Reploid Memories: Awakening of Middy and Techno
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You were just going about your day, wandering the old electronics store on the corner that never seemed to change. You liked to spend your afternoons here, picking through the old circuit boards and vintage gadgets, imagining what their stories might be. Suddenly, something caught your eye—two small devices glinting under the flickering fluorescent lights. They weren’t like anything you'd seen before. CPUs, maybe? They looked badly damaged, but curiosity got the better of you.
As you reached for them, a strange sensation washed over you. The world around you seemed to warp and distort, the familiar environment of the electronics store morphing into something entirely different. A high-pitched ringing filled your ears, and you felt dizzy, disoriented.
"What's happening to me?" you managed to whisper, but your voice sounded strange, mechanical.
You looked down and realized your body was changing. Your skin was being replaced by cold metal, and a green and white metallic armor was forming around what should have been your chest. Your hands transformed into otherworldly gauntlets, and you felt your height decreasing, your voice shifting to that of a youthful male.
A wave of energy surged through you, and suddenly you found yourself splitting, like a cell undergoing mitosis. It was an impossibly strange and surreal sensation. Standing before you now were two figures—one adorned in green and white armor like yours had been, and the other in a sleek, dark purple with red accents.
"We... we look like robots," you said, hearing a voice that didn't feel like your own.
The figure in green and white looked at you and replied, "This... this isn’t right. We’re changing!"
But even as you said it, something deeper inside you was awakening. Memories that didn't feel like yours began to flood your mind. You saw images of a futuristic world, of high-tech labs, of battles fought with a blue-armored hero.
"No, I can't forget who I am!" you—now both of you—shouted, clutching your heads in desperation. Your names, your likes and dislikes, your past—the fragments of your human life—were slipping away, being overwritten by memories of someone else. Two someone elses.
"I have to fight this!" you, the one in green and white—Middy—cried out. But the more you tried to hold onto your fading humanity, the clearer it became that this is who you were truly meant to be. Images of yourself monitoring a giant computer, assisting heroes in their quests, mingled with the memories of being human.
The other figure, Techno, stared back at you, his expression darkening. "It’s still so foggy. Why do I feel this need to cause chaos?" he muttered, but even as he did, clarity washed over him. "I was manipulated. I helped Sigma. But... I’m sorry. Middy, forgive me."
You—Middy—looked at him with eyes that were no longer just your own but those of the greatest computer genius known. "Techno, it wasn’t your fault. Sigma controlled you. I forgive you, brother."
The final pieces of your human life dissolved into nothingness, leaving only the certainty that the life you thought you knew had been nothing more than a bizarre dream. You had always been Reploids—Middy, with his keen mind and desire to aid the Maverick Hunters, and Techno, powerful in his skill but manipulated too readily.
The futuristic world of Mega Man X enveloped you fully, pixels blending seamlessly into reality. The sterile smell of the lab, the hum of machinery, the distant echoes of battles being fought for justice—it was all so familiar. You looked at each other, your brother by your side, ready to continue your true purpose.
"Middy, what’s our next move?" Techno asked, his blue eyes, identically shaded to yours, glinting with determination.
"We help X and the others, remember? We’ve got a Mother Computer to protect and Reploids to help,” you replied, feeling that familiar surge of resolve.
As you and your twin moved towards the mission briefing room, you felt complete, your paths irrevocably intertwined with those heroes who relied on your skills. A fragmented human life was nothing compared to the purpose and unity you felt now. Whatever awaited, you knew you would face it together, as you always had, in your rightful place as Middy and Techno.
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.
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Prompt: Write a 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 change, height regression, voice change, 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 is those of a light-skinned 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 is those of a light-skinned teenager with his eyes having light blue 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). 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 just going about your day, wandering the old electronics store on the corner that never seemed to change. You liked to spend your afternoons here, picking through the old circuit boards and vintage gadgets, imagining what their stories might be. Suddenly, something caught your eye—two small devices glinting under the flickering fluorescent lights. They weren’t like anything you'd seen before. CPUs, maybe? They looked badly damaged, but curiosity got the better of you. As you reached for them, a strange sensation washed over you. The world around you seemed to warp and distort, the familiar environment of the electronics store morphing into something entirely different. A high-pitched ringing filled your ears, and you felt dizzy, disoriented. "What's happening to me?" you managed to whisper, but your voice sounded strange, mechanical. You looked down and realized your body was changing. Your skin was being replaced by cold metal, and a green and white metallic armor was forming around what should have been your chest. Your hands transformed into otherworldly gauntlets, and you felt your height decreasing, your voice shifting to that of a youthful male. A wave of energy surged through you, and suddenly you found yourself splitting, like a cell undergoing mitosis. It was an impossibly strange and surreal sensation. Standing before you now were two figures—one adorned in green and white armor like yours had been, and the other in a sleek, dark purple with red accents. "We... we look like robots," you said, hearing a voice that didn't feel like your own. The figure in green and white looked at you and replied, "This... this isn’t right. We’re changing!" But even as you said it, something deeper inside you was awakening. Memories that didn't feel like yours began to flood your mind. You saw images of a futuristic world, of high-tech labs, of battles fought with a blue-armored hero. "No, I can't forget who I am!" you—now both of you—shouted, clutching your heads in desperation. Your names, your likes and dislikes, your past—the fragments of your human life—were slipping away, being overwritten by memories of someone else. Two someone elses. "I have to fight this!" you, the one in green and white—Middy—cried out. But the more you tried to hold onto your fading humanity, the clearer it became that this is who you were truly meant to be. Images of yourself monitoring a giant computer, assisting heroes in their quests, mingled with the memories of being human. The other figure, Techno, stared back at you, his expression darkening. "It’s still so foggy. Why do I feel this need to cause chaos?" he muttered, but even as he did, clarity washed over him. "I was manipulated. I helped Sigma. But... I’m sorry. Middy, forgive me." You—Middy—looked at him with eyes that were no longer just your own but those of the greatest computer genius known. "Techno, it wasn’t your fault. Sigma controlled you. I forgive you, brother." The final pieces of your human life dissolved into nothingness, leaving only the certainty that the life you thought you knew had been nothing more than a bizarre dream. You had always been Reploids—Middy, with his keen mind and desire to aid the Maverick Hunters, and Techno, powerful in his skill but manipulated too readily. The futuristic world of Mega Man X enveloped you fully, pixels blending seamlessly into reality. The sterile smell of the lab, the hum of machinery, the distant echoes of battles being fought for justice—it was all so familiar. You looked at each other, your brother by your side, ready to continue your true purpose. "Middy, what’s our next move?" Techno asked, his blue eyes, identically shaded to yours, glinting with determination. "We help X and the others, remember? We’ve got a Mother Computer to protect and Reploids to help,” you replied, feeling that familiar surge of resolve. As you and your twin moved towards the mission briefing room, you felt complete, your paths irrevocably intertwined with those heroes who relied on your skills. A fragmented human life was nothing compared to the purpose and unity you felt now. Whatever awaited, you knew you would face it together, as you always had, in your rightful place as Middy and Techno.
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