CHAPTER-4
It was with sheer will that he was able to hold back from screaming downstairs. His head felt like a hammer was pounding it and all the veins in his body wriggled like crazy.
A few seconds later that felt like an eternity, a pool of sweat had been formed where he kneeled. He weakly removed the towel over his face and took deep breaths.
What just happened to me? Why did I feel such pain? He felt like he had gone crazy. First, it was that weird accident, now this pain that feels worse than death. He is bewildered and lost.
Just as he was lost in crazy thoughts, he heard a voice inside his mind.
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Alex was looking around himself like he had lost his soul, he was afraid and perplexed about this weird voice that appeared inside his head.
"Who are you?" Alex shouted back vexed with this situation. But the voice inside his head was continuously repeating the same thing.
< "Okay... okay. I will. please stop". Alex shouted in irritation and anger as he held his head. His eyes are red in anger and uncertainty of the situation.
A palm-sized device... he muttered under his breath as he fished out his broken mobile and shouted. "Is this device enough?".
He waited for the answer, but no voice spoke and when he thought the voice was gone. It appeared again.
< < < "Okay...okay". Alex replied and did as he was instructed. He swiftly went towards the table and grabbed the charger and put the mobile on the charging and placed his finger on it.
< < "What? what are you going to do to me?" asked Alex in a flustered tone. But all he got was the same thing being repeated.
< "Enough! I agree." Alex put the towel in his mouth and chewed hard on it, as he waited for the painful process.
< < < < Just as he heard the 10%, a shock coursed through his entire body, as a never before felt pain acted on him. His veins bulged and they spasmed like snakes were moving through his skin. He clenched on to the cloth so hard, blood flowed from his gums and the capillaries in his eyes burst from the pain and pressure his jaw was exerting.
But his hand never left the mobile he was holding. Surprisingly the hand on the mobile was steady and straight, while his entire body was shaking from the pain. It was like it had been fused with space itself as it didn't move an inch.
< In just 15 seconds the process bar moved towards the end. When it reached 95%, from the hand on the mobile, little drops of thick red blood like thing flowed over to the finger. From his entire shoulder to the finger, a line of red viscous liquid flowed onto the mobile, and it covered the whole mobile.
Alexander's face blanched and his hair stood on end watching this weird scene. He even forgot the pain he was experiencing, as he only wants to wake up from this bloody nightmare or whatever he was experiencing.
After 5 seconds, the red liquid stopped coming from his hand and the pain throughout his body ended.
< < The voice spoke and Alex finally was able to move his hand. He collapsed onto the ground as soon as he was freed from whatever was holding his hand.
After he laid on the floor, he didn't notice the red liquid covering the mobile shrank like it was being absorbed or entering the inside of the mobile. As the liquid disappeared, the mobile was slowly revealed.
Alex's mobile was the latest model from a famous brand named "Pineapple Ultra 15 Xs Pro Max". He had bought it two months ago, and it was supposed to be a pure white mobile. But, now what was being revealed was a matte silver-black mobile, and all the damage and broken screen on it had disappeared like it was never there before.
It was like the same thing that made Alex's mortal wounds disappear on the night that he was lying dead in his own pool of blood.
After a few seconds, the entire mobile was seen. There were no changes except for the color and the brand-new shine. Then, the mobile screen was turned on. The screen showed flashed thrice and a red charging animation played. It was an animation played when the mobile is on the rapid charge, the company that produced the mobile said the mobile could charge from 10% to 100% in 20 min.
As the mobile was being charged, some new data was being shown inside Alex's mind.
< < < < < << Scanning for any damages... Scanning is done 100%>>
< < < < < < << waiting on standby, until further instructions from Commander>>
The room then descended into silence, as Commander or Alex's body was being healed. His pale and haggard face finally showed vitality, and a light pinkish glow appeared on his face as the sunken cheeks and dark circles around his eyes slowly receded.
A few hours passed by like that when finally, Alex's eyelids twitched, and his eyes opened slowly. He rubbed his eyes and yawned while stretching his hands.
pop...pop...pop
His body produced cracking sounds, like an old rusted machine that was finally oiled and used.
He sat upright and it was then he noticed the condition he was in. Like a cat that had its tail stepped on, his eyes widened and in an instant, he jumped onto the bed and rolled away from the mobile.
He warily watched the mobile on the bedside cabinet, then he froze in shock and looked down at his hands. Where were the haggard and boned hands he had before passing out? He shakily raised his hands and touched his face. Without thinking, he bolted towards the bathroom, opened the door and locked it from inside, rushed towards the mirror and checked his appearance.
He looked pristine and new, maybe even better than he was before these weird happenings. As he looked at himself in the mirror, he was perplexed, afraid and even a little excited by the situation occurring to him.
He then remembered the voice he heard before that came from inside the head and thought. "Is this some kind of alien tech or am I in a symbiote relation with an alien?". He then heard the voice.
< < Alex was happy that the voice replied and he noticed the voice was much more precise and lighter than before. He subconsciously also felt easy without even him knowing about it, as he spoke in an expectant tone.
"Who are you?"