The awakening.

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"Of course is yes."

"What is yes?" A female voice asked.

He opened his eyes. At first was embossed, but blinking hard the image was fixing.

It was an old small room with cracks in the wall and a small wooden window painted blue and some old and rusty machines, like steampunk computers.

Two old lady's wearing dresses and scarfs filled with patchworks smiled at him.

"Jin Jian, how I´m happy to see you." A creature that looked like a big white mouse in the shoulder of a old lady say and she hugged him.

Confused he looked around and saw more four people. A petit blond girl with horns, a voluptuous tanned girl with fox ears, an elephant man in green clothes and a big strong man with aa beard and also horns.

Them he felled a weird and inexplicable feeling in his chest and something started to move like it was growing inside his hearth. His chest started to move, with something inside trying to get out and he felt his chest explode.

Something get out from inside, and with chirps and bips started to move. He put his hands in the chest but there was nothing.

"Look!" An elephant man pointed in dark green clothes pointed at the thing that revealed to be a cyborg hawk waking up. "Hotwing is waking up."

"A cyborg totem?" The girl with brown hair said surprised. "This technology is amazing."

The big man rubbed his head. "Are you okay J.J.?"

"I´m not sure." He rubbed his eyes, "My whole boy is tingling."

"And you hotwing?" The elephant man hold the hawk and J.J. had a weird feeling like in some way he was being held. "Are you okay?"

"No!" The hawk said distressfull. "Who are you? Where I´m: Why the heck you are a talking elephant?"

"Hes a bit confused." The foxy girl hold hid eyes. "You past trought a radiclal reconstruction, even your DNA and ADN were changed."

"My DNA was changed?" J.J. was startled.

"Good!" The hawk shout. "Now tell me who are you, who I´m and what place is this."

With a smile the old lady hold, "You are in the planet you born, in your old village. You are hotwing, J.J. spiritual totem and I´m your granny Jia."

"Aare you not recognizing your old Pal Brooke?" The elephant man showed his huge biceps. "I get a bit of weight but I dindt change too much."

"Remember Tracy?" The old woman showed the girl. "You used to play together, now she become a flesh engineer, you believe?"

"A flesh engineer?" The fox woman was wearing a beret and old brown jumpsuit was putting something into a tool box. She had brown curly hair, big lips, and the face dirty. J.J. didn't have idea what was a flesh engineer.

"J.J., you remember your grandma Jia?" The other old woman pointed at the smiling Jia trembling of excitement.

J.J.? His name wasan´t J.J.. His name was… What the heck was his name? Why his arms was so big as muscular? Where he got a six pack belly and what was happening?

He rubbed his face. "Grandma?" He looked at the smiling old lady almost bursting from happiness. "Grandma Jia?"

"Oh Jin Jian my baby, is so good to see you back." She hugged and kissed him.

"Give a hugh in your old uncle Cid." The older man hugghed him.

"Hello, Uncle Cid." The man had horns and hoof, he was some kind of bull man, or minotaur.

"You remember my Meilin J.J.?" The big man pushed the blond girl, that looking at her legs also could see hoof. She was some kind of fawn. "She grew in a fine lady."

Meilin pouted with a shy expression. "Sorry but I don't remember you."

"No problem." He winked to her, who blushed and turned to grandma. "Grandma Jia. What happened? I can't remember."

"Tracy can explain better. I really don't understand those things."

"The socket of your flux capacitor broke and I replace the socket and the capacitors. I used two thunderpowers I had." She showed him two boxes.

"You said something about DNA."

"Oh yeas." She went to the computer and show a weird graphic in the scream. "Your DNA and AND was corrupted and you are dying, barely had any life signal. I believed that was because of crappy adaptations you did as a recycled together with whatever in this chamber was doing when was interrupted."

The blonde girl frowned her face. "I will not pretend that I know what you guys are saying. What is this recycled thing?"

"Good I want to know too." Hot wing said.

"It´s how people name the P.C. conversion, to a cyborg that can get strongers with upgrades or just fighting." Uncle Cid nswered. "And when is damaged in a battle can be repaired with parts of dead star fighters that also are recycled cyborgs."

She made a disgusted face. "Why you did that?"

"Money." Brooke the elephant man gave on shoulders. "After the contract with the rangers he can become a mercenary and get a lot of money."

"Talking about money, are you using a fake name?" The girl pointed at the computer. "The count in the intranet didn't recognize you as Jin Jian."

"What?" Cid looked at the screen surprised. "Who b. Farteen. Who Being Farteen? Millie this is the laziest and obvious fake name in the story of lazy fake names."

"Who Being Farteen?" The elephant man laugh. "J.J. you are great."

J.J. gave a charming smile and turned to Tracy. "And you fixed my DNA?"

