3 Week Break to Recover and New Projects to Work on the New Upgrades

Recap from last chapter: 'Why am I crying? Maybe because I almost lost dad to the enemy again. Maybe it is from just the pain. I do not know anymore..." I think to myself but I go unconscious from blood loss.

I fall over but dad couldn't catch me for he too falls unconscious beside me. This all happens and the train is still going.

***************Back to present time***************

Doktor's POV:

I am working on new designs upgrades which Kevin, Courtney, and I came up with. I am going to have Callista look at and help us improve if there is any flaws. But I get a call from Boris and immediately answer it. His face pops onto my computer screen. (B= Boris and D= Doktor).

D: "What can I do for you...?" I start to say but Boris interrupts me.

B: "Can you get two rooms ready quickly. It's Raiden and Callista, they're injured." He tells me.

I now notice both Raiden and Callista behind Boris, who are breathing heavy along with heavy stained bandages on their body and faces.

D: "Okay, I will get two rooms ready immediately! Along with getting some new limbs for the both of them. All you have to do is wheel them in, Boris." I say to him.

He nods his head to me. We said goodbye to each other and me telling him to hurry up. Right after that, his face goes off my screen. I run out of my office and have three nurses help me get two rooms ready for both Raiden and Callista as they are getting here.

Right when we are finishing getting the second room done is when Boris brings in the both of them. I instruct the soldiers who are wheeling in Callista to follow one of the nurses who helped me get the second room done. Then I instruct the other soldiers to follow me. I tell Boris, he can wait in the waiting room.

Right before the nurse, who is working on Callista, leaves to make sure her wounds are clean, I tell her to not cut her clothes off of her. But to put her in a hospital gown. The nurse follows my instructions while I grab the rail of Raiden's gurney and start moving him to the other room.

Once Raiden gets into his room, I made sure a nurse is at his side making him comfortable as possible. While the nurse is doing this, I run back to my office to grab the cart which contains his new upgrade limbs.

All I have to do is uncover the cart and speed walk to his room. What I notice for when I came back into his room is the fact he has a deep cut on his left eye.

'I do not know if I would be able to fix this area of his face in the amount of time I have to fix them. And still be able to get them back onto the field.' I think to myself, while starting to work on getting all the new body limbs together.

What is actually different about these new limbs is the fact they are new upgrades, I was working on while Callista was in her little coma and why I hidden the file from Raiden right before he came into my office. I am able to finish working on his during Callista's eleven-day recovery and working on the designs on Callista's new upgrades with Kevin and Courtney.

Then I took his head off of his old body and onto his new one. I left his hair the same for I knew Callista is going to do something about it. Then I put his new head gear on his head. I took off his chin and replace it with a new metal one.

After doing all this, I then dissemble the old body and put them on the cart. I then have the nurse take care of his eye wound on his face.

'If Raiden is not unconscious, I think he would be telling me to not change anything, but instead put a pad and cloth to hide the wound on his face.' I think to myself.

While the nurse is taking care of Raiden's face wound, I leave the room and go to Callista's room to see how she is doing right now. I see the nurse I assign to take care of Callista, come out of her room. I walk up to her and she hears my footsteps and looks my way.

"How is Callista doing Nurse Kylie?" I ask her.

"She is doing fine now, she is in stable conditions. But while moving her off the stretcher and onto her bed, I heard a rattling sound come from her leg limb you just recently put on her. I think she might have broken the limb, but her left arm is cut off the body completely and is in need of a spare now." She tells me and I nod my head in agreement. I then ask her to hook up both a blood transfusion bag and IV to Callista so she doesn't die from both dehydration and blood loss.

She nods in agreement and I thank her. I speed walk to my office, again. I grab a spare left arm, with the correct measurements to her opposite arm, and speed walk back to her room.

Once I get into her room, I get a proper up-close sight on what the damage is on her limbs. What Nurse Kylie said is a precisely accurate on what happen to the limbs. The complete left arm is still gushing liquid out of it. I run to her left side of the bed, remove what is left of the limb, and quickly replace it with the spare one I brought with me.

After putting on the spare, I notice Callista has a wound on her face too.

'She is most definitely going to get a scar on her face, but if she is anything like her Vater. She will want to keep the scar instead of keeping a flawless face.' I thought to myself and chuckle at the thought too.

