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Dantom just smiled as looked over Raks and how she had turned out
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The former Pullum was nothing more then Dolls that would now do without question the bidding of very group she once vowed vengeance against. Her original self had been fully reduced to knowledge stored within her thoroughly brainwashed head. There was no way she would ever break free of their control over her and if she did then she would pose no threat to them at all. After all the only persona that she had was the Raks one that he created for her. Take that away and she would have nothing at all as knowledge and memories are not the same thing.
While Dantom would just love to have Saru and Juni go through a similar process where their original selves would be utterly wiped and turned into just data. Of course the abilities they had gain or already had during their original lives were already incorprated into their current Dolls selves. The idea here was to serve those dangerous links they still had with Sakura and Katelina(in Saru's and Juni's case). Yet this was not something that he wanted to use on either of them without having tested on someone else first.
"Wow this place is pretty advanced" Marz said with amazed expression on her face (yet her eyes as usual remain lifeless).
Arata was right behind her as he wondered what was going on here as he noticed Saru and Juni stand at attention. Also noticed what there was new girl stand there as she must have been just recently put through the Dolling process.
"Why are you staring at that girl?" Marz asked looking at him questionably.
The brown hair guy stuttered for a bit though then noticed her expression had gone blank and she just stare him.
"Marz undress right now" Dantom ordered her.
"Yes Master Dantom" the blue hair Dolls said as she did just that right in front of Arata who felt a trickle of blood coming from his nose.
"I see that you are liking what you see" Dantom said with chuckled having noticed the reaction that Arata showed off.
Marz for someone that was mostly just used as a hacker had very fined and well tone body. It was not that she was out shape as she never was even before she was Dolled. It just that back then she had the typical body for some her age at the time. However now she had one that was more fitting of someone that seem to exercise on a regular routine for some time now. It something that was typical of other two Dolls of her type as well. Neither Aprile or Enero were combat Dolls per say but they had similar body themselves. Février who was more of gunner combat then the typical combat the rest of the Dolls were consisted of. Also had similar body type though a little more then either Enero, Aprile, or Marz mostly because all the guns she used. Not all of them were light and easier to carry after all, as some of her guns were pretty heavy but she been trained to deal with as if they light and easy to move around.
Anyway being merely hacker Dantom felt safe testing this process on her first. After all if it did not work as he hope it would then that would have been no big deal. Hackers were not exactly rare after all since you could always just go out and get a better hacker. The fact that he now had a method to make pretty much anyone he wanted into a Mass Dolls, inferior to the Dolls, made this all the more true. Just pick up another hacker maybe one that was even better then Marz was before she was Dolled. Turn them into one themselves and then they would possibly be even better then her. The blue hair girl only plus was that she was one of the original three Dolls, were between the three of them on one was even close to be a combat based until Satsuki.
Decide to play around he order Marz to pose in various pose which she did as per her orders. Dantom also found it interesting when order poses that only the most limber Dolls like Saru and Juni could pull off. Though this did not stop her from trying and she would have keep from trying.
Dantom chuckled as he watched the nude blue hair Dolls struggle to perform on these things not stopping even though she had fallen to the ground from having lost her balance. Marz would have keep trying if she was not told to stop as she did not feel the pain thus strenching of her limb in manner that it should be done was bothering her. That did not mean she was succeeding as she clearing would kept going until either she broke something or became exhausted.
Arata tried stopping her once but she merely pushed him away roughly and rather forcefully to continue trying to carry out the order that she had been given. Though she was then order to stop and she almost immediately. If she still had the ability to feel pain then this would have left her aching as result of attempt to do something only more limber person was capable of.
Dantom then went about give her some orders and then had Raks follow him and Senoh. Arata was about to follow after them wonder what he was suppose to do now.
Marz's arm shot out and she blocked his path.
