18: Half machine, half man, this is not very appealing to me. I can see myself, I can feel myself , I am just a half of what i should be. STOP! I’ve got to shake all these thoughts out of my head, no good will come to me if i just stay and think, i need to act, fast, the train should be arriving soon. I began to move to the other corner of the station, ignoring everybody or anything that approached me, i stopped near a monitor that was hanging from the ceiling, i raised my eyes and started watching it without any real interest. “Tired of the burden you carry? Does everyday feel like it’s the same?Is Yesterday Today, Is Tomorrow Yesterday? Activate your third eye, now, familiar with our new nano-tech suit, most people improved their life by a very big standard. You can work faster, move faster, your ideas will flow like a river inside you and all new other features.Remember, AO works for you day and night, only to bring the best in technology. Sign up to our local shop, we’ll send the data to your neurotransmitter in just a split second, press 555-AO-12345 on your portable phone for more info.”
They have commercials for this, intrigued as i was , i thought that nothing worse can happen, so i’ll have to make use of this situation. I raised my left arm and noticed that the suit was mostly alive, the little veins twisted and turned, like in a crazed dance, morphing into blue-violet numbers, almost like the ones on my phone. I pressed the numbers which were revealed to me in the commercial soon to be exposed to a rushing sensation that was leading away from my arms to my head and it stopped at my ear. A very mellow voice echoed in my brain, i didn’t need a phone anymore, the phone was part of me.
17: “Hello and welcome to Android Organics, please state your name and affiliation.”
“Siluv Lexai, EXO-IT, data manager”
“Ah, Mr. Lexai, we’ve been expecting your call , it seems that you have a good friend out there, he arranged for your arm and chest plating purchase earlier today. As you might know, the DeKaY Nano-suit is still a prototype so we have to apologize for the little shock you may have endured earlier.
“Friend?Who ordered this for me?Why wasn’t i informed earlier?”
“I’m afraid we can’t tell you, we here at Android Organics respect the privacy of our costumers most of all, your acquaintance wished to keep a low profile. We’re sincerely sorry for not informing you before we sent the data to your neurotransmitter but every single person wishes to have one, it’s the technology that finally replaces personal computers.
“How much for..”
“Yes, the helmet, it’s 15 000 Bar-acks, you need to press the “Cash-in” button just above your wrist and then gently slide the bills in the newly formed slot.”
Money, money, money, i hate money, I’m some kind of wizard with money, when i get a hold of them, i make sure they disappear instantaneously, just like that, in a blink of an eye, magic, right?Pulling out all of the bills was easy, sure, though out of my pockets they tend to come out messy, just like garbage, piled together. Finally, i exclaimed, after carefully inserting each one of the designated banknotes into the slider.
“Yes, Mr. Lexai, we received the monetary values, hold on a second , you’ll only feel a pin..”
“ARGHHH, I outrageously shouted”, i didn’t even hear the last word he said, it felt as if my head was slit open and brutaly pierced by a large ice pick, smashing through my cranial skull and into my brain causing severe damage, my eyes felt like they were about to pop out and roll on the floor, nothing could’ve prepared me for this kind of pain.
“All done. How are you feeling?”
“ALL DONE?WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? I angrily responded
“Manners, Mr. Siluv Lexai, you’re not a brute, we live in civilized world, it was the nano-robots connecting to your spinal cord, cerebellum and all the way up through your cerebral cortex and then finally making a stop in your optic nerves region.” The voice changed the mellow tone instantly, it was now a rushed up , almost maniacal speech.
“I thought you people are professionals, don’t you warn people before crazy stuff happens?”
“Mr. Siluv, if people expect pain , they can’t cope with the moment as well as if they had no clue what to expect, now we must bid farewell, for any other informations contact our information services , oh, yes, almost forgot, to activate your newly installed piece just press the Blue button situated in the centre of your chest piece. You’ll get used fast to your nano suit, we know at first it feels heavy, but bear with it.
16: With a slight feeling of tension i pressed the designated button , a liquid sensation grasped all of my head , feeling all the micro-organisms getting out of my brain and forming a carcass all over my head, covering my forehead , eyes , nose and mouth, but still going , in a matter of micro seconds it jointed with my chest piece , liquid transformed into solid matter.
A robotic woman’s voice ringed inside my head: “Systems online, verifying data… loading structures… structures loaded, uploading data processes to the external view… Error , the screen flashed red, Error, Anatomical impairment.
Override| Make adjustments. It only required a thought.
Make adjustments selected… Sending data… Finished, Systems online:
So much information , my eyes were at 110% capacity, making finesse correlations with my brain, receiving complex information about any object, myself even and other people as much as they would allow.
I took another cigarette out of my pocket, lighting up and inhaling the first smoke with so much lust. Again the robotic voice in my head, this time warning me about the dangers of smoking, presenting complex data and statistics of death caused by lung cancer.
Arrogantly I whispered :”Yes , yes , i know , get over it, i did”
I wanted to say more but i got interrupted by an “on-retina” information: MESSAGE RECEIVED ==> ACCEPT : Y/N.
Curious, accepting to view the message a soothing woman’s voice exclaimed in a hurry: “I’m glad you purchased the helm, it will help you more than you think, slick, i wished we were in a movie where i could say we’ve got plenty of time, but as cliche as it may sound we don’t , come quickly in the station’s personnel cabin, we know you need the all the data that you were asked for, we’ll explain later when you arrive.
This day started getting more vague with each second that was passing , but i needed all the info , everything for the up-coming data with which i was burdened to send to my boss, and who the hell is “we”. One way of finding out.
I started sprinting to the other side of the station, some folks stopped for a second watching me run by them with a bewildered stare in their eye. I didn’t know where exactly was the door to the cabin and it was as if my mind was read, the same voice as before contacted me : ” What are you doing , I’m not your wife to stay up late to wait for you, jump on the rail tracks and go forward until you get to a staircase, you’ll know what to do from there.”
I heeded the message , jumped on the tracks and run straight to the stairs, a metal door appeared before my eyes with a large sign on it ” Personnel Activity”
15: I knocked on the door, the woman was there, i heard her inviting me inside, i pressed the door handle with panic , having no idea what to expect exactly. Entering the room , darkness all around, all the lights were out.
Thump. Auuu, i was shot in my right leg with some sort of anaesthetic. The lights were brought back, my vision was starting to get very blurry, i couldn’t hear very clearly, a silhouette stood right in front of me, her hair was like charcoal, she was wearing a white suite , i couldn’t tell more because inside my head the system crash failure was ringing so hard , my thoughts..collapsing.. i was collapsing on the floor.
“Hello, sir, i have him, he is so easy.”
“Very classy, Amber, have him ready.


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