[Story] NSD Tech Labs

[Shast]

Xeel

(好了，想不错。）

Hello darkness my old friend~ Her works natural habitat, Xeels receptors adapt quickly to the darkness, only to be snapped back to the light by Saz's illuminations. A fellow user of the electric arts is always welcome. His scanned picked what information it could on her. revealing a suspiciously brief history of a mere 3 years, with several blackouts periods. Along with the standard assessment of power, showing nearly maxed power and speed qualities but lacking 'HP'.

The complex won't last long anyway. I'm after something now so busting out isn't in the cards. I assume since you're not a generic toady, nor trying to adorably lord false superiority over me at the moment, that you're not NSD. I'll be blunt, since I don't feel like wasting my already pressed time. The 'sidequest' is "Panacea 5000". You want in?

The light is expanded further for a brief flash while Xeel rapid finger guns 4 bolts of electricity into the ventilation in numerous parts.Got a feeling these things prey on laziness. So lets move.

1090/1200 Turns out thats her hp. Nailed it.
0/10

[Wackoguy]

'Well, this whole place is just one big risk at this point...mostly. I'm going for whatever that shiny thing is, Aeron.' Revved pondered inwardly.

If he was more adept at wielding the wind he would've probably just pulled everything in and filtered out the debris, but that was a pinch out of his league.

Bravely (and rather recklessly...), Revved trekked forward. For some of the smaller bits of debris, Revved inhaled a large amount of air and blew downwards, attempting to clear some of it away.

For the larger chunks, Revved utilized one of his own abilities, channeling the Break element through it as he actually pushed it aside.

Repeating these steps as he progressed (and avoiding the part of the floor that collapsed), Revved advanced toward the shiny item.

Arriving at his goal (for this room, at least), Revved channeled the Break element into both claws, pushing debris out of the way as he reached for the shiny object.

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Fusion Dragon Revved HP: 8,450 / 8,450

Panacea: 0 / 10

[Nightshade]

The ceiling would rumble badly as Xeel's attack connected. Suddenly, a loud beeping noise very similar to LRAD modules permeated the hallway. A few concealed turrets revealed themselves from the opposite way of the hall, short circuited and malfuntioning. They would turn over to the two navis in the hall and began beeping too.

///TARGET LOCKED///INTRUDER ALERT///TARGET LOCKED///

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For the dragon, his effort were repayed, even if some sharp debis lodged in the plant of his three toed feet claws. Revved was immensly powerful now. His strength had quadrupled at least. Looking over at his prize,the dragon would find himself with a white and gold little chip. A custom NSD BattleChip. He wouldn't be there for long that some cracks on the floor would annouch that it wouldn't hold the Hybrid's weiht for much longer. He would have to endure the pain of the shards in his feet for a little while longer and get away, or quickly remove them before the imment collapse.

Nebula Barrier
Creates a 10HP barrier around user. When struck, inflict Burn, Freeze or Paralize. Element chosen upon use.

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Revvaeron takes 100 dmg from the shards and debris he stepped on to get the chip.

[Phen]

"Just a navi who likes to know things. I'd love to join you for the search, but we've got a little bit of automated company."

Sazerac moved so he was interposing Xeel and the two turrets down the hall, reaching into his jacket and pulling forth some metal shards. With a leisurely gesture, he tossed the shards before him as electricity from his body shot out, interconnecting the shards and causing them to float around him.

"I can't deal with that door and we need to be able to get around the building if we're going find this thing. Seems like our best plans are to bust through or go ask that NSD guy for his access information. I can handle these turrets no problem at least."

Reaching out his hand toward the Turrets as the metal around him reacted to oncoming fire, Sazerac's electricity began to gather around his arm. It took a little bit of time, but before long the spark from the turrets manifested, arcing bolts of lightning from Sazerac's arm to the turrets that had appeared. To need automated lethal defenses, they really must have something here that they didn't want others to know about.

HP: 1400/1400
Panacea: 0/10

[Wackoguy]

Despite being stronger now, that definitely didn't make him ignorant to pain....and being barefoot didn't help either!

A guttural growl escaped through his teeth as he endured the pain. Moving about swiftly, Revvaeron darted from the room, not wishing to fall down a...floor?

'Hmm...don't tell me that's one of the only ways down...' he thought to himself.

