Terror Infinity - Side B

Chapter 11 - 2, BTOOOM

Saki: Why would you want to know more about the Genetic Constraint? Before it didn't even sound like you believed in it.

Shin: I didn't, but the thing is... I, I think that during that battle on Day 2 I might have unlocked it.

Saki looked at me with surprise on her face. I didn't know if she believed me or not, that I tapped into the sealed potential of man and have taken one step towards the next evolution of man, but I still told her how I believed to have come to experience it.

I told Saki that when I was about to be defeated by a Btooom Soldier and saw the signs of a Blazing Gas BIM that might have killed Hikari, and imaging that scene, I went into what I called an Unlocked Mode.

Moving in ways I never dreamed of, able to come up with battle tactics left and right and for the most part relying on instinct to fight, I defeated enemy after enemy all the way till even the Btooom Commander was defeated once and for all.

I didn't leave a single detail out as I told Saki what happened. Saki then needed a minute to process all that I have told her.

Saki: That... indeed matchs what I was once told and discovered by myself through years of research. Amazing... it really exist!

Shin: I thought you said you believed in it?

Saki: I do and I have even seen someone who has entered that Unlocked Mode when I was a child... but still the memory was so vague that sometimes I believed that it didn't happen... Do you mimd if I tell you a story.

Shin: What story?

Saki: The story of how I first come to learn of the Genetic Constraint, not in this world but the real world. It is the reason that I became a scientist and arrived to this point, here in this dimension, that to my surprise is a world that encourages Players to release the Genetic Constraint.

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Saki than began the story of her life.

It began in her youth. Unlike Shin's own, her back story was anything, but ordinary. When Saki was ten years old her father and mother took a trip together to the beach. Saki even back then was considered a genius and had perfect grades in school, so this trip was sort of a reward for her. Her parents were normally very busy and worked a lot, so this simple trip to the beach meant a lot to Saki at the time. Too bad it would be her last. Saki and her family would get caught up in an incident that would later be known as the Misty Beach Massacre.

Officially, it began in the afternoon at the beach when it was must packed. Baffling all weather reports, a large and dense fog covered the beach within the span of a few minutes. Those not caught in it were confused and tried to enter the fog, but for some strange reason the fog would repell all outsiders.

The fog wouldn't let anyone enter or leave and cut off all forms of communication, including sound. The police were called in, but by then it was too late. The Fog quickly dispersed moments after they arrived and what the police found terrified them.

Bodies.

Countless dead, bloodied bodies of the many tourist enjoying the beach far as the eye could see. Some to this day say it was some mass chemical bombing, but not only didn't it explain the fog, the conditions of the bodies didn't match up. The tourist were torn apart as if they were attacked by wild animals or monster, and there was something else that happen that disproved this theory.

Only the bodies of adult tourist were spread out over the entirety of the beach, but there were no kids. Children, kids and teenagers, they were no where to be seen. Not only was it a mass murder, but it turned into a mass kidnapping as well.

This is where Saki version of the events begins. According to her no one died because of the fog that enveloped the area. It just stopped her, her family or anyone else from escaping or communicate outside the fog even with a phone. A few minutes after all the tourist began to panic in mass, those two showed up.

Two men in heavy clothing by the way of the ocean from a large boat at sea came and walked onto the beach. One man was skinny and unremarkable except that he looked to be a westerner and not Japanese, yet the other drew the attention of Saki and others since a constant stream of fog was pouring out of his sleeves.

??? ( Fog Man ): The barrier has been set up. If we hurry those guys won't notice till it is too late.

??? ( Skinny Man? ): Ok, but hasn't the organization been to ambitious as of late. If the other two forces joined hands then...

??? ( Fog Man ): We aren't paid to question orders. Besides, we both know that we do not have the FREEDOM to disobey the organization after making the deal, so hurry up before anyone annoying shows up. Just make sure you keep enough reasoning to not kill the test subjects or we will be killed by the higher ups.

??? ( Skinny Man? ): Fine... Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa!!!

The Skinny Man's body slowly began to expand greatly as he yelled to the heavens. Arms, lags, torso and head, everything began to expand. His skin tone became red and his bullging veins were visible from a distance  ( I won't even say which Batman Villain this was like ).

The now formerly Skinny Man then began his rampage. Ignoring the children to young adults, the monster began to kill every living thing in sight with his bare hands that can rip human beings apart. So unable to escape all the adults and elderly were killed. This included Saki's parents who died right before her eyes.

