Sometime after the original incident in the slave e-crystal mines Ciel and Xantia had to get a steady source of E-crystals for there was running out. Ciel packed a couple of e-crystals in a small backpack; Xantia being much faster carried Ciel’s small light body on her back. Using her speed to cover the distance quickly Xantia eventually put Ciel down and looked around at the entrance to Neo Arcadia. It was an amazing place, Ciel yawned it was clear that her continuous late night up were not doing her any good at all.

Xantia decided it would be best to not waste time, She picked up Ciel and marched on, Xantia was a beautiful reploid, her design was a masterpiece of life, not only beautiful but equipped to be very powerful and flexible on its elements, and forms. Her blue hair flew behind her in two long ponytails coming from the sides of her head, Her eyes focused ahead as she carried Ciel, a small child-like reploid girl who artificially turned herself into a reploid, unfortunately it turned out to be irreversible, She wore a lot of pink of different shades covering a Mini skirt, a shirt, a tight under body suit, a helmet on her head, and a beautiful blonde lock of hair waving in the wind.

Xantia felt something odd around them, but she continued until she noticed what seemed to be rust on the ground. She continued more but the rust looked extremely odd, it almost seemed as though it shifted positions slightly. She stopped to examine this strange thing as she knew her eyes were not malfunctioning or anything of the sort. She looked startled waking up Ciel as the rust had seemingly grown onto her shoe! She immediately lifted her foot as it broke from the ground, whereby she turned the other direction and headed off. Ciel was asking questions continuously about what was going on, but Xantia did not know.

Shortly after turning around something was clearly stalking them, Xantia turned around and examined the surroundings, only to see what appeared to be a large tan Ameba rolling towards her. Ciel all but passed out at the sight of the monstrosity as they could both detect life, human life from it, but it wasn’t human, and it definitely wasn’t sane. Ciel jumped out of Xantia’s arms jumping at the Ameba-like thing and drawing her z-saber in time to cut the thing, but as she made contact it seemed to catch the z-saber midway threw the slice, it then lunged tackling and enveloping Ciel, Mere seconds after Xantia charged it and kicked up slicing it with her skate blades, The thing didn’t seem to be prepared as it popped open and Ciel fell out covered in something pale yellow, a bunch of strange sacks attached to various places on her.

Ciel crawled away rather weakly tearing the sacks off and tossing them aside as she fell down exhausted from fighting internally. Xantia took advantage of the creature’s momentary exposure and kicked again, but was horrified to see blood coming from where she kicked; there was a human inside that thing. Ciel started to analyze the mess that was on her and determined that she was covered in viral fluids, Despite the fact she passed out from being grossed out about a minute after trying to handle it, she managed to convey the message to Xantia who Went into her dragon armor setting a fire extremely close to the viral as it damaged it, it then proceeded to flee as Xantia helped clean
Ciel off, She observed a ton of tiny cracks where the sacks were, and notified Ciel that they would have to get inside her to check for anything that may have gotten inside.

After the viral attack they heard and saw more coming to meet them, they were forced to run back, into the “rust” wasteland, they ran for a long time, Ciel was crying, her preserved and made standalone human tear glands enabling her to do so. Xantia picked up Ciel and hugged her running faster; we could hear strange noises behind us and knew it was the viral creatures. Suddenly both Ciel and Xantia saw something around the corner that made Xantia stop dead in her tracks, and Ciel to start crying again. There was a human in front of them, he looked homeless without anything but the ripped up shirt on his back, but what horrified them, was the sack on his shoulder, that had spread down his arm, turning a tan color, they realized what these were, and as Ciel remembered the cracks, she knew that was her fate too if they didn’t do something.

After a few minutes of choking and crying Ciel took command and quizzed the human on a bunch of questions about where they where and what was going on. She managed to find out that a local warlord named Fosec had been creating viruses that would be able to affect reploids and humans so that he could keep his land under complete control, and that anybody that stepped out of line in any way would be hunted down. He also comforted Ciel and told her to stay strong, that he was sure she could pull threw.

With a halfhearted smile Ciel turned and left, the man sat down in his place, the virals ignored him because he was infected a few minutes later as they passed, Ciel and Xantia marched along searching for this local war lord, About an hour into it Ciel dropped to her knees clearly in pain and malfunctioning. She commented it felt like something was screwing around with her insides, Xantia knew she didn’t have long before the virus started to take over. Shortly afterwards they found a Shady man who told them Fosec typically resided two streets down in a steel building, he said they couldn’t miss it because it didn’t look run down or infected.

They passed down onto the next street; Xantia made Ciel walk insisting the movement in her body would slow down the virus even just a little. They passed down onto the second street and spotted a steel house surrounded by many steel rods spewing flames, Xantia took Ciel and put her extremely close to the flames waiting until Ciel’s cooling systems started to overheat taking her away and letting her cool down, the process destroyed most of the virus’s spreading but the initial spores remained. They came to two that were farther apart then normal and dashed threw the middle.

Walking inside the house Ciel was infected with a virus that continuously launched attacks at her system that was hidden on the doorknob; Xantia felt horrible for Ciel but had to put it aside for the sake of stealth. Ciel’s system fought off the virus as it attacked, but it nether-the-less weakened Ciel. With strength in her heart Ciel continued on, Xantia walked up the steps silently, unfortunately halfway up the slow for stealth climb Ciel malfunctioned and her legs stopped working, she started to cry and Xantia hugged her tightly and told her to wait there, and move anything possible so that the virus had a harder time spreading.

Xantia found Fosec conferencing with someone over a view screen, before the person on the screen could comment on her appearance she sped threw the air tackling him and sitting on his back one leg positioned so her skate blade was on his neck. The man took a huge risked getting up on all fours, whereby Xantia put her legs down horseback style and kicked him in the gut knocking him back down, she then leaned over and told him simply in a frighteningly Deadpan tone that he would give her a cure or she would toss him into the fire torches outside.

Fosec responded saying that without him she had no chance, Xantia put her foot on his neck and mimicked and evil tone saying that if that’s his choice she would oblige, realizing she didn’t care Fosec quickly responded and told her that the virus was always hyperactive basically, and that pouring caffeine on it would cause it to go overboard and have the equivalent of a fatal heart attack, she knocked Fosec out and lifted his desk putting it on his legs so that he couldn’t escape, she Contacted help and explained the situation and told them to come to her coordinates.

She rushed downstairs to see Ciel lying on the ground motionless, her eyes flickered as Xantia came back and Xantia knew she couldn’t move, using some of her energy she generated a spark of energy, equivalent to caffeine and launched it into Ciel. Ciel’s whole body shuddered and the virus died, but Ciel started to move again, so Xantia was satisfied. Later on she cleaned the virus’s remains out of Ciel, and Fosec was condemned for his serious crimes.