I eventually opened my eyes to see I was somehow now in a large glass tube of liquids while small rubber tubes lead to key points of my body inside the tube where the tip turned into a needle and entered my skin me, very much like some Sci-Fi monster movie.
"SEE! THIS IS WHY WE DON'T MAKE ROOKIE MISTAKES LIKE THAT" I heard someone yell in another room. Where was it? I asked myself while straining my eyes and lifting my head up where I noticed I actually had a mask covering my mouth too, probably to give me oxygen, I could see the entrance of a hallway slightly to my left. A man in a white lab coat walked into the room I was in. "Well, she did do it. God dammit." I heard him begin to mutter himself in frustration while looking at me. "He's awake, dammit." He added on. I looked right back at him even though my eyelids felt heavy, was I tired? Why couldn't I tell?
"I bet you have more questions then answers." The mysterious man said while picking up a clipboard that was on a nearby desk to my left. "This is a science facility dedicated to learning about the human brain" he said while waving both hands to the side of him and finished his sentence with a laugh.
"Well, of course this also means our research goes a lot into making artificial intelligences too. You actually volunteered to be here, Christian. You wouldn't remember though since you've been in there for so long. Yep you were one of the peculiar ones. We did a lot to your body, we used you to discover that we actually don't need oxygen to live, we simply could come up with an alternative, but what really interested us, was when you were put into the psychology projects. We discovered that for some odd reason you had no interest in accepting human companions, even when under the influence of drugs. We experiment by putting you in a simulated reality, even in the reality we didn't know why you wouldn't simply choose a human mate. Whenever personally asked way back when, you would always respond with talking about a Hatsune Miku figure. Technology got advanced enough that we made an AI, she would accompany you in the simulator and take a physical form there, for some reason it worked and your brain accepted her. It's still quite funny. We really don't have any need to research that now though, we kept you around for, oh I don't know, ten years? You've been in that tube, in the simulator for ten years! And with absolutely no real purpose! We liked keeping you around, toying with your extraordinary brain, haha. Of course eventually the Hatsune Miku AI did not like what we did to you for personal pleasure, she overloaded our computers and shut the tubes keeping you asleep down, I call it a rookie mistake for accommodating your special companion needs, it was rather dumb of us to make an AI just for you, wasn't it? Anyways, we need weed out all of our bugs here and then we need to manually put you back in there, so don't you cause us trouble when we take you out." The man exclaimed
I only looked at him in this time, I realized though that I could feel my limbs though. I tried jerking my arm and pain shot through me, muffled screams came out from my mask. "Ooh, haha, yeah. You don't want to try moving, those needles are actually pretty deep inside you, if you move too much you could cause some pretty bad internal damage and annoy a nerve or two, haha" the man laughed. I noticed he was started up a computer that was angled so I could see the monitor.
"Yep, we had to limit "Miku's" reign over the computers so now she is stuck right here on this one. I felt it was necessary you two said your farewells to eachother." On the monitor flashed Miku's face, I could see she was beating on the other side of the computer screen where pixelated tears streamed down her face. Was she screaming my name? I could hardly hear her.
"Aaaaaaand goodbye." The man said as Miku's eyes flashed red and she disappeared from the computer screen. "Well at least killing AI's isn't as messy as killing real people." The man chuckled and moved in front of my tube. He began un bolting things but I didn't care, I was furious and sad. Really I had very mixed emotions, I was scared, angry, sad. Where was I? I noticed all the liquids had drained from the tube and I was being put at a horizontal angle where I then would rest on a stretcher.
"Now hold still" the man said and removed the tubes/needles from my body, the more he removed, the less tired I felt. I wonder what they did. Now wasn't the time though, I was still furious and hurt, as soon as they were all removed I ripped off my mask and ran out the room. "Figures, they all run." I heard the man say from behind. I didn't care, I was so terrified and hurt I kept running down the hall. "We've got a runner, this is the special subject #34 so make sure he doesn't escape and you better get him in one piece." I heard the mans voice on an intercom. I knew escape wouldn't be an option, I dashed into an empty room just as I saw other scientists and security guards enter the hallway. I quickly turned around and locked the door behind me, I looked around the room and saw various surgeon tools. I walked slowly over to one of a knife...I slowly picked it up, I heard behind me someone breaking the lock."I can't live a life like this" I thought to myself. I turned around and put the utensil to my throat. This would be my final goodbye, and the last thing I thought I heard was a door opening and blood splatter...
"AH!" I screamed and got up. Where was I? At home. I was at home, in my bed. I looked at the alarm clock, it was midnight, I noticed a ray of light in my room coming from the door and saw that Miku was inside too.
"Are you ok?" She said.
"I...I-I don't know." I said while touching my face and noticed I was practically drenched in sweat despite not even being hot.
"You were making strange noises but I didn't come inside until I heard you scream so loud, it was terrible, you sounded like the devil just entered your room and stole your soul." Miku said to me with a concerned tone.
"No, I just...I had the worst dream in my life." I said while rubbing my eyes.
"What was it?" She said
"Oh it's a long story, but it was sure terrifying." I replied
There was a moment of silence as I'm sure she was thinking a lot about earlier today, well technically, yesterday since it was past midnight. But I actually felt surprisingly happy after finally letting out all my feelings. "Hey, I'm sorry about earlier." I told her while smiling at her. "I hope your not mad at me." I finished it off.
"No I'm not mad at you, I was just concerned. Are you feeling ok?" She said.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for asking. It was really unprofessional of my to cry like that though" I said with a laugh. "But I realize now that letting out your feelings instead of balling them up can help a lot." I added on.
"Yeah. I can understand that" she said in response. The conversation kind of died after that while I decided to get out of bed. I took a shower since I was sticky in dried sweat. Miku went to bed during that but I was full of energy since I cried myself to sleep and slept all day, so I stayed up late, but even though my nightmare seemed so bizarre it made me realize that I didn't know what I had in my life until it was, almost in a literal sense, snatched away from me.
END CH12
((Story trivia time! Christian's nightmare was actually one of my intended endings for this story but I deemed it "Too Sad to Write" and decided to simply incorporate it into my story as something fake and less to do with the actual main plot but more of a still rising action kinda thing. I may also come back and edit this since it is 2:35 AM right now so there is a lot of room for error but I just couldn't wait cause I feel like writing or drawing and I'm too lazy to go get paper and pencil, haha.))
