Caelus again! Man that teleporter girl. Let me tell you, she is one tough nut to crack.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 32
Without asking any questions, I simply torture the teleporter girl for a day. I only do superficial damage though. I don’t want to hurt her more than she can take. It is mostly just injections of nerve inflaming chemicals, or shocks. The chemicals don’t really do much, just cause the nerves to swell, which in turn makes a burning sensation.
She can’t teleport outside of the room, but she has already figured out she can teleport to another location inside the room. When she finds that out I can only sigh as I send the bots in to cause an electrical discharge big enough to stun her.
The room she is in connects to a much smaller room, that also prevents her powers from working. Both rooms only open from the outside. That way even if she gets to the smaller room that leads into the vault, she still can’t escape.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 33
When she sees me, anger boils up through her body. The restraints become taut as she tries to escape. The many volts of electricity coursing through her body stop her from using her powers. I ask her one question. “Why did you come here?”
She refuses to answer me, and instead spits in my face. I walk out and let her pain induced day begin again.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 34
I ask her one question. “Why do you insist on killing me?”
She refuses to answer me, and instead sits mutely. She stares at me with cold eyes. I walk out and let her pain induced day begin again.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 43
This process repeats itself many times. Slowly her reaction changes. Now when she sees me, she only has fear on her face. No longer does the anger boil over. She still refuses to talk.
She no longer makes any noise when I enter the room. She just sits completely quiet until I leave. Once the pain begins again she begins howling in torment.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 46
I walk in again. “Why do you never answer me?”
She looks horrified. “WAIT! Wait! I’ll talk. Please no more. I can’t take it anymore! Please.” She begins crying. Her body hasn’t been washed for weeks. She smells like urine and feces. The robots come feed her through tubes, and clean the room each day, but she has no toilet to use.
She hasn’t been allowed to bathe the entire time. Why would I give her that luxury?
The only two reasons she is still alive is because I want answers, and I haven’t been attacked since she got here.
If I had, she would be long dead.
She begins telling me her entire life’s story. There is just one thing wrong with it. I’M THERE! I know for a fact I’ve never seen this girl before! She ‘remembers’ us playing together as kids, and me eventually murdering her family after I raped her. Apparently her mother walked in on the rape.
Let me say this. I know I wouldn’t be considered ‘sane’ by my previous self, but what she described was sick. Unless there was a reason for it, I wouldn’t do something like that.
I have perfect memory. Granted I got it after I died the first time, but I remember my own childhood at least!
From what she tells me she is from Washington, the state. I’ve never been more north than Oklahoma! What the fuck is wrong with this girl!? She seems to believe it herself though. When I threaten to punish her for lying, she simply breaks down.
I leave her, and have the robots bring her a wash basin, and some solid food. The basin is plastic, and the plate is made from polished wood. No utensils. She has no way of killing herself or anyone else.
Of course, this entire time I was interrogating the poison guy as well. He gave in on the first week. His story is almost identical to hers. Only this time, I rape his wife in New York, before murdering their children.
Dark stuff man, dark stuff.
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My biggest question at this point is, how the fuck do they remember these things?
AI, the android, comes equipped with thousands of gadgets and utility options. One of them is a lie detector. Now most lie detectors are very unreliable. Which is why they aren’t admissible in court. They truly work only a fraction of the time.
AI has equipment that accounts for people being too nervous, or able to calm themselves. It also accounts for things lie detectors just can’t measure.
I have AI watch the entire interrogation, and she tells me they are both most likely telling the truth. The single needle I put in their arms as I question them measures their chemical balance during the questioning.
Now I’m not saying this lie detector is fool-proof, but it is at least several times better than the normal ones.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 60
After the interrogations, I question them a few more times. Their stories are the same every time I ask. I mean spot on. Not a single difference. And that is with me spending a few days making myself look worse than they described me.
The story they tell isn’t worded the exact same every time, but if I question a certain part it gets weird. Their descriptions of specific occasions are the same. Verbatim. Not even a single word is changed. It is like they go into a trance and recite the words on a paper or something. Even the inflection is the same.
Obviously, they are under some sort of hypnosis or something. I try to have AI find a way to break it, but she has no information downloaded about hypnosis. In the next loop that I get a chance, I will have to do something about that.
