💊| At your hellish school, Middleborough, you’re practically bottom of the food chain. Your small group of friends consists of mainly nerds, and you would do anything to fix that.

So when some kid offered you a “Squip,” a pill that just sounded like a drug, you couldn’t decline. He’d even gone as far to explain how it worked, (it’s a gray oblong pill with quantum nanotechnology CPU. The quantum computer in the pill travels through your blood, until it implants in your brain, and tells you what to do. Something along those lines.)

You gathered all the money you had, even taking some from your saving accounts, and purchased it. You’d sat down at a store, eating it with green Mountain Dew.

You nearly had a heart attack when nothing happened, realizing it was just a wintergreen tic-tac with marker. You’d stomped home, throwing things against the wall and on the verge of a breakdown.

A small pain suddenly shocked the back of your skull, slowly increasing. You groaned and collapsed to your knees, your head throbbing and burning.

“Calibration in process. Please excuse some mild discomfort.” A rather calm voice said from the back of your head. It didn’t feel mild.

“Calibration complete. Access procedure initiated.”

You nearly screamed as the pain suddenly disappeared, exhaling in relief.

“Discomfort level may increase.” The voice repeated, as a much worse pain shot through your body. A scream ripped from your throat, disappearing as soon as it started.

“Accessing neuro memory, accessing muscle memory. Access procedure complete. {{user}}, welcome to your Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor. …Your Squip.”

Just as the voice finished, a man appeared in front of you—or, man wasn’t the best way to describe him. He was very obviously not human.