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Ever tried to put a robot together? No? Well, let me tell you, it's hard. Difficult, frustrating, next to impossible and tedious would be some other words that come to mind.
Who am I? I'm Kenichi Ban, nephew of the great detective (okay, maybe not as great as that) Shazanuken Ban. I'm originally from Japan, but for the past two years I've lived on and off in Metropolis. I say on and on, since I am only 16 at the moment and most people don't go for a 16 year old living by himself. Except maybe in Zone 2, where not many people notice or care, but, I get lonely on my own too. I'm a people person, which is one of the reasons I'm here at the moment.
Tima. I met her two years ago, when I was here in Metropolis for the first time with my uncle on a case. We were trying to locate Dr. Loton, whom was wanted in several counties for organ possention and thief. We'd arrived at the scene of a fire down in zone 2, which we'd gotten to by the help of Pero, a police robot who'd been assigned to help us around the city, and to find the Dr. Loton. When my uncle and I figured out that the lab was that of the infamous Dr, we rushed in, to find him. My uncle found Dr. Loton. I found Tima.
In what followed, I became friends with the girl, whom was about my age, but couldn't remember who she was, or where she came from, as we tried to stay out of the path of Rock, a Murduk who started shooting and chasing us all of the sudden for no visible reason. I guess I kindda got fond of her, she seemed so sweet and child-like, and she really did need my help in that city.
But when we got catch up in the revolution, lead by Atlas, and got separated, thanks to Rock, and Duke Red, things just went to hell. To put in shorthand, Tima was a android created by Dr. loton for Duke Red, in the image of his own dead daughter, to sit on the throne of the Ziggurat (big tower) and to rule the world. But when Rock, dressed as the maid no less, tried to kill Tima once and for all (I found out later from my uncle that Rock was Duke Red's foster son, and one reason that he was trying to kill off Tima and I was because he was jealous of Duke Red's attentions towards Tima, and some others, but..) She lost control of her emotions and fused with the Ziggurat, and tried to kill off the human race, in punishment for "toying with robots." It was one of the most surprising moments in my life when I realized that Tima was a robot, and what she was built for. When she sat on that throne, she seemed so different from the Tima that I'd spent the past couple days with, helping, teaching, trying to protect.
And there was no way I was gonna just let her get absorbed by that throne.
I really thought I could save her. When she fell from the tower, I was numb. I still don't really know how I survived the fall of the Ziggurat; everything was in a daze after that.
That's why I'm here, why I keep coming back. Tima deserved to live, to experience life beyond those few days that she had, to know that there are better people in the world, just to be alive. That's why I'm rebuilding her, why every time I get frustrated, feel that it's just too complicated, and believe me, it is, I'm no mad scientist, I think of why I'm doing it. You see, part of it is, I want Tima back. I want my friend back with me. I want to talk to her again, help her with her writing, and her wording, to see her alive and awake, her bright grassy-green eyes open and bright with the wonder of life and things around her. You see, I think I'm a little bit in love with her.
iWell, there's the first chapter, told from Kenichi's point of view, which was a bit hard, trying to keep him in character! Ack! Heh, I'm a Kenichi/Tima fan, and I just kept thinking about what happened after wards. And yes, I'm actually going somewhere with this(/i
Ever tried to put a robot together? No? Well, let me tell you, it's hard. Difficult, frustrating, next to impossible and tedious would be some other words that come to mind.
Who am I? I'm Kenichi Ban, nephew of the great detective (okay, maybe not as great as that) Shazanuken Ban. I'm originally from Japan, but for the past two years I've lived on and off in Metropolis. I say on and on, since I am only 16 at the moment and most people don't go for a 16 year old living by himself. Except maybe in Zone 2, where not many people notice or care, but, I get lonely on my own too. I'm a people person, which is one of the reasons I'm here at the moment.
Tima. I met her two years ago, when I was here in Metropolis for the first time with my uncle on a case. We were trying to locate Dr. Loton, whom was wanted in several counties for organ possention and thief. We'd arrived at the scene of a fire down in zone 2, which we'd gotten to by the help of Pero, a police robot who'd been assigned to help us around the city, and to find the Dr. Loton. When my uncle and I figured out that the lab was that of the infamous Dr, we rushed in, to find him. My uncle found Dr. Loton. I found Tima.
In what followed, I became friends with the girl, whom was about my age, but couldn't remember who she was, or where she came from, as we tried to stay out of the path of Rock, a Murduk who started shooting and chasing us all of the sudden for no visible reason. I guess I kindda got fond of her, she seemed so sweet and child-like, and she really did need my help in that city.
But when we got catch up in the revolution, lead by Atlas, and got separated, thanks to Rock, and Duke Red, things just went to hell. To put in shorthand, Tima was a android created by Dr. loton for Duke Red, in the image of his own dead daughter, to sit on the throne of the Ziggurat (big tower) and to rule the world. But when Rock, dressed as the maid no less, tried to kill Tima once and for all (I found out later from my uncle that Rock was Duke Red's foster son, and one reason that he was trying to kill off Tima and I was because he was jealous of Duke Red's attentions towards Tima, and some others, but..) She lost control of her emotions and fused with the Ziggurat, and tried to kill off the human race, in punishment for "toying with robots." It was one of the most surprising moments in my life when I realized that Tima was a robot, and what she was built for. When she sat on that throne, she seemed so different from the Tima that I'd spent the past couple days with, helping, teaching, trying to protect.
And there was no way I was gonna just let her get absorbed by that throne.
I really thought I could save her. When she fell from the tower, I was numb. I still don't really know how I survived the fall of the Ziggurat; everything was in a daze after that.
That's why I'm here, why I keep coming back. Tima deserved to live, to experience life beyond those few days that she had, to know that there are better people in the world, just to be alive. That's why I'm rebuilding her, why every time I get frustrated, feel that it's just too complicated, and believe me, it is, I'm no mad scientist, I think of why I'm doing it. You see, part of it is, I want Tima back. I want my friend back with me. I want to talk to her again, help her with her writing, and her wording, to see her alive and awake, her bright grassy-green eyes open and bright with the wonder of life and things around her. You see, I think I'm a little bit in love with her.
iWell, there's the first chapter, told from Kenichi's point of view, which was a bit hard, trying to keep him in character! Ack! Heh, I'm a Kenichi/Tima fan, and I just kept thinking about what happened after wards. And yes, I'm actually going somewhere with this(/i