“I close my eyes and woke up to find you.” Those were the words that the Close Combat War Maiden said as found herself tunneled visioned to the only thing that matters.
Jin smiled as he gave a slight bow and salute to greet her and she immediately jumped out of the creation pod and right into his arms.
“I guess… Its a success?” Nie said as he saw the awkward scene playing right in front of him and the other Grey Bear Squad members.
“Do any of you know who she is?” Page asked her other squad members thinking she might have missed out on something ever since she was defeated in the last mission before the new Jin came into the body.
“Nope, we never see her before,” Diaz said but Old Fammet sneered.
“Well, at least that shows that we had made her properly all according to your commander’s weirdly specific request. I was expecting something crazier but it seems like he had reunited with his lover.” Old Fammet took out a bottle of alcohol, something which he did not touch for the past few days when he was making her.
“Is the transfer successful?” Jin asked the Tactical System and it acknowledged with a resounding yes.
“There were no problems with the soul transfer into the War Maiden and her soul had been intact. The physical body had been kept in cold storage with muscular activation to make sure she does not have any muscular dystrophy until she returns. So-” Jin stopped reading what the System was talking about and scuffled her hair.
Even though she was just a War Maiden, Old Fammet had indeed held nothing back in place to implement the cosmetic features too. Thus when Lynn manifested into the War Maiden, the Mechanoid’s blank face received the data and modified its head, body and even the callouses on her hand for handling a knife as a chef to be intact.
“I thought the System was hiding the truth again,” Lynn said without caring about the people around her.
“Well, I am here, aren’t I?” Jin said as he then turned and introduce to everyone the purpose of why he created this Mechanoid specifically for his partner. (In the meantime, the System did take offence that Lynn never trusted it that Jin was fine. But after what the System had done to them previously, the System Users would never take its words at face value even though they gain trust between each other.)
“What are you talking about?” Old Fammet could not process what Jin was talking about and so did Nie.
“I guess, this is the easiest way to do things.” Jin beckoned the both of them to stand right in front of him as he placed his hands on both of their shoulders. “Oh right, I forgot.” Jin thought he could transmit his thoughts the usual way until he has forgotten that it was a high level chi communication skill that he was about to use but the two that were in front of him were non cultivators. Neither could he use his tactical system to transmit information because they were not his War Maidens.
He embarrassingly took out his wire and connected with Old Fammet and then the Mecha Smith finally understood what the commander was saying. As images flashed back swiftly into his brain, he saw things, images and memories of Jin that were unfathomable even for an old lad like him.
“Oh yes, and because you were able to create Lynn successfully. This is what I am talking about.” Jin said as he focused his memories on the Mecha World and showed him the possibility of creating Super Robots.
“I… I want to live longer than this life. There is so much I am missing out…” Old Fammet said as he thought he had already made the masterpiece of his life when Jin requested him to create this complicated War Maiden. It felt more than fitting to do something similar to his oldest original creation as his final piece of work.
He even had the thought of taking his own life and be done with this ‘Synthesis’ life the moment Jin and the others left the place. All the punishment and penalties the private corpos who had been harassing him for years were already wearing him down. There was honestly nothing holding him back and that is assuming if he did not go gun blazing against the private corpos when they come to put him down for breaking the unwritten ‘contract’ of no more Mecha Smithing for others.
Jin also admitted that Old Fammet was a brilliant person. Rocky might be an engineer and be able to assist with the creation of Mechanoids, he does not have the expertise of creating a Mechanoid from scratch and not to say the least, Old Fammet was a genius in programming too. In short, what was known to be just one competent man doing the job had been broken down into several different jobs which the private corpos did to split the knowledge up so that people would not be able to go against them easily.
But the thought of suicide changed when Fammet saw all those flashes of memories and felt that there were so many things he could do.
“I want to make those…Super Robots.”
“I can and will let you create those Super Robots if you are able to work with me,” Jin said he moved towards the sticky, stinky Mecha Smith who was covered with the smell of sweat and grease. He gave a strong tight hug which Old Fammet did not expect and truth be told, this was the first time he had been a hug for the longest time ever.
His hands slowly moved to return the hug albeit it was slightly reluctant at first until Jin let go of him to see Old Fammet tearing up. That was when Jin gave a second and much tighter hug and Old Fammet gradually relaxed and embraced the commander as the ‘sweat’ from his eyes flowed profusely through his unkempt beard.
“I will promise you. This is not the end.” Jin said as he too received images of Old Fammet’s life when the Tactical System connected them together. “You are meant for greater things. Meant for more slogging when you work for me. Meant to create a masterpiece far greater than what you are doing now.”
“So, do not give up old man.”
