Chapter 1: Burn the Ships
Time: Morning
Weather: Heavily Storming
Harmony/Kitty
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Inside the living room, a room with a very soft red carpet and equally soft couches with golden frames, a large jeweled chandelier dangling from the ceiling, and light red walls with golden lines like a circuit board pattern, Harmony was going about her normal morning routine, including the additional task of cleaning up the colossal mess that her master's son, Frodnodan Gaymonger Hoppederf, had left when he and his guests had spent the previous night partying. This was something that seemed to happen every weekend, and while it was supposed to be kept quiet that the master was getting tired of it, everyone tended to speak freely in front of Harmony as though she wasn't there. Her master had grown annoyed that he had started up and ran a very successful Corporation, known as Derf Corp, named after the Master himself, Hannesloy Hermando Hoppederf the Eleventeenth, or just Derf as he preferred to be called. When the corporation was first starting out, they were hired to create and maintain infrastructure within the ruins of the old Neo Arcadia, by Tier, the Megaman that claimed to be the legendary Maverick Hunter, X's, successor and the rightful ruler of Neo Arcadia. Derf Corp was so deep in the whole despite having only just recently formed that he decided to take the gamble, and this resulted in the corporation being worth an astronomical fortune, and ever increasing due to being trusted to continue maintaining infrastructure, and constructing new. Now Derf expected his son to follow in his footsteps and build, from the ground up, his own thriving corporation. Despite Frod continuing to party very frequently, he was actually fully aware of his father's expectations, and Harmony had witnessed him complaining about them in front of her.
Suddenly, in the midst of cleaning, one of Harmony's fellow maids, Tranquility, a blue-haired Reploid with her hair tied into twintails, blue eyes, and fair skin, wearing a black and white maid outfit with alternating colors, called out for Harmony from one of the nearby hallways. "Head Maid! Master Frod demands your presence!" she said, as she approached. When she came into view, Harmony could see that she was using one hand to repair her damaged face, delicately repairing the electronics beneath her skin layer with three fingers, holding her state-of-the-art multitool with two and welding with the third, while applying new synthetic skin over the finished sections with her other two fingers. Despite being partly repaired, Harmony had seen this sort of damage often enough to know that Frod must have demanded a Breaker from another Maid and used it on her to vent his frustration. If not for the fact that Frod was a humanoid, he'd have gone through far more Maids, and it would have been possible that Tranquility would have been one of them. When the Maid that Harmony was working with, Stability, a girl with gray-blue eyes and extremely long, straight platinum-blond hair that reached the floor, wearing a brown leather top with pink frills and a black bowtie with a pink and black maid uniform, gasped and rushed over to her, helping her sit down and quickly helping her finish repairing her face. While Frod damaged Maids this way very frequently, they always treated it as serious, because the Maids not only knew that they had to look after each other and loved each other dearly, but also had seen Frod damage three Maids severely enough, by hitting them just right, that they had been retired. He always aimed for the head, and the head was where the personality of most Reploids was kept, as well as the rest of a Reploid's brain, meaning that everything they are could be destroyed if enough damage was focused there.
Before Harmony could make her way to Frod's room, whether she helps repair Tranquility or not, both Tranquility and Stability briefly make eye contact with her. Among the Maids of Derf Manner, eye contact meant "good luck" or "be careful", as Maids weren't allowed to speak to each other beyond what was necessary, as getting caught making conversation was grounds for their shock collars being set off, which would cause enough voltage to scramble a Maid's thoughts, movement, and vision, as well as cause severe paid, for a full minute would be sent through their body.
As Harmony made her way out of the living room and down the hallway, which had the same red walls with the golden circuit board designs as the living room, she began to pass by another of her maids, Serenity, a fair-skinned girl with purple eyes and long lilac hair tied back in a poofy ponytail, wearing a maid uniform with purple lace and a purple bowtie, she made eye contact with Harmony as well, to show support. The Masters usually had Serenity doing the laundry, which involved picking up clothes that had been left in hampers or on the floor, so she tended to wander from place to place frequently. Eventually, Harmony reaches a red-painted door with, out of place when compared to the black doors with silver boarders that lined the rest of the hallway, which led to Frod's room. Normally, Master Derf wouldn't have allowed Frod to paint his door a color that mismatched the rest of the doors, however Frod had ordered a Maid to do it while Master Derf was on a business trip. When Master Derf returned and found the door red, he had the Maid retired, then when that Maid's friend cried over her retirement, Master Derf had that Maid retired as well.
When Harmony enters Master Frod's room, she finds it in its usual state of disarray. The black-carpeted floor was littered with parts and stained with black liquid, Frod's bed was unmade, because Frod himself was sitting on it, a set of two large, black, screen-projectors were set up, generating a screen with a long list on it. On one black and red-striped wall was a poster of the ruler of Neo Arcadia R, a blond-haired girl with green eyes, wearing a blue overcoat with gold edges and a single jagged white line around it, white and blue shoes, and a blue helmet with white horns and a white plate on the front with a green gem, matching the green gems on her sleeves. While she bore a striking resemblance to the founder of the Guardians and Brilliant scientist Ciel, her name was actually Tier, and Frod was quite fond of her, often shouting her name when he orgasms. Frod was a boy with straight blond hair that framed his face and natural red eyes, and pale skin, wearing his usual blue overcoat with a black hood, over black leather pants and a black sweater with a second hood, over a white and black button-up. The screen was being operated by another fellow maid, Unity, a girl with long white hair tied back into a long ponytail with a black bow with blue stripes, red eyes, and very slightly tan skin, wearing a black maid uniform with white frills and a white apron. Unity was a Maid that had been working for the Derf family for the longest, second only to Harmony, and acted as a sort of mother figure for them. As one of the most experienced, she acted primarily as the family cook, but when she wasn't cooking, she was considered Frod's personal maid. Unity wasn't the only Maid in the room, however, as a retired maid laid on in the center of the room, completely limp, her maid uniform's skirt and top ripped to expose her striped white and blue bra and matching panties, half of her head had been destroyed, her blue eyes stared lifelessly into infinity, and her long white hair was a tangled mess. Harmony could recognize that the damage wasn't from just one strike, but from many strikes while she was already knocked to the floor.
Frod notices Harmony almost immediately, but doesn't acknowledge her, as he was in the midst of talking to himself. "My first idea was to just purchase a Pseudoroid of my own to use my newly acquired property, but it turned out that I was not the only individual that wanted it, and was willing to pay such a price. My opponent was willing to bid so high that I ended up expending all of my allowance just to secure it." he was saying, as if he was talking to Unity, despite the fact that every time he did this, she was expected to keep silent. He continued, ignoring Harmony in the doorway "Now, I can't afford a Pseudoroid, I can't afford to research Pseudoroids, and I definitely don't have anyone here that can use it. I had tried using it myself, but it rejected me." he sighed and turned to Harmony "Pink-haired whore, go get me the Biometal, it would at least make a splendid desk ornament. Purple-haired slut, polish my cock with your mouth, I need to relax." he says, first addressing Unity, then Harmony. Unity looked into Harmony's eyes, to wish her luck, then hurried out of the room to do as she was told.
Inside the living room, a room with a very soft red carpet and equally soft couches with golden frames, a large jeweled chandelier dangling from the ceiling, and light red walls with golden lines like a circuit board pattern, Harmony was going about her normal morning routine, including the additional task of cleaning up the colossal mess that her master's son, Frodnodan Gaymonger Hoppederf, had left when he and his guests had spent the previous night partying. This was something that seemed to happen every weekend, and while it was supposed to be kept quiet that the master was getting tired of it, everyone tended to speak freely in front of Harmony as though she wasn't there. Her master had grown annoyed that he had started up and ran a very successful Corporation, known as Derf Corp, named after the Master himself, Hannesloy Hermando Hoppederf the Eleventeenth, or just Derf as he preferred to be called. When the corporation was first starting out, they were hired to create and maintain infrastructure within the ruins of the old Neo Arcadia, by Tier, the Megaman that claimed to be the legendary Maverick Hunter, X's, successor and the rightful ruler of Neo Arcadia. Derf Corp was so deep in the whole despite having only just recently formed that he decided to take the gamble, and this resulted in the corporation being worth an astronomical fortune, and ever increasing due to being trusted to continue maintaining infrastructure, and constructing new. Now Derf expected his son to follow in his footsteps and build, from the ground up, his own thriving corporation. Despite Frod continuing to party very frequently, he was actually fully aware of his father's expectations, and Harmony had witnessed him complaining about them in front of her.
Suddenly, in the midst of cleaning, one of Harmony's fellow maids, Tranquility, a blue-haired Reploid with her hair tied into twintails, blue eyes, and fair skin, wearing a black and white maid outfit with alternating colors, called out for Harmony from one of the nearby hallways. "Head Maid! Master Frod demands your presence!" she said, as she approached. When she came into view, Harmony could see that she was using one hand to repair her damaged face, delicately repairing the electronics beneath her skin layer with three fingers, holding her state-of-the-art multitool with two and welding with the third, while applying new synthetic skin over the finished sections with her other two fingers. Despite being partly repaired, Harmony had seen this sort of damage often enough to know that Frod must have demanded a Breaker from another Maid and used it on her to vent his frustration. If not for the fact that Frod was a humanoid, he'd have gone through far more Maids, and it would have been possible that Tranquility would have been one of them. When the Maid that Harmony was working with, Stability, a girl with gray-blue eyes and extremely long, straight platinum-blond hair that reached the floor, wearing a brown leather top with pink frills and a black bowtie with a pink and black maid uniform, gasped and rushed over to her, helping her sit down and quickly helping her finish repairing her face. While Frod damaged Maids this way very frequently, they always treated it as serious, because the Maids not only knew that they had to look after each other and loved each other dearly, but also had seen Frod damage three Maids severely enough, by hitting them just right, that they had been retired. He always aimed for the head, and the head was where the personality of most Reploids was kept, as well as the rest of a Reploid's brain, meaning that everything they are could be destroyed if enough damage was focused there.
Before Harmony could make her way to Frod's room, whether she helps repair Tranquility or not, both Tranquility and Stability briefly make eye contact with her. Among the Maids of Derf Manner, eye contact meant "good luck" or "be careful", as Maids weren't allowed to speak to each other beyond what was necessary, as getting caught making conversation was grounds for their shock collars being set off, which would cause enough voltage to scramble a Maid's thoughts, movement, and vision, as well as cause severe paid, for a full minute would be sent through their body.
