Pepsi CO. Arc

> *"Pepsi... Man!"* - Said EM01 to EM02, the two then laughed.
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> EM01, PepsiMan (EM02), EM03, EM04, Coal (Cole Smith), Don Kendall, Unnamed Scientists.
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> Unnamed Scientists.
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> PepsiMan escapes Pepsi CO. thanks to Cole, which leads to Cole quitting Pepsi CO.
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> EM01, EM03, EM04, unnamed guards.
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> Don Kendall becomes obsessed over PepsiMan over time, Don Kendall starts researching inmortality.
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> December 15, 1965. (Arguably August 29, 22 A.C.)
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> May 26, 1979
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> Ohio, United States.
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> Prior and Next Arcs
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> Pepsi CO. Arc > Mond Liberation Arc
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**Due to this arc first being written in the Pepsi wiki page, it is very condensed so it'll eventually get reworked (10 years)**

## Prelude

On the year 22 A.C. a meteorite hit the moon, this event caused for thousands of debris to fall on earth, and in-between said debris a lot of Monds also went flying, including who we would later know as PepsiMan, he would land in Antartica and stay in hibernation for 1,878 years.

## Tell-A-Story

Pepsi stayed asleep alongside 3 other monds for 1,878 years. They were found frozen in ice by Pepsi CO. on the year 1965 in Antarctica, Pepsi Co. would later sell the Monds to a research team in Ohio however with the conditions that they would keep one Mond after they were done with them since they were planning on using him as their mascot, the research team however didn't really agree on this yet they still accepted, after the deal was closed Pepsi CO. printed into one of the mond's skin their logo, after that all 4 monds would then experiment 14 years of pure torture, the aim of the research team was to militarize the Mondrians as well as figuring out what made Monds so much more superior to other humanoid-like individuals such as, for example, humans. However the true goal was a little higher, as you can probably guess Monds have no eyes, this is due to the fact they live in the vacuum of space since if they were to have any soft organs out in the open these would be crushed immediately, then how do they see? With energy, or rather they use their own energy to locate stuff just like a whale would use sound to locate it's prey. In other words, they use energy-based echolocation.

To cut the long story short, the researchers are highly interested on their natural usage of their vital energy, they believe if they could experiment just about enough with the Mondrians they could discover a world of endless possibilities; The higher goal I mentioned early, was **immortality**. They did millions of experiments with the aliens throughout these 14 years in order to monitor brain patterns and energy flows, injecting them with a thousand and one different chemicals each less safe than the past, eventually the Monds started to learn how to communicate which caused a section of the research team to want to switch the aim of the experiments to a more human and learning one; Upon showing signs of being capable of communication lots of new scientists joined the research, between these people found himself Cole, the torturous experiments were paused for a period of time and in the meantime the Monds were able to get to meet eachother.

**November 3, 1978.**

EM01, 03 and 04 seemed to get along however EM02 seemed rather distant from the rest, the researchers were confused and just when the researchers were about to decide to separate 01, 03 and 04 from 02 to continue the immortality experiments on 02 a researcher started to interact with EM02, constantly trying to communicate with them; Their code name was Coal. Teaching the mond letters, numbers, names, you call it! Stimulating brain growth at all times in healthy ways, eventually EM02 started interacting with the rest of the Monds, however he seemed to have a favorite, EM01.

**December 17, 1978.**

Out of nowhere 01 and 02 seemed inseparable, playing and communicating with each other all the time, they seemed to have fun.

Eventually, in some sort of way to introduce his favorite person with his other favorite person EM02 introduces 01 to Coal, the latter grinning and finding this kind-of funny. The sun would fall and rise so much times Coal lost the count, apparently the Mondrians had quick development abilities which allowed them to compensate the lack of mouth with telepathy, being able to communicate with each other and the researchers via this method. The moon rose and fell into the distance countless times as well, the seasons changed over and over again and so, one day the methods that were once used before were finally being put in question. propositions of discarding said methods forever appeared every once in a while and every time they did they gained more votes in favor with Coal being the main proposer of the new research strategies.