Double-checking his surroundings once more, Revvaeron reached down and removed the debris from between his clawed toes.

A bit of data splattered from the wound, but he sincerely hoped that wouldn't matter much...

'Should've found us some boots....geez.' Rev thought inwardly yet again. Though in his mind he also thought it'd look potentially odd if a dragon wore boots. Quite odd indeed.

'Anyway, on we go!' Revvaeron said in his mind, continuing down the hallway prior to their detour into the room.

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Revvaeron's HP: 8,350 / 8,450

Panacea: 0 / 10

Chips on-hand: Nebula Barrier

[Shast]

Xeel

Option A's pretty good. If I have to deal with that action figure again I'll delete it. Her words oozing with disgust.

Xeel turns to the large door and dramatically assumes normal looking stance with her right hand within inches of the massive door. She readies her finger and flicks it while mumbling GH Flick! in a odd, excited way.

The ringing flick echoes throughout the hallway and the colossal door is splintered to pieces. Fading into digital dust in fractions of a second. Xeel shakes the vibration from her finger and gestures to the now clear passage.

Lead on, hunchmaster.

(Giga special represeeeeent)
1090/1200
0/10

[Nightshade]

"I'm sorry..." Aeron shyly apologized. "I think...we could go see if we can take one of my brother's outfits. The lockers are further down and we need to get to the generator room. He wears open toed boots for...very good reasons. Now, I am roughly his size if a little shorter. With you as my host I think it will be a little tight, but better than anything I think."

The dragon inside Revved quieted down as a mangled and twisted howl echoed from somewhere in the facility yet very near to the Fusion Dragon's position.

"Alright listen. Even if our combined power is immense we are not invincible. Some viruses can even split our fusion and i think you do not want me to be ripped out of you. It would kill us both or completely shut down your powers. It would be like being in a cell in New Life. That virus there is a Mihk. It will track us by sound and smell. We should find something to patch up our wound and before you ask, yes your body is my body. I can feel the same pain and this wound doesn't seem like it will close itself soon. Shame that my regenerative powers do not work here."

The red and green dragon would find himself in the dark again, with his foot aching for the wound and thebfact that they walked on it before removing the thorn. They would evetually find themselves spiraling down and reaching the engineering division. The power core was nearing, yet was still far away.

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While the door was destroyed, the turrets kept firing on the two,unfazed by Sazerac's pitiful attempts at dealing with them. The guns though were not their main problem. With a loud *Guoooaaah* the Virus that had attacked Xeel before came rushing out of a wall and then charged head first into the two navis.

To top it off, the lights overloaded and exploded as soon as the virus ran past them. It was a mixture of greyish green data, and resembled some sort of salamander. Strange spikes on his spine crackled with bugged electricity. Its eyes locked onto the two navis as it pressed forward, and a few lightning bolts were sent their way.

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Dragon Revved bleeds for another 100dmg.

[Phen]

'No go overloading them huh... oh well.'

Seems the beast had recovered from its last assault, and what a beast it was. Seems strange that the NSD would keep something so dangerous in their base, and on the upper floors too. Regardless, even if it didn't seem right, it was here now. Luckily however, it too was using electricity like he and Xeel were, and Sazerac certainly didn't keep conductive knives on his person for no reason.

Throwing a knife to each of the walls, ceiling and floor, they would act as lightning rods to ground the shocks flying at the two. The result sending the surge of bugged electricity through the whole complex. Sure it was likely to cause some problems but nothing NSD couldn't handle. Meanwhile the turrets, unaffected by his attacks continued firing fruitlessly, the metal shards around him forming small shields blocking each shot perfectly.

Following the small setup he had to do, there was still the problem of the rushing virus... A problem he had no intention of dealing with. Turning on his heel, he faced Xeel before running past her, yelling back though he was sure she'd be ahead of him before he could even finish.

"We should probably take our leave now. Hope you got something ready for the elevator shaft cause I doubt it'll just open up for us. I'll bet that chip they got is on the upper floors though."

Sazerac HP: 1400/1400
Panacea: 0/10

[Shast]

Xeel

Xeel turns away from the beast in agreement. Sure it would be a non-issue to deal with the creature, but the wasted time and noise would likely attract others, thus wasting more time and calling MORE; and she isn't about to solve their problems for them.

