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Chapter 2 - What Am I? 1

FEW DAYS LATER

"Beep… beep… beep." 'where am I?' Dorian thought as he opened his eyes slowly. His eyes were embraced by the ray of a very bright light above him. His vision was blurry and he felt slightly dizzy. Slowly, everything around him became clear. He looked around for the source of the sound that woke him up but all he could see was a holographic screen. He sat upright and he realized he was in a room. The wall of the room was white and it seemed like it was emitting light.

Dorian rubbed his eyes with his hand and was surprised because he had no glasses on neither did he have his contact lens on yet he could see clearly. He looked at the holographic screen beside the bed he was sitting on and saw some things that interested him. On the holographic screen, he saw his full name 'Dorian Hicks' displayed boldly in a bright shade of blue at the top of the screen. After staring at it for a while, he scanned through the other things on the screen. He saw his full information and beside those information displayed in a small font, he saw a human body outline also in the bright shade of blue as the text beside and above it. It covered the entire space on the right side of the screen.

After few minutes of reading his information over and over again, he looked closely below the human body outline and he saw something written in a very small font size but couldn't comprehend what it was because it was very small. He stood up so he could get a better look at what was displayed and he saw 'logging in, please wait' displayed on a screen but this time, it seemed like the screen was in his eyes. He waved his hand in front of his eyes but the words were still there. He looked around and everywhere he turned, the words were still in front of his eyes. Few seconds passed and the words cleared displaying something else, 'you have successfully logged into your AI system,' Dorian was shocked. He didn't understand what was going on but he remained clam. Immediately he finished reading the words that were displayed, they cleared away and new words were displayed again, 'would you like to zoom to get a better view?' Dorian became confused, 'zoom what exactly?' he thought and immediately the words cleared revealing a new sentence, 'what you were trying to read,' at this moment, Dorian thought all what was happening was a dream and he would wake up soon. He shook his head and pinched his cheek with the vehement belief that it was all a dream but nothing happen, he didn't wake up from any dream. Instead, two sentences were displayed simultaneously, 'you are causing yourself pain' and 'would you like to zoom?' now Dorian knew what was going on. "yes," he said, his voice sounding hoarse. 'loading,' was displayed on the screen in his eyes and what he was trying to read was zoomed out like an image and he could read it now, but what was written also didn't make much sense to him. "Project Nanobot," he said to himself and there was a straight split on the wall behind the holographic screen where his information was displayed. The split was a thin line from the top of the wall to the bottom and it was at the center of the wall. Almost immediately, the split grew wider and bigger to form a space which two people could go through at the same time without any difficulty.

A man walked in through the space with a teenage girl entering after him. She had a small spherical robot floating beside her head which one would have mistaken for a miniature C.E.R but this robot looked different from a C.E.R.

The man had dark colored hair with few streaks of white. He had on glasses which had a weird light movement in them. He was wearing a roughly tucked in white shirt with a sleeveless dark green sweater over it and a well ironed grey trouser. His shoe laces were not tied and his shoes were buried in dust.

The girl who came in with him had a collar length black hair, her skin looked slightly pale, she also had grey eye color just like Dorian's. Her face had no expression or emotion, it was blank like a sheet. She was wearing a black choker with a chain which had a skull pendant. She was also wearing a three quarter sleeve leather jacket over a black crop top with a skull printed over it. Her tight black jean trouser had a lot of zips on it and her black high top sneakers were neater than the shoe of the man she followed.

"Nice, nice… this is great," the man examined Dorian. Dorian was amazed when the screen displayed the man's information with a passport picture beside it.

Name: Christopher Patton.

Age: 53.

Date Of Birth: January 15th, 1990.

Occupation: Retired (owner of M.R.I)

Family: Nil

Relationships: Nil.

"Well… as you might have seen, my name is Christopher Patton," Mr. Patton stretched out his hand for a hand shake which Dorian shook reluctantly, right now his mind was about to explode with various questions, zooming around his brain. "I know you have a lot of questions to ask but let's take it slow. I'll start then. How are you?" it took a huge amount of effort before Dorian could calm himself down and reply, "fine… I guess," his voice seemed to have been reduced to the minimum volume, "that's good to hear. Yes it is," Mr. Patton replied grinning. "Where am I?" Dorian asked, his voice sounding louder and clearer than the first time he spoke, "good question! Well… you're in M.R.I headquarters," Mr. Patton said still grinning, "the what?" Dorian asked frowning because the last time he checked, M.R.I can't have a headquarters. "Yeah I know you're confused and all, our M.R.I stands for 'Mutant Research Institute'," "oh… okay" Dorian replied nodding, "also, I see this thing in my eyes and it feels like I'm wearing smart glasses or something but nothing is on my eyes. Perhaps, I'm going crazy," Dorian was relieved a little now that he has his major question out of him. Mr. Patton smiled, "that's the nanobot project artificial sight," he walked closer to Dorian's bed, "you, my friend, are our first successful nanobot project. The previous projects we've done all went haywire you see," Mr. Patton explained to Dorian. "So, what you mean to say is that, I've got robots in my body. Tiny robots that operate in my body?" Dorian asked, "exactly! You're catching up real good," Mr. Patton replied smiling again as Dorian started laughing, "if this is a jape, I suggest you quit it and let me go home. My mum's probably waiting for me." Dorian said getting out of the bed. Mr. Patton's expression changed from being happy and jumpy to a sad and cold one. "What you see is just the nanobots at work. They make a kind of projection over your retina, that's why you see the projection first before any other thing. And also, you can clear it away just by logging out," Mr. Patton tried to change the topic from his mum, "honestly, are you guys serious?" Dorian asked, "do we look like we are joking?" the girl in the room finally spoke, "be nice Chloe," Mr. Patton said, "we aren't joking Dorian Hicks," Mr. Patton continued with a more serious expression and tone, "when you want to log out or do anything with the nanobots, all you have to do is think about it, they're connected to your brain. I think that's all I have to tell you for now," Mr. Patton finished speaking and turned to leave the room but Chloe hawked to remind him of something. "oh… sorry, I almost forgot," he had gone back to his smiling and jovial behavior, "Chloe here will be your guide around the M.R.I headquarters," he said walking out of the room.