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It starts with an assault on laboratories by a criminal organization named simply as The Syndicate; who is being led by a mysterious, yet dangerous man named Muro. Konoko, through her neural link with the TCTF's AI Shinatama (actually known as an SLD, or Simulated Life Doll: an android programmed with Konoko's brain patterns), her connection with Commander Griffin and Dr. Kerr, moves in to investigate. All the while, Commander Griffin and Doctor Kerr are seen arguing over Konoko's situation, cut in from time to time by Shinatama reporting on her bodily functions (adrenaline spikes, likewise).
Konoko ventures into the warehouse and the mole of TCTF, Chung, is found dead at the scene. Konoko clears out the warehouse, and then is sent to the Manufacturing Lab belonging to the company that used the warehouse previously. Konoko has to stop a deadly AI brain (not surprisingly, also called "Deadly Brain") which can potentially destroy the entire city if reaching full potential, or even dominate the entire digital world. Upon her exit, she is called to a Bioresearch Facility, which is under the attack of The Syndicate. Upon her arrival, Konoko faces Barabas; a hybrid creature (half-cyborg, half human) that is one of the main figures of The Syndicate. Upon Barabas' retreat, Barabas messages to Muro, telling him that "She (Konoko) is too strong.".
Muro moves towards the nearest Airport to get himself out of there, with Konoko in hot pursuit. She loses Muro, but manages to land a tracking device on the plane. Muro, while departing, speaks to his henchmen, who inform him that "They do not know of the condition of the Chrysalis".
Konoko then returns to her regular life. Shortly after, TCTF Headquarters itself becomes compromised by an excessive attack of The Syndicate. Entering there, Konoko finds out that Barabas has kidnapped Shinatama. Unable to control herself, Konoko first defeats Barabas, and then experiences a strange feeling overtaking her: what the game refers to as a "Daodan Spike".
Konoko tracks down Shinatama, and despite Griffin's objections, rushes to save her. All the while, Muro is torturing Shinatama to retrieve information in a nearby Atmospheric Conversion Center (a central facility to the recent civilization which filters poisons from the air). While venturing deeper into the facility, Konoko finally finds Shinatama. Shinatama says that she won't live, and in a heart-wrenching scene, reveals that Konoko's real name is Mai Hasegawa, and that she was involved in some sort of project. Griffin, in a desperate attempt to prevent Konoko from getting further with that information, sets the auto-destruct sequence of Shinatama, revealing that the tiny robot was armed with a bomb with enough explosive power to be classified as a small nuclear warhead. Konoko flees, and TCTF starts pursuit.
Looking for her origins, Konoko goes to the Regional State Building, and there, is encountered by both TCTF and The Syndicate. She finds a terminal to access to the information, but as she is doing it, Muro's elite ninja, Mukade swipes away the data concerning her. Konoko follows Mukade through the city's rooftops and finally, corners him. Mukade states that they are one and the same; that they should surrender to their essence, and revel in it. Enraged, Konoko kills Mukade and retrieves the disk.
Konoko goes back to Dr. Hasegawa's laboratory, wherein she discovers most of her past. Apparently, Dr. Hasegawa was a teacher, and had fallen in love with a student of his, Jamie, who was also an activist who believed that the government was hiding secrets. One day, Jamie and Dr. Hasegawa venture into a forbidden zone of wild life (overgrown plants were covering it), and Jaimie cuts her leg. However, in a matter of moments ("almost immediately", Dr. Hasegawa suggests) the wound gets infected and starts to kill her. Unable to bear seeing her in pain, Dr. Hasegawa shoots Jamie (to "ease her pain"). He has made a discovery through that incident, that the world outside of the atmospheric converters was extremely poisonous and destructive towards human biology. He leaves one note, "I will not let this tragedy happen again. Her brother will help me. He misses her as much as I do." Konoko learns that Jamie's maiden name was Kerr, and that she was Doctor Kerr's sister.
