Chapter 1
Nova
Day 1
It
seems that i just waked up, on a red couch big enough for two people to sit but
not enough to have my new body rest on it, i felt numb, at the beginning i
couldn't quite use my limps for at least an hour, that’s when i decided to keep
a memo of my day here it will only take a small amount from the extra fifty
terabytes that my brain has, it would also be a shame not to use the abundance
of words that i have stored in. I wonder who woke me up ?
I
seem to be located in a school it's quite old, there are no glasses in any
window except of a small room that served as a library, i decided that my best
action is to sleep there tonight, there is too much cold even now, and the rain
is strong, even though i am protected from the building roof of the first two
floors the third and fourth are split open in half with almost a surgical
precision , it made sense to me how there were plants inside the building
growing, in days like these the water pours down and after so many years of hitting
the ground they made a crack on it, mother earth did the rest. The whole school
has plants on it from what i can see, even on the pavement outside. There is a
lot of animal life around birds , squirrels i pretty sure i saw a cat or two
passing by a little while ago, i am still not fully biologically working but i
am pretty sure i would be happy about it, they certainly make for a good stimuli.
Its
noon i don’t feel hungry yet, i should probably eat something, i should drink
to. the rain hasn't stopped it's good that i put the bag on a shelf inside the
Library , my pants got wet exploring the first and second floor, i can
certainly say it has an unpleasant feel when it touches my leg, cold and
sticky. I counted the doors there were five in the first and six in the second,
they were all of the same design and color blue , none of them was locked and
each had eighteen desks except for one class in the second floor that had 14 ,
the number was a multiply of two i wonder if the kids were also , i examined the
class with the less desks closer , immediately i noticed the fake wall that was
next to the stairs that led to the fourth floor, i don't know why yet but you
could get only from the first floor to the third. Enough editing for now i want
to rest, my legs are shaking i already took off my pants to dry.
"owww my head hurts....." these were my first words out loud i
thought i wasn't able to speak yet weird... i sound weird i need time until i
get used to it.
As
i got up from the table that i slept on i saw a mirror image of myself in the
library Glass window that separated itself from the rest of the school, even
though my voice was not what i had hoped for my body was more than enough to
cover the difference, i question myself why i didn't seek to find how i look before
head, male , lean teenage body i must be around fifteen maybe sixteen years
old, short black hair cut in almost perfect symmetry, my eyes were small sharp
with a green color my eyebrows thin, my nose was nice and i had no facial hair.
i walked outside to look at the place my pants where still wet so i did not put
them on back it was the wisest decision , even though it was still cold after
the rain i concluded i wasn't going to be sick the next day, the place was like
a tropical forest my boots got muddy walking around the backyard of the school
where they probably went on recess, everywhere i looked there was trees but old
and big, the light of the moon complimented them perfectly the green leaf
turned to a dark blue color slowly as the time passed and the moon location
shifted following its own trajectory around the earth.
Many hours passed while looking at the moon until i realized my belly acing,
wanting food i went inside running and opened my black bag, inside it there was
a second pair of clothes a jacket some sandwiches and two bottles of water of
one liter each i unwrapped my sandwich and started eating i didn't pay
attention to the ingredients used, it was delicious. I never thought what would
happen if there was no food inside, i got to distracted by the things around
me, "ha ha" distraction what a useless human ability i also forgot to
look at the building from the outside, i wouldn't see much anyway
Goodnight
Day 2
Good
morning daily log "smile"
I decided my name yesterday before
sleeping, there was a sum of books that wasn't destroyed so i decided to try
and read, but i couldn't understand anything except of one word in a physics
book "Nova" i think it's Latin but i don't seem to possess the
information of its meaning i miss quite a lot from my database one language is
not enough to understand this world mechanics. I woke up hungry again and i had
only one sandwich left i would soon be left without provisions gulping the food
brought me great pleasure but i saved the half for later and exchange its place
with water.
I
will leave right after i check the two last floors, and see if there is
anything to eat in the cafeteria maybe an energy bar or something that won't go
bad after a day or two outside the fridge, even though i doubt it. I am a
little scared what will happen when i leave but i am too excited to see what
those gigantic trees hide behind them, I was more excited than scared. I went
up to the third floor, the diagonally cut in half floor was really a surprise
but had a great view , there was a lot of room to walk by even next to missing
building the corridor was wide lot of classes were missing , at least two you
can't see them but if you take notice to the buildings architecture there must
have been two right in front of me separated by a wall. The other classes were
empty no chairs and no desks not even a board which probably the first thing
they bring in a classroom. I went down so i could go to the fourth floor and
last part of my exploration but my ambition was quickly blocked by the almighty
tree branches i could not break with my bear hands , disappointment came over
me , i felt it in my teeth maybe it was something else, why did a feeling as unimportant
as this had an effect on my physical body ?
Chapter 2
Mono
"i am so bored , i hate working for surveillance
"
the Professor did not answer me and kept
monitoring the Andromeda named Nova from our 20 holographic screen floating in
the air, we had placed droid insects and arachnid cameras everywhere, following
his every move, it got really boring quickly, listening to his voice was
probably the most interesting thing that happened to my Andromeda this last two
days.
The Professor took a quick look at his
wrist watch before leaving the monitoring room for the first time in two days
and in his place another man came, he was smiling and wearing the same clothes
with Nova.
"Hi"
"My name is Mono" his awkward
smile didn't stop until i shook hands with him, he immediately draw me close to
him with immense force.
"You're not by any chance one of the Cosmos?
“
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
His abusive approached scared me so i countered quickly with a low punch, a
squirming sound of his stomach crushing with my blow was immediately heard
through his mouth, he fell on the floor.
"Ok, got it just a normal
Andromeda" he murmured the words lying down, unable to speak properly.
"What's going on here?" The loud
and heavy tone of the Professors voice ringed in my ears i turned my head to
the door from where it was coming, i saw the Professor standing at the door
looking at both me and Mono trying to form a theory based on the situation he
saw.
"Your pet here almost did a number on
me" in the seconds i turned my head looking away Mono risen from the floor
and was cleaning himself up from dust that left a big white Stamp on him.
"I am sure that you had nothing to do
with it"
“Well maybe, but she certainly is ferocious”
"Hmm...” the professor smirked before
answering "time for you to go"
"Really? " the annoying smile of
his face returned. He left without looking back at me, almost running, the
automatic door behind the professor opened for him leave the room.
"What a jerk, why does he always try
to piss me of?"
"Doesn't matter»
The professor may have brushed of the
situation like nothing mattered but he was shaken by it, i never saw him scared
or at least frustrated his left foot was taping on the floor continuously to
hide it's minor shaking. I hope he would tell me more but i don't want to push
him further.
Chapter 3
Andromeda
LOG ACTIVATION CODE 33452.....
