The sounds of the machines helping him breath sounded in the background inhaling and emailing, while the heart monitor marked every beat his heart missed. Lance laid in his hospital bed trying to remember everything that had happened, unfortunately, he failed to do so, the only thing he could remember was the intense pain that came and went.
He remembered his sister, but he couldn't remember his mom and dad, sometimes he even wondered if he ever had them to begin with.
At times Lance wanted to get up and walk, only for his body to refuse to answer him, he may have not been able to see, speak or move, but he could feel and listen. He listened to his sister whenever she came to visit him, he listened to his old friends who told him about the events going on and he listened to the doctors that took care of him.
It was this way he had learned just how bad his body had been torn apart, apparently, every bone in his body was broken, the joints had been shattered in a form that only an intense specialized surgery could repair and his nerves system, that would have to be fixed using a highly expensive synthetic tissue.
According to the doctors, the only reason he was alive, was just how stubborn he was.
He listened as the door to his room open and he listened to the woman that took care of him, the same nurse that washed and inspected his machinery, he guessed that considering the sounds of buttons being pressed whenever she came in.
The woman would talk to him about pointless things, like the tv show she had watched, a book she was reading and a party she was evicted to, now the normally cheerful carefree voice of the woman sounded broken and Lance could hear her crying.
Apparently, Ismael had fallen, it was no surprise everyone knew this could happen, but no one believed it, the leader of the Independence was someone that could stand on his own that would rise to the occasion when all others failed to do so and yet he now laid uncritical condition.
The doctors had to remove his entire arm from the shower down and were now replacing it with a mechanical one, apparently, bits and peases of metal had gone into his body, so more surgery was needed.
Yet despite this, the man lived, he was like a castle whose stones were broken, but were now being replaced with newer stronger ones.
Lance felt the woman hold his had and for a brief moment he opened his eyes and found himself met with the woman's own light brown ones. The woman's eyes widened before she took in a deep breath and screamed.
"Doctor!"
The room began to fill with men dressed in white lab coats and Lance could see his sister looking at him from the opened door to his room.
"He's awake, prepare him for surgery." A doctor said before Lance felt a needle pierce his skin, but he failed to know where it had entered.
Even as Lance felt his bed move as the doctors rushed him into surgery, word had begun to spread abou about him being awake again, so much so that even in the depths of the research department Michael had heard about it.
Michael for his part smiled at the news, that meant one less life they would carry on their conscience, there is a line every scientist do you want life or do you want progress, if one chooses progress then they will encounter everything from human experiments to the stuff one hears about mad scientists.
But if one chooses life, then progress will be slow but all of the note and bolts will be tightened, it was for thus reason that Michael knew that those that had created the Infinite Stratos were sociopaths, they hadn't even considered his human society would be changed, no all they cared about was whatever goals they had in mind.
If those goals were achieved didn't matter anymore, the consequences of their actions will be felt for years to come, one simply has to look to the empires of the past to understand that all of this had happened before and because of that the fall of this empire was only slowed down by the Independence.
Still, as he looked at the new designed of the power suits Michael couldn't help but smile, high-speed grappler would soon be back in full operation and with him Lancer would rise once again.