Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Yuriko Omega

"Thought is dangerous; lack of thought, deadly."

-...

Yuriko Omega is the commando of the Psionic Command, the sub-faction of the Katsuragi Protectorate. This unit is planned to be voiced by Lisa Yamashiro, reprising her voice.

History
"You know I would not hesitate to turn on you if you showed any signs of weakness. Why do you let me stay?"

"Even monsters can feel emotions, Yuriko."

-Brief exchange between Yuriko Omega and Emperor Kamina

Evidence is mounting that the Katsuragi Protectorate has in its employ some sort of nigh-unstoppable commando who resembles nothing more than a sullen young woman returning home from school with a disappointing report card. She was first discovered by an elite school of Voshkod Typhoons patrolling off the coast of (Ulthuan location).

Only one returned, visibly shaken, with a smattering of reportedly "unwatchable" recorded evidence of this woman's destructive power. This woman has the estimated combat potential of an entire military company, using no obvious means or weapons. As absurd as this may seem, it is believed that this woman eschews conventional weapons in favor of some sort of psionic powers. The number of military tacticians laughing away such an outlandish theory is rapidly decreasing as news of the Katsuragi Protectorate newfangled army continues to spread.

Based on the transmissions intercepted from the Katsuragi Protectorate, this woman is known as Yuriko Omega, presumably a codename. Records of the exact origins of this Yuriko Omega are either highly classified or may not even exist. What has been gleaned, however, is that she is the rumored survivor of an intensive program conducted by Shiro Sanitarium, a private paramilitary R&D firm, whose mysterious founder/benefactor is only known as Iruy (with rumors even abounding that Yuriko is Iruy's daughter), seeking alternatives to Ulthuan's increasing dependence on high technology in its military affairs, but had suddenly disappeared upon Yuriko's first rampage at the age of ten, leaving only extremely damaged notes which the Protectorate eventually used to make the Psionic Corp.

That program must have been dehumanizing, to say the least, yet the results seem self-evident: Yuriko appears to have powers that can best be described as monstrous. Her mind has been "sharpened" to such an edge that it can cut through entire squads seemingly at her whim at the age of six. How exactly this power is manifest, or what effect such powers must have on this woman's psyche, is also unknown.

After an initial encounter with Yuriko Omega, a Voskod commander who has since been discharged sought to probe her combat abilities using the majority of an entire military company including, but not limited, to: ten Spetsnaz, six Igla Troopers, four Kodiak Tanks, three Havocs and two Dreadnoughts.

Amazingly, not one of these forces returned from the encounter, even though Yuriko Omega was said to be alone, out of range of other Protectorate forces. Most of Voshkod's high command deemed this to be some sort of perfectly-orchestrated trap. A few insist that Yuriko Omega alone was responsible.

It may be no accident that Yuriko was encountered on her own, for there is reason to believe she is feared even among the Protectorate's own forces even the conventional SDF forces and Asur forces. From a certain perspective, this is hardly a surprise, for one seemingly so young and yet so powerful as she must surely have experienced incredible psychological or even physical trauma during the course of her development. Make no mistake, however: Any pity would almost certainly be lost on Yuriko Omega, who -- or rather, which -- is the closest this world has yet seen to a living weapon.

Extreme caution is advised when engaging Yuriko Omega, or anyone resembling her. Look for evidence of psychic ability such as levitation, telekinesis, mind-reading, ESP, psychokinetic burst, etc. From striking both surface targets and aircraft with rapid barrages of "psychic darts", hurling groups of infantry backward with powerful "psychic blasts", to levitating and crushing even aircraft carriers, and is still capable of ripping apart entire buildings in mere seconds. And when she's particularly angry, her scream becomes powerful enough to go through even toughened steel, roasting the crews of unfortunate vehicles nearby.

And upon officially joining the Protectorate, she personally asked Emperor Kamina for a second opinion on a new school uniform; now Yuriko wears classic blue and white, with a pair of white thigh-high socks. While the Voshkod suspects her clothes to enhance her abilities more so than her old one did, Protectorate soldiers believe she rather did it on a girlish whim. Either way, both sides agree it was worth it.

Short Story
"Daddy, what are you doing?"

Yuriko recognized that voice, it was hers at six years old, a part of a time she couldn't remember.

"Don't worry sweetie, it will only hurt a bit, and you'll be stronger for it."

