Cyberknight: One Path

⁕ High Voltage (part 2)

[Kadyn] - "However, considering we can affect real life with our actions here, I've got a crazy idea that I'd like to try. "

A while later, after getting seated on a comfortable chair, Kadyn tied up her hair before searching for the relevant tools and medications for her surgery. Mike followed Kadyn as he stepped into the strange Imperial laboratory.

[Kadyn] - "Welcome to my place of birth, Mike. As you can see, the fifth tube on the right is where little ol' me is born. "

[Mike] - "This idea is madness, Lemon. One wrong move and we both die. "

Ignoring Mike's concerns, Kadyn took off her clothes before pouring alcohol on her back and neck. Then, with her wrist blade, she carefully shaved off all of her pretty blonde hair before cleaning her head with disinfectant.

[Kadyn] - "My brain has been calibrated to coordinate my arms with the same steadiness as a machine. Your job is to tell me the situation in places I can't see with the mirrors since you can phase your eyes into my body. "

Said Kadyn as she put down the necessary instruments and tools she needed for the surgery.

[Mike] - "Rearranging nerves is no easy task. Even with your surgical precision, this would still be more than a herculean task. "

Said Mike with a worried look.

[Kadyn] - "I don't mind this because I'm doing this for us! "

Said Kadyn as she used the suspended robotic limbs to hold mirrors around her.

[Mike] - "You don't have to risk it like this, Lemon. This is not a hell I wish upon you. "

Kadyn looked at Mike using the mirrors before her before realizing that he couldn't be reflected off mirrors. Slowly, Kadyn turned to face him before reassuring him with a smile.

[Kadyn] - "We are out of roads to walk on, Mike. Just promise me you'll be here with me throughout the operation. Promise me we'll meet again in the next life if I make a mistake. "

Said Kadyn while holding back tears.

[Mike] - "Always, I'll be right beside you until the end. "

With Mike's assurance, Kadyn turned around and injected herself with an adrenaline shot. Slowly, she grabbed the surgical cloths and placed them around her back and head. Then, with a final breath of air, she injected doses of local anesthesia into her back, neck and scalp.

[Kadyn] - "Look at me, I look like a monster without my hair. "

Said Kadyn sarcastically while staring at herself in the mirror.

[Mike] - "No, you look beautiful. More than ever. "

Kadyn smiled upon hearing Mike's remark. With steady hands, she grabbed the blade from the table before her and began cutting away at her flesh. Meanwhile, outside, Jagger and the surgeons were already gone for a while after the conclusion of the lobotomy, thus leaving no one to notice the hair falling off Kadyn's head and the blood leaking onto her bedsheet.

As time passed, both of Kadyn's hands were soaked in blood and bone fragments as she finished work on her spine. However, one more place needed surgical intervention; Her brain. After shooting herself in the head with anesthesia, Kadyn sliced her skull open using her own wrist blade with ease.

[Mike] - "Stay strong, Lemon, you got this! I'm here right with you! "

Said Mike while almost crying at the sight of his wife tearing herself apart.

With extreme precision, Kadyn guided a set of wires and nerves from her spinal cord through her Conagher system. Mike watched as Kadyn successfully navigated the back of her brain with the wires and connected them to her nerves. As Kadyn opened the final piece of her skull and exposed her prefrontal cortex, Mike saw the small quantic computer that was implanted in the place of her parietal lobe.