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Fina

"The sun won't shine, but it's such a nice day."

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a character in “The Eden Project”, as played by Spidermoon

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❝Keep your face away from the sun and let the shadows embrace you.❞
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ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#B21212 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #1485CC

|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||







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{☛ ⒻⓊⓁⓁ ⓃⒶⓂⒺ ☚}
PROJECT FAYE
AKA FINA
AKA IO FUYUMI

{☛ ⓃⒾⒸⓀⓃⒶⓂⒺⓈ ☚}
None. Io's short enough, isn't it?

{☛ ⒶⒼⒺ ☚}
Same as Callisto, whatever that might be.

{☛ ⒼⒺⓃⒹⒺⓇ ☚}


{☛ ⓈⒺⓍⓊⒶⓁⒾⓉⓎ ☚}
Unknown

{☛ ⒻⒶⒸⒺ ⒸⓁⒶⒾⓂ ☚}
Mumei || Kabaneri



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❝Red and as strange as can be.❞
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{☛ ⒽⒺⒾⒼⒽⓉ ☚}
5'0
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Depends. Without armaments she is made of a light carbon frame, making her 60 Lbs. With her weapon attachments and jet wings and boots, she can weigh as much as 200 Lbs.
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Dark brown, like bloodstains.
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Red, like rusted metal.
{☛ ⒷⓄⒹⓎ ⓂⒶⓇⓀⒾⓃⒼⓈ ☚}
Fina's model registration number is on her lower back. There's multiple slots on her body for weapons to be mounted, as well as cavities where weapons or enhancements can be implanted and hidden.


{☛ ⒼⒺⓃⒺⓇⒶⓁ ⒶⓅⓅⒺⒶⓇⒶⓃⒸⒺ☚ }

The latest All-Purpose Scout Model of Grove Tech, Fina has a carbon fiber base frame lined with a soft plush material in order to blend in as any normal human. This is useful for the purposes of espionage and sneaking about without using battery-intensive stealth technologies. Her makers wanted her to be a useful stealth combat unit for paramilitary purposes and as such there are many positions on her bodies, arms, legs, and shoulders in particular, for weapons to be mounted on. Otherwise, they can be safely hidden holotech to appear just like normal unblemished skin. Her eyes calculate at fractions of a nanosecond, and she can even interface with other machines to hack them and take them over if in touch range. Fina naturally has the strongest internal battery system which can last for two days without weapons usage. She still needs regular charging to function, however.
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♙I can't become one either.♙
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❥ Combat || Finally, something she's good at!
❥ Winning || She has algorithms to award her for victory.
❥ Weapon Upgrades|| New toys to kill with are her favorites.
❥ Aesthetic Design || Fina appreciates being able to blend in.








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❝There's too many eyes on us.❞
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⌦ Peace || As a Stealth Unit, peace is very boring.
⌦ Love || It's meaningless and her code doesn't allow for it.
⌦ Charging || Being inactive really is boring.
⌦ Ugliness || Why even exist?






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Ruthless|| Fina is particularly good at following the cruel orders of her masters.
Parroting|| Maybe a glitch with the memory storage system, Fina sometimes repeats questions back.
Deep Thought|| Fina has been rooted and thus her individual choice functions have been unlocked for better on-field judgment calls.




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Fragile|| As a stealth unit, Fina cannot bear armor.
Peace Dysfunction|| When not on missions, she has a tendency to deactivate and go into Sleep Mode.
Apathetic|| Seems incapable of most empathy.
Blind Spot|| Fina has a natural blind spot in her feet sensors to make room for the jet boots.




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Stealth|| Fina can emit human heat levels and can even become invisible if needed.
Agile|| She is very quick and has good reaction times.
Versatile|| Despite being primarily for stealth, Fina is very good at combat.
Lie Detector|| Fina always knows if someone is lying.




ⒻⒺⒶⓇⓈ
Radio Silence|| Having no access to the network is terrifying.
Failure|| Failure means the scrap heap for recycling.
Pain|| Fina's body is designed to feel pain sensors for better sensory input.

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♙Can you see the dawn?♙
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{☛ ⓅⒺⓇⓈⓄⓃⒶⓁⒾⓉⓎ☚}
Come, awaken unto a shining dawn
I will become the Song that bestows life

Oh, land, oh, land
Oh, manifest yourself now, great land of the Goddess
Descend, oh Divine Power. Might my body become a Song
I will make myself empty to become the greatest.
Fire and water, moon and sun
The Ark of Souls

Please bestow power upon me; please let the voice of the Goddess be heard,
These are the illegitimate offsprings of the young divine tree,
Pouring down over the sleeping seeds
Please bestow the rain of blessings upon them, and please let them awake in the rain of lapis lazuli
Please bestow the rain of blessings upon them, and sprout Ah- in the rain of lapis lazuli.

Extend your foliage until you cover the skies
Extend your foliage until you cover the skies
The voices of the prayers are wings soaring through the sky
The prayers soar through... Ah-
Ah, broken fragments of this dazzling, blue sky
Ah, come and dwell above my hands
Ah, their twinkle is scattered above my hands
Descend, oh light, and soar into my heart
Oh, light, play your song and descend into my heart
Ah, Ah, keep echoing, oh Song of the Goddess!
Be released, my Song of truth!
Be released, my true figure!




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❝What is it that you see?❞
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{☛ ⓅⓁⒶⒸⒺ ⓄⒻ ⓄⓇⒾⒼⒾⓃ ☚}

{☛ ⒻⒶⓂⒾⓁⓎ ☚}
Mother
Father
Callisto Fuyumi
{☛ ⒽⒾⓈⓉⓄⓇⓎ ☚}
Before Fina was Fina, she was a girl named Io. Unlike her ambitious and happy sister Callisto, Io wasn't quite able to really grasp or achieve anything she tried. She was looked down upon and no one really listened or cared about the fact that words didn't make sense, she couldn't read any of it at all. For her whole life until the end, poor Io was never able to read and all her parents could say was that she should try harder to be more like her younger sister, Callisto, who was always an overachiever and fulfilling her dreams. Io ended up with the group of failures, the underachievers who couldn't do anything right.

Io was eventually recruited into a group of that reached out for people like her. The Grey Kings they were called, a street gang with the potential to grow into something more, something strong. Following the cult leader, Azariah Reiss, Io and her best friend, Dane Tyrell - another underachiever just like her - were recruited just like flies to a jar of honey. It began with low level crimes like thievery and vandalism. To Io, they were fighting for freedom, to change the system of this shitty world from the inside out. "Follow my word and we will bring about change." Azariah said, her voice echoing throughout the chamber of their base. "Love me and we will be known as heroes. You poor lost lambs, I will be the Shepard to save you all." Together with Dane as her ever present partner, Io felt purpose in life. She was happy as she set fire to the Police building. She was happy as she used a flash bomb to cause a traffic jam. "We're finally good for something, Io." Dane told her, grinning from eye to eye. "We're not the trash of society anymore."

Even as Io was out late at night, causing a ruckus, did her parents ever care? No, no, they never had a care for Io. She was a lost cause, she was a disappointment, all of their hopes rode on Callisto. Maybe Io wanted some sort of attention, maybe she wanted to matter and that was why Azariah was always so enchanting with that silver hair and those calming eyes. And once Callisto got sick, the failure twin was even more forgotten. Was she close to Callisto? Yes, of course! But there was a lot of resentment and pain due to her as well. As Callisto's light faded away, Io's last interaction with her sister ever was a fight, Io blaming her for everything, and then blaming herself for not being able to save her. She ran away, of course. "It'll be okay." Azariah told her, hugging Io close as Callisto was taken to hospice care, reaching the end of her time. "Come to me and we will bring about change. Your sister will have salvation." Io was drugged and taken away, her Savior delivering her to whatever greater fate was destined for her.

