Restoration

As you try to sort out what just happened and what you need to do, a motorcycle pulls up next to your car. The man riding it is unfamiliar, and yet at the same time you feel like you've known him for years. He's wearing black pants and a black jacket, and a gray shirt. Strangely, his right arm and left leg appear to be mechanical, and when he removes his helmet, you can see that his left eye is also cybernetic. You get out of your car, looking at the strange man in confusion.

He sweeps his hand through his black hair, then gives you a friendly grin. "Erin. Good to see you...as yourself...again."

"What are you talking about? Who are you?" you shout.

"Right, you wouldn't remember me yet," he says. "Well, come along, I'll get you fixed up."

You know this man is a friend and an ally (how? You've never seen him before, right?) so you go with him, climbing onto the back of his motorbike. He guns the engine and drives off, then presses a button on the dashboard. A brief flash of light, and suddenly the bike is pulling to a stop in a high-tech-looking place you don't recognize but know you've been to before.

The man leads you through the facility. "It's a good thing I managed to find you," he says. "Now, I don't know why they turned you into a guy and altered your mind and memories. Presumably, they wanted you out of the way but for some reason didn't want to kill you. That worries me, especially considering they were also able to steal the equipment I gave you. In any case, it may have taken four months, but I did eventually locate you. And of course when I did, I tried to restore you to your old self. It wasn't completely successful, of course, but we're about to take care of that right now."

You think a moment. You'd already figured out that they (who are 'they?') transformed and brainwashed you, and that they needed you alive. But it turns out what you thought was someone attempting to destroy you was this man (who is he?) undoing what 'they' did.

You are jolted out of your thoughts as the man announces your arrival, and leads you into a small room. The room is occupied by a chair which is connected to a large computer. You walk over and sit in the chair, and a helmet lowers onto your head. The man walks over to the computer and starts working at it. You hear a buzzing noise, followed by a bright flash. And finally, the confusion abates. The brainwashing vanishes, your true memories return.

Your name is Erin. The man with the mechanical parts is your oldest friend, Zak. The two of you work as a mercenary duo - you are the field agent and Zak is your support, working with technology and information. The two of you have been tailing an evil underground organization for almost a year now. It was during your most recent mission to investigate them that they were somehow able to not only transform you into a guy but also replace all your memories with false ones to match your new self, essentially making you just a normal guy. Only now, four months later, was Zak able to restore you to yourself again.

Written by an anonymous author

a new arrival

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