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The island they were on has been closed off for the couple of years. It hasn't accepted visitors in a long time. But now it was going to invite new residents. First though, they had to prepare everything to make it entertaining enough, get rid of all the flaws and create new games. That's where their new, and at the same time, old experiment would come in.
The egg experiment is flawed, cruel, stupid even, if you ask ■■■■■. Yet, the Federation had put so much into it. A thing to see how the residents will act and what they will do when suddenly given a parenthood. Will they care and love the eggs as their own or will they abandon them and leave them to die?
They had done it before, so long ago, but it was so bad, they couldn't get the eggs to be perfect. Some prototypes were sent to another island. They soon called it Egg island. Every failure was sent there.
It didn't exactly matter. The Federation had to make sure the eggs were perfect before visitors arrived. Babies will be flawless. As flawless and obedient as their workers in time, they held onto them. A few didn't pass tests, being sent to egg island like before.
■■■■■ saw it to be boring. He spoke to his brother about changing things, but :) only disapproved. Memories would be erased, only leaving a couple of useful things for the new residents. In the meantime, the workers had to ensure they behaved like children, were able to know two or more languages and write on signs or in books.
A boring and painful process. In the end, they were left with a handful.
Eggs were given identification items to make it easier; hats, clothes, marks, anything under the hands.
Two Census Bureaus were in charge of watching them most of the time, along with some lower-ranked workers.
Truly, they were acting like normal children, learning about things like normal children, were curious, but what was not normal for children was their good behavior. It made ■■■■■ sick. It was boring, they acted like workers, following commands, even with all the confusion and slowness, and sadness sometimes.
Many reasons were why this experiment never lasted long. Be it the early death of eggs, flaws that led to taking them away early. This experiment never went very well.
Well, until now, it never went for longer than two months.
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Still, there was one most memorable for him, one egg that would intensely stare at the Census Bureau from time to time. ■■■■■ found this one amusing. It wasn't like everyone. Sure, it didn't have the urge to get into every contraption possible, or to try and fight workers after just picking up a sword.
It was still intriguing. At nights, when the strict bedtime had passed, the bear would find it sitting and staring from inside the little room, drawing something, writing things.
There was a time when they were given cameras and the egg was capturing everything possible, quickly running out of paper.
There was a time when they were given the task of building a small house each, and it became clear what its talent was. It misspelled so much, was slow at reading and understanding, but it was like any other egg. There was still something about it.
In one of the lessons with ■■■■■, when everyone kind of got sidetracked, the egg pulled him aside and put a drawing in his hands. Not nearly as good as one other made, but it was the first time he had seen an egg draw him. It all started from there.
On a drawing assignment, with the theme "family" (this world was given a general explanation beforehand), every egg pretty much drew a picture close to one another. Two people and a child, the easiest it can get. But this one egg had gone out of it's way, finishing the drawing last and giving it to :) like everyone else.
The bear didn't seem so appreciative of what it drew, throwing the painting to a worker to destroy it, with a clear "unacceptable."
Of course, the egg was sad, ■■■■■ was sure of it. This shouldn't have mattered had he not been curious, as he had no chance of seeing what made his brother react like that.
Later on, he had retrieved the painting, and it was so funny, a painful, glitching noise left them. (Wasn't it a laugh?)
In the picture was him, his brother, the eggs and a few workers. A family the egg imagined. The Census Bureau didn't feel so strange in a while. And in the night, he visited the little egg, knowing fully well it wouldn't be sleeping. A painting was then hung above the door.
"Excellent work."
Egg significantly brightened up, moving over and jumping around him. Then, he was pulled along to the table, where the egg laid out all the past drawings of the Federation. The workers, there was even one of the duck, whose eggs only had a chance of seeing one time via video.
A sign was placed: "Mi familia."
"Sí."
He let the egg stay up more, reading for it personally and talking that night, regardless of what his brother or the host would think. Maybe this was the way to go, ■■■■■ had learned so much from this night alone. Egg loved spending time with him. As the Census Bureau could tell, it was very energetic, unlike on any usual day with everyone else.
That was very educational too. Maybe if the eggs had time to spend alone with a person, then there would be more knowledge of them and their worldview so far. If this egg thought of the Federation as of their family, then other eggs may find Federation scary, confusing, friendly, all kinds of things. Just had to see what's the right approach.
■■■■■ brought approach system to his brother.
"No."
"It would be beneficial to us to figure out any flaws and their behavior. When given to residents, eggs will be in different situations."
It made sense that he thought this was the problem why this experiment usually turned into such a mess early on. They never tested it in other conditions. But another reason why, is that these eggs seemed to have more personality than any other time before. This was interesting, way more interesting than any other time before.