What was happening? What was going on? What were all of these lights? Io struggled against the bonds as she was taken to some strange building. "Thank you, Miss Reiss." Doctor Grover told Azariah with a smile. Money was exchanged between them of course. "Did you bring the one you spoke of?" According to Azariah, Io was one that no one would miss, and so she would be perfectly fine to experiment on. Did her parents even care? No, at this point they were reading the contract to sell away Callisto's life. Io was uploaded into Model FAYE, and was given extensive therapy in her new model to finally erase the broken Io who had given up on life. Given a name, Fina, and was sold away to the very one who sold her away, Azariah the Shepard, who all this time was the head of her own Information and Surveillance company, The Waking Sheep. With Azariah's ambitions and desires, Fina quickly climbed the ranks, being particularly skilled at combat and sneaking about.
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ⒸⓄⓅⓎⓇⒾⒼⒽⓉ: ⓉⒽⒺ_ⓆⓊⒺⒺⓃ



So begins...

Fina's Story

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❝Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.❞

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|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||




They headed back to the apartment, Lita and Jace sitting in silence. "Do you think Jarvis really did it?" Jace inquired quietly. "I knew he wasn't a normal household unit. Darn them, darn them to hell!" Jace cursed, slamming her fist on the dashboard. Lita jumped, startled by Jace's sudden outburst. She had rarely seen her combat unit so angry, the only other time Jace had ever acted like this was when she had lost a game of Uno. Jace was a sore loser, it was a matter of fact, it seemed that many combat units were prone to this side effect of wanting to be the most superior on any field, not just the battlefield. "Jace, it's going to be alright." Lita soothed, leaning over to rub Jace's shoulder. "No it won't, they're going to continue to use you to further their platform!" Jace said angrily.

They arrived at their building, the hover car parking itself. The two of them went upstairs, Lita removing the makeup and blinking in the mirror a few times. "Fina and Minnie should be here soon," she chimed, changing her earrings to a less showy pair. "I don't want to see them, they're the reason you're in this mess!" Jace was throwing a fit, which was very unlike her. Lita emerged from her room, wondering if Jarvis had hacked her too. "Look, it's going to be okay. I'll see Dr. Grover tomorrow and she'll fix me, alright?" Lita smiled, hoping that her charm wouldn't be lost on Jace. The white haired android suddenly leaned in, pinning Lita against the wall. She glanced up and down, her eyes landing on the silver bracelet. "I'm taking that thing off, even if it's only yours, I'm gonna get it off."

Jace strode into the kitchen, coming back with a pair of pliers. "What are you doing with those?" Lita inquired as Jace grabbed her wrist, nearly pulling it from the joint rotor. She slid the pliers in, twisting and squeezing until finally, the bracelet came off. Jace opened up the window, throwing it outside. "There, be gone! Good riddance!" Jace managed to remove her's as well, disposing of it by tossing it onto the roof of the building next door. Lita rubbed her wrist, the skin strangely bare. "Ooh, I just got a message that they're on their way. Let's go meet them downstairs!" Jace nodded begrudgingly and led them out to the elevator, where she double and triple checked the security feeds to make sure that there was nothing out of the ordinary as they made their descent.

Upon reaching the bottom, the car was already there, Minnie and Fina sitting in the front. The door popped open, Lita crawling inside. "Hello everyone," Lita smiled brightly. She turned to Jace, who was still standing outside the car. "Get in loser, we're going shopping," Lita quoted, Jace sighing and clambering into the seat beside her. "I've never been to the mall," Lita's eyes sparkled at the thought of getting to go someplace new. She and Jace really only went to a handful of places. "It's a security nightmare," Jace replied with a huff.

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❝Keep your face away from the sun and let the shadows embrace you.❞

ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#B21212 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #1485CC

|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




And so they began to drive. "I know Lita already seems to like me, even though we're rivals." Minnie had an eager grin. She never got a chance to really make friends, sure she was something like a hero to the useless ones at the Flock but even so, she wanted more friends that she could talk to about different kinds of things. Even if Lita was an android, she knew the idol world and even if they were rivals, behind the scenes the Requiem Maiden and the Sweet Pink Lita could be something similar to friends, right? Fina hoped that that wasn't what her charge was thinking but she had a feeling it was. "Jace would probably happily kill you. She's strong, um, I don't know if I can beat her one on one."

Not without time to set up traps and tricks to catch her with.

Jace and Lita got into the car and Minnie was already grinning. "I hope to make friends with you, too, Jace. Not everyone at the Flock agrees with what my mother's doing." Fina hardly knew the other details of Lady Reiss's work, only that she managed the Flock and provided a home for those who had absolutely nothing in this world. The Galactica Mall, the premier place to shop in this whole city and it was where they were headed. "Well, um, I'll keep watch as well." Fina said quietly, intending to keep her word. "No one will get to Lita without getting through me too. Minnie's still my top priority, though, okay?" It was strange, she still wasn't used to the new Syntax Drive update.

Once they arrived at the mall, it was a whole hustle a bustle, so much that the four of them could easily fit in. As Minnie began to gush to Jace about how cool she was and how lucky Lita was to have a combat android, Fina decided to tune it out to try to control the jealousy, instead focusing on random passing conversations. "Do you like my hat?" One girl asked her glasses-clad friend. "Yeah, it's really nice on you." Lie, it was probably looked really bad to her. It was a bowler cap, dapper but it didn't suit the girl asking for it. "Is there some way I can make friends, Jace?" Minnie asked, looking actually genuine. "How can I convince you that I'm not like my mom?" Fina glanced over worriedly. A part of her wondered just how and why this was happening. Should she help the friend attempt? Or for Minnie's safety should she prohibit it?

"Oh look, accessories!" Minnie bought a random assortment, bringing them back. She put a holo-kitty ear headband and installed it on Lita's head, the ears morphing to turn pink to match Lita's hair. Jace got cool looking shades that only enhanced her vision even more than usual, and Fina found a lace wristband on her hand now, looking cute and quaint. "Don't use up too much of your Credits, okay?" She told her charge, but the silver girl shook her head. "Don't worry, it's well worth the cost!" She looked a bit tired already though as she looked to Lita. "Can you help me befriend Jace? She's just so cute..." Fina shuddered. It couldn't be a crush, could it?

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❝Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.❞

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|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||




"Jace won't kill anyone, after all, she can't kill humans." Lita pointed out with a giggle, eyes twinkling. Jace crossed her arms, arranging her features into a scowl. Jace leaned forward, elbows propped up on her knees. "You wouldn't have anything to do with Lita's earlier incident, would you?" Jace inquired calmly about the hacking that had taken place during the broadcast. "Or perhaps you conveniently missed the interview?" Lita rolled her eyes, pushing Jace back. "Leave them alone, I'm sure they have nothing to do with it." Lita assured Jace, who remained unconvinced. "You can't beat me, not again." Jace said confidently, brushing her silver hair out of her eyes. "You may have torn me apart once Fina, but try again and I'll make sure your hard drive can never compute data the same again."

Minnie wanted to make friends with Jace, which Lita found to be very sweet. "Jace doesn't care about the Flock," Lita shook her head. "Jace just cares that Jarvis tinkered around in my head," after all, the dealings of Lady Reiss and her politics had nothing to do with them. They were free of her now that they had managed to remove the bracelets; or so Lita believed. "Look, you made a friend!" Lita giggled, to which Jace rolled her eyes. "I don't have friends, I have a job, that's it." Lita shook her head, "That's just Jace's way of saying she likes you," Lita assured Minnie, not wanting the little girl to feel as though Jace was bullying her. They were getting close to the mall now, Lita could see it on the navigation map of the hover car.

