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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #500 on: August 11, 2008, 06:21:26 PM »
o.o" for some reason i was not notified of the updates.. so I'm a little pissed
but, that slowly subsided as i read your story
i was completely leaning on my desk without even realizing it, is it normal to be so into a story?!?

lol reading the last 3 chaps i couldn't help but say out loud "okay, they should just make out before any of them dies >_>"
there were SOOOO many moments for GakiKame goodness T___T stupid zombies.. stupid Niita.. arg..

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Risa was warm. And attractive, and sweet, and obviously interested, and for a few seconds, neither of them moved, Eri content to be held ... and Risa wanting
more, she could see it in the way Risa searched her face.
For heaven’s sake, you're not on a vacation! Move!
No you dont!!! Kamei stay right there!!!! >___>
there must be some romance to lessen my tension, cuz apparently its waaay too high at the moment..

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"What is it? Get it off," Risa said tensely, and Eri
held the candle closer, saw that the white form wasn't
entirely opaque. She could see inside, a little ...
... to where a fat white grub was squirming around,
encased in translucent jelly. It was an egg case, the moth
had laid an egg case on her.
I said "OH MY GOD" so loudly, I'm glad nobody is around at the moment >< thats so gross, guh..
ew i can imagine it T_T, why did you bring bugs in!! im fine with zombies.. but bugs just crossed that line of comfort.

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"You win the prize," Eri said, giving in to her own
enthusiasm.
Risa raised her eyebrows innocently. "Oh, yeah?
What's the prize?
First thing that jumped to mind was a kiss :dunno:
LOL me too!! >< i wish that happened..

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Eri was about to answer that she was open to suggestions
>____> Kamei~ that's dangerous~ :drool:

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #501 on: August 13, 2008, 10:23:07 PM »
Niita Tomoko
Facility, Below Manager's Office
October 10, 2:31 PM

As the monstrosity's roar echoed away, Niita smiled
at it through the thick metal bars of its bare, dank cell,
admiring her sister's handiwork. Niita'd helped, of course,
but Kasumi was the genius who'd created the Keiko
virus, and at only ten years of age ... and though Kasumi
had considered her first experiment a failure, Niita
thought not. The result was deeply gratifying on a personal
level.

Things were so much clearer, had been since the very
moment Niita'd left Rockfort. Memories had returned,
things she'd buried or lost, feelings she'd forgotten she had.

After fifteen years of gray area, of muddled confusion
and unstable fantasy, Niita felt that her world was finally
drawing to order—and she understood now why
their home had been attacked, and how fortunate for
her that it had been.

"They knew that it was time, too, you see," Niita
said. "If not for the strike, I might have continued to believe
that Kasumi was with me."

Niita watched with some amusement as the monstrosity
tilted its filthy head toward the door, listening. It was
chained to its chair, blindfolded, hands bound behind its
back... and though it had been incapable of anything
like real thought for a decade and a half, it still responded
to the sound of words. Perhaps it even recognized
her voice on some animal instinctual level.

I should feed it, Niita thought, not wanting it to die
before Kasumi awoke ... but that would be soon, very
soon—perhaps the process had already begun. The
thought filled her with wonder, that she was to be present
for Kasumi's miraculous rebirth.

"I missed her so," Niita said, sighing. So much that
she'd created a reflection of her, to share the lonely years
of waiting. "But she's soon to emerge a reigning queen,
with me as her faithful soldier, and we'll never be apart
again."

Which reminded her of her final task, a last objective
to be met before she could comfortably begin the final
wait. Her joy at discovering the crashed plane had been
short-lived when she'd found it empty, but upon refreshing
herself of the terminal's layout, she'd realized the
peasant couple could only be in one or two places.

She'd
taken a sniper rifle from the armory at one of the other
buildings, a 30.06 bolt action Remington with a magnifying
scope, a delightful toy, and was determined to try
it out. She couldn't have Eri and her little friend
showing up at some inopportune moment, mangling the
celebration—
Suddenly, Niita started to laugh, a gem of an idea
occurring to her. The monstrosity had to eat... why
not bring it the two commoners? Eri Kamei had
brought destruction down upon Rockfort, had attempted
to soil the Tomoko name, just as the monstrosity had, in
away.

It will consume the enemy agents, an observance in
honor of Kasumi's return... and then we'll have a private
family reunion, just the three of us.

At the sound of her laughter, the monstrosity became
agitated, pulling at its chains with such force that Niita
stopped laughing. It let out another tremendous, lingering
roar, straining to be free, but Niita thought the restraints
would hold a bit longer.

"I'll be back soon," Niita promised, hefting her rifle
and walking away, wondering what Eri would think
about meeting her and Kasumi's father under such unusual
circumstances—namely, her own bloody death.

The monstrosity was drawn to body heat and the smell
of terror, Niita liked to believe, very much looking forward
to watching a helpless Eri stalked through the
dark.
As Niita started up the stairs to the second basement
level, Tetsuo Tomoko screamed again, as he'd done
fifteen years before when his own children had drugged
him and stolen his life.
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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #502 on: August 13, 2008, 10:35:12 PM »
Risa Niigaki
Facility, Manager’s Office
October 10, 2:41 PM



THEY PUSHED OUT INTO THE DARK, Risa
ahead of Eri, leaving the office door open. There was
just enough light to see where the hall branched right,
which was all the light they needed.
—right, walk, door on the right, walk, steps to the
left—
It looped through her mind, the directions simple but
she didn't want to make even a tiny mistake. The image of
what Eri had pulled off her back was still fresh in her
mind, and they didn't know what else the moths could do.

Two strides forward and the first moth came at them,
a whitish, silent blur, and Risa opened up.

Bam-bam-bam! Three shots and the flapping thing
disintegrated, softplop sounds as the pieces hit the
floor, and here came the rest, fluttering out from the corridor
she and Eri wanted. They flew on a dusty wave
of rot smell, shadowy, flopping shapes ... and what was
that, the thick, hanging, man-size thing webbed against
the ceiling?

—don't think about it, now, go now—
"Now!" Risa said, and Eri ran out from behind
her, darting to the right and down the hall as Risa opened
fire again, two- and three-round bursts.

Feathery pieces of wing and warm, repulsive goo
rained down as she fired into the whirling dark shapes
overhead, splashing her, making her gag, the moths
dying as silently as they attacked. Risa felt one of them in
her hair, felt something warm and wet touch her scalp,
and frantically brushed at the top of her head, firing,
knocking a sticky egg case away.

"Open!" Eri shouted, much closer than Risa expected,
and though she'd planned to back down the hall, firing as
she went, the feel of that crap in her hair was the last straw.
She ducked, covered her head with one arm, and sprinted.
Risa saw Eri's silhouette in a doorway on the right and
plunged ahead, running directly into Eri's outstretched
arm. Eri grabbed a handful of Risa's shirt and jerked her
inside, slamming the door closed behind them—and then
turned and started firing, blocking her body with hers.

"Hey, what's—"
Bam! Bam! The room was huge, the shots echoing
from faraway corners.

There was a trace of light coming from somewhere,
but Risa heard them before she saw them. Zombies,
moaning and gasping, three or four of them closing in
on their position. She could only make out their outlines,
staggering and weaving forward, saw two of them go
down but two more moving in to take their place.

"I'm okay!" Risa called out between rounds, and Eri
stepped aside, shouting for Risa to take the right flank.
Risa targeted and fired, blinking and squinting
against the dark, trying to get head shots. She took down
three of them, then a fourth, so close that she felt blood
splashing her hand. She immediately wiped it against her
pants, praying that she didn't have any open cuts, that she
wouldn't run out of ammo, but there was another zombie,
and another—
—and then Eri was pulling her again and Risa
stopped firing, let Eri lead her through the dark toward
where the mining room was supposed to be.