I inform Nurse Kylie, who is going to be Callista's permanent nurse for the next three weeks, the only things she needs to do is to make sure Callista doesn't get an infection in the wound on her face. She nods to me as a signal she understands. I nod back and then walk back over to Callista's bed. I then move to the right side of the bed to take care of her right limb. I detach her right leg limb from the rest of her body. Again just like the diagnosis Nurse Kylie told me, I hear many things in the limb rattling around on the inside. (A/N: The concept is like this for if you had a babies rattles in your hand and shake it. All the little noises made from the rattle are what the noise is like for Callista's metal leg limb.)

After doing this, I then leave Callista's room with both limbs in my arms, and head to my office. While on my way to my office, I kept wondering how Callista is able to make her metal leg into a baby rattle.

'Maybe it is because of the metal gear they went up against or those three androids that got away and made both of them into the condition they are in now. Who knows maybe only god may know.' I think to myself and then notice I am already at my office.

I open my door and place Callista's limb on my desk to do an autopsy on it later.

"All I have to do now is to put the final touches on the blue prints of Callista's metal limbs, while I wait for the both of them to wake up." I say to myself.

******************Time Skip: 12 hours later******************

"Doktor, it's both Callista and Raiden. They're awake and Callista is panicking like crazy." A nurse tells me while both out of breath and flustered.

I get up from my desk and run out of my office. I start heading to Callista's room first because it is not healthy for her to have a panic attack while in the condition she is in. Just down the hall I can hear scared yelps and screams coming from Callista's room. But I am also hearing calls of her name from in another room. As I continue onto her room, I then hear someone running in the same direction of the place I am going but from the opposite direction and with heavier foot falls. I then knew straight away it is her vater wanting to help calm her down from her panic attack in order for her health to not get any worse than it already is in.

But once I finally get to Callista's room, I see her door is wide open. When I look into the room, I see Raiden is already at her side, trying to calm her down. A few minutes later, he is able to get her to fully calm down. He removes his arms from around her; move her a little in order for him to get her to lay on top of him. I knew hugging her in arms she is very familiar with would help calm her down even more than from the side. I should know because Raiden would always do this when she has join in on the missions with him and Snake.

Once Raiden is able to get underneath his daughter. He put her on top of his chest with his arms around her waist and starts to sway her back and forth. Telling her comforting words in her ears to help calm her down even more to get her into a better state for her health.

After the whole panic attack is taken care of. Raiden decides he is going to continue to stay in the position he is in, in order to prevent another panic attack from happening again. I agree with him and we both notice she is going back to sleep. I then slowly come up to Callista's right side of the bed to check her vitals and to see if her panic attack has re-opened any of her wounds. But the good news is none of the wounds have re-open at all.

*************Time skip to when she wakes back up*************

Callista's POV:

"Ugh, what happen, where am I, and where is dad?" I said still a little groggy, but then the memories of what happen before I went unconscious hit me like a locomotive.

I quickly get up, but I really regret doing this, my body start hurting like it is hit by an armor tank. When I move back to lay back down, I felt arms around my waist and my back laying down on a muscular chest. I almost go into another panic attack, until I hear a familiar voice which instantly calms me back down.

"Whoa, easy there Marie. Don't want you having another panic attack on us and we for sure do not want your wounds to reopen back up again." Dad says to me.

I move my head to the side and look behind me on my left side. I see dad is the one hugging me and the one I am leaning against. I then look down on my left side and see Doktor has put a spare limb on me. I am able to tell it is one of Doktor's spares because I remember I had my limb attached on my last mission before it was cut in half by Sakura. But what makes me happier is the fact my right leg limb is off because it hurt more than it did when they attached the nerves from my flesh part to the dam metal base. There is another voice bringing me out of my thoughts; Doktor is on my right side just checking my vitals again.

"It is good to see you are wake now, Kind. I was starting to get a little worried on both you and your father, after I notice the both of you are not doing so well out on the battlefield." He tells us.

I cuddle in closer to dad; he notices this and grabs my normal hand to comfort me more, since I cannot feel anything with my left since it is a pop off type limb. Doktor looks up from my vital sheets and asks me, "Kind, I have something for you to look at. While you were sleeping and were recovering from your wounds, I have been working on a blue print on your new upgradable limbs. I know they might interest you a lot. Do you care to look at them?"

