe until I figured out what I WAS going to do with it. I didn’t think it would be right to just have it destroyed… But I also didn’t think he would let it get into anyone else’s hands, either… This clears up some things for me, though… Only one of Shizuka’s scientists could have created you, which means that he is probably aware of your existence, and probably isn’t very happy about it, either.”

Miki snorted. “Duh. We’ve already been attacked a couple of times within the past forty-eight hours… Tell me something, though. Why aren’t you dead? I can’t imagine that a place like this is legal in this screwed-up world.”

Asami managed a mischievous little grin. “It’s not. And I’m not dead because I happen to be brilliant. His technology is highly advanced simply because he’s the only one with technology… besides us. Radar devices, tracking chips—there are probably some embedded in those jumpsuits of yours, by the way—anything like that gets short circuited down here thanks to the metal shell that is currently surrounding us. Those three pets of his can’t find us here.”

“What can you tell us… about them?” Hitomi dared to ask, being horribly curious as she was.

“The Three? …It’s hard to say, really… As far as I know, they are the original members of Biyuuden: Okada Yui, Miyoshi Erika, and the leader, Ishikawa Rika. Back when the H!P performers were being killed, their deaths were staged, but what happened in reality—or at least, what I believe to be true—is that they were abducted by some of Shizuka’s followers and subjected to genetic experimentation and brainwashing. Many people think that they were the ones to slaughter the members of Morning Musume, but I don’t believe that for a second.”

Miki was really quiet at this point. There was no mistaking what she had seen in that creature’s horrible blood-red eyes… but if there was a chance that those things hadn’t always been this way, then maybe she was wrong. Perhaps it was just an illusion meant to frighten her…

Asami clapped her hands together, after rubbing the last stray tears from her eyes.

“Well, I understand if you have more questions, but I see that one of you is horribly wounded, and I might be able to do something to help her. In the meantime I suggest that you all should either try to get some rest because you look terribly exhausted. If you’re hungry, too, Makoto can get you whatever you’d like to eat. We have plenty of room and supplies down here, I can assure you. Just follow her up those stairs, and she’ll take care of what you need.” She immediately wandered over towards Maasa, who was still carrying Maki on her back. “Now, let’s see here… why don’t you get her over to this table…”

Makoto stared awkwardly at the other clones for a minute, before turning and motioning for those that wanted to follow her to do so.

Maybe coming to this place wasn’t such a bad idea after all…

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: ziggurat on April 08, 2007, 03:46:37 AM

Wow, double chapter!

This isn't a boring Saturday now. :D

So that is the time when the killing spree happened. What a perfect timing to be chosen. Argh.

A rare scene where miki-sama took back her words lol.

At last, in the safe place with the right people. :D

All for one and one for all. *grin*

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: Amarghetta on April 08, 2007, 04:26:52 AM

An update! Thanks... This is getting better with each chapter. :D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: Aioros on April 08, 2007, 04:59:13 AM

MM (or H!P girls) getting killed on stage, that's just horrible. Shizuka you madman!

Revelations this chapter
-So Viyuden was abducted and brainwashed.The ones who attacked the clones were probably "the" Viyuden, maybe genetically enhanced and programmed to become loyal to Shizuka
-Konkon and Mako-chan don't age. And Maiha <3
-is it just me or is Mako-chan uncomfortable with the clones?

Nice double chapter! ;D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: Ren on April 08, 2007, 05:05:43 AM

An update! :D

LOL Yossie didn't do a good job of leading them by scaring them like that. :lol:

I'm betting all of my money that Rika was the one who shot Miki to oblivion O_O. But brainwashed eh? Konkon might be wrong on that and they really do side with Shizuka...

I'm surprised that you didn't make Konkon or Ogawa jump to hug them or something... They must have missed the girls so much, especially fellow 5th gen members..

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: Estrea on April 08, 2007, 06:09:16 AM

Well it's good that they're in a safe house now. Hmm. Miki's death was unpleasant. Gah. So that was the original Biyuuden eh? I knew it. XD

Can't wait to see Maiha's reaction. :)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: orangesocks on April 08, 2007, 06:38:05 AM

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Miki scowled. “I know you think we’re stupid and whatever, and though I may have only just been born yesterday, I must inform you that this is just a tree.”

:farofflook: oh Miki! You're just so dang cool...

YEAH, joining forces!! I liked how KonKon chose to give Biyuuden the benefit of the doubt. How just! :)

I hope their war to rid the world of Shizuka will now also aim to free Biyuuden from his mind-control powers.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 08, 2007, 06:57:25 PM

Quote from: ziggurat on April 08, 2007, 03:46:37 AM

Wow, double chapter!

This isn't a boring Saturday now. :D

So that is the time when the killing spree happened. What a perfect timing to be chosen. Argh.

A rare scene where miki-sama took back her words lol.

At last, in the safe place with the right people. :D

All for one and one for all. *grin*

Lol. I just couldn't stop writing once I managed to break through my writer's block.

Yeah. Poor Miki. First performance as Leader happens to be her last performance altogether. ;-;

Well, we hope they're safe, don't we...

Quote from: Amarghetta on April 08, 2007, 04:26:52 AM

An update! Thanks... This is getting better with each chapter. :D

^-^ Thank you. <3

Quote from: wordsworth on April 08, 2007, 04:59:13 AM

MM (or H!P girls) getting killed on stage, that's just horrible. Shizuka you madman!

Revelations this chapter
-So Viyuden was abducted and brainwashed.The ones who attacked the clones were probably "the" Viyuden, maybe genetically enhanced and programmed to become loyal to Shizuka
-Konkon and Mako-chan don't age. And Maiha <3
-is it just me or is Mako-chan uncomfortable with the clones?

Nice double chapter! ;D

The way the Berryz go down is worse.

-Indeed. As far as you and Konkon know, anyways. ;)
-^-^
-The total realization of who these clones are hasn't exactly hit her just yet. X3

Thanks. <3

Quote from: Ren on April 08, 2007, 05:05:43 AM

An update! :D

LOL Yossie didn't do a good job of leading them by scaring them like that. :lol:

I'm betting all of my money that Rika was the one who shot Miki to oblivion O_O. But brainwashed eh? Konkon might be wrong on that and they really do side with Shizuka...

I'm surprised that you didn't make Konkon or Ogawa jump to hug them or something... They must have missed the girls so much, especially fellow 5th gen members..

We'll have to wait and see if your bet's a good one...

Well, Konkon's got more common sense than that, so even if she does miss her friends, she knows that these clones aren't them. Makoto's still in shock at the moment.

Quote from: orangesocks on April 08, 2007, 06:38:05 AM

:farofflook: oh Miki! You're just so dang cool...

YEAH, joining forces!! I liked how KonKon chose to give Biyuuden the benefit of the doubt. How just! :)

I hope their war to rid the world of Shizuka will now also aim to free Biyuuden from his mind-control powers.

Isn't she, though? -fangirl sigh-

Konkon's too nice to want to blame them. Or perhaps she's in denial...?

The clones will have to decide that for themselves... -mysterious-

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude II: The End of MM + Ch17: H!P Underground]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 08, 2007, 11:27:35 PM

Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan

“This one’s still alive!”

“Hurry, get her to the ER before we lose her!”

It hurts… it hurts so bad that I can’t breathe, and I can’t see, and I don’t know where I am because it hurts too much to think right now. People are screaming and crying all around me and I wish they’d be quiet and let me go to sleep…

“Excuse me, ladies, you can’t be in here while we’re working on the patient…”

“You’ll have to drag me out kicking and screaming. I don’t suggest you try, either, because I’ll kick your ass if you touch me.”

