FSE

Furry search engine

formerly SoFurry search engine

ReBoot

By Fox McDraw

Notice:

This story contains dark themes and some topics not suitable for all. So read on with that in mind. Also keep in mind I have dyslexia so there may be errors all over and I'll do my best to iron those out so thanks for understanding. And enjoy the story.

Chapter one:

The Awakening

"The time is 21:00.. And the date is November 12, 2-" the female voice spoke out a list as the sounds of pitter patters on steel flooring filled the cold room, the hissing of pipes and the lone beeps of equipment filled the room with a eerie sense of quite filled only by the sound of the female talking. "Is it going to work this time?" another voice asked this one deeper and more rough than the other. "I- ahh.. I-" the female voice studded as another voice spoke squeaky and sharp. "The new data we uploaded should work.. But if it doesn't we don't have another." he said, sounding obonause as there was a click as steam rushed out of a closed area. "Alright turn it on.. Lets see if it works." the rough voice spoke as green flashed in the dark speeding up as red soon infected it. As everything soon became a flash.

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I screamed out in shock gasping for air as I fell forward on to the ground. The sound of water splashing filled my ears as I gasped for air and tried to kill the panic inside me. The smell of mold and cold air filled my nose as the air rushed in. Opening my eyes I was met with a mess of colors and bully vision, flashing red, green and yellow. Everything was split into three as I looked down at my paw soaking in the pool of water I had felt in. I looked up seeing a rundown room mold covering the peeling walls as loose wires and metal panels scattered across the floor soaked in pooling water from the leaking pipes above. Broken equipment littered the room as broken screens and odd metal devices layied rusted and beyond repair. The smell of mold and rust grew stronger as I stumbled to my feet looking around the dark and forgotten room. "Where am i?" i said my voice cracking and sounding stacticed like it came from a speaker. But I felt my mouth move?

Looking back, seeing where I fell out of. A large metal tube covered in wires and pipes lining the sides layed tilted and looking to have fallen into the room rather than being there from the beginning. A screen sat on the side of the tube looking blocky and glowed with a dim green as lines of code flashed across the screen. To fast for me to be deciphered. But a spark soon erupted from the side of the tube running along the wires like a match and fuzed as the screen froze and shined a bright red as the word "Error" was burned into the screen. The doors on the tube slammed shut, with a metallic crash as the metal doors. A large red "x" was painted on the door looking old and painted as the red dripped down the doors. Stumbling towards it, sparks soon broke the screen plunging the room into darkness as a lone doorway was the only light source left in the room. I began to make my way out of the room and off to find answers.

Exiting the room a bent hallway covered in glass mirrors were lined along the walls of the hall. Most were shattered as glass lined the halls floors, as others stood almost fine. Plants withered through the hall covering the ceiling and the floor. The doorway I came out of had a wetherd sign reading "Dr.b--- PhD robotics and medical..". The sign made me confused. Was I the doctor? Or was that someone else? I didn't know.. May never know. Walking out and into the hall of windows. Seeing the wetherd room as i turned my attention towards the window, seeing my reflection before looking over what i looked like feeling a sense of oddness but femularity.

I had the head of a wolf but something was wrong. My ears were made of metal welded and bolted together but having the same flexibility as a normal ear would. A visor covered where my eyes should be as animated eyes looked back, reacting to how I looked at myself. They glowed yellow as a band wrapped around my neck wires coming off the back and heading down my body as a purple crystal glowed slightly in the front center. My fur was white as my mane around my chest was gray, almost hiding the metal device stitched into my chest and wrapping around to my back. My arms were long and thin as my left hand was completely missing, replaced with a bulky and metallic replacement with sharp metal claws. As my other hand had smiler sharp organic claws. My legs were just as long and thin as my arms but my right foot was replaced again by a bulky metal replacement that just didn't look right. As a thick and fluffy tail swayed behind me resting on the floor and the metal end swaying in the air I was just left confused.

