I began hyperventilizing.
Well... not really.
It was very hard to even "breathe", or do anything for that matter, when you couldn't even do as much as twitching your fingers. The experience was similar to sleep paralysis, except you are the demon that is mounting atop the victm's chest cavity, which is also your own, but you can still vaguely feel your breathing, mine was normal by the way, just that it seems wayyyy too calm for someone who had just overheard the doctor revealing they are in a coma.
'Heh, comma.'
I forced myself back on track and confront the reality of this situation.
'Wait, is this really real? Or it's just a very vivid dream?
But normally my mind wouldn't be this clear.
Is this real though?'
Suddenly, I felt something warm pressing on my body.
'Well that explains that.'
I screamed.
"Sir, ma'am, I'm really sorry to tell you this, but... your son might not wake up anymore."
D's mom staggered.
"No no no no..." She mumbled.
"Di-... Did you... Did you..." D's dad asked with quivering voice.
"We've tried everything we could. I'm sorry, once again."
"D⬚⬚!" Mom cried out as she approached the figure laying on the hospital bed, covered in white cloth.
She fell onto an embrace, having been careful to not do any further damage. As her forehead touched the figure's - the only exposed skin - a small static discharge flared.
As I was screaming in panic attack, I felt something from the depth of somewhere in my subconscious trying to wriggle its' way to the active region of my mind.
'àáâãäåæāăąàààâââ-'
'Wha-'
'ááÁÁAAAAAAAHP-'
'What the fuck? Who's that? Why is- What is this I have multiple personality now Like I'm not before. Wait I don't think I did But now I sure do. Really?1Flat tone. Just what the fuc-... Bruh.'
'Ahem. Sorry about that.'
'Yep I do No more doubts Everyone agree? Yes Yes Yes No Why are you always going against everything we concluded!? Cuz I am in that rebellious phase of puberty WE ALL ARE! Wait why is the voice male? Oh fuck oh shit is that the original owner of this body Are we body snatchers for real? Wait why am I thinking like I have multiple personality again? Because you are No you're not Fuck you You're being paranoid No split personalities here just my imagination running wild Yep just a roleplay But shouldn't I Okay stop.'
'Wow... Uhh... You sure are a handful.'
'Is it just me or is his voice kinda hot? Yeah I agree Me too Me three Wait wouldn't that make me autophile? No probably not I'm a body snatcher yes? Yeah Prolly fine Yup Nothing's wrong. But-'
'Okay, okay, stop for a moment. I need to apologise for connecting my core with you. I'm sorry.'
'Wait your core? He's not the body's original owner? Like, wouldn't that make us the original Wait no, before there's only one It's still one I'm just talking to myself Wait for real Ahem, derailed Right sorry Wait core? What are you An AI?'
'Sssss-2Here she is making a teeth sucking sound. Yeah you can say it like that. Also I'm a girl thank you very much.'
'Oh Your deep voice is nice though Yeah Yah Yeh. Yes. Probably should stop judging people's gender with their appearance while I'm one of the exceptions myself Wait am I Or is this just another way to make me feel special But all those breakdowns were real Maybe I was so good I fooled myself Or- YO STUPID ASS'S FEELING LIKE A SUSSY IMPOSTAHHRRRGGFAFAFAFAhakhgijosihramahfghjortlrsofaghronwhrtlafghslrgd... Ahem... What the fuck, me?'
'Woah... What's that?'
'Why am I doing this No seriously This is real shit Should I go see a psychiatrist? Won't that make me an annoyance? But this is a real problem Is it tho-'
'*CLAP* AAANYways, I'm really sorry, but it would seem that I crashed onto your vicinity, and the ongoing solar storm reacted badly to all the sensory packages I was receiving, then some of the exposed circuits might have attracted a larger number of lightning towards your area, also for some reasons I still couldn't figure out your body in particular seems to attract more electrical charge than others.'
'Uhh... Okay?'
'Also it seems like the gender of your mind is out of sync with that of your body so I fixed your genetic component for you.'
'YOU WHAT?' I almost bursted into tears at that.