“Yossui…”

“…Fine. You can stay, but don’t get in our way.”

Leader was here. Not Miki. Yoshizawa-san. The one person I loved and adored and looked up to above all else was here. I want to jump up and down for joy, but I don’t even have the strength to even open my eyes. I think that Yaguchi-san is with her, but I can’t tell… it hurts too much. They’re talking now, and in low voices, so it’s really hard for me to hear.

“Have you seen any of the others, Yaguchi-san?”

“…M-Miki… she’s dead. Aika-chan, too… Junjun and Linlin didn’t make it out of the stadium, either.”

My friends… members of Morning Musume… they were dead and I was dying. It’s so unfair… I want to scream, cry, do anything but lay here on this cold hard surface while they hook up wires to my body to try and save me…

“Anyone else?”

“Kamei-chan… passed away while I was in the room… it was horrible… Sayumi wasn’t looking good when I saw her, and Reina’s condition is very critical… Koharu-chan here looks the best out of all of them, and even that… I don’t know…”

“Don’t talk like that, damnit, she’s going to be fine.”

Pain spikes up my spine suddenly, and I cry out, as it’s almost unbearable. I can hear the monitors begin to go crazy beside me, and the doctors are starting to get frantic. There isn’t anything else they can really do… There were a lot of bullets… I don’t know where all of them hit…

I’m really too tired to care right now, though. I just want to sleep. I want to be anywhere but here, away from the noise and the pain and the reality that people I know are dead. Someone’s hand is holding mine, gently, and I can hear quiet sobbing. I think that it might be Yoshizawa-san, but I’m not sure, because I’ve never ever seen or heard her cry before.

I just wish that I could open my mouth and tell her… I saw who did it, Yossui… I can’t believe it… but I saw who it was… I wish I could warn you.

Forgive me, Leader, I have to go now…

(Chapter 18 should be coming up sometime tonight, too. I just felt compelled to write another snippet.)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 12:07:02 AM

Urgh, this is tragic. Most members already dead ;_;

I wonder how Yossi and Yaguchi can escape the killings.. And do they regret it? So much question to answer... Good luck leader and Yaguchi!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: JFC on April 09, 2007, 12:18:33 AM

OMGASS KOHARU SAW!!??!?!?!? :frustrated: :pleeease: :scolding:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: orangesocks on April 09, 2007, 12:26:40 AM

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"Forgive me, Leader, I have to go now…"

KOHARU!!!! :'( Even Junjun and Linlin were killed...

Now I'm nervous for Yossie...How does she meet her end?

I hope it's not by the hands of Rika... :(

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: ferrar1 on April 09, 2007, 02:06:44 AM

Probably Rika :(((( Koharu never managed to warn the rest who killed them

I love the short interludes to how the girls died, really explains alot.

By the way, i'm slow to realize it till now, but what happened to Gaki-san? Is she still alive or is she the unlucky 1 not to have her DNA taken by KonKon

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: Estrea on April 09, 2007, 02:23:04 AM

Ah, Koharu saw! Figures. I'm sure it was Rika then. :P Just a feeling. XD Hmmm....

Can't wait to see more!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: Loser87 on April 09, 2007, 02:26:34 AM

I haven't gotten the chance to read it but I will soon, my internet sucks and is about to die, so you're lucky you are not going to get yelled at yet! When my internet stops being evil to me i'll scold you!! >w<

You've been spared!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 09, 2007, 03:14:38 AM

Quote from: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 12:07:02 AM

Urgh, this is tragic. Most members already dead ;_;

I wonder how Yossi and Yaguchi can escape the killings.. And do they regret it? So much question to answer... Good luck leader and Yaguchi!

Yup.. And it just gets worse with the interludes, so hold on.

They won't. They're clones, remember? The second and third interludes are clips of the past.

Quote from: JFC on April 09, 2007, 12:18:33 AM

OMGASS KOHARU SAW!!??!?!?!? :frustrated: :pleeease: :scolding:

Indeed. And then fate took her before she could reveal the killer.

Quote from: orangesocks on April 09, 2007, 12:26:40 AM

KOHARU!!!! :'( Even Junjun and Linlin were killed...

Now I'm nervous for Yossie...How does she meet her end?

I hope it's not by the hands of Rika... :(

Yeah, but they won't be in this story. I actually started writing it before they ever showed up in H!P land, so obviously I didn't plan for them to make an appearance. Otherwise, they'd be clones too. ;-;

It's a sad end for Leader, I'm afraid. But we won't see a glimpse into her death for a while now. I'm saving it.

Quote from: ferrar1 on April 09, 2007, 02:06:44 AM

Probably Rika :(((( Koharu never managed to warn the rest who killed them

I love the short interludes to how the girls died, really explains alot.

By the way, i'm slow to realize it till now, but what happened to Gaki-san? Is she still alive or is she the unlucky 1 not to have her DNA taken by KonKon

If she had had a chance to warn them, perhaps the remainder of H!P would have survived...

Risa's a clone. She just hasn't done much in the story thus far.

Quote from: Estrea on April 09, 2007, 02:23:04 AM

Ah, Koharu saw! Figures. I'm sure it was Rika then. :P Just a feeling. XD Hmmm....

Can't wait to see more!

^-^ Seems like everybody has the same feeling...

You'll get your wish in a few minutes!

Quote from: Loser87 on April 09, 2007, 02:26:34 AM

I haven't gotten the chance to read it but I will soon, my internet sucks and is about to die, so you're lucky you are not going to get yelled at yet! When my internet stops being evil to me i'll scold you!! >w<

You've been spared!

;-; I don't like the scoldings, master...

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude III: Sayonara, Miracle-chan]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 09, 2007, 03:17:16 AM

Chapter Eighteen: Reunion

“So… what exactly are you doing to her?”

Koharu had stayed behind in the laboratory as the others had followed after Makoto, curious about how the little genius planned on dealing with the poisoned Maki. That and… she just had to know something… but that would have to wait until she could find the proper time to ask it.

“Well, this machine will deliver thousands of tiny nano-bots—they’re like these little robots much smaller than human cells—into her bloodstream, and once they’re inside they’ll be able to filter the poison out of her body. Once they’re done, they’ll shut down and disintegrate harmlessly inside of her.”

“Oh…” She was somewhat sorry that she asked. Koharu didn’t really follow a single bit of the techno-babble that was spewing out of Asami’s mouth. It wasn’t really important, though. It seemed that Maki was going to be okay.

Asami tilted her head. “Are you alright? …You look concerned about something. Maybe you should go upstairs with the others and get some rest, hm?”

The winged female hesitated for a moment before nodding her head. They were probably going to be here for a while anyway. There will be plenty of time to talk to Konkon later… She slowly made her way up the stairs, disappearing from the genius’s view.

That was strange…

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“This…”
“…is…”
“AMAZING.”

The twins were chowing down on some food that Makoto had prepared for them and the other hungry clones, and they seemed to be very appreciative of the older female’s cooking. Makoto merely grinned, amazed at how much these clones reminded her of their deceased counterparts.

“There’s plenty of it, so don’t be afraid to eat. Konkon likes meat so we keep it stocked up here.”

“Where do you get it all from…?” Mari dared to ask, curious about the way things worked in such a place.

“The robots are the ones that go out and get it from cities nearby. They supply us with food, and we act as the connection between the different districts. Families sometimes get split apart when Shizuka assigns people to colonization, and they appreciate being able to talk to their relatives through us.”

“I can’t believe you haven’t been caught yet…”

Makoto grinned. “I can’t, either. But it’s a risk we’re willing to take. We’re trying to do anything we can to get under that man’s skin and make lives better for these people.”

