(Multiple View Points) A Beauty and the Beast Reimagining.
She was Beauty. He was beast.
Anabella was a cashier and a waitress after leaving college to pay her father's medical bills. Brok was the prince of Sha and his mission was to conquer worl...
Father I woke up to find my arms and legs bonded in a bed. I saw a strange room with panels on the walls and the light was very bright. I felt cold in there and very alone. I struggled to break free from my binds, but I could barely wriggle myself out of them. They were tight, very strong, yet weightless like a rubber band, but uncomfortable. I heard a clicking and shuffling of metal from a few feet away from me. Then a door slid open with a swish sound and in came the robot that I had seen before. His white robe was still on him and it shuffled as he moved. He paced here and there in the room with a device that looked like a Candy Cane, but it was wider and silver colored. I was unsure of what he was doing. He seemed to scan the room with
"Hello," I said. The robot spun around and walked towards me. I shivered without knowing what to expect from it.
"Hello. Is your name Joseph Antonio Torres Salvador?" The robot asked me. I was surprised.
"Yes, how did you?""I found this piece of plastic with a photo of you and this name beside it. I am sorry for the cables in your cerebral cortex, but I have been studying your language," he said.
"What?" I asked astounded.
"Your language is amazing. You have only twenty-six letters in the alphabet yet you have managed to create a series of two hundred and twenty-eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-two words within the combination of those letters, although you only know forty-five thousand of those words," the robot said.
"What?" I asked confused.
"We are analyzing your world Joseph Antonio Torres Salvador."
"Just call me Joe," I said.
"Just call me Joe?"
"Joe, just Joe," I repeated.
"Oh. Very well," the robot said and then he paced through the room again. I tried to shake my hands, but I barely could.
"Um, do you think you can untie me now?" I asked. The robot tilted his head towards me.
"I apologize Joe, but I cannot do that until my master commands me otherwise," he said.
"Your master? You have a master?" I asked. He nodded.
"Yes, I do," he answered. So, he was a slave of somebody else or of something else. I was honestly terrified at the idea, but I had to speak to the person, alien being in charge. I needed to get out of this ship and go back to my house. I would do anything to go back.
"Can I speak to your master?" I asked. Then the robot rushed over to me and shushed me placing his finger on his mouth which was nothing but a small, thin slot which was where his mouth should be if he were a living being.
"I do not recommend that Joe. If you are unheard he may release you," the robot said.
"What? What do you mean he may?" I asked, but the robot didn't answer.
"My name is Rox. If you need any assistance please let me know," he said.
"What? Wait a minute... Rox," I said, but the robot turned around and the door opened automatically sliding upwards and making that swish noise again.
"Rox, Rox!" I yelled, but he ignored me and left. I didn't know what to do. Was it normal to sweat in such a cold place? I didn't know what the temperature in here was, but instead of feeling the chill, I felt the heat waves of my nerves and my heart rate going fast. I prayed to God because I didn't want to have another heart attack. The door slid open again and it was Rox. I didn't know if I was relieved by his presence or disturbed. Maybe he had spoken to his master and had decided to let me go.
"I am detecting rapid pulses and heartbeats, is this a normal condition?" He asked me.
"What?"
"Why must I repeat myself constantly? Am I using complex words or are my combinations of them mistaken?"
"No. I'm just nervous and scared. I want to go home," I admitted.
"You must know that returning to your home may not be a possibility," Rox said.
"What? Please, I want to go home. I have to go home," I said panicked. My chest began to hurt as my heartbeat increased.
"Ahh," I yelped in pain.
"Why are you? Oh, your heartbeat has accelerated. I have not been able to finish my scan on your body. I do not understand.
"My chest..." I said in huge gulps, "it hurts..." Rox walked towards me, showing his tiny eyes made of light and then he placed his metallic hand on my head.
"Please let me go. I have a daughter, a son. I'm begging you," I pleaded.
"That decision is not up to me," Rox said with his same unemotional tone. Then he fidgeted with something in my head and I remembered that he had said that I had needles all over my head.
"What are you doing to me?" I asked.
"I am inducing you to unconsciousness," he said. I was about to protest, but in that moment, everything went black.
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