Burning heart, cold soul(3)

When I got home I saw Nya standing in front of the shop door.

'Well, this is going to be unpleasant.'

"Hi"

"Hi, Ethan."

There were a few seconds of awkward silence.

"Ok... Since we don't have any idea what to say to each other right now we should probably get inside till we figure out how to start this discussion."

We don't speak anymore and we get inside. I go to the kitchen and make some tea. Nya is sitting in silence at the table just staring at me.

"Sooo... where is your grandma and what's with the sign outside?"

I stop and I look at her.

"I bought her a trip around the Earth Kingdom and she won't be home for a while."

"That's nice of you..."

I put her some tea and pull a chair to sit and I start to talk.

"I know you're here to talk about our relationship. We are both new to this kind of thing and although we've known each other for years now I think we should take things slow. It's that ok with you."

She looks at me bewildered.

"Your right... I think that would be for the best."

She leaves and I just watch her. Something inside me wants to scream seeing this but it's so deep down that I don't give it a second thought. She then does a 180 and kisses me and then she runs away. I watch her leave and I go inside not caring too much. I go upstairs and take the suit and gloves out. I look at them and see what I created. It's not that different on the outside from what it used to look like. The only visible changes are the boots and the gloves. I made the gloves longer so they could house the rest of the stuff while for the boots, I made them of a light but durable metal because I added to them small pistons that when activated make me jump higher, a lot higher. The bigger upgrades were those that you couldn't see.

For starters, I made the energy source at the back of the suit more powerful and gave it an overclock mode. The overclock mode had four stages, from one to three there were still safe for the suit, they enhanced the suit by 50%, 100%, and 200% and lasted me for at least half an hour, if I entered stage four the suit would become a beast, it would enhance the strength by 1000%, but the downside is that it would fry all circuit and would make the suit useless in about ten minutes or so. Inside the suit, I made use of nylon fiber which was an entire adventure on its own to acquire the materials for it and to get it made but I digress. I used the fiber to make robotic muscles out of it. If I went into overclock mode I could be twenty times as strong as a normal human at stage four. Now the glove. Ohh boy the gloves, they were my masterpiece. I made gave them retractable claws, they were so sharp that they could cut through metal, but the reason I made them was for me to climb walls better. Then there are the grappling hooks I put inside. I had three for each hand and they had interchangeable heads, the best thing about them is that I could electrify them to shot them at my opponent. I even put poison darts and hidden blades in the glove.

I put the suit on and went for a late-night stroll to the industrial district because the police presence is usually the lowest, and I started to test the suit.

I started by running and I immediately could see a difference, I activated stage one and then stage two and three, when I entered stage three I could feel as light as a feather I could easily jump from building to building it was amazing, I felt like Superman. I stopped at an abandoned building and went inside. I took the extra explosives I made with me and hid them there because it was too dangerous to keep them at home. I remain there for a few hours to get myself familiar with the new suit, then I went home. I didn't want to sleep so I meditated. While in 'limbo state' I didn't need to sleep I could meditate to recharge my stamina.

Morning came and I woke up from my meditation. I look outside and see that it's barely dawn. I put on normal clothes and go outside.

So a few days pass, with me not doing anything. I spend my time with Nya and the others. I finally tell my friends about my grandma and they all try to make me feel better and I apologize to Nya for lying to her. She forgives me and hugs me while crying. She starts to help me with the funeral arrangements.

I'm still in my 'limbo state' and every day I go deeper in it because the pain becomes harder and harder to suppress. I want to stop but I can't, not untill I punish that murderer.

Five days in I get an adress from Wu about the place where the piece of shit is hiding I make my plan of action.