Glitch in the System

Glitch in the System

My Name is Glitch. It wasn’t always it used to be………something else, but I can’t remember it anymore. Not that it would make any difference anyway. I’m not from this world. I’m not even sure if I’m me anymore. I used to be almost 23 now I look 15 again.- I don’t know where I am or who is holding me here, but I can’t stay here; I have to escape. They are coming back I must hide this.

They nearly found it. My only weapon, my only protection to keep what’s left of me intact. This journal. It’s tattered and torn; I found it under the bed. It must have been hidden by the last captive. I have no ink pen but I found a metal quill and I write this with my own blood. I bleed a lot because of them. Was today my fifth surgery or my sixth? I can’t keep track anymore. Today they put something next to my eyes when I want it to a screen slides out in front of my eyes, but they don’t do anything. I don’t know what they are doing to all I know is they want me “combat ready.”

Z e r  o
I had a visitor. And I never saw him.

The lenses slid out before today’s tests finished. I must have fallen asleep because I woke up in my cell. Zero was written in my journal; it must be his name but how did he find my journal?

Zero is me!

I haven’t pulled this out in almost a week now for fear of Zero finding it and telling my captors. He would write me notes in blood on the walls, and I would answer.

I am Zero

I am Glitch what do you want?

I am zero

But what do you want?

I am Zero I am you

No! I am Glitch I am me!

I am Glitch. You are Zero.

We are the same. We are one.

What do want?

We want the same.

WANT WHAT!

FREEDOM!

I learned how to float. I can only hover an inch or so off the ground for a few minutes and it makes me very tired but I am getting better at it. Zero wrote me saying we can control gravity; make it go away and glide over the ground. But I can’t pick up the bed, or even the pillow, so it must only work on me. I must become stronger at it.

How long has it been now? Months? Maybe even a year? How long has Zero existed now? I’m afraid to ask. Zero and I don’t write each other much now, blood is precious, but we agree that it is time to escape. We are ready. Five days ago we found an armory. Once we make it there nothing can stop us.

Glitch closed the book and tucked it under his shirt, he slid the quill up his sleeve. A guard opened the door completely unaware. “It is time for your training.”

Glitch followed quietly he had never caused trouble before so why would anyone think any differently of today? There it was the armory, now was the time. Glitch let go and woke up inside the armory his hands were bloody and the guard was laying in the corner. He didn’t check if he was alive or not, if Zero had killed him Glitch didn’t want to know. Glitch picked up a gun, two swords shot out the end. “Awesome.”

Glitch ran out of the armory and barreled headlong into three guards. He dropped to his back and floated beneath their legs. The guards spun to attack but he was already swinging the katanas at them. He almost felt sorry for them, their inhuman weapon had turned on them. Zero took control and slew without remorse he was a living weapon and weapons kill. He moved with precision and wasted energy on nothing. “42.76 feet to exit. 3 opponents. Total mass 186.23 kg. Analysis: eliminate at distance.” Zero fired off ten shots before he had a clear path but when he was finished it was a straight shot outside. But escape would not be enough.

Glitch woke up beneath a tree staring at a raging inferno that once was his prison. Zero had done this yet Glitch felt nothing, they deserved it.

He looked around the clearing. “Now what?”

“Hey are you ok?” Glitch turned and saw the first friendly face he had ever seen in this world, a girl standing in the forest. “Your bleeding let me help you.”

Glitch had no idea who this person was but she was kind. Glitch decided that from then on he would always follow her and protect her.

End of Ch .1