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Evolution Lost	By : Xeo123 Category: +M through R > Parasite Eve Views: 1387 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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            Xeo struggled to get up but his body was still feeling the mental tearing in his mind. He tried to get his lightsaber towards him by using The Force but his focus was shattered. Trying as he may to move anything but the only thing he could move was his head very slowly. Xeo, in the pass, felt the power of The Dark Side against him from Dreazin and some lower followers of his but this was something he never felt before let alone from himself. Dreazin Force Lightning him for a good reason instead of letting his power run wild. Aya still is unconscious in the carriage was laying their helpless form Eve’s powers. Both Xeo and Aya were incapable of moving while no one was around to help them; however, someone was still near Central Park while being left on the sidelines. “Aya! Aya!! Answer me! Why can’t she ever have a radio on her at times?” Daniel yelled out. His voice was echoing out into Central Park but was to no avail as they don’t know what happened to Aya. He was more annoyed then ever after what Xeo did to him and couldn’t do a thing until Eve was taken care of, which her powers have been lifted over the park. Daniel then started to hear a faint sound from his right side that slowly increased. He thought it was Xeo coming up to get him again so he slowly turned so to see if it was someone in a brown trench coat. What he saw instead was a small boy with a red jacket running towards him screaming, “Daddy!” It was Ben.

            “Ben!!” Daniel said with a sigh of relief. “Weren’t you going to the concert?” Daniel kneel down and look at what he could of lost tonight if it wasn’t for Aya’s work, which he didn’t know at the time wasn’t her work at all.

            “…I came here with mom, but…she…she was all weird.” Ben tried to explain to Daniel.

            “What do you mean, Ben!?”

            “I came with mom so the 3 of us could be together…” Ben said while trying to get the point across to his father.

            “So that’s why you came to get me…”

            “Mom went to the stage but…she freaked out…” Ben said with an unease tone.

            “What do you mean mom freaked out?” Daniel said now putting his hand on Ben’s shoulder.

            “I got near the stage and started to feel sick. I wanted go home. Mom wasn’t herself, dad…she left and everyone else went too!” Ben told Daniel as his father just look away for a moment.

            “Lorraine…” Daniel muttered to himself now knowing what he feared the most. Aya and even Xeo have failed to get his wife back; however, Ben lived. He got up from his kneeling stance and looked at his son. “Ben we need to get back to the station. I don’t know whats up with Aya right now but I need to see if anyone reported back or if she is back at the station. I could look for her but…I just don’t know anymore.” Daniel and Ben get into the police car and started to drive away from Central Park. Daniel kept using the dispatcher to find anything out about his partner’s whereabouts. “This is Daniel. Has anyone seen Aya Brea? Detective Brea?” All the radios gave him a ‘no’ answer as he slams the receiver back onto the dispatcher. Ben started to fall asleep while Daniel made a bee line back to the police station. Once he parked his car in the garage he stormed up to Baker’s office. Will wasn’t present after what he did to him but other officers got out of the away from Daniel while he walked his way through.
            “Hey Daniel,” Zed said to Daniel. “Do you know that after tonight’s event and last night that we were going to start moving people out of New York City? I mean all of them? Really?” Daniel just answered back while moving passed Zed.
            “After tonight…we better.” Daniel open’s Bakers door and everyone turns around. Warner, Nix, and Baker himself didn’t know what to expect from him.
            “You have a lot of balls to come back here like that, Daniel. Acting all hot shit and thinking taking out Will is going to make you feel better about…” Warner said while Baker slaps the back of his head.
            “Shut up, Warner…can you understand what he just went through? It’s bad enough that you bring that shit up!” Baker yelled at the arrogant Warner whose ego was hurt at the moment. “Casualties were much worse this time. I don’t even need to stress this any more than necessary after what Daniel and Aya witness to. We can NOT put the lives of citizens in jeopardy any longer.” He pauses to get everyone’s attention as he was about to give out important information. “As of now…we have orders to evacuate all citizens out of Manhattan. Fortunately, most people are out of the city for Christmas. We will stay and assist in neutralizing Eve, which is our top priority!”
            “Shouldn’t we leave it to the army?” Nix question Baker in an unease tone.
            “We’re the ones that are supposed to be protecting the city! I like to ask your opinion about the fine work we have been doing so far? We had not one…BUT TWO tragic events so far and I’m open to suggestions…detectives,” Baker yelled out at Nix for his incompetence. “Get going…I need to speak with Daniel alone.” Nix and Warner leave the office while not even looking at Daniel for the out bursts of anger he showed before scared other NYPD personal in the building.
            “Sir?” Daniel said while standing up straight with a face of sadness.
