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"Hold on" Rose tells Crimson. "We don't even know who we are fighting. We won't even be able to profile them. Technically, under the law, they do not even exist. If we are going to do anything, the best thing to do is keep your guards up" she points out.

Zero ignores Rose. Instead she focuses on Kali again. She gently shakes Kali's shoulders. "Listen, I understand you are going through something. Honestly, it scares me. I know we weren't really close back at the lab.." she bites her cheek. "Well... You weren't close with the fake me... But anyway... You can talk to me if you need it"

“To be honest,you’re right,the only thing we can do is be on our guard and only trust the people from our lab,we can’t trust anyone else if we don’t know them”Tazuli replied “besides,I think most of us got stronger from the last time we all met each other,so we might be stronger than most of them,we still need to be on guard though”

“Guys...what if one of the tracker is someone here?They might want to try and blend in with us so they won’t seem suspicious”Amane said

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She replied with a simple “ok” and sat unmoved, but opened her eyes again. Even with two letters, the blank tone made the words cold and hollow, not an ideal response. She could tell that Zero’s words were genuine but didn’t have the brainpower to care. She still somewhat hated her even though Kali was the jerk to Zero.

Komoto managed to find a well forested area and decided to check it out, hoping to find a well hidden area for him to crash

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Zero sighs. She knows defeat when she sees it. She can already feel herself starting to detach. She stands up and moves towards the door. "Alright.. well.. this was a great reunion but I've had enough" she mumbles.

Rose nods along with Tazuli's words. After that, she silently watches Zero and Kali's exchange. She can see why Zero is worried. Kali's state isn't good. But if Zero can't get through her, then Rose definitely can't. "I should leave too. I still have to finish this job. Just... Stay strong. All of you, and please stay out of trouble" she tells the group

“Alright...” Kali mumbles before closing her eyes again, happy to not have to deal with anyone else for a bit. She figured Tazuli would leave soon after so she said nothing.

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“Yeah...I hope everyone won’t be on those tracker’s radar,stay safe everyone”Tazuli said”we should leave to,it’s been a great reunion”Tazuli tells the group as she walked out the door with Amane following behind her

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Komoto wondered around the forest, paying no attention to the animals he came across. He found nothing that could be used for shelter so he climbed a tree and decided to sleep there for the night

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Zero was already in her room. She remembers to lock her door this time. Although now that Crimson has broken her window she can't lock it. She sighs. Does it really matter? In a way, she deserved to die. She wasa monster. She remembers how she felt when she fought Komoto. That feeling... She enjoyed that feeling. No matter how hard she tries to fight it... that's whoshe is... A heartless monster who thirsts for blood, no matter the cost. "At least I have something to fight for... Or at least.. someone" she says outloud. The least she can do is help Kali. After that... Well, it won't matter what happens to her. Her existance is a constant reminder of the director. No wonder that boy wanted to kill her. She stares at herself in the mirror. In hindsight... She did look a bit like...her.

After calming down the nearby residents, Rose has some boring after-crime stuff to do. Once all of that is done she practically collapses onto her bed. She'll have to skip her shift at the hospital tomorrow. She loves helping the people there, but she can't risk overworking herself.

Darius eventually falls asleep. His plan is simple, he is going to stalk Zero. He'll slowly tear her apart peiece by peiece. He'll make her paranoid... Ultimately, he'll force her to destroy herself. Only then, will he offer her the sweet chance of death

Tazuli and Amane went back to their room,Tazuli practically collapsed on her bed while Amane was still awake,he wasn’t tired and for some reason he never really needed much sleep compare to the others,he can just take a short nap and be like he slept for 10 hours,he looks out the window still wandering what will happen next,will they fight?Or will they make new allies with the trackers?He still doesn’t know yet since he haven’t actually met them

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Leaf was curled up in her bed, pages of a book she'd been trying to write in scattered bound piles around the room. Her slumber was filled with dreams of nothingness.

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The morning sun rises up. Rose sleeps through it. She was exhausted, having worked about sixteen hours yesterday. Her dreams are dark. Memories of the lab flood through her head. Pain... That's all she remembers. Even with her healing powers, she couldn't escape the constant pain.

Zero is already awake. She stayed up most of the night, she sits on her bed, continuing to stare at her mirror. "You know what... I need a new name. I can't be remembered for being a lab rat" she tells herself. She touches her face, gently rubbing her fingers over the eyelid of her blind eye, she didn't look like a certain anyone. What name could she give herself? The only thing she deserved was something dark.. like Satan. She didn't deserve a real name. She would just dirty it up by her past. "F*uck!" She screams as she slams her fists down against the bed. She shuts her eyes tightly, trying to stop the tears. It's not my fault... I shouldn't think like this......

Kali was awoken by the scream of a certain explicit word but sat motionless in her bed. What would she do now? Eat then go back to sleep? Yeah, probably. It was the best way to avoid all this and stop the flood of memories to come in. She sighs and sat up, then took a small drink of water.

Komoto woke up earlier than normal, feeling better than ever. He decided to do something productive today, such as his normal routine. The thirst for a massacre was less strong now due to the events yesterday, but it was still there. Even though he was an escapee, he still acted like one of the Director’s minions most of the time. All he wanted to do was to please his father, the one that the lab had tried to erase from his mind. It somehow still remained in the back of his head.

