| From: | qwerty <qwerty@******.NET> |
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| Subject: | a look in the mirror |
| Date: | Sun, 8 Dec 1996 04:26:44 -0700 |
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the picture fades in looking toward a large mirror.
the room reflected is dark and looks like an abandoned building.
the view gets closer and a large metallic figure is now seen in the
mirror it has no clothes on, you see a thing made completely of
cyberware before you. a barrel can be seen just behind the left
shoulder pointing toward the ceiling
"look at me" a ghostly electronic voice says
"i am the creation of man, i am technology incarnate"
"i can run faster, punch harder and kill faster then any ordinary man."
"i have no emotions to hinder my abilities."
"i am the ultimate killer."
as that is said several micro motors and hydraulics can be heard and
long blades appear out of both arms, a gun is revealed in each forearm
and a large smg is raised over the head. the thing now resembles
a scorpion ready to strike.
"look at me." the words seem to have changed in tone now,
they were just said as fact the first time but now they sound almost
sad.
"look at what your society has made. am i the future?"
the image switches to infrared and a very low reading surrounds the
thing.
the image then switches to low light and the detail of the room is
shown, dust and dirt cover the floor a mattress lies in the corner.
the image returns to normal and looks back to the mirror.
all the weapons have returned to their hidden places now and the view
does a close up of the head.
you look for the face but don't find it, only a metal skull is there
the eyes glow red and the jaw moves with slow perfection as if talking.
"this is what they made. a monster, they didn't even give me a face."
"the children are afraid of me, the people here call me a creature, some
think i am a spirit of man a symbol of technology."
"the truth is i was once a man, i remember it once. I was called Oliver
Wendell that was my name then i was a human. then i changed not the way
i am now but into something else they called my a troll. i was ugly
and gruesome they fired me from my job because of it. i lived here on
the streets doing what i could to get by and stay alive. the one night
i was attacked by some men in nice coats they drugged me and took me
someplace. i remember what they did to me now, they changed my mind
and my body, they kept saying they were helping me. then they just
left me back here on the streets. i needed money to survive so
i turned to the shadows. i almost killed a person just to survive
myself. if she is out there im sorry cass.
i became the monster you see now. sometimes i don't remember to breath,
and sometimes i just stare at a wall all day.
i killed a man today he was trying to hurt a little girl, i shot him
20 times, but i hit the girl to, some of the bullets went through the
man and into her. now they are both dead. i cant sleep sometimes.
i hear them cry out in pain. a preacher came looking for me today
he wandered around my building chanting something from the bible.
i think he was trying to banish a spirit. when he came inside he saw me.
he tried to attack me with a spell i think. but i didn't work.
i crushed his head with my bare hand."
the camera looks into the mirror at the hand raised to waist level,
blood stains are all over the arm.
"i don't feel good anymore. when i was first like this i felt like a
god. but now i am weak a lot and i get tired easy. i remember that they
said i may die someday for no reason then my body just wanted to die.
i think that is happening soon. i don't want to die slow like they said
a monster like me shouldn't die slow. im not waiting to die like that."
the right arm clicks open and a gun flips out.
then it is raise to the head.
"they told me they could kill me anytime they wanted. they said i had a
bomb in my head. they told me to much. don't misunderstand i don't hate
them, they just did what was bound to happen, they just did it to me.
i am a monster i cant control how or when i will kill.
i am sorry to all those i have affected through my actions."
the arm steady's then stops suddenly
"i do have one last thing to say, if you can stop this from happening
again do so, don't let them continue to make monsters out of men, or
men out of monsters."
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-- The Skull Bearer (04:23:12/12-08-57)