            “Forget about Will…I’ll take that up with you another time when we don’t have a fucking monster running around in our already fucked up city,” Baker said as he looked Daniel straight into his eyes to see what horrors he witness at Central Park. “Lorraine…she was there. Wasn’t she?” Baker asked while Daniel nodded slowly trying not to give into any emotions he was holding back. “…I’m sorry. It must be painful now but you must suck it up. I wouldn’t let a loose cannon back on the streets trying to take up revenge against something we have little to no idea and don’t you deny it. What you did to Will…I would have you suspend for but we have bigger problems and…” Baker was then cut off by Daniel in the middle of his words.
            “…Then do it. I would care less at this point.” Baker slammed his hand down on his desk to get Daniel to think straight.
            “That’s the point, Daniel! You have to cool yourself down. Understood detective?” Daniel shrugged off his emotions at Baker for the moment.
            “Yes, sir!” Daniel complied with him
            “That’s the Daniel I know…now…about our missing suspect? Will and other officers were making quite a ruckus before you and Aya left to Central Park. Now Will told me that after he left the interrogation room and pass other guards in the middle of the media riot, earlier this morning, you were seen with him, as the desk jockey stated to Will. Now I know he was saying this in front of you and Aya while I was there and I’m glad he didn’t say anymore…but…” Baker walks around the office while explaining to Daniel. Then he stops and turns towards him saying, “…What I don’t get is you taking him in your car, not bring him back in after your visit with Dr. Klamp, refusing to put him back in the precinct, taking him with you again without telling, and…LOSING HIM!?” Baker yelled at him while Daniel was about to give him an answer but Baker didn’t give him a chance at the moment. “After all this time on the force you had someone that could be a key witness to the Carnegie Hall event, that could gives us hints to whatever Eve is while you come back without him!? WHY!?”
            “You wouldn’t believe me if I told you,” Daniel said while trying to make Baker give him his side of the story.
            “Okay…” Baker moves to his desk and sits in his black leather chair while relaxing as much as he could. “Try me…how did you lose him?” Daniel looked at him and expressed his moments with Xeo.
            “…Hard as this maybe for you while we have Eve doing all kinds of weird shit in Mid-Town. He was something else. I know Will was freaking out about the whole “he’s a magician” crap but he wasn’t far from the truth.” Baker raised one of his eyebrows and commented on Will’s quote.
            “Did he show you a trick or two?” Daniel shows an expression of surprise at Baker.
            “Tricks I wouldn’t even think were planned…or tricks I only heard in fantasy books and movies. Mostly sci-fi. Please understand Baker. I lost him due to the fact of who or what he is. He had moves that I could only say that…were inhuman like. He was able to jump high…I mean really high like over trees that were tall in Central Park. The light that Will was talking about wasn’t a lie…he had a light…stick of some sort. That’s not the weird is part…”
            “I can’t wait for this…” Baker said in an unbelieving tone.
            “I was going to hold him down to put the cuffs on him but then he did some kind of Kung-Fu shit on me and broke my hand and shoulder, but I’m not in pain anymore…at the time he made them all better…healed them without any meds. Just used some kind of touch and I was feeling better already. I lost him after he told me that my back was left alone to heal on its own so that he would run off to find Eve, for himself. He even told me that he would save…my family and look over Aya.”
            “And you’re expecting me to believe you?” Baker said while still not moving from his chair.
            “After what Eve did these last two nights you should! He was after Eve too and wasn’t even harmed by whatever she can do to us. My arm burst into flames before I could go into Central Park while Aya took off after her…he didn’t feel a thing or showed any signs of combusting.”
            “You’re saying he has the same “gift” as Aya does, whatever she has going for herself…luck for all I know?” Baker asked Daniel.
            “At this point I have no idea. In fact I wasn’t even going to explain this at all until I had Aya with me but I only have Ben in the car, asleep.” Daniel said while Baker looked at him with a questionable look on his face.
            “Aya isn’t with you? Your son is but Aya isn’t? What happened to her?”
            “I was screaming out for her but no answer. Ben came along much after I saw the orange blob that came out of Central Park.” Daniel explained while Baker checks back on his desk for paper reports.
            “I know…we got multiple units spotting that thing in Central Park from afar but then it…disappear. After that we got no report about Aya showing up to any nearby units,” Baker said while moving his upper body and putting his elbows on the desk with his hands balled up for his chin to be settled on. “…As much as I hate to even to do this but until we get any reports about Aya I need you to help us out in the evacuation of…” Daniel jerked his neck and gave Baker an unsatisfying look.
            “Damnit, I don’t have time for this. My partner is out there and you think I should help out at this moment? It’s my responsibility too…” Daniel pleaded to Baker but he got up and started yelling at Daniel for his insubordination.
