proofUsername|| mareep
Name|| Ainsley
Gender|| Male
Gender for Breeding Purposes|| Male
Fiction|| [x5000 max]
proof"Congratulations, Ainsley Lee, you are quite qualified for the position. You are to come in first thing in the morning tomorrow, we'll be ready to train you." The man in front of him spoke easily, as if it had been prepared beforehand. Which is.. yes, the norm, but
too prepared. He couldn't argue though, he had been wanting this position for a very long time.
Ainsley bowed his head in a thanks, stepping out of the office. Two viscets walked past him with a friendly wave, and he have never been more sure that he would love his time here. Convey Corps, the organization for dreamers, truly. He couldn't wait to get home, and do many things possible to pass the time. That includes cleaning his entire home, cooking a meal twice, and watching a game show. Sleep came surprisingly easily, he might have been utterly exhausted from the cleaning.
The viscet barely had time to eat as he flew out of the door, following the phrase; 'first thing in the morning' quite literally. Upon entering the building, he was immediately escorted to the right wing lab by a secretary. It was empty, so he let himself take a seat on nearby chair while he waited. He notices that he's quite tired.. sleepy. It wasn't a good idea to sit around, so he got up to pace around the room. That did not help either, he was still tired.
Soon enough, the blackness began creeping around his vision, and he thought; '
what's taking them so long?' The door swings open, finally, but all he could see was two scientists with gas masks. That's.. odd. He never had time to ask about them before the world became black, and last thing he felt was a sharp pain on his side where he fell against the tiled floor.
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Tap. Tap. Tap.
Ainsley blinked his eyes open, immediately flipping out upon noticing that he's in a sort of pod. He touched every surface just to make sure that this is reality, he's being trapped in a pod. He felt an oxygen mask, and he ripped that off.
"Oh no, no, it's okay! It's an emergency! We got a live one!" The viscet outside of the pod shouted at other workers, who came rushing in to peer in the window at him.
"Wow! To think that this have been shut off for centuries, and many others had died off to malfunction." One of them said in an awe, and Ainsley was confused.
Centuries? What did he sign up for? Many others? There was others like him?
The door began hissing as it swung open, revealing three viscets on the other side, who reached in to help the viscet step out.
"It's okay, we've got you now. I'm Farrow, this is Eunika, and Jackson." The grey viscet introduced herself and others, comforting him with a warm smile.
"It's Jack, but yes."
"Forgive me for asking but.." Ainsley trailed off, not sure what question to begin with, but thankfully all three seemed to catch on quickly. It was clearly a sore subject as they had to look at eachother to silently debate.
"You signed up for an experiment project, we're still unclear on the reasoning behind it. The logs were full of codes that only employees back then knew the meaning to. We just oddly found a wall layered upon another four times, and in the last wall there was a poor job of sealing a doorway." Jack begun; sensing what the viscet wanted to ask, then sighed, letting Farrow take over.
"We are hundred feet underground, full of pods like yours. Apparently there was a malfunction that shut down the cryostasis, simultaneously shutting down everything and killed many viscets... except for yours. We have no idea why, yours were off as well, but you're still alive." Farrow crossed his arms in a shrug.
"It's going to be a bit of pain, getting everyone out of their pods and giving them all a proper burial. We don't know if we can name them, most of the profile logs were burned, and the malfunction wiped half of data. Most in codes. I'm ashamed to learn that Convey Corps were like this back in the day." Jack grumbled, shaking his head and wandered off to look at pods, desperately holding to hope that someone else might be alive.
Ainsley remained silent, absorbing the words. It was hard, but he thinks he got the gist.
"You mentioned codes? I studied and practiced code language a month- ah.. centuries ago I guess, I might be able to decode it for you?" He offered, and Farrow's face lit up.
After they'd manage to drag Jack away from the pods to head back to surface, Farrow led him into his office. A pile of dusty old folders were piled up on his desk, normally he would ask for some sort of payment, or ways he'd know to trust. But he's desperate to find out why he had been thrown in a pod to sleep for centuries, so he didn't bother and got to work.
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"Oh wow. Farrow!" Ainsley shouted, waking the man up from his nap, "I can't mostly decode everything, just bits enough for me to fill in. I think it was an experiment for various of projects. Going to space, longevity, possible immortality, various stuff. Some of files also repeated some sort of phrase; 'if the candidates chose to opt out, blackmail them.' Which is scary considering what my blackmail is.." Ainsley trailed off, he had never knew of this information, and he's sure if he was blackmailed with it, it would work."
"What is it? Don't worry, it's been centuries, I'm sure the information isn't viable anymore." Farrow reassured, reaching out to clap his paw on brown viscet's arm.
"Well.. I never knew my mother, at all, I just knew she was a criminal. I never knew I was one as well, even though I was really young at the time. Apparently she'd used me as decoy, she'd make me steal things from store, and if anyone asked she'd scold me as a cover up. My crime was involvement or something like that."
"Well.. the system back then is sure messed up. We don't follow that law anymore, rather, we see involved visclings as innocent, and only consider the parent a criminal. " Farrow shook his head with a sigh, waving his paw.
"The papers also mentioned an opted out viscet? He's the only one that opted out?"
"Oh, yeah him. I suppose that makes sense now. I'd heard that story a lot of times, but I couldn't connect anything. Nixsandre was an innocent, but he'd been caught by Convey Corps and thrown in Silvmor for murder of three viscets. It'd make sense if old commanders tried to blackmail him with it, and it didn't work out."
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Extras|| [1 required, 4 allowed; x300 words or x1 art per extra]