Coruscant, Nighttime, the slums
Your prayers have reached me, hero of the past, I shall grant thy and thou companions thy help you need
it was all he heard before being engulfed by the light
He opened his eyes and felt pain, as he hadn't felt in a LONG time, but now everything hurt, raising his throbbing head- wait!
he glanced at his HANDS!
looking around himself, he found a pool of water on the ground, above it there was a pipe with the transparent liquid leaking through the cracks, dropping one droplet at a time. approaching the pool, the warrior kneeled to look at his reflection, and thanks to a dim light that was shining nearby he could see the form of his face, with a little extra from his night vision he could see the details; yes, this was his face, physical, not a hologram as before
but HOW? He was- wait…
'... that… that voice… they… but how… no, it doesn't matter now. urgh,' he tried getting up despite the pain. He felt his hands again, his head, his entire body, everything was here… he got his body back…
not wanting to waste any more time, the legendary warrior looked around him, it appears he was in a slum but this was not right, he was at the command room of the resistance base. How and why was he here?
… well… staying still was not going to answer his questions, so looking forward he could see a street and people (hopefully, they wouldn't be hostile towards reploids), pressing forward the warrior of legend stepped into the street and was met with a crowd of … strange creatures, to say the least; there were humans, blue-skinned humanoids with two tentacles coming out of their heads, scale-covered humanoids and other creatures.
While this all was bizarre, he could not stop nor stay still, he needed to get back to the resistance and fast!
Walking down the street he could feel the crowd's eyes following him, while they were strange to him, he was strange to them, this could be a problem if he didn't do something fast. looking for the signs spread across the city, the warrior could not understand them, which should be impossible, he has a multiversal translator installed in his brain-like processor so being unable to understand a language was supposed to be impossible. not wanting to dwell on these thoughts and get lost, the warrior looked for a store where he could either purchase some sort of dictionary of this strange language or a driver with this new language pre-installed in it.
finding what seemed to be a mechanoloid parts shop, he entered it in hopes of at least finding a hardware piece capable of understanding what was all this strange language.
"Excuse me, is there anyone here?" The warrior said looking at all the parts and- '!'
Corpses of deactivated mechanoloids 'better not… look this way'
"Hum? Quem é você? E qual é a dessa roupa?" A deep voice bellowed from another part of the store
Turning towards the voice, the warrior was… well, not too surprised, given how much strangeness he had seen on the street outside, but he was surprised nonetheless. The strange creature looked humanoid in shape, but he had four arms, with three fingers on each hand, tan skin, and a very bizarre attire that looked like a cross between a Japanese kimono and a middle-age leather robe.
"an.. hello. I'm looking for a universal translator device. Do you perhaps have some in stock?" the Warrior asked approaching the creature
"Hum? ei, fale numa língua que eu entenda rapaz, eu não falo outra língua nativa que não seja a minha ou Básico Galáctico" the creature answered
There it dawned on the warrior. He could NOT understand this creature and if he was planning to buy anything, the first thing he should be doing is getting the man, thing, creature to understand his words. glancing around in a panic, he was looking for anything he could write on to try and communicate with the strange-looking shop clerk.
"ah… sir" the warrior pointed at the clerk "I need paper and a pen," he said gesturing with his hands like he was writing on something "do you understand?" he was feeling ridiculous doing this
"hm? o que? Você está falando em outra língua? huff rapaz eu já falei, não falo outra língua que não- espera aí, o que você..." the clerk was trying to make sense of the moving hand and the open palm but it just made him more confused "eu não entendo essa coisa que você está fazendo com as mãos"
The warrior was a bit frustrated by this. He needed something to allow him to communicate but what?
as if answering his unspoken question, a reploid entered the shop, or at least it was what the warrior thought before seeing it, this…
"Are you a… robot?" the legendary warrior asked, completely shocked and frustrated, wherever he was, it was pretty much not Neo Arcadia and it was underdeveloped facepalming. this was not going well for him 'Wait! perhaps this robot can help me' "hey, you" he called the robot
"Sim, Senhor?" the robot answered in the strange language, clearly not understanding a word of his.
