Days later.

THRAK Head Quarter, Location Unknown.

*flip*

“.......”

* flip the page to next and then flip back to the same page as before *

Sigh.

Jody Johanson had a rough time dealing with the textbook she asked for. It's been passing 2 hours now, she felt light pain in the temples. Her body, so as her brain, was moaning for a break.

Aerodynamics and the physics of the air were hard to understand that Jody needed a set of blank papers and markers to take a short note. Watching the lectures and explanation visually on her Ipad and Et Cetera.

She was drained out. Literally, drain out.

“ There's some part that I don't understand... Maybe I should ask Syd about it...”

She remembered that time in the first met, the boy had topped her in physics. Maybe he can help. So she inserted a bookmark in between pages and closed the book.

She took off the glasses and laid back against the chair, then she stood up to get some cold water to drink.

There's a small fridge under the bed, Jody called it “Snack fridge” because of its tiny size. She just found it after been here for 1 day so she used it to store a bottle of water.

“ Ah... My back hurts...”

Must be because of too long sitting. Jody decided to go out for a walk.

*Doors opened*

When opened up, Jody found a people running in a hurry, heading to someplace, passing her face.

(....Where are they going?...)

She gazed at them, shortly after that as she turned back, she found Jade coming up with the team of medic and stretchers.

“ Jade... Where are they going? ”

She asked politely.

“ Your friends have returned from the mission. They reported severe injuries.”

??!!!!

Jody's mood drastically dropped to the floor. Her eyes opened widely.

“ What?! ”

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Arriving at the hangar. Jody saw the same aircraft they used to take off already parked on the ground.

Then she saw them. She saw they walked out of the aircraft in the same police uniforms they wore on the first day.

Jody wanted to go near them but got pulled back by Jade.

“Jody. Wait.”

The only one allowed to go taking care of them was the team of a medic wearing a gas mask and the sealed uniform.

“ We don't know if they got a virus or any infection from the Lab. Please get back to the main hall first, Jody.”

“.....”

Though Jody didn't like what she said, It was very reasonable. Jade was extremely right. Because they had been through a place that contained chemical substances and radiation. They may carry unknown diseases with them too.

“...... Alright.....”

She only observed them from a far distance.

The medic came in there, but they came out with the body of Mickey Mannix on the stretcher.

“ Mickey!? ”

(... What happened to him?! )

The rest, unfortunately, all wore a mask. But Jody could tell a difference by the body's heights.

“.........”

That person must be Seraphina. But why did she look like she's also injured?

Jody can tell by The medic team. They had an extra cautious approach towards those two.

Seems like they also noticed Jody, She then glared at them in worried. They received the message just by her eyes sights. But safety is safety. They needed to get checked if they had brought any harmful things with their bodies or not.

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Hours later.

The American girl was nervously waiting in the main hall. Frequently checked on the wristwatch, then, the first couple had been released out of the quarantine state.

*Doors opened*

Jody turned her face to their direction.

It was Syd Barrett and Roxxy Barrett. They were now in different clothes and looked cleaner than back then.

“! ”

One big changed she can immediately spot was the mood of the boy, Syd Barrett.

He was... Blank out...somehow.

What happened to him?

Jody raised, quickly walked to them.

“You okay? Got any injuries?”

She tapped her hands on the sibling's shoulder.

“ Yeah, we're good... The mission was successful.”

Roxxy replied to her.

“.....”

“........”

“ Syd... What happened to Mickey?”

Asked Jody. However, Syd didn't answer but instead chose to sit on the spot where Jody had occupied before.

“..........”

She turned to Roxxy.

“..... He was shot.”

“ Shot?”

“ On the face. Up the chin.”

“ Who did that?”

“ Himself.”

“ What?!....”

Jody was shocked to hear that.

“ It's the ability user we've encountered there... Haven't sure what her ability was... But Sera used her power to recover his face. He would have died now if she wasn't there... But now he's still unconscious... And Sera had an internal injured 'cause she overused her ability. But the other thing is fine.”

“.........”

“ ....... ”

Jody turned her face to Syd. The boy was so different from Syd Barrett she knew.

He was silent. Ignored the surroundings. Like he had focused on one thing in his mind.

But it's not like Jody would not understand. Mickey is one of the few closest friends Syd trusted by far as she knew. She would be the same if this happened to her.

*Doors opened*

This time was Toshi Ishii who appeared. Same with him, he also worried about Mickey. But lesser than Syd. Because he's better at keeping his emotion, but Jody can see through it.

