19th of July the day Rex fell from the bridge.
Coming into contact with the water the impact of the fall did a number on his body as he started to lose consciousness slowly.
This river is the widest and deepest river in Metro Citedal being connected to a sea that separates the East and West of Metro Citedal.
Rex's body went down drowning in the heavy river water.
His body slowly went down hitting what looked like a rock.
Bang
The water was muddy making the bottom look like a swamp.
And after his head hit the rock in the riverbed something resonated with him as a sample of his blood came into contact with a green light orb stuck in the ground.
Greenlight illuminated the muddy waters as something emerged from the ground running into his body like threads of water.
From the tip of his feet to his legs going onwards like a spiderweb covering his whole body and merging with his veins, bones, muscles, and tissues even the brain cells were not spared but inside his brainstem was a nanochip with threads that connected to every part of his brain and at the moment it looked like it was malfunctioning as sparks of electricity went off from it.
This malfunctioning was due to the green threads that looked like water invading his body.
Inside the nanochip.
[Assess the situation A-T.] Said a hologram with no shape.
[Thinker the body's been taken over and the mind's all that's left.] A-T replied it was a hologram that had the shape of a woman but no features.
[You are saying it's a virus just made for us...] Asked the hologram called Thinker.
[I don't know about that but this thing responded to the boy's DNA and the way it's quickly repairing the splicing genetic code I'd say it's something ahead of its time... This thing could well be what is missing from our program.]
[Good thinking A-T Now then let's fend it off and take control of it.]
Three other holograms appeared also having no shape forms.
This was a world of no form where only imagination exists and now a battle will be taking place for the control of the body as the two formless programs faced off one like a thousand threads shining green and another the combination of five shapeless holograms.
Once the battle ensued it was one-sided greatly overwhelming the invader.
Their battle in the mental world lasted fifteen minutes as the loser was being consumed.
[Error... Error... Error... Self-control sequence is being deactivated.]
[System is being dismantled.]
[System is being taken over.]
[Error... Error... System refusing deactivation]
[System attempting enslavement on host... error]
[A-T, R-K stop what it is trying to do.]
[Don't worry we won't slip this chance it's all in or nothing.]
[Error... the system cannot enslave host... host and system will be one and host will have control over the system.]
As the battle was coming to an end with the struggle of the invader the nanochip in the brainstem liquefied fusing to the brain wholly signaling its victory over the invader.
The five holograms remained one having a female shape while the others stayed formless.
Though something looked different as each of them had symbols of a DNA structure.
With a nod from the other holograms, the Thinker hologram said to another hologram called S-A... [While we reboot this thing and digest it get him out of here before he dies.] And with no time wasted S-A faded away as Rex's face changed and his eyes opened.
[Reseting System To Base Function]
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[System Shutting Down]
Several invisible threads protruded from Rex's body and attached themselves to the body of an incoming large crocodile that sensed his blood and came to him for lunch, but one jig from Rex's hand caused the crocodile to move like it was on steroids as it was being controlled like a puppet.
As if possessed, his body, which was supposed to be unconscious, moved stealthily and released all the water inside him.
As he slowly resurfaced above water after swimming away from the place for five minutes, his body went back to its unconscious state.
Even so, the crocodile kept pulling it heading towards the southwest, to a lake in the National Park that was connected to the river.
*
26th of July 2 hours before Rex woke up.
As Rex was running for his life from the horde of dinosaurs coming towards him something else was happening inside him.
In a room of mixed colors mainly purple, pink, and a little bit of black in between a woman with afro hair was sitting in the middle of multiple screens typing on a little keyboard as she went from one screen to another.
And all around her on the screens were green DNA digitals rotating.
[Damn system protocols can't you just have everything accessible.] She screamed feeling frustrated.
Boom
The room shook suddenly making her put her attention on one of the screens which showed Rex who was rolling on the ground as his bones twisted breaking like they were twigs.
[Oh hell no, this is it.]
She stood from her seat snapping her fingers.
Snap
Suddenly, the room was darkened by her snap, and with another snap, her body sped through Rex's memories.
She thought back to times when she once had a life as she went through Rex's memories.
I'm called A-T now but once in the past, I had another name that was given to me by my birth parents.
Once I was just like everyone else in this world, walking and laughing my way through life, but that changed when I grew up and made the choice they told me I could make.
This world is not what it seems like.
Because I paid the price for believing the world has changed from its old ways but no the is still the same or worse.
Many live their lives not knowing a single thing about how the world runs.
Growing up I was into figuring out the ins and outs of the digital world and the engineering of AIs, so when I finished school I started working for a newly made company that was working on a project with one of the founding families the project was named chip enhancements.
At the time I didn't know but the company has been doing human experimentation to create something and the ones who were working for them were meant to be part of that something.
After their project created good results they moved into the creation of what they've been preparing.
My colleagues and I have seen hell because of them and it's something I'll never forget or forgive.
They turned my whole life into an experience for someone else's use through what they call chip modification.
A chip that holds the memories and life skill experience of a master.
And I can't believe that I had a part in making that disgusting thing that imprisoned me and four others in the mind of a child for 18 years.
Oh have we wept tears of pain when we got justice but the innocent one lost everything.
It was the day when our prison became our home.
Five memory remnants of dead people raised a baby, a baby of the family they despised that's something the world won't believe for sure.
Yet today I still question whether we deserved such a fate and seeing him go through something we couldn't even imagine made me understand that there is always someone who lived and lives a harder life than you.
As her body sped farther her surrounding that was like a world of its own started disappearing as she reached the edge of his memories a place that should not be looked at.
Today you are making history and I will be damn if I let you die here when you're so close to finishing so please forgive me for doing this...
Arriving in front of a black door she hesitated but decided to reach out to it and open the door that held hope for him.
Though this door holds more than hope for him as it is the vault that locks what makes his life a broken mirror.
*
Character Bio
Name: Rex
Side: Neutral
Class: Modified Human
Modification: Chip
For five minutes he can take the life of another person and do what they are best at. His chip holds the personality and life experience of five individuals A-T, C-M, R-K, S-A, and W-M all of who are masters in their field.
Backstory: He was born paralyzed and when he was at 2 years of age his family was murdered in front of him. He had many evil thoughts but was stopped from falling into darkness by his aunt and maid. If not being put under pressure by the powerful families and the government he might have been walking but his family did something that made the world against him.
Now in possession of a system that'll make him strong, he's set on having vengeance...
Name: A-T
Side: Rex
Class: A system assistant
Backstory: Grew up in a household of four parents and two brothers. And because of an unfortunate encounter, she ended up programmed into a computer and made into a memory chip that can be used by humans to be like her or more specifically use her skills. After living inside No.0002/Rex for 18 years she's become attached to him and considers him as her baby although she doesn't show it.
Fin