Lobotomy Corporation arc

"Lobotomy Corporation, face the fear, build the future."

The Aleph Rampage suppressing a HE abnormality

## Outcome

### Achievments

The tree of light was born, Sapo was teleported to another universe.Genuine joy for three days in a world without hope.

### Casualties

Countless Employees, Kali, Chxrrypie, Laz.

### Special Events

Lobotomy Corporation died down, Sapo lost his nexus.

## Prior and Next Arcs

### Arcs

Lobotomy Corporation arc < Azuchi Momoyama period arc.

A young man in his 19 years of age, searches for answers inside a facility from Lobotomy corporation, being tasked to do so as well.

## Prelude

Kali quits her role as color fixer, disappearing in an incident that happened inside a Lobotomy corporation facility, the Hana association sends her student Albino as an undercover agent to reveal the truth, changing his name to Sapo and given false documentation to enter the nest.

## Tell-A-Story

#### First run:

Sapo was an interesting employee according to the sephiras, even while using ZAYIN E.G.O he would defeat HE abnormalities quite easily, in just a matter of two days he was already a level V employee, Sapo had a playful personality, like your average clown that would face colossal horrors and stay a winner.

On the first run many things were unclear, and many of his comrades died, except for two, one was called Laz and the other Chxrry, they united and became the ALEPH rampage, Chxrry connected knowledge and perception, a strong mind with caring actions and strategic attacks, Laz was fortitude, a tank that would face the most strong foes and suffer little to no damage, Sapo indulged justice, before abnormalities would realize they would already be cut to pieces.

After Binah was cleared and the Disciplinary Team unlocked Sapo was finally able to see his mentor once again, but Gebura was changed, so changed, Sapo was confused to see his mentor have so much animosity towards the abnormalities and be careless about him, not only that but Gebura's skin was fierce as still, it was like if his mentor was nothing more than a cyborg now.

Once the dusk ordeal was defeated and malkuth mission finished, the core suppression of each sephira from Asiyah was performed suppresing the core of Malkuth, Yesod, Hod and Netzach respectively and succesfully.

#### Second run:

After the manager restarted the facility and the ALEPH rampage was hired again Sapo was soonly stationed inside the Disciplinary Team, being the captain of the department, Chxrry was assigned to the training team becoming the captain in no time, while Laz was tasked to be the captain of the security team.

The Tipheret and Chesed cores were supressed after hard work by all employees and then it happened, Gebura rebelled against the corporation.

### A student fights their ideology:

The Hana Association warned Sapo that the experiment used some sort of substance called cogito, which had morphological properties that the public wasn't aware on the slightest.

Sapo's fear ended up being a reality, as he saw Gebura turn into the Red Mist, a tall cyborg user of E.G.Os.

Threathening to end it all the ALEPH Rampage and some other employees went ahead and fought the Red Mist, due to poor decisions of the manager many losses happened, and Sapo was really affected by this, something that was more than just a mentor, a motherly figure, watching ruthlessly turning one of his subordinates into a tree of limbs.

"It doesn't have to be like this 'Gebura'." Sapo struggled to say as he was countering a strong attack. "Would you at least look at yourself?! You don't care for anyone's lives!" Sapo then pushed back leaving some distance between the two.

"I don't have to care for beings that will eventually die, it is not a matter of spite, instead you can call it a reality." The Red Mist then dashed to clash again with Sapo's sword.

"I don't know what happened but things dont have to be this way! Could you at least tell me instead of ignoring me?!" Sapo gritting his teeth exclaimed, trying to resist The Red Mist's strong force.

"I can not, I wanted you out of this but you crawled back again, the only way possible to save you is killing you."

Those cold words made Sapo lose attention for just the enough time to get hit terribly, almost getting split in half, trying to steady himself again and getting regenerated slowly he managed to prevent another direct attack, The Red Mist lifted him up and kicked him away again, stabbing the middle of his regenerating torso.

