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inspector_link[ April, 2009 (weeks 14 - 15) ]
Link woke up at the beginning of week 14 and immediately moved in with Allen (very much against Allen’s will). This quick move was the beginning of almost four years of side-eyes from strangers, most of whom assumed that Link was some sort of creepy stalker... which he kind of was, but not in the way that those outside the Order assumed. Creepy stalker issues aside, the inspector jumped right into life at the facility, helping to prepare for a flood at the end of his first week and defending civilians when a massive fight between shinobi broke out during said flood. The end of his second week brought with it the closest thing Link can manage to a mental breakdown. Kanda picked a fight at the wrong moment and, already under stress while trying to process the facility and all the unbelievable things in it, Link retaliated. Violently. Allen eventually broke them up and Link spent the next week or so mostly isolated.
[ May, 2009 (weeks 16 - 19) ]
May brought about the beginnings of recovery as Link worked on building his mental walls back up again. Some carefully exchanged words with Komui were helpful in putting things back into perspective, and the inspector decided to focus on his job. Too bad the facility had different plans. Link experienced his first death during week 17 at the hands of Heine Rammsteiner (DOGS). While most people were dying of venomous snake bites, Link had his throat ripped out. FABULOUS. Upon his return, the inspector got to help Komui take care of a facility full of children. The entire month was an exercise in patience... which Link handled reasonably well. Mostly.
[ June, 2009 (weeks 20 -23) ]
June brought with it a two week trip to an alternate location, a small Western town known as Hope’s End. The first week was rather uneventful, giving characters time to explore and settle in, and the second week involved a scavenger hunt that allowed participants to earn back weapons from their home worlds. Link participated and used his chance at a prize to earn Komui the drill necessary to properly fix damaged Innocence. The residents exorcists were not happy. At the end of the trip the town was overrun by violent raiders who injured or killed much of the population. The inspector survived, doing his best to keep the Order from fracturing with fairly poor results. Everyone returned to the normal facility the next week, but Allen had an "incident" involving the 14th. Link sustained moderate injuries.
[ July, 2009 (weeks 24 - 27) ]
Residents of the facility were returned to Hope’s End for one week during July for a fourth wall event. The temporary participants were quickly forgotten when a flesh-eating bacteria tore through the facility the next week. Almost all characters were eventually infected, healers ran out of juice, and those who didn’t want to die had to make some pretty gruesome decisions... and most of them died anyway. Allen and Link were infected by Timcanpy, and Link kept all three of them barricaded in their shared room for the remainder of the week to avoid spreading the bacteria further. They all survived, but only barely. The month ended with most of the population gaining cat ears and tails ala Loveless. Link met and sparred with Dilandau Albatou (Escaflowne).
[ August, 2009 (weeks 28 - 32) ]
Week 28 began seven days with no thumbs and, in spite of the handicap, Link ended up being rather active. He got into a fight with Laharl (Disgea) after the demon prince tried to claim dominion over him and... it didn’t end well. Allen managed to convince Laharl to back off before killing Link, but the inspector still sustained serious injuries. While he was out, someone had the bright idea to let Kururu (Sgt. Frog) operate on him to mend the internal bleeding, because letting a small yellow frog perform surgery on a human is brilliant. Malcolm C. Lvellie, Link’s boss, arrived while Link was still injured. He didn’t stay in the facility for very long, but it’s worth noting that while he was there? Link’s loyalty was obviously to him.
Later in the month Link was approached by Celena Schezar (the female form of Dilandau) with a gift. With no memories of Dilandau’s clashes with Link, Celena took a shine to the inspector. This carried over into the next F3 trip, Young Wizard’s Manhattan. They even went exploring (Allen was catatonic at the time) and ended up having dinner together. Allen returned during the second week in Manhattan. Unfortunately, the city was overrun by evil double’s of its residents. Evil!Allen Walker took to kidnapping other residents (including his good self) and locking them away in a sewer, and Link spent a few days searching for him before he was taken captive as well. He was rescued when other residents found Evil!Allen’s stash, getting out with fairly minor injuries.
[ September, 2009 (weeks 33 - 36) ]
The final week in Manhattan was a sex swap, and Link spent the week as a rather lovely lady. Upon return to the facility the next week he found that Celena had once again changed back into Dilandau... who seemed to be harboring some sort of subconscious attraction to the inspector. Link rejected him. Week 35 was a peaceful week spent without any supernatural powers... until one resident made a deal with the Doctors in charge and ruined it for everyone. Several residents were attacked by a disguised Orochimaru (Naruto), including Allen and Link. Week 36 took things up a notch, giving Uchiha Madara (Naruto) control over who had abilities within the facility. Link and the rest of the Order laid low (some of them had to be forced to do so) until the end of the week when the entire facility rose up and against a poisoned Madara and his henchmen.
[ October, 2009 (weeks 37 - 40) ]
Week 37 was spent with no memories of the facility, allowing for plenty of awkward interactions between stalker and stalkee. Allen had no memory of Link at all, and so was quite resistant to stalking. Celena was sent home for a canon update and returned with memories of both her female and male forms. It was around this time that she and Link’s relationship became more official. As official as it got with a dummy like Link, anyway. Week 40 began a three week trip to Death City (Soul Eater).
[ November, 2009 (weeks 41 - 45) ]
Link gained the ability to become a Weapon (the world’s most old fashioned gunblade) with Celena as his Meister for the duration of the trip, but he avoided using the ability for the most part. The last week of the trip was spent hunting zombies, another task assigned for those who wanted to earn weapons from home. Link earned his switchblades. When they returned to the facility, they found it full of tribbles and ended up spending most of the week trying to kill them fast enough to keep everyone from being crushed by the cute. The following week most residents were infected with Hinamizawa syndrome (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni). Link was designated as a Queen Carrier (meaning he nullify the effects of the disease for those within a certain radius of him), spending most of the week keeping people from going crazy and killing themselves. He’s also one of the few residents with memories of that week, as only Queen Carriers remembered what happened.
[ December, 2009 (weeks 46 - 49) ]
Link started December with a canon update, becoming the bearer of the most recent bad news from home. Also, Allen attempted to make Link a pie for his birthday. It was... interesting, but he got a gold star for trying. Everything was otherwise uneventful until week 49 when all residents were afflicted with one of the seven deadly sins. Celena used Link’s sin (Pride) to goad him into what almost became sex, but didn’t. He also ended up in another fist fight with Kanda, though that one ended with no mental trauma.
