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The two Dolls stood before a rather large door that had no visible door handles or any other way to open it at all.
"Here we are" Juni said motioned Saru to standing back as the door slid to the side revealing the room behind it
The room had two large sphere, various chairs, a table, and even a ladder leading upward to the owner of the room's personal place. Despite the rather large sphere taking of a lot of space within the room themselves it was still a rather spacious regardless. Walking they stop before a person looking over the one of the large sphere in the room.
"Ahhh…Subject GRMX-06 you have returned. Not that you have brought with you, someone that said to be even more advanced the you are yourself" a rather old looking man who was partially bald(hair on the side but bald on top).
Walking around Saru who just stood there not moving as this had been one of the thing the two of them had discuss on the way here. Just stand there and let this man look over her, although the old man did not know this. He knew just what orders had been programmed into the Dolls from the brief report he had received from Dantom.
"Amazing as you surely have an superior body to Subject GRMX-06. A very nice find and acquisition you are Subject GRMX-14" he said.
Looking towards Juni at this moment as Saru got told the reason why she was called something that was not her designation. It was usage of the Dolls' wordless form of communication which only amazed the aged man even more. According to the report it had not even been that long full two days since Subject GRMX-14 was complete. So she was already master this skilled that took even Subject GRMX-06 a week to get the basic down.
As for why the man was referring to them as Subject GRMX-06 and 14, there was pretty good reason for this. This was their case number was when it came down to the their role in the Dolls program. This person was not like Bison, Dantom, or the others with the base. When he saw the Dolls what he saw was not teenagers turned into living robots, girls that would listen to whatever they told within strict guide, or just girls that been stripped of their humanity. No all he saw them as were specimens, in way they were no different then lab rats. Lab rats usually did not have proper names(in most cases) just case numbers instead.
"Dr. Ichihara, we have a schedule keep please keep the examination short" Juni said noticing he was taking too time examining Saru.
"Fine" the old man replied mumbling how he did not like be called that.
"Why is there dislike of your name being state. That is the designation that you were given thus it how you are to be referred to" Saru told him stared down at him with her lifeless eyes.
'Damn that Dantom as he knows I do not like be called by that name, but by Senoh instead' the man thought.
His full name was Dr. Haruo Ichihara, leader of Shadaloo's scientific division. However once Dantom was brought on board his plan for the mind control people through chips on their forehead were scrapped. Then the entirety of the project was handed over to him and Bison had also forced him to give some good people and equipment over to him for his Dolls program. Something Senoh thought was a waste of time and was convince for awhile thanks to all the failures he produced. Yet that changed after he had five subjects to show as results and one that created using the original programming. Now while he did not necessary see eye to eye with Dantom. Senoh was not one to disagree with result like Subject GRMX-06 and now her apparent superior GRMX-14.
It was then that was sudden banging noise that could be heard as the one the two sphere from with the room was suppose to empty san the two Dolls and Senoh. That was not the case as there was something or more like someone inside one of them, they were very angry about where they were at the moment.
The sphere's current occupation was an Arabian girl quite possibly the same age as Saru and Juni. She come to and had noticed the two girls that were in the room. She banged on the her prison trying to get there attention and possibly help in getting her out her as this was not how things were suppose to go for her. No this was far different from what she had thought but she had unknowingly decide to put her luck to the test.
The one floating with the sphere was Pullum Purna the daughter of a wealthy Arabian man. She was also wondering why no one had come looking for her yet. She did not know or realize was that no one was aware that she was missing just on her travels. One where she did not even inform them of what she was really going out to do. So pretty much they were thinking she was safe on the road with her bodyguard. One that in fact was undercover Shadaloo agent that Pullum had the misfourtune to hire.
The reason she was even here at the moment was because she want revenge against Shadaloo for what they did to her grandfather. She wanted to make the leader of Shadaloo pay from brainwashing her grandfather. However there were some major flaws with her plans that she could only see now that she was being held captive by them herself. The first being she had no idea what Shadaloo was exactly as she had no idea that she wanted to go up against a major global criminal organization. The second being the leader of the group was not the one that had brainwashed her grandfather. Truthfully she should be lucky that all that hypnotic trance was all that happened to him. If Bison was really behind the act not only would Pullum's grandpa be worse shape then he ever been on any other Tuesday in his entire life. He might not have lived to see Wednesday given his age. Her final flaw in her plan was that she underestimated Shadaloo's information network that picked on her desire for revenge against them and actually took her seriously. After all they allow Chun Li to grow up desiring revenge on Bison and look where she was now.
