consequentia

Hours passed after zero zero zero left , eventually 263 agreed that I was indeed the hardest worker today and fell asleep.

"I'm tired 545 I'm going to get some sleep" I recall her saying to me as she came closer to me for warmth. Now she's fast asleep next to me, her blond hair...if only her beauty didn't hide such a fierce woman beneath it, I thought to myself as I sat there next to her beneath the night sky .
"Where are you zero zero zero" I said struggling to stay awake with heavy baggy eyes as I sat there beneath the moon waiting for him to come back.

"Hey wake up , damnit stop ignoring" I heard a faint voice say from far away

"Wake up I know you can hear me!" I heard as the voice suddenly roared through my ears shocking my eyes open to see none other than 263's angry gorgeous face.

"I know you could hear me you lazy tool" She said with crossed arms and a smug face.

"Well excuse me for not having superhuman hearing that lets me hear people talking in my sleep" I said sarcastically.

"I'm sure everyone can hear things outside their bodies when they're asleep dumb dumb" she said pointing at me while looking at me in what seemed to be a mixture of confusion and disappointment towards what I had just said.

"It depends ok!" I shouted at her as she burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at" I asked as I got up and sat upright ,

"You're so stupid" she chucked saying .

"Takes one to know one" I jabbed back at her staying .

"True" she said in response as we both laughed.

I noticed the blue sky as I looked up , blue as always, there is never anything but blue in the sky .

"Hey, have you seen zero zero zero" she asked me ,

"I tried waiting up for him last night, but I must have fallen asleep somehow" I explained to her with clear disappointment towards my inability to wait up.

"And 334? Any sign of him?" I asked her .

She looked down with a frown as the morning sunlight lit up her hair .

"Nah" she said in a little voice as she started crying.

I stood up, and gave her a hug, I could feel her sobbing on my chest as I held her. As I was holding her I felt two metallic needles enter my back , then a surge of electricity electrocuted my body. I could feel the electricity burning through my body, 236 backed away as I fell to my knees.

"What are you doing to him" 263 shouted aloud , I wondered to who, but as I turned back I realised there were three task masters behind me , they were all more or less average height middle aged white men, one had long black hair , the one in the middle a black bob cut and the one to the left had a comb over cut with ginger hair.

"Orders from the father , subject 545 you are hereby to be trialled and questioned about the nature of the disappearances of subject 000 and 440, and if found guilty , you will be eliminated." The taskmaster with the ginger haired comb over said staring me dead in the eye. My eyes opened wide as my heart began beating faster .

"I was with 545 all night we both didn't see anything I swear" 236 cried to the taskmasters,

"Oh you were with him as well" the taskmaster with long black hair said with a grin on his face. In a moment he vanished from the two taskmasters he was standing with. I heard 263 scream In front of me. I turned to her and found her body lying unconscious before me , and the long haired taskmaster standing over her body with his hands in his pockets.

"Night night" he said to me with a grin on his face , I felt a blunt object hit the back of my head , and I blacked out.

....

"He looks just like him" I heard a masculine voice say

"I could probably kill him with ease" I heard a feminine voice say with aggression.

I opened my eyes but everything was blurry, all I could see was light and silhouettes. I felt a cold smooth floor , I saw my hands , my vision was starting to stabilise. By the time I was on my knees I was already able to see what was around me , I was in some kind of glass and white walled dome with white tiling, about four hundred hundred or so metres in diameter.

There was a man sitting on what looked to be a throne , he was a white middle aged man with a long black wolf cut, just staring at him made me unable to stand. There were two task masters next to me, one on each side staring at me.

"545" the man in the throne said in a deep masculine voice

"Yes sir" I replied trembling, his presence alone made the hairs on my skin stand up.

"Do you know why you can survive being this close to me?" He asked me as he used his left hand to support his head which he leaned towards it.

"What do you mean sir?" I asked as my heart began beating faster as he stared into my eyes with his dark maroon eyes .

BAM! a loud sound Sent me shut eyes to the ground with my hands on my ears , I opened my eyes to the left and saw the body of the taskmaster who was on my left...had been crushed into a flat paste...his blood flowed onto me bathing my hands and clothes in blood. BAM!...my eyes shut once more , this time it was the taskmaster to my right, their blood flowed to me and covered me with it. I was too terrified to speak and only whimpered as I got back to my knees.

