She aided him in making the form, hours passed spent laughing with each other. Amidst their time together laughing while making the form something brewed from within his chest, not guilt, not anger but from something.
An aching feeling in his heart that he couldn't describe nor understand, she acted kind with everyone, she had a bright mood opposite of him, but her kindness never managed to get to his heart and his mind also refused.
Even though they've spent hours together his mind still felt heavy, his vision still was a bit blurry so he couldn't describe her appearance quite well.
And suddenly muffled sounds filled his ears, "Zero!" She said, breaking his composure.
"Y-yeah!?" He answered.
She tilted her head, eyes filled with confusion, "You good?"
"Y-yeah I'm okay" he replied.
"Your form is finally finished ('She smiled')"
Even though she looks cold and unapproachable her smile was beautiful as the sunset he saw in the place he first woke up in.
And yet his heart didn't feel a single thing, instead it felt… numb.
"Thank you uhh" He muttered, "Wait… what do I call her?!" He scattered in his mind.
"Oh, yeah I forgot I haven't given you my name yet" She said.
The room felt loud because of the immense silence.
His ears rang and he grew uncomfortable from the silence, his mind became blank.
"Well… I don't really have a name…", "I only have a codename" She said scratching her head.
"Huh, w-what?" He said.
"Yeah… that's how it really works here…", "My codename is NR-12" She said.
The room had befallen onto the loud silence once again.
"Why?" The main thought that lingered on his mind.
Then all of a sudden a 'Beep' sound tore through the silence and screamed repeatedly.
As she heard the sound her expression suddenly shifted. She quickly moved closer to him and whispered "Play along!"
The beeping sound stopped, his eyes quickly spotted a small red dot appear behind her.
The air around him suddenly felt ominous and it felt like someone was watching them.
"Zero-X7, your application for the Helios Evernight's Arctopolix Glaciers had been examined and approved"
"Huh?. He didn't even examine it, he just calculated the parts that needed and gave it to a soldier" he wondered in his mind.
"You are now assigned to Regiment 12 on H-Division frontiers"
"Assemble at the armory at 0500 sharp!, don't be late"
Her voice became composed and colder as the beeping sound appeared.
Her voice sounds like the voice she made when they first met.
"What's happening?!", "Is someone plotting to kill her?!" His thoughts were louder than the silence in the room.
She turned around to leave and as she disappeared out of his sight his vision had recorrected and he regained focus.
He finally faced the reality that he was now on his own again. He stared out the door for a moment.
Laughter ran across the place wildly. Slowly he walked outside, his left hand holding onto the cold dark blue walls.
He noticed that he doesn't fit in like everybody, some were cracking jokes with their friends, some clingy to each other.
He mainly noticed that their faces kept a happy expression, their smiles were bright as the light on the hallway.
"Have you seen the guy on the first floor with down syndrome", "He was going like auhh, huahh" A man behind him jokingly said.
As the guy finished his joke his friends around him erupted in laughter. Then he felt something weird in his chest, a stinging feeling in his heart that grows stronger every time.
"It hurts… what even is this?", "I'm not even being laughed at…", "nor are they talking about me" He deeply wondered in his mind.
He brushed the feeling off, but before dying, it stung him hard one last time.
The place he was in felt extremely huge and far, the walls felt colder than the room temperature itself, and it was extremely noisy, "So loud, don't they get tired of being happy?" He muttered in his mind.
He wandered around for minutes then as he turned, he stopped and finally saw "ARMORY" and outside it were 12 steady lines of soldiers standing around, waiting patiently, " why are they just standing here?" He said in his mind.
The line etched far beyond the corridors, "That long?!" He screamed in his mind.
He hesitated for a moment and finally agreed to wait that long and slowly he walked to the end of the line and just stood there waiting for something.
Hours had already passed without him knowing, his legs felt like it was going to break because of standing for hours, he had been staring at the ground for hours already.
"May the father be with you" he heard it clearly even though it's a bit muffled.
He tilted his head up and an old soldier greeted him, "Greetings ('He was holding his IIR') Zero-X7!" The old man said.
The guy grabbed something right next to his desk, "Here, make the fatherland proud" The old soldier muttered.
He hesitated for a second but his body acted and took it. It was dark plated armor, and a dark brown thick coat.
He looked up to the old soldier and the soldier said "May the father be with you"
He turned around and began to leave whilst examining the armor the old soldier gave him.
The leg armor had a few scratches on it, "Probably got damaged", as he examined
the chest armor he noticed a name tag that reads "FS-09"
He turned back to the old man and showed him the nametag, the old soldier took the armor and looked at the name tag, "Oh, it was probably too small for the fellow" he laughed, "Happens all the time here"
The guy snapped the name tag off and handed it back to him.
Then he turned around and left, he wandered around unknowingly at first then he decided to join the soldiers who received the armor too, they were walking to a section of the building he hadn't known yet.
Then the soldiers came inside a room, "Changing room", "Looks kinda old actually" he said in his mind.
He went inside the room and laughter and jokes ran wildly across the room.
"Don't steal all the girls from us" A soldier muttered.
The room was lively because dozens of soldiers there laughed happily, but he was the only one who had a tough expression.
He stared at the soldiers on how to wear the armor and he still couldn't get it.
After trying for a while he finally managed to wear the armor, maybe not right but he managed to wear it.
As he heard a 'hiss' and 'click' from putting the helmet something activated.
Temperature, speed, bpm, time and prediction movements appeared on the screen.
"Rebooting complete" A cold voice appeared not outside but inside his helmet.
"Confirming user identity" it said.
"Is your codename Zero-X7?" It asked.
He hesitated from talking to the voice for a moment then, "Y-yeah i-iam" He replied.
"Initiating eye scan" It said.
"What" he asked in his mind.
Then suddenly a bluish light patterned activated, scanning his eyes.
"User identity confirmed" It said.
"I am SuperAi Tacit" The ai said.
"It's a pleasure to work with you Zero"
"Y-yeah… it's a pleasure too…" He replied.
"General approaching steady movements"
Just when he was about to ask who the general was, someone walked in the room, catching everyone's attention.
Black colored armor and light blue stripes, same as theirs, and a nametag that says "Elias"
He stood In front of everybody, silent and calculating.
The loud noises of the soldiers suddenly came to a halt.
"Everyone!" The guy roared.
"As you may have known that the regiment 11 is losing on the western front"
"Now you guys will have to traverse to the cold mountains on the west side"
"Be wary that they could attack us anytime now as their request to us had been hacked and our location is compromised"
"Now move forth soldiers!", "May god be with you on this journey"
The general tilted his head towards the ground, the tiny fragments of a frozen rock was thrown around.
Then "They're here!" Elias screamed furiously.
Corners of the room lit red, alarms blared everywhere and then 'BOOM!' An explosion occurred knocking all of the soldiers down.
"PREPARE FOR COMBAT" he said whilst loading his gun.
He turned around and began to leave.
Soldiers around him look absolutely terrified.
"WE WILL HOLD THEM OFF TILL YOU MANAGED TO COLLECT YOUR WEAPONS!" He roared.
"GO TO SOUTH OF THE BUILDING THE WEAPONRY IS THERE!!"
"NOW GO!, WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME" He screamed loudly at the top of his lungs as he left.
"Why isn't the weaponry just put one the same as the armory?" He wondered.
"Zero, 12 Heavy tanks and 219 soldiers breached the dome" The Ai said.
"Dome?" He asked.
"Affirmative since Helios Evernights surface is extremely cold we had to rely on underground dorms to live"
"No more questions, they are closing distance"