Prologue

It didn't take a genius to know that it was already too late for the kid. The heart not beating, not breathing and having a 2cm thick metal rod passing through the left eye to the top of the head made it pretty clear.

"Sir, you're traumatized, and you have every right to be angry, but that is no reason for assaulting anyone"

It had already been ten minutes since the father came in, and it had been non-stop arguing that evolved into violence. He would have already been thrown out a while ago, if he hadn't been the person who funded most of the hospital.

"I don't care what you say, but bring him back"

The father had been shouting the same thing over and over, refusing to believe that it was already way too late. Even if his son didn't have the rod stuck through the brain, he'd broken quite a few bones, and shattered a few to dust, punctured both of his lungs, probably paralyzed from the neck down, and hit his head hard enough to leave him a vegetable no matter what was done. Driving on the wrong lane at extreme speeds, and shutting down the cars AI can have that effect. There was nothing against it, he was dead.

"Sir, it is a physical impossibility, at best he'd be missing half his brain, and be fully braindead because it hasn't had any oxygen for the past 1 hour. Even if that wasn't a major problem, and we somehow with some miracle managed to bring him back, he wouldn't be able to do anything without the help of others, and that's if he wouldn't be a complete vegetable and we found out some way to communicate with him"

The nurse was shouting at the end. It was 4am, everyone was tired and slowly but surely getting angrier.

"I don't care how, what I'll have to do, or what it'll cost, but if you can't bring him back today, then freeze him, take DNA samples, MRI scans or whatever. But if you can't bring him back today, make sure you have what you need to bring him back tomorrow, if not that, then within the year or maybe even the decade. And if you can't do that, then I'll do it myself"

The nurse let out a long sigh, and went to get the doctor. It would be a long shift.