Behind them,
zombies shuffled and wailed, giving slow motion chase.
Risa tripped over a warm body and stepped on another,
feeling something crunch underfoot—but as helpless and
afraid as she felt, it was nothing to suddenly hearing Eri
cry out in pain, to feel her fingers leave her arm.

"Eri!" Terrified, Risa reached out for her, felt
only air—
"Watch your step, I stubbed my stupid toe," Eri
said irritably, no more than two feet away, and Risa felt her
knees go weak. She could also feel a cold metal railing
against her right shoulder—the steps to the mining
room. They'd made it.

Together, they climbed the few steps, Eri still in
front—and when she opened the door, real light spilled
out in shafts, piercing the blackness.
"Praise kami-sama," Risa muttered, holding the door from
behind as Eri stepped inside—
—and before Risa could follow, she heard a disturbed,
girlish giggling that spread a chill up her spine, and
Eri had slipped one hand behind her back and was
motioning Risa to freeze. Risa let go of the door and Eri
didn't move, letting it settle on her hip as Niita said
something and she slowly raised both her hands.

It seemed Niita had gotten the drop on Eri ...
...but not on me, Risa thought, unaware that she was
wearing a tight, grim smile. Niita had a lot to answer
for, but Risa was pretty certain that in another minute
or two, the crazy doc wasn't going to be saying much of anything,
ever again.

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #503 on: August 13, 2008, 10:45:56 PM »
Niita Tomoko
Facility, Mining Room
October 10, 3:00 PM

Niita had her. As she'd surmised, they— well, Ms. Kamei had
come to see about the tunnel, the one exit from the terminal
that didn't require a key. She wasn't a stupid girl,
by no means, but Niita was superior, in intellect and strategy.
Among other things.

Still standing in the doorway, Eri raised her
hands, her expression annoyingly blank. Why wasn't
she afraid?
"Drop your weapon," Niita snapped, her finger on
the rifle's trigger. Her voice, naturally amplified by the
mining pit that took up most of the floor, emanated
throughout the icy chamber, sounding authoritative and
a bit cruel. She liked the strong sound of it, and knew it
was effective when Eri let the handgun drop from her
fingers without hesitating.

"Kick it toward me," Niita commanded, and she did so,
the weapon clattering across the concrete. Niita didn't
pick it up, instead kicking it beneath the rail to her left,
both of them listening to her only hope bounce away
over frozen rocks, lost to the depths of the icy pit.
How wonderful, to exert such control!

"What happened to your traveling companions?" Niita
asked, sneering. "Have they met with an accident? Oh, and
step away from the door, if you don't mind. And keep
your hands when I can see them."

Eri edged forward, the door mostly closing behind
her, and she saw a flash of some unhappy emotion cross
her face, knew immediately that she'd scored a point.
Less of a hot meal for father, it seemed, but Niita doubted
the monstrosity would complain.

"They're dead," Eri said simply. "Where's
your sister? Or should I say lover—you know, since you're
so much into her ..."
"Shut your mouth, little girl," Niita snarled. "You
don't deserve to say her name. You already know that
it's time for her return, that's why your people attacked
Rockfort, to lure her out—or were you hoping to kill her
outright, to cut short her first breath?"

Eri acted confused, determined to keep up her pretense,
it seemed, but Niita didn't want to hear any
more of her lies. The game was losing interest for Niita.
In the face of Kasumi's imminent triumph, everything
had paled by comparison.
"I already know it all," Niita snapped, "so don't bother.
Now, if you'll come with me—"

Eri suddenly looked up and right, to the raised
platform where the tunnel began.
"Look out!" she shrieked, collapsing as Niita spun
around, seeing only the massive ice digger machine, the
tunnel's dark entrance—
—and the door had crashed open behind Eri, the
other girl diving in and landing on her side, pointing a weapon
at Niita.

Furious, Niita swung the rifle and pulled the trigger,
three, four times, but she hadn't had enough time to target
properly, the explosive shots going wide—
—and it was as though a giant hand suddenly shoved
Niita backward, taking her breath away, the girl firing
and then clicking on empty, out of bullets.

Niita stumbled back another step and opened her
mouth to laugh, ready to kill them both and, and the rifle
wasn't in her hands anymore, she'd dropped it for some
reason, and her laugh was only a wet, painful cough—
—and something gave way behind her back, and then
she was falling into the mining pit.

She landed on a thick
crust of ice and started to get up, but there was a great,
searing pain in her chest. Was it possible that she'd been
shot?

With barely a sound, the ice gave way all around her
and she screamed, falling, she had to see her once more,
had to touch her but she could hear her father screaming,
too, coming for her, and then everything was lost in
pain and dark.
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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #504 on: August 13, 2008, 11:03:40 PM »
Eri Kamei
Facility, Mining Room
October 10, 3:07 PM



The sound of the terrible, monstrous howl that had
risen up to meet Niita's got them moving, Eri pausing
just long enough to grab the Remington before
climbing after Risa to the high platform. With Risa on
empty and her own gun kicked into the pit, it was their
only weapon.

They clambered into the cab of the huge yellow machine
parked in front of the slanted, rising tunnel, Risa
taking the wheel—and again, they heard that deep, insane
scream, and it was definitely closer, the monster
prisoner loose somewhere inside.

Risa flipped a bunch of switches-reading the 'how to'
sticker posted above the controls, nodding and mumbling
to herself as she went. Eri listened as she
checked the rifle—only six rounds—gathering that the
machine's digging device, an enormous screw-looking
thing, actually heated up to melt the ice. She didn't care
what it did, as long as it got them out before the monster
came looking for them.

With the heavy machine humming to life, Risa explained
that the tunnel was probably unfinished because
the workers would have had to go slowly and without
using the heating element, to avoid flooding half the facility,
"But we don't," Risa said, grinning. "What do you say
we make a lake?"

"Go for it," Eri said, grinning back at her, wishing she
felt a little more enthusiastic. God, they were getting out,
and with Niita Tomoko finally dead, there was no one
standing in their way. So why am I so uncertain?

It's that gibberish Niita was babbling about her sister...Crazy,
yeah, but it had brought up the one question Eri still didn't
have an answer for—why had Rockfort been 'attacked'?

Risa jammed on the throttle and the machine lurched
forward. There weren't seat belts, so Eri put one
hand on the roof, the digger bouncing almost as much as
their plane had right before it crashed. Their view was
mostly blocked by the giant twisting screw-thing, but it
was obvious when they hit the end of the tunnel, bigtime.

The noise was incredible, deafening, like rocks in a
blender times a hundred. There was a burning steam
smell, and as they inched forward through total blackness,
she could hear the thaw even over the digging, as
torrents of water rushed past the cab.

The grinding, waterfall noises seemed to go on forever
as they continued to climb—and then the machine
stuttered, jerking, and the treads were straining—and
sudden light flooded into the cab, gray and shadowy and
beautiful.

The digger crawled out of its brand-new hole near a
standing tower, Eri recognizing it as a helipad even
as Risa pointed out the snow-cats parked near the base.
It was snowing, fat wet flakes spinning down from a
slate sky, the humid cold seeping into the cab before
they'd been on the surface a minute. There was a wind
blowing, the snow angled slightly—not a big wind, but
steady.

" 'Copter or 'cat?" Risa asked lightly, but Eri could
see that she was starting to shiver. So am I.

"Your call Gakksan," Eri said. A helicopter would be
faster, but staying on the ground seemed safer.
"But since when did you know how to fly?"

"Well- if anything the thing might have a radio. We should
get some reception, as long as the weather doesn't get
any worse," she said, looking
up at the tower, but she didn't seem sure. Eri was about
to recommend one of the 'cats when Risa shrugged, pushing
her door open and sliding out, calling back over her
shoulder.

