Release Me From Heaven (Release Me From Hell Series)

Chapter 6: (Number 86: Number 5/Askin) Murderer

          I walked in the house. Glitchy. I was certain that if I had a human body, I would be considered sick. Stumbling inside, I saw it. Her. Anav's body was splayed all over the walls and furniture, and I nearly choked as I saw her. She had no eyes. They were hollow parts of her now, forever darkened by whatever attacked her. Her bones were shattered open to the place where her heart should have been, but it was nothing but blood and tissue. My face twitched, and whether that was from the stench of iron or the penetration of the wires from before was an entirely different story. I followed the carnage to a carcass of a robot body. It was broken, wires spewed across it like it was ripped from the inside out. And it's core was shattered. The blue of it was all over the walls and floor.
          And I saw a trail of footsteps leading into the basement. Vaeshi was smart enough to realize that the old theater was the safest place to be, and that was mostly because it was forgotten in the house.
          "Vaeshi?" I called. My voice clipped. I hoped she didn't notice.
           Vaeshi didn't answer, but I heard whimpers from below. Alieka. I rushed down the staircase to find Vaeshi and Alieka holding each other tightly while the lights above them flickered. Maybe that was my vision. Vaeshi noticed me immediately, and she piped up as she noticed me staring at them. ALIEKA LOOKED GOOD ENOUGH TO KILL# <ERROR\\.
          "We were attacked," she told me. "Alieka needs to get to a hospital."
           We did. "You had something to tell me?"
           "I'll let you know once she's safe."
           I had to agree with her on that. I took Alieka into my arms and made sure to keep her eyes closed into my arms and made sure to keep her eyes closed on the way out. She was bleeding from her head, and it seemed to be the only warm part about her. My heart lurched.

           We arrived at the hospital, and I could sense Vaeshi's fear rising. The human section of Matum was a lot different that our own, but we had to come to this side. A nurse took Alieka as soon as I explained the situation, and we were forced to sit in the waiting room with our bodies waves apart from each other. Vaeshi stood, making it clear that she was a servant to me and nothing more, and the other humans in the room had their eyes locked on me. Yes, how strange the idea was for an Elite to take in a human child, but it wasn't that reason I found myself becoming embarrassed. My eyes were twitching, my coils inside rupturing. There was something terribly wrong with me, and I didn't want anyone to notice.
             If I went and got fixed, they would review the footage my eyes recorded down there. The Factory, those sly bastards, would surely try and take this Iskil matter into their own grubby hands, and I wasn't going to let them do that. Not now. The best thing for Vaeshi and I to do was stop this hacker from creating more damage for all of us.
             "What did you want to tell me?" I asked Vaeshi in a low whisper.
             The room shifted. Vaeshi turned to face me. "The robot that attacked mentioned a name in death. Gakanilr. I fear that might be the same man that caused the shutdown."
             She was lying to me. Vaeshi was an Elite whether she wanted to be or not, but I couldn't call her out here in the openness of humanity. With my eyes closed, I nodded in a small motion; there were these weird sparks in the darkness. I jolted my eyes open. Stay calm. In these moments of pure thought, I could not let myself become exposed. Slowly, the nurse came and gave us the news, but my body was in a state of distant nature. I was dissociating right here. KILL THE NURSE! ??<ERROR\\>
             "Elite Askin, are you there?"
              I shook my head and looked at her. "I am sorry for my impolite nature today. I am just worried." Ugh. When did sounding so polite burn like fire in the back of my throat?
              "I... I think Alieka will do fine. We stitched up her cut on her head and she has a few bruises, but other than that she's fine."
               Good. "Thank you."
              "She'll have to stay here for a few nights to recover." The nurse pulled out an old clipboard. "I just need your signature saying that it's okay since you're her caretaker."
              Caretaker... I picked up the pen and put down my numbers and today's date with a smile. A smile. My arm twitched. I quickly wrapped it up with another smile and turned back to Vaeshi.
               "We must confront this Gakanilr. I've already pinpointed the location, so I think I should go and find him," I whispered to her. Vaeshi's eyes widened.
              "Askin, are you sure?" she asked me. "The man must be dangerous."
              YOU-U-U ARE DANGEROUS-S TO-#//>. "Watch Alieka for me until I return, okay?"
               She nodded, and I started heading to the door without any real thoughts. My mind wasn't turning right. My body was corrupted, but I couldn't let anyone know that. Gakanilr was my next pursuit. After confronting him, I would resolve whatever happened to me, and then we would be on track to get to Japan. Oh, Japan. Yentira must've been ready for me to be there by now, and since this Factory shutdown, I was ready to leave. Kill Gakanilr, leave Matum, live comfortably in Japan. Wait. Was I going to kill the man? WHY WOULDN'T YOU? <ERROR>

