Tessera (Autumn), 81378 X-7, not knowing how, Snuck into the crowded marketplace looking for someone skilled in technology. He was running out of time, and he didn't know who had the machina to detect him while cloaked. He pushed his way through the crowds, sparking many a fight because of the fact that nobody knew who hit them. He Looked frantically, checking signs and shopfronts. He needed to find someone who could safely remove The device inside of him that even now was a portal through which the scientists at the Research Facility were trying to hack into his system through. He quickly stopped and grabbed a filthy pickpocket and drained him of blood, The crowds ignored the death in the surge of people. He would need Electricity and Fromina as well and then he could do as he wished for up to a year before needing to recharge the latter two again. He searched to no avail, but before his cloak ran out, he pushed his way into a deserted looking alleyway and sat down, letting the blood he had consumed flow throughout his Veins and Machinery. He felt his cloaking device's energy run out and he became visible again. He sat in the dirty alleyway, feeling his cloaking device regain energy and his Computer began to run a list of decisions. The List Suddenly appeared in his right Robotic eye. <span style='color:green'>1. Find a constant power source and recharge. 2. Find a Lifeform capable of removing the Long range Link 3. Surrender to the Military 4. Engage and dispatch all Military Units currently in the city. 5.Find an ally to help either combat the Military or escape the city. 6. Restore Previous Memory Choose order of these Options?....Confirm...</span> <span style='color:blue'>Delete Options 4, 3 and the part of 5 that states "Combat the Military", Confirm... Select Options 2, 1, 5, 6... Confirm.</span> <span style='color:green'>Deletion Confirmed..... Objectives ordered and saved. Confirmed...</span> Came the display after he had stated what he wanted out loud. He sat there for a moment watching the green writing in his robotic eye. <span style='color:blue'>Final Objectives Confirmed, Return to Normal Vision.</span> He said out loud again, and the text in his eye disappeared and was replaced with normal Vision. He sat still for a moment to gather himself...
Thamier padded on the roofs of the houses in the black market. He liked to do that because it kept him out of the crowds of people and the chances of getting pickpocketed or killed. He felt him as he came closer. Someone not fully organic anymore, a machine, a ..cyborg. He found him in an alley. The cybernetic 'dragon was huge. Thamier could see the metal plating on him. A 'dragon built to kill.. However he could feel his mind and part of it was one of a child, packed up and shuttered away, to make room for the mind of a machine. It was waiting for something. Thamier made his decision. He would help him, he had some experience in machina technology. He dropped down and caustiously approached. "Hello" he said.
He was met with the barrel of a flamethrower. <span style='color:blue'>What do you want?</span> X-7 answered, standing up in one fluid motion while keeping the nozzle trained on him. <span style='color:green'>Protocols suggest termination of all non mission personel</span> X-7 ignored his computer side and maintained vigilance. <span style='color:blue'>What do you want?</span> he repeated and lowered his flamethrower.
He found it rather difficult to look down the barrel of a firearm and not tense up. The 'dragon moved with incredible speed for someone of his bulk, but this was expected by Thamier. <span style='color:red'>You look like you could use some help. Considering the amount of equipment on you, its a technological problem. I have some experience in machina technology, but if i can't help you with it, i think i know someone who does. Plus I know what its like to be alone, so why don't you come with me or vice versa? </span>
<span style='color:blue'>Fine, but I hope you don't mind me keeping this flamethrower up against your back...</span> He Jabbed the nozzle into his back and ushered him through the back allies...
The cold nozzle of the flamethrower pressed against his back as he was ushered through the alleyways. He resisted the urge to put his spikes through it and instead allowed himself to be pushed along. <span style='color:red'>If you could tell me what the problem is, i'll know if you need advanced help and considering the amount of weaponry on you dont you think your being over-reactive?</span>
<span style='color:blue'>Maybe, but I don't trust this city, I'ts crawling with Military forces out to get me...</span> He lowered his flamethrower and stood facing the newcomer. <span style='color:blue'>Fine, I feel I can trust you... I am a top secret Military weapon, the last in a series of Pendragon, Machina Technology Hybrids. I escaped the research facility I was created in while they were in the proccess of transferring me to the Military. I need to remove a Long Range Coms unit that enables the scientists at the base to hack into my system...</span> He retracted his flamethrower nozzle into it's hiding place on his wrist and crossed his arms... <span style='color:blue'>I need you to help me remove the link before the scientists can hack into the computer side of my brain, and Shut me down... I can fight them, but only for so long... I need the Coms unit removed as soon as possible, then I need to find an electrical energy source, and a fromina energy source...</span> He explained all this to the newcomer, hoping he would understand his plight...