“.......”

“... Hey. Jody....”

The Japanese boy called her,

“ How it is stayin' here?”

“ Is this a time?”

Roxxy over there turned to him rapidly with a scolding voice.

But Jody understood him.

He just wanted to not let them knew how worried he was.

“.... It's good. How's Mickey and Sera?”

“........”

“ I don't know about him... But Sera is now safe. She's at the docs.”

“........”

Toshi sat down on a table, facing towards them.

“ Lucky for us... The girl was just a kid. Otherwise, she could have killed us all.”

Toshi paused, glaring at Syd.

“...Who is she?”

Asked Jody.

“....She's just one of many victims.”

Toshi shook his face,

“ The result of a wicked ass experiment. They tried creating ability users from chemicals and shit.”

Toshi put his hand between the temples,

“ I've seen things I wished I wouldn't.”

The boys looked stressed. Roxxy was the most neutral one, so she can assume Roxxy did not get into the field with them.

“ That place was a total fucked. That girl was created to be the most... I don't know, monstrous? She can control people by just looking into their eyes.”

Jody was shocked at the information.

But then, Syd Barrett had cut in between the lines.

“ Not control.”

Syd said, drawing attention from all of them,

“ Planted.”

“?!”

“ She can ‘Plant’ the order inside our head. But there's a condition. She needs to look in our eyes to do it. She planted it in me too. I can never harm her. If I shot her, my hand would bend away on its own. I can't control it. If she stares at you long enough, like what she did to Mickey, she would be able to do more to us. It'll go on its own that you never notice.”

“ How did you survive?”

Asked Jody,

“ I always avoid glaring on her face. But still, she can manage to use her ability on me. She's fast. Very fast. And soundless.”

“.......”

*Doors open*

Jade showed up.

Everybody raised from the seats,

“ Although his wound got perfectly healed, there're still a bullet's fractions and gun powders inside. So still need to take them out.”

“.... When?”

“ We already did. He's resting. He's safe now. Thanks to Sera. Because his blood amount is very fine.”

“.......”

“Can we get to see him now?”

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Inside the patient room. They found Mickey Mannix laying on the patient's bed with wires and tubes connected to the medical instrument next to him.

His fate was still uncertain.

Syd, Toshi, and Roxxy surrounded his bed. Jody then got to stand next to Roxxy later.

Roxxy and Toshi walked closer to Mickey's body. The girl held his palm and squeezed it tight.

“.......”

The medic and nurses, who had operated on Mickey for hours came to report.

“ He's safe. But the big problem here the brain. Bullet... even it didn't go up to the brain, the impulsion from the bullet was still able to cause the shock wave... Causing huge damage to the front lobe and some parts of the temporal lobe. If he's lucky enough, he can still be able to get back up with just a little after-effect. But in the worst condition...”

“......”

Everyone turned to doc, waiting for his answer.

“ ...Comatose.”

!!!!!!!!

“ How long...?”

“......” Doc shook his head.

“ HEY! DON'T FUCK WITH ME DOC! ”

Suddenly, Doctor's collar was being pulled up by Syd Barrett who is taller, lifting him.

“ THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!! THE BULLET WENT OFF HIS FACE! THE WOUNDS ALREADY HEALED! YOU'RE SAYING HE'S BRAIN DEAD???? ARE YOU FUCKING WITH ME? ”

With anger, Syd terrified the doctor and nurses around. So as Toshi and Jade.

“ Brother....”

“ IT'S OKAY. ROXXY.”

Syd Barrett replied to his sister who tried her best to stop his rage, his body leaked red energy. He gazed into doc's eyes with wrath... Terrifying enough to kill someone.

“ He's been pullin' tricks on us for sure. Don't worry. I can see through it. HUH? Are you hiding anything DOC??? NOW THE FUCKING TIME!!!! ”

His outrage was heard from even the outside.

As if there's no Syd Barrett from the beginning. It just an angry beast inside this room.

“......”

No one sees it. But Jade was only a second ahead before she triggered the advanced security team switch. Calling them in to get the anger “Elementalist” out of the patient room.

She already expected that Syd Barrett would have this intensive reaction.

The advanced security team would have at least being thrown away by this mad man or in the worst case, getting injured even though they have the armored outfit. Those are THRAK'S trained. But if they are to deal with the person name Syd Barrett, The Elementalist, that's whole another story.

