THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS

"You didn't carry food supplies did you?" Hiro asked certain he didn't.

"Well I wasn't prepared like you guys," he said between eating.

"I see... Well then eat as much as you can, I packed plenty don't know how long we will be staying up here, we only just completed the first stage of training".

Sand paused his eating action at his words.

"Hope the Alpha wasn't that difficult to take down? According to General Anzai that was the easy level but it sure as hell wasn't" Hiro rants reminiscing his fight with the Alpha, it was almost like the real deal.

"I didn't fight mine, ya know" 

At his words, Hiro paused his talk, he was puzzled.

"What are you saying?".

"I'm saying I no longer wanna fight ya know"

"But the Kaiju's are a threat to the world, after what they did to our comrades, we know the surface can't be inhabited with them roaming around" Hiro reasoned.

"I know bruh, but it ain't my fight," he said.

Hiro frown at his words.

"What's good of me being in the fight when I can't even protect anyone, ya know"

Hiro stiffen at his words, he heard what happened, he knew about Hanka, he was still blaming himself for her death.

Hiro placed the cup ramen on the ground.

"You know when I first heard your name, it sounded familiar" he began.

Sand raised his head at his words.

"So I have been thinking, I kinda bumped into you years ago, you probably don't remember me but I do, you were three classes ahead of me, I heard what happened to your little brother from my friend Shinzo, about him dying of negligence"

It was like a spark to a flame.

In a blink of an eye, Sand had his hands on Hiro's collar, his body trembling, his teeth clenched.

"Daisuke..." he said in a shaky voice. Whenever someone said his brother's cause of death was negligence, it always made his skin crawl, it was murder, and yet they blamed him for it.

"Daisuke was killed in a hit and run! Don't cover the murder with that, ya know!" He retorted pissed.

"They never investigated the incident did they," Hiro said as his features saddened.

Sand froze at his words, the grip on Hiro's collar loosening a bit.

"They blamed you to the point they couldn't see the truth non investigate the matter, they saw you as the cause when it was a murder" 

Sand let go of Hiro's collar, tears streaming down his cheeks.

"You lived with that blame all your whole life".

Sand sat back down, his body trembled.

Hiro could sense, his pain and regret, his features only became more downhearted.

"My parents never looked at me ya know" Sand began, as the tears stream down on their accord.

"It was bad enough they were never home, but it was like I never existed, only my grandma saw me, she kept saying it wasn't my fault. But I knew that ain't true", his fist clenched in a tight hold.

"If only I didn't wear that headset, I should have known, known he went out to play" the tears streamed down more, he sobs.

"Maybe my little bro did die of negligence, bruh", he cried.

"You can't blame yourself forever, it was an honest mistake, you had no control over what happened"

"That ain't true!" he retorted.

"If I was a better big brother then maybe Daisuke would have still been alive... if it was wasn't my fault then..." his gaze shifts to behind Hiro, Daisuke ghost was present with a gloomy look, covered in blood.

"... why does he still haunt me".

"Big brother... I'm so cold" Daisuke said feebly.

"And then Hanka, she was a nice girl, but I let her die like she was nothing... I let her protect an awful dude like me", he sniffs using his arm to wipe the tears on his cheek.

"I was the cause of Rin's death" Hiro began as his mind relieved the events and the pain and regret he felt.

"It haunts me every day... but I learned to live with it"

Sand sniffs.

"You should too"

"How the hell am I gonna do that, bruh, I got no intention of repeating the same mistake, it's better I don't fight anymore if I can't protect anyone, I don't want blood on my hands no more".

Hiro's looks darkened at his word, his hair bangs covering.

"We all got blood on our hands Sand. The Kaijus we kill were once civilians too" Hiro said sternly.

Sand froze at his words,

"Have you ever thought the Kaijus we kill might be our parents or our loved ones? You know when I killed the second Alpha, there was this feeling, it was faint but I did feel it", he said raising his head.

"A human in turmoil, a human who has lost its way because of the virus, a human who needed saving"

The wind bluster around, resulting in Sand's hair bangs covering his eyes to lift, revealing his wide eyes, tears at the corner.

"General Anzai said defeating the Kaiju's are a way of freeing them from years of torment, I believe that too",

Sand lips pressed in a thin life.

"You wanna redeem yourself, right? Then do that by freeing the Kaijus" he adds.

"Thank you, Hiro... for trying to talk to me," Sand said rising to his feet, with a sniff.

"But my mind is made up" he grabs his bag.

"Sand".

"I admire you, Hiro... you have made peace with all the mistakes you made".

Hiro's face dropped at his words.

"Not all of them," he said as an image of his dad flashed in his head along with his mom's.

"I will my peace somewhere else... but it ain't here for sure," he said staring into the skies, the wind blustering around.

Hiro rises to his feet also.

Sand adjusts his bag properly against his back.

"See you around Kimura Hiro," he said taking a step forward.

Suddenly the earth shock tremendously, the trees trembling as well, the birds hiding in it scattering into the skies.

"What's happening, ya know?" Sand intoned looking around in panic.

"I don't know," Hiro said in confusion as the earth kept shocking.

***

The rest of the bio-genetics were in awe of what was happening, they were beginning to wonder if it was another training.

***

Operation Base

A loud red alarm blew in the wide hall, everyone in confusion.

"What's going on?" Anzai demands, rolling the wheelchair he sat on further.

"The alarm system is picking up something," Kaede said searching for the cause of it through the system.

"What could that be?" Touka said with shaky eyes.

Kaede froze seeing the cause.

"It's the barrier!" she yelled.

"Something is trying to break through!"

They froze at her words.

"It could be a Kaiju," Kashi said in a panic.

"Or worse an Alpha!" Kenta retorted.

"Quick we must put the cannon weapons online, it isn't modified yet but it should be active," Kazuya said as her fingers went fast against the transparent keyboard. 'One month wasn't enough to modify it, but I hope it's enough, we don't know where the collision is coming from' she thought trembling.

"It's coming from the mountain!" Kaede yelled.

Kazuya froze.

"Kazuya! Your cannons aren't stationed there" Tori said.

"Why?" her eyes shake, why did the Kaijus choose to attack from the mountains.

"Our surveillance isn't picking anything up, not a single Kaiju or alpha in sight, where is the collision coming from," Yukio said checking the footage but he couldn't see a thing.

"We have lost all visual with the mountain, the sudden collision caused it!"

"Something doesn't feel right," Anzai said sternly.

"Yes, I feel it too," Hachiro said with a frown.

"It's like they are after something, why attack from the mountains? And more what is attacking?".

"The bio-genetics aren't safe there," Anzai said forcing his body up, his legs were weak, he held the table for support.

"General Anzai you can't move yet," Touka said worriedly.

"We need to find a way to get to that mountain right now!" he hissed.

***

Mount Sefuri

The earth kept shocking until it suddenly stopped.

"It stopped," Hiro said in confusion.

But then suddenly a loud bang sound came from above.

Sand watch as a spark was formed on the glossy barrier.

"The barrier!" he yelled.

"Something is trying to get through!"

Hiro froze at his words, he gasp as he felt something like a red aura mixed with black zapped through. The realization struck him.

"AN ALPHA!" Hiro shouts for certain.

As suddenly something lands in front of them, creating a puff of dust and a loud bang sound.

Hiro and Sand stood their ground as the blast waved around, it then stops.

They waited in itching anticipation as the smoke cleared, they heard a deep growl as the being was revealed.

"W-what... is that?" Sand said drawing back stunned at what was before them, it was unlike anything they have ever seen.

Hiro where he stood trembling, this aura was certainly that of an alpha but this before them was....