"I say we hit the tower, fly girl," Risa said. "We can at
least see if there's actually a choice."
Eri got out, too, craning her neck back, but she
couldn't see the top of the tower, either. And it was cold,
frostbite cold.

"Whatever, let's just hurry," Eri said, slinging the
rifle over her shoulder.

Risa jogged for the stairs, Eri following, freezing
but exhilarated, suddenly totally high on being free to
choose, to decide what they wanted to do, how they
wanted to do it. And either way, they'd be at the Australian
station in an hour or so, wrapped in blankets and
drinking something hot and telling their story.

Well, at least the more believable parts, she thought,
climbing the recently sanded stairs after Risa.
Even the most open-minded people in the world wouldn't believe
half of what they'd been through.

Her happiness was wearing thin as they neared the
top, three stories later, her teeth chattering it away—and
when Risa turned around, frowning, Eri no longer
cared about much of anything beyond getting warm.
"There's no helicopter," Risa said, snow starting to stick
to her hair. "I guess we'll—"

She saw something behind Eri and her face suddenly
contorted with horror and surprise. She reached out to
pull Eri up but she was already moving.
"Go!" Eri said, and Risa turned and bolted up the stairs,
Eri barely a half step behind her. She didn't know
what she'd seen—
—yes you do—
—but from the look on her face, Eri knew she didn't
want it behind her.

It's the thing, the monster, it was loose and now it's
coming for you, her fear helpfully provided, and then
Risa was grabbing her arm and jerking her up the last
few steps. She stumbled onto a giant, empty, square
platform, the landing lines mostly obscured by fresh
snow, a gray haze of anomalous fog making it hard to
see clearly.

"Give me the rifle," Risa breathed, and Eri ignored
her, turned to see if it was true, if she would recognize
the awful pain of the thing that had screamed so horribly—
—and as it gained the platform, she saw that it was
true, and she recognized it with no trouble at all. She unslung
the rifle and backed away, motioning for Risa to
stay behind her.

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #505 on: August 13, 2008, 11:08:51 PM »
Niita Tomoko
Facility, Mining Room (somewhere below)
October 10, 3:19 PM

Niita woke up in a world of pain. She could barely
breathe, and there was blood on her face and in her nose
and mouth, and when she tried to move, the agony was
instant and overwhelming. Every inch of her was broken,
cut or smashed or punctured, and she knew she was
going to die. All that was left was her surrender to the
dark. She was very afraid, but she ached so badly that perhaps
sleep would be best...
. ..Kasumi...

She couldn't give up, not when she'd been so close—
not when she was still so close. She forced her eyes to
open, and saw through a thin red haze that she was on
one of the lower level platforms that jutted out into the
mining pit. She'd fallen at least three levels, perhaps as
many as five.

"Ka, ssu-miii," she whispered, and felt blood bubbling
up from her chest, felt bones grinding as she shifted, felt
afraid of the pain she'd have to endure—but she would go
to her, because she was her heart, her great love, and she
would be sustained by her sister’s name on her lips.
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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #506 on: August 13, 2008, 11:12:26 PM »
Risa Niigaki
Antarctica, Outside (Helipad)
October 10, 3:23 PM



"Give me the rifle," Risa said again, watching the
thing take its first stumbling step in their direction, but
Eri wasn't listening. She had her eye to the scope,
was seeing what Risa saw but under magnification—and
what Risa saw was an abomination.

Blindfolded, its hands tied behind its back, wearing
only a shapeless and stained cut of leather knotted
around its waist, the thing had suffered horribly, that
much was clear; she could see the raised scars, the ancient
welts, bloody shackle marks around its ankles.

It looked almost human, but for its oversized body and
strange flesh—gray and mottled, sitting over lean muscles
that had ruptured through in places, exposing raw
tissue. Its torso was bare, and she could see a kind of
pulsing redness in the center of its chest, a clear target—
and for a few seconds, Risa thought they were safe
after all, it doesn't have any weapons —
—and there was a splintering, cracking sound, and
four asymmetrical appendages, like the jointed legs of
an insect, unfolded from its back and upper body, the
longest easily ten feet, curling from its right shoulder
like a scorpion's tail.

It reeled forward another step—
and some dark liquid was spraying from its body, from
its chest or back. As the droplets struck the frozen cement,
a thick, purplish-green gas began to hiss upward
from where they landed, blown by the snowy wind first
one direction, then another.

It rumbled out some heavy, wordless sound and
took another step toward them, the new arms whipping
around its hairless head, making it weave from
side to side. It could barely keep its balance, and as
the thought occurred to her, Risa was already running.

Go in low, head down, knock it off while it's still at
the edge—


"Risa!" Eri screamed fearfully, but she was almost
there, close enough for the acrid tinge of its self-produced
gas to sear her nostrils,has to be poison, gotta
keep it away from Eri —
—and just before she rammed into it, something viciously
shoved her, slammed into her back and pushed,
sending her flying to the ground.

"Risa!"Eri screamed again, this time in absolute
horror, because she was skidding across the icy cement
on her side, and though she tried to stop herself, scrabbling
at the frozen platform with frozen fingers, there
was suddenly no platform left.

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #507 on: August 13, 2008, 11:16:05 PM »
Eri Kamei
Antarctica, Outside (Helipad)
October 10, 3:27 PM



Risa was only a few feet from the monster when its
strange arm whipped down over them both, hitting
Risa in the back and hurtling her to the side.
"Risa!"

Risa skipped across the frozen platform like a flat
stone on water and disappeared over the edge.
Oh, my God, no!

Eri doubled over, the emotional pain hitting her
like a physical blow, sharp and hard in her gut. Risa'd
been trying to protect her, and it had cost her; her life.
For a second, Eri couldn't move or breathe, couldn't
feel the cold, didn't care about the monster.
But only for a second.

She looked at the stumbling, tortured animal staggering
toward her, knew without doubt that the fury they'd
heard came from long, hard years of abuse, of experimentation,
and felt nothing. Her heart had sealed itself
up, her mind suddenly colder than her body. She
straightened, jacking a round into the chamber of the
rifle, appraising the situation with a clear eye.

Obviously, she could outrun it, leave it on the platform
and be a mile away before it found its way back
down—but that wasn't an option, not anymore. Its death
would be a mercy, but that didn't figure in to her calculations,
either.

It killed Risa, and now I'm going to kill it, she thought
coolly, and walked to the northwest corner of the platform,
the farthest from the stairs. Its appendages flailing
over its head, the monster wove around in a painfully slow
hah0circle, its blind face finally turned in her direction.

It let out another deep, gasping, mindless sound and
its body vomited out more of that smoking liquid, some
kind of acid or poison, probably. She wondered who had
created such a thing, and how—this was no virus
zombie, and from its abused and tormented state, it
wasn't a BOW, either. She supposed she'd never know.

Eri raised the rifle and looked through the scope,
focusing in on the pulsating tissue in the center of its
chest, then raising to target its blank gray face. She
didn't know about the tissue mass at its heart, but she
was sure it wouldn't survive a head shot by a 30.06. The
unnecessary pain; she just wanted it dead.

She aimed at the center of its forehead. It had a strong
jaw and fine, straight nose beneath the puckered flesh,
as though it had once been handsome, even aristocratic.
Maybe it's another Tomoko, she thought mockingly,
and fired.

The monster's head split apart, almost seemed to
shatter as the round found its mark. Shards of bone and
brain matter flew, all of it as gray as the gray sky, steam
rising up from the broken bowl of its skull as it fell—
first to its knees, the mutant arms spasming in the snowy
air, then onto its ruined face.

