Charon could barely walk and half stumbled away from the battered and bloodied octagon. There was no warning it was going to happen, she had no idea where it came from but she arched backwards in a violent manner. The pain seemed to come from nowhere, yet everywhere all at once, she began to slide sideways and the figure that had been lurking in the shadows watching, grabbed her and lowered her carefully to the floor. Her eyes had rolled up into her head and she gritted her teeth, the pain simply wouldn’t subside and eventually the scream worked its way up slowly from a low moan to an ear splitting screech and the figure yelled for paramedics. It was only then she recognised Gojinn’s voice but this couldn’t be right could it? Why would he help her? If only the excruciating pain would stop, she felt as though every fibre in her body was being raked with red hot, razor sharp barbed wire. She started to convulse and her mind had started to shut down, she heard Gojinn yell again but he seemed much further away this time.
Paramedics raced to where Charon was now having violent seizures, one held her on her side while the other readied an anti-seizure injection. The other medic had never seen a wrestler have seizures after a match, even when they had pushed themselves to their very limit and he had concerns that there was an underlying problem but the priority was to get the seizures under control. The man who’d called them over had now disappeared back into the shadows. The second paramedic administered the injection and painfully slowly the seizures seemed to subside and Charon’s body began to relax. The paramedic holding her on her side took out a small light to check her reactions and pulled up her right eyelid and shone it at her pupil, it closed down to a small black pin prick. He glanced up to check where the second paramedic was with the stretcher while he pulled up her left eyelid to check the reaction of the pupil and he jumped away from the body as though he’d received an electric shock. The second paramedic was back with the stretcher and looked at his colleague, who was staring down at Charon, who’s right eye had bizarrely stayed open and was staring blankly into space, as though she could see something that everyone else couldn’t. Her entire eye was now an inky black. They decided to sedate her to make sure she didn’t wake up, neither one had seen anything like it and as they were lifting the stretcher into the back of the ambulance, Kizmat arrived. He recognised the form lying on the stretcher and yelled in anger, he pulled the paramedics out of the way, he stopped dead when he saw the odd, black eye. He turned to the paramedics who were once again looking at each other, almost knowing what they were about to be asked.
“What the fuck is going on? Why’s her eye look like that?”
All the paramedics could do was shrug.
“She had some sort of seizures after the match, we went to check pupil reaction and the eye was already like that. We suspect there may be some sort of brain damage but that’ll be for the emergency doctors to decide.”
“Sorry.” Added the second paramedic impotently.
Kizmat felt lost for the first time in his life, the eye disturbed him, a distant memory was niggling him but he couldn’t remember, he knew it was important. He grabbed his cell phone and called Kali, he knew the two had a strong connection and the only one who he could now rely on to give him the truth. Kali picked up immediately, she’d known something was wrong minutes ago and she had reached out to Charon but was unable to connect, the pain was too much and then she’d had an odd flash of scrolling numbers like the screens from the Matrix film.
Charon on the other hand, could hear Kizmat’s voice but she could also see something else and hear a separate set of commands. It felt as though she had two separate people in her head, she had one person telling her to get up and make her way to a specific location but the other person, she thought it might be her subconscious questioning the commands. Eventually the heavy sedation took its toll and all she could see was –
EVANGELION MKII BOOTING ** DOWNLOADING ** COMPLETE ** ERRORERRORERROR
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Everything went black.
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Meanwhile
Augustus drove the DBR9 to its very limit, they had been doing about 120mph in fifth gear when Augustus shifted it into sixth and Gray literally felt as though he was going to throw up.
"uh, sixth gear? Is that legal?"
Augustus' full concentration was on the road.
"I shouldn't worry about that..."
as the speedo rose to somewhere in the region of 200 mph
"...I haven't even passed my test yet, they failed me last time just because I took the time to run over a couple of annoying French mimes."
Kali chuckled and turned round to talk to Gray.
"Charon taught him that." Her face went serious now though. "Its started."
Her phone bleeped at her and she answered without looking to see who was calling.