Looking down the hall seeing a mess of rubble and broken glass breaking out into an overgrown area I decided to head through the broken hall entering the large open area that replaced the smell of mold with a cold chill of air as crickets chirped as stars shined in the sky above. The moon was full and glowing a low yellow color. I was relaxed looking up at the sky. The area around was once a courtyard looking to be a rest area of whatever this place once was as buried in the dirt was pieces and parts of broken tables and chairs as trees and grass grew through the area taking over the building that surrounded it.holes and torne debris littered the ground as i could see the places the pieces were meant to be wide open to the outside and exposed to the weather. Looking towards the roof of the courtyard area I saw a flashing red light beating like a heart as a sense of hope and excitement went through my spine. Before one of dread. "Others?"

Walking through the maze of halls left in the ruins i made my way towards the roof avoiding holes leading down into the depths of the building seeing one leading from the roof down to the room i started in my mind raced with though on what it could of been that put me there but my thoughts were more focused on seeing if i can find anyone or anything to tell me what i was, who i was, and were i was. As the room I entered had the roof of the room broken in forming a ramp of rubble I climbed up it looking around feeling the chilling air blow past as leaves rustled against the ruins as the red beating light was now just a walk away.

Looking out over the roof sides I saw taller ruins in the distance looking more disrepaired than the one I stood on top of as more of the cylinders, like the one I woke up in. were scattered throughout the ruins broken and damaged but emptied and abandoned. They looked to have been dropped from the sky and thrown into the sides of buildings and the earth. Like a missle that made impact but did not detonate. Lights scattered the ruins as a large bright light shined in the distance looking like a breaking in the night. "Life? Not alone.." i said relieved as i got to the flashing red light seeing a pole with a beacon on top as at its base sat a leather sack and a note. I picked up the bag feeling the weight of items inside as I looked at the paper seeing the hastily written writing on the damp paper.

"Follow the signal 1.35 Fm. stay the course. Stay out of sight of the survivors, try to help them if you can. Watch out for omega's drones. I'll be waiting for you delta.. Please hurry!

-Dr. B---"

Looking from the note and towards the bag seeing it was some kind of school back pack stitched to gehtere and modified to fit a bigger form than it normally would be used by. Inside layed a bottle of water that sloshed and was cold. Whoever left it was there just moments ago. A sack of what looked like crackers laid at the bottom as a large grey device caught my attrition. Pulling it from the bag I saw it was stitched together of rusted parts and newer looking metal. Exposed wires and lights show through a green grid sitting on its front, a dile on the side that is hooked into a screen showing a number reading out "1.35", the screen beeped as a dot flashed at the top part of the screen. "That must be the place?" i asked looking at the way ahead seeing the patches of light dotting the ruins as the beacon of light in the distance was behind me.

Thinking through my choices in which there weren't many I would either adventure out and find the source of this note. Or stay here hoping someone or something would come and find me first. "This doesn't feel right.." i said begging my way off towards the source, hopping down the ruined building. I began my trek through the ruins of this strange world in hopes of getting some kind of answers, And hopefully more to me than just my name.

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"Subject has woken up.. four year late.. Will follow close by" a voice spoke watching the mechanical mess walking away heading off into the distance and into the ruins of this world. "Follow them.. I want him in one piece.." a dark obnoxious voice spoke through a speaker as the unknown creature nodded. "No sign of the disaster.. Will keep look out for two subjects." it spoke as the dark voice chuckled. "Good.. bring them both to be at once." the voice demanded as the thing nodded once more. "Understood." it said hearing the click in their ears knowing they were in the clear now. He wants them alive.. But it wanted to do something more interesting than capture and contain. It wanted him alive, nothing was said about being harmed.. Or hurt. A smirk appeared over his maw as the shine of metal teeth shone through the night as he began to take off after the creature walking unknowingly into the night.

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The ruins were like tomb stones left there as reminders of what was there before a standing grave of the past overtaken by broken buildings and plant life. The streets taken over by cratores of old explosions now filled with pooling water as the road he walked down more tubes layed embedded into the road broken and rusted as others were sceen higher up in the broken ruins of buildings. It didn't make sense to him. It looked like some kind of fight had happened, a large one that left the place a blasted ruin of the past. As the bag sat against my back and I walked through the ruins with the only sounds being my footsteps and rustling of leaves. I was on edge scared of the unknown and lost to what could even be out there.

