Darkness. Cold unforgiving darkness. Feels like home, or as close to home as he could ever be. Just like every morning for god knows how long, it started in that same darkness, awaiting the next test, experiment, assignment, or poke n' prod session with the scientists.
Suddenly, the garage-like door opened, bathing the small room in light. He slowly stepped out into the white barren room like he had done hundreds of times.
What a cliche, he thought.
When he was first put here, the first thing he noticed was that the main room was like the typical "white box" kind of room you find in a movie or something. It was bizarre at first, but over the... months?... years?... he wasn't too sure anymore... the room became almost normal, even if it got to him sometimes.
Now that he was in the white light of the room, he unconsciously looked at himself. Before all this, he would have been considered pretty muscular. Now, there were subtle differences. Not all were bad though. Both arms, once a slightly tan white, were dark gray, almost black color of metal. The material was definitely metal, though it had a softness to them like skin, but extremely hard to break like, well, they looked almost exactly like real arms, often reminding him of that character in Avengers. The same thing went for his legs, which were covered in a pair of plain, close to skin tight pair of workout pants. Though these parts were artificial, they were still fitted with nerve sensors so I could feel, but the odd thing was that the pain felt was dull in most circumstances, like if he pinched his skin like metal, he would feel it, even a bit of pain, but not the normal amount. The rest of his body, he had his normal skin which covered his main body, like his abdomen, back, chest, and neck. When you see his head, it looks normal by most standards. Brown, wavy hair, fair skin, and most importantly, a normal sized nose. That is always top of the list.
The only visual difference was his eyes. Due to advanced eyes, the color of his irises were a pool of ever changing colors, like a dumping all different colors of glitter into a bucket of grey paint. These eyes could see better than a normal human's ever could, while relaying information bout his surroundings when he wanted.
While changed on the outside, his insides were also improved. The assho... "scientists" that upgraded him wanted to keep the layout and workings of a normal human organ function, though slightly improved. His heart, stomach, liver, intestines, lungs, and... nether regions, were all kept the same, while things like his bones and muscles were fitted, almost laced with the same metal material to make them stronger.
Though these were extremely cool, like some kind of superhero, it made him feel like he wasn't himself anymore, like he wasn't fully human. More like near human.
He looked up, sighed, then said "Unit E - 30 ready for operations". He said this every single day, in the most monotone voice possible.
Finally, the scientists spoke from the speakers lining the ceiling.
"Welcome back, let us begin the bio mechanical pre-assessment"
Or you could just say move around and show us you work.
"Lets begin with your arm and hand movement."
So, like he practiced over and over, he lifted one hand on the air, made a fist, then lowered it and did the same with the other.
"Good, now check your leg and foot movement."
Now, he ran in place, while making surprisingly little noise given his feet were made of the same metal as his arms.
"Perfect. Now let's move on to the main test in experiment B - 74, the teleportation device. Please step forward and grab the device from off of the table."
This was it. He had been dreading this for a couple of weeks now. This test in teleportation was extremely risky, given all the possibilities. He could go to the intended place, or end up halfway in a wall of some restaurant, his glorious butt on display for all who eat there.
But, it also gave him a twinge of hope. Hope, that after all this time, he could have a chance to go somewhere else, to run and escape.
"I am only warning you once, you are connected to the remote shocker. if you use the device, then run from the mission, you will be sedated then captured. The shockers range goes to any part of the world, no matter where you are."
Oh well.
He walked over to the lone white table, where a device was laid out. It was spherical, with 4 holes on each side. They must have been to put his fingers in, like a bowling ball. Where you would put your thumbs were a little array of buttons.
"Put your fingers and hands in the indicated spots on the device"
Done
"Now, at 3, press the left-most button, then the right-most. When you are transported, wait until we have a connection to you, then press the buttons in the reverse order to come back. Don't try anything else."
"1"
Fingers in.
"2"
Left button. This was it.
"3"
He pressed the right button, making the device let out a repetitive beeping sound, then, a wave of matter exploded outwards, then grouped back into a single point,then into nothing, taking both the device, and E - 30 with it.
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The team of scientists spoke into the radio, "Come in E - 30, was the test successful. You should be in another testing facility."
Static.
"You have 5 seconds to reply before we use the sedative."
Static.
They pressed the buttons on the panel, but something happened.
The computer said "Subject out of range."
"That's not possible, the satellites cover the whole world, it should be in range. I want all the officers searching for E - 30. Both him and the machine are military property."
"It had to work..."