John saw what seemed to be another human a man standing in front of him with a wounded leg. "Please...help me." The man said holding his wound. "What's your callsign?" John said keeping his guard up. "Alphasword-1," the man responded, and John checked to see the callsign was valid. John approached the man, but something was off the man's eyes seemed different from a normal humans, and were slitted upon further inspection. In addition, the man seemed to have some sort of distortion onto the side of his face. "Wait, your not human, aren't you mask?!" John said taking a step back, and motioned to pull out his gun.
"How observant of you, human." The man said, and just as John motioned to shoot the man knocked him unconscious. John woke up tied to a chair with nothing on except for underwear, and was surrounded by darkness. "Welcome sergeant John Kreagle, we are what are known as the masks, and we are offering you a chance for survival in this war for domination." A voice said, and John responded,"Since you know my rank I assume you want information about humanity, and the resistance. It's not going to be easy coming from me."
"We desire no intel only offer you a choice." Another voice said
"What kind of choice?" John asked
"A choice to join us, your observation surpassed our transformation disguises, and we see that as a sufficient reason for asking." The original voice said
"Why would I consider joining, and why don't you just kill me now?" John asked
"We don't kill because of honor, if an opponent is strong without any body enhancements we just do what we are doing now. There are more of us then you realize, and currently we are the dominant faction in this war. We have discipline, skill, and have only lost a small few as compared to every other faction. We are basically offering you a chance to better yourself in addition you can hone those skills to help others." The first voice said
"Your persuasion is nothing to me, now why would I wish to join a faction that has a goal to eliminate humanity?" John said
"You take us for tyrants, but killing without purpose is against our honor. Unless an enemy has done something to spite us, or is a threat to the faction we do not kill. This especially goes for you, if humanity isn't eliminated at the end, and wishes peace we will negotiate a signing of peace. We are assassins, and therefore only need to kill without reason when presented with a situation where we cannot escape unscathed. If you have a human family, we will not harm them, if a family member is a potential threat we will leave the final decision to you. The only faction where honor isn't applied is the beast faction who kill out of instinct, and for that sole purpose, therefore if we would want any faction to cease to exist it would be the beasts." The first voice explained.
"..." John remained silent
"So will you choose to accept your invitation to tye masks, and accept your initiation." The other voice said
"Your reasons are valid, and the only thing I ask is to never make me harm any human, unless I know if they're corrupt. I accept your offer." John said
"Good, we will now present you with multiple masks of which are beings you can become. You may choose to become female, or remain male." The voice said, and a light turned on revealing 16 masks that were separated into two areas.
"I shall now release you, escaping is impossible for someone like you. Female masks on left, males on right the mask you choose will overtake your human form, and will become part of you permanently. All other masks we will provide you only provide temporary results until said mask is removed. I hope you choose wisely." The second voice came from behind John, and his bindings came undone. John examined the masks carefully and his choices were.
(F means female)