Stefan is swiftly thrown by the portal into the workshop together with the 2 heads. He appeared in the main room. Stefan looked around, the cat was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey! Anybody home?!" said Stefan out loud.
"Yeah, yeah, third room on the left!" echoed the cat's voice.
Stefan grabs the head and goes to where the voice came from. The door was slightly opened. Stefan opens the door, it is a large room filled with more computer screens than you could count. Well, not actually. They're only about 54. The cat is sitting on an office chair, holding his white coffee mug. He turns around to Stefan with the chair then takes a sip from his mug.
"Ey, welcome back rookie." said the cat.
Stefan throws the heads of the robots in front of the cat.
"Do something now." said Stefan, in a fainted tone.
The injuries taken from the shrapnel still affect him, as a result, he collapses unconscious.
8 hours pass since that moment. The cat took Stefan to the crafting room, where he spent all the time upgrading and repairing him. Stefan wakes up and he slowly gets up. He sees the cat, smiling wide as he watches him.
"Am I alright now?" asked Stefan.
"Better than ever actually! That data from those heads was so useful you'd never know. Not only are you more powerful, you're a direct counter for Andrew's dollar store bots now! They're deadweight!" said the cat, in a cheerful way.
Stefan smiles slightly at seeing the cat happy. He gets off the crafting station then speaks up.
"So, what's new?" asked Stefan happily.
The cat's face instantly lights up with excitement. He goes over and raises Stefan's left arm.
"First of all, 8 protective plates of refined cobalt!"
Stefan's left arm now has a hole in it's shoulder. The cat sticks his finger in it.
"A heat absorbing system! And most importantly… Blood energy!"
"Blood energy? What's that?"
"Well, since your organic heart has partially healed, I decided to physically abuse it and strap it to cyborg enhancements." said the cat with huge pride, as if he should be awarded.
Stefan's smile quickly fades and he starts to panic.
"You did what?! Are you mental?! I'm gonna die!" said Stefan full of despair.
"Ah, come on boy, don't worry, nothing bad will happen. It still heals, just slower now, because you gotta use that fancy blood energy!"
"Alright, alright, how does blood energy even work? And how is it any different?"
"When your electricity storage is full, your organic heart starts creating something called "blood energy", and since your body works fully on just normal electricity, you don't need blood energy. So, you can use it for blasts and beams. You can tell how much blood energy you have left in your body by looking at the red circle thing on your forearm."
Stefan looks at his cyborg arm and just now he notices the gem shaped storage. Stefan smiles once more.
"Whoa, that's so cool!" said Stefan.
Stefan moves his arm and he sees his blood energy flow around the storage. His smile widens.
"Oh my, how cool is that!" said Stefan.
The cat's smile fades slightly and his tone grows more serious.
"To be honest, you're a really lucky boy. When you died 2 years ago, your soul barely held tight onto your lifeless body. If your soul would've left your body, you would have turned into some sort of mindless husk when you would have been revived. Don't worry, your soul healed back quickly." said the cat.
"Oh… that's… good to know at least."
"Anyways, I installed a scanner in your cyborg eye. You can scan the robots quickly to gather their data and see their power supply. If you manage to rip their power supply they're gone."
"Oh! I was able to absorb one of those! It partially refilled my storage. They don't have big batteries or whatever that is."
"Hm, then you can use that as a bonus advantage. However, you should focus on not getting hit. Don't rely on the combat assistant. It will only help you when an attack is out of your sight."
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Stefan nods as he keeps looking at his body.
"I also increased your energy storage by 20%. To put it on your tongue, 6 electric shockwaves instead of 5." said the cat before turning back and leaving the room.
Stefan follows the cat and they both go to the main room.
"I just sent Rares earlier to go get me juice. You will do that as well. We need a lot of juice before we are sure that we can take on Andrew properly." said the cat.
The cat takes a remote and aims it at the wall parallel to the staircase then presses a button. The wall suddenly lights up and a hologram appears on it. Stefan watches amazed as he never even thought that this would ever be possible. A blue map of the city pops up. The cat puts on a pair of gloves which were laying in front of the wall then starts explaining.
"Usually, I used to steal juice from this fabric which has been trying to create levitating cars for years." said the cat as he zoomed on a fabric.
"However, we can't rely on stealing or harvesting in any way within the city." said the cat as he zoomed out the map.
"But recently, I discovered that the same machine which makes it able to convert void energy into electricity can create juice. The 2nd part is that the juice needs to be extremely cold, and the time it needs to transform into juice is too long. The workshop will run out of energy by then, and I can't separate it at all. Only directly inject into the workshop. I can't teleport anywhere with the workshop to alter it since humans would easily find me and so does Andrew."
"Then where did you send Rares?" asked Stefan.