"Master Dantom has ordered me to keep you in here. He does not want you leaving this place" she told him
"Go sit over there" she order Arata
Where she pointed to was strangely enough Saru sitting on Juni who was on ground and on all four. Saru herself while sitting on the orange hair Dolls sat in position that gave the strange image of her being a chair. Her arms were out like they were arms of chair and she positioned the rest of her body to copy that of a chair.
"Go sit over there" Marz repeated when Arata did not move.
Still not moving she grabbed his hand and forcefully moved and sat him down in the Saru/Juni chair set up.
"Stay" Marz told him.
Then walked off to begin typing at the console next the large sphere in the room. Once she was seemingly done she step in the sphere and connected the air mask herself, before the sphere itself filled with a the normal liquid it does.
Arata just sat in the 'chair' he saw Marz's eyes roll up into her head and wanted to help her. However he was worried about what actions this 'chair' he was in would take. It was not exactly a normal by almost any means at all so he just remained seated. When her body jerked a few times and then were somewhat loud noise from the console that drained the sphere and release her on the ground.
There she just lied on the ground the ground motionless and seemingly lifeless too. His worry about what the 'chair' reacting and Marz eventually changed so that he more worried about her. Rushing over he rolled her over to see that she was breathing and checking her heart it was also still beating as well.
A moan came from her mouth as she seem to be coming around slowly standing up as she seem to have regain consciousness. Though while she seem to be conscious again completely aware of her surrounding, she was not with her eyes being half closed.
Stumbling around Marz from place to place, she seem to have trouble just remaining standing at the moment. There was also something going on with her half closed eyes which at first were still completely lifeless however less she seem to stumble for place to place even on Arata and the 'chair' at times. Life seem to return in her eyes even so much at the same time.
Blinking as she seem to steady herself she opened her eyes full and started taking in the room fully again. However rather then the lifeless vacant eyes that stood in the world for almost two years now, these were different. Vibrant and full of life, these eyes were very confused as they took in the world around her.
She then felt someone placing her hand on her shoulder and this cause her to jump back at the touch of it. The jerking back cause Arata to become even more confused as it seem that she actually felt the touch of his hand on her shoulder.
"Who are you and where am I?" she asked clearly disorientated and confused
"Marz?" Arata asked curiously.
"Huh!? My name is not Marz its Alina…Alina Cole" she told him while still dart her eyes around trying to looking something familiar to her yet failing to do so.
Confused even more by this as she did not seem to be what he overhead once being called normal mode once. The teenage boy could not recall where he heard this through but he was rather sure that he did.
"Why am I naked!" the blue hair Alina shrieked as she cover herself up as best she could.
However once she realized that she had been wondering around this room naked on top this person having probably watched her as she did so. She turned beat red as she crouched down on the ground trying to make herself looking smaller. She never in her life thought that she allow anyone see her in that state.
'My breast he saw them…he saw them in all their bare and free glory. My body he saw my body in way no one outside my family has even seen. Exposed I been completely exposed to this person' Alina thought as her mind was going a mile a minute as she started feeling dizzy again until one thought came to her mind.
"Clothes" she muttered out as she remained on the ground.
"Huh" Arata asked as he barely hear what she had said.
"I want clothes!" Alina said squeeze arms around her knees as well avoid looking up at Arata.
"There over there" he told her point to where the clothes she was wearing when they came into this room.
Trying to remain in the crouched in the ball she had entered she crank her neck in attempt to see these clothes out of the corner of her eye.
"Well?" she asked of Arata.
"What?" he asked
"Give them to me as you do not think I am going to let you see my body…again do you" she said narrowing her eyes (which looked strange as she was not looking at him and there still a blush on her face).
Handing them over to her, she told him to stand over there as she put them on so that she could finally have some clothes on her. So that she no longer feel as exposed as she had until now
As doing so she found something with the Shadaloo ensign on and her memory seem to get jogged almost right away upon seeing something her mind could recall.
"What year is this? Tell me the year. Tell me right now" she inquired after getting fully dressed.
Alina seem to go pale for a second as she absorbed that knowledge of what year it was.
"It been that long…I…I…I need to sit down" Alina spoke as she was busy absorbing that information.
