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Chapter 4: Trouble on the horizon and an unexpected event

As it turned out that, while Kos-Mos stayed on the ship, Shion, Ziggy and Hammer went out looking for Commander Cherenkov who'd gone looking for a charter flight. But as he'd found out from Matthews that a solider had no place here, he remembered reading about the war and how this area was left in ruins. Well his days as a solider were long behind him and he wasn't going to mention it to anyone. With Ziggy helping Shion look he doubted that they would need him, so he chose to go into the nearest shop he could find named "Talk to me."

The only thing of interest that he'd found was a missile pod that he thought Ziggy would like and an A.W.G.S. weapon that he thought he could modify for his P.C.S. to use. After paying for his purchase and making sure it would be sent to the Elsa right away, he stepped out of the shop. Just in time to dodge a medical cart with an injured young man on it, several others were coming as well. "What the hell is going on here?" Taking a moment to peek outside and finding no medical carts to run him over he stepped out just in time to see Ziggy, Shion and Hammer come running. "Hey Z, what's going on?" Daemar asked as he started to run to keep pace with them as they made for the Elsa. "I'll explain once we get to the Elsa."

A few minutes later the group, minus Hammer who'd gone to tell the captain what happened, found Commander Cherenkov sitting in Ziggy's maintenance bay, MOMO was fussing over the Commander. She kept trying to heal his wounds with nanospray but he kept on refusing. Daemar raised an eyebrow, why would anyone refuse to be healed through nanosurgery? It was far better than natural healing, even he a man of the 21st century knew that much. It just didn't make sense...unless he was hiding something? Daemar shook his head, there was a time and place for speculation and now wasn't it; soon the Elsa would be leaving the Dock Colony and head for the Miltian star system. He needed to be ready before then, there was no telling when the U-TIC would come after MOMO again or worse, the gnosis attacked.

Daemar first went to the cabin he shared with the other men, though he hardly used his bunk to sleep in. One thing about him that had changed since he'd awoken in this time was his new cyborg parts allowed him to go long periods of time without sleep. And even if he did need sleep then he'd simply find a place to curl up such as a chair or couch. Sometimes he just fell asleep standing up where he happened to be, few had seen him like this and all who had seen it always looked at him funny. Bah, damn hypocrites. What do they know anyways? I'll bet none of them were ever cyborg. Arriving at his bunk he found a card on the pillow saying that his purchase was waiting for him down at the A.W.G.S. hanger. I'd better get down there before the busted up robot sells it off to pay the Captain's debt...

A few minutes later he made it down to the hanger and picked up the item he'd bought. An A.W.G.S. SMG99AG submachine gun, since the P.C.S. was designed to fight the gnosis it had many of the same circuits and components that an A.W.G.S. did only smaller, so Daemar could use them as spare parts if he needed to or scale down the larger weapons. He'd already done that to an SWD21AG sword though that was more of a conversion into a new weapon. Mounted inside his right forearm was a long, squared tipped blade. The weapon was of his own design and would pop from his arm rather than become an extension of his arm. The sword had three modes, standard, segmented and chain. Standard was just that, a basic blade that extended from his arm. Segmented was just that as well, the blade would split into segments and could be used as a bladed whip. Chain was by far his favorite mode, when activated, the blade would emerge from his arm and the segments would separate to a degree then begin the spin around the center part of the blade (which remained one solid piece) just like a chainsaw. The blade itself was made of a material that could slice through almost anything, even A.W.G.S. armor, just like the blade Kos-Mos used. Speaking of Kos-Mos... he thought before carrying the large weapon to the lift on the port side and went into the maintenance bay where Kos-Mos currently slept.

For the moment her pod was closed but once after arriving Daemar had slipped down there and just sat, watching the pod silently, for some reason he seemed to be able to gather his thoughts and relax when he was in there. Maybe it's because I like her...ha...that's funny... He sat down on the couch and opened up his left arm where he kept a small set of tools for minor repairs that his own nanomachines couldn't handle or when he needed to modify a weapon. He opened the small side panel on the weapon and set to work. He lost all sense of time as he worked, he was totally focused on his task and didn't notice when the Elsa made its jump into hyperspace.

Nearly three hours had passed and sitting in his lap was the fruits of his labor, the machine gun was now scaled down to handheld size though it was more powerful than a normal submachine gun. For a moment dark blue light surrounded the weapon then it vanished, now it was stored in his left arm for later use. When Daemar looked up from putting away his tools he stopped, Kos-Mos pod was wide open. Funny...I don't remember hearing it open... Letting his curiosity get the better of him Daemar stood up and walked to the edge of the pod and looked in. As he'd thought she was still asleep and as lovely as the moment he'd first seen her barely a day ago.

Just looking down at her put him into a state of awe, never before had he seen someone so perfect, so flawless. Her skin was almost pale, her facial features were soft, almost angelic. And not a single strand of her hair was out of place either, his fingers longed to touch it, almost ached really. Before he realized it his hand lifted and almost touched her face before he stopped it. What am I doing? I can't do that...it's not right...no matter how beautiful she is... But still his hand moved forward and with a great gentleness one wouldn't see in metallic hands, touched her cheek. They recoiled back a few inches almost as if frightened of her reaction, but when none came they moved in again. Her skin was cool to the touch and softer than anything he'd ever felt before, the backs of his fingers caressed her cheek before moving down to her chin. No matter how hard her tried he couldn't find anything imperfect about her, even her delicately pointed nose was perfect. Not too sharp or to snubbed but just right for her face.

Shaking slightly his fingers moved up slowly to her lips and when they touched his entire body trembled at the feel. Hers were lips that would never need lipstick, the slight shade of pink that could only be seen up close would be more than enough. Again, before he knew what he was doing he leaned down towards her then stopped. What am I thinking! I can't...

His face moved closer to hers.

I can't...

Closer.

I can't stop...

His lips met hers, pressing gently and know that this would be her first kiss as well as his. His mind reveled in the feelings running though his entire body. He felt lightheaded, his fingers shook slightly as they cupped her cheek and he felt as though electricity ran through his entire body, which it did technically. So incredible was the feeling that he didn't notice her eyes open.

Nor did he notice that they were blue.

End of Chapter 4

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