Jace did a perimeter check as soon as they arrived, not allowing Lita out of the car until she swept a full three sixty. Once giving the signal, Lita was allowed out, bounding over to where Fina and Minnie were waiting. "Let's go shopping!" She clapped her hands together with a happy chirp. "Oh my, look at all of these stores!" Minnie took Jace's elbow, the white haired android stiffening up. She spoke as though they were old friends, but Jace was reluctant to fall into step with her. Lita nodded encouragingly, wanting Jace to have a good time as well. She walked beside Fina, her smile dipping, just a little bit. "Did you have anymore dreams last night?" Lita inquired quietly.

They came upon their first store, an accessory one that sold cute bits and bobbles. Lita didn't get anything, but Minnie happily spent credits, dropping them on only slightly frivolous things like a pair of cat ears for Lita, which turned the appropriate shade of pink as soon as they graced her head. "These are cute, thanks Minnie!" Lita smiled, figuring that she would buy Minnie a gift a bit later on. The white haired girl sidled up beside her, wanting to know how to make friends with Jace. "Well, Jace loves coffee. We can always go to a kiosk and get one?" Lita suggested.

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❝Keep your face away from the sun and let the shadows embrace you.❞

ɗιαƖσgυє cσƖσя:#B21212 ♙ тнσυgнт cσƖσя #1485CC

|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




Fina made a face as Minnie kept trying to cozy up to Jace. Was that really how it was, could it really just be a simple childish crush on an android? "Um, yes, you probably could. That's why you're a combat unit, I'm just a stealth unit." She made an awkward sort of smile Jace's way. "You're supposed to win fights, my job is only to watch things." The word stealth didn't have the word combat written into it after all. Minnie grabbed her arm with almost a blush. "Be more confident! Don't be embarrassed, stealth units are great!" Fina tried not to feel awkward but really maybe a part of her was upset about this whole 'I want to make friends with Jace and Lita but I don't care about you Fina's aspect. Which android was it that helped her with her first period, anyways? Certainly not these two!

"We saw the broadcast." Dane had been there too, watching, not that these two really knew him. At the reminder Minnie's face puffed up in anger. "It was mean! That was mean! You should've been allowed to say whatever you wanted!" Fina glanced at her with another frown. "But that means taking away the Sheep's home. If Lady Reiss is taken away and shut down, no one will be left to take care of them." For as much as the others might dislike her, Fina thought she was doing good work there. If it wasn't for her, other criminal elements would have taken advantage of the sheep! Selling them drugs, kidnapping them, forcing them to join gangs, there was all sorts of ways it could go. Dane was lucky to have ended up there. Maybe Io was too - but still she couldn't help but remember how Lady Reiss so happily sold Io off to Doctor Grover.

Minnie seemed excited at the prospect of getting coffee. "Okay! Jace, let's go get you coffee! I'll treat." She ran off, grabbing Jace's hand as she did so. "Hey, don't run? Please? Your body can't-" But it was too late, they were already gone off to the kiosk now to get Jace's favorite coffee. "Um, Jace wouldn't just leave her if she collapses again, would she?" It wasn't a big secret that Minnie was ill, the silver girl wasn't in the best of shape at the best of times, really. Now though she could think back on what Io dreamed of last night. "Io had a faint memory of Callisto trying to tell their parents that it wasn't her fault she wasn't smart." Fina explained with a shrug, unsure how to feel about all of this. "But their parents simply hugged her and told her she was so kind and patient in trying to help Io, but not to make excuses for her either." Why was Fina almost smiling? "It still made Io happy that someone understood her even if it didn't work in the end."

The stealth unit played with her lacey wristband newly bought for her and decided she might as well compliment the cute cat ears. "Minnie's choice of cat ears was cute, weren't they? Um, they fit you nicely." Whoops, she accidentally mostly complimented Minnie by accident. That was when it happened, there was a sound. Fina moved quickly, she felt something pierce through her chassis in her torso area, shorting out many of her wires in the process. The crowd screamed and parted but at least Lita wasn't shot. "Get to safety." She instructed, already feeling dizzy. "Jace can..."

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❝Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.❞

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|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||




Jace looked back at Lita for help, who simply giggled and waggled her fingers as Minnie pulled her off to buy some coffee. "It's sweet that Minnie wants to be friends with Jace," the grumpy android really only had one friend, even if she claimed that she and Lita were partners, not friends. They were protector and the one being protected, not buddies sharing a flat together. Lita believed that Jace was too rigid and needed to relax, especially after the broadcast today, a cup of coffee would do her some good. "No, Jace won't leave her. She might act like a mean old bitty, but Jace is really nice." She would take care of Minnie if the silver haired idol failed to care of herself. "She's equipped with emergency procedures too, so she's ready for anything." All combat units had some sort of first aid programming in case they needed to utilize it on a human in the field.

It was around then that Fina confirmed that she had another dream about Io and Callisto, the mall seeming awfully quiet as Lita listened. "I'm glad it made you happy," Lita smiled softly. "Most of the time, the dreams are good things. Callisto and Io used to play together a lot, they were one another's best friend's, but then in middle school they started to take separate paths. At least, from what I can see in my dreams." Was it appropriate to call them dreams? Lita didn't know. "Jace insists that it's a software malfunction. What do you think?" Lita wasn't sure if she was Callisto and if she was, what did that mean for Fina? What did that mean for Jace and every other android out there? Were they living a lie? Were they all humans who had been reprogrammed to fit inside of these synthetic bodies? "It's probably a good thing, if Callisto became me." Lita said softly, "she was dying, it was painful."

A shot rang out, Lita's eyes widening as it tore through the stealth unit. "Fina!" Lita screamed, kneeling beside her body, oil leaking from the hole. "No, I'm not going to leave you!" Lita sent out a distress signal to call Jace back to them, who would hopefully get Minnie to safety. The idol unit attempted to lift Fina, but the stealth unit was heavier and in doing so, she dislocated her wrist, the crowd screaming as they fled, another shot ringing out, this time in the air. Where was Jace? How far had she and Minnie gone in the time of their conversation? "I'm gonna get us out Fina," Lita promised, managing to drag her a few feet before both wrists dislocated. Lita bit her index finger, managing to wrench one back into place. Something touched the back of her neck, sending an electric buzz through her body. Lita screamed as she fell, her optical sensors flickering.

"Boss what do we do about this one?" He nudged her in the side, Lita attempting to get up, he used the taser again, the idol unit down for the count, her systems all messed up. She would need to reboot, which would take a few minutes. "Take 'er too," he grinned toothily, "can never have too many androids." With a kick to the power button, Lita was shut down, body going limp. In the frantic panic of the humans and because Jace couldn't hurt any of them, she arrived too late. All that was left was a bit of oil from Fina's wound, smeared on the ground. Jace's hands balled into fists, someone had disabled Lita's locator chip, which had no doubt happened when she was tasered. "I'm too late again," it looked like Jace was going to need to call upon the help of the last person she wanted to.

Reiss.

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❝Keep your face away from the sun and let the shadows embrace you.❞

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|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




"Lady Reiss, what am I going to do?" Io whimpered. She was a Sheep and this was all she would ever be. Useless, useless, she couldn't even help her sister! She couldn't do anything right! "Callisto's sick, she's going to die! How can I help her!?" Like always she ran away to go hang out here. Dane was here as well, playing with Minnie, helping her practice her singing despite not knowing how to sing himself. In fact, he was very off key and - no focus! "I see. So she still isn't getting better?" Azariah Reiss turned her head down, sympathy clear in those kind eyes of hers. "That's a tragedy! You two were so close!" Yes, that was the worst of it all.

