Chapter 2
Utopia
December 9th, 2112
Looking around the room, Len looked around blearily as sleep from the night before began to wear off. "Rin?" His voice echoed softly in the sparsely furnished room as his head tilted toward the side in utter confusion at the silence. That's weird. She normally sleeps in. Getting up, he began to get ready to look for his missing companion. I hope she knows that we're needed for that check-up today. A look of realization crossed his face at his last thought. She wouldn't have-… With a sense of urgency, he crossed the room running towards the door. As if on cue, it opened and connected with his face.
"Good morning Len!" a girl, with striking blonde hair, exclaimed as she walked through the "doorway of death". Not hearing a reply she casually looked to her left, where she found her teen comrade lying on the floor clutching his nose. "Hey, get up lazy! We're going to our check-up~," Rin said in a sing-song voice to the shuddering lump of flesh. Slowly opening his eyes from his tight squint, he gave the overly cheery girl a menacing glare. "Wein, yo ediet." "Oh shut up," she responded as she walked into the rest of the room. Giving him a sideways glance, she began to, one-handedly, take off her indoor flats. Rin smirked to herself as she began to think about what she had just accomplished.
"Yo noe," Len started as he rubbed his sore nose, "Ah, you really are too predictable." Startled, she looked at him fully in an effort to confirm what had just escaped his mouth. "W-what're you talking about? I'm the least predictable of the two of us!" she yelled convinced. Len looked at her with a deadpan look. After a moment of silence, she finally narrowed her eyes at her fellow room occupant. "Alright, fine! What did I do?" she asked innocently bobbing her huge white hair bow. "Hn, not sure. But I know that if we go to that check-up, we're going to be done real quickly," he suggested with an all knowing grin.
Rin stared at him disbelievingly. "You make me sick Kagamine." Len smiled. "Guess we better get to that appointment then, huh?" he joked. Pouting, Rin put her indoor flats back on. "Len?" The boy in question looked back at his friend noticing her tone of voice. She sounds scared he thought. "What is it?" Looking up to his face, Len inwardly flinched at the mortified expression on the girl in front of him. "Rin?" "I think I lost feeling in my arm!" she blurted out. Surprised, he looked at her loosely hanging right arm now noticing that she hadn't moved it since she had returned to the room. "Again? Why didn't you say something earlier?" Pausing for a moment, she looked at the floor before answering, "I was afraid that I wouldn't be admitted for transition if I did."
Sighing, he closed his eyes from sudden fatigue. She must have gone to change our appointment to be after our transition. "Rin, I told you not to worry about it." Still gazing at the floor, she replied, "I know, I know." Smiling softly, he walked back to her and placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "Everything is going to be different after this. I promise," he said. Now looking at his face, she allowed a small smile to grace her lips as his words faded into the room.
December 10th, 2112
"Alright, please follow me," a doctor told two teenagers as he began to go down a hallway with a large door at the end of it. Gripping each other's hands, the two began to slowly walk behind the doctor. The girl, seeming more apprehensive, was given a squeeze of encouragement from her partner. "Don't worry," he whispered, "everything is going to be alright." His face shone pure, devoid of any negative thoughts. The yellow haired girl gave a small smile in return to his kindness. "Thank you Len."
Going through the huge doorway, Rin and Len turned away from each other to pay attention to the doctor. Aware that they were holding hands, the doctor ignored it and went on to explain the procedure. After finishing, they thought he was about to, yet again, lead them down another hallway. But when a female doctor came forth, walking to Rin, the two teens quickly realized that they were about to be split up.
"No! Don't separate us!" Rin screamed as the doctor came closer to her. She instinctively began to tighten her hold on to Len, supporting the side that had begun to lose feeling. "He's all I have left! You can't do this to us!" The woman doctor grabbed her by the arms and tore her away from the boy as he was done the same by the first doctor. "Wait! Don't take her yet! Just give us a few more minutes!" Len pleaded. The two doctors looked at each other with suspicion written on their faces. "…Fine," the woman agreed, "two minutes. But if you resist-." "We won't," Len interrupted.
