Artificially Organic

*Pomni POV*

Everything around me was white, just white. I couldn't see anything around me, and it was so bright that I couldn't see my own body. I closed my eyes, and felt my senses go numb. I kept my eyes closed, scared and confused. What is happening? Why can't I feel or hear anything?

Suddenly a blue light shined through my eyelids, and I opened my eyes

[USER: POMNI DISCONNECTED FROM THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS]

[PLEASE TAKE OFF HEADSET AND RESET]

I felt pins and needles run up my entire body, as if I was waking up from a coma. I tried to move my hand towards my face but something was in the way. So I grabbed it and lifted it off my face. I was now looking at a desk against a wall, an old box computer with a bluescreen reading the same message as the headset. I blinked and rubbed my eyes, expecting to see the bright colors of the circus any second. Was this a prank? Or...

I looked down at my hands. Instead of seeing the red and blue gloves over a cartoonish hand, I saw a real human hand... my hand! The pale skin against the chipped red and blue nail polish on my short nails. The veins running down my arm to my fingers, the hints of pinkish-red in the fingertips. This was my real human hand!

I looked at my body, I was wearing a simple light blue polo and a long simple black skirt. I grabbed the lanyard with a name tag hanging around my neck and looked at it.

"Penny?... That's my name?... yeah... That's my name!" I looked at my face in the picture above the name, my awkward smile framed between my dark brown bangs. I made it out! I'm finally fucking free!

I remembered what Caine said before I entered the door. And I looked around the large room in the old office building. I saw various desks and cubicles, and hoped that the other members were in this building. I took a deep breath and attempted to stand up, but immediately fell back into the chair as my legs failed on me.

"Fuck" I whispered to myself, then realized that I actually swore without a stupid censor bar.

"Shit" yep, I was out of the circus. Even if this was some stupid prank, Caine wouldn't allow swearing at all. I wanted to laugh, but I needed to help everyone else.

I moved the chair I was sitting in away from the desk and against a wall, and leaned against it as I attempted to get up again. I did manage to stand up fully with the extra support of the wall. I looked around the room again, and saw a desk close to me, with a blue light shining from an old computer box. I moved my legs slowly, stepping closer each time.

I saw a body hunched in the seat as I got to the side. It looked like a petite south-east asian woman, with short black hair. She was wearing a simple red dress and black flat shoes, with a red ribbon in her hair acting as a headband of sorts. I wondered who this was as I walked over, my legs slowly got used to the feeling of walking and I could do it without leaning against the wall now.

I stepped over and looked at the screen, it looked like what they were seeing in the circus. They were watching Caine and Abel fighting, Caine was still throwing Abel out of the way of the group of circus members. Though Caine didn't look so good, his mouth was dripping with blood. I shivered before focusing on the woman, I grabbed the headset and slowly pulled it off of their face. They panicked for a moment, eyes darting around then landing on me.

"Wha-.. Where am I? What's going on?" I recognized the small sweet voice as Gangle's, I crouched down a bit to look less intimidating

"Gangle, it's me! Pomni... I got out of the circus, and now you are free too!" I said, giving her a soft smile. She stopped panicking for a moment and tried to process what I said