However, such thoughts of Jade had come to collapse as she saw “Jody Johanson”. Another Elementalist. Had stepped up to the front.

She's the only one in the room... No, maybe the only one person in this whole place dare enough to stand against him.

Jody put both her palms on each side of his shoulder. Gently speaking to him.

“ Syd. Hey, listen to me.”

“......”

The boy paused.

“ Hey. Syd look. I know your wits are the best. Never in my life have met someone as good as you. You are the best. I also think at first that the doctor may be playing with us either. But don't you notice it? If the doctor wants to fool around with us, he would have done something better than this, right?”

“.......”

“ Think about it, Syd.”

“..………………”

“ I do believe everybody here is terrified of you, right? So who would have dared to fool around with you?”

“........... But he may-”

“ If he's willing to let Mickey die. There're many other ways to do it. Right? He could easily “perform” a small Mistake in surgery. Or even fake a report that there's no scattering bullet in his face too. Wouldn't that be easier?”

“.............”

“ I believe that someone as smart as you should have noticed this. Don't you agree?”

“........”

Syd began to put the doctor down...

Jody began smoothly rubbing his shoulder, her voice began warmer and warmer.

Syd Barrett released the doctor, he's panting and now on the ground.

Jody then removed her palms to his cheeks. She grabbed them gently and turned his face to her.

“ How's Mickey to you? Is he a good agent?”

Asked Jody.

“...... one of the best....”

The boy replied.

Jody gazed into his eyes.

“ If the best like you approved him as the best, then what's the reason for not helping him?”

Syd began to realize the truth.

He looked down to the floor, Jody moved one of her hands on to his head and start rubbing it.

“ See? anger blinds you from the observable clues. You always tricked someone to their boiling point so that you can use their anger to manipulate them. It's not something that'll happen to you in return right? ”

“........”

“.............”

*Rub*Rub*Rub*Rub*

“ Syd, We are professionals, aren't we?”

“.........”

“ You are not an amateur. Yeah? You know, I can't even do what you can do nowadays. You did your best.”

“.......”

“ Good boy.”

*Rub*Rub*

“............”

Jody then saw something on his face, she then decided to ask him.

“ Would you want to go outside for a minute? To calm your anger?”

“...........”

Syd nodded to the invitation.

Jody then took him out of the room, before they left, Jody turned to Roxxy.

The two nodded to each other like there're just 2 of them who understood what they meant.

And... They left. leaving everyone amazed at what had happened.

“.......”

“..........”

Especially Jade, the medic teams, and Toshi. As they have been known Syd Barrett for a time.

“...........”

“ ... How did she do it? ”

Jade was a calm and expressionless person, but this time the shocking expression was shown on her face...

“... Impossible...”

Toshi whispered. But he was surprised as Roxxy wasn't so much as shocking as them.

She did not reply but grin.

“.... Do you believe me now?”

“......”

Jade then pushed on the small talk, connected to her people.

“ Note to the database... We've located someone dangerous than Syd Barrett...Black code, I repeat, Black code. We have located someone dangerous than Syd Barrett.”

“ { ?! } ”

“ { WHAT???? Who's that? } ”

“.... The one who can control him...”

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On the other room.

*Crack*

Doors opened, Roxxy and Toshi visited Seraphina's room. She also on a patient bed, but she's conscious. And she was drinking an energy drink.

Sera turned her face to them rapidly. And of course. She looks worried as hell.

“ How's Mannix?”

“.... Sera, chill. You better worry about yourself first. Are you okay?”

“ Yes... The way they nurse me was adequate. How's Mannix? ”

(.... Ah... Straight to the point... I see...)

Roxxy thought.

Sera put the foot down, trying to stand up straight. A bit dizzy in the head, but bearable. Lucky she had Toshi helped carry her.

“ ...”

Seeing the expression on Roxxy's face, Sera felt uncomfortable about the news she's about to hear.

As the scene cut, Sera had been told everything about Mickey's condition.

She was now on her way to Mickey Mannix's room. Harshly opened the door, she finally came to meet with the boy.

“.......”

She did not say a single word, besides, she kept approaching and stared closer to him...

“.......”

Silence.

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On the outside.

Jody Johanson had taken Syd Barrett out to somewhere quiet. Somewhere no one would see or hear. Somewhere he'll finally be himself.

Yes. It's her room.

