Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)
Beyond => Aralang Dimensions => SF Dimension => Topic started by: Gaserlake on September 06, 2010, 04:18:57 AM
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Kotah, Ezael, and several other soldiers were beamed into the station. It has IAM, AT, AP, and AB fields active at all times. "Alright. Training will start right away," one soldier said.
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The moment they were beamed, Kotah and Ezael both sat on the ground of the station and burst into tantrum, crying and shouting at the top of their lungs.
"I don't want training! I don't wanna be one of you! I WANT MY MOMMY!" Kotah screamed, carrying on.
"Can't we see mommy first?!" Ezael cried out.
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"Too bad! You aren't seeing your mother! Not for a long while! Get it through your head! You won't be seeing her!" the soldier yelled. "So stop complaining!"
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"THEN I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING!" Kotah shouted and crossed his arms, Ezael doing the same. They just sat there.
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The soldier grew tired of this. "Alright, you two! You're going to do it whether you like it or not! We don't have to have any problems or difficulties! But we'll make you if you don't do it yourselves, and you would NOT like it if we have to make you!"
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"NO!" They both shouted, jumped up, and ran.
"You can't make me!" Kotah shouted back while running.
"You're not our mommy!" Ezael also said.
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Several other troops caught them and brought them back. "You can't get out of this! Understand? Your mother is unable to help you, so we are going to! She neglected you, and you still want her? You really need to understand."
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"I don't want training!" Kotah repeated, as soon as he and Ezael were brought back, then took off running, again.
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They caught them again, this time holding on to them.
"You won't like it, but you'll appreciate it later on."
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"Not I won't! Because I don't want it!" Kotah shouted. Then he and Ezael, both, bit the hand of the guys that held them.
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The soldiers didn't let go. It hurt, and made them wince, but they didn't let go. They can withstand a lot of pain.
"If you don't do as I say, you won't see your mother again," the soldier said with a very serious voice.
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The two kept biting and biting and biting. By the time the kids gave up on that, the soldiers would have a nice deep puncture wound, deep enough to bleed.
"You can't do that!" Kotah shouted. "YOU CAN'T! YOU CAN'T! You can-" caught in mid yell, Kotah started to yawn. "You can't..." His eyes closed as he went limp in the guys arms. Worn out from being matured, coupled with all the screaming, running, and involuntary magic throughout the day. The kid had become exhausted but hadn't realized it, all of it just hitting him, now.
Ezael wasn't as worn out, because he didn't do as much screaming as Kotah, but his eyes were starting to get heavy, and he yawned. "Mommy wouldn't let you do this if she was here!"
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Sleeping? One thing that the Non-Aralang Special Forces train on is how to stay awake for weeks without having to sleep once. Sleeping already? Pretty much a slap in the face. The soldier went to the sleeping child, and tried to shake Kotah awake. When that didn't work, he knows that hitting him won't work. Another soldier came and injected an energy boost into him, which would surely wake Kotah up, and keep him awake for another day.
He looked at Ezael with angry eyes. "Yes, I figured, but she's not here, and we have to take care of you now, and we have to take care of you our way."
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Kotah was awake now, but he was crying at the top of his lungs in the process. Injection? Needles? Not good for a kid.
"Then take us back to mommy!" Ezael said, starting to join into the crying as well.
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Crying? ANOTHER slap in the face. The SF are trained to withstand a lot of pain, and to keep their morale up, even in hopeless situations. "You will, once you go through your training, as I said!" the soldier yelled. "NOW STOP CRYING, OR I'LL GIVE YOU A REASON TO CRY!"
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"I'M NOT TRAINING! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" Kotah shouted even louder, then if just to prove the point that he wasn't going to, he cried even louder.
"ME NEITHER!" Ezael said, however instead of crying louder, he shut his eyes and purposefully pretended to sleep.
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The soldier had it. He simply had it. He won't stand disobedience or mocks. He needs to teach them a lesson. He punched at the temple of their heads once, first at Kotah, then at Ezael. "YOU TWO BETTER STOP IT!" he screamed at them.
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The punch just made the both of them cry harder and louder. It was pain, paint causes a child to cry. For Kotah and Ezael who were babies, just not too long ago, and now were five, they hadn't been alive long enough to have the experience of withstanding pain. Hitting would definitely only make things worse.
