Illusion of Choice (Preview)

[Sully]

Illusion of Choice

Choice: An act of choosing between two or more possibilities.

I remember when I was a child long ago in my parents’ home in Knossos. I was one of if not the first child born in countless years to the Gen. My father was trying to explain the concept of choice to me. At the time I was a mere seven year old boy. A pure human would have trouble remembering this but to me it was like it was yesterday. “Krullnar, choice is the most important asset any creature has. The option to choose between one option and another represents the truest freedom one could have. It was why the Uranus feared the human Guyver. They had the option to rebel and the Uranus were shocked by the existence of a creature they created that was given a simple choice. Obey or not to obey,” said Solom his father.

When I think back about what my father thought me it’s probably the most important lesson he thought me. My young mind saw everything differently from that day. The option of a choice was the difference between a Zoanoid and a Guyver. The controlled and the uncontrolled. As I grew up I realised the fear of a choice was what scared the Uranus and the Federation to doom this world I now lived on. My father told me I was over simplifying the scenario but I knew it to be true. It wasn’t the raw power of the Guyver that frightened them you could take all that away, it was this worlds flaw, every creature had an element of choice ingrained in its genetic structure that made the option of choice impossible to remove. The Uranus tried to remove the option my removing Gaia from existence. But they failed, Alkanphel choose to save his planet.

When I joined the Warrior Project I realised how wrong the Uranus were. Choice is not something to be feared it is something you can control. At the core of any Guyver was the human mind, a mind that could be conditioned so that the choices presented to the host would have a predictable result. The tribes of “Mount Guyver” were conditioned to believe it was an honour to die for their “Gods” and that the highest honour possible was to be a Guyver fighting in their tests. The Uranus were fools not to see that conditional forms of direct mind control were not needed when controlling the mind of a human being.

As Krullnar contemplated this he looked at a display screen that showed the fifteen remaining Guyver test subjects and what they were seeing. In the present day, choice was a lot harder to predict the results of this time. Two of his test subjects that were zoaforms and members of Chronos did as he expected. But one of them perished at the unexpected emergence of Dreadnought. So far he was the only test Unit to have being killed. The other fourteen members of the test program were all from a combat team that was in battle with Chronos when Krullnar was looking for hosts. He was not aware at the time that these men and woman were mercenaries. Being mercenaries the group fractured months ago, some staying within the ACTF and other allied groups while the bulk of the mercenaries joined an organisation called Baxter Enterprises.

Krullnar had learned much since then about what their choices meant to his Test Project. The group that had joined Baxter Enterprises had one thing in common, their employer deliberately kept them out of combat. During the Grakken invasion of the Solar System last month these Mercs were the only Guyver group not involved in the fighting. Not only that they revealed that their employer was as Krullnar expected involved with the Grakken forces. The Grakken were no fools, they knew not to try and dissect one of the test Units. Safeguards in modern units would see them self-destruct if that was attempted and the Grakken had since learned that fact. This was why he suspected the race was interested in the Earth, test Units left here do not have this technology.

He had to admit, he admired the Grakken ability to interfere with his project by doing one simple thing. Giving the bulk of the Mercs he had given Test Units to the option of going nothing and being “paid” to do it. “After all why risk your life if you didn’t have too?” The choice would have being predictable if he’d studied his subjects in more detail. But in the end while he respected humanity and their sense of “freedom” the truth of the matter was this, they did not have the option not to fight!

From there it shouldn't be hard to guess who's story this will be about.

[jedi-guyver]

Love it. More and more Brian, your work is becoming a self realized master piece of fiction, rather than just a fan fiction of another persons work. Warrior Guyver is no longer just a story, but a grand epic and I can not wait to see it in its full completed form

[Matt Bellamy]

What is this...?

Writing?

On a fanfiction site?

Absurd!

Chibi Griselda will have none of this!

...

Originally had planned to just make fun of the fact someone here actually posted some writing... But the idea of someone scolding Brian seemed funny... And then the idea of a Chibi Griselda doing it just seemed even funnier.

So despite the fact I am at work, and only had scrap paper and a "classic" pencil handy... I could not pass it up.