As Harmony made her way out of the living room and down the hallway, which had the same red walls with the golden circuit board designs as the living room, she began to pass by another of her maids, Serenity, a fair-skinned girl with purple eyes and long lilac hair tied back in a poofy ponytail, wearing a maid uniform with purple lace and a purple bowtie, she made eye contact with Harmony as well, to show support. The Masters usually had Serenity doing the laundry, which involved picking up clothes that had been left in hampers or on the floor, so she tended to wander from place to place frequently. Eventually, Harmony reaches a red-painted door with, out of place when compared to the black doors with silver boarders that lined the rest of the hallway, which led to Frod's room. Normally, Master Derf wouldn't have allowed Frod to paint his door a color that mismatched the rest of the doors, however Frod had ordered a Maid to do it while Master Derf was on a business trip. When Master Derf returned and found the door red, he had the Maid retired, then when that Maid's friend cried over her retirement, Master Derf had that Maid retired as well.
When Harmony enters Master Frod's room, she finds it in its usual state of disarray. The black-carpeted floor was littered with parts and stained with black liquid, Frod's bed was unmade, because Frod himself was sitting on it, a set of two large, black, screen-projectors were set up, generating a screen with a long list on it. On one black and red-striped wall was a poster of the ruler of Neo Arcadia R, a blond-haired girl with green eyes, wearing a blue overcoat with gold edges and a single jagged white line around it, white and blue shoes, and a blue helmet with white horns and a white plate on the front with a green gem, matching the green gems on her sleeves. While she bore a striking resemblance to the founder of the Guardians and Brilliant scientist Ciel, her name was actually Tier, and Frod was quite fond of her, often shouting her name when he orgasms. Frod was a boy with straight blond hair that framed his face and natural red eyes, and pale skin, wearing his usual blue overcoat with a black hood, over black leather pants and a black sweater with a second hood, over a white and black button-up. The screen was being operated by another fellow maid, Unity, a girl with long white hair tied back into a long ponytail with a black bow with blue stripes, red eyes, and very slightly tan skin, wearing a black maid uniform with white frills and a white apron. Unity was a Maid that had been working for the Derf family for the longest, second only to Harmony, and acted as a sort of mother figure for them. As one of the most experienced, she acted primarily as the family cook, but when she wasn't cooking, she was considered Frod's personal maid. Unity wasn't the only Maid in the room, however, as a retired maid laid on in the center of the room, completely limp, her maid uniform's skirt and top ripped to expose her striped white and blue bra and matching panties, half of her head had been destroyed, her blue eyes stared lifelessly into infinity, and her long white hair was a tangled mess. Harmony could recognize that the damage wasn't from just one strike, but from many strikes while she was already knocked to the floor.
Frod notices Harmony almost immediately, but doesn't acknowledge her, as he was in the midst of talking to himself. "My first idea was to just purchase a Pseudoroid of my own to use my newly acquired property, but it turned out that I was not the only individual that wanted it, and was willing to pay such a price. My opponent was willing to bid so high that I ended up expending all of my allowance just to secure it." he was saying, as if he was talking to Unity, despite the fact that every time he did this, she was expected to keep silent. He continued, ignoring Harmony in the doorway "Now, I can't afford a Pseudoroid, I can't afford to research Pseudoroids, and I definitely don't have anyone here that can use it. I had tried using it myself, but it rejected me." he sighed and turned to Harmony "Pink-haired whore, go get me the Biometal, it would at least make a splendid desk ornament. Purple-haired slut, polish my cock with your mouth, I need to relax." he says, first addressing Unity, then Harmony. Unity looked into Harmony's eyes, to wish her luck, then hurried out of the room to do as she was told.
Terra/Misc
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Terra's day aboard the Guardian's airship headquarters begins somewhat abnormally. As she was making her way down the plain white halls, with bright lighting from the ceiling, the alarms suddenly went off, and Commander Prairie, a blond-haired girl wearing a short-brimmed pink hat, pink commander jacket, black stockings and long-sleeved croptop, with a pink jumpsuit beneath, and pink high-heeled shoes. When Terra and her squad arrive, Prairie turns around in her chair. Her usual poker face was replaced with an expression of deep concern "We've finally caught up with a Maverick that has been wiping out entire clans, single-handed. This is no ordinary Maverick, and I want you to practice the most extreme caution, I don't want to lose anyone... but it's heading straight for the Chane Clan. We have to stop it." she says, only for Bruce, the captain of Terra's squad and a veteran Guardian, to reply "You worry too much. We've fought strong Mavericks in the past, we'll be alright." he says, with a reassuring smile, to which the other Guardians in his squad agreed. Bruce was a slim-built Reploid in the usual Guardians uniform, though when he had his helmet off, he had piercing blue eyes and shoulder-length spiky blond hair. Terra had experienced his famous risk-assessment and incredible tactical expertise first-hand, and it had kept her squad casualty-free even in the worst situations. Scrount, a very muscular Reploid and great marksman, also in the typical Guardians uniform, then added "Not only are we good at avoiding casualties, we have a Pseudoroid helping us." he said, gruffly, as he grinned and slapped Terra on the back.
Prairie sighed, as if to think that the squad didn't get it, then spoke again, even more serious and concerned than before "If the situation looks bad, do not hesitate to call for help. When Giro and Aile get back, I'll be sending them to assist. I have a really bad feeling about this." Prairie says. With that, the squad solutes Prairie, then makes their way to the back of the ship, to the drop pods. Due to the areas outside the walls having no Transervers, the Guardians used Drop Pods, equipped with Transervers, to create transport stations for the Guardians to use for easier access to areas on a semi-permanent basis. Bruce quickly runs to the back of the HQ and slams the bright red "Drop Transerver" button with his fist, in a hurry. The pod launches from the ship and slams into the ground below, after which the doors to the Transerver Room slide open, allowing the squad of 10 to crap in, and warp down to the Transerver.
When the group had warped down to the ground, they could feel the rain beating down on the hard, the wasteland around them was wet sand and mountains, with lightning flashing above them. Bruce calls out to them above the beating rain, crackling thunder, and howling wind over their communication links "Alright, keep a sharp eye out. This guy has to really be something to be wiping out clans, equipped with Mechaniloids and combat Reploids by himself, treat him as five people, don't engage alone under any circumstances. We need to move out before he reaches the village, and hopefully entrench before he reaches us." he says, quickly leading the charge to the Clan's town. The place seemed to be constructed from older tech that was found laying around, with the structures being welded together from ancient metal and half-working systems, not having rusted due to the technology used at the time. Despite having rushed there, what the group is met with is a horrifying sight. Humans and Reploids alike had been ripped limb from limb, blasted to pieces, or cut to shreds. Bloody limbs and chunks, as well as pieces of reploids were being washed away in the rain. "How are we too late? He was miles away when we received the report... what is this? A nightmare?" Codd, a younger Reploid who had joined the Guardians soon after Terra asked, as he started crawling around in the wet sand, searching fruitlessly for a survivor. Meanwhile, Daisy, a female combat Reploid, with long, wavy pink hair, who had joined the Guardians even more recently than Codd, and was now on her first mission, was throwing up onto the ground in response to the sight. Bruce grimaced "Pull yourselves together, we have to find him and keep this from happening to anyone else. Stick together and sweep the area, move into Romy formation, keep your guard up." he shouted. The group then quickly pulled themselves together and moved into position, back to back, and began sweeping the town.
As the group was sweeping the town, Codd called out "Over there on the roofs! Five o' Clock!" he shouts, but before the group could respond to the call, the sound of a plasma shot being fired ripped through the pouring rain and Codd exploded into a shower of parts. While Daisy cried out "CODD, NO!" and transformed her arm into a buster, beginning to fire blazing red plasma shots at the shadowy target as it leapt from roof to roof, the shots exploding off the metal, but missing the target due to its incredible speed. By all rights, her aim should have been on-point, however the Maverick was moving so fast that it seemed to be warping from location to location. Bruce called out "Fire support way ahead of his movements, Codd is down, Tripp take his position, Scrount covering fire with Daisy." he called out. The shadowy figure suddenly seemed to disappear, only for him to reappear, a silver-colored saber in hand, which he then used to brutally slash through Narwoy's head, ending him before he could even turn in Maverick's direction. This was the first time that Terra got a good look at the Maverick. The Maverick had primarily purple armor, with pink sections above the feet, around the barrel of the buster, and at the top of the chest plate, and white sections on the bottom of its feet, the hands, and his buster. His jumpsuit was black, with jagged gray lines up the arms and legs. His blue eyes were wide with insanity, his handsome face was a strange shade of pink, green lights on his chest and his forehead gem glowed brightly in the barely lit morning, and his long pink hair trailed behind him as he moved at incredible speeds. In a series of swift motions that Terra could barely follow, much less anyone else in her squad, the Maverick cut Narwoy into even more pieces, then kicked him, scattering the parts all over the ground. The Maverick screamed "BLUE LIGHT! BLUE ROBOT! KILL! KILL!" as he charged forward into the middle of Terra's squad, blasting and slashing at those who were left at such unbelievable speed that most of them had no chance to react, the air behind the Reploid igniting into streaks of plasma with every dash. When the Reploid turned to Terra to attack her, all of her squad mates retired at her feet, he was forced to leap back as electricity slammed into the ground with a loud "CRACKOOM!" followed by another figure landing on the damp sand, kicking up chunks of wet sand into the air with their landing. "I'm not letting you kill or retire anyone else!" he shouted. The man was wearing a red vest with two red metal disks around his shoulders, and two red metal bracers around his arms, as well as two gigantic silver spikes on his wrists, as large as his entire arms from shoulder to wrist. On his legs, he was wearing red boots, with round red metal bracers on his thighs. On his head, he wore a red metal helmet with a silver metal plate on the forehead and rounded, smooth sides. On his back, he had a red metal backpack, with green cords that led to the spikes on his wrists, and a large metal disk on the top and a bent metal bar, between which electric sparks were constantly erupting in all directions. It wouldn't even take a second for Terra to recognize this person as a Megaman, the armor screamed it to her. The Maverick lifted his saber in preparation to battle the Megaman, as the Megaman raised his spikes to attack the Maverick, shouting "YOU DESTROYED EVERYONE I KNOW AND LOVE, I'LL RETIRE YOU FOR THEIR SAKES, AND THE SAKE OF ALL YOUR FUTURE VICTIMS!" after which he ran towards the Maverick, generating a massive charge of electricity around himself, and firing a bolt of electricity at the Maverick. The Maverick casually leapt back, out of the path of the attack as if it was in slow motion. The bolt of electricity reduced the structure behind the Maverick into a pile of charred ruble. The Maverick didn't seem to care about the attack, merely raising his buster, before firing off a gray-colored plasma blast from his arm cannon, which the Megaman ducked away from, slamming Terra with his elbow to knock her out of the way as well. The Megaman quickly leapt to his feet and rushed at the Maverick, attempting to swing one of his spikes at him, missing by a hair as the Maverick seemingly warped out of the way, after which he reappeared with his gray saber in hand, and slashed at the Megaman, who attempted to duck away, but wasn't fast enough, losing an arm to the saber strike. the arm dropped from the Megaman's shoulder and into the wet sand, electricity firing from the wound in all directions. The Megaman growled and attempted to retaliate, firing a bolt of electricity from his remaining spike, which hit the Maverick directly in the chest, with a brilliant display, lightning crackling off the Maverick's body and arcing across the ground, turning the wet sand into glass, then causing the newly-created glass to shatter, causing broken glass to shower the area. The Maverick growled in anger, then ran the Megaman through with his saber, causing a cry of agony to escape the impaled Megaman's lips.