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The SF Aralang got pissed off royal. He hit the two in the head with his fist very hard. Hard enough to knock them out.
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Both Kotah and Ezael fell unconscious.
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They have then been dragged into a small room, with the same soldier in there. He waited as he leaned against the wall, next to the door, which is locked.
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Seeing as the kids were already exhausted, and Kotah was only chemically being kept awake, being knocked out let their bodies take advantage of it, leading them to sleep on. About a day later, give or take a few hours more, Kotah and Ezael found themselves awake, and now that they had had sleep, they weren't as tired or irritable as the day before. But they still weren't happy.
"Can I go back to mommy, now?" Kotah asked after moments of silence from when they woke up. He sat side by side on the floor with Ezael, the two of them just watching the soldier. They had already saw their surroundings, and as kids, didn't question it. There was nothing to notice, just that it was different.
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"Nope. Not until you get through your training," the soldier simply said.
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"Why?" Kotah asked. "Why can't I see mommy?!"
"And why do you want a training so badly?" Ezael questioned.
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"To be like us, but since you are kids, you might be better than us. You're unique, compared to us."
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"I don't wanna be like you!" Kotah shouted, "You're a meanie! A big bad meanie!"
"And you took us from mommy," Ezael added. "That's stealing!"
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He ignored Kotah. "Well, your mother can't take care of you. Someone has to. Life isn't easy! You'll appreciate it when you're through the training!"
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"Why would I appreciate something I don't want?!" Kotah continued to shout and carry on. "I don't want it now, I won't want it then! I just want mommy! Even if I train I won't be like you, I don't wanna be!"
"But you're a stranger." Ezael said. "I don't know even know who you are or your name." Crossing his arms, Ezael added, "And you're not getting mine!"
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"You have to be with us. You'll start to like it. You'll be one of us. You'll be with us, but like I said, you're different from us. You aren't our kind, And we're strangers, yes. You shouldn't trust us, but this is an exception."
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"I'll never like it!" Kotah shouted louder. "I won't, I won't, I won't! Why do I have to be one of you if I'm not you? why? why? WHY?!"
"I'm not trusting someone I don't know." Ezael replied. "Not till I know them."
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"Yes, you will! I didn't like it, but I was thankful for it! You already know too much, so you're stuck with us! We don't want you to tell people things that we don't want them to know! And you'll know us sooner or later!"
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"NO I WON'T!" Kotah screamed. "You're not me! I'm not you! I'm Kotah! You don't know! Because you're not Kotah!" He crossed his arms and gave a pouted look. "I don't know anything.. but if I ever do... Then I'll tell just to tell, because of how mean you're being!" Kotah then stuck out his tongue. "Even if I go through training, I'll still tell. TELL, TELL, TELL!"
"Me too!" Ezael shouted. "I'm Ezael. Not you, not anything like you! Just Ezael! Ezael Tyris!"
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"You want to test that? Let's go through the training, and we'll see if you still want to tell!" he grinned.
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"NO!" Kotah screamed. "I don't wann-"
"Kotah!" Ezael shouted, interrupting Kotah at the last word, and slightly tapping his brothers arm. Kotah turned to look at him, as Ezael leaned forward and whispered into Kotah's ear. "We can still find mommy," Ezael whispered quietly. "If we play along, we can find her! We just have to learn enough to find out how to leave."
"We'll really find her?" Kotah whispered back.
"We just have to think only of her, and not listen to anything they say, but follow. Then we can leave and find her and never come back!"
"Yeah!" Kotah shouted, then eyes wide, realized what he did and quickly shut up, "Yeah!" He whispered back to Ezael. "I won't be like him!"
"Neither will I!" Ezael declared in whisper. "But we can pretend."
Both children carefully eyed the soldier, as they continued whispering on what to do.
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The SF have very good hearing. The soldier was able to pick up on what they said. He read their minds to make sure, and he knows what's happening.
"Oh, so you are just going to pretend, huh? Well, that won't work. We'll know if you're pretending or lying or not," he said smiling.
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"I have to pretend," Kotah replied, turning back to the soldier as him and Ezael stopped whispering. "Because I'm not gonna be like you. EVER! Because I'm Kotah, and Kotah doesn't wanna!"
"And once we see mommy, we're never coming back here again!" Ezael added in, jumping up, which Kotah followed soon after. Both looked defiantly at the soldier. "You can't change that!"
