Recap from last chapter: 'Why am I crying? Maybe because I almost lost Dad to the enemy again. Maybe it is just the pain. I do not know anymore..." I thought to myself but I go unconscious from blood loss.
I fall over with Dad unconscious beside me. This all happens and the train is still moving along.
***************Back to present time***************
Doktor's POV:
I am working on new designs on the upgrades Kevin, Courtney, and I came up with. I'm going to have Callista look at and help us improve on any flaws on it. But I get interrupted by a call from Boris and immediately answer it. His face pops onto my computer screen. (B= Boris and D= Doktor).
D: "What can I do for you...?" I start to say but Boris interrupts me.
B: "Can you get two rooms ready quickly. It's Raiden and Nightmare, they're injured." He says.
I now notice both Raiden and Callista behind him, who are breathing heavy along with bloody bandages on their body and faces.
D: "Okay, I will get two rooms ready immediately! Along with getting some new limbs for the both of them. All you have to do is wheel them in, Boris." I say to him.
He nods to me. We say goodbye to each other and me telling him to hurry up. Right after his face goes off my screen. I run out of my office and have three nurses help me get two rooms immediately ready for both Raiden and Callista as they get here.
Right, when we finish getting the second room done is when Boris brings in both of them. I instruct the soldiers who wheels in Callista to follow one of the nurses, who helped me get the second room done. Then I instruct the other soldiers to follow me. I tell Boris, he can leave and will know when they are ready to go back into the battlefield. He nods and leaves.
Right before the nurse, who is assigned to Callista, leaves to make sure her wounds are clean, I instruct her to not cut her clothes off of her. But to still put her in a hospital gown. The nurse follows my instructions while I grab the rail of Raiden's gurney and move it to the other room.
Once Raiden gets into his room, I make sure a nurse is at his side making him comfortable as possible. While the nurse is doing this, I run back to my office to grab the cart, containing his new upgrade limbs.
All I have to do is uncover the cart and speed walk to his room. What I notice for when I came back into his room, he has a deep cut on his left eye.
'I do not know if I would be able to fix the area of his face in the amount of time I have to fix them. And still be able to get them back onto the field.' I think to myself while starting to work on getting all the new body limbs together.
What is actually different about these new limbs, they are new upgrades I have been working on while Callista was in her little coma and why I hid the file from Raiden before he got into my office. I was able to finish working on his during Callista's eleven-day recovery and work on the designs on Callista's new upgrades with Kevin and Courtney.
Then I take his head off of his old body and plug his head into his new one. I left his hair the same because I knew Callista is going to do something about it. Then I put his new headgear on his head. I take off his chin and replace it with a new metal one.
After I finish, I disassembling the old body and put them onto the cart. I then have the nurse take care of his eye wound on his face. 'If Raiden is not unconscious, I think he would be telling me to not change anything, but instead, put a pad and cloth to hide some of the wound on his face.' I think to myself.
While the nurse is taking care of Raiden's face wound, I leave the room and go to Callista's to see how she is doing now. I see the nurse I assigned for Callista, comes out of her room. I walk up to her, she hears my footsteps on the floor and looks my way.
"How is Callista doing Nurse Kylie?" I ask her.
"She is doing fine now, she is in stable conditions. But while moving her off the stretcher and onto her bed, I heard a rattling sound come from her leg limb, you just recently put on her. I think she might have broken the limb, but her left arm is cut off the body completely and is in need of a spare now." She tells me and I nod in agreement. I then ask her to attach both a blood bag and IV into Callista so she doesn't die from both dehydration and blood loss.
She nods in agreement and I thank her. I speed walk to my office, again. I grab a spare left arm, with the correct measurements to her opposite arm, and speed walks back to her room.
Once I get into the room, I get a proper up-close sight of the damage on her limbs. What Nurse Kylie said is a precisely accurate to what happens to the limbs. The upper left arm is still gushing liquid out of it. I quickly get to her left side, remove what is left of the limb, and quickly replace it with the spare one, I brought with me.
After putting on the spare, I notice Callista has a wound on her face too. Exact same area as her Vater's but a little longer than his.
