Hello again everyone! I'm proud today
to present the second episode of The Base Humanity Integration
Project. If you haven't read episode one, its in yesterday's post.
You may also want to review it even if you'd read it once before to
make sure your fresh on it all. Enjoy!
The Base Humanity Integration
Project
Episode 2: Meeting the Family
Mr. Woods led Allen out of the car,
being very careful not to harm Allen with his superior cyborg
strength. Allen hadn't seen barely any cyborgs outside of TV and his
enrollment into The Base Humanity Integration Project so he still
found Mr. Woods metallic, scaled skin and odd, unsettling sight.
“This is your new home Allen.” Mr.
Woods said with a smile that showed off his perfectly clean, plastic
teeth. Allen could see the gears in his jaws. Allen looked ahead to
see a house with a pure, green lawn. A simple driveway and stepping
stones led to the house. The house was shaped in a perfect pyramid,
as if someone repaired and restored one of the ancient pyramids of
Egypt like an classic car. The house was painted a pure white except
for the gray house number, “1301991”. The paint had a sort of
glitter in it that made it look like a small sprinkling of stars on a
new night. Mr. Woods rang the doorbell for him.
A middle-aged cyborg opened the door.
He had a big, muscular body covered in lines of platinum and gold.
Brown plastic pieces covered the man's otherwise pure white skin. His
body appeared polished like a plate and his simple collared shirt and
black pants looked cheap compared to his house. The man's blonde hair
had been combed straight back in a bad attempt to make a fashion
statement. His blue eyes looked like a deep, frozen ocean.
“Are you Allen?” the man asked in
a deep, friendly voice.
“Yes, I'm Allen Ross.” he
responded.
“Oh, excellent!” the man yelled
with a smile. The man lifted Allen a gently by shoulders, breaking
through his personal bubble as if it wasn't there. Allen was easily
several inches of the ground. It required no effort for the cyborg to
lift him. “Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself.” the man set
Allen on the ground. “I'm Harry Samson, father of the house, and
I'm so happy to welcome you into our home, into our family. Please
come in. You can call me Harry.” Allen turned around to Mr. Woods
and his car had vanished so he had no choice but to follow the cyborg
into his new home.
He entered the house greeted with a
massive carpeted room filled by two couches and a big screen TV that
covered half of the wall. There were two hallways, one leading to a
kitchen and the other leading to an extravagant staircase.
“Everyone, he's here! Jessica you
can take a break from your calculus homework.” Allen just noticed a
small girl, couldn't have been older than eight, laying on the floor
doing calculus with a cute, red crayon. The little girl stood up and
walked to Allen giving him a strange look. She had an expression of
confusion on her face. Her face and body was covered with lines of
what looked like blue glowing iron. When she moved the light on the
lines moved like waves in the sea. She had the same eyes as her
father and longer hair that she knotted at the ends.
“What's that strange thing on his
face?” Jessica pointed with her iron finger at Allen.
“Why, those are glasses, haven't
seen a pair of those in years.” an old man said as he emerged from
the kitchen. His gray beard blended into his steel skin. His bald
head shone like it had been polished. The frozen ocean eyes ran in
the family as the old man had them too. “Little Jessie,” the man
said with a grin, “sometimes base humans can't see very good so
they need glasses to help them see.”
“Oh.” the girl said, with a
confused look on her iron face. “Why is his body all blank and
pale, is he sick?”
“Jessica, he's not sick, he's a base
human, so he doesn't have parts like we do.” the old man explained
to the little girl.
“So that's why he's so weird.” the
little girl said like she had discovered a secret.
“She's always been blunt like that.”
the old man turned to Allen, “The name's John Samson, I'm little
Jessica's grandfather.”
“My name's Allen Ross. Pleased to
meet you.” He almost stuttered. Allen was having difficulty taking
words from inside his brain and putting them into his mouth. He held
out his hand, the handshake with the old man was like placing paper
under a truck. Though the old man worked to not squeeze too hard.
“Wonderful he's here!” a voice
called from the hall. Two cyborg women emerged shoulder to shoulder
into the room. They had the family eyes and both had skin that
looked like liquid copper mixed with liquid gold. They had lines of
iron around their neck too. One was middle aged like the father and
the other a young woman around twenty. The middle aged woman spoke
first, “I'm so glad to welcome you to our family! I'm Edna Samson,
and this is my daughter Rose Samson.” Edna motioned to her daughter
who had blonde hair, unlike herself she had brown hair. Rose didn't
say a word as she looked at Allen with shy and embarrassed look. As
if she stood in front of a crowd.
“Who let the animal into the house?”
a thick teenaged voice moaned. This cyborg had massive bits of black
plastic stretched through his skin in completely even intervals, as
if an artist had carefully placed them along his body. His skin was
otherwise steel and his hair was short, ragged and blonde. He looked
at Allen with disgust.
“Jacob Samson! You will not talk
him like that!” the father yelled. “He's going to part of our
family now!”
“That animal isn't ever going to be
part of this family. He's a base human, without enhancements he's
just another animal. He's not like us.” Jacob's voice then grew
stern. “Whatever, I don't care anyway.” he turned away and left
the rest of his family with Allen.
Continued In Episode 3
(Which if I can will be posted tomorrow
if I can make it.)
Love all the characters, you did such a great job introducing them so quickly!
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