Keitaro Levels Up!
Chapter 2: Seta To The Rescue!
Four weeks later
Seta had been sitting in front of his laptop for days searching for the symbol he had seen on the helicopter that had taked Keitaro. "Dammit, Keitaro, where are you?" His assistant, Leslie had been coming by with research and food. The research he ignored, the food he didn't. He was perpetually typing and clicking, getting that much closer to finding him. Leslie came into the apartment with some takeout. She was in her mid 20's with a thin build and long blonde hair. Oh, and did I mention a stubborness complex? "Hey Seta, found anything yet?" she asked as she kicked the door closed with her foot.
"No," he said and just kept on typing.
"Geez, are you gonna stop? It's been four weeks, you need to face it Seta, he's gone," Leslie said with some sadness at the end of her sentence. "I mean, he's my friend too and I'm gonna miss him just as much as you," she said as she motioned to put her hand on his shoulder.
Then something happened. Seta's computer lit up with colors and schematics and long trails of code scrolling down the screen and it suddenly stopped. A voice said, "Welcome to the Gavicorp main-frame, please enter your security passcode"
Leslie looked over at Seta. "Um, Seta, what are doing? And how many laws are we breaking here?" She said wondering if he was even listening.
Asterisks lit up and Seta was immediately in the mainframe looking through blueprints and readouts searching for Keitaro's name. He sent out a search program and came across a file in the results called "Project Bodyguard". He clicked on it and scrolled past diagrams and diagrams of machines and technologies he never even thought were possible. Seta was already quite disturbed from what he was reading... and also because he hadn't gone to the bathroom in three days. But what disturbed him the most was what he found now. It was a complete life history of... Keitaro. Every single detail about his life condensed into a single document. Now what Seta found at the bottom was a cut-away picture of Keitaro's insides, but his organs weren't organs. They were mechanical objects he could never possibly describe. The only thing left even remotely untouched was his brain, but not even that was intact.
"Leslie, get my van ready."
Gavicorp Labs- Nanotech Division
A man with a shadowed face stood behind a window looking down at the surgery taking place. "You know I still believe this is the right decision, Number 3," he said to another sitting in a chair beside him drinking a cup of tea.
"To tell you the Number 4, I'd have rather had a giant burrito rule the world than let you continue this project," he said simply and went back to his tea.
"Well, I don't think that's a vote of confidence," Number 4 said in a slightly annoyed tone.
Back at Seta's apartment
"Okay, I've switched you with the janitor who works this shift," Leslie said into her headset, "I've changed everything, even the retinal scans"
"You're a doll, keep me posted," Seta said into his headset as he drove up to the building and put on his janitor's outfit and went inside.
He went up to the front desk and showed the receptionist his badge. She ran the bar code through a scanner and took his fingerprints.
Sweat started to gather on his forehead. "What kind of stuff is goin' on that even the janitor has to fingerprints and retinal scans?" he thought to himself.
"Okay. You're clear. Your keys are on the rack," the receptionist said pointing backwards with her pen.
Seta grabbed the keys and got to work. He didn't dare try to call Leslie, the place had to be monitoring every transmission in and out. So he might as well search the labs. He went around six of them, but he had to clean them all to make sure no one noticed his snooping. So after the huge disturbance of finding a very large pair of underwear clogging a toilet, he came upon a giant operating room with none other than everyone's favorite pathetic loser, Keitaro!
Two men were leaving as Seta came in but made no move to look back as they walked out.
Seta got to work. He immediately opened up the computer access terminal nearby and downloaded all of the files on Keitaro. He now wondered how the hell he was going to get Keitaro out of here.
Back in the van
"Where the hell is he?" Leslie thought as she went through the Gavicorp mainframe, looking for anything that could help figure out what happened to Keitaro. The door of the van flew open as Seta put a large trash bag on the floor. "I hope you haven't been waiting long," he said a bit sarcastically.
"Funny guy," she said as she started the van and drove out of the parking lot. The van had gotten out onto the road and was on its way to getting to an airport and taking Keitaro home. A large explosion rips into the ground next to the van, causing it to swerve wildly. In the van, Seta was getting his chain gun at the ready to rip through anything that moved. Unfortunately, Seta couldn't lift it out of the case.
A rocket screamed through the air, heading straight at the van!
End Chapter 2
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