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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Frozen Hell of the North
Age: 41
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Spoiler for Changes PT 11:
"Well, what do you two have to say for yourselves?" Lindy asked as she looked at the two young children. When they appologized, Lindy shook her head and had to remind herself that not only were they just children, they weren't part of the Bureau and ordering them around was a lot harder to do. "At any rate, they have ten Jewel Seeds." Seeing the ashamed looks on Nanoha's face, Lindy suddenly smiled. "Oh, Amy, have they stopped yet?"
"Not yet." Amy's voice was heard as Nanoha and Yuuno looked at her in confusion, what the heck was she talking about here?
Seeing their looks and sensing Chrono's confusion, Lindy grinned similar to a cat that got a canary. "Oh, sorry, we forgot to tell you that we slipped a little tracking spell onto the seals of all the Jewel Seeds that you collected, Nanoha."
"Huh? When did..." She trailed off, her eyes becoming white and blank as she held a finger up to her face. "Oh!" She smacked an open palm with her fist. "When you wanted to see my Jewel Seeds!"
Lindy nodded and smiled at her. "Sorry for not telling you, but we thought it would be for the best, in case something happened and the Testarossa girl got her hands on them, we could find them easily enough." When Nanoha nodded in understanding, Lindy mentally let out a sigh of relief. She did trust Nanoha, but there was always a chance of things going wrong.
"For now, we'll just..."
"Admiral!" Amy's voice interrupted. "They stopped somewhere in the city, but before we could send anyone, they teleported off planet."
"What?" Lindy stood and moved to the control room, Chrono, Yuuno and Nanoha following her. The four reached the room quickly enough as Amy was pouring her fingers over the keyboard. "What do you mean?"
"They did. I found the energy signals of ten Jewel Seeds and four people." Amy suddenly smiled as the energy didn't completely disappear. "Good." She smiled softly. "We got them."
"So, there was another person involved..." Lindy muttered to herself softly. "Chrono, Nanoha, Yuuno."
"Yes?" The three snapped to attention at the way she was speaking.
"I want you three on standbye." She didn't even look to see them nod as she gave orders to find some way to communicate with the occupants inside of the floating building.
"Um, Miss Lindy?" When the older woman turned to look at her, Nanoha gulped slightly. "Why don't we send in any of your armed soldiers?"
Lindy shook her head. "I would, but they have ten Jewel Seeds, and with Miss Fate, Miss Arf and two unknowns, I would rather not risk any of my men."
"Ma'am!" A man called from the below deck. "We have visuals."
"Thank you, Randy, open them up." A screen popped up and let everyone see a rather large white circular design on the floor, Fate, Arf and the woman who threatened Yuuno were standing at various points, ten Jewel Seeds spun around two figures in the center. The one on the floor had long, dark hair that had several people gasping as they saw who it was. "Precia Testarossa..." Lindy whispered softly, remembering the intelligence report that Amy had dug up just the other day. "That means..." She looked at the other woman, who turned to look at the camera. "Alicia Testarossa, I presume?"
"Yes..." The blond woman said as she stood up. "I take it that you're here because of what my daughter, familiar and my daughter's familiar have done to you and your people?"
"Partially, we also need to discuss your usage of the Jewel Seeds."
Alicia nodded but turned away. "Forgive me, but I need to use them now."
"You can't!" Chrono yelled as he stepped forward. "That many Jewel Seeds together could cause a major rip between the dimensions!"
"It's the only way to cast this spell!" Alicia yelled back and for the first time, Lindy noticed an open spell book on the floor. "The magic requirements for this are enormous!"
"Hold on a second, Miss Testarossa." Lindy squeezed her son's shoulder to keep him calm. "If we allow you to do what you're going to do, will you surrender the Jewel Seeds right away?"
Everyone blinked at Lindy in surprise, but Alicia nodded. "Yes! If I cast this spell, my mother will be healed and I'll gladly give you the Jewel Seeds."
Lindy thought about it for a few moments before turning to the three mages behind her. "Chrono, Nanoha, Yuuno, I want you three to go there and help."
"Huh?!"
Lindy ignored them and turned to the view monitor. "Miss Testarossa, I wish to send you some additional support. Having three people watch the energy fluctuations of the Jewel Seeds to make sure that they don't go out of control isn't the easiest thing. Having six people to make sure that they don't go out of control sounds better, don't you think?"
The woman in the lab coat nodded. "Please hurry though, mother doesn't have much time left."
"Of course." Lindy nodded and then turned to Nanoha, Chrono and Yuuno. "You heard me, you will assist Alicia Testarossa on this, and whether she succedes or fails, you are to collect the Jewel Seeds and bring them back." When they nodded, she shooed them off. "And, Chrono..."
