The Truth of Alita's Regeneration 
" Just as I said, you're only half human," Ken repeated. " But that's im-"
Alita started to say when suddenly she heard a voice in her head. " Complete generation was not 
finished. Subject has substitute metal for body that is incomplete." It appeared that the others had 
heard it also because they were looking around for the source.
" First off," Ken said suddenly, " What're your names?"
" I'm Koyomi."
" Name's Figure."
Alita paused before she finally answered, " Alita."
Ken's eyes widened a little. " 'Alita'? The Alita that defeated the former motorball champion, 
Jaushugan?" She nodded her head and for the first time since Alita saw her, Ken smiled, but it 
wasn't a comforting smile. It sent chills down Alita's spine. She had seen someone smile before just 
like that but she couldn't recall where.
" Who'd've thought. The champion player in motorball was the one who saved the Scrapyard." She 
held out her hand. " Pleasure to meet you, Alita."
She shook her hand and brushed away the feeling she had. Stop thinking like that, she told herself. 
She isn't gonna kill you. Is she? 
" Back to your quetsion," Ken said, stepping over to a chair. Alita noticed that she didn't have the 
usual 'roller skates' required for a match; instead regular feet. Ken saw her staring at her feet and 
said, " I like to use these feet when I'm not in a race. Anyway, I suppose you would like an answer 
to why I said you were half human. But first you have to explain to me what happened."
"'What happened'?"
"In other words what happened to you after you saved Scrapyard."
Alita gave her what she knew of what happened. Figure and Koyomi filled in the gaps. Ken thought 
for a minute before speaking again. " Professer Nova? No wonder." They raised their eyebrows. " 
What? Surprised I know him? giggleHe performed an operation on me years ago." 
" Somehow I'm not that surprised," Alita muttered. 
" You say something?" 
" Uh no. Nothing." 
" Anyway," Ken continued, " the operation he did on me inhanced my senses greatly, especialy my 
eyes. They can generate something like a radar and give me readings on whatever I see. When I saw 
you it read that you're, well I should have said mostly human, but a little of your body, mainly your 
cerebullum and ceribrum, has a foreign substance. It could have already been there before." 
Alita thought about that. " Wait," she said after a while, " When Nova gave me the trigger to 
reconnected Tiphares, I used something he called an accelerator he placed in my brain when he 
brought me up there." 
" Hmm," Ken said. " He might have made it to where if you regerated it regenerated also. 
" Now, Alita. Why did you come here?" 
Alita figited a little. She still didn't know what to ask her. 
" Come this way," Ken ordered as she stood up. Alita followed her into another room. Ken shut the 
door behind her. The room was completely white. She didn't see any furniture untill she ran into it 
and fell down. It was white like the room. She felt for the chair before getting up and sitting in it. 
Ken chuckled as she watched Alita. 
" I really," Alita began, " just wanted to ask you a few questions." 
" Like?" 
" Well, what made you want to become a Motorballer, for starters?" 
" Actually, I saw your match against Jashugan and was amazed at how you beat him. I guess I 
wanted to become a legend like you." 
" Oh come on," Alita intterupted. " I wasn't that good." 
" You were too! People still talk about today even though it was seventeen years ago. It was a few 
years later that I found Nova on the outskirts of one of the farms. Back then I had a small disorder 
but he operated on me and now I'm better than ever." 
After an operation from Nova, I'd think she'd be crazy like Makaku or something, Alita thought. 
" Anything else you want to know?" Ken asked. 
Alita stammered, not sure of how she would react, " I was wondering, uh, if you had ever been to 
Mars or something." Suddenly Ken's eyes flew open wider and she stood up, almost knocking over 
her chair. The look in the them scared Alita. She's gonna kill me!! she screamed in her head. Then, 
just as fast as she reacted she calmed down. 
" I don't believe I have," she said through clamped teeth. And I'm the Queen of England, she 
thought. As Ken sat back down she said, " Any other questions?" 
" Um, yeah," Alita looked up, " Where's your bathroom?"

Alita sighed. It was a few days after her talk with Ken, her next match. Ken had begged Alita, 
Figure, and Koyomi to stay at her house for awhile and be part of her pit crew. Koyomi agreed 
right away. Alita did also, but just for a few days. 
Figure appeared behind her. " You sure about this?" he asked her. " Ken give me the creeps. 
Especially when ever she smiles." 
" Me too," she answered. " But I have to get to the bottom of this." 
The tone in her voice told him that she had made up her mind. Changing the subject he said, " 
Where's Koyomi?" 
" I had her go down to the moniters and watch Ken's. Maybe it'll tell us something." Hopefully, she 
silently added. The announcer's voice boomed throughout the arena, " No more bets, folks! The 
race is about to begin!"