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Chapter 10 - Make the call

The first thing he noticed when he woke up in his mother's arms was that they were alone in the living room his father wasn't there. She saw him looking around and that's when he noticed she was staring right at him. Not the stare were she would be waiting for him to do something cute but like she was waiting for him to speak up and say something. But he remained silent, and smiling and he just stared back at her. He wanted to say something but he had no idea where or how to start. But finally his patients won out and she broke the silence.

"Two days..." he already knew where this was going bye the look in her eyes and the way she choked on those words. "Two days, before you were born. something in me felt wrong, I was so afraid but only for a second because then I felt you arrive. The wrong was gone." she was crying at this point. He reached out and hugged her while she went on. "I knew my baby was going to be fine but I wanted to believe it was just my baby. Not someone so special. I really should have known when we both had a dream to name you Royce after his uncle that I only met once. This is my job for shit sake!" she hugged him tight for a second and set him on the couch next to her. Wiped the tears from her face and pulled out her tablet.

"I track miraculous recoveries for my company trying to pinpoint a resurrected. This thing has all the best scanners built into it and can connect to any hospital within its system of communication. My company's connected to a lot. A normal person's energy state which after discovering was used to quantify your hit points in VR games can easily be measured. I scanned you while you were sleeping on the ride home. A 1-year-old might have over 3 hit points But that energy doesn't necessarily go up that fast in children and it's rare to see a 5-year-old with more than six. You have seven, and other energy streams only found in those capable of using magic." She reached her arm around him and held the tablet in front of him so he could see.

He understood the data and was surprised to see it tracking the flow of mana through his body It went everywhere through his brain to his fingers to his toes The energy stream that identifies your health mostly follows the same flow as your blood if you compare his two streams he easily had five times more of one.

He nodded, and saw that she wanted to get straight to the point, He looked up at her and said. "I've felt a connection to the two of you since I was born. I had parents in my previous life but you're my parents now. The timing of my death possibly coincides exactly with my arrival to you, thank you." He smiled as he looked up at her. "This energy here, is Mana. I haven't learned much about it yet I'm picking it up as I go. I didn't know it before because I come from this galaxy. And because of that I know how some of the systems work and the government which is why I'm going to ask you now, where's my father? Whoever tried to kill him isn't going to be happy he survived and they're likely to try again."

She pulled up the tablet in front of her Hit the communications button. It beeps for a second and an audio connection is established. "Hey. I'm downstairs" Michael's voice could be heard. "Good Royce and I are waiting for you hurry up." his mother spoke back But left the connection open. 20 seconds later his father walked through the door.

"He woke up. Is he okay?" he knelt and grabbed them in a hug. After she turned the tablet to show his father and he looked at his son who nodded in confirmation. His father did a double take and looked from his wife to his son and back again. "Wait so he saved me using magic?" And he looked at his son again.

Royce nodded again. "I'm sorry I wish we had more time to talk but whoever almost killed you is likely going to come here next. If you have travel suits you need to bring them out now and put them on." His mother nodded stood up and walked into the bedroom. His father's jaw hung open. "What is it you do, that somebody would want to kill you?"

His father's mind was still racing to catch up with what was going on. He shook his head for a second. "Um the Pierces. When they died control for the designs for some of my ships I designed for them went back to me. There's a couple of companies trying to buy them off of me but part of my contract says I can only sell to the military or a specific conglomerate of individuals until it ends. Some of them don't like taking no for an answer it would appear."

"Then we have to get ready to leave." sliding himself off the couch and moving around his father to the open space of the living room. He summoned the 10 ft tall battlesuit. His father out of surprise lost his balance from his crouch position landing on his butt. His mother walked out and dropped the suits. "Where the hell?!"

"It's mine." Royce spoke nonchalantly as he grabbed the two suits and started dragging them over. He went into the battle suits overview.

Power online

Guidance online

Communications online *message*

Survival stock

1 flight suit, 1 med unit, 1 survivor knife, 1 pistol.

Weapon(s) Armor

Retractable sword energy edge ×2

Long range shoulder gun ×2

Quick draw blaster ×2

Right arm defense shield

Left arm defense shield

Right arm bead gun

Left arm bead gun

"Hopefully I have enough magic to pull this off. You know what put on your suits. It might make this easier." While they put on their travel suits. Which luckily weren't standard commercial versions.

Travel suits came in many varieties. The first purpose was for being utilized during space travel as a safety net. Having your own meant you didn't need to rely on whoever was transporting you. With their own oxygen supply and oxygen recyclers built in. A standard suit could allow you to survive 40 hours drifting in space and keep the body clean for 2 months without washing and had a small water supply that could be extended with your own waste. Upgraded versions could do space maneuvers but nothing long range or in atmosphere. military or high-end custom versions were the best. allowing you to equip armor weapons atmospheric flight long-range space flight (ship to ship only) and so on.

His parents suits had space maneuverability but not atmospheric likely a larger oxygen supply as well but no defenses or weapons hopefully he could fix that. ejecting both the arm shields one of the long range guns one of the blades and both of the small blasters. He then used his storage to pick the items up making each disappear as he touched it. His parents watched all this, while trying to focus on putting on their suits but found themselves fumbling a little as everything went on. After his parents were dressed he immediately got started.

Pulling out one of the shields from his storage He used hardware manipulation and focused on spreading the armor out evenly through the suit It only took a moment and luckily it didn't use a lot of mana when he was done his father's suit was completely armor plated He turned and did the same to his mother's. He then added to her suit one of the blasters and the long range gun when adding the long range weapon he modified the weapon to use less power so it didn't jar the smaller suit but was able to increase its rate of fire. To his father's suit he added the retractable sword and the other blaster.

*Hardware manipulation lvl 03

*Hardware manipulation lvl 04

He still hadn't even used up half his mana and he had a couple other ideas. As he pulled out the other item in his storage the toy he had modified He asked his parents "Do we have access to a spaceworthy vessel? It might make waiting for our ride easier." He attempted to use hardware manipulation to split the toy into two lesser equal items. His parents didn't notice but when it worked the surprise showed equally on his face.

His father eventually spoke up. "I have a small shuttle in the garage. If you put that thing back where you got it from it would fit all of us and take us to the other planet but it wouldn't get us to the next system where her father's ship is. We would have to get a travel suit for you.

Royce turned around and pulled out the survival gear from the battle armor and made a pile, shrugged his shoulders and threw the toy on the pile as well and used hardware manipulation focusing on a travel suit with all the upgrades he could provide. In the end. The armor plating wasn't nearly as good as his parents. But it had its own computer system upgraded air supply and several other features that he hopefully wouldn't need to get into right away.

*hardware manipulation lvl 05

He went back into the battle armor. Hit the communications button and read the message.

If you survived somehow and you haven't contacted me I'm going to hunt you down and kill you. If you don't know what I'm talking about and you stole this armor I'm going to hunt you down and kill you.

Looking forward to seeing you.

Fox

He Hit the button to respond to the message and spoke.

Ass hole. You know I died. Don't threaten to put me through that again? I'm still in danger. Track the armor, save the ship you will find if it needs help. My new parents and myself will be on board.

Slade

He sent the message.

He turned around to see his father standing there. Royce looked up at him and winked. "Now we just have to survive."

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