Hello everyone, Melody here. So I've been reading the Lunar Chronicles and it is honestly one of my favourite book series now. I've almost all of them at this point, still have to read Winter but I'll get to that soon, and I've just been thinking about how it would be if my RIFTS character was in it. If you don't know what RIFTS is it is a tabletop game where literally anything can happen. For instance I created a character who is a knight that can teleport really anywhere with super

speed and strength while also generating electrical fields. He will not be in this, anyway though one of my few characters will be in this story. Anyway let's get onto the story.

Sincerely, Melody.

? P.O.V.

"So what were you doing in that junkyard last night?" One of the police officers asked me. Currently I was sitting at a stainless steel table with my hands cuffed and chained to the table.

"Like I told you, I was getting some cheap parts for a robot." I answered, an amused grin on my face. "I'm also prone to manic fits where I feel like I can't control my body, really nasty business. Got it from my Mother."

"Then why don't you have an ID chip?" The other officer asked as he slammed a hand down on the table.

"I had mine removed quite a while ago." I told them. "Trust me I wasn't trying to commit any crimes just don't like it when people know where I am every second of every day."

"You destroyed three medical androids with nothing but objects you found around the junkyard. You also almost let the plague carrier escape. Luckily we showed up in time and subdued you." The calmer of the two said.

"Yes I know and I am sorry about that. That's normal for me though as I have stated." I laughed a bit as the one started to get angrier. "Now I would love it if you guys could get me a cup of water. I am a little parched and if I had something to drink I'd be more willing to answer your questions more to your liking."

"You are in no situation to be making demands." The angrier one told me.

"I'm not, I'm just asking for a glass of water. Trust me in the conditions I grew up in your attempts at interrogation is laughable." I replied as he then headbutt me only to recoil back and hold his head.

"Goddamnit! What the hell are you? A cyborg?" He yelled at me as he grabbed onto the collar of my coat and pulled me close.

"Nope." I replied, popping the p in the process. "I just have a really hard head."

"Jian, go outside and cool off." The calm one ordered the guy holding my coat. He just let go and walked out. "Sorry about him, he's just been having a really bad day."

"Think nothing of it, reminds me of an old friend I had. He was just as fiery." I replied. "So about the cup of water…?" I asked which he replied by pushing a cup in front of me. "Thank you." I said as I took a drink.

"So what's your name?" He asked.

"Marcus Johnson but most people call me Mark." I answered as I set the cup down.

"Nice to meet you Mark, I'm officer Sòng. By the name I presume you're American?" Sòng asked.

"Canada actually." I answered. "New Beijing is nice, already been here for a month."

"Okay then well I'm going to go check the database for you really quick, I'll be back in five minutes okay." He told me as he left the room. Dumbass.

As soon he was out of the room I looked around. There was an air duct in the top right corner. I looked down at my cuff, then I popped out the claw in my right index finger and tried to cut into the metal. Cut through it like butter. Then I easily got through the other ones and walked over to the air duct and I started to unscrew the screw.

I need to find a way out of here and back home. Sure the Coalition sucks but still, home is home and all of my tech is there. All of it… Even the new prototype of that gun I was making. Messed up though and a small Rift opened and pulled me in here. That really sucked.

After a minute I had the grate open and I slipped into it. Good thing I really thin. I quite literally felt my skin crawl as I slithered through this air duct. Eve is acting up then. Ugggh never liked how that felt. As I slithered I saw down into the offices and saw people, there were talking about different things. Didn't know where I was and I wish I was home with Wolfe and Saint but now I need to actually find out where I am. Maybe I could get access to an information database and get that pumped into my brain… Happened once before now I hear all of the voices and have sooooooo much information in my brain.

My nose started to bleed as I was crawling, though that stopped quite a while ago. Weird. Maybe this world is changing my biology. Eve gave me a pop up and show me my vitals. It's all normal so this has to be something else. It would be funny if they got a sample of my blood though, it would probably destroy their computers when they'd check out the genetic make up.

