Normal Girl Route: Dale and Admiral Hellbert's Past Part 2

Cries from the lost child can be heard from all over the background, shapeless darkness was everywhere and no one seeks to save the little girl.

"Father... Jim, Claire? Where are you? I'm all alone in this place, please save me..."

The weeping of a child continues as suddenly a familiar voice was heard from afar. It was a faint call from Dale.

"Are you okay?"

Gently brushing Dale's hair. She sees... herself. Shocked by the sudden doppelganger appearing as herself, she leaves her seclusive self and finally met a new friend.

"Can you save me from the bad guys?"

"Yes I will, I love you, Dale." She says with a straight face.

"I love you too Dale."

The pitiful seclusion of Dale became her power, she wasn't alone anymore but the isolation was still there hiding inside her heart.

She became broken as adding more friends, more Dale.

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Walking into a secret room where the criminals assemble for a party, they have hope pills to gather and finally they break the rules of SK Foundation, accountable for their actions as a sinner, they need to be punished but the good thing is one dominator stays from the underworld, Mr. Shady.

He governs the underworld for his sick amusement, for he has full control over filthy criminals like the goons who were hired to kidnap random children.

Though it was easy to kidnap the ones who are defective the rare ones are worth capturing.

Mr. Shady walks casually from the depths of the underworld, witnessing society like the dark web gathering to be entertained by the games that the host showed.

But nothing shows of the girl they were looking for. As they continued to release their urges from the grand event, Mr. Shady has another lead to where she is.

Going deeper into the depths of the underworld sees a bunker filled with pieces of equipment that the mad scientist gathered for his specified experimentation, seeing him rummaging some other test tubes filled with liquids that came from the founder of the SK Foundation and blood samples from the defects that they captured.

"Oh, what a pleasant surprise.

Mr. Shady, how are things going in your authorization?"

"Going easily fine for now, I have slacked off most of the time but now I was needed for someone important lately.

Right now I am looking for a little girl named Dale. She has these details in the picture."

Mr. Shady shows the picture to the mad scientist.

"Oh her.

I have her in one of my rooms from the children I collected.

For now, it is still dangerous for me to let them off the streets since they are potentially powerful."

"Powerful you say? Do tell."

"I have discovered from the defects that one in a hundred there are kids that have strange and unique abilities that can deal as strong as the dominators."

"I see, so how was the research?"

"So far I got two important children I need to contain."

"I see, mind telling me why you can't give me the little girl you took?

The one you captured is one of the top inventors that the SK Foundation has.

Don't tell me she is one of those children?"

"Correct.

She is dangerous and needed to be experimented on immediately."

"Mind taking me to the little girl perhaps and I'll deal with the papers from the SK Foundation about your worth."

"Sure thing."

They both went to the cell room where Dale was imprisoned, as seen in the containers sees many doppelgangers standing at the original.

"Magnificent, so that's her awakened ability."

"I guess my mission is finished.

I'll return the favor by proving your worth to the founder, you will be needed."

"How can you prove that?"

"I got a call from the founder himself ahead of time.

And he told me to meet you in person."

"So I was accepted huh?

Maybe I got a new lab as payment for my work."

"Fine.

Tell that to the founder and he'll maybe approve it."

"Fair point."

The mad scientist opens the door as seeing all the doppelgangers standing and staring at the original sitting down.

"Hello there Dale.

Your father sent me here to get you."

"That's what the kidnappers told me as well, but look what happened.

They brought me here and hid away from my father and Claire."

Mr. Shady looks at the mad scientist.

"Don't look at me like that, it was for the safety of the residents.

Imagine her abilities go rampaging at the city Alamus.

She will become a pesky little runt."

"C'mon now."

Mr. Shady decides to forcefully take her but her doppelgangers activated as Mr. Shady was deemed as a threat and so they attack them.

Each of them one by one punches, bite, kicks, and tear his flesh apart while the original escapes.

"She's escaping..."

