Hi my name is Sauce and I am a tomato, I am nothing special or maybe I am, cause as far as I know I'm the only sentient Fruit? Vegetable? in this entire world. As for my appearance well i look like your generic tomato, red skin with a mix of orange in it and green leaves right on top of my head, the usual tomato you'll definitely see when your in the market or at a grocery store. Don't get me wrong, the market isnt always my home, honestly its more appropriate to call this place a prison, a prison where countless gigantic hairy beast are always there to observe us around. Many of my brothers and sisters get prey upon and taken by these hairy beast and never to be heard ever again. Now remember what i said that this place isnt really where i used to lived? So let me tell you my story, a story where it all began.

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In a certain village located far in the south where greeneries are abundant and different kind of species coexist and living peacefully. Where birds always sing and the winds would humm. This place of a paradise is where i was born. I still remember the day when i gain my sentience, where the world suddenly shows its appearance and the feeling of unknown knowledge rushing down on my entire being, a knowledge that i know yet at the same time i don't, i was ecstatic yet at the same time full of curiosity, i can see without the need of eyes and i can hear without the need of ears, i gain two senses which is supposed to be impossible in nature itself. On that day i keep on repeatedly asking my self

"Where am i?"

"Who am i?"

"What i am?"

For a being such as myself never knowing who am i is as worse as never have been born at all. Thats what i felt at that time. This kind of routine last for several days until i decided to stop caring at all.

'Why would i care anymore, as long as i exist i can definitely get the answers im looking for'

On these past few days a lot happened, one of this is the birth of my relatives, there are countless of them sprouting and getting bigger day by day and some of them are larger than me by now. I keep on trying to communicate with them, cause why wouldn't i? I have been alone for several of days and having someone to converse to may relieved my loneliness, minute turns to hours, and hours turn to days despite all the efforts I've done nothing seems to work until a sudden realization struck me

"I AM ALONE"

That day i found out that i am different, i am the only one of my kind. Heavy feeling of sadness suddenly shook my entire body. I cant accept the fact that i am diferrent that i am on my own. For countless of days ive been grieving for my own existence until the day that droplets of water started falling from the sky, i am engulf with a sudden feeling of refreshness,

'so this is water and that is rain' is the first thing i thought.

As the rain keeps on falling and getting heavier by each passing moment my mind suddenly became clear and my body full of vitality. On that day i realize, theres no point on grieving on things that cant be changed, instead of tormenting my self i should embrace it and accept it. On that same day i accept what i am, i accept the truth and the fate that had been handed to me and promise myself that i would live this short existence of mine with full of happiness.

'And maybe somewhere out there, there is someone like me. And maybe im not alone as i think i am'

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Countless days have passed since that day, and here i am basking my self in this big ball of light called sun, enjoying the breeze of the unpolluted air while listening to the tune the birds far above would sing. I have been living like these for this past several days, living a carefree and enviable life but the world ain't all rainbows and sunshine.

Everything changed when those creatures came, they are tall but not as big as the creatures ive seen so far, they stand on two legs but unlike the birds they dont have wings and instead of feathers they have hair all over their body and had abundant of it at the top of their heads they also possessed these strange skins where different colors can be seen. I continue to observe them for these past few days, they come and make unrecognizable sounds and then leave, the only thing i can understand are the word "tomato" when they look at my relatives which i guess what we are and the word "sauce" which sends chill on my entire small body.

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'Hmm sauce i like it, just by hearing it i can tell its a strong word to even make my body feel uncomfortable, ah from now on i will be Sauce and what do those creatures call us again... oh right tomato. Thats it i will call my self TomatoSauce from now on' thats what on my mind during that time.

As days past those creatures keep on coming and coming until that day where dozens of them all appear at the same time and all hell break loose. This barbarians these savage and cruel creatures they are killing my relatives each and everyone of them, i want to shout, scream or make any sound that can make them stop yet i cant, thats when all of those sadness and grief that i experience in my short life suddenly came back, anger filled my entire being yet at the end i am powerless, i cant do anything, all i can do is watch helplessly as every single one of them plucked my relatives to death moments passed minutes, hours i dont know 3/4 of my relatives are already dead all i can do is wait for my turn,and wait, and wait, and wait.

'Ah its finally my turn, i guess this is it'

As those hands gets near me and hold my entire body

~pluck~

'It hurts, it hurts a lot'

I want to scream yet i can't and when i thought im about to die nothing happened, after that pain recede im still alive

'Maybe, just maybe all of my relatives are still alive'

Hope filled my mind. Those beast put us all in some sort of box like container with round objects below at each sides, one of them approach us while carrying some sorth of skin.

'i dont know what creature is that big enough to have a skin as wide as that' i thought

That beast decided to put it above us then darkness came. For about a minute my world is filled wih darkness then i felt it, were moving, i know because this is how i felt it when one of those beast carry me earlier.

Hours or maybe days have passed i dont know, i lost the tracked of time because of the darkness that completely envelope me. I keep on waiting and waiting until suddenly we stop and the skin above is suddenly removed and the sudden brightness filled my entire vision, then i saw it. Beast those savage beast are everywhere, there are countless of them, short, small, they all have a different shape yet all of them had the same trait of abundant hair on top of their heads some are short and some are exetremely long, me and all my relatives combine wont definitely even reach half of their number.

Five of those beast walk towards us and suddenly started putting us in these small box like container, several minutes have passed, me and all of my relatives are completely seperated by group where each container contains the same amount as the other, maybe its not the amount but our over all weight thats what my knowledge told me in my mind.

Me and some of my relatives had been carried in this odd mountain like place, size as tall as a regular hill but different in structure, its color is different than the ones back in my home and had holes where one can see whats inside, as the beast continue to carry us towards what seems to be the entrance to enter the mountain, i was flabbergasted, more of those beast are inside much much more than the ones i have seen earlier. As the beast continue to walk and head straight in this place full of my kind

'ah who are they? Maybe they are my distant relatives' i thought.

I got overjoyed and didnt notice that the beast put us down beside them. Like i did on the first time ive seen my relatives, i tried to communicate with them and after countless tries i realize that they are also the same.

Time passed and some of those beast would pick one of my relatives and take them away, our numbers are going down at an alarming rate yet when i thought that we'll gone extinct the new batch of my kind suddenly arrive, once again i tried to communicate or form some sort of link to them, yet despite all that there still nothing, at that time i loss all hope on ever finding someone like me.

Our numbers go down then fresh meat(tomato) arrived, i already loss count on how many times had this certain situation continue to get repeated over and over again. Luckily i am at the bottom of the container so when the fresh tomatos arrived they'd be some sort of camouflage so i cant get picked and be taken on somewhere that might be even worse than this place.

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Time continue to passed, where the same routine still get repeatedly done every single day. I dont know how long ive been here already maybe a few months or maybe even a year, all i know is Ive been here for far to long now, long enough to witness all of my remaning relatives until the very last one drying up and dying in front of me, i still remember it, i almost lost my self that day and felt a certain string of mine had been cut off, i have never felt so empty before until that time. And those poor fresh ones, i have witness countless of them gets picked up one after another.

'I guess its really had been that long now huh even my skin are telling me that im old and the leaves on top of my head have a differnt color now'

'Im tired'

'I dont know why but i have this urge to sleep really bad. Oh and for the record i have never sleep before. Im a tomato after all'

'I guess im finally dying huh, ive been waiting for this for a very long time now'

'Whats this light, its so bright... oh i guess this hill is opening again huh.. this is the reason why i can still somehow count the days even when im here'

'I wonder what comes after death? I guess I'll know in a few moments now'

'Even if its the last time can i atleast feel the sun again'