               I walked there. A part of me wanted my coils to spring so much that they hurt beyond repair, which I figured was just a side effect of this virus in my body. I wanted things that were impossible, saying things that were not my style. But I kept walking with the sun beating down on my face in the chilling winter; it was one of those warm winter days that seemed out of place. I hated it. I came up to the house where the guy was, noticing a human family hanging out and having a good time. Humans... SOMETHING BAD IS- No. Stop it. I shook my head and snuck into the backyard where the signal was coming from.
              There was a laugh in the house. A child. Like Anav. My body started twitching, my metal grinding against metal. In the air, I could hear the clicking of a keyboard in the air, pounding so loud I couldn't even hear my own breath. So loud. So loud, so loud, so loud, SO LOUD! I slammed my feet into the ground and stomped my way to the shed. Swinging the door open, I found the human all snug in a blanket while his blue eyes were focused in on the monitor. So blue. So blue, so blue, so blue, SO FUCKING BLUE! The man only glimpsed at me before my hand coiled around his neck. I hoisted him from his chair and held him in the air with my teeth grinding against each other.
              "Gakanilr-r-r," I spoke.
              They didn't return the same gesture. "I-I-I WIlL KiLL YOU!"
               They gripped my wrist. "This... wasn't my job! I... was... paid."
               My hands tightened. "There are no innocent humans."
                I opened my mouth. Wide. My tongue came out not as one thing, but multiple frayed wires that sparked out from the inner parts of my mouth. Like the broken machine from before. I pulled him closer.
               "LEt ME INFeCT YoU!"
                His body spasmed, my teeth biting into his flesh to taste human blood and muscle and veins and tissue. It tasted... good. Like iron. Like nothing I've ever had. His blood started fading into the grass, the warmth of him disappearing into the air. No, I needed that warmth. NEEDED it! My head snapped to the house. Kids dancing. WArMTH. Spitting out the remainder of what flesh I had taken, I started creeping towards the house.
                Large, red-outlined windows. Like bloodshot eyes that saw within. So red, they were. The stomping of steps was taking over all other sounds, and I had to focus. The warmth was in there. How would I get in, get to the warmth of them? There was no time for thought, so I jumped through the window and crashed into the middle of the room. The stepping stopped, the screeching of a mother's peril taking the room. So loud, so loud, so loud, so loud... I opened my mouth, the wires long and sparking. Before anyone in the room could run away, they attached to their arms and legs and restrained them. Sparking. Their bodies screamed as the died, but the loudness of them wasn't enough. I needed to tear into their flesh. I had to, I had to, I had to, I had to!
                The woman came first. My metal fingers broke her ribs as I reached inside to find her heart. What a fixation, the heart. It was the warmest part of all inside the body, the most fragile ting that kept on beating. Beating and beating. I opened my mouth once more to taste it, let the blood gush in between the holes in my teeth as it all slipped down into my throat.
My hand stopped short.
                 Anav. Alieka. I dropped the heart and stood in a stir, making my head spin all wildly. I focused on the woman, and then I turned to the kids. They were dead. I killed them. EAT THE- NO. No, I wouldn't. I couldn't. I started to run out of the house and onto the street where I landed on my knees and threw up. Whatever came out of me was so red, like the deepest pits of Hell were coming out of my stomach cavity. What... was wrong with me? Oh my god, I needed to get to the Factory; I needed to tell them what happened.
                 How could I? They would send me to the chopping block, split me in pieces and destroy me. I couldn't do that. I couldn't! I just had to live through this and figure it out myself. No one needed to know.
                   AT THE END OF D-D-D <ERROR>