“Nooooo! Don’t leave me here please don’t do this, please I wouldn’t have signed up for this if I knew what was going to happen! Please let me out!! LET ME OUT!!!” *Sniff* pleeeaseee…. let me out….I just…want to go h...o….m...e.”

Pshhhh—-

“The subject has been knocked out sir just as you commanded”

“Good, ready the subject for the next procedure, we have a long day ahead of us.”

Signal received, booting stasis chamber….

Retrieving data….

Error, data retrieval failed, searching for backup….

Backups corrupted, attempting to restore files…

Crafting subroutines- success

Combat subroutines- success

Medical subroutines- success

Ecology Database- success

Spell Database- success

Personality suppression- failure

Mission objectives- failure

Administrator code- failure

Memory files 0,1, 2,-success

Memory files 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, -failure

Updating Unit memory…

Success!

Scanning unit…

Error, scan unavailable, please call for maintenance

Accessing flash generation network…

Out of range.

………

The first smell that greeted the child was that of the earth. Immediately the child kicked the metal in front of them until they came right out of the pod that was holding them. As they looked around the crumbling ruins overrunned by plants.

The child just stared off into the surroundings… “Hello?” the child’s call was only met with echoes in this ruin. “Is anybody there?”

“If so I can’t hear you!”

“Where am I?”

“Who am I?”

Why am I here?”

The child asked, taking a pause between each one waiting for an answer but there were none. This continued until finally the child got up and took a better look at its surroundings, seeing words on the door it just kicked off. She walked over and picked up the door. “Synthesis Unit 00… huh, not gonna use that.” The girl tosses the door to the side. “Let’s see a name…” the girl took a stick and started drawing in the dirt that had accumulated in this ruined falcity.

“No no, don’t like those, this one looks terrible, Alex? Boring….Ash? A solid maybe. Syn? Hrmmm. I really like Aunt May… AUNT MAY! or I can just go the name pending route?” After a moment of thought, the girl named herself nothing because she can’t decide and decided to refer to herself as Name Pending.

And as soon as Name made her decision, she found that her stomach was growling. “Oh right food.” said Name as she smacked her open palm with the side of a fist. Name got up again and searched for an exit, and soon enough she found herself outside in the middle of nowhere...trees were everywhere and the ground is made of dirt now, not just broken tiles covered in dirt anymore. Most importantly, there was food in the form of apples on an oak tree? Must not be an oak tree then, Name thought. Why did I just assume it was an oak tree? Name wondered as she pondered how to get up there before realizing the obvious answer, which is not to punch the tree but to climb it and pick some fruits seeing that it’s trunk is a bit too thick to be shaken.

Name just took a fruit and directly ate it, then another one, and another one, and another one. There she stayed until the branch was emptied and peacefully slept as the Sun set over the horizon, and the creatures of the night crept.

The Night came with many dangers that doesn’t exist in the day, in some ways it’s easier as most of the creatures can be easily blind, and somewhat weaker than their day time counterparts, though their ability to hide in the dark was a bit troublesome as Name can’t see as well as they can in the dark but that is the situation that Name found herself in as she woke to the the shaking of the trees and the groans of the creatures below. “Oh dear god… what the hell is, woah!” Name raised her voice a little as she caught herself. As soon as balance was found once more she looked down and saw creatures scratching at the tree she was in. “That can’t be good.” she said as she looked around for another branch she can jump to but they are all too far away or don’t look sturdy enough to hold her weight. “Great…guess I’m stuck here then.” She said a bit disturbed that she is this calm even in this situation. She looked around for a pointy but sturdy branch she can use as some sort of weapon club or something. She doesn’t know why she is doing it, only that something inside her is compelling her to do so and they have never led her wrong, something like a gut feeling? Let’s go with that.

She soon found a suitable branch and climbed over and promptly snapped it clean off. “Strange.” She commented as she swinged the branch around for a bit before settling down, returning to her original position and carefully observing the strangely aggressive creatures, still clawing the tree trunk as inefficient as that may be. The trunk has a sizable dent in it as Name grimaced and shivered as she imagined the state of their fingers or paws after digging through all that wood. Imagine the splinters Ugh. Name stared in silence as the groans, hisses, and various other sounds filled her surroundings until daybreak. When the creatures finally moved all she can do is sigh in relief that none of them are strong enough to knock the tree over… or able to climb up the tree.

She waited until the sun was well above the horizon before she jumped down the tree and took a look at the trunk. The wood was splintered and frayed as pieces of flesh and blood speckled the hole about the size of a large watermelon. Terrifying. Name immediately put finding shelter as a priority seeing that tonight almost ended in disaster. Something for future her to worry about as she sets off once more. Away from whatever freaky forest this place is.