Emergency Kids [trial run]

a disturbing little tale I thought I'd put out for people. Contains gore.
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Throughout the 21st Century, the SEA Lands face numerous population declines and resulting economic crises. To combat the population crises, the SEA Lands Territorial Government implemented a full-scale human reproduction program to be carried out nationwide.

The question for Renlei Company's participants of both genders is this: How long can they last? Against the physical and psychological factors of having to constantly reproduce in a pressure-cooker environment?

Emergency Kids

"Tui, tui tui! Zaici, zaici! Geng duo, gengduo- Tui!"
Push! Push! Again! Come on, C'mon, push!

This hurt so much that Laney couldn't even think. She was tired and her muscles wouldn't come out. The baby inside squirmed and kicked violently, and each new thrust from this new life she was trying to give birth to hurt like hell. The sensations felt like she was being stabbed from the inside.

With the squirming baby still not out yet, Laney stopped pushing; she needed a break and breathed heavily. She was almost completely soaked in sweat from the nearly two weeks of hell this baby put her through. 14 days of stinging contractions and right now she still had nothing to show for this pregnancy.

"Name, ni hai deng shenme ne?" the nurse barked at her in Mandarin.
Well, what are you waiting for?

"Just- just gimme a few minutes." Laney panted wearily in English.
The nurse sighed impatiently and lamented to the few other nurses standing beside her,
The baby squirmed and kicked again, and the impact made Laney want to puke. She got nauseous as the pain shot through her stomach and diaphragm.

"Hao le, dap…qu xianzai tui!" the nurse almost yelled over the noise at her.
"Okay, break's over, now push!"

Laney propped herself up with her hands on the bars of the gurney, and took a deep breath readying herself to expel this "bundle of joy" from her once and for all. She started pushing and it hurt such much she couldn't help but cry out, but restrained her vocal expression to mere clenched-toothed grunts.

"Kan qilai women jiang bude bu xueijita duai," the nurse in front of her lamented.
Looks like we're going to have to cut her open.

The fear of a C-section injected adrenaline into Laney's bloodstream, and then she turned her energy into pure rage and snapped.
She issued an enraged battle cry as she pushed as hard as she could. The nurses scrambled around in front, and held their arms out ready to receive the baby. Laney tensed up almost every muscle in her body. Her hands turned almost pure white.
Laney screamed, and then all the rage and pressure gave way and the baby was born.

The nurse directly in front of her caught the screeching newborn. Laney was stunned by the head rush and the pain, and instantly felt extremely exhausted. She went limp and flopped back down on the pillow and stared at the rows of fluorescent lights above her. Her vision blurred and she tried not to pass out. She covered her face with her hands, then just pulled the blanket over to hide her face and wept.

"No!" she cried out when they asked if she wanted to see the baby. She heard the sound of the newborn crying as it was taken away to the nursery. She was slightly startled when they started moving her gurney.
"Hey!" an older nurse said, pulling the blanket away from her face, "Zhe, jiu gu le! Ni gan de feicheng hao. Buyao zai zhongren mianqian weinan zij i."
Hey, that's enough! You did very well! Don't embarrass yourself in front of everyone.

"F*** you all," Laney spat bitterly as they pushed her gurney down the aisle. She looked around at the surreal place she called the 'Chicken Farm,' and tried so hard not to cry.
This wasn't a hospital, but one giant makeshift maternity ward, contained in a building the size of a warehouse. The sounds of hundreds, no, thousands of women crying in agony and new squawking babies being born every few seconds pierced through her ears and mind. She didn't deny that this place would probably haunt her for the rest of her life. As the nurses pushed her gurney down the aisle, she looked through passing corridors and rooms bearing similar scenes, women giving birth, and babies being quickly removed, and then the mothers. The newborns were taken to a large nursery, and the mothers were carted off back to the 'Care Unit,' where they would be checked out by on-site doctors and head nurses and given up to a week's rest before being sent to the nursery to help care for the babies.
The cries and screams rebounded off the walls and beams of cement and steel assaulted this 17-year-old's ears in greater volume. Laney plugged her ears with her fingers as she was taken from the large room, through large ominous looking doors to the section of the building where the care ward was set up. She passed coralls that contained operating tables and hospital equipment. This was the C-section area, where she would have been sliced open and and the baby removed. Doctors and their assistants in blood-spattered smocks worked feverishly through their procedures. The nurses pushing her gurney quickly stopped to make way for another one as it emerged from the nearest C-section corral.
Doctors and nurses barked frantically to one another as they proceeded to move the woman ahead of her.

