Alpha Centauri - part II

Waking up he had the feeling that all that happened was a dream, the entire hallway running was just in his mind, but he soon realized that it was real… he was still in the room in which he fell asleep. Getting up, he walked to the door that slid open revealing the hallway. As soon as he walked out the arrows on the wall lighted up.

He decided to go the opposite way, but he soon found out there was no way to go, but a dead end… he was compelled to walk the way the arrows pointed… there was no other way.

He walked the way the arrows pointed finally arriving to the room with the grey grid. He could not go any further… the only ways to go were in the grid room or back…

Getting back was pointless so he entered the room. The grid provided accurate lighting and no other source of light was obvious. Getting a few feet from the door it closed but it remained visible in the room. Feeling like a caged animal he went on to the middle of the room… or the point he considered the middle…

He went on moving in a circle. He did not see it first but the landscape kept changing behind him… he turned around and saw her… again… and he wondered if it were a dream or not…

His mind raced searching for answers… but he found none… searching for questions… and still none… so he said the first thing that crossed his mind…

Where am I?

You are in the place where you wanted to be… she answered.

This answer did not satisfy him, but he had to admit it was an answer to his question given by the formulation of the question.

What is this place? He continued.

Is the place you wanted to be when you entered that door, the answer came as she pointed to a spot in the distance where a door appeared.

Perhaps I am still asking the wrong questions… he said to himself trying to find the appropriate question to ask.

What is that door?

That is the entrance to the holographic room.

Good… finally got a little piece of information… I am in a Holographic room in a place that I do not know… let’s go on with the questions and see what else we can find.

Who are you? And please give me a complete answer…

I am your wife, or at least your wife as you remember her.

What are you?

I am a computer program designed by your mind.

Now I know I am in a holographic chamber with an image of someone who claims she is my wife, but I am not married… as far as I can remember.

Who am I and why am I here?

You are John Doe… and you are here because you want it.

You have no clue who I am and why I am here do you?

No, I am not cleared enough to have such information.

Ok… I can not find out from her why I am in here… maybe I can find out if I do need to be here and why.

Why did I create this place?

Because you felt the need to relax and turn your mind off for a period. It is standard protocol.

Do I need to be here?

Yes, you do.

Why?

Because your mind needs to be turned on again. You had some dreams, didn’t you?

Yes… but why?

Because the program was interrupted by a problem in the system.

How do I turn my mind back on?

You by yourself can’t, but with the help of an ‘antidote’ that will happen.

Ok, give me the antidote.

It started to be administered by the time you got into the holographic room. You are not feeling anything because the system gives you a small dosage because the system does not want your mind to get harmed. If you could sleep the drug will have better effect.

I will try… but…

Maybe after this I will find out how am I and why the persons in my memory called me Alpha…

Alpha Centauri – part I

Alpha Centauri - part I

It was already morning… they slept all night in each others arms… the sun crept through the window and shed light on their happy faces… they did not wake up yet but the sun will make the wake up in moments.

He woke up first and went to prepare some breakfast and than head to the garden to wait for her. The weather was beautiful, a clear blue sky and no trace of clouds.

She finally woke up and head for the garden wearing nothing but a transparent shirt revealing her beauty in the sun light. The sun had not evaporated the morning dew yet so the wet grass at her feet gave her pleasure. She sat down on the grass and asked for something to eat smelling already the breakfast he made for them. While he was getting the food she let herself in the wet grass, her shirt getting wet with the dew.

She loved it, being wet by the morning dew, waiting for him in the grass. He came, let the tray with the breakfast near her and started admiring the landscape, feeling that something is wrong in that landscape. He turned toward her and they started eating their breakfast, laughing and playing with one another.

The landscape changed, and he could feel it… he turned her face from her and he seen that the mountain that was previously on his right now has disappeared, and that part of the sky was turning bloody red. Upon turning his head back to her he saw the grass changing color from green to bright blue.

“Something is wrong” he said to himself… and moments later she disappeared leaving a gray grid in the place she was staying. He started feeling trapped in some kind of experiment, one in which somebody was playing with his mind.

He did not have the time to realize but all the landscape disappeared, even the breakfast he cooked leaving him behind in a room with a gray grid on the walls not larger than 10 by 10 meters. Upon looking around this ‘room’ his eyes stumbled upon a strange looking door that should not have been there. He realized that the door was his only way out he walked to it and could not see any handle or knob he could turn to open the door.

Getting closer to the door it opened revealing behind that door a hallway, being the only way to go… the second he tried to take a step outside his mind started racing bringing out some memories that he never knew they were there. He remembered himself in a uniform, a black one with no insignia. The memory faded as fast as it appeared leaving him with a bad taste in his mouth.

He walked into the hallway and the walls started flashing an arrow. He realized that there was no other way and being faced with the choice between the room and the hallway following the arrow.

As he started down the hallway he did not see any other doors but being too weakened he did not actually cared, so he kept following the arrows.

Few steps later his mind brought to the surface another image… a dark field, filled with bodies, only himself and some others were standing… all in dark uniforms with no insignia. One of the others approached and told him “There is no one alive, Alpha”. His mind refused to play back more of that memory leaving him in the hallway without power to go on but he struggled and kept on walking.

He couldn’t see any bends in the hallway, no doors… as he was moving through a long and strait hallway. In the distance he saw an open door, the arrows on the wall pointing towards it. He kept walking to that door, slower and slower now, hanging on the walls because his feet could not keep him up any longer.

He had two more steps to the door when his mind decided to play another trick on him… bringing up another picture… with him in the middle of a city, with a frightened boy by his side and many minds to fight… same black uniform… This memory made him collapse to the floor, two feet away from the door. With his last strength me managed to drag his body towards the door and enter… on the other side there was a plain room, with only a bed, a monitor and a light shining from the ceiling. He dragged his body in the bed and collapsed… getting into a deep trance like sleep.

Story

Finally made it... managed to finish the first part...

Me is lazy

I know... me is a lazy ass... because I said I'd post something between the holidays and I did not.

No matter... i just started working on my short story and soon you will get to see the first part...

In between you might read a story a friend of mine wrote here... is in Romanian...

Thank you... and I'll get back to you soon with the story

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Ei bine, incep prin a va ura un An Nou calduros si mult mai bun decat cel ce s-a incheiat.

Din pacate mi-a fost lene sa postez ceva... mea culpa... incerc sa scriu ceva dar nu prea am tragere... poate ma ajutati voi. Oricum sper sa ne vedem cu bine si la urmatorul post...

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