***

Months have passed, and we were losing. I sustained many injuries during the war, and I only killed around 4 men, and those kills were probably by luck too… I hid behind a large boulder because I was a little too timid to go out there.

Then I saw a gunshot in the same arm I got shot with months ago.

Ow…this hurts like hell… I thought to myself.

It’ll probably take me one more day until I die. Dying was scary than guns, and I didn't want to die. I leaned against the rock and grab my gun. I bandaged my arm to stop the bleeding, and I crouched to aim my gun at the enemy's leg and shoot. I quickly shot again, and the bullet hit his neck and killed him.

“I killed five people… that’s…way too little,” I said, 

But before I could say anything else, China brought out its tanks. They have been working on a tank that could shoot out beams of light. They shot the beams at me and my comrades; the light devastated everything, vaporizing my companions to nothing. 

Scary.

I managed to narrowly dodge the beam of light, only grazing my right leg. The beam destroyed everything in its path, melting the ground like acid, and the shockwaves followed the beam after it was shot, pushing everything away. But when I was distracted, I got shot with the beam of light, burning my body. I somehow survived the attack that could vaporize steel into nothing.

I was lucky not to get vaporized into nothing. Those Chinese tanks needed to charge up the beam to attack again. They use the sun’s sunlight to gather light energy to attack. When they hit me with the light beam, they were low on the sun’s light energy, so it didn’t vaporize me.

I fell on the ground headfirst, my body hurts, and I was full of burns. I saw the Chinese killing my companions. We weren’t even a match for them in this war, well, I guess that's too bad. We were going to lose this war, and I'm gonna die, what a pity.

I closed my eyes and awaited my fate, lying on the destroyed landscape while I heard my comrades die.

***

I woke up in a lab. I was back at the Japanese experimentation lab, wait… why am I here? I tried to move, but everything was hurting a lot. I am covered in bandages from head to toe, which makes sense, considering how badly injured I was when the Chinese army shot me with the laser. What’s more surprising is that I am alive; I thought I would die as soon as I passed out.

Then, two scientists came into the lab room, and they were talking about… turning their soldiers into cyborgs?

There was a female scientist. She has long, silky black hair with purple coloured eyes. She wore a completely white scientist's suit with a pocket on her left chest and a brown shirt underneath it. She looked slim and had a pretty face, a little too pretty. The female scientist was also kind of short; she looked 5'7 to me, I'm 5’11, so she’s pretty short. She also looked like an 18-year-old.

There was also a male scientist. He has short messy black hair, dark yellow coloured eyes, and has the same outfit as the female scientist, except that his shirt is black and not brown. He looked about the same height as me, maybe 2 years older than me, as I looked more clearly into his face. He also has big bags under his eyes.

God damn, he has big bags. Did he not sleep for a month or something?

“We failed again and again; we should quit,” the female scientist said.

“No, we need to succeed; if we don’t, our country is going to fall and collapse,” the male scientist said. He must be the one who came up with the idea to turn us into soldiers.

“But we already experimented on 999 soldiers!”

“Don't worry, we will succeed this time.”

“...”

Then they looked at me, “oh, you’re awake? You’re not supposed to be awake.”

They injected me with a needle, and I went back to sleep again. Weeks passed, and most of our bases got destroyed by the Chinese military. When I woke up, my head hurt, and I felt more energized suddenly.

“You finally woke up?” It was the female scientist from before. “Your head hurts, right? Don't worry, the brain chip always does that; it will take some days for your head not to hurt anymore."

She smiled when she said all of that, like she was trying to comfort me or something.

“Brain chip?” I sounded very confused.

“Yes, a brain chip, you heard our conversation, right? A few weeks ago? We are turning every injured soldier into a cyborg, but not one of them has succeeded.”

“Why are you turning us into cyborgs?”

“The war between us and China is still going on, and China is too strong, so we decided the only way to defeat them is to turn you soldiers into cyborgs.”

The door behind her opened, and the male scientist joined the room. He told her to get out of the room and walked up to me. He told me that to win the war against China, he needed to experiment on me, no matter how painful it was.

Before I could say anything, many more scientists came into the room, and they all wielded many different tools. So, they started the experiment on me.