Raptor One – Chapter 44
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Waking up with a splitting headache and no clue where i am, i try to get up, only for the world to spin more so i stay lying down, I'm in no condition to even open my eyes, much less sense my surroundings unless i get this dizzyness off me...
“You awake? Good, it’s the first time i see a fellow super soldier fall to a mere wine. Here, drink this, it will help you.” i hear a male voice talk to me.
The guy get me into sitting position and hand me a cup? I don’t think and just drink it up.
“With your nanites you will be good to go at worse in five minutes, name’s Jason, I'm the owner of the bar you knocked yourself out.”
I finish drinking in silence.
“A fellow silent one? Incorrect Closed eyes, psionic. Twitching ears, Sensor type, eyes must be used for killing and targeting. Setup don’t resemble own race. Body built for killing, and mental state very unbalanced.”
I hear in silence as he describes every part of me in detail.
I feel a hand on my face, the finger pry open my eye lid.
“White pupils, mind scarred. Detected necromorph mind tampering. Age... Just a kid. Brat, you are in bad shape.”
Jason say to me, but i continue looking at him in silence, almost five minutes and the spinning did not stop.
*You are not in bad shape, i repaired you!*
“You think you’re not. That’s incorrect, you are letting your nanites dictate your life, they are just machines, even a kill switch can be easily deactivated, the only thing you need to pay more attention are approved A.I. if it does not count as one, it’s you that needs help.”
*He’s trying to brainwash you, don’t mind him.*
“You think I'm trying to brainwash you right? Or was your nanites that said it?”
*Don’t give him attention! Just go away! I'll speed up the purification process!*
“The Nanites are getting desperate right? I can see it in your white eyes, they think they can hide from a retired super soldier. Brat, what you are undergoing, i already completed long ago.”
“Why are you saying all this, i know from looking that you are of few words.” i finally reply
“Can’t help and let a broken super soldier on the ground. We super soldiers have am unbreakable order made from us to us. No one left behind. This also apply for all other type of needs like medical and such.”
“So I'm broken...”
*You’re not! Don't hear him!*
“Yes you are. Super soldiers are rational and calculative, we don’t make error’s unless we have missing intel, emotions are used to fuel combat situations like adrenaline, anger, pity. You show all the opposite of what a decent super soldier should be. How did you come into being.”
*Don’t say! Stop!*
I look at the simple male human, neat, only visible scar being on his eye, natural relaxed position, looks weak and vulnerable, seen silent but amiable.
I open my eyes, the dizziness stop at the five minutes mark, that’s one point to Jason.
Jason on my open eyes clearly looks different, ready for anything yet calm and relaxed, weak looking but hiding power beyond normal, scan say his body and mind is trained to perfection, no extra movement even on failed attempt, of which he also succeeds despite being a fail...
I look around me, it’s a simple bar, so I'm on the civilian sector, i was seated on a bar stool, Jason is cleaning a cup as he wait my reply.
I sigh. *Don’t you dare!* “I’m from a dead planet, a volcanic rimworld terraformed into a type G planet gone wrong. I was from a clan of avali scientists and super soldiers.”
“All KIA?” Jason ask me and i nod.
*Why are you betraying me!?* “Urgh...” I groan out and release four jets of red smoke as i feel my coolant visibly decrease in a fast way before stopping.
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“Da. All KIA. I was unborn, a plague ravaged the planet, non humans suffered the most, humans became mindless Semi humans or got lucky and became zombies.” i stop to groan again as my coolant visibly drops again, alert beeps start ringing as it get into the yellow zone.
“Wait for a minute, I'll help you with that insubordinate nanite.” Jason say and put the cup down before leaving the bar counter and dissappearing behind a door.
Thirty seconds later i groan again as another 25% of my reserve coolant disappears, the beeping getting more intense.
I wait in silence, trying to ignore Ygg as she slowly destroy my body from inside, just like Nexus protocol.
I groan in pain, more red smoke ejects from my mask as the last 25% of my reserve coolant disappears.
Was Nexus protocol truly killed? Or did i exchange a crazy system for another? Is this even a system to begin with?
“Here, inject it right on the neck.” Jason appear on the one minute mark and place am auto injector on the bar counter.
I look at him and nod before trying to grab the auto injector, but my hands starts to malfunction.
I groan again, this time the smoke that leaves my mask is black as i feel my body visibly weaken, so i redouble my actions.
My hands refuse to move as i try to grab the auto injector, even my vision blurs and moves as i try to focus on it.
I manage to make a hand move but i miss the auto injector, the hand slam on the bar counter, i hear the wood scream in protest.
*Stop ignoring me! You! ARE! MINE!*
“Go to hell, crazy bitch.”