"You survive my presence only because I wish it , I am father , you are in mother , do you understand." He said to me casually.

"You are going to join my army , fight and die for me." He continued saying.

"Wh-why me?" I whimpered to him ,

"Question me again and the taskmasters will have three messes to clean up. You will not leave 717's side." He said as I heard a door open behind me , I turned around , and there was no mistaking it.

The long thin katana, the black clothing , the wolf cut , it was 717.

"Is he the one?" 717 asked to the man in the throne,

"Train him well, I expect big things from both of you, that lady has also been enlisted." The man in the throne responded.

"Since when did I become a babysitter" 717 said with a strangely melancholic chuckle. 717 pointed his right index finger at me and in that moment I was staring at a meadow , I looked around frantically but there was nothing but grass and trees for as far as my eyes could see.

"Over here" I heard 717's voice say behind me , I turned around and saw him standing behind me, I still couldn't stand in his presence. I wanted to ask him what was going on but I could not muster the strength to even move my lips, it was as if everything was heavy, even the air.

"I will allow you to speak in just a bit , but for now I need you to understand what's going to happen here. I am going to train you, your friend 263 is unharmed and ok. You will report directly to and work under me." He said in a serious tone,

"I will now allow you to speak" , he said as suddenly the air felt normal again , I could speak and move , on my knees I looked up at him ,

"Do I even have enough yen?" I asked him.

"If you didn't you would have died in my presence." He responded to me saying , my heart sank, but I realised that I didn't really have a say nor choice in the matter, I looked down.

"So where do we start?" I asked him with a smile as I looked up to him. I could see the shock in his eyes that quickly turned into a smile, right now he said. Immediately we began falling , we fell for a few seconds before I hit what felt like a shallow body of water barely submerging my forearm, I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water as far as my eyes could see in every direction I turned as I was frantically looking around.

Suddenly 717 appeared In front of me ,

"Yen is like a dagger we use to stab to death all those who wish to harm the womb and the world, will you wield this blade and charge it into the hearts and bodies of all those who wish harm the world, the womb and all that these things stand for!?" He shouted to me as his long blade manifested bit by bit until completion through small black square with yellow silhouettes,

"I want to protect all those dear to me , to protect my home and make a better future for all subjects in the womb, one free from abuses!" I shouted to him, somehow I could feel a great strength coming from within me, as sparks of yellow light particles started coming from my hands and the rest of my body.

"The waters here drain yen , therefore forcing you to exert yourself and thus your yen, imagine you're picking up a blade , or whatever it is you wish to use , but beware if you run out of yen, the glue between your soul and body vanishes and you die."

He said as a cold sweat dropped down the left side of my head. I felt a sharp pain on the outer side of my right thigh , with my right hand I touched my thigh. When I raised my hand back up I saw blood on my right hand...I looked behind me and saw a black dagger in the water , it disintegrated into black and yellow particles.

"This is in no way a classroom , on the battlefield no one will care about what you know or don't know. I will teach you , but I will not spoil you. Arm yourself." He said I'm a somber tone staring straight at me with his black eyes.

I clinched my right hand into a fist , I breathed in. I could feel it, the yen in my body coming from my soul, filling my veins , I expanded it, spreading it though my entire body. I saw 717 manifest a blade from thin air and send it at me , but I could see it clearly as if it was in slow motion. I stepped to the left and therefore evading it.

"Seems you're getting it now, it's called yen reinforcement, and you just used it to enhance your physical prowess, but it's draining , and you can't defend forever."He said with a smile on his face.

He was right. I could feel my stamina and endurance wearing down just by standing , I have no choice.

I breathed in once more , grabbing the air In front of me with my right hand, I let the yen burst out as if it were a flame. It was extremely draining , I was sweating , I focused and from the flame came a handle. I pulled the handle back to my right side, and out came a blade , but I could barely maintain it. I ran towards 717 slashing hysterically, but he dodged them all with ease , every last one of my slashes...so easily.