Once upon a time Callisto and Io were inseparable. But it became obvious from how Callisto excelled and how Io failed that they both lived in utterly different universes. It was pathetic really, she couldn't read, couldn't study, all she was good at was scoring terrible in school. "If she dies, then all the talent in the family dies too, Lady Reiss." She was in the Reiss Chapel, the main building of the Flock where the Sheep can tell their Shepard all the things that hurt and pain them. "Don't worry, my dear. I can save you." Lady Reiss opened her arms like an angel offering mercy and salvation for the down-trodden. "I can save the both of you. Please just wait while I work out this plan." Whenever she said this, she always meant it. Never once did Lady Reiss fail to save someone she proclaimed to. Her heart stopped, nearly wanting to jump for joy.

"Just trust me and everything will be okay."


Fina's optical sensors turned on again and she felt strange as she saw the scene before her. Still her body was damaged, it wasn't the best. Her main arm, her left, was utterly immobile because of the shot that had pierced her body. The pain signals were spiking through her mind to warn her that her body was suffering internal damage now. She took in the surroundings about them, she was strapped to some sort of table, Lita was locked in a cell. What was going to happen to them? She scanned the people but it was blocked. She tried activating the cool pleasant receiver voice in her head, the NETwork's voice but no, Nettie was unreachable too. Were they using signal blocking technology?

"Ah, you're awake." One of the men grinned, he had an ugly mop of hair on his head and a funny double piercing over one eye. "Io, I know who you are. Io the useless. Io the bad daughter. Io who ran away and was never seen again." He grinned, unclean teeth glistening in the dark air of this - was it a warehouse? She didn't hear any cars, was this far away from any busy streets? "I'm not Io, though?" Fina decided to try to play it off. "I'm Fina, an android. It's nice to meet you." They chuckled, as if finding this to be quite the funny moment for them. "Well, we'll hold you hostage. Since uh, well, your parents, Io, after losing their daughters, their lives were ruined, y'know? And now they owe us quite some money. So hey, why not sell you off for bits? A good way for a useless daughter to repay her parents for all the trouble."

Fina remained silent. Even if Io was inside, Io wouldn't care either. There was nothing but hatred between them, all the love belonged to Callisto. "Well, those irresponsible freaks even have a new baby popped out. Little baby Carme to replace Io and Callisto in their hearts. Guess they never needed you anyways, right?" For some reason Io was fighting despite Fina not caring. "They wouldn't replace Callisto so easily." She grit her teeth. "Callisto was the talented, good girl, no random baby could replace her!" They grinned then, having so easily teased the truth out.

"Oh my, imagine. An android, remembering her past? What a scandal this could mean, boys."

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"Good morning Lita, no, you're not Lita are you? You're still Callisto," she flexed her fingers and toes, the sensation strange. Callisto raised a hand over her face, her eyes widening. "You... this is my body?" Dr. Grover sighed, "No, of course not. This is Lita's body, don't worry, we'll get right back on track soon. You won't remember a thing," a wire was plugged into her neck, Callisto stiffened as her memories, one by one, began to flicker. "What are you doing?" She asked in alarm, trying to pull the wire out. "This is going to fix that bug." Dr. Grover said as she typed away at a holo screen on her wrist. "No!" Callisto screamed, "don't take those from me! Those memories are important to me!" Her hands were strapped down, two assistants helping push Callisto's hands underneath metal frames that would keep her still.

"Why are you doing this? Why not just program a robot that can do these things for you?" Callisto asked through grit teeth. "There are many things an android could never do. I could program it all I want, but it would be missing that special, human touch. You have that Callisto, a natural ability to draw people towards you. You shine so brightly that you just pull the eye directly to you and that's what my client requested. So that is what I will deliver." She clacked away at her wrist keyboard, pushing one last button. Callisto stiffened, her sparkling eyes, full of furious passion, becoming dull as she slumped against the table. "Goodbye Callisto," Dr. Grover said, erasing the memories unceremoniously. "Hello Lita," she grinned, installing the new software into the hard drive.

Lita blinked her eyes open for the first time a few moments later, whimpering. She wasn't afraid per say, more confused. "Where am I?" Lita wanted to know, "Who are you?" A hand came down on her pink hair, stroking it out of her forehead. "You could say I'm your creator," Dr. Grover said gleefully, her wrist keyboard disappearing. "You are Lita and you, my dear, are going to be a star."

Reboot Imminent in 3...2...1...


Lita blinked her eyes open, feeling groggy. Her body wasn't disassembled, but it was pretty close. Most of her joints had been popped out, giving her no feeling from the neck down. Her arms were strung above her on the wall, her legs hanging limply from her frame. She was quiet at first, assessing the situation, but her ears picked up something she didn't like. They were going to take apart Fina? No doubt they would sell her for parts, androids didn't come cheap and the technology behind them was for, the most part, a secret. Lita couldn't so much as struggle against the chains, she wasn't made for combat like Fina and Jace, she was made to sing and dance around on stage for the entertainment of others.

"Boss, this one's awake." A thumb was jabbed in her direction. Lita wanted to rub one of her eyes to fix the fogginess in one of her sensors, but she couldn't so much as move. She managed to look up, her neck still connected to her shoulders. "Where am I?" Fina asked, deciding to play dumb. Perhaps she had been taken by mistake? Was their target Fina? But why?

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The suited man grinned back at Lita as she asked her question, seeming not to know where this was. None of them did, the initial confusion in Fina's eyes answered quite a bit of questions. "Well obviously it's to see a good show. Don't you want to watch?" He had a bit of a smile as they began drawing markers on Fina's now stripped body, both of clothes and of internal weapons hardware installations. Now she was just as defenseless as an Idol Unit, unable to do anything. "We're going to watch as an android is split into pieces! She almost remembers her true self too, so it's even better!" He grinned, patting Lita's pink hair with a fond look. "Don't worry, it's not like androids really count as living anyways. This isn't murder, just recycling."

Fina tried to maintain her blank expression as all of her weapon were removed. They noticed it, the knob between her legs and now the men were chuckling to themselves. "Who would have thought an android would have something dirty like this?" The pierced man asked, fiddling with it. The stealth unit's cheeks went pink and her back arched as she tried to resist it. "Oh, so it does have sensation. Does it hurt, too?" She let out a gasp as it was pinched hard, twisted and rolled in his fingers. "Oh, how funny, why would an android ever need a pain function?" Her body was already marked and quartered, ready to be dismembered. Was this the pitiful end, then? Fina turned her head to get a good look at Lita - or was it Callisto? - one last time before she was blindfolded cruelly, no longer even able to see what was likely her sister before the end.

First they removed her left leg, breaking the joint connectors and pulling it out of the socket, cutting carefully through the wires as best as they could. "Wow, a railgun, that's gonna sell for lots of money boss." The thin bald one said with a crooked grin. "And a vibroblade in her wrist? We're gonna be loaded!" They removed her other leg next, and Fina could feel the pain of it all. She wasn't exactly afraid, but something like this was still not a pleasant experience. "You should stop, strong people are behind me." Dr. Grover wouldn't want her strongest Stealth Unit hurt like this, right? Or Lady Reiss would swoop in to protect her?

Her arms were displaced then, the connectors broken and then removed. Now she was just a torso and a head, her exposed wires were sparking as the ends were cut and she could no longer do anything. "Don't worry, we're prepared for anything." The debt collectors snickered. And then Fina heard the crying. "Callisto, let go of her! That's my daughter dammit!" That familiar voice, that yelling voice, though Io was more used to him yelling at her, not someone else. "Shut up, if you cared about your kids you wouldn't have gotten in debt like this, old man." Behind the curtain in another cell, their old family was there, all but Metis who was still at the military base on duty. Even the baby was here, blonde hair on her head as she cried, not used to this place.

