Fuyuki Amari "Fuyuki!"
He heard something
"Fuyuki..."
He saw something
"Honey..."
He felt something
"Yes...mom?."
"Jeez, you should have answered me immediately. It's not usual for you to space out like this."
There was no mistake
The dim light of the morning sun, the magnificent reds of the royal poinciana flowers, the sweet and melodious sound of music, and the tears of seniors who were saying their final goodbyes to their friends, whom they had spent so much time and had so many memories together
There was no mistake
It was the closing ceremony of his 2nd year at high school. And those next to him were the friends and families that Fuyuki had always endeared
"Hey, hey Fuyuki! Do you wanna check out this new book about robots after this?! It is published only just a few days ago!"
"Ok, ok! You don't have to stick your face that close Connor. But you know that my specialty is universal gravitation not robotics, right?"
"Yeah I know, but it's my expertise. And I also want you to join us, the robotic club! You are such an exceptional mathematician and physicist! Everybody is waiting for you to join!"
Fuyuki scratched his head in embarrassment. That was the first time he had been welcomed that heartwarmingly, even though that was from his closest friends.
"But I..." He didn't know how to respond.
"Honey..." But came the soft nurturing sound from his beloved mother.
"I think you should join them." And the decisive, yet gentle voice of his father
"Why should I, dad?"
"It's a great opportunity for you to discover more about the vast knowledge of this universe. I know it's not your major, but the more you know the better. Not everything in this world is about gravity, you know."
"Your father is right, and I think you should consider making some new friends...and get a girlfriend..." She leaned close to his left ear and whispered, in a teasingly seductive voice.
"It seems Sophie there is interested in you..."
"Mom!" Fuyuki snapped suddenly, blushing heavily.
His dad, and the rest of his friends giggled amusingly at the two cute mother and son.
"...Alright, I'll consider your offer later when I get home Connor." He returned him with an earnest answer.
"Hey look. The principal is about to say something."
From the right wing of the stage, a middle-aged man, with neatly-combed grey hair, wearing an extravagant dark blue suit, emerged to take the podium. For the next five minutes, he delivered a boring speech about summer and stuff, and the honor and pride of being students in a high school of the gifted. He was always that way, and the students never bothered to listen. It was only the last sentence that caught Fuyuki's attention.
"Now I invite, student Fuyuki Amari to take the podium, and voice your thoughts about the school."
Wait, what?
"Hey hey!" His friend grabbed Fuyuki in the collar. "You're one lucky guy you know?"
"Wait! How is this-"
"You are the honor student of the school. Of course you are taking that podium. Come on!" He slapped his butt, causing Fuyuki to stumble slightly forward.
"But I was not prepared!"
"Just fight on, Fuyuki! We'll be cheering for you down here!"
Everybody nodded, as they smiled sweetly at him.
"Everyone..." He said, tears started to well up within his eyelids
"Remember Fuyuki..." His mother said, softly. "Whatever you do...we will always be proud of you. And we will always be by your side."
We will always be by your side
Suddenly, the happy and sweet image in front of him blurred. He could not see them clearly anymore.
Be by your side.
Each and everyone of them began to fade
By your side
His friends
By your side
His father
By your side
His mother
Always
Everyone
Always...
XXX
"Sir! He's regaining consciousness!"
It was all a dream.
That happiness and warmth
It was all a dream...
Of what it could have been.
"It seems that hallucinations can decrease the well's gravity force."
Replacing the sunny school ground of the closing ceremony, was a spacious room, covered entirely in white. At the center of the room, a cage, about two meters tall, was placed, in front of a cube that was two times smaller than the cage filled with numbers and recordings. In one corner of the cube, a tiny label could be seen.
Facility #41
A true hell on Earth.
"Just...how...much longer?" Fuyuki mustered all the strength he had left to utter the words that were as hard as rocks.
"Just one more Fuyuki." One scientist wearing a lab coat who was watching the whole experiment behind the glasses of his office replied.
Fuyuki could only nod in acknowledgement. He knew there was no reason to plead them to stop. They wouldn't listen.
"Now, let's see how he fare with hypoxia."
The scientists then flipped a switch, as the air began to be sucked away from the room.
"Arrrggghhh...."
Soon, Fuyuki found himself grabbing his throat in agony, as his life source was being gradually taken away. His breathings were soon ragged, his stomach began to cringe, his head screamed with extreme pain. Soon, the color of his skins began to change. And yet, his eyes was forced to open wide. A few minutes later, when the air inside the experiment chamber was sucked out nearly completely, his vision began to blur.
"Mom...Dad...everyone..."
His heart slowed
"Stay with me..."
His brain couldn't process anymore.
Then all he saw was darkness...
...
...
"Experiment completed sir."
"You did great today Amari. Rest for now. Tomorrow will be a busy day for you, hehehe."
XXX
Eight hours later, Fuyuki's consciousness finally returned to his fragile and battered body, but not without a price. He was wet, soaked in his own sweat...and tears. He had a nightmare. The gas that he had to inhale earlier during the experiment still had its hallucinatory effects. Just another day for the 'volunteers' in Facility #41.
Volunteers...
Such a flowery word.