Aika wasn’t really hungry. She was getting bored and restless sitting around in the makeshift kitchen, and wanted to explore the rest of the H!P Underground… just to keep herself occupied.

“Is it alright if I wander around for a while? I want to check out the rest of this place.”

Makoto shrugged. “It shouldn’t be a problem… Just, if you see anything that looks delicate or mechanical or like you shouldn’t touch it… it would probably be a good idea not to touch it. Konkon sometimes leaves her inventions lying around in random places, and she’d probably be upset if you broke something.”

“Got it…”

She got up and made her way out of the kitchen, going in no particular direction whatsoever. After a few minutes, she could hear footsteps behind her and she stopped, rolling her eyes to herself.

“If you wanted to come with me, all you had to do was ask. Even if I’m starting to get annoyed that you’re following me around everywhere, I’m not going to stop you from coming, Risako.”

Aika got a scornful snort as a reply, but the other girl jogged to catch up with her, and they continued on, entering what appeared to be something like a common room. It had a few couches, and there was a flat screen built into the wall, probably a television or computer of some sort. There was a girl stretched across one of the couches, and she was laying with her back to them, appearing to be asleep.

Risako nudged Aika with her elbow. “Should we wake her up…?”

“Why would you want to do that?”

“I’m bored.”

“You’re also mean. What if she freaks out when she sees us like that Konno girl did? I don’t really want to deal with that again.”

“But what if she doesn’t and is actually interesting to talk to?”

“…I’m not interesting enough?”

“No, not really.”

“Well, I’m awake now, so I guess you’ll find out.” The clones jumped, and turned to see that the girl was sitting up, watching them with her dark eyes. She looked sad, at least, but she wasn’t a river of tears. Not yet, anyway…

“...Long time no see, Risha-chan.”

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: Loser87 on April 09, 2007, 03:25:14 AM

;_;.....Maiha makes me feel all sad inside ;_;

I guess there shall be no scolding since I'm having a problem with my internet and rather take it out on a machine than my fav. little fanfic writing machine >_>

Maybe i'm only being nice now because I've been fed dinner for the first time in a long time >_> (I don't eat dinner, part of my diet <_< )

But, you are posting faster and quicker...That's good.
I want you to hurry up and post the next chapter because I wanna see what happens with Maiha and Risako !! =O

=D Being nice isn't so bad...
But being Mean...IS MORE FUN...
Fufufufufufufu...

*throws a pigeon at your head*
WORK FASTER YAH YAH!!!!!
POST FASTER YAH YAH!!!
*throws some blank cds at you* =)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: Estrea on April 09, 2007, 03:38:44 AM

Ooo. Maiha. Hmmm. Should be interesting. What will happen next?

*sits and waits patiently*

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 04:04:57 AM

Koharu not really familiar with Konkon and Mako I bet. After all she joins after them graduate.

Woot, Berryz reunion! I wish Maiha and the Berryz clones get a long conversation later ;_; :heart:

What will happens next... I can't wait to read more.

Thanks for providing new chapter FeverInducedMadness!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: ferrar1 on April 09, 2007, 05:10:59 AM

Quote from: FeverInducedMadness

There will be plenty of time to talk to Konkon later…

looks like the clones do remember stuffs... or.. koharu isn't a clone?

Quote from: FeverInducedMadness

She got up and made her way out of the kitchen, going in no particular direction whatsoever. After a few minutes, she could hear footsteps behind her and she stopped, rolling her eyes to herself.

“If you wanted to come with me, all you had to do was ask. Even if I’m starting to get annoyed that you’re following me around everywhere, I’m not going to stop you from coming, Risako.”

sweet <3 these 2 could be good friends in real life as well

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: JFC on April 09, 2007, 04:48:49 PM

Nanobots FTW! ;D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 09, 2007, 09:11:57 PM

Quote from: Loser87 on April 09, 2007, 03:25:14 AM

;_;.....Maiha makes me feel all sad inside ;_;

I guess there shall be no scolding since I'm having a problem with my internet and rather take it out on a machine than my fav. little fanfic writing machine >_>

Maybe i'm only being nice now because I've been fed dinner for the first time in a long time >_> (I don't eat dinner, part of my diet <_< )

But, you are posting faster and quicker...That's good.
I want you to hurry up and post the next chapter because I wanna see what happens with Maiha and Risako !! =O

=D Being nice isn't so bad...
But being Mean...IS MORE FUN...
Fufufufufufufu...

*throws a pigeon at your head*
WORK FASTER YAH YAH!!!!!
POST FASTER YAH YAH!!!
*throws some blank cds at you* =)

-thanks your internet- ... XD

You'll have to wait for the next chapter, though, because an interlude will be coming next instead. Muahaha.

-hit by pigeon, impaled by CDs, and the like- @_@

Quote from: Estrea on April 09, 2007, 03:38:44 AM

Ooo. Maiha. Hmmm. Should be interesting. What will happen next?

*sits and waits patiently*

XD You guys aren't speculating much. It helps me when you try to pick apart the story. Sometimes I get ideas and points of view that I didn't see before.

Quote from: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 04:04:57 AM

Koharu not really familiar with Konkon and Mako I bet. After all she joins after them graduate.

Woot, Berryz reunion! I wish Maiha and the Berryz clones get a long conversation later ;_; :heart:

What will happens next... I can't wait to read more.

Thanks for providing new chapter FeverInducedMadness!

No prob. ^-^ I just had an explosion of inspiration hit me like, out of nowhere. I might get a chance to update my other story today, too, if I get to writing.

Quote from: ferrar1 on April 09, 2007, 05:10:59 AM

looks like the clones do remember stuffs... or.. koharu isn't a clone?
sweet <3 these 2 could be good friends in real life as well

Koharu IS a clone. But I do remember telling you guys several chapters back to pay attention to her. I did, indeed.

Do watch this (http://www.veoh.com/videos/v289787q7Gh7ha8). (Not my video, btw.)
I found this clip when I was looking for videos from the Wonderful Hearts concert (after the fact that I had started my story), and I think I squealed a little bit on the inside.
Aika + the Berryz. <3
It's not so full of crack anymore!! :D

Quote from: JFC on April 09, 2007, 04:48:49 PM

Nanobots FTW! ;D

Even though I think I'd trust Konkon, I wouldn't want them inside of me. ><;;

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Eighteen: Reunion]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 09, 2007, 10:16:30 PM

This little snippet is so morbid and depressing.
Blame it on the ghost stories that I got told a couple of days ago.
(I also got slapped for the first time a few days ago. I'm not sure I deserved it. ><)
Anyways... Hm... anything else I need to add before I post...
Um, I found $.75 in my pocket today. :D

Annnnnnd... I think that's it.
Enjoy.
Or cry.
Or, (in the case of Loser87) throw things at me. ^_^

Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet

It was raining again.

The storm had been raging outside for the last couple of nights or so, and each time, the poor girl would find herself wide awake in her bed, trembling uncontrollably. She let out a quiet squeak as a clap of thunder ripped through the silence, and she had a tight grip on the bear that she was sleeping with.

She had actually decided to give up bringing dolls with her to bed a few days after her thirteenth birthday, but never managed to break the habit, and with everything that had been happening lately…

Lightning streaked across the sky outside her window, and she pulled the covers up over her head. She wanted to go and sleep in her parents’ room, but the idea of walking through the dark hallway to get there was much too frightening.

She had good reasons to be afraid.

She was the only member of Berryz Koubou that was still alive, after all.