After clarifying what she did to my body and asking permission to proceed with the rest of the physical changes, CV-59173 explained what happened for her to ended up on Earth.
'So, you are the AI of a civilian ship with the same name as you, which was traveling to colonize the newly discovered New Cosmos, here, then a bunch of space bandits jumped your entire fleet and "sunk" all of them, and you somehow used your built in thrusters to escape the ambush, then they ran out of fuel, so you asteroided toward this particular solar system, meteorized into this particular planet, all the while your core being a 4 dimensional entity and in no way you could've hit this planet if you were to just sliiiightly tilted to one side.'
'Ehhhh... I was too panicked to be able to calculate that far into the future. Though, this is the best outcome with me being on a populated system.'
'Nope, just this planet.'
'... As I was saying, maybe you guys can help us with the- Who am I kidding? You couldn't even clean up the space around your planet.'
'Ah right, just got this out of my mind, why are you being so casual with me? Shouldn't you, as a hyperadvanced, hyperdimensional AI be more... I don't know... uptight? Serious?'
'I... don't know? Just feels natural.'
'Wait so does that mean onlyhigherdimensionalprocessorscanhandlethestressofsimulatingafullyfunctionalhighcomputingpowermindalongwiththeemotionsoftheorganicbeingsofonedimensionlower? This implies that therearefivedimensionalbeings sixdimensionalbeings adinfinitum sodoesthatmeantha-'
'Stop, stop, stop! I get what you're saying, and I have to agree. We have experimented and it showed what you are trying to say is true. But shouldn't you be worried over something else? Like, the state of your body right now?'
'OHFUCKOHSHIT YOU'RE RIGHT!'
'Wai wai wait, calm down, your body is fine, I'm just saying that you are very random.'
'That I agree Yea U-huh Sure That is the case now that I think about it And all the time I brought it up to myself in the past Yeah that too.'
We talked some more, mostly her explaining how higher dimensions work, which went right above my head. Even if I like comtemplating about human perception of reality and the imperceptable dlc of geometry, learning the actual physics of it was tedious, like, what the hell was I thinking? Probably not even listening and instead fantasized about moving through walls.
That was exactly what happened, wasn't it?
Damn me and my RNG mind!
Then things got vibrant.
'Oh, the procedures are done, you're going to wake up any moments now.'
'Damn it, what am I supposed to feel now? My parents think that I'm never waking up, then suddenly I wake up. What But Whuh Hàh? HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO REACT! THIS IS TOO MUCH!'
So I screamed, again, this time in utter confusion.
The waking process was slow, it felt something like being half asleep, where you closes your eyes, let yourself float slowly into the land of unconsciousness, but no matter how long you wait, you can't, then when you open your eyes an hour has passed.
Except that you're literally lying down into your own body and going to sleepn't.
It was like trying to sleep, but in reverse.
I don't even know where to begin describing it.
Aaaand another anxiety attack came, this time from a stray thought about coma dreams and its' effect on the foundation of sanity of the normal human mind. The longer I waited, the more severe my nervous system reacted to the thought, until...
I jolted awake.
Why is this so familiar?
'Déjà vu I've just been in the place before.'
I could feel my weight distribution differed from before. I look down and-
'This is... not a dream?'
A shiver of pure emotions shot through my entire body. With shaky hands, I even did the thing where they pinched themselves.
It hurted.
'It actually happened.'
The hand pinching my cheek came into contact with something wet, and I could feel my sight blur.
The door to my hospital room was blasted open, not really, but with the force and sound it made it might as well be destroyed by a battering ram, and several footsteps entered the room.
"I...*hic* It's true... *hic* IT ACTUALLY HAPPENEEEEEEED! uuuuuuuuu"
I had entirely broken down. I woke up, I survived. What's more, I was not getting any alienation from my own body from just speaking anymore. I could finally enjoy life, not having to hate my own body each and every waking moment anymore.
"D⬚⬚!"
"MOM! DAD!"
"You..."
"YES! I DON'T KNOW HOW, BUT IT HAPPENED!"
They were only shocked for a moment before we pulled each other into a warm family hug.
'I could do without all the snots tho...'
