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*Update * I changed the story around a little bit...I decided that it was a bit too long to fit all in this first chapter, so I chopped it in half and put the rest in chapter two. -The Mgmt.

Chapter 1: 'Welcome To My Parlor' Said The Cyborg To The Spy
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It had been about two months since Sapphira Reese’s mysterious disappearance from her mansion home after it exploded thanks to an attack orchestrated by Scarlette Tamzarian; the only remains of Sapphira being left behind was a sizable part of her spinal column as well as several torn pieces of her intestinal tubing. The only eyewitness of said ordeal, Angie Santana, had since become an officer for the Metahuman Crimes Unit of the Solaris Valley Police Department joining her longtime friend Lt. Raina Hunter and her band of cybernetically enhanced law enforcers. Angie was also involved with the altercation that occurred at Sapphira’s house where she and Sapphira fought off a wave of heavy duty cyborg soldiers and then were dominated by a woman that she knew as Vanessa Ellis that was transformed into the ultra powerful cyborg warrior now known as Onnica-1. Angie was taken out of the fight quickly and rendered into a coma for several days at the hands of Onnica-1. However with her eyewitness account along with forensic evidence, all fingers pointed to Scarlette Tamzarian and Vanessa Ellis being the main suspects behind the gruesome disappearance and what appeared to be Sapphira’s possible death.

Unfortunately for Angie and the MCU after thorough investigation the evidence that they had wasn’t enough to prosecute Scarlette and pin her and Onnica-1 for their crimes. Scarlette was able to slip through the cracks in the legal system yet again, and with no other eyewitnesses coming forth to testify there wasn’t much of a case against her; Angie wasn’t conscious or present to actually see Scarlette and Seth Candor make their appearance before the mansion was blown to smithereens and that fact alone hurt her testimony. There were bits and pieces from Scarlette’s damaged or destroyed cyborg soldiers that both Sapphira and Angie dispatched on that night that was linked back to her, yet somehow Scarlette was still able to come out of the accusations made against her smelling like roses.

The FBI was even bought in to further investigate; another of Angie’s good friends, Claire Black, was placed in charge of the Tamzarian case and had thoroughly been on top of the investigations meeting with Scarlette Tamzarian herself for interrogations on several occasions. Although she was on official federal business, this was more personal than anything…Vanessa was also Claire’s younger cousin, yet they were actually more like sisters and Claire wanted to find Vanessa first and foremost. Vanessa had gone missing just a few days prior to Sapphira’s disappearance and was last seen by Claire and others at the Solaris Coliseum after a match. Even then Claire noticed that Vanessa was acting very strange and stand offish as well as her body had noticeably undergone some sort of metamorphosis. In the midst of her investigations Claire was informed by Angie that it was the transformed Vanessa that decimated her, Sapphira, and Sapphira’s mansion.

Claire and Sapphira also had a deep history between each other…not as friends but as heated arch rivals in the sport of the Female Fighting Federation, which Claire participated in on the side of her working as an FBI agent. Their rivalry has been said by many fans of the sport to be as big as some of the biggest rivalries in all of sports: Ali vs. Frazier; Yankees vs. Red Sox; Tar Heels vs. Blue Devils; Wolverines vs. Buckeyes; etc. They both have participated in some of the greatest and most brutal matches in Triple F history against one another, often times with the Ultimate Championship on the line as the high stake. In the course of their rivalry, both women traded victories over each other; even though Sapphira had come out the victor in their most recent meeting, Claire actually owned more victories over Sapphira than Sapphira over her throughout their storied feud. Although both women practically hated one another’s guts, there was an unspoken mutual respect between the two…Claire actually cried when she first heard the news of Sapphira’s apparent death. She was determined to get to the bottom of finding out what happened to both her cousin and her nemesis.

The MCU and FBI was eventually told to cease their investigations of Madame Tamzarian just as Claire began to make some headway on the case; the emotion involved of wanting to find her cousin had consumed her and caused Claire to buck against her superiors as she pleaded to let her continue. Of course she was denied, which led to her causing a scene at her FBI HQ severe enough to result in her being escorted from the building as well as being suspended indefinitely from her duties. Against her better judgment Claire had then decided to take matters in her own hands and go rogue to get to the bottom of everything. Upon the MCU’s reports as well as Angie’s lead coupled with her own investigations, she had a sneaking suspicion that it was indeed Scarlette behind the disappearances of both Sapphira and Vanessa. She had secretly decided that she was going to infiltrate the headquarters of Tamzarian’s Ultima Corporation and do a bit of spying in hopes of finding some incriminating evidence against Scarlette. She got a hold to a shipping manifest and hid herself in a large crate on a shipment pallet that was to be sent to Ultima HQ…once the crate arrived to its destination she was able to make her way out of the crate and found herself to be in one of the large warehouses deep beneath the mountain which the large building sat.