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"We can do this the easy or the hard way," the soldier simply said. "If we do this the easy way, you'll see your mother, but not forever. For a short time, but you have to get back to work. If we do this the hard way, there's a small chance that you would see your mother. I'll give you that."
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"Then I'm not listening to you." Kotah replied sticking out his tongue and crossing his arms. "Not if I can't be with her!"
"Why not forever?" Ezael asked. "She's our mommy. We're supposed to be with her till we're grown ups. Didn't you stay with your mommy?"
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"I lived with them for a while, but they died in a war," he said. His facial expressions and his voiced showed he didn't want to talk about, it but they were faint. "I had to live with someone else."
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"Then fix them." Ezael suggested. He obviously still didn't get the concept of death, nor realize how permanent it was.
"Well our mommy's not broken!" Kotah exclaimed. "We can still be with her!"
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"We can't fix them," he said. "Not without magic." He hesitated right after he said that. It was rare for him to speak of inferiority, especially to magic. "She's in a coma, like a deep sleep that's hard to awake from. Hell, that's basically what death is. The deepest sleep one can be in, and you can't get out of it."
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"She'll wake up! She has to wake up!" Kotah exclaimed. "I know she'll wake up, she'll wake up and find this place and come get us."
"Yeah!" Ezael agreed. "But why can't death wake up? And what's magic?"
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The soldier laughed. "I'd like to see her try. Death is like sleep, but it isn't. It's where you body stops working and you can't fix it. Your body is permanently broken. You can't bring the person back." He then had trouble with explaining magic. "And magic? Well... it's like... an entity or something. It can't be explained with science. It defies physics for reasons we can't explain."
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"She'll come!" Kotah insisted. "I know she will, it's her job. She'll come and take us back."
"What's science? What's physics? What's an entity?" Ezael asked. "And where do you get magic?"
"Yeah where?" Kotah added back in. "It can bring mommy back!"
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"She can't come. She's not able to. She's hardly able to do anything but be still alive! You have magic. That's how you brought her in the first place, back in that room! Now, let's get to the fucking point, here! Seems like you want to do this the hard way!"
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But if going back to the point was what the soldier wanted, he shouldn't have said that last fact. Because now Kotah's eyes widened as he though back, to when he wanted Hikaru back so bad, that he had felt her nearby and in a way called out to her. He hadn't noticed the feeling before, but then he remembered the flashes of light, both in the room, and in the ship, and the things that happened afterwords. "I CAN BRING MOMMY HERE!" Kotah shouted. "Through magic!"
"Then we can go back with her!" Ezael exclaimed. "But how..."
"Screaming?" Kotah suggested. "That's what I did last time!"
Both children seemed to completely ignore the soldier after that, they were both trying to think of how to make what happened last time, happen again.
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The soldier laughed. "You can't do it. I know you can't. Reason? There's a field that prevents magic, and it's all around us right now."
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Kotah stopped his screaming abruptly, seeing as it wasn't going to do any good anyways. "Then mommy will come on her own!" He announced. "She'll wake up and come, I know she will! I'll just wait till she does!" Kotah then sat back down on the ground with his arms crossed. "
"Yeah!" Ezael agreed. "We'll just wait for mommy!"
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As Kotah sat down, the soldier frowned. "I guess you want to do it the hard way, then."
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Kotah and Ezael said nothing as they sat on the floor, back to staring at the walls. They had made up their mind, they wanted their mother more than anything, and nothing would change that. All they could do was hope she'd come get them.
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"Alright. You two asked for it. I really don't want to do this," he said. It was true. On an adult, that's one thing. On five-year-olds? That's another. They don't really understand as much. But then again, they're still the same thing. He was hesitant, but only for a quick moment.
He quickly punched the two really hard in the head to knock them out.
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Since Ezael was closer, he was hit first, which as soon as Kotah saw, the child jumped up and ran to the other side of the room. Ezael fell unconscious.
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But the soldier was quick to do it. He quickly punched Kotah in the head, equally as hard.
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Kotah went down as well.
Several minutes to an hour later, both Kotah and Ezael seemed to come out of it, a little too fast, for how hard they were hit and the location. It being the head? The two should have been out at least a few hours. But whatever the reason, the two started to wake up, unaware of their location as their vision hadn't completely cleared yet.
