Risen

Chapter Sixteen: Setting Roots

1st day of Baleence, 8 AJ

Time: 0500

Wakey, wakey. The Eevees are out running and the Sparrows are out chirping. Fire Starter sung a little song inside of Hearth's head.

"Huh? Eevees? Sparrows? What are those?" Hearth opened his eyes. Dawn was lying on top of him, peacefully sleeping.

"Two kinds of Pokemon. Also, your daughter's in a sim pod, getting trained by Cooper. She wants to be a Pilot."

Dawn woke up. "Hmm. That's nice. You know, we should really build a home."

"I already built you one."

Hearth's attention was piqued. "What? When?"

"Last night. I built you a home to live in. I heard your wishes while you were flying here, Hearth."

"And where exactly is this house?"

"Above that Forerunner structure you brought back online. Thought you would appreciate that, given how you had struggled to turn it on."

Hearth looked at Dawn. She chuckled and said, "How large is it?"

"Some of the rooms are large enough for me to walk around in with room for others to walk around me as well. Like the living room, dining room, garage(mainly for me), and the shed out back. It's a big house, with plenty of extra rooms. There are also hangars for Guardian ships, along with one for a Pelican."

Hearth spoke up. "I suppose we need to help furnish it?"

"I guess so. I mean, the living room, dining room, garage and shed are furnished because I could walk around in there and two rooms already have beds in them. One room has a double bed and the other has a single bed."

Dawn chuckled again. "Let me guess, the double bed is for Hearth and me while the single bed is for Hope."

"Ding ding ding! You are correct!"

The two humans Fire Starter was harboring laughed. Fire Starter walked into the garage and kneeled down. She opened up and said, "Welcome to the garage."

The two got out and looked around. Tools covered one of the walls and extra parts for tinkering with were piled in neat piles off to the corner. Hearth immediately got an idea. He examined the servos in Fire Starter's legs and saw that they weren't optimized. Hearth searched the piles of parts and found what he was looking for.

"Hey, Fire Starter? I want to upgrade your legs."

"Okay, but what do you plan to do?"

"I'm just swapping some servos. Can you make sure you won't fall or anything?"

"Hold on." Fire Starter grabbed chains that dangled from the roof and hooked them onto her chassis. "Ready."

Hearth walked up to her and began to take out and put in new servos. After he was done, Fire Starter did a systems check.

"Everything's ready to go. What exactly did you do?"

"I swapped out non optimized servos for optimized ones. Should let you move faster."

"Yeah, and it lets me jump now. Thanks."

Dawn had waited for Hearth to finish before exploring the rest of the house. "Wait, you couldn't jump before?"

"Nope. Us Titans aren't built to jump. We are too heavy for the best servos around to propell us up. Now, I am officially the first Titan who can jump. And that gives me access to other parts of the house."