Distant Home

Chapter 2: Awakening from Cryo

Darkness, a place devoid of life and matter was what I saw after the voice told me of what was to come of me. After being there for what seem like hours I decided to venture into the dark, cold and bleak land. Looking around black smoke started to appear and grew thicker, and trying to finding the source I saw a red and orange light in the distance and a voice one that didn't emit any emotion.

"Listen only to the sound of my voice, let your mind relax, let your thoughts drift, let the bad memories fade." I fall to my knees and grabs my head in agony as the memories of my childhood within the orphanage. "Let peace be upon you. Surrender yourself to your dreams. Let them wash over you like the gentle waves of the bluest ocean. Let them envelop you. Comfort you" slowly they disappear, replaced with a sense calm as the memories of my highschool and college years pour into me. I get back up and continues to walk, and once I grew closer the voice slowly got louder warmer and the light brighter.

"Imagine somewhere calm, Imagine somewhere safe, Imagine yourself in a Frozen Forest." Flashes of a group of five massive trees appears with snow covering the environment. "You're standing in a clearing. Trees around you so tall, they touch the sky. Pure white snowflakes fall all around, You can feel them melt on your skin, You are not cold, It cannot overcome the warmth of your beating heart. Can you hear it? You only have to listen."

As I felt the heat from it the voice slowly faded. To a whisper and the light slowly fade."You hear it slowing? You're slowing it, You are in control, Calm. At peace"

The light disappears the warmth slowly as well, the cold of the darkness surrounds me. As I begin to wander and when I do, I begin to hear something, two thumps like a heart beating. It's all around me and slowly getting louder. Soon small dots of light suddenly starts to appear above me all different sizes and some in cluster. Soon they start appearing all around me, something that I thought I'd only see in movies and images.

I begin to walk toward a arch of white and black light being pulled into the black center, the ground as it would seem to rippled like a droplet had just fallen into a pond. As I step into it I am pulled towards it, soon I get tunnel vision. After several minutes of being in it, light explodes all around me and I'm forced to close my eyes.

I slowly opens my eyes and i stare up at the white ceiling. I start hearing the sound the machines beeping and people lightly walking around "Welcome back to the land of the living Mr. O'Neill, how are you feeling?" I try sitting up, but only gasp in pain from my muscles only to regain mobility "like a damn solid steel pipe turned liquid, how long was I been out for anyways?" I ask looking at the room, noticing it white and the machines different.

"you have been out for about five hundred years. That's the work of cryogenic and nano technology of the old and new age." I sit there dazed from the new information that I just heard but also understanding, as info filled my head on the many advances.

"Still makes your head ache though." Rubs the back of my head, but instead of feeling flesh, I felt metal components. "What the-"

"Careful with that. its a neural interface, hard to build, and it is really hard to create and implant." The nurse tells me and I move my hand away. I watch her walk out and I get dressed. I walk out of the room and sees more white walls. "Well shit, is it all white or just the hospital?" Looking in both directions, I decide on the left and starts exploring the corridors.

AN: sorry if I made this short, but this seemed like a good spot for a cliff hanger next may be bigger, hopefully 2k+ been trying that length after working on DA:I story. So, Ja ne