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splitsec10 — Experiment A chapter three
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Chapter Three: Faded Memories“Proto come on we need to go back home before we freeze to death.” Airi called. I sat on top of a tree from floor 48. I had a light grey scarf on with a bright yellow coat up to my mouth and grey snow pants. My tail flicked mischievously from side to side.
“But I like being outside.” I called above.
“Proto are you stuck?” She asked worriedly.
I grabbed a snowball behind my back and hid it from her sight. I gave an innocent nod. Airi let out a sigh. He blonde hair was hidden away in her snow cap. Her outfit was the exact same one as the day I met her. She looked both ways with her large blue eyes. I liked how she moved that way. I liked that she worried. She finally held out both hands. “What do I do?” I asked to break the silence trying to get her to by my act.
“Try to climb to that branch next to you, the lower one. I’ll catch you if you fall.” She looked up at me worriedly. I crawled over to the next branch with ease and looked at her. “Now jump. I’ll catch you.” She stood below me. I quickly aimed and knocked her hat off. I jumped down and snatched her hat up before she could even respond.
“Got it!” I waved it in triumph.
“Proto! Give that back!” She frowned. She chased after me. “Proto! Please I’m cold and we need to go home.”
"Is curfew coming?” I asked.
“Yes and it’s cold out. We need to go home or we’ll get in trouble with curfew.” She waited by a willow tree. Her beautiful hair rested on her shoulders. Her eyes with determination of getting me home or getting her hat back. I finally returned to her scared of curfew since I never met him before although I didn’t think I would ever want to.
“Here Miss Airi.” I gave her cap back. She took it and placed it back on her head except she didn’t tuck her hair into it. I waited for her to grab my hand and lead me to the elevator.
“Next time tell me you don’t like my hat.” She smiled. She tapped my nose and carried me off to the elevator. “I’ll take you back to your house and make you some hot chocolate and cookies before I head home.” She pressed the button to call the elevator to us.
“Hot chocolate and cookies what are they?” I asked as we walked in. It had only been a month or two since I began to live outside the laboratory. Airi reached for the 46th floor button but I hit it right before her. “I got it!” I cheered. She laughed at me and tapped me on the nose again. Once we arrived to my house she took her coat, scarf, and mittens off revealing a simple sweater. She then helped me out of my coat because my fingers struggled to push the button back through the hole. Within ten minutes she had made both hot chocolate and cookies for us both.
“Is it good Proto?” She asked me.
“Yeah I like it. It’s just as good as your tuna and sushi!” I nibbled on the warm cookie.
“Well don’t eat a bunch of cookies or you’ll get cavities. Then that pretty smile of your’s will be ruined. And don’t forget about your math homework tonight. If you need help then we’ll work on it tomorrow.” She slipped on her coat. She smiled politely at me as she tried to turned the doorknob.
“Do you have to go?” I asked.
“Yes Proto I have to.” She adjusted her scarf. “You have my key but try sleeping here tonight for me okay? You have to do your homework here tonight and you also have a check up in the morning. So you can’t come to my house.”
“Can’t you stay here then?” I asked running to her side. I hugged her pant legs.
“Proto my clothes aren’t here. But you need to be a big boy anyway.” She kneeled over to my height. She gave me a hug and left. I got to work on my math paper. I raced around the sheet of paper writing in the answers as fast as I could. I looked over at the clock:
10:36 pm Tue Dec 12
The tenth guard would’ve left already by now. I looked down at the sheet of homework and rethought Airi’s reasons to stay here. I groaned and continued writing... Beep! Beep! Beep! The alarm clock screamed:
6:20 am Weds Dec 13
I fell out of my chair and hit the trashcan next to it. My arms hurt along with my head. I turned the alarm off and grabbed my bag. I reached for my homework to put in my bag but it wasn’t finished. I hear a knock downstairs and went to go answer it. I quickly tripped and tumbled the whole way down the stairs. Tears welled up in my eyes. I got to the door and opened it. Tadashi stood there with three scientist. I was blasted by the cold air and shivered. I had forgotten about the weather. Before I could go hide back inside the warmth of my home I was grabbed by the arm and taken down the road in nothing but my slippers and pajamas. I was taken all the way to the laboratory and forced to run test.
“Ow.” I whined as they stuck a needle into me. I was covered in bruises from my falls in the morning and completely frozen from not getting the chance to change. They took the second pint of blood from me and then started to put several other needles into me injecting substances into my blood. I was sick to my stomach as they made me run on a treadmill. Later they prodded me and pulled on my skin while hooked to a giant machine. By the time it was over it was around one-thirty. My stomach growled for the millionth time and I shivered under the air vent waiting to be picked up. I was soaking wet since they forced me to bathe in some sanitizing shower that burnt me before it froze me with it’s different phases of sanitizing.