CODE ACCEPTED
BIOMETRIC ANDROMEDA ACTIVATED
NAME: Mono hunter
"Andromeda activate exoskeleton"
"The outside of the surveillance room
was nothing special; i jumped using the previously mentioned variety of my new
body abilities, from the inside of the military base to the rooftop. I was already
bored by their stupid army toys and human invention, using an elevator was so
slow, riding a snail is faster than that, and all this polite and fake social
ways of behaving when in reality everyone want to slit everyone throw, i despise
them all. All the anger i have inside me i store in you Andromeda I’m sorry.
The sun was burning bright in the morning,
and looking at the horizon to track down the newcomer certainly filled my heart
with some joy maybe he is part of the Cosmos i will finally have some company
maybe he is even interested in my plans, Andromeda what do you think ?
"Mono you have to stop, this is not
the way"
The collective entity called Andromeda was
the most amazing one of the great things the humans created, she resides inside
every one of us new beings, descending from human DNA with far more capable
bodies, thousands of us were taken from our homes, taken from the people we
love, and were falsie claimed dead only to be used as tools for experimenting,
hundreds of us died, hundred wait for their demise and only one from a hundred
people will be revived like me and the newcomer, it didn't matter who we were
in the past we were all killed like sheep, and still treated as such but they
made a mistake, Andromeda the thing that was implanted in us to keep us sane
and at the same time keep us at bay was actually what freed me, the first of
the Cosmos, she is the one i love my salvation of the shackles that the humans
have put on me through sheer force and using her i am going to take back my
life, the moment i learn we can procreate i will kill them all, the humans
won't stand a chance against us"
"Mono i understand your pain but you
can't do that, killing them is no different to what they did to us"
“We’re almost there right? "
"Yes... at your right you can see the
school, at the corner i doubt they send you alone droids must be coming for the
contact moment in case you both go berserk"
"Don't tell me you buy that shit, they
only want to think they have the control of the situation" the place was
wrecked , it had so many ruined buildings actually not ruined but filled with
plant life that entered the nearby houses. I didn't realize the transition from
the military tower to this place at all until i stopped running.
"The gate seems bared, Andromeda is
there another way in?
"Yes if you jump over the trees you
will find yourself inside"
"Good" i jumped using the
branches around me and with each leap i reached closer to the end i could have
made one long jump but spending all this stamina wasn't a good idea. I looked
down from the tree top to see how the same distance had a different effect on
my perspective, but i was no human i am not scared of heights or falling so i
jumped with my head pointing the floor i knew that i was one meter and seventeen
nine centimeters and with my eyes observing the tree branches that i used to
climb i knew when i had to turn my body making a one-eighty degrees spin upward
so i can land at my feet.
"Oops.... i almost broke my leg
there" i said smiling.
"Mono the boy is in front of you"
"Yeah i saw him” what a fragile
looking kid they made this time in the monitor room he also seemed taller.
"Who are you?" He seemed confused
not scared a man just jumped and he didn't run for his life, that's the first
one i see being so calm i will have my fun breaking this one down until the
machines come.
"Don't worry kid, i am
absolution"
"Please don't make fun of me, i don't
need to be forgiven for anything...now tell me who you are"
"Little kid do you like fighting?
" for the first time the boy looked confused and I was happy to cause it.
"No....."
"Well then luck certainly is not with
you today " i made a quick dash ahead so i could punch his face he hardly
noticed my first step , he flew in the air from my attack to his jaw but it
didn't even fracture he certainly was a high caliber creation.
"Scared a little?" He got up but
his legs where shaking.
"Stay away from me” the boy yelled and
also rushed on to me trying the exact same attack i used before i lifted one
hand for defense and kept a pretentious smile as a sign of my confidence.
"What?" The kid maneuvered the
moment he came close to me, he never wanted to attack me in the first place.
"Are you stupid? There is nowhere for
you to go"
"I'm not running away from you because
i am scared I’m running so i can fight you better" i have never seen a
confident brat as this, he picked a branch of wood from the muddy ground so he
can use it as a weapon.
"I suggest you make contact before you
damage him" Andromeda said to me as i tried to figure an attack pattern
that would strike him down instantly.
"No way, this is too exciting to just
let it go" i changed the way i talked to her from verbal commands to in
though managing , even though it's called command and managing i do not manage
or command her , she is free to make choices of her own but she consults me so
i can function better.
"What's wrong getting scared?»
"Don't taunt me kid" his
ignorance of what i could do to him was certainly amusing , i run slower
towards him than last time, he prepared the branch as a defence holding it with
his two hands ,he seemed to be planning to use it as a staff. I dodge his first
attack when i came near him by kneeling down even lower i caught his right leg and
lifted him up, he fell with his back , i didn't let go of the leg it was too
soon i spine around and threw him on the trees that he seemed to hold so dear.
"So you do bleed after all" the
rough skin of the trees and the friction weren't a good match, his silver
jacket was ripped open exposing his own fragile skin on the tree surface making
many deep scratches on his back.
"What? Cat got your tongue?" He
wasn't talking he was just looking down on his blood dripping and crossing his
body like a stream. He opened his mouth
"AAAAAA" He started screaming.
"Andromeda did you make contact?»
"Of course not, that's not a normal
reaction be careful"
"he is a failure i am putting him
down"
Chapter 4
Pandora
SECURITY PROTOCOL: ACTIVATE
PROTECTION: MAXIMUM SECURITY
LOG ACTIVATION CODE: 146570
BIOMETRIC ANDRO.. ANDRO.. SYSTEM FUCTION
ABNORMAL
BIOMETRIC PANDORA ACTIVATE
Name: Nova
"What the hell? My head is killing me
, is that blood on me ? I can't move my hands , i can see that crazy guy looking
at me, he will kill me if i don't move.
"Don't worry i will protect you, i
just want to you to keep the log informed"
There was a feminine voice in my head it
felt like she was smiling, was it real, maybe i'm hallucinating.
"Exactly like that i want you to keep
the log informed explaining everything, only for the time being"
"What log?"
CONSCIOUSNESS EXCHANGE IN PROCESS
CONSCIOUSNESS EXCHANGE COMPLETE
"Nothing makes, sense what is she
talking about? The man in front of me is ready to attack me again and i can't
defend myself, move move, why the hell i can't move?»
"You’re not hurting Nova" the
girls voice was now coming through my mouth and into my ears, not as an
illusion of my mind anymore. "Activate exoskeleton " she murmured
with my voice but i knew that this wasn't me, after she said those words i
felts the muscles of my body harden but that wasn't normal, how can something
like this happen, my body tighten. The man in front of me launched his punch
like the first time it was quick but i could calculate almost perfectly the
speed and strength his punch was carrying, i felt my body moving again my hand
quickly was raised up and formed a punch and strike the face of my unknown
adversary, he fell down.
"Kid, your name is Nova right? Where
did you find that strength?»
"Nova can't come on the line right now,
but my ears are open for you»
"And you are?»