"Heck yeah, Doktor! I want to see what it is, you know me too well, Doktor!" I say with excitement in my voice.

Both dad and Doktor chuckle at my excitement. Dad lets his right hand leave my left, moves the hand out to grab my movable table and wheel it close to my bed. While Doktor went to grab the blueprint papers from his office.

Raiden's POV:

I have now completely calm down from my own panic attack, Marie had given me, when she was screaming bloody murder. I move the table over Marie's waist and then let the table go, in order to wrap my right arm over my left arm. Marie and I get comfortable while waiting on Doktor to come back from his office with the blueprints for her new upgradable limbs he wants to show Marie.

"Hey Marie, how are you feeling sweetheart? Besides the fact of your last two metal limbs..." I ask her.

"I am feeling better, dad. But I feel a little more vulnerable with the injury to the right side of my face because I cannot see on this side." She says to me with sadness in her voice.

"I think I know a technique for you to be able to see out of your right eye without Doktor putting in a robotic eye into the area. But I do not know if this technique is going to work or not. I just hope it can work because then I will be able to do the same thing, since I have the same injury in the same area but not as huge as yours." I tell her.

"This could be very useful indeed, dad. I want to be able to trick the enemy into thinking they have an advantage over with me being 'blind'. But truly with the technique, me being 'blind' on my right side could lead me to have the true advantage, not them, when we head back out onto the battlefield." She says, while squeezing my left hand in excitement.

Then we both hear the door open and close. We see Dok is back with the blueprints in his hands.

Callista's POV:

I see the blueprints in his hands and I do the 'give me' motion with my hands to Doktor for him to hand the blueprints over to me. Doktor complies and hands it over to me, but not without chuckling at my childness. While also giving me the special pencil, for just in case if I need to make any corrections on the blueprints. I place it on my table with my water jug to hold down one of it and dad holds down on the other side for me.

"Thanks dad!" I say quickly, while starting to concentrate on the blueprints in front of me.

I don't hear his response because I have quickly gotten into focus mode looking at the blueprints. I first look at the prints for my new right leg and see the same type of designs from my old limb, but some new enhancements on it. Which includes the rollerblades on the balls and heel parts of my feet. I truly do not see any mistakes on these prints, so I move onto the prints for my new left arm.

When I look at these prints I notice right off the bat a few mistakes. But those mistakes are not hard to fix, so I quickly change those mistakes in order to suit my standards and to make sure it is comfortable too. But still easy enough for Dok to be able to do to make it.

Once I finish doing all the corrections, I give dad a signal for him to release his hold on the prints. After he let the prints go, I am able to roll them back up and give them back to Dok.

Right after he takes the prints from me, he unrolls them to see all the changes I did to them. He nods his head in agreement to all my corrections.

"These are brilliant, mein kind. I wouldn't have ever thought of this before, your input is always the best. Danke, kind." He says to me.

I nod in agreement as a welcome because I am starting to feel tired again. My body is still recovering from all the damage it has been given from the last mission.

3rd Person POV:

Raiden notices his daughter is starting to get tired because whenever she is super tired she would cuddle up closer to anything she is close to. Another way on how he could tell she is becoming sleepy is the fact she is turning onto her right side so her head is lying in the area where his heart would have been. But he also knew her body is still trying to recover from all the battle wounds she has sustained from their last mission. Doktor also notices Callista is falling asleep, nods to Raiden as a good night and left the room with the blueprints in hand.

Raiden too starts to feel the tiredness come at him like a train, he couldn't stay awake any longer. But truly it didn't help with the fact on all the activities that just recently had happened in the past three hours. With him being so tired, he didn't really fight it and just holds Callista closer to him.

************Time Skip to four days later************

Callista's POV:

Dad is wheeling me in my annoying wheelchair down to Doktor's office to help him completely finish my new upgrade limbs, and if we are able to finish them before bed time, then I will be able to get the nerves attached to the new limbs that very night.

