Cyborg
Reboot…
What?... what happened? It's all so fuzzy… where am I? I… I can't feel my body… Can't…
Reboot… System memory…
"What the hell!" Headlights…
Sound of shattering glass and twisted metal…
Sounds of screaming and pain…
Pain! Pain! Can't… pain!
Reboot… System processing…
Ah! What's happening? Can't open my eyes! Can't feel anything!
Can't even scream…!
Reboot… Neural interface…
Aahhh! Pain! What the hell…?
Pain… Pain!
……gone…
Reboot… Processing neural interface…
I go numb… fear grips me, what the fuck is happening here!
Reboot… Processing complete…
I open my eyes… eye. My left eye won't open… just won't open…
The world comes to focus… dad.
"Victor? You're awake?"
Reboot… Vocal system…
"Uh…ah… yeah… wha… wath… What… happened?" Something was seriously wrong with me… Still numb…
"Vic, you…" He pauses, uncertain. This unsettles me; my father was always very articulate… "You… were in a car crash… Martha… Martha didn't make it."
"What? Mother… didn't make it! What do you mean she didn't make it!"
Reboot… Secondary neural interface…
"She's dead." As you can imagine that hit me pretty bad.
Reboot… interface online… error…
Father continued. "You were in a bad shape too… I had to resort to… extreme measures…"
Feeling returned to my limbs.
Reboot… motor system…
"What do you mean?" He stared at me, teary eyed.
"Oh, Vic… I love you…" I felt afraid. Very afraid.
Reboot complete.
Strength returned to my limbs, I shrug upward, towering over father. I pause perplexed; I was barely shoulder high to the man, now he barely came up to my chest!
He also looked very scared.
"What happened?" He points one shaking index finger to a mirror. I follow.
"No."
Catastrophic error.
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