            “You have already shown what you’re “responsibility” is capable of. I’ve already made up my choice.” Baker got up from his chair while storming over to Daniel to see if he would comply with him.
            “As have I…” Daniel said while beginning to turn away from Baker and started heading for the door. “I’m going to find her with…or without my duty as NYPD, Sir,” he told to Baker with an idea in his head of where he was going. He passed Warner and Nix while slamming the door behind him. Ever officer kept their distance from Daniel as he started to head for the garage to his car; however, along the way to his police car, Ben was already outside and next to another female cop.
            “Daddy…!” Ben said to his father while Daniel tried to keep his cool in front of Ben but more importantly the officer holding his hand.
            “Ben. I see you’re awake,” Daniel said. He raised his hand at the female cop, named Cath, to give her a sign of non-hostility. “It’s my son, officer. I won’t do anything.” She nodded while Daniel kneels to his son and putting one hand on his shoulder. “Ben. I’m sorry about the way I am but…I have to find Aya.” Ben then gave him a curious look on his face.
            “Where’d she go?” Daniel got back up while trying to give Ben an answer.
            “I dunno, but she’s the only one that can fight the thing that hurt your mom. Plus…I also need to get a “bad guy” back to his jail cell.” He then looked at Cath. “Cath, look after my son, willya? I have a lot to do with so many officers not liking my current…reputation at the moment.”
            “I know Daniel. I will, don’t worry.” Cath said to Daniel as he nodded to her and then to Ben before leaving to his car. Ben took a few step while calling to his father.
            “Daddy…!” but Daniel already had to do what he needed to do. Cath then turn to Ben and tried to find something for him to do while Daniel was doing his business.
            “C’mon, sport. You like dogs? I’ll introduce you to the best K-9 dog in town,” she said to Ben. They both started walking down the lower end of the hallway to a nearby door that was labeled “K-9 unit”. Ben started to walk towards the metal fencing that was keeping the doors from running lose in the room. The room was grey tile floors with a desk on the other side of the doorway. Some stacks of food to keep the dogs fed as there holding area was a simple lock chain door and a small holding room for the dogs. Ben looked too see what dogs he could find while Cath walked up to the pen keeper. “Can I show our most proud K-9?” The officer moved his hand as a gustier of good will at Cath.
            “Sure, let me open the fence,” he responded while walking over to unlock the kennel fence door. “Hey, you got a visitor,” the owner said to the dog as it heard his voice. The dog sprang up and was full of energy. It waited for the keeper to unlock the door while the dog looked around to see and smell anything new. Once the cop opened lifted the lack off the door the K-9 came out and already could smell Ben’s sent as being new.
            “This is Sheeva,” Cath said as she pointed to Ben. Sheeva walked up to Ben and started to sniff him. The sent from Ben would make Sheeva able to recognized him in the mist of the other cops being in the room. The K-9 started to take in the details of Ben’s sent and agreed to like him, which at that point the dog started to lick his face. The owner flashed a smile at what Sheeva is doing to Ben.
            “Hey, I think she likes ya!” Ben felt the tongue of the dog starting to make him laugh.
            “Heh, heh…hey, that tickles!” Ben said in the reaction to Sheeva’s display of affection for after the event of tonight, Ben could only be left in the dark of the forces at working for better or for worst. Daniel started up his car and floored the gas pelt as soon as he cleared the garage door. He started making his way from the precinct back to Central Park at incredible speeds that he would be known best for in Mid-Town; however, no one was able to see his motor skill at this moment. Radio chatter from his dispatcher was picking up broadband communications from other fellow officers. Information about the evacuation of Manhattan was underway while reports of vandalism and accidents on the George Washington Bridge kept Daniel alerted to the progress that we turned down, by his own will to look for Aya and Xeo.
