EXTRA III – “…we were in the same… project…”

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Human trafficking was a shit deal… You go into a van or a room, to get some free… candy. And are sold to some sugar daddies you don't wanna know, who will value you like premium candies.

I knew I was done for, when I could only see blurred lights, and feel hands picking me up and throwing me into jars of other premium candies. All after a blackout on the street.

So many ways to go down here this way.

I cried. I screamed. But to no end. If they gave a fuck, none of this would happen.

It felt like they loved my fear, because they kept me around. Or maybe I wasn't gorgeous enough for the perverts. So now, maybe my parts would be sold, or I could be given as freebies, or raped by the frustrated traffickers trying to sell me.

Or all.

But I knew my death was near. Because I had witnessed the other candies be broken down to pieces. Right in front of us. As if to set some example. To be prettier? Sexier? What did they want us to do?

Fucking absurd. Fucking pieces of shits getting their heads smashed by my hands. That was my wish I got fulfilled, for having to stay in this prison.

The prison of this… Saturn Organisation. The people I got sold to. Yet I chose a wish to kill their dealers.

They wanted to make some… mutated beings, or shit. Make people go through shit, until some inner evolution in us is triggered.

If it worked it worked right? At the least I got to kill those people treating me like candies. Only for me to end up here as a hamster or shit, being experimented on.

What a shit deal.

"You aren't alone in this, there is another guy in the same project as you, just along this way," a scientist points down the hall.

The experiment they talk about was shady and… bit too specific on something else.

"You will be fulfilled with your needs, anything but contacting the outside world. As long as you stay in there and co-operate with us," says another scientist, while he videos me.

All the scientists wore masks, and had their voices altered. I couldn't even see if they had long hair or short hair. There was so much one can do by knowing the other's physique.

I cover my bare chest with my hands and twist my naked legs together.

"Honey… you don't have to be shy. Just make us believe you are wearing clothes, if you don't like the staring."

How was that possible?

They found a way to explain to me, with an example…

I could see the guy they had mentioned, in an installed screen in my cell, and it seemed that he could see me too. And when he found me… he appeared to be in clothes.

"That is the goal," the scientists tell me, looking at my expression.

I observed him, we seemed to get the same type of food, and treatment, even when he was far into this experiment. Mushrooms and some other kind of vegetation, which gave me a bad headache, and almost passed me out always.

One time… I woke up to seeing a guy jerking himself off, to my naked body. I quickly moved to find a cover, but there was no such thing. So I… make him look away. He… seemed to… hate worms on a decaying naked body. So he runs away, looking at me.

"You did it," I hear, and feel it coming from the guy in the screen.

I jump, and see that the guy is looking straight at me.

"But it is pointless," he says.

He wasn't moving his lips…

"How are you talking?" I ask.

"I can't hear you… make me hear you in here," he says, pointing at his head... brain?

I find it too obvious… finding his brain. And I could feel a connection.

"The three of us are that way… we can communicate with each other this way," he says. "It has been a while for me too… but it just feels natural. As if… talking to yourself."

Can you read my mind? I can't…

"No, it is just… communication. Do you see the tubes running across your chamber…?"

Aren't those just a show? Or maybe oxygen for the cell?

"No… that is some energy which helps us mutate… all of us."

How do you know?

"I just do… now let us get out of here."

Was this another illusion? It must be the goddamn mushrooms, or they could have drugged me worse.

Alarms go off, as that guy seems to come out of the prison.

Even sounds now, now that was an upgrade the mushrooms must have taken.

"There is no escape from this place, let me tell you… cause we can't ever compare to him."

Who?

"Him."

The guy reaches in front of my cell, and stops… as someone stands in front of him.

"Perk," the guy says out loud.

"You can't leave," Perk, huge guy in yellow clothing, says.

"Why? You left. I deserve to leave too."

"Some things take time…" Perk says.

"Huh, then you must be lightning fast to have left like that."

"And maybe then you are… Thunder," Perk says.

"Then I'll be causing the ruckus here."

