Divided Reflections: Awakening of Middy and Techno
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You were minding your own business one particularly dull Tuesday afternoon, walking down the concrete path you've taken a thousand times before. It was a typical day; the sky was overcast, the air breeding a promise of rain. Nothing out of the ordinary caught your eye until, almost surreally, something metallic gleamed just off the path.
Two badly-damaged CPUs lay nestled in the grass. Their battered forms emitted a faint, ethereal glow. You crouched down, a sense of curiosity getting the better of you. As you gingerly picked up the CPUs, a pulse of energy surged through your fingertips, and the world around you started to warp and contort.
"What is this…?" you mutter in a mix of confusion and awe.
The ground beneath you vanished, giving way to an expanse of vivid blue grids and data streams. Your body tingled, and you felt a strange heaviness in your limbs. You tried to look at your hands, but what you saw were now metallic fingers encased in green and white armor.
Panic set in, but before you could process further, your human body began to shrink and morph. Your stature diminished, muscles turned into synthetic fiber, and skin transformed into a smooth, metallic surface. Emotions churned in your chest—or whatever served as your new chest—as you shrank down to a mere 4.9 feet.
You were becoming a Reploid.
"What's happening to me?" you desperately ask, but your voice has morphed, too. It's no longer the voice you've always known, shifting instead to that of a teenage boy.
Just when you thought you couldn't handle any more changes, a sharp pain pierces your psyche. The sensation is overwhelming, as if a part of you is being forcibly pulled away. It feels as though your entire being is splitting in two.
You see the world with dimming vision, eyeing the forms taking place on either side of you. Somehow you know their names—Middy and Techno. You see their forms flanking you, and then you realize they are you. Your essence is rapidly bifurcating.
"No, I can't forget, I have to remember…" you clutch your head as invasive thoughts and memories flood your mind like an unstoppable tide.
"Who am I…?" the thought struggles to follow through your now fragmented consciousness.
But the memories persist. They wash over you, altering everything you once were. The human life you cherished, every tender moment and hope, feels increasingly like a distant dream, one you never actually lived. Your mind transforms irreversibly.
"I'm—Middy…" The thought completes inside you like a jigsaw puzzle sliding perfectly into place.
The other part of you realizes the same in kind. "I'm Techno."
As if your final shred of resistance wanes into acceptance, the overwhelming calm you feel is somewhat relieving.
Techno looks at you with a mixture of remorse and sorrow. "Middy... I'm sorry for everything."
Your previous identities forgotten, you approach Techno without hesitation. You place a hand on Techno's shoulder, a gesture of solidarity and forgiveness that's as old as sentient beings themselves. "It's alright, Techno. We were always meant to be here, doing what we were created to do."
As you retrieve what little remained of the CPUs and interface with them, the world adjusts again, stabilizing into the reality you both belonged to—the world you both always belonged to. It’s futuristic but comforting, a mixture of neon lights, towering buildings, and Maverick Hunter headquarters bustling with dedicated Reploids.
Logic dictates one thing now. "We have work to do. X and Zero will need our support."
"And we'll be ready, Middy," Techno nods with genuine acceptance. "No more wandering dreams. Just our true purpose."
United, you both step forward, two halves of a forgotten whole, finally awakened to your real selves, no longer haunted by the odd and complex human mirage that held you captive for so long.
The future, once chaotic and uncertain, now stretches before both of you, clear and full of purpose.
"Together," you both say in unison, feeling a serenity only known to those who understand their true selves.
Together, as the twins Middy and Techno, you both had always been destined for this, and now you would work side by side to maintain the peace and balance the world so desperately needed.
This story was generated by user dylan7 with assistance by one of OpenAI’s large-scale language-generation model; prompts used to help generate the story are shown below.
Images were generated with OpenAI's AI system, DALL·E 2, or uploaded by the user.