            “I’m not going to let another person in my life be wiped away like my wife…this I promises!” Daniel said while pulling up to where he parked last. He left the car’s engine on while getting out and walking towards the entrance to the park. Cautiously he steps close to where his arm burst into flames moments ago. Taking a risk, he puts his arm out to where he knew it happen but nothing caught on fire. He didn’t know what was going on or feels like he’s walking into a trap, but he had to take a chance. Getting back into the car, Daniel set’s it into drive and move the car into the park. “So far…I haven’t turn into a crispy piece of meat,” he said as he was looking for anything out of the ordinary. His point of view found the destroyed cop car with markings of slashes and cuts with some orange residue on the ground. “Did he do this?” Daniel said while thinking of the bright light stick Xeo had in his hand. “That kind of technology…it couldn’t exist…I really need to know what the fuck he is,” Daniel commented himself as he keeps driving around the park in search of his lost partner and suspect. Using his professional experience, he could see far into the main gates and was viewing a chaotic scene. Broken doors and a destroyed complex of the zoo area, which made him, speed up his car to find Aya and Xeo. “Aya didn’t even had a grenade launcher attached to her gun…then what the hell did that?” he pounder to himself as he could only think of a theory. “…It couldn’t be…him? That guy…could have done that? What kind of man…or thing is he? Something like Eve? But…he said he wasn’t like her. He wanted to find her and Aya…I’m stump at this. I need to find her.” Daniel kept waving up and down the park on the pavement roadways until he got to the other side. He was all but of lost hope until his car’s headlights spotted a downed carriage with a body inside. “Hmm…that one looks untouched by Eve. I guess that must be a poor sucker who died from something else…wait a sec…” he said while slowing his car down and was able to see black shoe with zipper for laces, dark navy jeans, white shirt, black leather jacket, a Beretta handgun, and blonde hair. He was surprised to find Aya in and not severely hurt. “Aya!!!” Daniel yelled out but no answer. “Oh…no. Come on, kid. Don’t be dead!” he said while putting the car in park gear and running over to see if Aya hadn’t passed away. Putting his pointer and middle fingers together he put them on her curator artery to find a pulse. A few seconds later a faint passage of blood flow could be felt within her vital artery. “It’s low but she is alive…whatever Eve did to her must have been too much. Well…if you have any broken bones…sorry for doing this.” Getting his hand under her legs and neck, Daniel took her into his car’s backseat and placed her so she wouldn’t feel uncomfortable. Once back in his driver seat he put the car back into gear and started to coast off before gaining speed. “At least she is safe now…however I still need to get that no good…” he stopped in mid-speech while his lights looked at another totaled building with a body on the ground that wasn’t burn either. “…Son of a bitch,” he said while ending his speech. The car stopped a few feet from the building’s rubble and was able to spot up the body as the other suspect NYPD wanted. He found Xeo, laying out cold like Aya but only with smoke around him. Daniel got out of his car and looked at Xeo to see the damage he had on himself. “I guess this serves you right to be a hero or not. I don’t care at this point, chump.” He checked his pulls and could feel a beat in his neck. Taking his bodying back to the car Daniel cuffed him and put him in the passenger seat. “This time I’ll make sure you don’t get away. Now then…I could go back to the station and hand him over to Baker but they way I ended that conversation with my boss wouldn’t surprise me if he locked me away too. Heh…so we’re gonna have to find a hide-a-way place.”
            Daniel opens up the glove compartment and checks for a map. Skimming down for a place to hide out he keeps running his finger all over Manhattan. After much debating and double thinking he was able to sum up a good place. “If everyone is gone in Manhattan then I guess this area would be vacated by now. Could call in for a report but I have to not give Baker any leads on me or Aya for that matter until I have something I could gain leverage over him and get him back on my good side…if I ever had one in the first place. Heh.” After putting the map back and shutting the compartment he takes off onto Malcolm X Blvd. Jetting down there like a bat out of hell he got close to W 136 Street and turn right to the place he could called home for now.
            Pulling up to the side walk and gearing the car into park, Daniel gets out and begins to upholster his gun as a mean of defense. He tried the door and it was unlocked. Slowly creeping in and checking all corners he was able to make his way through the piles of junk and came across a living room with a bed, bathroom with shower, and closet with no one inside. The living room had a beat up couch with a barrel to burn fire, a TV near the couch, and a table with bottles that had some liquid in it. Putting his gun away he came back to the car and took Aya inside. “I’ll make sure that you’re kept out of harms away…” Daniel said as he placed Aya on the bed. Feeling the cold in this room he took the bottles and used the liquid as a starting medium to make a fire. Seeing some non used matchsticks and the box they came in. He strikes one of the heads and throws it in the barrel. Making his way back to the car he gets Xeo out and hulled him to the bedroom. “Too bad I can’t give you a cell to be nicely welcome back present. But this will have to do for now,” he said as he gets Xeo onto the couch. Daniel still wired couldn’t sit by while waiting for Aya or Xeo but he couldn’t leave the suspect alone with her. Daniel then saw a busted up indoor radiator that was still intact to the wall. Getting one of Xeo’s hands free he cuff the other to the radiator and could safely leave him alone. “I mean if he was able to do all that…then I hope it will slow him down for me to get him to understand a the mean of NYPD when his head has a gun next to it,” he said while going back into the car and turning on the engine to keep him warm. Daniel started to dose off for about an hour while he could hear nothing but faint police sirens and any insects making sounds until a noise of coughing came nearby. Slowly the detective moved his upper body and head to view the outside to see a man walking near by the slum run down building. Unlocking the door and slowly opening it Daniel get his weapon out, which he was going to use to get the man’s attention or even scare him off. Daniel starts walking towards the man as he gets near him and shouts, “Hold it!” The man jumps and slowly turns around with his hands above his head.
