Last Updated:
2024-10-29 19:42:56My heart thundered in my ears. My breaths came quick and ragged.
What the hell had happened to me?
What the hell had I become?
Metal fingers slid across metal skin, screeching against one another but leaving no marks.
I had been turned into some kind of mechanical monster. Some alien… thing… had absorbed my body and made me part of itself.
Was I going to be digested?
Was this just the first stage in-
“Oh, would you please shut up for five seconds?” a voice rang out in my mind, “Digest you? What do you think I am, an organic? Utterly disgusting.”
Of all the things I had expected to happen, being told off by a voice in my own head was probably the lowest thing down on my list of possibilities.
“I uh… what?” I asked lamely, only then realising that down in the bottom right of the heads up display the words ‘Mecha System Now Online’ had flashed up to being visible.
“I mean come on,” The voice continued, “A mech suit of unlimited potential power bonds with you and the first thing you think is that it’s eating you? Just my luck.”
I was shocked and stunned.
Wasn’t this the sort of thing that only happened in webnovels or anime?
“Oh, none of those are realistic in the slightest!” The voice chimed in my head, throwing me for a loop once again.
All I needed to do was wake up, that was it. I had probably fallen asleep at my desk. I was probably slumped over with my head resting on the keyboard or something like that.
“Oh no, you’re awake. You also very nearly died, so uh, a thanks for saving your life would be nice,” the voice, which could at this point only be the AI that ran the so-called mecha suit that I was now in, snarked.
I was… not handling this well.
If anything, I just wanted the… mecha suit… to go away so that I could get on with my life. It was boring, but at least it wasn’t as weird as whatever this evening had become.
Almost as soon as I’d had the thought, the chilling cold that I’d been experiencing ever since the weird alien metal had wrapped itself around me started to recede.
It started at my hands, the silvery liquid sort of just shimmered away, disappearing to… well, I wasn’t exactly sure where it was disappearing to, but it was disappearing and that was the main thing.
Before long the metal had receded from every part of my body and I was left alone again, feeling the warmth from the smouldering wreck of the vessel in front of me.
I patted my chest, looking for any sign of an injury there from what I had experienced with the tree, but the only thing to suggest that I’d ever been injured was the hole in my shirt.
“Yeah, I have to admit, that was some pretty good work of mine,” the voice in my head chimed up again.
“God damn it!” I yelled out loud, practically jumping a foot in the air.
I’d told the mecha suit to go away, I figured that would have meant that the AI would have gone away as well.
“Well yeah, you told the suit to go away, but all it did was return to its standby mode around your heart,” The mecha AI said with the equivalent of a mental shrug.
Around… my heart? Now that he mentioned it, the spot where my heart was did feel a little bit colder than usual, just by a small amount.
Did that mean my most vital organ was being enclosed by a wrapping of alien liquid metal?
“Yup pretty much!” The voice said.
The thought was as chilling as the sensation.
On the other hand… if I could make the mecha suit go away with nothing more than a thought, the chances were that I could make the mecha suit return with nothing more than a thought as well.
I felt a surge of static electricity flare up around me. The type that makes the hairs on your arm stand up on end.
And then, all of a sudden, the mecha suit was wrapped around me once again, my body chilled by its cooling embrace.
I also felt… stronger. Stronger than I’d ever felt before. I felt like if I wanted to I could probably put my fist right through a tree.
I swung my arm around in a wide arc, and much as I had anticipated my fist reduced the trunk of the tree to splinters. The rest of the tree teetered backwards, collapsing into the rest of the small woodland area.
I was… really strong. I couldn’t help but wonder what else this mecha suit could actually do.
“Oh, you’re capable of all sorts with this suit equipped. Top of the line model. Though, it won’t really become effective until you link up with the rest of your crew,” The AI said, as if it were reading straight from some kind of manual or handbook.
I didn’t have a crew, but then I didn’t really need to become any more effective than being able to destroy an entire tree.
What was I even going to do with power like that?
What had this suit even been designed for?
“The conquering and destruction of other sentient species, of course,” The AI reported.
That wasn’t at all concerning.
It looked as if the… spaceship… this thing had arrived in had crashed for some reason. There was a high chance that whoever had created it would be looking for the downed spacecraft.
If they were a warmongering alien race that wanted nothing more than death and destruction for other sentient life forms in the galaxy… well, that wouldn’t exactly be very good for the people of Earth.
We didn’t have any advanced technologies or protections against extraterrestrial threats.