Claire was clad in a full bodied all black stealth sneaking suit along with a pair of hi-tech goggles on her eyes capable of night vision, infrared vision, thermal vision, and limited x-ray vision…she was armed with a modified high caliber pistol complete with a silencer at the exit chamber of the barrel capable of piercing tank armor; not at all standard FBI issue but from her personal weapons and armor cache. She utilized her trained skills as a special FBI espionage Agent and carefully snuck around from room to room…there was minimal security around and she was easily able to avoid the few workers and guards on duty at this late hour by silently creeping within shadows and other places of low visibility.

Claire was able to make it all the way to Scarlette’s main laboratory without being detected…she took lots of pictures with a mini camera of all of Scarlette’s various high tech equipment around the large lab. A familiar sight had caught her eye off in the distance as a low light had dimly shined on a naked female figure stretched out in an X shape hanging in a mechanical apparatus as all sorts of wires, cables, circuitry, and tubes riddled her firm and curvaceous body while small mechanical hands equipped with different surgical tools worked on her. Claire raised her goggles from over her eyes to her forehead as she slowly approached the apparatus; she cupped her mouth in disbelief once she was able to clearly see the face of the unconscious woman to be none other than her longtime enemy, Sapphira Reese. She snapped a few pictures, then put her camera away and attempted to wake Sapphira from her state of unconsciousness. She whispered Sapphira’s name repeated as she nudged, yanked, and softly smacked the unconscious woman repeatedly on her cheek.

“Sapphira….Sapphira, wake up you crazy bitch! Wake up so I can get you out of here!”

Sapphira moaned and murmured as Claire tried to wake her out of her catatonic state…her eyes fluttered a bit and briefly opened. Claire noticed that her exotic silver-gray eyes now had a gentle ambient glow to them. Sapphira’s now bionic vision was blurry and distorted as she groggily parted her lips to speak; her voice was low and muffled as she hadn’t spoken a word since the night of her disappearance a couple of months prior.

“Whu…what…the…fuu…fuck? Cl…Claire? Is…that you?”

“Yeah it’s me…never thought I’d ever say this, but I’m glad to see that you’re still alive! Everyone thinks that you’re dead! I’m here to save you and Vanessa…come on; let’s get you outta here!”

“Go on…without…muh…me. Save…your…yourself! Ruu…run while you…stuh…still can…”

“Sapphira!!! Sapphira…dammit!!! Come back to me!”

Sapphira passed out yet again in mid sentence as Claire continued attempting to shake her back to consciousness. Claire then looked at the various monitors which displayed Sapphira’s vitals and computer consoles that all of the wiring was connected to…she was confused as to which buttons would release Sapphira until all of a sudden a voice from behind froze Claire in her tracks.

“Hands off of the merchandise, please! I wouldn’t do that if I were you…you should’ve taken heed to her words!”

Claire quickly turned around to see Scarlette Tamzarian approaching, seated in her hovering mechanical throne. She nonchalantly sat with her legs crossed and her chin resting on her hand as she scolded Claire…Claire pulled out her custom firearm and pointed it directly at Scarlette’s head; the laser targeting system danced between Scarlette’s glowing eyes, yet the older blond cyborg didn’t flinch one bit.

“Agent Black, just what do you think you’re doing? You have some nerve to even think about sneaking into my lair by your lonesome! Never venture into the black widow’s web…she will ensnare you every time. It’s just like the FBI to unlawfully go about their business; sticking their noses where it shouldn’t go in the name of national security. I had a feeling that someone would eventually come and stick their nose in my business.”

“What have you done to Sapphira, Tamzarian?!!?”

“If you must know, for the better part of the last two months I have transforming your arch rival into the next step in the evolutionary chain…perfectly fusing human and machine as one. What you are looking at is no longer the Sapphira Reese that you have had many heated battles with in the competitive world of female prize fighting and wrestling, but this is Adora-2…the ultimate warrior. Nicole Vetter was the first successful unit from the Adora project and my greatest work, until now. When I first created her, it was not my intention for her to be the only Adora Unit…I wanted to mass market and product the technology to create ultra powerful warriors and soldiers to sell to the highest bidder, but alas my plans did not work out as I would have liked for them to.

Adora-1 was the merely the prototype, Adora-2 here is the production model; meant to be far more efficient and effective than her predecessor. She is not quite done yet with her transformation, and I would appreciate it if you weren’t to meddle with her progression. Here, how about a demonstration? Adora-2, awaken my daughter!”

Claire quickly glanced over her shoulder back at Sapphira while still holding her aim on Scarlette…Sapphira’s eyes snapped back open at Scarlette’s command as she stared completely straight ahead as if she were entranced. Scarlette continued.

“Gorgeous, isn’t she? I like to think that she’s a caterpillar in her cocoon, intertwined in a myriad of circuitry and other machinery…undergoing her metamorphosis into a beautiful cybernetic butterfly. It’s amazing that a creature this beautiful was so rough around the edges…so brash and uncouth; full of rage and fury. I can only imagine what it was like to fight her in the ring like you had so many times…she vehemently resisted and fought tooth and nail, but we were able to overpower her. Once I’m finished with her, she’ll be unstoppable and she and that passionate rage and lethal fury of hers will be mine to control to aid me in seeing my Ultimate Agenda of World domination come to fruition.”