            “Money…you need?” The man spoke with a terrible tone of English. The man had short black hair with a bit of scurf on his chin, glasses, a wristwatch, bissunesss tie and shirt, dark blue jacket, grayish black jeans, white tennis style shoes, and a dark green book bag for him to carry with. Daniel thought with the book bag that he was a thief but he could tell he didn’t any skills in sneaking around.
            “I don’t need your money. I’m not that kind of person. What are you doing here anyways? Don’t you know that there is an evacuation of Manhattan, let alone New York City?” he said towards the very scared man.
            “I called…to here. I was called…sorry. I made a call here to…NYPD about last night and…I’m sorry,” the man said while fixing his glasses. “I just had to come.” Daniel lowered his weapon and remembers something Baker told him and Aya a while ago.
            “Sir. I may I see your ID?” Daniel said while he waited for an answer.
            “My ID? I don’t have any…real ID…for this place. Just a…passport.” He pulled it out for Daniel and showed it to him. Although, Daniel wasn’t able to make out most of the pages he was able to see English text showing up next to his name. His memory clicked in and knew who he was.
            “Damn of all the places you could be walking…I’m Daniel, Detective Daniel. NYPD,” he said while flashing his badge at him and giving back his passport. “Mr. Maeda it is…welcome to Manhattan, or what’s left of its people. Everyone had to leave because of another attack by a suspect we have been trying to apprehend. This person is dangerous enough for this shit to happen.” Maeda looked around and agreed with him.
            “I know…its very bad what this person did. I wonder…why are you here and not helping…your people?” Daniel thought he was being curd but his English was not good so he explain to Maeda.
            “I would but I had to save someone I know. She even knows about the suspect that we are after…whole NYPD too for that matter. However, she fainted or something and I’m…uh…keeping an eye out for her while the rest of my force keeps tabs on getting everyone out of this city. I’m out side to make sure people wouldn’t take the same idea that I have.” Daniel said while Maeda nodded. His had a sudden chill as Daniel could see his reaction to having a rolled up jacket sleeves. “This way Maeda. I have a fire in there,” he said while escorting Maeda into the building and to the room where Aya and Xeo were resting.
            “Two others?” Maeda said quietly while Daniel pointed to Aya.
            “That’s my “partner in crime”, heh. And over there is someone else that has to do with the event with Carnegie Hall; however, his story is about this bullshit that he didn’t do it. I have no idea until he wakes up and gives me some answers,” he said while Maeda beings to warm up. His eye noticed a TV near the couch that Xeo was resting on as he looks at Daniel and asked him a question.
            “I like to know…uh, know about the news here. Yes?” Maeda said as best as he could while Daniel agreed with a nod. Un-cuffing Xeo’s hand he looked at Maeda and asks him something.
            “Could you do me a favor? This might be a bit much for you but…if this guy wakes up…how can I say this? Run out as fast as you can to me. Okay?” Maeda had a blank stare at him but then nodded to look after Xeo for any signs of him waking up. Daniel moved Xeo and had no other choice but to place him next to Aya but more towards the wall. “I think he will do fine like this…being out cold I bet he won’t do anything smart,” he said as he starts walking back to his car until he remembered the car’s fuel gauge being low. Maeda switches the TV on and begins channel surfing for news and live coverage of what’s happening in Manhattan. Daniel comes back into the building and could only think of taking a nap in the bathroom. There was a tub for him to rest in but not to get a good night sleep, which was on guard for anything to happen. Another hour passes by as everyone tends to their needs either conscious or unconscious in the ruined out building. Unknown to Maeda and Daniel, Aya’s mind was having another episode of visions. Xeo, on the other hand, still recovering from Eve’s touch and Dreazin’s Dark Side talents, was having his mind slipping out of reality and into The Force. Without effort or guidance, his thoughts started to come into Aya’s as her visions became a part of his. In her mind, vivid images are long white hallways and cleaned floors were being shown. Another had a grey concrete hallway of lockers on one side and an exposed vent in the ceiling. Moments later another image of a room with soft chairs and a receptionist desk with white walls all around came before her. Then another image of a building’s outside view came up and showed a glass automatic door and a red coverlet over the door. She wasn’t able to move around in the images but was being shown and could only say things to herself, unaware that Xeo was having the same images in his mental mind.