Then once all the adults were killed Saki saw something odd once more. The color of the Fog changed colors and within one minute Saki had lost full control of her body. Saki couldn't move around much, yet she was able to see that the other children were in the same shape as her. Saki then heard the Skinny Man, whose body had deflated back to normal, was breathing heavily, and was talking to the Fog Man.

??? ( Skinny Man? ): Hahahaha... To bad you were unable to do that from the start. Even now I still feel bad after doping. Could have saved me a lot of trouble.

??? ( Fog Man ): You know as well as I that the hypnosis fog is only really effective against humans who are still young and has little effect on adults.

??? ( Skinny Man? ): It is still such a hentai like power as always. Whatever, I am beat. Just tell the kids to move their asses to the boat. I'll call over the captain to come closer.

From there Saki had a huge gap in her memory. Last thing see recalled was stepping into the cargo hold of the boat with the other children and nothing more after. The next time she would be aware of her surroundings would be three months later and when she woke up from her memory blank she had felt different... Or a better way to describe it was that she felt less.

Saki used to be a very bright and happy girl, but that girl had died with her parents. The cause wasn't just the incident itself, but something they did to Saki while she was captured. It was only much later that she understood it wasn't that she was emotionless, but it just took a lot more effort and stimulation to feel happy and other such positive feelings, yet at the time Saki felt like she had become a robot.

Along with being given strange medicines and a few surgeries, what they, the people in white lab coats who had kidnapped Saki and the other children who looked after them, they had them undergo simple and other times strange test.

There were even combat lessons mixed into the many lessons that her kidnappers had the children take, all of which Saki was told she excelled at by her teachers/captors. As far as Saki could tell her captors for whatever reason were preparing them, her and the other kidnapped children for something that until recently she couldn't figure out. Her best guess was that they were trying to build up an army of superior child soldiers, but soon it didn't matter what they were being prepared for... As everything came to an abrupt end.

A whole year went by and it was around this time Saki was beginning to accept this strange new life of hers, and that was when her life was changed again. One day an lone intruder broke into the institute that Saki and the children were kept and raised.

Chaos soon consumed that place and that was when Saki knew that this was her chance. Although Saki had lost a lot, she had no attention of spending the rest of her life here or wait till the day she finds out what the people here were preparing her for, and it was the right choice. Her captors realized that the man came here to rescue the children and not wanting to give them up/leak any information, those in charge disposed of all the children. Saki who escaped alone learned of this fact later.

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As Saki was making her escape she saw the conflict between the lone man and her captors... and she was stunned. The intruder, a single man with a katana killed many people who were all armed with the latest weapons with ease. Also, there were several individuals with special powers like the ones who kidnapped Saki fighting the intruder, but they were pushed back. The way the man fought as he dodged every attack and strikes down his enemies with a single swing of the sword that had no wasted movements mesmerized her. The enemy were very afraid of the man and she heard on of them shout in a panic.

???: Damm, is he... That guy is in Unlocked Mode! What the hell is someone who has unlocked the Genetic Constraint doing here? This isn't even a priority base for the organization.

???: Stop talking and fire! Unlocked Mode or not, he is still part human. We just have to- Ghaaaaaaa!!!

It was the first time Saki heard the word Genetic Constraint or Unlocked Mode. The intruder soon killed everyone and then having discovered Saki hiding, he took her away. A few days later the police found one of the kidnapped children from the 'Mist Beach Massacre'.

Then, just like when she was originally kidnapped her memory became foggy afterwards. Saki later suspected that the man after asking her questions about who she was, when was she kidnapped, who did she think those people were and what they made her do, tried to use some sort of technique that makes one forget memories. Unfortunately for him and fortunate for Saki, she had always had a very good memory and what ever her captors did to her improved her mental capacity, so she eventually remembered everything later on a few months later.

Then Saki remembered what happened afterwards as well. Asking for the man's identity, questions about her kidnappers, and the Genetic Constraint. The man with the sword was secretive, yet believing that Saki would soon forget everything and that she at least deserved to hear the answers, the man told her a few things. Half of it was muddled thanks to the memory loss, but Saki definitely remembered the explanation on the Genetic Constraint.

Saki was free at last, but only physically. Her mind and what was left of her heart was always drawn back to that mysterious incident. Saki kept looking for signs that it was all real, that she wasn't just imaging it all.

