Toni woke up, for a brief moment she forgot what had happened to her, but then looking in the mirror

Toni woke up, for a brief moment she forgot what had happened to her, but then looking in the mirror and seeing only that shiny suit and helmet with visor that hid her face it all came back to her. How her group of friends had gone on a trip but then be knocked out in her hotel. How these strange people looking almost like they were wearing figure hugging space suits. How they dissolved everything they wear wearing and then had practically sown these outfits onto them, well sowing wasn’t the right word but she couldn’t find a word for how they did it. She remembered the last time she saw her face, seeing in the mirror as the helmet was sealed into her then a strange substance filling it. She then panicked, though she could remember the helmet going on, she couldn’t remember what she looked like under it. how long had she been here? every time she kept trying to think of what she looked like a strange voice spoke in her head “ you do not have a face, what you see before you is what you look like, there is nothing underneath”. That had been happening for some time but disturbingly now was her own voice speaking it.Her thoughts returned to her sister Amber, she had been feeling light headed yesterday after their regular trip to the conditioning room, the lovely conditioning room standing before that spiral… letting it fill her mind with truth… burning away the lies… The more she remembered, the more it made sense, after all she couldn’t remember the outside world anymore only her life in the facility… the life in the facility was the only life she knew… anything else was a lie… She shook her head, that’s how they get to her, kept telling her things she was told to believe, but she must not believe.she walked over to the door but it wouldn’t open. she sighed" I am unit FD413" she said but it didn’t open. “ come on that’s meant to open you up!” she said slamming her fist against the door. “ negative, unit does not yet believe they are unit” came a computer like voice. Toni scowled under her helmet, at least she thought she did but then she saw a person, one of her group walking up the chrome corridor, she was moving machine like “ why did you let her out?” Toni demanded to know. “ unit FD388 now understands that she is unit FD388 and as such has been released to be given a position in the facility” spoke the machines voice. a sinking feeling filled Toni, was that to happen to her… not that it would be bad… they hadn’t treated her badly, she began to think as her stance turned more attentive. Maybe she was unit FD413, just like they told her, maybe she wasn’t Toni at all… the temptation to accept this truth grew but had it not been for a bite on the lib she would have fallen there.Some time later the door opened on its own. “ future units are to head to gathering area B one”. Toni got up and left her room, seeing the others all almost identity dressed, it was getting harder to remember their names and she long ago forgot who was who. She thought about trying to run, but last time had earned her a extra long stay at the conditioning room and with her current mind set she concluded that would be the end of her so figured it was best to just do as they say.Inside the gathering area were several seats, at least she called them that, they weren’t like any seats she… well thought she had seen before, it was so hard to remember the side world too now. At the front of the room a figure stood, normally it had been some individual of the facility, as always dressed just like them and speaking as if they had no emotions but there was something about this one.she ran up, to her surprise and horror she recognized who was giving the today’s talk, it was her sister Amber. She had noticed yesterday she looked exhausted, well as much as she could tell in these outfits. But now she was standing before them, her movements just like those running the place. She went up to her “ Amber?” no response, she tried again “Amber?” once again nothing, it was like she did not even recognize her own name. “ do sit down unit FD413.” she replied calmly, she was even talking like the others now. Defeated she returned to her seat and who had once been her sister Amber began her talk.“know that who you once were was a lie” she said almost like those screens they watched for long periods of time, it felt so soothing the memory “ our identity’s are false, we are units within The Network, we care for one another without the burden of a identity” yes so soothing… the memory … soon she didn’t even hear Unit FD412’s voice but that of the program speaking to her deeply.“Rise” Spoke Unit FD412. It came as a order, but not one filled with anger, a calm understanding voice that Am… unit FD413 knew she had to obey, units obey orders after all. Her movements were calm, without stress or any tension, a smooth machine like rise off her seat to stand motionless at attention. “ you have no face, under your visor is nothing” Spoke FD412 “ we have no face, under our visor is nothing” came the room, all speaking in the same tone as FD412. “ This serenity is the feeling of us units, hold the memory close to you as you rest, the facility hopes it shall remove the last of your resistance to the truth, now return to your resting bays” said FD412 currently working as the voice of the facility “Obedience is pleasure.  We obey” was all FD413 could reply, it was the only reply her mind would even consider. She turned and joining a forming single file line with the others walked back to her resting room. marching in sync with the others, she walked down the sleek chrome corridor, her movements as one with her fellow units, stopping only when they came to a resting room, at which point that unit took a 90 degree turn and walked while those behind reformed the line. Soon FD413 was at her room, and like the others she turned and stepped in. She had been told to rest so she immediately lay in her bed and drifted into slumber, just as the facility told her.Her dreams were of pleasure, of obedience, of mechanical bliss.  she slowly rose up from her bed. Her mind was calm, it understood now what it refused to accept before. to her right was a mirror but she felt no reason to look, all it would show is another faceless suited girl. she knew now that there was nothing behind that helmets visor, she did not have a face. it had been foolish to try and convince herself that she did, like how she used to she breathed or eat, but she hadn’t needed to breath or eat for as long as she could remember. All that wasted time when she could have just accepted the truth and obeyed.She walked up to the door “ I am unit FD413” she uttered with no doubt or hesitation, and the door reading that opened. She did not step out into the hall until the time she knew she was meant to, to then walk where she knew she was meant to go, past others who still clung onto the false belief of a life outside of the facility, her sound receivers deaf to the cries and pleas about resisting. The CPU was in complete control.  She was ready to begin her true life, unit FD413 was ready to obey. -- source link

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