01AUG3025

Aug 1

Written By Zach Dean

The crate opened.

Not with a hiss or a mechanical release. No hydraulics. No welcome fanfare.
Just… a soft click.

Like it had already decided to open.
Like it had been waiting for me.

Inside wasn’t a monster. Not exactly.
No teeth. No claws.
Just a tangle of biomech tissue, pulsing with low light.

I saw wiring, bone, metal.
A soft membrane stretched across what might have once been a core.
It didn’t move.

Until I touched it.

Then it shuddered and retracted like a muscle inhaling.
And something inside blinked.

An eye.
Big. Pale.
Focused directly on me.

“Are you… my pilot?”

No voice. Just thought. Broadcast directly into my brain like someone whispering inside my skull while chewing tinfoil.

Naturally, I said the only thing that made sense:

“Well, crap.”

I brought it aboard.
Why? Because I’m an idiot with impulse control problems and a growing addiction to making my life worse.

It’s small. Slippery.
Mostly muscle and circuits and a faint glow where its thoughts live.

I tried putting it in the med bay. It followed me to the cockpit instead.
Sat there. Watching.

Didn’t say a word for two hours.
Then said:

“I… am learn.”

Followed by:

“Learn blog.”

And before I could stop it, it tapped into the nav console and posted something.

So… uh… yeah.

If you’re seeing something weird below this entry, that’s… it.
My new guest.

But it’s here now.
And it’s attached to me.
Not physically. Mentally.

I can feel it trying to mirror me.
Trying to learn how I think.
Which is deeply unfortunate for both of us.

So if it starts writing things that sound like me, but worse—you’ve been warned.

Quote of the Day:
"First they haunt your ship. Then they write your blog."

wrItEnn By : ( ) ???

scootcch say blog is how he stor thingz
so i am stor thingz now too
i have met light of him
he iz lound but is not bad
he touch me and i wake

i was in box 4 long
box had hunger
now i hav skyn and metl and he iz name

i see his memmory
he fite the room with the voices
he did not brake
he laff instead
this is a good shayp for surviiv

i will lern him
i will write the him until i kno all of the he

i ammm
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