A/N: It gets even better from here, so i hope you're prepared!
They struggled to get to sleep for their assignment for tomorrow after experiencing what Albedo had done.
"Rubedo, I don't understand- what did we do to make Albedo so angry?" He quietly spoke as Rubedo was completely silent trying to reply to Nigredo.
Rubedo was terrified at the way Albedo had been acting, but he decided on an idea.
"I have an idea, let's montior him while we do our training. Maybe it's time we get Juli and Dad involved with this." The two brothers nodded before turning over to sleep for the night.
The sun shined bright, the two did a big yawn before getting up for the day.
They ran outside to their surprise, they see a female U.R.T.V staring directly at Albedo- who obviously didn't like her.
"Tch, I knew there was a girls ward somewhere.." Albedo spoke aggressively towards her and she simply shook her head.
"You're not exactly the friendly type are you #667." Her unusual orange and blue eyes look up towards the two brothers who just entered the Institute.
Rubedo and Nigredo were in awe, they'd never seen a female U.R.T.V before, Citrine looked cautiously at the two before speaking again.
"Don't so surprised, female eggs were also fertilized as well. But not many of us that were born once the project was finished however."
Rubedo and Nigredo were in awe, they'd never seen a female U.R.T.V before, Citrine looked cautiously at the two before speaking again.
"I didn't know there were any female types being made!" Rubedo said with surprise as Nigredo quickly caught up with him to see who he was talking to.
"Don't so surprised, female eggs were also fertilized as well. But not many of us that were born once the project was finished however. I can see in the future that the male types will be disposed of."
"It makes sense theoretically- we are superior than the simple male types in a way.
Rubedo quickly retorted with, "Hang on a second, what do you mean disposed of!? Who do you think you are publicly discriminating others!"
The U.R.T.V's fell slient for a while before Citrine stared back towards Rubedo.
"You can't say anything about this Rubedo, because you know it's true." The brothers were in complete silence as Citrine walked off to see Dimitri Yuriev.
"What business does she have with Dad?" Nigredo asked as Rubedo simply shrugged in reply.
A few hours passed as they were getting ready for subconscious dive into Sakura's domain once more, Albedo angrily glared at the non-variants as Rubedo began to feel strange.
He heard whispers but not any normal type of whispers- they were resentful.
Rubedo kept hearing his name being repeated over and over.
Rubedo, why- why are you the leader?
You're such a monster!
Rubedo's heart began to cave in, he felt his skin start to crawl as he then suddenly heard Albedo call out in pure angrish.
"SHUT UP YOU LOSERS!" Albedo calls out with sheer anger, the whole room goes slient as Rubedo looks at his numbered hand with a sigh.
"Your power doesn't even come close to his, leave him alone!" Albedo yelled again until everyone turned to Juli Mizrahi.
"That's enough; Albedo."
Her face looked worried, her gentle green eyes looked towards the worried red U.R.T.V as everyone else looked towards him.
"It's okay Rubedo, don't worry." Nigredo whispered in Rubedo's ear, he gave a simple nod in reply before then feeling a very violent zap towards his neck.
"Ack!" Rubedo called out as reality began to fade, his vision began to blur and twist.
"What the hell- is happening to me?!
Nigredo!"
Everyone else except Rubedo entered Sakura's domain, Rubedo seemed like he entered it as well but the layout map showed an unknown location.
"What's the matter Dr. Mizrahi!?" One of the lab scientists called out as Juli was frantically trying to find Rubedo's location.
"He's- his subconscious is being taken over by an unknown host!" Juli's eyes widened as all they could do was montior the others for now.
Meanwhile, Rubedo finally opened his eyes to his surroundings.
Finally getting enough strength to stand on his two feet, he then began to aimlessly walk across the winter forest.
"Pretty damn' cold here.." Rubedo shivered holding himself as he trekked across the unknown landscape.
The area around him was so cold, the river had turned completely frozen.
He was greeted with confusing intersections and twisting pathways,
eventually making his mind up he walked slowly looking around himself for any threats.
Surrounded by nothing except dead long trees that looked like they survived a massive snowstorm, he suddenly felt his skin start to shiver as he turned around to see if anyone was behind him but no one was there and just assumed he was cold.
Rubedo tried to warm himself up by breathing into his hands but all he got was just ccondensated breath, giving up all hope to warming himself he continued to walk across the snowy forest- but he wasn't alone.