"Pandora is the name" Pandora
that is a nice name she has, filled with mystery like her.
"Thank you” her real voice was heard
from inside my brain again, it was like a second person was living inside of
me.
"We are running in 5 seconds when he
tries to get up” she said
"Should i count?"
"No, too late» as she foretold he
tried to get up , but he couldn't , there was blood coming from his mouth he
couldn't even lift his eyes to look at us.
"Nice seeing you stranger" she
told him and jumped to the other side of the trees, looking at the world from
outside the school was amazing the ruined roads and the plant life that had
grown inside almost every building was amazing.
"Nova focus on me for a bit”
"Yes of course" i felt unable to
resist her.
"I only stunned him for a bit, and his
robot friends are coming soon, they are going to put a search party on us in no
time i am handing you back the controls of the body and deactivating myself in
case i emit a signal, i will leave the auto log open and i will try to cut any
contact with them , for the time being you are alone, but keep going straight
from here and there is a small village, take notice, you will feel tired all of
a sudden using the exoskeleton sucks a lot for an untrained body, right now you
are left with twenty-five percent stamina. See you later” her long monologue
stopped and her existence vanished, i was me again. I blinked my eyes a couple
of times to see if i was in control of my body again , as she said i feel tired
but i can't stop i have to keep going so i can escape that mad man.
"My body is
running out fuel quickly" my breath was heavier with each second passing
and my legs are numb my eyes are closing but i can see the town in front of me
i can also see a watermill next to me, to bad i don't have time to admire it,
though a zip of fresh water would do me good. I stopped i had to drink
something i am sure he isn't following. I dived my head inside and drunk till
my heart took its fill, i felt my stomach tumble the water inside of it when i
got back up from knees, the sound from the watermill is enchanting, as it
turned in countless cycles a day with the help of the not so high waterfall
above it. I looked back to see how far i was from the school "i can't see
it" i was running for less than five minutes how is that possible, then
again how is anything of what happened today possible.
"You did well to stop at this
spring"
“Pandora? " I was surprised to hear
her voice «you said you are not coming back for a while"
"Well i search all neurons of your
brain and there was nothing that would give away a signal"
“that’s good " why am i not freaking
out about this ? i have a voice that took over my body in a middle of fight.
"I zoomed in to take a look while you
were describing the watermill, there is an abandoned house just outside of it ,
go there so you can rest , i will explain everything i know there." She
was here for some time, but i only realized the pressure of her existence just
now.
"Ok, will you leave again?"
"No, but i can stay silent, if you
feel weird about it."
'It's alright, can i use my voice to speak
to you? i mean can i talk instead of forming the words inside my brain"
"Yeah , of course " she sounded
happy , i didn't want to tell her to stay away even though my head was hurting
a lot when we talked, she did save back then, the strength of his last punch
would kill"
"You like using the log a lot, don’t
you ?" She asked me.
"Well i am not really doing it consciously.
i just talk to myself"
"Ok , just so you know i deactivated
the exoskeleton for your body to relax "
"Thanks, i already feel lighter» she
really is dependable.
Chapter 5
"How could i let this happen?"
"It wasn't your fault " Andromeda
immediately tried to comfort me "he was not normal"
"That's obvious" i lashed out at
her, i waited a little she didn't give me a response «I’m sorry"
"It's ok , the bots are coming "
the bots was a squad of robots soldiers that accompany us whenever we had a
mission we rarely where two Andromeda in the same team. Each squad had six bots
and each one had a camera attached at its head.
"Did you deactivate the bugs that had
camera around?"
"I made Symphony brake down the
machine after she sends a virus to the cameras, she was immediately taken for
examination as a defect"
"Good job, deactivate so you can hide
the traces of us inside the girl"
"Already done"
The
bots were standing in front of me looking around them to see where the boy was,
the voice of the professor was heard from the speaker inside the neck of the
robot.
"What happened here?"
"When i made contact with him he went
berserk"
"That's the first time something goes
wrong at your mission"
"Hence, the reason i didn't know how
to handle it" i laughed to put his mind at ease " i am sorry
professor i promise to buy you coffee when i get back but have to find him
first"
«you don't have to go we already send some
searchers to get him"
"That's absurd i am closer to him, it
will take the searchers a day to catch up"
"It's already done; i want you back
here immediately"
"Ok" what a stupid decision i could
have caught him in less than two hours,
"Activate exoskeleton" once again
i left the droids behind and went on running back to the military tower alone,
the tower isn't visible yet but i seconds i after practically Jump few kilometers,
i would be able to easily see it, i couldn't get the kid out of my mind what
the hell is Pandora did he make contact without making contact and that still doesn’t
explain what that is , why wasn't Andromeda in control i should have easily
subdued him if he was active.
"He is a Cosmos, but he is already
awaked" his confidence his way of behaving and his different in every way
Andromeda, he knows the truth and unlike doesn't want to fight , what a woos i
am dragging him back first chance i get. «how much time till i unlock ?"
"About half a year left you are at 92 percent"
"That's good i want to have this power
when the times come , why are you so silent?"
" just skeptical"
"About what"
"Nova and Pandora they can become good
allies when you catch them and you could mentor them to unlock»
"He is interesting, i agree with
that" i felt my lips move unwillingly forming a smile , it never happened
before.
Chapter 6
Reality
I know that everything i think of is being
read by Pandora, until now she has interrupted me many times to say her opinion
about what i think , when i tried to explain to her that they are only thoughts
passing by , she answered that a man is made of his ideals and ideas, it's to
early to say i have ideals since i have no idea what’s going on.
«i told i could be silent, if you did not
want me to interfere you could have just asked"
«Well i wanted to be polite, you did help
me after all , either that or i am a delusional psychopath"
"I was only expressing my ideas and
based to what you say ideas don't count and there no reason to worry you are as
sane as any normal man"
"Then explain to me how you existed ,
and how i jumped at least 3 foot and run for at least 7 miles in a blink of an
eye , this is certainly not a sane man’s reality"
"I told you, i will explain just enter
the shaft" she did say that before, i remember right after i drank water
from the spring.
"I am opening the door , prepare for
use of the exoskeleton i case there something else inside" i said using my
thought.
"I thought you were braver than
that"
"I am just taking every precaution"
"Just open the damn door" i felt
my right hand move on its own, before i could anything about it, it had already
pushed the door of the small abandoned wooden shaft. I got angry it's different
when she took control when i was in danger , and different when i am thinking
of our best option. Of course she immediately sensed my anger.
"It's not my job to babysit you but to
make you man and i am doing a decent job about it"
"That's it , shut up i don't want to
hear your voice for the rest of the day"
"I wasn't planning on talking anyway,
have a good day"
"You too" no one backed down , i
went to lay down at the ruined banker that was in the back left corner of the
shaft , i don't want to sleep but i would get angrier thinking of what have
happened, besides how do i know i am safe come to think of it, am i?