[ January, 2010 (weeks 50 - 54) ]
Most of January was spent on Isla Nubar (the island from Jurrasic Park) learning how to survive with free-roaming dinosaurs. January also marked the facility’s one year anniversary, and during week 53 subjects escaped into the main station. Most of the staff made it out in escape pods, but many were left to the mercy of the residents... who weren’t very merciful. Link spent much of the week wrangling Allen to keep the boy from getting himself killed by arguing with the less-than-merciful residents.
[ February, 2010 (weeks 55 - 58) ]
Week 56 included a Valentine’s Day event. A list of residents were posted (Link among them) and, if someone else didn’t take their place before the end of the week, they would have their hearts ripped out. Link accepted his fate and would take no substitutes. He had his heart surgically (though not delicately) removed while he was still alive. He was brought back to life a week later. He also got an involuntary haircut at the end of the month during the Hostile Hand experiment.
[ March, 2010 (weeks 59 - 62) ]
Week 59 stripped most residents of their inhibitions. Celena tried once more to take their physical relationship to the next level, but she was foiled once more because repressed men like Link tend to be on a hair trigger. 8D The last half of the month was spent in Victorian London with a few D.Gray-man accents, including roaming akuma and free Innocence for all residents under a certain power level. The Black Order was naturally kept pretty busy, and Link was no exception. Without the ability to actually destroy akuma, he spent much of the week playing backup for Allen and defending civilians during the larger battles.
[ April, 2010 (weeks 63 - 66) ]
The facility lacked Noah at the time of the London trip, so one resident was transformed into one to complete the D.Gray-man package. Sasha Nein (Psychonauts) became the Noah of Guile, spending much of the trip sneaking about, kidnapping people, and killing. It all ended in a huge battle between the Noah and the exorcists, with the exorcists eventually winning the day. Everyone was returned to the normal facility for the next two weeks, everything rather calm while residents recovered.
[ May, 2010 (weeks 68 - 71) ]
May was a big month for Link’s love life... well, for the end of it. A Personality Reversal test gave Link the words to tell Celena some things he’d been holding back. Like wanting to break up with her. Over the previous few month she’d become almost obsessed with him and very pushy about their love life. While Link cared for her very much, it was obvious that they were on very different wavelengths. It wouldn’t have been fair to trail her along when he obviously couldn’t love her the way she wanted him to... and she was a little crazy. Their breakup let to quite the emotional outburst, and Celena even tried to use a (completely functional) voodoo doll to hold Link hostage. Allen and a few others helped retrieve it from her. The final week of May brought them to the underwater city of Rapture (Bioshock).
[ June, 2010 (weeks 72 - 75) ]
Rapture was filled with all the dangers one would expect. Children of the facility were transformed into Little Sisters and Brothers, each of them given a Big Daddy to protect them and aggressively attack anyone who got close. Splicers also roamed the city, attacking at random, and the trip ended with Rapture itself rupturing, drowning a large number of residents before reset brought everyone back to the original facility.
[ July, 2010 (weeks 76 - 79) ]
Link spent much of July trying to occupy himself in simple ways, mostly through games of chess and the occasional spar. And once by rescuing Komui from man-eating plants. The inspector experienced his third death during week 77 at the hands of a Noah, Tyki Mikk. Using his phasing ability, Tyki literally scrambled Link’s brains. There was lingering memory and motor skill damage that took a week to recover from (thank goodness for magical healers and psychics). Tokusa, one of Link’s former CROW companions, arrived in the facility during week 79.
[ August, 2010 (weeks 80 - 84) ]
Tokusa’s presence in the facility as short-lived, but he offered up some interesting conflict. Link’s last contact with anyone affiliated with Inspector Lvellie had been a year prior, and having someone from his former life around (especially someone as outspoken as Tokusa) forced Link to realize just how much he had changed in such a short time. Week 84 marked the first of two weeks spent in Abyss, a toxic slum borrowed from Neogenisis (a horror/guro-based LiveJournal RP) for a fourth wall event. Slavers native to the location immediately set about kidnapping as many residents as possible, subjecting them to a slew of horrific mistreatments.
[ September, 2010 (weeks 85 - 88) ]
The specific atrocities the slavers committed were terrible enough that I don’t want to mention them for fear of triggering any readers, so that should give you a pretty good idea of how awful things were in Abyss. Awful enough that Link, when confronted by a group of slavers looking to capture him, blew up a building and incinerated a dozen of them to make sure he got away. He was one of very few residents to escape capture after becoming a target.
The recovery for the general population after Abyss was a long one, and Link spent the remainder of September trying to get his Allen-stalking schedule back on track.
[ October, 2010 (weeks 89 - 93) ]
Most of October was spent in Venice (Assassin’s Creed). Link did manage to finally get Allen back in line again... only to be killed during week 90. Anti-Sora (Kingdom Hearts) crushed his heart on the 14th’s orders during an Evil Twin experiment.
[ November, 2010 (weeks 94 -97) ]
There were no notable developments during November.
[ December, 2010 (weeks 98 - 101) ]
Much of December was spent in Whispering Rock, a summer camp for psychics (Psychonauts). This was, unfortunately, another unproductive month due to hiatuses, but it’s worth noting that the Hinamizawa Syndrome experiment was repeated during week 100. Link was affected normally, attacked Allen in a fit of paranoia, and then his memories of the week were wiped.
[ January, 2011 (weeks 102 - 106) ]
Link was canon updated to his current canon point during week 102. During the same week, one of the resident wizards set up a massive spell circle throughout the facility, slowly gathering energy from magically inclined volunteers with the end goal of blasting their way out of the facility. Link contributed to the energy store, only to feel pretty shitty later when Allen got caught in the blast and killed. Bad luck. The spell circle was a success, though, and residents had access to a large storeroom of rare supplies for the remainder of the week.
Week 103 brought with it one of the most infamous experiments ever run in the facility, possibly as a punishment for the destruction caused during week 102. A large portion of the population was removed from the facility and placed into groups of two or more. From there, every group was subjected to personalized torture scenarios in a blatant effort to break their wills. Link was paired with a teen-aged Remus Lupin (Harry Potter). They spent several days locked in a room together with no food and little water. After four or five days Link found himself naked and strapped to a heated metal grid. Remus was given a barely functioning wand and told to rescue the inspector before he ended up cooked. It was an impossible task, of course, sprinkled with mention of Remus’ werewolf form and meant to turn Link against him. Fortunately, Link’s update the week before meant that he didn’t quite match his previous psychological profile, and the experiment ended when it became clear that Link wasn’t going to transfer the blame for his situation to the boy, even if he was a werewolf.