We finally get to Doktor's office and we both can already see he is working on my new metal arm. Dad wheels me up to the bed in the office and helps me get situate on it, in order for me to be able to work on my upgrade leg which is on the moveable table. While working on my leg, I notice I am having the same problem, I had with my first leg limb. But I made sure there isn't going to be another mistake in the part between the knee and the ankle, like it did last time. I am able to complete this part and I am not onto the rollerblade part of the foot yet.

I am so focused on trying to figure out the problem, I didn't even see Doktor looking up from what he is doing with my metal arm, and walk over to the bed to see what my problem is with my metal leg. I feel a hand on my shoulder, looking up to the owner of the hand to see Doktor wanting to help me with the problem I am having with my leg.

All Doktor does is point to where the problem is on the metal leg. I look at the area he points to and smacks my forehead with my flesh hand for not keeping my head clear enough to be able to see the problem on the leg. I then grab the proper tools to properly fix the problem. I decide to recheck the same areas of the leg to see if anything has changed or come undone. There is a few, but I am able to fix the whole problem without any more problems coming up in the rest of the body of the leg.

Once I finish this, I notice Doktor has also finished my arm at the same time. So we then decide to get the two limbs attached to my body of missing limbs. I shift my body so the top part of my body is lying on the headboard, in order for my right leg to get properly attached to the nerves from the base to the metal limb. Dad stays on my right side of the bed because he knows the pain is going to be awful for me.

Right when Dok and the nurse get into position, I grab dad's hand like I did the first time to help prep myself for the pain to come. I take a big breath as Dok and dad count to three. Then we all hear two click sounds at the same time and a whimper from me. This happens about three more times before it is completely done. Dok then moves onto my left arm.

After Dok and the nurse are finish re-nerving my left arm on. And once the pain finally finishes, I breath out the breath I thought I wasn't holding, dad helps me up and moves to the edge of the bed. Then slowly get off the bed. When my feet hit the floor and take my first steps with my new upgrade limbs. I immediately notice no pain is coming from these new limbs and I decide to just walk normally.

Both dad and I notice, when we get into the hallway, the color scheme on our new upgrades is similar to each other. So we walk back to my room with no trouble at all. As we get back into my recovery room, I had dad let me go and I slowly get onto the floor. I ask dad if he wants to do a friendly exercising competition to see who can last longer in our new limbs. He agrees to it whole heartily and lets me choose the type of exercises we should do for this competition.

I decide the first type of exercise we should do is seven different types of push-ups. We should do twenty-five reps to each type of push-up. I told him we should do the normal type of push-ups, second would be the left arm on our back, third would be the right arm on our back, fourth would be normal push-ups but with just our thumbs, fifth would be with just our right thumb, then with our left ones. Lastly, we would do the clap push-up. He nods and he got Nurse Kylie to come into my room.

Once she came into my room, I told her what dad and I are going to be doing and have her stay with us as the ref for each of the events. She agrees and tells us, she is going to go grab a stopwatch for if any of the incoming events would require one. We agree on it too. So she speed walks to grab a stop watch from in the rehabilitation room.

Right after she comes back, we start the first event of the friendly competition.

****************Time Skip an hour and a half ****************

It now has been an hour and a half and neither of us is showing signs of giving in. I am sweating bullets but it doesn't affect the adhesive on the bandages over my right side of my face, but dad the lucky SOB doesn't have any sweat glands to be producing any sweat.

After all, seven different types of push-ups are complete; we both have our arms exhausted. But I have finish the last four parts of the first event before dad could. I won the first event of the competition. I then decide in my head our next activity would just require our legs. I figure out we can do wall sits and after every ten minutes is up we would lift one of our legs onto the other without getting up to do it, then having to go back into position.

I told both Nurse Kylie and dad what the next event is going be. Nurse Kylie is very proud of herself for getting the stopwatch before this whole thing has begun. So dad and I get into different areas of my room, in order the both of us would have enough room to do the event.

Once we are ready, Nurse Kylie gives us the signal to begin and we start the wall sitting competition.

****************Time Skip forty minutes later****************

It has now been forty minutes into the competition and true to what I said, at exactly every ten minutes Nurse Kylie would give us the signal it has been ten minutes for us to change legs.

*****Time Skip twenty minutes later (A/N: I know it's too many of them, I am sorry)*****

It officially has now been an hour since we began the second event of the friendly competition and I am already feeling the burning sensation in both of my thighs. But I wait for another half of an hour before I call it quits.

