What makes a man a man? or rather, a human a human? because I have no idea, is it our sentience? the fact we're organic? our genes? our ability to feel? our dreams? our emotions? or our free will? if you believe we have free will of course.
If you believe in the organic part, then I'm not human, no, although I was once… before what happened to me that is, when my family was killed in a fire.
I woke up in Equestria, although that may have been a dream, but it felt completely real.
I was in a car crash, that much was obvious, I was pretty sure that wasn't a dream...
I woke up again at the crash site, the lorry that crashed into me had been holding explosive fuel and they'd blown up when I was hurled out of my car.
I looked down and saw my legs were gone! they looked as if they'd been burnt!
I screamed and screamed, but no one came for a long time, eventually I passed out.
"He's here! We've got him!" was the last thing I heard before I passed out again.
When I woke up I was floating… in a tank full of water and a rebreather on my face, I heard muffled voices, I panicked and I thrust my fist forward out of bodily nerves, and terror, smashing the glass and falling out.
"He's awake! Administer the anaesthetic before he gets that rebreather off his face!" exclaimed the doctor.
I got the hint and tore it off, taking a few wires that lead into me with it and I groaned in pain.
"Ah! Son of a-" I cut off, even though there was no need to.
The doctors all ran out and left me, I could tell it was the CIA's Med Lab, I'd only been in here once, when I took a more... involved job for the secret service, not that they knew they were, or that I'd looked in their personal effects and found the badges.
I tried to move my legs but they wouldn't budge, I looked down and saw my legs were back! Although I had a sinking feeling they were mostly, if not all cybernetic, I felt a few extra things in my body, obviously I had been implemented with a few extra enhancements or other things, I could feel my important parts, but from the groin down, I could feel, but not move.
I was also completely naked like Luke fucking Skywalker, my legs looked organic enough luckily and felt it too, I couldn't remember the past... year? I somehow knew it had been a year, two at most, because I had VERY fuzzy memories, I couldn't make jack shit of them.
But I had to get out of there, I tried moving through 'normal' mean, eventually I simply thought to myself 'move!' and my legs did, and I felt it happen.
I just let my mind take over and had the objective in my mind 'get up' and I did, when I got up from the back of my head I felt something snake around my body, eventually something covered my face for a second but then I could see infrared! I saw a mirror and looked at my reflection, I looked like the cyborg ninja from MGS: The Twin Snakes, except the armor was black and red like the Deadpool version, which I'm a fan of, so I was kinda excited, I made my visor retract into itself and made it retract fully so it wasn't visible, I looked different, I still had my wafro (white mans afro) but it was black rather than my original brown. and my eyes were almost glowing blue, they were ultramarine blue and I felt a little weird.
I also saw the sword from the game, were these scientists hardcore MGS fans? Or maybe just unoriginal… they probably typed cyborg ninja into Google images, idiots
I chuckled at my own private thoughts and claimed the sword, there were three buttons on the hilt, one made the sword as it was, long the other shortened it and the other retracted it completely.
"Sweet" I admired.
"Move, move!" I heard security coming, I jumped up, on some kind of instinct and latched onto the corner of the room, my hands backwards flat on the wall while my body was hugging the corner, how I stayed up there, I had no clue.
When the guards ran in and surveyed the room they looked confused, I dropped on one and broke his back, severing his spine with just my feet! I activated my blade and impaled the guard behind me, while my sword was still in his torso and the guard in front spun around to face me, I kicked his gun out of his hands and yanked the blade out of the other guard, when the front guard ran at me, I put the blade in a holster on my back and positioned my hands weirdly, when he was in arm's reach my hand automatically moved in a strange way as soon as contact with his head was made, and I snapped his neck like nothing and threw him into the wall, leaving a sizable dent.
"Weird…" I said, and looked at my hand. I moved over to the monitor and saw an x-ray of my body, there were red blips everywhere, my legs were just red outright and the lab notes said (this is supposed to be mixed up, imagine they are rushed lab notes scribbled down during or just before the procedures)
Test Subject Alpha- The Perfect Soldier-(Project Ezekiel 2517: HIGHEST PRIORITY) official status- DECEASED, confirmed by official coroner, coroner not on Cia payroll, known family: none, DECEASED. n
No pulse when first found, attempt to revive successful, first attempt successful.
;WARNING: MADE VASTLY POWERFUL FOR FIRST ATTEMPT, TERMINATE SUBJECT IMMEDIATELY;
O= cybernetic implants...
;SUBJECT MUST SLEEP IN WATER, EARS BECOME TOO SENSITIVE WHEN SLEEPING;
brain brought back and implemented with computer system linked to consciousness, eyes have thermal vision/night vision available, 20/20 vision in subject already present, will alter a little and experiment to see if we can make him see better.
Subject has no close family and is off the grid, will use him for project, Subject brought in as of August 25th 2015, cause of death: car accident, lost lower legs as result, damage not as bad as first expected, will be perfect to test full cybernetic limbs possibility, subject comatose for now.
Subject has responded well to initial tests, will continue with procedures as planned.
Subjects hearing improved and optional added hearing volume adjustment so subject can alter it to suit his needs, available suit colour changer as first beta test, successful, can move on with practical implants, genetics modified, ready for exoskeleton insertion and perfected legs, however they need complete cybernetic and mechanical control, Subject completely agile, can perform acrobatic moves seamlessly and can run at superhuman speed, arms also implemented, very flexible and versatile, bones impossible to break in any part of body, exoskeleton replaced bone skeleton only bone removed other muscles and organs remain intact apart from legs, more convenient to replace entire skeleton rather than just legs
Conduits for electricity place in each shoulder blade, they are also other unknown conduits for something unknown, will need further investigation
Subject has ability to conduct lightning to recharge other exoskeleton/bodily functions if needed, once one spark is ignited both conduits will power each other for an indefinite period of time allowing subject unlimited control of lightning.