'She is most definitely going to get a scar on her face, but if she is anything like her Vater. She will want to keep the scar instead of keeping a flawless face.' I think to myself and chuckle at the thought too.
I inform Nurse Kylie, who is going to be Callista's permanent nurse for the next three weeks, all she needs to do is to make sure Callista doesn't get an infection in the wound on her face. She nods to me as a signal she understands. I nod back and walk back over to Callista's bed. I move to the right side of the bed to take care of her right limb. I detach her right leg from the rest of her body. Again just like the diagnosis, Nurse Kylie told me, I hear many things in the limb rattling around on the inside. (A/N: The concept is like this for if you have baby rattle in your hand and shake it. All the little noises made from the rattle are what the noise is in Callista's metal leg.)
After doing this, I leave Callista's room with both limbs in my arms and head to my office. While on my way to my office, I keep wondering to myself about how Callista is able to make her metal leg into a baby's rattle.
'Maybe it is because of the metal gear they went up against or those two cyborgs who got away and made both of them into the condition they are in now. Who knows only God may know.' I think to myself and notice I'm already at my office. I open my door and place the limb on my desk to do an autopsy on it later.
"All I have to do now is to put the final touches on the blueprints of Callista's metal limbs, while I wait for the both of them to wake up," I say to myself.
******************Time Skip: 12 hours later******************
"Doktor, it's both Callista and Raiden. They're awake and Callista is panicking like crazy." A nurse tells me while both out of breath and flustered.
I get up from my desk and run out of my office. I start heading to Callista's room first because it's not healthy for her to have a panic attack while in the condition she is currently in. Just down the hall I hear screams coming from her room. But I also hear someone calling out her name from in another room. As I continue heading to her room, I hear someone running from the opposite direction I am heading with heavier footfalls.
I knew straight away, it's her vater coming to her rescue to calm her down from her panic attack in order for her health to not get any worse than it already is in. But once I finally get to Callista's room, I see her door is wide open. When I look into the room, I see Raiden is already at her side, trying to calm her down.
A few minutes later, he's able to get her to stop screaming and calmed down. He removes his arms from around her; moves her a little over in order for him to get behind her. I knew hugging her from behind in arms she is very familiar with would help calm her down even more than from the side. I should know this because Raiden always does this when she first joined the missions with him and Snake.
Once behind his daughter. He puts her on top of his chest with his arms around her waist and starts to sway her back and forth. Whispering comforting words in her ears to help calm her further down to get her into a better state for her health.
After the whole panic attack is taken care of. Raiden decides he is going to stay in the position, in order to prevent another panic attack from happening again. I agreed with him and we both notice she is going back to sleep. I slowly come up to Callista's right side to check her vitals and to see if her panic attack has re-opened any of her wounds. But good news is none of the wounds have reopened.
*************Timeskip to when she woke up*************
Callista's POV:
"Ugh, what happened, where am I, where is Daddy?" I say still a little groggy, but then the memories of what happened before I went unconscious hit me like a locomotive. I quickly get up, but really regret moving my body because it felt like it was hit by an armored tank. When I move back to lay back down, I feel arms around my waist and my back lying on a muscular chest. I almost go into another panic attack, until I hear a familiar voice, instantly calming me back down.
"Whoa, easy there Marie. Don't want you having another panic attack on us and we for sure do not want your wounds to reopen back up again." Dad says to me.
I move my head to the side and look over my left side. I see Dad is hugging me and I'm leaning against. I look down on my left side and see Doktor has put a spare limb on me. I am able to tell it is one of the spares, remembering my limb on my last mission was cut in half. But what makes me happier, I see my right leg limb is off because it hurt more than it did when they attached it to my flesh. There is another voice, brought me out of my thoughts; Doktor is on my right side, checking my vitals again.
"It is good to see you are awake now, Kind. I was getting a little worried on both you and your vater after noticing the both of you are not doing so well out on the battlefield." He tells us.
I cuddle closer to Dad; he notices this and grabs my normal hand as comfort since I can't feel anything with my left since it is a pop off type limb. Doktor looks up from my vital sheets and asks me, "Kind, I have something for you to look at. While you were sleeping and were recovering from your last set of wounds, I have been working on blueprints for your new upgrade limbs. I know they might interest you a lot. Do you care to look at them?"
