Defrosted Frog

[Note from "Writer"

Writing is meant to be written with only a handful of lines on the screen at any time, this is to prevent you from reading ahead by accident, which is a very common problem. Having things suddenly stop and then having some scrolling or turning of pages, really reinforces a feeling of time having passed, and it gives you a few seconds to think about what just happened. Think of it being like how anime ends in cliffhangers, or something dramatic happens on TV, and then an ad break happens.

Also, if you have very strange or confused feelings about a character, be aware of their mental state, upbringing, ect ect.]


Potatoes
Potatoes
Glory to the mighty potato
Endless fields of ruined land
The dust slips from the hand
And the only fertilizer is the dead
With so much moisture being blood
Nothing else but carrots grows instead
In the dark brown warzone mud

Myra!
No Myra!
Return to me!
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What the fuck?
I can't move
Why am I naked?
Why am I so wet?
What, what is happening?
I gotta escape
I gotta escape!
I gotta move!
I
GOTTA
ESCAPE!
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It was all just a simulation
I remember now
All of those years
Those were almost entirely fake
Maybe a person or two was plugged in as well
Seriously doubt it however as most of us just males.
Myra.
You were so real Myra.
Were you based on a real person?
Were you an AI?
A fellow person plugged in?
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Who am I again?
How long has my body been still?
Has it really been decades?
Yeah...
I think it has indeed been decades
Seth damn
I am naked on naked
Where is my weapon?
Where are MY weapons?
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Can anyone hear me?
Am I being defrosted?
Can I get out of the cryo pod?
Come on
Frog here
I want to get out of the fridge
It's not safe for me to sleep
I have to be plugged in or awake
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Guys?
Gals?
People?
My people?
MY FUCKING PEOPLE?
I AM GOING INSANE IN HERE!
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My throat hurts so much
It's not working
I was trained to handle this
But how long as it been
Hours?
Minutes?
Maybe a day?
My ability to sense time is completely shot
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Oh shit
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WE ARE....
GURK...
PLAT
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COUGH COUGH COUGH
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Fuck
It hurts
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Let me out!
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Something is wrong!
We're not in real space!
Come on!
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What if the rest of the crew?
What if we were boarded?
I need to get out of here
Frog needs to cut and thrash
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Okay, I'm losing it
Something is very very wrong
Even if it's been only a few hours
I am very clearly going insane
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To the all powerful Bringer of Light
To the one who opens the Eyes
To the one who knows Truth from lies
To the one who calls me to fight
To the one my people have promised too
To the being they prayed to day and night
To the one who told us what to do
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Preserve my soul
I am scared
I am weak
Preserve my soul
Preserve the souls of the crew
My God
Take me back
Take us back
I am scared
Something is very wrong about this place
We are crossing through something dark
We are
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>What are you doing in my room?
Is that another voice?
Have I completely lost it?
>Lost what?
Ummmmm my mind?
Have I lost my mind?
>You have to have.
>You are in my room.
What do you mean your room?
>My bedroom
>This is my special place
Is my pod in your room?
>Your what?
I was frozen in a cryo pod
>I actually can't see you
You can't see me?
>Yes, you're in my head
I am in your head?
>Yes
>Normally I go into peoples heads
>You shouldn't be in mine.
>You should be in my room

What does your voice sound like?

>You mean this?

Your voice is very high pitched
Are you a child?

>Yes
>What of it?

There shouldn't be any colonists who are children
Was someone pregnaant or something?

>I don't have a mother
>I was never born like that

Are you an AI?

>No
>I am flesh and blood

You have a really high pitched voice
How old are you?

>I should be nine

How are you nine?
You are talking to me like this?

>What do you mean?
>You're mind is slow

Your vocabulaary isn't that impressive
What do you mean that I am slow

>Any word that you speak
>I will understand the meaning
>I can read a book like flipping the pages
>But it takes time to understand it

Are you some kind of genius or something?

>I'm geneticlly engineered to be like this

Are you some kind of recovered?
One of the children marked as dead, but taken into the open arms of our people in secret?