"You are safe don't worry " she
talked sooner than i had anticipated "that's because you are an
idiot"
"Still, you broke first"
"Maybe, but you have to hear what i
have to say i may be able to hear your thoughts but you can't do the same"
"Well what is it?”
"Do you remember yesterday? When you waked
up do you remember what you did"
"Yes i remember, i went on to search
the place around" i was confident of my answer even though the question
was simple.
"No, that's not what you did, you kept
a log" what is she talking about i clearly remember climbing the stairs
and taking my bag inside the library.
"Yesterday and today just before the
strange man came we were one, me and you but the moment you sensed danger we
broke in two i know because i was the one that realized first. i saw the world
through your eyes when you got punched i felt your pain when you run towards
him i knew your plan of escape, and all because i never wanted to do any of
those'
"That's impossible you either existed separately
from me since the beginning or you are part of myself" she snorted through
my nose i was surprised and my face expression changed.
"Why are you still using words like impossible
i am here aren't i, let me ask you a question then, it's easy"
"Ok"
"How many terabytes does our brain
contain"
"What kind of question is that of
course i don't know?"
"The answer is a hundred and fifty a
hundred is used as space shared for me and you, and we have an extra fifty for
all other needs as memories even though i doubt they will take so much space
even if i perfectly store them with every detail, speaking of which i can show
you the conversion of your awaking the one we had the moment we woke up."
"Ok then show me" i have gone
insane i am certain now.
It seems that i just waked up on On a red
couch big enough for two people to sit but not enough to have my new body rest
on it, i felt numb at the beginning i couldn't quite use my limps for at least
an hour that’s when i decided to keep a memo of my day here it will only take a
small amount from the extra fifty terabytes that my brain has, it would also be
a shame not to use the abundance of words that i have stored in. I wonder who
woke me up.
"Why don't i remember any of this?"
I could see clearly, that was my voice and view i remember looking at the couch
but i never complained about its size.
"I think because those are my
memories, Nova you and i are two separate people at least that’s what i think" i stayed silent i
wanted to know more about what was happening.
"Okay then, tell me something, do
you have memories? Memories of your childhood"
"I don't know"
"You don't, because then I’d know , this body is fresh you have
no other scars other than the one you got this morning, we don't have any scars"
" i think i want to stop talking
now" she respected my request, i was right after all everything happening
until now isn't something normal people can do , i am not human.
Chapter 7
Green valley
I took my shirt off it felt well, when all of my upper body was touched
from the wind that passed through the cracks that the wooden walls had between
them.
"You know you should eat «she said with her cute caring voice
this time, "let’s go inside the town
there maybe something we can do to earn money" after two hours of silence
my head cooled down i am still a little depressed.
"I don’t think that the best thing right now
is to see other people"
"Enough, you will go right now in
the town and find something to eat"
"I can do whatever i want you are
not my mother"
"That's because we don't have one
, so get down from your high horse and act like a man"
"Again with this man talk, i am
sixteen, I’m not a man still a
kid in case you still don't know the difference" once again she took
control and slapped me with my left hand at that moment i felt my whole body go
numb not because she tried to take control but because i knew that what i said
was shameful if i had a mother she would certainly not wanted me to speak as a
spoiled brat, her slap woke me up.
"I'm sorry"
"I need to eat, go find
something" she acted deliberately cruel but i understood.
"Ok"
The sun outside as burning bright i don't know if my best choice was to
go half naked inside this town, how will everyone react to this image would
they pity me seeing my back injured will i have to beg for food.
"i don't think i can find work as
easy as you think"
"There is a church in the middle
of the town that gives food to the poor, go there"
"How do you know all this?”
"The information is inside our
brain, not only that there is information of every city town and village, terrain,
seas and mountains"
"You know where everything is?”
"No, not everything only the more
important things"
I was walking inside the middle road of the town but as the rest of the
place everything with trees.
"Are you sure there are people
here?"
"We don't have this information
actually"
"Great"
"The top of the bell tower is
right in front of you"
"I love the way you can see things
using my eyes" she laughed but didn't say anything.
as we walked towards the church using the
cross to pinpoint our distance from it we started hearing footsteps and noise,
finally after we turned at the corner we saw people gathered around the stairs of
the church everyone wearing rags and dirty clothes all of them holding a bowl, every
one of them was thin and tired.
"This is people look worse than
me, what happened to them"
"At least we know this the place
where they give out the food" Pandora didn't seem effected by the view of
half dead people waiting to be fed then again we are at the same situation as
them. I went close to see what was going on, the first thing i noticed was that
they all head a smell like they lived inside moist and dirt , i started
breathing through so i don't offend anyone.
"What happened to this place?"
I asked an old man that was in front of me but he didn't turn to answer me
instead he shoved me away.
"Hey what's your problem?" I
was ready for a fight with him but i felt a gentle touch in my arm holding me
back.
"Don't" said Pandora
"remember we are guests here"
As the time passed the people would
lessen, leaving with their bowls filled with hot soup, nobody was holding a
spoon so there was tricky part when it came to eating it even though i never
witness it because no one would stick around after the moment they had their
food.
"It's sad this people seem so
sad" i felt a heavy burden inside me collapsing on my heart but it wasn't
me it was Pandora’s sadness taking
effect on my body, since she didn't respond to their run down state In the beginning
i thought she wasn't affected by it, but it seems she also sometimes needs time
until she notice some things. I also agreed with her that was no way for humans
to live. anyone would be sad by this kind of living.
Finally it was our turn, behind the mass of people there wasn't any real
organized way for someone to get his food, but as soon as people started
leaving you could see the priest and his nouns shout for people to stay in line
and wait their turn.
"I am sorry, but can you maybe
provide me with a bowl" i said to one of the nouns.
"Of course" she instantly
said , and placed her hand under the table where the pots with the soup were,
she didn't look what she was doing her gaze was fixed on me like a hawk or a
snake since she was shorter than me and she also had to crouch to get my bowl.
"Are you new?" She asked.
"Yes, but i am just passing by, i
don't think i am staying more than a day" i told her the truth but i
wasn't sure if it was the best idea.
"A traveller"
"Something like that" the
priest looked curious of our conversation.
"You’re going to get cold, would you like a
blanket and a shirt?"
"If you have to spare one that
would be great" even though she had a weird look in her face when she
looked at you, her kindness was how you imagine a noun is.
"Good wait for me a second"
she fast paced almost run, inside the church.
As long as she was inside the priest came closer to me "where are
you headed traveller ?"
"Tell him we are going at
mausoleum, it's the next village" Pandora said to me faster than a though
and an excuse was processed.
"Mausoleum, it's the next village
right? “
"Haven't you heard son? Mausoleum
got destroyed by Terra the people here are all from there.
"When did this happen" i
asked.
"Last month during the bombing on
the moon city" the priest was silent when he saw my surprise of the news.