The Megaman had no time to say anything else, as the Maverick fired gray plasma shot from his buster, blowing his head to pieces, then the Maverick began slowly making his way towards Terra as he raised his saber, however as the Transerver behind Terra in the distance made the standard whirring sound as two people warped onto the battlefield. The Maverick seemed to recognize that the two Megamen who had just warped onto the battlefield would be more of a challenge than the now-retired Guardians that had been sent after him, and disappeared. With the purple Maverick now gone, Terra would notice that the retired Megaman had returned to normal reploid remains on the ground, while a Biometal had appeared beside the wreckage... glowing in Terra's presence as her body glowed in response. The Biometal, a red-colored disk with a round, raised section in the shape of a second disk, with a silver plate on the front, and a round metal plate at the top, with a second metal bar bent over it, generating sparks, called out to her in her mind, asking a single question... "Do you like fish, too?".
Terra's day aboard the Guardian's airship headquarters begins somewhat abnormally. As she was making her way down the plain white halls, with bright lighting from the ceiling, the alarms suddenly went off, and Commander Prairie, a blond-haired girl wearing a short-brimmed pink hat, pink commander jacket, black stockings and long-sleeved croptop, with a pink jumpsuit beneath, and pink high-heeled shoes. When Terra and her squad arrive, Prairie turns around in her chair. Her usual poker face was replaced with an expression of deep concern "We've finally caught up with a Maverick that has been wiping out entire clans, single-handed. This is no ordinary Maverick, and I want you to practice the most extreme caution, I don't want to lose anyone... but it's heading straight for the Chane Clan. We have to stop it." she says, only for Bruce, the captain of Terra's squad and a veteran Guardian, to reply "You worry too much. We've fought strong Mavericks in the past, we'll be alright." he says, with a reassuring smile, to which the other Guardians in his squad agreed. Bruce was a slim-built Reploid in the usual Guardians uniform, though when he had his helmet off, he had piercing blue eyes and shoulder-length spiky blond hair. Terra had experienced his famous risk-assessment and incredible tactical expertise first-hand, and it had kept her squad casualty-free even in the worst situations. Scrount, a very muscular Reploid and great marksman, also in the typical Guardians uniform, then added "Not only are we good at avoiding casualties, we have a Pseudoroid helping us." he said, gruffly, as he grinned and slapped Terra on the back.
Prairie sighed, as if to think that the squad didn't get it, then spoke again, even more serious and concerned than before "If the situation looks bad, do not hesitate to call for help. When Giro and Aile get back, I'll be sending them to assist. I have a really bad feeling about this." Prairie says. With that, the squad solutes Prairie, then makes their way to the back of the ship, to the drop pods. Due to the areas outside the walls having no Transervers, the Guardians used Drop Pods, equipped with Transervers, to create transport stations for the Guardians to use for easier access to areas on a semi-permanent basis. Bruce quickly runs to the back of the HQ and slams the bright red "Drop Transerver" button with his fist, in a hurry. The pod launches from the ship and slams into the ground below, after which the doors to the Transerver Room slide open, allowing the squad of 10 to crap in, and warp down to the Transerver.
When the group had warped down to the ground, they could feel the rain beating down on the hard, the wasteland around them was wet sand and mountains, with lightning flashing above them. Bruce calls out to them above the beating rain, crackling thunder, and howling wind over their communication links "Alright, keep a sharp eye out. This guy has to really be something to be wiping out clans, equipped with Mechaniloids and combat Reploids by himself, treat him as five people, don't engage alone under any circumstances. We need to move out before he reaches the village, and hopefully entrench before he reaches us." he says, quickly leading the charge to the Clan's town. The place seemed to be constructed from older tech that was found laying around, with the structures being welded together from ancient metal and half-working systems, not having rusted due to the technology used at the time. Despite having rushed there, what the group is met with is a horrifying sight. Humans and Reploids alike had been ripped limb from limb, blasted to pieces, or cut to shreds. Bloody limbs and chunks, as well as pieces of reploids were being washed away in the rain. "How are we too late? He was miles away when we received the report... what is this? A nightmare?" Codd, a younger Reploid who had joined the Guardians soon after Terra asked, as he started crawling around in the wet sand, searching fruitlessly for a survivor. Meanwhile, Daisy, a female combat Reploid, with long, wavy pink hair, who had joined the Guardians even more recently than Codd, and was now on her first mission, was throwing up onto the ground in response to the sight. Bruce grimaced "Pull yourselves together, we have to find him and keep this from happening to anyone else. Stick together and sweep the area, move into Romy formation, keep your guard up." he shouted. The group then quickly pulled themselves together and moved into position, back to back, and began sweeping the town.
As the group was sweeping the town, Codd called out "Over there on the roofs! Five o' Clock!" he shouts, but before the group could respond to the call, the sound of a plasma shot being fired ripped through the pouring rain and Codd exploded into a shower of parts. While Daisy cried out "CODD, NO!" and transformed her arm into a buster, beginning to fire blazing red plasma shots at the shadowy target as it leapt from roof to roof, the shots exploding off the metal, but missing the target due to its incredible speed. By all rights, her aim should have been on-point, however the Maverick was moving so fast that it seemed to be warping from location to location. Bruce called out "Fire support way ahead of his movements, Codd is down, Tripp take his position, Scrount covering fire with Daisy." he called out. The shadowy figure suddenly seemed to disappear, only for him to reappear, a silver-colored saber in hand, which he then used to brutally slash through Narwoy's head, ending him before he could even turn in Maverick's direction. This was the first time that Terra got a good look at the Maverick. The Maverick had primarily purple armor, with pink sections above the feet, around the barrel of the buster, and at the top of the chest plate, and white sections on the bottom of its feet, the hands, and his buster. His jumpsuit was black, with jagged gray lines up the arms and legs. His blue eyes were wide with insanity, his handsome face was a strange shade of pink, green lights on his chest and his forehead gem glowed brightly in the barely lit morning, and his long pink hair trailed behind him as he moved at incredible speeds. In a series of swift motions that Terra could barely follow, much less anyone else in her squad, the Maverick cut Narwoy into even more pieces, then kicked him, scattering the parts all over the ground. The Maverick screamed "BLUE LIGHT! BLUE ROBOT! KILL! KILL!" as he charged forward into the middle of Terra's squad, blasting and slashing at those who were left at such unbelievable speed that most of them had no chance to react, the air behind the Reploid igniting into streaks of plasma with every dash. When the Reploid turned to Terra to attack her, all of her squad mates retired at her feet, he was forced to leap back as electricity slammed into the ground with a loud "CRACKOOM!" followed by another figure landing on the damp sand, kicking up chunks of wet sand into the air with their landing. "I'm not letting you kill or retire anyone else!" he shouted. The man was wearing a red vest with two red metal disks around his shoulders, and two red metal bracers around his arms, as well as two gigantic silver spikes on his wrists, as large as his entire arms from shoulder to wrist. On his legs, he was wearing red boots, with round red metal bracers on his thighs. On his head, he wore a red metal helmet with a silver metal plate on the forehead and rounded, smooth sides. On his back, he had a red metal backpack, with green cords that led to the spikes on his wrists, and a large metal disk on the top and a bent metal bar, between which electric sparks were constantly erupting in all directions. It wouldn't even take a second for Terra to recognize this person as a Megaman, the armor screamed it to her. The Maverick lifted his saber in preparation to battle the Megaman, as the Megaman raised his spikes to attack the Maverick, shouting "YOU DESTROYED EVERYONE I KNOW AND LOVE, I'LL RETIRE YOU FOR THEIR SAKES, AND THE SAKE OF ALL YOUR FUTURE VICTIMS!" after which he ran towards the Maverick, generating a massive charge of electricity around himself, and firing a bolt of electricity at the Maverick. The Maverick casually leapt back, out of the path of the attack as if it was in slow motion. The bolt of electricity reduced the structure behind the Maverick into a pile of charred ruble. The Maverick didn't seem to care about the attack, merely raising his buster, before firing off a gray-colored plasma blast from his arm cannon, which the Megaman ducked away from, slamming Terra with his elbow to knock her out of the way as well. The Megaman quickly leapt to his feet and rushed at the Maverick, attempting to swing one of his spikes at him, missing by a hair as the Maverick seemingly warped out of the way, after which he reappeared with his gray saber in hand, and slashed at the Megaman, who attempted to duck away, but wasn't fast enough, losing an arm to the saber strike. the arm dropped from the Megaman's shoulder and into the wet sand, electricity firing from the wound in all directions. The Megaman growled and attempted to retaliate, firing a bolt of electricity from his remaining spike, which hit the Maverick directly in the chest, with a brilliant display, lightning crackling off the Maverick's body and arcing across the ground, turning the wet sand into glass, then causing the newly-created glass to shatter, causing broken glass to shower the area. The Maverick growled in anger, then ran the Megaman through with his saber, causing a cry of agony to escape the impaled Megaman's lips.
The Megaman had no time to say anything else, as the Maverick fired gray plasma shot from his buster, blowing his head to pieces, then the Maverick began slowly making his way towards Terra as he raised his saber, however as the Transerver behind Terra in the distance made the standard whirring sound as two people warped onto the battlefield. The Maverick seemed to recognize that the two Megamen who had just warped onto the battlefield would be more of a challenge than the now-retired Guardians that had been sent after him, and disappeared. With the purple Maverick now gone, Terra would notice that the retired Megaman had returned to normal reploid remains on the ground, while a Biometal had appeared beside the wreckage... glowing in Terra's presence as her body glowed in response. The Biometal, a red-colored disk with a round, raised section in the shape of a second disk, with a silver plate on the front, and a round metal plate at the top, with a second metal bar bent over it, generating sparks, called out to her in her mind, asking a single question... "Do you like fish, too?".
