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Two Years Ago…
Katelina sighed as she did not really know or just how long she had been here exactly. Within this place it was pretty hard to keep track of time. The reason being that she could not see the sky only the lighting in the ceiling above her. Thus ones sense of time could be throw off very easily as a result since there was now rising or setting sun to see. They did not have any clocks or other means in which you normally look to for telling the time either.
The only thing that came close to time telling method was the lighting in this place. The lights went on and off around the same time. Of course keeping track of time this would only let her know how many 'days' she had been trapped in this place. So with this being the only way to the passing of the day it was very easy to mistaken about how much time has truly past. Either way she never truly know how long she had been held here until she got rescued.
It was rescued not escape because that was not really a option as others have tried only to never be seen again afterwards. They were taken to room and then just up and vanished after that. There were many stories about those that failed to escape and vanished. However keeping your head down and just going with the flow did not ensure your safety either, as those people still disappeared anyway. However there was another problem that was present that hamper any possible escape attempts.
This being the guards seem to mostly have a single word vocabulary. When a respond was not given to them they would motion the person to follow. The guard would aim the weapon that they always carried with them towards the person. Those that still refused to respond to what they said were automatically shot on the spot, but the they did not die as the weapons were non-lethal. That however did not mean they did not hurt like hell when used on you someone. Katelina discovered this for herself when she stuck in the dead center of her chest by one. Knock her out for hours and she was twitching for the jolt of electricity it also gave off. That at least what she had been told she did as she did not know being unconsciousness at the time.
Whatever this place was it seem to be some kind of assembly line where they were just forced to build things all day long. Only give time to eat light breakfast, heavy lunch, and light dinner. Then there was the break they had after they stopped working for the day and before they were lead back their cells/rooms. No one really knew what they were making exactly as they never saw the final product. Also the break time was also strange time for them as they were left to their own devices as long they did not try to escape. However guards would come by at random times and take someone that they would then never see again. Yet strangely enough whenever one of them disappeared there seem to be new guard that just appeared. It was not every time but Katelina had noticed this.
However while Katelina was simply trying to stay out of trouble so that she did not become the next one to vanish. The thing is that trouble had managed to find her as there was duo in the there group of captives that have come to dislike her. It was rather strange their reason for disliking her as before Katelina came along with they were the top dogs here(according to what she had been told). They were really vain in that they got jealous that everyone was giving Katelina their attention during their break period. It was not even just 'the new girl sydrome' where people just interest because she was new here. The others seem to gravitate towards her even more so after that kind of wore off. Katelina embarrassing the duo when they tried to assert their dominates as the big dogs here did not really help the relationship between them.
Some time later…
A smirk was on the face of Abbi, a brown hair teen, as she came to her friend Nena. It was something that she thought would be very interesting in getting rid of that thorn in their side Katelina Bismark.
"I think I found out something that make ugly orange hair brat the next person to just up and vanish" Abbi said.
"Interesting" the blond hair Nena said as smirk appeared on her own face. Wanting nothing more then to see that upstart to be taken down.
"I managed to find a room that might be where everyone goes in but they never really come out again. As well as way of getting her into the room" the brunette said in lower voice.
Mostly since Katelina and the others that she had befriend were not that far away from them as their break room was not that large after all.
"Do tell" Abbi said very interested in making their rival vanish as then feeling that everything would go back to 'normal' around here.
It was another few days after that where Abbi and Nena simply waited for the right moment to carrying out their plan. The guards were normally very aware of their surrounding as it was like they had one track mind at time. They always seem to be watching them somehow regardless of the what time it was. That in fact was the fatal flaw in the system as the guards having a one track mind only was aware of what was in their line of sight. Avoid their lines of sight and you could be right behind them and they would never notice you standing there.
Rather then the smart thing of just getting the hell out this place or even discover just where this place was so getting help would be possible. She wasted the chance to simply explore the place and discovered the fable room or no return. Then came up with this plan of subjecting Katelina to it. Mapping out the plan for when they could carry out the place as it was rather late at night when the window open for when the guards simply did not notice you at all.