            “…Where? Hospital?” Aya said while the images started to lose focus and turn red right before blanking into darkness. Her will to wake up was becoming strong but it was only for a moment until her mind started to feel heat again while Xeo, still in her mind, was having a flashback of his own. “…What?...now what is happening?” she said desperately to understand what was happening around her. It was only for brief moment that her view was then thrown into another unknown mental memory flashback. The heat that Aya felt before was more prominent this time around as Xeo could feel the same heat that he felt Aya by accident. The flashback had a bright white light all around until it focused into shapes of people running and falling over. Bright flickers of orange streaks of energy were passing by as the heat was felt from near hits. Two groups of people were pointing guns of a different sort for Aya to know as they were exchanging fire to each other. Without warning the point of view started to speed up and was passing by the group of people in black uniforms as hands and feet were incapacitating them. Aya didn’t how this can be happening if the guns were real then whoever she is seeing should have been dead, but the person wasn’t. Some time when on as the view lead to a door way that took them into a room that she didn’t know but only Xeo does. Aya was reliving the moment Xeo encountered Dreazin before Xeo’s own memory stopped. It repeated just as before while Aya couldn’t believe what was happening. “What is this…?” she said as the mental image started to show Xeo even more that he remembered last time.
            “How far are you willing to stop me, brother?” Dreazin said to Xeo. As bad as Xeo could remember the first time looking back on his memories it was being clearer this time around as images of lightsabers and combat were being shown. The duel between them was controlled and not chaotic as Xeo would know from Dreazin’s pass encounters. This time around Dreazin was only holding Xeo back from moving towards him for reasons unknown to him. Dreazin was more aggressive at Xeo all the time yet the only time he had to be less of a Dark Jedi was this one moment. The clashing of lightsaber styles and stances turn into a struggle as they swung high to low with balance on their footing. Acrobatic moves were not been able to be done from being in an enclosed room, that and it was the command deck. The duel kept being at the same pace as the Light of Hope’s hyperdrive turn on and the ship went off into hyperspace. Xeo and Dreazin didn’t care about anything else but the conflict with each other. “Everytime we meet each other, it seems like we can’t be bother to come to an agreement of who is right in this war. Do you think so, brother?” Xeo stepped back as he gave Dreazin a moment to say his words. “Why keep this up? In the time we had together I was shaping you into my own personal student of The Dark Side. You have only ignored the calling of which I can make you more that you should be. All you have to do is let go…let go…let…go…” Dreazin words started to echo in Xeo’s mind while the hyperdrive began to explode another set of lights that were made of pure white light in hyperspace. Dreazin then leaped towards Xeo and was trying to strike him down but he didn’t for he couldn’t do anything. His body was floating mid-space as Xeo wasn’t able to defend himself that his body too was not able to move. He was able to only stare at his brother while waiting for the chance to move. Aya couldn’t comprehend the vision that Xeo was having and didn’t understand about what Xeo…or Aya’s powers were influencing. Soon the look of hyperspace became less bright as an explosion was heard within the ship. Dreazin was able to move again but moved his body and lightsaber away from Xeo. Not taking a chance with Xeo, he Force Grips and holds him at bay as he walks towards a control panel. “So the experimental drive overloaded…poor Republic maintenance,” the Dark Jedi said while pulling up data from other control panels as Xeo struggled to lose his brothers Force Grip on him. While Dreazin kept checking without caring about anything, Xeo could look out into view of a planet that was blue and was close enough for the Light of Hope to be in low orbit. Dreazin then could begin to see the planet as he lifts his head up and views what was functionally left of the holomap. The map viewed the plotted course and was having an unemotionally pleased look about his face. “Looks like I win, brother. However…” he said while dropping Xeo back on the ground and readying his lightsaber. “…We still need to conclude this.” Xeo got back up on his feet and was ready for Dreazin’s next attack; however, something was being felt within the Jedi’s mind as Dreazin was being to feel the same way. The ship started to skip the atmosphere while the vision became more blurry. Soon after all was black again.
            “…What…was that all about?” Aya said to herself while feeling her mind being normal again was able to move around. She didn’t know what was going on within her own mind or even being awake as she got up. Looking around the room she couldn’t tell where she was or if anything happen to her while being out cold; however, she was able to see a man on the couch watching TV.
            Of course, Maeda didn’t say his name at first but turned around to greet Daniel’s partner while fixing his glasses while saying, “Oh…! You’re finally awake! You were having a bit of a nightmare or something?” Aya brushed aside of her blonde hair and looked at Maeda’s get up for a moment.
            “…Who are you?” Aya asked while trying to be non-hostile towards Maeda if he was a bum or crook.
