Chapter 1: Beginnings

Born lived died life was supposed to be that simple and yet somehow it wasn't as I awoke after I had clearly been dead I mean you get several large caliber holes put in your body and watch yourself bleed out and that should be the end right. I awoke to nothing and everything I couldn't feel yet I could "feel" something and it took me ages to process what my feeling was regret and a new connection which I quickly tried to understand and then it wasn't. After some unknown time I started adapting to my circumstance I realized I was in a metal body shaped like a basketball only maybe 3 times the size and with four tentacles made of segmented metal coming out of my bottom and another set out of my top. It was while I was inspecting myself that I realized that I actually could and was doing so from an outside perspective disturbing to say the least because I was positively freaking out that I was now some kind of robot octopus. The weirdness kept coming in spades as a voice suddenly spoke and said interface program initiated which I'll admit caused me to start quite strongly and then it said in a now almost soothing female voice "I am your systems interface service please relax while I run some systems calibrations then we can begin". As I waited I contemplated my fate I was now a brain in a robotic jar with tentacles heck I could do my own shokushu goukan which caused me to chuckle in my mind I guess fate could be worse and then she spoke again and said "actually you are not a brain in a jar though that procedure was attempted but was met with failure due to nutrient supply issues you are currently using a state of the art quantum processing core". I guess I wasn't just a brain in a jar though now I was fairly sure that this system was monitoring my thoughts not that I could speak yet but it still felt like an invasion of my privacy and so when it piped up again saying that it was time to test my mobility systems I was at least prepared for the voice in my head. Time was definitely not something I could tell as the mobility system test was a very slow process as I adapted to my new limbs and struggled to do anything other than flop the tentacles around like an actual octopus on land in the end I started to get it by treating each tentacle as a long finger and eventually I was able to actually start the test which amounted to hitting a specific point with the tip of my tentacles high lighted by the ever helpful system now if it would quit asking me to call it sis life would be great.