"Kizmat, what? Slow down. No sorry I can't reach her, its already too late. Stay there we're on our way."
She slid the phone shut and Gray grabbed her arm.
"What's started?"
He knew full well what the answer was going to be.
"The chip, its already been activated."
Gray swore loudly, partly at the news and partly because Augustus had just narrowly missed sideswiping a large juggernaut. He flipped open his own cell and dialled through to Damien.
"Damien, I don't care what shit has happened between you and Charon in the past but this is fucking important now. Eva Corp are trying to do something to Charon and you are probably the only person I know with enough resources to help."
He slammed the phone shut, Kali could see him working hard to keep his temper under control.
"He'll come. He always does."
Elsewhere, Damien was already in the black hearse his foot to the floor, headed to a place he never thought he'd go again, the CW arena and who the hell was trying to call him now? He chanced a quick look at the caller ID - Gray. Damn it, now what?
"uh, sixth gear? Is that legal?"
Augustus' full concentration was on the road.
"I shouldn't worry about that..."
as the speedo rose to somewhere in the region of 200 mph
"...I haven't even passed my test yet, they failed me last time just because I took the time to run over a couple of annoying French mimes."
Kali chuckled and turned round to talk to Gray.
"Charon taught him that." Her face went serious now though. "Its started."
Her phone bleeped at her and she answered without looking to see who was calling.
"Kizmat, what? Slow down. No sorry I can't reach her, its already too late. Stay there we're on our way."
She slid the phone shut and Gray grabbed her arm.
"What's started?"
He knew full well what the answer was going to be.
"The chip, its already been activated."
Gray swore loudly, partly at the news and partly because Augustus had just narrowly missed sideswiping a large juggernaut. He flipped open his own cell and dialled through to Damien.
"Damien, I don't care what shit has happened between you and Charon in the past but this is fucking important now. Eva Corp are trying to do something to Charon and you are probably the only person I know with enough resources to help."
He slammed the phone shut, Kali could see him working hard to keep his temper under control.
"He'll come. He always does."
Elsewhere, Damien was already in the black hearse his foot to the floor, headed to a place he never thought he'd go again, the CW arena and who the hell was trying to call him now? He chanced a quick look at the caller ID - Gray. Damn it, now what?
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The Back up plan
Augustus literally flung the DBR9 into the parking garage of the arena, he screeched to a halt only inches from Kizmat and flung the door open, Kali slid out and Gray stayed in the car, convinced that if he moved right now he might not stop being sick. Augustus grabbed hold of Kizmat’s arm; Kizmat had already noted the change in his son’s physical appearance.
“Where’s Charon?”
Kizmat seemed slightly disorientated and unsure of what the hell was going on.
“They’ve already rushed her to the hospital.”
Augustus dragged him toward the car.
“Come on we’ve got to go…NOW!”
Kizmat pulled his arm away.
“It’s the best hospital in the Creature world, why do we need to hurry exactly?”
His question was never answered because a huge black hearse peeled into the underground garage and came to a halt just kissing the rear bumper of the DBR9, Damien flung the door open and stepped into the eerie orange lights of the garage. Kizmat growled and moved towards him, Kali placed her hand on his chest and Augustus looked between his father and grandfather an exasperated look on his face. Damien walked round both vehicles and stopped just short of where Kali stood.
“Right, what’s this little meeting all about and where IS Charon?”
Gray finally made it out of the back of the DBR9 without throwing up and took hold of Damiens arm, causing him to half turn to look at the rather green looking assassin.
“Hospital but its worse than that, the chip in her arm is more than just a simple microchip, we need to get to her before she wakes up from the sedation.”
Damien frowned.
“What will happen when she wakes up? Is it gonna be like Armageddon sort of bad or just slightly pissed off police type bad?”
Gray glanced at his watch and then at Augustus, Augustus was the one who answered.