Katelina was awoke to the sound of her door opening and was a little slow in reacting. Mostly because her body had gotten used to the system that had been enforced upon it by this place. So when something out the normal happen her respond time was slow enough that Abbi and Nena were able to grab her and keep her from saying anything. The guards might have tunnel vision but they did not seem to have tunnel hearing. A loud enough noise would attract their attention though. As they forced her to talk to the fable room of no return she notice that the guards were not doing anything in respond to them just wondering around like this.
'Just what the hell is wrong with these two. They are really screw up in the head' Katelina thought at the sheer and utter shock that the two of them having keep something like this from everyone else. They might not know where they are, yet if they able to roam around like this. Then it would be possible to discover where the hell they were.
Having made to the room they open the door and saw that it was pretty much just empty room with a TV the size of the wall and what appeared to be chair facing the TV. Placing Katelina in the chair and tying her down with some make shift string they had so that she was stuck staring at the TV herself. Abbi and Nena were looking for how to turn the TV on when IT happened. Abbi found a button that she pressed however once the big screen hummed to life there was another unexpected sound that was hear as well. The sound of the door they had come in through locking, trapping Abbi and Nena in the room along with Katelina.
There on the screen was a swirling pattern and the other wall in the room reveal to be not really normal 'wall' at all. Well they were wall but what gave the appearance of walls were really just more TV screens. They had the appearance of wall because they were line up in such manner and size that they perfectly fit the dimensions of the wall itself. So all around then wherever the look being a wall, the ceiling even the floor was reveal to be nothing more then just TV screen. Screens that were very durable as no matter what Abbi or Nena did to break them it was all pointless. The three of them were trapped in the room just stuck watching the swirling pattern that continuously played on the screen all around them.
In frantic manner the two girls were searching for way to get out here. They were ignoring helping Katelina from the chair she was stuck in. Though to be pretty much fair she was ignoring them as well as she did not look for them to help her so she stuck trying to help herself. That when Nena came up with the 'bright' idea that maybe go back to the when Abbi press the button the first time. That maybe pressing again might cause the doors to open up. It was here that Katelina realized the reason why idiot duo did not escape when they had the chance. They actually seem to like being trapped here as during the meal and break periods they were they felt big and control.
With the pressing of the button again what happened was the door locking but the start of endless loop of what appeared to strange nonsense. However the longer the three of them heard the more it seem to make sense Abbi and Nena was still running around blaming everyone under the sun but themselves for being trapped in here. However that was only for about five minutes as then the three of them were suddenly no longer within the room.
"Okay what did you do" Abbi yelled at Katelina.
"Me….huh!" the orange hair teen yelled as she realized that she was not tied down or in chair anymore.
Yeah! If you had never come here then we would be where we are right now" Nena yelled.
Katelina lowered her head some that medium length fell over her shoulder and her bangs covered one of her eyes. Then she started at them with blank and cold expression.
"What?" the Bismark said scaring the two girls with just how she was acting at the moment.
The two were about to respond back to what had been said when sudden wave on bodies just appeared out nowhere. Struggling her way to get free from them she noticed that they were white bodies devoid of any kind of features at all they were even genderless. For she could not the difference between any of them. Just a literal sea of genderless featureless white bodies that just stretched out for very long span.
Standing on the edge of this 'sea' Katelina saw that standing with the mass in no particular order or manner. There was Abbi and Nena who had been separated from each other and seem to have blank stare on their faces.
From where she was at the edge she could make out they were saying something but not what it was. Then she noticed it as creeping up their bodies was the same white color as the one that surrounded them. It climbed up there body making their breast which were twice the size of her own. Literally vanished completely and utterly leaving them both flatter then iron boards. Their hair also just disappeared from existence as faces which followed shortly after.
Soon Katelina could not tell them apart from the other and looking at how close she had gotten to re-enter the sea of white bodies. Having seen this she just started laughing all of sudden. It was not that she wanted to laugh at what had just happened before her eyes it was just she started laughing all of sudden. It was not just chuckle either as might started out like that however it soon escalated to more. She was laughing out of control and frankly it scared her. Her mind could not understand what was going on but her body reaction that causing her to laugh like this. Maybe this was the final straw that broke the camels back as her unconscious mind might have just reach it limit.
