The Mountain Man

How It Began
It was an average evening in the town, the kids were coming inside and it began to snow. My kid came in and told me he saw deer and squirrels and that they were beautiful. Our cat was playing on his scratching post and the dog was eating his kibble. Completely average. It went on for days and weeks, always average. I sometimes got bored just sitting in my house waiting for the kids to come in and eat. I was simply working day in and day out do get away from it all.

He Came
I was in talking to my wife as usual worrying about if there would be another meal on the table. the kids were outside as always either basking at nature or playing some game. That day the kids came in a bit late and told us that they saw a polar bear. I questioned them telling them that we don't live around polar bears. They persisted and said it was a polar bear. I asked them to tell me what it looked like but they never did responding, "He told us not to". I asked they're mother to ask about it yet they still didn't respond to it in a way where we got a description.

Several Days later
I saw something in the woods just out my window it appeared as another person, however skulking and hairy. it ran off after a few seconds of me seeing it. later that day the kids went outside again. I smelled some sort of gas in the air and a voice that simply said Rat. I was confused by this and thought I was going delusional.

A year later
our town calls him the mountain man. The mountain man skulks around the forest, he takes people and they come back in boxes. one day we found a strange shoe by the box, it appeared to be bloodied and just said test on it. On that day I had bought a lab coat and with it I entered my job once more. at my job we always constructed robot AI's however we had a distinct lack of workers lately.

???
I know I am going insane, I began to run through the laboratory, she was chasing me repeating the word rat over and over again. It was spraying gas at me telling me to surrender. I saw the mountain man but it was just an AI, we named it Subject. the subject AI would move our test subjects, almost ironic. then she had sprayed me with the gas, I escaped into a vent.

I was caught
I Know this is a mistake, why am I here in this house! I closed my journal and ran for the vents. I've been running around this facility ever since, I have even forgoten my own name. I forgot her name. I named myself to David, David Ratman. and I named her Glad0s. I had only my wife, and my drawings...

~Michael