Seems that I'm steadily updating a bit faster, so heres a new one C:


What are you thinking? Of course I was wearing the clothes of a casual in that bookstore!

Oh, my.

I entered a dank alleyway, the kind where a heist would usually begin, but today, there were no such thieve to spook me.

I heard the ghost message me about his transmat status, we had a destination other than orbit this time, I'm sure that you'll like it. After a wide scan range, big enough to sense if there was anyone who could walk past the alleyway. It'd sure give them a fright if they saw a person become wiped by a blue line, then disappear completely. If they didn't know any better, they'd think that I was a ghost of a person who is still tied to this world by unfulfilled wishes, and that me transmatting was actually me coming to terms with myself and leaving this existence for the next one!

Pah, as if that could ever happen!

Wow, as I was thinking that, the transmat light spooked me. Well, I didn't jump or stagger, but at least no one knew about it. Robotic sniggering slightly echoed through the alleyway. Or at least, in my own head but...

Agh, you bastard!

That was the last of it, as the rest of the snickering was overthrown by the digital effects of the warp-speeed like effects of the action. The effect was that instead of standing in an boring old alleyway, I was now sitting inside of a futuristic space craft! Hurrah!

"Now, you get to that new story, I'll get us to the place we need to go..." Cup magically spawned a light behind him, giving him the image of an angel as he looked at me.

Impossible...it cannot be! A...a warrior of Sunlight!? Here!?

"Nice...I'll get right into it." The book was still in my hand the whole time, I didn't want to hold onto it with two hands in public, that would make me look like a wimp! Guardians are not wimps!

Except, you know, those losers whos' snipers aim for them. Obviously. They are what me and and the other guardians who have skill so accurately call 'No-skillers'. To kill without skill, is their motto.

The front of the book, so brilliant! Even ig it was just brown and black!

It was the image of a person who held a bolt of what seems to be lightning in his hand, aiming at the sky, but you could only see a little bit of his face. Behind him, towards the spine of the book, were little stretches of similarly jagged things, but only the tips, the rest ended abruptly.

Until I turned it over!

The typical book blurb that I would read later on, but for now, I'm going to inspect the lightning. I held the book a little closer, seeing past the smash of no doubt detailed summary at the back. There were several people, doing the same thing as the person on the front cover, the most different thing I knew was that everyone on the back all looked the same. I didn't notice the horns that came from their smoothly shaped heads, or more likely, armor. I'd read up a bit on this series, and the tags associated. 'Super-natural' was not one of them, at least not to the point where there would be devils or angels. But now to the blurb! Ha-ha!

I zoomed away from the people on the back, towards the details on the back. Here is what it said:

In ancient times, nothing existed.

Only great trees that hid in clouds and the immortal dragons that ruled them. An era of grey.

And then there was fire. From the reaches of the world, four beings found four souls.

Aetho, First of the damned.

The Sorceress of Eizolast, and her children of chaos.

Gw-

"Were here."

That was fast! Oh well...My duties came first, right? But man, time really does fly when...when... what? Sod it.

The adventure in my hands closed shut, blasting a wind to my face, before I placed it aside. Turning to the glass of the wind-screen, I saw a familiar city. But as each second passed, everything faded outwards. Only a specific building wasn't phased from sight, pretty big, compared to all the little businesses around it. It was a building that I lived in. Looked just like a place that a mechanical savant would call a 'great place', It looked secluded, but it wasn't actually closed. The ship slowed and, quickly warped me to a set location. It's quicker warping there than any other place, because programming is familiar with this location. Nice, right?

I appeared from a blue flash, into a small white room with Cup next to me. We turned to each other.

"I'll let you get back to your...ehe, tech work." Yeah, other than being a dedicated sniper, I was a technical nerd. Well, I guess when you're as old as me, you get a lot of experience, which is always a good thing. A common joke in the tower was that no one could find me when I was on lookout because I was covered in moss from all the not-moving thing. That was actually a funny joke.

I laughed, remembering when I told a friend that I had randomly found an armor shader called 'Mossgreen'.

I sure miss the tower. Been a while since I...you know, got trapped in a vex ninja cloud. Do you kid guardians call it that? Am I cool now?

"And I will let you get on with your business." Honestly. I had no idea at all what he does in here. I moved to a clear door. When I'm off duty, this mechanic's house is my natural habitat. And today, is when I make adjustments for a thing that I've been building, as well as try to fix the things that people bring in, obviously.

I don't know why I have all these skills, but the first time I got to the tower, I just felt that I was familiar with the more difficult parts of machinery. While the 'difficult' part could be debated, I'm talking about more that just controlling them with a stick and some buttons, no.

I'm talking about the places where sparks fly, where metal is cut to make the parts that will form your creation.

I'm talking about the time spent getting the wiring correct, a single strand of mesh will make your creation defunct, and that is quite frustrating.

I'm talking about the time spent analyzing the programming that would be the basis of the machine's actions.

Like I said, I can't remember anything about this in the life before, nothing at all, actually.

I can't think of more off of the top of my head, because I was making sure everything in my little room was there. The computer that I use to make the behaviors of machines, yes, it's still there. Tools, ahh the tools, little and large pieces of scrap metal found in a recently-abandoned warehouse on the other side of the world, such variety!

There was a lot of things to account for in here. Actually, it's a pretty large room, it's like the place where you would put a car for the mechanic to lift with a machine, to find the problem with your vehicle. The place is as big, but there wasn't the same equipment used in there.

Instead, along the walls, were utility carts that every industrial grounds should have, wrenches, spanners, all kinds of screwdrivers...it all continues! In the very middle of the room, sat a large black ball that sat on a table, about the size of a servitor, but connected to a laptop that I'd set up on another. Other than that, there were a few steel carts lined with boxes of what I'd need for the job.

I had left the book in the Aspect, and, don't worry, that ninja ship can do a little trick that saves a whole lot of space.

I walked to the center of the area, feeling the cold concrete even through my civilian shoes, it's early in the morning at this area of the world. But guardians hath no need for rest! I did have a bed though, sometimes, you just gotta treat yourself, you know? For me, having a bit of a snooze is one of the ways. A good series is another.

I was at the servitor-sized thing, took an inspecting look around it, before ending at the 'techtop' that I set up a little while ago. Yes, I call it that. Yes, I accept your labeling of me as 'nerd'.

Oof, even the keys felt cold in this early morning. Well, I ignored it, in favor for something more interesting. I like to keep the people in my head from the boring, mundane things that I usually see, I'd only show interesting stuff to my visitors!

With a final tap on a button, the servitor-sized ball beside me hummed mechanically, and gained a purple hue.

Well, it's the size of a servitor because...heh.

I am a nerd, yes.


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