CHAPTER ELEVEN

I groaned as Lucas slapped the skin on my arm testing if I could still feel anything, I had to have the previous skin that covered my android arms removed because it was beginning to rot and fall off, and I had to replace them with new skin which hurt like hell.

Lucas owned the repair shop, him been an android with the brain of a human. He knew not to ask questions even though he wanted to, he was a good guy. He knew to mind his business. But he sure was expensive with the price that I even had to trade the bike and the weaponry it had for myself.

“Ah! There we go, all brand and new. Water proof and bullet proof system installed, a hundred kilometers scanner with a deadly leaser that can cut through anything, and I have upgraded your system” he said and I frowned not understanding what he meant which he saw and smiled at me “That voice in your head is smarter now” he said and I nodded in gratitude.

I caught my reflection in the large mirror and I knew I had to change my appearance “do you know- ““Don’t even say it! Make over time!” he squeaked and my eyes widen as I remember Mercy saying that every time she wanted to dress me into some pretty girl.

“Now close your eyes and feel the magic. Imma make you so beautiful little girl” he said and I sighed closing my eyes that I looked like I was sleeping but I was wide awake. I heard him move around the shop stopping somewhere and then the shuffling of plastics followed by a bang which startled me.

I felt him apply a cold jelly- like substance on my scalp making me sigh in content and relax in my seat, that I could not help but fall asleep.

“Sweetie! Hey! Darling wake up” a familiar voice cooed making me slowly open my eyes to Lucas’s camera like eyes “Oh good! I thought you died there for a sec” he said as I sat up and stretched my limbs getting the satisfying popping sounds “how long was I out?” I asked him feeling refreshed and renewed “About six hours, I would have let you sleep, but it seems you’re in a hurry to get wherever you are going” he said.

I nodded my head in thanks and turned to get my stuff when I froze at the site of the girl looking back at me in the mirror. My once red hair was dark brown and it reached at my mid-back, and my lifeless brown eyes were replaced with green contacts. She was me, but yet again she was not. I looked different. I looked ordinary.

“I guessed you want to keep a low profile, it’s not permanent, so you would have to come back here once your hair starts to grow and the contacts start malfunctioning as they electronic but also water proof” he said and I nodded in understanding grabbing my bag from the floor and made my way out when he said “And smile, people get suspicious to an emotionless person. And I advise you to not use any of your equipment unless it is necessary, no power, so you are basically human. If you need any help call me” and he gave me a box, the size of his hand and closed the door in my face.

I sighed as I looked at the door and the small black box in my hand which I packed in my bag pack “System is now at full capacity” Omega’s voice echoed in my mind, I turned away from the door and started walking towards the sun before it got too dark outside “Omega, give me all the information on area one hundred?” I asked and awaited as she searched “Area one hundred was known as New York City before the Malien invasion. Humans reside in this area with a strong defense system that prevents the Malien government from over ruling them. The distance between you and area one hundred is a total of nine thousand two hundred and twenty- six kilometers” it said making me halt in my steps with pure shock.

Dread filled me as fate decided to make my mission far away from me. I sighed willing myself to continue walking “I’ll just get there some time in the future” I said to myself. The night was quiet and was lit by the moon and millions of stars twinkling above me, the night could have been mistaken for peaceful, but it’s when the demons decided to play and the monsters partied.

As I walked towards another yet weird area, omega scanned it and directed me to what they called a ‘teleporting beam’. It would teleport me directly to another active teleporting beam in the area of my choice.

My cold fingers scrolled down the dusty tablet that operated the teleporting beam, I looked above me to the green hologram displaying Area twenty- nine and looked back to the nearest area closest to Area one hundred which was Area ninety- five “give me the status on Area ninety- five” I asked omega “Area ninety- five once known as Beijing is now the most populated area in the entire world. It is home to the hybrids of the Malien and human races. Area ninety-five is ten thousand, nine hundred and eighty- two kilometers from Area one hundred” it said and I sighed but mindlessly pressed on Area ninety- five.

Thereby sealing my fate to the demons, no the devil that resided in underneath the perfect heaven everyone painted.