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James smiled and nodded lightly, and then looked at his arm, and gave Jelena a small kiss on the cheek.

"Not bad, not bad at all. jut as long as you didn't give it a Rennell personality it'll be fine I think. I don't think I could handle a sunshiney echo."


Jessica was looking at her watch, and smirked at Rennell.

"Rose, please take a seat if you wish. and if you would, Mr. Rennell. come lay down on teh table here and we'll get you put under and begin. This whole procedure shouldn't take by a few hours. five at most. if you systems require a shut down to be worked on that's how long you should shut down for. we can retart you when we're done working on you."

A small grin.

"Or it's going to be an echo with bipolar disease. interesting combinations the two species that most commonly dislike eachother blended into one. So how much longer before your little friend is ready?"

His eyes watched the figure in the tube, and glanced at Jelena

"so thre is a good chance it could be a Echo version of Rennell. Joy."


"Alright, Mr. Cryix."

And Jessica put an mask over hsi nose and mouth, pumping in knock out gas usually used in military/riot situations. they needed more powerful stuff becuase the nano's borke down the other more common gases in teh system far too quickly.

"Just breath deeply. and shutting down your M.A.T.U in 5...4...3...2...1."

She spoke slow, letting the gas take effect as they went about shutting off the MATU, and waiting until Rennell's vitals were stable and he was in REM sleep. then she took a set of skin attaching clamp sets, three arms to each and set them on his face, upon which they pulled back the eyelid of his bioware eye. Tech's mostly monitored hsi vitals while Jessica woudl do all teh work, though one walked to Roselyn and asked her how her blades were doing since her last checkup.

Jessica's deftly popped the bioware eye out of his skull, getting another set of clamps, a set small aray the had a lightsource the attached to the face and what looked like a small eyebrow lengthener and a needle. At this point, Rennell's face looked like an oil drilling complex. the eyes was held out and down near Rennell's mouth, to put soem tension on teh wiring, which she was clamping witht eh eyebrow extender looking thing, while the needle was being used to press a small series of buttons in a sequence to discharge the wires form the small circut board in Rennell's brain that was the eye/brain interface.

"So two or three days, and Roselyn gets a pet, and we'll see the final result of it. Remind me to be here for that. so I knwo wether or not to avoid her pet as an Echo version of rennell."

A small grin, and then a more serious look for a second.

"So tell me, what exactly on the Cerebus is causing it to go unstable on you? is it the trying to give it three heads part?"


Surgery was going alright, vitals holding just fine, while Jessica wiped blood from around Rennell's eye socket. the old eye sat in a tray, and she had the new eye setup as the old one was, in the clamps. it had been a few hours now, and they had gotten the old one out without much trouble, only a bit of bleeding. Jessica had a infrared pen light in her mouth, shining it down in Rennell's eye socket, while one hand held a wire in a small scissor like clamp, the other holding a special nano syringe with certain nano's specifically designed to attatch these kind of connectors that were far too small and in very sensitive or unable to get to places.

It was getting the wires to the connector without causing any bleeding that was the hard part. one tech was wiping blood from aroudn rennels face and dabbing at places to try and keep things as clean as possible. a bad connection coudl prove deadly. blood conducted electricity like water, and it could electrocute his brain like strapping him into an old electric chair. another tech was wiping Jessica's brow of sweat for the same reason, the others keeping monitor of his vitals and the MATU unit's power supplies and the secondary circulatory system.

"Did you try three seperate cirulatory systems in the body..after all three heads, brains and instructions for vital systems in teh body might not work. or three spinal collums, just interwoven together in a singular set of vertabrae? seems to me you'd have to biologically wire him like a computer network. a 'main' head, to which the others are connected to in a subset, like computers hooked up to a internet server. Or like my arm and head. there's three processing systems. one that controls the basic movements of my arm, and my memory banks and such. one that controls the targeting systems and sight based systems, as well as the tasters and cannon, and a thrid system that controls teh COIN, including it's subsystem. the COIN and offense systems are slave systems to the memory and arm systems. therefore arm function and my head working come first, then my coin, and then the offesive systems."