**January 2, 1979.**

On one day like any other EM01 and EM02 were playing around until finally, they got tired, so they decided to sit down and talk to each other while trying to learn the english language, they pretty much had no idea what they were saying so they were mostly talking gibberish until all of the sudden EM01 saw a researcher drinking a soda can from behind the glass. Curious he stared at it and noticed something peculiar, the logo in that can was the exact same as the one in EM02's.

> *"Pepsi... Man!"* - Said EM01 to EM02.
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The two of them laughed as if the funniest of jokes was just told, and nobody trully knows why. Was it perhaps the idea of EM02 being a "Man" what they found funny? Or was it the stupid name, after all "Pepsi Man" was a silly name.

**January 14, 1979.**

Thousands screamed for help, mothers looked for their children and viceversa, men were being shot or stabbed. War had broke out between two countries in the continent of The Americas. Apparently the United States had something of value to the recently created country, said thing being valuable enough for war to occur. Suddenly the almost forgotten barbaric research methods started to resurface in the Ohio Research Site.

The tests started being done again; weapons, drugs and other experiments of all kinds were being used in the Mondrians again non-stop, needless to say the USA was losing against the unnamed country all due to the unfair advantage the citizens of that country had over the average human, so the research team got desperate and started using heavier calibers and toxins, it got so out of hand eventually EM04 died of all the stress and agony it found itself in. This made the scientists remember even these creatures could die just like anybody else, like this they realized a huge problem but also a way to fix it in the way make the US win the war. They had to achieve immortality.

**April 21, 1979.**

Humans were abundant in the facility however humanity was not, the tests kept getting heavier and more dangerous without a sign of stopping. Unfortunately EM03 would end up dying as well like that only leaving 01 and 02 left, who kept each other company throughout this entire time. Coal would have constant meetings with the big fishes of the company in an attempt to stop these experiments however they were all denied.

**May 24, 1979**

As the days passed the atmosphere kept getting grimmer and the big fishes would grow more tired of Coal, eventually leading to him being requested to be transferred. Without any choice left Coal started packing his stuff up to get ready for the transfer, however as he did memories started to flow in. What wrong had the Monds caused to deserve this? None. Thousands of conflicts ran through the man's head, was this okay? What different was it from experimenting from, for example, rats? How valuable were their lifes truly? The human kept trying to lie to himself in order to be able to walk forwards and not look back, but could he really do that? Could he truly forgive himself if he left those two there? After all those two were like, children, innocent and kind-hearted... Hell, they have never even seen the blue skies or felt the soft wind; At the end, his answer was No, he would never be able to forgive himself.

On the other hand, as per usual, the two monds were being experimented on, however this day the experiments on EM02 were tougher than usual, the mond was visually exhausted but the scientists did not care, they simply kept going, chemical after chemical, gun after gun, it was a never-ending hell... Until something happened, they were too careless, they were too oblivious, they were foolish. For them to mess with something as fragile and precious as life was a horrible thing to do, but the human mind knows no limits. Tampering with God's yarn as if it was theirs for so long made them blind and too careless...

EM02 had died.

The red flame that once engulfed EM02's soul was extinguished, yet another innocent soul taken away by someone's greed. EM02 felt as if he was sinking in water, as he did the narrator said "Did cruelty exist in the human heart by nature, or did cruelty need to be begotten? Like a weed that extends its roots to the deepest parts of one's soul?" The mond was confused, who was this? Before he could utter a word, he felt as if someone started pulling him... All of the sudden, the candle that once glowed red was covered in an intense white fire.

EM02 had been reborn.

**May 25, 1979**

An incident had occurred at Pepsi CO. An employee had announced the wrong winning number and now riots were occurring all over the continent, this would later be known as the Winning Number incident or Pepsi Number Fever. This caused riots all over the continent which, obviously, brought the government's attention. Now with a war going on and riots occurring everywhere, there was clearly problems. So the governments of the continent all forced Pepsi CO. to take care of this problem with their own funding, this meant Pepsi CO. could no longer fund their own projects for the meantime... This was Coal's golden opportunity.

