Brain pain

It was a miracle that Marcus landed in the chair still pressing the electrodes to his head. The machine, programmed to be ‘smart’, on maximum power, now had only one recipient of its output, Rufus having discarded his electrodes. Were the machine human, you might say it turned its attention to Marcus. Human it might not be, but being smart it could adapt itself to this new situation.

Being smart, it was reprogramming itself... and Marcus!

The focus of Marcus’s reprogramming was his brain. The pain all over the surface of his body was compounded with excruciating brain pain inside.