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The sunlight shines through her window and woke her up,her dreams were when they were still in the lab,the “trauma” from it,the pain and suffering will never fade,even if it didn’t effect her that much now,atleast things are more peaceful now,but it probably will end when they met those Trackers

Amane was still awake,he thought about the time in the lab,he hated that place,it was a nightmare no matter what they did,they are just toys to be played with by the scientists,atleast they escaped,they can never truly feel peace,they felt peace for such a short amount of time before it will be taken away from them again by fighting those trackers

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Leaf finally woke up and rubbed her eyes. She felt disorented but couldn't place as to why, shurgging it off she started writing her novel again, but kept hitting writer's block so she finally quit and set it aside.

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Crimson is pacing around the hall where everyone is, along with Admin and Melody, who were talking in worry. "Melody? Do you think This stuff has taken too much of toll on Crimson?" Admin asked the younger girl. "Yeah." She replied.

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She painful memory finally showed itself, the last piece of the puzzle. The memory of how badly her real parents treated her came back like a bulldozer, hitting her with all the emotion and pain that had been hidden for so long. She remembered being forced to live in a basement with nothing but the cold, damp floor to lay on. Everything stunk and sharp objects were everywhere, giving her cuts and bruises every time she tried to run from her parents when they went to check on her. If they caught her doing anything other than sitting in one spot, they would strip her of her clothing and beat her up, then keep her clothing for a month before she could have them back. On top of all that, if she disobeyed in anyway, they would take her to an empty field and bury her 6 feet below the ground, then leaving her in there for as long as possible. She was terrified of her parents and every location she ever saw when she was young. School was much worse. It was supposed to be her escape from her parents but it only made it worse. She would be picked on by others for being so dirty and ugly, along with other things too. Her parents had had enough with her and sent her off, only for her to somehow end up at the lab. From there the torture got worse, even with her memory wiped. Forced to watch herself kill and if she refused, the pain and suffering would begin. She remembered struggling to break free of the table when she was first experimented on, trying so desperately to break the cuffs. She had screamed so much that day, it was almost unbelievable. She closed her eyes and a tear fell. It was all too much, she couldn’t handle it any longer...

Komoto yawned and sat down on the ground at the roots of the tree, allowing the memories to come back to him. It made him happy, which was really messed up. To any normal person it would’ve easily been enough to lose the will to live but it made him happy. Ever since he was born all he wanted to do was to please his parents. He followed in their footsteps with every action he did. His parents always argued a lot, so he would argue with them. He though that made them proud but his mother was disappointed. He always took his father’s side in the argument, making him proud. One day something happened that would make Komoto the way he is today. His father woke him up early, knife in hand and took him to his mother’s room. “I’m going to show you something really cool, you ready?” His father whispered to him. Komoto nodded and watched carefully, trying to his his excitement. In the next few seconds, things went absolutely crazy. The father lunged on his mother and stabbed her back, then neck. She didn’t even have time to wake up. Komoto watched in awe and amazement, enjoying what was happening before his eyes. Something about it made him want to see it more. His father did it, so doing it must’ve made him proud, right? And with that his killing streak began. He would go to school with a knife and follow them to the bathroom then proceeded to kill them. He somehow hid it very well, but his father wasn’t happy. A few years after, Komoto began to frequently visit him in jail to check on him. His father had told him frequently that the behavior needed to stop (and he still wasn’t captured by the officers watching them in the visitation area?) but he didn’t. He thought that every action he made would make him proud. He would frequently visit his mother’s grave and leave a jar of blood at her tombstone every time he had killed someone. Pretty messed up if I said so myself... He was thrilled to be at the lab, being able to withstand the torture made him think that he was making his father proud. He only escaped so that his only target wasn’t children. He sighed and stood up, smiling to himself. The memories were a motivator to him and always made him happy.

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"Did you sleep well?" Darius asks. Zero quickly hops onto her feet and spins around, surprised look appearing onto her face.
"H-how did you...?" She trails off when Darius starts walking towards her. She tries to escape, but her back hits an invisible wall. She can't even run to the sides, there is a wall there too. She is quite literally boxed in. Her only escape is running towards Darius.
"Shh don't be afraid... And don't scream either... I can't deal with that this early in the morning" he stops in front of her and stares at her. This seems to be the first time he actually sees her. This time not as someone who is tough, but someone who has been destroyed. He looks genuinely sad, but his reason is much darker. He wanted to break her. "You look so much like her... It's scary" Darius says softly. He gently places a hand on Zero's cheek, his thumb rubbing close to her blind eye. "That's the only giveaway that you are you..." He drops his hand smiling at her. "i have an opportunity for you" he informs.
"Go to Hell!" She shouts.
"I will..Zero.. I have a feeling that we can strike a deal.. care to listen?" He asks

Leaf got up and her white cat, Snowbell, started to snuggle her legs. Leaf smiled and stroked her back before getting breakfast for the both of them.

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Viper ignored the sounds of fighting from the night before. She didn't care what happened, as long as Tazuli and a few others didn't die, she didn't care. She could tell from the way that the outer walls was dripping that Hail had been there. She hopes Hail is all right. Her mind flashes to Luke. "No. I don't care what happens to him." she snarls to herself.

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Tazuli woke up to the sunlight shining through her window and shining on her eyes,she woke up after having a nightmare about when she was still in the lab,the pain and suffering,she grab her phone and looked at the shift she was given from her manager,she’s free from the rest of the week?it happened a few times before but it’s rare

Amane works at the same place as Tazuli,he looks at the shifts and he’s also free?He checks the shift if the others in the place and most of them have either fewer shift or none at all?Well it must be rare or the manager was being nice to them this week

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