He managed to come to an agreement. It benefited a lot, as they didn't have time to make new eggs, so every seen flaw wasn't a big deal now.
For example: the oldest egg that was left was seeking to protect others and not just seek to threaten any worker when finding a weapon; the egg in glasses had problems with foods the Federation had no idea about... many other problems were discovered.
Thinking back, ■■■■■ couldn't understand how Federation missed all of these. They had eggs passed out before, but didn't even consider that the problem was air, several asthma cases.
In different environments, they changed, adapted, even personalities were different.
This was the first time the egg experiment had been entertaining, and something told him that it would be the most successful of all.
Only ■■■■■ seemed to care for everything that didn't have them in danger. Being in danger had possibilities of someone dying and things not going as intended. He had arguments with his brother about this, and :) actually agreed to get to know them, to try and see.
To no avail. He even named one that led to his empathy over these eggs. Cap was its name. It had a red cap, as original as this name was. ■■■■■ started calling the eggs after their accessories.
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Then, came the time to start experiments, to erase memories, leave eggs for residents. Before it, ■■■■■ argued about letting little Cap keep some parts of its memories of him, and he was deemed flawed for even suggesting that. He was angry, caused some havoc, spiked a few videos with codes.
A decision was made, for he made the island that was so "perfect" flawed. ■■■■■ truly believed in the beauty of flaws, of imperfection, because it made everything more human. He decided that chaos was more appealing than the order Federation wanted.
After the first patch of eggs had been with their new parents, he went around. Fooled around, watched over, left messages. Cap, now going by the name of Leonardo, or Leonarda, was under his protection. He visited her while he could, reminded of little things. Federation would know either way.
Then he was exiled after going far enough to spike the next egg for Brazilians with the biggest flaw he could possibly add. He was thrown out of the Federation into the dimension that was closed to the residents. His hatred grew stronger. For the Federation, for the new residents, even for the eggs.
In the nether, he was seeking something, he was trying to get out, he was able to find a link, but hardly communicate. ■■■■■ was able to watch over from time to time, to send little messages. A dragon was left protected after he took notice of aggression towards the eggs by monsters made out of green lines of code.
What made him even more angry was his brother now going around with innocent act, following every order from the host, dancing around the residents and eggs.
Best friend. Cap was calling his brother best friend, apart from family even. Now deemed Cucurucho by residents. Cucurucho, who had zero interest in what they wanted to do, and had stood by every cruel order to make the eggs obedient and listen, to fix every imperfection that made them just little kids like they intended to be.
It wasn't long before ■■■■■ realized that the ultimate goal for the eggs was not to experiment with the behavior of islanders. This goal was left after the first deaths. Now, he was sure eggs were made for purposes of controlling the residents. And it worked wonders.
He now believed that he had been fooled himself by their cute childish behavior, by their imperfections and manners. ■■■■■ couldn't believe how easy it was to fool somebody like him. And he destroyed his position in the Federation for these things.
That's where he cut off the connection, searching for escape once more, with much more hatred than before. Concrete around formed an infection, he destroyed what abandoned Federation bases there were.
The appearance of his was now dark. Fur has lost its white color from the dangers of the nether. Red eyes signified nothing good. He spread corruption everywhere he went.
Only when someone came through the nether did he have hope. There were always short times every time a person opened the portal. ■■■■■ couldn't find where, and it drove him insane.
He had got to know of their former egg island, which had now been taken over and occupied by other creatures.
And he heard it from codes. Codes and worker on the run, which had found their way into the nether. Of course, he was angry when first seeing both, and it didn't help that some codes were disguised as those "precious eggs."
But they had good information and an explanation to leave them alive now. After all, he wanted to destroy the Federation more than kill a few pawns.
It took the codes to locate the nether portal. And he was ready. Before, he had spiked an egg of Brazilians with an altered personality that drew. Possess someone wasn't much harder.
The perfect target walked into the trap right away.
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Too focused on revenge, on putting all of his hatred onto the residents, he was blinded. It's been too long, he's been trapped and tormented for months in the nether, he lost care about the eggs, while his brother has grown soft.
■■■■■ didn't intend to put Cap under fire. He couldn't find two others. He did not intend to endanger her. It didn't matter in the end.
@v@ was defeated and taken away. He could only do so far now. Coming into the house surrounded by the dragon and walking through the mess of black concrete to where her bed was positioned. There was nothing to do, the corruption of the president would fade soon.
All he would have to do is to watch the rest of the play while it's ongoing...