Material added to suit so subjects footsteps are silenced, muscles given boosters, will easily shatter titanium if subject wills, heart implemented so heart attack is impossible, includes pacer that subject can control beat, will help to calm nerves in dangerous situations or pick up if undercover and needs to fake emotion, nerves implemented in the same way, eyes implemented with zoom function.
Subject has control over amount of pain felt, ranging from normal human standard to non-existent, also removed shards of metal from subject after crash, skin decay after death no longer an issue, sword needs forging with latest tech as a HF blade, hand cannon confirmed under government and private funding, new arsenal ready for deployment w/ subject in the armory, fake credit cards ready for deployment w/ subject in the field, new stealth/optic camouflage implemented into subjects spine, ready for use, code for activation- Alpha Charlie Tango India Victor Alpha Tango Echo.(ACTIVATE, in NATO Phonetic alphabet)
I repeated the code and I seemed to static out for a second before becoming visible, I thought to myself:
'Invisible' and I was! I thought 'visible' and lo and behold I was!
I read the next line:
Shields implemented in subjects suit gloves, invisible to naked eye and able to protect subject from firearms if required, suit bulletproofed and special material made for maximum toughness, combined with cybernetics and exoskeleton, will break persons hand that makes contact forcefully, sword made from flexible material Graphene combined with titanium, flexible only if subject wills, sword now connected to subjects consciousness via brain signals and computer interface, special magnets in hand of subject will attract titanium alloy that sword is made from, allowed subject to control what materials can be affected by the magnet.
Genes have been perfected, will perform vasectomy when subject wakes and will implement suppression so subject does not find romantic attraction, toxin condenser added, any consumed toxins(alcohol included) will be turned into poison for use in dart gun implemented into the top of the wrist, also flushes toxins from body making subject immune, biological warfare added to subject, vials of diseases in left back pocket of suit ONLY USE IF ORDERED AND CONFIRMED BY PRESIDENT, in final test stages added computer AI in helmet, activation word 'computer' subject may change it if he wishes, for beta test run of system we have downloaded all current music in the world onto computer, test successful, have fully installed AI.
NEW AS OF DECEMBER 30th 2016(Incidentally subjects birthday): Subject broke out, used failsafe on him, unfortunately head scientist Dr. Mason removed the failsafe, new head scientist is me. Mason removed first failsafe as well as most, if not all other failsafes, side effect is partially erased memory on subject, not necessarily a bad thing, Dr. Mason fled the facility and has not been found, taking the test instructions with him, subjects vasectomy not performed, will wait to induce suppression until vasectomy is done.
Nothing else was on the screen so I picked up a guards keycard and walked out of the 'test chamber' I wonder what I did?
I knew the vasectomy hadn't been performed luckily, the scientist would have wrote that he did it, and I would've felt it.
I saw two signs '<---armory' and 'finance--->' I chose the former.
I headed to the armory and the door opened for me, letting me in, I saw names on the lockers, but nothing for me… ah! A sign saying 'test subject armaments'
I entered the amazing room with weapons strewn about the tables, all with different designations, I went to The Perfect Soldier area and looked for my Project... ah! Project Ezekiel! I saw Alpha and headed to my table, and saw my weapons, two were implants, for what? I'm not sure, but it looks sweet.
I saw the area marked out where I needed to inject myself.
"Here goes nothing" I said and injected myself in the arm, it didn't go into my skin however, it went into my suit, to the back of my head, 'Charlie Alpha November November Oscar November- CANNON' with that a cannon appeared on my arm, I clenched my fist out of instinct and the cannon fired a blast, destroying a few things in the room and making one hell of a noise, seriously, are these scientists original AT ALL? Metroid/MGS?
I willed the cannon to go away and it did, I don't know how though.
I did something I should have done when I woke up, I went for my pockets and as I moved my hand lower my visor interface told me what my hand was hovering over: 'pistol holster left' then lower down 'submachine gun holster left' I moved to my back pocket area and 'money holder' came up, I picked up two tactical SMG's and holstered them:
same with the pistols, which were my two golden Berettas, with a few differences:
not very subtle… but the suit hides them somehow, I picked up some clothes that they placed for me and bagged them.
I picked up my two Zeniths as well as the suppressors as well.
After I had all my stuff I turned to leave and bolt it out of there but was met face to face by a team of security guards and a scientist.
"Ah shit..." I said.
"Now now, come back, we need you" he said.
"What? To terminate? You can go to hell doc, like I should of." I said as my visor parted to reveal my face.
"I had hoped it wouldn't come to this, open fire!" said the scientist.
They started shooting and on impulse my body started moving on its own, like it reacted to gunfire, my visor sealed again.
I dodged and used my sword to deflect them, my visor could predict the bullet's path from heat signatures, but I was still hit at one time, but my armor stopped the bullet.
"No! be careful! don't shoot the pylons-!" he cut off as one of the pylons behind me exploded, I thought this was it for sure as I was thrown across the room, but no… no, the higher ups, God or who or whatever, decided I needed to cheat death once more, like in my dream... that was how I ended up back here...