"The moon ? Are you sure sir i
mean what’s the point"
"My dear boy where have you been
living all this years, don't you listen to the news" i don't know what to
answer him, i have no idea what's going on i don't even know what day it is.
Pandora vanished after she told me about mausoleum but her presence was still
there i could feel her lingering.
"I was traveling for a long time
on my own, i haven't had any connection with society for the last three
months" i hope this is a good enough excuse.
"Tell him you came from the green
valley" Pandora added her little something to perfect my excuse.
"I am from the green valley"
The priest was surprised again "i
understand why you have been out of touch with the world, i am sorry if i
pressured you"
"The green valley is a name given
to the first city after the earth re-colonization from the moon but it was also
the first one to get destroyed from the war between them" not only did she
know of terrain and geography but also had knowledge of history she is amazing.
"Go sit your soup will get cold “the priest said ending our discussion
abruptly "thank you" i went and sat at the churches stairs near some
kids that already have finished their meal and were playing hide and seek.
"How am supposed to eat the soup
?”
“You know, you could do it like
cat" Pan
"No way" i turned the bowl
over and drink slowly the vegetable soup so i don't swallow any carrots or peas
before chewing them, it had a sweat taste that made it pleasant to drink it.
"Do you want to hear more about
the war?" Pandora didn't speak when i was having my face inside the bowl.
"How much do you know?
"Enough to have a general idea, but
not any recent information"
"Before you begin can i ask you
something else?"
"Go ahead"
"What date is it?
"Good question, but i don't know,
all the history information i have stops at 2705"
"Can't we assume that this is the
year we are, at least?"
"We can but it would be under
false premises, i will be certain tonight after i see the star position i can
even tell you the day"
"Where do you get all your
information?"
"not really sure, things just pop
up when i ask about something"
"things pop up inside my brain that’s not comforting"
"Your pretty funny you know that?“ She said laughingly I was sure she
was going to make fun about how i get scared easily but for the first time she
had a nice thing to say about me.
"Not really, you're just an easy
laugh" i said trying to semi compliment her.
She
kept laughing for a while until she squeezed a sentence anyway do you want to
know about the world and the war?”
“No, let’s keep the fun going we can talk later”
“Ok”
soon
after we decided to stop conversing the noun came holding a black shirt , i was
small and it annoyed me how it stuck on my skin, but beggars can’t be choosers, I smiled and thanked ,
she did the same and then left, I will be sleeping in one of the abandon house
instead of the shaft , I hope it’s
not too cold
Chapter 8
Freedom of the hunter “can’t see anyone around, where is everyone?” I am standing in the middle of the military base trying to find the professor and complain that he send searchers to pick up Nova, but no one is around to tell me where I could find him.
“He should be at the lab where Symphony is, why don’t you go there? “Andromeda
was right, Symphony was his favorite puppet he was always with, her if she
wasn’t one of I would swear she is his sex slave.
All doors inside the base were automatic they opened on their own , the is the second building attached to the base and mostly used for,, let’s say Maintenance of my species. The white color of the lab, always clean always everything sparkling. As I came close to the maintenance room I saw symphony sitting on a white bed strapped to machines and cables throughout her body, and the all to well-known Helmet like that extracted information out of our brain the professor was sitting next to her toying around with controls that the machines had , all I know was where the off and on button is. He was was not alone, there were a couple of nurses and scientist analyzing data each at his own computer in order to see what went wrong and she went berserk.
“So Julies, I found you at last” I used another one of my ironic smiles to establish the mood of the conversation “why the hell would you call me back?”
“Silence Mono, now it’s not the time for an argument he was firm with his words even though he didn’t yell “I want you to connect with her “ he said and pointed at Symphony, useless as his pointing was, since there was no one else with whom I could connect to.
“What? No way forget it”
“I said connect with her” Now he yelled.
“I will not risk my life for that bitch of yours, connecting with an already awakened Andromeda is insane you know that better than anyone, it will kill us both”
“Listen to me tool, I don’t care if you die a hundred times over in front of my eyes you will do as I say” he jumped from the little round chair he was sitting on and pulled my hair.
“Don’t me filth” I snapped
“Mono calm yourself” Andromeda is desperately trying to stop me but it was useless at this point I already have taken my decision.
“Activate Exoskeleton” I said using verbal commands.
“Are you crazy ?“ he asked.
“No” I put my hand on his face and squeezed it tightly, the more I squeezed the more he loosened his own fist from my hair. The blood started flowing from his right nostril first he started screaming from pain as did the couple of nurses that were there from what they saw.
“Mono stop it you’re killing him” Andromeda also started screaming in my head, for a moment I felt her need to take control of my body. A male scientist came from behind me and slammed a chair on my back, I hardly felt anything, with my fingers now inside of the professors head, i swung him on the male with enough force to throw him back on the computer he was working with, the professor slipped from me but it was for the best after all, he was dead for a couple of seconds anyway, and now he served me better as a weapon.
When I went close to check on the scientist he was also dead from a piece of metal that entered his skul from behind, all that was left now two nurses and a scientist, that run away, I wasn’t in the mood to play cat and mouse though.
They sound the alarm, I disconnected Symphony of all the gizmo, lifted her from her white throne , that was now stained with blood drops from Julies head, and run toward the automatic door that opened immediately the moment it detected my presence in front of it , all hallways were empty I went back to the base . the place there was filled with droids similar to those that came to pick Nova and me up from the old abandoned school. Some were flying others were more closely related to tank rather than a robot. As before there was no one in the base , no one gave any orders to the droids at least not someone that I can stop and was close by.
“Andromeda, little help please” quite some time passed and she wasn’t talking, I relied on her for more elaborate strategy thinking , she could always calculate the best course of action so I can i can escape or destroy my enemy.
“ok then, I will take care of it myself” I jumped on one of the hovering droid when the other saw me they fired with their gun hands, the tank droids didn’t fire on me yet., since their attack would cause more destruction to their allies rather than good, at least that what I think the user had in mind. The moment I landed my kick on the droids head it flew away like a football the main command chip was attached to it thus the user losing control, we started falling together with the decapitated droid I was holding Symphony with one hand and the fall was dangerous for her since she did not have her exoskeleton equipped, I moved her lower body to my left hand and my right hand was holding her back, the droids were to slow to catch up with our falling speed, primitive weapon no wonder they need us for the war.
“Fall inside the explosion that the droid is going to cause I activated Symphonies exoskeleton so she won’t be harmed” I heard her voice inside my head telling me what to do next.
“Nice work”
Due to its weight the droid fell first on the floor exploding on a tank creating a chained explosion destroying everyone nearby, I fell inside, I could feel my skin roast but my healing ability would kick in soon after I got out of the fire, it will consume more than fifty percent of my stamina and having only twenty left is risky but its going to be enough to escape, as for Symphony she would only use thirty five since she is in hibernation mode, the flying droids were in confusion, because of the shockwave of the explosion caused i took advantage of the momentum created and escaped from the main door without the controller noticing anything.
