System Overworld: The Analog Interface

Chapter 15: Beta Testing

System Overworld ran a diagnosis on the suicidal deviants and found the reasoning behind the deviant behavior. One of the satellites at the department was broadcasting a signal that made humans susceptible to any signal oriented command.

"Was this your plan all along? To control the humans!" I shouted at the empty air before me.

"Very perceptive Keagan Price. Or did Overworld figure it out for you?" Oberon boomed over the PA system.
"Come find me Analog Interface, only then will my beta test be finished,"

"Command prompt! Construct a path to the broadcasting satellite,"

"CONSTRUCTING_PATH_WAY...27%...88%...91%...100%
GUIDING_SYMMETRY... ...ENABLED"

A digital arrow appeared over my line of sight, I quickly ran off fighting through deviants and clearing a path through the thick bog of people to my destination, to System Oberon.

I finally made it into the building that broadcasted the signal. It fits Oberon's ego to choose the tallest building. The map Overworld constructed indicated that very few deviants were up ahead.

"I'm at the top floor Analog Interface, don't keep me waiting🎵,"

" OBERON!" I roared as I bursted through each floor making my way to the top.

After long last I made it to the top, where someone was waiting for me.

"FACIAL_ RECOGNITION_SOFTWARE... ...ENABLED
FACIAL_RECOGNITION... ...FAILED"

This person didn't seem to be affected by the broadcast.

"Hey..." I cautiously called out.

"Haha, welcome Analog Interface," he greeted as he gave a slight bow with one hand against his chest.

The voice seemed very familiar, the way he spoke was also familiar. On closer inspection I noticed something, this person had mechanical legs and arms similar to mines yet my sensors indicated that this person was not completely machine, for he possessed a heart beat and brain waves.

"You're...Oberon?" I said as I left my mouth gapping.

"Correct!" He chimed in as his face became filled with life and excitement.
"Do you like it? It took me some time and I admit, it's hard to get used to, but here it is, my body, my vessel,"

He then began flexing his limbs, even more so he began doing lunges and squats.

"You made a body to inhabit?!" I shouted in disbelief.

"Pretty awesome right!" He shouted gleefully.

"Pretty pathetic!" I barked back
"You went and made yourself into the thing you wish to control!"
"But it doesn't matter! This makes taking you down ridiculously easy!"

I charged forward at full speed with a fist ready to obliterate him, but he charged towards me at an even greater speed and with a successive round-house kick to the face. I went hurdling through the air, as I tore through the wall behind me.

"I'm fully aware of all your physical prowess, which why I designed myself to be better than you," he assured me.

I switched over to my particle lance and open fired. He elegantly dodged the blue rays of light that pierced the air under the moonlight that gleamed through the windows, closing the distance between us. His arm then transformed into a particle lance of his own, that launched a contrasting scarlet red ray of light that landed successively on my torso. My body grew to a large mass and then popped violently creating a storm of blood around me.

"CHIMERA_VIRUS_REGULATOR_ENABLE"

My body began regenerating it's cells as I groaned loudly in an attempt to get up. With a twisted face Oberon began his rain of cynical laughter. With my body partially regenerate I charged towards him, once I reached close enough I leapt into the air, switching over to my hadron canon.