Cosmo Moon Beam king

Chapter 1 Oberon inc
Cosmo reaches the room or at least what he thought was the room there was something about it that seems different in a way that things changed after the person was different. he wasn’t the same anymore Before now he would have returned to the groovy crib full of swank and sizzle. a man could toss back a lick of the fizzy orange seltzer pop one of the Quasi and the room turned warm and fuzzy A few puffs of the old vapors would calm him down the inhaler would bring him screaming back up if need be but it was a a mellow place a chill spot and all the home that a man could ask that was then of course. ” welcome home” the screen said beginning the nightly broadcast We here at Oberon thank you for choosing us for all your basic needs, Cosmo gave a silent shutter at the words choosing and basic was a bit less then optimal Now enjoy a selection of sounds proven to enhance your optimal experience tonight will be a special rebroadcasting from the golden age of the screen began to fizzle as the happy time flower turned to a frown. no doubt it was the work for a madman as the distorted voice tried again to simply get through to anyone Cosmo once thought of these as a inconvenient interpretation but now it was the last thing he needs after a day like this. if only the answer could be drugs.

A short time ago Cosmo moonbeam king was just another cog in the cloud factory. It really wasn’t even that important of a job as the safety inspector Cosmo was only tasked with checking in on the factory floor to make sure that employees didn’t damage the equipment sometimes there would be an accident but nine times out of ten times it was human error. thankfully the machines usually remained adequately functional once the human remains were removed. on the rare occasion that one of the machines was damaged there would be new regulations to prevent future problems you simply would not imagine how effective a good sign was in keeping a zonked out employee from sticking an arm in the thermal exhaust It plugs up the machinery very expensive to renew that day was a normal as the last and the same as any in the recent memory everything was perfectly fine until he returned to his desk there he would find a small note taped to a very strange Quasi He hadn’t ever seen a purple black before what a treat he said to himself following the notes instructions I will eat you perhaps this was where everything went horribly wrong or where things went right for the very first time it really depended entirely upon a person own point of view some would say that ignorance was bliss especially if there were no choice in the matter
The pill seemed to be working just fine at first that sweet Quasi feeling flowed up like butterfly made of multi-color characteristics Cosmo cloud even excuse the slight feeling of his feet sinking into the shag carpet up to a point perhaps it was the sight of the lava lamp that set him off suddenly the man was melting and no amount of good vibes could blast this one off he tried calming down with the vaporized chemical calm but the steady panic kept coming Cosmo tried to blow past it with the same of the inhaled jet fuel but this had the same effect of pissing into a volcano this was happening and would continue to happen long after the point of comfortable landing there was something about this that was too much it ran him into the ground until he was just a puddle of vaguely human stuff he might have thought it were the end but this stuff seemed to keep going further in deeper down higher up and far more sideways than anyone should have any right to be he was the things and then couldn’t help but wonder how the thing worked it was practically new even though he had seen all of the pieces before the next thing he knew things began to make sense for that one brief instant and it only took an instant Cosmo understood the things that one wasn’t supposed to understand.
Cosmo could not have said the meaning of the dream but the facts were all there the walls had eyes but he was woefully blind then his body began cutting into a brain on the table was it destruction or a lingering memory a taste upon the tongue a smell upon the air it was something so familiar one yet so very alien the next thing he knew it was the next morning and he had somehow reached his bed the scene left behind in his wake would somehow appeared wrong as Cosmo awoke something savage and wrong had been through here torn and tattered cloth lay thrown around the place a can of seltzer lay carefully tipped into the stash of pill and other paraphernalia the slushy stew left behind was questionable even by his standards he had even somehow managed to tare the jobsworth box clear off the wall it was almost enough to put a person off their drugs almost when Cosmo next burst into the world he was a bit more clear headed than he would have liked that is to say that he didn’t seem to like very much about the current situation he was cranky he couldn’t remember the last time if ever that he had felt like this had it always been this dirty it was a problem really but this was defintly something that was noticeable along the moving floor Cosmo shrugged this off as he once again reached the office
Waiting outside the office was Betsy after all these years he could almost forget she was just another robot Betsy would naturally present the days work after giving the normal welcome it was too normal if you asked him but Cosmo was sure to put in an order as soon as he reached the air tube already Cosmo could tell that today was going to be hard everything felt heavy more over there was a sneaking suspicion that this had all happened before he hit the desk and it wasn’t more than an hour before the beautiful tube came back with one pill and a note this time it was the lime green and that had always been lucky in the past it wasn’t long before things felt almost normal normal enough any way after that he felt comfortable enough to take on the day he could take on anything just so long as it wasn’t another purple Today was the biannual inspection of the bio-electrical grid as well as the water stores and waste disposal. it was practically a tour of the big boys and the best part was that Cosmo was back on track he thought he was on track anyways there was still something slightly of about the whole thing about Cosmo moonbeam king wasn’t worried he could just ignore the bad thoughts until the whole thing was either a distant memory or long since forgotten