Avriel/Embers
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Avriel had been working for Grollar Transportation Corp for a long time, and managed to climb her way up to Amaltheia Liffta Grollar's right hand. Not because Theia liked her, of course, but because Theia recognized her as useful. Theia is a dark-skinned female humanoid with bright green eyes, black hair usually tied into thick dreadlocks with gold rings around them, a flawless face, and a curvy body. Theia usually wears tight leather pants and a stomach-exposing black leather top, with black boots, and a white and gold hooded cloak. While she didn't look incredibly strong, it is rumored that she has so many physical augments in her body that she is as strong, tough, precise, and agile as a combat Reploid. Her attitude towards others is usually all business, and interactions with her are usually very brief. According to some workers, it has been said that not even her husband has heard her laugh or seen her smile.
Just that morning, as Avriel had been overseeing the handling of organs through a glass window on the upper level with her group of armed Reploid guards, silently, when her boss, Theia, had entered the room with her own group of Guards, not having to turn sideways despite the massive, gold-colored Buster Shot Cannon on her back due to all of the doorways in the complex having been constructed specifically to allow her to fit her cannon through on her back.
The Guards that were employed by Grollar were always female Reploids, and were made to wear armor specifically developed by Grollar's underground Organ Harvesting Operation, The Hand. The Armor was gray with teal sections on the chest, shoulders, and boots, with a black body suit beneath. The helmet had a teal forehead gem which covered the main camera, and a pair of antenna that resembled cat ears. Each guard that wore the armor was combat Reploid with strict training.
Avriel's boss, tersely as usual, informed her that she must personally oversee a very important shipment for Slither, a large archeological haul from beyond the wall, which held priceless artifacts that they couldn't afford to lose. Once she had explained this in as few words as possible, she turned and left.
Not long after, Avriel found herself arriving at her destination, in the middle of the apocalyptic wasteland, in her armored transport, a blue-armored vehicle with eight wheels, heavily armed and armored for surviving outside the walls. There, waiting for her and the numerous other transports that had been sent with her to protect the packages, were digging mechaniloids and the standard Galleon Mechniloids employed by Slither Inc.
The digging Mechaniloids weren't what was typically used for digging, as Slither's digging Mechaniloids were based on ancient Maverick Wars technology. These mechaniloids were humanoid in design and had gray metal arms and foot, with green armored bodies and legs, their heads were built to resemble humanoid heads with gas mask mouths and a hard-hat-like head. They were each equipped with a beam pick-axe, and were hard at work in the holes.
Galleons resembled Reploids, however their heads had only one single eye, they wore purple body suits, and their arms and legs were far more obviously mechanical, being too slim to fit an actual Reploid limb with synthetic flesh beneath the purple armor. While Galleons were easier to produce in large quantities, could be equipped with a wide variety of weapons, and would follow any order down to the letter, their individual combat capabilities were a constant reminder of why they always hired Grollar for security, rather than relying on those Galleons alone. When Avriel and her guards step off of her transport, one of the Galleons makes their way over to her, their eye projecting a hologram of Serpent, the head of Slither Inc, in front of Avriel. Serpent was a tall, muscular, red-haired Humanoid man, with a strong jaw and piercing red eyes. His hair spiked forward, as if he had wanted a beget, but couldn't quite make it. he wore tight leather pants and a green overcoat with a red tie, over a black bodysuit. "Hello there. I apologize for not arriving in person, however you know how things are running a business. There's always more work to be done, besides, I have Mechaniloids enough to do the work for me." he said, with a friendly grin "Down to business. You see, I unearthed some very rare technology, and I'd like it brought back to Slither Inc. for study. There have been many sightings by the Guardians of a powerful Maverick, and I feel that Grollar Corp would be more qualified than my Galleons to oversee the transportation. Good luck, and pay has already been transferred to your account." he says, before disappearing without waiting for Avriel to reply, as was typical of Serpent. Unless he saw Theia herself, he would be less formal, and would typically end the transmission before he could be responded to. As Serpent was speaking, more Mechaniloids were loading crates onto the transports, however by the time the transmission ended, the very last crate to be loaded had caught Avriel's attention, as if it was calling out to her silently.
Avriel had been working for Grollar Transportation Corp for a long time, and managed to climb her way up to Amaltheia Liffta Grollar's right hand. Not because Theia liked her, of course, but because Theia recognized her as useful. Theia is a dark-skinned female humanoid with bright green eyes, black hair usually tied into thick dreadlocks with gold rings around them, a flawless face, and a curvy body. Theia usually wears tight leather pants and a stomach-exposing black leather top, with black boots, and a white and gold hooded cloak. While she didn't look incredibly strong, it is rumored that she has so many physical augments in her body that she is as strong, tough, precise, and agile as a combat Reploid. Her attitude towards others is usually all business, and interactions with her are usually very brief. According to some workers, it has been said that not even her husband has heard her laugh or seen her smile.
Just that morning, as Avriel had been overseeing the handling of organs through a glass window on the upper level with her group of armed Reploid guards, silently, when her boss, Theia, had entered the room with her own group of Guards, not having to turn sideways despite the massive, gold-colored Buster Shot Cannon on her back due to all of the doorways in the complex having been constructed specifically to allow her to fit her cannon through on her back.
The Guards that were employed by Grollar were always female Reploids, and were made to wear armor specifically developed by Grollar's underground Organ Harvesting Operation, The Hand. The Armor was gray with teal sections on the chest, shoulders, and boots, with a black body suit beneath. The helmet had a teal forehead gem which covered the main camera, and a pair of antenna that resembled cat ears. Each guard that wore the armor was combat Reploid with strict training.
Avriel's boss, tersely as usual, informed her that she must personally oversee a very important shipment for Slither, a large archeological haul from beyond the wall, which held priceless artifacts that they couldn't afford to lose. Once she had explained this in as few words as possible, she turned and left.
Not long after, Avriel found herself arriving at her destination, in the middle of the apocalyptic wasteland, in her armored transport, a blue-armored vehicle with eight wheels, heavily armed and armored for surviving outside the walls. There, waiting for her and the numerous other transports that had been sent with her to protect the packages, were digging mechaniloids and the standard Galleon Mechniloids employed by Slither Inc.
The digging Mechaniloids weren't what was typically used for digging, as Slither's digging Mechaniloids were based on ancient Maverick Wars technology. These mechaniloids were humanoid in design and had gray metal arms and foot, with green armored bodies and legs, their heads were built to resemble humanoid heads with gas mask mouths and a hard-hat-like head. They were each equipped with a beam pick-axe, and were hard at work in the holes.
Galleons resembled Reploids, however their heads had only one single eye, they wore purple body suits, and their arms and legs were far more obviously mechanical, being too slim to fit an actual Reploid limb with synthetic flesh beneath the purple armor. While Galleons were easier to produce in large quantities, could be equipped with a wide variety of weapons, and would follow any order down to the letter, their individual combat capabilities were a constant reminder of why they always hired Grollar for security, rather than relying on those Galleons alone. When Avriel and her guards step off of her transport, one of the Galleons makes their way over to her, their eye projecting a hologram of Serpent, the head of Slither Inc, in front of Avriel. Serpent was a tall, muscular, red-haired Humanoid man, with a strong jaw and piercing red eyes. His hair spiked forward, as if he had wanted a beget, but couldn't quite make it. he wore tight leather pants and a green overcoat with a red tie, over a black bodysuit. "Hello there. I apologize for not arriving in person, however you know how things are running a business. There's always more work to be done, besides, I have Mechaniloids enough to do the work for me." he said, with a friendly grin "Down to business. You see, I unearthed some very rare technology, and I'd like it brought back to Slither Inc. for study. There have been many sightings by the Guardians of a powerful Maverick, and I feel that Grollar Corp would be more qualified than my Galleons to oversee the transportation. Good luck, and pay has already been transferred to your account." he says, before disappearing without waiting for Avriel to reply, as was typical of Serpent. Unless he saw Theia herself, he would be less formal, and would typically end the transmission before he could be responded to. As Serpent was speaking, more Mechaniloids were loading crates onto the transports, however by the time the transmission ended, the very last crate to be loaded had caught Avriel's attention, as if it was calling out to her silently.
Luna/Mark
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Luna's morning started much like most other mornings. She woke up beside her master, Snydar Dinglefitz the third, an older humanoid male with graying hair and wrinkled skin. Luna was waking up mostly because he shook her awake for his morning blowjob. Despite the man's age, he had an amazing sex drive, often taking Luna in each hole every morning, every evening, every night before bed. She was always taken with him everywhere he went so that he could take her when he felt the urge, sometimes doing her in the bathroom, a cleaning closet, or his transport. A few times, he even took her in an alleyway. After Snydar is finished taking Luna, he left the bedroom to start his morning routine, while ordering his personal Pantheon Guards to have their way with Luna, as was also normal for Luna's mornings.
Pantheons are the general purpose Reploid of choice, though the term Reploid may not be accurate, as Panetheons were an eye piece rather than a full Reploid body. Reploid 'criminals' in Neo Arcadia R often served their life sentences by having a Pantheon eyepiece strapped to their face, thus making that poor Reploid a vehicle for the eyepiece. The eyepiece would control the body, while the Reploid itself was forced to watch its every action as a prisoner in their own body. Pantheons usually wore blue thigh-high boots and long blue gloves, with a blue body armor vest and matching codpiece. With the eyepiece on, Pantheons appeared to have a single red eye, attached to a blue helmet with silver metal lining over the top and both sides, connecting on the back, which was actually the strap to keep the eyepiece on.
By the time Snydar was finished cleaning himself and getting dressed, the Pantheon guards would be done with Luna, leaving her soaked in Reploid hacking discharge fluid on the floor, at which point Snydar would order one of his maids to clean up the mess, and order Luna to get herself cleaned and dressed. On this particular occasion, Snydar had to attend Master Tier as she made her speech to address an expansion of Neo Arcadia R's borders. Once Luna was finished cleaning herself, under the watchful eye of a pair of Pantheon Guards, typically two of the six that had just had their way with her, Snydar would be finished with his breakfast, and it was time for the two to make their way via Transerver to the Neo Arcadia Core, alongside Snydar's squad of Pantheon Guards.
