I was a baby, it was pitch black it took a minute tell I could open my eyes. Everything felt sluggish. I tried to move and kinda rocked forward and backward. I was being held by a woman my mom? She was smiling at me with robotic eyes. I looked so unnaturally I screamed but all I could do was cry.
I couldn’t think properly for the first year. My body couldn’t hold the information my brain knew. It took a full two years, it would probable have taken five normally, but humans are known for their adaptability and not being able to think was something I adapted my body to fix. I was a young boy again, weird to think about. But now that I could think I was able to open my stat screen.
1. Max Colson 2. Seare: lives lived: 1
point balance: 124 points “at the start every life you get :121 points: for your gained achievements”
body: 1 (+) “determines raw physical power”
Sub stats body:
Athletics: 0 (1+) “determines your durability and speed”
Annihilation: 0 (+) “determines speed and control for large weapons”
Street brawler: 0 (+) “increase speed and control with hand weapons”
Reflexes: 1 (+) “determines evasion and speed”
Sub stats body:
Handguns: 0 (+) “better at reloading and firing faster”
Blades: 0 (+) “quicker and better at handling”
Assault: 0 (+) “better fighting in and around cover”
Technical ability: 1 (2+) “represents technical knowledge, and ability to manage cyberware”
Sub stats body:
Crafting: 0 (2+) “how to find, use, and make things”
Engineering: 0 (2+) “ability to see loot and materials you can use”
Thought speed: 2 (+) “determines Netrunning ability”
Sub stats body:
Breach protocol: 0 (+) “ability to hack people and things, and make hacking daemons”
Quick hacking: 0 (+) “how many and strength of your hacks on people and things”
Cool: 1 (+) “resilience and composure and control over yourself”
Sub stats body:
Stealth: 0 (1+) “understanding of how to hide sneak and avoid.”
Cold Blood: 0 (1+) “emotional ability to handle killing”
Bought ability’s:
“artists hands” you have complete control over your fingers and hands.
"keep pumping” your heart doesn’t stop unless you are braindead or mentally unstable, even if its removed blood will keep flowing through your body. Warning can be painful.
"numbness” you can control what pain gates are open with your thoughts instead of massaging them.
“fast hands” when working you can move your hands at double speed.
"remember recipe” remember all cooking recipes you have made.
“maker” know how to change recipes to fit the stuff you have on hand.
Ok so I have gained one in every main stat and thought speed 2 for my adapting and my tech which has a plus 2 for it... and I was wrong about something, the addition I made didn’t add to the total but as a bonus they sound the same but aren’t. the two addition doesn’t make me learn new things like adding a level that why I was a stupid child with no brain but makes me understand what I know better. Like I learned from having tech one how to use power tools say, but the plus two make me understand two levels above in detail about the power tools like one might be a bit faster and stuff like that. Which is good but not what I thought it was, it makes sense what if I leveled body instead of tech would I come out with a six pack, no I wouldn’t probable. I would have two levels of understanding how each muscle in my level works.
My mom walked inside the house, I was still to young to leave our small one bedroom one living-kitchen-bathroom. When I was one my mom was terrified that I might be stupid. But then I leveled and suddenly I’m a genius for my age, sadly not enough to stop showing off, I still don’t have control over my emotions. I don’t know my dad, we don’t talk about him. Well she doesn’t talk about him and I don’t bring it up. my mom put her bag on the table walked over to me and kissed my forehead. I hugged her back. Its nice having a mom, in my first life I was an orphan who used my intellect to get far. She looks at me scanning to see if anything is wrong, she has special Kiroshi Cockatrice Optics with ten times zoom and inferred addition.
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I follow her as she goes to the cupboard and grabs cloned fruit apple, its not a real apple a fake looking clone of one. it tastes similar so who cares. she grabs one.
Kiri: “want one?”
My mom’s name is Kiri she named me, Seare sounds like Siri but with an A sound at the end.
Seare: “yeah mom, how was work?”
She works at Arasaka for the Arasaka bank, she does stuff I’m not allowed to know about. But she is pretty high up, she gets paid a lot considering what others are and we only live in this place because its next to the bank less than a mile away, she is almost never home so why care about it except for the necessities, she is a busybody who lives in the office.
Kiri: “It was just great!”
I heard her teeth clatter at the end of that sentence. One of the hardest parts of growing up again is being bored, like sure I cant use all my intellect and I’ve been dumbed down because I’m three, but you don’t start kindergarten until you are five. And normally before that you have a babysitter while you’re gone, but not in this world. Because my mom is on the Corporate Coverage and I’m on Full Body Coverage. When I get older, she said I’ll be on the same coverage as her but since I don’t leave the house and its not needed unless emergency the full body works fine.
She tossed me the apple and grabbed enough for herself walked over picked me up and laid down on the couch me sitting in her lap eating with her.
Another year passed by me and my mom living happily.
Kiri: “so, I’ve been thinking, you should start school early. You are smart and I can see how bored you are at home.”
Over the past two years I’ve been drawing whatever I could see my artists hands doing work. And fast hand helping it along. I didn’t want to go to school again, I already know everything I would learn in kindergarten. And I don’t want to meet people that much when they are all so dumb. She could see the worry on my face.