*Zoom* (doors closed sound)

She put Syd down on the chair. Clearing her textbooks and stuff before she began to talk to him in the posture that Jody leaned her butt against the desk. Another hand on his shoulder.

Looking into his face at that time, he was in anger. But now, it was shocking to her that his eyes had become watery.

“.......”

Seeing him in this emotion she never thought she would see was a surprise. But that's not something to be astonished at. In fact, She understood him well.

Syd knew what has happened to him. He wiped them off, now, his eyes were clean as usual. But just a little bit red in the eyes.

“.......”

Jody rubbed her hand on his back.

She knew a person like him would not let someone sees him in this image for sure. He rather dies than to be seen crying. Jody knew that point well.

Jody kept rubbing against Syd's shoulder.

Seeing him down made her down either.

No word needs to be said between them.

“.........”

Syd lifted his face.

But then, he saw Jody was gazing at him in empathy.

She did nothing more than opened her arms widely to his direction.

“........”

The boy went on his own, accepting the lady's comfort. She hugged him tightly. Syd could feel warmth. Suddenly, the picture of someone faded in on Jody's body.

He wasn't sure why this happened. The feeling was different. “Why did he allow Jody to see this side of him? ” was his first question. No one could answer that.

But one thing he knew was, He is willing, and fully allow himself to show her this side of him without awkwardness.

Then he began to admit.

The warmth and positive energy that came from her body to him... was the warmth that reminded him of his mother... And ███ .

.Syd Barrett cleared away his thought. He gained his consciousness back. And it's time to move on.

Jody released him.

“ I'll be going back.”

“.... Very well....”

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Getting back to the patient's room, Seraphina Gilmour was already present sitting over a chair next to the patient's bed.

“.....”

Jody walked in first, Syd closed the door.

“ Sera... How are you doing? ”

“ I'm fine.”

Jody was very glad that Sera was still doing fine.

Sera was holding something in her hand. They were a bunch of documents and pieces of paper. And she was regenerating them.

“ That's the evidence you had collected?”

Asked Jody.

“ Yes. There are electronic files too but I've already sent them to Jade.”

Roxxy replied. She was on the laptop writing something.

Sera turned her face away from everyone down to her hands.

“ If only I can unlock that door...”

Her voice was regretful.

(... If I was like them...)

“ Sera. You're doing nothing wrong.”

Toshi who stood behind her said,

“ Jimmy the door isn't something you can easily achieve. Especially the electronic one.”

He confirmed his stance,

“ Even me, myself. I still consider that as something that requires specific skills. It isn't something taught in school, is it?”

“.......”

“ Besides, you can find the alternate entrances which no one else knows. That's what you did. Sera. The situation should turn out to be worse than this if you weren't there. We'd have... lost him.”

Sera felt someone's holding her palms. And it was Roxxy Barrett.

“ ... Thank you, Sera. You save our friend.”

Her voice spoke for itself that it was very important to them.

“ I... I don't know... I feel like... I could do more but...”

“ Fuck' ya complaining??? ”

???!

Syd somehow started talking out of nowhere.

“ That's already something you can do at your best. There's no shit to be sad about. At least aside from being our healer and walking Xerox... I never thought We'd be owned by some toothpaste hair people like you. Fuck.”

He said it to Sera with his eyes looking down the ground. It kinda like he's mumbling. It was the first time Sera saw him being awkward.

“ Or you can say that in a shorter term.”

“....Jody--?! What the fuck”

Jody squeezed his cheek,

“ It's called ‘Thank you’. Just said it. ‘Thank you, Sera.’ ”

“ Fuck you! This ain't none of yo business.”

He tried distracting everyone from his embarrassment, instead, he draws them into it more and more.

Sera's mouth curved up a bit. However, as her eyes meet with the black document on her hand.

She gazed at the texts and read them through.

“........”

She flipped to another page.

“........”

“.........”

“ Sera?”

Seeing her pausing for long, Jody asked in worried.

Sera turned the page over and over until she finished them...

“.... Jesus...”

Her eyes widened in shock. The information, whatever it was, just took away the relaxation in the air in an instant.

Roxxy saw that. She noticed the change and asked Sera.

“ Sera? What is this? What is this black paper thing? ”

“......”

“ It's about the sample666....”

Syd said, “ About the girl who did this to Mannix.”

!!!!!!

Sera gazed her eyes to Syd Barrett.

Her eyes had spoken it all, the boy looked back and nodded down as they're, now, the only people who knew what they're talking about.