"Heck yeah, Doktor! I want to see what it is, you know me too well!" I say with excitement in my voice.
Both Dad and Doktor chuckle at my excitement. He lets go of my left hand, moving out to grab my movable table and wheel it close to my bed. While he went to grab the papers from his office.
Raiden's POV:
I have now completely calmed down from the panic attack Marie has given me when she was screaming bloody murder. I move the table over Marie's waist and then let the table go. We get comfortable while waiting on Doktor to come back from his office with the blueprints on her new upgrade limbs.
"Hey Marie, how are you feeling sweetheart? Besides the fact of your last two metal limbs..." I ask her.
"I feel fine, Dad. But I feel a little more vulnerable to the injury to the right side of my face because I cannot see anything on that side." She says to me with sadness in her voice.
"I think I know a technique for you to be able to see out of your right eye without Doktor putting in a limb into the area. But I do not know if this technique is going to work or not. I just hope it can work because then I'll be able to do the same thing, since I have the same injury in the same area but not as huge as yours." I tell her.
"It could be very useful indeed, Dad. I want to be able to trick our enemy into thinking they have the advantage over me being 'blind'. But truly with this technique, me being 'blind' on my right side could be my advantage against them, when we head back out onto the battlefield." She says while squeezing my left hand in excitement.
Then we both hear the door open and close. We see Dok is back with the blueprints in his hands.
Callista's POV:
I see the blueprints in his hands and I do the 'give me' movement to hand the blueprints over. Doktor complies and hands them over to me. While also giving me a pencil, for just in case if I need to make any corrections. I place it on the table with my water jug to hold down one of the sides and Dad holds down on the other side.
"Thanks, Dad!" I quickly say, while starting to concentrate on the blueprints in front of me.
I don't hear his response because I have quickly gotten to business on looking at the blueprints. I first look at the prints for my new right leg and see the same type of designs from my old limb, but some new enhancements on it. Which includes the rollerblades on the bottom. I do not see any mistakes on this print, so I move onto the other prints for my new left arm.
When I look at these prints I notice right off the bat a few mistakes. But these mistakes are not hard to fix, so I quickly change the mistakes to suit my standard. But easy enough for Dok to be able to create with.
Once I finish doing all the corrections, I give Dad a signal to let his hand go from the prints. After he let the prints go, I roll them back up and give them back to Dok.
Right after he takes the prints, he unrolls them to see all the changes I did to them. He nods in agreement to all the corrections.
"These are brilliant, mein kind. I wouldn't have ever thought of this before, your input is always the best. Danke, kind." He says to me.
I nod as a welcome because I am starting to feel tired again. My body is still trying to recover from all the damage it has received from the last mission.
3rd Person POV:
Raiden notices his daughter is getting tired because whenever she is super tired she would cuddle closer to anything she is close to. Another way how he could tell she is becoming tired, she turns onto her right side so her head is lying in the area where his heart would have been. But he also knew her body is still trying to recover from all the battle wounds she has sustained from their last mission. Doktor also notices Callista is falling asleep and nods to him as a good night and left the room with the blueprints in hand.
Raiden too starts to feel the tiredness come at him at a speed of a train, he couldn't stay awake any longer. But truly it didn't help with the fact from all the activities, just recently has happened in the past three hours. With him being so tired, he didn't really fight it and just holds Callista closer to his body.
************Time Skip to four days later************
Callista's POV:
Dad is wheeling me in my annoying wheelchair down to Doktor's office to help him completely finish my new upgrade limbs, and if we are able to finish them before bed time, then I will be able to get my nerves connected to the new limbs the very night.
We finally get to Doktor's office and we both already see he is working on my new metal arm. Dad wheels me up to the bed in there and helps me get situated on it, in order for me to be able to work on my upgrade leg on the moveable table. While working on my leg, I notice the same problem I had with the skates on my first leg limb. But I made sure there isn't going to be another mistake in the part between the knee and the ankle like it did last time. I am able to complete the part and now onto the rollerblade part of the foot.