Yet the difference between the two was that at least Chun Li had an idea of what she was up against. While Pullum swore revenge in the heat of the moment went to try carry it out without any info other then the name of the group. So once this was discovered she promptly handed over to Dantom thinking it would be a fitting punishment by the agent that caught her for wasting their time. The reason she was with Senoh at the moment not Dantom, played into why Juni and Saru were there at the moment.
She was not aware of the fact but Dantom being as skilled as he was in his field. Had already managed to create something that he felt would revolutionize the Dolls process in ways not since seen Juni was first discovered. This would be what he consider the next great step for the Dolls in general and it was all thanks to Saru. Using the data he had from breaking Sakura and then rebuilding her into Saru, he had managed to find out some things and work out some kinks that still holding back the program even now.
Pullum of course did not have the knowledge to know that she was part of this experiment. Merely thinking that she was being held hostage in strange prison instead of for a more sinister purpose. So she continued to try to get the attention of the two girls that had entered the room. She thought since they were free and not being guide by anyone then just maybe they were part of the rescue squad since to save her. The manner in which they talked was ignored because she thought it was to simply gain enough of Senoh's trust to knock him out.
'Why are they just standing there not doing anything' Pullum thought as they had more then enough of chance to carry out their plan. Especially when he was too busy examining one of them or when turned his back to them. Just fully blowing off their presence just like how he was drowning out her constant banging.
Her hope was up when she noticed Saru walking up to the spheres and stopped just before them. She just stood there for a moment. The Purna girl tried harder to get to notice her as she was really wondering just why they taking this whole minion of Shadaloo thing so seriously. However it was while Saru was just standing there that she something just clicked in her head. One of her supposed 'saviors' really did not look like a one when she exactly took a good look at them. No upon looking at them without the exception she had placed on her, she was able to see Saru for what she really was.
She realizes this two girls were not acting they really were like this. Whatever had been done to them by Shadaloo had left them in this state and apparently them being here now left very bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. The lifeless and vacant look in Saru's eyes as they managed to meet eye to eye had been something she had never ever seen before from another human being. Then came the order from Senoh to strip and get into the other tank that was beside Pullum's.
Looking at this well Pullum was now kind of wondering if 'person' really fit who she saw before her. Of course they looked like one but everything she accounted to being one was missing not only from her eyes but each her actions. The Pullum mere knew as GRMX-14(because she had not heard Saru's name) looked more like she was nothing more then a mobile mannequin. Her movements were calculated as she took off her Dolls' uniform, her breathing almost non-existent(to her), and that vacant look in her eyes that only made this new view of Pullum's stand out even more. Fear and panic began to overtake her as she did not want to end up like her grandfather or even worse these two girls she had once she foolishly thought were here to help her.
Senoh at the console with rapid typing on the keyboard there cause current to run through Saru's body(thanks to the various wires she had connected to herself) yet she did not move an inch because her status as Dolls. Pullum on the other hand(who had the same wires connected to her) was not able to say the same as the her body shook violently as the current ran through it. Afterwards data part on screen and the old semi-bald man continuing typing an blustering pace a number of screen flashing by until everything came to stop.
Shaking her head Pullum to try and clear it as she had never felt pain like that before in her entire life. She saw the title Subject GRMX-15 on screen as the header and other things cause massive pit in her stomach to grow. Thing like 'mass production' 'specimen' and one word that just kept appear over and over again 'Dolls'. It did not take long for her to piece together that this Subject GRMX-15 was referring to herself as what was about to happen would leave her in the same state as these other two girl in the room with her. She looked over to where Juni was still standing as still as a statue. It was then that she imagine herself in that position instead, with the same lifeless expression on her face that willingly to even strip on command just because she was told too.
Banging on the sphere for dear life as to her right now her life at least as she knew was really depending on this. Trying with all her might to break the sphere and free herself from this prisoner. When she realized that she could not break the sphere. She gave up struggling to do so and more trying to take the air mask. Thinking that she had to be let out if she removed after they would not want her to drown after all.