The inspector spent the next week recovering, and at the end of week 105 project Alpha Omega was terminated. The Consortium decided that two years of unsuccessful experiments was enough and planned to abandon the station, leaving residents of the facility to suffocate/freeze to death. Instead, Val (an AI used in a previous experiment) took control, saving the lives of the subjects and continuing experimentation.
[ February, 2011 (weeks 107 - 110) ]
Most of February was spent in Gotham City (Batman). Link was given Innocence during week 109. It was the second time he’d received in within the facility, and the second time it was taken away from him without so much as a single chance to use it. Rather frustrating, really. Week 110 brought with it... cookies, but not just any cookies. A form of cookie that was very well known in the facility, causing flirtatious behavior in those who consumed them. Tyki phased a few into Link and Kanda’s stomachs at one point, causing some very awkward interactions that Link’s still embarrassed to think back on.
[ March, 2011 (weeks 111 - 114) ][ April, 2011 (weeks 115 - 118) ]
April was spent in Goblin City (Labyrinth) and ended up being another big month for Link’s nonexistent love life. Residents were each consumed by one of the seven deadly sins. Poor Link got stuck with Lust. Things almost went all the way during an encounter with Emilia Galmar, but she chickened out when she saw his penis (sounds weird, I know, but it’s true). Link ended up losing his virginity to Tsunade (Naruto), and though interactions between them were fairly awkward for a while after that, they eventually managed to form a solid friendship.
[ May, 2011 (weeks 119 - 123) ]
No notable developments until the Broadcasted Dreams experiment during week 123. Link had a sexy dream about Tsunade. He was also attacked by the 14th. Again. 8D
[ June, 2011 (weeks 124 - 127) ]
During week 124, Link and Allen proved that in spite of their stalker/stalkee relationship, they actually kind of like each other. Platonically, of course. Unfortunately, they proved this during a Hurt the Ones You Love test, so showing how much they cared involved an early morning fist fight. The next two weeks were filled with drunkenness (most of the water was replaced with alcohol for a week), hangovers, and nightmares.
[ July, 2011 (weeks 128 - 132) ]
The first three weeks of July were spent in Wonderland (Return to Wonderland). Link spent the trip being displeased with all the whimsy and shenanigans, using the last week to begin teaching Emilia to use CROW spells. He was hesitant to do so the first time she asked for lessons (what with them being secret techniques and all), but with the recent slew of nasty tests and the lack of personnel from Central to disagree, he figured that if Emilia proved proficient then there would be no harm in giving her a new way to defend herself.
[ August, 2011 (weeks 133 - 136) ]
August began with another zombie infestation, but this time it affected residents instead of NPCs. Allen managed to get himself infected and Link spent most of the week barricaded inside their room with zombie!Allen, using his CROW spells to keep the exorcist bound to the wall and away from the general population. Luckily Allen recovered after reset, because Link spent week 134 without his sight. Another week of mostly being room-bound. Some time between weeks 135 and 136, Allen went home for a canon update and returned with some unpleasant news about Link helping him escape from prison. Knowing that he was left behind in the cell with Apocryphos (a creepy Innocence monster), Link assumed he’d been killed, and even if Apocryphos hadn’t killed him? Helping Allen signed his death warrant anyway, as CROW who betray the Order don’t get to live very long. With that weighing on his mind, Link entered the new location, Haven (Firefly), with a lot of pent up anxiety and frustration.
[ September, 2011 (weeks 137 - 140) ]
After spending much of the first two weeks in Haven baking and not talking about his feelings, week 138 changed things up pretty dramatically. Reavers (Firefly) appeared quite suddenly on Monday, attacking, killing, kidnapping, and eating as many residents as they could. Most of the supernaturally inclined subjects were more than a match for the axe-wielding Reavers, but Link, though quite impressive in battle, was struck by a large wooden pike during the fighting. He lost his left leg from just below the knee, but survived thanks to Allen’s quick response to his injury. After the attack most residents decided to gather together, reinforcing a large, fenced-in area to keep Reavers out in case they came back again. The Reavers returned on Wednesday, but Val put the kibosh on supernatural powers, leaving residents with only ordinary guns and blades to continue fighting with.
Link remembers very little of the two weeks after the attack, mostly due to fever and very strong pain killers. Once his head cleared he fell into a deep depression. Allen confronted him during week 140 with a very rousing shounen speech, but it didn’t take.
[ October, 2011 (weeks 141 - 145) ]
Another bout of torture was actually the turning point that pulled Link out of his depression. Week 141 involved traps inspired by the Saw movie series, and Link’s test actually did exactly what such tests were meant to do, proving to the inspector how much he preferred living over dying, even if it meant living as a cripple. He began looking for means to have a replacement limb built soon after, but between recovery from his initial injury and fabrication of the limb, he didn’t receive it until January.
[ November - December, 2011 (weeks 146 - 153) ]
November and December were physically very challenging. Armed with only a pair of crutches and a lot of stubborn determination, Link had to relearn how to go about daily life with one limb missing. Certain experiments weren’t very helpful (like when one arm was temporarily removed for the Body Part Easter Egg Hunt during week 146), but some were (like when he gained a set of usable wings during week 151). The inspector focused on doing things for himself as much as possible, but he also learned how to ask for help when he really needed it. His relationships with Allen and Emilia deepened during these months .
[ January, 2012 (weeks 154 - 158) ]
Link received his prosthetic limb (built by Equius Zahhak of Homestuck) during the first week of January. The day after his surgery he was visited by Emilia. Previously unaware of just what members of CROW did within the Order, she got a very revealing from Kanda (that jerk) and decided to confront Link. Feeling betrayed and disgusted over being taught the same techniques that CROW use for such violent, questionable purposes, Emilia cut off their friendship. The inspector had very little to defend himself with since he really hadn’t been entirely truthful with her, so he (reluctantly) let her go. Link recovered from his surgery just in time to face the next F3 trip with only one crutch to aid him. Another fourth wall brought them back to Hope’s End for a third time. Link confronted Kanda in Hope’ Endwith a punch to the face over his part in the snafu with Emilia, but earned himself nothing but a bruised ego.
Week 158 marked the three year anniversary and another breakout attempt, this one successful. With Val’s help, residents of the facility escaped their prison, killed the remaining biological staff, and took Alpha Omega station as their own. Though the newfound freedom was great, experimentation continued as per Val’s programming.