Luna and Snydar didn't need to do anything during Tier's speech, they merely stood stiffly behind her while she spoke in the pouring rain, which oddly seemed not to touch her, yet completely drenched Luna, Snydar, and the rest of Tier's cabinet. Tier spoke for nearly an hour, mostly using political jargon, while the crowd of Humanoids who had gathered to see and hear her listened and cheered or clapped at the appropriate times. It made sense, as Tier was an incredible speaker, and had built Neo Arcadia into a highly advanced, extremely secure, humanoid utopia.
Tier, the ruler of Neo Arcadia, was a strange anomaly. She looked almost exactly like the famous scientist, resistance commander, and first Guardian commander, Ciel. She was Reploid girl with bright green eyes and very long blond hair that she wore down. She typically wore a dark blue helmet with white horns on the sides and a white metal plate bearing a green forehead gem, with a long blue coat that nearly reaches her feet, with a jagged white light design around the hips, and a gold border. Each of her long sleeves had a green gem that matched her forehead gem, and gold edges around them.
After Tier had finished her speech, she tells the people gathered outside in the pouring rain to have a nice day, and thanked them for coming despite the weather. Just as the group had re-entered the building, the doors that had just closed behind Tier's Pantheon guards exploded inward, showering the group in metal chunks with loud clanking. the Pantheon Guards turned to assess the threat, only to be destroyed by a cluster of explosives striking them directly, reducing them to a shower of tiny parts and Reploid 'blood'. When the smoke cleared, Luna could see what could only be a Megaman entering the building from the pouring rain. The Megaman was wearing a purple armor vest with gold edges, purple boots with white knee pads, purple gauntlets with pair of rectangular wrist launchers with golden barrels, barrel-shaped purple shoulder armor with golden rims on each side, and a purple helmet with a V-fin on the forehead, a red forehead gem in the middle, a white metal band connected to it and running from the forehead of the helmet to the back of the helmet, all over a black body suit. The Megaman seemed to be about to attack the cabinet of politicians or Tier herself, Luna couldn't be sure, though given his weapon seemed to be explosive, he could likely do all of the above, however Luna was more than in range to intercept and engage the enemy.
Luna's morning started much like most other mornings. She woke up beside her master, Snydar Dinglefitz the third, an older humanoid male with graying hair and wrinkled skin. Luna was waking up mostly because he shook her awake for his morning blowjob. Despite the man's age, he had an amazing sex drive, often taking Luna in each hole every morning, every evening, every night before bed. She was always taken with him everywhere he went so that he could take her when he felt the urge, sometimes doing her in the bathroom, a cleaning closet, or his transport. A few times, he even took her in an alleyway. After Snydar is finished taking Luna, he left the bedroom to start his morning routine, while ordering his personal Pantheon Guards to have their way with Luna, as was also normal for Luna's mornings.
Pantheons are the general purpose Reploid of choice, though the term Reploid may not be accurate, as Panetheons were an eye piece rather than a full Reploid body. Reploid 'criminals' in Neo Arcadia R often served their life sentences by having a Pantheon eyepiece strapped to their face, thus making that poor Reploid a vehicle for the eyepiece. The eyepiece would control the body, while the Reploid itself was forced to watch its every action as a prisoner in their own body. Pantheons usually wore blue thigh-high boots and long blue gloves, with a blue body armor vest and matching codpiece. With the eyepiece on, Pantheons appeared to have a single red eye, attached to a blue helmet with silver metal lining over the top and both sides, connecting on the back, which was actually the strap to keep the eyepiece on.
By the time Snydar was finished cleaning himself and getting dressed, the Pantheon guards would be done with Luna, leaving her soaked in Reploid hacking discharge fluid on the floor, at which point Snydar would order one of his maids to clean up the mess, and order Luna to get herself cleaned and dressed. On this particular occasion, Snydar had to attend Master Tier as she made her speech to address an expansion of Neo Arcadia R's borders. Once Luna was finished cleaning herself, under the watchful eye of a pair of Pantheon Guards, typically two of the six that had just had their way with her, Snydar would be finished with his breakfast, and it was time for the two to make their way via Transerver to the Neo Arcadia Core, alongside Snydar's squad of Pantheon Guards.
Luna and Snydar didn't need to do anything during Tier's speech, they merely stood stiffly behind her while she spoke in the pouring rain, which oddly seemed not to touch her, yet completely drenched Luna, Snydar, and the rest of Tier's cabinet. Tier spoke for nearly an hour, mostly using political jargon, while the crowd of Humanoids who had gathered to see and hear her listened and cheered or clapped at the appropriate times. It made sense, as Tier was an incredible speaker, and had built Neo Arcadia into a highly advanced, extremely secure, humanoid utopia.
Tier, the ruler of Neo Arcadia, was a strange anomaly. She looked almost exactly like the famous scientist, resistance commander, and first Guardian commander, Ciel. She was Reploid girl with bright green eyes and very long blond hair that she wore down. She typically wore a dark blue helmet with white horns on the sides and a white metal plate bearing a green forehead gem, with a long blue coat that nearly reaches her feet, with a jagged white light design around the hips, and a gold border. Each of her long sleeves had a green gem that matched her forehead gem, and gold edges around them.
After Tier had finished her speech, she tells the people gathered outside in the pouring rain to have a nice day, and thanked them for coming despite the weather. Just as the group had re-entered the building, the doors that had just closed behind Tier's Pantheon guards exploded inward, showering the group in metal chunks with loud clanking. the Pantheon Guards turned to assess the threat, only to be destroyed by a cluster of explosives striking them directly, reducing them to a shower of tiny parts and Reploid 'blood'. When the smoke cleared, Luna could see what could only be a Megaman entering the building from the pouring rain. The Megaman was wearing a purple armor vest with gold edges, purple boots with white knee pads, purple gauntlets with pair of rectangular wrist launchers with golden barrels, barrel-shaped purple shoulder armor with golden rims on each side, and a purple helmet with a V-fin on the forehead, a red forehead gem in the middle, a white metal band connected to it and running from the forehead of the helmet to the back of the helmet, all over a black body suit. The Megaman seemed to be about to attack the cabinet of politicians or Tier herself, Luna couldn't be sure, though given his weapon seemed to be explosive, he could likely do all of the above, however Luna was more than in range to intercept and engage the enemy.
Provesta/Condor
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As was usual for Provesta, she had been working at Dynamic Smelting, owned by one of Tier's officials, Snydar Dinglefitz, which was used to dispose mechanical parts and metal. Much like many of the corporations in Neo Arcadia R and Elysium, this Smelting Corporation was the only one in the nation and as such, all smelting was done here. Large transports were used to load up what was left outside of certain locations for pick-up, and as Provesta had recently discovered, many Retired Reploids as well. That wasn't all, though. Many Reploids who were brought to Neo Arcadian Medical Facilities and were deemed too expensive to repair, which was most of them, were often loaded into transports and sent for smelting. Smelting was also seen as viable option for some Mavericks in place of other methods of execution, which meant that they were immobilized and sent for smelting. Pantheons who had their bodies damaged beyond operation would have their Pantheon eyepiece removed, then the inoperable body of the still-living Reploid would be sent for smelting.
This particular day, a transmission was sent to Provesta, her humanoid overseer ordering her to load up a transport mechaniloid in the back and take another load to the conveyor belt to begin loading it into the smelter. The overseer also added that Provesta would be working another four shifts, meaning she would be staying until the next morning unless the overseer decides that she should work even longer. Despite having had the same overseer during the time she had spent with the corporation, she had never met them face to face, and had never actually heard their voice, due to all overseer communications being altered to hide their identity. Dynamic had picked up this practice due to a Reploid, at one point, going Maverick and ripping their boss in half before pitching them into the smelter. Dynamic, of course, decided that it would be safer to mask the identities of their overseers so that this never happened again, or would at least be less likely to happen.
As ordered, Provesta made her way out of the primary smelting room, a massive room made from black heat resistant metal, and lined with numerous conveyor belts that carried the metal and electronics into the massive smelter Mechaniloids. The hallway that she entered was blocked off by a set of heat resistant black metal doors, and into a heat resistant black metal hallway. The work areas tended to be a dreary place, due to workers not being allowed to speak with each other, as it was considered inefficient use of time even if neither worker stopped what they were doing, and there was no decoration anywhere in any of the Reploid work areas.
When Provesta reached the back, she made her way to one of the black metal sliding doors, sliding it open to find the different kinds of transport Mechaniloids. The Smelting Plant used three kinds of Transport Mechaniloids. The first, the Multi-Loader, was black-armored with derpy eyes, and constructed with multiple sections, each dome-shaped with a single wheel inside, allowing each section to be loaded with more parts. The second, the Turbo-Loader, was black-armored with a white stripe across the top of its dome-shaped body, and was equipped with nitro to allow it to get from place to place quickly, in case something needed to be retrieved in an emergency. The third, the Mega-Loader, used the most often due to being able to carry the most, was a half-wheel shaped Mechaniloid with derpy eyes and a black-armored body, with several dome-shaped black-armored sections containing its wheels. When Provesta opened the door, all of the derpy-eyed mechaniloids looked at her eagerly, hoping it was their turn to leave the storage room and haul parts for smelting.
Whichever Loader Provesta decides on, all she has to do is tell it to follow her, and it would do so eagerly, following behind her as she picked up pieces from the gigantic pile of parts in the center of the room that nearly reached the ceiling. As Provesta loads parts into the Loader, she starts to feel drawn to a certain part of the massive pile, as if it were water in the middle of a vast desert. When she draws near, she can see a bright glow from inside one of the scrapped Reploids, a Maid Reploid with her head partly destroyed and a missing arm. She had long light blond hair, and what was left of her face was beautiful. Her one remaining eye was blue, and her pink lips were curved downward in a frown. She was wearing a black maid uniform, frilly black thigh-high stockings with pink lace, and tall leather boots, her apron was missing. Beneath her dress, on a chain around her neck, an object was glowing. As she draws even closer, the glowing object calls out to her. "You. You're not content to be enslaved by these humans. These evil abominations who harm thousands because they believe that they're better than us. Join with me... and I'll grant you all of the power you've ever wanted, to burn these cities to the ground and free the slaves." said the object directly into Provesta's mind.
