Out of the Unit: Abyssal's Story

## Summary

Abyssal...You probably know her or mistaken her for a furry...She is rather kind and loves to help others. But despite her happy-go-lucky life style, there is more to her than meets the eye. She has endured a lot of pain and torment, probably one where she would've snapped if it wasn't for pure luck. It might as well be that she hid this torment but not for long. The doors will open and we will see sheer character once more.

## Part 1: At the Space Unit.....

What is perfection...?

The answer can be quite surprising. Or it was. But for me *perfection* was a punishment.

I was rather bad at coding and often hacked a lot of the computers much to everyone's dismay, but despite that I was a nervous wreck, a goody-two shoes, and shy. "Hmph. You call that innovative?" A snarky voice from behind me remarks. Arizona. My half sister. Or a bully, to be more accurate. Or at least to me.

She was rather at the top of the class and rather good at this stuff. But it stressed her out, I try to help her but she'd rather take out her frustrations on me and make me feel bad about myself than accept my help.

I try to get help for her sake and for mine, but nobody believed me. Or a few did, but they couldn't do anything about it because of how strict my father was. This gravely annoyed me. I keep trying to help but they just brush me off.

I hate it when nobody listens to me and treats me like trash. But I thought maybe if I gave them a chance,forgave them, they'd come through for me. I had no idea years later how wrong I was...

### The Next Day

So today wasn't a good day...So yeah, it was just the usual thing, the instructor yelled at me, Arizona bullied me *again,* Everyone laughed at me because I tripped on and broke the instructor's chair,

I had to jam my no good sibling in a locker and run away. But even that didn't improve my day.

I was entering my home when I was greeted with a mess of broken glass bottles and vomit. It reeked of alcohol. ''Father?'' I call out, closing the door and stepping over to avoid the mess. ''What happened?'' No response. ''Are you okay?'' To my horror, I see him, in a corner, slightly slouching, his state in low power mode. He was rather...depressed. ''What did you do? Why is there so much glass?'' I cry. He responds with a hiccup and waver in his voice, ''D-Don't you s-s-e-e-e?'' He takes a wobbly step toward me,

I step away frightened. A battle of fear and rage inside me, neither wins, but fear strikes. I grab a broom stick and hold it in a defensive way. '' What did you do?'' I ask. ''He took her from me...'' he says. I don't know why I did it, but I slap him across the face. ''Snap out of it!'' I say in frustration. ''How many of these did you have?'' I mutter. I count the shards and I nearly faint.

*How and where did he get these?*

I back away even more. The door bursts open. Arizona was standing near it, ''Abyssal, tell me why you had the nerve to-'' She looks up and looks in horror at our father. ''What the hell happened?'' She says to me, afraid as I was.

It shocked me. The first time she ever actually showed care and concern, she never meant what she has said to me, right....I hope. ''I-I don't know...'' I say. '' I think he-'' I feel the broom stick pulled out of my hands and I fall. ''Hey!'' I say, getting up. I roll out of the way before it gets dropped onto the ground. Arizona rushes to my side and pulls me into her room and locks the door. It was the most terrifying experience in my life. We were both crying and hugging each other for dear life. ''What do we do?'' I say. ''I hate seeing him like this..''

Arizona looks at me, the same sadness and says, ''We can't do much, but thankfully we're alive.'' She says. '' All we can do now is wait until he sleeps it off.'' I nod and hug her tighter. Arizona gently pulls me in and then turns to look at the door. ''I hope nobody else heard that.'' I say. '' I do too, Abyss. I do too...'' I don't know why but this experience sparked so much in me. It made me realize that, Ari really did care, and that was able to give me the strength for the sh\*tstorm that was a confrontation years later.