[February, 2012 (weeks 159 - 162) ]
Most residents had a wish granted during week 160. Link and Emilia, though still estranged, both missed each other’s company enough that the test of the week acted on their subconscious desires, making them forget the reason for their fight. They reconciled fairly quickly, which made things pretty awkward when reset hit and their memories returned. Emilia ultimately decided that while she was still angry and unsure of how she felt about his actions before the facility, she missed his friendship and support too much to cut him off any longer. Link was grateful for the second chance, and they both began to slowly rebuild their relationship.
[ March, 2012 (weeks 163 - 166) ]
Week 164 kicked off a "Horrific Mingling/Kissing" event. Meant to force residents to interact outside of their usual social groups, everyone was given varied tasks to perform with varied punishments for those who refused. Things began simple with tasks as easy as telling a stranger a secret, but as the week continued tasks got more complicated. Link received the most difficult level of tasks, the final of which required that he either have sex with a stranger or murder someone. Link, being the stubborn man he is, refused to complete the task and ended up being poisoned as punishment. He survived, but only barely.
[ April - May, 2012 (weeks 167 - 175) ]
Allen spent large portions of March, April, and May falling in and out of catatonia. Link had stoppedstalking observing the exorcist at some point during the months prior, but by that time he and Allen had managed to form a true friendship. That friendship, along with his lack of interaction with those outside the Order, meant Link spent quite a bit of time lingering by Allen’s pod, waiting for the exorcist to wake up. It was also during this time that his bond with Maka Albarn (Soul Eater) strengthened. They’d met through Allen and began to bond as they spent more and more time in medical waiting for various friends to come out of their comas.
The only notable test-related development came during week 169. During a test that involved completing mystery tasks in order to live through the end of the week, Link was forced to battle a small forced of Reavers on his own with no CROW magic. He killed every last Reaver with extreme prejudice and managed to limp away without any further limb loss.
[ June, 2012 (weeks 176 - 179) ]
Weeks 175 and 176 were spent at a Japanese onsen, a reward from Val for the difficulties her guests had faced since the takeover of the station. Experiments lightened up for a little while after that, the most memorable of which for Link was The Animal Inside. Certain residents gres more and more wild as the week went on, eventually leaving them creatures of pure instinct. Link was affected, managing to embarrass himself rather thoroughly by consuming extraordinary amounts of meat, sugar, and even getting frisky with an affected Tsunade before the week was out.
[ July, 2012 (weeks 180 - 184) ]
A memory transfer test made during week 180 brought to light just how similar Link and Allen really were on some levels. Both were treated to memories of the other’s difficult childhood (both orphans, both alone and suffering in one way or another), bonding them further. The Consortium tried to reclaim the station during week 182. They were beaten back, but not before inflicting serious damage on the station. Val was damaged and a crueler version of her AI took over after the battle. Experiments took a turn for the worse.
[ August, 2012 (week 185 - 188) ]
In order to expedite repairs on the station, Val locked her guests back in the old facility during weeks 186 and 187. Everyone was unhappy about the move and Val decided that it was necessary to calm her guests down. Week 187 brought the added stress of bombs planted in every resident’s chest, triggered to explode should their heart rate go too high for too long. Link survived the week, but with all his friends dying around him, Allen did not. The boy ended up dying in Link’s arms. That moment that still haunts the inspector, not that he’ll ever admit to it.
[ September - October, 2012 (weeks 189 - 197) ]
Testing through September and October grew steadily more erratic and violent, but Link weathered it all with practiced determination. After three and a half years of experiments ranging from sparkly ridiculousness to the most horrific of tortures, little could phase him. Weeks 193 - 195 were spent in a mish-mash world composed of several different locations (inspired by The Dark Tower series). The last two weeks of the trip were spent trying to find the culprits behind a rash of violent murders, but in a surprising shift from the norm, most members of the Black Order managed to keep themselves out of trouble.
[ November, 2012 (weeks 198 - 201) ]
Emilia was terminated at the end of November. Link was the one to find her corpse, and he delivered her to the incinerator himself rather than letting the cleanup robots take care of it. She deserved that much. It was a huge blow for inspector, who (in proper inspector fashion) bottled his feelings and did his best to continue on as normal. Not easy when one of the only two people you have a true bond with dies with no warning.
[December 2012 (weeks 202 - 206) ]
Link learned just how hard mermaids have it when his legs were replaced with a fish tail during week 203. On the upside, he did manage to become a fairly strong swimmer, which is pretty impressive for a man from the late Victorian era.
A new clone of Emilia was made and returned to the facility at the end of December. Link broke his usual stoic habits and welcomed her back with a hug.
[ January, 2013 (weeks 207 -210)
Link and Emilia began spending much more time together, checking on each other often and leaning on the other to get through experiments. A week of physically damaging nightmares (ala Nightmare on Elm Street) found them both wandering the halls together at all hours of the night to avoid falling asleep. Week 208 granted residents subconscious wishes. Emilia’s father appeared, but he was murdered in front of her by Tyki Mikk before the week was out. Link rescued Emilia from a similar fate, unwilling to lose his friend again.
[ February, 2013 (weeks 211 - 214) ]
Val released spare clones during week 210 as part of another fourth wall event. Unlike the previous fourth walls, the clones slowly went mad during their second week and started killing people. Link ended up confronting an alternate Kanda, determined to put him down before he lost control of himself and attacked civilians. He managed to subdue the exorcist (by blowing up his head), taking a fairly serious injury to the torso himself. He tried to hide the wound from Emilia to spare her the worry, earning himself a heck of a lecture for his trouble. Touched by her affection and concern for him, Link promised her that there would be no more secrets between them (at least where injuries were concerned).
Val was rebooted at during week 214, putting her sane AI back in control again.
[ March, 2013 (weeks 215 - 218) ]
The first three weeks were spent on M6-117, the desert planet from Pitch Black. Link and Allen took to fighting the first week when Allen decided that wandering blindly into caves full of violent creatures of unknown origin was a good idea. The inspector made it his job to start following after the boy again. At least for long enough to keep Allen from doing something idiotic while they were planetside, anyway. Too bad for Link that his efforts proved moot when the entire planet experience a long period of eclipse. Subjects were assigned random partners, given torches that only worked when both partners were touching it, and left to roam the dark while trying not to get eaten by the monsters roaming the night.
Everyone was returned to the station for week 218, but before another test could start the station entered an asteroid field. Critical systems were badly damaged, leaving the subjects with a station that would be incapable of carrying them the full distance to their intended destination. Val set a crash course for the nearest planet, but it was unlikely they would survive.