After a bit of crawling I made my way out of the police station and into a city. All in all it was pretty dreary. It also smelt horrid but when you were literally smelling dragon's blood for a week you know horrible smells. Before I walked out I hid behind a bush and made the symbiote change to look similar to a police officer. Maybe if I find that girl I helped out in the junkyard she could help me out. According to the symbiote it was around noon. So I just went to find her.

Normal P.O.V.

Currently Cinder was walking home from the palace. She had just found out she was immune to the plague from Dr. Erland. One other thing on her mind aside from her sister and that detail was that guy from last night. She witnessed him destroy those androids with really nothing other than a broken pipe and his hands. It freaked her out a bit since it didn't even seem human.

The guy had dark black hair in an undercut, pale skin as if he rarely ever went outside but his lab coat revealed that much, and his eyes were like a snake's. They were a light pale green. When it comes down to it they were exactly like a snake's eyes. He also didn't have much of an upper body build but he smashed through the androids like it was nothing. She didn't believe he was just a normal scientist like he told her.

The same guy was now standing in front of him though. A grin on his face. His snake like eyes boring into her. They actually scared her a little bit. Those eyes were just so unnerving. They seemed to pierce into everything. That made her tug on her gloves a bit.

"Hello Miss Linh, do you remember me? From last night at the junkyard." He asked as he looked down at her.

"Yes I do." She replied as she looked up and down at him. "You never told me your name."

"Oh yes I did forget to, so very sorry now that's just rude of me. I'm Doctor David Richards but friends call me Dave." He replied as he started to walk beside her. "I'm sorry about your sister also, wish I could've helped."

"You're a doctor? Hmmp, figured. And thanks for the condolences." She asked as she looked over to him.

"Yep P.H.D. in chemistry, toxicology, and genetics along with a couple Master's degrees." He chuckled a bit as they walked. "Couldn't get them as PHD's though since the college kicked me out because I passed every test they gave me."

"How? You're not even in your thirties." She asked him.

"Oh well you see I have a really high I.Q., actually considered one of the smartest people on the planet, in fact I'm only twenty. 360 in fact. If I really try I can do whatever I please but that would be boring. It would become stagnant fairly quickly if I did however I please but I do not plan on staying in a prison cell or in this reality for that matter." He replied with a cackle.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well you most likely won't believe me when I say this but I'm not from this reality." He answered as he peered down at her. "Crazy right? But it's true. There are thousands of realities. It's a whole megaverse."

"You should probably go get yourself checked into a mental institution." She told him as they entered into the market and she made her way to her stand.

"Oh I can most definitely prove it. My eyes are already proof enough, these things aren't even normal." He told her as he laughed again. "Or if you know of a place where no one would see me I can show you what I really am. Hell look at my glove." He told her as he rolled up his sleeve to reveal a glowing red eye in the glove. "This is from Atlantas."

"Wh-what the heck is that?!" She asked as she looked down at the eye and it stared back at her.

"Oh this is Eve, short for Evolve. She's my symbiote which by your reaction means this isn't my world. She's a complete sweetie pie along with being my best friend." He laughed as he felt the symbiote purr. "She's a symbiotic life form that is powered by my body. You must've read Spider-man as a kid right? You know like Venom but not crazy." He told her as he rolled his sleeve back down.

"What's Spider-man?" She replied with as she looked away.

"Dear God this world is evil." He said as he shook his head in shame. "If I had my bag I'd let you read a few of the comics." He told her then his eyes widened for a second and blood started to drip from his nose.

"Hey you have a nosebleed." She told him as she pointed to his nose.

"Yeah that's normal since I had those injections." He replied as he pulled out a dark red handkerchief out and wiped it up.

"Wait is that red because-"

"Of my blood? Yes it is. Disgusting I know but when you had knowledge of everything since the first written word injected into your brain within the span of 12.643 seconds, what are you to do?" He shrugged as he put it away. "Though my friend stopped that a while ago. At least I thought he did."

"Wait wait wait what? You know everything?" She asked as she looked at him as if he was even crazier.

"What?"

"How is that even possible?"

"Well I sat down in a chair, got strapped in, got things stabbed into my eyes, and then I knew everything and had a really bad headache. It was fun." He explained as he cackled a little bit. "It also drove me a little mad. I have an obsession with technol…" He then went silent and gained a blank look on his face. He didn't move for about three minutes

"Um Dave? Daaave? Dave!" Cinder yelled in his face. He quickly looked at her and frowned. "What's wrong?"

