::SEAN::
Cody. There's that name again.
Once in a while, it comes to me in random when I close my eyes. When I do, fog clouds my memory like it does now. I try to push pass it
Cody—his name is familiar, I just don't know why.
I automatically reached out to access the personnel files—
They're not here.
I panicked, reaching out to find my communication links to ask what has happened to my data files—
None of my parts are here. Either the whole system is down, or something has gone wrong with my hardware or—I winced as a memory comes rushing back; I've been kidnapped by the dupes of a lunatic technician.
"Just great."
"Looks like Sleeping Beauty has to decided to join us at the land of the awake."
Thomas's voice comes from somewhere above me. I winced, sitting up slowly, noticing as I do that there is a plastic layer around my skin. So they plan on taking me up to the surface in a suit. I suppose that's something to be grateful for.
"Sean," a new figure leans in front of me, "I'm Doctor Roland." I eyed the hand he holds out to me in distaste. He doesn't seem at all perturbed as he puts it away. "Nina mentioned you were complaining about the lights in the tech room giving you headaches so I've prepared some medicine pills for you to take with you."
I snorted. "So kind."
"Sarcasm," Thomas observes, almost approvingly. "so he can display emotion."
I'm seriously beginning to dislike these people. "You are tearing me away from the life I'm content with and expect me to be appreciative? Just you wait, when the Council finds out about this—"
"Oh I almost forgot. Hold him still for me, will you?"
As Thomas holds me down, the Doctor takes a syringe and vial from his desk.
"Let's see now..." My hood's opened, and the suit's rolled back to give him a clear patch of skin. I winced at the sharp pain of injection. "There now, you can let him go."
"Was that necessary?" I demanded, rubbing my stinging neck.
Thomas has a similar question. "An Injection is going to help us get him passed the guards?"
"Trust me."
Thomas raised a brow. "That's what everyone's been asking from me lately." he shook his head, irate, it seems.
Doctor Roland carefully replaces the vial. He's a man of orderly habits—if he wasn't helping in my kidnap, I think I might have approved. Instead, I sulked. Roland... I'd have to remember that so that when I find a way to escape these people, I can report him to the Council. Of course, I no longer have access to my memory files... How do ordinary people remember things?
"Should we go get Cody now, Doctor Roland?" Nina asked from a chair.
That name again?
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Surface R: Reunion
General Fiction[Completed] Nature's wrath takes its toll in this new story. Metropolis gone savage, the surface contaminated by a dangerous atmosphere, and the human population are forced to live underground with their progressing technology. But like their once l...
