Fall of Earth - Awakening

The Flight

   Cyan closed his eyes and relaxed into the seat in the passenger bay of the Charon. Komedy had disappeared into another section of the surprisingly expansive ship, and the rest of the civilians had sorted themselves into their own select groups. The scene reminded him of back when he had been a part of Medcore, and it irked him.

At that time, he had been the only person to survive the experiments, and that feeling of solidarity had always been present, no matter how much he had attempted to convince himself otherwise. There had only been one cure to the emotion, unfortunately though, it was long beyond his grasp now. A noise from his side, caused his eyes to snap open and lock onto the approaching group.

"I'm sorry, we just wanted to thank you," the one that was standing at the front apologised, stooping his head to avoid Cyan's solid gaze. "If you hadn't been there, none of us would have made it out of the base alive."

Cyan continued to look over at them for a moment before nodding, his thoughts taking precedence over the conversation that they were attempting to start. The civilians glanced over at each other before realising that the exercise was futile and breaking away back to the other survivors. Daniel seemed about to leave as well, wanting to leave the distracted Cyan to his own thought, but hesitated when he saw Allie standing her ground.

"What is wrong with you?" she demanded incredulously. "They were terrified that you would attack them or something, but I vouched for you, even offered to take them here to make sure that they weren't too scared, and then you just go and pretty much ignore them when they try to thank you!"

"Maybe because I don't really want their thanks," he replied. Allie's face turned incredulous as her outrage grew at his comment. "You probably don't know it since I doubt you've been in a firefight, but the choice of whether to keep someone alive or not is not a light weight in the slightest."

"But you did keep us alive!" she said, confusion growing on her face. "All of us are here because you chose to fight for us." However Cyan shook his head.

"But I could have saved the Rear Admiral as well," he told her. "He didn't need to sacrifice himself, and that choice to leave him to activate the failsafe was one that I made."

"So why did you choose to leave him behind?" Allie asked.

"Because he was able to kill hundred, maybe even thousands of Locusts in that last instant," Cyan answered her. "He was unlikely to be able to have such an opportunity to do as much damage to them in any other way than that considering his age and position." Allie blinked in surprise at his reasoning.

"That feels a little cold," she commented, looking over at him uncertainly. She had thought that he was just quiet and reserved, but now she was beginning to see that even underneath his seemingly earnest actions, there was a chilling, calculating side to him that he rarely displayed.

"I suppose that's part of the problem," Cyan sighed. "It doesn't feel that way to me. I hadn't wanted to address the fact before, but there's a difference between us, Havok, Komedy and I, and you guys, and it's not just the things that Medcore did to us. There's something genetically different between regular humans and us."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Allie asked.

"Because we're not human, or at least not completely," Cyan said. "When it came for me to make the choice of whether to save the Rear Admiral and stop him from setting off the failsafe, part of me thought that it was necessary for us to survive, and then another part of me told me that he was only human."

"So you're saying that because you have a different gene to us, that makes you a whole different animal?" Allie interpolated from his comments.

"Look, the reason that Medcore only evacuated certain people and their families is because they have the genetic potential to become knights," he explained. "There's something inside of them that allows for the creation of this." He gestured to his body to illustrate his point.