Dangerless

Sitting against the cold wall, I lowered my head as I had a set of specialized chains around my neck and arms as well as around my waist, chest and back. Covering and wrapping all round me all the way down to my legs and feet, due to the initial unclassifiable radiation that had been pouring out of me. I had used along with my new strange power and as a result, a new kind of element was breaking through a few micro-cracks from my side when that spy punched me. 

After undergoing the surgery shortly after I was rendered unconscious, I insisted on this as a countermeasure just in case I lose control of myself again. The fact that my power is still an unknown, even to Dr A despite her being the one who birthed me in a lab, we were unable to tell what or why my body had drastically changed since the past two years. 

It was clear that something had occurred during that time yet, my thoughts and memories were as if they never existed. I couldn't recall anything from my previous life. It was frustrating. The void in my head was annoyingly dark and silent. Only my current memories of when I awoke remain engraved as I could recall each second of each day with precision with just a thought. 

My memory was impressive on its own, though it didn't explain what had happened to me or why my AI had undergone into forced hibernation. All we knew at the moment was that Dr A and this crazy new reality I found myself in, was absolutely necessary in having me isolated on my request. I wouldn't or couldn't allow another meltdown like before. In order to protect everyone, I didn't let anyone get close to me until Dr A finishes a new safeguard against my powers. 

The way she had described it, ' it would be three times more effective than these chains '. Or so she said. Being made of the toughest material in known existence, the chains were specifically made to withstand hydrogen-class nuclear weapons that could all but wipe out a quarter of the Earth's surface. The feeling that I had was unlike anything I had ever felt before. With just a thought, I knew for a fact that these chains couldn't stop me from breaking free had I tried to escape. It was nothing more of a formality than it was for my own protection. 

Remaining standoffish against everyone who cake by, I had heard from the woman I had saved that day that the rest of my sisters had already arrived a day after my surgery soon after the incident. Problems and guest issues had occurred as more than half of them wanted to kill me in order to prevent another meltdown.  

The spies that had infiltrated the city and were captured were put under 'lock and key' as Dr A set her best people to work them over for information. Even though I knew what it would mean for them, I also didn't want anyone getting hurt. 

Because of my conflicting requests, I ultimately chose to remain restrained as it was for staying out of their way. It was a selfish demand of mine yet, I didn't feel any regret or pity. I didn't feel anything as I couldn't picture myself showing my face which was full of nothing but fear of myself. 

Even as I look down to my hands, my right hand trembled as my left artificial hand remained still in comparison. The echo of the rattling chains made me feel the slightest of ease as I was constantly checking just to see if they were still constantly over my body. 

The girl whom I simply called ' the woman' remained outside and acted as my guard and caretaker should I have asked for anything. I was under constant watch underneath the most durable and secure basement floor within the entire city. The room I was in felt eerily comfortable as it was like a cold blanket in a sea of molten lava. 

Trying to think of nothing and everything at the same time, my eyes and logistics program eventually calmed as there was nothing left to analyze. Having counted my every slow and steady breath, I watched it brushing against the air at a peace where it dissolved and disappeared.

Turning my gaze and scrunching my brows, I turned to the doorway as it had slid open as a blinding light was shining from the other side. Walking inside, a stranger whom I had never seen before yet, who also held the same face as Dr A with a more 'Mature' glow walled into the room. 

"You 0-01?"Lowering her gaze while spreading her heels apart, she tilted her head as our eyes met. "What a pitiful little thing you are… I'm 7. A-7. Guess you could say I'm your little sister. Which leaves me with what I should call you…  'big sis'. "

Stunned by what she claimed, I felt a painful dip in my stomach as she walked further inside and the door closed behind her. 

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"Argh! " Falling numb from the intense strikes 7 gave me, I hung on the chains as I tried to keep my emotions suppressed with all my might. "If you are going to hurt anyone else, just let the monster inside you out so I can kill you already! "

Coughing, she struck a powerful blow to my stomach and knocked the air out of me once more. Clenching my fists around the chains, I grit my teeth as my hair hung low over my gaze. Grabbing my hair and lifting me up to meet her gaze, she threw me down and kicked me up as blood splattered onto the walls and floor. 