"I am sure that Dantom would find your pointless struggle amusing but I am not him. I am just get this over with now" Senoh said press key.
A screen appear on the console after he had done so where it showed Pullum within a white landscape. Inside this place she looked around to see that there was nothing really here other then herself at the moment. Looking at herself in this place, the Purna notice whatever she did with this place was a direct result of what she was doing in reality (where she had stopped trying to remove her air mask but had noticed). Well too an extend as she noticed she did what she thought of within this space. Her amazement at what she was seeing here was curtailed when she noticed black patches appearing in this otherwise white void. More and more the patches appeared and she tried to run from them but wherever she ran in this place there was nothing stopping them. The patches just kept appearing until that was no longer the case. They had spread so far in this place that they had become the majority leaving so that rather then trying to escaping from the black patches, Pullum was seeking out white ones.
Trying everything she could to attempt to get herself out of her yet failing at every attempt to escape or disconnect this connection between herself on the screen and her actually self trapped in the sphere. She noticed that when there was no more white area and she was standing in just black area. She noticed that it did not stop there as it began climbing up her legs. Once that had happened she lost control of that not in this place but found she literally could not move that part of body for real. Jamming at her legs thinking that this was not real after how could something she saw on screen effect her so completely like this. She kept trying until the blackness cover up her more and more of her body leaving her unable move her any of her limbs. She tried everything she could to keep this from spread over her head but it was pointless.
Once the blackness over took her head covering her face until even her ability to see what was going in this place was void out leaving nothing but a black figure within black void. Pullum's body looked as if she was being electrocuted from the way she shook as her eyes slowly faded away leaving nothing behind but white orbs. A body that just few moment ago was so fill of life just floating lifelessly in the sphere that ironically now that she was doing nothing. The sphere drain and letting her fall to the ground as she was released from it.
On the ground she laid as she made no movement or anything else to signify that she was even still alive beyond her chest moving. Thus showing that she was at least still breathing if anything else. Juni then went over to where Pullum's body was and propped the girl up. Her limbs limp as wet noodles could not even support her own weight thus depended on Juni holding her to remain up right. The girl's neck was also like a wet noodle with her head either hanging back or forward depending on how her body was moved.
"Ahhhh…looks like things have been going according to plan so far" Dantom said as he entered the room seeing Pullum's body being held up Juni. He also looked over the screen where the black figure that Pullum had become on the screen had long since fell apart and only thing left was her brain (missing pieces not vital to functioning), heart, and lung.
"Raise her right hand, Juni" he told the Dolls.
"Of course, Master Dantom" came the replied as the girl's arm with hand dangling downward.
This process continued with her other arm, her legs being kick up by Juni's, and Dantom lifting up her head to get good look at her lifeless expression it held at the moment. A stark constant to the life that fill it before regardless of the emotion be it positive or negative.
"Are you going to keep this up much longer? There other things we need to look over you know" Senoh inquired speaking up.
"Fine as I would expect you to be unable to recognize the sheer amount beauty and curiosity that is her current state" he said having Juni place her down in chair near the console where wires were attached to her head. The two look on in amazement as Pullum was a utter blank slate.
Senoh looked over at Dantom and wonder if you was going to break into a chorus of 'Yes' like Bison had habit of doing sometimes when he got excited. This were merely judging from the look on his face at their result of the screen. This was part of the revolution that Dantom claim that he had made on the Dolls process. He had perfected the process of completely and utterly breaking a person leaving them nothing more then a utter blank slate. What good would a person in this state be mind you as they were utterly helpless without someone else to move them. However the true purpose of this plan was to full and completely wipe out who they were leaving them a blank slate. Looking at the screen before them everything that made Pullum who she was now existed only as data on this computer. Her mind just empty shell of it former self with nothing there but what vital to life.
The screen of that now black landscape was in fact Pullum's inner mindscape. That was the reason everything she did or thought of was reflected on the screen. It was literally showing what was within her own mind and of course once that was blotched out to the point where even she blotched out as well. The what happens to the mind effects the body thus Pullum's current state.
