Author's Note

First ever chapter of my newest story.

Inspired by the Terminator franchise, but also RoboCop.

He has a T-H inspired skeleton model from the Terminator: Salvation movie, except it's just shaped like and looks like a normal human skeleton but it's metal. His Heads Up Display is based on the one Grace has in Terminator: Dark Fate.

It's also inspired by the 80's movies version of RoboCop, but also the 2014 movie, hence the idea of him being dead to everyone.

Rebirth: Chapter 1.

The hybrid, the failure. He called himself. He remembered what those scientists and governement agents who called themselves 'doctors' did to him, and the look of pure horror on his half completed face, the mechanical endoskeleton and mesh showing underneath his left eye, the portion of his left face incomplete.

His vision, now using a HUD analyzed the situation and knocked him out, shutting down his mechanical half and what possibly remained from his human body. He remembered the accident, he saved someone close to him at the cost of his body.

He awoke once again, his face now fully complete. It seemed his new eyes were synthetically grown and given a HUD to make him a machine. His hearing had become more sensitive along with his sense of touch, taste, smell and sight.

He winced in pain, his ears overloaded with auditory sensation and sound. His brain scrambling to control the waves of incoming sound.

He tried to get up and felt something blocking his body and limbs from moving. He looked to his side and noticed they had restrained him like some mental patient in a facility.

The human-machine hybrid clenched his fists tight, the anger and pain fueling him to move. He broke through the restraints, setting off the room's security alarms.

[WARNING! SECURITY ENGAGED!].

. Wait, security? Why was there security? Where was he?

"How?! I thought he died! How did he survive?!" Screeched a guard.

"I don't know man. Kill him!" Another yelled.

Kyle sighed, that was his name, right?

His new eyes focused on the guard's weapons, quickly analyzing what brand, model and weapon type they were.

[SUBDERMAL BODY ARMOR FLESH ACTIVATING!]

This new vision was really starting to bother him, he wanted it to leave him alone.

Kyle fired back at the guards, knocking them out before grabbing one of their shotguns and firing the shells into their bodies, killing them.

"What did these fuckers do to me?!" Kyle roared, his memory slowly coming back to him. The attack that took place, his apparent death, the surgeries they conducted on him.

What showed on his new display angered and mortified him. His organs, skin, and everything internal were placed inside a mechanical endoskeleton, a mechanical subdermal body armor mesh covering his internal skin, becoming a second skin making his outer layer of flesh a third protective layer.

He felt stronger. Stronger than he had been in a very long time.

[DIAGNOSTICS LOADING]

"I need to get out of here." Kyle spoke to himself. He grabbed a nearby hammer and dented the door, trying to open it.

He felt a cold and slimy feeling on his arms. Liquid metal covering his fists and shaping into sharp blades, opening the door. He threw it to the ground roughly. The object falling to the floor with a loud CLANG!

Kyle grabbed some nearby clothes and quickly got dressed, before using the fire alarm exit that would've been used in case of a fire in the building.

His eyes slowly took in the outside, it was night already. A clear view as the stars twinkled brightly in the night sky.

[DATE: JULY 2ND, 2024]

What he noticed on the HUD was that it not only showed a health bar, but also info on his weapons and ammo amount. Even his muscle strength and power level in his Invonium Power Supply Unit and endoskeleton underneath.

He began to look around for anyone who could help hide him and felt his body become lighter. Lightning crashed down with a mighty BOOM!, transporting him to an unknown location. Where he would meet his future lover.

[SYSTEM SHUTTING DOWN! CONSERVING POWER!]. Glowed in his vision.

He wasn't a machine all the way, he was human. He had skin, muscles and everything internal in a human body. What did they do to him?

Hi there, you may not know about who I am. So let me give you a basic rundown.

My name is Kyle Samson, I was born April 14th, 2016. I loved sport and had a select few friends.

I was more mature than most. I had a few friends who I loved like brothers and sisters, who were like family to me.

One day I was out with my group of friends, and we were attacked.

I tried to get them down to the ground so none of them would get hurt except me.

They rushed me to a nearby hospital where I was pronounced dead.

How am I alive, you ask? It's simple. I was revived by some fucked up form of science.

They took everything internal i.e bone marrow, organs and skin and draped it over a metal endoskeleton. They added a subdermal body armour that's flexible, but protects my inner skin and acts like my second skin making my outer flesh a third protective layer.

They replaced my damaged eyes as I had bad eyesight as a child. They grew two new eyes which now have mechanical nanobots inside of them, I have a Heads Up Display in my vision which can get quite annoying at times.

After I woke up the first time and saw my face. Oh dear god.

Half of it on both the top and bottom was incomplete and missing. Nerves, veins, arteries, blood vessels and muscles showing in the redness of my inner skin. I wanted to throw up. Somehow they detected I'd woken up and knocked me out once again.

I woke up a second time, but this time my face was complete.

I feel stronger now, stronger than I have felt in a very long time.

I could never get a girl, although it mostly would never bother me, deep down somewhere in me it did.

I felt I would be alone, but that was before I met her. The love of my life, my Fleur.

I had a good childhood, good friends, loving family, good school and education. Just an average kid really.

I couldn't go back to my friends and my family. They think I'm dead, so I have to live my life with them thinking I'm dead even though I'm alive.

This pain of having no more family or friends hurts oh so much. It's like a piece of you gets ripped away as if you're prey and life's a predator, waiting and planning to strike and kill you.

With everyone thinking I'm dead, I'm going to have to play it that way from now on.

I don't even know if I'm even me anymore. I don't have bones, I mean sure they drained out my bone marrow into the metal but still.

For me to even move they had to take my old body's joints, muscles and ligaments.

Dear god I'm disturbed by it.

I miss my friends, my family. I want that life back but at the same time I know I can't have it again. Because I'm dead.

I just hope someday I can see them again, and be with them. For however long I'll get to live for.