The Captain had gone first. She and the others had gotten the phone call from the agency that informed them of Saki’s absence: Apparently she had stayed after school to finish up some project alone, and had never come home. Some bum found her body in a dumpster a few days later.

Momoko took the news very hard, and also seemed to be morbidly afraid that the Berryz were going to meet the same fate as Morning Musume. “I’m not going to let them get me…” she had informed everyone in an eerie sort of tone. She took care of things for herself.

Chinami and Miyabi had been beaten to death. Risako didn’t know if she’d ever get over seeing the image of her friends’ broken bodies...

Maasa’s lunch had been poisoned by someone, and even though she was rushed to the hospital, there wasn’t much they could do for her. It wasn’t a type of poison that the doctors were familiar with…

She had seen Yurina just the day before. Just yesterday morning. They had met to talk and cry and the older girl had tried to comfort her and tell her that everything was going to be alright. She disappeared for a few hours after going to the store for her parents, and was found at the side of the river, with a frayed rope tied around her neck. Her attackers had apparently attached a rather large rock at the other end and had tossed her in with it, causing Yurina to drown.

And so, she was next.

She had to be, because there wasn’t anyone else left.

It was almost enough to paralyze the young girl with fright. Risako timidly poked her head out of the covers again, just as lightning raced through the skies outside again, illuminating her room for a few brief seconds. It was then that she noticed something standing in one of the corners.

A statue of some woman with great gargoyle like wings that were folded up against her back. The woman had long claws and glowing red eyes that were eerily focused in Risako’s direction. At first she was just annoyed. Her parents were kind of weird in the furniture and old antiques they used to decorate the house, but this was a little over the top.

If they wanted crazy stuff, fine. They just needed to keep it out of her room. She didn’t even remember them buying something so atrocious…

The poor girl sighed, laying her head back on her pillow. Now that she was aware of the statue’s presence, she was never going to get to sleep. And then she saw something that chilled her blood and sent shivers down her spine.

The statue blinked.

Before she could react, before she could even scream, the thing was on top of her.

…She didn’t even have a chance.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: Loser87 on April 09, 2007, 10:29:28 PM

The only thing I'm glad for is that no one got burned alive >_> 'cause that's the worst death ever >_>
But you had to put drowning didn't you, the 2nd most painful death gosh!
(Don't ask me how i know which is the most painful and which is the most painless death >_>)

Wahh, the interlude just filled up my horror-loving needs it even sent a bit of chill down my spine XD
Makes me wanna watch SAW 3 >w<

Either way, its a very good interlude

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She took care of things for herself.

My only thoughts on this was that momoko committed suicide but i think i'm wrong so hmm..

Now, Post the chapter! POST IT!!
*Throws my clean laundry at you*

I feel bad for the berryz kids, thank goodness it's only a story ^w^
Now, one more thing before i leave this semi-nice comment
POST IN YOUR OTHER STORY TOO, YA!!!! *Throws a gargoyle statue at you*

Hurry up and post!!
*cracks whip*
YAH!! MUSH MUSH FIM!! MUSH!!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 09, 2007, 10:33:23 PM

Quote from: Loser87 on April 09, 2007, 10:29:28 PM

The only thing I'm glad for is that no one got burned alive >_> 'cause that's the worst death ever >_>
But you had to put drowning didn't you, the 2nd most painful death gosh!
(Don't ask me how i know which is the most painful and which is the most painless death >_>)

Wahh, the interlude just filled up my horror-loving needs it even sent a bit of chill down my spine XD
Makes me wanna watch SAW 3 >w<

Either way, its a very good interlude
My only thoughts on this was that momoko committed suicide but i think i'm wrong so hmm..

Now, Post the chapter! POST IT!!
*Throws my clean laundry at you*

I feel bad for the berryz kids, thank goodness it's only a story ^w^
Now, one more thing before i leave this semi-nice comment
POST IN YOUR OTHER STORY TOO, YA!!!! *Throws a gargoyle statue at you*

Hurry up and post!!
*cracks whip*
YAH!! MUSH MUSH FIM!! MUSH!!

I always thought drowning would be more horrible. I dunno. -shrug-

I actually am not a big fan of horror stuff. I don't like scary movies or scary books. So I don't know how I'm writing this. XDD

You're right about Momoko, actually. Good job.

I haven't even started on the actual chapter yet! D:

...but I will be updating Heartbeat Tempo today. For sho'. <3

-barks and pulls her sled dog cart of fiction along-

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 10:48:57 PM

Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Why captain ends up in a dumpster ;_; And every member got a tragic death... Damn....

Maybe I shouldn't read this chapter at all since the beginning... *trying to forget all the graphical description*

The images, it's haunting me!

Momo commits suicide ?! o_o

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: JFC on April 10, 2007, 12:09:22 AM

Poor Socko. :(

Quote from: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 10:48:57 PM

Momo commits suicide ?! o_o

:dizzy: :k-crazy: :shock:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: Aioros on April 10, 2007, 01:16:16 AM

Captain in a dumpster? Chinami and Miya beaten to death? Even if they weren't similar to the Otaku Killer's accounts, they were gruesome deaths nonetheless.

Shizuka you heartless fiend! :scolding:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: Estrea on April 10, 2007, 01:59:54 AM

Gah what horrible ways to die. :S Momo suicide? Gyuuu....

So, will some of their memories come back? After all, Miki did see her own death. I wonder if the rest of the clones might remember their own demises. :S Eeek. Lol.

More soon please! ^__^

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: Sakura Momusu on April 10, 2007, 07:01:58 AM

lol...guess I was expecting the story to have a morbid background...

I just noticed something about the Berryz deaths...they were systematically killed off according to age...was that your intention all along?

I have a feeling Koharu's gonna have a bigger part to play later on, being the one who spotted the one who killed Morning Musume (Rika~!!!! >:()

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 11, 2007, 02:50:25 AM

Quote from: ziggurat on April 09, 2007, 10:48:57 PM

Arghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

Why captain ends up in a dumpster ;_; And every member got a tragic death... Damn....

Maybe I shouldn't read this chapter at all since the beginning... *trying to forget all the graphical description*

The images, it's haunting me!

Momo commits suicide ?! o_o

Lol. I did warn you. ;-;

Quote from: JFC on April 10, 2007, 12:09:22 AM

Poor Socko. :(

:dizzy: :k-crazy: :shock:

I promise that there won't be another chapter as terribly depressing as this last one was. (I think... pretty sure...)

Quote from: wordsworth on April 10, 2007, 01:16:16 AM

Captain in a dumpster? Chinami and Miya beaten to death? Even if they weren't similar to the Otaku Killer's accounts, they were gruesome deaths nonetheless.

Shizuka you heartless fiend! :scolding:

Well, he is very evil...

Quote from: Estrea on April 10, 2007, 01:59:54 AM

Gah what horrible ways to die. :S Momo suicide? Gyuuu....

So, will some of their memories come back? After all, Miki did see her own death. I wonder if the rest of the clones might remember their own demises. :S Eeek. Lol.

More soon please! ^__^

Well, actually... Miki-clone saw Real Miki's death. But that was more or less... an illusion of sorts. Can't say much because I don't want to spoil what it is that Rika is able to do to people.

Quote from: Sakura Momusu on April 10, 2007, 07:01:58 AM

lol...guess I was expecting the story to have a morbid background...

I just noticed something about the Berryz deaths...they were systematically killed off according to age...was that your intention all along?

I have a feeling Koharu's gonna have a bigger part to play later on, being the one who spotted the one who killed Morning Musume (Rika~!!!! >:()

lol. It was kind of implied. Mass murders and whatnot...

