I woke up in a room. I immediately knew it wasn’t my own. The smell, and the metallic taste of the air. Something was off, was different. My bed, it was… hard, stiff, rough even. I tried to get up but immediately collapsed to the floor. I hadn’t gotten much true rest the night before. I’ve been having nightmares, about the fall, and no not autumn, the fall of humanity. I picked myself up off the floor, I dusted myself off and looked around. I couldn’t see much since the room was dark, so I felt my way around the room. I made my way towards where I believed the door was. While feeling it I felt the handle. I attempted to turn it but it was locked. With this information in mind I checked my pockets to see if I could find any items of use. I had nothing in my pockets but a phone. I attempted to turn the phone on but it appeared dead. I went to sit back on the bed. When I tried to walk to it I hit a bedpost and knocked something off. I didn’t feel pain though. I knelt down to find what I had knocked down.
I first felt under the bed for the item, then moved my way towards the outer sides of the bed. While searching for the item. I felt something furry, it bit me and caused a spark. I caught a very slight glimpse of the area and saw the item, it was a bobby pin . I picked it up and walked towards the door. Since I didn’t know where I was I put my ear to the door to try and hear something. It was silent, so I placed the curved side into the lock and tried to unlock it. I heard a quiet *chink* and opened the door. I hadn’t been up but for half an hour at this point but my limbs were sore and felt extremely heavy. Holding up my head was getting increasingly difficult, so seeing as I was in no shape to continue I closed and locked the door and went back to sleep.
When I woke up again I could see a faint light from under the door. Then an extremely loud *BOOM* the light went out, and I heard something hit the floor. I heard the sound of footsteps coming closer to my door. Whatever it was it picked up what hit the floor and went away with it. I felt a little bit more rested and interested from what I heard of the encounter . I got up from the bed and walked to the door again. I put my ear to the door and listened. I heard shuffling but it sounded far away. So I got the bobby pin and unlocked the door. I attempted to open the door quietly, the door creaked and squeaked it’s way open. I opened it as quickly as I could and closed the door. The shuffling stopped. I heard a loud groan and from a deep rumbling voice came the words
“Why didn’t you stay asleep little one?”
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At this point I was terrified, but I couldn’t move. I heard deep thundering steps and they were getting fast and louder. I was telling myself to move, but I just wouldn’t. Then I heard the sounds of hydraulics steaming, then I was running. Somehow I knew I was running at 23 miles an hour, but whatever was chasing me was gaining going at 57 miles an hour. Then I could see, everything was illuminated. I could see the long hallway I was running through, it was full of cages and doors. With different creations, I guess is what you would call them, they were dogs, cats, other humans with different robotic body parts, they were sparking, glitching, some were even exploding. It was awful. I noticed an open door, so I ran into the open room made sure the door was unlocked and closed it. Whatever the thing chasing me was, it ran straight past the door, the thing was huge. I could instantly tell that it was 8’9, fully loaded with muscles I could tell it could lift a maximum of 3,000 pounds. It was humanoid, a male, he was bald, which was humorous.
Then I heard a laugh
“Hahaha I bet you thought you tricked me didn’t you Lukas?”
Lukas, ah, yes. My name is Lukas Graham, I was a mechanical engineer, we were working on real life cyborgs. I heard the beast of a human blowing open doors with what sounded like a Remington 870. He was killing every mechanical failure in the rooms that he opened, so I went under the bed to hide. He burst open the door to my room and said
“Ah, another empty room.”
He slammed the door shut and ran down the hallway back the way we came from. I got up and opened the door so fast it didn’t even have the time to squeak before I had closed it again. I walked to the end of the hallway where there was a bathroom. I went into it and turned on the light. I looked at myself in horror as I saw I was completely a machine. My face still had, well my face, but it still had a mechanical twinge to it. I still had my dirty blonde hair. They couldn’t have given me any better hair when they replaced everything else and made it better?
Suddenly my vision had a message on it reading “Restart to update” I didn’t know what that meant but I agreed to do so. I fell out, when i woke back up 4 hours had gone by. I figured out how to check the time and it was 12:00PM. “So,” I thought, “it’s afternoon now, it’s still so dark though.” I left the bathroom and saw that there were no windows, the pressure in the air told me that we were 610 meters below the surface. I’m learning how to use my different abilities because to make me the first working model they had put a lot of advanced technology into me. I had laser weapons,my very own double Remington 870 on each side , super strength, super speed, I could even fly. I had no idea how to do any of these things yet except for the speed I figured out how to go that fast.