Hello everyone, voting is over and a consensus has been reached! Kinda hoped more people would vote, but needs must as they are! So, I'll waste no time in showing you all how Jack's week has been since he last left the (semi) ruins of Thailand, shall we?

(PS. These 'training' and preparation weeks between other Active Quests will be written in a different format than the rest of the story. Just want to clarify that now before it jars anyone reading this en masse. Thank you)

Of course, here is the winning vote for anyone curious:

[X] Point alocation
-[X] 1 Stat Point to Speed
-[X] 1 Stat Point to Wisdom
-[X] 1 Stat Point to Luck
-[X] Save the Perk Point

Monday: Choose 2

[X] Test your new Jet-pack(name pending) and record it's new capabilities

[X] Work on Robot Design (Costs 1 Action)
-[X]Stealth/Infiltration Droid(Prototype)
-[X] Improve on it's abilities, get better skill sources
Now, in the immortal words of Bender Bending Rodregez:

LLLLLLEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTT'SSSSSSS GOOOOOOOOOO ALLLLLLLLLLRRRRRREEEEEAAAADDDDDDYYYYYYY!

Monday:

I was the first day back home since the awful trip to Thailand, and truthfully? You wanted nothing more then to stay their in your nice, comfy, evil bed and to sleep the day away.

Sadly, both your ambition and the universe in general seemed hell bent on preventing that from happening, as your alarm clock blazed to life for the third time in three minutes. Literally, you had installed the thing with a degradable fireworks system to ensure you wouldn't be able to sleep through the unique combination of sight, sound, and smell that was fireworks.

You cursed your own genius and flare for the dramatic, as you brought yourself out of bed and down into your accompanying bathroom, looking like Death warmed over.

You felt like it too, all things considered. You had aches in places you didn't want to think about right now, deep bags under your eyes from the headache pounding at your temples preventing you from getting much in the way of deep sleep, and let's not even get started on Wuya.

After getting home, she just floated up the stairs and you neither you nor your Bot's had seen the Spirit since her departure. You knew she probably wouldn't go too far, and she obviously could take care of herself, so you decided to prioritize your own development at the moment.

If there was one good thing to come out of the absolute train-wreck that was fighting Kid, it was the revelation that all your current inventions...Your helipack, your Bots, they just... weren't enough, not for the level you were going to be facing.

And while you knew they were weaker then what your Grandfather and Năinai could make, you knew that that was holding yourself to a ridiculous standard. Like a fight between a Grey Hound, and a Greyhound Bus. You could obviously tell who would win.

And the helipack... the first thing you actually built on your own, that you felt PRIDE in... it chafed to have it so quickly destroyed.

But that didn't matter at the moment. You couldn't go back and change history, you had to face reality and move ahead with yourself. As Năinai said,

'A Plant Doesn't stop growing when it meets opposition. It goes around and Above.'

That had stuck with you when you heard it so many years ago, and for so long you thought it didn't apply to you anymore. You had reached a ceiling far and beyond what the average person could reach, and you were... not content, but 'happy' enough with that. Then the things like Magic, and Monks, and Insanely Strong Wrestlers became a thing and you were left feeling woefully unprepared.

That would not happen again.

So, you got to work, starting with the newest 'tool' in your arsenal.

The Jet-Pack (which you would have to name soon. It was too cool to NOT have one.)

So here you stood in one of the many open courtyards of your families home, surrounded by a small detail of three Jack-bots on the ready to help and protect you in case anything went awry.

As you simply stood there for a moment with the new piece of equipment on your back, you took the moment to categorize some of the differences between this model and your old one you could tell already.

'To start with, it's quite a bit bulkier than the first model, which would way me down in the event of taking on water or weight stability needed. It also doesn't fully compact, due to its more motorized wings, which will make sitting down smoothly a bit of a hassle until I get some practice... alright, let's give it a spin.'

As you activated the small control beacon in your sleeve to activate the pack, you jumped slightly as you felt the wings detach and maglock into their 'flight' mode, nearly throwing off your center of balance at the abrupt shift in weight you had acclimatized to in the short period of time.

'Okay, another difference. Activation is slightly slower than previous model and shifts almost the entirety of its weight from the whole of the back to the shoulder area. Gonna have to be aware of that while walking or moving. The wingspan is also a little wider than the blades on the previous, but not by much. Alright, Showtime.'

With a quick gripping of your touch-system gloves, the engines in the wing cases quickly fires up, raising you an exact foot off the ground, and no more.

As you practiced floating around at different paces, you looked and listened for the differences.

'Hmm. So far differences in ascension are negligible, straight lines and turns seem to be a little faster, and diagonal or rabid movements seem to cause it to stutter for a moment. About to be expected.'

Minimum flight test done, you moved onto the serious stuff. Acceleration, and Maneuverability.

Thus, it was within seconds that you rapidly ascended above the walls that kept your property seperated from the land around it, and further still until you were level with the mountain tip in the distance. VERY surprised at just how fast that was, you took a moment to catch your breath in the thin air, and quickly decided that was a stupid, dropping a few dozen feet in a controlled manner with your feet straight.

Now at a more manageable altitude, you looked around your view of the sky and decided to have a fun.

It was then you pulled your goggles down, oriented yourself to the mountain face, and set yourself forward at a pace many a helicopter would be hard to output. You desperately fought the urge to smile as wide as you could as you felt the wind stinging against your face at the speeds you were pacing out, and before you knew it, you had reached the Matterhorn of the ever so Distant mountain from your House's view, and you didn't hesitate in letting out loud fits of laughter as you took in the view and the capabilities of your new flying machine, which did not even feel warm from the rapid flight.

You knew I was a good idea to test it.

(You have Gained a thorough understanding of your new Jet(wing) Pack.)

It wasn't until later that afternoon you arrived back home, calming down your bots who were about to call the authorities fearing you had been kidnapped by Southern Yeti's (What?) and have a sorta lunch with Kristen. Well, more so say bye to her as you ate a sandwich while she went on a 'Job' that was more likely then not to see her girlfriends... or rob some guy, they weren't mutually exclusive.

After your delicious, you saw that it was only 3ish and decided that you might as well do something else today.

So, while making your way down to the Lab in hopes of finding what that something should be, your eyes eventually made their way over to the Bot machine where you made Bob; and wasn't THERE a Bot you shouldn't have forgotten about.

Granted, he was buggy as hell, copied ANYTHING with no filter, and only 'lived' for like, a day and a half, but damn-it it grated that your creation was ended so summarily.

'Why not fix that then?'

Was all that went through your head as you stared at the program for your Adaption Droid and got to work.

For hours upon hours, you sheared and added lines of code that would make the greatest of techie's cry out in jealousy, but still you typed. It was only after realizing it was 11 PM and going though a case and a half of pudding that you finally became aware of the outside world again.

That didn't matter to you know though, as you looked over your work with a sense of pride.

Now that you knew the Hyper Learning program could cause such issues, you dialed it back, and instead turned it into a system where the Bot would only record what it could understandably use to either better itself, or help its master. These parameters also ran on a logic center that would prevent it from either going out of control, or using what it learned to free itself.

Pretty good for a day's work if you said so yourself. So, with a yawn, you went to your bed for some much needed sleep.

END OF MONDAY

Okay, so I was Originally just going to make this one GIGANTIC lump sum chapter until the dice say the next Wu activates, but I have a bad history of losing such works as you can probably understand. Thus, I am instead going to be breaking up these chapters into their individual days until the next Wu arrives. Cool? Cool. Alright then, see you all with Tuesday and So forth Soon![/spoiler]