<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class=ooc><tr><td>Time to play with physics..... ;) </td></tr></table> <span style='color:red'>My first question is: Where is the com unit? if it doesnt require surgery, i can possibly disconnect it. 2nd: How come you can't just tap into fronima directly instead of through a power source? But i might be able to help you with a physical power source. its totally obscure, it defies all known laws of nature, is completely safe, and it works. i could possibly make one for you if we get to some machina ruins.</span>
<span style='color:blue'>I was created using Earth technology, which in terms of weaponry, was far more potent. But when they tryed to incorporate ramathian technology, it didn't work very well in the earlier prototypes. So they created me using minimal ramathian technology, relying more on earth power sources such as nuclear and electric energy, and used very little in the way of machina technology. And as a bonus to using vampire genetics, I get blood and fromina from my victims. I only need to recharge my nuclear battery every 10 years, my electrical battery once every year, and I only need fromina twice a year. The only constant energy supply I need, I get from blood. Today I've already filled upon blood and fromina, I only need a nuclear and electrical energy source. Also the link is implanted inside my left arm, and surgery would be required to remove the coms unit from inside the fleshy core of it.</span> He took a breath and looked around. <span style='color:blue'>What do you need to perform the surgery?</span> He asked, starting to look a bit sluggish as the scientists at the base managed to get through some of the firewalls and other defenses his computer side had set up in his system. He regained his composure, And thought about what he had just said. I'm kind of like a rapine... He thought... and felt the scientists get through another defence system. He winced, and vision through his robotic eye flickered for a moment. <span style='color:blue'>Whatever we have to do, lets do it quicker!</span> X-7 suddenly shouted, as he began to shut down...
Thamier watched as X-7 began to slow down, a wince across his face. <span style='color:red'>Looks like i'll end up performing surgery anyways. Hold still!!!</span> Thamier grabbed X-7's arm, as he began to apparently shut down, and extended some claws. He cut open the arm and ignored the blood. He saw the com unit immediatly, pulled it out, and carefully removed the connectors. He opened himself to fronima and used it to clean the wound he caused and then sealed it. Taking the wires he removed, he began a rudimentery stitching. When it was done, he picked up the com unit. <span style='color:red'>Interesting. I might to be able to build a hybrid power system, one that will supply all your power needs, fronima and otherwise. The blood thingy though might be a problem.</span> <span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class=ooc><tr><td>And now we play....... with physics of couse! B) </td></tr></table>
<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class=ooc><tr><td>Yay physics! :D </td></tr></table> X-7 stood up, and glanced at his arm. He felt a lot better, and his computer side had repaired most of the damage the hackers had done. <span style='color:blue'>I thank you..."friend"... what else do you need for this hybrid power system?</span> He gave it a thought and the Vulcan machine gun concealed in his chest cavity came out and assembled on his shoulder. <span style='color:blue'>Because I won't have a hard time getting it.</span> he grinned, and gave Thamier a small device.<span style='color:blue'>Flick the switch, I come</span> he explained and hit the switch on the top, The screen by his keyboard on his forearm started flashing red. <span style='color:blue'>Don't worry, I'll know where to find you, that thing can stretch across worlds...</span> He smiled and walked out of the ally, and as he did so, his hologram projector kicked in, and his Vulcan went back into his chest cavity and he was disguised as a young pendragon. <span style='color:blue'>From now on, call me santos.</span> He called back to Thamier. <span style='color:blue'>Use the device when you've got the materials, I have to pay a visit to the military...</span> His fake face gave Thamier a smile, and he stepped into the surging crowd...
