UnaEXE – A Week in Each Others Shoes
Chapter 7 – Awakening
Sorry for the extremely late update, there are mulitple reasons including writers block and lack of Internet.
It took Mayl ten minutes before she stopped staring blankly and reacted to Sarah's announcement, her legs folded beneath her as she collapsed to the floor. Through the fog that surrounded her senses, she could hear Mamoru and Sarah tell Lan about how Hub was reacting like he'd never suffered from HBD, how every piece of the disease that should be lying dormant in him wasn't there. How he was finally cured completely with no chance of a relapse, but still doomed to die.
Sarah and Mamoru watched as Lan and Mayl walked around the house doing their normal tasks, they walked around in a daze doing what they had done for the last twelve years out of force of habit. MegaMan and Roll had been jacked in and although they appeared to be taking the news better than Lan and Mayl, Sarah and Mamoru could see the same expression of hopelessness in their eyes.
Mamoru went home early to do some research in the hope of finding a cure for Una. He couldn't operate on her as if she was human and Sarah's attempts to help could do more harm than good. Sarah had wanted to stay, but Mayl had insisted she leave, she had, under a single condition that Hub was about to find out about.
Hub wearily opened his eyes expecting to see Una looking straight at him, the face staring at him was a navi, 12 years looking at navis next to humans allowed him to tell the difference between navis and humans at a glance, but it wasn't Una.
She wore a nurse's cap and had blond hair with blue eyes. She also wore blue and white armour and had a smile that looked like it was permanently stuck to her face. It wasn't stuck in as if she was only capable of being happy, just as though she was in an extreme state of happiness Hub had never seen before.
"Hi, my name is Cinnamon," smiled the navi, "How are you feeling this morning Hub?" Her tone had a quality of youth that Hub didn't find reassuring, it sounded like his 5 year old cousin Sam.
"Better than ever," replied Hub truthfully, he felt more energetic than he could ever remember feeling, it was like he was on a permanent netbattle buzz, "Just how old are you?" he asked Cinnamon
"7 hours and 48 minutes," replied Cinnamon promptly, "I am fully programmed with human biological and psychological data."
"So you're the result of twelve minutes throwing textbooks into a navi," replied Hub a little coldly.
"Yup," replied Cinnamon a little too brightly for Hub's liking, "They said they had my design on file so they dug out some electronically stored medical textbooks and downloaded them into my memory."
"They designed a nurse navi with no memory of medicine?" asked a confused Hub.
"No silly," replied Cinnamon, "A navi's armour design is based upon it's personality."
"So you're the result of a bubbly girl with medical knowledge," replied Hub, "Is this summer going to get any better?"
"If you count dying as better than defiantly," replied Cinnamon in the same cheerful tone.
Hub sat bolt upright in the bed and Cinnamon gave a little sigh before turning back to him.
"Please relax and lie down Hub," she shook her head as she spoke, "Or I'll be forced to restrain you."
"Relax!" yelled Hub, "I'm going into relapse and you're telling me to relax!"
Cinnamon clicked her tongue in impatience. "I never said you were going into relapse Hub."
"But you said I'm going to die," responded Hub.
"Una's going to die," replied Cinnamon, "You're just going to die too thanks to some weird connection thingy."
"Oh," replied Hub. He sat still for a moment before rushing out of the room.
