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Listening to her tale sparked a moment of guilt within him, he did as best he could in hiding the drop of regret that tainted his soul. Being popular among the female gender always had its ups, however it also had a lot of downs. Needless to say the down parts of it were usually worse than the ups, Leanne was proof of that. She'd gone home after the fiasco the triangle between herself, Jessica, and him brought. Why does everyone run home in times of need? Familiarity.

Her thoughts drifted to her past, Reinhart knew she wasn't human, but she was once before. A priestess taken into darkness against her will, how tragic, everything dark wishes to taint everything light, its the way it all works. In her words however hung all manner of despair, Reinhart could almost feel it down to his bones, no one was immune to tragedy.

"Leanne..."

Whispering her name did nothing, but in all honesty he knew not what to say, he wasn't around to share that pain with her and he'd only added more fuel to that fire. Why she still looked at him with those beautiful red orbs the way she did was almost miraculous. He'd broken her heart after all.

As Leanne cried crimson tears Reinhart was reminded of his still infected soul, the last time he'd shed crimson tears was long ago, something he'd forgotten. His hair hid the crimson eye that reflected everything wrong within him, all that is dark, evil, selfish, and monstrous housed within his frail human body. The opposite eye however reflected everything he was, it was a pure blue and shone brilliantly, the true window to his soul. Without hesitation he reached for Leanne's face and wiped the tears steaming down her cheeks.

Forgiven now he felt a little more at ease, he'd been cursed for the same crime a couple of times before but no other was as special to him as Leanne. Jessica like many others disappeared from his life, Reinhart was hard to hold down and his lifestyle was definitely something no normal person could handle. After all, he did kill for his own purpose, no matter how beneficial it was to everyone around him it was no excuse. A taker of life was something cursed and damned, who would support a man who thrives on death.

"Leanne..."

He wanted the tears to stop, he felt they'd both gotten a little closure and so he took Leanne's hand and once again pulled her to him. Cupping her chin with two fingers he looks into her fiery red orbs and smiled.

"... let's start over."

There were still somethings left unsaid, they'd come to light eventually, but not here not in this Void. With Leanne in his arms and her beautiful face in his hands Reinhart looked to and smiled softly. "Close your eyes." He whispered and tightened his grip around her waist pressing her into him even further. When she did close her eyes Reinhart leaned in slowly, it reminded him suddenly of when they met and what a simple kiss led to. No need to fear that here however.

Inching closer to her lips he closed his eyes, in the back fo his mind he wondered if they would meet somewhere outside the Void, surely they would. A reason was always behind these meetings in this darkened place and Reinhart much like Leanne had figured out that they would indeed meet again soon. With his lips just a hair away from hers he felt a slight pull on his being, the Void was sending him back. The moment their lips touched Reinhart awoke with a start back in his home, he pressed two fingers to his lips and smiled.

Deep in the heart of the secret FELD testing facility, massive supercomputers were activating as massive terabytes of data were sifted through and uploaded to the computer's mainframe. Nearly everything was complete and on stand by. This was the final test before the full activation of FELD's greatest project yet...

Light reflected off of the glasses of a man with black hair and a scruffy black beard as he monitored the computer screens and massive displays in front of him, surrounded by technicians of all walks of life. He turned to face them and spoke...



Gentlemen, this is the time we've waited for, the very crux of our work, and the final challenge we face before our whole project comes to life. All that remains is this one, final, test. And we will face it with high hopes, and determination...

Steve, start it up, and prepare to introduce the PCA's Datafile into the Virtual Matrix...

Let's do this, for the future...

With a flash of light, the form of the PCA would appear in the arena, its green eyes quickly surveying the landscape and the 8 small enemies that were scattered out in front of it. It then took in its surroundings, and raised its right arm, the hand folding away to reveal an open barrel before the unit spoke in an emotionless and calm tone.

Unit 01 activating primary weapon system and engaging to destroy targets.

The barrel glowed with green energy before a rapid fire burst of dozens of shots fired from the "Machine Buster" towards the small targets.

The attack had no effect. Using its Artificial Dynamic Intelligence System, or ARDIS, it ran through a list of options, selected one, and announced it. Data would scroll across the screens of the men as its "brain" went to work.

Attack is ground based, switching to hover mode.

Small booster rockets fired from the feet of the unit, as well as its back, and it hovered several feet off the ground and took aim...

PCA Unit 01 requesting permission to increase buster output to Non-Organic combat level.

At the requested level, the shots would be capable of blasting holes in solid walls from the detonations, and likely be able to pierce through the guarded tops of the enemy targets.

Permission granted, the PCA would then fire a hail of higher powered blasts at the small targets, the small orbs easily being enough to ablate through their outer shells and destroy them. If Steve was disappointed, he had no real reason to be. The ARDIS had determined that default level attacks would have no real effect against the hardened shells of the targets. Thus, greater power was requested to bypass the defenses.

The situation had been analyzed and an acceptable countermeasure had been employed. If nothing else, the ARDIS was performing as designed...

If the targets had been destroyed, the Unit would then await its next foe.

The PCA quickly detected the 6 new targets, and sped into action through the air to avoid as many of the bullets from their chain guns as possible. Obviously it could not avoid ALL of them ALL of the time, but it wouldn't need to. The armor the unit was covered with was fully bulletproof, and rounds pinged off the protective armor as the unit sped up into the air to combat the targets.

It approached the first, the right hand returning as its forearm mounted energy blades shot into action, green plasma being brought to life as the powerful blades would aim to cut straight through the first target, even as the unit spiraled towards the second to deliver two strong blows.

The ocular sensors had detected the presence of energy fields around the targets, meaning that energy blasts would likely be ineffective. However, the close range weaponry equipped on the unit was far more powerful, and would be able to cut through the energy barriers with ease...