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"So... As I was saying..." The company CEO explained, his hands moving about as if they helped add in the details of the situation. "We don't want the public to know anything about what's happened here. Your services and your partner's (should he get here), will be of the utmost secrecy and anything you see here won't leave this company. Do I make myself clear?" The small blue majin waved a hand as if brushing the man's concerns aside. She was already bored and had only heard this explanation over once... A few guys stole a gun...? When she was hired for this job, she was told this was a matter of national security and that sounded important... Now? Now that the full story same out she couldn't have been more disappointed. Where were the bad guys? Why did SHE have to go looking for them...? Were they even a threat to her...? Bah... this sounded like a job for the human's "poe-leece."
"Yeah, yeah..." She muttered, rolling her eyes. The man seemed somewhat shocked by her lack of sincerity, and even a little outraged. "I'm sorry, but I don't think you understand how important this matter is. We are dealing with a thief that could bring an end to our society as we know it with this weapon! If you cannot retrieve it, I fear humanity itself might be in grave danger." At that, a small amount of excitement grew across the little Majin's face but she said nothing, not until they arrived at the sealed doors to the lab. The CEO huffed at her silence before pulling out a small plastic card from his pocket, glancing at Liari one last time.
"The inside of the Lab is very... unorganized since the theft. Please be careful, watch your step and BE CAREFUL."
"Okay. Open it." The Majin commanded. She was SUPPOSED to have some kind of partner here, who she didn't know... The company was supposedly handling those details and rightly so. If she was lucky, she'd be left to do this herself WITHOUT the aid of some stranger she didn't know and WON'T get along with...
The man sighed, muttering something under his breath Liari didn't care to make out before he slid the card through the access port, the metal door sliding open...
… To reveal Celerous Fark, leaning up against a wall, eating a salad. A bastard sword in its sheathe was set against the wall, next to him. He looked over at Liari and his temporary boss, and quickly chewed his food and swallowed. Talk about embarrassing. He hadn’t expected them to show up for at least another ten minutes. But this was fine, he just had to play it cool.
“You know, there’s not much of a point to having a keycard when there’s a giant hole in the wall where your thieves escaped the building,” he blinked, looking at the man who had hired him.
He then turned to the blue Majin, and remembering her from the forest, and that day, he greeted her.
“Yo. What are you doing here?”
Stupid question, and he knew it the second after he had asked. Celerous had been told that he wouldn’t be working alone, and unless she was one of the thieves returning to the scene of the crime, there was no other reason for her to be here unless she was the partner he had been informed about.
Well at least he knew her. And maybe this time he wouldn’t accidentally blow her away while he unleashed his energy. Not that he expected to have to fight anyone today, anyways. It was a bit disappointing, to be honest. He had more than doubled his power since the day he had almost been eaten, but he hadn’t had a chance to really test his mettle.
But all he was doing today was taking part of an investigation. Oh well. At least he was getting paid.
WC: 274
Suppressed Power Level: 5
Last Edit: Aug 8, 2017 22:53:59 GMT -5 by Celerous
Liari blinked in surprise as she came face to face with that that guy, Celerous, from the forest that day... He seemed to be munching on a salad, a new weapon on his back, leaning up against a wall as if he had been waiting forever.... The disappointment on the Majin's face was clear though not for the apparent reasons. She was more disappointed that she wouldn't be doing this herself after all, that she had to work with this guy... As much as she approved of his power, seeing it on full display wasn't part of the description, only leaving her with the man.... And she didn't know him. At his question, The Majin looked him up and down, wondering if he was acting like this on purpose or if that forest was just a... perceptive day for him.
"Same reason you are." She spoke curtly before walking past, stepping over a small patch of broken glass. The place was in shambles... Most likely how Cele got in, there was a MASSIVE hole in the wall leading to the outside, various pieces of equipment thrown about and blood of red and... other colors dotting the floors and walls. Most notably, the pedestal on which the gun was supposed to rest was toppled over and broken in half, all evidence of a fight if ever there was some. That was the obvious bit. The CEO took a look around himself from the outside, his face turning a somewhat comical shade of green.