“I knew I had a strong gut feeling that you were up to no good! And where’s my cousin?!!? I know you have something to do with her disappearance as well!”

“You have me all figured out, don’t you Agent Black? Well, at least you think you do. I knew you were special from the time we first met…you are much sharper than most of the law enforcement officers that I have come in contact with. I could tell that you saw right through my story after all of our previous meetings. You’re very quick on the draw…a fast thinker on your feet; I like that. Not to mention that I’m very impressed that you were able to infiltrate your way all the way into my inner sanctum…that’s not an easy task, especially with someone that has no heightened abilities nor cybernetics.

However, you strike me as a ‘by the book’ type of agent…it seems a bit out of your nature to recklessly break the rules and intrude on a case especially after you’ve been ordered to cease and desist your investigation. And by your lonesome nonetheless…since when have the FBI began sending their agents out on suicide missions?”

“Cut the crap, Scarlette! Where’s Vanessa?!!? I don’t give a damn about a mission…I only kinda give a damn about Sapphira! I just want my baby cousin back, dammit!”

“Such passion and fire behind your lovely light brown eyes…you impress me Agent Black. In my searches for qualified candidates for being the subject of my experimentations, I don’t know why you haven’t captured my attention yet.”

Scarlette’s cybernetic eyes worked at lighting speed as they scanned Claire’s body and her vital statistics…her databanks pulled up her entire dossier which she processed all of Claire’s history in less than 7 seconds. Scarlette spoke again.

“Fascinating…very fascinating indeed; you have quite the resume. Oh yes, your cousin…I’ll bet you miss her very much. Too bad she no longer exists as the Vanessa Ellis that you remember!”

“What do you mean?!!? I swear, if you’ve hurt Vanessa I’m gonna put this whole clip into that pompous blonde head of yours!”

“Don’t worry Agent Black, I haven’t harmed her. Vanessa Ellis came to me a few months ago looking to receive body modifications to augment her strength and speed to help her become a better fighter. However, I offered her more than just simple body mods…she was a fine specimen and I proposed the idea of making her more powerful beyond her wildest imaginations. She agreed…I didn’t force her to do anything that she didn’t want to have done; she chose to be here. So with that, I submitted her to a new technology that I dubbed the Onnica project.

In her sporadic sightings before her disappearance, you may have noticed a change in her behavior as well as notable physical changes in her physique. First, I subjected her body to muscle tissue enhancement by bombarding her body with high voltage electrical currents and a growth enzyme, which would explain her drastic increase in height and muscle mass to Amazon like proportions. I then implanted microchips and mini computer processors in her brain along with transfusing millions of nanomachines into her body that basically broke down her organic components from the inside out on the cellular level and cyber-organically rebuilt them; infusing her tissues, muscles, organs, and bones with micro-circuitry.

Once her body began to purge the unwanted organic matter, I replaced her remaining organic components with an assortment of other cybernetic parts and implantations…basically transforming her into my most physically powerful creation to date. I could sit here and explain to you the technical aspects of the Onnica Project, but to truly appreciate the technology in all of its glory you would have to see it with your very own eyes in action. Why don’t I show you now? Come forth my daughter and join me by my side! Behold Agent Black, I give to you…Onnica-1!!!”

Onnica-1 seemingly appeared out of thin air scantily clad in her shiny green chrome cybernetic armor which barely covered her anatomy. Claire slightly lowered her aim as she couldn’t believe that her once lithe and slender surrogate sister was now a physically imposing Amazon sized cyborg soldier. Onnica hovered in air directly next to Scarlette’s throne with her arms stiffly at her sides as her glowing gold and red bionic eyes affixed themselves on her older cousin. Claire’s lips quivered as she attempted to speak.

“Nessa…what has she done to you?!?”

“Mother has made me into a demigoddess! I’m no longer that weakling that I used to be…I am Onnica-1!”

“She’s not your mother…she’s filled your head with lies. Is what that witch said true…did you chose to become this?!!?”

“Yes, everything she said is indeed the truth.”

“Well, I came here to rescue you; come on…let’s go home! Everyone misses you…I miss you!”

“This is my home now…I want to be here; I wanted to be converted into a cyborg! That life that I used to live means nothing to me now…my prime objective is to serve the Matriarch and see that her agenda comes to fruition. If anything, I invite you to join me here.”

Scarlette interjected.

“Yes…join us Claire. I already have an impressive roster of daughters, but there’s always room for someone of your caliber to be added to my ranks. Although I lied when it came to my true intentions in regard to the disappearances of both Ms. Reese and Onnica-1 when you first interrogated me several weeks ago, I give you my word that I can transform you and make you powerful beyond your wildest dreams just like your cousin here.”