She bolts down the hallway following Saz and quickly gains then passes him, stopping abruptly at the elevator. She pushes BOTH up and down buttons like an uncivilized savage. Should neither work Xeel places her hand on the control panel and surges electricity through it, shocking the panel into compliance with the appropriate electric signals.


1090/1200
0/10

[Wackoguy]

Listening closely to what Aeron had to say, Revved deduced that Aeron's 'brother' was likewise another dragon...as it'd only make sense to conclude.
And the idea of getting some protective footwear appealed to him indeed, given the circumstances.

As Aeron gave him the lowdown on what some o their prototype viruses could do...he really began to wonder what NSD was doing with such lethal viruses in storage...

'Why would you guys even keep deadly viruses like that around...? Feels like this is some action-thriller movie that we're in after hearing all of that.' Revved thought.

The unusual howl of what Aeron called a 'Mihk' definitely put Revved on even higher alert.

'That did sound a little too close to our location...' he thought to both Aeron & himself. But standing still wasn't much of a choice now, they'd have to keep on going.

Ever cautious, Revved decided to inspect whatever was to his left, hoping he'd locate something useful to them in this life-or-deletion situation.

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Dragon Revved's HP: 8,250 / 8,450

Panacea: 0 / 10

[Nightshade]

"We are trying to discover their creation mechanics, prolific and neutralization efforts. It's a joint project with the NIA. They have been swarmed by those things in there lately. Something going on. Some say it's the result of exposure to a Multibug Organism. Other use them as DBWs and we need to make sure that they will get properly contained or neutralized."

Aeron tightened his control over Revved's Draco form. He didn't really want to merge too much of his mind into him, but with a Mihk stalking them there was no other choice. No time to learn how to stealth with claws and tail. With a shivering sensation the knowledge was injected into Revved's mind. It wouldn't do too much, but it would slow the thing down while Revved checked their surroundings.

Sure enough, they found a few lockers. Most were empty or full of useless gibberish. Eventually Revved's "conscience" would point out to one loker specifically: THORN. That was the name on it. Sadly it was locked.

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Unfortunately for Xeel the incredibly sensitive and partially damaged keypad simply exploded, not able to handle the electric load, shutting down with him the entire elevator compound and cutting her hand with shrapnel. She and Sazerac would find themselves cornered, with the Bug Virus approaching at a rapid pace. It destroyed even the turrets as soon as he neared to them. That thing was nasty and obviously power hungry. And he saw his meal right there in the middle of a dark room.

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Revved keeps bleeding for 100dmg.
Xeel suffers 50dmg from exploding keypad.

[Shast]

Xeel

Rolling her eyes and shaking the minimal sting from her hand the irked woman takes her free hand and just blows the closed door open with a quick blast of energy.
Screw politeness and finesse. Never works anyway. Come on.

Without waiting she leaps into the elevator shaft and wall jumps up two floors while blowing open the elevator doors then pouching onto the floor in a crouched ready position.

This place is so fragile I'm surprise its even lasted this long. she rattled off presuming her new associate to be behind her.

1040/1200
0/10

[Wackoguy]

'They're being swarmed by these THINGS?! Their HQ must be a warzone then...' Revvaeron pondered, shocked to hear that someone else's situation was actually WORSE than their own...

'A Multibug Organism...you mean like that ancient Gospel creature from times past?'

Even though he was relatively new to the world, Revved had read up a little bit on the creature that was created by a sinister organization...which happened to be being led by the nose by ANOTHER organization. He hadn't read any data about where said creature was these days though...

As for the injection of knowledge, Revved definitely noticed the tingling sensation. He also felt a bit more 'instinctive' in this form...if that was even the correct term for the increase of survival know-how.

As his eyes and mind seemed to recognize the name 'Thorn' on a locker, he was surprised yet again to find it locked...

'Why am I not really surprised by this...?' Revved thought inwardly.

If they weren't being potentially stalked, he'd easily use his dragon-like strength to pry the thing open...but that'd definitely give away their location. Revved almost wondered if they could simply defeat the Mihk creature...but survival was important...as well as not getting jumped by any viruses the Mihk probably alerted too.

'I don't suppose there's another way to open this...? Or is that thing too close to worry about opening this locker?'

