Wired Observer

I find myself in the hospital, looking up at the ceiling. My vision is getting blurry, and I’m struggling to breathe. I look up at the monitor beeping faster and faster beside me.
“There are so many things I still wanted to do before I died.”
A tear runs down my face, and my vision darkens. I can only just hear the sound of a brief door slam and nurses surrounding me, and then I completely black out. Nothing surrounds me now, just darkness stretching infinitely, but with every step I take, the evening ripples below me like water. 
I kept walking for what felt like forever until I heard a deep voice in the distance that drilled fear into my heart. 
“Humans, they think, can change and cheat death.” 
The voice echoed through the darkness, and the ripples around me became more like waves. I was confused, but I knew I couldn’t stop, so I kept walking as far as I could. Eventually, I heard a familiar voice talking with someone else, saying something I couldn’t quite make out until I got closer in the darkness and could hear it perfectly. 
“I’m sorry, sir. There’s nothing we could do for your son.” It was quiet until I heard another voice I instantly recognized. 
“Then give Onyx’s body back to me. I will figure something else out myself. I refuse to let him die like this.”
Eventually, as I kept walking in the darkness, I followed my father’s voice to the best of my ability and reached a strangely dark, large, oozing building. I walked over to the building, pushed as hard as I could against the oozing door with my shoulder, and knocked it down. As I entered the building, I looked around and instantly locked eyes with what looked like me. We both turned our heads at one another, almost like a mirror. 
I turned to see a boy in the corner holding a ball of light, and I instantly knew I had to grab it. I ran as fast as I could and my eyes looked over to see this other version of myself neck and neck with me, racing me to the boy holding the ball of light. But his eyes weren’t focused on me, they were focused on the boy. I looked down at my leg as I felt something snagging me by my foot; the ooze was pulling me down. I watched as the other version of me picked up the little boy by his neck, and snapped it with no regard. 
He took the ball from the child, approached me, and crouched before me with it in his hands. The black ooze had utterly engulfed my body. I unexpectedly reached for the ball of light in his hands and pulled him into the dark ooze with me. Suddenly, the ball of light became more prominent as we both held it, and it became brighter until it swallowed both of us altogether. 
A bright light pointed down at me, and I watched as the words "Loading," complete in blue, faded from my eyes. I glared at the light. 
"Where am I?" I thought to myself, and then automatically, images and data began to flow into my head like magic.
Somehow, I knew I was in my father’s work office.
I looked down at the restraints on my wrists, which were made of metal. My eyes zoomed in on them strangely, and the words “Automatic Titanium Cuff Bracelet.” came across my vision in blue, blinking text. What? Is that even possible? I looked at the computer with "Unlock Cuffs" blinking on the screen in the corner of my room. Then, a strange blue "confirmed" button appeared on my eyeballs. I said yes in my head, and the cuffs on my wrists unlocked. I glared at my hands and the computer. What’s wrong with me? I got up, and I stared at all the equipment. It all looked dusty, almost as if nobody had touched it in ages. 
I turned away from all the strange machinery and entered the dark and ominous hallway, My eyes lit up, almost as if I had put on the old night vision goggles I had as a child. Suddenly, I could see everything in a static blue hue. As I walked, I looked around at all the equipment that looked utterly out of place. The site seemed abandoned. “Hello?” I yelled out, only to receive no response, as expected. I continued on my way until I reached an archway that branched into two robotic rooms. 
A strange person came out of the room on the right, into the archway, and stood before me, perfectly still. “Hello?” I yelled out again. The person yelled back the exact words. I said the same. I stepped back, and they approached me with a knife at incredible speed. I ran away as fast as I could and hid behind some of the boxes in the dark hallway. I waited until the individual chasing me walked beside me; it was at that point I knew what I had to do. I jumped out and tackled them to the ground, glaring into their dark soulless eyes. Reflected in them was a boy with white hair and a blue haze around his eyes. 
“Hello, Onyx. I am Onyx.” his voice said as it crackled and distorted. I studied his appearance in his eyes, and looked at my own in the reflection of his eyeballs. I fell back a few feet and rested against a box. My thoughts began to compose on my eyeballs in blue flashing text, and then I entered my question.
“Where are the humans that worked here?” 
Images of a terrible explosion appeared before my eyes, followed by an article about the death of John Onyx and several other brilliant scientists responsible for the ability to completely transfer a human's life into a cyborg's body. Is that what I am? In that case, am I dead? I can’t be. My father’s fine. I glared over at the other version of me, who was now gone, and quickly rushed to my feet. I began looking for an exit sign. When I found one, I ran towards it as fast as I could. Suddenly, the other version of me appeared in front of me and pushed me to the ground harshly. His eyes began to leak a black, oily substance as he repeated my father’s voice back to me.
"Onyx will be the most remarkable scientist in all of humanity's future, and he’s got a good heart from his mother.” 
Another voice line played in my father’s voice. 
“This first version of Onyx is mindless and does not possess my boy’s kindness or love. Instead, something else has entered this cyborg's body before he could, and I must destroy it.” 
Screaming sounds began to play that sounded like my father’s voice. I watched as his head turned towards the knife, and realized what had happened. He murdered my father and the other scientists, and caused an explosion as a coverup. What the hell is this monster? He vanished instantly. I ran straight up the exit stairs and made it outside. 
There was nothing but a foundation remaining. The area where the company contained him and me was completely underground, which explained why the explosion didn’t reach us. Suddenly, something shot me in the eyes, and I couldn’t see. A blue text error message popped across my face. I turned back toward where the shot came from and could still sense the bullet's trajectory. If only my father had never turned me into this. If only he had loved me instead of trying to force me to improve. I saw an old, rusted knife next to me and picked it up. “Humans, they think, can change and cheat death. But the truth is, I am now dead.” 
The next thing I knew, I was in front of my father, holding the knife in my hands. I stared out the broken glass window that my father’s body was beside, and I watched as the reactor that powered the building exploded, and the bright light engulfed me instantly. 
A bright light pointed down at me, and I watched as the words "Loading," complete in blue, faded from my eyes. I glared at the light, but this time, I knew what I was. I am the Wired Observer, and I am free.
Category:Beings
Category:Weird