"Yes, mother?"
"You will need to bring them all in for questioning."
"Of course." He nodded as the three were teleported off of the ship.
Lindy hated to do something like that, but she just couldn't over-look the crimes committed by Fate Testarossa.
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Alicia nodded at the three as they ran into the room. "Please, take positions between Fate, Arf and Linith." As she watched them do that, she idly wondered why the girl looked at Arf and blushed while the blond boy looked at Linith slightly uncomfortable, before concentrating on the spell in front of her.
As she watched her mother speak in some sort of weird chant, Fate's eyes widened as she saw the Jewel Seeds suddenly glow and fire some energy beam straight at her mother. "Ngh." She took a deep breath and concentrated on the Jewel Seeds, which had stopped spinning, thankfully, and tried to make sure that none of them were flaring with more power than they needed to.
Alicia held her hands forward and gasped softly as a powerful white beam of magic converged onto the prone form of her mother. It was so bright that everyone, except Alicia, who was being covered in the light as well, had to look away. "Mother?" She asked after several moments when the light finally faded away.
"Nnngh... Alicia?" Precia asked as she sat up. "What happened?"
"Nanoha..." Chrono signalled to the younger girl, who nodded, the two slowly gathered the Jewel Seeds and Nanoha was privately relieved when no one made any motion to stop them.
She stopped when she felt Arf kneel behind her and put a hand on her belly. "That offer is still on the table, if you want it." Nanoha's face turned bright red as Arf laughed at her discomfort and let her go.
"Alicia..." Precia smiled and hugged her daughter. "Thank you, daughter, you did it."
Alicia smiled as she hugged Precia back. "So, you're better now, right?"
Precia nodded but her eyes caught something coming towards her. "I see that your tool is still alive."
Those words had everyone stop, except Chrono, who sealed up the last Jewel Seed, but even he was still looking at them in slight shock.
"Mother?" Alicia let go and looked at her mother. "What..."
"You never told her, did you?" Precia looked at Fate with some disgust. "How you created her just to be a tool."
"Stop..." Alicia trembled, her mother couldn't tell Fate. No, telling her was the worst thing that could happen!
"You honestly came to care for your own clone, how cute."
Fate's eyes widened, a clone? She was a clone? And a tool? "...Mother?" She whispered softly. When Alicia didn't move or say anything, her eyes watered up. Was she hated by her mother so much?
"You should at least give her the dignity of knowing that you used my research to clone yourself, Alicia..."
"Mother..." Alicia trembled slightly. "Stop..."
Precia stood up and glared at Fate. "You were nothing more than a tool my daughter made to help her gather these Jewel Seeds and heal me, nothing more, nothing less." She held up a hand to block a punch from Arf. "Oh, it's you..." She snorted before back-handing Arf and sending her flying across the room. "My... I think that healing spell worked too well, Alicia..."
Fate couldn't stop herself from crying at that point. "Mother..."
"Shut it!" Precia yelled at the small blond. "You're not real! You're nothing more than a tool, to be used and then thrown away when you break, or maybe used for something else? But, it doesn't matter, we don't need you anymore, you're free to..."
There was a loud slapping noise, and a resounding silence as Precia stumbled back, tenderly touching her cheek. "...What?"
"Enough... Precia..." Alicia trembled, her hand still straight up from where she slapped Precia in the face.
Turning to Fate, Alicia kept her head down as she nodded to Chrono's question. "Yes, it's true... Everything that she said was true. I made Fate in a laboratory ten years ago today, I made her a clone of myself and I intended to mentally program her to not feel any emotions at all, a perfect magical weapon, one that couldn't feel fear, pain or joy, one that would fight with no problems..."
Fate nearly fell to her knees, but stopped as Linith grabbed her by her shoulders. It was the only reason that she didn't stop looking at Alicia. "Why..?"
"My mother was the only person I had, Fate..." Alicia took a deep breath, before looking up, tears falling down her face. "But..." She smiled, even with the tears falling. "You did something that no tool could ever do, Fate..."
The girl, her eyes burning with tears, blinked at Alicia. "What?"
"You smiled at me." Tears fell down her face even faster at that point. "I realized, I was so stupid..." Alicia rubbed her eyes, but couldn't get them to stop. "You weren't a tool... You were my daughter... I love you, daughter..."
"M...Mother!" Fate cried and ran to Alicia, who knelt down, and hugged her tightly. "I'm sorry, mother, I'm so sorry for doubting you."
"It's okay, Fate..." Alicia rubbed her daughter's back gently as they held each other and cried together. "I was worried that you'd hate me."
Fate shook her head. "How can I hate my own mother?"
Those words had Alicia crying again as the two clung to each other for support.
I got more coming, but I thought this would be a good point to stop at.
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