"Uh..." He gulped nervously. "The bodies of the deceased are in the hands of the Coroner downstairs in the lobby, along with everyone else on duty at the time... Feel free to talk with them once you're done here..." With that, he left rather quickly, no doubt to find the nearest trash can.
Liari rolled her eyes at his weakness of stomach, the Majin having memories of scenes that made this one look like hell's paradise in comparison. It certainly wasn't good, but it could be so much worse. She decided not to fiddle with the equipment lest she mess up the current evidence and miss something later, instead, looking over the destruction with an inquisitive eye.
"Whoever this was wasn't worried about making a mess..." Liari muttered, glancing at the hole in the wall, then at all the blood around the interior. "And they weren't worried about killing..."
"What do you see?" She asked her partner, not glancing up from her own observations. "Anything... in-ter-est-ing?" Bah... this language... it was so... complicated...
As their boss made a quick exit, Celerous thrust his empty salad container into the man's arms. He expected a protest, after all the man was the CEO and not the janitor, but he just took it and raced out. Celerous blinked. What was he in such a hurry for? He shook his head, deciding he could focus on that later, and adjusted the shoulder strap around his chest. Now that the man was gone, Celerous no longer felt the need to suppress his power level, and simply stopped.
He heard Liari pose a question to him, and Celerous took a second to look around the thrashed laboratory. No doubt these guys weren't professional, there was far too much evidence left behind to suggest otherwise.
"Let me think," Celerous said slowly, taking note of the glass shattered on the tile floor, "first off, we have glass inside the building. That means the window..."
Celerous looked straight up to see a broken skylight, with four separate panes above him. Two of the panes of glass were missing, shattered, and he could see shards of glass sticking out from the edge of the metal borders themselves.
"...was obviously broken from the outside. So that's how they got in. Meaning, that the hole was their point of exit, rather than the point of entry."
He scanned the broken and toppled pedestal, and noted the blood present. Then he looked to the spots of blood on the machinery and walls.
"Our thieves clearly aren't professional killers. Aside from the clear evidence of the struggle itself, the sheer amount of blood implies that our dead guards gave nearly as much as they took. Whoever did this took a good beating for their trouble."
He looked over at Liari, "What about you? See anything I'm missing?"
Liari paused a moment as Celerous' power spiked, reaching a new height she didn't expect! He had MASSIVELY increased his power in the short time between then and now and the Majin couldn't believe it... She made a note to track him down and fight him after this... This was a power she NEEDED to test her mettle against. The man responded with very astute observations of the crime scene fromt he glass, to the hole in the wall to even the blood splashed across the ground, noting that the criminals weren't trained thieves or combatants for that matter. That certainly looked to be the case... Guards were hardly worthy opponents so whoever could even encounter heavy resistance from them was weak and unskilled. However, after she gave the room a second once-over, she noticed that much of the property was broken. Well... no shite, sherlock, but there was more to the breakage than simple breakage... To someone who looked VERY closely, they would notice a lot of lab equipment was cut smoothly, sometimes in half, sometimes half-way through but beakers and chair-legs and sometimes chairs period were cut smoothly in half, their insides scorched...
"Well... there is one thing..." Liari responded, kneeling down and picking up a nice example of such, a flask with it's neck severed, the glass still bubbling where it was cut. She ran an inquisitive eye over it before she tossed the flask over to her partner lightly, slow enough that he'd surely be able to catch it. "If you look at the neck, you'll see that it's been cut clean through by something sharp and hot... I think it's a "sw-ord" of some kind... an energy-blade perhaps. If you look at some of these stools or tables, you can see similar marks across their faces and legs... I think I know security doesn't use edged weapons so... perhaps a weapon....?" She shrugged her shoulders before getting to her feet and making her way back to the door from which she came. "The 'See-Eee-Oh' said that there was a guy downstairs that had the bodies of both guards and the thieves... I think we should pay him a..." Liari stopped, frustrated the word wouldn't come to him. "Bah... We should go see him. There may be more clues on their corpses..."