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Each found themselves strapped to a chair, with an exterior attachment to their head. It focuses pain to the head, as well as keeping the two from being unconscious. That part has been activated, and the part of it that keeps them from being unconscious woke them up. The pain part has not been activated... not yet.
And in front of them is the same soldier as before.
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As soon as their vision had cleared up, the two kids squirmed around, noticing right off that they could barely movie or get out of the chair. And if an adult doesn't like being unable to move, it's even worse for a child that doesn't know better, or understand why. Poor Kotah and Ezael had no idea what was happening. First they had made up their minds to wait for their mother, then Ezael had been struck down which had scared Kotah enough to run, and now they had woken up unable to move. What was happening?
"My head hurts!" Kotah complained, still feeling sore from the hit. As he didn't understand anything that was going on, he said the first thing to mind, and that was the still lingering pain.
"Mine too!" Ezael whined.
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He held up a remote control, and pressed a button. Suddenly, sharp pain took place in the children's heads. It was relatively mild, compared to what he can actually do, but it's still painful, especially since it's applied directly to the head, making their reactions more intense.
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At first hint of any pain, Kotah and Ezael burst into tears, squirming and crying. They had the urge to clutch their heads but couldn't, nor make it stop. What's worst? They didn't know why it was happening.
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He pressed the button again and the pain stopped. He waited for the kids to stop crying. "Alright. That's hardly anything. I can cause a lot more pain than you can imagine, probably literally. Right now, you can't go unconscious. The pain won't knock you out. You have to endure it all the way. You have to feel every bit of it. Am I clear?"
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The kids were too much in shock from the pain to answer, so they just nodded. Kotah was still partly crying, and kept blinking his eyes to try to get rid of the tears. Ezael was gripping the chair with his eyes closed tightly. Both kept making some sort of whimpering and whining noises.
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"Alright," the soldier said, calm now that he's satisfied a bit. But of course, this isn't over. "I don't want to do this, but I will if I have to. Will you two do as you're told?"
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"I-I want mommy..." Kotah started to cry out. "I don't wan to stay here anymore, I don't, I don't, I don't!"
"Why are you so mean?" Ezael questioned. "Mommy would never do this!"
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"Pay attention!" He commanded. "I'm the one asking the questions here! If you speak without being asked or told to, you'll get a lot more pain!"
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"I wanna go back to mommy..." Kotah continued to cry in between sobs, his eyes closed tight as he squirmed and cried.
Ezael said nothing, literally biting down on his tongue to keep from crying. He tried to look at the soldier, but couldn't keep it up before long, as after only seconds, he became intimidated. Instead he closed his eyes like his brother.
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The soldier pressed a button, and quickly pressed it again. A sharp pain has been inflicted again, but very quickly. "This is the last time I'll be nice! Now, answer me! Will you do as you are told?!"
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"Stop-Stoppppit!" Kotah cried out, shaking head to try to shake the thing off. "I want mommy... I want mommy. She'll make it stop hurting..."
"D-d-do what?" Ezael stammered.
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Again, a quick but sharp, piercing pain stabbed them in the head. It was aimed at the head, but the pain has traveled throughout the entire body. This only lasted for a few seconds, though.
"Do as we say! Do as you are told to do! Will you DO IT OR NOT?!"
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The kids responded by crying, no words said. They were only five after all, and impulse to cry overpowered fear of it happening again.
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The soldier then increased the pain intensity, this time not releasing the pain. "You will obey! You will do as you are told to do! And..." He then increased the pain a lot more, making it nearly unbearable. "For your mother, she's a criminal! You will not rely on criminals! You will not trust them!" He then released the pain.
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Too shocked from the pain, at this point the kids couldn't even cry. They wanted to, but their voices weren't working, the tears wouldn't come, as if their body had fell unconscious, yet awake at the same time. They couldn't even move, and their eyes wouldn't stay closed. They were literally frozen in shock. This meant that they weren't crying, of course, and couldn't argue. But it also meant they couldn't answer either, not till it stopped.
Their grip on the chairs slackened when it finally stopped, they still couldn't move willingly, as their body was still in shock, but involuntary movements such as slipping, and twitching came instantly. When finally they could speak, Kotah stammered, "But she's my mommy..."
Ezael nodded in agreement when he gained enough movement back.
