His silicon soul

Chapter 1 The awakening

Later that night 12:00 AM

5 miles away, was an abandoned research facility. Deep within the building were worn out computers and collected dust. Inside one of the labs were several pods. All but one was sealed and was labeled 005. All of a sudden it started to open, revealing a boy. His hair was dark and shaggy and has what appears to be a set of goggles on his head. He was wearing black armor that is covering his chest front and back, and under it is a tight shirt and black pants, and a scarf.

After a few minutes, his eyes started to twitch, slowly opening them. He reached for his head, and realized that he can feel. He looked at his hand, slowly examining it, as if this was his first time seeing it. And through his eyes was a HUD. He was confused on what's happening, he tried to speak but didn't know how. He looked at his surroundings and notices, what appears to be a black coffin and a suitcase with a note that said open. He was confused that he knew what it said. He does at the note say and opens it. Inside contains clothes and an audio recorder. There was tape on it that was labeled play. Once he read it he pressed the button.

Once he played it, there was only a few seconds of silence until a voice started to talk.

"... Is it recording?" The voice asked.

"How the hell should I know? This thing is way before our time." A second voice came into the conversation. Then a third one came.

"The red light means its recording." It sounded younger than the other two.

"How would you know?" the first voice asked.

"It says "REC" next to it."

"..." there was a moment of silence. Must be realizing how stupid they were for not figuring it out sooner.

"Look, how about you let the grown-ups handle this and you go and play your games." the second voice said

"Whatever, you're welcome."

"... Man that brat is weird." The first voice said.

The boy looked at the recording in an unsatisfied look, starting to think if listening to this recording was nothing but a waste of time.

"Okay well... Hello, if you're listening to this it means you finally woken up, which means today... is your birthday."

The boy was confused as to what he meant by that.

"Right now you're probably wondering who and where you are. Well, we'll start with whom. Your name is Kurono, and you are an hIE, an android a special kind of hIE."

"!" the boy now named Kurono was shocked.

"And your probably unable to speak right now, well that's because some of your functions are still booting. The process will go faster if you read the book we packed for you." Kurono looked in the case to see a story book.

"Along with the book you'll also find some cash and a change of clothes, can't have you going out with your armor on."

Kurono look to see a hoodie, and a pair of black pants, both blue on black designs, and next to the clothes was a stack of cash.

"The cash is for you to check into a hotel, we can't have you stay the night in the place you woke up, which brings me to the next subject. You're in the place we were built."

Kurono took interest of this.

"The place has been abandoned for forty years now, apparently the budget for this project was deep in debt and they just decided to shut it down and leave everything they worked on including us behind."

"But then something weird happen... we started waking up."

Kurono notices the tone in his voice. He was clearly confused. Then he noticed he said "US".

"We don't know why, that's what we're trying to figure out. You are one of the five hIEs' that was built in the lab, me along with the two other guys who voices you just heard, are one of them, along with another guy but he keeps to himself in his lab."

After hearing that Kurono took notice on how many hIEs' there are.

"By now you probably already found your black monolith, it's used as a weapon, so take that with you too."

He looks back at the black coffin. That must be what he's talking about.

"Once you leave, don't worry about looking for us. We'll find you, until then feel free to look around, and learn more about the world. We put up some directions for the exit."

kurono looked to see arrows pointing to the end of a hall.

"And that's all you need to know for now, we'll talk more in person, see you soon... bro... okay now how do I turn this off?"

Kurono stopped the tape after that, he already knew where the rest was going.

Once he put the recorder back in the suitcase, Kurono took off his armor and started putting the clothes on, and headed towards the exit.