“Proto why are you in your pj’s and you’re hair is all tangled and wet.” Airi sympathised me. She looked at me and pulled on one of my arms. I quickly winced and pulled away curling up in a ball. “Proto you poor thing. Did you have a bad day?”
“I want to go home.” I tried to keep from crying.
“Come on then lets go home.” She gently patted my head.
“But it hurts to move.” I looked at her. She frowned at me. Just to my luck another scientist walked up.
“Pardon me miss, but Experiment A Prototype needs to be retested. One of our machines malfunctioned and messed up on the input scores.” The man pulled me by my arm.
“When will it be over?” Airi asked the man.
“Approximately four hours.” He replied.
“Don’t worry Proto, I’ll be back after I go get you some clothes and something to eat after you get out.” She held my free arm before leaving...
Vrrp! Vrrp! My phone brought me back to the present. It was Tasahi as I expected. His hollow matter self appeared tapping his foot scolding me with his lab coat on. “Yes Tadashi?” I stared back at him.
“Still sitting informally are you. After rudely kicking your newer models out with that behavior of yours.” He growled.
“You're replacing me with kids that are into cookies instead of business.” I sighed.
“Come to the laboratory or I’ll send the squad up and place you in the red room.” He threatened.
“The red room? What am I twelve again? That doesn't break me anymore chief. Besides I don’t need to know what I’m suppose to do the only reasons you ever call is to nag at me at the lab or send me to go and beat up some viruses.” I rolled my eyes. My tail flicked in annoyance.
“See you in ten then Prototype.” He ended the call with that.
“My name’s Ryouya, jerk.” I added closing my VX3 up and slipping it into my hoodie pocket. I walked down the street to the elevator and punched in floor 22. I yawned as I strode into the labyrinth of offices and lab testing rooms. Many scientist backed up as I walked along with my hood up. They knew I hated it when my hood came off so they never corrected me wearing it. I made several turns until I reached Tadashi’s scent trail leading into a newer laboratory room. I opened the door walking through a dim narrow hallway with tanks the shape of cylinders with pumps and wires leading into them from the ceiling. The tanks were closed so the only real light was from the floor lights that glowed an eerie green-blue. I walked to the end that had another room at the end with the door closed. I had no reason to open it because Tadashi stood at the last tank that was closed but had his hand gently pressed against it looking at me.
“So you made it in time. Did you make a fuss on the way here?” He asked me.
“If you mean attacking some bystander then no I haven't.” I replied. I looked at the tank wondering what was on the other side. “So what do you have to yell at me about?”
“Have you noticed the viruses have slowed their attacks down?” He asked me.
“Yeah. I only means they’re busy somewhere else.” I remarked. Viruses always tried to get smarter about attacking the buildings and the infinite floors beyond the dimension field. The citizens couldn’t get pass the field protecting them from getting lost in infinite world that only every once in awhile they would expand a floor when needed to be. But that allowed viruses to come in or sometimes they would even break through a weak spot in the field. That’s why I come in along with some squad generals. To protect all the other people on the different floors and buildings.
“Precisely and that’s why we worked on making newer models of you.” He looked at me, “We worked on them for months and raised them like you.”
“By brainwashing them? By placing them with no names and parents to a teacher? Taking all their memories away?” I started to clench my fist.
“Losing your memories is a side effect we are working on it. All we want you to do is train them to fight. Then you can live a normal life.” He grinned.
“It’s not normal and I don’t like the idea of becoming someone’s trash. Besides you still haven’t kept your end the bargain.” I glared at him.
“Oh really then why don’t you have a look at this.” He pressed the button to open the tank’s view. A bright light poured into the room. I looked up and saw Airi inside the glass. Her hair, her face was just as if she was placed there yesterday. She was hooked into wires and had a breathing machine on her face. She didn't have any clothing on but was covered up as she floated in the fetal position through the fluorescent liquid. I looked at her in awe. I placed a cold hand up to the glass.
“Can she come out? Can she remember me?” I asked not taking my eyes off her.
“Once you do your end of the job training the kid is when I’ll let her out. It took awhile to get her to reconstruct herself while maintaining her heartbeat. We extracted the bullet and put her in here to heal in the Flora Liquid.” He grinned.
“So all I have to do is teach those kids and you’ll let me and Airi live in peace and allow her to call me Ryouya?” I asked.
“You’re not allowed to call yourself that.”
“You’ve never told me why I couldn’t. If that's my name than I should be called that.”
“Ryouya is dead. You’re nothing like him.”
“Than what is my real name?”
“Your name is Prototype, Experiment A Prototype.”
“Then what are those kid’s real names?”
“Experiment A One and Two.”
“Where is the humanity in you. I’ll never understand you.” I started to leave.
“Prototype, before you go off be sure not to kill anyone.” Tadashi looked my way while closing the tank’s cover leaving us in the dark.
“Sure I’m not cold hearted like you.” I walked away.
“Training starts next week the same time as now. And remember you’re still being tracked.” He yelled at me as I walked out the door...