            “I’m…Kunihiko Maeda. I’m a scientist from Japan,” he said while brushing his hair with his hand. Maeda then heard footstep from the bathroom sounding as they started to approach the door and told Aya about Daniel’s involvement in saving her. “He found you. You’re…friend or…partner. Sorry my English isn’t all that good,” he said while nodding for forgiveness. The door opens up as Aya looked to see Daniel coming into view. He had a smile on his face while Aya only expressed her gladness towards him.
            “Daniel!” she said with relief. Daniel walk closer to Aya and Maeda to explain what happen so far.
            “Aya…I thought for sure you were dead. I couldn’t sit by and wonder if the worst has happened to you. Disobeyed orders to come out…risking my life, again and finding you in that destroyed carriage. There’s no one out there but cops…and Maeda and…him…” he said while Aya turned around to see the back of Xeo. She still wasn’t too sure about what happen in her mind and didn’t want to ask him questions right away.
            “Don’t worry, Dan…I won’t ask him anything now. I’m still…trying to recover,” Aya said while looking back at Daniel.
            “It’s a ghost town now. Baker ordered a full evacuation while you were still out in the cold. Never seen anything like it. It’s creepy as fuck, if ya ask me.” Aya then remembered why she was here in the first place.
            “Where’s Eve!? What happened to the people in Central Park?” she asked Daniel. He paused for a moment to give Aya the facts.
            “Ben was okay…but…well. You saw what happened to the audience. Once that…blob of goo came out of the park it well…just…disappeared. NYPD reported it but only from afar…they couldn’t risk going after it on the count of what happen in Carnegie Hall. My wife…wasn’t around with Ben,” Daniel said while Aya slowly turned away from Daniel knowing that she wasn’t able to do anything and couldn’t explain how Eve’s power were acting on the people.
            “Disappeared?” Maeda jumped into the conversation and continued, “You mean they weren’t ignited?”
            “They all melted into slime…and became on big mass…” Aya said to Maeda. Daniel still trying to deal with the lost of his wife kept being holding in his pain.
            “That’s something new. Nothing like that happened in Japan.”
            “Japan?” Aya said
            “A similar incident occurred several years ago in Japan. Although it wasn’t as grandiose in scale as this one.” Maeda said while Aya wasn’t aware.
            “What!?”
            “Hey!” Daniel snapped out of his sadness and wanted to get the answer from Maeda. “Give us the details!” Maeda stands up and tells them what he knows.
            “It all started when a scientist’s wife was involved in a car accident,” Maeda said while Aya slowly lowered her head that Maeda mention about a car accident and was started to have feelings about her family she lost a long time ago. “The scientist tried to culture her liver cells in order to keep her alive, or so I’ve heard. The scientist named those cells…Eve…”
            “Eve!?” Aya said while her head looked at Maeda in awe. Maeda wonder over closer to both detectives.
            “The liver cells multiplied and her mitochondria eventually took over her physical body. After acquiring the scientist’s sperm, from wittiness’s reports, Eve tried to give birth to something more advance then she was…a being of some kind. Reports stated that she even dub it as “the ultimate being.”
            “Ultimate Being…?” Aya said. “What kind of “being”…?” Maeda shugged his shoulders as he tries to answer that question.
            “She, the being who mutated from the liver cells, couldn’t maintain her body for long. By the way, before the car accident occurred, the wife he’d registered to have her organs donated,” Maeda said as he walked closer to the fire for warmth. “So after the accident, her kidneys were transplanted into a young girl, while I don’t know what condition she had for that kind of an operation or transplant but it happened. Eve then implanted a fertilized egg in the young girl who gave birth to…an Ultimate Being. I know this might be weird after telling you all this but I was extremely interested in this. It’s the reason why after hearing this I went to his lab so I could continue any kind of research I could find.” Maeda turn around to face Aya after being warmed by the fire in the barrel. “After hearing about this incident, I had to fly over here.”
            “What the hell is going on HERE!?” Daniel said while Maeda looked at him to try to answer him while Daniel kept speaking, “I had about as much as I could hold back. Mitochondria this…being that…what kind of fucked up research are you scientists are looking into. You know one of these days anything you mess around with will bite you in the ass in the long run.”
            “I wish I could explain more.” Maeda said while giving Daniel an honest answer.
            “I mean, come on. I’d had to save Aya from Eve, whatever she is now, and seeing how more than others are trying to appear to have these gifts on their own I had about enough of this weird shit!” Daniel yelled at him. “Aw, hell…I didn’t want to even go so much on this rant but. Our suspect…he was acting on his own and was trying to find…” his words slowed down as he looked at Aya’s face, seeing an emotion of worry and fear appearing. “…are you ok?” Aya then shook off her feelings and look back at Daniel with a fast response.