"I don't have my laptop…" He said quietly.

"What?"

"I don't have my computer…" He said again, panic in his voice. "I'm not connected to the rest of the world!"

"Just buy a netscreen." She told him.

"I have no money." He replied as he walked over to a brick wall and slammed his head into it. This only left a few bricks pushed in. "Wait a second…" He muttered as he left his face implanted in the wall. "Do you have something I could use to get on the net?" He asked as he pulled his head from the wall.

"Uh yeah I do but I can't let you borrow it." She replied wearily.

"Let me guess, it's in your head." He asked and she replied with a nod. "Nothing else like an droid or something of that nature?"

"Yeah I have an android… Where are you going with this?"

"It's fairly simple. I hack into a bank and take a small amount of money or I get myself some shares in really big companies on Wall Street and make money that way." He answered.

"That's grand theft."

"So?"

"It's wrong."

"Meh I've done worse in my life. Honestly if I wanted to I could take over this entire city. I doubt you all have stuff that can break my skin or Eve." He chuckled darkly as he ticked and cracked his fingers. He had a crazed look in his eyes.

She just took a few steps away from him when he said that. His eyes gained a mad look to them. She knew he wasn't human from how he acted along with his eyes; She also figured that he wasn't a Lunar since he wasn't controlling her with his mind. Well she guessed that much. His eyes seemingly glowed though. Not actually glowing but they seemed extremely shiny. He was also extremely focused. As he stood there a person passed by and bumped into him.

"Well excuse you." He chuckled a bit as the man walked off. "It would've been funny if he grabbed my wallet."

"Why?" Cinder asked as she looked at him.

"All it has in it are notes for something I was designing wroten in a different dead language for every word and backwards making it relatively impossible to decipher without putting it through multiple ciphers." He replied. "Trust me there is a method to my madness. Well at least that's what the voices say." He told her sarcastically.

"You are crazy…" She told him as she stared at him.

"Yes I know this." He chuckled. "I am a mad scientist after all. Anyway do you have a house or someplace I could possibly stay for a while?"

"I'm sorry but I don't think my step-mother would want you there. She already thinks I'm enough of a problem." She answered him as she shook her head. Then a light bulb basically appeared over her head. "Well you can stay at my stand if you don't mind the smell of grease and oil. I'm a mechanic."

"I'm okay with that, normally I smell like that." He replied as he grinned. "I'll tell you now though, I'll most likely mess with some of the supplies you have there and build something fun."

"Um okay then. Just don't mess with the android in there, it's a fairly important job for me to work on." She ordered him.

"Of course, whatever you say. I shall not lay a single finger on the android." He told her as they started walking again.

This time silence enveloped them much to Cinder's joy. She wouldn't lie and say he wasn't interesting because he was. Only thing is, she didn't want to anger him or something along those lines. He definitely was not stable and didn't seem like the person to piss off. As they walked he noticed he was looking around and occasionally clenched his hands into fists. As if he was waiting for something or someone to come out at him.

She noticed when he was talking earlier two of his teeth were slightly longer, kind of like fangs. Whenever they passed by an android he would seemingly scan it. Maybe he was also a cyborg in one way but she really doubted that. People stared at them as they walked. Dave seemed to have an air of arrogance to him which made people look and glare at him. He maintained a large grin though, as if he was better than everyone. That irked Cinder a bit since he acted like he was better than everyone.

That didn't really matter though since it was obvious he didn't care. Now she knew she had to get home soon but she decided they would stop at her stand. Mostly so she could show Dave where he'd be staying. When they got closer to it she took a quick right as to not get swamped by all of the people in the market. It then took them about five minutes to get there. As soon as they got there Dave opened the door for her then they entered.

"Nice place you have here, smells like oil and metal." Dave chuckled as he closed the door. Then he sat on the counter. "So I guess you want to see what I really look like huh?" He asked in a mocking tone.

"Sure mister 'I'm from another dimension' I'd love to see." Cinder replied with a roll of her eyes.

