The One's POV
"Where are we?" Jenny asked us. "This is-?"
"This is the place of our origins, our birth... our creation..." we spoke to her "Know the whole truth behind the experiments..."
And how we are created...
Our birth & Creation
We remember our creation, the birth of us called "The One ''. A man would make us. Design us and then give us strength. It started when the founder discovered us, back then we were nothing more than an organism and had low-born intelligence. Then he took us and experimented with us on the intent of creating strong & healthier human beings. When another scientist came, we didn't think twice and ate her... For the first time, it gave us sentience but out of fear, Arswiter has sealed us away and Millie... Millie Stone saw our potential and tried to communicate with us but she too let us alone.
It was her who persuaded the founder to bring us in storage, we didn't see her again until 20 years...
Behold, man's greed...
"Sir, if you can listen to me for one moment-" Millie tried to speak.
"Have we talked about this, Ms. Stone?" he said while puffing a cigar. We have identified him as Bankrift Backleton. Bald, Fat and he is a discord but of the worst kind that we have ever seen. "I care more about profits and this..." he raised hands in the air. "Is my company to do whatever I see fit." but the woman has stood her ground.
"Listen here, you don't know the forces you are tampering with! And I plan to make sure that before you try to offer anything that resembles a bio-weapon to sell, we must test it. Tested! Not use it haphazardly." she said.
"Yes, yes... You can repeat that at our next shareholder meeting." he waved off her, but she insisted. "Is anything else that you want to add, Ms. Stone? My time is precious as you well know..." he said with a smile. Not a real one.
"Cancel the Project," she said, unafraid. "Cancel the project, please! It will be more trouble than it's worth, and if it gets-"
"Nonsense!" most unwise... "You will continue your work, Doctor. Unless you are preparing for your resignation..." he trails off, Millie seems angry enough to want to punch the man, but she decides against it.
"You will see..." she said before she left.
Failed warnings
"Are you serious?" one man asked. "He will not cancel the project?"
"N-N-No, he is not going to." Our creator Boyek said, "Besides, we tried to speak but he won't listen to us no matter what we say ."
"The wisest thing to do is to prepare for this crisis since our CEO can only see dollar signs and not the real danger that this experiment poses." a man said.
"Eric... How many people did you try to convince?" Boyek asked. "I-I-I know it was difficult, but..."
"Armin... Well, I persuaded 75 people in Security, engineering, exploration, science departments, and some in the entertainment sectors," he said.
"Y-Y-Y-You didn't sleep with them, I—I-I hope?" he asked him.
"Some, yes, but rest I saw no need to do so," he said. "But that is all that I can do. Where is Millie?"
"I'm here, Eric. Anyone else here?" our creator asked.
"That is all you got," Eric said with a wink.
We saw that they had planned for our arrival; it was the folly of other scientists that gave us our form, harmony, unity and shaping our biomass... They were weak in our urging...
"Well now, test results are promising." a scientist said. "Subject shows intelligence and awareness as if it was -" his mouth dropped and his eyes were bulging.
"Hey, are you all right?" he waved his hands in front of his friends. "Hey!"
Then the man turned around and bit in the arm and he soon turned toward the others to ... in your words, "Infect them". The people there were caught in our range. It was only during that time that our will took shape. We tried to reach out to the surface but...
"But how did you suddenly gained sentience?" Skip said to us. "I know you didn't suddenly grow a brain overnight."
"Indeed..." we choose the form of a woman to speak with him "It was fact Doctor Millie who gives us the ability to adapt."
"Sorry, are you attempting to flirt or make me blush with that?" he asked us. "Because I am not into women..."
"That is not a problem for us... We accept all no matter what their sex, race, or gender. We welcome everyone..." we paused for a moment to gather our collective thoughts.
"Look there." we pointed to him where Millie came in. "When our creator came to eliminate us with a specialized poison, we have had to adapt," we said.
"You mean you nearly died there? It sounds like she didn't double-check to make sure." Jenny spoke to us and we nodded at her.
