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Klayton was now back in the city of Helion...he remembered it vaguely...but didn't remember if it was good or bad...even though his internal feelings were telling him that it was a bad place...just as he was looking around, three of the guards noticed him...and called all the soldiers to arms...that there was a breach in the security...Klayton looked up at them and thru his eyes he could calculate their speed, distance, and every weapon they had...then he also calculated what the best thing for him to do was...which was at that moment to flee...he kept very quickly racing thru the city...until he came up to a very familiar place...the prison...all of his memory banks loaded and he remembered how he got the way he was...and decided to pay them all a little visit.

He went thru the floor of the prison and worked his way up the ladder of the building...a guard noticed him and took two shots at him...Klayton dodged the first one...but when the second one hit him directly in the chest...adamantium steel automatically covered his entire body...and a laser gun flipped in front of his left eye...he targeted the guard and thought in his head to fire...and it blew a hole thru the guards head...he gave a look of satisfaction...and continued to work his way thru the prison killing every guard that came along...when he got to the holding cells where the prisoners were kept...he looked at them and kept going at first...but when some of them begged him to let them out and set them free...then he heard the word Ravagers...he quickly turned around...and blew the cell door open and told them to get out.

Klayton wasn't ready to leave just yet...because he had some unfinished business...with a few guards. He found them...and with a little sick irony he let them know who he was...then he beat the hell out of them very slowly...then drug them out toward the outer edge of the city...where the rescued prison convicts were waiting, while trying to figure a way to get out of the force field...until one of the others came over and told them they had to wait until the sun came up...or those creatures would kill them all...Klayton walked passed them dragging the two guards that tried to kill him toward the force field. One of the prisoners told him not to...but when Klayton touched the field...it disappeared and he drug the two guards thru it...then looked at all of them...and told them to come with him...if they wanted to live...and fight the Helionites another day.

They all stood up and rallied around Klayton very quickly and asked how he was going to protect them from the creatures...Klayton gave them a wicked smile and said he wasn't...then he made a few clicking noises...along with a couple of whistles...then the largest of the dragons came out and moved right up to him...where they had a conversation in strange clicks, growls, and whistles...then the dragon took the men down to the underground...but Klayton stayed above with the dragon...while giving him a few strong pets...even though for the moment Klayton couldn't remember who he was...or that he had a pregnant wife back on Deltar...he did know he was a new being...and had a lot of power...that he never had before...he even had control of the creatures that they all feared.

Queen Aphelion slowly emerged from the depths of darkness and shed her bright external lights toward Klayton...and asked him to come back home with her where he belonged...that with his help...she could bring her people back to the surface...and take her leadership back on Helion where she belonged. Klayton kept his distance from her at first...but she was a rather appealing female. That and his new dragon friend told him that she was good...and could be trusted...that she was the rightful queen of Helion...that the king took advantage of a dying princesses sick mother...then he killed her after marrying her...and took rulership over the city and all its inhabitants...and those that opposed him and his rule...was tossed out of the city...starting with princess Aphelion.

Instead of the dragons killing her and the ones that were exiled...they took them below where they lived...and gave them sanctuary and food...and a new life order...of being reborn into what he was now...a true fighter and survivor...that was unstoppable. Klayton looked at himself thru the eyes of the dragon...and asked if he was a machine or a human...Queen Aphelion walked over to him and touched his face and said neither...he was now a pro-bot...a very advanced cyborg...with human features and textures...and that he wasn't quite as breakable as his pitiful human body was...plus he had a lot of electronic weapons and in-line defense system that came with his new body. Klayton turned from the dragon and asked her if she knew who he was...Queen Aphelion gently touched his face...and told him no...but then she added that she knew who he could be. Klayton looked at her and asked who could he be...she pulled him to the entrance of the underworld...and said her second command and her right hand, her Adam 7k. Klayton wasn't sure...but he liked the idea of belonging to a family group again...because it was what he was always used too...he just couldn't remember any of them...and with no one there that knew him...he had no help in remembering.

Days turned into weeks-weeks turned into months and months turned into the year...and Adam 7k grew in name and reputation throughout the planet of Atiria...which included the cities of Helion, Deltar, Jericho, Varian, Doktari, and Blackstar. Klayton was no longer a known name to him...he was only Adam 7k...the Queen's second command...and new love interest...even though he wasn't really into her like that...for deep down inside of him...he knew somewhere he had a love.

He just didn't know where or who anymore...but every now and then while he was sleeping...he could hear her voice...and see a glimpse of her face...but then it would be gone...and he was back to his usual...taking rebels topside and fighting...taking what they needed then breaking away and making it back beneath the surface. The King of Helion, however, was growing tired of the underground rebels attacks and stealing so he called the neighboring allies of Helion...which was Varian, and Jericho...and they brought all their warriors...together and came to Helions defense of this new rebel enemy...Adam 7k.

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