EVE Fiction

I was barely aware of what was happening, as I laid on my desk at home a light blinded me, there was a rising increments of sharp pain, my body contorted itself in shapes I knew were not possible and unimaginable pain filled my body as I felt as if molten lead was poured inside of me, and as suddenly as it started, it went away, leaving nothing but the dull, hazy, red-rimmed awareness of excruciating aches all over fighting for their share of attention from my fading consciousness.

Time passed before I woke up again, whether it was seconds or years, I do not know. I could only feel myself, hunched over in a strange warm liquid. I dared not to open my eyes, yet I forced them open, I cracked open one eye, then the other. It was hardly worth it, the liquid did not hurt my eyes but everything else was completely black -and a part of my mind that had gone very cold and analytically was amazed not only by the fact that I was panicking, but by the smallest details such that I was almost unable to move, breath, or even see, yet it felt right.

The hazy aches started to fade, and I slowly started to wiggle, my body obeyed -albeit the liquid was too dense to really move- So I wasn't paralyzed. At least that's one concern out of the box. But I was desperate for sensation, for something else than this dark entombment, and as I started to prove and wiggle, I felt something indescribable, It was like pinhole leading out to an ocean, showering me with ray of light and teasing me to open it, to leave behind my mortal chains and become one with it.

I did.

The sensation of claustrophobia I felt in the [Pod] was left behind as my new senses literally flooded me, information I never knew was now mine to use, navigation, weaponry, mechanics, science, war. Years... no Centuries of information were assimilated by me, but that was nothing compared to my new... my new body.

Kilometers and kilometers of hallways and rooms were now open to my senses, to my direct control, armories and hangars, ships and blueprints, fighters and drones, clone bays and blueprints, everything was... me, but as sudden as the initial flood was, nothing compared to what was to come, every moment my senses, my intelligence became better, faster, stronger, clearer, all in an euphoric crescendo of data and information that opened my eyes to the world, to the Universe.

Gravimetric, Magnometric, Ladar, Radar, Electromagnetic, Thermal, Infrared, All type of cameras and sensors started to work with pre-loaded subroutines and system diagnostics, mapping every single detail about the system I was in, about the Universe, the surrounding galaxies, tracing star charts, possible fuel sources, gravimetric wells with resonances strong enough to be able to jump into, ending the maddening data input with a simple but anti-climatic end to the calculations and it’s following silence.

This all happened in a few seconds, only making it clearer on my mind. I transcended the mortality of the flesh and became something more, I knew not how this fell into my lap, how I acquired such power without paying anything, my mind running every single analysis possible to my memories, the flash that transformed me and leaved me here. Yet it came with nothing, only wild speculations and guesses. This was simply madness, yet I would be lying If I said I would have not taken the chance if asked.