AI Prompts
Prompt: Write the POV transformation story of the human reader turning into Middy and Techno (Reploids from the video game Mega Man Xtreme (a Mega Man X game)), complete with gender change (if the reader is female), robotitication, age regression (becoming a teenager), height regression (shrinking from the reader's 5.6-6 foot height to Middy's and Techno's 4.9 foot height), voice change (becoming those of a teenager's voice), division (the reader splitting apart to become two different characters, with the original reader becoming Middy and his cloned counterpart becoming Techno), reality change (the reader's real world becoming the world of Mega Man X), and mind/mental change (with his memories and personality being completely replaced by those of Middy's and Techno's memories and personality, despite their best efforts on fighting off these changes, making them realize that they are waking up to their real/true selves (as Middy and Techno) from their human dreams (they realize that they had never been humans to begin with and they were not a singular entity, despite what their dream would want them to believe), and they remember that they had always been Middy and Techno). The transformation is permanent (meaning it is forever) and is completely irreversible (however, this doesn't bother Middy or Techno, since they had always been this way). Here is Middy's appearance; he is a 4.9 foot tall male Reploid who has a light gray jumpsuit on his body, which is underneath his green metallic chestpiece with a white top and light green lines running down the center from the white (which also has green-and-white shoulder pads), green metallic armlets with lighter green hems (which covers his lower arms), and green metallic knee-high robot feet with light green on the knees and white on the toes. He also has a blue gem on the front of his chestpiece, and a metallic white belt that is fused to his waist area of his light gray jumpsuit. He also has a green and white metallic helmet with a dark gray circle metallic ear on each side of his helmet and a blue gem on forehead, and his face resembles those of a light-skinned human teenager with his eyes having light blue irises in them. Here is Techno's appearance; he is a 4.9 foot tall male Reploid who has a black jumpsuit on his body, which is underneath his purple metallic chestpiece with a light purple bottom and a white lines running down the center from the light purple (which also has purple-and-white shoulder pads), purple metallic armlets with lighter purple hems (which covers his lower arms), and purple metallic knee-high robot feet with white on the knees and light purple on the rims of his robot feet. He also has a red gem on the front of his chestpiece, and a metallic white belt that is fused to his waist area of his black jumpsuit. He also has a purple and white metallic helmet with a white circle metallic ear on each side of his helmet and a red gem on forehead, and his face resembles those of a light-skinned human teenager with his eyes having red irises in them, and unlike Middy's face, his face has purple facial markings (running from his cheeks to his eyes) similar to that of Bass (a Mega Man classic character). Here is the history of both Middy and Techno according to Mega Man Xtreme (before the events of this story); Middy was a Reploid and one of the greatest computer geniuses in the world, and managed the Hunter Base's Mother Computer throughout the game to assist the Maverick Hunters solve the current crisis. Middy had a twin brother named Techno, a skilled hacker who was manipulated by Sigma into using his skills for evil. Techno and the Shadow Hunters hacked into the Hunter Base's Mother Computer mainframe, setting its data to cause chaos all over the world and reproducing fighting data from past Mavericks. In order to hack the Mother Computer, Techno connected his CPU directly to the computer he was using. Sadly, when X destroyed Techno's terminal to stop him from hacking the Mother Computer, he also destroyed Techno's CPU, and because Techno and Middy shared the same CPU, Middy too was killed. However, unlike in Mega Man Xtreme, the CPUs of Middy and Techno are not completely destroyed and have simply become lost (by time traveling themselves from the future world of Mega Man X into the modern times of the real world). The story is that the reader is minding his/her own business, when all the sudden, two badly-damaged CPUs appeared near him/her. The reader has no idea where these CPUs come from nor what were they used for, so he/she picks them up, but then the world around him/her starting warping and changing, with his/her body also completely transforming, gaining a gray jumpsuit blue-and-white metallic armor on his/her body and a helmet on his/her head. The reader himself (now truly a male if the reader was a female before), who was now a humanoid robot with a gray jumpsuit and blue-and-white armor as well as helmet, both with purple gems, is confused on what is happening to him, but then feels a strange feeling as he split apart into two robots, one with a light gray jumpsuit and green-and-white metal (Middy) and the other with a black jumpsuit and purple-and-white metal (Techno). They are more confused then ever by this point, but then their minds become foggy/fuzzy/blurry, as their memories and personality are being erased from their minds through the CPUs (which were once broken but had now become their new brains in place of their formerly human ones), making them hold their own