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Pain came back, even more painful this time. The pain was excruciating and unbearable. "Your mother is a criminal! It doesn't matter who she is! All criminals are the same, regardless of who they are!"
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Because they couldn't fall unconscious with the increase of pain, the minds of the children began to just shut down. As it couldn't go down all the way, it instead got around this by shutting down parts of its self to try to stop the pain, starting with the things less needed, and if it continued any worse, the motor and locomotive regions as well. But the first to go was the magic, as they needed sight, and other senses, the connection to magic was the less required to live.
As the children were put back in shock, the connection their mind had to their soul, thus the part of them that let them control or will magic, was lost. Their minds deeming it as less required, shut it down completely, as it became locked to them. It wasn't gone, but it couldn't be accessed. The magic would still be there, but any power to will it from the soul, was now lost.
Unable to speak from shock, the children just sat there staring ahead in a fixed glassy-eyed gaze. Confusion was starting to set in, and they could barely think straight except to just sit there. But they STILL wanted their mother. That urge was still there, even if they could not express it or argue.
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The soldier read the two's minds to see what's going on, to see if it's going well or not. Seeing that they still wanted their mother, he amplified the pain. "You shouldn't want your mother! It's a stupid thing to do!"
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Unable to take it further, and unable to stop it or shut down, the children's minds did the last thing it could do, it blocked it. It blocked everything it possibly could that wasn't required to live. Magic and memories. It would have went farther for senses as well, but that was required to live. However, the connection to Hikaru? Their identity? What had happened up to that point? None of that was needed to continue to live, and so the mind blocked it, cutting off the connection to the memories of their consciousness and repressing it all, effectively cutting off access to remembrance.
As confusion set completely in, both Ezael and Kotah just sat their, still staring dead ahead. Their minds were blank, yet at the same time fogged, they knew what was happening, but now no longer knew why. Their bodies were in shock, their mind to the point of breaking completely, and in terms of emotion they felt nothing, not even fear. Just pain. And because it was still going, their vision was starting to go out of focus as well, if it continued any further, the senses would be next, and if broken completely, last would go biological life support.
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The soldier stopped the pain. Reading their minds, he knew that their connection to their mother is gone. He waited for the two to recuperate. He smiled. "Welcome to the beginning of your better life."
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Both Kotah and Ezael just continued to sit there, not moving. They couldn't move a muscle or even blink. It was like they were unconscious, or worse. But because they couldn't fall unconscious, it was more of a catatonic state. And thinking? At this point, that was impossible. Thoughts wouldn't form, and the fog over their mind wouldn't lift, not till their minds could repair themselves. And for that, they needed to be able to rest.
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The soldier then deactivated the head attachment, allowing the two to fall unconscious. He then removed the attachments, and then removed the belt straps that strapped the two onto the chair.
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The moment they were able to, both Kotah, then Ezael, collapsed. Their heads dropped, and they fell forward from the chair, and onto the floor, unresponsive.
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They have been taken to a medical bay to rest. After they were in good shape, they were led to maturing devices.
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As Kotah and Ezael followed, they looked lost, confused, and in ways, somewhat dazed. Their minds were still hazed over, and they couldn't think, because there was really nothing to think about anymore. Except questions, and those came out more than they had when they were first matured to five. At least then they knew who they were. Now? Everything was practically a mystery to them.
"Where are we going?" Kotah asked, looking up at the person he was being led by. "I don't like it. I'm... scared." Immediately without warning, Kotah stopped walking, which resulted in Ezael running into him as they both tumbled to the ground in a pile. Kotah didn't know why, but he felt a foreboding sense around him, like something was wrong, or something was to happen. Almost like a clairvoyant warning.
Was it some piece of memory that stayed behind? Or just an innate ability of their race? It wasn't really clear as the children didn't know themselves. But Kotah knew he felt fear, and that was enough for Ezael to follow suit.
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The one that was leading them was the same soldier as before. He pulled the two back to their feet. "We're going to make you better. You'll see what I mean."
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"No..." Kotah stammered and stepped back. "I don't want to be better, It doesn't feel right..." Continuing to step back, the child suddenly clutched his head as a sharp pain ripped through it, aftermath of the torture he'd went through. The more he tried to focus on what he was afraid of, the sharper the pain was, as if his mind wasn't letting him access the information. "I don't like it," Kotah cried. "I don't I don't."