Should Celerous agree, Liari would nod at him as they made their way back, showing the respect she was starting to feel for him. The guy wasn't half as dense as he first appeared... In fact, he was rather perceptive and full of wit... This she could get behind and so long as he remained this way, they would have no problems.
Celerous deftly caught the flask that was thrown at him. He spent a second inspecting it, very surprised to see that the glass was still hot. Ignoring that for the moment, he squinted at the cut of the glass. He wasn't about to run his finger on the edge to test it, but it looked quite smooth. Impossibly smooth for something as uneven as a physical blade to cut. Celerous doubted these crooks were skilled in Ki usage, and that conjecture was backed up by the blood splattering the floor. But on the other hand, if it was some sort of micro laser or some other kind of expensive technology, then what would they need to steal the weapon for?
"This definitely wasn't cut by a normal sword. I know mine can't make cuts this smooth in glass. That means we're looking at Ki or some kind of laser, and I can't realistically see our crooks with either. A laser would be expensive, and I doubt they'd resort to stealing if they had that kind of money. Not to mention, the glass in the window was shattered not finely cut. Our thugs clearly aren't Ki users either. They would have had a much easier time dispatching the guards if that were the case. Which leaves me with only one theory; this vial, and any other things like it, must have been cut with something that was already in the laboratory. That means that our dead guards could have done it, but they wouldn't have the time to make such a finesse cut during a struggle. Not to mention, there'd be no reason to. It's still possible that our thugs did it after the fight, but that still wouldn't make sense. As injured as they probably were, staying to do this would just be plain dumb. So how did this happen..."
Liari mentioned visiting the coroner, and Celerous nodded.
"Yeah, let's check out the bodies."
The lobby, as the CEO said, was just down stairs. A myriad of people, from guards to lab rats, were waiting for them at the bottom of the steps. Some were fiddling their thumbs, while others were pacing nervously. With just a glance, Celerous couldn't pick out anyone who seemed any more suspicious than anyone else in the room. So, instead, he made a beeline for the dead bodies laid out in the corner of the room. A plastic sheet covered them from their toes to just below their collarbone, and Celerous wondered why they weren't complete covered.
Questions for later.
There were five in total, two of them looked to have been security guards, and the other three were cleary thugs. All their faces were cut and battered, and if he didn't know before, Celerous now knew whose blood was splattered along the laboratory.
Someone walked up behind him, but he wasn't sure who. Maybe it was Liari.
WC: 484
TWC: 1059 (We're definitely over the required word count, so I'm gonna stop totaling it up.)
As Liari and Celeorus made their way downstairs, the majin thought about her partner's follow-up analysis. Judging by the available evidence, he wasn't wrong. The thieves here were NOT professionals in any sense of the word so there was no reason to believe they had any kind of technology that would give them this clean a cut. He also made the point hat due to the lack of precision or tact here, there was no reason to believe they were ki-users such as they either seeing as they had a LOT of difficulty finishing off the guards. Celerous suggested that MAYBE it was the guards that had a kind of weapon that could cut through things like this but she wasn't so sure... She saw them have batons and knives on their belts but NOTHING that could do this kind of damage... Was it possible that their was some kind of 3rd party involved here...?
The two of them made their way into the lobby, the Majin looking over everyone inside with an inquisitive eye. It seemed that this little place took in weird people from all walks of life. There were humans, some kind of bibedal cat/dog creatures even majins like herself which left her staring in shock if only for a little while. Everyone looked shaken and scared, no one giving away any indication that they were any different from anyone else... This made their job harder because now they actually had to start looking... Celerous went right to the coroner's office while Liari lingered in the foyer where everyone was, walking up to one of the Majin security guards. Much like the majority of the males of her race, the poor being was unpleasantly fat and very tall, towering over 7 to 8 feet. The guy was a light shade of green under his blue security uniform with a pretty golden badge on his chest, it being... larger and more... complicated that others she's seen. Did this indicate a higher rank?
"Hey... uh... you." Liari called to him, grabbing his attention. The majin stared down at his brethren, his face twisted in confusion.