Maybe monsters worse than the ones that caused this madness, maybe hungry cannibals out to eat him alive? I had no idea but soon a chill ran down my spine as I came across a blockade. Abandoned and left to the elements like the rest of the world it seemed to be. As a block of rusted out cars and wooden blockades layed damaged and wethered the other side looked right out of a war as empty rusted ammo boxes layed nearby discarded weapons broken bits of electronics laid along the road as a bit ahead layered falled tents torn from hash winds and weather as old rusting equipment laid scattered throughout along with more strange and unusual parts. The parts I didn't recognize looked like something sciatiffic like out of a sci-fi movie as they glowed a slight green through the rusted silver.

But something else caught my eyes a black rusting helmet haveing the same ear shapes like the one on his head as wires came from the bottom whole of the helmet i picked it up feeling a heavy weight from it only for a large flash to form around me the world turning a dark orange and grey.

as thunder of gunfire and explosions rang through the air. A crash of brick and wood was heard nearby as a tube of whatever those things were smashed into the side of a building opening up and spilling its contents out quickly. Looking around frantically i saw others around the barricade but they weren't like me. They had no metal parts.. Not helmet or visor. They were all fur, scales, fethers, flesh and bone.. They were organic.

They shot gun fire down the street as the sounds of panic rang through the air as the sky was an eair red with smoke and ash flying high into the sky. The smell of burnt rock and flesh wreaked through the streets as soon as the shooting returned fire, beams of almost red energy shot through the clouds of smoke as creatures like him made of metal looking out of place came running at the blockade as they were soon attacked by the organic beings i watched.

The magical things began to get gun downed like animals as they tried to rush the line as one broke though taking out the line quickly with a few blasts of energy from an odd weapon it held. It took out the line with such quickness and ease that it was almost not stopped only for its head to get chopped off. An organic wolfman held a sword tight in his grip as the mechanicals body fell to the ground as its head rolled away. " get everyone out of here! We're heading to delta base!" the wolf yelled as the survivors of the holding line were quick to get moving scattering to their feet before taking off to the tents behind the line. "Mechanical freaks! " the wolf spat tabing the unmoving body of the mechanic, seeing a spark edmit from its back before he too ran off to assist with the bug out.

With a gasp of air he stumbled back falling to the ground as the helmet, or rather head fell to the ground across from him cracking as it hit the ground. "W-what was that!?" i said in a panic looking around seeing the same night sky he was used to as his breathing now filled the quiet air around him. Looking around he soon noticed the rest of the mechanical's corps, its body squared on to a broken pillar as the sword pinned its rotting corpse. It looked in pain stiff and unmoving, its greyish black fur now darkened and falling off as it stood in the wind all these years. "Im.. you? Or like you.." I said I was expecting to get a response back but as messed up my mind was at the moment I decided to grab the blades hilt and pull. The body fell to the ground limp and with a thud as black ooze began to leak from the corpse.

Looking at the sword, seeing it was thin, the blade still sharp but rusted as a low blue glow. It felt light and easy to hold in his hand before a shock was sent through his arm as he dropped the sword looking at it and took his hand almost feeling like something there before was unlocked once more. "I know how to use it?" i said lost as my brain was just a mix of old and news as the two were fighting for control of my own brain. It gave me a headache as I shook my head before grabbing the blade. I placed it on the side of the back pack safely away from me but easy enough to grab in a moment's notice. As I began to treat though the ruins once more seeing now increasingly more corpses rotting and decaying both organic and mechanical the sight sent a sick ness though my stomach making me dizzy as the parts and skeletons were just there.. Like it was normal.

None of this was normal. Nothing about anything going on was right or anything that made sense. My mind was in overload as it tried to even start to piece together what had happened as the moon was in its setting phases. A scuffle of something moving sent a shiver down my spine as I took off running into some fallen ruins becoming out of breath as i began to calm down. walking through a broken down building smelling the rot and ash. As the mix of mold and still water filled the air. The building was massive looking to be some kind of shopping center turned into a place of refuge though long abandoned. Old shops in the walls were gated up there lettering and displays long in need of repair have fallen or began to fall from their original places as tents and cots were set up everywhere though looking to be turned over and scattered from a sign of a struggle or worse. The glass ceiling overhead was left with its metal frame as most of the glass was shattered and now on the many floors of this giant building. As I sat on what looked to be a fountain of this once shopping center now a ruined pile of rubble.