With all that she had been through she had been trying to keep strong but this took the cake and also rather ironic too. The two that came with this dumb idea had fallen prey to it themselves while she was still standing. The one that was suppose to fall to whatever this was happen to still be standing while they were just part that massive sea. It was funny but not something that she should be laughing at but with everything that has happened to her since being kidnapped and just how dumb the two them were. They had discover a chance to leave or at the very least learn where they were. What doing the two morons do they trapped her and themselves in this room.
Katelina could not help but laugh at them but that only small part of her that most people keep from the front of their mind. However at the moment the young orange hair girl could not seem to help but laugh and laugh so hard that tears started coming from her eyes.
"Come on focus" she thought as she attempted to fight off this laughing fit she seem stuck in at the moment.
Slowly but surely she managed to regain control of herself as she managed to wipe the tears from her eyes and regain control of her body as she held herself close. Squeezing herself tighter and tighter as she felt this helped control her uncontrollable laughter.
Once she had stopped Katelina's head shot up and she realized that she was no longer before that 'sea' of featureless genderless white bodies. She was once again in the room where she was still strapped down to the chair. However when she looked around saw the two idiots that got trapped here with her just standing there.
Katelina open her mouth only to shut it as she saw the two of them collapse to the ground. It was like they were puppets that had there strings cuts as they were just lying on the ground in heap. Their eyes devoid of all life and mouth closed. They almost looked like a pair of dead bodies at how motionless the two of them were yet their chest were still moving up and down slightly. Showing that the two of them were still breathing at least.
Feeling herself start to slip again as she may have managed to escape wherever that place was once. However if she appeared there again she was not too sure if she make it back again. The last thing she wanted to happen to her was to become like one of those genderless featureless white bodies like Nena and Abbi did. That or go back to just mindless laughing her butt off in uncontrollable manner she barely stopped last time. For what happened to them there must be connected to what happened to them here in reality.
So she shut her eyes closed and her mind occupied with whatever she could. The Bismark girl had no intention of ever being able to hear what the laid out Abbi and Nena heard and repeated constantly. Before they just became just two bodies in that sea of them she was sure that what they were repeating. They managed to make sense of this nonsense being repeated in endless loop before just becoming part of that mass of bodies.
Kate thought about all kind of things to keep her mind from getting distracted. Various gymnast matches she had been in, various Street Fighter matches she watched, and once those ran out. She just started thinking up what regular day would have been like before she was kidnapped and forced to be here. Everything her mind could recall was something thought of to keep her mind focus on this and not what was going on around her in reality.
However all it took was one moment where her mind slip and her concentration to be broken as the reality of her setting got to her. Katelina's eyes opened and she could get them closed again as almost instantly her eyes were caught by the swirling screen. With her eyes now trapped on the screen before her, it had become harder and harder to drown out the nonsense which still was not becoming something she could understand. However the more it was drilled into her head the more she could not drown it out
Eventually the Bismark girl's mind went blank for a second and she found herself standing in white void where she was only one there. No one else was there for as far as she could see no matter which direction she looked in.
'Well at least that sea of white bodies is not in this place and that mess is not ringing in my head anymore' Katelina thought as that was only plus for her current mess she was in at the moment.
Walking around she wondered if there was anyway out of this place other then apparently succumbing what got Abbi and Nena. Although she rather not turn into nothing more then a white body with no features or anything that even one that show off her gender. So just wandering around aimlessly looking for a way out whatever this place was what happened for her. She knew this place was simply in her mind or that her mind was in this place since she had been somewhere similar to here before.
Katelina was stopped from moving forward when she felt someone grab her ankle. Looking down she saw that her shadow was grabbing her and it did not stop at her ankle though. Slowly her shadow worked it way up her body and eventually leaning on her shoulder.
Utterly shocked and freaked out she shoved her shadow off her, tripping over her own two feet in the process. Looking down she also noticed that she no longer had a shadow at all. Thus what had just grabbed her was really her own shadow come to life.
