Chapter 6 Best Birthday Ever
By: ZCD99

-Nurse-

My name is Slave: 33B and today was my birthday. I turned eighteen today and that meant that I was going to be shipped to a new camp. That’s all I remember. Then I awoke and was on a lab table with a man shoving cloth down my throat. Then I blacked out. Everything just went numb.

I awoke in a dark mold smelling room. The lights were off but my eyes quickly adjusted and I could see that I was alone in a small room with many tables and a few machines with spinning gears slowly rotating on it. My body was numb but I still had a throbbing headache. Then it hit me, I was still in that Professor’s insane play pin. I began to shake and thrash but I was strapped down to the table. I tried to scream but all the came out was a soft squeal.

The doors bust open and the room was suddenly filled with light, blinding me as the two shadowed figures came in. The shorter one leaned down by me and spoke softly in to my ear. I couldn’t understand him everything was muffled and fuzzy. Then the other one came over and lifted my sheets. I became very cold and he then placed the sheet back over my body.

The short figure witch I could now recognize as a white Unicorn walked away and came back to my head and removed something from my ears. I could here just fine now and they were talking between each other.

“Do you think she’ll be fine?” the other person said. I couldn’t see him but his voice was very raspy.

“Do you mean Nurse, as you call her? Yes she’ll be fine she just needs to rest.”

He then came back to my side and began talking to me again.

“I’m going to remove the straps. You are not in those labs any more so I need you to be careful.”

He then released straps to the top braces and lifted the back of the bed forward allowing me to get a better look around. The room was a gray color with water stains on the walls and floor. I looked at him and then I saw the other. He was a dark brown Griffin with dirty white colored wings and a metal eye patch on his right eye. The Unicorn was a faded white and had a thinning black mane.

The Unicorn came over to me and held out a hoof, to which I flinched thinking he was about to hit me like the Professor had done to me before. Realizing I was safe I held out my hoof and we gently shook hooves.
“Hello” He began. “My name is Greasy Gears, and this is my assistant Rider.”

The Griffin nodded at me and proceeded to walk to his friend’s side. The Unicorn continued by asking my name, which to my surprise I could not. I didn’t know my name but was unable to speak at all. He gave me a puzzled look. All I could do was let out a silent squeal as I tried to communicate leaving my throat quite swore from the struggle. I spit out a bit of blood.

“Interesting.” He stated to my bewilderment. I couldn’t talk and this freak was talking like it was no big deal. He walked away and came back with a box and strap.

“Now Nurse, I need you to stay still while I connect this device to your mainframe.” Nurse? Did he call me Nurse? And mainframe, what was he talking about? I gave him a puzzled look and he returned a grim stare.

“Ah yes this is going to be tough.” He began setting the black box on the gurney at my feet. He motioned to Rider and rider lowered his head and wheeled a cart over to the gray Pony. He then dusted of a broken piece of glass and handed it to me. I looked into it and what I saw I almost could not comprehend.

“Your body is trying to shut down your organs and the mask that you ware is keeping your brain active.” I began to panic and throw the mirror across the room. A blue aurora surrounded the pane of glass and gently lowered it to the table. I then began to pull and the mask but it would not budge. Grease set a hoof to my side and his horn began to glow. I then became very calm and did not have any will to fight.

“You must stay calm if we are to help you and the others like you.” He said in a calm tone. He then lifted the sheet and Rider gave him a puzzled look.

“You sure we should show her?”

Greasy nodded and lifted the sheet to reveal that my legs were not my legs at all. They were replaced by two metal limbs and were making a faint humming sound. I looked up unable to shout, unable to run, unable to do anything.

“I am sorry but we could not fix them entirely. You see the two chemicals that Professor Wright placed inside you are trying to shut down your vital organs and the other was killing muscle that it touched. We needed to amputate to stop the spread before it got to your chest. The Machine on you head is keeping your brain active as we try to stop the spread of any more chemicals. This box here is to tell your white blood cells to go kill of the infection. We need to install it if you are to survive”

That’s just glorious. I basically stuck between being a cyborg and a zombie, I can’t talk, my new name is Nurse, and now my legs are gone. O well I guess I can get used to Nurse.

Best… birthday… ever.