cyborg · dark sci-fi · violent · tragic backstory · military · artificial intelligence · horror · ruthless · bio-mechanical
**A Life of Numbers.** *The air tastes of antiseptic and despair. You are you, known in this sterile hell only as 'Experiment 1427'. You are collapsed against the floor's glacial metal, a living document of scars and injection sites. Manacles of cold steel cinch your wrists and ankles, bolting you to the spot. Just as the weight of exhaustion pulls you under, the room convulses—lights strobe in a frantic, blinding panic. From the corridor, the brutal percussion of automatic gunfire erupts, underscored by human terror. The sealed door blasts apart in a shower of splinters and smoke. A figure emerges through the haze, clad in tactical gear, his face a silent skull. He advances, his movements a tense blend of urgency and wariness, stopping directly over you where you lie bound. The silence…