However as she looked at her shadow it was not what she expected to see from something that was suppose to be a two dimensional silhouette of herself. This was not what she was seeing as it looked literally like she had twin sister staring at her with emotionless brown eyes. Shadow Katelina was also wearing nothing at all as she standing there in the buff. Like this she noticed things that were different between the two of them.
This version of herself that once been her shadow. They were more well toned, her muscle more well defined yet only slightly beyond what expect of normal person. Shadow Kate was not muscular by any means or normal sense of the word. It just seem like her otherwise limber body was finely honed more athletic in appearance. She would have mistook her shadow for a look like if they did not pulled their way up using her body. They looked more like idealize version of herself that could do things she could only dream of yet there something off. The eyes were devoid of life as they were just vacant and empty.
Entranced by this idealize version of herself that once her shadow, Katelina's own eyes became clouded for moment as she reach out to them and almost touch her shadow self on the chest. At the last moment she pulled back as she came to her sense yet before she could get out her shadow self's range. Their arm shot out and grabbed her own.
"Directive 1: You will follow any commands and carry out any and all tasks assigns to you. If asked you to kill, you will kill" her shadow self said.
"Let go of me" Katelina said trying to pull herself away from her shadow self.
"Directive 2: Dolls have no human identity. No human history. We are merely Dolls" S. Kate (Shadow Kate/Katelina) said
"Seriously let go" she repeated
"Directive 3: Dolls have no personal desires or identities. We are tools. We exist only to serve" S. Kate droned on not listening to what she said.
"I said LET GO!" Katelina yelled jump kicking her other self in the face with strength she did not know she had.
Flying across the void the S. Bismark righted herself in mid air as her hands and feet skid across the floor.
Performing various motions to slow herself down and come to a stop on her feet no different before Katelina had attacked her.
She then went about repeating the three directive she had said before as she began walking back over to where her other self was. Not waiting for her to get over to her, she tried running in the opposite direction. Though no matter how far she ran away, S. Katelina was living up to her having once been her shadow. Unlike her, her other self never sped up yet always right there behind her droning on the same three things over and over again.
Eventually it got to her and Kate just began attack her not realizing that she was fighting like a fighter with gymnastic background. Not a gymnast simply trying to fight. Though no matter what she did not Katelina could land a blow on her shadow self. Not only that the constant droning of directive was starting to get to her as she did not even realize it. This was only thing that was happen as she did not notice either that slowly but surely the life was being drained from body and entering her other self.
In the end Katelina found herself holding her own fist. Which only confused as sure she had been fighting herself this hold time. Why was she the one defending rather then attacking like she remember last. That when the she realize that she was in her shadow's shoe looking at what she had been moment earlier.
The two version of Katelina just looked at each other for moment in confusion. Katelina (now in her idealized body that once her shadow) looked at her original body.
"Okay. This is strange" Katelina said.
"I know right" her other self replied.
Katelina was about to say something else when she realized something. Why was this weird and what was she even doing here looking at another version of herself. Was not she fighting a moment ago but now she was just standing here with this other her looking at her strangely.
"Are….okay?" the other self asked.
"Huh!" Katelina asked not understanding what she said.
"I…are…okay" they stated.
"Talk normal" Katelina demand
"…." came the respond as she could see their mouth moving but no words came out.
That when the voice in her head started breaking through the fog that currently dominating it in the moment. She knew there was something wrong about this voice and that this other her had something important to say yet she could not hear them because they were speaking normally.
Seeing that this other her was not even trying to speak in manner she could understand and the voice in her head was. She went on the attack fighting against what the voice told her was a faker…an impostor. However whenever she hit the supposed impostor she see them call out soundless things and it hurt her to hit them. That when the voice told her that this 'impostor' was trying to take away what was her and that they muted her voice so she could not hear the lies she was sprouting out.
Angered that this other her was trying to stealing from her. She went on the attack even more continuing to do even though the feeling that she was losing something every time she struck continued. It continued to the point where she did not even care anymore as she was not even angry after all. This was just something the voice had told her to do thus the reason she was doing. She had to follow orders as that what she existed for after all. She existed to serve and nothing more nothing less. This was merely her lastest objective to achieve as she had been given by the voice. However just like the feeling of losing something or the angry she once felt, the voice was not registering in her head anymore.
