The joke flew over Aya's head for a moment there. And so did the rest of what he said as she looked solemnly over the grounds. A lot of lives were lost that day. It was horrific. And she had survived, unscathed and awakened to who she really was. Perhaps more than horrific then, if such a thing existed. Because it was so ingrained in her mind, she marvelled at how the other man could look at it with outsiders eyes.
"Okay, so... it started off in the city that Central Park is from. New York. I was twenty five when it happened. The opera at Carnegie Hall on Christmas day. I just saw an ad in the paper and then it just spiralled from there."
Aya took a deep breath.
"Up until then I was just an ordinary cop, doing my job. Everyone around me in that fancy opera house just spontaneously combust as this creature called Mitochondria Eve made the cells in their body just... explode with energy. Except mine. Because I was just like her - I had highly advanced mitochondria too."
"It was six days of hell. Since I was the only one who had a chance against Mitochondria Eve, I had to go in there. Alone, just me, my gun and my body with all these cells. Central Park was one of these places I faced off against Eve. There were people that helped but at the end of the day, I was alone."
"I believed for a time that I was inches away from becoming a monster like her, so to keep my humanity I had to fight her. Resist with every inch of my body. She just couldn't terrorise the world at her whim. So I had to stop her birthing the Ultimate Being. That's why being in the ship freaks me out, you know? It just reminds me of being inside U.B."
"I stopped her, at the end of those six days. It was a long struggle but... it happened. Afterwards I agreed to move out to California to deal with an uprising of these Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures. I was with a Mitochondrial Investigation and Suppression Team. MIST for short. These creatures... man the scientists there were doing experiments and it went wrong. So they were all out in the desert. Or I was meant to believe. They had... they had used my DNA to evolve these beings in the first place. It felt terrible."
She steadied herself by holding onto a convenient railing.
"I stopped it all in the end. Kicked their asses well and truly. I found my sister, Eve as well. They left me to be after that."
The ring on her finger was still there, they gave it back to her. Was Kyle still alive? She hoped he was, but considering that she was all alone, it was a remote possibility.
"I've led a peaceful life since. Sorta. I went back to being a cop. It was a lot better when you didn't have really scary creatures to deal with."
"But yeah, I'm supposed to be 36. I'm not. I might live way longer than I should be. I have lightning fast reflexes and senses. And I have energy that's like magic that can heal and do other neat things. But I always think I'm inches away from being a monster."
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"Okay, so... it started off in the city that Central Park is from. New York. I was twenty five when it happened. The opera at Carnegie Hall on Christmas day. I just saw an ad in the paper and then it just spiralled from there."
Aya took a deep breath.
"Up until then I was just an ordinary cop, doing my job. Everyone around me in that fancy opera house just spontaneously combust as this creature called Mitochondria Eve made the cells in their body just... explode with energy. Except mine. Because I was just like her - I had highly advanced mitochondria too."
"It was six days of hell. Since I was the only one who had a chance against Mitochondria Eve, I had to go in there. Alone, just me, my gun and my body with all these cells. Central Park was one of these places I faced off against Eve. There were people that helped but at the end of the day, I was alone."
"I believed for a time that I was inches away from becoming a monster like her, so to keep my humanity I had to fight her. Resist with every inch of my body. She just couldn't terrorise the world at her whim. So I had to stop her birthing the Ultimate Being. That's why being in the ship freaks me out, you know? It just reminds me of being inside U.B."
"I stopped her, at the end of those six days. It was a long struggle but... it happened. Afterwards I agreed to move out to California to deal with an uprising of these Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures. I was with a Mitochondrial Investigation and Suppression Team. MIST for short. These creatures... man the scientists there were doing experiments and it went wrong. So they were all out in the desert. Or I was meant to believe. They had... they had used my DNA to evolve these beings in the first place. It felt terrible."
She steadied herself by holding onto a convenient railing.
"I stopped it all in the end. Kicked their asses well and truly. I found my sister, Eve as well. They left me to be after that."
The ring on her finger was still there, they gave it back to her. Was Kyle still alive? She hoped he was, but considering that she was all alone, it was a remote possibility.
"I've led a peaceful life since. Sorta. I went back to being a cop. It was a lot better when you didn't have really scary creatures to deal with."
"But yeah, I'm supposed to be 36. I'm not. I might live way longer than I should be. I have lightning fast reflexes and senses. And I have energy that's like magic that can heal and do other neat things. But I always think I'm inches away from being a monster."