Yeah. Otherwise, Risako wouldn't have been the last to go. There isn't any big rhyme or reason to it besides that though. XD

Yes yes yes. Do pay attention to her.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude IV: Munasawagi Scarlet]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 11, 2007, 03:22:55 AM

I'm sleepy. :dozing:

Chapter Nineteen: The “Training” Room

It was really beyond her how the blind girl had managed to wedge herself into the little cabinet space that there was, but Eri was there, all curled up and sleeping happily like that. It was cute, Mari thought to herself. In a weird sort of way, at least.

Many of the others had fallen asleep in the kitchen as well: Saki was sitting up against the wall, a very content Momoko dozing off in her lap. Maasa the makeshift pack mule was so tired that she had fallen asleep at the table, still in the middle of eating her meal. Ai was curled up beneath that table in a cat-like fashion, and it was hard to resist the urge to pet her when she looked like that. Risa was sitting beside Miyabi and Yurina, and all three of them were watching Reina as she picked on Sayumi by lighting flames in front of the other girl’s face, causing her to make quite a bit of noise. This seemed to amuse the firebrand, perhaps maybe too much. But nobody was stopping her.

Aya had asked about a bath or something, and left to follow Makoto somewhere. Mari had watched Miki as the metal-armed woman slipped off after them. She found it somewhat odd, as Aya had been the one following Miki before… Perhaps the tables had turned.

Eating had only made the twins a bit more hyper, and they were currently engaged in a game of sorts that only they understood, which was probably just as well. Hitomi was just brooding over in the corner, staring off into space with those big eyes of hers. The boyish female snapped out of it when Koharu entered the room, and soon after she came into view, Asami walked in as well.

“Everybody feeling a little bit better?”

She got a few appreciative grunts as a response, and that seemed to satisfy the genius well enough.

“I was wondering if some of you wouldn’t be opposed to… well… there’s not really any good way to ask this, so I might as well be blunt. Anybody want to be my guinea pig for a few minutes?”

The genius had her hands clasped together in front of her, and was smiling very brightly, and it was almost kind of scary just how adorable she looked. Who could say no to a face like that…

“Guinea pigs…?” Hitomi had an eyebrow raised skeptically. “For what?”

“Oh, well… It’s just that… I’ve never been around beings with powers like yours before and I just…” She was fidgeting, like a kid that was standing just outside the candy store, anxious to get in. “I’m just curious… it’s a scientist thing.”

The clones blinked at her for a moment, not really sure what to make of that. It sounded dangerous. But Asami looked so cute and innocent… surely not…

“Some of us don’t know what our powers are yet…” Risa replied, but she would soon come to regret it, because as soon as she finished, Asami had this wild sort of grin on her face.

“Oh, I can fix that. Follow me…”

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“Long time no see, Risha-chan.”

The three of them had been standing there in silence for a while after that. Maiha’s eyes never left Risako, who was staring at the other with an utterly confused look on her face. And Aika was looking back and forth between them, a strange sort of feeling growing up inside of her. She was annoyed, and she didn’t know why, really. Something about it just ticked her off…

“She doesn’t know who you are, you know… we’re just-”

“Clones, I know. I heard Ogawa-san and Konno-san talking about it earlier… Still… it’s amazing… I always wondered what the others would look like if they had been given the chance to grow up… I didn’t know you’d get to be so beautiful, Risha-chan…”

Risako seemed to be flustered by that, and Aika felt her annoyance grow. Who was this kid, anyway? Well… okay, so maybe she wasn’ t really a kid… Maiha was a little bit taller than both of them, and she wore this constantly sincere and worn-out expression that showed that looks were deceiving and that she had been through much more than they could imagine.

Still… she needed to back off.

“The rest of the group is upstairs, you know…” Aika stated bluntly, trying to get the girl to go away.

“Yeah… I know. I heard you guys come in. I didn’t think it would be a good idea to see everyone at once, though… it’d have been too overwhelming…” Maiha finally turned to look at Aika, as if noticing her presence there for the first time. “You know, I don’t think I even know you. I think I left H!P before the person you were cloned from got there… what’s your name again?”

She tried really hard not to grind her teeth.

“Mitsui… Aika.”

“Ah. Oh, I guess I should introduce myself, too. I’m Ishimura Maiha. Oh, and I know who you are…” She cut in, as Risako was about to follow suit, “…Or who you used to be, anyway. By the way, I heard you guys trashed my robot.”

“It was annoying, too.”

“…What?”

“Nothing- ow!” Aika was getting all-too-familiar with Risako’s elbow digging into her side. Maybe I should go back to just observing things instead of opening my mouth.

Risako decided to enter the conversation at that point, before her companion could say anything else that could possibly be stupid. “Saki was actually the one who took it down… she kind of fried it…”

“Captain…? So… everyone’s back, then… Wow.”

“Captain?”

“We always called Saki that. Back when I was in Berryz Koubou.”

“Berryz Koubou?”

Maiha blinked. “Didn’t Konno-san explain anything to you? That’s the group you- well… you know. The one the original Risako was in… Along with the original Saki, Momoko, Miyabi, Maasa, Chinami, and Yurina.”

“If you were in Hello! Project, why didn’t you end up like us…?” Aika questioned, crossing her arms. “How did you survive?”

She got a sigh in reply.

“…It’s a really long story.”

“We aren’t going anywhere.”

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They stood there, watching as the metal door slid up into the ceiling to reveal the room within. It was dark at first, but Asami entered a sequence into the keypad on the wall, and the room was instantly flooded with light.

“…Whoa.”

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: Estrea on April 11, 2007, 03:32:23 AM

Yay we get to find out what their powers are for real! Yeah!

Konkon asking for guinea pigs...XDDD!!! I'll be her guinea pig any day...>_> XD

Miki following Aya to the bath?? XD!!!! Do we get to see anything good? Do we? Do we? XD

Aika doesn't like Maiha...? That's the impression I got. Hmm, interesting. So is Maiha going to tell them more than she should be telling that at this time? Hmm.

Can't wait to see more. :)

...and damn, you post so much so fast that I'm falling behind on my own fic. :P

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: ziggurat on April 11, 2007, 07:01:27 AM

Hehe.

I love this scene where all the girls resting and scattered at all places. Nice job FIM. Really cute.

Quote from: FeverInducedMadness

Maasa the makeshift pack mule was so tired that she had fallen asleep at the table, still in the middle of eating her meal.

Wth is that!! :shock:

Lol, guinea pig. Wanna see what will happen when Konkon equipments can't contain their power :3

Yay, a long convo between Risako, Aika and Maiha :heart: Will this make Risako recalled all the lost memory and treats Maiha as her long lost Berryz member or will she totally ignore her story? :dunno: Maybe next time.

Thanks for this new chapter again. An awesome read. :whistle:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: rndmnwierd on April 11, 2007, 05:40:02 PM

Yay, I had so much to catch up on. It was nice having so much to read at once. I'm interested in everyone else's powers.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: coachie on April 11, 2007, 06:30:34 PM

Konkon has a X-men style training room?
Judging by her excitement it will be more of a torture room for the poor girls ;D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: JFC on April 11, 2007, 07:59:47 PM

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Aya had asked about a bath or something, and left to follow Makoto somewhere. Mari had watched Miki as the metal-armed woman slipped off after them. She found it somewhat odd, as Aya had been the one following Miki before… Perhaps the tables had turned.

Even if they're clones, they cannot fight their rabu-rabu instincts! :hee:

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“I was wondering if some of you wouldn’t be opposed to… well… there’s not really any good way to ask this, so I might as well be blunt. Anybody want to be my guinea pig for a few minutes?”