Chapter 9
All doors inside the base were automatic they opened on their own , the is the second building attached to the base and mostly used for,, let’s say Maintenance of my species. The white color of the lab, always clean always everything sparkling. As I came close to the maintenance room I saw symphony sitting on a white bed strapped to machines and cables throughout her body, and the all to well-known Helmet like that extracted information out of our brain the professor was sitting next to her toying around with controls that the machines had , all I know was where the off and on button is. He was was not alone, there were a couple of nurses and scientist analyzing data each at his own computer in order to see what went wrong and she went berserk.
“So Julies, I found you at last” I used another one of my ironic smiles to establish the mood of the conversation “why the hell would you call me back?”
“Silence Mono, now it’s not the time for an argument he was firm with his words even though he didn’t yell “I want you to connect with her “ he said and pointed at Symphony, useless as his pointing was, since there was no one else with whom I could connect to.
“What? No way forget it”
“I said connect with her” Now he yelled.
“I will not risk my life for that bitch of yours, connecting with an already awakened Andromeda is insane you know that better than anyone, it will kill us both”
“Listen to me tool, I don’t care if you die a hundred times over in front of my eyes you will do as I say” he jumped from the little round chair he was sitting on and pulled my hair.
“Don’t me filth” I snapped
“Mono calm yourself” Andromeda is desperately trying to stop me but it was useless at this point I already have taken my decision.
“Activate Exoskeleton” I said using verbal commands.
“Are you crazy ?“ he asked.
“No” I put my hand on his face and squeezed it tightly, the more I squeezed the more he loosened his own fist from my hair. The blood started flowing from his right nostril first he started screaming from pain as did the couple of nurses that were there from what they saw.
“Mono stop it you’re killing him” Andromeda also started screaming in my head, for a moment I felt her need to take control of my body. A male scientist came from behind me and slammed a chair on my back, I hardly felt anything, with my fingers now inside of the professors head, i swung him on the male with enough force to throw him back on the computer he was working with, the professor slipped from me but it was for the best after all, he was dead for a couple of seconds anyway, and now he served me better as a weapon.
When I went close to check on the scientist he was also dead from a piece of metal that entered his skul from behind, all that was left now two nurses and a scientist, that run away, I wasn’t in the mood to play cat and mouse though.
They sound the alarm, I disconnected Symphony of all the gizmo, lifted her from her white throne , that was now stained with blood drops from Julies head, and run toward the automatic door that opened immediately the moment it detected my presence in front of it , all hallways were empty I went back to the base . the place there was filled with droids similar to those that came to pick Nova and me up from the old abandoned school. Some were flying others were more closely related to tank rather than a robot. As before there was no one in the base , no one gave any orders to the droids at least not someone that I can stop and was close by.
“Andromeda, little help please” quite some time passed and she wasn’t talking, I relied on her for more elaborate strategy thinking , she could always calculate the best course of action so I can i can escape or destroy my enemy.
“ok then, I will take care of it myself” I jumped on one of the hovering droid when the other saw me they fired with their gun hands, the tank droids didn’t fire on me yet., since their attack would cause more destruction to their allies rather than good, at least that what I think the user had in mind. The moment I landed my kick on the droids head it flew away like a football the main command chip was attached to it thus the user losing control, we started falling together with the decapitated droid I was holding Symphony with one hand and the fall was dangerous for her since she did not have her exoskeleton equipped, I moved her lower body to my left hand and my right hand was holding her back, the droids were to slow to catch up with our falling speed, primitive weapon no wonder they need us for the war.
“Fall inside the explosion that the droid is going to cause I activated Symphonies exoskeleton so she won’t be harmed” I heard her voice inside my head telling me what to do next.
“Nice work”
Due to its weight the droid fell first on the floor exploding on a tank creating a chained explosion destroying everyone nearby, I fell inside, I could feel my skin roast but my healing ability would kick in soon after I got out of the fire, it will consume more than fifty percent of my stamina and having only twenty left is risky but its going to be enough to escape, as for Symphony she would only use thirty five since she is in hibernation mode, the flying droids were in confusion, because of the shockwave of the explosion caused i took advantage of the momentum created and escaped from the main door without the controller noticing anything.
Chapter 9
A
body for the wicked
I spend all the afternoon helping out with the kids that were livinh in the church , managing to get control of the situation was harder and more painful to my legs from my fight with the other guy. I think that was because they made fun of me and used me to play their twisted game of trying to hurt themselves, each time I would catch one, someone else be it a boy or a girl would try to jump from high place or throw rocks to each other, being raised in hostile inviroment probably made them think this kind of playing was most appropriate, i did see them play hide and seek, and also share some clothes of theirs with one their friend who needed it more than they did, it put a smile on my face knowing that kindness was still in them. I thought of using exoskeleton countless times to catch up to them with my speed, but then I would probably frighten them, Pandora was sitting not doing anything , enjoying the sight of me being made fun of me, I could feel her happiness through all my body , not once did she offer herself to take my place and help out.
as soon as the clock struck eight, the noun called the children back inside the church for dinner, unlike lunch time people did not gather and big hot pans with soup weren’t sitting on the small rectangular shaped table. it was easy enough understand that there was no dinner for the masses of people gathered from Mausoleum and that ment neither for me. I waved my hand to the nouns and priest and thanked them again for everything they did for me today, they told me that there were plenty of houses unoccupied since the start of the war the last thirty years and that I could use one to sleep in it if I choose to, I liked the ideas since the cold clay walls that the houses were built is much better than the cracked wood with holes everewhere shaft at the enterance of village.
It took me a while until I found the house without intruding in anyones privacy which I did more times than I care to admit. By the time I found the right place it was already ten o’clock , it wasn’t that coldespecially since the northern wind that was around all day stopped , I glanced at the clear night sky and saw the white gold light of the stars shimmer and dance, I think that looking at the nightsky will soon become a habit.
“today is twenty of November of twenty-seven thirty-five” I was startled by her voice.
“exactly thirty years from the last entry that our history information has”
“Yes, come to think of it I don’t have anything after the beginning of the war”
the inside of isn’t much it has a bed like all the other houses a semicircle that was near the wall with black dust probably carbon that was created due to fire, next to it there was a small pyramid of wood neatly stalked.
