Where Will You Go?

[sou_kigetsuki]

Who: Sou "Kit" Kigetsuki, and anyone who happens to cross his path.
What: Sou's recovery was a swift one that wasn't without consequence.
When: After the Shadow Event
Where: Cafeteria.
Format: Prose but I'll match.
Warning: violence (tentatively)

Sou pretty much had forced himself into one of the fastest recoveries from a broken ankle ever by putting a bullet in his own head. He wasn't about to let anything stop him and he certainly didn't want anyone's help or pity.

Like the natural actor he was, he pretended that nothing bothered him. At least publicly. He raised his brow at the display of energy bars and it reminded him sorely of those bars he had back at the lab during his refinement which brought to the surface terrible memories of the harsh experimentations he endured.

It was almost disgusting how the Administration would think that they are nothing more than rats and even worse, he was starting to see the big picture. It was enough to make him lance the festering wound of discontent and maliciousness through violent action. His hands at his sides in tight fists, the heat in the general area of about ten feet was becoming increasingly unbearable.

"STOP MESSING WITH ME!"

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[sou_kigetsuki]

"What the...?" That voice. That irritatingly calm voice of hers and that gesture of submission...something was definitely wrong.

He recognized her as a threat immediately and moved quickly from in front of the counter to face her in a twisting motion of attack. He recalled that break to his ankle that caused him to shoot himself in the head so he could find her again and kill her. He didn't understand the apology other than complete submission but it didn't soothe his anger.

"Get away from me!" He waved his hand in front of his body in an effort to push her away. "I don't want your apology! I want real food, dammit!" Which was true considering that he wasn't about to consume those terrible energy bars again.

[immortalia]

Sertoria's own hands went up in front of her so as to say she wasn't about to harm him by any means. Had she met him earlier in life, she wouldn't have given a second thought of causing him pain. But, those days were long behind her.

She wasn't pushed back thanks to her terrific strength and noticed the telltale signs of someone being irritable thanks to hunger as well as stress.

"I can offer you real food. Just please calm down and I will be able to provide you this in due time. I only want to make sure that anything between us can be settled."

[sou_kigetsuki]

"Settled? You broke my ankle! You know how much pain that is? Not that you would know anything about that. I shot myself in the head!" He's definitely irritated on both fronts of that situation. One was the humiliation he suffered and the second was much more primal to take care of his immediate needs. He showed this with a stomp of his foot to the singed floor.

It took a few moments of this energy wasting display of childish behavior before he finally began to understand the ordeal and think rationally. He sighed and calmed down just enough to stop the heat and drew it back in. "Fine. If you do this, I can be civil."

[immortalia]

He was right. How could she understand and know pain on a physical level? The thing was, she did to some degree - especially after her mass murdering spree. Killing herself would only go against what Doc had done to improve her way of thinking and referring to herself as nothing but a machine would be erasing the progress her friends have reinforced in her mind.

Whereas she didn't understand physical pain, she had years upon years of mental and emotional pain only recently brought to the surface. She really was more human than she gave herself credit for...

"I am sorry for that. They say actions speak louder than words, so..."

Her hand moved into her robes and she produced a jar of honey and some crackers. "It is not much, but it should help to some degree."

[sou_kigetsuki]

He looked at the jar of honey and the crackers only to take the crackers and leave the honey. "I'm allergic, but thank you."

At least he was sane enough to offer some polite response. The refining process nearly stripped away what was left of Sou's natural demeanor and nature. Instead of being a controllable weapon to be used by the government, he turned on his handlers and wiped out the entire installation, killing everyone inside including the visitors and potential backers of the project. To keep the secret from getting out, he destroyed the Facility and everything that pertained to the creation of Alter Weapons, which was the only good thing he did.

He had very little humanity left. Only the basics remained. "Your apology is accepted."

[immortalia]

"I will keep that in mind for the next time."

She still did not move from her current position as she was waiting for him to accept her apology. Had she known that, she would have been able to sympathize with him on being a weapon. The life she had as a reformed android was a grateful one and she met so many people over the course of thousands of years.

"Thank you. May I sit with you, then?"

[sou_kigetsuki]

Sou gave a small nod as he consumed one of the crackers. He tried not to eat them too quickly or they wouldn't settle well. With the bottles of water destroyed, he had to make sure that they didn't create a ball in his throat. It was soon becoming a regrettable mistake.

"Why did you apologize?" It was something that baffled him. He didn't understand why anyone, artificial or otherwise, would go through such lengths to try to speak with him in such a submissive manner.

[immortalia]

As if she had the powers of foresight, Sertoria grabbed a bottle of water out of her robes and handed it to him before she sat down.

"It is the right thing to do. I attacked you when you did not do anything and the very least I could do was apologize. I find it is a better alternative than ignoring the problem and running away from it." People were often confused as to why she would do it, so it was like a habit to explain things after a while.

[sou_kigetsuki]

Taking the bottle, he lowered his head in thought as he twisted off the cap. "I see. Your programming is certainly different than my reconditioning." It was a first that he ever mentioned it. Sou's existence had come to an end and the memory of that fatal bullet entering his head, flashed. His hand shot up to press against his forehead.

"Ugh...not again." The phantom pains were not something that would go away with healing. It was a psychic transfer that stayed with him through his passing into the Other Side.

[immortalia]

Reconditioning? Sertoria perked up at that word, listening and studying his movements more. "I was different in the past as I am sure you picked up--"

She immediately picked up on the hand touching his head and she blinked. Headache? Migraine?

"Are you suffering with a headache or a migraine?" she asked, ready to help when the time was right.

[sou_kigetsuki]

"No." His teeth were grinding from the pain. He closed his eyes, his body enveloped itself in a spectrum of light. Two tables vanished just as something else took their place. This was something from Sou's mind and it appeared to be a man wearing body armor. In his hands was a rifle. This was the image of the Resistance Movement's sniper.

Sou turned his head to face the being clad in armor. He slowly stood up to face the being. "So, you've come to finish me off? You succeeded once and now you want to do it again?" Sou stepped back and his fists tightened. "It's not that simple. I created you."

Symbolically, he did through his reign of terror that he managed to perform by his own hands across Japan, he created every single one of them. Regular people standing up to take down an oppressive force was no easy task. "Killing me will not change anything!"

[immortalia]

Sertoria jumped into the air and cartwheeled to where she was safe from the sentient body armor. She wondered if he was having a dissociative episode as she read that in one of the many books before. Instantly, her system switched to her defense mechanism and her ready for battle once again.

"I will deal with this."

She opened the palms of her hands and a huge sphere of energy began to form and charge. Within a few seconds, she fired off the huge sphere and trapped the man in the suit of armor inside the sphere itself. Soon, the charge began to attack it with continual damage all around.

"Be returned to God's kingdom, lost soul."

[sou_kigetsuki]

The armor turned its attention from Sou to Sertoria in an instant with a shot ringing from its rifle. Sou gripped his hair and shouted from the impending pain. "I created them all!"

It was true that he caused even the most passive people to stand up and fight. Sou knew that if he didn't do something to change the government and tear it down, the people would have accepted it and pretended to live that blissful life. That was something that Sou couldn't live with himself. Alter users and humans fought together that day to bring him down.

It was the step in the right direction, in his mind, yet he was still haunted by those very images that plagued his mind of his death over and over again and in random periods.

The armored soldier jumped back and fired another shot that made Sou flinch.