The Way of the Future: Age of Machines(Completed)

On The Void, Again

"Huh?"

The sound of water dripping onto a puddle echoed.

"Where am I?"

The scenery was black, void and empty. There was nothing for him to see but his naked body.

"I'm.. human again?"

He could see his naked body float inside the abyss he was trapped in. He was alone and cold. For some reason, despite there being nothing, he felt a shiver run down his spine and a cold breeze blow through his skin.

"Wind," He said. "There must be something here."

Suddenly, the scenery changed and the void in which he was in just now was enveloped by a flash of light. The light was so bright that he covered his eyes and cowered in fear. He screamed and screamed, begging for the light to stop. His skin could not stand the light, it burned him thoroughly.

Then he felt himself fall.

He fell from someplace high. He felt the air gush through his body and gravity pulling him downwards. Where was he? The scenery had once again changed and the light that showered and burned him was transformed into the sun.

The sun was blazing that day. Scorching him though the air was cold. He could not move his body, he could only look ahead of him and he saw only the building from where he fell from. The very top of the building he noticed a silhouette of someone watching him.

"Who is that?"

And then, darkness. He felt his body jolt. I must have hit the ground, he said in his thoughts.

"Where am I?" He asked the same question again and again nobody answered him.

He then felt weightless and began to choke. He held his neck as a reflex to the situation. He was getting choked by the lack of air.

He lost his vision for a second and thought that he was dead. Only for him to find out a few seconds later that the void that engulfed him a second time was once again replaced. This time, he was inside a space station. The space station was in bad shape, littered with holes and malfunctions. Wherever he looked, there was only destruction.

He then realized he was inside a spacesuit. A tight spacesuit with a big hole on his chest.

"AH!" He screamed when he saw the hole. He could see his internal organs. To his horror, his left lung came out of the hole and stuck directly on his helmet where he could see the entire thing up close and personal.

He was no longer choking, or so he was until he realized that he was no longer breathing. He then felt another jolt of energy kick him back into motion. This time the space station was swallowed by a black hole, he witnessed the entire thing. Time seemingly sped up and then suddenly slowed but once they passed the event horizon, he felt a stinging pain envelope his body before he found himself back to where he started.

In a void.

"Again?" He said softly. He was rather lax even though he was just tremendously tortured just a minute ago. He once again floated aimlessly in the void in which he started. He was waiting for to change, for something to light it up. But many minutes passed and there was nothing.

He noticed that he could no longer see his body. He could still feel it and move it as if it was there but he could no longer see it, unlike last time. Maybe the darkness has finally consumed him? There was nothing left for him to do but to wait.

He did wait. He stared at the void for hours on end until he felt tired and fell asleep. He then slept but he dreamed of nothing but darkness. The human mind would dream of anything it has seen in its lifespan but even though he saw a lot of things just a few hours ago, his dreams were empty. A blank slate.