As Liari questioned the guard, a figure crept up behind Celerous. Well... not really crept, more like limped. It's body jerked and spasmed as if fighting something, it's movements odd and erratic... something dripped from it's stomach, a dark fluid who's color was obscured by it's shadow though the salty, watery smell would most certainly give it away...
The Majin got nothing out of the guard that she didn't already know... good for her... She figured she might as well head over to the coroner's office and see what Celerous had cooked up... Maybe he had better luck than she... When she stepped into the office, however, her eyes widened in shock, seeing the figure standing behind her partner, a blade in it's hand... it glowed with some kind of... aura...? The majin's arm quickly shot out, extending almost like rubber, wrapping around the figure's arm, preventing it from coming down. Her other arm then shot out as well, wrapping around the figure's neck before slamming him into the floor if a bit noisily, putting down any resistance the figure would attempt before it even started. It's chest rose up and down, it's breath shallow. As Liari got a better look, she saw the guy was in some kind of combat armor, his face obscured by his visor. He wore a heavy suit though his stomach seemed to have been cut right through, a dark green-ish blood pooling out and over from within and the strangest thing was... the area around the cut was seared black and brown... almost as if it was cut with an energy blade not unlike his own. He looked NOTHING like the thugs on the table Celerous was examining, indicating that he belonged to some other faction...
"Celerous..." She spoke firmly, whether he noticed his attacker or not. "Is there any kind of bandages around...? We need something to keep this guy alive until he can answer our questions." If he did what she asked, Liari would take her arm from around the guy's neck, instead swiping his knife from his hand, leaving him on the floor with her other arm snaking around his body almost like a snake, pining his arms to his sides. The blade was akin to the Earth Combat-knife in many ways but there was a button where the handgrip was... pushing it experimentally, the knife glowed with a light blue light, energy humming softly, but easily audible in the silence of the Coroner's office.
"Looks like we got our steal-er!" Liari spoke in a sing-song tone, smiling at the barely-conscious man if a bit darkly. "Now he will take us to his buddies..."
Whoever was behind him, it certainly wasn't Liari. As far as Celerous knew, the Majin didn't have some sort of humming weapon. She also wasn't audibly dripping blood onto the floor behind him. He pretended to be occupied, waiting for the person behind him to strike. They never got the chance, because the next thing Celerous knew, there was a sound akin to the stretching of rubber, and then a thud and clang as the would be assassin was slammed to the floor by Liari.
"Well," Celerous said glumly, "so much for me catching him off guard."
His blood caked foe was barely conscious, and the force of Liari's attack had only worsened his wound. He was quickly bleeding out onto the floor. Celerous vaguely heard Liari ask him something about bandages, and Celerous immediately pulled his undershirt off and out from under his weighted gi jacket. He ripped it in half, and tightly bound his enemies abdominal wound. The blood almost immediately began to bleed through. If they didn't do something quick, the man would die, and they'd lose their best chance of catching the guys who robbed the lab, and killed the guards. But Celerous didn't see a first aid kit; not that a normal first aid kit was even meant for treating giant wounds to the chest. They needed an ambulance, but that wouldn't arrive quickly. Flying the man to the emergency room himself was out too, the man was far to injured to be able to be moved in a rapid fashion.
Celerous felt sweat drip down him temple. What could they do? This man wasn't gonna last another minute. It's not like he could regenerate like Celerous's Majin partner.
Wait. Majin...
"Liari! Absorb him, now!"
Celerous turned to her, his face more serious than it had ever been. If his books back on the farm had an inkling of truth to them, then Liari might be able to retain a couple of the man's memories. Maybe enough to give them a lead. It was a long shot, but they were out of time.