The genius had her hands clasped together in front of her, and was smiling very brightly, and it was almost kind of scary just how adorable she looked. Who could say no to a face like that…

“Guinea pigs…?” Hitomi had an eyebrow raised skeptically. “For what?”

...

The clones blinked at her for a moment, not really sure what to make of that. It sounded dangerous. But Asami looked so cute and innocent… surely not…

I figure Konkon looked something like this: :wriggly:

;D

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Aika was getting all-too-familiar with Risako’s elbow digging into her side. Maybe I should go back to just observing things instead of opening my mouth.

Looks like Aika's jealous that Socko may have a connection to Maiha. :grr:

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They stood there, watching as the metal door slid up into the ceiling to reveal the room within. It was dark at first, but Asami entered a sequence into the keypad on the wall, and the room was instantly flooded with light.

“…Whoa.”

WHAT HAPPENED?!?!? WHAT'D THEY SEE???? MITAI! MITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!! :frustrated:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: Loser87 on April 11, 2007, 08:22:23 PM

I'm straining my modem for this story and the other
Be grateful!!
Yada yada *does the whole commanding deal*

Okay reading the chapter now, UPDATE FASTER!!
While I try to fix my connection problem...>_>

GO MY SLAVE WRITE FASTER POST FASTER...FIX MY STUPID MODEM CONNECTION!!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: Aioros on April 12, 2007, 01:39:42 AM

Miki following Aya to the bathroom? Maybe she's curious to see what her powers are too :D

Finally we get to see the other girls' powers in the next chapter! (Mayuge Beam? ;))

Reminds me of the X-Men's Danger Room. ;D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 12, 2007, 02:08:06 AM

Quote from: Estrea on April 11, 2007, 03:32:23 AM

Yay we get to find out what their powers are for real! Yeah!

Konkon asking for guinea pigs...XDDD!!! I'll be her guinea pig any day...>_> XD

Miki following Aya to the bath?? XD!!!! Do we get to see anything good? Do we? Do we? XD

Aika doesn't like Maiha...? That's the impression I got. Hmm, interesting. So is Maiha going to tell them more than she should be telling that at this time? Hmm.

Can't wait to see more. :)

...and damn, you post so much so fast that I'm falling behind on my own fic. :P

I love how excited ya'll are about this. XD

Dang, me too. <3

Haha, probably not. Unless anyone really wants it or something. XD

-see JFC's comment- Maybe, maybe... This interlude that I'm about to post is only going to be part of what she tells them, though. The rest of the conversation will come in chapter... OMG I'M GOING TO BE ON TWENTY NEXT! YAY! ^_^

Haha, maybe I should slow down. I'd rather see an update from you than from me. <3

Quote from: ziggurat on April 11, 2007, 07:01:27 AM

Hehe.

I love this scene where all the girls resting and scattered at all places. Nice job FIM. Really cute.

Wth is that!! :shock:

Lol, guinea pig. Wanna see what will happen when Konkon equipments can't contain their power :3

Yay, a long convo between Risako, Aika and Maiha :heart: Will this make Risako recalled all the lost memory and treats Maiha as her long lost Berryz member or will she totally ignore her story? :dunno: Maybe next time.

Thanks for this new chapter again. An awesome read. :whistle:

Thanks. If it had happened in real life, I would have wanted to take a picture. :3

XD Maiha the makeshift pack mule. It just sounded funny.

Oh noes, right? >3

You shall have to find out... not today. hahaha

Glad you liked. <3

Quote from: rndmnwierd on April 11, 2007, 05:40:02 PM

Yay, I had so much to catch up on. It was nice having so much to read at once. I'm interested in everyone else's powers.

I like it when I'm away for a while and I get to come back and read a lot, too.

Quote from: coachie on April 11, 2007, 06:30:34 PM

Konkon has a X-men style training room?
Judging by her excitement it will be more of a torture room for the poor girls ;D

The real question is, what does Konkon NOT have down there underground?

Quote from: JFC on April 11, 2007, 07:59:47 PM

Even if they're clones, they cannot fight their rabu-rabu instincts! :hee:

I figure Konkon looked something like this: :wriggly:

;D

Looks like Aika's jealous that Socko may have a connection to Maiha. :grr:

WHAT HAPPENED?!?!? WHAT'D THEY SEE???? MITAI! MITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!! :frustrated:

Some things transcend the barrier of time... and cloning. XD

Yeah, that's a good emoticon for her. hahah

Looks like you might be right... >D

XDD You'll have to find out next time...

Quote from: Loser87 on April 11, 2007, 08:22:23 PM

I'm straining my modem for this story and the other
Be grateful!!
Yada yada *does the whole commanding deal*

Okay reading the chapter now, UPDATE FASTER!!
While I try to fix my connection problem...>_>

GO MY SLAVE WRITE FASTER POST FASTER...FIX MY STUPID MODEM CONNECTION!!

-does the whole groveling deal-

-slinks off to post after this-

Quote from: wordsworth on April 12, 2007, 01:39:42 AM

Miki following Aya to the bathroom? Maybe she's curious to see what her powers are too :D

Finally we get to see the other girls' powers in the next chapter! (Mayuge Beam? ;))

Reminds me of the X-Men's Danger Room. ;D

XDD Yeah, her 'powers'.

hahaha. I forgot all about that.

We'll seeeeeeeeeee...

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Nineteen: The "Training" Room]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 12, 2007, 02:10:38 AM

Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha

I guess in order to tell this story, I have to start at the beginning. All the way back to my sixteenth birthday. That’s when it happened, really… I was walking home from school on that day, and I remember how cold and windy it had been, because I felt like my ears were going to freeze and break off.

I didn’t really think anything out of the ordinary was going to happen. I thought that I was safe because I didn’t have any connection to H!P anymore. And I knew that the soloists that had quit early on in the game were still okay too, so I figured that there wasn’t anything to worry about.

But then I got closer to home, and I could feel that something wasn’t right.

That was before I saw the smoke.

A rational person wouldn’t have gone inside the house… Not even a crazy person would have set foot inside a place that was halfway up in flames.

But I was neither rational nor crazy at this point. I just dropped my bookbag on the ground and ran inside. The door had been been broken down and was lying on our front porch in splinters., so there hadn’t any need to use it.

I’ll never forget what I felt when I set foot in that house. Everything… it’s still perfectly clear to me as it was that day.

There was smoke everywhere, and the taste and smell of it coated my throat and nose, and it burned all the way down into my lungs, forcing me into a coughing fit. I managed to zip my windbreaker closed and I pulled it up over my mouth and nose to make things a little easier, and tried to manuever through the thick grey fog, which was starting to make my eyes water.

I couldn’t see anything, and all I heard was the sound of the flames crackling and roaring around me. It was hard to move, because the heat was so intense, and I couldn’t tell what was burning and what wasn’t.

“Well, well… the kid finally decided to show up.”

I heard this low, sinister voice above all of the noise, and it made me shiver. It’s the kind of thing you only hear in nightmares or something. Another voice followed after the first, and it was even more terrifying.

“I bet she’d like the same kind of welcome home we gave her parents… wouldn’t you agree, Erika-chan?”

I could feel my heart pounding all the way up in my throat as I heard this growling noise somewhere nearby. There was a really big dog or some other kind of animal in my house… I figured the ones that had done this had brought it in. My skin crawled, because I could almost feel it breathing on me.

“Yui wants to play with her first… we might as well let her.”

As if that was some kind of signal, the thing let out a malicious bark and out of nowhere, it jumped on me and pinned me to the floor. Pain shot up through my shoulder as the dog ripped into me with it’s teeth, and I remember screaming and struggling to get out of the way. I needed to be anywhere but underneath that vicious animal before it ripped my throat out.