I am so focused on trying to figure out the problem, I didn't even see Doktor looking up from what he is doing with my metal arm, and walks over to the bed to see what my problem is with my metal leg. I feel a hand on my shoulder, I look up at the owner of the hand and see Doktor wanting to help me with my little problem.
All Doktor did was point where the problem is on the metal limb, he could see. I look at the area he points to and smacks my forehead with my flesh hand. I am dumb enough to not keep my head clear enough to be able to see the problem on the limb. I then grab the proper tools to properly fix it. I decided to recheck the same areas of the leg to see if anything changes come undone. There is a few, but was able to fix them without any more problems coming up in the rest of the body of my leg.
Once finished, I notice Doktor has also finished my arm at the same time. So we then decide to get the two limbs attach to my body of missing limbs. I shift my body, so the top part of my body is lying on the head of the bed, with my right leg can get properly attach to the nerves from the flesh to the metal. Dad stays on my right side of the bed because he knew the pain is going to be awful for me.
Right when Dok get into position, I grab Dad's hand like I did the first time to help prep myself for the pain to come. They both count to three. Then heard two click sounds at the same time and a whimper from me. This happens about three more times before it is completely done. Dok then moves onto my left arm.
After Dok finish re-nerving my left arm on. And once the pain finally passes, I breathe out the breath I didn't know was holding, Dad helps me up and moves to the edge of the bed. Then slowly get off the bed. When my feet hit the floor and take my first steps with my new upgrade limbs. I immediately notice no pain coming from these limbs and decide to just walk normal.
Both Dad and I notice, when we get into the hallway, the color scheme on our new upgrades are similar to each other. So we walk back to my room with no trouble at all.
As we get back to my recovery room, I slowly sit on the floor. I ask him if he wants to do a friendly exercising competition to see who can last longer with their new limbs. He agrees and lets me choose the type of exercises we should do for this competition.
I decide the first type of exercise we should do is seven different types of push-ups. We do twenty-five reps for each type of push-up. First, the normal type of push-ups, second be the left arm on our back, third the right arm on our back, fourth normal push-ups but with just our thumbs, fifth with just our right thumb, then with our left ones. Lastly, we do the clap push-up. He nods and gets Nurse Kylie into my room.
Once she comes into my room, I tell her what is happening and have her be the ref for each of the events. She agrees and tells us she is going to grab a stopwatch for if any incoming events would require it. We agree on it too. So she speeds walks to grab a stopwatch from in the rehabilitation room.
Right after she comes back, we start the first event of the friendly competition.
****************Time Skip an hour and a half ****************
It now has been an hour and a half, neither of us is showing signs of giving in. I'm sweating bullets but doesn't affect the adhesive on the bandages on my right side of my face. But Dad, the lucky SOB, doesn't have any sweat glands to produce any sweat.
After all, seven different types of push-ups are complete; we both have our arms exhausted. But I finished the last four parts of the first event before he could. I win the first event of the competition. I then decide our next activity would just require our legs. I figured we can do wall sits and after every ten minutes, we would lift one of our legs onto the other without getting up to do it, then having to go back into position.
I tell both Nurse Kylie and Dad what the next event is. Nurse Kylie is very proud of herself for getting the stopwatch before this whole thing even began. So we get into different areas of my room, in order for both of us would have enough room to do the event and so one of us doesn't try to cheat by knocking the other over.
Once we are ready, Nurse Kylie gives us the signal and we start the wall sitting competition.
****************Time Skip forty minutes later****************
It has now been forty minutes into the competition and true to what I said, at exactly every ten minutes Nurse Kylie would give us the signal for us to change legs.
*****Time Skip twenty minutes later (A/N: I know it's too many of them, I am sorry)*****
It officially now been an hour since we began the second event of the friendly competition and I am already feeling the burn sensation in both of my thighs. But I wait for another half of an hour before I call quits.
After I call quits, I ask Dad for when we get up to see which one of us is still standing after a few minutes. But if neither of us falls from this event, then we can do endless amounts of laps in the hallway outside of my room.
