Dream

So last night I had a dream that was pretty interesting.  Ok, actually I had two dreams last night, but only the first one is really relevant.  It may one day inspire me (or perhaps others) to turn it in to a story, but I wanted to write it down before I forgot it.

As an aside, you should know that I watched Captain America on netflix last night before I went to bed.  Probably what inspired it, at least in part.

So it starts off I'm at a demonstration.  I'm in a room full of people, and at the center there is some machinery and computer systems.  There are some scientists in lab coats, and one man with them.  I can't remember too much about him, but he is fairly muscular and he has dark hair.  I think he has a dark mustache as well.

The system is a new project, designed to create super humans by altering the structure of their body at a molecular level.  The subject's body will be rebuilt with capabilities far beyond human normal.

The dark haired man is placed within the system.  The scientists begin entering data in to the computer systems.  Then, the system is activated.  When the process is complete, the man steps out.  He is visibly little changed, there seems to be no real effect.  But he begins demonstrating, showing that he is stronger and faster than any person alive.

That is when things go wrong.  The man, perhaps drunk on power, or perhaps affected by the system, goes mad.  He doesn't start raving or going berserk, but he does start attacking people.  He fights his way out of the lab, in to a crowded area of civilians.

I, and several others, follow him.  We try to stop him as he does as he pleases.  He smashes things, takes things, attacks people who get close to him.  He knows he's unstoppable and is having fun doing whatever he wants because of that.

A few people have guns and are shooting at him, but the bullets don't even penetrate his skin.  Somehow, I have an aluminum bat, which I attack him with.  I've got enough speed and experience that he can't hit me, even with his enhanced body, but I can't seriously harm him either.

I ran back to the lab through the panicking people and grab the head scientist.

"You have to do it again.  You have to give me everything you gave him.  It's the only way to stop him."

"We can't," he replies, "There must have been some sort of error in the template.  The brain must have gotten somehow remapped, causing him to become like this."

"Can't you make a new one?"

"No, it takes months.  We have to completely map the subject's body down to the last cell, otherwise the system will place things in the wrong spot.  We must have gotten some neural pathways or brain centers wrong, so we can't use that one.  And we only have one other template ready, and it isn't set up for the enhancements."

"Well, can you adjust that template to include them?"

"Well, yes..."

"Fine, use that one.  Start it up."

"Um, well, there is a problem."

"What?  We don't have time, people are getting hurt, maybe even killed!"

"Here, this is the template we have..."

He shows me the screen.  It shows a shapely blonde woman.  She's very sexy, with perfect curves.  It's labeled "Serina".

"Do it anyway."

"But..."

"I know.  Just do it.  And make sure that all the enhancements that he gets I get, or better."

The scientist and one other start working on the program as I get in to the machine.  They are calling numbers back and forth, things like "set body to 459" or, "238 is above survivable limits for durability".  As they work, something starts going wrong with the system.  It begins to spark and overload, but they keep working.  Eventually one of the computers even catches fire, but they finish the program.

"Do it!"  I yell.  The system starts up...

And that is when I woke up.