CYPHER

New Face

After their meal , they all parted ways .

Blade said he had to rest from all of the commotion of the morning while Jade wanted to get himself cleaned up .

There was only one bathroom with running water , May and Dean began to argue on who got to use it first after Jade .

They settled it easily with a game of rock , paper and scissors which May won .

Dean begrudgingly returned to his room to read more of the journal while he waited his turn .

He had chickened out of bringing the core of the golem they had encountered earlier back to the church with him .

Once he was inside the room , he arranged all of the drawings in their right order and went to stand on the wooden chair .

He looked down at the drawings , trying to picture what the robotics engineer had been thinking of with all of the systematics he had put the steels to .

His dad had always told him that when you looked at someone's work , you could tell what kind of person they were and what they had been thinking and it had always worked for him .

However , the autobot was different .

No matter how he looked at it , there was no synchrony to the autobots parts and functions.

Due to the risk of keeping technologies like this , fail-safes were often implemented to regain control if control was totally hijacked .

Fail safes like his dad had said , were a secret between the technology and it's creator , outside parties almost never knew anything about it .

Finding the fail-safes for the autobots had been Dean's plan to successfully stay alive but that was seeming impossible the longer he stared at the drawings .

There was no way Dean could tell anything about the engineer that had built this when his work was too distorted to be understood .

Dean sighed loudly , he could not continue to expend all of his energy to kill the Steels .

If they were ever attacked by more than two of them at a time , he would be at a loss .

And that was a huge possibility , they had no idea of the population of the Steels , and much more people than steels were probably being killed.

And the one day, maybe tomorrow or the next , the steels would have them cornered because their numbers would have dropped significantly and the drop in numbers would only magnify their hearing .

Dean sighed again .

" Why do you keep sighing ? "

Dean almost fell off the chair as he struggled to see who it was .

Jade stood at the entrance in only his combat pants .

His face was almost completely healed now and was only red in some spots now .

WIC medical products had to be the best .

His chest and feet were bare and his chest , hair and face were dripping water .

Dean looked from his dripping head to the tiled floor that was collecting water , he could already envision all of the deaths that could be caused .

They would not have to wait for the steels .

" The more important question is , why the f**k are you dropping water all over the floor , especially now that you're bare feet ?"

Jade blinked and pushed his wet hair backwards .

" I had a bath ..."

" I can see that ".

Jade frowned and Dean raised his hands in a show of fraternal surrender, he would let him finish .

" I had a bath and then I washed my clothes because they were soaked through with blood , somehow my boots ended up in the water and I had to put them to dry too ".

Dean slowly nodded , pretending to see sense in what Jade was saying .

" Do you think this is a vacation home and you are on a vacation ? Did you not think that you might need to run or fight at any moment ? Let's say you could run without clothes , how far would you go without shoes ? "

Jade's face coloured from embarrassment , he inched backwards .

" I'll go put on my boots ".

Dean jumped down the chair he was still standing on .

" You are going to put on boots that would be twice their original weight because they are wet ? How uncomfortable would that be ? How do you intend to lift your feet ? Don't even think of running with that ".

Jade's already coloured face deepened as his embarrassment deepened too .

" What do I do now ? "

" Sit and wait for your clothes and boots to dry and pray we don't get attacked by steels in the meantime ".

Dean bent to pack up the drawings when he remembered something his dad used to say about new sight when you did not seem to be getting something done .

He would ask Dean to take a break and engage in something completely different before coming back to his work .

As a child , Dean would have completely forgotten about what he had been having issues with , so when he returned to it, it was like he was seeing it with new eyes .

Now , he had too much on his mind for too long .

He never seemed to forget one problem long enough but Jade would be his new sight .

He beckoned Jade over .

" Hey , come take a look at this for me ".

Jade walked over and was about to get on his knees when Dean motioned for him to climb the chair that he had vacated .

" Tell me , what do you see ? "

Jade was silent for a while , tilting his head at different angles to observe the papers that Dean had placed on the floor .

He got off the chair and bent to reach for a paper , the drawing of the Core.

" I don't understand ".

Dean took a step backwards , preparing to explain whatever he could not understand .

" What don't you understand ? "

Jade looked up from the paper he held .

" May told me you are studying to be a doctor..."

"... Paramedic and that is a thing of the past what does that have to do with this ? "

Jade shook his head .

" That's what I don't understand , why are you studying that when your passion for engineering and technology fills this paper like this ? ".

Dean grabbed the paper out of his hand and hissed .He had never been one of those people that had dreams and believed in them,he was more practical.

" What does that have to do with what I asked you to check ? "

Jade leaned forward , pointing out all of the drawings of the parts .

" Look what I'm saying is that , each of the piece is slightly different from each other ".

" My drawings are different ? "

" No , the piece itself is different ".

Dean looked down , he could not make out any differences .

And then he saw it , the designs were off .

That was why he had not understood earlier , because most of it was different .

The core that had interested him had been designed by someone efficient and noteworthy , Dean could not say the same for any of the limbs or the other parts.

" I see it now , I know why I could not figure it out , it's because there's no synchrony at all. It's a work that several people put together or at least more than two people , I've been looking only at the core ".

Jade hummed .

" Yes , whoever designed the core is different from the rest ".

Dean grabbed Jade's shoulders ,shaking them as he thanked him over and over again .

Now , that he knew that it had been designed by more than one person , Dean could finish reading the journal .

He had been unable to continue reading because he could not get past the fact that his dad might have built this deathly thing .

Now, all he felt was guilt for not trusting his dad.

But in this case , the guilt was welcomed by Dean .