Tracy winked. "Thanks to the healing galactic gods, your father ask me to keep his genetic material and I could make a transfusion and recover you closer to your original composition. More than 60% of your organic body belongs to your father."

"My original composition?" He looked to the other confused faces. "What that means?"

"My computer couldn't even identify what you are an Imole." She giggled. "The chamber subtitled your corrupted cells by your father."

"Imole?"

"Yes." Tracy agreed. "Imoles. Guys like you, and your grandma who have totem animals like Jiji, Samanta and Hotwing."

"And your computer could not identify if I was an Imole?"

"Yes. However with the chamber you brought I could fix you with your father genetic material, even if you was a Tapiti like Brooke, or a Nagual like me, I could turn you in an Imole."

"Wow!" The elephant man shout. "It can do that?"

"Those chamber is one of those restoration devices that can even recreate limbs, organs and change sex." Tracy said proudly.

"I thought those machines are the size of a building." The older man said impressed. "And the process took months, not hours."

"Me too." Tracy rubbed the chamber. "I never saw something like that, and seems that used the power cells in J.J. body, not sure if will work in normal humans. Why you have eight fractal processor, you are some battleship?"

"I don't know." J.J. said frustrated. "You said that you used my father genetic material?"

"Yes!" Tracy turned to him. "Before your father died, he asked me to keep his genetic material to use in Jenny, if something happened to her. But he ended saving your life."

There was an awkward silence and the girl was confused.

"Tracy." One of the old ladies said. "J.J. didn't know."

"Jin Jian, my dearie." The old lady with the mouse hesitate. "You father died, he hurt his leg in a raid and never recovered, he got weaker and weaker until got sick."

J.J. felt frustrated, he didn't have any memories of his father.

"Im sorry." Tracy took a glass of water. "I should know. You must be confused."

"Yes." He sat in a chair. "Im a bit confuse."

"I´m confuse and thist too." Hotwing took the glass of water and after drinking atared at the glass. "How I hold a glass with wings?"

"I don't know." Tracy took the glass. "All your totem animals can use things without having fingers or thumbs."

Hot wing shook his head. "I´m a freaking cartoon?"

"What's a cartoon?" Tracy shook her head. "Don't matter. What is important is that you are fine."

"Where are Jenny and Sam?" The older man looked around. "They should be her with her brother."

Granny Rose shrugged. "Shes probably looking for Tracy with Momo."

"You need to see Momo." Brook nudged him with the elbow. "She became a hottie."

"Give a break Brooke." Meilin pushed him.

J.J. rubbed his eyes and noticed his big hands and muscular arms. That didn't seemed right.

"Great." Hotwing hold his head. "You have something to relief pain."

"Of course! Of course. I'm sorry to let you waiting," she ran until a shelf. "I have chemical painkiller and an neural inhibitor."

"Use booth."

"Of course. Of course." She applied the hipospray under his skin and the pain started to vanish.

"Tell me if hurts."

"Already hurt."

Tracy tried the hypospray and J.J. put his hand. "I´m fine."

"No you are not." She applied. "If Hotwing feel pain you are in pain too."

"Tracy, I don't know how to thank you." Granny Jia hold her hands. "I know I´m poor but I will pay you for it."

"Your grandson persona ´Who Bean Farteen´ has a golden debit card." Meilin answered. "He already paid."

"Really?" Jiji the mouse looked at Jia surprised.

"Right." Tracy aided Jin Jian to get up, and he noticed that she had bigger breasts than appeared and a charming space between her front teeth. "Lets get a bit of fresh air."

J.J. was wearing only white shorts, barefoot and seemed a feet taller than everybody.

Tracy´s laboratory, it was one of the obscure places, where you could get used pieces and weird upgrades in the fringe of the galaxies. The place had a steampunk feeling mixed with a cyberpunk laboratory.

There was a mirror right in front of him where he could gave a good look in his face; He know very well that face.

He made a similar face a dozen of times in different games. It was his own face improved to be more attractive.

However he didn't reminded what that means, or where he played such games.

They get out a corridor with a short wall where he could saw a playground in the patio, full of kids in the inferior floor. They were in a big hole with the sunlight entering trough a dome with many broken glasses.

Hotwing sighed. "It reminds me the hideout from the double dragon movie."

"What?"

"Nothing important. I´m just thinking out loud." Hotwing freeze for a second and released a long blip. "Download complete."

J.J. frowned his face. "Download of what?"

Hotwing shrugged. "I think is the manual of instructions."

"Instructions of what?"

"Not sure."

It was hard and painful to walk. "I need shoes."

"Lets go to get some clothes." Brook help him and they crossed the place until a clothes store. It was a very humble place with a couple of dresses being exposed outside.

