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Sitting next to Aya, Colt was poring through ancient and rare texts as well. What the team had seen earlier, about his possible background as a harbinger, he needed to confirm if this was in fact the case. But he couldn't lock it down as it seemed that information that could confirm it was eluding him.

The only bit of information that he had found useful was a bit more detail on his sword. Apparently no one had been able to wield it in the past for very long without going mad. It raised the question whether he himself had been able to avoid that fate, or if the sword had driven him mad and that was what had led to the loss of his memories.
 

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Metzli looked about to wake up, until her eyes closed entirely. Once her lids closed, Eileen would have much easier access into her Veil. The curse had been trying to keep the woman out, though Metzli managed to stop it from taking over. She lay on her side, motionless, as her back's singed marks smoked through her shirt.
 

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"...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles..." Sang the crazed occupant in the isolation room.

"...Heroes in a half shell...tu-turtle power!" She paused before singing, "Leonardo's the-the leader in blue, do-does anything it takes to get...his...n-ninjas through...D-do-Donatello is a fellow...has a way with machines..." Her voice slowly rose in volume.

There was a large pause before she sang, "Raphael...has the most...attitude on the team!" She then broke out into a mad fit and tried to get out of her restraints.

"LET ME OUT OF THIS HELL HOLE! I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING ME AND LISTENING TO ME!" She screamed as she struggled against the restraints, her eyes darting to the walls around her to emphasis the point.
 

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Aya looked down at another entry, before sitting up. "Colt, look at this..." She pointed toward the entry - specifically, an excerpt from it.

'[...] when we left for the mountains of the East. The journey was arduous - the sky was blackened and the winds were piercing, as if the heavens themselves were trying to turn us away from this willing suicide we dove into.

[...] inside of a city, one owned by the orient kings of that country called the Tokugawa Shogunate, we found a city. Bathed in blood, bodies littered the streets. There were no survivors; only their screaming death-filled faces told their story.'


"Looks like the Harbingers took a stop in Japan during the Tokugawa era," Aya stated. "I wonder why that wasn't in any history books..."


Eileen entered Metzli's Veil, stepping onto the ground tentatively. "Thanks," she said to herself, smiling. She began walking through it, using her own Veil to sense her way around. The first step was to find the Guardian.

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In response to Robin's outburst, she was delivered a high-voltage shock made to stun her. The doctors didn't know if it would help her, but it was worth a try.
 

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"Because no one was left alive to put it into the history books." Colt said softly after reading what Aya was showing him. His eyes glanced towards his sword which was leaning up against the wall next to him and he didn't speak for a long time. "I'm a monster." He eventually said. "We've been skirting the truth, but now we know."
 

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"You're not a monster!" Aya yelled to him. "Okay? You're not... not a monster. We don't know what you are, but a monster isn't one of them."

She looked back down at the diary. "This might not even be about you. Hell, Alistair could've been lying," She shook her head, muttering. "He has to be lying..."
 

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Colt sighed. "I wish I could believe that Aya." He muttered quietly. "But I don't think he was. Between him and Kat and that sword and the destruction in Japan all those years ago... the clues add up far too nicely for it to be anything but the truth."
 

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It wasn't hard to find Metzli's guardian, as the colossal hydra materialized beside the heterochromatic girl. Carthage gave a roar, and Metzli opened her eyes inside of the Veil.
 

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"You're not!" Aya yelled back at Colt. "Colt... you're not..."


Eileen walked over to Carthage, stopping to stare up at him. "A hydra? Cool," she nodded her head in approval. "Alright big guy, tell me the story. What's going on in this place?"

The Orion member resonated her Veil to try and communicate with the Guardian. Telepathically, she began to speak a different language. "What's going on in this place?"

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Rose walked up behind Adam, tapping him on the shoulder. "Hey... mind coming with me for a minute?"


The girl that Nicol had saved sat inside of a hospital room, a blanket around her body and bandages wrapped over her wounds from the rift. She quietly sipped on a hot drink in a mug that Null had given her. "This... tastes like medicine..." she muttered to herself.
 

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Colt turned to her and leaned over, pressing his forehead gently against Aya's. "Whatever I am... whatever I was..." He said softly. "I'm yours now." Colt promised. "And that's all that matters."
 

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Adam turned around once he felt Rose tap on his shoulders, looking at her with curiosity before smiling. "Sure, been a while since we've talked."


"It probably is," Nicol pointed out as he walked into the room, knocking on the door lightly. "How are you holding up?"
 

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Aya closed her eyes, leaning in to peck him on the lips. "You bet your ass..." She gave a small smile. "And that's how it'll stay..."

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Rose nodded, pointing to her office. "Follow me," she turned walking in. "Caldura might be in here... doing whatever. That won't matter." @Charles Dunois;


"Oh... fine, I guess. I'm hurting all over. But I'm alive," the girl said. "How about you?"
 

