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2024-10-29 19:42:56Adam was standing behind the locked door, his whole body in pain, starving, his stomach growling, the remaining part of the cuffs still on his leg making occasional ringing noise. He ignored all pain and had one thing in his mind at this moment, food.
Adam is a thin kid with a natural bronze skin, black short hair and light brown wide eyes. Usually his face was blank showing no emotion, now is no exception. He had dark areas around his eyes, his cheek bones protruding with their distinct shape.
There was food in the orphanage, and the other kids were well fed. It's just that Adam didn't want to stay here, and he didn't like their food or the people cooking it. so he would only eat the fruits and uncooked vegetables when they served them in the cafeteria, they didn't make them at least, and they tasted the same every where.
The door was defective, broken in many places, and unstable even when locked, it wiggles when pushed. That's how Adam would escape every time, he uses the steel pipe to unhinge the door by inserting the steel pipe in the gap under the hinge side of the door, and lifting one end of the pipe while the other end is under the thin wooden door.
Adam did the same thing he would do every time. However, the result this time was different. Unfortunately Gem locked the door with the key this time so it would be harder to unhinge, looks like they figured out his trick and took precautions this time.
Adam pondered the problem for a while, then he went back to his bed and sat on it trying to figure out another way to escape.
He needed food first, he couldn't think amidst all the growling of his stomach, he looked towards Vergo's bed, a slight grin appeared on his face, even though it was too small to be noticed by any onlooker, who ever knew Adam would notice any slight expression on his cold face.
Vergo was a chubby kid, he has the largest build in this room, even though they were all around the same age. His bed was the opposite side of Adam's bed, also close to the stinky toilet area, but Vergo would always hide some food under his pillow, or under his bed or any where he can.
It took Adam cheer willpower to convince him self to eat Vergo's hidden food, he knew the way he would sneak it into the room. It was disgusting at best.
Adam went to the bed which smelled slightly worse then the bathroom, and tried to not touch any thing he didn't have to touch. he used the steel pipe to lift the pillow and looked under it, unfortunately there was nothing, so he lifted the mattress, which was considerably thinner then all the others. he found a variety of smelly things under the mattress, he tried not to vomit while searching through them for any thing with unopened cover. fortunately he found a few, he quickly threw them on the ground and ran to the stinky better smelled bathroom.
After a few minutes of regret and life choice reflections, he was thankful that he didn't have any thing to vomit. he took the pillow cover off of birdy's pillow and used it as a glove, he then washed the few plastic covers thoroughly, and washed the pillow cover, washing his hand last, he went back to his bed, he returned birdy's pillow cover, and rested for a while.
Birdy is the only one Adam trusted to be clean, he never smelled any bad odors on him, and never saw him doing dirty or unpleasant things. thus he used his pillow cover trusting it to be clean, hopefully.
Adam had a very strong nose, he would smell things that others cant. which was a huge part of the reason he is miserable in this place and more then any thing in the world he wanted to get back to his home, where every thing didn't smell this bad.
Spread on Adam's bed, there were two flattened chocolate bars, and three different types of powder smashed biscuits bags. Adam started opening and gobbling every thing real fast before he remembers where they came from, he then hid the bags under birdy's mattress.
Then he connected the two links of the chain he opened earlier, the were barely holding each other, but who would believe that a weak 9 year old child broke a steel chain link.
Adam's plan was to pretend to sleep until miss sydni comes and give him the usual lecture, and then punish him. His punishment this time would be harder of course, but at most they would make him clean up something, or join in unloading the supply truck. Then they would drop their guard again and he would try escaping some other way.
After thinking for a while, Adam felt uncomfortable. There was an unusual pain in his stomach.
[enhancing digestive system…]
Adam felt his stomach burning, and his body temperature was rising, he was sweating more than a marathon runner. He ran to the bathroom and opened the tap putting his head under the water, and drunk until he couldn't any more.
"what are you doing to me?" Adam screamed while twisting on the floor beside the bed, the pain increased so much that he couldn't endure any more.
