My hands wouldn't stop shaking as I looked down at the husk that once was

my best friend.  What did this to Raul? What the hell could do this?! He

looked like something had sucked the very life out of him.  To be frank he

seemed like an old piece of meat that had been left to dry up in the sun.  I

must admit vampire had crossed my mind but that was just stupid and besides

the title vampire wouldn't do whatever did this justice.
    I called the police they showed up 10 minutes later with an ambulance

I told then on the phone they shouldn't bother he was obviously dead but none

the less they brought one and loaded him up in it's back, they promised me

that they would figure out what did this to my friend and drove off.  I left

immediately after it, I never much liked to be around police even when I

hadn't done anything illegal.  I guess it's mostly because I've always felt a

need to avoid authority figures but that's irrelevant to this tale.  As I

turned the corner on to my block I remembered Raul had mentioned a pretty

hardcore group of hackers he'd been working with I couldn't help but wander

if they had anything to do with this I shrugged off the idea as I walked up

the steps to my apartment building,  As I entered the crappy studio apartment

that I called home I throw myself into my bed by the window and drifted to

sleep......
    I awoke to the sound of a knock on the door and glanced over at my

alarm clock  "2:32 A.M."  "Who the hell is out at this hour?" I asked myself

sleepily as I stumbled to the door.  As soon as I undid the deadbolt the door

swang open and upon seeing who it was I fell to the floor.  Raul looked

concerned and said to me "Are you all right?  You look as if you've seen a

ghost." It must have been a dream I thought to me self as I lifted myself

from the ground and grabbed Raul and hugged him.  As my hands touched his

back I felt something strange like something metallic inbeded in between Raul's

shoulder blades I pulled away from Raul and turned him around.  With eyes

wide in terror I saw a circuit board jutting from his back and at the same

time I noticed the sound of something spinning.  Raul grabbed me and pinned

me to the wall and said in a frighteningly monotone voice "I finally found a way

to get my PC to become mobile." "All i needed to do was dry myself out a bit

while I let the new program I came up with write into my brain."  He said

letting out a devilish laugh that would have made Chuck Norris shiver.  I

just didn't think about rehydrating but lucky me you came along and brought

those paramedics or I would have been a goner ha ha ha. they were I nice

snack and now they're like me to"  I didn't know what to do so I did the only

thing I could think to do I reached over and grabbed the vase off my

windowsill and smashed it crossed the creatures face.  I feel to the ground

as it released me as its eyes turned neon blue and shot beams of light.

Around trying to see where I'd went as sparks flew off its back, I must have

shorted some of it's electrics I thought to my self as I rolled under my

bed.  desperately a clawed around beneath my bed till I found the box i has looking from inside I drew my grandfathers gun, a .44 caliber semiautomatic pistol.  I rolled out from underneath the bed and fired two rounds at the cyborg.  One hit the wall and i think the other hit the cat that had been sitting on the chair sleeping throughout this event.  I jumped up and throw myself at the monster and pressed the pistol into the front of its skull and pulled the trigger.
    As the bullet pushed through the creatures mind I saw a flash of light before the electricity arced off Raul's shattered skull onto the pistol and I was thrown to the wall.  After nearly an hour of trying to convince myself that it was safe to get up I finally did.  And as I saw dawn pushing through the clouds I knew everything was going to be alright.  Five minutes later I looked back out the window in response to a strange sound and saw them.  At least thirty disgusting mixes of man and machine.......apparently Raul had infected a few people before I put him down.  I looked at the pistol in my hand with five rounds left in the clip and said the only thing I could think to say mother effer and I shot myself.