Dad agrees to it, we both get up and wait two minutes. After the two minutes past, neither of us are getting weak in the knees nor falling over, but my legs were a little shaky. But other than my legs shaky, the winner of this event is him, since I called quits first before he did. So then all three of us go into the hallway. Nurse Kylie quickly tells us, she's going to go ask the other nurses if they can move awake patients out of their rooms in order to make the route for this last event for our friendly competition.
We agree and wait on Nurse Kylie to get all the nurses and the patients ready for this last event. So while we wait for the event to get ready. I get water in my system. I grab my water jug from my table and nearly drank all the water in it.
Once I get my fill on water, I still had about a fourth left in it. Dad grabs my jug from me and refills it for me. As he comes back with my refill jug, he gives it to me, I thank him and I place it back on my table. We then decide to stretch our limbs to get them ready for the last event.
About fifteen minutes later, Nurse Kylie comes back telling us the course is complete. So we both get to the starting line. We notice the number of patients in the hallway and we smile at them. Doktor comes in front of us to start the race off. He gives us the signal and we are off.
**************Time Skip about twenty-five laps later**************
Raiden's POV:
We are both on our twenty-fifth lap and still side by side. I am proud of my little girl for making it as far as she has right now. But starts to notice, she is starting to get tired and I am too. So I try to make it for another two more laps, but later notice Marie is still fighting on. I stop after my second lap, but my little girl went one more lap before we both call it quits. Everyone in the hall starts to whoop and holler when they see Marie has done one more lap than me. She came out victorious in our friendly competition.
"Dad, I think I am not going to be able to move around at all tomorrow. My body is going to be too sore from all the exercise we did today." She says to me after she is able to calm her breathing down.
I just chuckle but I still agree with her. Doktor then walks up to us and congratulates Marie on winning, but still congratulates me for how far I made it in the friendly competition. Then a nurse and Nurse Kylie came up to Marie and me, and help us to our rooms. But right before we completely leave each other's presence, I wish Marie a good night and her to me.
Callista's POV:
'I cannot believe I have finally beaten Dad in a friendly competition. I say this because I have never been able to defeat him in a friendly competition my whole life.' I think to myself as Nurse Kylie helps me get back into my room.
"Mrs. Kylie could you um, help me with washing my hair. I don't think my arms are going to let me be able to reach after all the exercising Dad and I just did." I ask her.
She nods and smiles at me like a mother would with her own child. We both make it back to my room and she places me on my bed. I tell her where my gym bag is, which containing two of my spare outfits, two different sets of pajamas, two or three sets of underwear, and my toiletries. I ask her to grab my navy blue set of pj's, my white set of underwear, and my toiletries. She grabs them and places them under her armpit. Then she grabs my flesh arm, put it over her shoulder and helps me walk into my connecting bathroom.
Once we get into the bathroom, she puts my clothes on the bottom part of the sink, toiletries on the top part of the sink and me on the toilet. She grabs my shampoo, conditioner, places them in my shower and turns on the shower to the right temperature for me to take a bath in.
After the water is at the right temperature, she helps me out of my sweaty workout clothes I was wearing during the friendly competition, and into the shower.
Once I'm in the shower, I get my hair soaked. Nurse Kylie went back out to grab two towels for me, one for my body and the other for my hair. As she is doing this I bent down to grab my vanilla scent soap.
As I am soaping up my body, I hear the bathroom door open and close. I look to see her with the towels in her hands. She places the towels on the toilet seat and grabs my fruit scent shampoo. She opens the cap and squeezes the right amount of shampoo onto her hand. She then rubs her hands with my shampoo, then reaches up into my hair to lather it in my shampoo.
After she finishes lathering up my hair in shampoo, I too finish lathering up my body with soap. So I then get under the water and Mrs. Kylie helps me get all the shampoo out of my hair, as the soap is getting wash off at the same time.
We both finish washing off the shampoo and soap. Mrs. Kylie then grabs my conditioner and did the same thing as she did with my shampoo. Like my mother, she didn't put too much conditioner in her hand, also grabbing my hair brush too. She rubs her hands and lathers up my hair in conditioner.
Once she finishes lathering up my hair in conditioner, she grabs my hairbrush and starts brushing to make my hair soft. It took a few minutes for her to finish brushing, but as she finishes, she lets me go under the water again and helps get all the conditioner out of it. Then once she sees my hair is conditioner free, she turns off the shower.