Eri felt nothing, no pleasure, no dismay, not even
pity. It was dead, that was all, and it was time for her to
go. She still didn't feel the cold, but her body was shaking
violently, her teeth rattling, and she knew she had to
get warm—
"Eri?"

The voice was weak and shuddering and unmistakably
Risa's, coming from the platform's east edge.
Eri stared at the empty space for a split second, entirely
dumbfounded—and then ran, dropping to her
hands and knees beneath the soft patter of snow, leaning
out to see Risa awkwardly wrapped around a support
post, clinging to the frozen metal with both arms and
one leg.

Risa's face was almost blue with cold, but when she saw
Eri, her eyes lit up, a look of incredible relief crossing
her pale features.
"You're alive," she said.
"That's my line," Eri answered, dropping the rifle
and bracing herself against the edge, leaning down to
grab her arm. It was a struggle, but in another moment,
Risa was back on the platform, and then they were on
their knees, embracing, too cold to do anything but
hang on.

"I'm so sorry, Eri," she said miserably, her face
buried in her shoulder. "I couldn't stop it."

Her heart had unsealed when she'd seen Risa alive,
and now tightened painfully.
"Don't worry, I got it this time," Eri said, determined
not to cry. "You get the next one, okay?"

Risa nodded, sitting back on her heels to look at her.
"I will," she said, so vehemently that Eri had to smile.
"Cool," Eri said, and crawled to her feet, reaching
down to help Risa up. "That'll save me some work. Now
let's go catch a 'cat, yes?"

Supporting each other and staying close for warmth,
they made their way to the stairs, neither of them willing
to let go.

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #508 on: August 13, 2008, 11:21:54 PM »
Kasumi Tomoko
Facility, Unknown
October 10, 3:45 PM

KASUMI TOMOKO WATCHED HER TWIN DIE AT
her feet, bleeding and in great pain, reaching out to touch
the stasis tank with adoration in her dying eyes. Niita'd never
been particularly bright or competent, but Kasumi had loved
her, very much.

Niita’s death was a great sadness... but also
the sign Kasumi'd been waiting for. It was time to come out.

She'd known for some months that the end would be
soon—or rather the beginning, the emergence of a new
life on Earth. Her stasis had remained stable for most of
the fifteen years she'd needed, her mind and body unaware
of life—unaware that she was suspended in freezing
amniotic fluid, her cells slowly changing and
adapting to the Keiko-virus.

In the past year, however, that had changed. She had
hypothesized that given enough time, the K-virus would
raise consciousness to new levels, expanding areas of
the mind that would surpass simplistic human senses,
and she had been correct. For the last ten months, she
had begun experiencing herself in spite of stasis, testing
her awareness ... and she had been able to see through
her human eyes, when she wished.

Kasumi reached out with her mind and turned off the
support machines. The tank began to drain, and she
stared out at her dear sister, most unhappy that she had
died.
Kasumi could choose not to employ her emotions, but
she had been human with Niita; it seemed appropriate.

When the tank was empty, Kasumi opened it, stepping
out into her new world. There was power everywhere,
hers for the taking, but now she sat down in front of the
tank and laid Niita's bloody head in her lap, experiencing
the sadness.

She began to sing, a child's song that her sister had
liked, stroking Niita's hair back from her drawn face. There
was sadness in the lines around Niita's eyes and mouth, and
Kasumi wondered what Niita's life had been like. She wondered
if Niita'd stayed at Rockfort, stayed at Keiko's home,
the home of their ancestors.

Still singing, Kasumi reached out to her father—and
was surprised to find him missing, either dead or beyond
her range of perception. She had touched his mind only
recently, studying what was left of it. In a way, he was responsible
for what she had become; the K-virus had
turned his mind to sludge, had driven him insane ... as it
would have to her, if she hadn't tested it on him, first.

She stretched her awareness, finding sickness and
death in the upper levels of the terminal. A pity. She had
been looking forward to beginning her experiments
again, immediately; without test subjects, she had no
reason to stay.

She found two people not far from the government facility
and decided to flex her control over substance, to see
how much effort it took—and found that it was hardly
an effort at all. She concentrated for just a few seconds,
saw two females inside of a snow machine, and
wished for them to be brought back to the facility.
Instantly, lines of organic matter tore through the ice,
ripping toward the vehicle. Amused, Kasumi watched
with her senses as a giant tentacle of new-formed substance
rose up and curled around the machine, lifting it
effortlessly into the air —and then threw it back at the
facility. The machine tumbled end over end, its engine
bursting into flame, and came to rest against one of the
government buildings.

Both were still alive, she thought, and was well
pleased. She could use one of them in an experiment
she'd been thinking about for weeks, and would surely
find a good use for the other in due time.

Kasumi continued to sing to her dead sister, intrigued
by the changes she could see coming, looking
forward to gaining a fuller mastery of her new powers.
She stroked Niita's hair, dreaming.

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #509 on: August 14, 2008, 01:09:36 AM »
Wow.
I honestly thought that you killed Risa there for a minute! You gave me a heart attack :shocked:
Well, I have to say that I'm glad that Niita's dead but I'm depressed that Kasumi isn't >_>
I can't believe they used their own father! What heartless people...
Why can't they just let Eri and Risa go, the poor things have been through enough :cry:


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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #510 on: August 14, 2008, 02:44:28 AM »
oh crud.....now that gakikame is in kasumi's hands... who can save them? i doubt hitomi or the others will come back, since they think eri and risa are already dead..... maybe aya? doubt it too, since aya apparently ditched them........... gonna re-read the last few chapters see if i can pick up any clues

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #511 on: August 14, 2008, 04:13:37 AM »
I just read through all of this an all I can say is WOW. I love the way you write :wub:

I agree with KonaKaga. Why can't they just let them go? :cry:
Well, I guess that it wouldn't make as exciting a story, and because you're the author XD
Again, great job and I can't wait for the update while I mull over what might happen to the GakiKame duo next...

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #512 on: August 14, 2008, 04:33:56 AM »
i just re read jessica chins parts....it sounds like she had someone following gakikame + aya....... but its not niita........ cause when she talked, it sounded like she was betraying niita to get a sample of kasumi's virus (which i am assuming is the keiko virus).........UGH!!! wheres JFC? we need him to investigate this for us :(:(:(

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #513 on: August 14, 2008, 06:04:45 AM »
I've been following this story for a while now, and I am ashamed that it took me this long to post anything. XD

Anyways, this has got to be the most intense epic I've read. (Fan of zombie movies and all) Absolutely amazing! I'm quite a Kame fan, and to see her kicking butt...I can't ask for much more lol. I'd stamp the GakiKame interaction in here with many stamps of approval, too. :lol: Looking forward to more updates! :heart:

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #514 on: August 14, 2008, 09:05:39 AM »
Damn you meowchi and your massive volume of updates that make it harder to get through your fic even though the story is already so awesome which makes it hard to ignore!!! :banghead:

Kidding! Wubz!



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White always goes first, so . . .

She reached out and touched the white king. As soon as her finger contacted the piece, it swiveled in place, turning around to face the back of the board. At the same time, there was a soft, musical tone from overhead.

She looked up and saw a tiny speaker set into the ceiling. Nothing else happened, no flashing lights or secret passageways opening up behind the wall. Apparently, she’d passed.

How anti-climactic.
Better than what could have happened had she NOT passed.



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It seemed like an awfully complicated test for something as supposedly mindless as a Trisquad zombie—though perhaps the researchers had been making plans for something else, something intelligent.. . .
Could be that the test was made that way so that they couldn't be done by the zombies.



