All it could see was pitch dark.
All it could hear was wind-tearing sounds surrounding itself.
All it could smell was a strong metallic smell.
'Who am I?'
"DPC five hundred thousand," a monotone female voice
responded. "Combat initiation within 10 seconds."
The entity now identified as DPC 500k was now able to see when it
opened up its eyelids.
As its head was pointed downwards, it noticed its body, 'body
confirmed female, approximately 20 years of age.' DPC 500k thought to
herself.
Looking up, DPC 500k noticed it was in a brightly lit room, an
experiment chamber.
"Initiation in 5 seconds," the female voice spoke again.
DPC quickly noticed a window panel
that was filled with a gray solid color.
She attempted to move and noticed the floor was filled with an
unidentifiable dark red liquid that rose to DPC 500k's ankles, with
what seemed to be limbs spread around the room.
"Initiation in 2....1"
, the
center part of the wall in front of DPC, opened to expose a gun
barrel, which immediately shot out a heavy caliber round.
DPC's entire bloodstream gushes at record-breaking speeds and dodges
the bullet by forcing her feet to push her body off the ground,
tearing her leg muscles in the process.
DPC lands on the top corner of the room with her feet, to which she
notices another part of the wall is opening on the opposite side of
the wall, aiming directly at her.
DPC quickly pushes her feet off the wall, this time calibrating
herself to not rip her muscles apart.
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DPC landed with her feet on the floor, splashing the red substance.
On each of the four walls, a barrel popped out. However, they didn't
shoot immediately, and some of the bullets were delayed. DPC
immediately noticed this when two bullets were shot in a different
timely manner.
There was no way to know which would shoot first. As soon as a bullet
was fired, DPC was ready to push off.
Each second, more and more barrels opened up on every wall. All she
could do was dodge the bullets in the center.
When all the walls were filled with guns, they all stopped firing at
once.
DPC 500k breathed heavily in an optimal rhythm to concentrate her
breathing.
Then suddenly, without warning, all the guns from every side fired
their heavy rounds at the same time.
Within almost the speed of light, DPC 500k calculated 10,000
different scenarios to find the maximum percentage of survival.
DPC immediately curled her feet into a bone-breaking angle to
establish enough rotation force to spin around, using her right arm
to block all the bullets while spinning to attempt to halt the
bullets from reaching her internal organs.
After spinning around blocking all the bullets with her right arm,
DPC's entire right arm exploded from catching all the bullets at
once.
DPC 500k was bleeding and was now feeling dizzy and had blurry
vision.
Barely holding herself together, DPC thought to herself, 'Is it
finally over?'
Immediately again, all the guns in the room shot at once.
This time, DPC used her left arm
and used her broken legs to spin counter-clockwise.
This time, DPC's left arm exploded. Also, despite her attempt to
block all the bullets, a whole row of bullets managed to shoot her
right side.
DPC fell to the floor, face-planting into the metallic substance.
All the guns on the walls were closed back up.
DPC 500k thought to herself, 'Maybe the red substance can heal me and
restore my lost limbs,' since her limbs were extruding the red
substance, perhaps it would rebuild itself if it were consumed.
DPC started drinking up the red substance on the floor that didn't
add any effect.
DPC then noticed a red line beam slowly crawling towards her.
In fear, DPC attempted to move out of the way, for she was not fast
enough, and the red line managed to sever her legs off.
'Calculated 5,000 scenarios to survive, 4 plausible outcomes,' DPC
500k let out her last words before her eyes faded to black.
A portion of the ceiling opened up for a robotic arm to show up, a
needle attached to it.
The arm pointed the needle towards
DPC, moved closer to inject the needle, and extracted a tube of blood
from DPC 500k.
"Operation attempt 500,000
successful, clone survived procedure 13.51 seconds longer than the
previous highest record. New DNA sample extracted, ready to commit
disposal. " The female monotone voice spoke before the center of
the floor opened up and sucked in all the blood and limbs in the
room.