the warrior was frustrated but made a few hand gestures to the robot to go to him, as the robot approached him, he switched his language from Japanese to binary code, a language of sorts to reploids should they need to interact with old type machines
"Can you understand me now?" the warrior asked
"What? H-how can you- you. You're a... droid?!" The robot asked surprised in binary
"Droid…?" The Warrior asked confusedly before answering "No, I am a Reploid, ah… well that is- anyway, can you help me with your coworker? I don't have the language he's speaking in my data bank" the Reploid explained, hoping the robot would help him
"Ei, o que você tá fazendo com o meu Droid?" The clerk asked a bit irritated with the interaction, not having heard a single word both mechanical entities spoke so far
"Mestre, ele não conhece Básico Galáctico" the droid said looking at his owner, before hearing more words from the Reploid "Ele é um… Reploid, como ele disse ser, e ele está interessado em comprar bancos de dados com linguagens pré-instaladas"
The shop clerk was surprised, to say the least, not knowing Galactic BASIC?!
Just what kind of backwater planet does this man come from, "Reploid"? Was that the name of his species? And… a database with pre-installed languages? Seriously? What was he going to do with that, he didn't have a protocol droid with him, to begin with
"E o que é que ele pretende fazer com um banco de dados? Ele não tem um droid com ele" the clerk asked finding this really fishy
The droid heard the "Reploid" speak some more before translating "ele vai instalar em si mesmo"
"..." The clerk was stunned for a moment "Ele vai o que?"
"Instalar em si mesmo. Ele é um tipo de droid, senhor"
This… was…. Weird… but he wasn't going to keep asking too much, except
"E como que ele vai pagar?"
After translating to Reploid and receiving an answer "Ele vai pagar em Cristais de Energia"
The Reploid placed his hand on his belt and a small section opened allowing him to pick an item he, somehow, knew was there and showed it to the clerk. It was a small blue container with glasses on the sides and a strange turquoise liquid inside.
The clerk eyed the container before extending his and the Reploid placed the container in it. Sure enough, it was a strange turquoise liquid but the container itself was the real deal for him; first, the metal didn't feel heavy not did it feel like the average metals that are used around
"É essa a moeda do seu povo?" The clerk asked wanting to get an idea if it was worth anything
"Ele disse que é e que também é uma fonte de energia caso precise mas não é pra abusar, uma gota desse líquido é capaz de energizar uma casa por dias" the droid translated before the Reploid touched it arm and spoke some more "isso se estiver usando apenas os equipamentos domésticos padrões, caso seja outra coisa aí é preciso um pouco mais"
The clerk was… impressed? No, too bland. amazed? Too far off. Shocked? Yeah, that was the word.
In this little container has a liquid capable of powering a house for at least a few days? Not counting any more power-consuming devices. Just how has he never heard of this? Actually, scratch that, how have the galaxy never even heard of this?
If word got out that such a powerful energy source existed, then certainly it would make every other energy company turn red with envy.
He couldn't possibly use this thing even if he wanted, the possibilities of attracting criminals, smugglers, and other people with bad reputations was high, he couldn't possibly accept this even if it was truly worth all that much
"Pega essa coisa e sai da minha loja!" The clerk said giving back the container and pushing the Reploid toward the exit
"W-wait up!" The Reploid tried to speak but unfortunately the clerk pushed him out of the store and closed the door, not allowing him in "..." 'Guess I'll have to find it somewhere else' with that he started following the road again, hoping to find somewhere he could get answers.
Sometime later
It was pointless… No matter where he went, he either couldn't communicate with shop sellers and had to go or he managed to find a 'droid' that could translate for him and end up being kicked out of the shop after showing the E-crystal container.
the best he could hope for now was to find somewhere safe to shut down and rest for a while, before-
"Release me, I haven't done anything wrong!" The warrior heard a familiar voice, it was Cerveau!
"O senhor não tem permissão para acessar essa rede de dados e a constante insistência em desobedecer as leis nos força a prendê-lo senhor. agora coopere" someone said in the strange language of this place
the reploid ran as fast as he could until he found an aircraft with red and blue light, was that some sort of police plane? no matter he found Cerveau
"Cerveau!" the warrior called running toward him, ignoring the robots with the resistance member
"What? Copy X?!" Cerveau asked scared trying to go behind the robots
"what? No, no, Cerveau, it's me, X!" X said getting close to him "I know, I know, I was a Cyber-elf before but- I don't how I turned into a Reploid either, but what's important is that we found each other" he finished reaching out to Cerveau's shoulder
Cerveau looked at X's hand on his shoulder, a little Skeptical but then he looked at X's eyes, they were green. Copy X's eyes were red and he had this maniacal aura around him, but this… this is X, he was good-hearted and he was covered in an aura of calmness and goodness
this. is. the REAL X!
