Reboot

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I kept a straight face. As the Sargent scanned the marks on our wrists they almost resemble barcodes. The other reboots are afraid of the Sargent, but not me the Sargent is afraid of me. I'm the toughest, strongest, most heartless person here. Now one has been dead as long as I has. One hundred and forty seven. That's how long I was dead, the longest anyone's ever been dead was one hundred and twenty minutes, and he was a monster he killed people for looking him in the eye, Is that what I'll become? I felt tears collecting in my eyes. I sucked them back. I'm not human I tell myself, all my human is gone. Sargent reached me and opened his mouth to speak he stuttered and fidgeted with his hands.

"G-Gage Penrose," he spoke nervously. He pointed towards my barcode. I snatched the scanner from his shaking hands, and scanned my arm. Pushed him down, turned around and walked away from the camp. I'm no longer that sweet innocent girl I was before I was rebooted, I'm a soldier, a soldier that's no longer human, there's none of that left. I pushed the thoughts from my head and kept walking. I felt a hand grab my arm, no ones ever done that to me they obviously don't know who I am. I turned my head, once I laid eyes on the person a flash back triggered.

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