He must have seen things like this every day on the way to bio-electric Cosmo caught a glimpse of one of the security automation the words you have been warned were written on the scrolling text but it was that sound that set a person on edge it spoke in a series of loud deep hums that gave no hint at humanity the human in question did appear questionable there was no doubt about that struggle all you want there would be no way to stop what came next it held him in place like a rag doll as the injector did its business All it took was a little soup of chemicals some thanzine would calm the guy down a dash of go go juice would put him to work this just left the mixture of god knows what else it was once said that they had a million pills a million thrills a billion ways to spend your daze what was left of the man would be a loose resemblance of the person screaming before now he would work all day and this would be bliss for him they really did live in a lucky
time to be alive modern medicine really was green lime light modern medicine was astoundingly groovy he could almost feel the good vibes come rushing in on the wave of lucky lime green if only Cosmo could get that image out of his head it was an angry robotic eye that glared at him as Cosmo crossed the security checkpoint it was very unchill of them.
Bio-electric was a breath of fresh air after the security screening area well not literally fresh it wasn’t fresh air at all given the high number of walkers working the treadmill they would walk for hours and hours and hours in order to power pretty much everything from toaster ovens to the moving sidewalks.Now that he came to think of it this also proved to be the majority of kinetic power to power the movement of the sidewalks but they probably could have just walked here normally rather than coming for the chance to walk then again sometimes you just needed to burn off the energy when you took a race car red or one too many breaths of jet fuel. they loved a good walker around here and there was seldom a chance that a person might break the machines ever since they installed the arrows pointing the right way to walk there hadn’t even been one fatality not due to misused machinery anyway sometimes you came across one of them that flew too close to the sun and burned out. these are quickly removed and replaced with another walker after a brief cleaning today however there seemed to be no such need. Cosmo only continued on a little bit longer before something strange started to take hold. or rather something that had already taken hold slowly started to let go that lucky green limelight turned a warn pale. the drugs weren’t working it was either that or the lime green was a bit less lucky he remembered the hair of the girl as her overly thin body lay store across the treadmill what was her name again
what was her name he asked out loud as a silent creeping feeling hit him he knew her before how could he forget things were getting serious now it was a serious look that crossed his face and it was a serious problem had the security robot seen this humans were supposed to be happy and healthy after all then the silent watcher saw his face mister mister the machine said encouraging a less glum tone some how it came as no consolation this only left the chemical soup less he became a disruption to the other employees it was a very quick needle that come with a very slow growing grin what had he been thinking whatever it was would surely come back to him if it was really important besides that there was still more work to do and a little rainy weather wouldn’t stop him now speaking of rain it was now time to check out the water treatment zone with any lucky he would run into Ronny and get some fishing in. yeah that would surely help him shrug off this fuzzy feeling thingy even now this fuzzy thought tried to unblur itself it must have been a very persistent thought indeed perhaps it had become time to check in on his current medication rations he couldn’t very well rely on the kindness of robots and it was just a very slight way from the water treatment zone.
Back within the security offices a silent database began spinning up dust shook itself loose as the long dormant subroutines clicked into place naturally the sunshine protocol was still in effect so this activation will have gone unnoticed in the daily haze the thing you have to understand about the system was that it was perfect to the detail Oberon incorporated had speared no expense a hundred thousand sensors checked and double checked everything from a to z drug tests mostly for quality control purpose were stationed in every bathroom when there rarely was a hiccup in the system it would be quickly adjusted by the perfect system to get right back on track productivity was the key and what was more productive than a happy worker the automation acknowledged as the next ten security units swarmed from the machine no less than half would be searching for rogue elements as the other group bolstered the normal operations the system was never wrong about these things that would be unacceptable unbelievable and above all it wasn’t programed into the system which as a point of fact perfect the program said it was perfect the program the program error in database 1337 send maintenance crew to tower 1337 in order to repair the problem.