“ What did it say? ”

“........”

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The area in the middle east over and between the ‘Red Sea’. An inter political relationship has come to critical and has been continuing for generations of people.

“War” used to be the easiest word to describe that relationship around the border. A battlefield laying around the thin line that splits each country from the other. The place that has nothing but dusk from gunfire and explosive tactical grade arms.

Civilians on the battlefield have no many choices than to adapt themselves to the circumstances.

They lived a life like playing Russian roulette every single day. Except instead of a bullet, it's a missile and the death of their peers. One smiling to each other could be the next corpse lying down tomorrow.

Individuals growing up there has not much left to do either. Besides living daily life to survive a day, they at least have some activities such as drawings or playing with the other kids to release the stress.

“Adele” was also just another kid growing up in a war situation.

Though the world around her is built of cruelty, Adele is an energetic kid and always perceives the world in a positive way. She was good and enjoy drawing too. People often compliment her drawing. Some even said she could be a famous artist in the future.

It may seem that she can accept the fact that her life is tightened up with this country. But in reality, it isn't.

One thing she and the other kids all have in common is that they hate this place called ‘Home’.

It's a terrible place they want to run away from so badly.

In the TV she had watched, she never sees the children from the other country have a life as she had.

They didn't necessarily need to go to bed at a specific time.

The older ones can leave their houses at the midnight, whereas she never sees her brother and sister do.

The place she saw on TV is on the other hand of where she lived. It's better.

And she wanted that.

A dream to become a famous artist fades away on that day.

The new one is replaced.

Adele wants to take her family, her brother, and sister, her friends, her close people to go to those places she saw on TV.

Though she's a kid, she realized, it's too late to have a dream about fixing her own country.

Moving away is a better option.

Many times she had told her dream to people around her, they often laugh. Tapping on her shoulder. And say “ Well. I hope I'll see it one day.”

She doesn't know what that means. Why do they laugh? Although they don't say anything bad about her life goal, they laugh.

She doesn't think often about that reason, because her innocent mind really doesn't know.

All she knows is that she should go all out in studying exams at her school.

Because people on television tell her it can make her dream come true if she keeps studying.

And she hopes. She hopes that what she is doing is right.

Until one day.

After she's on the way coming back from school.

“.......”

The confusion was shown on the girl's face.

As she entered the village. She saw a strange group of people walking around...and they're armed.

“.......”

They all dressed in black armor... Like the one, they deployed from the U.S. but it hits different.

What happened?

The girl thought.

She ran past them, but they didn't do anything to her. Unt she came back to her house.

“......”

!!??

“ .. ...Who are you?...”

As she opened the door, she found the Black-clads were walking around her house.

Appeared the middle-aged lady who seemed like to be the one controlling these forces.

“......”

She turned her face at her. Then spoke something to her men. She gazed back at her and turned back, talking to her men again.

Adele doesn't catch what she's saying. But after she finished, she approached Adele in a friendly manner. The black-clad she talked to then moved out of the scene.

“ Hey. What's your name?”

She asked.

“ Why are you in my house! My dad will be very angry! Get out now! ”

Adele replied.

“....... Oh...your dad....”

The lady paused,

“ Is he a man who has a thick beard under the neck? ”

“... How'd you know?”

“....”

That lady sits lower before proceeds to pat on her head.

“ How old are you?”

“.....”

“ Where are dad and mom! You can't get into my house like this! ”

“ Your dad and mom are fine. Actually, I love the way they dressed. So as your siblings.”

“ Wait... You know them?”

“ I just have to know them about this morning. Your mom's food is pretty delicious, to be honest.”

“.........”

The lady then grinned,

“ I invite them... No, I have invited all of the people here to go with me.”

“... Go? Go where?”

“ A place where everyone wants to go. You too, aren't you? I have an order. And the order is to take you and the people in this village out of this border... To a place where you don't need to live a life like this anymore.”

“........”

“........”

“ Do you get what I'm saying? Am I going too fast? You can tell me to slow down, though. Don't be afraid.”

“........”

“ So you here to bring us out?”

“ Out of a place like this, yeah.”

The lady glanced all over the surroundings, showing that she had a negative feeling about this place.

“ Really? ”

“ Yes.”

“ You take all of us?”

“ Of course.”

“........”

“ Include me?”

“ Yes. You too. Aren't you getting sick of this place? ”

The lady raised. Put her hand behind Adele's back. Both started walking.

