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*Mastema stayed as he was with Nana for several more minutes. When those minutes elapsed, Nana was placed in bed before Mastema laid beside her. One arm wrapped around her upper body and his other hand stroked her hair with his fingertips. When Nana was asleep, Mastema would continue on with other things*

*At about the same time Trilla had arrived at the library, Than awoke from his light slumber. Right now he was back to reading the files on the disc. The medical report would be almost finished. Right now Than was reading more about the citadel itself: why Mastema had made it. For Than, it didn't make sense that his father had chosen this formerly human city as a place of operations. It puzzled him even more as to why the other buildings of the citadel were left to rot. He felt that Mastema had left most of the citadel unused for another reason*

Chikuso..... so I was right. *Than sighed to himself after reading through another large segment of the disc contents* It's nothing but a front. This citadel is just one big diversion, and all these other projects are just to draw attention away from something else. All of these are just.... parts.... something that contributes to the bigger picture: Zenogais, Omega, the drones, project vanguard, project sahaqiel, and the heart. But nothing about that is here...... just names and information on the separate projects. *Than narrowed his eye at the screen; Mastema had indeed not given him every bit of information. Instead, Thanatos had just received fragments of larger plans. Keeping that thought in the back of his head, Thanatos continued to read further. He was versing himself on what "The Heart" really was* So the barrier is just shielding another shield, another front....... but what would Otosan need an entire city to protect?

*Proto had decided that he could do more outside of the tower, since the only two people in it seemed to be asleep. The hum of Proto's thrusters could be heard from quite a ways away, and were just as easily seen when he flew overhead. The white glow of his boosters was seen heading towards the destroyed lair, its intent being to clean up some wreckage*

*Than's desk chair was knocked over and his room door flung open. The computer terminal was still on, with no other source lighting the dark room. At Than's directive, he'd been teleported to the control room for the Heart, a place Nana had seen after being taken to the heart to revive. Facing all of the terminals, Thanatos had already noticed the massive, armored doors which lead to the core, the massive swirling of conflicting energy held apart by thin layers of neutral power. Just being near those doors, Than felt a disconcerting resonance within his body, within his aura. That power which held the energies in the core apart had also come into play when Kaiori tried to break out of the citadel, and she'd given up her escape when it did for one reason: the golden energy that resister her was none other than Than's aura. And now, Than knew just where that energy had come from, and it was sitting behind the other door which Nana had not been through. Quickly accessing the terminal beside the door, Than went about bypassing the locks so that he could access the nightmare the disc told him lay beyond it: Armisael's chamber*

*Proto landed near the destroyed site, on the ground. His audio sensors had picked up on the creature's faint sound, but he had no optical confirmation of its presence, probably due to not being at the right angel to see the eye. However, Proto recognized the cry from past experience, and knew that the creature was predominantly non-hostile. Thusly, he wasn't on alert. Proto continued to approach the remains, letting off a single sound to signal the creature, where ever it was, that he was there*

*It took all of two minutes for the locks to be released on the door. Even though he was getting a little further away from the core, the resonance Than felt refused to diminish. The unlocked door slid open; two metal doors slide open behind that one and opened to a semi-circular elevator. The walls around the circular front were pitch black; even as he stepped into the ominously dark elevator, Than could tell that it was only the walls outside the elevator that were black; the actual elevator itself was made of glass. It took only a punch of the single button in the elevator to initiate a descent. Than felt his stomach churning faster*

Proto: *Proto was using his foot to systematically push small pieces of rubble into one place. Proto would take care of the large pieces later. For the moment, his action seemed rather life like. Very few bipedal robots could probably maintain balance on one foot the way Proto did right now*

*The elevator continued downward, though the downward motion of the elevator could probably never take it as far down as Thanatos's heart was at the moment. After a few long moments of seeing nothing but blackness, the blackness suddenly gave way to a rather vibrant light; Than was almost surprised enough to fall back against the elevator door. The room, the chamber, in front of him must've been at least as large as an entire quarter of the citadel. An alien green light seemed to encompass the room, which was cylindrical in nature and looked as if it could revolve one direction or another. Every 90 degrees along the cylindrical room, there was a path from one end of the room to the other, and those paths had smaller cross walks connecting them at regular intervals, so the room was divided into blocks, and each block seemed to hold a dozen or so large, glassy tubes, not unlike that which Xol had used to regenerate Phia. With the size of the room and the quantity of tubes in it, Than gulped as the elevator came to a stop and the doors opened. He felt like his organs wanted to leap out through his throat*

"I did? Damn... that's a new one. You're right though, my head's pretty messed up. Complete and total memory loss up till about a year ago. Did a spell here, where... someone... messed it up even further. Then there was a big empty period where a lot that I only partially remember happened. The "flipping out" probably came from there."

He grins and has his psychic hands wave at Sho.

"No worries though, I'm mostly harmless. This is about the extend of my strengths."