Liari blinked, surprised by Celerous' demand. Absorb him...? Why didn't she think of that...? Forget the bandage around his waste and him dying. He'd live on in her. The Majin's arm quickly shifted and mutated into a more fluid like substance, washing over the soldier from where she held him on the floor. She could feel his pulse begin to weaken as her flesh tightened around him a signal that she should speed up this process before they lose their most promising lead! Speeding up the process, Liari had completely enveloped the man in seconds, her arm shrinking as the man was devoured into her body. She retracted her limb as she felt this new entity enter her mind, her personality warping in only the very slightest of ways as a result. This man was dying... the last ounces of his essence fading.... There was very little in him left to interfere with Liari's state. There was, however... memories... Those played behind her eyes almost like they would on a screen, the images disjointed... scattered... but this was what she saw:
______________________________________________________________________________________ The man ripped the laser from the hands of a man in a suit and fedora, his blade buried in the guy's chest. He looked up and Liari saw corpses all over the room of suited men, some in glasses, others not, clearly not police or any kind of registered company official... The first thieves...? They had guns lying about near their hands where they lay, apparently their choice weapons. The man through whom she watched tossed the laser to another soldier milling about the combat zone before raising his hand to the side of his helmet... apparently a com system....
"Package secure... proceeding to rendezvous." The man's voice whispered into the com.
"Excellent but your current route has been compromised. Proceed to these coordinates and stay put. Command out." Numbers flashed across the man's visor and Liari did her best to memorize each one but they were going by so fast she wasn't sure she got them all... Then suddenly... the memories were gone... it was all she could extract in the time she had... _______________________________________________________________________________________
Liari blinked, coming back to reality before turning to her partner, her expression somewhat... disheartened...? No... guilty...? Something was bothering her post absorption... Something she neglected to tell. She read off the coordinates to Celerous, hoping he could make sense of them...
"Numbers... Letters... Co-or-din-ates." She whispered soon after she finished. "His squad... Where did they go?"
Liara rattled off coordinates to Celerous, which meant almost nothing to the hybrid. At the most, they told him that their crooks had headed South and a bit East, but he had no idea how far South or East. He'd been raised fighting and farming, he wasn't a damn compass. Still, the hole in the wall had been in the Southeast of the laboratory complex, which did give them a direction to search from the exit point. It wasn't much, in fact, Celerous would say it was almost nothing at all, but it was more than they had a minute ago.
"Those coordinates are definitely in the Southeast, but I couldn't tell you where. They could be pretty much anywhere in the direction of the hole they made in the wall. Which means we have the entirety of the Southeast of the city to search."
Celerous gave a half-shrug. He was sure Liari had expected him to do something more with the coordinates, but a solid ninety percent of people on Earth didn't have a GPS in their heads. And Celerous, a man who wandered the wilderness and relied on energy signatures to find nearby settlements, certainly didn't have one on him.
He started to wonder if maybe he should get one, just for the practicality of it.
"If you want to, we could go back to the lab, and start searching the city in the direction of their escape route. Otherwise, we're shit out of luck."
He waited for Liari to make a decision.
Last Edit: Aug 16, 2017 17:15:45 GMT -5 by Celerous
Liari huffed in frustration as Celerous admitted that he knew very little about the coordinates, leading her to have just a little more disdain for these earth-people than before. Bah! How could these guys hope to expand if they couldn't even know their own units of measurement!? She had to do EVERYTHING! She rolled her eyes before her chest suddenly expanded, the soldier's armor suddenly starting to manifest over her own, sprouting from her skin as if it were made of it. All the gadgets inside roared to life, the carapace and arm-pieces being the only bits Liari bothered to salvage at the moment.
"I guess I'll HAVE to figure out this armor then..." She grumbled, holding up her newly armored wrist for her to examine. "Maybe IT can tell me where those numbers lead..." There was this little pad on the forearm with some kind of cross reaching end to end with the middle in the center. Various ticks ran up these lines at regular intervals, substitutions for units of measurements... she remembered this now... most likely thanks to the soldier inside her. Liari, much like the child she acted like, started fiddling with the buttons and dials until her callow fiddling manifested a screen that said "Input Coordinates." Her face lit up brightly, quite pleased with herself, glancing over at Celerous with a smug look that was SUPPOSED to be annoying.
'Well looky here!" She exclaimed before typing in the coordinates on the keypad provided, her face glowing in wonder as a map suddenly appeared on the screen, showing her exactly what direction, how long it would take to get there at certain speeds and where their destination was: "South-East Omega-Warehouses".