After I call it quits, I ask dad, when we get up to see which one of us is still standing after a few minutes. But if neither of us falls from this event, then we can do endless amounts of laps outside my room in the hallway.

Dad agrees to it, we both get up and wait two minutes. After the two minutes has pass, neither of us are getting weak in the knees nor falling over, but my legs were a little shaky. But other than my legs being shaky, the winner of this event is a tie between us. So then all three of us go into the hallways. Nurse Kylie quickly tells us, she is going to go ask the other nurses if they can move the already awake patients out of their rooms in order to make the route for this last event to commence for our friendly competition.

We agree and wait on Nurse Kylie to get all the nurses and the patients ready for this last event. So while we are waiting on the event to get ready. I need to get water in my system, so I grab my water jug from my table and nearly drink all the water in it.

Once I get my fill of water, I still had about a fourth left in it. Dad grabs my jug from me and refills it for me. As dad comes back with my refill jug, he gives it to me and I place it on my table again. We then decide to stretch our limbs to get them loose and ready for the last event.

About fifteen minutes later, Nurse Kylie comes back and tells us the course is complete. So we both get to the starting line, which is in front of my recovery room. We notice the number of patients out in the hall and we smile at them. Then Doktor comes in front of the two of us to start the race off. He gives us the signal to start the race and we are off.

**************Time Skip about twenty-five laps later**************

Raiden's POV:

We are both on our twenty-fifth lap and still side by side. I am proud of my little girl for making it as far as she is right now. But I am starting to notice she is starting to get tired and I am too. So I try to make it for another two more laps, but notice Marie is still fighting on. I stop after my second lap, but my little girl went one more lap before we both call it quits. Everyone in the hall starts to whoop and holler when they see Callista do one more lap than me. She came out victorious in the friendly competition.

"Dad, I think I am not going to be able to move around at all tomorrow. I think my body is going to be too sore from all the exercise we did today." She says to me after she is able to calm her body and breathing down.

I just chuckle at this but I still agree on what she has just said. Doktor then walks up to us and congratulates Marie on winning, but still congratulates me on how far I made it in the friendly competition. Then a nurse and Nurse Kylie came up to Marie and I, and help us to our rooms. But right before we completely leave each other's presence, I wish Callista a good night and her to me.

Callista's POV:

'I cannot believe I have finally have beat dad in a friendly competition. I say this because I have never been able to defeat dad in a friendly competition my whole life.' I think to myself as Nurse Kylie helps me get back into my room.

"Mrs. Kylie could you um, help me with washing my hair. I do not think my arms are going to let me be able to reach that high after all the exercising dad and I just did." I ask her.

She looks at me and smiles like a mother would with a child and nods. We both make it back to my room and she places me on my bed. I tell her where my gym bag is, which contains two of my spare outfits, two different sets of pajamas, two or three sets of underwear, and my toiletries. I ask her to grab my navy blue set of pj's, my white set of underwear, and my toiletries. She grabs them and places them under her armpit. Then she grabs my flesh arm, put it over her shoulder and helps me walk into my connected bathroom.

Once we get into the bathroom, she puts my clothes on the sink, toiletries beside my clothes on the sink and me on the toilet lid. She then grabs my shampoo and conditioner, places them in the shower and turns on the shower to the right temperature for me to take a bath in. After she did this she helps me get out of my sweaty clothes I am wearing during the friendly competition and into the shower.

Once I get into the shower and get my hair soaking. Nurse Kylie went back out to grab two towels for me, one for my body and the other for my hair. As she is doing this I bent down to grab my vanilla scent soap.

As I am soaping up my body, I hear the bathroom door open and close. I look to see Mrs. Kylie with the towels in her hands. She places the towels on the toilet seat and grabs my fruit scent shampoo. She opens the cap and squeezes the right amount of shampoo onto her hand, then closes the cap. She then rubs up her hands in my shampoo, then reaches up into my hair to lather it up enough to make sure all of the sweat is out.

After she finishes lathering up my hair with my shampoo, I am finish with lathering up my body with my soap. So I then get under the water and Mrs. Kylie helps me get all the shampoo out of my hair, as the soap is getting wash off at the same time.

