"You shouldn't be here" A voice in a cave hidden within a mountain side near a city. "And yet here I am" followed by another voice hidden by the blanket of the night. " What exactly was your big plan after stealing that chip and gene syrup from the Exhosis" The voice in the cave imposed a question. A moment of silence was felt for a second, a breeze from the cold night passed through and the lightless sky was quite as if baring witness of everything under its cover,
"My plan is to try and do something many have failed, I understand that the only way for us humans to be allowed to take the gene syrup, is if we swore our loyalty under the Holo Machine so to be earn a semblance of freedom. But behind every smile of those so called freed humans I see a struggling soul shackled behind a program" The voice outside replied once more.
Pshh
fhooo!
The figure in the cave lit a small cylindrical white stick in the size of a finger, put it to his lips and inhaled then smoke came out when he exhaled. "This right here is what they used to call a cigarette in our old world, Things were dangerous even the package wrote a warning, but people still smoked it, that was the pinnacle of the so free will, something so rare, you need to be at dearth's door to be allowed a moment of it" The voice in the cave said before he turn around and walked further into the cave. "Follow me, we have already been here long enough, you are hot as a star right now, the entire planet is probably looking for you and that chip"
Soon the person outside followed into the cave, "What what did you say your name is Kid, I never quite caught it the fight time" Asked the smoking man. " Call me Phinx, born in H. Sector 2 of the human settlement" Phinx replied. "Phinx huh what ab interesting name, I take it you were a miner. That sector was the created specifically to create slave miner for when the Exhosis conquer a new planet" the voice asked curiously. "You would be right about that, I have held a pick from the moment I knew how to walk" Phinx's voice trailed off when he was answering that.
The H. Sector 2 was a breeding ground for Miners, everyone working there doesn't know their Mother or Father, The woman are forced to bread with man who are too old to continue mining and the daughter are brought up in section where they kept till they old enough to be able to give birth.
The design of the place was bared away from the entire society, nobody knows nothing but mining, eating and sleeping, then repeat. Phinx, an 11 year old was like any of this people. To him, this was his reality, not even caring to understand what was happening in the world behind the walls.
That was until a day a blue skinned humanoid young man with yellow eyes and what seems to be rubber for hair, by the looks of how the personnel was treating him, he was quite the important individual from a powerful background.
"Young Master Drull, it's good to have you here, but I still don't understand your visit here, this is a sector for miner, we hardly teach them proper etiquette to present themselves to distinguished guests such as yourself." A man in a uniform that seem to be the highest ranking general here spoke respectfully to the young man.
"While I'm quite honored to be seen as a distinguished quest to you General, don't think I don't know how people see and think about me. My research can be somewhat unorthodox but believe me when what I'm doing is for our people" Drull spoke. Seeing his words didn't damper Drull's plans in water, The general had no choice but to escort his visitor to the area the miner live. Even though he may be a solder and an Exhosis, It doesn't mean he stands by everything they do and their conquest of worlds. He is one of few people in this world who sees the actions of his people vile and inhumane. Especially Drull's research which will further the mind control technology and have the slave's will totally stripped off.
If such technology exist, what will stop the ruler to use it against the opposing idealists. 'Such techology was even banned from ever been reseached by the Startlight Governing Body. But we are an undergroup species who acts more like pirates than a galacting civilisation. The gorverning body is already suspecious of us and they long hated our way of doing things, It's only because we attack undiscovered planets that had not yet been register on the Star Chat that we slip by the skin of our teeth.' The General wondered.
While walking Drull thought of something. "General, you know we got very lucky when we captured that race of humans. They were primitive that they never got to a point that they could fully unlock their genes potential, just Imagine, They have such potential but they wasted it by working against each other. After some experiments were done, it was found that humans had exaggeratedly high level of potential, They could gain so much power in so little time. A decade ago they took one human and injected him with a gene syrup, do you know what level he's as now?" Drull asked with a teasing voice.
"I can't say I know and understand that by high potential you mean they are at the level of our Genius power holder so I'll say that human is probably at mid tier Adept Comprehension right now" responded the General. A bit of surprise look appeared on Drull's face before it changed into a smirk. "Ow general your expertise is showing and indeed a Genius of our race would be at that level right now. But I'm afraid you are wrong, That human is actually at High Tear Perfect comprehension right now and what is more surprising is that he awakened a rare gene sequence" Drull said with a bit of jealousy in his voice. "Whaa! Ahem I mean, Surely that can't be true, such talent would have been a nightmare even for us if we had went there when they had awakened. If such species truly exist, with such talent and strength how had we been able to conquer them" The general asked with a curious look in his eyes.
"Well, it is as I said, we are quite lucky to have capture them, such comprehension ability, gene talent and growth potential. Unfortunately they were arrogant enough to believe they were alone in the universe and never worked together but instead worked against each other. You see this the reason the leader approved on me researching the mind control Technology. We can't just sit here and waste such weapons and also we can't have them escaping, they are our chance to take over the universe and have the Starlight governing Body do nothing about it. And it is also an insurance that they don't turn on us" Said Drull
Upon hearing the explanation behind the research, even though he hates it, he somewhat understood where the ruler and council were coming at. Having such a thread walking around your background without taking a proper steps would be a foolish act. Though he understood it doesn't necessary mean he stands by it.
They walked though the passages, taking tuned after a few moments, till they came upon a one sided mirror, on the other side of the mirror, you could see a somewhat small village, full of only young man, they had a chiseled physique, full of muscles. They wore a full body skin tight suits which appeared as though it was protecting them from the heat coming from the nearest sun. In their hands was a small pick which they used to hit rocks before them.
"This is where we teach the young humans how to mine, and get them used to using a pick from as young as 6 years old. Now that I think about it, they have such amazing body structure, I understand that their physique is weak from the moment they are born, they need constant care but by the age of 16 their bodies turn into such fine working machines. I believe if we didn't get muscle syrups when we were still babies, our bodies won't be as tough as their if we went under the same training." Said the general
"It's good that you know, they are the only species we never waste our muscle syrups on, upon conception. I believe in time they might not even need gene syrups for them to awaken" Said Drull. "Are you trying to say that they will evolve to such heights as to not need external influences to awaken their powers?" Asked The General with astonished look on his face.
"I mean, they already have the genes inside them ready to awaken any moment, but their stupid scientist wrote them down as junk genes. From then on they never truly focused on them. But with the stress we are putting on their body I won't be surprised if we get a spontaneous gene awakening. Don't tell this to anyone it's a secret" Said Drull nonchalantly as if he didn't just expose a top secret intel.