No Such Thing as Sweet Dreams

Chapter 1: Awakening the Beast

"It's been almost a year. We can't wait any longer," voices cut into the darkness the you lived in for the first time in months. You wanted to open your eyes. To see those speaking. But you couldn't.

"Well we can't get her to awaken it," a woman answered. Her voice was familiar. "Ruvik may have imprinted everything we need but the real (f/n) is still in her head. She's been able to hold it back."

Everything went back to silence. So you floated there. In the darkness. Waiting. Awaiting the words of your verdict. Why didn't they just kill you? By now your body was most likely emaciated unless they somehow kept it alive. You knew all they needed was your brain. Not your body. Maybe they had already cut your brain out and you just couldn't tell.

"Put the machine into overdrive. That should stimulate her enough," that man's voice had become well known to you. You always pictured him as tall with a nice black suit. But his face. . . it was always blurred out.

Everything remained silent until you saw a great, bright spark. It was just like the spark you had seen the day they plugged you into S.T.E.M. There was one more spark and then a roaring noise in your head. It felt as if fire was tearing at your brain and with one final roar and a spark light entered your eyes. A very familiar but altered world was before your eyes. The same world that Ruvik had created was now before you but now there were many aspects of your own lost memories. Your old home, Joseph's home, the city streets you followed to kill your father. It was all there. A spiderweb of terror and hatred intertwined with many other lives. Tears began to sting your eyes. The machine was awake. The thing you had kept from happening for a year had finally happened. All was still when suddenly you thought your head would split open. You fell to your knees, now having your body back in this world, and screamed. Your hands covered your ears as you screamed. Blood began to drip from your mouth and you began choking. Your fit went on for some time and when it finally stopped someone stood before you. Lifting your head you found the Keeper. You could tell he was watching you. You could just sense it.

Before you could react his strong hands picked you up from the ground and placed you upon his shoulder. You wiped the blood from your face, knowing you were staining it. He began walking off, the swaying putting you to sleep. When you opened your eyes again you found yourself in a circular room. S.T.E.M. was directly in the center and you could see your own body hooked to the machine. Slowly you approached it and placed your hand on the glass cylinder you were encased in. A sorrowful sigh left your lips and you sat down, propped up by the machine.

This was your home now. This was your world, and you already predicted that those fits wouldn't stop and would only get worse. The Keeper still stood before you as you began to cry. You could feel Ruvik's rage seeping into your bones. You felt his insanity would soon well follow. The tears stung and you slowly closed your eyes. You had to keep your sanity as long as you could. You had to find a way out.

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"Please stop you're scaring me!" you screamed at the top of your lungs.

"Doctor hurry up with that injection," Ruvik ordered.

You yelped when there was a sharp pinch on your arm and a new fluid was introduced to your veins. Slowly you calmed down, no energy to beg them to stop. Ruvik let out a relieved sigh and grabbed up a metal cord that he shoved into the base of your neck.

"Bring in the boy," he demanded.

Jimenez left the room, leaving you alone with the scarred man named Ruvik. His eyes looked over you intently, almost like a father would look over a child.

"You will be my reincarnation," he whispered before placing a kiss upon your forehead. "My insanity, my anger, my dreams. You will tear Mobius apart from the inside. There is a way to do so," he leaned down and began to whisper in your war but you couldn't hear him. It was blurry. Fuzzy. His voice was muffled like he was under water. He moved away and locked his eyes with your tired gaze. "You know what you need to do. You will be the perfect weapon."

His gaze was pulled from yours as Jimenez entered the room, pulling in another surgical table with a white haired boy strapped upon it. That's when you realized it was Leslie.

"Leslie," you tried to cry out but your voice was a hushed whisper. He was screaming and trying to escape.

Ruvik pulled out another cord and placed it in the base of Leslie's neck as well. Next he grabbed another and placed it in his own. He moved to the lever in the center of the room and pulled it. You had enough time to see Ruvik convulse and brace himself on the control board before your own body was being electrified. You cried out as you felt like your brain was melting. After what seemed like ages Ruvik managed to pull the lever again and it stopped.

"Ruvik! W-What did you do?" Jimenez shouted.

Ruvik took a moment to catch his breath and remove the cord from his mind.

"There brains are now a 100% compatible. I began the transfer of some of myself into the girl now, for if it was all done at once her mind might give out," Ruvik was breathless and made his way to your side once more, placing his hand beside your head. "She is almost complete. My perfect weapon," and with that he placed one more kiss upon your forehead.