"He foolishly wants to raid that factory. Just let him be. Don't try to help him. He's too crazy right now."
"So where will you send me?"
"His plan is way too reckless, so you will provide backup. Your job is to cause commotion at the other side of the city so that the units will arrive there instead of swarming the factory." said the cat, as he zoomed onto… a beach?
"Where are you willing to drop me off at? That doesn't look like a part of the city."
"Exactly, you'll have an epic introduction. I assure you, it's totally critical to the plot of the mission." said the cat with a smile.
The cat takes off his gloves and puts them back down, then he grabs the remote and closes the hologram.
"Y'know what to do, get on the carpet, boy."
Stefan sighs then goes over on the carpet. The cat goes over to the machine, pulls the lever and teleports Stefan.
Stefan finds himself diving from the sky right on the shore of a beach. He spins vertically 360 degrees, then he falls down on the shore on both his feet and hands. Water splashes in every direction. After a few seconds, the droplets form a beautiful and soothing rain. Stefan slowly gets up and starts walking towards the city. That was enough of a show to notify the robots scouting the area. They quickly alerted their teammates. 3 robots appeared in front of Stefan, all having guns. A couple of robot exoskeleton snipers aim their rifles through the windows of the buildings. Stefan remembers what the cat told him. He aims his left arm at the robots. His palm starts flashing with red energy, then suddenly he shoots a red blast, which hits the armored robots directly and obliterates them in one shot. Stefan looks at the storage. It took a third of it. He currently has one more shot. The snipers lose their focus due to the unexpected impact, which allows Stefan to rush up to one of them. Stefan jumps and sends an electric shockwave, destroying one of the snipers. Stefan swiftly grabs its rifle and enters the apartment through the window. Stefan tries to check its magazine for any ammo, but it doesn't have any. His guess was that it was electrical. To test the remaining snipers outside, Stefan throws a lamp out the window. It's instantly shot at, destroying it fully as a consequence. Stefan quickly dashes and aims at them out the window as he hears them reload. Without second thought, he looks through the scope and presses the trigger, releasing a piercing blast which kills both of the snipers instantly. Stefan looks down at the scraps of the sniper he's just destroyed.
"Scan. S-... Scan? How do I scan? That cat didn't tell me… I'll just press randomly on my head until I find something."
Stefan starts tapping the cyborg part of his head randomly. Stefan suddenly hears a person speak fluently in a foreign language.
"Wait… No way, did he really… Put a radio in here… What the fuck is wrong with him I swear…" said Stefan to himself.
Stefan kept pressing randomly until the radio turned off and a green ray of light was shot from his cyborg eye, scanning the scraps of the sniper, revealing his electricity storage. Stefan instantly impales its body and absorbs the electricity from the tube. Once recharged, Stefan grabs the rifle and jumps out of the window then proceeds to walk deeper into the city. Stefan sees a radio tower not too far away from his location, then he gets an idea. It would make the perfect plan to take down the radio tower in order to cause a large commotion. He uses his electric sprint to reach the tower quickly, going through an alley to avoid the patrolling robots.
"Assistant, calculate the distance between me and the radio tower."
"Distance: approximately 523 meters."
Stefan stops running, he climbs on top of a small grocery store, kneels down and stabilizes his railgun. He looks through the scope at the tower, remembering that the power of the railgun is not as powerful as it seems, so he would need several shots to take down the tower.
"Dash back." said the combat assistant.
Stefan quickly looks out of his scope and sees a robot with what seems to be a jetpack rushing towards him with a punch. At perfect timing, Stefan jumps back. The robot hits the rifle and destroys it. Upon a better sight, the robot appears to have some sort of forward swept wings and a small shuttle on its back. Its armor doesn't look like a top tier but it isn't the worst either. Now it was only for its combat skills. Stefan rushes the robot and kicks it with his left leg. The robot accepts the knockback and flies away using its jetpack, however, it flies back right at Stefan and grabs him into the air. Stefan starts punching its head with his left arm as he grips into his neck with his right arm. After a few blows, the robot's shuttle stops and they proceed to fall. Stefan is seemingly scared of the situation that he is currently in. Not knowing what to do, he simply launches an electric shockwave around 10 meters before touching the ground, which breaks his fall a little, but he still lands down on the street, with a loud bang. Stefan rubs his forehead then quickly gets up and scans the robot, finding its energy core. He quickly impales him and snatches it, absorbing it at once. Stefan's cyborg body sparkles with electricity for a short second and makes a rev up sound.
"My electricity storage must be full by now. Too bad I don't have the railgun, rifle, gun, whatever that thing was, anymore."
Suddenly, he hears a loud gathering of robots rushing towards his location. Stefan quickly looks around him, for a place to hide or at least performing a sneak attack.