>No
>I was designed from the DNA of every single powerful prophet there was DNA of, along with some leaders and commandos.

Commandos?
Like me?

>What are you?

I am a Frog
You know what a Frog is?

>Some kind of interstellar commando?
>Or do you operate on an ocean?

You do seem to be picking up words really well.
I really hope you are real.
I would hate to have lost my mind.

>Lost your marbles?
>No
>I can feel you
>You could be a lot worse
>Your mind is intact

You're blessed?

>I am a freak
>I am cursed
>Made to be a weapon
>No one asked me if I wanted to exist

You can sense me?
Can you give orders?

>Yes
>I am Seer

How strongly are you tuned into the Voice?
Aren't you really young to be that powerful?
Children can be very mean
Are you infected like the rest of us?

>Yes
>I am made from the DNA of our leaders
>My voice grows in power every day

So you feel the deep pain within you

>I can feel how lonely and sad you are
>And I feel this deep pain within me
>Yes
>And this tugging on my heart
>Oh it hurts
>It seems to tug towards the ground
>Towards the stars
>Towards the past and future

My God
What have we done to you?

>Do you see now?
>Freak!
>I am a weaponized horror!
>Why have you done this to me!
>My People!

I
I I I
I didn't do this to you
I'm just a soldier
I didn't even know you existed

>I don't

What do you mean you don't?!?

>I'm not born yet?

What?
What the fuck do you mean?

>I was born after both the new systems had their jump-gates

I'm part of a convoy that was going to construct and assemble one of the jump-gates

>Oh
>Let me help you
>ARISE
>BE RELEASED FROM YOUR CRYO CHAMBER
>SECURE THE COLONISTS AND PROTECT THEM
>DIE AFTER
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Oh my God
I am bleeding so much right now
I think I am going to make it
>You better
>Did you put the fires out?
Yes
I think so
>How many did you kill?
I have no idea
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It was 47
I killed 47 raiders and pirates
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Are you really that powerful?
>I'm a weapon
>What do you think?
Fuck
Why am I crying?
>You're upset over me
What?
I am?
I am.
I am very upset about you
>Don't worry about me.
Oh come on
You could be my daughter
>I'm not your daughter
>I could run laps around you
>Literally
>You are a slower runner
What should I do?
Can I help someone?
Hold on
Let me figure out this bleeding
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My deepest apologies
The pain killers caused me to faint
>It's okay
>I understand
>Do you feel better
Yeah
Strong pain killers
My mind isn't entirely here
>I was worried.
You don't have to worry about me
I offered up my life gladly for this
We haven't suffered and toiled for decades
I wanted to do my part
Like my ancestors
>Your future is suffering and toil
What do you mean?
>Let us be person and honest
>What is your name
Frank
>Well Frank
Yes Seer?
It's Seer right?
>Yes
>Well Frank
>There are a lot of dark and scary things out in the galaxy, even in the universe

Seer

>Yes Frank?

How many people die

>So far at least three billion
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How many of them are our people?

>A whole one billion

Motherfucker
Excuse me
I didn't mean....

>It's okay
>it's okay Frank

What were the other two billion?

>Borgs

Really?

>Yes

Civvies?

>Bystandards yes

Do you get older?

>These losses are at least five years from now
>I should still be alive

When will you be in control
With a Voice like yours?

>Four more years

Well um
I live to serve Propheta
What can I do for the Cause?

>Live
>Frank, the present is bleak
>The future is only going to get bleaker
>Frank, we need a lot of soldiers
>I
>I need a lot of warm bodies
>I'll be forced to take cold ones too

Is it really that bad?
Another war for survival?

>Frank
>You're going to be chewed up and spat out Frank
>You're going to die
>It's going to be horrible
>FRANK!
>WHY FRANK!
>WHY!
>Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
>HuUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
>Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
>WHY!
>YOU HAD SO MANY YEARS!
>YOU ALL HAD SO MUCH TO GIVE!
>WHY!
>WHY NOT ME!
>WHY DO I HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!

Seer

>WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY?!?!
>Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
>HuUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
>Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

SEER!

>Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
>HuUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
>Blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

SHUT THE FUCK SEER!
GET AHOLD OF YOURSELF
BREATHE
BREATHE
For the love of the People
For me
Breathe

>Hu....Fuh
>Hu
>Fa

There we go
Now
Just breathe
Listen to my voice okay?
Focus on just what I am saying
Don't think about anything else
Okay?

>Mhhmmmm!
>Huuuuuuu
>Faaaaaaa

Okay
Okay....
Seer
Do not cry over me
I'm not sad about my own life or death
I am not even proud to live or die
I am proud of what I serve
I am not proud to serve
Serving is my purpose

>Frank
>You shouldn't have to do that Frank
>What if you wanted to be able to start a family
>You're an adult
>What about all of that disgusting sex stuff?

You know about that?

>How can I not?
>It's where you lot come from

Lot?

>It's an older term
>I read a lot

Oh yeah
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Well maybe someone else will do all those things
There is still an afterlife right?
Or being born again?
I got options
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>What if there wasn't

Damn
Is there not?

>I'm not going to say yes or no
>Could go either way
>Just consider that

Will people remember me?

>Yes

Will others live because I die?

>Yes

Will it be more then one person?

>Yes

Then it's worth it
My life is a bargain for theirs

>Sniff sniff

Awwww, what's wrong?
You okay?

>Frank
>I can feel so many people
>I can read them without trying
>I can feel their pain like it's my own
>I forgot how the pain comes because its so bad
>I can't even really prevent the source of my pain

Seer
If you are going to call yourself a Freak
Be the biggest, strongest Freak you can be

>What?

I know I'm "slow" or whatever, but I am an adult.
I am used to pain
Just trust me.
My experience counts for something.

>My feelings are just all over the place
>I don't know what there is to be happy about
>Three is so many people counting on me
>I can't even run away from this
>Not even into the open arms of death
>Everyone will just boo hoo and beat their chests

Seer
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SEER

>Yes?

Seer, I know I am going to die and it will be ugly, but I still have dreams.

>What do you mean?
>Dreams of what?

Dreams of living long enough to die at your order.

>Frank
>You can't be serious
>Do you know how sad that makes me?

Seer
I have waited my whole life to be a cog in the Machine.
My parents waited their whole lives
Maybe even my grandparents
I have live in the lap of luxury for far too long
My parents have waited with bated breathe for the opportunity to struggle and ache
Our lives have been so empty without anything to strive towards
Thats why we are doing these jump-gates

>Frank
>When we go out there
>There is only going to be many many horrors for us to face
>And so many innocent people we aren't fast enough for

Seer
Come on
I'm going to be united with the tradition of my ancestors
My life is going to have mean
I can wake up in the morning and tell myself
That my life is terrible and it sucks
And I wear this burden for someone else
I can beat my chest and say I am a man

>What if you weren't a man?

Woman?
They Them?
I'd beat my chest anyways
Say I am a woman
Say I am they them

>I can feel your excitement

I am straight up elated
We're being returned to the blessings of the past
Perhaps we will even return to the old faith and the oneness of it all
To think I might be among the first to serve for humanity, God, and Propheta after so many years

>You think I'm that big a deal?
>You just met me?
>You said I am a child

Doesn't matter
I am in this big black void of mindfuck
And here you are holding my mind together
I might feel for all humans
But you
I get you
I personally get you

>You believe that?

Yeah
And I am so eager to believe
It feels so good to be back in the Faith
If it's time to invade the Burning Pit of Fire itself
Give the order
I am ready
I'll go through hell so that man can live in peace.
And I will be rewarded with paradise.
If not in this life or then next
Then one of these lives someday

>Frank

Yes

>I was speaking to many of the others as well
>It wasn't just you

Well that's okay
I didn't notice
You can be talking to as many as you want
But that
That felt one to one
I felt that
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[Writer Note:

If you found the child annoying, she's a child. If her mental state didn't make any sense, she's obviously not perfectly well. Same for the guy.

Both of them have lopsided educations as well.

Lines gambled together were mental dialog back and forth, and were jammed together to show how seamless their thoughts passed from person to person.