Chapter 3: Your new reality

"Wake up! Wake up, my friend! It is the dawn of a new day, and you have things to do! I will guide and teach you, and you will learn by doing."

I wake up from the sound of an old dude with a German accent speaking through a speaker.

What? What happened to me?

I woke up in an empty white room... It looks like a room for experiments? Wait...

"Always remember - I'm not only your guide and mentor. Think of me... as the person you trust the most!"

Just as he finishes speaking a small robot falls from the roof that looks like a humanoid praying mantis.

Then it starts running towards me.

I'm not sure what is going on but I'm rolling as far away as possible from that aggressive looking pile of metal.

"HELP! anyone, please help, I'm going to die here!"

I yelled to no avail.

"The skills you will learn today will not only be useful. But the vital for performing the tasks I have chosen for you"

"W-What are you saying! just leave me alone"

Whenever the robot mantis got close to me, it started swinging at me making a woosh sound with its blade hands

"You see - you have been carefully selected. You are very special to me"

As I'm full of fear at the baby terminator coming towards me I lash at it with my tentacle like a whip

And It flies away at quiet the speed broken to pieces as if it got hit by a car.

"What? I did that?"

"You are learning fast my friend, I knew you would! - now go and-"

"SHUT UP! I'M DONE WITH THIS LET ME OUT OF HERE YOU"

"Oh I'm afraid this won't happen"

"You see in order to save you from starving to death - we embedded you with a particular genetic sequence, one that defies the rules of nature"

"Thus we must see how far you could go with it. subject 0"

One of the walls opens up and this time two hungry looking hyenas come out bearing their teeth out

At first the two of them look weary of me as each one takes an angle of attack at each of my sides

"Take it back! I don't wanna get eaten, I won't say anything to anyone. please please!"

"Begging for your life? Disappointing. I had high hopes for you"

Suddenly one of the Hyenas pounced at me ready to get a bite out of my flesh.

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My fight or flight response kicks in and I send one of my limbs at it, only for it to grab that limb by its mouth and then... It bit down on it

"AHHHH"

I screamed as loud as I could but the pain never stopped. Pain that I never felt before.

It ate the recently severed tentacle whole... Right in front of me.

Tears start flowing in my eyes.

I'm about to be eaten alive

"Oh but please be careful - these bad boys have been through many experiments, they are used to fighting creatures like you to survive"

I'm scared.

This is the worst moment in my life.I don't want to be here, I want to go back to my family, to safety.

Growl

The other hyena, perhaps sensing my fear and confusion, jumps at me to bite my face off.

I quickly snap back at it with one of my limbs, yet it jumps away gunning for my face.

But I quickly launch a tentacle towards its back leg and grab it.

"Eeep!"

"FUCK YOU Die Die DIE!"

After Grabbing the creature I began to swing it around, slamming it on the floor repeatedly.

Boom!

Crack!

Bloosh!

It started with the dull sound of a living creature hitting the floor. later replaced by the sound of cracking.

Then the sound of its head and limbs exploding into mist of blood and meat shreds from the constant beating on the metal floor.

Yet I didn't stop.

The other hyena states with shock and fear unmoving.

"Stay back!"

I threw the body of its friend right in front of it, then I made some distance between us in case it did anything funny.

"Excellent! Activate Möbius cells in d-1"

Suddenly The previously fearful hyena that was backing away from me freezes in its place.

And then, it becomes aggressive, very aggressive.

It runs madly at me thrashing with its claws biting whatever it can sink its teeth into.

Surprised, I couldn't stop it in time, thus it got to me, landing its hits on my flesh spraying blood everywhere. my blood

I was driven mad with pain from being ripped apart by a hungry hyena.

"AAARGH"

I screamed again in pain as my hot fresh blood started spilling over me.

"I'll-I'LL KILL YOU"

I send half of my body behind the hyena.

I grab its back half using multiple limbs and drag it away from me, and I start lifting it up in the air even further away from me. now it can't reach me.

Then I proceed with grabbing its front half, while hanging it in mid-air.

"DIEEEEE"

I ripped it in half, spilling its guts and blood everywhere.

"Huff huff"

Standing here I realize this is the first time I ever killed another living being

It was either me or them... I'm being toyed with, like some sort of a lab rat.

"Excellent subject-0! Beautiful work"

"SCREW YOU! Let me out of here or else I'll..."

"Or else what?"

"Or I'm going to rip you to pieces, all of you"

"I doubt you could, even if you wanted to"

Damn these assholes, what is he trying to say?

"You should start feeling hungry just about now, no?"

Suddenly I start feeling hungry, very very hungry.

I'm feeling so hungry that I'm losing my mind.

"What did you do to me? What is happening to me?"

"Oh, did you think that getting all this power is for free? This is only a minor negative in exchange for removing the limit of the human form... No, ALL forms of LIFE"

As he keeps talking I start feeling weak, angry, and for the life of me I can't even think straight.

"I'm hungry. Give me something to eat. It feels like I'm going to die here!"

"The food is right in front of you, you killed it yourself"

"You don't mean..."

"The two freshly killed hyenas? of course I mean that, what else! And from now on you will eat what you hunt and kill"

"You monster I won't eat that, I'll never do it"

"Eating will supplement you with the necessary bio-material that you just lost, your flesh. So if you want the pain and bleeding to stop, and the hunger to be silenced, then E A T"

"I'll never-"

"Anyway I'm leaving and I'll take about 58 minutes, by then you should be dead from starvation. Goodbye"

"Hey don't leave I swear to God I'm gonna-"

After that I spent around 10 minutes swearing in cursing at whoever and whatever it is on the other side.

Unfortunately that only added to the exhaustion and the pain.

I'm going to die if I don't eat, I can feel it. So I have to make a choice.

Somewhere deep within me I felt a fire.

Don't die here.

You can't die here.

FIGHT.

And so I made a choice.

"Damn it, you'll pay when I get my hands on you"

With tears in my eyes... I ate.