The Mech Lord

Chapter 57 - 56: A Partner In The Same Boat

"Why do you have my body-nya?" The little kitten stared at Leo, with shock in its big watery eyes.

It would have been pretty cute if people saw a little tiny creature staring at them like that, but that was not true for Leo here. He was dumbfounded by its words.

"What are you talking about?" He asked, looking at it with a frown.

"I am asking you why do you have my body? And, why the hell am I a kitten now-nya?" The little thing asked while staring at its own paw in disbelief.

"You mean this body is yours?" Leo asked nervously while pointing his finger towards his body.

"Yes! It's mine. I am Aiden Silver-nya!" The Little kitten screamed in anger, and the fact that it was aware of that name really left Leo blank. He had no idea what to do.

He had been praying all along to meet Aiden, but definitely not like this.

Was this really Aiden?

Why and how the hell did he got into a Bio-chip, and to think he had been so close all this while to him. He was literally hanging on his ear the entire time. Thank god, Leo hadn't thrown the thing away and decided to test it today. If he really had thrown it away on the first day thinking of it as a toy or useless thing, that would have certainly been a disaster.

"You really are Aiden, right?" Leo asked him once more.

"Yes, I am. But, who are you, and why do you have my body-nya?" The little guy asked with a frown on it's cute face.

"I have no idea about it as well," Leo said with a sigh. "Do you remember anything after the evacuation shuttle shot off into space from the exploding spaceship?"

"Yeah, right! The Accident-nya!" The little Kitten finally seemed to have remembered it, but the next instant it clutched it's head with its paw and began to roll around the bed while groaning in pain.

"Ahhhh!! My head hurts-nya!" It was the same thing that happened with Leo, and a minute into the episode, Aiden fainted.

"Does it even feel pain? Isn't it just a robot?" Leo muttered in confusion.

[Well, it seems that the Chip has been programmed to give real life feelings including pain as well.]

"How in hell did a living human being end up into a chip?" Leo asked Arthur with a frown as he picked the little guy up and placed it own the pillow.

[Well, it's hard to say. After all, I was not the one to have conducted your selection process.]

And, there was no concrete answer as usual.

...

A few minutes passed…

"Am I still alive-nya?" The little guy muttered as it finally opened it's mouth.

"You are finally up?" Leo looked at him with a bit of expectation. He was hoping that he knew something about what had happened during the accident, and the time they were missing.

"Do you remember anything about the incident?" Leo further asked once again.

"No.." The little guy shook his head, "My head hurts if I try to think about the incident-nya."

"It's the same.." Leo sighed as he shook his head, "I can't remember anything about the incident as well."

"Wait! You are the guy who saved me back then-nya?" The little guy finally seemed to have come to the realization.

"Yeah," Leo nodded with a little smile on his face. "I am Leo Allison."

"Thanks for your help-nya," Aiden said, and then raised his paw.

Leo was speechless, but still shook it.

"Hmmn?" The little guy's eyes suddenly seemed to widen, and it pounced onto Leo the next instant for a better look, "Bro! Where is my hand?!"

Leo's face turned a bit dark, and he forced a smile on his face. "I got into a bit of trouble."

"A bit?" The little guy stared at Leo with those big blue eyes, which were full of disbelief.

The stare battle lasted for a minute, before Aiden sighed and fell flat on the bed.

"What has happened to my life?" He seemed depressed.

Leo took a place beside him, and sighed as well and spoked with a bit of empathy, "Welcome to my world..:

"One more thing, how the hell did you get into my home?" The little guy turned his head to look at Leo.

Even though the situation looked funny, it was extremely serious. If Leo had done something wrong while using Aiden's identity, then a battle between a cat and a man was bound to occur today.

But, thankfully Leo was never of the mind to take Aiden's identity over.

"I was dragged here by Aaron," Leo said with a sigh, and began to explain the situation to Aiden.

Aiden, the little Kitten sat there in silence. No one knew what was going through his head.

"This is messed up-nya," Aiden finally shook his head, and sighed. "Some guy is definitely out there having the laugh of his life while watching us.."

"You are still lucky if you ask me.." Leo looked at Aiden with a helpless look on his face.

"Me, lucky?" Aiden really didn't know what to reply to. It seemed like Leo was making fun of him.

"You at least have your body in sight, I don't even know where my body is.." Leo said with a sigh.

"At least you are in a humanoid body? Look at me! I am a cat, who can't help but end every sentence with a nya-nya." Aiden looked extremely depressed about it.

"You actually are not a cat," Leo muttered with a weird look on his face. Maybe he was indeed in a better situation here.

"What do you mean?" Aiden frowned.

"Even though you like a real cat, you are just a kind of robot with an A.I. chip inside." Leo forced a smile on his face, while slamming the truth on Aiden's face.

"A.I.?" The little kitten looked at Leo in confusion. It seemed that it didn't have the slightest idea of its own existence. "Don't joke with me, I can feel everything like a living being."

"Those are built in the program it seems," Leo said with a sigh.

"N-No! I don't believe you-nya!" Aiden refused to believe it. It was equivalent to telling him that he wasn't alive anymore. He might just be a program that could go corrupt or be deleted at one's wish.

"Come here.." Leo grabbed Aiden, and brought him closer.

"What are you doing-nya?!"

"Let me go-nya!!" The little kitten began to struggle, but it looked pretty helpless in front of Leo.

"Not there-nya!!"

"Mmn..mnn..Nya~"

"Click!" Leo finally managed to pop the lower panel of the little guy, revealing the inner parts.

Aiden's big eyes seemed to lose their light when the truth came out. He even began to question his existence, just like Leo did once.

"It will be fine," Leo patted the little guy, clearly understanding his feelings.