"Just when will this end?" Fuyuki asked himself, his two sweaty hands covered his miserable face.
This unending sequence of nightmare.
It all began when he was abducted just one year ago right at his own house. A young boy with good eyesight, known for his exceptional performance in physics, and majored at universal gravitation. That was a perfect recipe for some crazy lunatics to snatch him for their little project they were doing: a living gravity well projector. To catch up with humanity's rapid development in space exploration, the VTK corporation, a multi-purpose company, had decided to join the space race with the Western Powers. After their development of a spacecraft that were capable of moving with a speed faster than even the speed of light, they were able to jump between stars and the galactic system. But the vessel had a major disadvantage, and that occurred when it moved out of light speed. It could not stop at exactly where it wanted to, and the distance away from the intended location was very erratic. That is where individuals like Fuyuki came into use. An artificial gravity well can actively decelerate ships that are moving at light speed. And to save budgets, and to make profits for themselves, instead of developing a conventional gravity well generator, they decided to make a normal human become one. And that led to Fuyuki's current situation.
"Just what did I do to deserve this?"
Nothing. He never wanted this. It was them. They were the one who started everything. For their own selfish dream of swimming in mad stacks of money that they were willing to sacrifice a man's, a young boy's, life.
He'd had enough of this! He was only here for a year and yet to him it felt like an eternity!
There was no way he could take this any longer!
He had to break out!
But he had waited for that opportunity for months, and yet it did not came. Until today.
Today, something was off. It usually wasn't like this. Normally, after being experimented, Fuyuki would be injected with a substance that temporarily prevented him from seeing. In other words, blinded him, so that he could not use his power against them. His gravity well generation ability could only be used when he could see, as the location of the gravity area was decided by his eyes. So if Fuyuki could not use his eyes, he would not be able to use it anywhere aside from his own body part. The substance lasted for around eight hours, so they should have sent some guards to inject it by now. But for some unknown reasons, they didn't.
Less than an hour later, Fuyuki began to regain his vision. It was groggy at first, like a person having just awoken from his sleep, but soon, he could see everything, as clear as days. For the first time ever, despite being imprisoned in this hellhole for over a year, he had a clear view of the sceneries of his room. A dark room, decorated with almost nothing aside from the light green color of the walls and ceilings, and the white porcelain tiles. There were no windows, one bed, one door, and since Fuyuki could not see, the only source of light was from the small squared window of that door. It appeared that this was a special prison cell for people with special powers. The room was dark, but Fuyuki could still see the small light in the tunnel that he was walking in.
At last! The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for freedom had come to him, paying off the months that he had been patiently waiting for! Now that his ability to use his gravity well generation had come online, he would not let them seal it off once more. Luckily, his hand was not tied up, so he had his freedom of movements.
"Hmm, the door is locked, as I expected..."
There was no way they would leave the door unlocked. So Fuyuki had to find another way to open it. But how?
The door had no keyholes so it did not seem to be locked and unlocked using traditional keys. They probably used a more advanced method. So it was pointless trying to force the door open by creating a tiny gravity well inside the keyhole to break the lock. And even so, there was no guarantee that he would be able to force it open without exhausting himself. He had his limits after all.
Suddenly, a light was switched within his mind. If he couldn't open the door, then he would make someone open it for him!
"HEY!!!" He shouted from the bottom of his lungs.
If he continued to yell it like this, somebody would pay attention, and open the door
"You did not inject me with those poisons today! That's your last mistake! And now I am going to bring down this entire facility!"
Then he would snap. This was his only chance. There were no rooms for errors.
He repeated the two lines again and again. Not surprisingly, a few minutes later, two guards came to his cell. Fuyuki stepped to the side, preparing his ability. Seconds passed, the door slide open. The moment of fate had arrived.
Darts began to fly into the room, so as to subdue Fuyuki. Unbeknownst to the two idiots, he had already stepped to the side to avoid it. It was at that moment that Fuyuki slammed the poor guards against the wall by creating a well with a force of 6.5G to pull them in. Fuyuki did not relent, as he created a well on the opposite wall, slamming the guards violently onto the two walls. Then again on the opposite wall, then again, earning them a pair of tickets to unconsciousness.
Surprisingly, for the moment, there were no guards rushing to the rescue, buying him a bit of free time. Fuyuki approached the two guards, and instead of picking up the tranquil gun, he chose the submachine gun that one of the guards carried. He had once learned how to use an assault rifle back in school, so hopefully this SMG wouldn't be much of a difference.
After a few minutes of running, the alarm started to go off.
"Warning, escape attempt!"
It's about time they realized that.
Two more guards appeared around the corner, but before they could come to a position to open fire, they were violently flung away with a force equivalent of a train running at full speed. Running silently pass them, Fuyuki continued his escape.
XXX
@Lemons @InkarnateAs he turned around the corner of the G sector, he saw two young girls, their hands locked with each other, as they tried to make their escape. It appeared that they were also prisoners trying to get out this hellhole, just like him. Perhaps bonding with them wouldn't be too bad.
But all of a sudden, a scientist wearing a lab coat suddenly appeared just behind him, his pistol ready to fire.
Fuyuki was caught completely off-guard.
He had little time to generate a well.
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