When he opened his eyes, he couldn't understand what had happened to his familiar habitat. Everything looked a bit eerie. He thought it must have been one of those dreams where he wakes up and realises that he has woken up in a dream and he needs to break that loop to actually wake up. He tried his best and then after a bit of an absurd and tiring session of coming in terms with the current reality he concludes to his self that, he's not dreaming and he needs to check out where he is.
And as he continued to stay adrift in this train of thought, to his unknown 15 minutes had passed and slowly a light entered the room from a little rectangular area in the top right corner of the wall and as it fell on the opposite wall the exact design of the ventilator was created, he was surprised what is this light, is anyone or anything after him, is that a hunting light?
There were many a questions which presented themselves very vibrantly in his mind on the backdrop of absolute ignorance of what has happened after he dozed off last night, this feeling was very slowly eating him up.
He couldn't bare the intensity of his curiosity which needed to be quenched with utter urgency. He got up on his legs, and like usual, his mind focused on walking but he was moving nowhere. He thought to himself, is he inside a force field where magnetic propagation doesn't work, or has he stripped off mobility by his community. To reach a conclusion he tried the primitive method of inducing voluntary action in muscles and with all his might he transferred his conciousness towards his left foot and made his body lift it, but alas his right leg had never been trained to take the weight of his entire body on itself singularly.
After falling uncountable amount of times, he finally adapted the art of being supported by his own two feet.
While he was training hard and fast, he could hear voices speaking outside one boy's voice was there, he was sure, but he couldn't detect the language, and there was another voice, speaking in a similar kind of language but the sound of that voice was radiating some unknown characteristics. A469 had never in his existence heard or witnessed any voice like that.
From the dark wall he had woken up to there was light now coming in from old square made into the walls of various sizes. He walked towards the light with a very terrifying feeling of getting caught again being plunged into oblivion again. All of a sudden through one of the bigger cracks he could see that the outside was set up like one of those mega digital series, maybe this one is about India, his mind told him, right in front there was a table laid with three ceramic bowls containing some sort of good looking edibles he had never seen, there was a beaker filled with some transparent fluid and there was another with a fluid that was coloured bright orange, he thought to himself the transparent one he didn't recognise but the bright orange one he could make into diluted citric acid, like the one's kept in beakers in the lab where he was held captive.
He then saw a boy in a white shirt, grey tie and black pants they tie and the belt were coordinated and the socks, he wore were white with black rings by the top. He took a something that look like a stiring stick elongated at the bottom and with structure like singular sticks attached to it. And that he used on his hair, and that thing was doing many a patterns unlike the gas that is sprayed through the nozzles on the top of the cages, that did only one thing, cutting excess hair and whatever is left is made to lay flat with the skull, the boy outside could do anything lift his hair, part it and bring out locks even.
This was a lot for A469 to process and makeout something of it, this place he was at, how did he get there, what was that place, why was he there, questions upon questions but no answer yet found.
To his surprise and shock he then heard the same voice again the one which was tuned to a perfect pitch, a thinner but prominent voice, like the sound of all the instrument that are banned in the laboratory. Then he saw it, a humanoid maybe, with long hair, curled like the copper coils, just above the forehead this humanoid had a a single partition and some red pigment spread on the partition. In the forehead he saw a little black dot, just about the center of the unibrow. Two big eyes, it had something encrusted on both the earlobe, and so shiny they were. Big full lips, again speaking the same unknown language, this human had all sorts of unknown attributes to itself and the boy was very comfortable as if he knew that creature, who to A469 was completely unknown, whether it was a living creature he knew not, or was it a humanised ai from the initial times, no clues yet his observation went on.
In it's neck it wore a little encrusted design which had multiple colours emitting out of it, and it was fastened to a golden chain that wrapped it's neck unlike the chests of normal humans known to A469, this one had enlarged sculpted protrusion symmetrical placed on the chest much like the shape of mozzarella cheese balls, only clad with some semi translucent cloth, that held to its body in some spaces were it got wet like the back underarms and near the waist which replicated the shaped of an ancient device named an hourglass. When this creature walked there was something tinkling and making sound with every footfall, it must be a humanoid designed in an alternative pattern. But the mechanism is also very different the was it walks the way it's body behaves, even the sound. And all of a sudden it stuck him that both of these creatures are walking without any extra amount of effort.
While this thought crossed his mind, he focus got back to what was happening in front of him, the humanoid walked out of the frame and the boy came and sat at the table.
A469 was very impressed by the choice of props this team had arranged, they were ancient but very well reserved,
It appeared like the entire ensemble was made out of wood, but the most impressive matter was how did they manage to get sanctions of shooting with these artefacts. It's strictly prohibited to alter they specified guidelines about the amount of time they can be exposed to light or air or having humans sit on them.
The boy sat comfortably while the humanoid came back with ornated Petri dishes and then it assembled the edibles and started feeding the boy. The script must be very detailed thought A469, the actions of the boy are so natural even with something so strange he is highly trained and talented. The way he swayed at the hand of the humanoid thrusting it out of the way towards his mouth that it hit the wood of another chair but, to A469's awe, the brat was not punished nor electrocuted, he was showed affection as if it was the humanoid's fault altogether to feed the brat ineffectively. And then slowly the humanoid got a fabric sack like holder with two straps and started filling it with stacks of binded paper wrapped with brown cover of different sized which looked very identical, these it took out of one of the wooden drawers from a side cupboard. It then poured some of the transparent liquid to a another smaller vibrant container and packed that too. It even poured a little bit in a smaller transparent beaker and tried to feed it to the brat but this time too he started throwing tantrums and eventually after gulping two ounces of the liquid his tantrums made the beaker fall and shatter, while the disbalanced humanoid steps on one of the shreds and as soon as it moved A469 could see some red viscous fluid on the floor. Suddenly there were some loud callings and the humanoid and the boy both ran out of the frame. A469 thought that must have been the back up call.