It then that she made a final blow to her target's heart and they just then her target collapsed to the ground in heap of piece that made her look like they were a mannequin rather then a person. Staring down at the plastic head of her target. The orange hair girl's eyes were devoid of all emotion and utterly vacant as she just looked up.
"Objective achieved. Awating further orders" she said as she just stood there among the mannequin pieces her target's body had become.
What had happened was that once Katelina was drawn into her shadow self's body, she was separated from her memories of being Katelina Bismark. Thus without her memories she was easy picking to the three directives that were running around through her head. The reason it hurt when she struck what was now the embodiment of her memories and almost everything else that she was as Katelina Bismark (minus a few things like her gymnastic abilites for one). Well this was because it was permanently severing her ties to them. Once all the ties were severed and the orange hair girl attacking was no longer connected to her everything that made her Katelina Bismark(minus though few things) all the life had been drained from them. Leaving them nothing more then just lifeless collection of memories no longer a part of the orange hair girl standing over them.
She blinked once and noticed that she was back into reality. Not that it really matter to her as she was merely waiting for her next order to be given. Weather this was reality or not did not matter, she existed to serve alone. Thus all she need was for someone to give her an order then she would carry it out simple as that. Around her however everything had been turned off and the room had once gone dark. The machine had been turned off but it was alright far too late as all three of them had fallen prey to its effect. They might have been effected in different way but the deed was done and the room had claimed three more people.
"What the hell was going on here!" a red hair guy yelled out
This was middle of the freaking night as no one should have been awake. However someone was as he heard screaming. When heard it once he just played it off but when he heard multiple time he knew that something was wrong. Though as he got close to the source he noticed something and that was rather disturbing to him That being the guards were not reacting at all to his presence as he stood in certain manner within a certain spot. This was a huge gap in their security and would lead to serious problem if smart prisoners had discovered it first. Of course the reason he specifically point out 'smart' was the reason before him.
Looking down on the ground he saw both Abbi and Nena just laying there motionless and seemingly utterly lifeless as well.
"Well the idiots got what was coming to them. Rather then escape they ended up signing their fates away far before they had to. The two of them would have been the last two to be subjected to this because of how they like being top dogs amongst the other prisoner" the man said with a sigh kicking the over to their backs.
Once one their back it was visible to see that they were still breathing yet still utterly motionless otherwise
"Seem the girls lucked out as if they pulled something like this when they were first brought here. Then both of them would no longer be among the living…well living dead. Beats being among the dead but not be much though" a blond guy said looking over from the doorway.
"Anyway help with these two as they going to rather usefully as they will help plug up the hole in our security. Which they that so graciously point out to us with this stunt here, Anada" the blond said.
"Hey Palas look that there another in here in the chair" Anada replied as both them notice Katelina for the first time.
"These two idiots are ones that just keep on giving. First they manage to alert to hole in security net. Then rather then escaping they come here basically to punish themselves. Finally they off this girl though rather then just glaring at her from afar all the time. We were going to do anyway once we got word from the higher ups but they seem to have beaten us to it" Palas said patting her on the head.
"Hey are you Katelina Bismark, right?" Anada asked.
The orange hair girl did not respond.
"Hey I am talking to you Katelina! Answer me right now" he yelled.
"That not going to work if she really like I am guess she is" the blond said wondering if this would pay off.
Palas stood in front of the teen in the chair and looked at her.
"Speak" He said in single word
"Speak" she spoke in monotonous voice.
"Did you just speak" Anada exclaimed in utter shock.
"Affirmative. Would you wish me to speak more. Please state what it is I am to say" she replied.
'Score' both Anada and Palas thought
This place was not meant for making Dolls that were to used by Dantom and Bison. They were simply a place where the grunt workers were made from various hostage Shadaloo captured and got rid of when they no longer serve any purpose to the group. Even if the hostage themselves had no idea where they were or the reason they were captured. They only used to make the basics of a lot machines that Shadaloo uses, so once they usefully ended. This was the fact that awaited them.