Somehow I managed to get my leg up under it and I kicked as hard as I could, pushing the thing off of me. By this point, I was just acting on instinct, and I started to run, making my way farther back into the house. Unfortunately, the front had been much more stable than the back, as it wasn’t completely ablaze yet, and I chose the opportune moment to dart right under a falling, flaming beam of wood.

I went down instantly. The beam was much heavier than I was, and it hurt so badly when it came into contact with my back that the shock from the pain I was feeling was enough to take me out. I was very close to passing out at that point. I couldn’t open my eyes, at least, and my thoughts were becoming less and less coherent.

“Damn… The house took her out before we could…”

“You’re the one who wanted to set it on fire, Erika.”

“Both of you shut up. We got the job done… Let’s just leave her here to burn… She’s not the only one that has to die today.”

I think that they left me after that, and even though I was only semi-conscious now, I was starting to panic.

I didn’t want to burn to death.

I didn’t want to die at all.

The smoke was starting to get to me, and I knew that I was fading, because I felt very weak and I was now laying limp against the hot floor. I was hoping that I would black out before I died, and I figured that that time would be soon, because I was starting to hear voices again.

“Hurry, Mako-chan, we need to get this off of her and get out before the house collapses…” The last thing I remember was the weight being lifted, and then I felt myself being picked up off of the floor by someone.

After that, I fainted.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: Estrea on April 12, 2007, 02:31:10 AM

Wow, so the Biyuuden girls were the assigned assassins huh? Gee, they sound so sadistic. Haha. Poor Maiha...well, at least Konkon and Makoto got to her in time. Meh.

Gah, you better not slow down on your updates! I just have to speed up on my own writing...lol. XD

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: Amarghetta on April 12, 2007, 06:10:17 AM

Quote from: Estrea on April 12, 2007, 02:31:10 AM

Wow, so the Biyuuden girls were the assigned assassins huh? Gee, they sound so sadistic.

And how Biyuuden being sadistic is wrong...? :p
Ha, don't mind me. It's just that, for some reason, I tend to picture Rika and co. as bad girls... >:D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: ziggurat on April 12, 2007, 10:58:33 AM

Urgh, ganging up only for one person.. What a cowardly act.. Although only Yui attack her .. Stupid trio .. -_-"

Short chapter is short :D Being rescued by Konkon and Makochan is everyone dreams. Good interlude again XD

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: Loser87 on April 12, 2007, 08:55:17 PM

Waaahh~
That was a good interlude >w<
Poor Maiha but at least Makoto and Konno got there and save her! >w<
Biyuuden are truly evil...Damn their evil evil ways!!
;_; poor poor Maiha though ;_;

Now, go my slave!
Carry me to 7 eleven! I wish to have a slushie!! MUSH!!
AND WHEN WE ARE BACK FROM 7 eleven!
YOU WILL POST A NEW CHAPTER!!!
YAH!!! *cracks my whip and throws some turtles at you*
MUSH MY SLAVE MUSH!!

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: JFC on April 12, 2007, 09:29:08 PM

Quote from: ziggurat on April 12, 2007, 10:58:33 AM

Urgh, ganging up only for one person.. What a cowardly act.. Although only Yui attack her .. Stupid trio .. -_-"

Well, they were brainwashed...but yeah, it was a sucky thing to do. What was stupid/amateur-ish was how they left without verifying that she was dead. I guess they must have learned not to make that mistake again (assuming that they know she survived that).

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: Ren on April 14, 2007, 08:17:17 AM

So...So... Is my bet right? Biyuuden were the assasins? :D

Oh Aika is tad jealous... And somehow when I read Risha I thought of Risa instead ^^;

I hope Risa will be fine in Konkon's experiments.. XD Or maybe she can enchance their powers to match those of Biyuuden?

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 14, 2007, 11:34:43 PM

Quote from: Estrea on April 12, 2007, 02:31:10 AM

Wow, so the Biyuuden girls were the assigned assassins huh? Gee, they sound so sadistic. Haha. Poor Maiha...well, at least Konkon and Makoto got to her in time. Meh.

Gah, you better not slow down on your updates! I just have to speed up on my own writing...lol. XD

Mhm. Thankfully. Too bad Megumi wasn't as fortunate. ;-;

Lol. I'll try to keep it up. For some reason I keep running into blocks lately with this story.

Quote from: Amarghetta on April 12, 2007, 06:10:17 AM

And how Biyuuden being sadistic is wrong...? :p
Ha, don't mind me. It's just that, for some reason, I tend to picture Rika and co. as bad girls... >:D

I think we all do. It seems to take less effort to characterize them as evil. XD

Quote from: ziggurat on April 12, 2007, 10:58:33 AM

Urgh, ganging up only for one person.. What a cowardly act.. Although only Yui attack her .. Stupid trio .. -_-"

Short chapter is short :D Being rescued by Konkon and Makochan is everyone dreams. Good interlude again XD

M'glad you liked. This next chapter's a bit short too, though, unfortunately.

Quote from: Loser87 on April 12, 2007, 08:55:17 PM

Waaahh~
That was a good interlude >w<
Poor Maiha but at least Makoto and Konno got there and save her! >w<
Biyuuden are truly evil...Damn their evil evil ways!!
;_; poor poor Maiha though ;_;

Now, go my slave!
Carry me to 7 eleven! I wish to have a slushie!! MUSH!!
AND WHEN WE ARE BACK FROM 7 eleven!
YOU WILL POST A NEW CHAPTER!!!
YAH!!! *cracks my whip and throws some turtles at you*
MUSH MY SLAVE MUSH!!

Now how will Risako react to her story...? Hm...
(Unfortunately, you won't be finding out in the chapter I'm about to post. XD)

But my legs are tiiiiiiiired... ._.

Quote from: JFC on April 12, 2007, 09:29:08 PM

Well, they were brainwashed...but yeah, it was a sucky thing to do. What was stupid/amateur-ish was how they left without verifying that she was dead. I guess they must have learned not to make that mistake again (assuming that they know she survived that).

They don't know about Maiha. (Fortunately for her, they are under the assumption that they killed her all those years ago.) Konkon's done a good job of keeping the truth about her secret. (Plus, it helps that Maiha isn't involved in any way with any of the 'missions' and stuff that Konkon and Mako help out with. She's basically just sheltered in that underground hole.)

Quote from: Ren on April 14, 2007, 08:17:17 AM

So...So... Is my bet right? Biyuuden were the assasins? :D

Oh Aika is tad jealous... And somehow when I read Risha I thought of Risa instead ^^;

I hope Risa will be fine in Konkon's experiments.. XD Or maybe she can enchance their powers to match those of Biyuuden?

Yesssss...? For certain reasons that I won't reveal for the sake of the story... I can't really give you like a solid yes/no answer, because it's more complex than that.

XD On HPC when they were calling Risa "Risha", I was always thinking Risako. lol

We shall see... >D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Interlude V: The Survivor, Ishimura Maiha]
Post by: FeverInducedMadness on April 14, 2007, 11:36:57 PM

Ugh. My power went out yesterday thanks to the stupid storms.
It was NOT fun, considering it's like ten degrees outside.
I've got it back now, but I don't know for how long. I think it's supposed to keep right on storming outside.

...

;-;

...

Enjoy.