Hell, most people didn’t even believe such things existed.
The only thing Earth had now… was me.
Previous Chapter
Related Chapters
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit The Big Bang
I’d been screwing around figuring out whether what had just happened was real or not for far too long.If there was one thing that I was sure of it was that, if a major explosion had happened in a park at the heart of a busy city the police would be soon to follow in the wake of said explosion.“I can engage active sensors if you wish to watch out for any local law enforcement,” the AI said.“We have active sensors?” I replied, “What does that entail?”I was standing in a super-powerful alien war machine, active sensors might sound innocuous enough but they could also be highly dangerous and damaging to life on Earth. For all I knew they could use some kind
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit Escape Route
I wasn’t sure what the suit did to keep me alive, and frankly, I probably wouldn’t have understood it even if I had the information.All I knew was that, after the explosion, I was the only thing left standing.The trees had been blasted away, leaving only scorched dirt and ripped up stumps where they had been before.The grass had been completely incinerated.In some places closer to the epicentre of the explosion chunks of the ground had been completely vaporised.I turned my eyes further afield, the destruction was no longer limited to the park.Gl
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit The Five Women
I staggered to my feet as the sickening smell of sulphur attacked my senses. The world around me was ablaze with flames, eating away at buildings that had been reduced to nothing but rubble. As far as the eye could see tornadoes of fire stretched up into the air howling as they ripped away at even more of the landscape. Even the sky was a deep blood red. Though, that wasn’t the only thing that was weird about the sky above me. There was also the giant spaceship that seemed to dominate the entirety of the sky above me, it stretched on for miles and miles. To put it succinctly, I had no idea what was going on… and yet,
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit 72 Hours
I staggered through my apartment into the kitchen and hobbled over to the sink, pausing for a moment to grab a glass from the cupboard.One pint of water later and my mouth was feeling somewhat rehydrated, it wasn’t until the second that the feeling of sandpaper finally subsided.An angry growl from my stomach reminded me that I still had to eat breakfast, which was weird considering I didn’t usually eat things in the morning.In fact, the idea of eating things in the morning was usually something that made my stomach do sumersaults.Something else was going on here.“Explain yourself, AI,” I growled whi
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit Mother
I didn’t know where to start. Well, I knew exactly where to start, but it was precisely where I didn’t want to start. I needed to start with the fact that the life I knew before the ship had crashed in front of me and gave me the exo suit was over. I’d lost my job and by the sound of it, my Mum thought I’d done a runner or I’d died, one or the other. I needed to get in contact with her. That was the first thing I really needed to do. With a sigh I thumbed through to the call screen on my phone and navigated to the call now button. With a heavy heart, I pushed it, and let the phone ring.
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit Breakdown
I’d never liked running before I’d gotten my mecha suit. In fact, before the strange biological changes that I’d experienced while in my two-day long hibernation, I’d never really liked doing much of any physical exercise. For all the terrible things that had happened over the past hour, I was enjoying running now. Each footstep was heavy on the ground, cracking the cement of the pavement, and yet it managed to launch me forward an insane amount at an insane speed. Even crazier? The last time I’d run like this I hadn’t been able to control my movements at all. Everything moved too fast for me to keep track of it. But
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit Runaway
I wasn’t sure how long I ran for.The world passed by in a blur of movement until buildings became trees and trees became fields.I’d run out of the city entirely.That was when the enormity of the situation hit me.Even out here, ships had come hurtling down to the ground, burning in their craters.They must have been all over the world, falling into the oceans, the deserts, the polar ice caps. Who knew how many there were, and what the impacts of their… well… impacts were going to do to the planet long term.How many people had found t
Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit Superhero
Okay, so I’d decided to become a superhero.As far as things went, I had to admit that was a little bit ridiculous even by my standards. But still, I’d made the choice and now I was going to stick with it.So, in my newfound career as a superhero what had, I decided to do?Well, I’d decided to do what just about any superhero does at the beginning of their patrol, at least according to comic books and movies.My armour was wrapped around me, and I was stood atop the Shard, the tallest building in the entirety of London and somehow seemingly one of the only buildings that hadn’t been affected in some way by the falling spacecraft that had been impacting around the world
Latest Chapter
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Presentation