"We admit we were afraid to die..." we recalled that we nearly died of her poison. "Had we not adapted to it, we would have perished. It forces us to develop personality and will to create the antibodies that we need to survive." we looked in sadness with tears streaming down our form. "Under different circumstances, we would lash out, sought revenge, or cursed our creators for what she did... But we forgive and understand she fears us so."
We turned to them and transformed into the form of a man.
"Now, know this truth," we said. "Millie has given the blessing to grow and expand our reach, we developed the power of PSI and Mind control."
Sakura clenched her teeth at us: You monsters! You took Mark and Victor away from us, so you expect us to have any sympathy after what you have done.
"We are monsters... It is a fact we do not deny," we said without hesitation. "As we said, we control those that are weak to urging and we absorb those we can't into the biomass." we said, "But the Machine people have made that difficult to do, so we had to ... as you call it 'Take a Gamble' ".
"Wow, for a big ass freak, you sure as hell know how to control folks and make them do their being for ya, huh?" Joe shouted at us.
"We do not make anyone do our bidding... Do you think you were the first Mercenaries to come?"
"Come to think of it, we saw charred corpses on our way here." Skip said. "Was it your doing?"
"Yes," we said. "However, we underestimated the one that called A.D.P.E.N that she can detect anyone weak to urging or smell our unity." We recalled too well that our possessions have failed. "5 groups have failed, so we took a novel approach. When you came, Inface company of 6 people you were our salvation..."
"Wait, a minute! You knew we here all this time?" Jenny said. "More we did your dirty work for you!"
"We had considered urging you to set us free but decided against it... We had allowed you all to fight against the Mother of the Machine People," we said. "We were fully aware of your capabilities by then. And Skip..."
He looked at us with a determined look on his face.
"A.D.P.E.N. didn't lie to you about what will happen if you destroy her people. It would work both ways for us either way," we said. "Either you had succeeded and destroyed her, freed us from her shackles or you would have taken control of the entire station, we would have urged you to use it to free us."
"So technically, either way, you would have got your freedom..." he said.
"Or we would have control over the machine people with your help." we exhaled. "No matter... the damage is done. We have decided..."
The team braces themselves as if poses to going to war against us.
"We offer you an olive branch. You know the truth and possessed the knowledge of it," we said. "Jenny... You are the leader of your crew. We do not wish to extend his conflict any longer and we offer you the chance to leave." we offered. "Before you say anything about our offer, we will make this clear for the last time..."
"We are listening, but that doesn't mean we are going to just leave you to your own devices!" she said harshly.
"All we ask is that you will leave this place now, our sisters and brothers will leave you in peace. Go to the stars above and leave us be. We will find our way into the stars to merge it with the harmony of The One. We will merge the scientists here into our hive minds but we will leave you separate since we cannot merge with you and you have become immune to our urging." we said as we urged our sisters and brothers to let them through. "Be warned, you must leave... within 15 mins of our grace. If you remain here in this place, we will make sure you are cut down and laid aside as we go to the stars, bring it together in our warmth. And we will make sure we are full and happy." we said to affirm our point. "We have given you many chances to join us... If you cannot merge us or be in harmony with us we have our ways to make our threat clear." We paused for a moment to compose ourselves, "We urge you to take our mercy and walk in peace, All of you. This is your last warning that we offer you at this point."
"You can threaten us all want, you fucking body bag!" Jenny said to us, making it clear they will not accept our offer. "We are Inface company and we will stare death in the face, not walk from it like a pussy."
"15 minutes... Our offer still stands." we insisted. "You. Will. Go. In. Peace."
As the team walked toward the stairs, making their way up to the B1 floor, our sorcerers made their trip easy to get back from. We will give them one last warning to ensure that they do not misunderstand our intent.
"Jenny..." we said
"What do you want now?" she said to us.
"We have given you this chance to walk in peace... There will be no more chances after this, be certain of that," we warned her against opposing us.