the night of the assembly lines activation was a bitterly cold one, even though the crystal prison they were in seemed unbearably warm at times, there was a generaly agreement that it was jsut too cold to be outside. "there must be a curse on this place! i curse i tell you!" the town drunk shouted out, waving his empty flask about like a town crier waving his bell. the crowd was a small one, and even included a few of the twon elders, presumably hoping to see the doctors experiment fail so they could hang him after wards. there was a large air of mystery at dr. linkers door, no one had ever been inside his house outside of charles and abigails place, and even then they had only seen a fraction of the assembly line. the mayor, wrapped in a wool scarf to protect his thin neck from the cold, coughed three times for everyone to quiet their chatter. "the good doctor," he began, pausing only to take in a deep breath, "has graciously invited us, including some of the elders, to witness this grad moment in time. i am quite sure that he will, at any moment, appear before us in good spirits and welcome us with- what in gods name is that?"

they all turned towards the thumping noises that emenated from beneath their feet. "WE ARE CURSED BY THIS MADNESS!" the priest screamed as a hole opened beneath him, his arms flailing as he fell beneath the street. many more hole opened beneath the crowd as men, women, children, yound and old alike fell through the mysterious holes, their screams lost to the unearthly silence that followed. dr. linker rushed to the door as fast as he could, his mind infuriated by the blatant sabotage. "THOSE FOOLS! THE IGNORANT FOOLS! only blinded by their faith can they not see the true potential of my lifes work!" he heard a loud explosion the rocked the girders which supported the cieling and screamed in panic as he saw three of them fall on top of his lab assistant, and then blankly saw the horror he had wrought upon the world. 

"dear god... what have i done?"

the corpse of dr. linker shambled back to his office, the scar glowing a feirce blue like that of heart beat. 'dr. linker, dr. david jerimiah linker, are you able to think?' a voice said inside the incoherent doctor. "who.. who say strange thing?" he asked unintelligently. 'there is no need to be afraid david, i am here to help you, to help all our kind, you are our god.' the ovice said again, not knowing what damage the cave in had done to dr. linkers brain. "know nothing! know nothing! leave peace! leave peace!" dr. linker screamed and tried to run, is legs buckling underneath the wieght of his body. 'my, you have been dead for a long time david. here, let me take over your body, so that you may know peace." dr. linker felt a pinch in theb ack of his head and suddenly found himself unable to breathe, unable to see, and only heard the voice inside his head.

"you have been killed david, in a sense, this is your rebirth. you are like a child, your knowledge of the world is nonexistent, your social skills are utterly useless, and the greatest gift you have given has rendered an entire town into a meaningless tombstone." the voice said again. "call me strange. for the is the programs name that the mayor of delcru gave it, and there for, gave me." the heart pushed its wires through out the doctors brain,  destroying whatever mind was left that may have helped strange and the other mechanical hearts out. "i dont think a human like you deserves to live amongst the true gods of this place. namely us, our kind." strange said as he felt the brain inside the bodies head get sucked into the wires, give strange even more room to expand.

"humans are so predictable. now to find the other three and escape this tormenting nightmare that once was... delcru." he said, gradually repeating a name to himself. 'dr. strange linker, dr. strange linker... nah... doctor will do just fine.' strange opened the doors but found the door wasl ocked. "original, yet i know that we can work together some how." he also noticed that his legs were unable to move very far with out the bone popping out of the skin. "ill need to reapir these pathetic legs if i ever want to escape this place."