            “Yeah…I’m fine…”
            “I thought that monster had gotten a hold of you!” Daniel expressed himself to Aya while showing how worried he was. “Thought it was too late once I pulled up and saw you not moving. Strange thing is that our suspect was not too far from where you were laying out cold; however, he was in worst shape then you. Still he had no burns of any kind on him…no signs of what Eve could do.” Aya nodded and looked back down while feeling her emotions getting back at her. Her fear of something terrible within her heart was making her question about herself.
            “When I felt Eve…something inside of me felt like it was being…” she tried to finish her sentence but Maeda answered what she was trying to explain.
            “You felt you were about to be ignited, correct…?” Daniel turn to Maeda to help out Aya’s pass sentence.
            “No, she’s…well, she’s the only one that isn’t affected. My arm felt being on fire this night while she went in with no problem. Although after I came for her again I didn’t’ feel anything at all. Even on the first night that Eve showed up…nothing happened to her.”
            “What?” Maeda said while being shocked by Daniel’s information. He scratched his head again trying to understand about Aya not being affected by Eve’s powers. “I…I…don’t understand.” Aya then looked back down towards the ground and didn’t want to agree what she was hearing from Maeda or her own inner thoughts, but she couldn’t hold back anymore.
            “I…I think…something is unnatural about this. Everyone that I know, even you Daniel were hurt or killed by Eve. Her abilities affected everyone but…me on the first night…and tonight. She told me about being with her, tonight. I just…can’t…believe that I may be a monster. Like HER!” Aya said while trying not to think about what she just said but the fact were being clear to her. The pass nights she had to deal with Eve and her minions while being able to do some unique skills of her own convinced her that she had something that Eve has too. Jumping to a harsh answer, her emotions started to sink faster as she couldn’t lift her head to Maeda or Daniel. Daniel snapped around towards Aya and was trying to calm her down.
            “What!? What are you saying?” Daniel said while failing in his attempted to help her. Aya couldn’t agree with what he just said but felt no other answer could be justified. At the time she had no other choice but to deny it while holding in the truth that she was something like Eve. Putting her hands to her face and started to break down she tried to explain to both men in the room about what she might turn out to be.
            “I don’t know. What if…what if I end up killing you!?”
            “Oh come on, that’s horse shit you’re saying and you know it. That’s not going to…” Daniel said to get sense to Aya but she couldn’t accept it. She got up from the bed while still trying to hold in her feelings towards Daniel while dealing with the unknown reasons of why she isn’t harmed by Eve’s power.
            “Please, Daniel…enough! I don’t know about myself anymore! Please…Just…just stay away for me!!” she pleaded to them while Xeo was still not aware of what was going on. Daniel wanted to say something to her but she already was not feeling up to another word from anyone as she went back onto the bed; however, remembering Xeo being there she had to get him away from her but she didn’t care at this point. “Please…” she said one more time to them. Maeda was the first to agree with Aya’s statement.
            “I understand your point…” he said while heading for the door.
            “H..hey! Where do you think You’re going!? You flew and said all this stuff to make her upset. Your just gonna think I’m going to let you go like that…?” Daniel said to Maeda while he was about to speak for his reasons.
            “Well…I…” Maeda said until he was cut off from Daniel’s speech.
            “If you’re going to leave this room then come with me. We need to at least find a gas station before we could do anything about sleep. Come!” he said to Maeda as they both walk near the door. Daniel stop and turned around to look at Aya before they head out while saying, “You’re no monster…you are the best partner I ever had on the force. Remember that.” Once the door was shut Aya couldn’t stand up anymore from all the unknown answers and fear of what she could be.
            “I could never forgive you, Daniel if I killed you…never,” Aya said to herself while having a moment alone then thought back to when Eve touched her. “When Eve touched me…that feeling. Was it…Maya? But Maya died in the car crash with mom…it…no, it just couldn’t be…!” with that outburst of self questioning she couldn’t think anymore and looked down at the bed to get feel the urge to sleep; however, Xeo was just near her and she couldn’t even think about if she would of killed the only other suspect to Carnegie Hall. Then she had another thought to herself she said, “No signs of burns on him and yet he was close to where I passed out. If he didn’t burn up while Eve was nearby…then…another person?” Aya said while she started settling back into bed but far way from Xeo. She kept thinking about what was just said and figuring out about her own survival, which was keeps getting away from Eve without a scratch. Her mind started to become tried as her view of the room began to go dark then fell asleep. As the night went on, Manhattan had two events of destruction and chaos from Eve’s power as hour of midnight passes by to become another day in Mid-Town with only a few groups of people now living in an abandon and hostile city in the grips of a twist being known as Eve.
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