Still suffering from the wound, Revved wondered if any viruses' regeneration abilities were shutoff as well. If so, that'd make it a matter of strike and destroy first...not very surprising, come to think of it.

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Revvaeron's HP: 8,150 / 8,450

Panacea: 0 / 10

[Phen]

The beast gaining on them was really a blessing and a curse, but its overwhelming electricity was interesting at least. Perhaps they could deal with it after all. Quickly following Xeel's method, using her residual energies to boost his jumps by aligning his polarity to push and pull.

After he was one floor up and ascending faster, Sazerac began to let loose daggers flying up and down, caught between the two electric navi's fields and being shot at incredible speeds both to the ground and to the skies. For each set of three knives, a thin string of electricity connected them, pulling at each lightly though they would be strongly embedded in whatever they landed in. Finally reaching the same floor as Xeel, Sazerac also crouched beside her, looking around the dark rooms while handing the mercenary one of his knives, a small strand also sparking off of it to the other ones.

"As soon as you hear that thing slam into the elevator shaft, charge this with as much electricity as you can then throw it into the wall there. Hopefully it should be enough to pull the elevator to us and crush this guy on its way. I'm expecting its own charge to add fuel to this fire too but we can never be too careful."

HP: 1400/1400
Panacea: 0/10

[Nightshade]

Aeron let out a soft chuckle. He really liked this Revved guy. "Eh...even though up until now you've remarkably displayed incredible control over your new form...you wouldn't be a very good dragon. Now relax a go limp for a moment." He spoke with his usual soft shy tone.

Another shuddering sensation and Revved saw his three fingered claws move forward on their own. They reached for the lock and began fiddling with it. The speed loving dragon would feel his arm's muscles tense up as a simple and muffled *think* sound poped from the now broken lock.

"While reflecting and cunning intelligence are surely a good trait,you lack the instinctivity that makes dragons very powerful."

He raised their claws up so that he could see them, wiggling their fingers around. "These are your hands. But just because they are your hands it does not mean that you absolutely need to watch and calculate their every movements with keen eyes."

Then, Aeron would move their tail so that Revved could feel it twitch and throb with life. "This is your tail. But just because it's your tail doesn't mean you are always thinking about it. I am willing to bet that aside from your first problems you didn't really mind its presence at all."

Finally, Aeron placed their right claw on their chest scales, upon where their heart would be. "This is your body. But just because it's yours doesn't mean you have to keep restraining it and keeping it under control all the time. Sometimes, you just need to let yourself go and allow your body to do what your mind cannot. That is the true meaning of being a dragon. That is the source of our greatest power. That is the source of your greatest power."

And with that Aeron would settle down and shift control back to Revved. The green and red draconic fusion would hear another distant howl from the Mihk, but still fairly far from his position. Now that his partner had forced the lock open, he could finally see what was inside.

The first thing that he would notice would be the open toed boots. Out of everything they seemed the most expertly crafted object of the outfit. They would look a bit small for him, but still somewhat usable without being uncomfortable. They were made in an incredibly silky and elastic compound, black as the darkest of nights. They would cover up to knee length, while allowing claws to safely pop out of them without threatening to rip and shred the material if the boots where all closed up instead.

Further in, there would be more graphite black tactical apparel. It was clearly designed for combat with a production quality that would rival Revved's most insade fantasies on military outfits. A full on chest rig, with some shock resistant padding here and there. Fingerless gloves of the same material as the boots and then a...black bandana? Something was shining inside! A white and gold chip with the NSD logo etched on it and a number. P500.

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Now, Xeel and Sazerac's plan would have been a great thing if the creature was dumb. However, the monstrosity they were chased by was a "clever girl". It would stop and raise its head up, sniffing the air, then the two navi heard its grunts fade away. Problem is, that the two now had another problem to care about.

The elevator would fall alright. It would fall and jam right on their floor. More over, aside from the continuous pitch black darkness, the zone's structural integrity seemed very brittle. Lots of rubble and collapsed things. If they didn't watch their step or powers the whole thing could fall on their heads and give them a good few hard to recover wounds. Nobody seemed to be there at least, except for a relativey loud snoring sound coming from a tall locker.

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Revvaeron keeps bleeding. -100hp.