"I know where they aaaaare!" She giggled in a sing-song voice remanicent of a little girl before she quickly dashed outside, hopefully with Celerous in tow. She turned to her partner as her aura flared up around her, that self-satisfied smirk still on her lips.
"Lets go!" She stated before blasting up into the sky, then in the direction her map indicated. At their current speed it would only take a couple minutes to get there...
The warehouses were quite obviously in ruin and abandoned (go figure) and were placed on a very small island south east of south city. Legitimately, there was little land between surrounding the warehouse and what was was surrounded by docks, all of which were empty... Liari gently lowered herself onto the sandy beach, her newly-acquired armor sinking back into her flesh and disappearing.
"Well... this is it..." She murmured quietly, somewhat creeped out by the abandoned building... It was her immaturity flaunting itself again.... Her callowness... She was just disturbed about what could be lurking inside such a large and... dark building... Liari never liked the dark... She never liked space, what she could remember of it... She hated staring up into the blackness of night as she fell asleep... it felt like she was disappearing with all that she could see... like her sister did...
Celerous raised an eyebrow at Liari's huff of annoyance, and the tone she used when she complained about "figuring [that] armor out." He didn't say anything, as Celerous didn't see much of a point in arguing when they had a job to do, but he almost wanted to remind her who actually did most of the investigating. Spoiler, it was him. Then, of course, Liari had to throw him a cocky little smile, at which he raised his brow even more, and he had to actually bite his tongue between his teeth to keep from defending himself. It was probably better that he did; with all the people in the room, they'd look like poor investigators if they couldn't keep it together under duress.
Or something like that. In reality, Celerous didn't want to end up in a brawl with the Majin in the middle of the city.
Liari mentioned something about a warehouse, the area of the globe that the coordinates had to be in, and then was suddenly rocketing out of the room. He jogged after her, and once they were outside, took to the air with her. He let her rocket forward, while he matched her pace with little effort. Celerous said nothing during the short flight, instead preferring to marvel at how their current speed, which once would have been as fast as he could fly, felt almost leisurely.
The second they touched down at the (obviously) abandoned warehouses, however, Celerous's eyebrows snapped together. He didn't have to see through the heavy metal door to know that there were people about. Three, no four, of them to be precise. They weren't strong, in fact, Celerous was sure that Liari could handle all of them, simultaneously, with little to no effort. If he noticed that the Majin seemed a little quieter now that they'd touched down, he didn't mention it.
Instead he just raised two hands at the metal shop doors.
"Flash Flare," his words were loud, probably alerting their thieves, but at this point he didn't care.
A red ball of Ki swirled in front of his hands, before being fire as a large energy wave that tore the door right off of the wall, and warped the metal as it clattered to the ground in the middle of the warehouse.
"So, you wanna take this one? Because I can, but it'd probably be better training for you. Kinda."
Liari rolled her eyes as the man decided to do the worst thing he could do and announce their presence two different ways: One, with blasting down the door, and two by giving his little energy-ball attack a little name... Loudly.
"Do you always yell your attack's pet-names or was this one special?" Liari questioned sarcastically, letting out a sigh. She wasn't the kind of person to announce her attacks to the world, not like this guy just had with his destruction of the warehouse entrance. No doubt he wanted to seem "cold" in the eyes of the seemingly younger majin... or was it cool...? Steam hissed out of the holes on her arms expressing her frustration as she suppressed her power level just in case. Thanks to the efforts of Celerous, no doubt the inhabitants of this place knew exactly where they were though maybe this was his intention all along. Not even paying attention to his statement that maybe she should go first, training and what not, the Majin stepped into the building quickly, her muscles tensed in anger, the burning emotion blocking out all others, including her fear.
Sensing about the building, she could find no other powers worth even mentioning, nothing that would even equate to a normal hu-man being. As far as she knew, this place was deserted and no doubt would feel the same to Celerous. Unsurprisingly, the interior of the warehouse was as bare and empty as the outside, with only a few metal pillars holding up the ceiling between them and the other side. It seemed the owners of this place took all the cargo from this place when the left, including the shelves on which they were stored. Liari didn't notice it before, but there in the back of the warehouse obscured by darkness, on a pedestal not unlike that found in the business building was the laser they were searching for... And behind it stood a man in a clean black suit, a darker smile on his face. His hair was spiked up and he appeared human enough but the Majin could feel no energy from him. It was as if he wasn't even there...