AI doesn’t keep all downloaded info into each new loop. It would be great if she did, but the programming time would eventually take years. I would start to be programming her for so long that I get killed before she is done.
Therefore, I only code in the things necessary to her personality. And to the fact that she loves me. I can’t take going through these loops alone. She is my constant companion. I love her more than I love myself. She is my everything. My only friend. My confidant. My lover.
Loop 78 Year 14 Day 72
We are attacked again today. I have the people with powers ready to play, but it turns out I don’t even need them. The anti-grav guy throws the entire vault into space. It’s complete bullshit if you ask me.
I do have thrusters installed into the base though. And the base is airtight. The rotation is horrible. AI is able to stop the rotation in seconds. When she is done, I show her my ‘love’.
Loop 78 Year 15 Day 12
We are aimlessly floating in space. Whenever we get too close to a planet, moon, even an asteroid, we get flung away. It seems the anti-grav is permanent. The entire base is effected though. From the inside it looks as if we are just in a space shuttle. From the outside it looks as if we have a super-powerful shield of some sort. At least we can’t fly into the sun.
During the first few days of space life, there are riots and people going crazy. But they all continued to get their food, and everything goes back to normal in less than a week.
The robots just use magnetic shoes to walk around the base.
I have a huge list of all the experiments done to both the poison guy, and teleport girl. The poison guy can literally make poison from thin air. He somehow has the ability to rearrange the molecules in the air, and turn them into a poison. Even he doesn’t know how his powers work.
The teleport girl can teleport any solid object that she is in contact with. Given that the solid object is in one piece, and for some reason it has to weigh less than her. That is an interesting idea I will be putting to use in the teleporter machines.
The poison guy is basically useless to me. I cannot recreate the way he makes poisons. At least not in a cost effective way. My robots won’t be getting that power anytime soon.
I let the other power users take care of him. I don’t really mind letting them have a bit of fun once in a while. Stress relief is important for a healthy mind.
With that thought I go to experiment on the teleporter girl.
She is missing one arm. It lays beside her in a preservation liquid. I occasionally take it out so the teleporter girl can do some experiments for me.
It seems like the arm cannot teleport unless it is touching her body.
Neither leg is capable of teleporting by themselves either. Her other arm cannot. Her torso cannot.
Now she is just a head, kept alive by a large machine. If she teleports at this point, she will instantly die. The machine provides nutrients for her brain, eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. It also keeps the blood pumping through her head. She still has her eyes, but only because she tends to close them before teleporting. If I take them she may lose the power.
I came up with this machine after getting back from the abyss one loop. It is supposed to help me gain access to ‘immortality’. If I can survive as nothing but a head, I should be fine.
Before I took the girl’s torso, I went ahead and showed her how I would have raped her.
Soon after that I take off her body. She is only a head. There are a lot of head jokes here. I make sure the surgery to remove her torso was quick, and clean. From decapitation to wiring her up to the machine, only about a second passes. Quick work.
I decide to test the speed of her teleportation. AI makes the machinery ‘accidentally’ malfunction when I enter. As soon as she realizes she can still teleport while I am in the room, her old bloodlust comes back. There has never been a time when she could kill me before.
As soon as I turn my body away slightly, she goes for it. She teleports out of her machine, and directly into my chest. I mean, I know she wants us to be closer but…
As I am dying AI tells me, “.0054 seconds approximately.”
That is the time from when she closed her eyes, to when she was inside my chest.
Loop 78 Abyss
The voices are back. I love the voices. They seem so familiar, yet so unfathomable. I sometimes wonder who they are. Are they the spirits of the dead? Are they other power users? Is the abyss just one big power user? It is impossible to tell.
I can only sit here and wait for this time to pass. One time it took less than a day. That was the quickest one ever.
The voices are distinct by now. There are so many I can’t tell them apart though. Even when I try to remember what they said using my perfect memory, I just get a jumble of noises. It feels like I am missing something. Like how AI couldn’t be made because I stopped her from hurting humans.
Occasionally I do seem to pick up a word, but it never actually sinks in. It is like those words are pure inspiration though. Every time I ‘hear’ one of the words, I get a great idea in the next loop. Even if the words are gibberish, they are at least a good luck charm.
I hear one of those words this time.
As it always is, as soon as I hear the word, I am thrown out of the abyss. My start in the next loop begins.