Laz and Chxrry stopped The Red Mist on her tracks and started attacking her.

Sapo was below some rubble, trying to get up, spitting out blood, his E.G.O gift was reinforcing him and it was enough for Sapo to stand up again, he looked at the bright lights of the Central team department, time slowing. "It doesn't have to end like this..." He then looked down and observed The Red Mist trying hard to kill Laz and Chxrry.

"If you can't take on the mission don't, there's no point in ascending so quickly if you die." Kali smiled to Albino. "Try instead doing something a bit easier than a hit for now."

A trembling employee was terrified at an abnormality that had already killed two other employees, Gebura appeared only to push him into the abnormality. "Keep attacking! Give them hell!" The employee cried but went forward only to get themselves burned from top to bottom.

"Resting again?" Kali asked, Albino nodded while laying down on an old couch. "Get up we are training again." Kali said before leaving the room, Albino sighed and followed her.

Gebura was fighting herself an ALEPH abnormality, Sapo was busy trying to protect the other flank from a WAW abnormality. "Die if you have to, after all I can take it off myself."

"When I grow up." A small kid exclaimed. "I want to be a hero like you Kali!" Kali looked at him and messed his white hair, a small smile on her face.

"Get up, I don't want any more problems with you." Gebura grabbed Sapo strongly from the arm, squeezing it. "If more employees die it will be your fault, now go, Captain."

Sapo pushing himself back on the fight, a small tear falling down from his face, he fought and fought through phases, she had now the improved version of his weaponry, she would get tired every turn and once the employees would strike, each attack made her body start falling appart.

Sapo was almost dying, but he had to continue, the two organizations he worked for demanded it, with a last blow from Chxrry, Laz and him, The Red Mist broke, crashing into pieces.

Sapo fell down onto The Red Mist's pieces, grabbing the head and hugging it, Laz and Chxrry looked at him comprehensively.

Kali laid down on a tomb of white flowers with her eyes closed, Albino standing right next to her softly putting one white rose between her hands.

Sapo yelled to the roof of the security team department, with a severed metallic head clutched to his torso, thick tears flowing through his face and dropping on the ground.

The Red Mist was suppresed.

### Atziluth a world of loss.

#### Third Run:

Sapo was starting to feel more decayed, but he found comfort on Chxrry, she was a person with a soul that would brighten the most darkest skies, and so Sapo found another reason to keep going, after Hokma's core was suppressed it was the scenario for an actual terrible time.

The arbitrer, someone that was forced to stay inside Lobotomy Corp. after being the one that sabotaged it before, found her strength again, she rebelled just like the Red Mist, and attacked with calamity, again by some unknown reason the manager didn't clear a qliphot meltdown, and The Arbitrer struck while the employees were on a assault.

To Sapo it was a dodgeable attack, given his godlike speed, but to Chxrry, it was an impossible feat to dodge it, in a matter of miliseconds, Sapo lost not only Laz, and his comrades, Chxrry's body was exploded into bloody gore, leaving nothing but pieces of bone, organs and a pool of blood.

Due to the terrible realization of this tragedy, Sapo couldn't take it, as his mind went numb, in terrible panic of losing his best friend, he grabbed the most complete organs of her, the eyes, he escaped the fight crying and screaming hopelessly, after getting into the welfare team, with a surgery knife he removed his eyes, and put inside his bloody empty eye sockets the eyes of Chxrry, laughing maniacly because that way, Chxrry would be alive by him, she would still see the world and keep living thanks to him, he didn't fail her, he saved her.

Sapo pulled out the face bandages that Judgement Bird once gave him and covered his eyes, that way nothing would separate him from Chxrry ever again.

The employees that remained cleared The Arbitrer, and the manager moved into the next day.

### The calamity of loss.

#### Incoming runs to obtain 100% abnormality dissolution:

You don't value what you have until you lose it, and that saying was applied to a devastated Sapo, having lost his mentor and motherly figure, a strong and confident friend that would advice him and help him force away his insecurities and a kind girl that tried her best to help him and other employees raise and be able to defend themselves.

