Marie blinked her eyes open.
"Marie?" a voice asked. "Marie?"
She sat up. Her surroundings were incredibly simple. White walls, a white cot, and a large window against the far side of the room. The entire room was padded, and when she looked down at her body she realized she was wearing white.
Desperate to know, she tore open the first button of her shirt and glanced down at her chest.
A large 'X' replaced where the disease once was-etched into her skin as a permanent scar. Marie breathed a sigh of relief. But it wasn't before she noticed that her arm had an identical X on it.
To her horror, she discovered the marks all over her body. Two at her elbows, her knees and her upper thighs. When she experimentally pressed a hand against her skin, she felt a suspicious lump underneath the X's, as if there were something inside of her.
When she went back to observing her chest, she noticed that at the center of the X was a small bulb, and it began to flash. It blinked several times before Marie felt something begin to whir underneath her skin. She panicked and ran to the window, banging on it before she fell to the floor, limp.
"Is she-" James asked, not wanting to complete the question. Behind the window eight people stood. They had made several notes while watching her, until she had collapsed like a puppet that had had her strings cut.
"No. Watch." Royce commanded him. After a good minute, Marie finally stood up. She held herself tall, and a blank expression was planted on her face.
"Tell her to do something." a person whispered. The second it was said, Marie began to speak.
"P.U.P.P.E.T, ready for duty." she reported. The area behind the mirror exploded with noise as the group cheered and patted each other on the back. Royce pulled a walkie-talkie from his coat and muttered a command into it.
"Affirmative." the voice said. Marie started to frantically look around her surroundings, until she found the door and opened it. She walked with an erect trance and eventually made it to where the doctors were.
"Of course," Royce whispered, "We'll have to run tests. But...I confess, I'm very pleased. This technology...the possibilities are endless."
He turned to the doctors and yelled, "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I GIVE TO YOU-THE POSITRONIC UNIT PROGRAMMED FOR PEACEKEEPING AND TROUBLESHOOTING! MS. MARIE ALDRICH-"
Royce paused for dramatic effect. He had always been a good speaker.
"The first, fully commandable human being. The first P.U.P.P.E.T."
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Who ELSE is dressing up? :D