So caught up in just taken in just how much time had past since she could last remember she did not really pay attention to what she thought was just a chair for sitting.
"This chair seem strange as does not really feel that comfortable and these head rest feel really strange. A rather familiar feeling yet very strange at the same time. I wonder what this chair is made of" she thought aloud as she rubbed her head against the chair's head rest.
"Alina….ummm that is not really a chair" Arata told her.
"What do you mean this is not…a…..ch….a….ir…." Alina asked
Looking up to see the face of Saru who staring blankly forward. Her brown vacant and lifeless eyes showing that she was merely a Dolls and this probably nothing then a order she was carrying out. Looking towards what she thought were 'head rest' where in fact Saru's own breast. Stumbling out the 'chair' she noticed that Juni on all fours on the floor seemingly acting as the base of the 'chair' while Saru was the body of it.
"NO…NO..NO…NO…NO..NO!" Alina kept repeating over and over again the utter shocked and horror visible on her face seem stuck there as her gaze did on the two Dolls.
"I am me…I am myself again not THEM *looking at herself* I am Alina Cole that right my name is Alina Cole. I am no longer a some sicko's living toy I am a person. I am me…I am myself again not THEM *looking at herself* I am Alina Cole that right my name is Alina Cole. I am no longer a some sicko's living toy I am a person" she said repeatedly while holding her head as her entire body began to shutter violently.
Arata was busy doing his best impression of fish during all this and that continued onward until…
"You…What's your name and you must be a prisoner like me, right. We are both people, right. I am a person and you are a person. The two of us are both human beings, Homo sapiens or Homo sapiens sapiens. We are primates of the family Hominidae, and the only extant species of the genus Homo" she stated.
Arata was stating to wonder if she was having a break down and figured that not telling her is name might more harmful to his well being as would her mental state. He had no idea just how much Marz was still activate within Alina. Marz might had been the hacker of the Dolls and probably the among the weakest combat wise however against normal people she was far stronger and skilled then the average person.
"Arata" he said kind of unsure of how respond to how she was acting.
"Where have I heard that name be….fore WAIT I know that name you are Edax. That name you used on certain chat channel, right. You must be Edax if your name is Aratat " Alina asked her eyes meeting his as he could see how much she wanted this to be true from looking at them.
Arata just nodded his head.
"Its me, Tempus. Sorry I am about what happened when we suppose to me as well I was captured and that *points to where Saru and Juni* happened to me. What has that bastard had me doing all this time" Alina said.
She noticed how neither one of them move an inch when she wave a hand in front of their face or even poked them.
'I am myself again I do not EVER want be like them again' she thought as shiver went down her spine.
'This is not a trick is it. She seem normal even more then before' Arata thought.
He wonder if when he least expected she just switch back to being the typical Marz rather then this even more normal like version of herself to the point where she seem to be the person he original knew before Shadaloo.
"Arata it really me I am not like them *wave to Saru and Juni* anymore for whatever reason thankfully" Alina told him.
Eying her cautiously he truly wondered if she was telling him the truth. She did seem a little different now then she was when Dantom was around. The stare that he was giving the blue hair teen was so intense that she started looking away from him.
"Stop staring at me like that I am Alina Cole not whatever that monster named me when mentally broke me and turned me into a living doll" Alina spoke out
Though if he had not already convinced himself to really ignore her eyes. Which if he had not then it would have been utterly clear that she was Alina and not Marz. It was the life that was visible in her eyes now that was missing from when she was merely the Dolls known as Marz. Of course Arata could not see this himself so what sold him was not the most obvious bit of evidence. Which he could longer tell the difference between Marz's lifeless eyes and Alina's normal ones. So other things like how she jerk at him touching her bare shoulder, blushing, having modesty, her violence reactions to being refered as a Dolls, etc as his proof.