Link spent the last week or so on the station preparing for a crash landing that he was quite sure he wouldn’t survive. As the days passed and the inevitable end drew nearer, the stoic inspector managed to find closure of sorts with his closest bonds. He and Allen confirmed what had become a very strong friendship, and when Emilia confessed that her feelings for Link went beyond friendship, Link reciprocated. The two of them spent their final day on the station together.
Alpha Omega station crashed on April 3, 2013.
Link woke up at the beginning of week 14 and immediately moved in with Allen (very much against Allen’s will). This quick move was the beginning of almost four years of side-eyes from strangers, most of whom assumed that Link was some sort of creepy stalker... which he kind of was, but not in the way that those outside the Order assumed. Creepy stalker issues aside, the inspector jumped right into life at the facility, helping to prepare for a flood at the end of his first week and defending civilians when a massive fight between shinobi broke out during said flood. The end of his second week brought with it the closest thing Link can manage to a mental breakdown. Kanda picked a fight at the wrong moment and, already under stress while trying to process the facility and all the unbelievable things in it, Link retaliated. Violently. Allen eventually broke them up and Link spent the next week or so mostly isolated.
[ May, 2009 (weeks 16 - 19) ]
May brought about the beginnings of recovery as Link worked on building his mental walls back up again. Some carefully exchanged words with Komui were helpful in putting things back into perspective, and the inspector decided to focus on his job. Too bad the facility had different plans. Link experienced his first death during week 17 at the hands of Heine Rammsteiner (DOGS). While most people were dying of venomous snake bites, Link had his throat ripped out. FABULOUS. Upon his return, the inspector got to help Komui take care of a facility full of children. The entire month was an exercise in patience... which Link handled reasonably well. Mostly.
[ June, 2009 (weeks 20 -23) ]
June brought with it a two week trip to an alternate location, a small Western town known as Hope’s End. The first week was rather uneventful, giving characters time to explore and settle in, and the second week involved a scavenger hunt that allowed participants to earn back weapons from their home worlds. Link participated and used his chance at a prize to earn Komui the drill necessary to properly fix damaged Innocence. The residents exorcists were not happy. At the end of the trip the town was overrun by violent raiders who injured or killed much of the population. The inspector survived, doing his best to keep the Order from fracturing with fairly poor results. Everyone returned to the normal facility the next week, but Allen had an "incident" involving the 14th. Link sustained moderate injuries.
[ July, 2009 (weeks 24 - 27) ]
Residents of the facility were returned to Hope’s End for one week during July for a fourth wall event. The temporary participants were quickly forgotten when a flesh-eating bacteria tore through the facility the next week. Almost all characters were eventually infected, healers ran out of juice, and those who didn’t want to die had to make some pretty gruesome decisions... and most of them died anyway. Allen and Link were infected by Timcanpy, and Link kept all three of them barricaded in their shared room for the remainder of the week to avoid spreading the bacteria further. They all survived, but only barely. The month ended with most of the population gaining cat ears and tails ala Loveless. Link met and sparred with Dilandau Albatou (Escaflowne).
[ August, 2009 (weeks 28 - 32) ]
Week 28 began seven days with no thumbs and, in spite of the handicap, Link ended up being rather active. He got into a fight with Laharl (Disgea) after the demon prince tried to claim dominion over him and... it didn’t end well. Allen managed to convince Laharl to back off before killing Link, but the inspector still sustained serious injuries. While he was out, someone had the bright idea to let Kururu (Sgt. Frog) operate on him to mend the internal bleeding, because letting a small yellow frog perform surgery on a human is brilliant. Malcolm C. Lvellie, Link’s boss, arrived while Link was still injured. He didn’t stay in the facility for very long, but it’s worth noting that while he was there? Link’s loyalty was obviously to him.
Later in the month Link was approached by Celena Schezar (the female form of Dilandau) with a gift. With no memories of Dilandau’s clashes with Link, Celena took a shine to the inspector. This carried over into the next F3 trip, Young Wizard’s Manhattan. They even went exploring (Allen was catatonic at the time) and ended up having dinner together. Allen returned during the second week in Manhattan. Unfortunately, the city was overrun by evil double’s of its residents. Evil!Allen Walker took to kidnapping other residents (including his good self) and locking them away in a sewer, and Link spent a few days searching for him before he was taken captive as well. He was rescued when other residents found Evil!Allen’s stash, getting out with fairly minor injuries.
[ September, 2009 (weeks 33 - 36) ]
The final week in Manhattan was a sex swap, and Link spent the week as a rather lovely lady. Upon return to the facility the next week he found that Celena had once again changed back into Dilandau... who seemed to be harboring some sort of subconscious attraction to the inspector. Link rejected him. Week 35 was a peaceful week spent without any supernatural powers... until one resident made a deal with the Doctors in charge and ruined it for everyone. Several residents were attacked by a disguised Orochimaru (Naruto), including Allen and Link. Week 36 took things up a notch, giving Uchiha Madara (Naruto) control over who had abilities within the facility. Link and the rest of the Order laid low (some of them had to be forced to do so) until the end of the week when the entire facility rose up and against a poisoned Madara and his henchmen.
[ October, 2009 (weeks 37 - 40) ]
Week 37 was spent with no memories of the facility, allowing for plenty of awkward interactions between stalker and stalkee. Allen had no memory of Link at all, and so was quite resistant to stalking. Celena was sent home for a canon update and returned with memories of both her female and male forms. It was around this time that she and Link’s relationship became more official. As official as it got with a dummy like Link, anyway. Week 40 began a three week trip to Death City (Soul Eater).
[ November, 2009 (weeks 41 - 45) ]
Link gained the ability to become a Weapon (the world’s most old fashioned gunblade) with Celena as his Meister for the duration of the trip, but he avoided using the ability for the most part. The last week of the trip was spent hunting zombies, another task assigned for those who wanted to earn weapons from home. Link earned his switchblades. When they returned to the facility, they found it full of tribbles and ended up spending most of the week trying to kill them fast enough to keep everyone from being crushed by the cute. The following week most residents were infected with Hinamizawa syndrome (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni). Link was designated as a Queen Carrier (meaning he nullify the effects of the disease for those within a certain radius of him), spending most of the week keeping people from going crazy and killing themselves. He’s also one of the few residents with memories of that week, as only Queen Carriers remembered what happened.
[ December, 2009 (weeks 46 - 49) ]
Link started December with a canon update, becoming the bearer of the most recent bad news from home. Also, Allen attempted to make Link a pie for his birthday. It was... interesting, but he got a gold star for trying. Everything was otherwise uneventful until week 49 when all residents were afflicted with one of the seven deadly sins. Celena used Link’s sin (Pride) to goad him into what almost became sex, but didn’t. He also ended up in another fist fight with Kanda, though that one ended with no mental trauma.