Konoko walks into the TCTF Science Prison to find Dr. Kerr, who tells her about the solution they developed. They had named it a "Daodan Chrysalis" which was basically a hyper-evolved form of a cancer cell. By implanting a person with the chrysalis, they would let it adapt to the biology which contained it, and grow as the host suffered damage, or experienced negative emotions (Which are met with hormonal spikes). However, further than that, over a duration of time, the chrysalis would start to grow the host as well, replacing the organs of the host with its own extensions. As Konoko asks about her past, Dr. Kerr tells that The Syndicate had discovered it, and Konoko's father was killed. Dr. Kerr also reveals that Muro is Konoko's brother, the child he left behind as he escaped with Konoko to TCTF in order to use the technology of TCTF and establish their security. Griffin, however, opposed greatly to the self-sustaining nature of the chrysalis and wanted it kept under strict control. Before he can reveal more, Dr. Kerr is killed by a TCTF Black Ops member, who attempted to shoot Konoko. After killing Kerr's killer, Konoko then decides to claim revenge on TCTF. To escape the Science Prison, she is forced to test the theory she has just heard, by attempting to escape through acid vats.
Konoko doesn't stop; she infiltrates the TCTF HQ single-handedly, all to learn that Griffin had used Shinatama to do something. Upon tracking Griffin down, Konoko finds out that Griffin constructed his own security cell with the defenses involving Shinatama, one that knows Konoko the best. As Konoko shuts Shinatama down, Shinatama begs Konoko to stop her, to kill her. In the end, as Shinatama's leftover body marches to Griffin, and Griffin shoots it down, Konoko takes the gun and holds Griffin at gunpoint.
(At this point, the player is faced with the choice of shooting Griffin or walking away. The choice has no effect on the overall plot. If the player chooses to shoot Griffin, the final showdown ensues between Konoko and Muro's new self as he has accomplished to pass to the next stage of Chrysalis evolution - the Imago stage. This choice makes the game somewhat more difficult to complete, as instead of fighting a large number of weaker enemies, one must face a superboss -- periods of invunerability, massive size and damage, etc. If the player chooses to walk away, then Muro stays in human form, he and his henchmen face Konoko, upon which Griffin comes along to help her. The overall plot remains the same, the ending included.)
Konoko reaches the mountain compound that The Syndicate is using. Upon her arrival, she discovers that Muro is planning to reroute the atmospheric conversion centers to pollute the clean world; a disaster from which only the Chrysalis can save humankind. As Konoko quotes, "He's planning to kill everyone who doesn't sell his soul to him for a Chrysalis." Quickly devising a counter-measure, Konoko tries to reroute the atmospheric conversion centers, but doesn't interfere in time. Instead, she has a single choice left: destroy the mountain compound and the conversion centers connected to it. Then, she heads to the rooftop to face Muro.
After the explosion, Konoko is shown roaming the ruins of the city, and monologuing to herself that, the Chrysalis may save humankind in the form of evolution after the disaster that had occurred, but that the fate of humankind is unclear.
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Intro
Konoko goes through some basic training (not necessarily part of the game's story, but more of a tutorial for the player). She receives messages via a neural link from Shinatama, an SLD at the TCTF.
We next see her outside an unnamed warehouse. Her superior, Commander Griffin, and one Dr. Kerr, argue about whether Konoko is ready for the challenge. Griffin commands her to find Chung, a TCTF agent who infiltrated the warehouse to find ties to the Syndicate. If she can find Chung or the evidence she needs, Griffin can shut the warehouse down or she can shut it down herself. She confirms her readiness, and Shinatama reports a normal spike in adrenaline.
CHAPTER 01 . TRIAL RUN
Konoko ventures into the warehouse and finds the TCTF's mole, Chung, lying dead out in the open. Beside him is a pad with notes documenting a tie between the small-time warehouse and Musashi Manufacturing. Meanwhile, Syndicate troops are moving some contraband into an armored truck to get it out of the warehouse. Konoko stops them by commandeering a crane/forklift and flipping the truck on its side. She then demands that Griffin let her investigate the lead Chung's pad gave her, since Musashi is owned by BGI, and Griffin has reported in the past that BGI may be in league with the Syndicate. Shinatama warns that Konoko is de-stabilizing, so Griffin lets her go.
CHAPTER 02 . ENGINES OF EVIL
Konoko immediately heads to Musashi Manufacturing. Her lead as to Musashi not being a legitimate corporation is soon proven when Syndicate goons attack her team. She eventually intuits that the resistance she is facing is merely a decoy while the Syndicate makes another move. Griffin tells her that until they know that for a fact, she should continue gathering evidence against Musashi. Konoko's suspicions are confirmed with word that a nearby research facility is under attack by the Syndicate, but before she can head there, Konoko has to stop a Deadly Brain, which, before being shut down, attempts to hack its way onto the Internet, and then tries to self-destruct. Its Xiox destruct mechanism is quite powerful, so Konoko rushes to shut it down before it vaporizes the surrounding city block.