[digesting complete.]
The pain stopped the same moment this thought appeared in his mind, he was relieved that It didn't get harder, 'give me a warning next time you do any thing please!! Or better yet explain to me first.' Adam didn't even complete his thought when a punch of foreign thoughts appeared all at once, it almost hurts.
[analyzing host…
Human, new species recorded…
Analyzing synchronization compatibility…
Maximum available synchronization based on energy capacity, 0.5%...
Current reserved energy, 37% maximum capacity.
Diverting synchronization protocol…
Host enhancement priority increased…
Starting enhancement protocol…
Metabolism prioritized…
Current available metabolism enhancement 200%...
Required energy, 500% current maximum capacity…
Initiating partial enhancement system…
…
Host permission required.]
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Adam's eyes widened, he gasped in awe. The symbiote just revealed to him that it can read people's minds like it was nothing. Adam actually ignored all the other thoughts and images projected by the symbiote, and focused on the part where it said (biological data), it showed him that he just needs to touch a living being, and its memory, thoughts, and Physical condition will be analyzed.Adam quickly left the play ground, heading to the one person he would test this on.Birdy was helping Roland, the maintenance worker, with his job. Roland is the only one in his team, he is responsible for the entire orphanage's maintenance. the orphanage consists of two buildings, a play ground, and the outer wall which had several cameras and equipment on it.Helping Roland were one of the most paid tasks that kids can get, although usually only older kids are accepted, because of size and strength of course. There were some tasks that required brain more than Brawn, Roland would then request specif
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The dense smooth ball fell to the ground, bypassing the gravity field that previously contained it. It plunged a few centimeters deep into the hard metal floor, a ton of force was concentrated in a small area, making it hard to contain it by regular matter. It was still sinking through the metal floor slowly, as it was being mercilessly pulled by the planet’s gravity.[Connection established. recalculating blueprints to adapt to the signal of the new nanite cluster fabric. More physical contact with the material is required for a faster result.]“Was it successful?!” Keet’s eyes were asking the question before he even moved his lips. He was startled by the sudden disengagement of the sphere from the gravity field. He kept his eyes and scanners on Adam to detect if he is in danger before any thing, and he was relieved for once to see Adam’s expressionless face unchanging. “Can you control it?.”“Yes! The signal is different from any other cluster fabric, my blueprints needs to be modif
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“she just disappeared a year after you were born, and in her place there was a message, telling your father to provide them with a certain type of technology if he ever wants to see her again.” Keet said desperately, his voice struggling in a way.“People don’t just disappear!” Adam chuckled, he was hearing about his mother for the first time, and the first thing he hears about her is that she just disappeared. The first thing that came to his mind was that she might have abandoned him and his father. Or that she could be working with the Rinvar clan.“They don’t, but when you see this you may believe the opposite.” Keet created a screen and played a video of a woman singing a sweet lullaby for an infant wrapped in a sky blue blanket with twinkling stars all over it that seems to be moving about. The woman was sitting on a flowery wooden chair rocking back and forth. She appeared to be on some kind of a ship traveling in space, a foreign star constellations were visible from a window
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Adam plunged into the ground raising a cloud of dust and creating a small crater around him as he landed like a super hero on one knee and a closed fist.[The modified armor blueprint features ionic thrusters with up to 8 tons of pushing force.]‘you telling me this now?!’ Adam shouted inwardly at himself, he had no idea that the symbiote modified the armor already. his cognitive abilities and thinking speed were on another level compared to yesterday, but still he was a human that easily got distracted by the feeling of freedom and liberation, and forgot all about the need to stop and land at some point. He also wanted to show off a little in front of Keet to pretend that he wasn’t in need of help or assistance, which resulted in a minor knee bruise and a sore knuckles.“That was a cool Landing. Was it painful?!.” Keet chuckled, commenting on his landing and making sure to save the footage of it in his memory for later use.“You noticed! Well! It just needs some practice.” Adam smile
