Part 5: Aly'neer
Steel District, Last City, Earth
It didn't take Usiku long to realize why this section of the City was called the "Steel District." All it took was a quick glance and one would notice that the district housed the much of Exo population. After searching and asking a few of his Exo brethren, Usiku found Aly'neer location. A small, two-story house built into the wall. Usiku knocked on the door.
Slowly it opened, revealing an elderly Awoken woman. She had light blue skin, neon green eyes, and thistle-colored hair.
"Are you Aly'neer ma'am?" Usiku asked.
She shook her head," one minute dear."
The elderly Awoken closed the door and minute later it open again. Another Awoken but she was much younger. As least fifteen years of age. She had mauve pixie cut hair, similar light blue skin, and neon green eyes.
"Yes," she asked," you're looking for me?"
"Um no offense," he answered with flat tone, "but your-"
"A kid." Roho interposed.
"Humph I see and if this kid wasn't an expert on a certain woman who seem to be every Exo memory bank then maybe you should find someone else!"
Aly'neer nearly slam the door shut but Usiku manage to grab on to it at the last minute. He force the door wide open almost breaking it off the hinges.
"Wait," he pleaded," I need your help."
Aly'neer smirked," of course you do. Come on inside."
Usiku enter the house he could tell it was a modest looking place as he glance around. The modest look change when followed Aly'neer into her personal studio.
Massive computers and monitors. Machine part where scatter around on floor and weird pieces making ominous humming noise. The studio was nothing short pig stein. Aly'neer sat down on a chair and turn on one of the monitors. She then took out several small, cup shape devices from a cabinet drawer.
"Sit." she tapped on the floor next to her.
Usiku, though somewhat confused, sat down on the metal floor. He watch quietly as Aly'neer began to place some of the devices on his body.
"What does this have to do with the woman?" Usiku asked after several minutes of silence.
"That what I've been trying to figure out," she answered," you see, there was this Exo I was friends with not that long ago. Rather talkative tin-man that got me interested on how you tin-cans work.
"He used to tell me stories about a woman and some kind of tower. The Deep Stone Crypt, have you heard of it?"
"No."
"Huh weird, nearly all Exos I meet always talk about it when they start to dig deep into their memory banks but also some saw the woman.
"You see I think this woman might have been the first Exo even though she's human."
"Care to explain how a human can turn herself into an Exo?"
"And there lies the problem," she placed the last device on his forehead," I've been running into a little roadblock for some time now. Most regarding how did she turn herself and the location of the Deep Stone Crypt.
"An Exo memory bank are usually so fragmented and broken that her identity, how she turned, and the Crypt's location is lost but you seem different."
"Because I'm a guardian?"
She shook her head," I've examine a few Exo guardians before but you just seem… new. I don't know, like fresh off the workbench new."
Usiku titled his head and let out a simple "um."
"It just hard for me to explain," she laughed, having never seen a confused Exo before," anyways mind summoning your light bulb?"
"I'm a Ghost actually," Roho said, martialing himself in a blue wisp," Usiku are you sure about this?"
"It's not like I got any other options."
"Are you two done chit-chatting?" Aly'neer asked, sounding somewhat annoyed.
"Fine," Roho sighed," what do you want me to do?"
"Just scan him or whatever you light bulbs do to repair guardians."
"And me?" Usiku asked.
"Meditate."
"So you want me to think?"
"No, I want you to stop talking and just be quiet."
Ignoring her sarcasm, Usiku began to meditate, and entered a dream-like state he has enter many times before, which he was all too familiar with.