A Perspective

I remember being made. I was made in some kind of rotten, rusting, dark purple oven. Then, there was what I can assume to be an escalator taking me to some kind of cell.

I remember looking at my hands, rather, tentacles what they seem. I remember glancing at the small cell, I could barely move. I didn't have space, but still, I stared longingly outside my cell. I remember such beautiful luminescent lights above me, they were a hot pink color. More of me was made, and what I can assume was a humanoid robot working on the rest.

I remember staring into the land, greenery. I remember being filled with disgust.

Another one of those droids appeared above my cell, surprisingly, I didn't flinch. I remember riding down an escalator again into a small dark gray room.

A single TV brightened the room. Me and thousands of me began to watch it.

" Good morning, citizens.

As your sole duty as a soldier, you will fight till your very last breath.

Remember these words and what was once our land and our goddess will return."

The TV turned off. We fell into a line, I remember falling down helplessly. The line moved towards what was a mountain, probably.

Mt. Shiveer
Me and thousands of other me fell helplessly, bumping into some weird fog, sometimes. We hit land, eventually.

What was this? The thoughts rushed into my head. Some weird...powder was on me. It felt painful.

"Move out!" A voice yelled out in the tingly feeling.

We moved out as fast as we can and met a few..weird looking creatures. They ran away from us, and began to threw anomalous bombs at us. I saw some of us..die.

I..don't really want to talk about the concept of death. Just the thought of these heartless creatures, throwing it to one of our superintendent, them exploding and just dying, it makes me just feel hate towards them. What did we even do?

The white powder continued to pour heavily onto us. Our superintendent took us behind a pillar, where we were out of the creatures' grasp.

"What next?" I muttered, asking.

"What next? We fight to the death." They heavily said. "Do we have anything else in our arsenal?" Another one said, their voice cackling from the painful tingly feeling.

"We're supposed to have d-defense." Our superintendent gasped. "How man-many of you left?"

We counted down, 30 of us left. "H-hold on, a mess-message fro-from the g-general." Our superintendent laid down, staring at their watch.

"Hey, are we goi-going to b-be okay?" I told someone. "I-I do-don't know. I-it hurts do-doesn't it...?" We all nodded in agreement, silently.

"Fu-" Our superintendent barely finished that word, "Mind m-me. They moved ou-our destination t-to som-somewhere else."

"What n-next?" I asked again, slowly.

"Shut the he-hell up." They began to hyperventilate. "Ge-get out and f-fight."

They died, our superintendent died because of that powder. The powder began to fall down even more rapidly, covering me and 28 others in it. It hurt badly.

"That's all of them, I think!" A voice cried out. "We're leaving!"

Finally, the portal to what I assume was home opened up.

Home
We got transported into another gray dark room. A video played out.

"Congratulations! You have survived the cold.

Remaining of you will fight in a new area.

Remember, the City of Phantoms rely on you."

"Cold? Is that what it's called?" I whispered to the phantom beside me. "Maybe, cold hurts." They replied. And so, we both never spoke again.

Sarapia Forest
Later, we arrived in more greenery. The place felt..odd to me and others.

"What is this place?"

"Doesn't matter, doesn't it? Get out there." A harsh reply from the new superintendent, ouch. We rapidly fastened some items onto us. They were a bright red. They hurt my eye.

Some of us were told to chase the creatures and dodge the green bombs.

I saw one of my kind walk up to a creature with unusually long ears.

I don't remember anything except pure red. I felt..heat. But it was extreme. It felt like it melted my skin, leaving me to ashes. I was blinded temporarily.

When it ended, pieces of the land we were in flew and began to fall.

"Hello?" I screamed into the empty void, blinded. "You didn't close your eyes or stay away." Maybe my superintendent said that. "The animals are gone. D-482745 could've gone for that wolf."

Wolf? Animals? Questions filled. "Wolf? Animals?" I asked, moving blindly. "The video didn't state your targets? No wonder you little idiots are clueless. You grew soft." The superintendent replied, somewhere near me, maybe.

"Then update it." My brain sometimes works faster then my mouth. "You smarty. It's that easy, we don't do it though." They giggled, nearer to me.

"We're busy because we're fighting." Our superintendent moved, closer to me. "We make phantoms like you quick and efficient for war." They said.

"Then--"

"Come on, let's just go."

Coral Canyons
We were equipped with some talking devices.

" This is not a test. This is an emergency protocol.

Please listen to your superintendents' commands with little to no hesitation.

Please be willing to sacrifice yourself for the cost of your superintendent's safety.

Please proceed with caution. " BZZT!

We went out in lines and scattered, we tried to cover the whole area.

[WIP UNTIL ALL THE LANDS ARE FINISHED]