“ Well... It's not that bad...”

“.......”

“ Kid, what's your name?”

“...Adele... But people call me Del...”

“ Del, huh? That's a beautiful name. So Del-”

The lady's voice turned serious,

“ If this is actually considered normal, why do you have to listen to that bang, bang sound every night?”

“.......”

“ Do you like it when you wake up in the morning and the people you know disappear by day-to-day?”

“.... I don't like it...”

“ See? The place I take you to, everyone will be together every day. You don't have to wake up and know someone's gone. There'll be no bang-bang sound. And you are with your friends all the time. Ain't that better?”

“ That's better...”

“ So. You want to go with me?”

“ I have to ask father permission...first..”

“ No need.”

“ Heh?”

Adele looked at the lady's face with doubt.

“ Why?”

“ Because they're already waiting for you inside the ship.”

“ R...Really!? ”

“ Yes. They are.”

“ You are so kind! Thank you very much!”

Adele hugged the lady, but due to her height, she only hugged her knees.

“ Oh... But I have to pack-up my things first! Give me a minute.”

“ No need.”

“ Heh?”

“ Your father told me, you like drawings aren't you?”

“ D-Dad told you??!?”

The girl was awkward to say.

“ Yeah. He told me. Although he's a bit loud.”

“ He shouts at you? Dad is a quiet person, Which is very bad! How did he do that to a good person like you.”

“ Maybe It's my fault. But I don't mind kid. Anyway, you don't have to pack things. Because-”

Bett chuckled,

“ Where I'm taking you. We have tons of paper and color pencils.”

“ Color pencil? Wow! That's amazing! Thank you! You are very very kind! What's your name?”

The lady smiled out,

“ I'm Bett. Bett Moretz. You can call me ‘Betty’ ”

“ Betty~ I'm so excited! ”

“ I know kid.”

Once they're outside, the black-clad with armor came up and gave something to Bett. It's an oxygen mask with a tube connecting to a cylinder tank.

“ What is that? ”

“ Oh. I need you to put this on.”

The gas mask has been wrapped around the girl's face.

“ What are you doing?”

But she didn't even finish her sentence, Adele instantly fainted and fell down to Bett's arms.

“......”

Bett then took the oxygen mask out of Adele, handed it back to the black-clad.

“ I don't understand why Candy always complains about dealing with kids.”

Bett sighed,

“ Take her to the container. Be careful with it. She can be a great sample.”

“ Yes, Ma'am. What about the elders?”

“ If they're more than 80 years old, terminate them all. But let the toddlers live. They're out of scope, even though we need wide age ranges.”

“ Yes. Ma'am.”

The black-clad guy held Adele's body and jogged away.

Bett Moretz turned around and went on searching.

Bett walked past Adele's house to the back, the house was empty.

But If someone has an X-ray ability, they will see bodies of people who had tried to resist Bett's army lying down under the house. Dead.

That also included Adele's dad, lying on the other bodies with eyes opened covering with water. No longer breathing.

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It was the day after that.

After the poor girl had wakened in a ‘white room’.

She realized the place she's been brought to was even worse than her home.

And she had no longer see the woman name Bett.

Only a different group of people wearing white gowns.

“ NOOOOO! STOP! IT HURTS! WHERE'S MY DAD!??? WHERE'S MOM?! ”

She never heard anything about them since then. Like they completely lost and disappeared. Adele had been put up in a place with different people she did not know.

In there, they all wear the same dress like her, White-green clothes. Many ages, many races.

Even the people from the opposite side of the border too. The people that are like her. The people on the different side.

But now they are all gathered here. Nobody talks to each other. Adele found out she was ‘just' another new sample. She has no name. Everybody here has no name. Only serial numbers. 3 digits.

Some of them look like they've been here for a long time. And they won't communicate with her. Not just because of the language barrier, but also mental deterioration.

There's no use to resist. She had to do whatever they put her through. If she did anything, even at the slightest, to make the black-clad piss off, she gets beaten.

Every day, Adele wishes for Betty to come back. She didn't know these people, she was scared of them.

She wanted to go back home.

She misses her parents.

“ What's your name? ”

Adele has asked a girl of the same age, she was the only one that can speak the language she used. And that girl seems to be living here before Adele.

“......”

She did not answer the girl's question. But instead, the tears began falling down the face as her voice was shaking.