That voice. Yuriko's felt the sting of tears when she heard her father's voice, stoic yet kind, that even when he used her to test the potential of psychics he always made sure she was comfortable.

Yuriko then saw the test chair she was seated for them to test her, and in front of her young eyes was a glass window, and behind that her father and the Sanitorium director. It was going normally, like every test she had taken. Except for that day...

Searing pain lashed through her mind, and she heard her younger self scream. She remembered this part, when the lab staff used needles and chemicals to push her powers to their limit.

"IT HURTS! DADDY MAKE IT STOP!"

She can remember the tears running down her face as she screamed, calling for her father.

"Remarkable. So this is the potential of psychics."

That hollow, uncaring voice of the lab director made her blood boil.

"What are you doing Kakuzawa! This wasn't part of the deal!"

"You were going too slow %^&!$@#," Yuriko gripped her head, despite her efforts she can't remember her father's name. "What I'm doing is speeding up the process."

"But she's can't handle that much at her age! Stop it now or-"

Her father suddenly convulsed and screamed.

"Or what *%$&, that you'll use that power of yours? Not with that inhibitor collar you won't." two more shadows came and picked her father up. And the director punched him.

"DADDY!"

"Face it !@#%, without your powers your just an old man." Yuriko could only watch in horror as the director repeatedly punched her father, before the pain overloaded her body she screamed again. But this time the room had shaken and the staff in the room with her clutched their head in pain before falling over dead, the people behind the glass was unaffected and the director smiled even wider.

"So much potential. You'll be the greatest breakthrough of my research."

She heard her father weakly cough.

"You... Bastard... I was t-" Her father was silenced as the director hit him with his pistol.

"I've seen enough, you're now of no use to me," the director pointed the pistol to her father's head. "Any last word?"

"Yuriko, I'm sorry."

Yuriko remembered that it was that moment her younger self finally snapped.

"DADDY!"

After that her memories began blurring, remembering only fragments of her breaking out and massacring the guards and staff before being carried in her father's arms, running.

"It's ok sweetie, daddies got you," He briefly looked down to see her. Despite Yuriko's best efforts, she couldn't remember her father's face, the closest was that he was bald and bore a tattoo on his forehead, and the kindness in his eyes.

Her memory began blurring again, with fragments of her father using his powers to take control of the guards to buy them time to escape. Until their exit out of that hellhole closed before they could reach, and now the director was standing before her, with protecting her with his body."

"You have caused a lot of trouble, Mr @#%$, but I am generous, hand over the girl and you will live. And don't think you can use your powers, I have a special"

"If you want my daughter you'll have to go through me first!"

Yuriko clutched her head as that trauma came back. As her younger self watched helplessly as her father was being beaten to death by the director, who was purposely prolonging his pain, and yet he stood between him and her, and in one moment looked at her with tear-stained eyes, apologizing that he put her through this. And in that moment she screamed, wanting to save her father, it was the first time she had properly used her powers.

Then it was all black, she vaguely remember the sound of falling rubble and panicked screams. Then she cleary heard her father in great distress.

"Yuriko! YURIKO!"

...

"YURIKO! Respond damn it!"

Yuriko took a sharp breath, and suddenly she wasn't in that hellish lab anymore but on a field, once green it was now covered in mud and blood, and around her the corpse and wreckage of Collective forces. She herself was similarly covered in blood and her clothes were torn.

"W-what happened?" A painful headache then struck and she clutched her head.

"Don't you remember?"

Yuriko began to breathe more slowly, it was a technique to calm her mind and regain control of her powers, and soon she remembered.

"I-I was fighting off a detachment of Collectives and then one of the adept tried something, but after that, it's all blank."

"That adept had tried to mind-control you. But you went berserk and began tearing them apart like a typhoon while screeching like a maniac."

Yuriko began to realize that when that adept tried to control her he had unintentionally unlocked a part of her past, and while she was reliving her past as a lab rat she was destroying the detachment without knowing. And examining the carnage around her when something caught her eye.

It was the symbol of the Collective, etched on what remains of a Colossus, and soon a vivid memory came back. The symbol was the same one tattooed on her father's head.

Yuriko could feel her emotions rising uncontrollable, using her willpower to make sure she didn't fire off her powers by accident, before crushing the Colossus into scrap metal. The Collective is connected to her father, and by pursuing them she'll eventually find him.

Trivia

 * Yuriko means "daughter of Yuri" in Japanese. Make that for what you will.



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 * ... (ADI)
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