Saki became a scientist who studied OOPArts, items said to have once held power and technology beyond the current civilization. She even affiliated herself with the military and government to find clues on the Genetic Constraint, the next stage of human potential but most of all him. The man who saved her and those like him who could unlock their potential and fight with amazing abilities. Unfortunately, in the real world Saki didn't come very close to her goal.

What Saki told us earlier on Day 2 was all that she has found out. That short speech amounted to her whole life's work and recently she had hit a dead end she knew not how to overcome it. And so, despite not believing that nothing is impossible, she was about to give up and was considering ending it all...

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Saki: That was when I came here. This place... is definitely connect to that event and my own research. I just know it is! And Shin, meeting you here, finding that someone that has just recently unlocked the Genetic Constraint... has really renewed my beliefs and desire to live. Thank you.

Saki said this with a rare smile that took Shin by surprise. Saki wasn't a beauty like Aqua or cute like Hikari, but strangely enough that made her stand out all the more ( Like Aki Tomoya said, even plain looking girls have their own charms ).

Shin: No problem. For whatever it is worth you are sort a comrade.

Saki: Sort of, huh? Well, that is good enough for a working relationship like this ( If this was a job I would quit or file a complaint to HR ). So what did you think of my story?

Shin: It was really out there. If not for me being in this sort of place, I would have said that you made it up and used/stole the idea to write an light novel based on it. I am only guessing here, but you think that there is some connection to what happened to you in the real world and God's Dimension where the two of us are in right now?

Saki: More so then think, I am certain of it. Since the moment I woke up here I have felt that I knew about this place somehow. That... this place, if you don't mind an unscientific conclusion, gives off the same aura as those men with power that I met in the real world.

Shin: Could they have escaped from here? When you choose 'Back to the Origin' you can return to the real world and with all your abilities and items.

Saki: I am unsure, but I do have one clue about-

- *SCAN*!

Both Saki amd I felt it. Someone had activated their radar to find the two of us.

Shin: Were you moving at all just now?

Saki: I was a little. Sorry.

Shin: It is fine. If they thought to use a scan they must have suspect that other people were nearby, but to be sure that wasn't some kind of code from Hikari and the others who went out, right.

Saki: No. Hikari, Kampa, Zero and Shuai are Supposed to activate their radar for four consecutive scans. That was just one, so...

Shin: An enemy.

Even before Shin said this, Saki took out multiple switches from her pocket.

The were for the many, many Remote Control BIM that she and the others set. Once we find the enemy she can activate nearby BIM and blow up the enemy. Even if she fails I can finish off where she started. I had run out of BIM, but more then ever I was confident in my fighting ability and the oppressive feeling that the Btooom Soldiers and Btooom Commander held... wasn't present. The two of us were ready for a fight, but what we heard next changed our minds.

Misaki: Hey!!! Are there any friendlys inside!?

Misaki?

I immediately recognized Misaki's voice and activated my radar. There wasn't just him, but another person standing right next to him. Now, the fact that 7/8 members of our team has been found and with process of elimination, the most likely person who could be with Misaki, who had survived all the way to Day 5 could only be her. And hoping so I ran out to meet the two of them. First there was Misaki, alive and in the flesh, and standing next to him was-

Aqua: Yo. It has been a while.

Shin: Aqua!

Misaki: Hey, don't forget about me.

Shin: Ah, yes. It... It is good to see you too Misaki.

Misaki: What's with this difference in treatment?

Aqua: Well, I am a beautiful women in the prime of her youth and you are a biker thug.

Misaki: Former, and I was never a thug! I just rode bikes.

Shin: Same difference.

Misaki: You...

I was happy. The two who Saki and I had thought were possible enemies were in fact Aqua and Misaki. I was glad to see that they, especially Aqua, looked unharmed. There was so much that I wanted to know like where were they, how had they survived till now, do they have enough chips and how did they find us, yet... All of these important questions were trumped by a much bigger and glaring issue at hand. Even Saki who so far has been silent has been looking at IT.

Shin: ...Aqua

Aqua: Yes ( Playing at not knowing what this was about ).

Shin: What is that?

Aqua: It's a house warming gift.

Shin: ...Huh?

What was curious as to the sight before his eyes. What he wanted to know why was this house warming gift three NPCs, being dragged by a rope and who were gaged and blind folded.

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Authors Note:

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So how does everyone like my the first signs of a new element here in my Terror Infinity Fan Fiction. You will be able to see the implications of this story of Saki's in Intermission Arc of BTOOOM.

Also, Shin's scan only picked up Aqua and Misaki because they were moving about, whereas the three NPCs were on the ground not moving.