Claire stiffened her aim again back on Scarlette’s head as she sternly answered.

“Hell no!!! Please, just let my cousin and me go peacefully…I don’t want any unnecessary violence!”

Scarlette scoffed as she made light of Claire’s threat.

“Surely you jest! Did you really think that you could just waltz into my headquarters with just one gun and some lightweight body armor and just take me and my entire empire down?!!? You make me laugh…perhaps I was hasty in my assessment of you. Yes, you are very spot on in some areas in your line of work however this plan of yours wasn’t very well thought out.

Now I ask you again…join me and I promise you no unnecessary pain. You can be reunited with your cousin as actual sisters and with me you both will stand at my side along with the rest of your sisters as we conquer the world. Please don’t disappoint me, Agent Black…I don’t like being refused. Sapphira had to find that out the hard way. Make this easy on yourself.”

“No dice, Tamzarian!”

Claire hastily fired three shots directly at Scarlette’s head. A visible purple field surrounded Scarlette as the bullets stopped and were suspended in air only inches in front of Scarlette’s face. Claire looked on in shock as she realized that her powerful handgun was completely useless against Scarlette, who grabbed a bullet out of mid air as her face balled up into a scowl. Scarlette then sent the other two bullets speeding back at Claire, purposely only missing her by a hair. Onnica-1 pleaded with Claire with a slight look of concern on her face for her cousin’s well being.

“Please Claire…don’t make this hard on yourself! Do as she commands!”

“Vanessa…this woman is bad news and must be stopped before she hurts anyone else! Did you hear the nonsense coming out of her mouth?!!? Take over the world…what is this, a comic book? If you’re not coming with me, then I’m at least getting Sapphira outta here! Even though we damn near hate each other, she doesn’t deserve this!!!”

Claire sporadically turned and fired upon the machines that Sapphira’s body was hooked up to; sparks flew as the high caliber bullets ripped through the consoles, causing some rather serious damage to them. Claire then ran over and ripped out some of the wires and tubes connected to Sapphira’s body in attempts of freeing her and hopefully waking her up from her trance; Sapphira’s body started to crackle with energy as her body began to spasm and convulse about in the harness which she was suspended in. Sapphira’s trance-like gaze was broken as she loudly moaned and struggled in her restraints as the energy rippled and surged through her body…Scarlette jerked up in her seat as she pressed several buttons on the computer console located on her left wrist. In an instant, four C.O.D.E. soldiers had materialized into the chamber with their weapons drawn on Claire as they surrounded her in a semi circle. Scarlette used her powers of magnetic manipulation, jerked the gun out of Claire’s hands, and crushed it into a small metal ball right before Claire’s eyes…after realizing that she was in a bad position and at an extreme disadvantage, Claire placed her hands on her head. Scarlette rose to her feet as she spoke out.

“As I alluded to earlier…one should never challenge the widow in the middle of her web! You made a huge mistake my dear…a very huge mistake. Not only have you made your way into my headquarters and defied my wishes, but you had the gumption to sabotage what’s to be my greatest work yet!!! You will pay dearly for that! C.O.D.E.s…subdue her!”

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END PART 1

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All Characters Created By and Belong To Any resemblance to any real persons or existing characters and intellectual property belonging to established organizations are purely coincidental and not done on purpose.

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Look who's back!!! I'm sorry...I just couldn't contain myself anymore; I HAVE A FULL BLOWN CASE OF PHIRA FEVER!!!! My next big story was originally supposed to be Diamond's rematch against Sataria the Cyborg Queen and her Collective, but the inspiration was kinda slow coming. Not to mention that I still have to go back and basically rewrite the whole "Enter The Collective" in 3rd person rather than 1st person for publishing purposes. That's a daunting task that I've been putting off somewhat, but I'll eventually get around to it! And since I had changed my mind in "killing Sapphira off" and bringing her back as a full bodied cyborg...the ideas and creative juices started flowing in my head, thus spawning the creation of this new book!

As for this one...yes, this is first chapter to the continuation of "All Falls Down". (Which is tentatively entitled "Destiny Manifested" ) Sapphira is still in Scarlette's clutches in the midst of being turned into a cyborg...I never said that I wasn't gonna make her a cyborg; just not nearly as much as I was originally going to. I decided to include a character that had a very brief role in the previous story and that hasn't seen a lot of attention here on my DA gallery Claire Black to the fray. Longtime watchers of mine may remember Claire from such images as these

So far, it doesn't look at all good for Claire...what wicked plans does Scarlette have in store for her? Has she bitten off more than she can chew? And Sapphira has pretty much been transformed into Adora-2...what will become of her? Did Claire's sudden interference of Scarlette's blueprints do anything drastic to derail the evil Matriarch's plans of creating the perfect living weapon in the way of Sapphira? Stay tuned!!!

If you're wondering, yes...this is an updated alternate version of After posting the original, I was thinking how would this look if that were Sapphira instead of Onnica? Well, with a color change and some minor tweaks here and there...voila!!!