As I regained consciousness seconds later, I watched as she only wore a stainless blue tight suit underneath her golden kimono. Setting her arms and long slender legs free, I felt the glint reflect of my eyes and into hers as she shone radiantly even inside a darkly dim room. 

"Perfect, you can just die slowly while I beat the monster rout of you… "Striking a pose, I was abruptly bombarded with several continuous strikes all over my body as I retained my firm grip on my chains. "When… are you going to learn-... That you-... Are the greatest enemy in the entire universe! Agh?! "

Snapping my gaze to the floor on my right, I hung loosely as I kept a firm grasp on whatever it was that was keeping me from losing my control on my sanity. The chains acted chain acted on my impulse and I felt the hits were my punishment for letting go of that monster beneath the surface. 

"Fine… Okay. I see beating the living devil out of you won't do me any good. Tell me-"Leaning close until out Jose all but touched, I lowered my lifeless gaze into her bright crimson eyes as she spoke to me. "-Is there 'anything' you care about, 'Big Sis'? Anything at all that I can use to drag that 'thing' out to play? Hmm? "

The heart in my eyes remained stolen as I felt the endless abyss at the center of her petrifying gaze. Grabbing my face with just her hand, her long slender fingers wrapped around my cheek as she examined my face thoroughly. 

"What moves you… 'Money', 'power'... No. 'Lover-"A sudden flash of 'the woman' rushed past my mind. "Aah! So 'it' does feel human emotions! What a treat! So, come on. Tell me, who is it that's stolen your precious, itty, black heart? Hmm? Dr. A? No… Devan… No… That lowly worked clone-"

Instantly peeling my finger from the iron right grip of the thing inside me, 7 suddenly rushed back as I remained lifeless. Shaking in utter torment and fear, 7 stood in a shaken pose while holding a silver katana she had hidden in her person. Her low gaze  and bloodlust all showed her true intent as she as nothing more than a monster even she feared. 

Though her body shook, her grip on her katanas was crystal clear and steady. Regardless, she came here knowing full well how dangerous and unpredictable I was. Knowing now what was my trigger, 7 gulped as she cleared her throat and gambled on making a threat to use 'the woman' against me. Before the words even escaped her mouth, she met only my eyes and gaze alone shook her to her core as if I was a wild animal waiting to snap at the first sign of danger. 

Trapped inside a tightly secured and controlled room, she had nowhere to go and nowhere to hide should she truly want the other me to come out. At the moment, I had whatever it was that controlled me under control as I was forcing another copy of me against my skin and was holding her down to keep her from escaping. 

Even though I remained in control, 7 only felt a fraction of a slip on my finger and that alone stuck immense fear into her very core. Having already broken into a cold sweat as seconds turned into minutes, I waited and waited until she would speak. The words never sounded from her mouth and my eyes never parted from her face. All that she now saw was a clear image of her small reflection in my right eye as a deep red shadow circled around her from inside my eyes. 

A sudden flinch occurred in 7 as the intercom system shut on and 'the woman' had returned from wherever she went to see us in our current situation. Simply turning her head, she made a mistake and it showed on her face as whatever I was restraining, it had managed to use its presence and it was aware of 7's intentions after what she did to me in the past hour. 

Wrapping up her legs and arms, curving her chest and waist, the unseen grip of utter death circled around her body slowly and more fearfully than ever before. Her eyes shone of pure anger and fear, the echo of banging on the metal door sounded as we could not hear anything from inside. Creeping up to her neck and wrapping around like a snake, the deep balcony and red shadow touched her face with a hand ice-cold touch. 

Hearing the sound of the intercom and then the door opening, I snapped in judgment and restricted myself to sleep as 'the woman' rushed into the room to tend to 7 as she staggered backwards in utter shock. Resting in place, they left the roln and the sound of the large panel of sophisticated gears and locks echoed in place of the thick walled door. 

My own shadow remained still as I rested my grip on the chains and fell into a deep sleep. Waiting and pressuring whatever was inside from fully waking up. I conserve my strength as it all felt like a dream and when I opened my eyes, I would feel whole once more. 

Though, that in itself, is like a dream at this point in my life. 

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