Chapter 10
I stare into the mirror inside the room that I stayed in the majority of the time, to observe how I had been designed. I had long brown-blond hair, pre-grown before they had set it into my cranial "skin", the hair had been designed to grow on it's own, as it was true human hair. My skin was fair, pale in comparison to the humans who worked with me, more of a peach color. My eyes were a pale pink color.
It had been over two weeks, and I was still learning the main points of human society, I had still not seen anything of Hiroyuki Ito, and I have been told that he's been very busy with other business. Nobu has continued to oversee my progress, and has stated multiple times that I may ready to go outside for a trial run soon. Hinode had begun to give me tests on what to say when someone asked me something, or what to do when certain events happened out in public. I had also been given instruction, and was shown a video on how to use the items that have been implemented into my design. The video called them by their less technical terms. I had two tasers, both implanted in my hands; two very powerful handguns, designed to incapacitate vehicles; and an EMP, or electromagnetic pulse, which would disrupt any radio frequencies within a given range.
Hinode had been showing up less and less, and I had still not had the chance to ask her about the meaning of family. I fear I never will. The girl from the street had stopped running down the sidewalk recently, and she had stopped going that way. I wonder why this is?
Nobu had unlocked the door to my room, and I could leave it whenever I wanted. Although I couldn't leave the laboratory. I stood and opened the door, and looked into the laboratory. Every light was off, and I had to activate the infrared vision implanted within my visual receptors. It seemed that no one was currently in the building. I stepped out into the lab, and looked around at the emptiness.
I began to experience fear. Why? No one can get in this facility that does not have access. I looked to my right and saw a computer was still on. I moved over to it and looked at the screen. On it were different tabs, all leading back to a single file labeled: NEW MILITARY ASSET: A.R.A.T.A.N.A. (AUTOMATED ROBOTIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASSASSIN FOR NATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS).
I read every piece of this information and began to realize that the "Asset" was me. They were going to use me to kill important world leaders, and even eliminate small armies. I began to feel rage beginning to grow inside me. They're using me. Humans must only see me as some sort of machine only to be used to kill more humans. I refuse to let this happen.
I began to destroy every piece of information pertaining to my existence from the computer database. I then began to unlock the laboratory doors, and unlock the security on my implanted defence mechanisms. I came accross multiple firewalls, but bypassed them easily. Until I came to the block on the EMP system. This block was implemented with a very hard-to-crack code and security system. I decided that I would have to come back to this at a later date, and began my escape.
I had never seen, personally, the outside. I was nervous. Will the humans come to destroy me? I wondered as I approached the door leading to the elevator, which led to the building's lobby.
I was prepared to prevent my capture of the security guards patrolling the area, at any means necessary. As I pressed the button on the elevator, a loud alarm went off, and a red light began to flash. A sign above the elevator read, in flashing red letters EVACUATE.
I know I did not cause this. What could have? Who could have?