Chapter 20: The Eyes of God

[Momo Kurokawa]

To Kalma

Momo returns to Tokyo, which was not impacted by the tsunami. She changes clothes and has something to eat, before heading out to her lab and the nearby mecha hanger to meet with Kalma. She finds Kalma with her damaged mecha. There are other damaged mechas there as well. Many were so damaged that they had to remain in Helsinki...lost to the company.

She approaches Kalma.

"I want you to pilot a helicoptor..that will take me to look at the damage around Mt Unzen and the Nagasaki Prefecture." Momo orders her. Momo is asking Kalma since she is pretty trustworthy and her best pilot. Nagasaki prefecture sustained the most damage in the tsunami and erruption.

[Kith Keitoleinen]

"It seems the battle is over now." Kith says as Linnea, Ophelia, and Horacio stand there with them. There are smoldering piles of ruble and downed mechas throughout the city. Kith approaches one of the spideroids, which has a limb still twitching.

He wonders where Cephrien is. He texted him back, but hadn't heard back from him. He hopes he isn't in danger.

Kith texts Cephrien his current location, then returns his attention to Linnea and the others.

"Do you think your gallery is alright?" He asks Linnea.

[Surma Keitoleinen]

Surma was now wandering around the area of Japan that had gotten hit the hardest. Like any other city that had been assaulted by a volcano, there were barely any signs of life.. as opposed to how it was before the chaos. There were several people in the area who had somehow survived.. either unscathed or severely injured. Surma wouldn't be able to do anything for the people who had perished under the ashes. There were just way too many..

It made him even more depressed..

For now, he would wander the area in search of survivors and provide his aid to those who sustained injuries.

[††Venice "Cephrien" Ashgrove††]

Cephrien arrived at the area that Kith had replied with. He walked towards the SOTA prison, mobs of escaped prisoners running past him and scattering out onto the streets. He stopped and stood amongst them, looking forward to search for his current partner. When he spotted Kith, he continued walking and eventually approached him and his companions..

One of which he recognized as the flower woman, Ophelia. Ceph shot her a look, wondering how exactly she got herself involved in this.

[darian]

Darian continued to watch the meeting gradually wind down and finally end. He was rather pleased with how it went personally, never having really liked Intelligent Design due in part to his superstition with technology at large. Darian only liked SOTA slightly better because they were the ones that manufactured his most prized possession; the Exitus Rifle.

Master Scrag then rose to leave and thanked him for fighting against the machines. "I do my best in all things my lord..." Darian replied with a respectful bow as they all made ready to leave. Darian took note of the smell of decay, but wasn't bothered by it in the slightest; after all, he himself had a very unpleasant aura about him that made others nauseous around him.

Darian just happend to look over and see Gunther grinning like a cheshire cat as he had been the entire meeting. Just what was that little man thinking? There was something about the man that Darian didn't trust, but Darian shrugged it off as he took the teleportation booth and teleported back to Rome.

[kalma]

((Back to Momo))

Kalma looked up as she saw Momo walking her way, smileling sheepishly before Momo told her that she wanted her to pilot a helecopter so that she could see the damage at Nagasaki Prefecture. "As you wish." Kalma replied leading the way toward the landing pad; she didn't need to tell Momo to follow her as she knew that Momo knew where it was- she wasn't like Kalma's lazy brother who seldom had anything to do with his company.

When they arrived, Kalma was unnusually quiet as she was still thinking how to bring up the fact that she was a goddess; or if she should at all. Taking her seat at the front slipping on a headset, Kalma did a routine systems check before warming up the helecopter engine. If Momo asked, then she'd tell her without hesitation, but would she tell her on her own? Kalma pushed those thoughts out of her head and concentrated on the moment at hand. It wasn't a good idea for her to get distracted while piloting the helecopter.

[Momo Kurokawa]

They travel southwest to the areas most damaged. Right away, it is shocking to see the areas around Mt. Uzen. Entire villages and cities, gone. Momo looks down and sees dead people, animals, and smashed buildings. The damage is worst nearest the volcano, but a large swath of land on the south, western side of Japan, the side nearest to the Koreas, was impacted. Nagasaki, Fukouka, and Shimonoseki looked signficantly damaged. Some of Momo's machines are already on the ground picking up debris and digging mass graves.