[ January, 2010 (weeks 50 - 54) ]
Most of January was spent on Isla Nubar (the island from Jurrasic Park) learning how to survive with free-roaming dinosaurs. January also marked the facility’s one year anniversary, and during week 53 subjects escaped into the main station. Most of the staff made it out in escape pods, but many were left to the mercy of the residents... who weren’t very merciful. Link spent much of the week wrangling Allen to keep the boy from getting himself killed by arguing with the less-than-merciful residents.
[ February, 2010 (weeks 55 - 58) ]
Week 56 included a Valentine’s Day event. A list of residents were posted (Link among them) and, if someone else didn’t take their place before the end of the week, they would have their hearts ripped out. Link accepted his fate and would take no substitutes. He had his heart surgically (though not delicately) removed while he was still alive. He was brought back to life a week later. He also got an involuntary haircut at the end of the month during the Hostile Hand experiment.
[ March, 2010 (weeks 59 - 62) ]
Week 59 stripped most residents of their inhibitions. Celena tried once more to take their physical relationship to the next level, but she was foiled once more because repressed men like Link tend to be on a hair trigger. 8D The last half of the month was spent in Victorian London with a few D.Gray-man accents, including roaming akuma and free Innocence for all residents under a certain power level. The Black Order was naturally kept pretty busy, and Link was no exception. Without the ability to actually destroy akuma, he spent much of the week playing backup for Allen and defending civilians during the larger battles.
[ April, 2010 (weeks 63 - 66) ]
The facility lacked Noah at the time of the London trip, so one resident was transformed into one to complete the D.Gray-man package. Sasha Nein (Psychonauts) became the Noah of Guile, spending much of the trip sneaking about, kidnapping people, and killing. It all ended in a huge battle between the Noah and the exorcists, with the exorcists eventually winning the day. Everyone was returned to the normal facility for the next two weeks, everything rather calm while residents recovered.
[ May, 2010 (weeks 68 - 71) ]
May was a big month for Link’s love life... well, for the end of it. A Personality Reversal test gave Link the words to tell Celena some things he’d been holding back. Like wanting to break up with her. Over the previous few month she’d become almost obsessed with him and very pushy about their love life. While Link cared for her very much, it was obvious that they were on very different wavelengths. It wouldn’t have been fair to trail her along when he obviously couldn’t love her the way she wanted him to... and she was a little crazy. Their breakup let to quite the emotional outburst, and Celena even tried to use a (completely functional) voodoo doll to hold Link hostage. Allen and a few others helped retrieve it from her. The final week of May brought them to the underwater city of Rapture (Bioshock).
[ June, 2010 (weeks 72 - 75) ]
Rapture was filled with all the dangers one would expect. Children of the facility were transformed into Little Sisters and Brothers, each of them given a Big Daddy to protect them and aggressively attack anyone who got close. Splicers also roamed the city, attacking at random, and the trip ended with Rapture itself rupturing, drowning a large number of residents before reset brought everyone back to the original facility.
[ July, 2010 (weeks 76 - 79) ]
Link spent much of July trying to occupy himself in simple ways, mostly through games of chess and the occasional spar. And once by rescuing Komui from man-eating plants. The inspector experienced his third death during week 77 at the hands of a Noah, Tyki Mikk. Using his phasing ability, Tyki literally scrambled Link’s brains. There was lingering memory and motor skill damage that took a week to recover from (thank goodness for magical healers and psychics). Tokusa, one of Link’s former CROW companions, arrived in the facility during week 79.
[ August, 2010 (weeks 80 - 84) ]
Tokusa’s presence in the facility as short-lived, but he offered up some interesting conflict. Link’s last contact with anyone affiliated with Inspector Lvellie had been a year prior, and having someone from his former life around (especially someone as outspoken as Tokusa) forced Link to realize just how much he had changed in such a short time. Week 84 marked the first of two weeks spent in Abyss, a toxic slum borrowed from Neogenisis (a horror/guro-based LiveJournal RP) for a fourth wall event. Slavers native to the location immediately set about kidnapping as many residents as possible, subjecting them to a slew of horrific mistreatments.
[ September, 2010 (weeks 85 - 88) ]
The specific atrocities the slavers committed were terrible enough that I don’t want to mention them for fear of triggering any readers, so that should give you a pretty good idea of how awful things were in Abyss. Awful enough that Link, when confronted by a group of slavers looking to capture him, blew up a building and incinerated a dozen of them to make sure he got away. He was one of very few residents to escape capture after becoming a target.
The recovery for the general population after Abyss was a long one, and Link spent the remainder of September trying to get his Allen-stalking schedule back on track.
[ October, 2010 (weeks 89 - 93) ]
Most of October was spent in Venice (Assassin’s Creed). Link did manage to finally get Allen back in line again... only to be killed during week 90. Anti-Sora (Kingdom Hearts) crushed his heart on the 14th’s orders during an Evil Twin experiment.
[ November, 2010 (weeks 94 -97) ]
There were no notable developments during November.
[ December, 2010 (weeks 98 - 101) ]
Much of December was spent in Whispering Rock, a summer camp for psychics (Psychonauts). This was, unfortunately, another unproductive month due to hiatuses, but it’s worth noting that the Hinamizawa Syndrome experiment was repeated during week 100. Link was affected normally, attacked Allen in a fit of paranoia, and then his memories of the week were wiped.
[ January, 2011 (weeks 102 - 106) ]
Link was canon updated to his current canon point during week 102. During the same week, one of the resident wizards set up a massive spell circle throughout the facility, slowly gathering energy from magically inclined volunteers with the end goal of blasting their way out of the facility. Link contributed to the energy store, only to feel pretty shitty later when Allen got caught in the blast and killed. Bad luck. The spell circle was a success, though, and residents had access to a large storeroom of rare supplies for the remainder of the week.
Week 103 brought with it one of the most infamous experiments ever run in the facility, possibly as a punishment for the destruction caused during week 102. A large portion of the population was removed from the facility and placed into groups of two or more. From there, every group was subjected to personalized torture scenarios in a blatant effort to break their wills. Link was paired with a teen-aged Remus Lupin (Harry Potter). They spent several days locked in a room together with no food and little water. After four or five days Link found himself naked and strapped to a heated metal grid. Remus was given a barely functioning wand and told to rescue the inspector before he ended up cooked. It was an impossible task, of course, sprinkled with mention of Remus’ werewolf form and meant to turn Link against him. Fortunately, Link’s update the week before meant that he didn’t quite match his previous psychological profile, and the experiment ended when it became clear that Link wasn’t going to transfer the blame for his situation to the boy, even if he was a werewolf.
