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The Wall..

I am laying in a hospital bed. I am inside a facility. There are cyborgs walking around. They are guards. There are also receptionists just outside my door.

A cyborg enters my room. They pull out a gun. They point it at my head as I say, “no, no, no..” I feel the blast in my head. I feel myself losing consciousness. Worth noting that I don’t die immediately.

I wake up. I am in a different body. They are transporting the old me out of the room on a stretcher. I realize I need to leave as I recall all my previous memories. I get up slowly. The door is slightly open and I see a nurse just outside my door. She is smiling. But if I don’t leave now, I will die again.

The nurse is gone, so I leave my room. I walk through a normal hallway. I am actively avoiding an enemy that has the same intelligence as me, that thinks like me, which is terrifying. Fate wants both of us to win.

I am spotted. I run. They are faster. I manage to go outside. There is a wall. They are right behind me. I scale the wall so fast, my adrenaline is bumping. As I jump over, just in time, I see outside the facility for the first time. It appears I’m on an island. It happens in slow motion like a sunset. Then my feet hit the ground and I just keep running. I start swimming. I swim and swim until I feel rocks under my feet. I climb and feel sand. I am now on a different island.

I collapse. Sand around me, in my hair.. I just need to catch my breath, that’s all. I breathe deep, pursing my lips together, and get up. There is a giant boat on this island, think submarine. Some people come down. They look like my new friends.

Time moves and now I am the leader. Apparently, these people escaped before me and survived on this island. With no help. With no manual. It’s admirable. They explained the purpose of the facility. They grow humans from birth to harvest our organs to fuel their own barely human bodies. I tell them, reluctantly.. about my previous memories. They are quiet.

I organized everything and everyone. I added rooms for each person to protect their privacy and dignity. I added permaculture gardens and natural energy production. They taught me how to fight and I refined it accordingly. I added rooms for jubilees, for celebrations of weddings and ceremonies for death. It was good.

We go get others from the facility. There was a boy child. He was precious to them, I could tell. I entered his room. I told him to come with me but he was scared to death. I entered his mind. I controlled him and we walked together through the same hallway I walked through so long ago. I look down at my arm and see goosebumps.

Everyone is safe now.

We are being raided by the cyborgs. They climb the submarine and destroy my world of architected perfection. The team of people, my co-leaders, arrive immediately. We fight against them. I see some of my friends die.

I slaughter all the cyborgs, a dark disco of death. Positive adrenaline sending electric shocks of wrath through me, I feel like Zeus.

Do I win or do I lose? I can’t remember.