"Suit yourself but believe it or not I am one hundred percent human. Well give or take a few genes but that's beside the point." He chuckled as he closed his eyes then breathed in.

Eve peeled back to reveal his face. It was covered in light silverish black scales, he lacked hair, his nose was there but pushed back a bit, and when he breathed out he hissed and revealed a forked tongue. He looked a lot like a snake given the face his scales had patterns but the patterns were like crescent moons. He then opened his eyes to reveal they were exactly the same. She looked at him with her jaw dropped and fear in her eyes.

"Yes horrifying I know, it was worth it though. I'm almost unbreakable and extremely intelligent while also having a symbiotic life form." He chuckled drily. "One of the reasons I'm mad though."

"Who did this to you?" She asked him as she stared at him.

"A small gnome named Enzo." He replied. "I escaped the Coalition because of him. Own him my life." He told her as Eve went back to normal and covered his face. "So cyborg girl, why are you like that?"

"When I was younger I was in a hover accident." Cinder answered as she sat down. "So what are you exactly?"

"I'm something called a Bio-Borg, similar to a Cyborg but I am all genetics and tech from Atlantis. Snake D.N.A. was mixed with mine and a few more modifications you get something like me. Hell my eyes are practically microscopes. If you think you're an abomination or anything like that trust me you're not." He laughed as he spoke but it wasn't a happy laugh, more like a forced one.

"Okay then but why are you telling me this?" She asked with the confusion clear in her voice.

"Well that's simple, cyborgs are more trustworthy than humans. In fact I hate most humans." He replied. "I'm a bit of a cynic in this regard but I've only ever seen other humans with one goal, be better than everyone else. I grew up in world where if you aren't good enough you'll be killed, ate, or sacrificed to a dark god. Or hell you could be taken as a slave by a Splugorth. "

"What about you then?"

"Well I'm a scientist, I know my role in life so I don't try to get to the top."

"With how you talk seems like you already think you are on top."

"Trust me I don't have a god complex. So Miss Linh what's your goals with life? Well if you have any."

"Get away from my step-mother."

"Oooo fun goal."

"Shut up."

"So I've said a great deal about myself. Shall you return the favor? Mostly in information about this world."

"Sure." Cinder replied before taking a breath and starting a brief history lesson for the snake man.

She half expected him to pipe up with a ton of questions but that wasn't the case. He sat there quietly and paid attention. Resting his head in his hand. He didn't seem bored at all, honestly it was the reverse of that. In fact he was paying attention and seemed very intrigued. It was around four in the afternoon when she finished her little lesson.

"Isn't that fascinating." Dave said once she finished. "So you've dealt with four world wars?"

"Yeah we have, terrible right?" Cinder asked as she stood up and stretched a bit.

"I've dealt with worse though. Where I'm from death, destruction, and mayhem are commonplace so people like me usually don't last that long. We also have these things called Rifts, basically interdimensional holes in the multiverse. Some pretty nasty stuff and I was chief researcher at one of them." He laughed a bit. "But then me and a couple of my buddies escaped from them. After that I was turned into this."

"Well then." She replied since she didn't really know what to say.

During the entire conversation she had her lie detector on and not single thing he said was a lie. At first she thought he was crazy but he isn't. At leasts that's what she thought of him. She stood up a few minutes after that.

"I gotta get going but I'll be back tomorrow. I think I have a netscreen around here that the owner never came to pick it up so you can have it." Cinder told him as she walked to the exit. "Just please don't break anything. Everything in here I kind of don't have the money to replace and I already have a hover I have to fix for my step-mother."

"Okay then but one last question."

"What?"

"What is your first name Ms. Linh?"

"Cinder."

"Hm interesting. See you tomorrow Cinder." Dave told her as she walked out of the building.

He just laid down on the empty countertop and closed his eyes. If there was one thing he wished he was still able to do properly, that was sleep. He had spent man a nights restless in his bed even though it was a fairly nice and comfortable bed. So he just laid there, with his eyes closed, and his head's up display creating a mini-map of New Beijing. It wasn't the weirdest situation he had ever been in, hell he blew up something that was effectively Skynet.