Chxrry being the captain of the training team was important for a small hierarchy stablished in the facility, Laz dying caused problems too, but none of that mattered since the manager restarted the run to study more abnormalities.

It's in this phase of Sapo's life when he sees his own life with so less value, sometimes even entering scenarios where he was on disadvantage or do really risky moves, mostly to protect his subordinates and employees of other departments.

In one of the runs associated to the achievement Sapo obtained the ALEPH E.G.O gifts of Apocalypse bird and White knight, giving him the sight of a corrupted angel.

The manager left Sapo with the Justitia E.G.O after an observation, which concluded that an employee that doesn't value their life shouldn't have something stronger than what they already had (this applied to him for being the best meatshield in the facility and a reliable source), instead it was redirected to the captains of other departments.

The only thing that kept Sapo chained to Lobotomy Corporation was that the Hana Association had planned sending rank 1 Fixers to sabotage the corporation, and he was considered a spy, once the Fixers were inside to cause havoc he was meant to join them, but this plans would only apply once the manager had reached 100% abnormality dissolution.

### The tree of light.

#### A talk behind the scenes:

"I as an AI has been attached to numbers and mathemathical processes like a human being consuming water, but no matter how hard I calculate it is not enough to get rid of you." Were pronounced by a confusingly apathetic human voice.

"Lady Angela, is there an specific reason I was called in here." Answered a monotone voice.

"I know you work for the Fixers, but considering the high stakes of this event, I'm here to offer you a way of escaping your miserable existence."

"And what could it be?"

"Betray the Hana Association, I'm planning on destroying this corporation once and for all, the Tree of life will consume all employees and put them into an eternal rest, like a real heaven."

"You know my interest goes to my coworkers don't you."

"Yes, and I'm using said reason to manipulate you into working with me, even if I forced the manager into using the Flesh Idol abnormality you would emerge alive, unless he had the Don't Touch Me abnormality I would be able to kill you, but that is not possible."

"Are you trying to compliment me?"

"No, I'm just telling you how annoyingly unkillable you are."

"Make sure to make all of my coworkers not die." He got up and menacingly approached the human looking AI, stopping when they were right next to eachoter. "If you don't im going to supress all abnormalities we have by myself, kill the rabbit team, make you waste all execution bullets, mutilate the Fixers, break the singularity, cut the manager's head off, dismantle all sephiras and turn you into nothing more than wires and plates."

Angela looked at Sapo with her glowing orange-yellow eyes, having a menacing look, both being face to face in silence.

"You have my word." Promised Angela without changing her expression.

#### Keter's suppression core:

The first layer was uncanny, as employees weakened by every meltdown, but surprisingly the manager made it out without losing an entire appartment.

The second layer remained more docile than the first one, Sapo single-handedly took down the Red Mist while the employees focused on containing all abnormalities.

The third layer was hell, from 50 employees only 29 remained, Sapo was almost killed, but in an anger let out he yelled "**UNTIL THE END WE PULL OUR FUCKING STRENGTH INTO A NEXT DAY"** and sliced the arbitrer's head off.

#### The final day.

It was day 50, the end of it all, for some it was just going to be another generic day, but Sapo knew today was the day his suffering will come to a halt, some abnormalities escaped but were quickly put down by the captains of the departments and sometimes Sapo, until it felt, the facility began to turn, and then it moved, quickly to the surface, it was a strange feeling for everyone and then, from Keter, a shiny beacon of light, gold and brilliant to the very core, shone upon the Nest that housed the facility, if you were to look at it or be close, you would feel genuinely happy and fulfilled, the beacon broke through the facility and started swallowing every employee, some panicked, others embraced it, Sapo looked at it, a tear going down his eye, he felt himself flying, he felt himself drinking, he felt himself flying a kite, he felt many alien things, but all shared one thing: genuine joy.

Sapo had been swallowed by the tree of light.