I was floating through nothingness. All around me, seemingly
infinite darkness in every direction. I’m floating through it, yet at the very
same time I was stationary. It took a while longer before I realised that I was
conscious once more. But, if I am conscious again, I should be able to open my
eyes, move my body, but I can’t do that. I have no physical connection to my
body. I’m just a mind floating through nothing.
For the first
time since the fight, I felt relaxed. No pain, no worries,
just pure bliss. I wanted to smile, but I have no mouth to do so.
Am I back in the
void, travelling from one Parallel Universe to another? Has the fight against
to robots proven too much for me to handle and the watch is automatically sending
me back home to where I belong?
Something’s in
front of me, coming closer. A figure of some kind. It’s blurry to begin with,
but soon focuses and I see who or what it is. A man, walking towards me,
dressed in a suit, looking all serious. It took a second longer to realise that
the man walking towards me is none other than Interface. I was incredibly
confused beyond anything that I have ever experienced in my life.
Interface stops
about a metre or so away from me and smiles a comforting smile that made me
feel happy. He reaches out to me
with his left arm and points at me. I watch him perform this weird dance with
his hands before feeling something beyond describable. My body was growing into
existence. First my head, then my neck and shoulders, then my torso and arms,
followed shortly by my thighs and hands, then finally my legs and feet. I am
myself once more. My feet touch something solid, even though there’s nothing
there for me to stand on. Whatever it is, Interface must have placed it there
so that we’re not floating away from each other.
‘How do you
feel?’ Interface asked me. I wondered why he asked me that question considering
that I am unable to speak, but I opened my mouth and distinguishable words came
out.
‘I’m fine,’ I
said simply in my normal voice. It wasn’t strained or weak from just appearing
out of nowhere, but just felt plain normal. Interface nodded to indicate that
he was satisfied with my answer.
‘Where am I?’ I
asked. ‘Am I dead?’
‘You are not
dead. You are in the watch,’ he said.
‘In the watch?’ I
asked, screwing up my face with confusion. It felt awesome to have the ability
to move the muscles in my face once more. It seems that any amount of time out
of your body is enough to feel ecstatic when you finally get it back. This was
a similar experience to travelling through the Void, but in some ways it’s
nothing like it. Sure, both places I was just consciousness floating through a
seemingly infinite nothing, but when I got my body back, I wasn’t weak as I
were when I came out of the other end of the Void. Instead I actually felt
refreshed and relaxed, as if I had an extremely good night’s sleep for just the
right amount of hours without any distractions from anything from the outside
world, on a brand new mattress that has never been used before, in an incredibly comfortable position that meant I didn’t wake up with
a cramped muscle anywhere on my body.
‘When you were
attacked by that robot, you were forced into unconsciousness, and whenever you
do that and you are wearing the watch, you get transported here, where you are
protected until your body wakes up,’ Interface explained.
‘So the watch
made a backup of my subconscious for whenever I lose the use of my body,’ I
said slowly, trying to understand everything that Interface is saying.
‘No,’ he said
simply before explaining further, ‘you are in the watch. When you lose
consciousness, you are transported here. You are not a backup.’ I think I can understand
that. Anyway…
‘So what do I do
to wake up, then?’ I asked.
‘You can either
wait until you naturally wake up or you can wake up on your own accord,’
Interface said.
‘How do I do
that?’
‘Use your will
power. Think yourself awake and you will wake up.’
‘That sounds easy
enough,’ I said, closing my eyes and imagining myself waking up. I felt my body
disintegrate and I was back to being a floating consciousness (I was going to
say orb, but I knew that I wasn’t any kind of physical object). I was back to
feeling weird again, but this time I actually felt that my eyes were closed,
even though I have no eyelids.
Then, suddenly, I
was waking up in the crater. There was no explanation. It was just too quick
for me to process it. All that happened was I imagined myself waking up and
then I was.
But then came
along the pain. It rolled all over me, intensifying with every second. The pain
was so incredibly powerful that I nearly passed out again, but I wished not to
slip back into unconsciousness. I willed myself to move and stand up and I was
able to move my arms and legs, stretch them out. My body was weak and shaking
each time I put my weight on them.
I reached for my watch and slowly but surely, scrolled through the many options until I found the healing factor. I increased the power level to the point where my body felt no pain at all. It just faded away as my body was slowly healed by the power of the watch. Soon, I was back to my normal-self. I stood up and stretched my body this way and that to free up my limbs as best I could. I felt no more pain and that was a huge relief.
I reached for my watch and slowly but surely, scrolled through the many options until I found the healing factor. I increased the power level to the point where my body felt no pain at all. It just faded away as my body was slowly healed by the power of the watch. Soon, I was back to my normal-self. I stood up and stretched my body this way and that to free up my limbs as best I could. I felt no more pain and that was a huge relief.
This time, I am
not going to lose the fight. I will not go down so easily as before.
It’s time to make
my comeback…
TO BE CONTINUED…
Thanks for reading
Antony Hudson
(TonyHadNouns)
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