“Eva corp. have designed a chip that will turn any living organism into a cybernetic slave, all it needs is a host and an activation code, it was their back up should the unthinkable happen and Charon won in both worlds. Well guess what? We won in both Worlds and they’ve activated the chip, which just happens to be sitting in Charon’s arm right now. Luckily, she’s asleep at the moment but we don’t know for how long. Now can we get a move on or are we going to stand here discussing the pro’s and con’s of cybernetic technology in a human host and its effect on the environment or are we going to sort something out by driving to the hospital?”
Damien turned without saying a word and got back into the hearse and wound down the window.
“Well shit! Come on who’s riding with me?”
Gray looked at the hearse, then back at the DBR9 and jumped into the passenger seat with Damien. Kali shoved Kizmat into the passenger seat of the DBR9 and then ran round and got in the hearse with Gray and Damien. Augustus pushed the button in the DBR9 and the engine roared into life, Damien was already peeling away from the parking spaces and Augustus followed matching Damien driving manoeuvre for driving manoeuvre.
Ten minutes later, the two vehicles flew pell-mell into the parking lot of the hospital and all five climbed out of their respective vehicles. Damien took the lead with the others tagging in along behind him, he marched through reception and the accident and emergency waiting room and the others followed wondering why they weren’t stopping to ask for directions. Kali followed Damien without question but Augustus was puzzled.
“Uh…. Shouldn’t we ask where she is?”
Damien snorted.
“Most sedation will last a total of thirty minutes at the most.”
He looked at his own watch and continued to stride authoritatively through the corridors.
“Charon’s recovery time is almost half that of an average human and we’ve been…what? I reckon about fourteen minutes in total in getting here from our respective starts. Do the math.”
Augustus’ face began to take on the terrible realisation, they were all here because it would probably take all of them to keep Charon under control. Damien paused for a couple of seconds as though getting his bearings.
“Left. Something’s kicking off down here.”
They all listened as they walked; Kizmat was the first to hear what Damien was listening to.
“Shit!”
Kizmat’s walk turned into a sprint and he was the first to the door where a doctor came flying through the doors and smacked right into the wall to Kizmat’s right side, he was dead. Damien stepped over the body and through the doors, closely followed by Kizmat and then Augustus, Kali and Gray.
What Damien saw disturbed him deeply but he didn’t show it. Charon’s left side had turned a dull greyish green and her left eye was pure black, no white was left at all and she was holding another doctor up in the air with one hand. She stood and her head turned towards Damien.
“Scum, cesspit pool of a creature. What is your designation?”
Damien edged slowly closer.
“MY name is Doctor Damien Death but you ought to know that already. What’s your name?”
Kizmat shifted uneasily, his temper getting the better of him.
“You know what her fucking name is you moron!”
Damien turned and glared at him.
“You know what, shut the fuck up!”
Augustus shook his head.
“Now is not the best time okay?”
He looked at them both imploringly while Kali looked on in mild interest.
“Boy’s, boy’s, boy’s, come now put the testosterone back in your damned pants and focus on the issue at hand yes?”
Damien sighed and turned back to the thing that had been his daughter.
“What is your name?”
Charon, the part that was still functioning that is. Well sort of because she felt a bit groggy and confused as to why she was holding a doctor in mid air with one hand, tried to respond but instead heard a foreign voice come out of her mouth and she knew it wasn’t right but she was so tired. Maybe it was all a dream and she should go back to sleep and wake up again later. Hang on though? Why could she see so many people she knew in one place? What were all those damned numbers scrolling up the inside of her left eyelid? Damn it, remember woman, what were you doing before the hospital? She listened to the odd voice.
“My DESIGNATION is Evangelion MKII experimental human cybernetic being. I am perfection and you are not.”
Damien frowned. Why were only one eye and one side affected? He noted quickly that her blue eye was still and hadn’t moved, it looked unfocused, and he realised the sedation was still wearing off. He changed tactic in the hope Charon was still awake in there.
“I want to speak to Charon not designation Evangelion MKII.”
There was a pause, as the black eye seemed to move quickly back and forth like an eye moves in REM sleep.
