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No.10: Project New Human
Chapter 0: Prologue

Chapter 0: Prologue

Sirens blared throughout the hallways. Red lights illuminate those hallways that were bright with white light mere moments ago. The sounds of shoes of all kinds echo in the corridors, all of them frantic and desperate. Ditched items that would slow down any attempt to escape litter the ground. Lab coats, jackets, hazmat suits, and the like now color what was once a plain white floor. The PA system started to give an announcement.

"This is an emergency announcement. All personnel in the facility are to evacuate to the nearest shelter. This is not a drill. We repeat: All personnel in the facility are to evacuate to the nearest shelter. This is not a drill. We repeat:..."

In the depths of the facility, as the chaos slowly echoes further and further, 5 doors line the corridor, each leading to rooms that house 2 people. Each is labeled with 2 consecutive numbers, ranging from 1 to 10. The door labeled 1-2 burst open. A couple of people emerge from the room. One is a male with the height of an average college male, with golden hair that stands out, no matter the style given to it. The other is a female, slightly shorter than the guy with long silver hair tied up in a neat ponytail. They are wearing uniforms of no particular school. As they examine their surroundings, they are shaken by an earthquake that rumbled the building. The man seemed unfazed by it and simply smiled at the events happening so far. 

"Ahhh~. The feeling of destruction caused by my comrades is shared with me. The downfall of humanity begins...today." The man commented, clearly seeing-no, sensing, a feeling that can only be shared by those that share blood. Kaiju blood, to be exact. As he said so, he reached out a hand and touched the wall that the doors connect to, and a surge of electricity pulsed through. The doors all simultaneously opened.

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"This is my parting gift for you. Do whatever you want." With those words, the pair slowly faded into the darkness of the hallway, the previous surge short-circuited the power and turned off everything in the sector.

Door 5, labeled 9-10, housed a couple of children. The boy is frantically attempting to carry a girl, who sits on a bed.

"Come on, Nina! We can make it out! Together!" The boy exclaimed, after noticing the door to their room suddenly opened. He sounds desperate.

"I'll only slow you down, 10. Please...just go...." the girl murmured. She had no strength to voice out her feelings.

The boy wasn't going to give up like that though, so he forcefully lifted the girl out of her bed and onto his back, before sprinting to the exit. just then, the ceiling collapsed on them.

As the boy quickly regained his consciousness, he stared at the moon that loomed overhead, before being eclipsed by a giant beast that was probably responsible for the destruction of the roof above their heads. As debris falls from the jaws of the Kaiju, the boy frantically looks for Nina among the rubble, only to see her collapsed beside him. She was breathing heavily and shakily. Her lower half was crushed by rubble. As the boy tried to lift the rubble off her, she started to utter something.

"Your....name.....Callum......" she struggled to speak, but the boy heard it all. Knowing the situation, he quickly returned to the side of the girl, who was shocked by his sudden appearance, but otherwise understood her fate.

"Don't.....ever......forget........who you are,.....Callum..." and with those words, the world seen by the boy crumbled. He slowly closed his eyes and hugged her close, before accepting their fate.

As the world burns by the reemergence of the Kaiju, the survivors who saw firsthand the destruction of the Kaiju vow to never forget that day.

The fall of society as they knew it.

The Fall, as they would call it.

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