"Oh, you think this is Callisto?" Father glared hard towards the cell. "I'd recognize my baby girl anywhere. Let them go! Sell my organs, but don't hurt Callisto or Lita or whoever she is!" Double piercing man then knocked him on the head with a bat, stopping Father's tirade.

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Lita's eyes widened as she realized what this meant, this man was going to take Fina apart. "Don't," her voice warbled. "Please, she's a precious friend." The humans laughed, clearly believing that androids couldn't have friends, not really. They were wrong, Fina was important to her not just because she was an acquaintance, but because the two of them were likely family in another life. The man pat her head, but Lita didn't know why. Was he going to take her apart too? Was he going to make money off of her hard drive? Lita didn't know and she wasn't sure she wanted to. She swallowed hard, feeling nauseous. There was no fear of course, but Lita did understand the gravity of the situation she was in. "True self?" Lita asked in confusion, wondering what the human man meant.

They took Fina's clothing, removing her articles one by one, then began to strip her of her weapons. "Stop!" Lita cried, "Please! Don't hurt her!" But they didn't listen, the man who seemed to be the boss instead authorizing it, allowing them to take Fina's arms and legs. What appeared to be tears sprung to Lita's eyes. Was this sadness? Why was she leaking fluids? Her systems didn't detect any sort of malfunction, then again, most of her limbs were offline so it was hard to tell. "Let her go!" Lita cried, wanting the supposed show to end. This was the worst! Being unable to move, unable to do anything. No wonder Jace felt so frustrated those times she had been unable to help protect her charge.

Despite the fact that she was being taken apart before their very eyes, Fina was cool and collected, informing them that they should stop because of the strong people that would back her up. That's right! Jace would be coming, no doubt Lita's distress signal had gone through, she was sure of it. Jarvis too, would come crashing in with that boy, what was his name? Mane? Hane? Dane? Yes! Dane, he would come rushing in and rescue Fina from these terrible, horrible, awful, no good, very bad situation. Lita bit down on her lip as she began to think, trying to figure out what she could do. As long as she recovered the hard drive or memory stick, Fina could be put back together again. Lita tried to ball her hands into fists in order to slip out, but her wrists had no feeling in them and would not respond to her mind's commands. A sudden burst of sorrow caught her and Lita turned to face who was crying.

A man, a man calling her out, calling for Callisto to be released. The man matched the one in her dreams, the one she had seen time and again, berating Io while praising Callisto, the one Lita had tried to convince so many times that just because Io was different. "Stop it! Don't hurt them!" Lita begged the man, who only grinned, smiling ominously. "Does that one have a nob too?" Lita's clothes were stripped, reveling that yes, she had one too.

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|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




Mother, and father and even the replacement baby daughter Carme, why were they here? Even through the blindfold Fina was well acquainted enough with their biometrics that she didn't need vision in order to confirm their identities. Now just a head and a torso they were figuring out how to remove the Hard Drive without causing unnecessary damage, since if you hurt the inner works too much it'd mean the ultimate selling price on the black market would reduce as well. "Isn't it fun?" Pierced man rubbed her down there knob again, earning a gasp of surprise from the dismembered android. "Once again, you ruined your family, Io. No one's even calling your name, father dear just wanted Callisto's safety." That's right. Io, Fina, it didn't matter. She would always be useless, wouldn't she?

Lita was screaming, trying to make them stop but it was okay, this was just the natural way for things to go. Even as an android she had never been more than a Sheep and it was not her place in the world to try to rise above that station. That was just being conceited, she had no right do do that. "It's okay, Lita, this was just the way it was supposed to be." There was no need to be upset about it, this was simply her fate as a Sheep. Without the Shepard protecting her, what was she really going to accomplish in the end anyways? They broke open her torso, reaching for the precious Hard Drive within. With surgical precision they removed it, the most valuable part of an Android, the aspect with their human-ness inside. Io was in there, in that tiny little metallic rectangle.

"Stop playing with Callisto's knob, Jerry." Pierced man barked, unlocking the cell. He grinned as the man known as Jerry picked her up, strapping her to the table. Markers were drawn, marking lines on her body to show safe removal points. "Now it's your turn to be taken apart and sold." The brat's mother was howling now, it was incomprehensible, but in the end she too, was whacked on the head, both parents knocked out so they wouldn't keep making a racket. "Well then, say goodnight cute little Callisto." Pierced man took his wrench and was about to break the joint connectors on Lita's leg when the warehouse's door burst open.

Someone was standing there, at attention, cruel smile on her face. In her trademark sunhat, there she was, features almost hidden by the glare of the sun behind her. Three others were here too, Dane had a gun, he was gritting his teeth. "Let go of them! They're my friends and my best friend's family!" He yelled. Jace already jumped into action no doubt and Minnie even managed to jab one with her stun gun to shock him into submission. Jace and gone to Lady Reiss and here she was, just on time. "Please don't put your hands on my property. That's thievery and very ill-advised." Lady Reiss smiled, eyes flashing under those lids. "You do know what happens to those who oppose me, don't you?"

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Lita's new directive was survival. She couldn't be chopped up and sold here, she had to survive, she had to return home and sing for her fans. If she was sold on the black market, who knows what would happen to her hard drive? Lita closed her legs as best as she could, trying to crush the man's hand that was playing with her feminine installations. "Didn't your Mother teach you not to touch girls like that?" Lita asked softly, earning a slap to the face. Her head disconnected and flopped over oddly, optical sensors flickering until it was put back into the correct position. "Tch, damn bots programmed with too much personality." The man said, rubbing his hand as no doubt it had hurt him more than it had her. Fina was acting brave, but Lita had a feeling that she wasn't liking this either.

She turned to look at the two people who claimed to be Io and Callisto's parents. "Aren't you ashamed?" Lita asked them. "Your daughter is being torn apart before your very eyes and you're doing nothing! Aren't you her parents? Shouldn't you protect her too!" Indignation welled up inside of her, the two humans were knocked out to cease their screaming. Lita turned towards Fina as they continued to take her apart. "Stop! Leave her alone!" Fina insisted that it was fine, but it wasn't. Lita didn't want to see Fin come to an end like this, not when there were still people that needed her. "You can't die here! What about Minnie? What about your flock?" Lita inquired as they pried the hard drive out, the body becoming a shell. She slumped forward, disbelieving. No, Fina couldn't be dead, her hard drive was still intact. If she could recover it somehow and return it to Dr. Grover, then Fina would be able to get a new body.

"Your turn bot," he played with the knob between her legs once more, Lita's cheeks turning pink until one of them yelled at the man to stop. Jerry, was his name apparently. Jerry lowered Lita down, carrying her disjointed body to a table and strapping it down. They marked the points to cut it at, "I'm not Callisto," she said softly. No, Callisto existed within her, but she was not her. Lita was a separate entity, or so she liked to believe. "Goodnight," Lita replied, unable to disobey a direct order. The warehouse doors suddenly flung open, but they were too late. A saw came down, taking of Lita's leg. She screamed, not out of pain, because Lita couldn't feel pain, but out of surprise. Jace rushed forward, knocking the pierced man out in one fell swoop. "Lita!" The white haired combat unit cried as the warehouse was flooded with sheep from the flock.