Coal had already talked about this yesterday with other employees who were also against the cruel testings, asking for their help, some accepted and others didn't. The ones that accepted would help Coal get in and out more easily and the ones that didn't accept promised to not tell a soul. He only had one chance.

**07:56:** *Scientist Coal enters the building, a fire arm is detected but the files covering this cannot be recovered.*

Coal entered the establishment as usual, although a bit nervous he already made up his mind to rescue the Monds no matter what.

He greeted all of his co-workers, went to the cafeteria and grabbed a croissant, after this he made his way to the Mond enclosure, before entering the room however a guard greeted him and accompanied him inside. As he did, the cameras stopped functioning

**08:00:** *All cameras are interrupted by a blank image.*

**08:01:** *Two individuals are detected entering the Mond testing rooms by the motion sensors.*

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**08:07:** *Three individuals are detected exiting the Mond testing rooms by the motion sensors.*

**08:08:** *The alarm inside the Mond testing rooms is activated.*

Cole had successfully escaped alongside EM01 and EM02, knocking the guard down thanks to EM02's huge strength. The plan was simple, to escape through the parking lot underground; The reason they didn't choose the main entrance is because once the alarms are activated all exits are immediately sealed, all except one. One of the entrances to the basement is a huge ramp that is still under construction, meaning it had no sealing. A similar exit ramp suffered of a similar defect, having a finished but weak seal, a few punches from the Monds would definitely be enough to knock it down.

The three of them ran through the building, punching and dodging their way to the ramp's construction zone. The sense of freedom kept getting closer, the sole thought of EM01 and EM02 finally being able to see the sun and feel the breeze made Cole believe this was more than worth it.

**08:14:** *Three individuals are detected entering the Interior Ramp.*

Cole, 01 and 02 entered a huge room leading to the unfinished ramp. The monds could almost taste freedom, all those years of torture might've finally been worth it... The lights were a little brighter than they expected.

**08:14:** *One individual detected entering the Interior Ramp.*

The three of them began running down the ramp into the parking lot, the songs of birds began to fade in, small wind currents began to leak through and the pair of monds were one last struggle away from seeing the outside world for the first time. Unfortunely, fate was already decided and so causality took place.

**08:15:** *The ACD Precise IEBR Sniper Rifle (BETA Model) is shot inside the basement by Don Kendall a single time. All electricity malfunctions for a brief moment in a 50 meter radius.*

A very loud explosion could be heard across the entire facility, catching two out of three individuals to be turn around, the last couldn't because they now lied in the floor, dead.

**08:16:** *Confirmation of both Subject EM01's passing and the Special Rifle's effectiveness proves successful.*

When everyone turned around they saw a man around his 50s standing there with a huge gun in his shoulder, Cole could recognize this man. *"Darn! This thing packs a way whole lotta more punch then I expected!"* — He said with a hoarse voice which was accompanied by a seemingly fitting country-side accent. Suddenly the entire room was painted in black, with splatters of other darkened colors all over it, these were PepsiMan's feelings; A mix of emotions which all shared one thing, tragedy.

PepsiMan stared at the now corpse of his friend, still in disbelief of what laid in front of him. Don Kendall began aiming the weapon again but Cole shot at him in the leg with the firearm he hid in his coat, before he could take another shot heavily armed guards broke in which meant they had to leave now. Again, the room changed color, this time however it was painted in a wrathful red, the color pallete of the entire room was over-shined by this red that emanated from Pepsi, Pepsi himself however was enveloped in pitch a pitch black color. Kendall couldn't help but feel stared at by the Mond, even though he had no eyes.

Cole hurried and grabbed PepsiMan telling him they had to go, but the latter did not move, bullets began flying across the room, tainting the floor with real red. But none was Pepsi's.

**08:21:** *Two individuals exit the facility. 24 Confirmed casualties and 5 injured, Donald M. Kendall is found barely alive 30 minutes later, his face being barely recognizable.*