As was usual for Provesta, she had been working at Dynamic Smelting, owned by one of Tier's officials, Snydar Dinglefitz, which was used to dispose mechanical parts and metal. Much like many of the corporations in Neo Arcadia R and Elysium, this Smelting Corporation was the only one in the nation and as such, all smelting was done here. Large transports were used to load up what was left outside of certain locations for pick-up, and as Provesta had recently discovered, many Retired Reploids as well. That wasn't all, though. Many Reploids who were brought to Neo Arcadian Medical Facilities and were deemed too expensive to repair, which was most of them, were often loaded into transports and sent for smelting. Smelting was also seen as viable option for some Mavericks in place of other methods of execution, which meant that they were immobilized and sent for smelting. Pantheons who had their bodies damaged beyond operation would have their Pantheon eyepiece removed, then the inoperable body of the still-living Reploid would be sent for smelting.
This particular day, a transmission was sent to Provesta, her humanoid overseer ordering her to load up a transport mechaniloid in the back and take another load to the conveyor belt to begin loading it into the smelter. The overseer also added that Provesta would be working another four shifts, meaning she would be staying until the next morning unless the overseer decides that she should work even longer. Despite having had the same overseer during the time she had spent with the corporation, she had never met them face to face, and had never actually heard their voice, due to all overseer communications being altered to hide their identity. Dynamic had picked up this practice due to a Reploid, at one point, going Maverick and ripping their boss in half before pitching them into the smelter. Dynamic, of course, decided that it would be safer to mask the identities of their overseers so that this never happened again, or would at least be less likely to happen.
As ordered, Provesta made her way out of the primary smelting room, a massive room made from black heat resistant metal, and lined with numerous conveyor belts that carried the metal and electronics into the massive smelter Mechaniloids. The hallway that she entered was blocked off by a set of heat resistant black metal doors, and into a heat resistant black metal hallway. The work areas tended to be a dreary place, due to workers not being allowed to speak with each other, as it was considered inefficient use of time even if neither worker stopped what they were doing, and there was no decoration anywhere in any of the Reploid work areas.
When Provesta reached the back, she made her way to one of the black metal sliding doors, sliding it open to find the different kinds of transport Mechaniloids. The Smelting Plant used three kinds of Transport Mechaniloids. The first, the Multi-Loader, was black-armored with derpy eyes, and constructed with multiple sections, each dome-shaped with a single wheel inside, allowing each section to be loaded with more parts. The second, the Turbo-Loader, was black-armored with a white stripe across the top of its dome-shaped body, and was equipped with nitro to allow it to get from place to place quickly, in case something needed to be retrieved in an emergency. The third, the Mega-Loader, used the most often due to being able to carry the most, was a half-wheel shaped Mechaniloid with derpy eyes and a black-armored body, with several dome-shaped black-armored sections containing its wheels. When Provesta opened the door, all of the derpy-eyed mechaniloids looked at her eagerly, hoping it was their turn to leave the storage room and haul parts for smelting.
Whichever Loader Provesta decides on, all she has to do is tell it to follow her, and it would do so eagerly, following behind her as she picked up pieces from the gigantic pile of parts in the center of the room that nearly reached the ceiling. As Provesta loads parts into the Loader, she starts to feel drawn to a certain part of the massive pile, as if it were water in the middle of a vast desert. When she draws near, she can see a bright glow from inside one of the scrapped Reploids, a Maid Reploid with her head partly destroyed and a missing arm. She had long light blond hair, and what was left of her face was beautiful. Her one remaining eye was blue, and her pink lips were curved downward in a frown. She was wearing a black maid uniform, frilly black thigh-high stockings with pink lace, and tall leather boots, her apron was missing. Beneath her dress, on a chain around her neck, an object was glowing. As she draws even closer, the glowing object calls out to her. "You. You're not content to be enslaved by these humans. These evil abominations who harm thousands because they believe that they're better than us. Join with me... and I'll grant you all of the power you've ever wanted, to burn these cities to the ground and free the slaves." said the object directly into Provesta's mind.
Demo/Blah
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Demo had been deployed on a now week-long mission to explore a cave in search of the missing scientist and first Guardians commander, Ciel's, hidden lab with her squad. The Guardians had to search the cave first due to the amount of Mavericks in the area, and once it was cleared and confirmed that the lab was indeed there, a squad would be sent in after them to more thoroughly investigate. A Transserver had been deployed into the cave to allow the group to travel back and forth between the HQ and the cave so that they can spend nights aboard the ship to recharge, stock up on supplies, and avoid risk of Maverick Attacks during the night.
The cave had indeed been the location of a lab, a very large lab that reached many floors beneath the ground, and seemed to be mostly excelling in robotics, as the place was crawling with Mavericks. Because Ciel had mostly given up on robotics, it was highly suspected that the lab was no hers, but the Guardians still insisted on further exploration due to every bit of recovered technology serving to improve the lives of what remained of Humanoid and Reploid civilization. In terms of appearance, the lab had plain white metal-tiled floors and white walls, which was yet another indicator that it was not Ciel's lab, as she preferred pink. Most of the Mavericks that had attacked Demo's squad had been easily dispatched by Demo herself, while the rest of her squad merely followed behind her and watched the rear. This was pretty normal, as despite being ancient technology from before the Maverick Wars, Demo was was still quite a bit stronger and faster than most members of the Guardians.
Because this mission was just a sweep of the underground cave lab, Demo's usual squad of herself, three others, and a commander was deemed sufficient for the task, thus they would be receiving no reinforcements unless the situation suddenly escalated. Demo's squad consisted of Ranunculus, Zinnia, Crocus, and Chives. Ranunculus was a brown-eyed Reploid female with long, wavy brown hair that reached her lower back. She typically carried the standard Buster Shot and was easily the laziest person Demo had ever met. Zinnia was a Reploid female with blue eyes and long straight blond hair that reached her lower thighs. She usually carried three Buster Shots on her in case the first two failed, and was very timid, having been diving behind cover every step of the way, as if they had to be stealthy, despite the lab's security system having been corrupted long ago. Crocus was a green-eyed, pink-haired Reploid female who always kept her hair tied into twin-tails. Despite being extremely flirty, Crocus was actually a combat Reploid with a built-in arm cannon in her right arm and an energy blade built into her left arm. Chives was a slightly overweight Reploid whose hair and eye color had never been seen, because he never takes off his helmet. He was constantly alert when on a mission, but tended to order other Reploids into danger before himself, and really frequently was unintentionally comical and clumsy. Most other Guardians agreed that Chives' head seemed to be too large for his body. During the short time the squad had been in the lab this morning, Chives had already tripped fourteen times and fallen down a flight of stairs.
Eventually, Demo and her squad came to a locked metal door with a massive red sheet of blast-resistant plating over it. "Hmm... I g-guess this section of the lab is o-older than the rest?" Zinnia commented, from behind one of the open hallway doors that she was using as cover. Chives stroked his chin and replied "That only makes the chance of older technology better! Better! We need to get the door open so we can get to it... well, and also to finish the mission, we have to fully explore the lab." he said, before looking over at Ranunculus. Ranunculus stared back for a solid minute, before finally sighing "FINE, I'll get it open." she says, as she stands up from the fallen support beam she had been seated on, then making her way over to the white box-shaped control panel with a green screen and beginning to rapidly tap at it, cycling through possible codes. Ranunculus was incredibly skilled at hacking, though she refused to explain why when asked. While Ranunculus was hacking, Chives stood behind her and stared at her ass, while pretending to oversee, and Crocus leaned against the wall near Demo, smiling at her. After a moment, she whispered "So, while they're doing that... wanna maybe go explore... something else?" she asked, seductively, while unzipping her green Guardians uniform top to barely expose her her black-body-suit-covered right breast.
Just at that moment, Demo was suddenly hit with sudden dizziness, followed by a strange pull back down the hallway, as if she sensed water in that direction and had just become dehydrated. After a moment, a voice calls out into Demo's mind "You have been chosen to not just loose the Justice Train, but to BECOME the Justice Train and chug forth down the tracks of eternity to deliver your cargo of righteousness upon the stations of evil. Let not your core be empty, but instead fill it with the coal of indignation, so that you may be strengthened and motivated by the furnace of virtue." the voice says.
Demo had been deployed on a now week-long mission to explore a cave in search of the missing scientist and first Guardians commander, Ciel's, hidden lab with her squad. The Guardians had to search the cave first due to the amount of Mavericks in the area, and once it was cleared and confirmed that the lab was indeed there, a squad would be sent in after them to more thoroughly investigate. A Transserver had been deployed into the cave to allow the group to travel back and forth between the HQ and the cave so that they can spend nights aboard the ship to recharge, stock up on supplies, and avoid risk of Maverick Attacks during the night.
The cave had indeed been the location of a lab, a very large lab that reached many floors beneath the ground, and seemed to be mostly excelling in robotics, as the place was crawling with Mavericks. Because Ciel had mostly given up on robotics, it was highly suspected that the lab was no hers, but the Guardians still insisted on further exploration due to every bit of recovered technology serving to improve the lives of what remained of Humanoid and Reploid civilization. In terms of appearance, the lab had plain white metal-tiled floors and white walls, which was yet another indicator that it was not Ciel's lab, as she preferred pink. Most of the Mavericks that had attacked Demo's squad had been easily dispatched by Demo herself, while the rest of her squad merely followed behind her and watched the rear. This was pretty normal, as despite being ancient technology from before the Maverick Wars, Demo was was still quite a bit stronger and faster than most members of the Guardians.
Because this mission was just a sweep of the underground cave lab, Demo's usual squad of herself, three others, and a commander was deemed sufficient for the task, thus they would be receiving no reinforcements unless the situation suddenly escalated. Demo's squad consisted of Ranunculus, Zinnia, Crocus, and Chives. Ranunculus was a brown-eyed Reploid female with long, wavy brown hair that reached her lower back. She typically carried the standard Buster Shot and was easily the laziest person Demo had ever met. Zinnia was a Reploid female with blue eyes and long straight blond hair that reached her lower thighs. She usually carried three Buster Shots on her in case the first two failed, and was very timid, having been diving behind cover every step of the way, as if they had to be stealthy, despite the lab's security system having been corrupted long ago. Crocus was a green-eyed, pink-haired Reploid female who always kept her hair tied into twin-tails. Despite being extremely flirty, Crocus was actually a combat Reploid with a built-in arm cannon in her right arm and an energy blade built into her left arm. Chives was a slightly overweight Reploid whose hair and eye color had never been seen, because he never takes off his helmet. He was constantly alert when on a mission, but tended to order other Reploids into danger before himself, and really frequently was unintentionally comical and clumsy. Most other Guardians agreed that Chives' head seemed to be too large for his body. During the short time the squad had been in the lab this morning, Chives had already tripped fourteen times and fallen down a flight of stairs.