“There is only Evangelion, there is no designation Charon Death.”
Damien grinned.
“I didn’t say Charon Death, I said Charon. Now, Charon Angel Death put that man down before you hurt him!”
This time there was a much longer pause, Charon was now properly awake and searching through her own mind for some control over the cybernetics that were slowly trying to grow through her own organic body. What was it Gray and Augustus had said about hacking cybernetic systems? Find a low-level routine and follow it through security, piggybacking Gray had called it. She had control over the right side of her body so she swung a fist at the cybernetic arm. She noted that an error message had begun to scroll up the inside of her left eyelid, she now grabbed for her own left arm and pulled at it. The other part, the cybernetic part tried to turn but it now only had control over the left leg, Charon lifted her right leg and kicked hard at her left and found it mildly amusing that she couldn’t feel any pain on that side. Damien and the others took advantage and grabbed for her left side, Gray grabbed a syringe and plunged it into the left hand side. Charon would have rolled her eyes and for one moment she found herself in control over her speech and she took the opportunity before she passed out again thanks to Gray.
“Drugs don’t work on the cybernetics, only on me, you might want to try localised EMP…”
The right side slumped and the left side dropped the doctor as it needed to try and balance the now useless right side which it had now lost control of.
“Where’s Charon?”
Kizmat seemed slightly disorientated and unsure of what the hell was going on.
“They’ve already rushed her to the hospital.”
Augustus dragged him toward the car.
“Come on we’ve got to go…NOW!”
Kizmat pulled his arm away.
“It’s the best hospital in the Creature world, why do we need to hurry exactly?”
His question was never answered because a huge black hearse peeled into the underground garage and came to a halt just kissing the rear bumper of the DBR9, Damien flung the door open and stepped into the eerie orange lights of the garage. Kizmat growled and moved towards him, Kali placed her hand on his chest and Augustus looked between his father and grandfather an exasperated look on his face. Damien walked round both vehicles and stopped just short of where Kali stood.
“Right, what’s this little meeting all about and where IS Charon?”
Gray finally made it out of the back of the DBR9 without throwing up and took hold of Damiens arm, causing him to half turn to look at the rather green looking assassin.
“Hospital but its worse than that, the chip in her arm is more than just a simple microchip, we need to get to her before she wakes up from the sedation.”
Damien frowned.
“What will happen when she wakes up? Is it gonna be like Armageddon sort of bad or just slightly pissed off police type bad?”
Gray glanced at his watch and then at Augustus, Augustus was the one who answered.
“Eva corp. have designed a chip that will turn any living organism into a cybernetic slave, all it needs is a host and an activation code, it was their back up should the unthinkable happen and Charon won in both worlds. Well guess what? We won in both Worlds and they’ve activated the chip, which just happens to be sitting in Charon’s arm right now. Luckily, she’s asleep at the moment but we don’t know for how long. Now can we get a move on or are we going to stand here discussing the pro’s and con’s of cybernetic technology in a human host and its effect on the environment or are we going to sort something out by driving to the hospital?”
Damien turned without saying a word and got back into the hearse and wound down the window.
“Well shit! Come on who’s riding with me?”
Gray looked at the hearse, then back at the DBR9 and jumped into the passenger seat with Damien. Kali shoved Kizmat into the passenger seat of the DBR9 and then ran round and got in the hearse with Gray and Damien. Augustus pushed the button in the DBR9 and the engine roared into life, Damien was already peeling away from the parking spaces and Augustus followed matching Damien driving manoeuvre for driving manoeuvre.
Ten minutes later, the two vehicles flew pell-mell into the parking lot of the hospital and all five climbed out of their respective vehicles. Damien took the lead with the others tagging in along behind him, he marched through reception and the accident and emergency waiting room and the others followed wondering why they weren’t stopping to ask for directions. Kali followed Damien without question but Augustus was puzzled.
“Uh…. Shouldn’t we ask where she is?”
Damien snorted.
“Most sedation will last a total of thirty minutes at the most.”
