2 weeks later “Erik, this is unbelievable progress.
You should be fully healed in another 2 weeks.
Tissue damage is nonexistent at this point.
In fact, it’s looking like there’ll be minimial, if any scarring at all.
Plus the bones in your legs that crushed are almost fused together again.
It’s amazing.” Aurora is beaming with joy at each revelation.
“The nanobots are also quietly evolving in a surprising way.
I only designed them to help with tissue damage but they’re also helping to reinforce bone structure and also have fixed many of the damaged nerves.
This is unprecedented work.
Honestly, I never thought these nanobots would do much more than what I intended but I’m very happy to be proven wrong.” Vera is also excited.
“Ladies, you’ve both been through a lot but you’re now taking the next steps to bring in a new era of science and medicine.
You should be proud of yourselves.
Great work you two.” I say as I put my clothes back on and get ready to go back to work.
I’ve noticed that over the last couple months, these two girls are starting to get extra happy whenever I’m around and can also sense the room getting quieter when I leave.
I want to say I’m just imagining things but I turned around to check on them and it’s like the passion and energy they just had is gone and they’re back to serious mode.
It’s honestly impressive.
Anyways, I’m off to have a meeting I’ve been waiting to have for a while now.
This will be the third time I’ve been face to face with Mr.
Shiranui, who just happens to be ginefer’s dad.
I get to the meeting room and there’s already 5 men in suits and cigars waiting for me, including Mr.
Shiranui.
“Greetings gentlemen, I’d say welcome to Somalia but we both have unresolved issues.
Anyways today’s meeting is to ensure that we’re both on the same page about what happened, to ensure that both sides know what we’re up against, and if willing, for the yakuza to join us in our mission to take on the warlords.
For two hours, I explain about the mission i got injured in and everything else that happened.
The yakuza explain what kind of explosives they were looking to buy here as well as the deal they had with the warlord.
“Alright, I think I have the gist of everything.
So here is what we know about the warlord situation.” I give them another ten minutes of information about what we’ve gathered.
“Erik, we’re in.
As long as you’ve got something that can end this in go, the Shiranui yakuza will stand behind the operation.” “Good, everyone will meet up here in a few hours to go over the mission briefing.” With everyone dismissed, i take one last look around and save the hangar for last.
I start walking over to where Zuri is I just sit and watch.
Zuri in the zone is just something magical.
She never seems to be tired and she just has a way with tools and metal that just makes the final product seem magical.
I think at some point Zuri caught me staring.
“You going to help or just keep staring.” “I’m just admiring the view” “Which view” I walk up to Zuri and I crouch down to meet her eyes.
“I like watching you in your element.
You have this way of looking naturally graceful that I just can’t help but be glued.” I take a look at Zuri and she’s tearing up again.
“Erik I’m sorry, if I didn’t get kidnapped you wou”- “Hush now,” I say as I pull her in my arms as I try to keep her from crying “there’s not to be sorry for.
I’d come for you everytime.
You’re safety is all that matters ok.
Look, I’m healthy again, and we’re about to go end this once and for all.
No need to feel guilty Zuri ok.
I don’t want you to carry this unnecessary burden on yourself.
“Alright fine, but allow me to come find you and let it out if I get into my feelings ok.” “I can do that” I say as a hold her a bit longer.
“So how is that system vehicle coming along.” “Oh you’ll be surprised.” As we are walking to the bay, Zuri explains that the blueprints are more complicated than she expected but also very easy to decipher.
“Holy guacamole this is huge, are you sure this is correct Zuri.” I exclaim “I just followed the blueprints i was given.
This is what happened.” I get ready to take a tour before “Ding” Vehicle complete Restaurant system detects compatible platform Restaurant blueprint package registered Most functions remain offline because the required equipment hasn’t been installed “Ding” APOCALYPSE ORGANIZATION SYSTEM ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RESTAURANT SYSTEM UNLOCKED Status: INITIALIZED Compatible Platform: VERIFIED Restaurant Blueprint Package: INSTALLED System Status: LOCKED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ NOTICE The completed vehicle has met the minimum structural requirements to host the Restaurant System.
Restaurant modules have been added to the blueprint database.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CURRENT STATUS Kitchen……..LOCKED Cold Storage……LOCKED Dry Storage…….LOCKED Dining Area…….LOCKED Food Production……LOCKED Trading……..LOCKED Morale Support…….LOCKED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ INITIALIZATION REQUIREMENTS □ Construct Basic Kitchen □ Install Cold Storage Unit □ Install Dry Storage Area □ Install Water Purification System □ Install Power Distribution Network ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RECOMMENDATION Complete the required installations to activate the Restaurant System.
Additional functions and upgrade paths will become available after initialization.
“Ding” Vehicle completion detected Headquarters system unlocked ══════════════════════════════════════════════ HEADQUARTERS SYSTEM UNLOCKED ══════════════════════════════════════════════ Status: Locked Access Level: Administrator Integration: Armored Restaurant Platform Purpose: Organization Command & Department Management The Headquarters System has been unlocked.
Current vehicle dimensions are insufficient to support a Headquarters Module.
Vehicle expansion is required before construction can begin.
Recommended Actions: • Upgrade the Vehicle System.
• Expand the Armored Restaurant Platform.
• Increase available construction materials.
• Assign a Construction Team.
Construction Status: Inaccessible System Recommendation: Prioritize Vehicle Development.
══════════════════════════════════════════════ “Well that’s something.
Zuri, looks like you won’t be done with this vehicle for a very long time.
Hope you’re ready for this.” “Let’s do this, a project this interesting doesn’t come around too often.
I’m ready, however, I better see a reward from you after working like this.” “If it’s within my power, I’ll get you whatever you’d like.” “That’s more like it Erik.” She smiles at me and then proceeds to get back to work with a warm smile.
I do feel though that she’s becoming a little too, well how should I put it, playful I guess would be the right word for it.
Either way I think it’s nice to see this side of her more.
Makes her seem freer.” …….
20 minutes ago “Hey boss, who exactly is this man and why do you treat him so well.
I know he’s the brother in law of Derricc but that’s it.” “Remember when we had those moles in our organization and we had to personally go to the us president and get help from him.” “Yeah, he sent those twins.” Derricc told charge of the missions with Erik providing back up and feedback on the surroundings.
I remember that mission being why you entrusted Ginefer to them.” “What if I told you that Erik is the reason we’re here right now.” “How so?” “Ever wonder why our group suddenly had money, our operations became stronger and how we’ve just been incredibly lucky lately.” “Yeah, wait that’s him.” “Yeah, 15 billion dollars.
That’s how much he gave us.
Said it was Derricc’s wedding gift.
He’s also had that computer girl of his quietly feed us intel on potential targets and also has kept us fed on potential new members and potential spies.” “That’s impressive boss” “I may be running this group, but Erik’s fingerprints are all over this.
I also asked him how he has so much money working spec ops and the answer surprised me even more.
Stock trading, investments, and he’s also a ceo of at least a couple dozen companies in various aspects of business.
He said he strategically acquired mismanaged businesses over the years.” “So is he a good guy or a bad guy.” “He’s someone who protects his own, even from the shadows.”