“Everyone’s dead, except me. Well, that’s about to change” I’ve been hiding here for two weeks now, all my friends are dead, and there’s only two days worth of food left. But what’s the point in living, the worlds gone to shit.
This wasn’t supposed to happen, I’m just a normal 57-year-old scientist name Rex trying to find a cure for a disease. But now, I locked up underground with no hope of escape.
“BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG”
When did it happen, the fall of society I mean. I know why it started, but I was born before everything happened, and I also wasn’t born on this planet.
“BANG BANG BANG”
“Now that I think about it, where is my lab located.” I know it’s underground, but I haven’t left the lab in two years. I know I just said (thought) that I was hiding here for two weeks, but what I meant was this room, this specific room, and two other rooms, not the whole lab. The lab ceiling caved un crushing everything due to poor maintenance. This lab isn’t even ours, my crew and I just stumbled upon it two years ago, and just never left. And after studying this place, my crew figured out that this place was to develop and study abilities “Heh, that’s what you get from an undeveloped world, grabbing people, putting them in chambers, and seeing if an ability will show up.”
“BANG BANG BANG”
“OKAY, I HEAR YOU BASTARDS, JUST SHUT UP.” Seriously, I know their undead and all due to that stupid disease, but could they just stop. It’s been like this for two weeks, with them just banging and banging and banging on the fucking door. What would happen if they got in here, they would just eat me and maybe some of the corpses, and either leave or get lost in the ruins.
“BANG BANG”
My god, I’m about to just open that door and kill myself…
Well, I got nothing to do, might as well check the corpses of the test subjects. I wonder why the scientist who owned this place never let the patients out, it normally only takes one hour to gain an ability... “Well, those are questions I will never get answers to.”
Limping over to each individual chamber to see if anything changed, which of course nothing would happen. Going through each one quick, and fast, since I already knew what I would see, only stopping at #125 since that one had a pretty girl in it, but even that gets boring after a while. So, after I had my fun, I continued down the line, #124, #123, #122, #121, #120, and finally the last one, #199. “Let’s get this over with.”
Opening the door, I step into chamber #199 and went over to see how the patient was doing. Not really caring about anything, I went through everything as I did for the others, and if you would look at that, the power just barely goes to this chamber so it doesn’t show me his vitals giving me more work. Well, I got nothing to do, might as well give this thing power and see if he’s alive. “Now after giving this chamber power, I can confidently say that this man is… Alive” What, did, did I read that right, it says that he’s alive. But that’s not possible, I checked every chamb… Wait.
I’ve never checked every chamber, only #125. And now that I think about it, everyone would say to put power in this room, were people always alive in here and I never noticed. No way, no one is that stupid, and I’m a scientist, I can’t miss this very important detail. “I CAN’T BE THAT STUPID!!!!”
“BANG BANG BANG BANG”
“SHUT UP!!!”
Okay, okay, let’s think about this. What do I do now? I can either
1. A) Let this guy die
Or
1. B) Fix the machine, and save this man’s life
Going, to be honest, option A seems tempting. I’m about to die so who cares about some stranger, and my entire crew couldn’t fix this machine well we could, but the amount of power it needed was way more than we could spare. I guess my crew always thought that once we got picked up, we could then save these people and we can’t open the containers the patients are in since once their in, therein. That’s the problem with these old ability developers. And then the lab collapsed, then undead swarmed in and everything went to shit from there. Should I try and save this guy.
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I checked this man’s or kid’s profile, and find out almost nothing on him. Most of the ink on the paper was gone, and I was only able to get his age, which was 14. So, like I thought earlier, should I save this kid’s life.
Do we even have enough power to start up the ability developer thing? “Well, I am an Electro user, so maybe I could start it up, and since I only need to do one chamber, I could redirect the power so it doesn’t power all the chambers but one, and then the power needed would be less. But still, there’s a problem. My ability sucks, I have no talent and never actually tried to improve it, so if I use it for something this big, it could kill me…
“Oh, what the hell, I’m going to die anyway, plus their nothing for me here, or back home. All my friends are dead, and my family could care less about me.”
Making up my mind, I decided that I would save this kid’s life, no matter what.
Even though I’m a BioScientist, I did major in engineering back in my college days, but got bored with it and switched. Who would have thought that it could lead me to work four days straight with no sleep, no food, and only enough water to keep me alive. Let me tell you, I’ve never felt this alive in the past two weeks, as I’ve never moved this much, I would just sit in a corner coving my ears so I wouldn’t have to hear the banging. But now, not only have the banging stopped, but I also got this thing to work. “I feel so alive right now” I wanted to yell that out, but after four days of not sleeping or eating, you don’t have that much energy.
And now, here comes the day I die, but also the day I save a kid’s life.
After putting all the food on top of a box, and stood at the console, the place where I would have to shoot electricity into, to give power to the ability developer. “Alright kid, you’ll probably die as soon as I revive you, but hey you have an ability so maybe you’ll make something out of yourself.” Yeah, even if this kid wakes up, he won’t know what to do with his ability.
“...Fine” Grabbing the knife I used to cut wires, I pointed it towards my head, quickly said “disconnect” and after a few seconds stabbed it into my head, making a little hole.
“Hey I’m alive and I got the chip out. This thing will help you learn how to use your ability kid, and since I only got about two minutes before I die of blood loss, let me stick this into the hole at the side of your container, and that will insert it into your brain. Once you wake up, it will start connecting itself to your brain and let me tell you, it hurts like a motherfucker, and then you just need to wait thirty to one hour and you’ll get your ability. I hope you become an Electro user, then maybe you could be something like my kid, and if you get strong one day, then I don’t have to feel so sad about being weak. Well, I’m talking too long, let's get this over with, not as you can hear me. Well since you can’t hear me, let me just say that there’s a slight chance of you losing all your memory. Of course, you’ll still have some basic information but you’ll have as much knowledge as a baby..”
Placing the chip into the side hole, I went back to my position and began. Feeling the power inside me, I move it into my right hand, there you would see sparks coming to life, “Okay, I may have been a lazy asshole my whole life, but now I get to save a kid’s life. If he dies soon after coming to life, that’s not my fault, but I bet he will do something great one day.” Finishing what I wanted to say I shot electricity into the console, powering the chamber making it come to life.
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“COME ON, a little faster”
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“Don’t you fucking dare go up by 5 now”
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“Come on”
100%
“YES!!!!”
As soon as I stopped, I fell face-first onto the floor. “Yep, I’m definitely dying, by both overload and the bloodloss. But if you think I’m going to just lay here, waiting to die, then you're wrong. There’s a reason I made a path straight to #199 chamber, it’s so I could see him alive and know all my efforts weren’t for waste.”
With my dying breath, I grab the edge of the console and pulled myself up just enough to see the chamber. I look through the window and saw that #199 was out, but sitting on the floor, either dead or asleep. “No way, I checked up on him every hour, and he was alive, he can’t be dead.”
He’s sleeping, even though I’m dying to see him awake, so please, please just “Wake Up Idiot!”
And at that moment, I saw the kid’s eyelids shoot up. He was awake and alive. “Heh, no regrets”
And like that, I feel down towards the floor,
Dead