Laney gasped when she got a look. The woman's face was extremely pale and she looked almost lifeless. At first glance, Laney thought she was dead. Then she quickly realized that she was still alive as the nurses moved her with urgency. As Laney was pushed past the corral, she got a split second view of the operating table and floor around it. There was blood all over the place. She could hardly even think of whether they were careful with her or not. A crew quickly rushed in, sealed the room off with plastic sheets and went to work cleaning up and sanitizing the room. The crude smell of chemicals assaulted Laney's nose as she came to the doors marked with huge Chinese letters
Post-birth care.

A sense of fear gripped Laney as she was moved through the long corridors. Nurses and doctors walked past in the opposite direction, and then she was brought back out into the main warehouse. Inside the massive room originally built to hold boxes, large temporary tent-like buildings were erected, and covered with large sheets of sound-absorbent foam. As she was brought in, two nurses stood up to greet the nurses escorting her.
They quickly exchanged words, and showed the other two Laney's identification and records. They waved her through and she was brought into one of the tent-like buildings.

A large air-conditioning unit whirred above, pumping air through hidden heat grills down the tubes into the room. Laney's stretcher was lined up with a hospital bed, and the nurses surrounded her, and gripped her arms and legs.

"Yi, er, san!"
1, 2, 3!

She braced herself as they lifted her and moved her from the stretcher onto the bed. Hardly able to move, she just lay there and let them put the heavy blanket over her. The stretcher was promptly removed, and they disappeared, leaving her on her own for a few minutes.

Laney was glad she was numbed by the shock she was in, and all she wanted to do right now was sleep. She wanted to sleep it off, and at times she desperately hoped this was all a bad dream, and that she would just wake up back home in her own bed, and resume the life she once had.

Just as she was about to pass out, a doctor approached her, along with three nurse aides.

"Hei, yisheng zai zel," one whispered in her ear.
Doctor's here.

Laney forced herself to turn around and look up. The doctor was a portly middle aged man, with a 5'o'clock shadow. his white lab coat covered his shirt and tie. He looked at her, then looked over the paper work.
"You did very well, today," he said in plain English.
"You speak English?" she asked, dumbstruck.
"Well, yes," the doc said with his accent, "This is your first time?"
"no…second," Laney croaked, holding back the tears.

The doc cut to the chase, and adjusted the stethoscope around his neck.
"Please sit up, I need to take a look at you, and make sure you're okay."
Before she could comply, Laney felt herself being gripped and lifted to a sitting position by the nurses. She shuffled herself over and let her legs dangle over the edge. She gasped as he placed the icy stethoscope on her, and listened to her heart beat. It was a standard check up, where her pulse was taken, her eyes checked, ears checked, reflexes tested and all that.

"You with Royal Aid Society?"
Thank God, no!
"No, sir, I'm with Renlei Company."
"Ah," the doc said with a nod, "Very good. Then I must correct the errors on your record. They wrote it down wrong. What's your employee number?"
Laney spoke her number.
"You're doing very well. I'll have you rest here for a week. some food will be brought to you shortly. When you've recovered, you will be needed in the nursery," the doc explained.

"Can I talk to someone from Renleii?"
"Your records will be forwarded to them, and they will send someone to speak with their employees here. Unless they specify differently, we will need you here."
Laney nodded sadly, and moaned, "I want to go home."
The doctor chuckled, and said, "Don't we all. We might also require some blood from you. Eight women have had severe internal bleeding, and we'll need to replace it."
She nodded.
"Good girl. Now rest."

The doc walked out, leaving her on her own. Laney rolled around and tried to sleep. The foam sheets were impressive, she thought, they at least shielded the huge tent from the hundreds of decibels of haunting screams outside. She wished desperately to wake up and be back home. She felt tears streaming from her eyes, but tried not to cry. she didn't want to look weak to the other women, whom constantly giving birth in the Emergency Kids program seemed normal.

It's been two years since Laney left Kerning City. Either way, she would have ended up in this program against her will. The difference was that Renlei Company provided medical coverage, and other support services to keep it's employees healthy and productive.

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