heads as they try to fight off these unwanted memories (not wanting to lose or forget themselves as a single human), but to no avail. They then realize that they are returning back to their real/true selves since they are rebooting from their sleep (thus proving that the single human they used to be was not real and was only a strange dream they had, since they both had always been robots, more specifically Reploids, so it was completely impossible for them to have been humans and also impossible to have been a single entity). After awakening, the twin Reploid brothers, Middy (formerly the original reader) and Techno (formerly the cloned reader), looked at each other and both reconcile (with Techno apologizing for his evil plots and such, and Middy forgiving him), with both Middy and Techno continuing their true lives, helping the other Maverick Hunters (including X himself, Zero himself, Alie herself, etc), in the futuristic world they had always belonged. There should also be quotes from the characters in this story so we know what they're saying and what they're thinking. Also, it is a POV reader story, so it should not be in an author's point of view (my, I, mine, etc), and it should be from the point of view of the reader (you, your, etc)
Response: You were minding your own business one particularly dull Tuesday afternoon, walking down the concrete path you've taken a thousand times before. It was a typical day; the sky was overcast, the air breeding a promise of rain. Nothing out of the ordinary caught your eye until, almost surreally, something metallic gleamed just off the path. Two badly-damaged CPUs lay nestled in the grass. Their battered forms emitted a faint, ethereal glow. You crouched down, a sense of curiosity getting the better of you. As you gingerly picked up the CPUs, a pulse of energy surged through your fingertips, and the world around you started to warp and contort. "What is this…?" you mutter in a mix of confusion and awe. The ground beneath you vanished, giving way to an expanse of vivid blue grids and data streams. Your body tingled, and you felt a strange heaviness in your limbs. You tried to look at your hands, but what you saw were now metallic fingers encased in green and white armor. Panic set in, but before you could process further, your human body began to shrink and morph. Your stature diminished, muscles turned into synthetic fiber, and skin transformed into a smooth, metallic surface. Emotions churned in your chest—or whatever served as your new chest—as you shrank down to a mere 4.9 feet. You were becoming a Reploid. "What's happening to me?" you desperately ask, but your voice has morphed, too. It's no longer the voice you've always known, shifting instead to that of a teenage boy. Just when you thought you couldn't handle any more changes, a sharp pain pierces your psyche. The sensation is overwhelming, as if a part of you is being forcibly pulled away. It feels as though your entire being is splitting in two. You see the world with dimming vision, eyeing the forms taking place on either side of you. Somehow you know their names—Middy and Techno. You see their forms flanking you, and then you realize they are you. Your essence is rapidly bifurcating. "No, I can't forget, I have to remember…" you clutch your head as invasive thoughts and memories flood your mind like an unstoppable tide. "Who am I…?" the thought struggles to follow through your now fragmented consciousness. But the memories persist. They wash over you, altering everything you once were. The human life you cherished, every tender moment and hope, feels increasingly like a distant dream, one you never actually lived. Your mind transforms irreversibly. "I'm—Middy…" The thought completes inside you like a jigsaw puzzle sliding perfectly into place. The other part of you realizes the same in kind. "I'm Techno." As if your final shred of resistance wanes into acceptance, the overwhelming calm you feel is somewhat relieving. Techno looks at you with a mixture of remorse and sorrow. "Middy... I'm sorry for everything." Your previous identities forgotten, you approach Techno without hesitation. You place a hand on Techno's shoulder, a gesture of solidarity and forgiveness that's as old as sentient beings themselves. "It's alright, Techno. We were always meant to be here, doing what we were created to do." As you retrieve what little remained of the CPUs and interface with them, the world adjusts again, stabilizing into the reality you both belonged to—the world you both always belonged to. It’s futuristic but comforting, a mixture of neon lights, towering buildings, and Maverick Hunter headquarters bustling with dedicated Reploids. Logic dictates one thing now. "We have work to do. X and Zero will need our support." "And we'll be ready, Middy," Techno nods with genuine acceptance. "No more wandering dreams. Just our true purpose." United, you both step forward, two halves of a forgotten whole, finally awakened to your real selves, no longer haunted by the odd and complex human mirage that held you captive for so long. The future, once chaotic and uncertain, now stretches before both of you, clear and full of purpose. "Together," you both say in unison, feeling a serenity only known to those who understand their true selves. Together, as the twins Middy and Techno, you both had always been destined for this, and now you would work side by side to maintain the peace and balance the world so desperately needed.
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