Chapter 42: A survivor from the mist.
When she came out of the space, Hades was on his feet, jumping up and down, testing out his robot leg.
His eyes flashed with childlike excitement when he saw Sunshine and he run to her side, grabbing her hands. "It talks to me Sunshine, the robot leg! I can hear it my mind. It has been making suggestions about my movements."
"It is a self thinking alloy imbued with Neurosync threads that allow for telepathic communication." She replied as she pushed him down on the bed.
She wanted him to be calm for the next piece of bad news she was about to deliver.
"It makes jokes too." Hades squeezed her hands, gushing excitedly. "Tomorrow, I am going to start training my body according to the plan it has made for me. It has urged me to improve my kick speed." He paused like he was listening to something and then he looked at her again, "It wants to test my racing speed too. Apparently I need to keep increasing it until I can outrun shadows."
"Hades." She started.
His hands moved to her arms and he gripped them. "This is by far the coolest thing that I have ever owned. When Ariel sees it, he will be the next to volunteer for a repair. I feel like a kid on christmas opening presents. Arrrghhh..." He growled and pulled her into a hug. "Thank you Sunshine, I don’t know how to say it or how to repay you."
Squeezed in his arms with a twisted face because he was crushing her ribs, she said, "You can start by forgiving me for accidentally selling your eight million worth of bluefin tuna."
Hades laughed. "Woman, you have given me a leg worth hundreds of millions and you think I care about some damn fish. Sell it all, we will just buy more later.
Right now, just let me hug you because I think that if I don’t hold on to something, I might fly out of the window. Jo-Stride says that with time and more upgrades and energy, I will be able to fly."
"Who is Jo-Stride?" she asked.