<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class=ooc><tr><td> I wonder if this process would actually work? Don't try this at home kids!</td></tr></table> Thamier carefully put the beacon away and jumped to the rooftops. <span style='color:red'>Try not to get yourself killed!</span> He padded away and began to look for the parts he needed. <span style='color:red'>Let me see... I need an electro-static field generator, a couple of high-strength lasers, some titanium, some clear steel, ...</span> The list went on and on in his mind. most of the parts were easy to get, free/cheap, and could be put together in seconds. Some others would have to be traded for (or stolen ;) ). A couple of hours later Thamier had all of the parts he needed. He found A deserted warehouse and set things up. First he put together the field generator and aimed the lasers into it. then he made a tubular container out of the clear steel and titanium. Using the other parts he had "obtained" from numerous dealers, he made a small power plant that would eternally feed off of what Thamier was about to create, much to physic's diamay. He then attached a machina fonima power supply to the field generator. He turned on the field generator then the machina fronima power supply. He then turned on the lasers and set the field to compress. It took a few minutes and the result was a glowing metallic red cylinder. Turning off the lasers and fonima power supply, he made the fields slip the glowing cylinder into tube he made. Then he looked to the power plant he had made for Santos. It was small and tubular. Some wires were waiting to be connected to something. Now was the real test. He still had the comm unit and he had a nasty plan/revenge in mind for the military. They had turned a child into a killing machine and that was unforgivable. He set up a small unit and screen and connected the electric/fronima power supply had had just created to it. Then he connected the comm unit to the computer and waltzed through the firewalls and computer defences in the military base, without making a whisper. He dowloaded every single file out of the base and then left behind a very nasty virus in the system. it would delete the entire file system, and make it look like a crash, in the process. then he destroyed the comm unit.<span style='color:red'> No evidence that i could get in now.</span> Then he looked through the files on Santos. He needed them to install the power plant. Thamier frowned. Now his new friend wouldn't have to worry about a power supply. But the blood thing might get to be problomatic. The power plant might be able to make up for that, but he didn't understand enough of Santos's vampric ability yet. Now he smiled as he new that he had just helped out his friend and defied physics at the same time. With that final though he pulled out the beacon he was given and flicked the switch. <span style='color:red'>I hope he hasn't hurt himself</span>
X-7 had quickly found some Military units hanging around a central plaza. He changed from his hologram projector to his cloaking device at the exact same time, as to make it look as if the child had disappeared. He then spread his arms wide, and two cruel looking curved blades flipped out from his forearms to rest on top of his wrists. He quickly slit the throat of one soldier who was lazing around looking at a woman by a shop front. His companions eyes went wide as he fell to the ground, choking on his own blood. They raised their array of Lasers, Machineguns, and various other lethal weaponry and flipped down their combat visors. <span style='color:yellow'>There he is! Fire!</span> shouted one of the first to flip down his visor, and X-7 quickly uncloaked, knowing it would be useless. He activated his plasma shield and let it soak up the fire as he got closer to his enemies. The first three went down easy, he decapitated the first one with one blow, and the others went almost as fast. The fourth was incinerated where he stood by a blast of fire from X-7's flamethrower and the last unit fell to the ground, his face mask black and his uniform charred. X-7 yanked him to his feet, and asked in a venomous voice:<span style='color:blue'>Where is your commander?</span> The guard just stared at him with his mouth open, and his eyes darted to his submachinegun that lay on the ground nearby. X-7 snorted and let him have a full blast of his flamethrower and the guards body, half of it in ashes, Fell to the plaza, among his fallen comrades. X-7 glanced around the plaza and noticed that the crowds had dissapated. He noticed the screen on his arm was flashing red and his computer gave him the location. He walked into the warehouse to see a piece of machinery sitting on a table. <span style='color:blue'>Is that the power source?</span> He asked and started walking towards it...
<span style='color:red'>Careful! that took me quite a bit to build. Yes, that is your power source. Also while you were gone, i took the liberty of "visiting" the computer system at the military base you escaped from and picked up their files. The ones i have looked through are mostly the ones for you schematics. i needed them to install the power source. But you might find it interesting they also have a list of where they have military units place through out this continent. The commander here is in the western edge of the city in a small military compound. But we can deal with them later. I need you to sit down on this stool.</span> Thamier pointed at a stool by the table.
X-7 immediately sat down on the stool and straightened his back. <span style='color:blue'>I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but this is all I need from you, I already killed my fair share of military units today, and I need to find a place to hide. You will always have my trust though, and even though I have to leave you company, I'll leave you with that device, if you ever need me....</span> He trailed off, seeing Thamier got the point. He gave his computer side a few instructions and every compartment he had opened up, so that Thamier could have easier access to everything...
Thamier picked up the power source and moved over to Santos. He picked up some wires and connected them. He then inserted the generator into the compartment he had chosen. <span style='color:red'>There. Try not to get this thing damaged. i don't know what the effects will be if all the energy is released. it could just dissapate or it might nuke the continent. So be careful.</span> With that, Thamier had finished his work. <span style='color:red'>You can close your "doors" now. Maybe we will see each other again and if you ever want something, just find me. i can get just about anything in this place.</span>
<span style='width:100%;font-weight:bold; font-size:10px'>Out of Character</span> <table class=ooc><tr><td>Lol you can stop calling him santos when theres nobody else around :P </td></tr></table> <span style='color:blue'>Thank you, if I ever need your robotics expertise again I'll know where to find you. Keep that device!</span> he got up closed his compartments, and walked back out into the streets. He headed out of the city, and started looking for a new beginning...