And yes, this WILL be fixed up and finished.

*EDIT*

Yeah... I took it one step further... See below link to the fanart forum...

http://warriorguyver.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=4652

[*zeo]

Hey Matt, you should work on that a bit more and then use Brian's sig for the speech bubble

[Sully]

thats not the only thing I've being writing.....

[largo]

Wow all three of you guys on one after another this is quite rare. Why i remember a time long ago that this was common place but not so much anymore.

[guyverfanatic]

Man, I haven't posted here in forever. Likes an interesting story.

[Sully]

Man, I haven't posted here in forever. Likes an interesting story.

thanks

It's turning out to be, as it's nice place to go to after working on part 2 of Union. It's nice not having to think "will this match what is already wrote" and just flow with the story and work on characters that never had any real development and giving them some character.

My plan orginally was for this story to have no fighting in it whatever, but I realised that too would be boring to write and more so read. So there will be action as you can guess form the opening, just for a change it'll not be Dreadnought (can't use the same character all the time, otherwise he turns into Optimus Prime in the transformers, and nothing can happen without him!).

[guyverfanatic]

Man, I haven't posted here in forever. Likes an interesting story.

thanks

It's turning out to be, as it's nice place to go to after working on part 2 of Union. It's nice not having to think "will this match what is already wrote" and just flow with the story and work on characters that never had any real development and giving them some character.

My plan orginally was for this story to have no fighting in it whatever, but I realised that too would be boring to write and more so read. So there will be action as you can guess form the opening, just for a change it'll not be Dreadnought (can't use the same character all the time, otherwise he turns into Optimus Prime in the transformers, and nothing can happen without him!).

No action sure would be boring, but it looks like it should be interesting. Nice to see the POV from other characters in the WG universe.

[Sully]

Nice to see the POV from other characters in the WG universe.

It's something I've realised is important more and more. A term I've heard before on this is "Lore Metal". For a reader to engage with a character it needs some sort of lore metal and story behind it. To me any Guyver shouldn't die without this, so when the character goes you feel something for the loss. Someone should be upset that X character died. The characters that character used to intereact with miss him/her etc.

This can't happen for all characters ofc, but in the end the fan-fiction becomes weak if Guyvers are viewed as something easily made and disposable. It's something with the Grakken and Gen you can't contain, but for the human races it's something I want to maintain and build on.

A good example of this is Battle Star Galatica, if any of you followed the show will know (to anyone reading this for the first time and just getting into the new show consider this your spoiler warning) the Cylon race of human hybrids were efectively immortal with bodies store in regeneration pods ready to contain their minds if they dies in Regeneration ships. The story though got a lot more interesting, when Death was introduced to the race and that technology taken away from them.

Now I'm not saying I'll do that to the Grakken or to the Gen, they have a different future ahead of them to what happened to the Cylons. But for humanity and I'm going off point here a bit, it's best that Guyver Unit's are kept rare.That when one dies it really is a loss.

[McAvoy]

I agree. Good example is Acear Marine. He was killed and I honestly felt nothing because after all we still had Warrior Guyver 2.

[Sully]

I agree. Good example is Acear Marine. He was killed and I honestly felt nothing because after all we still had Warrior Guyver 2.

What's worse is that he rarely if at any time interacted with his "alternative" universe self or family. I also find it odd that the Warrior Guyver 2 would willingly accept not speaking with his family in one line and that he literally didn't argue with himself about it or feel lonely. I know he's a military man and on the surface he's say "sir, yes sir" but somewhere deep down he won't like the idea.

[McAvoy]

Bump

I should point out that most military men or women are not Captain America. They are not as gung ho as people think they are.

Only reason why I can see Stephen Cain, WG2 not able to speak to his counterparts is because he was ordered not to, in an attempt to keep his identity a secret. Of course that changes later on though.

Also it is possible that both Stephen Cain's didn't like each other. I kinda see something like the two Rikers from TNG where they both felt they were the real Riker which is true. Also both felt that by having a virtual clone, their uniqueness is heavily tarnished.