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“You should come with me to the main base first.” Keet said to Adam, pointing at the middle of the island. The main base wasn’t far from where they were, the whole island was 20 km across, it would take them less then a minute to reach there flying.“Okay you go first and set a beacon, I’ll test some old tech with this new unlimited energy.” Adam didn’t argue with him, but he was still going to do his tests. He turned his clothe into a skin tight jump suit with a helmet covering his face. Two long thin wings grew from his back, ending with a jet engine each.“Do you know how loud these things are?! If you break the sound barrier with them you could damage many equipment on the island. You should try something else.” Keet stopped Adam from firing up the engines. he hated this era of technology for its too little care for the planet’s well-being. Unlike the mock engines that Adam was planning to use, the real ancient jet engine used a dangerous fossil fuel, which didn’t just endanger th
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Adam was sitting on a wooden table behind the house, eating his big breakfast while surrounded by trees, flowers, and whistling birds. The rich sunlight bathed him in its warmth and its wide spectrum of electromagnetic radiations. “Birdy didn’t wake up yet?! He sure doesn’t miss Gem.” He said stuffing his face with more food, He stopped focusing on chewing much, the food would disappear in a few seconds anyway. He was worried about Birdy, it was unnatural for the kid to sleep in.Birdy used to wake up earlier then every one, Adam would sometime Hear him laughing on the top bed, he thought at first that he was having some weird dream. When he asked him about it, Birdy Said that it was the only time of the day he would quietly enjoy reading his comics.“That boy is actually quite something! He trained for four hours straight after you went to sleep, not taking any rest until he passed out on the living room’s floor.” Keet informed Adam while aiming a barrage of scanners and detectors at
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Adam opened his eyes on a massive head of a man with white hair, white groomed beard, and wide opened eyes staring at him with the kind of amusement one would look at a rare creature with.“Waaaah… what the f*ck old man! Stop doing that!” Adam jumped out from the soft bed, away from the massive head, only to realize that it was just Keet, and his head was normal size, it was just too close for comfort.“Rise and shine Kid! We have a long, long day to catch.” Keet said with a happy grin, he couldn’t just wait until Adam wakes up, he needed some explanation for the events of yesterday.“What long day? Go catch it yourself! Let me sleep I’m tired.” Adam had nothing to wake up early for. The symbiote calculated that his body would need 9 more days to resume his preparatory enhancement. he no longer had a dead line to find a plan to escape, he was already in a safe place. And he most certainly wouldn’t give up sleep to start training early after all that happened yesterday. He was simply t
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Birdy was extremely exhausted, he felt that he was about to collapse, but he held on to his consciousness just to finish the third objective of the schedule that Adam created for him. He was disappointed in himself for not being able to continue to the fourth, compared to this schedule, the daily training routine he was used to in the orphanage was literally a breeze.He was oblivious to the fact that he finished a training routine made for an adult athlete, and that there was no fourth objective. the symbiote calculated that he would finish this much of this hell hard schedule, just based on Birdy’s personality, and his ignorance about how hard the training schedule is, and the fact that any human being who experienced weakness would be motivated to become stronger.What kept him going was the image of Keet’s hands wrapping around his whole body, the fear he felt at that moment, he felt too little, and too weak. the name of the protocol Adam created for him made him think that Adam w
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4 hours ago, after Adam went to sleep, Birdy decided to test what he can do with the new blueprint that Adam created, but he was afraid to go outside the wooden house, because Keet might be out there, so he was going to settle with testing the small things.He patted the cute white dog, and then ordered it to turn to the full armor mode with his thoughts. The dog immediately seemed to be giving him a jump hug, only to turn into liquid and swallow Birdy’s entire body into the liquid, and then form the armor around his body, the process only took a split second, but it felt longer to Birdy who was in the middle of it.The armor felt lighter than before, and when he took a step forward, he didn’t feel any weight to it at all. in fact, he felt as if nothing could stop his leg from stepping forward. The amount of power behind the single step was enough to destroy anything in his path.He started to become wary of his movement, to not cause any damage to the house. And then he noticed that