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Ai held up a book, talking fast. “We found a journal. It says that the strain of the virus used to infect the Trisquads is in block D, in room 101. Maybe everything’s fine, but if Reina and Sayumi touch anything that’s been contaminated—“

Hitomi heard enough. “Let’s go.”
HURRY! :OMG:

Boy a set of working walkie-talkies would sure be useful right about now.



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*TANASHIGE AT BLOCK D*
Not that surprised that curiosity got the better of them. Sayu made a good point too in that it was a chance that they couldn't really pass up given the chance that they'd find something helpful in there. All they had to do was be careful.



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Sayumi looked down at the gurney, lightly touching the long-dried stain, wondering what kind of person could have willingly participated in such an experiment.The crust of blood was old,
powdery, and filled her with thoughts of what the victims must have endured, waiting in the cage, perhaps watching as some gloved madman injected a toxic, mutating virus into a helpless human being....
Oh crap. :banghead: What the hell Sayu?!?! A stain that's dried is still potentially dangerous/infectious!



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Sayumi’s right eye itched, distracting her from the terrible remembrance, drawing her back to the present. She rubbed at it, then looked at her watch again.
Oh frak PLEASE say she didn't rub her eye with the same hand that touched that stain!
:scared:



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Sayumi followed, rubbing at the maddening, elusive itch in her right eye. She must have irritated it with all of the rubbing, it seemed to be getting worse. And to top things off, she felt a headache coming on. She wiped at her eye, sighing inwardly at the timing. She never got headaches unless she was coming down with something. The swim in the ocean must have set her up nicely for a cold—and from the building throb in her head, it was going to be a nasty one.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!  YOU'RE GONNA MAKE THEM KILL SAYU~!!!:bleed eyes:



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Reina grinned suddenly, a triumphant light in her eyes. “The letters stand for the months—January, February, March, April, May, June—July. It’s J, the last letter is J.”

“Brilliant,” Hitomi said. She started to place the tiles in the indentation as Reina nudged Sayumi with her elbow, still grinning.
It's even more impressive because the months are in English, a subject/language we know all the MM girls are good at.  :roll:



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“That all I get?” Reina quipped. “No parade?” Hitomi stood up, smiling tiredly. “I felt the same way with the other one. We should get moving, see how Ai and Koharu are making out—“

“Interesting way of putting it, leader,” Reina said, chuckling. “Nice one.”
Reina noticed! :thumbsup



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Koharu saw what she was getting at and was impressed anew with how thoughtful Ai was, how clearly she communicated herself....

... all that and a smile that lights up a room; if— when we get out of this, I’m gonna be closer to her. Or I’ll at least find out if she feels the same way...
:nya:



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Reina’s booming voice preceded her down the corridor, loud and full of bright good humor. “Get your clothes on, kids, you’ve got company!”
:mon lol:



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Ai dropped Koharu's hand quickly, but the look that she flashed Koharu more than made up for it—a sweet and wistful expression that made Koharu's heart skip a beat—but there was a maturity there, too, a realization of the circumstances they were in, an acknowledgment of priorities.

No more until we’re out of here.

Koharu nodded slightly, and they turned to wait for the others.
Good incentive for them to get out alive. :yep:



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Reina and Sayumi had another encounter outside of D, managed to get five of them— that means there may only be one team left.”
Key word here is "MAY". As Aichan said, the entry was a few weeks old, and considering that it also said that they were speeding up the rate of infection, there's still a definite possibility of there being more of them out there somewhere.



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Hitomi stared at them for a moment, then shook her head. “No, nothing like that. I just—I have a bad feeling. Or rather, a feeling that something bad is going to happen.”
That's because there is...and poor Sayu's going to be the one to pay for it.
:mon waterworks:



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Sayumi’s red eyes widened in sudden horror, and when she spoke, it was a breathless, quivering whisper. “The gurney. There was a bloodstain on the gurney and I was thinking about—I touched it. Oh, no, I didn’t even think about it, it was dry and I, my hand wasn’t cut and oh my God, I got a headache right after my eye started itching—
:cry:



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“There’s a vaccine, right?” Reina asked, her dark gaze darting between Sayumi and Ai. “There’s a cure, wouldn’t they have a shot or something here if someone got it by accident? They’d have to, wouldn’t they?”

Hitomi felt a sudden surge of desperate hope. “Is it possible?” she asked Ai quickly.

The young Musume nodded, slowly at first but then eagerly. “Yeah, it’s possible. It’s probable, they created it—“ She looked at Hitomi seriously, urgently. “We have to find the main lab, where they synthesized the virus, and quickly. If they developed a cure, that’s where the information would be. ...”
One would like to believe that scientists who were brought in on this would indeed have the sense to create a counter-virus to this (in case any of them accidentally got infected themselves).  Problem is, considering how whacked out Niita is and how hard she was pushing the project, who knows if they actually made any that for sure will work or if there is any still around?



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The Trisquads were no more—
At least...the documented ones were no more.



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In the front of the room was a small shelf coming off the wall, only a few feet long and a foot deep. There were three large buttons on the flat surface, red, green, and blue. The wall behind the shelf was tiled in large, smooth gray tiles made from some kind of industrial plastic.

“That’s it,” Koharu said. “Blue to access.” With barely a second’s hesitation, Hitomi walked to the counter and pushed the blue button—

...

“Blue series completed. Access reward.”
Question is...what's the "reward"?



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they watched Hitomi pull a single tiny item from the recess, what looked like a credit card with a slip of paper stuck to one side
A keycard? What's it access?



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It was a light green key card, the kind used to open electronic doors, blank except for a magnetic strip—and the scrawled words on the small square of paper said only:
LIGHTHOUSE-ACCESS 135-SOUTHWEST/EAST.
Sunovabeech.



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“Handwriting’s the same as on Matsuura’s note,” Koharu said hopefully. “Maybe the lab is in the lighthouse. . . .”
That would meant that the lighthouse would have to be nearby. If the counter-agent IS being kept there, then the virus' incubation time within the body would have to be long enough for someone to get from the lab, to the lighthouse and back again. But then again, Niita DID make the order to speed up it's rate of infection.




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“Look, I don’t know what they’ve done with the virus here, but there’s a chance that you could start to experience more advanced symptoms in a relatively short amount of time. It’s important that you tell me, tell all of us how you’re doing, physically and psychologically. Any changes at all, we need to know, okay?”
It might not seem that important, heck it might even seem like an annoyance to some, but in this case it really IS important that Sayu stay aware of her condition and that she keeps the others aware of it too.



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“If—if I start to act... irrationally, you’ll do something, won’t you? You won’t let me— hurt anyone?”

A single tear slid down one pale cheek, but she didn’t look away, her wet, crimson gaze as firm and strong as it had ever been.

Ai swallowed, struggling to sound confident and reassuring, awed by the bravery she saw in Sayumi’s eyes—and wondering how much longer that bravery would hold up beneath the roar of the virus running through her veins.
Sayu knows the score, and she knows that if they don't find a cure, it's going to have to be done. She doesn't want to hurt her friends, and is asking for their help to make sure that she never does because of this virus.
:gmon tears:



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“I think it’s a trap,” she said. “Reina, you and I go in low, I’ll take west—Ai, I want you and Koharu to stand on either side of the door and fire at anything standing; keep firing until we call clear.
Considering what they're hoping is in there, it wouldn't be a surprise at all to find it rigged with traps.



