Star-Crossed Snipers (An Elsword FanFic)

7 - Rena

"Are you sure you can fly this thing?" I asked Aisha as we circled the massive airship. We had followed Stella's directions and found what we needed, but the issue of a pilot had come up. Aisha's narcissism kicked in and she volunteered to fly it but....

"Of COURSE I can fly it, I can do basically anything since I'm so great and all." She said, hand over her chest proudly.

"Aaah, she reminds me of myself. She's perfect just like me." Lu said almost whimsically. 

"So yes, leave it to me, take everyone back to the living quarters, I'll let you know on the intercom when we've caught up with Wally." Aisha said taking the wheel of the airship, which was almost as big as she was. I was going to comment on the size ratio, but that seemed unwise.

"If you say so, c'mon Lu, lets go back with the others."

"Hold on a minute, who said I was going back there? No no." Lu said, taking a seat by some old looking monitors. "I Will stay here and be Aisha's co-captain." One of Aisha's eyes twitched.

"Um, excuse me??? You're first mate, I am captain, I'm not sharing that title with anyone." She put her hand on her chest proudly. I decided to leave before I was caught in the argument.

"Just make sure we take off sometime today okay? We're in kind of a hurry here." I closed the door behind me to block out the argument that had inevitably ensued. Ciel tried to look over my shoulder as I closed the door.

"Everything ok in there?" He asked. I put on my best cheerful smile.

"Oh it's nothing, just girl stuff." Ciel looked to Elsword, who looked back at him, both had suspicious looks on their faces.

"Riiiiiiiiight." They said in unison. I managed a nervous giggle as I changed the subject.

"I thought I saw a map of the inner workings of the ship in there, I'm fairly sure there's a cafeteria on floor-" They were gone before I even said what floor it was on, Elsword telling Ciel what he wanted him to make. I shook my head contently. "Oh those boys." With that I went off to go find something to occupy myself with as the engines revved up. "Aisha and Lu must have come to a compromise." I mumbled to myself, going down a staircase into what I remember from the map being an observation deck.

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-Raven-

The last time I had a headache like this, I had been tied up and had my fiancee murdered right in front of me. That in mind, I wasn't sure if I wanted to open my eyes, afraid of what I might seen.

"It's alright Mr. Raven. Go ahead, open your eyes." That bastard Wally, his voice as polished and cocky as ever. I immediately opened my eyes, though it felt almost reflexive how fast they opened. That hadn't felt natural. I was tied to my chair in the command room, Wally sitting in front of me drinking some kind of tea. "You must be parched, have a sip." He held the teacup to my lips. After what had just went down, there was no WAY I was drinking that. It must be some kind of poison. Wally smirked a bit at my resistance. "Open your mouth." My jaw opened without my say so, which scared me almost as much as the liquid now going down my throat. Wally just laughed. "I can't believe how well it works!" He cackled as the now empty teacup fell from his hand onto the floor, where it shattered, shards of china scattering everywhere.

"What the hell did you do to me?!" 

"Oh nothing much, thanks to that little doo-dad attached to your arm, I can just make you do whatever I want." I looked down at the disk attached to my nasod arm. It had Wallys smug face on it, with wires extending out of it and weaving their way through the armored plating to whatever was beneath it. "Basically from what I can tell, when the nasods modified you with that arm, they knew that your human body wouldn't be able to generate the power necessary to  operate it, so they replaced your organs with bio-recycling engines and motors that turn the food you eat into energy. Since your other limbs and whatnot were now disconnected from your heart and such, they replaced them too. In other words, you're a machine on the inside, and I figured out how to hack you!" He started laughing again as I took a second to fully understand how screwed I was.

"So now that I'm your puppet, what do you have planned?" I asked.

"Why you'll be my personal bodyguard and occasional test subject." He said matter-of-factly. "Lord knows I could use a right hand who actually knows how to fight.......no pun intended of course." 

"And what if I refuse?" He grinned.

"Break free of your restraints." He said. I knew I could've the whole time, but wasting energy on that would have been pointless since he would have stopped me anyway. My left arm shredded through the ropes, then freed the rest of me. "Point your blade at your heart." My arm obeyed as a bead of sweat fell down my forehead. 

"What use am I to you if I'm dead?" I asked, trying to keep calm.

"I'll just take you apart and study you of course, then build a better, more powerful version of you!" He stroked his chin. "Which sounds better? The Raven mark II? Or Raven 2.0?"

Maybe I should've have asked.