“ They... They told me... They told me they will bring me out of the war zone... They promise.... They... They promise they will take me to the better life... But why.... WHYYYYY!!!!---- aaa...aaah---- aaaaaa....aaa...”

That even pulled her down deeper.

Seeing everyone like her not talking to each other, lifeless was worse, but knowing that even the girl at the same age as her was also traumatized this much was a total inferno.

Days by days, all she did was nothing but getting injected with syringes and chemicals. She had cried until nothing came out of her eyes .until her throat hurt. until her nose couldn't breathe.

She never sees the sky since then.

1 week later :

She began developed trauma.

Self-esteem and energetic personality have begun to vanish. Although she's still able to talk, they're just short sets of words. Yes, No.

1 month later :

Adele had lost the personality. She became one with other lab members--Loss of awareness of time and circumstances-- The mind began to sink into the emptiness. Mental health had come to a critical.

The body got affected by drug use. The skin began to turn pale as time goes.

Lips skins and some parts of arms and legs began to deteriorate.

5 months later :

The last day of the poor girl before she completely lost all senses.

The scientists had brought her into the experiment room. This time was different from usual, they have bigger and various types of their instruments.

The girl laying on the bed tightened. She has no will left to respond but she still can hear.

The scientist put the eye cover on her. Before Adele heard the sound of high-heels walking in the room.

“ This will be the first sample to test with AP-36.”

“ I see...”

At the time she heard the woman voice said ‘ I see ’, her instinct told her it was similar to the woman name Bett but that was long ago. She had already forgotten how she looks like.

“ This version of the pill will not only grant the pseudo ability to those who consume. But it'll also give them multiple pseudo abilities to hold. Though it's a very high risk that the effect will be so severe that the sample may die before we can do anything.”

“ Multiple abilities in 1 person? Hmm. This will please the leader well.”

“ If the experiment succeeds, what will you name it?”

“ What's the serial number of this girl?”

“It's 66”

“ Hmm.”

The lady was thinking before she decided,

“ Sample 666. Three six, like the number of these latest drugs. 36-666.”

“ I see what you did there. Alright. Then let's begin.”

Adele felt her mouth had been opened by the metal tool before something was insert into her mouth down right to the throat.

Adele heavily coughs out, but they kept pressing. In the end, she ended up swallowing a pill into the body.

She didn't know what will happen from here. Suddenly, pain rises inside her stomach, it felt like her intestine and stomach are being turned out.

“ AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

The girl screamed all over the buildings until her voice cracked. The beeping sound of a medical instrument next to her works maniacally to inform them that something has going on inside her body.

She wanted to curl, but her body was tightened. So all she could do was screaming out the loudest.

Here comes the instant effect, Adele felt that there're something inside her nose, a liquid has been running up to her mouth. Then she puked out. The smell of metal has made the girl realized it was nothing but her blood coming out of her mouth and nose.

She cough. The liquid leaked, but there's no sign of getting better.

And then, she fainted.

Waking up back again, She found herself locked up in the white room. A completely white room. Nothing in there but the bed and the girl.

The LED light was on 24/7. Adele was very confused. However, at the moment she woke up, she did not realize that her eyes, the white area, aka sclera, has been filled with her blood spots to spots. All the capillary around her eyes were torn apart, also known in the other words as “ Subconjunctival hemorrhage ”

Adele can't see clearly, and she can do nothing with that.

1 week after receiving AP-36:

The side effect of the AP36 appeared often on Subject 666. The skin turns even paler than before. The sample appeared to have a Subconjunctival hemorrhage, barely talk, The teeth began to fell apart. Bleeding frequently, but did not face a blood loss.

2 week after receiving AP-36 :

After observing the sample 666 internal organs. Subject faced pneumonia, seeing distortion image, mental distorted. Began to rip off her nails due to unexplainable reason.

After dissecting the internal organs, The body of the subject has received the effect of the AP36, resulting in the movement of internal organs. The intestines had no longer in shape. It expanded out to every possible space inside the stomach, whereas the stomach and liver have moved away from each other. The extension in arteries, The heart was moved lower to the diaphragm. The organs were completely out of shape.

5 weeks after receiving AP-36 :

The subject began to perform the ability. Physical speed increased, Inhuman level of damage endurance. Be able to live in the place that has no oxygen. And most importantly, the ability to “interfere” with the target's “rhombencephalon” AKA Hind Brain, which duty is to control the fundamental of Survival, or in another word, Instinct.

