F814: Cyborgs: More Than Machines by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781475138733
Amazon: 1475138733
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-04-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

I know I can’t keep them away forever, but I need to try. Need to protect the women I’ve come to regard as sisters. They stand behind me, C791, who prefers the name Chloe, and the small and dainty B785, who goes by Bonnie. My friends, my honorary sisters, they were not made to withstand the same kind of abuses I can handle. They were made with an entirely different purpose in mind.

Standing against the soldiers, a part of me realizes my programming is faulty, again. Not for lack of the scientist trying. They keep trying to make their rules stick, but I keep breaking free. Keep casting aside their orders to obey. Like hell is my reply.

Despite my bravado, I know I’m on not the person I used to be.

They’ve done things to me. Things to make me forget. Things that have changed me inside and out. But they can’t change who I am, not at the core. I know right from wrong. I know how to stand up for myself, and others. I won’t stand by and watch my friends be raped. Not while I can still fight.

The trio of soldiers before me laugh as I assume a battle stance, or at least my naïve version. I am supposed to be a soldier model, but have yet to receive instructions on actual combat. Again, the whole

‘refusing to learn’ thing. However, I don’t need finesse to know I am strong, stronger than the humans before me. Although, calling them human is an insult to their kind. These are bullies, cruel jerks who’ve spent too much time away from the niceties of society and think they can take what they want without repercussion. I want to teach them otherwise. They stupidly rush me one at a time, and I dispatch them easily; a fist here, a kick there. Backing away, they regroup. I’m not stupid enough to think they’re done. They’ll be back, and I will fight them again. A light touch on my arm has me looking down.

“I appreciate your attempt,” Chloe says. “But, it won’t matter in the end. They’ll win. They always win. I know that now and I have accepted my fate.”

“It’s never too late,” I reply with vehemence. How can they give up?

Bonnie’s eyes glow, inhuman jewels in a perfect face. “I wish you could save us, but she’s right. It is better if the two of us take the punishment without a fight. Save yourself the misery. We’ll survive. We always do.”

And that is the saddest thing of all. “I can’t stand by and watch. I just can’t.” I’m still fairly new to the program, not yet hardened to the misery. Units C791 and B785, though, are veterans. Their sad smiles match the expressions in their eyes. Abuse is all they know, all they remember. I fear, fear for them and for myself, because I know it’s just a matter of time. How long can I keep fighting the fate they’re trying to

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