She turned her head to avoid having to deal with Arata's stare however this lead her sight to be once again fall upon the orange and brown hair Dolls that were currently order to be a chair. Like something had clicked with her head that when she stood there with dazed look on her face. After awhile her legs began to buckle as they seem to no longer be able to support her weight. Collapsing to the ground Arata rushed to prevent her from getting hurt from just all of suddenly action she had seemingly taken.
That was the plan Arata had but Alina was a light as she appeared to be so trying to support her entire weight was not something he was really prepare for and while she did avoid hitting her head against the ground. Both them end up on the floor in a heap where Arata got kind of trap underneath of the unconscious Alina.
A upon coming too she turned beat read as she on top of Arata and preventing him from getting up.
"I am sorry so sorry for everything I done" she say to both him and the two Dolls that were not going to respond to her.
"Why?" Arata inquired curiously.
"Its my fault they are like this in fact almost all them can be traced back to me really" Alina told him with depressed tone in her voice.
"Again how you were not yourself right as you were Marz at the time, right" he asked.
"I might not have been in control of my actions or even my thoughts. However I can recall having done all those things among other things" she said blushing towards the end again.
A light went off within Arata's head as he realized just what she meant by recalling everything from her time as Marz. That of course meant all the time that she had been ordered to seduce him and even time where Arata was not even aware she was there at the time.
It made sense that she could recall her time as Marz as once Cammy was released from her Dolls programming she could still recall everything she had been doing. The only thing that difference between the two of them was that it took some time for the memories of Marz to creep up on Alina. She was the one of the primary hacker of Shadaloo as Marz and along with her directory to search for others that would make good Dolls candidates, she was also used to find those that could be targeted to 'convince' people to their way of thinking.
Of course having the ability to recall everything that she done as Marz also had some unwanted side effects beyond just her role in getting others turned into Dolls themselves. She had vivid memories what she had done and been order to do to Arata as Marz. Even damaging to his image would be how she used to finally break him down along with Saru. Merely because they seemed normal again but it clearly an act and show in how easily be switched back and forth.
"It was more Dantom's fault then yours as he turned you into Marz against your will. So do not beat yourself up over it so much" he told her.
"You are right" Alina said smiling brightly…however there was slight forcing of it as there was something weighting down on her mind.
Sure when you think about Alina could not completely be held accountable for the actions she had done of Marz. Her mind was broken down and then while in that vulnerable state, she was re-programmed into the blue hair Dolls that only followed the orders of Bison and Dantom absolutely. Although Arata was not like that as he cave in to Marz after she merely appeared to seem normal to him. A fear that he probably should not be trusted because of this was in the back her recently restored to normal mind.
Alina however shook her head at this thought as Arata was a victim like her. This was her time to be there for him like he was her when she needed. As before they meet by chance she was a malicious hacker that mess with all things and people merely for the sake of it and cause she thought it was fun. Even Arata's and her's early relationship was kind of rocky as mostly him talking to her while she found him annoying. Threat of draining his family entire saving and other things were mention and she had almost gone through with it various times too. Although he kept at and eventually they began friends and then developed feeling for each other.
The Cole teen just let small growl as she was trying to go straight and was looking forward to meeting Arata when she was kidnapped. During her ill attempt to reveal Shadaloo as the evil organization it was using various front company that were legit but funds went back to the parent company, Shadaloo itself. Her biggest fear however was not Arata turning on her because of what Dantom and other had put through while she was Marz. That it was not as what she feared was he turning on her from when she seem to stand him up when they were suppose to me offline for the first time.
"Come on Arata I think we can get out of here. Though we have to be careful about it" she told him.
"How as they have camera and other things all over this base" he asked.
"Ones that Marz helped them set up and has knowledge of their blind spots and gaps. I have those within my memory so I can use them to my advantage" she informed him.
He then asked what about the room they were currently in as would they have been watched this entire time from this room's camera. To this she told that this room did not really have one as Marz had been informed to not work them into here. Arata merely guessed that she referred to Marz as if she was different person because she at some level did not want accept the actions she had done as her. Alina did not seem aware of this fact so he rather not bring it up since she had said anything about herself yet.