As Zyphon had transformed, it held on to the rims of Alex's generator. The mark on top of its body was now more visible. An upside down triangle with a thin rectangle atop it. It glowed a light, acid green as well, resonating in and out like a signal. Seff and Akhmin lurked behind Achiin as they watched the robotic scorpion do its job. Achiin watched as waves of ringed cyan swept on the sides from Alex not encased by Zyphon. Tendrils of grey lurched within the crevice, filling every gap of Alex's systems, searching for disconnected nodes and fizzled wiring. As it did, Achiin and Seff both ran around him and looked to see what it was doing, unable to watch what was within. Akhmin was worried, gripping and rubbing his fingers while watching Zyphon tamper with Alex. He didn't like it one bit, he didn't know if it was trying to eat him from the inside and take him away or revive him.
As soon as Akhmin was about to step forth, Alex jittered. His blue markings all over his body had faded into his skin, disappearing permanently. His arm, first, had lifted, slapping on the ground. He shook for a moment as he weakly gathered himself up on his knees. He seemed like a marionette, no emotion, no human movement. A doll. He looked up for a moment with a plain face, staring at Akhmin, to gather his ocular quality back. As it did, his white pupils faded back to dark blue, shrinking with his glowing blue iris as he coiled in shock to the feeling on his back. "AGH!" Alex reached around to his back, ripping Zyphon off of his generator, slamming it on the wall as its tendrils slowly slipped back inside its chassis. The scorpion fell on its eight, nimble legs, looked at Alex as he cursed it out, and scanned him. It spoke and then Alex became silent after being interrupted, listening. "Alexander Leone Lazarine. All systems are now nominal. The Artificer wishes to speak with you. My first mission is now complete. I will guide you to her." Zyphon then proceeds to try dragging Alex by his loosened khakis towards the front door, even though he's still kneeling, unmoveable. "Like hell you are!" Alex takes it by its pincer but accidentally breaks it. "Right pincer is now broken. In need of repair. Finding nearest possible subject." Zyphon falls to the floor and scans Achiin. He watches as it walks toward him, helplessly dragging its claw behind it. "Uhm… okay? Well I did bring you in so it only makes sense I guess." Akhmin chimes in. "You may… keep it… it healed Alexander. That is your name now, is it? And now you can speak, correct?" Alex gets up slowly from the floor and ponders for a moment. "I guess so…" Akhmin bows his head as his arms are crossed sternly. "This is good news. You are okay. You are repaired. Now you can speak. I'm… I'm happy you're okay."
Alex watches Akhmin shed a tear and stares at Seff and Achiin as well. He also sees Achiin's scar and how he now has a blue eye from the time he tried repairing him. He realizes he must be hurt. Alex tries walking forward and telling him he's sorry but it comes out odd due to a small fizzling zap in his mind. "Sor-...ry… Uhm" It's as if his memory is coming back to him. A spark creates a vision of two green eyes glowing and gazing at him, new words added to his vocabulary are now present. An alien humanoid with two horns, sky blue skin and a white ring around both the horns and its neck flashes quickly before he can make it out. It looked very familiar. Achiin looks around at Alex as he's undenting Zyphon's claw in the living room and forgives him. "It's okay. I had time to think pretty fast how it works and it stopped hurting about a couple minutes later. We should feed you though, eating only a small amount is not good enough for a growing android, huh?" Alex stares at Achiin, shocked he was able to recover so well, and yet… somehow, he knew more about the workings of organics themselves. How was this knowledge possible to him… A flood of information had drained from a solidified block in his mind. An unpetrified and broken door to an unparallelled amount of information. He wants to unlock more of them, find more about himself. Right now, however, he doesn't really know what "The Artificer" is or… rather… what it does. All he knows is that he must find them.
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