Ezael jumped out of the way before Kotah ran into him again, the other child watching his brother carefully, and wondering what was happening. He felt fear, because his brother was feeling fear, and thus he knew to do the same. But it wasn't to the intensity Kotah was feeling, and Ezael couldn't figure out why Kotah was carrying on, so he stayed silent.
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After he read his mind, it helped the soldier understand a bit more. "You don't know what you're sensing. Come on."
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"No.." Kotah repeated. "I-I can't!" He spun around and took off running back the way they came.
Picking up on his brothers fear, Ezael stammered as well. "I don't like it either."
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Another soldier came and grabbed Kotah. The first soldier grabbed Ezael. "Look, you have to do this." The two soldier then pulled the two, dragging if necessary, to the maturing devices.
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Both Kotah and Ezael kicked and screamed the whole way, trying to pull away. Kotah because he sensed something bad was going to happen, a feeling that he shouldn't be there. And Ezael, because he could feel Kotah's fear and picked up on it, becoming frightened as well.
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They put them in the devices, restraining them if necessary, and activated the device, maturing them both mentally and physically to teenagers. The devices were like pods, each holding one person. The restraints gave way to the increase in size of the bodies to prevent any strangling or to prevent limbs from being chopped off, or to prevent a block of blood circulation, but still tight enough to restrain them well. They physically and mentally grown to a 14-year-old. ASF mentality has been put into them. After the process has been done, they were let out, and ASF uniforms were beamed onto them.
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The moment they were able to, both Kotah and Ezael jumped out of the devices, still a bit fearful. Kotah looked around frantically, as if trying the pinpoint the source of something, as Ezael instead, focused his gaze on the two soldiers, watching them carefully. Finally the two backed up slightly, looking a little scared.
"Something's wrong," Kotah muttered, continuing to turn his head every direction, observing everything. "What's going on? I can't remember... But, this place doesn't feel right."
"I don't know..." Ezael replied. He held up a finger, pointing to the soldier they had been with the most. "B-but he was mad before."
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The soldiers were happier after the kids have been matured. "You two are different. That's why I'm acting different. You've been matured, and your in a military space station." said the first soldier. "Alright." He pointed at Kotah. "Your name's Kotah." He pointed at Ezael. "Your name's Ezael." He put his hand down. "Training starts now."
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"What training?" Ezael questioned. He then looked back at the maturing device, then back at the soldier. "And w-why did you mature us? What if I wanted to be a kid?!"
Kotah said nothing, instead he watched the two men in front of them, studying them further as he looked at them. "H-he has bad intentions." Kotah muttered. "I can feel it... Something's going to happen, or already did."
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"Training how to fight and how to live and how not to get killed," the soldier explained. "You would be better at it at your age. Bad intentions? No. You may not like the training, but you will appreciate it after."
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The boys looked at each other, kind of unsure. Kotah didn't feel right, and Ezael picked up on Kotah's feeling, which made them both edgy. ASF mentality or not, the two were still sages by blood, and still had the impulse to rebel. But something kept them from doing so. They couldn't explain why, but they felt a certain measure of fear when in front of the first soldier. And it didn't feel good.
Despite all feeling against it, however, Ezael still spoke up.
"If I won't like it, why do I have to train?" He asked. "Can't I just not fight?"
"Couldn't we just go ho-" Kotah began to ask, but then stopped. He knew the concept of home, as he was now fourteen, but try as hard as he could, he couldn't seem to remember what his home was. This just confused him further as his expression showed his confused state as well.
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"Life is tough. You have to learn that and you need to learn how to live through it," the soldier replied. "Home? Well, this whole place is your home."
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"Then why don't I remember it?" Kotah asked.
"I don't either," Ezael added.
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"No more questions. Training starts now. Do as you're told. I don't want to drag you."
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Kotah was about to argue, but stopped. The two lowered their heads and stayed silent. Do as they were told? They didn't know why, but that one statement brought with it a torrent of fear, enough fear that they didn't dare speak or even move. The feeling of something wrong, once again hit Kotah full force, with Ezael picking it up as well. But the two remained silent. The fear prevented them from speaking to the extent that Kotah ignored what he was sensing.
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The soldier led them to the training courses. Over years of training Kotah and Ezael became extremely skilled killers.