“Pandora, are you feeling cold? ”
“not really, I actually don’t feel anything unless I get control of our body”
“No fire then I am going straight to bed , I feel way more tired than I should “
I walked myself toward the bed and fell on it without thinking if it can sustain this kind of sudden wight increase, the proud metal that was made of denied to break but I could hear the rusty old spring that hold the mattress having trouble with each oscillation
“Wait don’t fall asleep yet” Pandora shouted inside my head bringing back the memories and headache when she first talked to me, my eyes sprang wide open “What ? “
“We need to talk”
I spend all the afternoon helping out with the kids that were livinh in the church , managing to get control of the situation was harder and more painful to my legs from my fight with the other guy. I think that was because they made fun of me and used me to play their twisted game of trying to hurt themselves, each time I would catch one, someone else be it a boy or a girl would try to jump from high place or throw rocks to each other, being raised in hostile inviroment probably made them think this kind of playing was most appropriate, i did see them play hide and seek, and also share some clothes of theirs with one their friend who needed it more than they did, it put a smile on my face knowing that kindness was still in them. I thought of using exoskeleton countless times to catch up to them with my speed, but then I would probably frighten them, Pandora was sitting not doing anything , enjoying the sight of me being made fun of me, I could feel her happiness through all my body , not once did she offer herself to take my place and help out.
as soon as the clock struck eight, the noun called the children back inside the church for dinner, unlike lunch time people did not gather and big hot pans with soup weren’t sitting on the small rectangular shaped table. it was easy enough understand that there was no dinner for the masses of people gathered from Mausoleum and that ment neither for me. I waved my hand to the nouns and priest and thanked them again for everything they did for me today, they told me that there were plenty of houses unoccupied since the start of the war the last thirty years and that I could use one to sleep in it if I choose to, I liked the ideas since the cold clay walls that the houses were built is much better than the cracked wood with holes everewhere shaft at the enterance of village.
It took me a while until I found the house without intruding in anyones privacy which I did more times than I care to admit. By the time I found the right place it was already ten o’clock , it wasn’t that coldespecially since the northern wind that was around all day stopped , I glanced at the clear night sky and saw the white gold light of the stars shimmer and dance, I think that looking at the nightsky will soon become a habit.
“today is twenty of November of twenty-seven thirty-five” I was startled by her voice.
“exactly thirty years from the last entry that our history information has”
“Yes, come to think of it I don’t have anything after the beginning of the war”
the inside of isn’t much it has a bed like all the other houses a semicircle that was near the wall with black dust probably carbon that was created due to fire, next to it there was a small pyramid of wood neatly stalked.
“Pandora, are you feeling cold? ”
“not really, I actually don’t feel anything unless I get control of our body”
“No fire then I am going straight to bed , I feel way more tired than I should “
I walked myself toward the bed and fell on it without thinking if it can sustain this kind of sudden wight increase, the proud metal that was made of denied to break but I could hear the rusty old spring that hold the mattress having trouble with each oscillation
“Wait don’t fall asleep yet” Pandora shouted inside my head bringing back the memories and headache when she first talked to me, my eyes sprang wide open “What ? “
“We need to talk”
“What
about”
“About
the situation we are in and what are we supposed to do” I could hear excitement
in
Her
voice, but was she excited? Or maybe nervous, and if she was, then why?
“Can’t we do that tomorrow, I am not in the mood now”
“the way you do things, you will never be, in the mood” I smelled her sex comment coming from miles away, I may be sixteen but I was no stranger to this voulgar way of thinking,espwcially when I had a vulgar mind of my own thinking this way “Anyway, you need to know some of the information floating inside us in case I won’t be there to help, don’t forget knowledge is power” even though she always found a way to annoy me her way of rationalizing everything was unparalleled.
“Ok, what do you want to talk about first”
“I want to tell you about the guy that was hunting us when we got separated”
“The one who almost beat us to death? ”
“Yes, but not him specificly, mostly about people like us” she took a moment , probalbly to sort the information she had “the reasin the war begun in the first place was because they discoveres people like us can exist, when recollonazation start they expiremented on creating genetly enhanced humans so they can live longer and under harsher life circumstances”
“wasn’t regular evolution good enough for them, greedy bastards” I said
“they failed, but not creating enhanced humans at making them conscious of their life, the new creations were lifeless, even though they were perfect replica of human bodies, and since they couldn’t preform this kind of enhancement to an adult human or infant babies they thought of another way, not because they didn’t try but because in both situation they would end up dead” she took a break knowing how disturbed would someone find even the notion of experimenting on little kids, after a second or two she continued “the new way was to pass from one body to the other” . she stopped again after her short sentence, I fle like she was expecting something of me but I couldn’t quite grasp the idea.
“which means ?”
“Which means that we are part of that avatar project, think about it a sixteen year old boy that woked up In the middle of nowhere , can leap five meters high and run three times faster than the average man”
“You think that I am part of this madness, I would never consent in this monstrosity of an act”
“So now you have an ideology”
“For all I know your information, Data, knowledge is predated and false”
“You wish”
“No Pandora I don’t wish, because if what your saying is true that means that everyone in this god forsaken planet is a mutated puppet or even worse a schizophrenic pcycho like the one who came for us, sorry me because I AM starting to think that I AM a psychopath myself” I know that were words were harsh but how can what she said be true.
I couldn’t get myself to sleep after the intense ending of our discyssion and since I rarely not hear he poking inside my head I got a little worried but just as I was ready to she jumpen in.
“I am sorry” there was remorse in her voice.
“No I am sorry, I got mad because I know that everything you said made sence and was probably true” there was another small silence between us.
“you know I am not spying on the log anymore” everytime I hear he calm loving voice in my head I feel a surge of warmth inside me, this time was not different.
“I know” I replied.
“Can’t we do that tomorrow, I am not in the mood now”
“the way you do things, you will never be, in the mood” I smelled her sex comment coming from miles away, I may be sixteen but I was no stranger to this voulgar way of thinking,espwcially when I had a vulgar mind of my own thinking this way “Anyway, you need to know some of the information floating inside us in case I won’t be there to help, don’t forget knowledge is power” even though she always found a way to annoy me her way of rationalizing everything was unparalleled.
“Ok, what do you want to talk about first”
“I want to tell you about the guy that was hunting us when we got separated”
“The one who almost beat us to death? ”
“Yes, but not him specificly, mostly about people like us” she took a moment , probalbly to sort the information she had “the reasin the war begun in the first place was because they discoveres people like us can exist, when recollonazation start they expiremented on creating genetly enhanced humans so they can live longer and under harsher life circumstances”
“wasn’t regular evolution good enough for them, greedy bastards” I said
“they failed, but not creating enhanced humans at making them conscious of their life, the new creations were lifeless, even though they were perfect replica of human bodies, and since they couldn’t preform this kind of enhancement to an adult human or infant babies they thought of another way, not because they didn’t try but because in both situation they would end up dead” she took a break knowing how disturbed would someone find even the notion of experimenting on little kids, after a second or two she continued “the new way was to pass from one body to the other” . she stopped again after her short sentence, I fle like she was expecting something of me but I couldn’t quite grasp the idea.
“which means ?”
“Which means that we are part of that avatar project, think about it a sixteen year old boy that woked up In the middle of nowhere , can leap five meters high and run three times faster than the average man”
“You think that I am part of this madness, I would never consent in this monstrosity of an act”
“So now you have an ideology”
“For all I know your information, Data, knowledge is predated and false”
“You wish”
“No Pandora I don’t wish, because if what your saying is true that means that everyone in this god forsaken planet is a mutated puppet or even worse a schizophrenic pcycho like the one who came for us, sorry me because I AM starting to think that I AM a psychopath myself” I know that were words were harsh but how can what she said be true.