"I have enough games for that little girl."

Mr. Shady ruptures most of the doppelgangers from their limbs and head one by one.

While Dale escapes but as soon as she realizes, she was in like a maze.

Completely lost, she uses her ability 'doppelganger' to divide and go in all the directions that might lead to her escape.

*Dale's Flashback*

As she was outside the house of Claire, one guy appeared from behind and is eager to ask what she was trying to do at the so-called empty house.

"Hello, there little girl, what were you doing shouting at an empty home?"

"My friend needs me. So I am trying to call her by shouting.

"I see, about this house based on my information leaker, this house was a property of Valentine.

But he is being executed early on by the SK Foundation.

That's a shame, he betrayed the SK Foundation and so he was punished for it.

"I see. So that's why she is currently sad right now..."

"Little girl why don't you help her, I can give you a power that can make your friend happy."

"Really?!"

"Yes, inside you has a potential that can be used to make any people a better place."

"Amazing. How can I do that?"

"We can do it at my place, do you want to go with me?"

"But my father said I shouldn't go with strangers."

"That's a shame..."

She was suddenly grabbed by the goons of the stranger.

"But you don't have much of a choice."

"Boss about the payment--"

"I know I'll manage it later for now let's make sure she does not activate her power."

She screams for help and so Claire heard and run to where the voice was located.

But she was too late.

*Goes back to the present*

Dale focuses on her power to make more clones of herself, and so it was a success.

She was able to make 22 copies of herself and thus they went to each of the directions while the original stayed in the center.

They all run from each pathway and if they have divided another path, they would just divide again and go as fast as they could.

After 30 minutes one of the clones have found a way out, and so the original transfer her original soul to the one that got out while the other clones disappear to dust.

As she was able to get out of the first obstacle, she was been strangled by Mr. Shady himself.

"Don't you think it is a little strange to see a maze as a way out?

I made that up and forces you to imagine a place that would be your escape room.

But luck didn't go in your way, I am inevitable."

Mr. Shady knocks her down and goes unconscious.

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At the house of Sambor, both Sambor and Claire wait for the call of the SK Foundation.

After waiting for the longest time, they finally called and so Sambor answers it and told them to go to the Skyscraper immediately.

So they went to the SK Foundation where the observer room was located.

They went inside as the call of the founder from the screen appears, and all the other dominators appear with mysterious masks.

They say,

"We have found your daughter, Sambor Hellbert."

"Really?!

Thanks the stars.

Thank you very much for finding my daughter!"

"Well, I have 2 bad news for you.

First, she is a potential threat to the city Alamus so we have locked her up and done some research on her in order for us to dissect and redeem her powers and finally hand them out to you.

But it might take a while so we need you to be patient."

"What will you do to my daughter?"

"We'll keep her in the White Room."

"I haven't heard about this place yet, what is the White Room?"

"It is a place where many sinners like your daughter will work for me and help them become better humans.

Don't worry, I'll make sure they take care of her very well."

"Can't I visit her?"

"No, but that's part of the problem.

As a payment for the generosity of the SK Foundation, we will do a certain project.

We will make you a dominator in favor of Mr. Smiley."

"That makes no sense, why would all of you make me a dominator?"

"We will make sure you will become humanity's hope and you will become one of the leaders of the SK Foundation.

We will call you Admiral Hellbert."

After the meeting, they took Sambor to the experimental area where the new lab of the mad scientist was.

His name is Albert Sneer and people call him Dr. Sneer.

And so after 3 years, Sambor turned into a bio-weapon and was selected as one of the dominators by Mr. Smiley shortly after.

The appearance of Mr. Smiley has witnessed two dominator candidates at the same time as being appraised as powerful dominators in the soon future by that time they were full fledged dominators.

While for Claire, she was all alone at her home for over 4 four years and decided to enlist from the SK Academy and strive to become a scouter that would gather intel from the city of Alamus.

And so the story ends here. Welcome to Normal Girl Route.