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*Update * I changed the story around a little bit...I decided that it was a bit too long to fit all in this first chapter, so I chopped it in half and put the rest in chapter two. -The Mgmt.

Chapter 1: 'Welcome To My Parlor' Said The Cyborg To The Spy
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It had been about two months since Sapphira Reese’s mysterious disappearance from her mansion home after it exploded thanks to an attack orchestrated by Scarlette Tamzarian; the only remains of Sapphira being left behind was a sizable part of her spinal column as well as several torn pieces of her intestinal tubing. The only eyewitness of said ordeal, Angie Santana, had since become an officer for the Metahuman Crimes Unit of the Solaris Valley Police Department joining her longtime friend Lt. Raina Hunter and her band of cybernetically enhanced law enforcers. Angie was also involved with the altercation that occurred at Sapphira’s house where she and Sapphira fought off a wave of heavy duty cyborg soldiers and then were dominated by a woman that she knew as Vanessa Ellis that was transformed into the ultra powerful cyborg warrior now known as Onnica-1. Angie was taken out of the fight quickly and rendered into a coma for several days at the hands of Onnica-1. However with her eyewitness account along with forensic evidence, all fingers pointed to Scarlette Tamzarian and Vanessa Ellis being the main suspects behind the gruesome disappearance and what appeared to be Sapphira’s possible death.

Unfortunately for Angie and the MCU after thorough investigation the evidence that they had wasn’t enough to prosecute Scarlette and pin her and Onnica-1 for their crimes. Scarlette was able to slip through the cracks in the legal system yet again, and with no other eyewitnesses coming forth to testify there wasn’t much of a case against her; Angie wasn’t conscious or present to actually see Scarlette and Seth Candor make their appearance before the mansion was blown to smithereens and that fact alone hurt her testimony. There were bits and pieces from Scarlette’s damaged or destroyed cyborg soldiers that both Sapphira and Angie dispatched on that night that was linked back to her, yet somehow Scarlette was still able to come out of the accusations made against her smelling like roses.

The FBI was even bought in to further investigate; another of Angie’s good friends, Claire Black, was placed in charge of the Tamzarian case and had thoroughly been on top of the investigations meeting with Scarlette Tamzarian herself for interrogations on several occasions. Although she was on official federal business, this was more personal than anything…Vanessa was also Claire’s younger cousin, yet they were actually more like sisters and Claire wanted to find Vanessa first and foremost. Vanessa had gone missing just a few days prior to Sapphira’s disappearance and was last seen by Claire and others at the Solaris Coliseum after a match. Even then Claire noticed that Vanessa was acting very strange and stand offish as well as her body had noticeably undergone some sort of metamorphosis. In the midst of her investigations Claire was informed by Angie that it was the transformed Vanessa that decimated her, Sapphira, and Sapphira’s mansion.

Claire and Sapphira also had a deep history between each other…not as friends but as heated arch rivals in the sport of the Female Fighting Federation, which Claire participated in on the side of her working as an FBI agent. Their rivalry has been said by many fans of the sport to be as big as some of the biggest rivalries in all of sports: Ali vs. Frazier; Yankees vs. Red Sox; Tar Heels vs. Blue Devils; Wolverines vs. Buckeyes; etc. They both have participated in some of the greatest and most brutal matches in Triple F history against one another, often times with the Ultimate Championship on the line as the high stake. In the course of their rivalry, both women traded victories over each other; even though Sapphira had come out the victor in their most recent meeting, Claire actually owned more victories over Sapphira than Sapphira over her throughout their storied feud. Although both women practically hated one another’s guts, there was an unspoken mutual respect between the two…Claire actually cried when she first heard the news of Sapphira’s apparent death. She was determined to get to the bottom of finding out what happened to both her cousin and her nemesis.

The MCU and FBI was eventually told to cease their investigations of Madame Tamzarian just as Claire began to make some headway on the case; the emotion involved of wanting to find her cousin had consumed her and caused Claire to buck against her superiors as she pleaded to let her continue. Of course she was denied, which led to her causing a scene at her FBI HQ severe enough to result in her being escorted from the building as well as being suspended indefinitely from her duties. Against her better judgment Claire had then decided to take matters in her own hands and go rogue to get to the bottom of everything. Upon the MCU’s reports as well as Angie’s lead coupled with her own investigations, she had a sneaking suspicion that it was indeed Scarlette behind the disappearances of both Sapphira and Vanessa. She had secretly decided that she was going to infiltrate the headquarters of Tamzarian’s Ultima Corporation and do a bit of spying in hopes of finding some incriminating evidence against Scarlette. She got a hold to a shipping manifest and hid herself in a large crate on a shipment pallet that was to be sent to Ultima HQ…once the crate arrived to its destination she was able to make her way out of the crate and found herself to be in one of the large warehouses deep beneath the mountain which the large building sat.