The inspector spent the next week recovering, and at the end of week 105 project Alpha Omega was terminated. The Consortium decided that two years of unsuccessful experiments was enough and planned to abandon the station, leaving residents of the facility to suffocate/freeze to death. Instead, Val (an AI used in a previous experiment) took control, saving the lives of the subjects and continuing experimentation.
[ February, 2011 (weeks 107 - 110) ]
Most of February was spent in Gotham City (Batman). Link was given Innocence during week 109. It was the second time he’d received in within the facility, and the second time it was taken away from him without so much as a single chance to use it. Rather frustrating, really. Week 110 brought with it... cookies, but not just any cookies. A form of cookie that was very well known in the facility, causing flirtatious behavior in those who consumed them. Tyki phased a few into Link and Kanda’s stomachs at one point, causing some very awkward interactions that Link’s still embarrassed to think back on.
[ March, 2011 (weeks 111 - 114) ][ April, 2011 (weeks 115 - 118) ]
April was spent in Goblin City (Labyrinth) and ended up being another big month for Link’s nonexistent love life. Residents were each consumed by one of the seven deadly sins. Poor Link got stuck with Lust. Things almost went all the way during an encounter with Emilia Galmar, but she chickened out when she saw his penis (sounds weird, I know, but it’s true). Link ended up losing his virginity to Tsunade (Naruto), and though interactions between them were fairly awkward for a while after that, they eventually managed to form a solid friendship.
[ May, 2011 (weeks 119 - 123) ]
No notable developments until the Broadcasted Dreams experiment during week 123. Link had a sexy dream about Tsunade. He was also attacked by the 14th. Again. 8D
[ June, 2011 (weeks 124 - 127) ]
During week 124, Link and Allen proved that in spite of their stalker/stalkee relationship, they actually kind of like each other. Platonically, of course. Unfortunately, they proved this during a Hurt the Ones You Love test, so showing how much they cared involved an early morning fist fight. The next two weeks were filled with drunkenness (most of the water was replaced with alcohol for a week), hangovers, and nightmares.
[ July, 2011 (weeks 128 - 132) ]
The first three weeks of July were spent in Wonderland (Return to Wonderland). Link spent the trip being displeased with all the whimsy and shenanigans, using the last week to begin teaching Emilia to use CROW spells. He was hesitant to do so the first time she asked for lessons (what with them being secret techniques and all), but with the recent slew of nasty tests and the lack of personnel from Central to disagree, he figured that if Emilia proved proficient then there would be no harm in giving her a new way to defend herself.
[ August, 2011 (weeks 133 - 136) ]
August began with another zombie infestation, but this time it affected residents instead of NPCs. Allen managed to get himself infected and Link spent most of the week barricaded inside their room with zombie!Allen, using his CROW spells to keep the exorcist bound to the wall and away from the general population. Luckily Allen recovered after reset, because Link spent week 134 without his sight. Another week of mostly being room-bound. Some time between weeks 135 and 136, Allen went home for a canon update and returned with some unpleasant news about Link helping him escape from prison. Knowing that he was left behind in the cell with Apocryphos (a creepy Innocence monster), Link assumed he’d been killed, and even if Apocryphos hadn’t killed him? Helping Allen signed his death warrant anyway, as CROW who betray the Order don’t get to live very long. With that weighing on his mind, Link entered the new location, Haven (Firefly), with a lot of pent up anxiety and frustration.
[ September, 2011 (weeks 137 - 140) ]
After spending much of the first two weeks in Haven baking and not talking about his feelings, week 138 changed things up pretty dramatically. Reavers (Firefly) appeared quite suddenly on Monday, attacking, killing, kidnapping, and eating as many residents as they could. Most of the supernaturally inclined subjects were more than a match for the axe-wielding Reavers, but Link, though quite impressive in battle, was struck by a large wooden pike during the fighting. He lost his left leg from just below the knee, but survived thanks to Allen’s quick response to his injury. After the attack most residents decided to gather together, reinforcing a large, fenced-in area to keep Reavers out in case they came back again. The Reavers returned on Wednesday, but Val put the kibosh on supernatural powers, leaving residents with only ordinary guns and blades to continue fighting with.
Link remembers very little of the two weeks after the attack, mostly due to fever and very strong pain killers. Once his head cleared he fell into a deep depression. Allen confronted him during week 140 with a very rousing shounen speech, but it didn’t take.
[ October, 2011 (weeks 141 - 145) ]
Another bout of torture was actually the turning point that pulled Link out of his depression. Week 141 involved traps inspired by the Saw movie series, and Link’s test actually did exactly what such tests were meant to do, proving to the inspector how much he preferred living over dying, even if it meant living as a cripple. He began looking for means to have a replacement limb built soon after, but between recovery from his initial injury and fabrication of the limb, he didn’t receive it until January.
[ November - December, 2011 (weeks 146 - 153) ]
November and December were physically very challenging. Armed with only a pair of crutches and a lot of stubborn determination, Link had to relearn how to go about daily life with one limb missing. Certain experiments weren’t very helpful (like when one arm was temporarily removed for the Body Part Easter Egg Hunt during week 146), but some were (like when he gained a set of usable wings during week 151). The inspector focused on doing things for himself as much as possible, but he also learned how to ask for help when he really needed it. His relationships with Allen and Emilia deepened during these months .
[ January, 2012 (weeks 154 - 158) ]
Link received his prosthetic limb (built by Equius Zahhak of Homestuck) during the first week of January. The day after his surgery he was visited by Emilia. Previously unaware of just what members of CROW did within the Order, she got a very revealing from Kanda (that jerk) and decided to confront Link. Feeling betrayed and disgusted over being taught the same techniques that CROW use for such violent, questionable purposes, Emilia cut off their friendship. The inspector had very little to defend himself with since he really hadn’t been entirely truthful with her, so he (reluctantly) let her go. Link recovered from his surgery just in time to face the next F3 trip with only one crutch to aid him. Another fourth wall brought them back to Hope’s End for a third time. Link confronted Kanda in Hope’ End
Week 158 marked the three year anniversary and another breakout attempt, this one successful. With Val’s help, residents of the facility escaped their prison, killed the remaining biological staff, and took Alpha Omega station as their own. Though the newfound freedom was great, experimentation continued as per Val’s programming.