"J.J. you remember Hyeo?" granny Dolly presented a skinny woman with a pigtail, bright red baton and dark shades. She had reptilian eyes and her sikin reminded of a snake. "You two used to play together."

"J.J.?" She dropped her clothes. "Are you really Jin Jian? Your father told everybody that you was dead."

"Dead to him." Granny Jia shrugged with a yellow smile.

"Oh, my Jin Jian. What those galactic rangers did too you?" She passed her hands through his body. "What are those Z´s in your forehead?"

"We are men of letters." Hotwing answered.

"Men of letters?" Meilin lift an eyebrow. "What is it?"

Hotwing shrugged. "It´s an private organization."

"I´m not with the galactic rangers anymore?" J.J. asked and Hotwing shrugged oblivious.

"Good to hear. I believe you have a lot of histories to tell." Hye-Momo pulled him. "You came here to get hid of this pajama?"

"Yes."

"Oh. You still have the scar from falling from the tree to get me a flower."

"Good memories." The Grannies exchanged smiles.

"Wow!" A little girl with a yellow dress comes from the store, followed by a droid. It was weird because that seemed like a middle age store. "I never saw someone so big."

"J.J., that´s Soo-lin, she´s Hye-Momo daughter."

"Hello Soo-lin." J.J. gave a charming smile. "You are so pretty as your mother."

"You think?" Hye-Momo get her face red and started to look for clothes. "You come looking for something to wear right?"

"Yes! So, Soo-lin, who is your friend?" Jin pointed at the droid.

"That´s patchwork boy, he helps my mom sue the clothes."

"A droid swing machine?" Hotwing hold a laugh. "Hello Patchwork boy."

"Hello, mister client." He answered in his droid voice. "Be welcome to see our male clothes."

Jin was a little surprised, with the clothes and the prices.

"Probably because clothes were a big deal in Space Oddity," Hotwing commented. "Most people used their money to buy clothes and exclusive NPCs as crew for the ships."

"Wait!" J.J. turned to Hotwing. "You said Space Oddity?"

"Yea!" He put his face in the clothes. "It was in the game we used to play."

"I remember something…" J.J. rubbed his fingers in his lips truing to remember. "Where we play this game?"

"Dunno." Hotwing had a lost expression. "Maybe it was a simulation, not a game, I don't remember too."

J.J. looked at the clothes. "There are some interesting choices, none of the basic stuff."

"Those are exclusive models," Hotwing looked surprise. "Inclusive a special limited edition for the holydays from a couple years ago."

"Exclusive?" Hye-Momo giggled. "Everything here was old models, some in second hand."

J.J. looked at some pants. "In the game we sell things to waste planets, but never can buy it back."

"Yeah..." Hotwing was excited. "You had to perform a couple of limited story missions to get one and he get too late."

"Limited story missions?" Brook the elephant man was interested. "Sound exciting, whats that."

J.J. and Hotwing changed stares and shrugged. "Dunno!!"

"The golden buccaneer was inspired in the pirates of Caribbean and the colors iron man, with some oriental ticks." Hotwing got some clothes. "I like this one."

"Sorry Hotwing." Hye-Momo hold the clothe. "My robot show you the most expensive items in the store."

"No problem. I really wanted this one." And that was true. He didn't reminded very well, but had a kind of grudge for not completing the quests in time to get that clothe.

"Don´t worry." Meilin said looking at some clothes in the mirror. " Seems that J.J. is loaded, or I should say, mister Who Bean Farteen?"

They all lought and Hye-Momo didn't understood.

"You guys can get whatever you want." J.J. winked. "It's a present."

"Anything here is cheaper than a basic first tier armor." Hotwing dove amoung the clothes. "And everything here is old limited edition."

"You don't think is too fancy for a poor place like this?" Grandma asked.

"Them Hye-Momo can choose other things that you think will fit better?"

The droid bow. "You can go to the dress cabin please?"

"Brooke, help here that I'm a bit rusty."

"He´s too big." Tracy hold his arm.

"We need to take out your clothes, please."

"I´m with a bit of difficulty."

"You have problem to take out your trousers?" Tracy took him to a dressing cabin.

"Trousers?"

"This thing you wearing." Tracy pulled his pants. "I help you."

"Wait a minute."

"Don´t be shy Jin Jin, I´m an organic mechanic there´s nothing there that I didn´t saw before. Holly Moly! I never saw something like that."

J.J. covered his jump super ashamed and Hotwing laughed.

"Sorry, I was surprised. Usually I don´t act this way. I usually see those things as a little disgusting, but… You change it when you made your P.C. conversion?"

"Tracy!" J.J. complained and Hotwing laugh.

The droid take his measurements and they changed the clothe while grandma Jie and Hye-Momo reminded their games as kids.

"Sorry, sorry. Sit down please."

"Okay."

"And your ass is also hot."