CHAPTER 03 . PUZZLE PIECES
Konoko immediately heads to a facility called Vago Biotech, which is under attack by the Syndicate. To gain entrance to the Labs, Konoko must beat Barabas, a mutated supersoldier wielding an experimental weapon. Upon Barabas' defeat, he retreats, messaging his boss, Muro, to tell him that "She (Konoko) is too strong".
Inside, Konoko finds scientists being slaughtered seemingly for sport. She works her way to the tower, where she encounters her first Mad Bomber. She uses his imminent detonation to clear the lobby below, where her TCTF comrades are pinned down by enemy fire. She then makes her way down to the lobby, where she and the other soldiers are ambushed by the Syndicate from above. She works her way up through the levels of this building, too, clearing out the enemy, then moves into another building with biohazardous material in a vat at the bottom. Upon descending and exiting the building, she sees a van pulling away. Muro is aboard and trying to escape.
CHAPTER 04 . TIGER BY THE TAIL
Konoko pursues Muro on motorcycle, and they stop at an airport. Syndicate troops are killing civilians left and right as Muro makes his way through the terminals to his plane. Konoko chases him on foot, and has just caught up to him when he leaves a couple troopers to deal with Konoko. She fights through them, and advances to a tarmac, but not the one Muro is using. She fights through move waves of Syndicate troops before advancing to another area: the Cargo Hangars....
CHAPTER 05 . HOT PURSUIT
Konoko makes her way through a complex hangar area, and eventually finds an LSI, a device that will let her track Muro's plane when she finds it. She seems to successfully plant the tracking beacon, but when Muro's VTOL plane lifts off, we see that he is aware of who is tailing him. He instructs a henchman to obtain the SLD that is linked to Konoko. The beacon is then cut off (see Mission Complete screen).
CHAPTER 06 . COUNTERATTACK
Shortly afterwards, Regional TCTF Headquarters is blitzed by the Syndicate in a brazen attack. Syndicate soldiers infiltrate all levels of the building. Konoko ascends as quickly as possible to the Command Center, but too late: Barabas has kidnapped Shinatama. She continues to ascend until reaching the terrace on the roof, where Shinatama is lifted out of Konoko's reach in a helicopter. Waiting there for her is Barabas, eager for a rematch. Upon killing him, Konoko experiences her first "Daodan Spike", a rush of power.
CHAPTER 07 . A FRIEND IN NEED
Despite Griffin's orders not to get involved, Konoko leaves on her own to track down Shinatama at an Atmospheric Conversion Center. Meanwhile, Shinatama is being tortured by Muro, either for information or out of pure sadism (or both). Konoko ventures deeper into the facility.
CHAPTER 08 . AN INNOCENT LIFE
Upon finding Shinatama, the SLD informs Konoko that she is too damaged to save, and reveals that Konoko's real name is Mai Hasegawa, and mentions a "Chrysalis" inside Konoko. Griffin, being told that Shinatama is nearby Konoko and that her Xiox mechanism is functional, orders the android's self-destruction. Shinatama manages to warn Konoko in time for her to escape the explosion. Konoko flees, and Griffin pronounces her a rogue agent and a Class B threat. From here on, the TCTF will be her enemies.
CHAPTER 09 . TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Looking for her origins, Konoko goes to the Regional State Building, and there must fight off both TCTF and Syndicate forces. She finds a terminal to access her biographical data, but as she is doing it, Muro's elite ninja Mukade swipes away the data and saves it onto a disc. Upon tracking him down, he escapes through a window and she pursues. He escapes the roof by zipline, but as a subordinate ninja does the same, Konoko latches onto him and is carried to the next rooftop.
CHAPTER 10 . CAT AND MOUSE
Konoko follows Mukade through the city's rooftops, feeling somehow connected to him on a deep and unpleasant level. Finally cornered, Mukade states that they are one and the same; that they should surrender to their violent nature, and revel in it. Enraged, but in denial of any similarity between them, Konoko kills Mukade and retrieves the disc.
