Chapter 5: New body, old life
I went to my room and got rid of my clothing and weapons. I had intention of moving to this city to start a new life. Though I guess it would have been better elsewhere. At least they did not have demonic human altering robots back there. I've had to kill whole gangs before and only grimace slightly at what I caused.
Blood was nothing new to me, most of my money came from doing favourers for cities by killing off gangs that were causing a lot of trouble and get nice secret cash. When nothing was left I usually move else where. I make custom cars that only can be afforded by people with deep wallets and the profit from just a couple of weeks of work is amazing.
It's also quite funny at how much people would spend for a few days of work spent of hundred dollars of pure grade steel to make blades and armour. I came to this city because it already had a protector so I would just make cars and blades, the RS logo was one that many envied on bikes and cars. Reason being is that I would use only the highest grade materials.
I wanted a peaceful life here, all the shitheads would be taken care of by this hero they had well, I hoped that would be the case. Turns out that I was wrong, well I can't exactly reverse the operation so guess I'm going to cope. Then it struck me, in a few weeks it will be Jenny's 'manufacturing' day. Oh well may as well continue what I was working on last year but first have to get rid of some built up anger.
I went down to the traning room once more. This time I grabbed the "Angle wing" blade that was a long sword with a golden hilt and a pure diamond on the pommel (the counter-balance on the bottom of the hilt) where the steel rested. Like a wing it was curved with points sticking out of the side that looked like steel feathers.
In my other hand rested my "Daemon slayer" sword. Unlike my other blade this one was pure black with obsidian stone pommel. The steel was painted black with red flames streaked across it. These were the best swords I made and had no intention of selling them...ever.
I went to the armour section and I chose the light yet heavily plated "Soul keeper" armour. It was two inches of pure ceramic armour. It's amazing what a little bit of anti-gravity can do when infused with armour. From the original seventy kilograms that it was going to weigh with some patience I managed to infuse some anti-gravity into it making it a mere ten kilograms.
It was made by getting one layer of padded leather for comfort and putting a thin layer of steel around it. The ceramic was placed over the steel and bound to the leather and steel by melting the metal and ceramic together and leaving it to cool. To allow movement it was segmented into nine parts allowing protection of the joints but also allowing the same movement like I was wearing leather.* The ceramic was black with some streaks of white on it. Considering I have 1/12 inch of leather 1/8inch of steel and 2 inches of ceramic. This offered protection and with the anti-gravity movement unlike no other armour in the world.
I walked into the training room and commanded "Endurance test number 501"
"YES...LOADING...START" flashed the screen. With this a layer of twelve inch thick diamond appeared in front of me. It costed me a couple of thousand dollars to have it done but soon as I shatter it the pieces fall down and in a day are re-made. Thankfully I have about eight walls ready and this will take a lot of time to go through.
I concentrated and felt a sense of rage, it was primal and strong. I could feel my heart going faster than ever before. I thought of all the ones I lost before I came to this city. I though of everything that had been taken away from me in my past. I felt my arms tense and grip tighten. With this I rushed off to the wall started slashing at it with rage unlike anything I have felt before. Everything seemed to slow down, I did the first slash yet to me it took about five seconds to make contact. Though I did not know that there was someone in the room behind me... watching me.
(Third person view time)
Jenny walked into Rick's house without much of a problem. The scanners showed her as a friendly being so the defence mechanisms did not activate. Soon as she stepped onto the porch the door swung open. She wanted to talk to him to see how he was doing.
After one year of being gone they had a lot of catching up to do, he also had some explaining as to why he wanted to eradicate Vexus. I mean, sure she was evil but she did something to him to make him go insane and Jenny wanted to find out what it was. "Rick?" she called out. The only response she got was her own echo. After feeling a strong vibration coming from her left she decided to see what was going on.
She saw a steel door and stood in front of it. With a depression on a screen she put her hand there and the door recognised her from when she first put her hand for the front door. I gave her the green light and directed her to the training room. The glass in front of her showed something totally different from what she expected. She saw a figure in black and streaks of while slashing at a wall. The thing that scared her most was not the fact that he was slashing so fast that her eyes could hardly keep up. But that she knew her friend was in that room, in that armour and the force was beyond that of anything she had felt before. Each hit caused another shock wave and she was feeling them all. Though something she could not see was the diamond and the obsidian stones starting to glow...
(first person view)
I continued to lash out at the glass as if it was Vexus her self. I did a series of combos all involved twists, jumps and a lot of slashes, though I recognised that something was different. I stopped for a moment and looked at my arms. One of them was pulsating silver and the other was pulsating black. This was stopped at my torso, though the thing that really got me thinking was that I looked at my reflection in the diamond/glass wall and saw that this aura covered my whole body.
I tried experimenting and swapped hands, the same happened to the aura. I thought of more dark thoughts and eventually the darkness pulse increased and slowly ebbed over it's half of my body. I thought of good things like protecting other and shit, the same happened but the silver pulse ebbed back into place.
Then curiosity got the best of me, I thought of the most menacing thing ever and the darkness engulfed all of the silver. I looked at my self once more and saw that the ceramic had taken the same colour pattern of the blade. I felt power and strength coursing through me, I did the opposite and I thought about saving everyone I knew. Helping others in their times of need, the reaction was that the darkness was totally dispersed back only to my wrist and blade. The silver pulse made my armour feel lighter and I even saw it thickening. So my guess was that the darkness was used for combat and offence while the silver was for defence.
