Metallum Veritatem: Becoming Middy and Techno
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## Awakening True Selves
You're sitting at your desk, browsing aimlessly on the internet, when your eyes catch something odd in the corner of your room: two small, damaged, metallic objects, barely larger than your fists. You didn't recall placing them there. They certainly were not a part of your daily clutter.
"What in the world?" you mutter to yourself, approaching the objects and reaching out to pick them up. A surge of energy runs through your fingers the moment you touch the metallic surfaces.
Suddenly, the world around you begins to warp. Reality bends and shifts like a funhouse mirror. You stumble and fall to your knees as your body starts to change. Beneath your clothes, your skin feels less like flesh and more like compact metal. Your jumpsuit merges into a solid piece of green-and-white metallic armor over a light gray under-suit. You gasp, your voice taking on a higher, youthful pitch.
"No... what’s happening to me?" you cry out, your voice cracking and shifting as it morphs into that of a teenage boy.
As the transformation continues, you shrink in height, your adult frame regressing until you stand at a mere 4'9". The sensation of splitting becomes impossible to ignore. One moment you're whole—confused and frightened—the next you're not alone. A second form, indistinguishable from your own at first, emerges and takes on its own characteristics: a black jumpsuit under purple-and-white armor.
All at once, the vertigo of memories flooding your mind is overwhelming. You clutch your head, trying desperately to hold on to who you were—a human, a solitary entity—but those memories are fading fast.
"I... I'm Middy." The words slip out with startling familiarity, as if they were always meant to be spoken. You look beside you and recognize the other Reploid—Techno.
"I’m... Techno," the other, your cloned counterpart, says, his red eyes narrowing briefly in recognition.
Memories flood in, overriding your human existence. You remember the Hunter Base, the Mother Computer, the endless sequences of crises and solutions. Your entire life as a human now seems like nothing more than a fading dream, a figment of an imagination you no longer possess.
"Brother,” Techno says, his voice almost breaking. "I'm sorry for everything... for what I did. I was so lost."
"It's alright, Techno," Middy says—you say, feeling the sincerity and forgiveness flowing through you. "We were manipulated, but we're together now. We can fix what’s been broken."
As the last vestiges of your human personality fade away, your surroundings stabilize. There, standing before the Hunter Base, you recognize fellow Maverick Hunters like X, Zero, and Alia, all eyes turned to you with a mixture of shock and relief.
"Welcome back, Middy, Techno," X says, his usually stern face softened with a grateful smile. "We thought we had lost you both for good.”
"Not quite," Techno says, nodding. "We have work to do."
Standing tall—or as tall as Reploids of your stature can—you both nod. The impossible journey from an illusory human life to reclaiming your true Reploid selves might have been disorienting, but it was necessary.
Together, with a sense of belonging to the world you always knew was yours, you and your brother rejoin the efforts to maintain peace, forever, as the technological wonders you were always meant to be.
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 a 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: ## Awakening True Selves You're sitting at your desk, browsing aimlessly on the internet, when your eyes catch something odd in the corner of your room: two small, damaged, metallic objects, barely larger than your fists. You didn't recall placing them there. They certainly were not a part of your daily clutter. "What in the world?" you mutter to yourself, approaching the objects and reaching out to pick them up. A surge of energy runs through your fingers the moment you touch the metallic surfaces. Suddenly, the world around you begins to warp. Reality bends and shifts like a funhouse mirror. You stumble and fall to your knees as your body starts to change. Beneath your clothes, your skin feels less like flesh and more like compact metal. Your jumpsuit merges into a solid piece of green-and-white metallic armor over a light gray under-suit. You gasp, your voice taking on a higher, youthful pitch. "No... what’s happening to me?" you cry out, your voice cracking and shifting as it morphs into that of a teenage boy. As the transformation continues, you shrink in height, your adult frame regressing until you stand at a mere 4'9". The sensation of splitting becomes impossible to ignore. One moment you're whole—confused and frightened—the next you're not alone. A second form, indistinguishable from your own at first, emerges and takes on its own characteristics: a black jumpsuit under purple-and-white armor. All at once, the vertigo of memories flooding your mind is overwhelming. You clutch your head, trying desperately to hold on to who you were—a human, a solitary entity—but those memories are fading fast. "I... I'm Middy." The words slip out with startling familiarity, as if they were always meant to be spoken. You look beside you and recognize the other Reploid—Techno. "I’m... Techno," the other, your cloned counterpart, says, his red eyes narrowing briefly in recognition. Memories flood in, overriding your human existence. You remember the Hunter Base, the Mother Computer, the endless sequences of crises and solutions. Your entire life as a human now seems like nothing more than a fading dream, a figment of an imagination you no longer possess. "Brother,” Techno says, his voice almost breaking. "I'm sorry for everything... for what I did. I was so lost." "It's alright, Techno," Middy says—you say, feeling the sincerity and forgiveness flowing through you. "We were manipulated, but we're together now. We can fix what’s been broken." As the last vestiges of your human personality fade away, your surroundings stabilize. There, standing before the Hunter Base, you recognize fellow Maverick Hunters like X, Zero, and Alia, all eyes turned to you with a mixture of shock and relief. "Welcome back, Middy, Techno," X says, his usually stern face softened with a grateful smile. "We thought we had lost you both for good.” "Not quite," Techno says, nodding. "We have work to do." Standing tall—or as tall as Reploids of your stature can—you both nod. The impossible journey from an illusory human life to reclaiming your true Reploid selves might have been disorienting, but it was necessary. Together, with a sense of belonging to the world you always knew was yours, you and your brother rejoin the efforts to maintain peace, forever, as the technological wonders you were always meant to be.
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