Panic kept creeping in. It was easy for it to find a place. Naked in the cold sterile room and surrounded by the research team, she felt just like the experiment that she was. Shivering, she gathered her thoughts to play with. Like so many toys, some were new, some old, some broken. When this was finished, would she still have the thoughts she was accustomed to? Would she still be herself?
Doctor Hamming looked at the chip encased in the gelatinous compound. To the naked eye, it seemed motionless. But its multiple dentrical adapters were writhing tentacles in search of prey. Already, the subject's blood was draining, replaced with a nano-vasculoid fluid. Over 500 trillion nanobots had been carefully crafted to augment the subject organic physiology and the technical improvements.
He nodded to the other doctor on the team. Doctor Skota picked up the specially designed hypodermic needle and captured the chip in it. Just as she had practiced, she stabbed it in the young woman's head and then brutally yanked it out. There was nothing left to do but wait.
The subject screamed. Madness. Darkness.
Then the young woman woke, comfortless, from great travail. Her conciousness had been torn apart. New neural pathways had been knitted, while others were obliterated. Each dying connection had cried out in its death throes, "cellular death." Her life flashed before her eyes as every cell in her mind relinquished its secrets to the chip. The chip had directed the reworking of her grey matter. It tore down. It rebuilt. All her mind was now fully integrated. The nano-cells pulsed through her body,repairing years of damage,removing years of accumulated toxins. They saturated her.
Reborn.
The first of the bio-digital species.
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