I manage to say and grab the auto injector, and in one sweep it was on the multiple purpose port, of which Sigma opened for me.
*Sigma! YOU TRAITOROUS BITCH! YOU....*
*ERROR! ERROR! ERR...*
“I finally can talk! Never knew Ygg was a fake...” Sigma say with a sigh.
“Feeling better? Here. It's on the house.” Jason give me a cold drink
“Spacibo.” i thank him and starts drinking.
“How do you feel? This injector, of which you forgot on your neck is known as stabilizer. It was made after the super soldier wars on Egron V.” Jason give me a very interesting information.
“Care to elaborate?” i ask him
“Sure. Egron V, a rock planet terraformed into gaia planet, met the same end as yours. The war involved Zergs, Terrans, Xenomorphs, and Necromorphs. The problem was the warring human factions as the non human ones just bailed out. It was a mess, when we finally stopped the necros almost had enough to build a moon, so they where the first to go out, after that the zergs was next as they where being used as breeding material for the xenos, all in all they got a give and take on each other, a pain to say it lightly. Terrans was bailed out from the planet in a hurry, too much heat, so they bought in the super soldiers. At the end it was a win, but it costed a lot of super soldiers for that, so they made more. Poor kids did not even know what’s left and right before being thrown into the bloody war. When it ended, there was nothing to fight left, and many of us was downright crazy. So the shattered empire came for the aid, the Terrans not wanting obsolete ones like us gave us with no remorse whatsoever. It turned out to be a blessing, they reformed us and let us life our lives in peace.”
“Human supremacists huh, did they even count us super soldiers as humans to begin with?” i say and sigh
“No. They did not.” Jason reply did not even take a second
“Better?” Jason ask me
“A little.” i nod
“You must be feeling helpless right now. This thinking are the nanites trying to find someone to take command, and that is you, close your eyes and start trying to get the nanites under control. If you don’t do it fast, your nanites will start killing each other. Am internal kill switch of sorts so they don’t harm the host, but in your case, it’s death.”
I do as he say and start focusing, trying to get the feel on how to command the nanites.
It take time to get the feeling, and even more to get the mess organized, I'm still feeling the weakness, the nanites had hidden all the problems i had, simply jury-rigging the problem together, so i have a lot to fix.
I sigh, the smoke i normally release which is red is now leaving normally from my mask.
“This is a mess.” i say.
“Here, another drink on the house, made by avali for avali.” Jason say
“Spacibo” i say in thanks and get the drink, a sniff tell me that it’s making is close to Avalon wine that i make, but the amount and making is completely different.
I take a sip and nod, not bad, i prefer my own brand as it has better quality from the get go, but is hard to make too, so i can’t just pass the recipe.
“Get yourself together brat. You got the first problem done, now we have hundreds left, starting with your mental instability problem, after that is body, and lastly, retraining from scratch.” Jason say to me
“That bad huh...” i say
“Yeah, i know a crazy guy that can get your mental problem a once over.” Jason say but i cut him out
“No need, just give me the specs and I'll do it myself, i don’t have certificates here, but from where i came i was the best trained by the best.” i say back
“Cocky huh, sure, give a minute, I'll get the dirt out from the old specs data chip, it’s for humans mind you, so you have to alter it a little to fit avali use.” Jason say before heading out.
I just continue sipping from the avalon wine as i wait in silence.
“You got Avali brain waves, composition, neural pathways, and other parts with you?” Sigma ask me
“I do, i won’t train the Tenacity pack and not have all their medical data done first.” i reply Sigma
“When did you do it?” Sigma ask confused
“When i asked to enter the pack and they made me pack leader... now that we are on the subject, they must be worried.”
“I received thirty calls yesterday and another thirty today, the GPS is disabled too, so they don’t have your location.” Sigma say
“Huh.” Surprise is not enough to say what I'm feeling.
I decide to just ignore all this and continue taking sips from the avalon wine.
“Here it is.” Jason say and place a old and bulky ship on the bar counter.
I take it with my free hand and feel the weight, am i that weak? I give a scan order and get surprised to find that I'm back to zero!
The only part that did not get nerfed was my charisma, it’s hard caped at 200, but the rest is all under normal untrained human specs... Ugh.
“Surprised to find that all that you had was a lie?” Jason ask me
I stay in silence before nodding.
“Don’t worry, i said I'll help, but first get your pack number and say you stay out for some time, this may take time.” Jason say and i nod before connecting to the pack
The first thing i hear is chaos.
Too slow to react to their 10 Gigawatt full on chaos mode, i get dizzy immediately from sensory overload.
“I’m hanging up!” Sigma say in panic
“No. I’ll talk.” Jason say as he skillfully jump over the bar counter.
This is the last thing i manage to perceive before losing consciousness from sensory overload.