Cyberknight: One Path

⁕ Sea of Broken Shards (part 1)

Screamed KD-554 while barely containing her rage.

[Astroboy] - "There will be no need for input on our part. You do not need to set fire to your garden to burn down a single weed. Once he expands his Empire, he will be but a cruel joke in the face of the other cyberknight warmongers. Jagger is weak, and his delusion about his power will be his downfall. "

Said Astroboy, emotionless as a machine.

[KD-554] - "Yeah, but watching him getting torn apart is not as satisfying as tearing him down myself! "

Muttered KD-554 while grinning with excitement and rage.

[Astroboy] - "If you truly want to expose this world for its hypocrisy, then start by keeping those petty urges in check. You have defeated your worst enemy, but this is not where your philosophy ends. The exposure of humanity's true nature is our ultimate goal after all. "

Said Astroboy in a cold and commanding tone.

[KD-554] - "*Breaths* You're right, my dear Astroboy. My anger could be directed elsewhere, but our mission doesn't end here. Not until I've drowned all human delusion in the blood of their defiled nature. "

Said KD-554 as she gripped her fist tightly.

Later, in the dark underground dungeons of the government tower, Kadyn finally woke up to find herself tied on all four limbs by chains. As her vision returned, all she saw was the sight of a laboratory filled to the brim with horrifying experiments in incubation tubes. The place was beyond inhumane, as if hell itself spilled into reality with all of its ugliness.

From deformed human test subjects being mutilated beyond recognition to sleeping abominations, which unfortunately kept enough features to let one know they are not beasts, but were once men, the place was metaphorically the culmination of all hatred and depravity in existence compressed in a cage. Even with her iron stomach, which withstood gore and rot like a mundane occurrence, Kadyn felt nauseous looking at the scene before her.

Surprisingly, scientists and workers handled the place as if they were desensitized to such horrors. After all, those allowed in KD-554's laboratory were the most devoted followers of her philosophy. To the workers, this unholy kingdom is an art museum, displaying all the true forms of the monsters within the heart of men and women alike. To the scientists, messing with genetics and augments is but a required process to engineer the perfect human being; Capable of crude violence and wrath without the facade of empathy and compassion.

As one of the scientists pulled a child out of its incubation pod, Kadyn closed her eyes and desperately distracted her mind with other thoughts. However, the ghoulish screams of the mutated infant soon pierced Kadyn's ears like red iron pressed on her skin. Suddenly, a slap on Kadyn's face broke her out of her mental sanctuary.

[KD-554] - "Wake up, sunshine! "

As Kadyn peeked through her eyelid, she was hit with the intense red glow of KD-554's irises. Just as Kadyn tried to turn away, KD-554 forcefully snapped her sister's face back in front of her.

[KD-554] - "Don't be shy now, little sister! This is my home and also... now yours. "

Said KD-554 with a look of unhinged excitement on her face.

[Kadyn] - "Kill me already. If you hate me this much, just fucking get on with it already. "

[KD-554] - "Hmm, that would be an option. However, killing you would be too easy... "

Just as Kadyn tried to open her mouth to interrupt KD-554, she abruptly stabbed Kadyn in the tongue using her sharp, bladed finger. Then, after licking the blood off her finger, KD-554 placed her finger before her mouth to shush Kadyn.