"You ass is hot too!" Hotwing laugh.

Now that the pain fade away he could pay better attention to Tracy. He thought she was with something in her clothes and hat, but that was her fluffy tale and cute animal ears.

"Why you are looking to me like that?" Tracy slapped his butt chick. "Don´t tell me you have some fantasy with organic mechanics."

"I thought you are a Flesh engineer."

"Your grandmother exaggerated." Tracy giggled, "She said that you fought with your father and went wawy saying that would never come back while he was alive. It's been a long time since he passed away, you could come back earlier."

"You can say that I kept my world." He sighed. "I don't remember very well. But I don't like the idea to stay in the same place for too long."

"Here!" Brook appeared with clothes. "Put those one."

Hotwing and Hye-Momo brought a clothe inspired in the captain America and agreed that he was more than good enough to walk around. Since he had more than 6 feet, it will attract attention no matter what he dressed.

Tracy started to help him to put socks. "I can ask you why you became a P.C.? I heard that very few people are compatible and many less survive the process. Its not just because of money."

"I'm not sure. I remember that I wanted to be a P.C. But I don't know how to justify it."

"What P.C. means?"

"Player Character." Hotwing answered.

Brook looked confused. "What that means?"

"No idea."

"It's true that P.C.s became more and more strong when you fight? Something about gain levels through battles?"

"That´s right." Hotwing agreed. "Stronger the adversary, stronger we became."

J.J. got pants, white t-shirts with long leaves, a letter coats, bots and multy belts for tools.

Looking him paying Tracy gave a yellow smile. "Its okay that I put in you my most expensive pieces?"

"Off course."

"I'm going to confess that I thought that I would never sell those flux capacitors. Nobody here want to expend, neither the richiest pirates."

"You treat pirates?"

"Only outlaws come to my workshop my love."

"J.J. put that!" Hotwing appeared with more clothes. "It´s a news year special, remind of the Assassins Creed uniform."

With a smile J.J. put the cloth.

They went to the stairs, crossed and old metal rusty gate and went out to the superficie. He saw the sea of small rounded entrances to underground bunkers and holes in the ground surrounded by woods and at the north the mountains of garbage.

It was one of the bunker villages were poor people lived in the waste planets. He feel that saw similar place before, but it was just background scenery impossible to interact with it.

"Try to joggle a little to see how you feel." Tracy pointed a path in the ground.

At first Jin didn´t feel anything and started to run. That was surprisingly easy. He didn´t remember his previous life very well, but know that wasn't able to run for a minute without being out of breath. Seems that he could run forever like in the game.

"You are freaking fast." Meilin yelled when he crossed them a second time.

"You want a ride?" Jin got Tracy in his harms and keep running, it was like a beach ball; She occupied he's two arms but was barely weightless.

"Let´s try to sprint." He reminded that there was three types of moves, the standard run, the slowly stealthy and the sprint that consumed a stamina bar that appeared in front of him.

The sprint was fantastic, he moved faster than a slow car, probably more than twenty miles per hour in less tha a minute he run around the whole village.

The stamina bar probably only had a minute and when reach the end the character stop without breath; Jin didn´t wanted to see if that also happened and stop the sprint before the bar was empty.

"By the beards of the prophet, you are crazy fast!" Brook Yelled laughing. "And you aren´t even without breath."

"Let´s go to the gym. I want to see how much you can lift."

The "gym" like she said was almost like the ones whe see in prison films. It was open air surrounded by a fence of barb wire with only three walls, one was the great fence surrounding the village to stop the advance of plants who grow up among the debris.

The "equipment" was less than the basic, visually made from recycled junk. The alters were made of metal ducks inside cans filled with concrete. None surprise that was just throw away around, who would stole that junk?

They made a couple of experiences, seemed that he could do infinity pushups, and only started to make an effort with an alters made of gallons of water full of concrete. After ten lifting's the stamina bar went to zero and Jin felt the fatigue that he knew very well.

"Finally!" Tracy clapped, I thought you will never got tired.

"How heavy is that thing?"

"No idea." Tracy looked. "Five gallons of water has around forth two pounds, but this thing was filled with bolts, nails and all kind of metal scraps, the concrete was just to fix. The guys made just for fun. You are the first one who lifted this thing."

"Good." He said, seems that I´m a little bit stronger than the average guys around here.

"A bit? That was a joke?"

"I'm hungry!" Hotwing complained. "Lets eat something."

J.J. winked. "I pay."

They wandered around until a corner shop. To his surprise he found a lot of home products that never where available in the game. Everything many times cheaper than anything he could buy in the game, that was basically military equipment.

"What you are buying Jin Jian?" Granny asked.

"I´m not sure. There are something's that I need to fix."

"Your grandma's house?" Meilin asked.

J.J. looked at his grandma. "Yes."