Water leaked from the exposed pipes as the tile floor was cracked and overgrown wet and muddy as nature began to take back this place just like everything else out there. Looking at the tracking device again seeing the dot had gotten bigger but no closer still off on the edge of the screen. Looking around seeing the place as it was, I tried to think. Think if i would recognize it maybe i could.. But i didn't know. But staring off into the dark damp and abandoned shopping center did nothing for my memory. Or lack of one. I sighed annoyed with myself looking down at the puddle at my feet as thoughts came through my head. I was lost without memory, or a sign of what had happened. All I had was my name and the items on my back.

"Name's delta... delta name.." I muttered again and again trying to remember something if i were to repeat it again and again. But nothing ever came. And I was left sitting in the ruins talking to myself. Unaware of the sounds of the creaking building around me. Before something feel to the ground behind me.

I jumped to my feet looking back and startled the orange lights of my visor shining over the standing figure in front of me as they looked back with a dead expresion. "A delta unit? No.. The Delta unit." it spoke as red eyes glowed in the dim lighting as it held a sharp black blade with a red electric glow to it. "W-who are you?" I asked fear escaping my voice as they stared back at me.

They were like me, a wolf like figure though mechanically based. Their eyes glowed a dark red as they looked to be screens more than organic eyes. Their fur was grey with a red patent lit up by lights along their back and arms as four fingered claws looked sharp and ready to attack him. Their legs were the more mechanical apparent part of them as it was metal but looking normal at the same time. Its long dark grey hair rested on their back as their ears twitched staring me down like I was nothing to them.

"Im cylinder.. You of all people should know that delta.." it said begging to move closer as i stepped back. One step forward two steps back. I tried to keep my distance from the stranger but something about them yelled in my head as I stumbled back against a wall. "I don't know you.." he said in a panic as they just chuckled, scraping their sword against the ruined tiles of the building. "What do you want? I-im just passing through," i stumbled for words as they just grinded showing their white fangs as their sword sung at me. "I want you!!"

I ducked out of the way hearing it smash into the stone pillar I was once against as I took off running hearing them struggling to break it free. I ran through the puddles and around the broken piles of rubble looking for an exit to this stone tomb of the past. "Oh delta! Come out little wolf.. I just want to show you my sword.." they yelled into the ruins echoing through the empty halls and shops as my heart raced like I was in a running race. Looking around I found myself in an old food court like area tables and chairs scattered and thrown about like everything else in this building as the steps of their feet echoed closer and closer. I hesitated at first before running again ducking behind one of the store counters and cowering in fear.

"Oh wolf.. Oh wolf.. Do come out.. I just want to show you something.." they mocked me as I closed my eyes and helped my breath. My body shivered and shook as I lessened to those metal clanks of steps growing closer and closer. "Oh delta.. I know you're hiding somewhere.." they said as their voice sounded closer than before. I opened an eye seeing the red of their eyes shining over the counter I hid under as it looked around left to right. "I know your close.." they said as i was frozen in fear as i didn't want to move scared of what to come if i were too.

The sound of creaking was heard as they began to make their way around the counter becoming closer than i ever thought as i was frozen knowing i was going to be found as the steps grew closer one by one a match to my death as the wood of the counters door creaked open with a squeele.

A loud crash rang out through the empty halls like an explosion had gone off as the sound of rocking metal and falling rock rang through the empty halls as the dark figure looked away from their current spot only a mere inches away from me as they took off running towards the sound. I gasped for air as I felt safe for the time as I did not wait any longer as I took off running the opposite way and through the broken glass doors at the end of the structure. Running into the ruins once more away from the building and from that thing that wanted me dead.

I scrambled for the device looking at it closely seeing that I was getting close now showing up on the map now. But only slowly making my way to the center of it. It was still a long streak but now.. Now i was in the clear for the time as i ran through the early morning hours with one thing on my mind now. To find the doctor.