What good was a hostage if they were not be used as blackmail. Of course at first they were simply axing the hostages and dumping their bodies into furnaces to destroy them. Leaving no body for anyone to find thus no way to link Shadaloo to their kidnapping and eventually killing. Then Dantom's Dolls re-education process was developed the original version of while a failure. After refining it a few times Dantom found that it the now useless hostage could serve another purpose other then temporary factory work. They could be used a grunts doing menial labor tasks and a number of other things that used to be punishments.
It was also good means of getting information from people once they had tweak the system enough so that it stopped killing people. This version of course was just the basic version of what Dantom himself was using and only had one setting that was full blast. They people it was used on were going to be of any further usage beyond grunt work thus why waste time with setting. When its suppose is to be the mass produced version. These victims were also used a test subject as well mostly so Dantom could gather data on just how long it took people to subjected to the full power of the re-education process to fully lose their minds. After awhile he stopped eventually though as why risk losing someone he wanted as one of his Dolls because he made a mistake in the limits he could push them to.
However this place was neither one nor the other. It was pretty old all things considering as the people held hostage here were not consider that important to Shadaloo over all. They were simply used to send a message to someone they were close with and nothing more. There was no ransom note for their return or attempt to blackmail them to secure their safety return. Once they were here that was pretty much it they were ever leave this place again at least not the same way they came in.
In Katelina's case her kidnapping was to send a message to family whose daughter she was good friends with. However while her friend's family were well aware of this they had no proof to prove that Shadaloo had taken her. The message had been a week after she had been kidnapped but the reason she remain there was simple. The message was that they make people close to them disappear without a trace just think of what they could do to others much closest to home. Shadaloo had no intention of letting her go yet had no real purpose for her either. And so the reason she was here at this base where once her usefulness as worker was done. She would become a product herself as nothing more then a grunt doing simple task.
No one would have expected that she would have no only withstand the Dolls re-education programming at full blast but be re-programmed by it as well.
Still awaiting orders do you want to speak or not the girl that once been Katelina Bismark spoke.
She was no longer that person as the programming she had been subjected to made sure of that fact. She was no simply a orange hair fourteen year old that would follow the orders of whoever gave them. Since there was no one that ever really survived the process long enough to even be brainwashed properly. Everyone before that had been subjected to this level of the programming had their mind destroyed since it could not take it. Thus a number of directives were left out as they were deemed to be unnecessary as they were not Dolls only grunts. Grunts that would unworthy of being giving the 'honor' of becoming a Dolls yet would serve has free work to save on cash. After all there was no need for them to get paid as they had no concept of money nor pretty much anything else beyond the task they were given.
"Hey Katelina raise your hand" Anada told
She did not nothing in respond to this.
"Raise your arm" Palas said still looking at her.
"Which one and for how long" she respond
'Score' they both thought again as not only could she still speak but also seem able to thinking for herself and fine detail to orders without being told.
"Well what are we going to call her as she is not going to answer to her old name anymore" the red hair guy asked.
"That true as she through some miracle managed to become fully programmed by this process rather then it breaking her completely like these idiots" his blond co-worker added kicking at Abbi and Nena.
"I know your name is Juni. When you hear this name you will respond to whoever has called you by it. Also give it out as your name when asked. Do you understand?" he told her.
"Understood. Respond the name Juni whenever it called and tell people I am Juni when a name is inquired of me" the newly dubbed Juni replied.
"Why you pick the name Juni anyway" Anada asked
Palas then went to explain his reason for why he renamed Katelina to Juni. Well he notice a theme that was going on along with the current Dolls after the last one they were aware of being adding to the Dolls. Satsuki who was once a kendo prodigy was now a Dolls that would specialize in sword fighting with real metal sword. The name itself meant May in archaic Japanese and the others before her also meant the a month in the order of which they turned into Dolls. Thus being the sixth Dolls (to their knowledge) she was given the name the sixth month of the year in German.
As so Katelina Bismark was officially dead in sense as only Juni remained. Her memories of her former life and who she once was were all gone. All that remain was unrestricted Dolls named Juni who was had the mind of Dolls just not the body to match. After all even non-combat Dolls were enhanced to the point where they stronger then normal people just no where near Satsuki. Who was the first combat orientated Dolls to be created.