After sitting in the dark for about a half hour he sat up. He placed his hand over his mouth and coughed up some blood. All he did was wipe in on his coat which Eve happily absorbed. Slowly he got up and closed his eyes for a second then opened them again, a green overtone taking over everything. He then looked for the netscreen Cinder had mentioned.

Once he found it he grabbed it and turned it one. The screen had cracks in it but the video was one hundred percent clear. He went around and looked for some tools so he could repair it. It took him a few minutes to find the tools but when he did he went to fixing it. That didn't take too long for him to fix it. As soon as it was fixed he went on to get some money.

Dave's P.O.V.

I only took enough so I could survive. All that involved was setting up a bank account, putting some money in it from a combination of rich people that wouldn't notice, and putting in a ton of fake information. Honestly this wasn't that hard to do since the stuff they had was nothing like the Coalitions. So once I was done I set the tablet down and laid back down. I stuffed my hand into my coat to see if I had any of my gear and only found a few antique coins along with a single energy pistol, NG-45LP Long Pistol, but it had no charge and I lacked E-Clips. Given from the small amount of research I did while getting that money this place didn't have any real handheld energy weapons so that meant the thing was useless to me. Well unless I create some but that will be somewhat difficult.

"Eve, what am I going to do?" I asked the symbiote even though I knew I wouldn't get a response. "I can think of over two thousand ways to get out of this place but I don't really want to. Compared to our Earth this place is an improvement. The others need me though, usually they forget to keep their heads on their shoulders. Especially… What was his name again? I can't remember…" I told the symbiote and only got a pur as a response. "I can't really remember them at all in fact. One was a cyborg… I think? The other was a Dragon Juicer, maybe? What else was there…?"

I sat up as I held my head. I couldn't remember any of my friends really, or my parents, or my siblings if I even had any. Blood started to trickle out of my nose and I pulled out my handkerchief to soak it up. The only stuff I could really remember was all the stuff Dr. Reynolds… Was that her name? I can't seem to recollect it. All I could remember was the information pumped into my head. Everything else is blurry.

I held my head as I got a pounding headache. It hurt. Badly. Slowly I got up and forced Eve to change into something more casual. A greasy white tank top, fake skin to cover my arms and head like normal, a pair of messy jeans, work boots, and gloves. I also had Eve do something so my eyes wouldn't be recognizable and for her eye to go unnoticed. Maybe my espionage training will come in handy here.

I went over to the door and exited the stall. Then I went to find a place where I could get some painkillers. My head was throbbing and it was awful. People looked at me as I walked down the street. I was used to people staring at me but for other reasons. Right now they were staring because I was new. All I wanted to do was get to a bank so I could get some Univs and buy the essentials. A pistol of any sort, ammo, painkillers, water, something to eat, and something to make this heat more bearable. I maybe like a snake but I still hate the heat and my cold blood isn't helping at the moment.

It didn't take too long to find a bank since I was in the market district. When I entered I saw quite a few people in there. Most cashing in their checks or something else along those lines. All I did was wait in the line so I could get my money and go. When I got to the front I leaned an elbow on the counter.

"Hey there, I'd like to make a withdraw. The name's Ophidia Bai." I told the android behind the counter.

"One minute and I'll bring up your account balance." It told me and started typing into the netscreen. "You currently have 45,000 Univs in your account. How much would you like to take out?"

"10,000 please. Also could that be put on a single card or something like that?"

"You mean like a debit card?"

"Yeah one of those."

"Well that would take some time. About a week."

"Okay then just give me the Univs then."

"Okay could you wait one minute while I process your transaction."

"Thanks miss." I told her as I leaned on the counter.

With that done it rolled to the back. I let out a sigh as I waited. Honestly this has to be the most boring part of being in a new world. All the waiting at normal establishments that aren't under attack by robots, cyborgs, and super soldiers. Those were good times even though they involved a ton of death.

As I waited for the woman to come back I noticed an older woman staring at me. I gave her a friendly wave as I turned back and saw the woman behind the counter was back with a few cards. Ten in total.

"Here you are Mr. Ophidia, 10,000 Univs. Please sign here." It told me as it handed me a pen and I signed the name on the screen. Then I grabbed my money and left.