"One of the key fundamentals of yen is its ability to not be fixed to a singular shape or form as well as its ability to manifest into permanent substances, this duality is what makes battle especially dangerous."

He said before front kicking me in the stomach, he was easily over six foot five so it was easy for him. His kick sent me flying through the air and into the shallow water. Laying on my back floating in the water while staring into the blue sky , it came to me , a temporary substance that can form a permanent substance...what if I can embed the permanent substance with yen as well as a sort of vessel for more accurate control.

I sensed the daggers coming and rolled to the left through the water, dodging them, there were about seven, he was aiming for vitals. I got up onto my feet, knowing there were no other options I released yen in vast amounts , the water began evaporating quickly creating great clouds of steam, "something hard , but small , something that can help me win this thing!" I shouted , a discharge of yen came out of my body , and through the steam I could see it , the fruits of my labour, in my right hand was a leather handle, the handle went on for about sixty or so centimetres, and and it's end was was a thick block of metal the size of two adult human heads, it was a hammer, if I had focused more it would have been an axe or sword but this will do for now.

"Show me what you've got" 717 chuckled saying.

I breathed in and out the steam blew away as a large gust of wind came from my body. In all honesty I'm nearly at my limit , but I can't give up. I closed my eyes and felt yen going into the hammer , I let go of the hammed and it began to float, I aimed it straight for 717's head and it went flying at a tenth of the speed of light straight at him , he caught it with ease, but that wasn't my only trick, the link I had with it wasn't physical, therefore I kept feeding it yen remotely and its mass began to grow and so did the force it had , pushing 717's hand back a bit ,

"5000 kilograms , 122 000 kilograms , ah I see you've made a remote controlled toy" he said with a smile , in a moment he threw the hammer to the ground by its head , causing a great explosion due to the hammer's weight. I slowly got back to my feet as the blast sent me flying through the battlefield, as the water from the ground came raining down I called the hammer from the giant crater it made when 717 threw it to the ground , it came and began floating next to me.

"Manipulation of mass is simply using yen to contract and multiply substances that yen had already made in order to make something lighter or heavier without affecting its shape. You really are a genius, but on its own it's pointless given you lose speed , mobility and the element of surprise. You need to do more , feel the air and water , feel the little sparks in your body, you can become a natural disaster."

717 said floating ten metres in the air above me.

He was unscaved , not even a scratch. A heavy hammer on its own isn't going to do anything, and I'm almost done for...I can barely stand...

"The womb is the world's greatest and only military service , as well as medical transplant center, we are the pillars of humanity , of the civilization and the protectors of tomorrow, we have no souls for we only know orders and hierarchy, we have no dreams for our job is to protect the dreams of others , and we have no lives for we will die for others." 717 shouted to me .

"I...I understand sir!" I shouted as I sent the hammer at him again and again , but each time he parried it with his bare fists .
"Do better!" he shouted.
I could feel sparks as he and the hammer made contacts , I began following him as I kept using the hammer to keep him occupied , I grabbed onto the sensation of the spark on the hammer and filled it with yen. I could feel the small exertion of electricity and sudden burst of energy it created , I called back the to my right hand. I blasted the last of my yen I had into it and the spark I embedded my yen into , now the spark and the hammer were one .
I stared 717 in the eye.

717 descended down to the water , we were now on levelled ground , though he was about ten or so metres away.
I pointed the hammer right at him .

"How's this for better" I said as I sent the hammer at a thousandth of the speed of light aimed straight at him , sparks of lightning came from it and a mighty explosion came as it made contact , the blinding light and lightning was so intense that if I wasn't using yen reinforcement I would have been reduced to ash.
In the explosion's aftermath I was on one knee far far away as the pre impact wave had sent me flying away from the explosion, my ears were ringing , I got onto one knee , I raised my right hand and saw small sparks of lightning still clinging to it , but it was fading.

I began to cough out blood , but something was off...I could still feel it , I used yen reinforcement with the last bit of yen I had keeping me conscious and saw 717 standing above a giant crater...unscathed without even a single scratch.

My vision began to blur as I could no longer stand...
"well that's it from me..." I said as I blacked out and felt my body falling into the water I was standing in.