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“Hang on Sayumin, hang on, we’ll be there soon—“

Sayumi let them help her, wondering why their faces looked so strange, wondering why they smelled so hot and good.
The virus is enhancing her predatory/aggressive tendencies, no doubt.
 :pleeease:



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RYOKO YOKOHARA HAD FAILED.
Dr. Chin stared at the blinking white light by the door, cursing Yokohara, cursing Ken Matsuura, cursing her luck.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH??? Some of the scientists are still alive???
:mon wtf:



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She hadn’t told Yokohara how to get back inside, which could only mean that the intruders had made it past her. Ken Matsuura had left them a message or sent them one, it didn’t matter— all that mattered was that they were coming and she had to assume that they had the key.
Intruders? She means Yossi-tachi!!! :o



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If Xiaolin was caught out, there were still the Ma7s, there was still Louis, there were still the syringes and her hiding place, the airlock controls in easy reach.
MORE CREATURES!!!  :shocked:



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of course, it's just part of Dr. Chin's well thought out betrayal to retrieve a sample of Niita's beloved Kasumi-virus. Selfish ingrate!
Oh great, not only now do they have to deal with psycho Niita and possibly her sister, but now we've got one of the other scientists who's planning on stealing the virus herself and doing who-knows-what with it!  :tama-mad:



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Past all of that, there was still the sunrise- a few hours away, waiting.

Dr. Chin smiled dreamily.
Something significant about sunrise?



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Ai looked up.

When she saw what was ahead, she felt her last flicker of hope for Sayumi die.
We’ll never find it in time.

The tunnel did open up, a few hundred meters ahead of where Hitomi had stopped. It widened considerably, in fact—and was connected by five smaller tunnels, each branching off in a slightly different direction.
no...
 :pen_cry:



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A stumbling figure, a flapping, dusty lab coat—
• and then he saw them, and even from fifteen meters away, Ai could see the stunned and almost hysterical joy that swept across his face.

The man ran for them, his short brown hair wild and disheveled, his eyes bright and lips trembling. He wasn’t holding any kind of weapon, though Ai kept hers raised.
“Oh, thank God, thank God! You have to help me! Dr. Thurman, he’s gone mad, we have to get out of here!”

He staggered out of the tunnel and nearly ran into Hitomi, apparently oblivious to the pistols trained on him as he babbled on.
Dr. Wong, I presume?



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“Which way is the laboratory?” Hitomi asked quickly.

Wong didn’t seem to hear her, too panicked by whatever he thought Thurman might do to them.
The responses that Chin gave him were probably meant to distract and misdirect anyone from finding the lab. She assumed that anyone who had gotten this far would be completely focused on getting off the island. It never occured to her that someone might actually NEED to go to the lab.



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“We split up. Koharu, you take Sayumi to the boat, keep an eye on Wong. We’ll go to the lab, get what we need and then meet you there. Agreed?”
I don't know about this. They're obviously running out of time to save Sayu. She needs that cure (if there is one) and she needs it FAST! Splitting themselves up like this (which physically puts Sayu further away from the potential source of the cure) is questionable, at best.



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“We need to get to the laboratory, but our friend Sayumi isn’t well. We’d like for you to take her and an escort to the boat, and wait for us.”

Wong’s eyes seemed to blank out for just a second, the strange, vacant look there and gone so quickly that Hitomi wasn’t even sure she’d seen it.

“We have to hurry,” he said quickly, then turned and started back down the passage he’d appeared from, walking at a brisk pace.

Hitomi felt a sudden worry, staring at Wong’s rapidly receding back, his dirty lab coat floating out behind him.
He didn’t even ask who we are...
Aside from the phrases Chin gave him, mentally, Wong's a blank slate, isn't he?  He's just spouting off the same phrases over and over again like a parrot. Is he one of those Ma7's that were mentioned before?



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Wong stood two meters away, holding a .25 semi-automatic, his face and eyes as strangely blank and lifeless as a mannequin’s. He stepped forward and pressed the small bore into Koharu’s stomach, hard, jerking the Beretta out of her pocket and then stepping back.

...

“You will come to the lab,” Wong said tonelessly, “or I’ll kill you.”
Oh DON'T tell me Wong lied about where the tunnels lead!  :O



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Dr. Chin ... ?
Unknown, Laboratory …?
October 10, 1:21 AM

Enough time had passed. If the intruders had done what they were supposed to do, they would have split up, some of them heading mistakenly for the pen, some accompanying the good doctor back to the lab.
CRAP!!!



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*YOSSI/AICHAN/REINA MEET THE Ma7's*
WHAT IN KAMI-SAMA'S NAME!?!?!!?
 :mon wtf:

Apparently Dr. Moreau has nothing on the people who dreamt THIS up.



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Even as Chin spoke, a fascinating turn of events took place.

The infected female squirmed around in Thurman’s grasp—and with one quick movement, darted forward and bit into Louis’s face. She pulled back with a thick, bloody mouthful of his cheek and started to chew enthusiastically.
SAYU NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 
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As much as Chin wanted to continue watching, there was work to be done. The young girl’s other friends might manage to put down the Ma7s— and if they succeeded with that, they might come looking for their bright young woman.
But by then, she’ll be my bright young woman....
I knew it! Chin's able to do some type of brainwashing, which is what she did to Wong, Thurman, and the other scientist (whatever the name was); and she's going to do the same to Koharu!



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And she was far from villainous. It was they who had invaded her sanctuary, threatened her plans for creating worldwide peace. There was no question who the evildoers were in this story.
Worldwide peace? How? By turning the entire population into a bunch of drones with no will of their own, save for what she gives them?



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Reina swore to herself that if they were all right, if there was still time for Sayumi, if they could all make it out of this alive, she’d give anything. My cats, my piano, my money, I won’t call anyone baka anymore, I’ll clean up my act and walk the straight and narrow
It wasn’t enough, and she didn’t know why anyone would want it—but she’d sacrifice anything, do whatever it took
Foreshadowing...



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Koharu leaned against the frame, holding her Beretta, her face pale and blank.

“Koharu! What happened, what—“ Hitomi started, but the look on Koharu’s face as she turned to watch them approach, the terrible emptiness there, made them all stop in their tracks. Even as her mind searched to deny it, Reina’s heart filled with a horrible, aching loss.

“Sayumi’s dead,” Koharu said softly, then turned and walked into the room.
AND CHIN'S BRAINWASHED KOHARU!!!
:gyaaah:



OMGAWD KOHARU SHOT REINA!!!
:mon wtf:



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It seems your contacts have riled her up quite a bit- enough for her to bring the insane twin sister into the fray, hmm?
Oh great...now a THIRD nutcase is coming?!?!? :banghead:



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Chin was pacing in front of them now, her eyes burning with mad genius. “There’s enough of my strain, of my creation in those tanks to infect a billion people in less than twenty-four hours! I’ve managed to find the answer, the answer to the pitiful, selfish, and self-important breed that the human race has become—when I give my gift to the wind, the world will become free again, it will be reborn, a simple and beautiful place for every creature, great and small, surviving on instinct alone!”
Damn, I hate being right sometimes.



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“And you’re dead. You’re not going to be here when my miracle graces this earth, I, I—deprive you of my gift, both of you! When the sun comes up tomorrow, there will be peace, and neither of you will ever know a second of it!”
She's releasing her own virus at dawn!
:OMG:



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Ai screamed, beating her fists helplessly against the thick metal door.
No no no no no—

BOOM!

The thunder of the shot cut her screams off. Koharu fell against the base of the hatch, mercifully out of sight.
Already dead, she was already dead, it wasn’t Koharu anymore—
You're killing all of them!!!
 :pig cry:



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Chin moved to a control panel next to the door and started to press buttons, still smiling.

There was a heavy clanking from the grated floor and water started to gurgle in, drawn from the icy black waters of the cove that pressed against the outer hatch.

The airlock was just big enough for her and Hitomi not to have to stand on Sayumi’s bloody, twisted body, and already the water was turning red, foaming up from an unseen vent and lapping at their feet, covering Sayumi’s white fingers.
A minute, maybe less....
Sayu's infected blood is going to infect the water that they're going to be in. Even if they can escape, they might still be infected!