Only when they drew closer did the man begin to speak, his voice strange as if coming from one of those machines that LOOKED human... Liari didn't know the word for them that the humans used... Something like -man-doid- or something...
"Congratulations on finding our location..." The being spoke, his mouth not moving in the slightest. In fact, the only thing that moved was his body's natural sway as he stood, the way most beings did... almost imperceptible. "Unfortunately, you are too late, but I'm hardly surprised... It was fun watching you squirm and writhe, and only found my location after your majin-pet absorbed one of my soldiers..." The voice sounded familiar... almost like the CEO who hired them but Liari was too outraged to notice.
"PET!?" She growled, taking a step forward. The being's laugh reverberated across the room.
"Now now... relax... you have earned a prize, after all... A... consolation for your involvement..." It gestured to the laser before it. "We have no more need of this weapon... It surprising how fast you can reverse-engineer and redraw blueprints of something so complicated... You may return it to your the lab... The lead scientist will reward you handsomely I understand..." Then... before anything more could be said... it just... blinked out of existence... gone. By now, large trails of steam were blasting out Liari's arms, her teeth gritted into a snarl.
"Just want to flaunt the difference between your techniques, and mine," Celerous said with a humorous wink, "no, but seriously, it used to help me focus my energy when I was young. Don't need to say it anymore, obviously, but I guess it's just a habit I can't shake. Now stop blowing steam and get inside."
As Celerous trailed into the building behind Liari, he was surprised to find that the four Ki signatures he had felt just moments before, were suddenly gone. Not as in, dead, but gone as if they had never existed in the first place. Celerous shook his head. He had to stop eating all those spicy city tacos before bed. Clearly they were just as mind addling as alcohol. While the warehouse lacked any actual bodies, he did spot what was clearly a fucking robot.
It stood and prattled on about its evil plans, and how it didn't need the weapon they stole anymore, and blah dee fucking dah. Celerous didn't really care about that, although he did growl a little when it called Liari a pet, as he was busy trying to place the voice. He'd heard it for sure, and recently too. He just couldn't put a face to it- Holy shit it was the CEO!
"What is this crime drama bullshit?" Celerous muttered to himself, while shaking his head.
He held a hand out to blast the stupid thing into oblivion, but before he could, he got a face full of steam that completely blocked his vision. It was warm, and smelled kinda sweet, but Celerous was pretty sure that steam was the Majin version of excrement. So he shouted in disgust and jumped away, to find that the robo-dude had vanished.
And so he was stuck with a piping hot Majin. Both literally and figuratively. Well, at least he could knock her out and drag her back, if he had to.
"Throwing a tantrum won't do anything now, Liari. Let's just grab the weapon and go back. We can figure things out from there."
Liari was seriously tempted to blast this whole place into oblivion, this temptation only fueled by her rage. Celerous' statement pulled her out of it, however, and with a large huff, her arms extended out like lassos, wrapping around the laser and pulling it to her chest. The thing was large, about as large as she, but it wasn't really anything heavy... Without even waiting for the man's further remarks, the Majin stormed out of the Warehouse and shot off into the sky, flying back in the direction of the building that hired them in the first place...
The job turn-in went off without a hitch, the two of them got paid (like she would have use or knowledge of money), and she simply left without another word, her mind still boiling with anger. That bug called her "pet".... grrrrr...... It was taking all she could not to just envelop herself in a thick white cloud of steam, holding herself back just enough so that her steps didn't crack the pavement beneath her or that she didn't unleash an ear-burstingly high-pitched wail of steam. She had only ever really been this angry once before, so mad that it made her vision nearly go red.
"I'm going to kill him..." The majin growled under her breath, her hands curled into fists. "I'm gonna kill him..."
EXIT (finally... o.o)
Claiming my 1000 PL and 800 ryo
(maybe something extra for going the extra mile on these posts...? QwQ)
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