The Phantom of the Factory (part 2)

[RancidInsanity]

Eric managed to get out of the hospital without anything eventful happening. However as he ran down the sidewalk outside, he could hear the screams of frightened mothers as they held their crying and wailing babies close to them.

“I need to hide my face.” Eric thought in his insane fraction of a brain.

Eric reached the factory and was confronted by a guardbot. Before the accident Eric would never even dream of punching a robot, but now that he was insane, he went ahead and punched the robot. Much to Eric’s and the Guardbot’s surprise, when Eric punched the bot in the head, it’s head came clean off.

Eric was in shock of his newly found strength as he watched the Guardbot tumble to the ground. As soon as he thought “How can this be?” , he saw a flash of images speed through his vision. At first he didn’t understand but then he knew. His machine brain had just answered his human brain. Slowly, Eric understood what the machine brain’s answer was. Since humans use small pulses of electricity to send signals from the brain to the muscles, the machine brain amplified those signals and thus dramatically increased his strength.

Realizing the potential of this ability, Eric started to look at this accident as a possible blessing in disguise. Although, Eric still bent down and ripped a piece of the Guardbot’s gray flat face-mask off and poked an eye hole through it. Then he proceeded to violently rip out some circuitry and use it to tie the mask around his face.

“I am the Phantom of the Factory.” Eric whispered to himself and then let out a crazed, hysterical laugh.


Hiding in the ventilation system, Eric spied on the operations of the factory that altered his life. After a few days of this, Eric spotted her. He guessed she was a robot, pale skin, long raven hair, and with the help of his zoom lens from the machinery, he could tell she had magical blue eyes.

“I’ve got to talk to her.” Was Erik’s only thought for a long time.

Eric eventually saw her get plugged into a charger, thus confirming his belief that she was a robot. The more and more he spied on her doing chores throughout the factory the more and more he could feel himself falling madly in love. He couldn’t wait any longer, he had to confront her soon.

“Tomorrow night….tomorrow night….” Eric assured himself in the ventilation system while watching the unknown robot woman he was madly in love with sweep the floor.

[kman1]

Very interesting take on a classic. Looking forward to more of his obsession.