Kiri: “your smart it won’t be hard! And you will be less bored!”
Seare: “it’s that I don’t want to leave, and I don’t want to meet people. Is there any other way?”
I’m fine with doing class again, I could show of my genius. Dam that hit me like the rock that killed me. I remembered the first words one of my friends said to me.
Friend: “Narcissism isn’t cute buddy.”
I broke out laughing and agreed that I was being stupid then.
Kiri: “There is one way.”
She looked speculative and slightly worried about it.
Seare: “What!”
Kiri: “Brain dance… its home schooling, you get tapes and a brain dance system and watch the class online. The problem is you need an interface plug. Cyberware. If you do this so young you will need to be careful.”
I always have but ok.
Seare: “sure.”
The next week I went to a Ripperdoc, named Viktor Vektor. A girl named Misty was at the entrance.
Misty: “What can I do for you Kiri? Your next checkup is next month?”
Kiri: “We have an appointment, Kiri.”
Misty: “Head down the stairs and you’ll see him.”
She’s smiled at me as me and my mom went downstairs. Down the stairs there was machine parts everywhere, a large shelf spilling over with stuff I wanted to look at, I could see each piece had so many uses, I couldn’t make anything, but I wanted to try!
Kiri: “Hello, again how are you?”
Victor look up and waved us over.
Victor: “good, so I heard you wanted an interface plug?”
Seare: “yep.”
He helped me into the chair and handed me a drink and a pill.
Victor: “before you sleep where do you guys plan on having the plug?”
Mom was about to speak but I stopped her.
Seare: “my neck.”
Most people had it on their hand like my mom, but I didn’t want to have it interfere with my daily life. I swallowed the pill and was out like a light.
When I woke, I felt something was different. My neck was tight, it hurt and felt like it was burning slightly.
I opened my eyes and saw victor working at a computer and my mom sitting nearby on a bench.
Seare: “hi mom.”
It hurt slightly to speak. My voice came out a whisper. Victor turned to me and smiled.
Victor: “the addition was successful but now I want to ask you, how do you feel, where are you hurting?”
He handed me water and I took a sip and immediately felt a bit better. The burning sense went down.
Seare: “It hurts a bit, and feels sore. And there was a slight burning feeling, but it went away.”
My mom looked worried for a moment but then back to normal. Victor went over and handed her a bag of pills.
Victor: “so I just gave your mom your pills, you need to take one a day and for the next two weeks then the pain should go away, the soreness will go away on its own eventually.”
I nodded and my mom grabbed my hand, and we walked out. we stopped at a small outdoor shop that was selling noodles. It was the first time I ate out with my mom. And I understood why as we continued walking home, I looked to the side and saw someone getting robed in the alleyway and down the next street there was people shooting guns at cans one bounced wrong and hit a car and they ran fast as the person ran out into the street. When we got back home, we sat on the couch together and watch weird tv shows that I couldn’t understand.
The next day mom brought home a wreath which lets me watch BD’s brain dance. Then taught me how to use it. taking a day off work for the first time this month.
Using a bd was strange, the wreath makes me the person who recorded the bd, when they moved their hand, I did, and it felt like I was doing it. I taught myself a lesson on mathematics.
I went to sleep on the couch with her and woke up the next day in bed, thanks mom.
ok, I’ve mostly been sitting around drawing and showing off that I have a brain. For the past three years. And school which is a long and fun process isn’t one I should do again. I need to speed through this. What are my goals? One help my mom, two graduate, three do good, four don’t die. Let’s go over what I know.
The anime, it’s awesome but I don’t know what I could do there. I could mess around and find out, but I could make things way worse for them… I love the characters, but I don’t know how to help them. Ok let’s look at the game, the main character is V… shit what’s their full name? I could help them a lot, the game starts with V going to lizzies, right? Then getting destroyed by Arisaka and joining some group. And getting an artifact virus downloaded. I could stop that. What year is it. I went to the wreath, and it said it was 2067
Ok I have about a lot of time before the game starts so I need to level and get though school.
Over the next year I got through all of kinder garden. I realized that I wasn’t leveling my stats properly. I started working out, I’m a child so very little and less than I want. Then I watch the school bd for the week. Then I “stole” my moms smart gun. She has one in a box at home with the password only taking three weeks of trying every code to unlock. Yes, the password was
In a day I sleep nine hours, so a 15-hour day, I spend 3 hours working out making it 12-hour days, I spend 8 hours a day on school and learning. Then 1 hour with mom before work and one hour after to eat also this time. So, 2 hours a day to guess passwords. And it took 21 days, so it took me 42 hours to guess the password. The password is 5 numbers long. The password was 11630 I could only put one password in every 10 seconds without it alerting my mom, so I set a timer for 10 seconds then wait a second or three then press in the next password.
I read my stats and reflexes sub classes are about guns mostly so if I practice with a gun, I believe I will level up reflexes probable, I hope. I’m only spending one hour a day on this so its fine. The last hour of my day is free time.
End of chapter: Two