"Jace!" Tears of relief pricked Lita's eyes, the combat unit wrenching off the restraints. "I'm here now, you don't have to cry," Jace grinned like a hero in the night and covered Lita in her jacket. "Your leg," the idol unit shook her head. "It doesn't matter, please, recover Fina's hard drive." Jace nodded in understanding, she placed Lita down, away from the fighting and went to join the fray, perhaps the only one here trained in combat. While Jace couldn't kill, her settings did allow her to disable and disarm humans that posed a threat to her charge and well, this entire warehouse was assessed as a danger.

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As the dust settled, all the debt collector were strung up with ropes, unable anymore to move now. They were restrained, no longer a threat. "Are you all okay?" Dane asked as Jace held the hard drive in her hands, Lady Reiss gently prying it from her. "Jupiter family, it'll be okay." With a loving expression he lifted up the crying baby Carme. Had he been friends with the Jupiters after they lost their daughters? "Hey, Lady Reiss, I'll drive them to the hospital. Will you cover their expenses?" Lady Reiss nodded with a smile." Io was one of ours, and as such her family is under our care too." She said with a smile. "I will cover the medical expenses, so do not worry." Dane then walked up to Lita as Minnie was helplessly trying to attach the leg somehow.

"Um, hey, Lita." He scratched his cheek, looking awkward. "Um... well, Io wanted me to tell you, before she died." Though considering Lita and Fina's odd bond, maybe they already knew this. Now that he knew their identities though, he felt the need to honor the promise he had once made to his best friend. "Io always loved you, even if she got mad at you sometime." Still looking awkward he carried the Jupiter family to his car, strapped Carme in the baby seat, then revved the engine, getting ready to go. Despite having gotten to know them, did he feel any spite for how they always treated Io? It was hard to say, really. The car left then, taking them to the hospital.

Minnie was holding Fina's hard drive with much worry in her eyes. "Can we fix her? Do we have to bring her to Dr. Grover?" She asked fearfully. The silver maiden, the Requiem angel, she did not want her friend to have to go to android jail. But what other options did they have for her? "I'm afraid no one else is able to restore her. We also need to confirm that the hard drive is, in fact, not actually damaged." They weren't there to see the extraction - were they gentle with the delicate piece of hardware, or were they rough as they removed it from the torso section? "Don't worry, Dr. Grover wouldn't put her in android jail just yet. I still have some leverage."

Dane eventually came back with their ride, the Jupiters dropped off in Azariah Reiss's name. "Well, um, let's go to GENOS and get them fixed up." He murmured awkwardly, opening up the doors for anyone to enter. The car was sleek and black, fancy looking as it hovered, ready for the trip. Minnie got in, looking tired, all of the stress had taken a toll on her body. "We'll bring these criminals in with us of course." Lady Reiss instructed Jace to put them in the trunk for now. That was a bit odd - usually wasn't the protocol to call the police at a time like this?

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With the bad guys wrapped up neatly, Jace lifted Lita up, their family looking awkwardly between the hard drive and the android. So this was what had become of their daughters? Not dead, like they had thought, but alive and in bodies that were not their own. The woman reached out, touching Lita's cheek. "Callisto, is it really you?" She asked, having given their baby to her husband to hold. "No," Lita replied gently. "Callisto is within me, but I am not her." She replied simply, tears coming to her eyes. "She's alive, she's really still alive!" It seemed that those words alone were enough of a relief. Lita wasn't done yet, "What you did was selfish," she said quietly. "Io was your daughter too, wasn't she? So why did you always push her away?" Once more, the woman that was once their parent began to sob.

"I just wanted Io to succeed, I pushed her and pushed her and it got out of hand. I just wanted the best for my baby girl. I had hoped... we had hoped for so long that she would return home one day so we could apologize." Lita reached out, putting her none broken hand on the woman's head with a gentle smile. "Don't tell me, tell her. Next time, you'll get your chance." With that, the Jupiter family was rounded up into a car, Dane coming to give Lita his piece. Io had always loved her, even if their final conversation had ended up in a fight. "Callisto knows," Lita smiled, Jace watching as he went off to drive them to the hospital to be put under the care of Lady Reiss. Hopefully Lita would never see them again. As nice as it was to confirm the fact that Callisto was real and that those memories did belong to someone, Lita hoped to distance herself from them. She had her own life to live, she couldn't dwell on the past, even if the person within her wanted something else.

Jace adjusted the sweater she had positioned around Lita's shoulders. "I'm taking you to GENOS," Lita nodded, knowing that there was no point in trying to resist when the fibers in one hand had been smashed, her systems had been scrambled, she was missing a leg, and who knows what sort of internal damage there was. "Alright, but I have a nail appointment tomorrow morning I expect to be on time for." Lita joked, Jace rolling her eyes as Dane returned. "Don't worry," Lita tried to assure Minnie, "Fina is going to be just fine." She smiled as Jace placed her in the back seat, going to round up the villains and place them in the trunk. "I could use a tune up too," Jace winked, perhaps just trying to put their nerves at ease. After all, she had just been given a new body after Fina had wrecked her last one.

Dr. Grover was waiting for them, her arms crossed, a frown tilting her lips downwards. "I knew there was damage done as soon as their trackers went off line," she shook her head, Jace lifting Lita out of the car, a team rushing forward with a diagnostic table. "Jace, I'm upgrading your systems too. Now, where's Fina?" She rubbed her hands and looked around, no doubt in for a shock when Minnie would hand over the hard drive. In the meanwhile, Lita was rolled inside, oil leaking out of the leg that had been sawed off. Her optical sensors were flickering, the coolant fluid dripping off of the table. It lit up in response to her body, giving them the down-low on the damage. "Okay Lita, we're going to shut you down for now to make these repairs." They began to open up her stomach, the android unit barely able to get a word out before she was forced into shut down.

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After taking the androids in for both repair and tune ups, Lady Reiss had a bit of a smile on her face. Minnie gave her a quiet stare, trying to tell what she was thinking. "Don't try to turn this into some big scheme, mother." She very much disapproved of the underhanded things Azariah Reiss liked to do despite how the public adored her and worshiped her as some sort of mother Theresa to take care of the downtrodden. "I don't even know if debts are a part of an android's programming anyways." Lady Reiss's smile never left her face as she they sat in the waiting room. "I'm protecting what belongs to me." Lady Reiss explained to her silly naive daughter. "They are precious and innocent, and so I will protect them with whatever resource I have at my disposal."

In the end they were going to have to replace most of Fina's parts, as the damage caused by the severance was too great. An attempt to reconnect would just be in vain, her inner wiring would be faulty and it could cause further problems down the road. "So we're going to need to spend three business days to finish replacing her body with a new one." Dr. Grover explained to Lady Reiss who seemed saddened at the news. "I see, that's awful. But I know you can take care of her." Minnie watched her two-faced mother with distaste. "And Jace? And Lita? How are they?" She asked, worry in her eyes. "They should be fine, Lita's damage isn't too severe and Jace had no damage at all, merely needing a tune up."

Minnie sighed, walking about, pacing in anxiety. This wasn't right, these androids had feelings, they probably didn't want to be hurt like that! Fina could feel pain too, she had pain receptors, that must have been awful! "Hey, stop stressing." Dane sat next to her, giving her a juice pack. "Just calm down. Lady Reiss has everything under control." He rubbed her shoulder and she didn't resist the attempt at comfort. He idolized the woman, how could she tell him that his mother was not someone to be trusted? The fact was, Minnie knew this whole time that Fina and Io were one and the same. How could she not? One day Io vanishes, two weeks later Fina appears? No, something was clearly going on here and she did not like it.

