Long ago, approximately a million years ago, when there was nothing besides organic species and nonliving things like rock and dirt, there was a cube that the early ages of humanity had discovered. Surrounding it was a dark ambient, seemingly fusing with the surroundings where it touched.
in the 2000s, scientists discovered the cube could change the structure of the molecule into an unidentified element that cannot be listed or categorized according to what we know. it simply constantly changes to unidentified structures like nanomachines, but infinitely assimilating the contact materials, doesn't have any limit or ending like a battery.
many years later, humanity passed through hundreds of technological breakthroughs. in that, they tried to use the Cube, but one day it vanished, not taking everything. Scientists collected the assimilated matter using it to develop improvements in daily life and wars, and created "Core" a humanoid machine with A.I learned a system that helps them act, and live. this created a new artificial species. living with us, humanity. This acts like a patch to cover the damages over time. fixing the problem of evolving.
things just go smoothly like a piano song playing under the moon's light, but not always.
[year: 2125 // sector: 10- status: peaceful- facility status: ready for test]
it was a rainy day like usual, the sounds of transporting vehicles moving heavy metal boxes around the hidden base deep inside the wood, people like workers doing their daily work along with their companion of machines. the surrounding areas were guarded heavily with testing sites among the trees. Deep inside the facility, scientists do their research, and society always expects them to come up with many solutions, but none are like what they keep in dreams. behind the main blast door of floor -20, a test has been ready for creating a core, not an ordinary one, but a weapon.
"My name is researcher K, today subject no.404 has been selected for this experiment.... *pause* today help me is researcher Jonathan, say hello"
Johnathan: "Hey"
K: "During the operation to remove unimportant parts of this subject, liver, lungs, organs, we noticed his heart is redder than most of the previous subjects....". he opens the cover of the keyhole on the device next to the specimens. " limbs has been marked with triangle symbol instead of lines like many before him.... this one can be the end for all the lives we had taken soo much for that man...?"
Johnathan: "Injection protocol ready sir..." he looks at K with those worried eyes, even tho he had seen this many times
K nods his head: "If this program is truthfully successful.... then may the devil bring my soul into the deepest depth of hell so I can suffer from what I have done for those young souls... recording number 404-125, this is researcher K, over and out"
he inserted the key, with the spin to start the protocol.
the alarm went up with the lights slowly fading, 10 tubes of pitch-black liquid went into the barely alive boy, the machine's claw held the body in place, while Dr. K and John watched behind the 10cm thick armored glass.
the liquid went into his cold bloodstream. fusing with the flesh and cold metallic body part of this not-a-human thing they turned this one into.
"transfiguration progress: 30%"
K: "The last progression with subject 403 was 50% max, after that, it failed"
Jonathan: "I don't think It will work this time..."
K: "How so?"
Jonathan: "How long have we been doing this dirty work... seeing nothing changed?" His tone has a hint of tiredness and depression.
K: "I know how you feel buddy..." he wiped away the sweat under the white hat. "we can't risk let-"
The terminal displays a loud sound, warning of an undetected wave of signal: "alert, alert, alert. subject 404 main core successfully absorbed the D-blood, progression increased, 32% -> 99% in 4.21 seconds. evac to safe position, closing blast shield"
K and Jonathan's eyes widen in shock, and they instinctively back away from the glass shield being covered by a kinetic energy shield.
the body of machines shaking violently, its arms yanked off the heavy mechanical arms attached to the ground. those heavy machinery hit the kinetic shield, and a loud thump when it fell onto the ground. the liquid quickly drained into the body, its heart-shaped into the shape of a pitch-black cube glowing red, the lights in the room, flicking with no control. the surge of powerful waves of power leaking around the machine's body, it struggled to stand up to walk, and after a few steps toward the scientists, a screeching sound of steel screamed before a huge blast of electric EMP with forces strong enough to destroy the surrounding, shaking the whole facility. K and Johnathan luckily avoided it using a desk just in time before the safe room was completely blown from the shockwave.
the alarm lights go online, from the debris, K and Johnathan slowly, carefully, walk toward the newly created.
K: "We did it....."
their eyes fixed on him, the new weapon, the mass destruction machine. he lies on the floor, with skinny metal skeleton arms, and a robotic humanoid head but instead of a facial of a human face, it's a screen with red LED to display. and a body with a design quite similar to a human's anatomy. he weakly tries to move, but the guards finally break into the experimental room.
"bring him to containment!"
K: "Test log#404..... the test succeed... Death Core succeeds model number 404, this is Doctor K.... the murdering has ended, but the massacre has begun..."
[ended log]