This was getting to be a major pain in the a**, and a few times Jessica let out a garbled curse.

"damn hemophiliac. I barely tap him and he starts pooling blood. get the vacuum in there. and get that s**t out before he gets a bad connection that cooks his brain when we try to put this thing online."

Two connections down, three to go. basically the bioelectric converter and the bioware signal carrier. so it had power going to it, and it allowed the brain to interpret what it was seeing. they other three were for the special system for the sound frequency that woudl be a wireless attachment to his gun, and of course motor functions to let the eye move like an eye should in the socket. Techs of course would tell Roselyn he was doing fine, nothing to worry about.

"Bloodpressure is rising."

"counter with adrenaline."

"MATU is trying to reconnect as well."

"I told you to shut it down for five hours."

"I did. but the nano's are taking hte blood in his operation as an emergency overriding situation."

"Then completely disconnect."

Anoher connector down, and another. last one. all connected. Jessica tok the big clamp off with the light source, still holfing the infrared penlight in her mouth and picking up the other needle she used earlier and poked a bit inside his skull.

"Bringing up diagnostics in failsafe. see if this thing works."

A monitor, that had been shut down, sprang to life, showing regular vision and soundwaves and raido frequencies in it. Jessica laid the pen out of her mouth on the table by her.

"great. it didn't cook him by coming online. now lets see the motors."

She poked a bit with teh needle some more, and the eye rotated in the clamps, keeping a great picture.

"wonderful. he's up and ready to go, software works, eye functions like it should. now lets get it back in his skull and we can let his MATU affirm itself and restart. Good job people."

Using the eyelash extending clam the wiries and mirco cables were pushing back into the skull like the normal synapse tendril would be, and the eye carefully put back into the socket, the clamps keeping his eyelids open let go and were put away, Jessica taking off her bloodied gloves and throwing htem out.

"Now we just wait for him to wake up."

"I'd be happy to help with it, you know that. Maybe my...user friendly knowledge of computer systems might come in handy for this particular project of yours. by the way, if I remember right, Cerebus was incredibly large. bigger then a Fenrir. you trying for that kind of size? and if so where you going to put it?"

A small grin watching her go over what he said, working with it, and actually thining he might be right.


Jessica watched Rennell, and looked at her team.

"Jolt his system, knock off tht drowsy half dead effect of those drugs."

Two patched applied to his chest with lubricant, and wham, a nice volt. more than enough to wake someone up if they needed to be woken up.

"I thought so. and if you want early schematics, I can get those for you, no problem. Be happy to help how I can. You know, Rennell might be done by now, let me check."

A step over to a GODD, and a press of the button.

"Rennell, this is James. make it to your appointment?"


Jessica nodded lightly.

"Yes, yes. crap woman. now take a look with your new eye, and see how well you can get to all teh vision modes and accesses. if anything seems to be running slow or is fuzzy, let me know I got some nanos that can correct minor issues like that."

Then James' voice on the GODD, and she pressed the button in response.

"He was on time, James, and he's all done. just doing the post surgery checkouts and then you can see how long it takes before your dragging him back here again."

James chuckled lightly.

"Anything in Metamorphosis I can get you paperwork free. And so nice to know it got me a third date when we haven't really had the first one yet."

then a shrug and a nod.

"Hopefully he won't annoy me since he owes my team for it. More than likely he's going to be wandering around like a two year old trying out all the new gadgets nad functions in the thing for a good three weeks.


Jessica nodded.

"I told you I was the best in the field. that also has some self correcting programs built in, so I won't have to go back in there anytime soon. you bleed to easy to make it a habit of doing that kind of work in there. I got all the customizations that you wanted, and yu should be good to go. and remeber your promise. no more missed appointments."

He followed behind her, and smiled lightly.

"Paperwork you can bypass, dating or not. you know anything you need from Meta I'll get you. It's not that big a deal to me. and as for Rennell..well I hope he keeps his head on straight, and doesn't get that new implant messed up. and I woudl suggest locking him out of the Echoes again for a bit. you know he's going to want to play with that new eye with them."