Chapter 1: New Place
"Wh-What happened to you?"
"P-Please help us! We don't know what happened!"
"I-I'll try to find something out! I'll call your father!"
"NO!"
"C-Calm down!"
"RRA-RRAAA-RRRAAAAAAAAAARHGHHHHH!"
She opened her eyes and only saw unfamiliarity all around her. She was in a strange room with monitors and all kinds of scientific stuff she had never seen before. When she looked down, she noticed that she was wearing a dress, a wedding dress. The most beautiful one her eyes have ever seen. On the bed she was sleeping, was a bouquet of white roses. But most importantly, she was alone.
"Hello?"
That's when it started.
"Someone there?" "Nino?" "Miku?" "Yotsuba!" "Ichika, are you there?" "Itsuki! Where are you?!"
"Waait!" She yelled, something was wrong.
Something was very wrong, all those voices… Were coming out of the same place… her mouth.
"Wh-What the hell?" "What is going on?" "Is it me or was that coming from me?" "I didn't-"
"Nino..." "Yes, Miku?" "Can you… Raise your right arm?"
She didn't move an inch.
"Nino?" "I won't!" "Why?" "Because I'm scared!" "I'll do it then!" "Itsuki wait!"
She raised her arm… And everyone screamed as it was her arm that was raised.
"I-I didn't!" "W-Wait, calm down everyone!" "What is going on?!"
"Is there a mirror in this room?!" she yelled aloud.
A loud 'thud' was heard coming from the small cabinet near the only door of the room.
She hesitantly approached the cupboard and reached for the handle.
"W-Wait! What if it's dangerous?" "Calm down, Yotsuba…" "But Miku!"
She opened the cabinet and only found a small mirror in it, nothing else. She grabbed it and raised it to her face, but her eyes were still closed at that moment.
"I'm scared to look…" "Me too…" "But we have too…" "Ichika…" "We have to know what is going on…"
She opened her eyes and what was staring at her back through the mirror froze her blood.
It was the face of the Quintuplets… but at the same time it was none of them.
"Who… Is that?" She asked no one in particular.
"Wh- Are we all…" "In the same body?"
Suddenly, a voice came out of a speakerphone they didn't know existed.
"Hello, O-01-XX5, please prepare yourself for the day of work. An employee will come to your room in a short instant."
"Ku- Who's there?!" She yelled.
"O-01-XX5?" "Is that us?" "Why do we have a designated number?"
As announced by the voice, the only door to the room suddenly opened and a small woman dressed in a formal suit with short green hair tied into a little palm tree on top of her head. She had her left eye green and the other light blue. But most importantly, her skin was white as snow.
"Hello, I'll be doing your very first work, Abnormality O-01-XX5, I know it's your first day in our company as an Energy resource so if you have any questions, I'll answer them if I can." she said while looking at the woman in the wedding dress.
"L-Let's each ask one question at a time." "Good idea Itsuki, you go first!" "Wh-what? A-Alright…"
"Uh… What did you mean by Abnormality?" She asked.
"Right. Abnormalities are what we call anything that isn't 'normal' and that are confined in rooms like these. Sorry to say, but you're one of them now. I remember reading a file about you saying that you were once human. But you're not anymore."
"Wh-What are you talking about?!"
The woman sighed, "I mean, look at your skin, it's not white right?"
She looked at her exposed skin on her arms, the woman was right, it's pale but not white. But what does her skin color have anything to do with the situation?
"White skin shows that you are human in Lobotomy Corporation facilities. The fact that you're not white as snow shows that you're no longer human."
"We… We're no longer human…?" "H-How? What happened to us?!"
"Where… Are we, you mentioned Lobotomy Corp?" She asked.
"That's right, we're in an underground Facility of Lobotomy Corp, the Energy producing company. As to where exactly, I can't divulge this information. And you are one of the energy resources." The woman kept explaining, "Any more questions?"
"Yes… How did my sisters and I fused into this body?"
"Say what now?"
"My sisters! We are quintuplets and we just woke up in this body! Which is none of our original body! What happened to us?"
"I see, so you have five personalities in your head?"
"P-personalities! No! We're people! But yeah… it seems like we're all in here… We can talk inside our head…"
"I see. Well at least it gives us some hints of what surname we can give you, O-01-XX5. You'll get a name soon enough."
"We have a name!"
"I'm afraid that it doesn't matter between these walls." The woman responded, "Anything else?"
She didn't know what to say, she was too confused to speak, the voices in her head were all screaming at the same time.
"If you don't have any more questions, I'll be taking my leave." the woman said before turning around.
"W-Wait! Can we leave this room?"
"Well, the door isn't locked. But if you get out without permission… it will be considered a breach, and we'll have to suppress you."