Claire was clad in a full bodied all black stealth sneaking suit along with a pair of hi-tech goggles on her eyes capable of night vision, infrared vision, thermal vision, and limited x-ray vision…she was armed with a modified high caliber pistol complete with a silencer at the exit chamber of the barrel capable of piercing tank armor; not at all standard FBI issue but from her personal weapons and armor cache. She utilized her trained skills as a special FBI espionage Agent and carefully snuck around from room to room…there was minimal security around and she was easily able to avoid the few workers and guards on duty at this late hour by silently creeping within shadows and other places of low visibility.

Claire was able to make it all the way to Scarlette’s main laboratory without being detected…she took lots of pictures with a mini camera of all of Scarlette’s various high tech equipment around the large lab. A familiar sight had caught her eye off in the distance as a low light had dimly shined on a naked female figure stretched out in an X shape hanging in a mechanical apparatus as all sorts of wires, cables, circuitry, and tubes riddled her firm and curvaceous body while small mechanical hands equipped with different surgical tools worked on her. Claire raised her goggles from over her eyes to her forehead as she slowly approached the apparatus; she cupped her mouth in disbelief once she was able to clearly see the face of the unconscious woman to be none other than her longtime enemy, Sapphira Reese. She snapped a few pictures, then put her camera away and attempted to wake Sapphira from her state of unconsciousness. She whispered Sapphira’s name repeated as she nudged, yanked, and softly smacked the unconscious woman repeatedly on her cheek.

“Sapphira….Sapphira, wake up you crazy bitch! Wake up so I can get you out of here!”

Sapphira moaned and murmured as Claire tried to wake her out of her catatonic state…her eyes fluttered a bit and briefly opened. Claire noticed that her exotic silver-gray eyes now had a gentle ambient glow to them. Sapphira’s now bionic vision was blurry and distorted as she groggily parted her lips to speak; her voice was low and muffled as she hadn’t spoken a word since the night of her disappearance a couple of months prior.

“Whu…what…the…fuu…fuck? Cl…Claire? Is…that you?”

“Yeah it’s me…never thought I’d ever say this, but I’m glad to see that you’re still alive! Everyone thinks that you’re dead! I’m here to save you and Vanessa…come on; let’s get you outta here!”

“Go on…without…muh…me. Save…your…yourself! Ruu…run while you…stuh…still can…”

“Sapphira!!! Sapphira…dammit!!! Come back to me!”

Sapphira passed out yet again in mid sentence as Claire continued attempting to shake her back to consciousness. Claire then looked at the various monitors which displayed Sapphira’s vitals and computer consoles that all of the wiring was connected to…she was confused as to which buttons would release Sapphira until all of a sudden a voice from behind froze Claire in her tracks.

“Hands off of the merchandise, please! I wouldn’t do that if I were you…you should’ve taken heed to her words!”

Claire quickly turned around to see Scarlette Tamzarian approaching, seated in her hovering mechanical throne. She nonchalantly sat with her legs crossed and her chin resting on her hand as she scolded Claire…Claire pulled out her custom firearm and pointed it directly at Scarlette’s head; the laser targeting system danced between Scarlette’s glowing eyes, yet the older blond cyborg didn’t flinch one bit.

“Agent Black, just what do you think you’re doing? You have some nerve to even think about sneaking into my lair by your lonesome! Never venture into the black widow’s web…she will ensnare you every time. It’s just like the FBI to unlawfully go about their business; sticking their noses where it shouldn’t go in the name of national security. I had a feeling that someone would eventually come and stick their nose in my business.”

“What have you done to Sapphira, Tamzarian?!!?”

“If you must know, for the better part of the last two months I have transforming your arch rival into the next step in the evolutionary chain…perfectly fusing human and machine as one. What you are looking at is no longer the Sapphira Reese that you have had many heated battles with in the competitive world of female prize fighting and wrestling, but this is Adora-2…the ultimate warrior. Nicole Vetter was the first successful unit from the Adora project and my greatest work, until now. When I first created her, it was not my intention for her to be the only Adora Unit…I wanted to mass market and product the technology to create ultra powerful warriors and soldiers to sell to the highest bidder, but alas my plans did not work out as I would have liked for them to.

Adora-1 was the merely the prototype, Adora-2 here is the production model; meant to be far more efficient and effective than her predecessor. She is not quite done yet with her transformation, and I would appreciate it if you weren’t to meddle with her progression. Here, how about a demonstration? Adora-2, awaken my daughter!”

Claire quickly glanced over her shoulder back at Sapphira while still holding her aim on Scarlette…Sapphira’s eyes snapped back open at Scarlette’s command as she stared completely straight ahead as if she were entranced. Scarlette continued.

“Gorgeous, isn’t she? I like to think that she’s a caterpillar in her cocoon, intertwined in a myriad of circuitry and other machinery…undergoing her metamorphosis into a beautiful cybernetic butterfly. It’s amazing that a creature this beautiful was so rough around the edges…so brash and uncouth; full of rage and fury. I can only imagine what it was like to fight her in the ring like you had so many times…she vehemently resisted and fought tooth and nail, but we were able to overpower her. Once I’m finished with her, she’ll be unstoppable and she and that passionate rage and lethal fury of hers will be mine to control to aid me in seeing my Ultimate Agenda of World domination come to fruition.”

