[center][h3][color=#43464B][sub]In the minds of[/sub][/color]
[color=#CCAC00][b]C R O S S R O A D [/b][/color][/h3]
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[color=#43464B][sup][b]AWAKENING[/b][/sup][/color][/center][color=#43464B][indent][sub][B]Location[/B] [COLOR=SILVER][I]Doctor Faust's Manor[/I] - [I]Outskirts of the city[/I][/COLOR][/sub][sup][right][b]Part 2.[/b][/right][/sup][/indent][/color][hr][INDENT][COLOR=#43464B]9:06 Today[/COLOR] [color=#43464B][B][sub][/sub][/B][/color][/indent]

Taking with the doctor, standing up and reading all felt like completely new sensations, like he had never experienced anything before. He felt like a newborn baby in the sense that every sensation was new. Ever experience was a new one. Every little tension and tinge in his body was fresh. He felt like he had woken up in someone else's body, on that wasn't his own. Like he was dreaming while being asleep at the wheel. Yet, it wasn't just unpleasant, even if his head was still throbbing and it felt like his head was the new home for a colony of pissed off wasps. His right hand felt normal, he could feel things he grabbed even though he could clearly see the mechanical part of his body. He was flabbergasted at the prospect that he hadn't just knocked on death's door. He had been kicked through it and down the stairs to the dark and damp basement of oblivion.

Doctor Faust explained to him that he hadn't had a close death experience. He had been dead, for more than an hour. Faust had explained to him what he had done to save his life. The nanites and the mechanical parts. The buzzing he felt in his brain was the nanites repairing his cells, essentially piecing them together like the world's most complex puzzle. His brain was fragmented and repairing the parts of the brain that were dying due to the whole being dead part with new cells. 

[color=#CCAC00]"That sounds impossible, Doc. I couldn't have been dead. Science can't bring people back from being dead that long."[/color]

[color=brown]"It wasn't just science that saved you, boy. It was something more. A miracle. I'm not a man of faith, but it wasn't just my nanites and augmentation prosthetics that has you sitting here in front of me. I was desperate to not give up on you, even though you had no signs of life during my procedure. Yet, your pulse came back as I was piecing you back together. It was quite the challenge to stop the blood from leaking out of you as I had opened your skull, I must say.[/color] The doctor admitted, his voice sounded uncertain but at the same time intrigued. It was clear that while Doctor Faust might've been the most intelligent man Joseph had ever met, even he didn't have the answer as to why Joseph was back in the realm of the living.

[color=brown]"Fact that you are alive, talking and able to move at all at this point is astonishing. The nanites are working very fast at restoring your motor functions, though, they cannot restore your brain completely to the condition it was before the trauma. That's where the processors I implanted into you becomes handy. [/color] As Faust explained, Joseph felt his long scar reaching through the back of his head, from his temple on the left side all the way back of his head where he felt the big circular scar from the gunshot. 

[color=#CCAC00]" I have computers in my brain?"[/color]

[color=Brown]"And your hand, shoulders, arms, legs and spine. Everywhere I put the motors to replace the organic tissue that was too damaged to be repaired. I was worried about power consumption, I couldn't very well implant batteries into you, but they're feeding off of your natural bioenergy. Which, for the record, you have the highest amounts of I've ever observed. I've seen the biology of many people with extraordinary abilities, but none of them had levels as high as yours. Were you powered before your injury, Detective?[/color]

[color=#CCAC00]"You're asking me if I had super powers? I was a cop. Not a hero."[/color]

[i][color=salmon]And you'll never be one[/color][/i] the whisper from deep within his head mused, and his head hurt even more. He flinched from pain and held his head with his left hand. 


[color=Brown]"You need rest, Mr.Dark. I'll run diagnostics on you tomorrow and we'll do further testing. I'd like to see if we can teach you to walk, read and write tomorrow.  [/color] The doctor said, as he nodded to the sandwich and glass of water he had brought with him previously to the room that was sitting on Joseph's bedside table. 

[color=#CCAC00]"I an quite hungry.. I guess I haven't eaten anything in 4 months."[/color] He said with a soft smile, the first time in almost half a year.