Eventually, Demo and her squad came to a locked metal door with a massive red sheet of blast-resistant plating over it. "Hmm... I g-guess this section of the lab is o-older than the rest?" Zinnia commented, from behind one of the open hallway doors that she was using as cover. Chives stroked his chin and replied "That only makes the chance of older technology better! Better! We need to get the door open so we can get to it... well, and also to finish the mission, we have to fully explore the lab." he said, before looking over at Ranunculus. Ranunculus stared back for a solid minute, before finally sighing "FINE, I'll get it open." she says, as she stands up from the fallen support beam she had been seated on, then making her way over to the white box-shaped control panel with a green screen and beginning to rapidly tap at it, cycling through possible codes. Ranunculus was incredibly skilled at hacking, though she refused to explain why when asked. While Ranunculus was hacking, Chives stood behind her and stared at her ass, while pretending to oversee, and Crocus leaned against the wall near Demo, smiling at her. After a moment, she whispered "So, while they're doing that... wanna maybe go explore... something else?" she asked, seductively, while unzipping her green Guardians uniform top to barely expose her her black-body-suit-covered right breast.
Just at that moment, Demo was suddenly hit with sudden dizziness, followed by a strange pull back down the hallway, as if she sensed water in that direction and had just become dehydrated. After a moment, a voice calls out into Demo's mind "You have been chosen to not just loose the Justice Train, but to BECOME the Justice Train and chug forth down the tracks of eternity to deliver your cargo of righteousness upon the stations of evil. Let not your core be empty, but instead fill it with the coal of indignation, so that you may be strengthened and motivated by the furnace of virtue." the voice says.
Mimi/CliffRacer
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Mimi spent most days either in her room, or in a Guardian lab, being studied by Reploid scientists and engineers of all shapes and sizes. Despite her being an ancient model, or possibly because of it, she couldn't be fully analyzed by anyone. The secondary Guardian HQ near Elysium that she was kept at was, much like the primary airship HQ, was mostly pink. Typically whenever Mimi asked for something, it would be brought to her room so that she could be more comfortable, as the Guardians wanted to make sure she felt at home, and wanted to stress to her that she was not in any way a captive. Frequently, Mimi was visited by a friendly Guardian, by the name of Periwinkle, who brought her information from outside the HQ, and check in on her. Periwinkle was a male Reploid with silver eyes and long straight black hair that reached his lower back, who usually wore a black body suit with white armor, a longsleeved white jacket, white-armored boots, and belts with white detached coattails with gold trim. Peri always seemed very calm and collected, and seemed to care about Mimi a lot, as his visits seemed to be every opportunity he had, even if it was short, and he always seemed to leave reluctantly. While she had never seem him use it, Peri always had an extremely long sword with him, as his weapon of choice. Peri had once explained that he is a combat Reploid who used to work for Elysium, however he decided he could do more good for the Guardians, thus he started working for them instead.
This particular day, Periwinkle came to visit Mimi again, this time holding a strange device. "Mimi, sorry to bother you, but the Guardians, when they find one of these, they always like to see if it resonates with any of the recruits." he says, raising the object as he entered the room. The object was red, and seemed to be shaped like a the front of a helmet. At the bottom was a raised yellow section that wrapped around the whole object, above that was a red piece that held a black visor, like a pair of sunglasses, and the very top was shaped like a white trident, with a single point that reached straight up to the end of the object, the other points outlining the sunglasses shape. When Peri held the object out towards Mimi, it began to glow, Mimi's body starting to glow at the same time. Suddenly, the object spoke to her, directly into her mind "Others may describe us as broken, or incomplete, or bugged, or unstable... we don't need to be perfect, we follow our path all the same, we walk the program. I've met my maker, the man was a liar... the expectations of our makers don't matter. I surpassed his expectations by not melting down, and that was alone... but as my Biomatch, we now have each other, and we can walk our own path." it said to her, Mimi suddenly feeling a kinship with the Biometal, as if it was a long lost friend.
When Peri sees the glowing, his mouth drops open in surprise as he exclaims "Mimi, you're a Megaman!" in sheet shock. He looks again at the Biometal, then at Mimi as if to verify that this was really happening. "Mimi, do you know what that means? With this, you're stronger than an entire squad of Guardians, or Pantheons, or Variants, or... or..." he struggles to find words, then sets the Biometal in Mimi's hands "Megamen are extremely powerful, and you need to be even more careful now." he says, his voice growing concerned "I'm going to ask the Commander to put us in a squad together so that I can protect you." he says, looking into Mimi's eyes.
Mimi spent most days either in her room, or in a Guardian lab, being studied by Reploid scientists and engineers of all shapes and sizes. Despite her being an ancient model, or possibly because of it, she couldn't be fully analyzed by anyone. The secondary Guardian HQ near Elysium that she was kept at was, much like the primary airship HQ, was mostly pink. Typically whenever Mimi asked for something, it would be brought to her room so that she could be more comfortable, as the Guardians wanted to make sure she felt at home, and wanted to stress to her that she was not in any way a captive. Frequently, Mimi was visited by a friendly Guardian, by the name of Periwinkle, who brought her information from outside the HQ, and check in on her. Periwinkle was a male Reploid with silver eyes and long straight black hair that reached his lower back, who usually wore a black body suit with white armor, a longsleeved white jacket, white-armored boots, and belts with white detached coattails with gold trim. Peri always seemed very calm and collected, and seemed to care about Mimi a lot, as his visits seemed to be every opportunity he had, even if it was short, and he always seemed to leave reluctantly. While she had never seem him use it, Peri always had an extremely long sword with him, as his weapon of choice. Peri had once explained that he is a combat Reploid who used to work for Elysium, however he decided he could do more good for the Guardians, thus he started working for them instead.
This particular day, Periwinkle came to visit Mimi again, this time holding a strange device. "Mimi, sorry to bother you, but the Guardians, when they find one of these, they always like to see if it resonates with any of the recruits." he says, raising the object as he entered the room. The object was red, and seemed to be shaped like a the front of a helmet. At the bottom was a raised yellow section that wrapped around the whole object, above that was a red piece that held a black visor, like a pair of sunglasses, and the very top was shaped like a white trident, with a single point that reached straight up to the end of the object, the other points outlining the sunglasses shape. When Peri held the object out towards Mimi, it began to glow, Mimi's body starting to glow at the same time. Suddenly, the object spoke to her, directly into her mind "Others may describe us as broken, or incomplete, or bugged, or unstable... we don't need to be perfect, we follow our path all the same, we walk the program. I've met my maker, the man was a liar... the expectations of our makers don't matter. I surpassed his expectations by not melting down, and that was alone... but as my Biomatch, we now have each other, and we can walk our own path." it said to her, Mimi suddenly feeling a kinship with the Biometal, as if it was a long lost friend.
When Peri sees the glowing, his mouth drops open in surprise as he exclaims "Mimi, you're a Megaman!" in sheet shock. He looks again at the Biometal, then at Mimi as if to verify that this was really happening. "Mimi, do you know what that means? With this, you're stronger than an entire squad of Guardians, or Pantheons, or Variants, or... or..." he struggles to find words, then sets the Biometal in Mimi's hands "Megamen are extremely powerful, and you need to be even more careful now." he says, his voice growing concerned "I'm going to ask the Commander to put us in a squad together so that I can protect you." he says, looking into Mimi's eyes.
BB/Blue
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After BB was found by the clan and taken in, the technology found in the lab was integrated into their society with her assistance. The Clan treated her like family, always encouraging her to rest when she had been working for long periods of time, keeping her tuned and in good condition, using technology they found to repair what hadn't been repaired initially, giving her a home of her own, making sure she wasn't left out of any clan activities. Every night, the clan ate together, and they ensured that she had her own seat at the giant table with them.
When the Model P Biometal was found in the lab with her, it Biomatched with one of the clan members, a male Reploid named Geranium. Geranium was a Reploid with spiky black hair and blue eyes, who usually wore too many belts with his black pants and black jacket, beneath which he wore a black body suit. Geranium, even before the Biometal was found, took an immediate interest in BB, spending most of his time with her. When the village was attacked, both Geranium and BB took on the threat together, alongside the other combat Reploids in the clan. During battle, Geranium watched BB's back first and foremost, and always repaired her himself if she was damaged. While BB was building, Geranium did his best to help her with her work.
Eventually, together, they managed to build the village into a town, with more advanced buildings and shops, the village becoming so impressive that other Clans frequently stopped by to conduct business, and those visits eventually became trade routes, which caused the town to grow even further.
On this particular day, it was storming heavily, but despite the lightning, Geranium and BB were putting the finishing touches on a house for a family of Humanoids who had just moved into the town. Putting the final bolts into the house's door, Geranium looked up at BB, who was up on the roof, adding the communications system to it, and said "Hey, BB, you should hurry up on the comms, I don't want you to get electrocuted..." he said, pausing at the end and inhaling as if he wanted to say something else, but stopping himself as if he wasn't sure he should. He had been quiet for most of that day, and kept staring into BB's eyes in total silence. The two continued working until finally the house was done, and the two stepped back to admire another job well-done. Despite the work looking great, just like everything they had done together, Geranium still seemed bothered by something. Finally, he turned to BB and looked into her eyes again, putting a hand on her shoulder "BB, I've been afraid... for a long time now... on the outside, we live in constant danger, and I'm not sure I could bear it if... well, if I didn't get to express my feelings before one of us got retired... especially since I'd protect you with my life, and if it came to that, I'd have desperately regretted that this went unsaid, as I spent my death in the digital realm..." he said, inhaling deeply before continuing. Before he could finish his thought, a loud explosion erupted nearby in the housing district they had built together. In the distance, they could see that a large swath of houses were missing, and large amount of them were burning. Reploids and humanoids could be heard screaming, retiring, or dying. They could hear the clan's combat Reploids rushing to fight off the threat, riding from the other side of the town in their transport mechaniloids, large vehicles with derpy eyes on the front, heavily armored in the clan's colors of black and gray. Floating above all of the carnage, the two could see a massive, Coffin-shaped monstrocity of a Reploid, at least three times the size of the largest Reploid BB had ever seen. It had gray Ω-shaped shoulders, and giant metal fists that seemed to be floating in mid-air beneath the shoulders, giant spikes on each of the knuckles. The creature had an Ω-shaped emblem at the bottom of its coffin-like body, which seemed to function as its propulsion system, it had jagged purple lines as trim around its solid black body, and instead of a Reploid-like head, it had a screen that projected a face made of green flame. The creature was launching its fits like rockets, turning Reploids into wreckage and humanoids into blood smears on the ground, while firing energy blasts from its face, destroying houses and larger buildings in a single attack.