Hesitantly, the Neurologist surgeons began to release them and step away to give the couple some dismal amount of privacy. Rin and Len embraced when the doctors had but taken 3 steps from their location. "I told you that everything would be alright!" he whispered harshly in her ear. "I'm sorry. I just panicked!" Taking a deep breath and increasing his grip on her frame, Len softly murmured against her blonde locks. Shocked at his silent statement, Rin looked up from the hiding place she had made on his shoulder to the female doctor that was curiously gazing at the scene in front of her. "Do, you think they will?" she asked him. "You won't know till you try," he responded.
With new found courage, Rin stepped away from Len difficultly lifting her right leg to walk. Facing the doctor who would be with Len, Rin stood tall and began to speak without hesitation or quiver in her voice. "Would you do us a favor please?" she directed to him. Interjecting the man, the woman asked, "What kind of favor?" Pausing, Rin collected her jumbled thoughts and set aside all of her mixed emotions. "Please make our faces the different from everyone else's." Surprised, the doctors looked at Rin strangely. "What for?" the male doctor asked. Starting to feel as if her request would be denied, she softly answered, "Because when I open my eyes, I want there to be proof that we were together even when we are apart."
A pregnant silence began to slowly suffocate the room, until the woman said, "Alright, we'll see what we can do." Rin smiled uncertainly and turned her head to Len who was beaming.
The female surgeon went to a keypad and typed in a code as the pair of young adults just stared at each other. Rin, taking Len's right hand in her left, whispered, "Do you think we'll still recognize each other after the transition?" He simply grinned and said, "Of course."
December 11th, 2112
"Welcome to the world, O-360." The "man" on the table blinked from the haze he just escaped. That voice seems familiar. I wonder who it is. "You are the 538,629th successful transition to enter this world, congratulations." Transition? Oh, that's right. Rin and I did the transition procedure. "Now, you are in the waiting dock of a compound shelter. Just be patient and we'll transfer you in a few minutes." A waiting dock? What's that for? I wonder where Rin is, she might have been told what's going on. "O-360, quit struggling or the auto-restraints will make you immobile." Auto-restraints? Why would I need those?
Bionoid O-360 lifted his head slightly to take in the view of his surroundings. His gaze drifted from "person" to "person", looking at each and every look-alike that was lying on similar tables like his. While his face was having no expression at all, the still, lifelessness in his eyes held a small spark which suggested otherwise. Wha-? W-what is this? Where is Rin? "Another failure?"
O-360 turned his head in the direction of two talking nurses. One was wheeling a gurney while the other held a file filled with supposed papers. "Yep, it's too bad. This one was a young girl about 14." "No way, really? That's so sad." Rin was 14. I wonder how she would feel if she saw this? "Yeah, I have her file right here," said the one O-360 was focusing on, "it really is a shame. Her hair looks so pretty." "Yeah it does, it kind of looks like the sun right?" asked the other as she looked over the other's shoulder. Rin's hair looked even more beautiful than the sun O-360 thought proudly.
"Yeah," the nurse holding the folder said as they passed O-360's table, "Rin Shion, 14 years old, blonde hair, blue eyes, and only relation is an Len Kagamine who is an aquaintance." What? "Oh, did he have a successful procedure?" What did she say? "Yes, he's on table 13-d, Bionoid O-360." O-360 looked to the retreating nurses and saw a flash of bright yellow under the white sheet as it rounded the corner. Rin?
The past memories are but data fragments now deleted. No recognition or knowledge of you exists. The only information I own is what I had been told after my incident at shelter 9G. I was told of an upheld request as I alone have a different face than all the others. The face of something different on the outside, but similar wires and hardware in our "hearts". It truly is amazing how we all act orderly and alike despite the diversity of our souls. We follow World Law like the bible itself and do not stray from the preprogrammed judgment. My judgement, like others, unclouded by our missing past. The Past we shared. That we wished in. That faint wish we had did not come true in the new millennium of this utopia. So, for a farewell to you of the past, we now look to the future.
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