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Gabriel was thankful for the many safety features of her helmet. Not only did she have a kinetic energy transfer module installed to deal with severe physical impacts, but her double-layered visor was corrosion resistant, waterproof and it also had a special safety system that obstructed all sight in the event that an excess of light would leave her blind via colouring the front visor layer pitch black. It was useful in the event the spotlights used in her races were overpowered. Still, Gabriel had no idea that the gothic girl could do such a thing. Okay, she got the impression of light manipulation from the flashlights, but never to that degree. She also made a mental note to ask how photons could allow the telekinetic manipulation of a form of electromagnetic radiation that was in no way related to photons.

Another handy feature her helmet had was to unobstruct her sight the instant the excess light had vanished. By the time the light vanished, she just glimpsed the male taking the girl away around the corner. Seeing as he challenged her, this both offended and angered her.

"HEY!" she shouted as she took chase. "Get back here and face me like a true warrior, you spineless sewer-dwelling cripple!"

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After A.U.G.E.R shut the door, Ayase let out a breath that she had no idea she was holding at the time. A.U.G.E.R's surprise visit was news enough, but to mention that Team Silverose was needed again? She couldn't take much more. And he wanted Nicholas... but for what- okay, that's a stupid question. He wants the CHEsuit. God knows why he didn't ask about the model she had, but whatever. He needed to know about this. Quickly, she brought up her holoscreen and keyboard and began typing.

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"There we go. The model's finally rendered."

After at least an hour of non-stop work, Elsa Mayer had finally modeled what Nicholas had asked of the design of the new CHEsuit. Its body was spherical in shape and slightly larger than the gondola cockpits of the previous models. In the center of the cockpit was a large lens, with black lines coming from it and surrounding the white body like a web. Its arms appeared to be more organic and human arm muscle-esque in shape, with white armour covering a black 'skin', and the legs were basically the same. Its hands were rather different; instead of being humanoid, they were now shaped like five-pronged rounded claws like that of a crane game. At the end of each finger and in the palms was a blue dome of some description. All of which was proudly displayed as a 3D holographic image coming from her computer.

"Good on you. It looks marvellous; exactly what I asked. I've finished the equations," stated Nick as he stretched from his seat. "Now we have to test them. Fire up the VR, please."

Elsa smiled. Their hard work seemed to be paying off, finally. "Aye aye, captain!" she saluted before getting to work on her computer. Suddenly, completely out of nowhere, a video call request from Ayase appeared on his computer.

"Hold on a sec, Elsa," he told her before grumbling "Bloody hell, I told them specifically to leave me alone. I've got work to do..." He sighed. "Accept." On his command, an image of Ayase looking as cool and composed as ever appeared on the screen. "What is i-"

Ayase cut in. "Nick, A.U.G.E.R just visited me, asking for you."

That shut him up and got Elsa's attention. Two birds with one stone.

"Now that I've got your attention, I'll continue. A.U.G.E.R left moments ago, but he was asking about your CHEsuit. He was looking for you, actually."

"Goddamnit!" Nicholas silently cursed. "That was a good opportunity to get him! Thanks for telling me, though. What else is there?"

"He gave me his card. I'll send a holoimage for you to use." Ayase lifted the card up for Nicholas and Elsa to see. The scanner scanned the image of the card that was saved onto the computer's drive. "It has his contact details on it. I'm not sure if he was just an impostor, mind you, so keep your guard up."

"Thank you, Mrs Paranoid," Nicholas said, using the name that evoked a sigh from Ayase in tiredness of the repeated joke. "We'll contact you if anything goes wrong. Bye."

"Wait," Ayase intercepted quickly before he could cut the connection. "A.U.G.E.R said that you would be working on a super CHEsuit or something like that. It creeped me out too, but I just wanted to make sure; is that what you're doing?"

That shut Nicholas up for a few moments. A trickle of blood leaked out of his ear, probably as the result of his brain and ear having a war over what he had just heard. "How did he KNOW!?" he finally shouted. "This is supposed to be top secret!"

"I do not know. Ta-ta." And with that, Ayase cut the connection.

Nicholas growled. "Damn it, he's forced my hand. Elsa, get in contact with him! I'll save the files!"

Elsa looked at him in confusion as he saved the files and backed them up twice onto two different sources. "But-"

"NOW!"

Elsa let out an 'eep' in surprise before running back to her workstation, punching in a few keys and waiting a moment. If she was right, she would have made a vocal connection to A.U.G.E.R's headset. "Excuse me, is this A.U.G.E.R?"