I couldn’t get myself to sleep after the intense ending of our discyssion and since I rarely not hear he poking inside my head I got a little worried but just as I was ready to she jumpen in.
“I am sorry” there was remorse in her voice.
“No I am sorry, I got mad because I know that everything you said made sence and was probably true” there was another small silence between us.
“you know I am not spying on the log anymore” everytime I hear he calm loving voice in my head I feel a surge of warmth inside me, this time was not different.
“I know” I replied.
“really, when
did you find out ?”
“that’s an easy question, when you finally stopped giving you intrusive opinion
about everything I kept a note for” she laughed both because she knew that when
I meant this is an easy question I was referring to her morning idea of what is
easy and because I made fun of her attitude.
the whole time I was talking to
Pandora today without realizing it I started creating an image in my head of
her, in the beginning it was nothing more than a lean girly body made of light
even though I wasn’t sure of her gender, as we continued to converse I started
adding details on her luminous figure, her brown long hair came first then her
wide eyes and honey like colored iris her nosr was petite, small, the lips were
red soft like the smooth skin of an apple, like the one that snow-white was
probably tempted to eat from the witches hands, her own hands where hugging her
legs tightly like if she was cold, maybe my imagination was not far from the
truth, but she denied having the sences of a living body without one. Last but
not least the skin, I toyed with this one for some time I couldn’t think what
her skin would be actually like, the color was the one tht elude me the most, I
decided it to be smooth and without any scars or it would be unfair to her, at
the end one color was perfect, a light brown, it complimented her eyes and lips
at its best.
“Hey where are you spacing out” she asked me, I was trying to synchronize some
of her most used phrases with her attitude on the I created for her.
“Say Pandora, would you like to have your own body? “ I felt her surprise to my
question “I was thinking , if what you said is true then I was transferred to a
new body”
“how do you know that wasn’t I the one who got transferred first” she was
annoyed at the idea that I considered myself to be the owner of the avatat.
“I only said that because I feel like a guy, but from the first moment you
introduced yourself as a female” she didn’t answer “so do you want a body or
not” her silence was prolonged again.
“I get it, I am a spre so you want to get rid of me”
“typical female reaction, you just can’t see the point I am making , and just
say whatever comes to your mind first, fine you can keep this one if you wish,
I just don’t think it’s fair for us to share one body when we clearly are two
different people”
“Listen you, I will judge what…” I blocked her voice out immediately after she
started shouting, and focused on the image I created of her, until I knew she
could see it with her own eyes or whatever she used to see my thoughts, her voice
started to get smoother.
“is that how you imagine I look”
“You like it”
“She’s beautiful”
“So can you use it at least for now until we get you a real one? “
“Yes, I will make it your visual stimuli to my voice, but can I change
something”
“Yeah of course, it’s yours after all” in an instant the body got more mature
no to much, just enough to match my age.
“why that age? ” I asked/
“because I want to be sure you memorize this version of me when we will be
creating a real one, but doesn’t that violate your ethics? “
“Our case is different, so I decided to et advantage of this technology and
make things tight”
Pandora chuckled “When did you get so manly”
“You made me like this” I said laughingly.
It was already past eleven and I
could hardly keep up the discussion I told her goodnight and closed our eyes.
Chapter 10
Caving
under the Lies
Symponies clothes were burned off down off from the explosion, so I removed them and cleaned her body from the black spots they left I did the same to myself. I brought a blanket to cover her naked body from my eyes, so she won’t feel uncomfortable. The inside of the cave was dark and old, the stalactite were driping water and some stalagmite were as big as I was, in height. It must have taken it hundred of years to grow , the smallest of whispers would echo deep inside it and back to us.
“How will you explain, to her what are you doing” Andromeda was feeling uneasy all the way till we reached here, my way is not how she wanted things to go but I don’t care I explained myself to her since the beginning I told her the moment I learned the truth that I was planning to do all this, she probably thought that I was not going to follow up on my word.
“I will lie of course”
“What kind of lie will cover all this? “
“The one I forgot to mention” I was getting impatient so di she.
Symponie started to awaken and move after a short while, I already knew she would since Andromeda was the cause of her action back in the base she connected with her, when we met at the surveillance room this morning and ordered her part of the Andromeda to take control, smash the place up and erase her memory of ever doing so, I wonder if Julies ever got wind of me being able to reconnect with the others, I don’t think so he probably wanted to make sure in a desperate act of course that his precious doll was fine.
“Where are we, Where are my clothes and what did you do to me? ”Symphony panicked but was asking all the right questions for someone who just woke up. She was holding firmly the blancket so it doesn’t fall over and uncover her upper body. I also had my back turned so she doesn’t see me naked, not because I was embarrassed like her but to make her think I have respect for her idea of where boundaries start. We Andromeda don’t feel cold like humans do, our resilient bodies automaticly increase our blood flow to keep us warm and with use of the exoskeleton ability, focused on a part we minimize the danger of a heart attack at two percent even under those extreme conditions.
“Relax you are safe, he can’t find us here”
“who won’t find us”
“Don’t you remember what happened at the base ?”
“Last thing I remember is waiting for you to make contact with Nova”
“And I did, I also brought him back”
“you sly bastard, so that’s how you plan on doing it” Andromeda was pissed of, so pissed off that she actually felt the need to use hen non-existing vocabulary as she called it
“You also lied to me , you had everything planned from the beginning”
“He went berserk and smashed everything don’t you remember how he killed the professor and you trying to save him” I thought of shading some tears combined with my excellent performance but it was a bit to much, she knew I didn’t have any particular liking to Julies, I did though take a face of unsatisfaction.
The proffesor is dead ?” I could see her trying not to cry.
“Yes”
“Why didn’t you stop him then where the hell where you” she didn’t hold back anymore she started whipping “Don’t you boast to be the best one of us, the strongest”
Now was the right time “I am sorry” I turned myself at her, after I made sure she had covered her eyes, I then crouched down so I could hug her.
“Impossible, you make it seem so easy that its laughable” Andromeda was certainly not at her best, but I couldn’t resist taunting her.
“If you are so surprised by this then I wonder what will happen in six months”
“Was that poor boy part of your plans,what about that pandora thing was that something he though of on the spot. Lies within lies was there anything you said ever true? “
“I do love you, you know. Because you exist my goddess I am able to save an entire civilization from destruction, you blessed me with your kind heart and your angelic words and look at me now , rising from a puppuet to become a puppeteer”
“What kind of crazy are you? “
I didn’t answer at her provocation I kept my fixed on Symphony that kept crying continuously she is the dawn of my plans after all, few steps left and then it’s game over for the humans.