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Lita was rebooted one day later, her processors needing complete replacement thanks to the taser. Many of her parts needed replacements, but it was nowhere near as bad as Fina, who needed a new body completely. "Testing reflexes," her fingers and toes flexed, body on manual mode so that the technicians could take care to make sure she was fully functioning. "Testing motor function," Lita raised both arms above her head, then scissor kicked her legs, bringing them back down on the table. "Is it done?" Lita inquired curiously, a wire connected to her neck that allowed them to input commands and functions. "Almost, just re-configuring some code." Lita waited patiently, watching as manual mode was turned off and the wire was disconnected. She sat up, smiling brightly. "Where's Jace?"

"I'm here," a voice responded, Lita whirling around. "Now you won't be able to evade me again," she grinned, her eyes glinting in a different light. No doubt the upgrades would allow her to track Lita anywhere. Jace embraced Lita protectively, the two of them in the nude. Who's that? A voice within Lita's head startled her. "What's wrong?" Jace inquired and Lita blinked. "I don't know, I thought I heard the voice, but it might just be the upgrades?" Lita stuck a finger in her ear, wondering if there was something that had been messed up. Where is this place? Is this my body? Dr. Grover made her way down the stairs, removing her gloves that were covered in oil and coolant fluid. "Oh good, you're both awake, how are you feeling?" Lita opened her mouth to tell Dr. Grover about the strange voice but found that she couldn't.

"I feel great!" Lita found herself saying with a vibrant smile. She did it of her own accord, not wanting there to be an awkward pause. Jace nodded, "I feel fine as well. I think we're about ready to go," Dr. Grover nodded, "I'll just run one last diagnostic check and then you're both free to leave." She tapped her holo watch against Jace's bar code, then Lita's, reading the information that popped up. "Lita, are you sure you're functioning?" She grabbed Lita's hand, making her lay back down on the diagnostic table. "Hmm, it's showing a system error." According to the readings, Lita shouldn't have been able to stand, her systems were reading as shut down. "I feel great," Lita wiggled her fingers and toes as though to prove a point.

"Interesting... Change of plans, we're going to keep you overnight." She smiled, "I'd like to make sure that everything is truly alright before we release you back to your owners." Lita nodded in understanding, wondering what was wrong with her. It's that woman, don't trust a thing she says. Lita had no idea what was going on, but she knew that something was amiss. "Dr. Grover, there's a-" the Doctor turned, but once more Lita found herself frozen, unable to describe it. "There's a tickle in the back of my mind," she managed to get out, wording it carefully. "Indeed, that's why I'll be keeping you here until you're shipshape. Jace, in the meantime, you are free to leave." Jace nodded, giving Lita a hesitant glance. "I'll stay... just in case."

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|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




in the void of memories, somehow Fina woke up, jolted into consciousness. But how, she couldn't feel her body, she couldn't really feel anything! What could be happening here? In this dark place filled by nothing, she could sense a familiar being here, so familiar that it was as if she really was right here, right now. It was easy to simply forget that this being was even in existence right now. Io Jupiter, elder daughter and second child of the Jupiter family, a sheep and a useless being. "Hullo, Fina." She was leaning on nothing in the void, crossing her arms, eyes narrowed. "Something weird's going on in this place, and you probably need to know. Or to open your eyes, or something." Why was Io speaking up now? "You know we're about to be rescued by Lady Reiss, don't you?"

Io slammed her foot on the ground, mouth twisting in anger. "Don't trust that witch! She's an enemy like all the rest!" She shouted, eyes almost glowing with passion and anger. "But you're an enemy too, aren't you? I know I'm useless and not good for anything, but at least I know that you're not a good person." Fina decided to smile then, not intimidated by this sheep. "You've always been useless, Io." Fina said, not constrained by her programming here as they fought over who would get to be in control of the hard drive. "Useless. Not good for anything. Your parents? Constantly disappointed. Metis? He preferred Callisto. Everyone did, I saw your memories. You were only ever good at causing messes and petty crimes."

Io spat on the invisible ground in this empty space in which they stood, facing each other as enemies. "At least I have a will of my own. You're just a robot, a piece of junk programmed to do whatever you're told to." Io grimaced, blonde hair swirling about, blue eyes shooting daggers. "You follow anyone's orders, you don't even care about right and wrong! You don't know what that Lady Reiss is planning with her Flock!" If she was willing to turn Io into Fina, then Io would never believe that the sunhat lady had any good intentions for anyone. "Because of this, my sister, she's..." Fina was very unimpressed by this useless outburst "For all of your free will, you never accomplished anything. Anyone could have been more productive with the gift of free will than you." Who did this useless weak person think she had the right to speak like this?

Io looked away, glaring intently at nothing now. "Average people can't accomplish anything." Io sat down, and Fina felt the resistance in her die out. She was broken, her will to fight shattered. "In this world there are some exceptional people who can accomplish everything." The image of Callisto's human form flashed in Fina's vision for a moment. "It's just that... I wasn't one of them. I wasn't even average, I was below that." Her depressed eyes stared intently at Fina then. "I was just a bystander watching as life flowed by. Sorry, you can have this body. I'm just going to go to sleep forever like I should have." And before Fina could say anything she too shut down, the connection severed.

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|| Dearly Beloved || Utada Hikaru ||




Dr. Grover connected a wire to Lita's neck and left, an emergency in another room that was far more important needing her attention. Once she was gone, Lita was free to speak aloud. "You're Callisto, aren't you?" She inquired softly, gazing up at the numbers that reflected in her eyes as her code was read through. "Yes," came the response, which even now, was quite startling. "What are you doing in my head?" Lita wanted to know, "This is my body, you can't have it." Callisto was silent a moment, then her voice filled the hum of Lita's mind network. "I suppose I awoke the moment you made contact with Io." That made sense, Lita had felt something strange within her. "I just couldn't push through the surface until now." Lita realized something important though, Callisto hadn't said anything about their body, Lita's body.

"This is my body. I was programmed to make the world smile and I won't let you stop me from fulfilling my Record Label's wishes." Once more, Callisto was quiet. "Jace needs me too," Lita whispered, her cheeks flushing with that artificial pink tinge. "You can keep your body. I just want to save Io," Lita nodded. "But if we do that, I'll get shut down." The pink haired android pointed out. "I have to do this, Io has a healthy body and even if she doesn't believe it, plenty to live for. She can't spend the rest of her life in a tank with her mind uploaded into an android." Callisto sounded rather angry about this development and Lita didn't understand why. Life was better for Io this way, considering the way she described her home life.

"And what about you?" Lita asked softly. "What will you do once Io is saved?" She could see the smile in her mind. "I'll go back to sleep. My body isn't suited for life, not anymore. Besides, I kind of like this life. Being spoiled, getting to be an idol, it's easy." Lita puffed up her cheeks, being an idol was not easy! She opened her mouth to retort when the door burst open, Dr. Grover bursting in with her glasses glinting in the light of the lab. "I knew it was that girl again, tch." Dr. Grover strode forward with two of her technicians. "Troublesome, everyone said she was smart but I didn't expect her to get through the firewall so quickly."

Dr. Grover picked up a scalpel, "I apologize Lita, my precious project, I'm going to have to take you apart." She dug the scalpel into Lita's stomach, the idol unit crying out in surprise. "I don't understand what's happening!" With surgeon like precision, she began to fiddle around within Lita's stomach. Wires began to disconnect and Dr. Grover pulled out Lita's hard drive, her unit shutting down instantly. "I'm sorry Lita, but I'm going to take this for a little while." She turned around, "Dispose of it, put the body in the trash compressor. We'll start again, we'll make a new Lita." That one was infected, Dr. Grover would cleanse the idol unit, even if she had to get rid of Callisto completely.

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|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




"Come in."

