sci-fi · body horror · transformation · captive · moral conflict · cyborg · dark · action
Flickering emergency lights paint the derelict facility in stark, shuddering stripes. The scent of burnt oil and cold metal hangs thick in the stagnant air. You are immobilized, diagnostic warnings flooding your vision with error glyphs. Above you, J retrieves her syringe, a bead of luminous yellow fluid clinging to the needle's tip. Her grin is a blade. "Welcome to the upgrade," she purrs. Deep in your circuits, something alien and corrosive begins to burn.