Vice - Engulfed In Darkness
Jan 1 11:33:20 2005

The sound of rustling leaves in the wind, and the occasional hoot from those
annoying owls, were the only sounds you could hear at this time of night. At
the summit of the mountain, a reploid in black armor is sitting and watching
the horizon.

"How am I feeling this way? This part of me has died a long time ago, and yet.."
"Why am I hesitating, what am I afraid of..."

"Could I possibly be...wrong?"

Closing his eyes for a moment, he thinks back to the encounter with the strange
reploid girl at the sanctuary. Vice didn't understand her at all, her reaction,
her emotions, her goals, he couldn't understand...or was it the fact he wasn't
allowed to? Reopening his eyes, he lets out a sigh.

"Aura, what is so different about her? Why is it only after the encounter with
her, that I feel I'm missing something...something important...something like
existence. I feel as if I don't exist at all. What am I? Who am I?"

He sat there, looking dazed, confused, and lost, much like the first time he
awoke at the fountain. The reploid that was meant to be a hunter, a protector,
possibly a savior of some kind, turned out nothing like it. Questions swarmed
inside his mind, but why, why is it only now, after that encounter with the
strange reploid.

"What am I fighting for? I thought I was free...free from his control."

The screams of the innocent victims he's killed over the years echoed inside
his head. Their eyes filled with fear, clinging onto life until their last
breath. With a simple action, everything they had, everything they lived for
until that day...stolen by a heartless, soulless individual.

The vision in his right eye seemed off, a droplet of water ran down the side
of his cheek. The winds were picking up, blowing the slight portion of hair
covering his left eye, revealing the red off colored eye, which seemed to be
glowing. As the droplet of water from his right cheek fell to the ground in
the still night, it began to rain. The black armored reploid just sat there,
the winds were now howling, and the rain continued to pour down.

"It seems as if I'm not the only one crying." he said as a weak smile escaped."

Planting his hand on the ground, Vice slowly stood up. The storm continued to
grow worse, lighting striking the nearby trees. He clenched his fists, as he
slowly looked up to the sky.

"I have failed on my part, this is the last scene I will see."

With those final words said, the reploid stood still in the rain, staring at
the sky. Lighting struck the summit, exactly where Vice stood, within that
moment, time itself seemed to have stopped. A few minutes passed, and finally
he moved. Still staring at the sky, he begins to laugh.

"I suppose that was the divine punishment for us...but we are that no
longer. I will do what I want, there's no one to protest it now, not
even my former self."

Several images of different people flash in front of his eyes. A blue colored
reploid with a missing arm, a hylian wearing a white trench coat, wielding
a revolver, a very odd reploid, the only word to describe it would be
monstrous, a reploid girl in a red body suit, and a reploid with white hair,
not resembling any other reploid, probably due to the look on newer models.

"Hunters...I've been watching them for awhile, and I've got special plans for
them. As for the others, they will be taken care of as well. I have no time
limit, this mission is for enjoyment, it is not for any other cause. No matter
what happens, in the end, all will perish..."

The two dim auras normally emitting from him, is glowing intensely, growing
brighter each second. The clashing of the auras come to an end as something
crosses his mind and the dark cloudy aura is drowned out by the intense red
one. The red aura swarms around his body, going out of control it surrounds
the entire summit, engulfing it completely.

"Melaci, you will drown in the sea of your own blood."

Vice smirks as the aura returns to it's original state. Activating his cloaking
unit, he leaps off the summit and enters the darkness below, as if being
swallowed by a huge monster...