CHAPTER 11 . DREAM DIVER
Konoko goes to her father, Dr. Hasegawa's, laboratory, wherein she discovers most of her past by reading the information on the disc. Apparently, Dr. Hasegawa was a teacher, and had fallen in love with a student of his, Jamie, who was an activist who believed that the government was hiding secrets. One day, Jamie and Dr. Hasegawa ventured into a forbidden wilderness zone (the "infected" area that the ACCs protect humanity from), and Jamie cut her leg on a thorny plant. In a matter of moments, the wound became infected and Jamie began to die in agony. Unable to bear seeing her in pain, Dr. Hasegawa shot Jamie. Now a witness to the sheer danger of the poisonous outside world, he determines, "I will not let this tragedy happen again. [Jamie's] brother will help me. He misses her as much as I do." Konoko learns that Jamie's maiden name was Kerr, and realizes she must be Doctor Kerr's sister. Now she knows who has the answers she needs.
CHAPTER 12 . SINS OF THE FATHER
Konoko sneaks into the so-called "TCTF Science Prison" to find Dr. Kerr, who tells her about the solution he developed with her father. They had named it a "Daodan Chrysalis". When spliced with human genes, it was supposed to make a new body that would be greatly superior to the gene donor's. (It is left unclear as to whether the Chrysalis was intended from the beginning to be implanted into a human or to "grow" a new one.) Two Chrysalises were started growing, one based on Hasegawa's daughter, Konoko... and one based on his son Muro.
Dr. Kerr reveals that they could only obtain funding by making a deal with the Syndicate. At first their work was undisturbed by their funders, but one day the Syndicate raided their labs. They captured Dr. Hasegawa and Muro, but Kerr escaped with Konoko (and the Chrysalis based on Konoko's DNA, apparently) and fled to the TCTF. When Griffin, the head of the regional branch, heard that the Syndicate had implanted young Muro with their Chrysalis, he forced Kerr to implant Konoko with their own as a countermeasure should the Daodan process produce a superhuman. Konoko was seven at the time.
By implanting a person with a Chrysalis, it would adapt to the biology which contained it, and grow as the host suffered damage, altering the body to prevent further similar damage. Eventually, the Chrysalis would replace the organs of the host with its own versions of such. The final form the host body takes is apparently determined by that person's "nature".
Before he can reveal more, a TCTF Black Ops soldier attempts to shoot Konoko with a lethal Mercury Bow. Kerr leaps in front of her, taking the shot. After killing Kerr's murderer, Konoko decides to claim revenge on the TCTF. First, she must escape the net that is closing down around her. To escape the Science Prison, she is forced to test the theory she has just heard, by diving into an acid vat and hoping that the Chrysalis protects her.
CHAPTER 13 . PHOENIX RISING
Konoko infiltrates the TCTF HQ single-handedly, only to have Griffin escape by a hair's-breadth, retreating to his Omega Bunker, the most secure location in the heavily-secured building. Upon finally descending into the Bunker, Konoko finds that Griffin has constructed his own security cell, using the partially-salvaged and rebuilt Shinatama as the defensive AI. As the one that knows Konoko the best, she is the best choice for such a position. As Konoko progressively defeats higher levels of security and shuts Shinatama down, Shinatama begs Konoko to kill her. In the end, Shinatama's crude substitute for her lost body breaks free from the Deadly Brain frame, and advances on Griffin, who shoots it down. Konoko suddenly steps in and brutally disarms her former boss, turning the pistol on him.
CHAPTER 14 . DAWN OF THE CHRYSALIS
Konoko reaches the mountain compound that The Syndicate is using. Upon her arrival, she discovers that Muro is planning to reroute the atmospheric conversion centers to pollute the clean world; a disaster from which only the Chrysalis can save humankind. As Konoko quotes, "He's planning to kill everyone who doesn't sell his soul to him for a Chrysalis." Quickly devising a counter-measure, Konoko tries to reroute the atmospheric conversion centers, but doesn't interfere in time. Instead, she has a single choice left: destroy the mountain compound and the conversion centers connected to it. Then, she heads to the rooftop to face Muro.
Outro
After the explosion, Konoko is shown roaming the ruins of the city, and monologuing to herself that, the Chrysalis may save humankind in the form of evolution after the disaster that had occurred, but that the fate of humankind is unclear.