The eyes staring is needed to perform the ability. Which can be explained.

Eyes are connected by the optic nerve to the optic chiasm, which it connects to the medulla. There are delays in the ability speed, to perform at the highest efficiency, constant glaring is required.

The after-effect of using ability is quite severe due to the substance's reaction with body-- A major issue that has not yet fixed-- The AP36, similar to “Chemotherapy” but worse, vanish all the White blood cell, Platelet (But did not interfere the red blood cell) interrupting the body's healing system, thus, made the wounds and injuries of the after effect remains UNHEALED.

If she got cut on the arms, the body can generate the new cells and rebuild the flesh back to normal but after receiving AP36, the process does not work anymore.

After using the pseudo ability, Sample666 gets a wound. both internal and external. Often bleeding. Got Infection, but cannot heal.

Coming to this part, The team (Our protagonists) realized why they saw many wounds on the girl's body. It wasn't caused by the penalty she got, it was caused by her ability.

She's already very terrible on the outside. But the reality was even worse. The inside was damaged too.

3 months after receiving AP36 :

The ability is very effective. But the Sample itself is in a critical stage.

Cannot be sold.

Though Ability is multiple ( As observed, 4) The pill needs more research on how to remain the subject normal.

Even Sample666 performed the great abilities and survives AP36 the longest. [ The others that received AP36 had died within 2 weeks ] -The result is still turn out to be ceased to function.

Sample666 … experiment result: Failed (positively)

The project will be renewed and The sample will be eliminated from the Lab within the date: ……

As the team has come to see the number of the date, They found that it was the same day the team has done the operation, collecting the evidence.

“........”

“... They planned to kill her on the same day we operated...”

Everything connects,

“ But they had not killed her yet because the police have breached in first... But how did she get out?”

Sera asked a question nobody knows.

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.

.

.

Back to when Syd's team had stormed in the camp with Norwegian police,

The moment the siren alerted every individual in the camp, That's when Adele... No, Sample666 has found the way out of the place that keeps her locked.

Everyone was running around in chaos, then out of nowhere breaching made them panics about getting caught. They even talked about how did the police know?

The guards went to the front to fight the police, many doors lab were unlocked due to the security system shut down. That's what made her free.

Sample666 has only 1 thought in her mind.

“ End it.”

End the pain. End the suffering.

She knew nothing can kill her except cutting out her head or... Die by her ability. She has an advanced level of endurance. That's one of her abilities, the reason why she still survives the infection and bleeding.

Sample666 was free. And she began her revenge. She did not care who they'll be, the lab coat, the guards, or even the victims like her, she used the ability to them all.

*Step* Step* Step* Step*

*

“... N...No... No!!! Get away from me!!!! Get away from me!!!! ”

The female scientist screaming out of her life after witnessing the mass massacre that turns the white room red in a second.

But nothing can help her now.

In the end. She ended up getting the face ripped by the surgeon who Sample666 has taken control of him to use the metal knife to cut around her face. Before the surgeon was forced to take off the gas mask and suffocated from being forced to eat the internal organs of Sample666 victims on the ground...

She arrived from room to room. Killing people by people. Gaining more and more wounds. Suffering more and more pain.

Until she met with him.

Syd Barrett and Mickey Mannix.

Yet another victim who unknowingly ran into her.

Bang!

She made the green hair guy shot himself but the brown hair one was fast.

That's when she realized she made a big mistake by not kill him first.

She did not want to fight this man. But that thought was just a whisper among the scream of madness inside her head.

She fought him. Aiming to take his life.

But then after this guy saw a black paper, he turned and looked at her with different eye sights.

She had no idea what that meant. And she did not care.

After she got shot by him, even the

bullet wound did not kill her, but he chose to tie her up and left.

Why?

Why did he do that?

But not for long after they left.

She saw the Norwegian police breached inside... Facing her.

“........”

That's when she knows, why Syd Barrett did not kill her.

Because he knew she has already chosen to end her life. He had seen what she had been through. And he respected the decision...

That's the first empathy she has had since being taken from her parents.

“.......”

Sample666 was sitting still, now the police forces, knowing no clue about her, were surrounding her from all directions.

And they're all “staring” right at her.

“......”

The first and last slight smile was shown on her face.

“.......”

She did not know who that man was. But this amount of people...plus her injuries...her bleeding, and internal injured...

It's enough.

Thank you...brother...

Now I can get back to Mom and Dad...