The glitched girl

𖤐awaken𖤐

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Click.

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Click.

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Click.

The same noise, again and again. The same annoying, agitating clicking noise over and over. Enough, it was driving her insane. Her eyes shot open, looking to find the source of the noise, and expecting to be in her bed. But instead of looking up at her dark purple ceiling, she finds a cold grey one.

What...Where am I? What is this?

The same question circled her mind, until it turned into a headache. Once her vision was proper, she began to feel the cold floor against her back, head, legs and arms. She sat up, finding her body aching so badly. She brought her hand to her head, trying to ease the dizziness. But when her hand touched her, she felt cloth. That's not normal, she didn't go to bed in any sleeved shirt or something. That's when she realized her clothes were completely different, she had went to bed in her PJ's, and yet somehow found herself in her day clothing. She even had her shoes on. Now things were really weird. What else had changed?

She quickly got her answer as she looked around the room, it was a metal room with computers and machinery.

What the? Am I in some type of factory? How did I get here? None of this makes sense..

Click.
It's that same noise! It was coming from a computer in the room. She got up, but stumbled and had to use one of the machines for balance. The screen on the computer showed a download, of files and such. Either she had been teleported to a factory, or some kind of base with the way these files were named. There was a big risk she was snooping in something she never would've wanted to lay eyes on, but she needed answers. Not only about what happened, but where she was too. Even as the pain in her body increased, she made her way to the monitor and looked over the files, seeing which ones were downloading.

"Models"
"Painting"
"Experiments"
"Bugs"
"Trash"
"Fixed"
"WIP"
"Staff"
"Dates"
"Reports"

There were a lot, that's for sure. It did seem like factory things, but some of them caught her eye. Experiments? She had watched enough movies to know that never ends well. It also happened to be one of them that was downloading too, along with dates and reports. She moved the mouse cursor and clicked on Staff, finding a list of names. None of them were familiar, though. Useless. She pressed on reports, finding some incident reports.

"4/13/21.             Incident filed by [REDACTED]

Report:
One of our projects was ruined by another one of the staff. Fiona Star, or as the whole work place calls her, "Fio" was the one who started everything. She had snuck onto the main operating computer and tampered with the coding, messing up the modeling and the project all together. I really hope that you give her consequences for this, as I get that she gives you pretty money, but as the boss you should at least make her clean up the model.

Reply:
Dear [REDACTED], speak to me after hours to discuss your statement of her giving me "pretty money". Other than that, yes, she will be receiving consequences. She will have to remake the project all on her own, and will be getting a write up. And if you ever accuse me of being bribed by her money again, you will receive the same thing."

Interesting. One of their projects had been messed with, which is no doubt in the trash file. I wonder if the remake is in-

Her thoughts were quickly interrupted by footsteps, just down the hall. Panic flooded her mind, as her first instinct was to immediately close the report file and hide behind one of the bigger machines. She had never been here before, and it's not like she was a familiar face, she'd most likely be accused of breaking in and get arrested. Just the thought of that, police officers putting her in hand cuffs and taking her somewhere, was making her head spin. She calmed down her breathing and held her shaking hands close to her chest, expecting the footsteps to stop outside the door and for the creaking of the door to be heard. Gosh, why didn't she just mind her business and find the exit?