He looked at his own watch and continued to stride authoritatively through the corridors.
“Charon’s recovery time is almost half that of an average human and we’ve been…what? I reckon about fourteen minutes in total in getting here from our respective starts. Do the math.”
Augustus’ face began to take on the terrible realisation, they were all here because it would probably take all of them to keep Charon under control. Damien paused for a couple of seconds as though getting his bearings.
“Left. Something’s kicking off down here.”
They all listened as they walked; Kizmat was the first to hear what Damien was listening to.
“Shit!”
Kizmat’s walk turned into a sprint and he was the first to the door where a doctor came flying through the doors and smacked right into the wall to Kizmat’s right side, he was dead. Damien stepped over the body and through the doors, closely followed by Kizmat and then Augustus, Kali and Gray.
What Damien saw disturbed him deeply but he didn’t show it. Charon’s left side had turned a dull greyish green and her left eye was pure black, no white was left at all and she was holding another doctor up in the air with one hand. She stood and her head turned towards Damien.
“Scum, cesspit pool of a creature. What is your designation?”
Damien edged slowly closer.
“MY name is Doctor Damien Death but you ought to know that already. What’s your name?”
Kizmat shifted uneasily, his temper getting the better of him.
“You know what her fucking name is you moron!”
Damien turned and glared at him.
“You know what, shut the fuck up!”
Augustus shook his head.
“Now is not the best time okay?”
He looked at them both imploringly while Kali looked on in mild interest.
“Boy’s, boy’s, boy’s, come now put the testosterone back in your damned pants and focus on the issue at hand yes?”
Damien sighed and turned back to the thing that had been his daughter.
“What is your name?”
Charon, the part that was still functioning that is. Well sort of because she felt a bit groggy and confused as to why she was holding a doctor in mid air with one hand, tried to respond but instead heard a foreign voice come out of her mouth and she knew it wasn’t right but she was so tired. Maybe it was all a dream and she should go back to sleep and wake up again later. Hang on though? Why could she see so many people she knew in one place? What were all those damned numbers scrolling up the inside of her left eyelid? Damn it, remember woman, what were you doing before the hospital? She listened to the odd voice.
“My DESIGNATION is Evangelion MKII experimental human cybernetic being. I am perfection and you are not.”
Damien frowned. Why were only one eye and one side affected? He noted quickly that her blue eye was still and hadn’t moved, it looked unfocused, and he realised the sedation was still wearing off. He changed tactic in the hope Charon was still awake in there.
“I want to speak to Charon not designation Evangelion MKII.”
There was a pause, as the black eye seemed to move quickly back and forth like an eye moves in REM sleep.
“There is only Evangelion, there is no designation Charon Death.”
Damien grinned.
“I didn’t say Charon Death, I said Charon. Now, Charon Angel Death put that man down before you hurt him!”
This time there was a much longer pause, Charon was now properly awake and searching through her own mind for some control over the cybernetics that were slowly trying to grow through her own organic body. What was it Gray and Augustus had said about hacking cybernetic systems? Find a low-level routine and follow it through security, piggybacking Gray had called it. She had control over the right side of her body so she swung a fist at the cybernetic arm. She noted that an error message had begun to scroll up the inside of her left eyelid, she now grabbed for her own left arm and pulled at it. The other part, the cybernetic part tried to turn but it now only had control over the left leg, Charon lifted her right leg and kicked hard at her left and found it mildly amusing that she couldn’t feel any pain on that side. Damien and the others took advantage and grabbed for her left side, Gray grabbed a syringe and plunged it into the left hand side. Charon would have rolled her eyes and for one moment she found herself in control over her speech and she took the opportunity before she passed out again thanks to Gray.
“Drugs don’t work on the cybernetics, only on me, you might want to try localised EMP…”
The right side slumped and the left side dropped the doctor as it needed to try and balance the now useless right side which it had now lost control of.
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Former longest reigning CW Undisputed Champion
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CW Heavyweight Champion 2009 & 2010