"S-Suppress?"
"Goodbye." the woman left the room.
"How long have we been here? Days? Months?" "Just a few hours Yostuba."
She was sitting on her bed, tired. And it's only been a few hours since she woke up in this room at that strange facility.
And during those few hours, she got many visitors, employees from Lobotomy to test all kinds of works on her… It wasn't as bad as it sounds,'Instinct' and 'Insight' work were pleasant as they mostly meant being fed, playing games, any kind, and cleaning the room. And the man who came to do those works was kind enough to at least present himself as Connor.
Then there was 'Attachment' work which was just talking. She could ask questions and she would get answers.
But the last kind of work… The 'Repression' work… The girls really hated it. It was… painful.
She was just happy that they understood that 'it won't work on her' and won't do it again.
Also, she learned that they were working on a new name for her.
"We're really trapped here…" "I wanna go home…" "Me too Miku…" "Do you think Dad knows where we are?" "What about Fu-"
The doors suddenly opened and she stood up immediately in a startle.
"Hi there, sorry if I startled you."
The agent was male, rather tall… But his face froze the Abnormality and the girls inside her head. None of them could utter a word when their eyes landed on the employee.
He was a young man with bluish-black hair styled in a bowl cut with two strands sticking up from the back of his head. He had tired black eyes. His skin was white like the other employees.
"I'm Fuutarou Uesugi, I'll be doing some Attachment work with you today." he presented himself with a bow, "Alright so, what c-"
"FUUTAROU!" The Abnormality exclaimed and nearly jumped on the man…
...If he didn't jump back and pointed a gun at her.
"Wh-What the-?"
"A-Ah! Sorry. You startled me." he apologized and put the gun down, "Please stay behind the stripe on the floor for security…"
"Uesugi! What are you doing? It's me! I mean us! It's us!"
"Uh… I'm afraid that you have the wrong person, I have never seen you before in my life, Mrs. Bride." The man sighed as he scratched the back of his head.
"...'Mrs. Bride'?"
"Yeah, your nickname, the Five-in-One Bride. Because of your multiple personalities in your mind."
"Fuutarou! It's us, the Nakano sisters! Ichika, Nino, Miku, Yotsuba and Itsuki! Don't you remember us?!" she was practically screaming with tears in her eyes, "You're our tutor!"
"I-... Listen, I've been working for Lobotomy for years now… I rarely even leave the Facility… I'm not the one you think… Sorry."
"B-But… I don't understand..." the Bride said sadly, sitting down on the bed.
"Uh… Anyway… Do you have any questions? Or something you'd like to talk about?" Fuutarou asked but she didn't answer.
In fact, they spent the rest of his time in the room in silence. The Bride didn't speak a single sentence, she was just silently sobbing and trembling.
The Lobotomy Agent didn't know what to do, he knew that some Abnormalities cried but none of the very few reports of the Bride spoke about her crying. He should note that down, maybe it was something he said?
But it was time for him to leave and get ready for the next task.
"Oh. I need to go, I'm sorry again if I said anything bad. Goodbye." he apologized himself as he walked out of the room.
"W-Wait!" the Bride yelled but it was too late.
"What is going ON!?" "That was Fuu-kun, right?!" "Of course! But why?" "Why can't he recognize us?" "I'm scared!" "Y-Yotsuba." "I'm scared too." "I don't understand"
"I'm scared!"
"Help me!"
"Fuutarou!"
"What do we do?!"
"What is going on!?"
The Bride yelled in pain, holding her head. Anger, confusion and terror swirling in her mind. An alarm rang out the moment smoke started to come out from her body.
In that smoke, hidden from the camera in her room, her body changed, armored scales appeared on her back, a large fin stood in the center, her limbs started to get furry and her fingers turned into large claws. Her ears also started to grow fur as they were getting longer. A long reptilian tail appeared from under the dress, doubling her size in length. Her body grew, her dress ripping appart in her transformation. Under her veil, her face disappeared in the darkness for five pairs of blue shining and inhuman eyes to appear.
The beast roared and crashed through the door.
This was Abnormality O-01-XX5 first Breach. Her risk level designation has been set to HE level because of her strength and casualties numbers, but calming her down was surprisingly easy thanks to the employee Fuutarou Uesugi.
It has been decided to always call to him to calm the Abnormality whenever she breaches.
Future reports are waiting for more detailed Management tips.
Baka's notes: Hello everyone! I hope you guys are safe!
This story hasn't been updated after almost a year and probably most of you had forgotten about it! But I'll try to update it regulary. TRY!
What happened to the sisters? And why does Fuutarou not remember them? What is going oooooon?
Next update will be about Slayers (yaaay) I have the chapter planned and hopefully, I'll write it quickly.
See you soon and be safe!