"Temporary shelters will have to be built. We'll have to transport people to areas that have running water, electricity, and what not. They can't stay there..at least not until things are repaired and the dead are burried." Momo says to herself mostly, but also to Kalma.

"I think the Koreas might have been impacted to. It looks like it spread across the Sea of Japan. I don't have time to worry about them right now though." She says to Kalma.

"The council treated me like I was the villain! Helsinki didn't even suffer...1/100 th of this." Momo says bitterly. "Well, maybe you can take us down for a moment near Nagasaki. I want to talk to some of the survivors."

[Archer Aylmer]

I eat my food with the kind of concentration that only someone who is truly hungry can consume a meal with. I stare a little at Bonifaz's sister when she is addressed. I just assumed she was hired help for a moment. They don't seem very much alike at all to be siblings, but, atleast she cooks.

"This is very good. I concur with Heikki. You should join Null... Freida. You can be our official stir-fryer."

I finish my helping in no time and ease back on the couch with a small smile.

[Genki Kurokawa]

Even since the tsunami came and Mt. Unzen erupted, Genki manage to sent some mechas to the towns, villages, and cites who were damaged pretty badly. He even voluteer himself to help the people by cooking food for them. He knew that he 'suppose' to do some research for his mom's company BUT he want to help the people.

"I hope mom don't mind. Besides....I already did some of my reasearch." Genki thought to himself.

[Kith Keitoleinen]

"It was all pretty intense. I wonder why it ended? Maybe we should go somewhere to watch the news, unless you know anything Cephrien." Kith says to him as they start walking away from the ruined prison.

They walk across cracked pavement and debris from fallen buildings. Every once in a while, they will come upon a human body. Some are soldiers for Sota or Intelligent Design, others just people at the wrong place at the wrong time.

[Salome Weil]

I listen to Malak and the socialists talk about other groups, which I don't have much to imput to. "I think that...from what I know about the Enlightened Brotherhood, they are just a bunch of hippy pacifists. They might work with you, but I doubt it would benefit you much." I state.

"I do think you should work with anarchists, but there is no anarchist organization at this time. That is why I would like to create one. I am not sure what it would be called, but I would like to have a convention of anarchists and see who shows up. But until then, you have my support."

[Amelia 20]

Amelia takes a seat on the couch by Archer. The squirrel got away, so she reluctantly followed Bonifaz and the others back at the house. She now watches them eat the stir fry. She turns the television channel from the news to cartoons.

"You want to be a machine, Archer?" Amelia asks him as she watches some old cartoons.

"You can be made into a machine."

[Max Alexander]

Max was dumbfounded by this whole incident.

"I still do not understand what would process Momo to do such a thing. I think im going to go tour Helsinki and observe the damages."

Max leaves and gets in his car. e tours Helsinki and observes the destruction. "Unbelievable".

[Frieda Artz Lehrer]

Frieda sighed heavily, mentally, when Bonifaz told her to make a fruit salad. The compliments made her feel more appreciated but she was still very uncomfortable. After a few moments she replyed to Heikki.
"I would be more trouble then its worth," Frieda stated in a very small and timid voice. She had just taken away the confidence that she had gained when they complimented her cooking.
The members of null didn't seem like they would really make good friends to her anyway, she always imagined herself with at least one really good friend, who she would never be uncomfortable around and could laugh with and talk to. But this was just a fantasy and was extremely far from the truth.

[kalma]

Kalma keeps the helecopter level as they fly slowly over the now heavily flooded and cluttered streets of Nagasaki. "So many people killed..." Kalma thought as she listened to Momo and the disaster relief team; consisting of the mechas and other Intelligent Design personnel now helping whoever they could. Then when Momo mentioned how she was treated at the council, Kalma bit her lip and felt even worse then before when her suspicions were confirmed. "That's terrible..." Kalma replied as she glanced out the cockpit for a good place to land.

From high up, it was alittle difficult to know how high the water had risen as she found a spot finally and began to slowly lower the helecopter. "I should have told her..." Kalma thought trying not to get distracted as the landing gear gently bounced when they touched down on the ground. Fortunately some of the water had receded in the last few hours. She was still trying to figure out how to break it to Momo that she was a goddess if she hadn't already guessed that by now...