When we both finish washing off the shampoo and soap. Mrs. Kylie then grabs my conditioner and does the same thing as she did with my shampoo. Like my mother, she didn't put much conditioner in her hand and she also grabs my hair brush too. She rubs her hands and lathers my hair in conditioner.

Once she finishes lathering up my hair, she grabs my hair brush and starts brushing my hair to make it soft. It took a few minutes for her to finish brushing my waist length hair, but as she finishes brushing my hair, she lets me go under the water again to get rid of all the conditioner. Again she helps me get all the conditioner out of my hair. Then once she deems my hair is conditioner free, she turns off the shower.

She helps me get out of the shower and grabs the body towel. She hands the towel to me and also grabs the hair towel. I turn around for her to get to my hair and I start to dry off my body.

I finish drying off my body before Kylie is even finish with my hair. So I nicely ask her if she could grab my sleeping clothes for me and she grabs them for me. After she grabs them and hands them to me, I ask her if she could wait until I get my pj's on to finish drying my hair. She agrees, telling me to meet her at the bed and I agree.

Once my pj's are on, I brush my teeth, and slowly get out of the bathroom. I slowly walk to my bed and sit down in front of my nurse. She finishes drying my hair and starts to brush it again. After a few minutes of her brushing my hair, I had her put it up in a loose braid for me.

After all this she then helps me get comfortable on my bed and leaves my room. As she leaves my room, I immediately fall asleep.

************Time skip to last week before going back out on the field************

Dad and I continue to work on staying in shape and teaching me to be able to psychically see out of my right eye. But just last week Dok has given me my new custom made sword which is similar to dad's sword, but it is in the shape of a rapier. Right after the sword is given to me, dad starts to train me on how to properly use it while in combat. Lucky for the both of us, I am a fast learner and learn all the tricks in about a week.

So now I am now just cleaning up the moves and incorporating moves of my own into it. I try to do some of the moves he can do but I have a feeling I am not getting it just right, so I run to dad and ask him if he can see what I am doing wrong.

I find my dad with Doktor, they are talking about the progress on me and my new weapon. I walk into the room and dad sees me in his peripheral vision. He moves his sight to me and Dok does too. Dad then asks, "Marie, is there something wrong?"

I shake my head no, but I tell him, "I just have a gut feeling I am not doing a few moves right. I am wondering if both you and Doktor would like to go outside with me to see if I am truly doing those few moves wrong."

Dad and Doktor both agree and all three of us head outside. Dad and Dok stay on the sidelines while I am showing them the moves.

Callista's POV in her mind:

I close my eyes to visualize an opponent I could go up against. With my eyes still shut, I did a front flip with a twist while blocking my imaginary opponent's attack. I went for an upper swipe then lower, but my opponent block both moves.

I would then toss up my sword and try to kick my opponent with my feet as I did a no hand back spring. That attack did some damage to my opponent's chin, but they are still able to stay on their feet.

After I am back on my feet, I am able to catch my sword. I would then do two more back springs to try and get away from them. My opponent would then come at me from the right then to the left, but I would counter both attacks.

I then would do a few upper roundhouse kicks to try and get to my opponent's arm in order to get my opponent to drop their weapon. But my opponent blocks the moves with the same arm I am aiming at. As I continue to practice against my imaginary opponent, I use a few of dad's moves too. While I am doing this, dad continues to try and see if there are any flaws in my movements. He only notices my acrobatic moves that I incorporate might need a little tune-up. But other than that, I have all the moves correct and it includes the moves he is able to do.

Raiden's POV:

"Alright Marie, that's enough!" I called out to her. She stops on what she is doing and she opens her eyes back up again.

"I only see that your acrobatic moves are a little bit hesitant at the beginning, but other than that, I really do not see anything wrong. So all I recommend is you practice your acrobatics. Also try to see if you can try an incorporate anymore moves into your combos." I say to her and she nods in agreement.

Right before Doktor and I went back into the building. I hear the sliding of a sword back into its sheath and then being place on the ground. I also hear the crunching of grass under feet and I assume she is now practicing her acrobatic moves. I see Doktor is waiting for me at the door and I continue to walk to the building with the sounds of Marie practicing in the background.

To be continued....