The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 33: Back to the tree.

“I’m supposed to trust you now and tell you my story?!” Adam chuckled and looked at Keet laying down beside him.

“No! You Are supposed to stop treating me like an Artificial Intelligence, because I’m not, and also I’m really worried about you! What happened earlier was by no means normal!”

“Okay! I’ll tell you the story later but for now, all you need to know is that I convert food into energy and use this energy to do things like flying and controlling fabric and other stuff.” Adam casually revealed to him as he stood up. “Can I have a mirror please? I want to see how this cool space suit looks on me.”

“You care about how you look that much! Is it your girlfriend or something?!” Keet teased him watching him as he changed the helmet of the space suit and started to change the rest of it.

Keet was thinking about what could have caused a 9 year old kid to have such abilities. A normal human would never sacrifice his real legs for a prosthetic leg to be able to fly or float, they have cars for that. And having the ability to control cluster fabric can easily be accomplished with a brain implant, but only a person having an accident or a brain injury would take that risk. so how could a child who have a remarkably healthy body with no implants or prosthetic any where on him have these abilities.

He saw him swallowing the robotic cores but he didn’t pay it any mind back then, he thought it might be some kind of a weird fetish, people sometimes didn’t make sense to him, but now he is sure that had something to do with it.

Keet couldn’t reach a conclusion on the subject and Adam doesn’t seem to be any easier to talk to.

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“Oh my god! The metal Astronaut! You are real! I’m your biggest fan! I was just reading your comic, was that your little robot?! You are so cool! I can’t believe it’s you! Is there some evil gang around here you need to take down?! Can I be your side-kick?! I can do things for you what ever you ask…”

Birdy went on and on, while Adam wearing a suit similar to what Metal astronaut wears in the comic, stood by the tree near the wall. he thought to surprise Birdy, he sent a little robot like the ones in the comic to lure him here, but he was regretting his decision fast.

“So… if you leave him he just keeps talking?!” Keet leaning on the tree pointed at Birdy while looking at Adam for a confirmation.

“Yeah! There’s an off button, let me get it!” Adam approached Birdy slowly while Birdy didn’t seem to be stopping any time soon, he looked at the space suit Adam is wearing with a glittering eyes, he couldn’t see his face behind the helmet, his heart was beating faster then it ever did.

“Stop talking!” Adam slapped him on the back of his head, Birdy was confused for a second, but then he recognized the owner of the voice and his eyes widened, he became Even more excited.

“Lets go for a ride.” Adam’s helmet melted into the suit as he gestured for Birdy to follow him before he starts talking again, and headed to where Keet was standing.

“Did you come back for me?!” Birdy’s eyes didn’t preserve any tears as he was barely able to talk, no one have ever done such a thing for him, when Adam gave him the few coins he had 2 days ago, Birdy thought that this is the best thing any one could do to him, he didn’t think he deserves so much money.

“Would you like to leave this place?!” Adam said while he opened a door in the air beside the tree.

Birdy was startled by his action, he looked at the other side of the door with his mouth agape. “Is that another dimension?! Like in the comic! Is there people with horse heads there! Does the insects rule the world?”

“It’s just a ship in cloaking Birdy! Come inside.”

Birdy’s excitement was indestructible, every attempt to calm him down only elated him further. He tried to go around the door to see how it looks from the back, and he pumped his head into the ship and fell unconscious.

“Are you sure you want this one?! He looks broken!” Keet lifted Birdy’s unconscious Body to his shoulder bringing him inside the invisible ship.

“Yeah! But he’s a good one! If you overlook the loquacious part, You’ll find him very helpful and trust worthy.” Adam thought the word loquacious to be weird to him, he recently discovered that he knows many new words that he didn’t know before, Whenever he needed to describe something he found a word corresponding to the meaning. he thought it might be a side effect of having all the laws and rules of city 17 engraved to his brain.

Keet dropped Birdy on a comfortable sofa in the middle of the ship, the drop  restored his consciousness, but having a soft squishy sofa under him was a new feeling, he hugged the pillow enjoying its warm feeling and nice scent.

“Am I dead?! Is this heaven?” he murmured under the gazes of Adam an Keet.

“I’m going to search for my father, I probably will leave the earth in my search, would you like to come?!” Adam’s monotonous voice sounded in Birdy’s ears, the words were like a dream come true for him, he had nothing to stay in the orphanage for, the two days he spent there without Adam he was bored and sad, back to his usual life before Adam, being ignored by almost every one.

Such an offer brought him an overwhelming happiness, he couldn’t even reply under all the tears that drowned his face. So he simply hugged Adam.

the only life Birdy would have in the orphanage was to be ignored by every one until he turns 13, then he would be transferred to a military facility to start his training, he would never be any thing more then just a simple soldier, he wouldn’t be able to achieve much with his weakness and inability to fight.

“Your tears are on my suit Birdy! Some snout too! That’s disgusting!” Adam casually said, even though he was extremely disgusted by Birdy’s bodily liquids, he didn’t push him away.

Adam didn’t want to take Birdy with him to save him or to give him a better future, nor any act of selflessness of the such. Adam just felt lonely, and there wasn’t many people that he could tolerate or be comfortable around, Birdy was actually one of only 2 people like that, not counting his father and Keet who were around him his entire life. And he couldn’t take Mela, she had her own life.

So it came to his mind to see if Birdy would agree on coming with him on this journey.