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Ai tensed against Hitomi's chest suddenly.

She pushed away from her and grabbed at Sayumi’s body, her fingers searching frantically through the dead Musume's clothes. She laughed, a bright, hysterical snap of joy—
• she’s gone mad—
• and jerked a dark, round object from one of Sayumi’s pockets.

Hitomi saw what it was and felt pure amazement sweep through her.

“She kept blushing about it,” Ai chattered out quickly. “Sayumin's good luck.”

Hitomi took the grenade and held it behind her back, her thoughts racing again, assessing, the water to her torso and almost to Ai’s heaving chest.
• outer door pops, pull the pin and get in the cage, hold the hatch closed—

They’d probably still die.
But if they could pull it off, they wouldn’t go out alone.
Are they nuts for thinking of trying this? Yes.

Are they desperate? HELL YES.



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The lock had filled. The light on the control panel indicated that the outer door had unlatched. It was over—
• except they were scrambling to get out, kicking through into the cage, and something small dropped past the window as they pushed the door closed behind them—
Chin frowned and—
BOOM!

She just had time to register disbelief before the hatch slammed into her body and the screaming torrent of liquid ice took her breath away.
HOPE YOU WERE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE DOOR TO GET A GOOD VIEW, BITCH!!! 
:mon mad:



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A man’s voice- shouting in English, coming from the boat now moving slowly toward them. “This is Captain Reilly of the U.S. National Central Bureau of INTERPOL! Identify yourself!”
U.S…- Interpol?
The American branch of Interpol? In this part of the world? They had their suspicions about the goings-on of this island or something?



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When Reilly shouted again, he said the most wonderful, most beautiful words that Ai had ever heard.
“Eri Kamei sent us to find you! Hang on!”
Eri. Oh, thank God, Eri!
Eri? She's okay? :w00t:



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That’s when she heard the choking groan behind her.
Sayu???  :mon chilly:



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“You’re going to be okay, Reina,” Hitomi said softly.
“Just rest now. It’s all over.”
REINA!!! SHE'S NOT DEAD!!!
 :pen_whirl:


* JFC sees there are still 2 pages of updates.

Dammit woman and your insane amount of updating. You trying to outdo rokun?




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Deeply saddened by her, Miki’s and Risa’s unfortunate fates- Hitomi vowed to never let Niita- wherever she is- get away with this atrocity
But wait, wasn't Risa on the plane with Eri and Aya? If Eri's okay, then Risa must be too, considering they managed to stop the creatures on the plane. Man, so much has happened in this I can't keep track of it all!  It's like telling the stories of 2 movies at the same time!
 :frustrated:

And NO I'm not going to search back through half a dozen pages to find out!



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Well the prelude took place on Oct 11
Prelude? What prelude?
* JFC checks first post.

Looks like you got rid of the prelude.




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currently the story is at Oct 10 (early morning)- so... it's more than halfway done
:dizzy:
You know there is such a thing as stretching a story out TOO long. :P



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With Aya wanting some privacy in the cargo hold- probably too shaken up to be with us- Risa and Eri'd fallen asleep side-by-side leaning against the cockpit wall, and had apparently moved closer together at some point. She had no idea what time it was, or how long they'd slept, but they were still in the air, muted sunlight still coming in through the windows.
So all this time, they've just been going on the hijacking autopilot? No attempts to find and disable it?


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"We're over the Antarctic," Risa said.
"As in the South Pole?" Eri asked, incredulous.
:stunned:



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The cargo hold door opened suddenly, footsteps erratic-
"Risa- Aya- she's gone!"
She's... what!?
EEEEEEEEEEHHHHHH?????  :shocked:



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So where is everybody? Where is anybody? If it was a government facility, why weren't there a dozen soldiers dragging them out of the wreckage? Or at least a few pissed off janitors ...
Maybe it's an old or abandoned site? The type of place a whacko would have for a hideout?



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"Maybe she y’know- jumped... I mean- …she did seem a little distant when..." Risa stopped herself, when she noticed Eri's eyes swell up.

"couldn't have- she couldn't have- really- " Eri paused. "She was so happy- before Niita-"
She began to sniffle, her head down in shame- silent and mournful as ever. Aya, why? After all that's happened-
:hip cry:



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"So where do you think everybody is?" Risa asked, keeping her voice low. There was a definite echo effect probability, as massive and empty as the chamber was.

Eri shook her head. "Making snow angels?"
"Har har," Risa said. "Shouldn't Niita be jumping out right about now with a flame thrower or something?"
Knowing Niita, wouldn't be surprised at all.



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If we can get to one of those other planes before she finds us ..."

"Let's do it," Risa said. "Do you want to split up? We could cover more ground that way, hurry things along."
"With Niita running around somewhere? I vote no," Eri said, and Risa nodded, looking relieved.
Smart move. It's not like they have so much area to cover that they actually need to spllit up right now.



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At least one of those planes outside had come from the island, probably a bunch of panicked employees—
presumably not scientists—who hadn't realized they were carrying the infection with them.
OH FOR FRAK'S SAKE! MORE ZOMBIES?!?!?



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"We definitely gotta get out of here," Risa said.

Well, maybe Niita got eaten, anyway, Eri thought. Wishful thinking, though they certainly deserved a lucky break. "Let's go."
Heh, if they could only be so lucky.



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"Hey, maybe there's something we can use in these," Risa said, moving to the desk. There were a number of papers, and what appeared to be a collection of maps strewn across its top--but Eri was suddenly more interested in the whitish lump stuck on the back of Risa's right shoulder.

...

It was an egg case, the moth had laid an egg case on her.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! The moth humped on Risa! :puke:



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*NOTE ABOUT CREATURE BELOW B2*
And yet ANOTHER creature they're undoubtedly going to have to deal with.



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*GAKIKAME LOOKS AT MAPS AND BLUEPRINTS*
Going through the tunnels would indeed save them some time, assuming that they don't have to spend that much time finishing mining the tunnel. However it would also mean that they would need to go below B2, and possibly face that potential creature mentioned in the memo.



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Niita Tomoko
Facility, Below Manager's Office
October 10, 2:31 PM
WTH Niita's already there?!?! 
:mon mad:



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"They knew that it was time, too, you see," Niita said. "If not for the strike, I might have continued to believe that Kasumi was with me."
And she's apparently talking to herself. :?



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*REST OF NIITA'S PART*
Kasumi's rebirth? First she's alive, then dead, then alive, and now dead again. Just WTFRAK is going on and who, or what is tied to that chair? Is Niita trying to be the next Doctor Frankenstein or something?



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"I'll be back soon," Niita promised, hefting her rifle and walking away, wondering what Eri would think about meeting her and Kasumi's father under such unusual circumstances—namely, her own bloody death.

...

As Niita started up the stairs to the second basement level, Tetsuo Tomoko screamed again, as he'd done fifteen years before when his own children had drugged him and stolen his life
HER FATHER IS WHAT'S TIED TO THE CHAIR?!?! But wasn't he supposed to have been already dead?



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Niita had her. As she'd surmised, they— well, Ms. Kamei had come to see about the tunnel, the one exit from the terminal that didn't require a key. She wasn't a stupid girl, by no means, but Niita was superior, in intellect and strategy. Among other things.
*coughbullsheetcough*



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*BYE-BYE NIITA*
Couldn't have happened to a nicer nutcase.

But what was that? The mystery creature from the note Risa and Eri found? I figured it was just the howling of Niita's dad when we found out about him.



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It's that gibberish Niita was babbling about her sister...Crazy, yeah, but it had brought up the one question Eri still didn't have an answer for—why had Rockfort been 'attacked'?
Okay, escape now, questions later please.



