Finding Self

[Boss]

Chuck heard the countdown and final activation, and then silence. Total, utter, complete silence. He pressed the override in the armrest and the hood slid up. He looked around him as the shackles retracted and the Rack returned to its ready pose. He stood and looked up at the control room, expecting to see the door opening and techs coming out to see what went wrong.

There were none though. As he took his first steps towards the door, it dawned on him slowly: It had worked. He was really inside a computer. A childlike glee came over him and he shouted to the heavens his triumph. Or he would have, if there were any sound in this alien environment. Panic hit him then, as his mind attempted to compensate for the lack of auditory input. He fought it tooth and nail, forcing it down. It would do him no good to lose his head in a place no human had ever walked.