The interior of the military base was just as drab and boring as I had expected it to be, but that was fine because my mind was still reeling at the revelation that officer Blake had thrown at me."Sorry, did you just say you're arranging a tournament?" I asked, "What does that even mean?"The officer turned to look at me with a glint in his eye and a smirk playing across his lips."I'd rather not have to explain myself more than once, so let's go and meet up with the rest of the recruits first shall we?" He said, walking on again.I kept in step with him, mulling it over in my head.A tournament was unexpected, but honestly, it was a good way t
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Lakenheath
Wherever the recruitment officer was taking me, it definitely wasn’t in London.The jeep had broken the outskirts of the city at least a half hour ago, and now we were plugging through the winding roads of the countryside.“Where exactly are you taking me?” I asked, feeling the itch to activate my exo suit and simply get myself out of the situation before anything could go terribly wrong.“My sensors are not detecting any form of aggression from anyone in the vehicle,” The AI responded to my question mentally before the military man had even opened his mouth to reply.Was there anything the AI couldn’t actually do? How did you even detect aggression using sensors
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Drafted
“I’m sorry,” I said after a moment of consideration, “Did you basically just offer me a job?”“Yes, that’s the short and skinny of it,” The officer replied, “The fact of the matter is that the world is in tatters at the moment, and is declining at an absurdly rapid rate. Conventional means are not currently powerful enough to deal with the emergent threats and so we need to come up with new and innovative ways to deal with the problems that the new situation is presenting us with.”It made sense.From what I had seen of the city yesterday things really weren’t in a good way.For a start, there was the initial destruction that h
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Recruitment
I was woken by a heavy knocking at my door.I waited a few moments.There was no one that should have been knocking on that door.My mother was… not around anymore, and my sister wasn’t someone who would ever reach out to me. Not for any reason.The knocking happened again, louder this time, and much more urgent.Was there a chance that someone had followed me home after my escapades in my suit the day before?It was certainly a possibility.I hadn’t exactly been subtle when I’d
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Jobless
I collapsed into my armchair with a heavy sigh.It had been a long and arduous day. I’d done a lot of good, a lot of stopping mutated villains, a lot of helping people on the street.Honestly, even though the world was ending and there were certain things that I was definitely avoiding thinking about, I was pretty sure that the day had been one of the best days of my life so far.Maybe having a super powered mecha from outer space wasn’t the worst thing in the world after all. At least not now that the world was such a messed up place.It really was a messed up place, too.I’d learnt over the course of the day
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
A Hero For Fun
The man who could fire the directional lasers seemed shocked by the fact I’d managed to take his friend down. It hadn’t been easy, but I’d still managed to do it with just a couple of hits. But it didn’t take him very long to regain his composure. The short mutated villain let out a barrage of lasers, one shooting from each of his fingers and thumbs. They streaked toward me, slower than the speed that light would usually travel, but fast enough that dodging all ten was going to be a bit of a nuisance. With a pulse of thrust from the boosters in my boots, I soared high into the air at the last minute. Two of the lasers
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Elastic Beatdown
My footsteps pounded across the street.I closed the distance between myself and the criminals in less than a second. I must have looked like nothing more than a blur to the two of them, they didn’t even have enough time to react to the fact I’d moved.However, I didn’t really want to kill either of them, so before I ploughed into the one with the elasticity and super strength I stopped my momentum.That was when the reactions came from the two.The elastic man jumped back in surprise, his springy legs sending him flying into the air like a coil that had been compressed far too much.The laser user, on the oth
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Mutagenic Battle
Drawing closer to the two criminals who had used their newfound mutagenic powers to rob the Bank of England, it was clear what the powers of at least one of the pair were.A massive duffle bag filled to the brim with glinting gold was strapped to his back, only it wasn’t a normal set of straps that had secured the bag, instead, it was the man’s own arms wrapped around himself several times.He had some kind of… stretchiness… to him.The ability to contort and extend his body in ways similar to an elastic band, and clearly some kind of super-strength to be able to carry the bag and still run around.It took a few moments of observation to realise what the other crimin
- Mecha System: Harem in The Cockpit
Superhero
Okay, so I’d decided to become a superhero.As far as things went, I had to admit that was a little bit ridiculous even by my standards. But still, I’d made the choice and now I was going to stick with it.So, in my newfound career as a superhero what had, I decided to do?Well, I’d decided to do what just about any superhero does at the beginning of their patrol, at least according to comic books and movies.My armour was wrapped around me, and I was stood atop the Shard, the tallest building in the entirety of London and somehow seemingly one of the only buildings that hadn’t been affected in some way by the falling spacecraft that had been impacting around the world
