After battling demons and narrowly escaping death, my friends bring me up to speed on what has been going on while I was "sleeping". Apparently my cybernetics were interfering with the brainwashing techniques my captors were using and so had to be removed...I really have grown to rely on them though.
While I was under I was being used as an assassin to eliminate high profile political targets within the IGFW. I was apparently chosen because of my political ties to the Sathari empire who were most likely going to be blamed for the hits. I have asked Emperor Analaeus to disavow me and list me as an enemy of the state until such time as this can be resolved. He has agreed but it is understood that I am not to be actively sought out within Sathari territories. Unfortunately the IGFW has revoked all of my bounty hunting licenses and issued a warrant for my arrest. They have allowed the scions of justice to apprehend me and investigate the allegations of murder as they see fit so I'm free...for now. My ship has been impounded as has all of my resources meaning I have my armor, my guns my wits and my friends. None of us are sure if I can be triggered to kill and so we have asked Cerebron to check and see what all was done to me and possibly correct it.
"Obsidian, I can easily read your most inner thoughts, and for this to work I will have to. I don't like doing this...it is very...intimate, and intrusive. However, whatever I may find I promise to keep it to myself save for the pertinent information."
"Do what you have to bud, I couldn't live with myself if I killed another innocent and the whim of whoever is behind this. So whatever you need to do...just do it."
The others watch intently as Cerebron places his fingers at my temples and his eyes begin to glow.
My very life begins flashing before me...I once said I had enough horrid memories from the war to scar me for several lifetimes...Now Cerebron has them too. So much of my life has changes since I got here...and all of it is laid bare before Mighty Cerebron...in a breath it's over and he looks horrified as though he had seen a monster of unimaginable evil.
The others badger him for information and yet he keeps his promise and tell no-one of what he saw in my mind...not the centuries of warfare, not the multiple times I saved all of creation, not the Black Mantis none of it. He pauses for a very long time struggling with his words and trying desperately to grasp the gravity of what he now knows...the multiverse...power beyond his own imagining. Finally, he chokes back his emotions and simply says.
"Thank you. I'm so very sorry. There were triggers implanted but they are gone now and you are not a danger to innocent people. I-I would like to talk with you later about what just happened...and um...explain some things...yeah."
My mind is a dangerous place to go running around blindly. I know far more than any one immortal elf should know about things like the fabric of the universe and such, and now so does Cerebron...and he is only mortal.
After some rest we formulate a plan to get to the bottom of this whole thing and uncover the mastermind behind it all. My first impulse is to blame Dominion for this but he's retired now and of no real threat to anyone.
"Black Scarab asks me in confidence...does he know about...him now?"
"Look at his eyes mage, does he look like one who knows?"
"Indeed he does.
Throughout our investigation a single name keeps reoccurring, Aabo Immunus...better known as Abominous. But why would he bother involving himself with me? More importantly , how do I prove I'm innocent, and clear my name?