The Bento Box
The Bento box (a code name) is a slowly progressing story that im independently writing have a read!
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2025 06 11
Sitting in this slightly dark and damp room of awkwardness is a ginger hot chocolate. A frail and old cookie lays in my hand, "What are you aware of?", "I'm-- I'm aware that if I dip this cookie in the hot chocolate it will crumble to peices"
Im slowly regaining my thoughts, my ability to speak, to feel. Sometimes I remember the incursion, glipses really. I remember the monsters that killed my family. I was only a kid, I remember when I came back to HQ in critical condition. The pain didn't hurt as much as realizing my family was gone.
A snippet of the monsters that attacked us now powers them, The reactors (Born to serve humans) semi-sentient.
Chapter 1 - Superkritical #
The 4 reactors stand there as though they are giants. "Initiate reactor tests!" Shouts the board op's. "Reactor 1 'Border Superkritical'". A large whirring and rumbling sound shakes the room. The large spinning coil in the middle of the room roars light fills the reactors chambers. The tempreature goes through the roof! 100C.
Thousands of killowatts are being generated, and then silence. The way the reactors work is simple. fill them with energy until they boarder superkrittical and then silence. For a few seconds, golden silence. Then the largest BWOMP you have ever heard. The real key is making sure they dont go superkrittical.
Its the invention of my uncle, my last living relative.
Chapter 2 - Transport #
The train rumbled down the metal "hallways". Barely anyone aboard, I knew it was going to take at least 20 minutes to get back home - If you can even call it that. THWOMP, The train had came to an abrupt stopage. A man and woman boarded, they were pale; old - they looked as though they hadn't seen the sun in years, if that was true I wouldn't be surprized
They gave me a sad smile and sat on the dirty seats. I expected no reaction as thats just how things happened here. The woman asked me this "What do you do sonny?", sometimes I still think about that. Most technology had been destroyed during the incursion. Humanity lives in fear of the ranpant beasts that roam the surface world. As far as I knew there were merely few expeditions, they found blood seas and new monsters. It was as if they had evolved, scary to think about really. I looked back at her, I simply said "Sorry thats classified" and gave them a fake smile. People like that don't survive here for very long. They were obviously new.
Chapter 3 - Dummy #
Back, another day. The broad shoulder man yells "Start the reactor testing!" Each reactor goes down into the deep blue water, the first 3 pass with no issues. But number 4? Thats the day it happened. The 4th reactor went superkrittical. No problem it just needs to be fixed. Right? You see all 4 reactors need to be functioning. they sync and almost become like a hive mind, functioning as 1. The broad man commanded for the "Dummy Reactor". The idea was to make a reactor that mimiked one of the reactors. It would sync with them, a dummy.
This was a grave mistake. They didn't follow procedure. They didn't test it. Instead they simpled chucked it in
All the alarms started to blare "BEAST DETECTED, BEAST DETECTED!", somehow one of the beasts had infested the dummy reactors.