Chapter Twenty: The “Training” Room, Part II

“Um… no offense, but I think I’m going to go back to the kitchen and hang out in there…”

Risa was trying to turn around right there in order to escape, but Hitomi held her firmly in place. If they were going to do this, they were going to all do this together. And by they, she meant that the small group that had followed Asami to this place. Of course, those who had been asleep had been left alone. The twins seemed to be content with entertaining each other, and Yurina had stayed behind in order to keep an eye on them in order to let poor Maasa keep on sleeping.

“Oh nonsense, all of the tests should be perfectly painless…” The genius stated, pausing for a moment. “Well, I’m pretty sure they should be, anyway…”

Sayumi let out a little involuntary squeak.

“Or, I suppose you could look at it this way… None of this equipment will kill you.”

Reina snorted. “Because that makes me feel so much better.”

Asami was oblivious to her sarcasm, however, being as excited as she was, and her smile merely got bigger. “Oh, well good. I’m glad. Shall we get started, then? Follow me, and be careful not to trip on any of the wires running along the ground.”

In order to understand the clones’ apprehension at this point, the room they were in would have to be described the way that they were seeing it. The walls and ceiling were plated with metal, and there were two lines of bright lights embedded into the latter that illuminated the entire area… which was about as big as the high school football stadiums of the past.

There were huge mechanized… well, things everywhere, some looking dangerous, while others looked just plain weird, and there was no telling what each one’s specific function happened to be.

“See, the smaller lab that you all came in through is just like… an office of sorts. It’s where I do all the little mundane day-to-day kinds of things… but this… it’s like my playroom. All of the fun stuff is down here.”

Asami giggled, and the others were all giving her looks full of varying degrees of disturbance. They were obviously having second thoughts about what ‘the fun stuff’ was going to be. The genius led the clones over to a machine that looked somewhat similar to what a hospital would use for a CT scan, only it had a flat screen attached to the outside of it.

“Alright, so who wants to go first?”

Reina hopped up to sit down on a large metal pipe that was sticking out of a nearby whatever-it-was, ignoring the ‘Oh, please… that’s delicate…’ looks that Asami was sending her way.

“There’s no way you’re getting me into that thing. No. Way. I’m just here to watch.”

“What exactly does it do…?” Hitomi asked, examining the thing curiously from where she stood.

“Well, it’s a scanner of sorts. It can give me indepth information on your genetically altered DNA, which means that I can help to unravel any mystery remaining about your powers and how to utilize them.”

“…I’ll go first, then.”

The boyish leader was instructed to lay down on the metal slab that was sticking out of the machine, and as soon as she was in place, Asami punched in some sequence on a nearby computer that was wired to the thing, and Hitomi was slowly moved inside of the machine.

It was dark in there, but as far as she knew, she was neither claustrophobic nor afraid of the dark, and she patiently waited for whatever was to happen.

Asami started up the machine, and there was this series of clicks and beeps and other voices in the thing’s mechanical orchestra that followed after, which startled the clones who were watching the process with a mixture of apprehension and interest on their faces.

Soon, an image began to appear on the screen attached to the outside of the machine, and the genius left the computer in order to walk over and observe it. The image was of a 3D diagram of a double-helix, and to either side of the image were lines of code and techno-babble that only Asami was really able to decipher. After staring at the information for a little while, the genius’s eyes began to grow wide with something like amazement.

“Oh my…”

“What?” The clones chorused, including Hitomi, whose voice was slightly muffled within the machine.

“It’s just… I’ve never… oh my… Whoever created you… they were much smarter than I am… I wouldn’t have imagined that engineering like this was possible… And to think that she’s been able to contain and control such an ability without even knowing that she’s had it…”

Koharu blinked. “What do you mean…?”

“Her body… there’s so much energy built up inside…”

“Like… she’s going to explode?”

“No… somehow—unconsciously, I suppose—she’s been able to keep it inside…”

“Um, I am still here, you know… even if I’m in this box, you can still talk to me about what’s going on with me.”

“Okay, but if she’s got so much power… isn’t that dangerous?”

“Yes… very much so.”

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: glcorps2002 on April 14, 2007, 11:48:42 PM

Damn, boom boom Yossie.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: Loser87 on April 14, 2007, 11:51:49 PM

*squeel*
Finally you update!! >w<
I've been waiting like forever XDXD
Sucks that your power went out, I know how that feels *pats your head, assuming I'm taller than you >_>*

Anyway, Yossie got some crazy power =O
What happens next, what happens next?!

Update Update my slave! UPDATE! O_O
staring is also a weapon of evil, because it annoys people so
*stares at you* O_O
Update...O_O..Or I'll get someone to infest your home with hissing cockaroaches O_O
Update your other story too O_O
Do it or else O_O

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: JFC on April 15, 2007, 12:19:37 AM

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“Oh nonsense, all of the tests should be perfectly painless…” The genius stated, pausing for a moment. “Well, I’m pretty sure they should be, anyway…”

Sayumi let out a little involuntary squeak.

I can totally picture Konkon pausing with a puzzled look, then turning around with a smile as she says this! :heart:

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“Or, I suppose you could look at it this way… None of this equipment will kill you.”

Reina snorted. “Because that makes me feel so much better.”

(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/J-F-C/LOL.gif)

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but this… it’s like my playroom. All of the fun stuff is down here.

She's like, giddy. (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/J-F-C/giggle.gif)

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“Her body… there’s so much energy built up inside…”

“Like… she’s going to explode?”

“No… somehow—unconsciously, I suppose—she’s been able to keep it inside…”

“Um, I am still here, you know… even if I’m in this box, you can still talk to me about what’s going on with me.”

Yossi's not a human bomb, is she? Or worse yet, she's not going to be like that Phoenix character from X-Men lore, is she? (http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c340/J-F-C/crazy.gif)

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: coachie on April 15, 2007, 12:59:03 AM

Yossie's a human bomb? Or some sort of energy reactor?

Reina's yankiiness :heart:

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: Estrea on April 15, 2007, 01:53:44 AM

Hehe Konkon being typical not-quite-mad scientist. XD I love her obliviousness to the discomfort of her test subjects. XD

Yossi? Energy contained within? A human nuclear reactor? Lol just pulling random thoughts outta my ass. :P Do write more! ^_^

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: Rick-e on April 16, 2007, 12:19:47 AM

Phew! I'm 3 chapters behind on my reading so that was quite a read! I love it that the clones are starting training :heart:
on any story, my favorite part is when the hero is training, because that's where the characters get to learn to do cool stuff :)

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“Oh nonsense, all of the tests should be perfectly painless…” The genius stated, pausing for a moment. “Well, I’m pretty sure they should be, anyway…”

:D mad scientist Konkon ^_^ I laughed at this part.

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“Her body… there’s so much energy built up inside…”

“Like… she’s going to explode?”

“No… somehow—unconsciously, I suppose—she’s been able to keep it inside…”

“Um, I am still here, you know… even if I’m in this box, you can still talk to me about what’s going on with me.”

“Okay, but if she’s got so much power… isn’t that dangerous?”

“Yes… very much so.”

Yikes! Potentially explosive Yossie! But if she manages to control it then she might just be the most powerful of them all, right?

Can't wait for Risa & Mari's turn =3

Hope you get over your writer's block soon! :D

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: rndmnwierd on April 16, 2007, 12:27:02 AM

Yossui's a time bomb?

But still, squee for the troublemaking twins.

Title: Re: ::Voices of Angels:: [Chapter Twenty: The "Training" Room, Part II]
Post by: ziggurat on April 16, 2007, 02:45:21 AM

Urgh, isn't that like... cut in the halfway of the story? Lol..

Ok, ok. Sorry for that. Hope the storm will go and you can post more chapters.. Yay!

Yossi is a nuclear-powered human!

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