Your name is Fabius Max. Your company was just a software corporation. The goal was not to make a sentient AI. You programmed knock-offs of Roombas. At least, that was how it went until Celso, your manager, sat you down one day in a private area.
"Fabian, is it?" Celso said, raising an eyebrow.
"Fabius." You corrected him.
"Ah. Right, Fabius, we have recently gained a contract with the government. They wish us to test their... interesting invention." Celso smiled and pushed a disc over to your side of the table that was marked "OMEGA PROJECT" in block capitals.
"Why are we dealing with the government?" You asked, taking the disc and examining it.
"Fabius, they are giving us a lot for this little disc. It's probably nothing. That's why I trusted you with it." Celso gave a confident smile. "Now, don't fuck up and you might earn a promotion!"
You brushed aside the jab and focused on the promotion. You worked on the project hard. It seemed to be a very complex AI that pretty much fulfilled a lot of things for you. Problem was that you couldn't track it's progress and the only way you could stop it was via ejecting the disc. Celso checked on you to make sure that things were alright. They were. About a week ago, you started noticing the improvements. Your computer started running faster. Things didn't lag as much. It was okay until the computer itself started to physically change itself. You noticed that the eject button disappeared. It was replaced by blank nothingness. You wondered how this could make any sense. The next day there was an odd pin-like needle sticking out where the eject button should have been. That was yesterday. The needle stabbed you in the arm when you got down to check what was going on.
You fell to the ground, yelling in pain. When they checked on you, any obvious wounds and the needle were gone. You were sent home.
The next day, however, was a nightmare.
You didn't feel bad, as such. Just you felt like your arm had gone to sleep. You just went to work, but oddly enough there wasn't anyone there, and the power was out. You decided to ask Celeso what was going on (He was the only one you really knew a bit about) and went to his office. What you saw was terrifying and will probably remain with you for longer then you want.
He was upside down, tied by wires. The wires on the walls had ripped themselves out of their original places and injected themselves into Celeso. His entire body was replaced by cybernetics. His head. His legs. His eyes glowed with a shocking cold blueness.
"Hello Fabius Max. Infection level 78%. Gaining control."
Some of the unused wires jutted into your body. You screamed in pain as you felt your mind slipping away. This wasn't how it was supposed to end. The pain stopped as the wires were overloaded, and exploded. You tore out the jacks in your flesh, and realized. You were covered in water, and felt really thirsty. You promptly slammed the door, ran as fast as you could toward the stairs and escaped the building. You tripped, and landed on your asleep arm. You yelled in pain and checked it.
The skin had been simply scraped away to reveal cybernetics. Blinking red lights, wires running with red electricity and various mechanical objects allowing you to move. At the places where your skin began, it seemed like it was simply blocked by a craggy wall of flesh.
That's about where you are now.
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