Geranium stepped forward, his eyes wide with anger and shock "BB, we have to save them!" he shouted, as he pulled his Biometal from his coat. "ROCK-ON!" he shouted, as he thrusts the Biometal forward, his legs in a battle stance, one hand gripping his other wrist that was gripping the Biometal. Time seemed to stop as he was bathed in energy. His jacket became red, he gained spiked red bracers on each of his forearms, he gained spiked red bracers on each of his legs, and gained red-armored boots, with a spike on the end of each foot and on each knee. He gained red shoulder guards with a set of spikes on each, and a red helmet with a bladed metal mohawk on top, as well as a armored red jaw-guard at the bottom. Once his transformation into Model P was completed, he transformed into a spiked red metal ball, then began rolling at extremely high speed towards the massive Reploid.
BB arrives at the site of the destruction, or more accurately the massacre, with Geranium already damaged as he had already been engaging the enemy. One of his arms was missing entirely, his helmet had a scratch all the way through it, and his left leg had been so severely damaged that he could barely stand. All around them, their clan mates were laying on the ground lifelessly, bloody smears, or piles of wreckage, most of the structures that BB and Geranium had built together had been blown to pieces, and all the while the Maverick seemed completely unharmed.
After a lengthy battle that had been mostly composed of dodging the creature's attacks while their own bounced off of its body harmlessly, and even if they did harm the creature, it seemed to regenerate over time. "B-BB... I-I'm sorry that I'm not s-strong enough..." Geranium said, panting heavily, but showing incredible resolve in his eyes, despite the situation they now found themselves in. Geranium dodged to the side as they both dodged another rocket punch from the Maverick, Geranium firing his own rocket punch at the creature, which bounced off of its armor again harmlessly before returning to Geranium's arm. This time, however, the Maverick fired off a plasma blast at BB, which would intercept her at her landing point after her evasive maneuver. Geranium noticed this, and with speed he he had never displayed before, he dashed to intercept the attack, firing his rocket punch at the ground behind him to give himself a boost of speed, he leaps into the path of the attack, blocking it with his chest and causing a large explosion.
The explosion seemed to have caused BB to force-reboot, as when she awakes, she finds that all that's left of Geranium is the upper part of his torso, three-fourths of his head, and the upper half of his left arm, attached to a heavily damaged shoulder. When Geranium sees her wake, his reaction delayed by nearly a full ten seconds, he blinks at her "B-BB, y-you're... awake" he says, his voice distorted due to severe damage. He tries to smile as he continues "I-I'm s-so gla-glad that you're okay..." he says, genuinely and sincerely. All around them, all of the structures that BB and Geranium had built were destroyed, their ruins burning, the clan dead or retired. Geranium looks around before turning back to BB "I-I'm sorry I w-wasn't strong e-enough... I... wanted... to spend... m-my life w-with you..." he says, continuing "I w-wanted to say th-that you're... s-special... to me... th-that I... love... y-you..." he says, just as he retires due to his wounds. His heavily damaged body returns to its normal shape, and the Model P Biometal falls onto BB's lap. The Model P Biometal was disk-shaped, with a raised section shaped like a pair of gray eyelashes, and had hold trim around it, with a single silver mohawk shape down the center, and spikes all around it. After a moment, both BB and the Biometal begin to glow, then it speaks to her "Yo, dawg, see dat dere strength inside ya... I respect dat strength, ya know? Togethah, we could fight dem strong opponents, and kick dey butts." it says, directly into her mind.
After BB was found by the clan and taken in, the technology found in the lab was integrated into their society with her assistance. The Clan treated her like family, always encouraging her to rest when she had been working for long periods of time, keeping her tuned and in good condition, using technology they found to repair what hadn't been repaired initially, giving her a home of her own, making sure she wasn't left out of any clan activities. Every night, the clan ate together, and they ensured that she had her own seat at the giant table with them.
When the Model P Biometal was found in the lab with her, it Biomatched with one of the clan members, a male Reploid named Geranium. Geranium was a Reploid with spiky black hair and blue eyes, who usually wore too many belts with his black pants and black jacket, beneath which he wore a black body suit. Geranium, even before the Biometal was found, took an immediate interest in BB, spending most of his time with her. When the village was attacked, both Geranium and BB took on the threat together, alongside the other combat Reploids in the clan. During battle, Geranium watched BB's back first and foremost, and always repaired her himself if she was damaged. While BB was building, Geranium did his best to help her with her work.
Eventually, together, they managed to build the village into a town, with more advanced buildings and shops, the village becoming so impressive that other Clans frequently stopped by to conduct business, and those visits eventually became trade routes, which caused the town to grow even further.
On this particular day, it was storming heavily, but despite the lightning, Geranium and BB were putting the finishing touches on a house for a family of Humanoids who had just moved into the town. Putting the final bolts into the house's door, Geranium looked up at BB, who was up on the roof, adding the communications system to it, and said "Hey, BB, you should hurry up on the comms, I don't want you to get electrocuted..." he said, pausing at the end and inhaling as if he wanted to say something else, but stopping himself as if he wasn't sure he should. He had been quiet for most of that day, and kept staring into BB's eyes in total silence. The two continued working until finally the house was done, and the two stepped back to admire another job well-done. Despite the work looking great, just like everything they had done together, Geranium still seemed bothered by something. Finally, he turned to BB and looked into her eyes again, putting a hand on her shoulder "BB, I've been afraid... for a long time now... on the outside, we live in constant danger, and I'm not sure I could bear it if... well, if I didn't get to express my feelings before one of us got retired... especially since I'd protect you with my life, and if it came to that, I'd have desperately regretted that this went unsaid, as I spent my death in the digital realm..." he said, inhaling deeply before continuing. Before he could finish his thought, a loud explosion erupted nearby in the housing district they had built together. In the distance, they could see that a large swath of houses were missing, and large amount of them were burning. Reploids and humanoids could be heard screaming, retiring, or dying. They could hear the clan's combat Reploids rushing to fight off the threat, riding from the other side of the town in their transport mechaniloids, large vehicles with derpy eyes on the front, heavily armored in the clan's colors of black and gray. Floating above all of the carnage, the two could see a massive, Coffin-shaped monstrocity of a Reploid, at least three times the size of the largest Reploid BB had ever seen. It had gray Ω-shaped shoulders, and giant metal fists that seemed to be floating in mid-air beneath the shoulders, giant spikes on each of the knuckles. The creature had an Ω-shaped emblem at the bottom of its coffin-like body, which seemed to function as its propulsion system, it had jagged purple lines as trim around its solid black body, and instead of a Reploid-like head, it had a screen that projected a face made of green flame. The creature was launching its fits like rockets, turning Reploids into wreckage and humanoids into blood smears on the ground, while firing energy blasts from its face, destroying houses and larger buildings in a single attack.
Geranium stepped forward, his eyes wide with anger and shock "BB, we have to save them!" he shouted, as he pulled his Biometal from his coat. "ROCK-ON!" he shouted, as he thrusts the Biometal forward, his legs in a battle stance, one hand gripping his other wrist that was gripping the Biometal. Time seemed to stop as he was bathed in energy. His jacket became red, he gained spiked red bracers on each of his forearms, he gained spiked red bracers on each of his legs, and gained red-armored boots, with a spike on the end of each foot and on each knee. He gained red shoulder guards with a set of spikes on each, and a red helmet with a bladed metal mohawk on top, as well as a armored red jaw-guard at the bottom. Once his transformation into Model P was completed, he transformed into a spiked red metal ball, then began rolling at extremely high speed towards the massive Reploid.
BB arrives at the site of the destruction, or more accurately the massacre, with Geranium already damaged as he had already been engaging the enemy. One of his arms was missing entirely, his helmet had a scratch all the way through it, and his left leg had been so severely damaged that he could barely stand. All around them, their clan mates were laying on the ground lifelessly, bloody smears, or piles of wreckage, most of the structures that BB and Geranium had built together had been blown to pieces, and all the while the Maverick seemed completely unharmed.
After a lengthy battle that had been mostly composed of dodging the creature's attacks while their own bounced off of its body harmlessly, and even if they did harm the creature, it seemed to regenerate over time. "B-BB... I-I'm sorry that I'm not s-strong enough..." Geranium said, panting heavily, but showing incredible resolve in his eyes, despite the situation they now found themselves in. Geranium dodged to the side as they both dodged another rocket punch from the Maverick, Geranium firing his own rocket punch at the creature, which bounced off of its armor again harmlessly before returning to Geranium's arm. This time, however, the Maverick fired off a plasma blast at BB, which would intercept her at her landing point after her evasive maneuver. Geranium noticed this, and with speed he he had never displayed before, he dashed to intercept the attack, firing his rocket punch at the ground behind him to give himself a boost of speed, he leaps into the path of the attack, blocking it with his chest and causing a large explosion.
The explosion seemed to have caused BB to force-reboot, as when she awakes, she finds that all that's left of Geranium is the upper part of his torso, three-fourths of his head, and the upper half of his left arm, attached to a heavily damaged shoulder. When Geranium sees her wake, his reaction delayed by nearly a full ten seconds, he blinks at her "B-BB, y-you're... awake" he says, his voice distorted due to severe damage. He tries to smile as he continues "I-I'm s-so gla-glad that you're okay..." he says, genuinely and sincerely. All around them, all of the structures that BB and Geranium had built were destroyed, their ruins burning, the clan dead or retired. Geranium looks around before turning back to BB "I-I'm sorry I w-wasn't strong e-enough... I... wanted... to spend... m-my life w-with you..." he says, continuing "I w-wanted to say th-that you're... s-special... to me... th-that I... love... y-you..." he says, just as he retires due to his wounds. His heavily damaged body returns to its normal shape, and the Model P Biometal falls onto BB's lap. The Model P Biometal was disk-shaped, with a raised section shaped like a pair of gray eyelashes, and had hold trim around it, with a single silver mohawk shape down the center, and spikes all around it. After a moment, both BB and the Biometal begin to glow, then it speaks to her "Yo, dawg, see dat dere strength inside ya... I respect dat strength, ya know? Togethah, we could fight dem strong opponents, and kick dey butts." it says, directly into her mind.