But no one came to the scene to clear it and preserve the antiques, are they out of their minds thought A469, and then again came in the humanoid it cleans the floor, the table of the remaining edibles and goes out again but this time for a much longer duration. What was happening, A469 wanted to find out but was scared enough that his untrained voluntary movements would alert everyone else of his presence. And that he is forced to use manual mobility and everyone would find out about his not being in the captives of the laboratory.
For the next 4 to 5 hours he worked hard to get used to his new walking feet,
Eventually, that bright light had died off but some milder lights appeared, are they anywhere near an open sky, by any chance, he thought, but was interrupted by that same loud calling from the earlier times was heard again and the boy came in with a complete alternative looks. Now his forehead had a white cloth wrapped around his forehead with the right corner having spots of dried blood, the humanoid rushed after the boy, grappling at every drawer until it found proper medic aids to comfort the boy. And it succeded but while it was doing all the requirements for comforting the boy, from it's big brown eyes rolled down drops of that transparent liquid, then it must be, that transparent liquid is their working fuel and this humanoid had a malfunction due to something, and the fluid leaked from it's eyes.
As the time passed, A469 gradually came to the conclusion that the relationship that these two have is somewhat where the humanoid pampers and showers the boy with all the warmth of it's being and the boy consistently takes it for granted, as if he's entitled to treat the humanoid like that.
As the lights grew dimmer he saw, that the boy was made to sit on the chair, and the humanoid had some thing burning in it's hand, and it kept making ovals with the hand held fire rotating from the head to toe of the boy, and then it too that fire away. Was it creating any aura around the boy to enhance its efficiency or what, everything that was happening was very very strange to A469's understanding.
Gradually all the sounds from the outside died away, and it was pin drop silence, A469 mustered up the courage to walk outside and understand where he was, what was going on.
He walked closer to the bigger cracks which was allowing him the scope of view, and to his surprise when he pulled at it, it slowly cracked upto duto symmetrical parts opening up to the set. A469 walked on the very red chilled floor, and out through the very door the boy used.
Infront of A469 laid a hallway, with vintage wooden doors on either side of the wall all closed and one very ornated iron grid set up towards a light that was seeping in from the top right corner again, but this light was much gentler, cool, and relaxing. This light emitted a sense of comfort. A469 walked towards it. And after making out the working of opening the grid which was just a simple lid, there he stood, on the verge of the door and for the very first time there was a dark blue limitless majestic diamond cursted canopy over his head, was that what the primitive beings called sky, he wandered.
Then he looked all around him and there was no drones searching for him, or keeping vigilance, it was a road, just like the one's he had read about. He didn't know how but he was in a different timeline, A469 was now convinced.
But the lack of nutrients in his body made him feel dizzy, he saw some trees in front of him and decided to experience the shade and protection of nature, because this was very first time he was witnessing the existence of one. He slowly dozed off. And was suddenly woken by the sounds of an induction motor starting he looked towards the direction of sound and to his surprise he saw doctor, the same doctor who had killed many others like him infront of his eyes for their organs, he never knew why was he kept alive to observe, he decide to follow doctor, and reached near the vehicle with the motor and decided to cling to the back side.
The car reached it's destination and Doctor got down, and after a few moments so did A469, and followed the doctor towards the back door, he was assured it was the back door as the building infront of them was huge and the entrance must be on the side where the lights are kept on. He followed and found out,that the doctor was standing by the side of another humanoid which lay life less on a stretcher kept on the floor, it was drenched in it's own pill of viscous smelly red fluid, there was the same fluid bulging from the corner of it's eyes, the pelvic joint was broken the ribs were crashed, and all through its no clad body there were cuts and bite marks, this sight reminded A469 of an incident he had been detailed about which happened in 2024, Kolkata India, and it was not soon after that, within the next 100-150 years women were made to be extinct because raising them just for the sake of reproduction was very wasteful as they couldn't serve any other purpose, artificial incubators were much more efficient.
Women had to be dealt with sensitivity and care; these were just words to A469 as he had been trained the feeling sentitled to it were non existent for A469. As in his world no women existed, no empathy, no sensitive, no care. And it was made very clear to him and the others of his generation that all other species of living things had a female counter part to take care of the progeny, but humans are so very advanced that with evolution only males have survived and the need of women have ended by nature.
All of these thoughts were clouding his sight, which was suddenly triggered when he saw from the very darkness he was existing in that doctor pulled out his private genetilia, and what continued A469 couldn't believe was actually happening to his fear he started running in the direction he came in and all of a sudden something hit him and he fell to the ground.
When he opened his eyes he was back to his familiar habitat the same sprinkler, the same gas to set the hair, the same injection for nutrition and the same daily routine.
But A469 couldn't make out of what had happened to him. He started behaving unmindful to every external stimulus, one of his co-samples came and asked him if anything was wrong, all he could utter was, a question that which year it was, and the baffled co-sample answered, "3072."
He mustered up all his courage and sat by the data base and traced the event that had happened during 2024 in Kolkata, India.
When read all about the grave happening at a medical hospital he couldn't process the sighting he possessed.
He started staying alone away from all the other samples and the day he finally saw the doctor, he said,
"I know what curse you have upon yourselve,
Some hundreds of years ago, a person with the same face as yours started the killings of women in the name of manhood, and then there were mass killing no one could stop, which led to the extinction of women from earth and post the apocalypse all of you are trying to design one women by taking multiple of our organs but, you'll never again be blessed with the existence of one."