Then I tried one last thing. I thought of that jock that was trying to get Sheldon, I thought of what I did to him but then also with the fact that I protected Sheldon at the same time. The effect was awesome, the darkness covered me entirely while the silver lay under it. Now I felt the effect of both at the same time, my armour thickened and I felt strong enough to take down anything that stood in my way, this case it was a diamond wall. I walked up to the wall and with the black blade I did a diagonal slash, what happened after was not what I expected. From the crack a blast of black fire smothered the diamond and left it red-hot. With another swing it came crashing down.
Happy to see the effect I put my swords back in their sheaths and left. I also felt devoid of all anger and hate, the sword probably sapped it from me. Finally I may get a night's rest. Though I was shocked when I saw Jenny standing right behind the glass wall of the training room.
"Jenny? What are you doing here?" I asked
"I..I wanted to check on you. You seemed pretty angry at Vexus. Also you were gone for almost a whole year and I was really getting worried about what happened to you." She said
"Oh, well after a good work out like that it takes out the extra energy." I said
"Hmm, maybe I can convince my mother to do my work outs here. If it's okay with you that is."
"Sure, no problem. A little bit of company never hurt anyone."
"Anyway Rick, what happened to you?"
I told her about what happened after being abducted by Vexus. I told her every last detail, sorrow filled me as I just reminded myself about what happened to me.
"So basically you stayed, for pretty much one year not even concious?" She said
"Pretty much." I replied
I walked into the armoury and removed my armour and hung it in it's appropriate place. I knew I could have just used my new power to get it there in an instant but I tried to keep my self human as possible... most of the time at least.
"Woah... this is a lot of stuff" Jenny said as she looked at the walls filled to the brim with weapons ranging from simple daggers to malicious and menacing looking scythes and axes.
"Told you I had a lot of free time and I am good with metal." I said
"By the looks of what you were wearing I would not say just metal." She replied eyeing my Ceramic armour.
I put the swords back in their place and left the armoury. I decided after such a workout I should have a shower to ease the my tense muscles and slow my heart.
"Jen I'm gonna hit the shower, if you want the living room is just to the right k?" I said
"Okay." She replied casually and walked off to watch some tv.
I walked up the stairs to my room and shaved, took off my cloths got my robe and headed off to the bathroom. After about ten minutes I got out refreshed. I wiped my feet on the carpet and went back to my room. I dumped my cloths in the auto-cleaner, it's like a washing machine and dryer put together so there's no need for hanging the cloths.
Afterwards I put on some black jeans with a simple black t-shirt and my trusty steel toe boots, put on some deodorant and got my hair to my normal style like the first time I went to school. Then I went down to see what Jenny was up to.
When I reached the living room I heard her talking to some one "Hi, yeah he's okay now. Look, it's quite a sensitive subject about what happened while he was gone. If he wants you to know he'll tell you himself. Anyway, are you working tonight? Alright I'll go to mesmers at around... eight is that good? Alright I'll see if Rick wants to join us, maybe some company will cheer him up. Okay, bye Brad." Soon as she cut I walked around the corner to see that she has got her self comfortable on the couch.
"Oh hiya, just called Brad. He works at mesmers, you want to come?" She asked
"Sure, not like I have anything else to do." I replied.
"Alright, if you're ready let's go."
"Okay well my wallet and keys are near the door so yeah I'm good."
When we left the door her mother appeared on the monitor
"XJ-9, we have a problem. I just got a transmission from the cluster saying that they demand that we return Rick back!" she said
"WHAT, THEY HAVE THE NERVE TO DO THIS! WHERE ARE THEY!" I demanded
"Oh...Rick...they told me wha-" I cut her off
"Do you know where they are..." I said ominously
"Yes, they're in their primary war ship. They can disintegrate the earth into nothing within moments." She said
"Thanks." I said
I thought of my Soul keeper armour and my cloths were replaced by the ceramic armour. I though of the Deamon slayer and the Angle wing swords and they appeared on my back. Each blade running down the length of my back in a vertical fashion down to my knees.
"Rick, you're not going to-" Jenny asked
"I'll make them know that I will not go back. That ship is good as desolate. Vexus fears me with what I'm going to do now she better leave me alone or I'll hunt her down and mutilate her in the worst way I can imagine." I said my voice turning into a growl of hate and rage.
"I'm coming with you!" She stated
"Do as you wish but I warn you, I'm not going to hold back and do NOT get in my way. I don't want you getting hurt." I shot back
With that said I stood stiff and repeated the same process like that in the traning room. I felt the effects and teleported myself to the ship...
AN: Well now it's time for EPIC...oil bath? Well anyway I'm pretty fuckin' pissed off so I just wanted to leave a nice cliff-hanger (well can't really call it that because I'm probably going to have the next chapter up by tomorrow at latest. NOT PROMISING THOUGH). Read and review. I'm thinking of changing the name but I don't know... what ever anyway hope you enjoyed reading it :D
*Edit: I've recognised the fact that my paragraphing has been somewhat rubbish so even chapter two there's been a difference. I hope it looks better now!