“I knew I had a strong gut feeling that you were up to no good! And where’s my cousin?!!? I know you have something to do with her disappearance as well!”

“You have me all figured out, don’t you Agent Black? Well, at least you think you do. I knew you were special from the time we first met…you are much sharper than most of the law enforcement officers that I have come in contact with. I could tell that you saw right through my story after all of our previous meetings. You’re very quick on the draw…a fast thinker on your feet; I like that. Not to mention that I’m very impressed that you were able to infiltrate your way all the way into my inner sanctum…that’s not an easy task, especially with someone that has no heightened abilities nor cybernetics.

However, you strike me as a ‘by the book’ type of agent…it seems a bit out of your nature to recklessly break the rules and intrude on a case especially after you’ve been ordered to cease and desist your investigation. And by your lonesome nonetheless…since when have the FBI began sending their agents out on suicide missions?”

“Cut the crap, Scarlette! Where’s Vanessa?!!? I don’t give a damn about a mission…I only kinda give a damn about Sapphira! I just want my baby cousin back, dammit!”

“Such passion and fire behind your lovely light brown eyes…you impress me Agent Black. In my searches for qualified candidates for being the subject of my experimentations, I don’t know why you haven’t captured my attention yet.”

Scarlette’s cybernetic eyes worked at lighting speed as they scanned Claire’s body and her vital statistics…her databanks pulled up her entire dossier which she processed all of Claire’s history in less than 7 seconds. Scarlette spoke again.

“Fascinating…very fascinating indeed; you have quite the resume. Oh yes, your cousin…I’ll bet you miss her very much. Too bad she no longer exists as the Vanessa Ellis that you remember!”

“What do you mean?!!? I swear, if you’ve hurt Vanessa I’m gonna put this whole clip into that pompous blonde head of yours!”

“Don’t worry Agent Black, I haven’t harmed her. Vanessa Ellis came to me a few months ago looking to receive body modifications to augment her strength and speed to help her become a better fighter. However, I offered her more than just simple body mods…she was a fine specimen and I proposed the idea of making her more powerful beyond her wildest imaginations. She agreed…I didn’t force her to do anything that she didn’t want to have done; she chose to be here. So with that, I submitted her to a new technology that I dubbed the Onnica project.

In her sporadic sightings before her disappearance, you may have noticed a change in her behavior as well as notable physical changes in her physique. First, I subjected her body to muscle tissue enhancement by bombarding her body with high voltage electrical currents and a growth enzyme, which would explain her drastic increase in height and muscle mass to Amazon like proportions. I then implanted microchips and mini computer processors in her brain along with transfusing millions of nanomachines into her body that basically broke down her organic components from the inside out on the cellular level and cyber-organically rebuilt them; infusing her tissues, muscles, organs, and bones with micro-circuitry.

Once her body began to purge the unwanted organic matter, I replaced her remaining organic components with an assortment of other cybernetic parts and implantations…basically transforming her into my most physically powerful creation to date. I could sit here and explain to you the technical aspects of the Onnica Project, but to truly appreciate the technology in all of its glory you would have to see it with your very own eyes in action. Why don’t I show you now? Come forth my daughter and join me by my side! Behold Agent Black, I give to you…Onnica-1!!!”

Onnica-1 seemingly appeared out of thin air scantily clad in her shiny green chrome cybernetic armor which barely covered her anatomy. Claire slightly lowered her aim as she couldn’t believe that her once lithe and slender surrogate sister was now a physically imposing Amazon sized cyborg soldier. Onnica hovered in air directly next to Scarlette’s throne with her arms stiffly at her sides as her glowing gold and red bionic eyes affixed themselves on her older cousin. Claire’s lips quivered as she attempted to speak.

“Nessa…what has she done to you?!?”

“Mother has made me into a demigoddess! I’m no longer that weakling that I used to be…I am Onnica-1!”

“She’s not your mother…she’s filled your head with lies. Is what that witch said true…did you chose to become this?!!?”

“Yes, everything she said is indeed the truth.”

“Well, I came here to rescue you; come on…let’s go home! Everyone misses you…I miss you!”

“This is my home now…I want to be here; I wanted to be converted into a cyborg! That life that I used to live means nothing to me now…my prime objective is to serve the Matriarch and see that her agenda comes to fruition. If anything, I invite you to join me here.”

Scarlette interjected.

“Yes…join us Claire. I already have an impressive roster of daughters, but there’s always room for someone of your caliber to be added to my ranks. Although I lied when it came to my true intentions in regard to the disappearances of both Ms. Reese and Onnica-1 when you first interrogated me several weeks ago, I give you my word that I can transform you and make you powerful beyond your wildest dreams just like your cousin here.”

