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"Rebooted Reality in Mega Man Xtreme: Middy and Techno's True Awakening"

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You were minding your own business, scrolling through some messages on your phone when you noticed it—two small, badly-damaged CPUs lying inconspicuously on the sidewalk. You couldn't imagine where they came from or what they were used for, but curiosity got the best of you, and you picked them up.

As soon as your fingers touched the strange devices, the world around you began to warp and distort in a whirlwind of colors and shapes. Panic surged through you as your body started to betray you. Your skin felt like it was being replaced, layers of metal, wires, and circuits weaving over your once-human frame. The transformation was unstoppable—your clothes morphing into a gray jumpsuit, and you could see metallic armor forming around your body. Blue-and-white pieces clicked into place over your chest, arms, and legs. Finally, a helmet descended upon your head, complete with purple gems.

"What is happening to me?" you cry out. Your voice sounds foreign in your ears, mechanical and restrained.

As confusion took hold, your body shuddered, and you felt an unimaginable sensation—your very essence splitting in two. You fell to the ground, unable to comprehend the bizarre experience until you saw yourself... or rather, two new selves. One version of you wore a light gray jumpsuit with green-and-white armor (Middy). The other wore a black jumpsuit with purple-and-white armor and purple facial markings (Techno).

"Who are you?" you asked, staring at the robot duplicate.

"Who are you?" the duplicate responded in kind, both of your voices echoing in confusion.

But there was no time to ponder. Your minds began to fog, your human memories being overwritten by the memories of these reboots flooding into you. The pain was excruciating, and you instinctively clutched at your head.

"What's happening to me? What... what am I?" you struggled, memories of playing video games, eating pizza, and walking home evaporating like mist. In their place were memories of monitoring Hunter Bases, hacking Mother Computers, chaotic battles, and even malicious intent.

"Please! No! I don’t want to forget..." you pleaded, but the programming was relentless. Each human memory was disassembled, eradicated, deleted from existence. Instead, data streams of Reploid experiences were loaded into your processors—computational precision replacing human emotion.

A clear thought pierced through the transformation: **We had never been human. This was our reality. We are waking up from the dream. We are—**

"Middy," you said, mechanical clarity cascading through you as your eyes adapted.

"And I am Techno," your counterpart acknowledged, the realization settling as if it had always been there.

You looked at each other and nodded, a silent understanding and resolution passing between you. Whoever you had been as humans—or rather, the dream of being human—was completely erased. You were who you had always been: Reploid twins.

"I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused in the past," Techno said, remorse evident in his voice, although tempered by the mechanical tones.

"No need to apologize," you responded, as Middy. "We have a chance to make things right again, to help the Maverick Hunters maintain peace."

With newfound purpose and a shared goal, you adjusted to your Reploid forms, observing both your green-and-gray and purple-black armor, respectively finding subtle differences yet profound connections. You could see pods of information about past exploits with X, Zero, and Alia as though they were daily logs being reviewed, clear as day.

"Let’s go, Middy," Techno said, taking the first step towards the futuristic world you truly belonged to.

"Yes, Techno," you agreed, holding onto the very essence that you had always been brothers, united in your mission despite the transformation.

With every confident stride, you head for the Hunter Base, sinking into your destined path and embracing the reality of your true selves, permanently and irreversibly connecting to the core of your existence as Middy and Techno within the Mega Man X world.

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 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 minding your own business, scrolling through some messages on your phone when you noticed it—two small, badly-damaged CPUs lying inconspicuously on the sidewalk. You couldn't imagine where they came from or what they were used for, but curiosity got the best of you, and you picked them up. As soon as your fingers touched the strange devices, the world around you began to warp and distort in a whirlwind of colors and shapes. Panic surged through you as your body started to betray you. Your skin felt like it was being replaced, layers of metal, wires, and circuits weaving over your once-human frame. The transformation was unstoppable—your clothes morphing into a gray jumpsuit, and you could see metallic armor forming around your body. Blue-and-white pieces clicked into place over your chest, arms, and legs. Finally, a helmet descended upon your head, complete with purple gems. "What is happening to me?" you cry out. Your voice sounds foreign in your ears, mechanical and restrained. As confusion took hold, your body shuddered, and you felt an unimaginable sensation—your very essence splitting in two. You fell to the ground, unable to comprehend the bizarre experience until you saw yourself... or rather, two new selves. One version of you wore a light gray jumpsuit with green-and-white armor (Middy). The other wore a black jumpsuit with purple-and-white armor and purple facial markings (Techno). "Who are you?" you asked, staring at the robot duplicate. "Who are you?" the duplicate responded in kind, both of your voices echoing in confusion. But there was no time to ponder. Your minds began to fog, your human memories being overwritten by the memories of these reboots flooding into you. The pain was excruciating, and you instinctively clutched at your head. "What's happening to me? What... what am I?" you struggled, memories of playing video games, eating pizza, and walking home evaporating like mist. In their place were memories of monitoring Hunter Bases, hacking Mother Computers, chaotic battles, and even malicious intent. "Please! No! I don’t want to forget..." you pleaded, but the programming was relentless. Each human memory was disassembled, eradicated, deleted from existence. Instead, data streams of Reploid experiences were loaded into your processors—computational precision replacing human emotion. A clear thought pierced through the transformation: **We had never been human. This was our reality. We are waking up from the dream. We are—** "Middy," you said, mechanical clarity cascading through you as your eyes adapted. "And I am Techno," your counterpart acknowledged, the realization settling as if it had always been there. You looked at each other and nodded, a silent understanding and resolution passing between you. Whoever you had been as humans—or rather, the dream of being human—was completely erased. You were who you had always been: Reploid twins. "I'm sorry for all the trouble I caused in the past," Techno said, remorse evident in his voice, although tempered by the mechanical tones. "No need to apologize," you responded, as Middy. "We have a chance to make things right again, to help the Maverick Hunters maintain peace." With newfound purpose and a shared goal, you adjusted to your Reploid forms, observing both your green-and-gray and purple-black armor, respectively finding subtle differences yet profound connections. You could see pods of information about past exploits with X, Zero, and Alia as though they were daily logs being reviewed, clear as day. "Let’s go, Middy," Techno said, taking the first step towards the futuristic world you truly belonged to. "Yes, Techno," you agreed, holding onto the very essence that you had always been brothers, united in your mission despite the transformation. With every confident stride, you head for the Hunter Base, sinking into your destined path and embracing the reality of your true selves, permanently and irreversibly connecting to the core of your existence as Middy and Techno within the Mega Man X world.

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