"Ei, você conhece esse homem?" one of the robots spoke touching X's shoulder
'Oh… right… there is still the problem with these guys and their language' X thought sweat dropping "sir, I'm sorry about my friend, he and I, we are lost"
"hum? vocês não falam básico galáctico? Que língua é essa?" the officer didn't understand them
again X was in a really bad situation. how could they communicate if no one other than robots could- wait, these police officers are robots!
"Sir, can you understand me now?" X asked in binary
"you- you're a droid?" the droid officer asked surprised
"... would please explain to me what a droid is?" X asked exasperated until he remembered what was more important "No, forget that, I AM NOT a droid, me and my friend here, we are reploids"
"Replo- what?"
"... n-never mind. could please pardon my friend. we are both lost here…" X looked around the streets and buildings "wherever this place is"
the two police officers looked at one another "you don't know where you are?"
"No… and… I can't really explain without it sounding weird, now if there's anything I can do to let my friend go, please tell me" X averted the subject and returned to the matter at hand
the officers looked at one another, this was not in their programming and this situation was really out of hand
"Listen, we can't really let your friend go off easily, but perhaps if you two accompany us to the station we can get you some help. that is if you want it" one of the officers spoke trying to come with a reasonable solution
X and Cerveau debated about their situation and this solution, deciding they could have better chances with some information, they came up with a solution
"Unfortunately we will have to decline" X answered before continuing "but we would like to ask if there is someplace where we can learn more about this city and possibly learn how to speak the local language"
"Yes, we… are worried about our friends, which we were separated from before arriving here." Cerveau added sincerely
both officers looked at one another, this was going to be complicated "I'm sorry, but you still need to come with us, we have to report about you two to the system"
With this answer, both reploids looked at one another and knew they could not lose any more time here
"Sorry officers, but we cannot stay here any longer" X said before activating his buster arm, his left arm shining briefly to switch between his hand mode and buster mode.
both the officers were flabbergasted at the sudden change in X's arm and attitude towards them, but unfortunately, now they had to subdue him
"Hands in the air!" the officers said as their pulled out their blasters
X looked above the officers and saw a sign hanging a little behind them, raising his buster, the Blue bomber shot out a small charged shot, which blew the sign's hanging structure and as it fell both the officers jumped out of the way in fear. this gave X and Cerveau enough time to run away.
"Contate o restante da força tarefa, informe que estamos procurnado um homem de 30 anos usando um traje verde e visor laranja sob os olhos e um jovem de 16 anos usando um capacete, jaleco e roupas azuis com um braço protetico com um blaster personalizado" The droid officer said to his partner before persuing the fleeing duo
X and Cerveau ran as fast as they could trying their hardest to evade the police robots. Eventually both ran towards a Warehouse area of the city, hiding themselves at one of them, most of the police officers passed right through the warehouse they were in.
Sighing in relief both reploids sit down to gather their thoughts and bearings back.
"X… how did you-" Cerveau started asking the first thing that really got into his mind ever since he saw the legendary reploid back in his own body, although with a strange getup gear
"Trust me Cerveau… I don't know either" X answered but then followed the old engineer's gaze towards his clothes, now noticing how strange his attire looked like "Well… I didn't notice this before…"
"What are we going to do?" Cerveau still had many questions, but as he could sense in X's voice, he have questions as well
"For now. let's try and avoid been seen and get out of this city" X explained his plan
"Então vocês são os caras que causaram toda aquela confusão no setor inferior" a voice spoke in the dark, before a figure jumped from the railing on the upper part of the warehouse "Eu devo dizer, vocês realmente chamam muita atenção" the figure said before taking something from its belt
Cerveau ran towards X trying to get as far as he could from the newcomer, while X activated his buster again, just then the figure pressed a button on the object it took from its belt and a green beam saber activated itself, revealing a human male with some yellow marking on his face
"Então, eu acho melhor você abaixar esse blaster. Não é uma boa ideia usar isso contra um Jedi" the Newcomer said before posing with his weapon in front of him
X knew this was going to be a really difficult battle