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"Wha are you going to do to me Rose?" Adam smirked as he followed the woman into her office.


Nicol looked at the girl for a moment, a worried expression on his face as he looked down at the floor nervously. "I'm doing all right..listen, sorryabout before, you must've been really scared."
 

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"Oh, it's you." Caldura was sitting in the corner, gazing disinterestedly at the floor. "What's this all about?"
 

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"I..do not know much.. However, I have heard...legends. The celestial curse...has awakened.." the hydra responded, snapping his heads at the air.
 

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Atop a skyscraper stood a number of people. Cezalle, clad in his jacket and suit, walked over to yet another corpse lying on the floor of the roof. He jabbed his cane into body, letting the end soak in blood. He let it sit before taking it from the body, and walking away from the corpse.

Among the people watching were Ripred and Nyx. The former gazed with a small smirk on his face, while the other was unable to be read due to her helmet.

Cezalle moved the end of the cane on the roof, drawing intricate circles with the blood. It accompanied a large collection of very intricate markings, all creating a sigil. Once he finished, he reappeared next to Ripred and Nyx. Ripred nodded to the elderly man before his body began to glow. The two others followed his lead, their eyes glowing they emitted different colored auras.

The sigil began to glow, and Ripred's smirk grew. "I think this will do just fine."

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"We're here to talk. Behave yourself," Rose told Caldura. Rose walked behind her desk to sit, promptly typing on a holographic screen. "Look at this..."

On the screen was a large display; numbers and coordinates, as well as talks of shipments. "This is a shipping order we have from our arms dealer. We're getting some heavy shit, so we need to start preparing..."


The girl clenched her fist a bit. "Y-yeah, well... you try getting cornered by monsters and not being able to fight."

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Eileen put a hand on her hip, nodding as Carthage spoke. "She's a Helios?" Her tone showed her apparent surprise, but it didn't seem that she was entirely taken aback by the news.
 

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Colt calmed down a bit. "It's all going to be okay, isn't it." He said softly. "We're going to find out what's going on... and we're going to stop it." He vowed. Of course if he knew the chaos that was about to erupt back at base, he wouldn't be so calm.


Said chaos was courtesy of a certain rainbow haired girl showing up at Null's front door. Stepping inside, she was faced with a score of troops who were armed to the teeth and didn't look happy to see her. "I know, I know, restrain on sight order." Kat said with a cheerful smile. "Listen, I'm not here for violence, I'm here to help. I just need to see my brother, he'll clear everything up." She requested not knowing that no one knew who that meant. Or that Colt wasn't there. Realizing her error, she clarified. "You know, Agent Colt, Null's big bad wolf." The nickname brought her quite a bit of amusement. "Or failing that, his mate." She remarked, not knowing that Aya was also not on base. "The girl that I smelled on him... definitely military."
 

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The hydra seemed to stop snapping at the air, his five heads turning to glance down at Eileen. Carthage seemed to look at her like she was a snack, debating on eating her.

"Helios...is familiar. Her burning...clothes are a sure symbol. See...for yourself." The Guardian replied. Upon examining the back of Metzli and her singed clothes, Eileen would see the two symbols on their respective shoulders; the symbol of the sun on the left, the symbol of the moon on the right; the characters and symbols making up the few lines of the prophecy spoken earlier, plus a few other lines that were rather unclear.
 

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Robin's response to the shocks was far from crying out in pain. In fact, she wanted more. Smiling through gritted teeth, she addressed the doctors in a clear, sweet voice.

"Aw, so you are there and are listening to me. How sweet. Well guess what? You're going to have to try a lot harder if you want to silence me. I think you guys should pull the plug on this thread because nothing is coming out of it." She laughed hysterically at the pun she had just made then continued in a seriouser voice.

"I want more. Give me more of this pain and kill me...KILL ME!" All traces of happiness gone, Robin attempted to revolt again constantly screaming kill me and get out of me. Teeth bared, Robin let out an inhuman scream and continued to do so. She slightly smiled when she heard her hand restrainers start to break through but nonetheless continued to scream her lungs out.
 

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Adam looked at the screen for a moment, scratching his chin in curiosity before looking at Rose. "And I guess you want me to lead the escort of these supplies?" he inquired, only to feel a strange new presence arrive at the base. "Also...you sure we're not getting any surprise visistors today?"


Nicol looked at the girl, smiling a bit. "Well I wasn't always the badass I am today," he laughed awkwardly. "I was caught in my first Rift without any defence either," he explained carefully. "Anyways, I just wanted to come here to check up on you, I had already past by to check on another friend...she isn't doing to well,..." he trailed off, his mind going back to the state he had found Robin in when he had gone to visit her.
 
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