## Part 2: Rough and Ravaged around the Edges....

Three days after that happened, I had never felt more scared and hurt. But we did everything we could to make sure it didn't happen again. I was still upset about it and had a hard time moving on, and I didn't feel like anyone who I ever knew could even help me. I was out for a walk because it's something to really help me calm down, enjoying the nature and others walking by and doing the same helps me forget about my problems even if it was just 3 minutes. I can't stop thinking about how Arizona had treated me. She seemed mean at first but then genuine...I remembered when I asked Father about our Mother, he had looked generally disturbed, Arizona spoke up before he could say anything and continued the conversation, he was sulking. I always wondered why he looked so ashamed of me, He treated me a lot worse sometimes bitterly ignoring me or verbally abusing me. If I didn't know about nature walks, I would've murdered him. I remembered telling Ari about how I felt and she was even more disturbed than he was saying it was 'morbid' for someone like me to feel a certain way. And I guess she wasn't wrong, I could never find it in me to hurt and/or kill someone. But I was angry, and I hated being treated like an object, but he's lucky. Lucky I am forgiving and still have it in me to try to keep calm. I had a feeling Mother was much better, loved us both equally, but something didn't feel right. They treated me as if I was an alien...I even remember Ari and Father arguing and him saying I didn't have ''a trace of her''. Then again, nature walk. I shake off the feeling of uselessness and continue walking. I find a poster on the ground, it had a black latex dog, no visible eyes on him, but he was snarling, I think father mentioned them. The picture looked like he was a manipulative, strong, doesn't like getting his hands dirty kind of guy. I rip it apart, it felt like tearing apart someone's soul but I made myself do it. I throw the pieces away and try to decide if I should return home or stay out a bit longer, I see a scared crowd. They were whispering. I walk over to them confused, ''What's wrong?'' I ask. Probably a stupid thing to say, considering the odds of them even answering, ''Don't mention his name to them.''They murmur. I was rather confused. ''What?'' They say again a little louder, ''Don't say his name. He is a traitor he let them do this.'' I grew impatient with this and shout, ''Who let who do what?!'' They say in a whisper, ''Your father betrayed us all.'' I begin to feel dizzy and back up, ''No..that can't be true.'' I say, one of them pipes up and says in a husky whisper, ''Oh it is! He made a deal with that dirty creature, he's coming in a few days. We need to prepare for this attack, nowhere is safe.'' I don't know if this was prank or real, but my senses were telling me something was up. ''Uh thanks for the info?'' I say, backing up even more. ''You may be our only hope.'' they say before running off. Suspicious. I return home.

## Part 3: Uncovered Lies

There was a lot of questions and a lot of shouting. I could feel my visor shaking. I just went into my room and locked the door, An attack? Nowhere is safe? So many questions, little answers. I ignore the yelling coming form outside, and I wait until everything is quiet again. A little while later I reluctantly unlock the door, I hear screeching and a explosion, the house was on fire. I open the door and see what's wrong, there was black latex all over the place and Arizona was tied up, she was angry, ''Let me go!'' she growls. I struggle to reach her as smoke overloads me, I untie Arizona and we both try to head out the door, only to be blocked by a giant latex creature, ''Nice try, runts.'' he says in a curling tone, He grabs me and Ari, we struggle but his grip is tight, I break free but the smoke overcomes me. ''Abyssal! Abyssal! Abyssal?!'' I hear a shout. I wake up and me and Ari are in a cell, ''Where the hell are we?'' I ask. ''I don't know, but everything was destroyed...'' Ari says, distraught. I sit up and see a pup, he has brown fur, a white collared blue striped shirt, glasses, and nervous brown eyes, he was covered in scratches. ''What happened?'' I wondered out loud, ''Shush!'' Ari hisses, pulling me to her, ''What if he's an enemy too?'' Something inside me really thinks this pup wouldn't hurt anyone. ''Well let's find out.'' I say, Ari is about to shout at me when I whisper, ''Hey...Hey you? Can you tell us where we are?'' Ari murmurs something under her breath. The pup responds, ''Vex said h-he needed t-to conduct business with Code 97, he didn't say he had children...'' he talked with a stammer and nerves. ''Why are you shivering? Who hurt you?'' I ask. ''I d-don't w-want t-to t-talk about it...'' he says. ''Okay.'' I say. Sometimes things were left as unsaid. Especially if it was trauma, but it was clear something was up. ''What's your name?'' I ask. He looks at me with trying to be scorn and says with barely any courage, ''E-Ezra....D-Don't kill me.'' He replies. ''I won't. My morale seems to be okay.'' I say. Footsteps could be heard, ''I have to go...Stay safe.'' Ezra says, running out the door. ''That was weird.'' Arizona says, ''I know..'' I say, surprised I agreed. ''Y'know Father and Vex seem to be familiar. They are bad at parenting.'' I say dryly. ''What makes you think Vex and Ezra are related?'' Arizona snaps, ''Because...'' I say, the words sticking, ''It seems to be a feeling.'' Arizona rolls her eyes, or her expression...''Well we need to get out of here, and figure out what the hell is going on.'' I nod in agreement and we search for any way of getting out, ''How did we even get in?'' I mutter.

## Part 4: A Bitter Goodbye...

It hit me. Cold realization hit me. Father was a traitor. Working with this awful creature for power and forgetting all about our people. So close to exposing our secrets. I want to cry, I want to scream. Tear down this prison and yell and strangle Father. Strangle Arizona. Strangle this awful creature who was a dead beat father to their kid. "Arizona...Our father betrayed us. Lied to us.'' Arizona disagrees with me in expression and words, ''Why do you think that? You freak! You never liked father. Of course you'd assume that'' I felt slapped but the hurt makes me more determined. "IM.NOT.ASSUMING. I'M TELLING THE TR-'' Arizona throws me at the prison bars, breaking them from the hefty blow. ''OW." Arizona ignores me, "We're free. Let's go.'' I feel like crying. But I get up and follow Arizona grudgingly.