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"I say we hit the tower, fly girl," Risa said. "We can at least see if there's actually a choice." Eri got out, too, craning her neck back, but she couldn't see the top of the tower, either. And it was cold, frostbite cold.
Well, they ARE in Antarctica.  :roll:



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they'd be at the Australian station in an hour or so, wrapped in blankets and drinking something hot and telling their story.
Assuming of course, that there's anyone actually at the Australian station AND that they're not a part of all this craziness.



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She saw something behind Eri and her face suddenly contorted with horror and surprise.

...

It's the thing, the monster, it was loose and now it's coming for you, her fear helpfully provided, and then Risa was grabbing her arm and jerking her up the last few steps.
And of course, it would appear that it's not as easily affected by the cold as a regular person would be.



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Niita Tomoko
Facility, Mining Room (somewhere below)
October 10, 3:19 PM
AW C'MON! CAN'T SHE DIE ALREADY!!!
 :gmon pissed:



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Blindfolded, its hands tied behind its back, wearing only a shapeless and stained cut of leather knotted around its waist, the thing had suffered horribly, that much was clear; she could see the raised scars, the ancient welts, bloody shackle marks around its ankles.
Holy crap, Niita's dad escaped???



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—and there was a splintering, cracking sound, and four asymmetrical appendages, like the jointed legs of an insect, unfolded from its back and upper body, the longest easily ten feet, curling from its right shoulder like a scorpion's tail.
Reminiscent of the additional appendages on Enzyme II from Guyver.



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It reeled forward another step— and some dark liquid was spraying from its body, from its chest or back. As the droplets struck the frozen cement, a thick, purplish-green gas began to hiss upward from where they landed,
Yep, definitely reminiscent of Enzyme II.



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Risa was already running.

Go in low, head down, knock it off while it's still at the edge—

...

just before she rammed into it, something viciously shoved her, slammed into her back and pushed, sending her flying to the ground.

"Risa!"Eri screamed again, this time in absolute horror, because she was skidding across the icy cement on her side, and though she tried to stop herself, scrabbling at the frozen platform with frozen fingers, there was suddenly no platform left.
RISA!!!
 :scared:



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*ERI KILLS NIITA'S DAD*
Had to be done. Even without what he just did, the poor bastard has suffered enough already.



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"Eri?"

The voice was weak and shuddering and unmistakably Risa's, coming from the platform's east edge. Eri stared at the empty space for a split second, entirely dumbfounded—and then ran, dropping to her hands and knees beneath the soft patter of snow, leaning out to see Risa awkwardly wrapped around a support post, clinging to the frozen metal with both arms and one leg.
RISA'S ALIVE!!!  :cow:



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KASUMI TOMOKO WATCHED HER TWIN DIE AT her feet, bleeding and in great pain, reaching out to touch the stasis tank with adoration in her dying eyes. Niita'd never been particularly bright or competent, but Kasumi had loved her, very much.
A stasis tank? All this time she's been in a stasis tank??? :O

So Kasumi herself is infected with a virus. Is it the same one that Niita infected Sayu and all the people at Rockfort? If so, how is Kasumi...still...Kasumi?



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For the last ten months, she had begun experiencing herself in spite of stasis, testing her awareness ... and she had been able to see through her human eyes, when she wished.
Oh crap...she succeeded in getting the virus to do what it had been originally designed to do, and "evolved" herself???



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She wondered if Niita'd stayed at Rockfort, stayed at Keiko's home, the home of their ancestors.
Who's Keiko?



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She found two people not far from the government facility and decided to flex her control over substance, to see how much effort it took—and found that it was hardly an effort at all. She concentrated for just a few seconds, saw two females inside of a snow machine, and wished for them to be brought back to the facility. Instantly, lines of organic matter tore through the ice, ripping toward the vehicle. Amused, Kasumi watched with her senses as a giant tentacle of new-formed substance rose up and curled around the machine, lifting it effortlessly into the air —and then threw it back at the facility. The machine tumbled end over end, its engine bursting into flame, and came to rest against one of the government buildings.

Both were still alive, she thought, and was well pleased. She could use one of them in an experiment she'd been thinking about for weeks, and would surely find a good use for the other in due time.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHH!?!?!
:mon spit:



Gah, finally done.  No idea whatsoever whether or not any of what I put here makes sense. This is getting mentally exhausting. There's so much detailed narrative going on, it's like trying to read 2 novels at the same time.
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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #515 on: August 15, 2008, 03:59:53 AM »
why do i have the feeling kasumi is gonna infect eri, and hence the title eri kamei vs. morning musume? well....thats the only way i see it going neway, cuz no one can save gakikame..... momusu (or whats left of them) already went back to japan and how in the world are they gonna know gakikame is in ANTARCTICA?.... looking forward to see what's gonna happen to em..... unless aya miraclousy comes back (doubt it again though)... also, i noticed something in kasumi's chapter

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"I worked with Niita. Though that is, how you say, an ordeal in progress." Dr. Chin held her smile.

so jessica chin is betraying niita (ordeal in progress....), which makes me think that jessica chin led that secret attack on rockfort (the one eri was thinking about in one of the latest chapters, and the one niita is so pissed off about.

and niita seems to think that the attack was to lure kasumi out or something. cuz remember niita keeps accusing eri of wanting to take whats hers (which is kasumi).....
but i guess it doesnt matter now, cuz niita is dead and kasumi is awake......

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"And you must be referring to your brethen? Surely you did not assume  we were oblivious to the two 'contacts' you sent into the city, hmm? Unlike the foolish woman, I can assure you, I know exactly what's
progressed within the few hours they've been there."

she says TWO contacts, risa and eri. but how does she know this?...... suddenly im thinking about how aya matsuura said she was a test subject.... i dont think its a coincidence that aya is gone too. i think aya is one of those smart zombies or whatever that jessica chin was talking about.... cuz you guys remember wong and koharu? they didnt look like zombies, and did whatever jessica chin told them to do...... so i think aya is one of those things..... another reason is cuz she changed her name from JULIA to her real name AYA MATSUURA........ omg i feel smart....

AND WTF KASUMI HAS PSYCHIC POWERS!?!??! CRUD....that i wish i had the keiko virus......... lol.........

JFC, JEBUS H. CHRIST!....that's the longest fic comment i've ever seen in my life!!!.... did it really take you 5 hours to read all the updates?! OMG.....

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #516 on: August 15, 2008, 06:42:18 AM »
JFC, JEBUS H. CHRIST!....that's the longest fic comment i've ever seen in my life!!!.... did it really take you 5 hours to read all the updates?! OMG.....
Well, it was late at the time. I fell asleep at about the 3 hour mark for about 40 minutes. :P

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #517 on: September 02, 2008, 12:21:10 AM »
...Update?
I went looking for this story and it's half way down the second page! :shocked:
I must find out what's happening to our GakiKame duo :cool1: :D

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #518 on: September 02, 2008, 07:08:05 PM »
hehe, i'm taking a quick break from writing- all those updates wore me out a little, and i don't wanna half-@$$ the rest of the story... but don't worry- expect an update this month!

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Re: Eri Kamei vs. Morning Musume
« Reply #519 on: September 04, 2008, 01:11:54 AM »
hello~ >.< wow never seen a fanfic like this before! its so thrilling lol. good story. but I'm having a lil trouble... I started reading from the second post since the links on the first post lead to a "404 not found" page but as I was reading, I read some comments saying about how risa died in first chap... but I cudn't find that chap. I'm just really confused on the order I should be reading it in? do I just read from first to the latest page? or should I be reading the prelude from somewhere else beforehand? ty ^^ and this is a amazing story

EDIT: wow... this is starting to feel like an actual novel as I read on oO ... its so intense...
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