This was part of the revolution for the Dolls process which was how can you restore something that does not exist. They lost Cammy because she had something underneath all the programming and control they had over her. Something that was not absolutely loyal to Shadaloo and being a Dolls. Thus when it was removed and Vega gave her that miss information. She went rouge because this persona convincing her she was not meant to be Bison's Dolls as she was a person. Having let Vega slid because Dantom now had Saru and from her (and Juni) developed a process to prevent that from happening again.
If the problem was the underlying persona containing their true self or self independent of the Dolls directories, then the answer would be simple. Make the true self the Dolls persona thus ridding the problem at the source. The first step would it be if its possible to do such a thing without killing someone. To replace one true self you must first get rid of the originally self fully and utterly. Pullum proved that full utter mind wipe was survivable as she still alive not really living but alive.
And so came to phase two where Pullum was placed back into the sphere and her mind was reload into her empty head(after some other things were put in place). The purpose of this being to see if was possible to reintroduce their original memories and life as nothing more then simply learned knowledge. It solved another problem Dantom thought when it came to separated and incorporated memories into the Dolls selves. While wanting to also keep all of other memories of their previous lives accessible to the Dolls. The original danger in this before was somehow the connection being made between the two set of memories. By making their original memories simply learned knowledge this problem nipped in the bud. In a sense making it so that their original life akin to a person having read a really really detail autobiography and being able to recall every detail.
With the first two phase of this experiment done it was time to move on to the final one. Where it the result of the everything else were place on display. Having engaged this part of the plan it she was release from the tank and unlike before could stand under her own power. Before disconnecting her Dantom looked over to console screen where he took note that her inner mindscape was still mostly black yet now there was large white area once again. They were not in the majority exactly but not were they in the minority of it.
She just stood there still not move as Dantom ordered Juni to open a package that he had brought with him (one he picked shortly before coming here). Doing so reveal another Dolls uniform that was different from a normal one as it was more of a bluish color rather then black. As the Arabian girl remained still her vacant eyes staring at nothing and Juni's look at the uniform she had take out the package she was given.
"Dress her" Dantom gave the order to the original Perfect Dolls.
"Yes, Master Dantom" Juni replied as she went about dressing the other girl who did not move but herself but allow the Dolls to do it for her.
A smirk appeared on Dantom's face as he looked over the girl that was once known as Pullum Purna dressed up as Dolls in this alternated version of their uniform. She had come thinking she could get revenge on him as he was her target(even though she did not know it) but rather then get that. She had fallen prey him and was now not truly a Dolls in the end. True she had the appearance and mannerisms of one yet there was difference between her and the other two real Dolls in the room.
The one in the bluish Dolls uniform was actually the first in new line of Dolls. A brand new type that was the result of perfected Dolls processing system. Before the problem was that even after Juni there was only barrier that prevent them from turning just anyone into a Dolls still existed. The process was selective and the mind being subjected to it had be able to survive the process. All that Dantom got from Juni was an increased success rate that made so other that would become failure did not. Combining the knowledge from Juni's creation with Saru's created a brand new uniformed Dolls process. One that was able to make anyone into a Dolls yet the problem was these Mass Dolls (Mass Production Dolls) were not as refined those created with the original process. Mostly because they were subjected to a process that was more personalized thus the result as Dolls were much better then just a wipe and replace that Dolls that was once Pullum was subjected too.
"State your purpose" Dantom order the Arabian Dolls.
"To serve Master Dantom and Lord Bison" she replied in monotone voice.
"Do you have any notions of getting things like revenge on me for something I have done to your family" he asked
"Negative as Dolls have no family nor desire revenge" she droned on.
Please as she had turned out so well for the first of what he was expecting to be a long line of Mass Dolls. Just like when Juni had been discover the Dolls before her were upgraded not to her level of course but the kinks and other imperfection were worked out them. While those after Juni were converted with her own transformation as the base to ensure they met new base requirement for the Dolls (until Saru surpass them to become the new standard base). Thus base off the first Mass Dolls other would be made with the exact same process which would result in Dolls every time
"Your designation is going to be Mass Dolls 000 but you will also go by the designation Raks" Dantom told her.
"Affirmative my designation is Mass Dolls 000 and also answer to the name Raks" the new dubbed Raks responded.