She helps me get out of the shower, grabs the body towel, handing me the towel and grabs the hair towel. I turn around for her to get to my hair as I start drying off my body.
I finish drying off my body before Mrs. Kylie even finishes with my hair. So I grab my pjs and put them on. I ask her if she could wait until I get my pj's on to finish drying my hair. She agrees, telling me to meet her at the bed and I agree.
After my pj's are on, I brush my teeth, grab my hairbrush and slowly get out of the bathroom. I slowly walk to my bed and sit down in front of my nurse. She finishes drying my hair and starts to brush it again. After a few minutes of her brushing my hair, I had her put it up in a loose ponytail for me.
Once all this is done she then helps me get comfortable on my bed and leaves my room. As she closes my door, I immediately fall asleep.
************Time Skip to last week before going back out on the field************
Also in that week, I asked Doktor if I can get my hair recolored. He asks what color and I just tell him to get the color as close to Dad's hair color as possible. He nods and orders a box for me. I thank him and had to wait two days for it.
Once the hair coloring box came, I quickly re-dyed my hair and roots back to it's platinum blonde shade. While I am letting it soak into my hair. I head over to Dad's room and helped him fix his hair to a style that matches his new look. After finishing up his hair, I quickly go back to my room and rinse all the excessive coloring from my head. Also giving my head a wash too.
While all this was happening Dad and I continue working to stay in shape. He is also teaching me to be able to psychically see out of my right eye. But just last week Dok has given me a new custom made sword similar to Dad's sword, but it is shaped like a rapier. Right after the sword is given to me, Dad started training me how to properly use my rapier while in combat. Lucky for the both of us, I'm a fast learner and learned all the tricks in about a week.
So now I'm now just cleaning up my moves and incorporating my style of fighting into them. I try doing some of the moves he can do but have a feeling of not getting it just right. So I run to where Dad is to know if he is willing to help me see what I'm doing wrong.
I find Dad with Doktor, they are talking about the progress of me and my new weapon. I walk into the room and he sees me in his peripheral vision. He moves his sight to me and Dok does too. He then asks, "Marie, is there something wrong?"
I shake my head no, but tell him, "I just have this feeling of not doing a few moves right. I am wondering if both you and Doktor would like to go outside with me to see if I am truly doing wrong with the moves."
Dad and Dok both agree and all three of us head outside. They stay on the sidelines while I show them the moves.
Callista's POV in her mind:
I close my eyes to visualize an opponent I could go up against. With my eyes still shut, I did a front flip with a twist while blocking my imaginary opponent's attack. I went for an upper swipe then lower, but my opponent blocks both moves.
I would then toss up my sword and try kicking my opponent with my feet as I did a no hand back spring. The attack alone did some damage to my opponent's chin, but they're still able to stay on their feet.
After I am back on my feet, catching my sword, do two more back springs to get away from them. My opponent would then come at me from the right then to the left, but I would counter both attacks.
I would then do a few upper roundhouse kicks to my opponent's arm to make them drop their weapon. But they blocked my moves with the same arm I'm aiming at. As I continue to practice against my imaginary opponent, I use a few of Dad's moves he taught me too.
While I am doing this, Dad continues to try seeing if there are any flaws in my movements. He only notices my acrobatic moves I have incorporated might need a little tune-up. But other than, I have all the moves correct and includes the moves, he is able to do.
Raiden's POV:
"Alright Marie, that's enough!" I call out to her.
She stops what she is doing and opens her eyes back up again.
"I only see your acrobatic moves are a little bit hesitant at the beginning, but other than that, I really do not see anything wrong. So all I recommend is you practice your acrobatics. Also, try to see if you can try and incorporate anymore moves into your combos." I say to her and she nods her head in agreement.
Right before Doktor and I went back into the building. I hear the sliding of a sword going back into its sheath and then being placed on the ground. I also hear the crunching of grass under feet and assume she is now practicing her acrobatic moves. I see Doktor is waiting for me at the door and continue to walk to the building with the sounds of Marie practicing in the background.
To be continued...