How I came to be...

WARNING: extreme spoilers for upcoming events in Blades and Roses

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I screamed in agony as the needle jabbed into my arm. It was long and merciless, piercing my muscle at just the right spot to make my pain worse. That's what they wanted. They loved my pain.

"S-Sierra-" I managed to choke out. "Where is sh-she?"

The lead Operator just smiled. "You'll be happy to know she's being confined safely in the Tunnels."

My eyes widened. "Th-the Tunnels? You-you're crazy! She'll d-die in there!"

His grin widened. "Hmm...with luck. If not we'll just have to send the Regulators down."

I exhaled with difficulty, trying to free myself from the steel cuffs holding me to the table. A nurse was tending to me, sticking needles in my hand, foot, tail, ear and thighs. This enough caused me to lose sufficient amounts of energy. My breathing became labored. I struggled to inhale and when I did it felt as though someone were dragging a blade down my lungs, tearing them to bits. Screaming didn't help matters, but there was nothing I could do about that. My cries echoed through the hallways, but there was no one who would help me and I knew it.

"You're just pushing the injection further into your body, Cherry," the leader snarled. "You know that, right?"

I narrowed my eyes, my teeth clenched. I was furious at him but I was so exhausted and in pain that I couldn't speak if I wanted to. I was forcing in great gasps of any air I could get into my battered body and gritting my teeth caused my skull to hurt.

"Ahh-" I growled. "You...m...monster..."

He smiled again. "Shall I send in a Regulator? They can get the job done faster, I'm sure."

It was all I could do to shake my head 'no.' The last thing I needed was to see a mechanical face of a mutilated cat staring me down as I was operated on. Just as I thought of their faces, one popped its head through the door. It's circuitry and wiring was iridescent and it's eyes we're a mix of red, green and yellow. It's robotic head swiveled to face the leader as its lethal claws held to door open.

"Should we find the girl?" Its voice was like nails on a chalkboard and seemed...breathy. It was like it was continually exhaling, although it never breathed. It was completely monotone.

The leader thought a moment. "No," he said finally. "Let her wander a bit."

The Regulator nodded, exiting the room. At this point my vision was fading and I knew I was dying. My breathing was so hard now that I had simply stopped. My chest didn't rise and fall like it should have and my eyes stared up at the leader. The nurse patted my arm and left.

"Any moment now..." was the last thing I heard before all I knew disappeared.

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I awoke to a headache similar to a hangover. I groaned as I slowly sat up. Then I remembered last night. I should be dead.i got up, expecting to hear bones cracking after being cramped so long. I was in a small cage. But instead I heard what seemed to be appendages clicking and snapping into place. It didn't feel right.

There was a mirror on the other side of the room. I got up warily, afraid of what I might see. What I did see shocked me to the core. I gripped the bars of my cage. Facing me was a monster. Her hair, paws and tail were still pink and her fur still white and her eyes still green but her ear, left paw, left hind paw, right thigh, right ribcage area, and lower half of the tail were grey.

They seemed to look almost segmented. As I looked closer, I saw wires. Circuits. I could feel electricity pulsing through them. My ribcage was showing but instead of bone I saw steel. In fact, whatever was grey WAS steel. Or metal. I wasn't sure. But my canine teeth were the same way.

I could hear everything. Feel everything. As I looked I didn't like what I saw. I wanted my old body back. I wanted my pure, soft white fur covering my body, not steel or whatever the hell this was. As I kept staring, I watched as fur seemed to materialize over the patches where it was missing. Soon, my body looked exactly the way it used to. Downy, snow white fur. And a soft pink.

I was saddened. Even though the outside was white, I knew there was darkness on the inside of me now.