Noir Frontier

Awakening

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

The sound of the heartbeat monitor was nearly deafening as I lay on the cold, steel table. The voices of muffled humans overlayed the beeping.

Two.

Four.

Eight.

Eight people in the room. Eight pairs of eyes all studying the effects of whatever was being injected into my veins.

"Their heart rates, mental activity, and biometrics are all stable. Shall I proceed with the next test, sir?"

A woman. Her voice sounded bleak, as if there were not a single emotion in her body. I wonder how long she'd been here, involuntarily taking orders. Makes me wonder how long I've been here, laying on this table. "Their"? As in I'm not the only one here?

"Yes, please proceed."

More needles dug far underneath my skin, injecting some type of pearlescent fluid into me. It feels almost soothing, whatever it is.

"I'm beginning to see a slight change in brain activity, almost like it's duplicating itself? There are no changes in brain size though.."

The tall man with a grey beard and an almost balding mullet stepped closer to observe these unprecedented changes.

For some odd reason, it seems as if I'm able to see outside my own body, like an extension of my original vision. Can they see it? No, no. They would've noticed already.

"Continue the testing. I feel we are coming close to a breakthrough."

Two last needles injected more of the pearlescent liquid into my body.

But this time, there was a noticeable change.

This time, I felt alive again.

I felt adrenaline rush through my body; I couldn't contain myself any more! I broke free of the metal locks that bound me to the table and stood up. Something in front of my very eyes began to materialize, while all the doctors and scientist watched in fear and awe.

I reached out my hand to it, like I was looking in a mirror of a terrible warped version of myself.

"W-what the hell is that thing..?" The boring-voiced woman tripped over her words.

"Don't just stand there! Contact emergency and commence a level three lockdown!" said the old man.

Footsteps came rumbling down the hall while sirens blared obnoxiously.

The sound irritated me.

It irritated me, a lot.

I must get rid of it.

Whatever it was that hovered in front of me didn't like the sound either. I stood up on the table, looking at the ceiling blankly. Seems like I was sharing senses with whatever spawned before me. We'd mutually agree to eradicate it. Suddenly, it crushed the sirens in the room one by one, slowly and cautiously, making sure not to harm me in the process as the shattered glass falls to the ground.

"I'm sorry doctor, we have to terminate it before anything gets out of hand! Move—!"

"Terminate? All I did was destroy some annoying sounds." The pitch-black humanoid with no face, a body stemming from a shadow, and freakishly long arms turned to the scientist that suggested its termination. Its voice was incredibly distorted as if it were rendered through a bunch of guitar amplifiers at the same time.

"Don't you agree; the sounds were annoying? Hm?" It got closer to the scientist and towered over him. Its height was around nine feet tall.

"St-stay back! We will shoot!" He cowered into a corner where the silhouette stood above him.

"Who is we? I don't see any of you with guns. Now you sound stupid..." It crouched to his level. "Now, who exactly will be terminating me?"

One of the scientists in the room slowly pulled out a handgun and shot at this monster. The bullets simply bounced off its skin.

"Shoot him!" One of the scientist yelled out.

"Wait! We don't know what he's capable of!" The old doctor yelled as a forewarning.

In two or three swift movements, all the doctors and scientists that were about to shoot had their heads twisted in the opposite direction, they began falling one by one. The only three left alive were the bearded doctor, the boring woman, and another person across the room on a steel table.

"So fragile, like a children's toys." It turned around and walked back in front of me. Now I was face to face with the monster.

"What are you..?"

"I am you. You created me."

"I did? That's odd."

"Indeed."

"So now what now?" I inquired.

"I'm going back to sleep."

The monster dissolved into the air and I fell off the table and onto the floor.

"Umm... I'll lift the lockdown."

While stumbling out of her seat, the woman rushed out of the room to shut down the safety protocol.

You would think having six of your coworkers killed before your eyes would be traumatizing, but for this man, he was only fascinated by my paralyzed body, for this is the another major breakthrough in his career.

"You've really outdone yourself; another masterpiece."

He threw me over his shoulders and began to exit the room, where he walked proudly down the hallway.

Something inside of me had significantly changed the way I perceive this already so blank world.

Maybe it's for the better.

Or perhaps, for the worse.