[February, 2012 (weeks 159 - 162) ]
Most residents had a wish granted during week 160. Link and Emilia, though still estranged, both missed each other’s company enough that the test of the week acted on their subconscious desires, making them forget the reason for their fight. They reconciled fairly quickly, which made things pretty awkward when reset hit and their memories returned. Emilia ultimately decided that while she was still angry and unsure of how she felt about his actions before the facility, she missed his friendship and support too much to cut him off any longer. Link was grateful for the second chance, and they both began to slowly rebuild their relationship.
[ March, 2012 (weeks 163 - 166) ]
Week 164 kicked off a "Horrific Mingling/Kissing" event. Meant to force residents to interact outside of their usual social groups, everyone was given varied tasks to perform with varied punishments for those who refused. Things began simple with tasks as easy as telling a stranger a secret, but as the week continued tasks got more complicated. Link received the most difficult level of tasks, the final of which required that he either have sex with a stranger or murder someone. Link, being the stubborn man he is, refused to complete the task and ended up being poisoned as punishment. He survived, but only barely.
[ April - May, 2012 (weeks 167 - 175) ]
Allen spent large portions of March, April, and May falling in and out of catatonia. Link had stopped
The only notable test-related development came during week 169. During a test that involved completing mystery tasks in order to live through the end of the week, Link was forced to battle a small forced of Reavers on his own with no CROW magic. He killed every last Reaver with extreme prejudice and managed to limp away without any further limb loss.
[ June, 2012 (weeks 176 - 179) ]
Weeks 175 and 176 were spent at a Japanese onsen, a reward from Val for the difficulties her guests had faced since the takeover of the station. Experiments lightened up for a little while after that, the most memorable of which for Link was The Animal Inside. Certain residents gres more and more wild as the week went on, eventually leaving them creatures of pure instinct. Link was affected, managing to embarrass himself rather thoroughly by consuming extraordinary amounts of meat, sugar, and even getting frisky with an affected Tsunade before the week was out.
[ July, 2012 (weeks 180 - 184) ]
A memory transfer test made during week 180 brought to light just how similar Link and Allen really were on some levels. Both were treated to memories of the other’s difficult childhood (both orphans, both alone and suffering in one way or another), bonding them further. The Consortium tried to reclaim the station during week 182. They were beaten back, but not before inflicting serious damage on the station. Val was damaged and a crueler version of her AI took over after the battle. Experiments took a turn for the worse.
[ August, 2012 (week 185 - 188) ]
In order to expedite repairs on the station, Val locked her guests back in the old facility during weeks 186 and 187. Everyone was unhappy about the move and Val decided that it was necessary to calm her guests down. Week 187 brought the added stress of bombs planted in every resident’s chest, triggered to explode should their heart rate go too high for too long. Link survived the week, but with all his friends dying around him, Allen did not. The boy ended up dying in Link’s arms. That moment that still haunts the inspector, not that he’ll ever admit to it.
[ September - October, 2012 (weeks 189 - 197) ]
Testing through September and October grew steadily more erratic and violent, but Link weathered it all with practiced determination. After three and a half years of experiments ranging from sparkly ridiculousness to the most horrific of tortures, little could phase him. Weeks 193 - 195 were spent in a mish-mash world composed of several different locations (inspired by The Dark Tower series). The last two weeks of the trip were spent trying to find the culprits behind a rash of violent murders, but in a surprising shift from the norm, most members of the Black Order managed to keep themselves out of trouble.
[ November, 2012 (weeks 198 - 201) ]
Emilia was terminated at the end of November. Link was the one to find her corpse, and he delivered her to the incinerator himself rather than letting the cleanup robots take care of it. She deserved that much. It was a huge blow for inspector, who (in proper inspector fashion) bottled his feelings and did his best to continue on as normal. Not easy when one of the only two people you have a true bond with dies with no warning.
[December 2012 (weeks 202 - 206) ]
Link learned just how hard mermaids have it when his legs were replaced with a fish tail during week 203. On the upside, he did manage to become a fairly strong swimmer, which is pretty impressive for a man from the late Victorian era.
A new clone of Emilia was made and returned to the facility at the end of December. Link broke his usual stoic habits and welcomed her back with a hug.
[ January, 2013 (weeks 207 -210)
Link and Emilia began spending much more time together, checking on each other often and leaning on the other to get through experiments. A week of physically damaging nightmares (ala Nightmare on Elm Street) found them both wandering the halls together at all hours of the night to avoid falling asleep. Week 208 granted residents subconscious wishes. Emilia’s father appeared, but he was murdered in front of her by Tyki Mikk before the week was out. Link rescued Emilia from a similar fate, unwilling to lose his friend again.
[ February, 2013 (weeks 211 - 214) ]
Val released spare clones during week 210 as part of another fourth wall event. Unlike the previous fourth walls, the clones slowly went mad during their second week and started killing people. Link ended up confronting an alternate Kanda, determined to put him down before he lost control of himself and attacked civilians. He managed to subdue the exorcist (by blowing up his head), taking a fairly serious injury to the torso himself. He tried to hide the wound from Emilia to spare her the worry, earning himself a heck of a lecture for his trouble. Touched by her affection and concern for him, Link promised her that there would be no more secrets between them (at least where injuries were concerned).
Val was rebooted at during week 214, putting her sane AI back in control again.
[ March, 2013 (weeks 215 - 218) ]
The first three weeks were spent on M6-117, the desert planet from Pitch Black. Link and Allen took to fighting the first week when Allen decided that wandering blindly into caves full of violent creatures of unknown origin was a good idea. The inspector made it his job to start following after the boy again. At least for long enough to keep Allen from doing something idiotic while they were planetside, anyway. Too bad for Link that his efforts proved moot when the entire planet experience a long period of eclipse. Subjects were assigned random partners, given torches that only worked when both partners were touching it, and left to roam the dark while trying not to get eaten by the monsters roaming the night.
Everyone was returned to the station for week 218, but before another test could start the station entered an asteroid field. Critical systems were badly damaged, leaving the subjects with a station that would be incapable of carrying them the full distance to their intended destination. Val set a crash course for the nearest planet, but it was unlikely they would survive.
Link spent the last week or so on the station preparing for a crash landing that he was quite sure he wouldn’t survive. As the days passed and the inevitable end drew nearer, the stoic inspector managed to find closure of sorts with his closest bonds. He and Allen confirmed what had become a very strong friendship, and when Emilia confessed that her feelings for Link went beyond friendship, Link reciprocated. The two of them spent their final day on the station together.
Alpha Omega station crashed on April 3, 2013.
