As David continues his narration he lifts his head to glance at his companions, who were silent and had looks that screamed "it's okay, you don't have to talk about it", all except Bethany ofcourse, David quickly clarifies with an obviously fake smile,
"I am fine, I never even knew her that much, it's not as if she betrayed me".
The cadets had to navigate their teenage years without memories and experiences of when they were younger, they had no mother, father or even adults in whom they could confide, they only had themselves, but alas, a blind man cannot help his fellow blind man traverse a mountain path.
This was the flaw of the Vangaurd Cadets, they were like newborn children, only, with a bigger body and a wider array of impulses, all they knew was training, rules set by the authorities and what little experience they had. They weren't taught to develop emotional intelligence or mindfulness, that's not what the emperor wanted from them, the emperor wanted a ruthless calculating and efficient living weapon, with an endless well of righteous rage that would never quench, a VANGUARD that will go to all and any lengths to fulfill the greater picture,unrestricted by any emotion,be it fear or pity. Although the squad guardians initially gave emotional guidance to the newly brainwashed cadets, with innate mental instability, it was only to identify the unstable from stable and the wolfs from the sheep.
David was in a completely dark haze faced with the new kind of state, one that he couldn't understand with his logic nor his experience. In his mind, there was no need to be angry or feel betrayed, he didn't even know her real name, nor have they spoken before, the closest emotion that could coincide with this situation was sadness, yet the turmoil that lingered in his chest could only be explained as jealousy.
"wait and see, Yulius of the 9 quasi transendent, we'll see who is the better man, when you get eliminated".
"Quite a peculiar situation this is, were you happy or were you sad, were you angry or were you indifferent?"
"You are asking the wrong person, I have no answers for you"
"Then perhaps you would have an answer for my next question.By any chance did you posses clairvoyant abilities as a teenage?"
002 wasn't surprised by this question, in fact he expected it, 002 had always had quite the imagination due to his high neural capacity. 002 took this opportunity to put Weiss in a state of doubt.
"Maybe I did, maybe I did not, that is not for you to know"
002 finished this sentence with a glare at the White clad man, who in turn smiled and retorted,
"it seems you have broken my technique, I might as well let you out then?"
"That is for you to decide,although I do not fully understand your technique, yet I know that the longer we are here, the more disadvantageous it gets for you".
"Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, all is transformed"
The white clad man stares into the distance and with a complicated expression remarks,
"It's indeed my choice to make, and my responsibility to bear"
He reaches his hand out in the manner he did in the previous instances, 002 was nonchalant and didn't offer any resistance, he was calm and collected, he was unafraid.
This time when 002 opened his eyes, he saw and felt a familiar scene, one that gave him peace of mind and calm, he saw the 3rd gen force armour's interface, and felt the armour's airtight embrace, even if it was for a moment he relished the feeling.
By now 3yrs had passed since the commence of the SOW program. They had experienced cruelty and pure evil at each other's hands, the weak were constantly being weeded out the strong were sharpening their skill and mind. All the remaining cadets had already breached their thresholds, and awakened to their true selfs, they had become Transendents, they were no longer primitive homo sapiens, they were more. Those who had the S class, were already level 3 Transendentals, those of A class were level 2 Transendentals and finally those of B and tge fortunate of the C class were level 1 Transendentals, and those who were not able to escape the quasi Transendental stage, were directly eliminated, no one knows what became of them but everyone knows it wasn't pleasant.
David finds himself in an interstellar grade C-5100 with 11 others, it was a merger of the three strongest squads, Squad Yulius, Squad Nathan and Squad Nyx, all three squad captains were lvl 3, strangely including Nathan, who was an A class. They were on a mission to a sovereignty colony on planet Kraken, a giant exoplanet in the Jaeger stellar system in the same galaxy--Domuscassen galaxy--.
Kraken was discovered by sovereignty's former Lycana Tracking Task Force( LTF), when it was discovered, they found it to be a habitable planet, yet there wasn't a single sentient life present, or rather they couldn't detect any, but months after the expeditionary team landed on the planet, they came under the attack of what they named, Trelfs, a native race of the planet.
The Trelfs were excellent neural force users, although they possessed no type of advanced tecnology, their genetic advantages made them a formidable enemy.The Trelfs had long ears, lifeless green eyes a tall and lanky build, green skin and no genders, still many things remained unknown about the Trelfs.
The constant night raids had quickly depleted the resources and manpower of the expeditionary team, and David and the other 11 had been given the mission to assist the colony garrison in defending the expeditionary's colony base.