Claire stiffened her aim again back on Scarlette’s head as she sternly answered.

“Hell no!!! Please, just let my cousin and me go peacefully…I don’t want any unnecessary violence!”

Scarlette scoffed as she made light of Claire’s threat.

“Surely you jest! Did you really think that you could just waltz into my headquarters with just one gun and some lightweight body armor and just take me and my entire empire down?!!? You make me laugh…perhaps I was hasty in my assessment of you. Yes, you are very spot on in some areas in your line of work however this plan of yours wasn’t very well thought out.

Now I ask you again…join me and I promise you no unnecessary pain. You can be reunited with your cousin as actual sisters and with me you both will stand at my side along with the rest of your sisters as we conquer the world. Please don’t disappoint me, Agent Black…I don’t like being refused. Sapphira had to find that out the hard way. Make this easy on yourself.”

“No dice, Tamzarian!”

Claire hastily fired three shots directly at Scarlette’s head. A visible purple field surrounded Scarlette as the bullets stopped and were suspended in air only inches in front of Scarlette’s face. Claire looked on in shock as she realized that her powerful handgun was completely useless against Scarlette, who grabbed a bullet out of mid air as her face balled up into a scowl. Scarlette then sent the other two bullets speeding back at Claire, purposely only missing her by a hair. Onnica-1 pleaded with Claire with a slight look of concern on her face for her cousin’s well being.

“Please Claire…don’t make this hard on yourself! Do as she commands!”

“Vanessa…this woman is bad news and must be stopped before she hurts anyone else! Did you hear the nonsense coming out of her mouth?!!? Take over the world…what is this, a comic book? If you’re not coming with me, then I’m at least getting Sapphira outta here! Even though we damn near hate each other, she doesn’t deserve this!!!”

Claire sporadically turned and fired upon the machines that Sapphira’s body was hooked up to; sparks flew as the high caliber bullets ripped through the consoles, causing some rather serious damage to them. Claire then ran over and ripped out some of the wires and tubes connected to Sapphira’s body in attempts of freeing her and hopefully waking her up from her trance; Sapphira’s body started to crackle with energy as her body began to spasm and convulse about in the harness which she was suspended in. Sapphira’s trance-like gaze was broken as she loudly moaned and struggled in her restraints as the energy rippled and surged through her body…Scarlette jerked up in her seat as she pressed several buttons on the computer console located on her left wrist. In an instant, four C.O.D.E. soldiers had materialized into the chamber with their weapons drawn on Claire as they surrounded her in a semi circle. Scarlette used her powers of magnetic manipulation, jerked the gun out of Claire’s hands, and crushed it into a small metal ball right before Claire’s eyes…after realizing that she was in a bad position and at an extreme disadvantage, Claire placed her hands on her head. Scarlette rose to her feet as she spoke out.

“As I alluded to earlier…one should never challenge the widow in the middle of her web! You made a huge mistake my dear…a very huge mistake. Not only have you made your way into my headquarters and defied my wishes, but you had the gumption to sabotage what’s to be my greatest work yet!!! You will pay dearly for that! C.O.D.E.s…subdue her!”

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END PART 1

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All Characters Created By and Belong To Any resemblance to any real persons or existing characters and intellectual property belonging to established organizations are purely coincidental and not done on purpose.

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Look who's back!!! I'm sorry...I just couldn't contain myself anymore; I HAVE A FULL BLOWN CASE OF PHIRA FEVER!!!! My next big story was originally supposed to be Diamond's rematch against Sataria the Cyborg Queen and her Collective, but the inspiration was kinda slow coming. Not to mention that I still have to go back and basically rewrite the whole "Enter The Collective" in 3rd person rather than 1st person for publishing purposes. That's a daunting task that I've been putting off somewhat, but I'll eventually get around to it! And since I had changed my mind in "killing Sapphira off" and bringing her back as a full bodied cyborg...the ideas and creative juices started flowing in my head, thus spawning the creation of this new book!

As for this one...yes, this is first chapter to the continuation of "All Falls Down". (Which is tentatively entitled "Destiny Manifested" ) Sapphira is still in Scarlette's clutches in the midst of being turned into a cyborg...I never said that I wasn't gonna make her a cyborg; just not nearly as much as I was originally going to. I decided to include a character that had a very brief role in the previous story and that hasn't seen a lot of attention here on my DA gallery Claire Black to the fray. Longtime watchers of mine may remember Claire from such images as these

So far, it doesn't look at all good for Claire...what wicked plans does Scarlette have in store for her? Has she bitten off more than she can chew? And Sapphira has pretty much been transformed into Adora-2...what will become of her? Did Claire's sudden interference of Scarlette's blueprints do anything drastic to derail the evil Matriarch's plans of creating the perfect living weapon in the way of Sapphira? Stay tuned!!!

If you're wondering, yes...this is an updated alternate version of After posting the original, I was thinking how would this look if that were Sapphira instead of Onnica? Well, with a color change and some minor tweaks here and there...voila!!!