"I don't think you understand how lightning and thunder work," Perk scoffs. "Go back to your cell!"

"Perk, we need to get her out too," Thunder says through his mind.

"No," I hear Perk in my mind too, saying sharply. "It is risky. You need to get out of here now!"

Perk goes ahead, and they both start fighting.

Perk goes down without even landing a hit on Thunder. And by that time, I hear gunshots. Thunder looks at me apologetically.

"Perk… please get out soon," Thunder says in my mind.

And then I never heard from him again.

Perk explains to me, that he was the illusion god here. So, only surpassing his prowess would have gotten Thunder or me out, but that hadn't and couldn't happen. Perk, as he called himself, was a mechanised dragon, and possessed a gem. And explained to me about dragons and everything.

And he also promised me freedom, if I could ever get as good as Thunder. But I only end-up getting released by Saturn Organisation, and becoming their slave, like Perk.

Perk being way stronger… somehow didn't get placed into this examiner shit. Nor did he tell me about what his tasks were… I haven't seen him in a while.

"So that is what happened," Thunder sighs, while being somewhere in this dome, but not by my side.

I'm paralyzed, can't you come help?

"I don't know if I can trust the others with our's and Perk's secret… besides, they have that Edward… can we trust him?" Thunder asks.

He gave Ring away to Saturn… but that could also be a way of gaining their trust. So I wouldn't know.

"What level of an agent is he? He even talked about this parasite creature, you don't know ANYTHING about it?"

No… I'm not as good as Perk. You know we never can be.

"Yeah yeah, you even story told me that part. Even when I was there that day…"

I just stay silent and let him continue talking.

"But I won't let them kill you. We are soon going to get out of this place… I have asked some people I trust… they'll take care of you."

And that did happen. After the dome broke apart, I got out, and slowly recovered from my paralysis in a few hours.

"Where is Thunder?" I ask the people around me.

Finally I found Thunder in a hotel room… so they had come for O… but I couldn't hear Thunder, how much ever I tried to talk to him. So maybe getting them O, would heal Thunder.

They were trustable but… I couldn't show myself to them.

After seeing the chance, when the team infiltrates into the facility, after sending their guy, right into the trap of a Silver-mask…

"Yeah…? Catch me then."

I enter the room.

"What?" the guy asks, after his transformation fails.

I walk right in-between the two, and address Silver-mask.

"Don't worry, I have paralyzed him," I say, looking at him, and then at Silver-mask, holding an incubator with a floating head in it. But I don't react… cause he wouldn't have...

"You must be Perk."

I feel dizzy with the steroids in me. But the steroids wouldn't just be helping make the illusion, if not for these two to believe me. So I had to get out before I talked too much.

"Please turn the alarms off, it is fine," I say to him, calmly.

The Silver-Mask ahead of me, follows the same, gets the device closer to him and says, "False alarm."

I wait until he puts the alarm back to its place, and places his hands on the desk.

"Has Executive succeeded?" he asks.

"Won't be long, it is him after all," I say.

The Executive was here? Why?

"As expected… but I didn't request your presence," Silver-Mask says. "You still haven't changed your opinion on taking up the task to be a Golden…"

"Yes," I firmly say.

These… masks. They were just controlled by the organisation. I wasn't even a Bronze. Just a… slave. Their play thing. But Perk must be a higher level than even the masks, considering him.

"But I do have other tasks on hand," I say.

"Like?"

"You are requested back at the academy," I say. "But he is to be let go."

Silver-mask thinks for a while and sighs. "Letting even O go… The Examiner has weird ways."

"I'll make him forget what he saw here," I say, while grabbing the guy… Ramsus.

"I'll meet you soon. Just help Thunder for the moment," I say, and leave Ramsus in front of the building, and take my leave, before he can react.

I silently follow them to the hotel, so that I can surprise Thunder. But… I realise the reason why The Executive was here, was that very hotel, now broken down, only left as a message.

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And there goes the Extras! Hope it wasn't too boring, with new perspective characters. Questions about them will be answered in season 2!