The Base Humanity Integration Project Final Ep

Welcome to the “season finale” of The Base Humanity Integration Project. Well, this was my first attempt at doing an interlocking series of flash fictions. I had a general direction of where it was it was going, but there was no specific outline. Anyway, I recommend you go back and re-read all the previous episodes for this finale, there all in the previous blog posts.

The Base Humanity Integration Project

Season 1 Final Episode:The Salesman

          When Allen grew conscious he noticed he was in some sort of huge warehouse full of people on tables. Base humans. Normal people. Some unconscious, some screaming, some just laying there, having given up an hour ago. All of the base humans were bound except when allowed to relieve themselves where cyborg guards stood watch.

        “You woke up quick.” the man that kidnapped him said. Allen remembered his name was Eric, and his blonde hair and ocean blue eyes showed him as a member of the Samson family. He couldn't imagine that Harry could have such a brother. Eric's purple alloy had a deep glow, like a ghost's skin in the moonlight.

        “Where am I?” Allen asked, still a little out of it from the sleeping gas.

         “A mid-way point. From here we ship you out to the labs where we do the real operations. I'm the just the middle man.” Eric held a clipboard in front of him. “See, there are a lot of rich and powerful base humans in the world. And they want to be cyborgs, like us, but that technology doesn't exist yet, for now you can only become a cyborg at birth otherwise your body rejects it. That's where you come in, they're doing experiments to develop the technology, but considering its illegal and dangerous that's where people like me come in. To get people like you for them.”

       “So I'm just product?” Allen asked, already starting to imagine the scientists looming over him with surgical implements.

        “Exactly. Wow, for a clear-face you catch on pretty quickly.” Eric said, the purple alloy on his skin gave it an unsettling lizard-like texture. His hair and eyes made him look more like his human captives. “Think of it this way. If it wasn't me getting you. It would be someone else. There would always be a salesman and a product.”

       “You, thing, you don't even deserve to be called human.” Allen told him, his voice still weak from the side effects of the sleeping gas.

Eric laughed, “But I'm not even human am I? We're cyborgs, a step above you animals, and you wouldn't believe how much money I'm making off of each of you. The little nerds down at the labs will be giving me mountains of money for their test subjects.” Eric gave Allen a big smile first of happiness then of horror. He pulled out the cellphone from Allen's pocket. He turned to his thugs and screamed, “Which one of you damn idiots forgot to take away his cellphone!?”

         “What's a cellphone?” one of the cyborg thugs asked with a blank stare on his face.

         “It's something base humans use to communicate without internal Internet access like us.” Eric filled with so much anger his purple alloy became a thick lava red. “The point is that cellphones have GPS!” his face then sagged with a depressed frown. “The police. They've already tracked us with this.” Eric handed the cellphone back to Allen. “Damn clear-face.”

          They could already see the lights of police cars through the old windows of the warehouse, with the whirring helicopters in the sky and sirens all around. The captives didn't need to see the warehouse doors being burst down to know they were free. The cyborgs were very orderly with how they released the captives, going up and down the rows of beds that the captors had set up. Allen was one of the last ones to go. Right as he exited the warehouse doors he saw a familiar face.

         “Well Allen, its time to go home.” Mr. Woods said his scaled copper skin having more of a clean polish than usual.

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It was fun writing this, though I'm not sure how soon in the future I'll be doing another series like this or be doing “Season 2” I do like these characters though, and they've got plenty of room for development! I'll probably be going back to my completely standalone flash fiction format for awhile again until I come up with another idea for a series or a continuation of this one. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it all.