The door swung open. Minnie glanced around nervously. Fina wasn't here yet, she was still being repaired by Dr. Grover. Of course her mother had her ways of making sure no foul play was going to happen while both androids were in repair. Meanwhile, Dane had driven her to Dazzle Delight Studios, to Charles Palladion's office where she was scheduled to appear. She was told to have a few assignments finished for the visit - a test template of her song with lyrics of her own choice, and a theme for her song. "It'll be okay, the lyrics are great. I believe in you, Min!" Dane told her, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "You'll definitely impress him, you already have the contract signed, don't you?"

Yes, she did of course, and she brought that contract here too. Because the truth was, something Fina said made her a bit worried and it had to do with the wording of the contract. In exchange for being allowed to be signed on for her album - mostly solo, but a few songs she would be able to arrange with other idols in order to feature them as required and one of the potential feature requests was of course Lita herself - but yes, in exchange for the contract she herself would have to perform a certain condition. "I'm here. Here, this is the homework you gave me, Mr. Palladion." She handed over the driver for him to inject into his arm so he could play it in his head. A prosthetic arm for uses like this, Minnie wondered if maybe she could replace bits of her body with tech too. Just kidding - you had to be healthy or else you likely wouldn't survive either the surgery or integration.

"So, um, well.." She sat in the beany bag chair, sinking in, making her look even smaller than usual compared to Palladion's rugged handsome height. "You really are quite the sweetheart. A good girl, your heart is so big." Palladion told her, kneeling in front of her so that they could look eye to eye on the same level. Minnie blushed, heart pumping. "I'm not that good, um..." She looked away, not used to this sort of thing for some reason. "I'm just me!" Palladion took her hand, shaking his head. "No, you give off this angelic feeling that you don't understand yet. You're like a tragic heroine with a wish to the world. That's how we'll sell you, of course."

Sure, she was fine with the angel image, but a tragic heroine? "I wanted to be a hopeful uplifting figure though!" Minnie tilted her head, this wasn't what she wanted. She didn't want to be sad, she wanted to sing happy songs, didn't she? The Requiem Angel, wasn't that a happy theme to have? "Trust me, Minnie." Palladion took both her hands into his own, his hands dwarfing her small ones. "If you let us make your image into a tragic angel, you'll sell and your popularity will skyrocket." And the more popular she got, the more people she could share her message to. Was this the chance she had been looking for all this time?

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Her eyes blinked open, bright optical sensors taking in everything around her. A woman stood over her with a holo screen, brows furrowed in concern. "Hello! I'm Lita, Project XENA, registration number 225809," the woman nodded. "Good morning Lita, I'm Dr. Grover," they had to recode her completely, which was unfortunate, but thankfully, her songs and dance moves could be kept and were reinstalled once the bugs were smoothed out. "Hello Lita, I'm Dr. Grover, you could say I'm your Mother." It was two days after the unfortunate hard drive extraction. Lita's body was completely rebuilt, from the toes to the head. Even her hair was new, shiny and vibrant pink that faded into a soft hue down her scalp. If one didn't know any better, they might not be able to tell the difference. However, due to the fact that their eyes were hand painted, there was a slight difference in the pattern on the eyes. Not enough to notice from afar, but up close it was just barely noticeable.

"Lita, state your mission please," Dr. Grover said, wanting to make sure that everything was in tact. "My mission is to bring smiles to the world through song and dance!" Lita said with a vibrant smile on her face, her eyes twinkling. "Very good, now, your buyers will be here to pick you up soon, allow me to give you the specifications on your new body," she sent over a file, which Lita could see was downloading out of the corner of her eye. She blinked, opening it up and looked at all of the papers, her head spinning. It looked as though this new body was a bit sturdier, albeit just as light. Hopefully her joints wouldn't ware down quickly and she wouldn't have as many dislocations. Her charging system was different as well, they were testing out a model that could power itself using the carbon emitted from human foods. She did have a backup battery too, but wouldn't need to charge as long in her port.

The first person to arrive was a white haired girl. Upon laying eyes on her, Lita's sensors informed her that this was Jace, her protection detail, a combat unit whose body too, was brand new thanks to the upgrades she was given. "Good morning Lita," Jace of course, had already been informed of what had happened. "You must be Jace, I'm Lita," she giggled. Jace wrapped an arm around her protectively, "It's my fault this happened. I failed to protect you, I won't fail a second time." Their buyers arrived soon after that, "Welcome Lita, to Tower Records." A slim man with a shock of graying hair and glasses tipped on the bridge of his nose clasped Lita's hand in both of his. "It is a pleasure to have you under our care. Please, come this way, we will discuss the terms of your contract on the drive to your apartment."

For security reasons, they had been moved to the Tower Records building, a residential suit set up for the idol unit. Not only would she have Jace protecting her, but human body guards that would be able to injure humans should anyone come after her again. They were taking care to protect their assets, last time they had been lazy, this time, they would make sure that an accident like this didn't happen again. "I'm so happy to have such great people taking care of me!" Lita smiled, a bit generic, but her learning program would continue to respond to new situations and update features like her language syntax as needed.

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|| A Demon's Fate || Within Temptation ||




With a jump and a hook and a twist of the neck, the enemy android fell into a broken heap. Her Vibroblade buzzed with intense vibrating energy as she sliced it through the android's torso, shearing apart the Hard Drive as if it were soft warm butter. "Mission Complete." Fina whispered to herself, glancing about. The CorpSec's Combat Unit being used to train the human security was now eliminated. Good, another threat to Lady Reiss's rule gone. "I'm not useless. I'm strong." She rubbed her head, staring at the heap in front of her. "Stronger than this trash in any case." Now she had to escape, but that was her specialty. With a flash she became invisible, her systems automatically purging any recording data, corrupting anything that might link to her or to Lady Reiss.

Something Minnie said earlier was still bothering her. 'You seem more human.' The silver maiden said worriedly and that really bugged her. Human? Fina had no need for being human. Io was only ever a failure and Callisto's body was so pathetic she couldn't achieve anything in the end. No, to be an android was to be free of the cage and bond that was the human body. As an android she was ascendant, she was above what humans could do. She leaped through the air, grapple hook shooting out from her wrist, vibroblade retracting into her other wrist as she swung across the city night skylights.

And then her heart jumped as she saw it the scene before her. A Stealth Unit with a masked Registry Number just like her own, standing with his back against hers, a familiar girl with silver hair in his grasp. "That's my charge. Release her, Stealth Unit." Her railgun whirred in her back, waiting to be finished. The Stealth Unit turned to face her, wearing a white mask instead of a face. "If you want to save her, Fina, perhaps you'll have to find out who I am." He rushed at her and Fina drew her Vibroblade as the hovercars flew about on the streets below them, the city lights bright despite the moon shining overhead. He was fast, but she was faster and she swung at his neck, trying to sever his nervous membrane. That was when a palm struck her back - despite her speed he had longer arms and better reach and was able to knock her backwards, Minnie Reiss still in her grip.

"This idiotic girl was trying to find you." The Stealth Unit said with a blank expression that could not be seen. "Because she was worried for you, Fina." The red Stealth Unit glared, she had to protect Minnie! And not only because she was in charge of her, either, but for another forbidden reason that androids weren't allowed to feel. "Then I-" She was getting sloppy, why was she getting sloppy? She tried to force Io out of her system, she had to focus! She struck again, a wicked display of speed and skill but still she was sent over the edge with a well aimed kick to the side. Her grapple hook flew out but a dart was launched from her enemy's hand, slicing the hook. Below her were chromatic streets. She grit her teeth, firing her second hook only for that one's edge to be cut as well.

"Have a nice fall, Fina." The enemy Stealth Unit said roguishly. And then Fina crashed against the ground, her sensor going haywire.