After that I had Eve download a map of the city and mark interesting places. What sucked though was that there was no real firearm stores. Well there were but they were legal meaning I would be easier to track. Meh I can come up with more fake identities for days. So I went to find a drug store. That didn't take long since there was one actually around the corner from the bank.

I didn't take as long as I did since I just needed to get the Ibuprofen and all of that stuff. As soon as the guy behind the counter gave me the bag I walked out and took out one of the bottles then took quite a few of the pills. Probably about half of the bottle. Almost instantly I felt relief. Maybe I should've just went back to the stand but I was pretty bored so I decided to go look for Cinder.

Since I only knew one person in this dimension I didn't have much else to do. Plus it could be fun meeting her step-mother. I might get to scare the shit out of someone. Probably won't though because reports of a snake man might cause either mass panic or tons of people to laugh at how stupid it sounds. Hiding what I really am might be a lot of work but it will be tons of fun. Hopefully.

Normal P.O.V.

Cinder was standing at the door of the apartment, behind her was Adri who was staring at the man standing there. David standing right in front of her, with a neutral look on his face. He had his hands stuffed in his pockets and wasn't wearing the same clothes as he was when she left the stand. She was bewildered by him showing up out of nowhere.

"How did you..?" She muttered.

"You told me to wait out here, remember?" He answered. Her lie detector went off.

"Oh yeah I did." She went along with it.

"Who are you?" Adri asked with irritation clear in her voice.

"David Richards, nice to meet ya. Ya seemed pissed off though." Dave answered with a slight chuckle.

"What are you doing here?" She asked with a growl.

"I offered to help Cinder with that broken down hover you got down there." He answered, a grin forming on his face.

"Wait were you with him earlier today? I swear if the people at the re-"

"I've been at my apartment most of the day." He injected quickly. "I just got a comm about it a little bit ago. Didn't know she wanted to work on it today." He said as he cracked his neck. "Wanna go get to work?"

"Yes." Cinder replied as she and Iko walked out of the apartment quickly and shut the door. Then they went to the elevator. "How did you find out where I live?" She asked as she looked up at him.

"Research." David answered as he leaned against the back of it.

"Who's this guy Cinder?" Iko asked as she looked up at her.

"This guy is a friend named David." Cinder answered the android.

"He's cute." She replied quietly.

"Calm down Iko, your fan is a little louder than normal." Cinder told her.

"And you look lovely little android." David told her as he knelt down to be at eye-level with her.

"Wh-what?" Iko replied, her fan humming louder.

"Yeah you remind me of two androids I used to have. Well except those were floating skull drones that I built out of scrap. No offense."

"None taken!"

"So who's the robot?" David asked as he looked up at Cinder.

"This is Iko, I mentioned her earlier but not by name." She answered.

"So what are you exactly? An A.I.?" David asked as he went back to examining the android.

"No she has a faulty personality chip." Cinder answered.

"Hey! I'm not faulty." Iko chimed in.

"Yeah unless it don't work you shouldn't call something faulty or defective." David agreed as he stood up and crossed his arms.

"Your personality really changes a lot." Cinder replied.

"No not really. Also I left my NG at the stand, I'm gonna need to know a good place where I can get parts for a homemade battery at. Eve could only get so much data."

"Who's Eve?" Iko asked as she looked at him.

"Oh it's the symbiotic life form wrapped around my body. She's a sweetheart."

"Hey Cinder?"

"Yeah Iko?"

"I think he's crazy."

"No he's telling the truth no matter how insane he sounds."

"How can you be sure?"

"He showed me what he really looked like. Let's just say i-"

"It's completely horrifying? Yes I know thank you." David interrupted her with a loud laugh. "But I have Eve make me look like what I looked like before my D.N.A. got messed with by a gnome… Was he gnome?" He asked as he held his head and leaned back against the wall. Groaning quite a bit as his nose started to bleed again.

"Hey Dave are you okay?" Cinder asked him. Before he could reply he fell over unconscious.

And that's a wrap for this chapter. I'll most likely update this story monthly since I want to have longer chapters in it. Anyway that's all I have to say, see you guys later and hope you enjoyed the first chapter.