I DON'T OWN GENERATOR REX OR INFINITE STRATOS.
-Rex-
Morning arrived and I was startled awake by the sounds of helicopter blades chopping the air. At first I was excited, thinking that I was still at Providence. My heart dropped when I saw that I was still in the generals room.
"Salazar Rex come to the Tarmac."
I'll never get used to them saying my last name first. Getting up I realized that my back was sore from the floor. So that's why they call it hardwood. As I was heading to the hangars that they showed me before I went to bed I couldn't help notice that all the girls were looking at me like I was a rockstar. If I wasn't worried about my family I'd love this place.
At the helicopter there were some women in form fitting flight suits that left little to imagination and helmets that covered everything but their lips and chins.
"Salazar Rex?" The co-pilot asked.
"Yeah."
"Your book is in the back." She said pointing her thumb to the back. I saw a book that looked like it could break bones if dropped on someone's foot.
"I HAVE TO READ THIS ENTIRE THING IN A WEEK?!" I complained.
Instead of responding the two pilots took to the air. I enjoyed sleeping while it lasted. I took the bone breaking book to the library and was dreading what was to come.
Fortunately, with all of Holidays teaching the stuff inside was making sense but it'd still take a while to read the entire book.
The sun was starting to go down and I wasn't even a quarter through the book. My eyes were stinging when I felt a strange buzzing in my mind. Looking for the source I spotted the girl I sparred, Soatome, I think in fatigues.
"The General said to give this to you." She said handing me a watch. As I grabbed it the buzzing stopped. There must've been a confused look on my face because she explained the watch.
"That's the I.S. you piloted. It's in stand by mode. To summon it just focus. You can practice it later." She said Shortly before leaving.
"Ugh. The summoning thing sounds similar to when I activate my builds. But it might be smart to practice it anyways. If only I didn't have this." I thought.
"Maybe I could be of assistance Mr. Salazar." I heard a female voice inside my head. Okay it's settled after years of fighting E.V.O.s I finally went nuts.
"All scans show the only issue with your mind is that you are depressed and slightly tired." The voice responded.
"Who are you?" I whispered.
"I'm I.S. Unit G50001. I gained an A.I. after our initial contact."
"I.S. G50001? A little long. How bout... Toransu?"
"Title designation accepted. New name is now Toransu." She said.
"So how do you think you can help?" I asked.
Toransu told me to close the book and run the face of the watch over the book. I did as she told me. Suddenly my mind was flooded with knowledge that was in the book. The data was so accurate I bet that I could've copied all the pages by memory alone. Thank you Toransu.
"You're welcome." She said.
That could get annoying. "Toransu, don't read my mind unless I think at you. Also call me by Rex instead of Mr. Salazar." I thought.
She agreed and with all the time I just got from Toransu's knowledge transfer I wanted to go to the training range. But by this time the sun had went down. Instead I turned in for the night and went to the my uncomfortable floor where I tried to sleep.
I knew that sleep would be difficult so I pulled out the Christmas picture and looked at it for I don't know how long when Toransu spoke.
"You miss these people?" She asked.
"What'd I say about you reading my mind" I thought at her as I pushed the picture back in my wallet.
"I have done as you asked. I.S. units are designed to detect their pilots mental and physical states."
I didn't feel like talking about it and forced myself to sleep. The depression fell away and I eventually drifted off around what I guessed was around 2am. For the rest of the week I pretended to read the book. With the connection that existed between Toransu and me I felt that we were moving with the fluidity of a lifetime pilot. Each night I felt my anxiety and depression worsen. The picture was the only thing that brought me sleep.
On the last day, around an hour before the helicopter was supposed to be here I got the message to get to the briefing room. At the door I heard a voice that caused all my depression to end and gave me a happiness so great I didn't know was possible.
"Rex, come in. This is Holiday. Come in. Repeat Rex, come in. This is Holiday. Come in."
The communication was gargled but that didn't matter. I grabbed the communicator the scientists took to search for my home signal and yelled into it.
"This is Rex. Is everything ok?" I asked.
"Rex, your alive!" Holiday said. From her voice I could tell she was worried before but was relaxed now.
"Hey kid. Good to see your alive. Noah ain't as fun to mess with." I recognized the voice as Bobo.
"Missed you to ya lunatic. Now how bout putting the doc back on." I said as I felt the first real smile I had since entering this world worked itself on my face.
"Rex, are you okay?" Doc asked in her maternal tone.
"Yeah. How are the E.V.O.s?" I asked.
"We've been fighting E.V.O.s long before you came along. Worry about yourself" Six said.
"Now when can I get back?" I asked the doc.
"That's going to be a much more difficult part, hermano," Caesar responded. "We need to do experiments on both sides just to figure out the inter-dimensional frequency needed to get a strong signal. Then we'd need to figure out a way to create a wormhole to get you to this side. Hope you have access to some high quality tech."
"I've made some new friends while down here," I said looking at their confused looks. Right forgot, they don't speak English. Which is what I've been using to talk to my family. "Thing is that they are having me do a mission while I'm here."
"Great, light years from home and still have work. That stinks kid." Bobo said.
Talking to them has made me feel lighter and I decided to mess with Bobo. "Could be worse. The place I'm being sent is full of girls. And fighting robots."
"You've got all the luck, kid" Bobo said with a chuckle.
I heard the hum of a helicopter approaching. Come on. Can't they wait for a little.
"Gotta go. See you guys soon."
They all said goodbye and disconnected. I almost took the communicator with me when one scientist told me about it being needed to connect to my dimension. Before leaving for the helicopter I made the scientists promise to call if and when they called again.
Providence knows where I am. And with both the Doc and Caesar working together with scientists in a dimension with high tech weapons like an I.S. it's likely they'll get me home. For the first time I was relaxed. Now only one things left. Get to a bed for some actual sleep.
-FIN-
Some of you might be thinking that I got them connected too soon. But the truth is as long as Rex was worried about his team he wouldn't be his usual self. If you don't like something then you know where the comments are.
if you're wondering about the I.S name it's the weapons model. Generation 5 model 0001. And the new name "Toransu" translates to transformer.
To anyone that has this story favorited or following it sorry for all the alerts your getting. Every time I think I got it perfect another mistake shows up.
Aw man. I made a typo once. Can't you give me a break. Gotta go chuck Norris is outside my house.
