Catching the bread Aboren broke it in half "I suppose we could spend some time in your lab but we have to make our way to the outer walls as soon as we can, A small detour as an apology for almost hurting your friend is fine but we cannot stay for too long".
Turning back to Shiriku, Aboren held out his clawed hand to help him up while taking a bite out of his own half of the bread and spoke with his mouth full "Youv Fhink you're reavy to get mofhing?"

"Yes" Shiriku disregarded the girls comment and too Aborens hand, the headache was getting worse *thump* he stood up, stretched and took his bread, he turned back to the girl "Thank you, what's your name? If you don't mind my asking" Shiriku began to eat his bread, it tasted a little mouldy, although he had worse. Now that his pills were gone he was afraid of what was going to happen, he still couldn't hear the geist, although this time it wasn't because it was muffled it was because it wasn't talking, as he waited for everyone to start moving he pondered what could happen, he could go crazy and attempt to kill his only friend-like thing or it could get rid of the geist *thump thump* who knew?

"Outer walls? hmm"As the group continued to walk Fox turned her attention to the walls surrounding this part of the underlayer "So that's why this place seemed smaller than it should be...but how would you get through and why do you want to? That place is probably worse than in here at least we know we get supplies dropped here. Don't worry about grey he's tough, I think.. The names Fox by the way" Eventually the group made there way to the fence and awkwardly shuffled under one at a time carefully trying to avoid the barbed wire. As it's the abandoned factories only form of defence Fox kept it as is for now despite how inconvenient it may be. As Fox pushed open the factory doors she pressed a large nearby button and light flooded the room. Eagerly she made her way to one of the machines excited about being able to continue her work, assuming the parts she bought were in good condition that is." make yourselves at home" With a relieved sigh she pulled out a wrench and began her work on repairing these machines and building her very own lab. Grey pulled Shirikus sleeve urging the two of them to follow so he could show them to their room in the basement of the factory where they were to sleep when they saw fit.

Leaving Shiriku to be taken away by Grey, Aboren walked back outside and sat against the outer wall of the building while taking out his mask and looking at it. "This entire experience hasn't been as bad as i had thought it would be" The eyes of the mask began to glow a light green as a mouth appeared on it "We wi-wi-will see the ma-master again soon?" Placing the mask on his knee Aboren looked up towards tohe ceiling of the prison "We will get Romero to finish you as soon as we see him again, I apologize for not asking him before, It slipped my mind" the eyes of the mask dimmed then lit up again "D-Do not understand sli-slipped mind, P-please explain" Aboren placed his clawed hand over the mask "You wont need me to explain once Romero finishes what my father started, Revert to basic function" Upon removing his hand from the mask the mouth was gone and the lights in the eyes had gone out "I wont forget next time either"

Shiriku followed Grey to his room, it was small, dark and damp, the only light source was a candle on a crate "Thank you very much" he said with a smile and he watched Grey leave. "Finally alone" He took off his cloak and his shirt, revealing a scared body, Shiruku took a look at his arms and saw black veins that began to spread towards his shoulder. Just then a shadow leaked from Shiruku's body and was standing adjacent to him "You know you'll be lost soon, right? You'll be nothing but an empty shell, and when you are, I'll take the shell and become it, become you, then I'll kill everyone you've ever cared for, you even made it easier by getting your parents for me" Shiriku fell to the ground, although he couldn't see it's face he knew it was smiling, it had found a way into his head and it now knows everything he does. After a while Shiriku stood back up and the shadow was gone, he took his shirt and cloak and put it back on 'I have to leave' he thought to himself, but then he remembered that he promised Aboren he'd help him and he wasn't going to abandon his friend, so he just decided to sleep.
After a couple of hours Shiriku awoke and felt different, is felt like a heart beat, but in his face, he took a look in a puddle that was in the room and he could make it out, the black veins had spread to his face and one of his eyes were red. He exhaled loudly and just sat on the cold wet ground he then pulled a piece of his cloak to cover the bottom half of his face he could cover the veins but not the eye, he wasn't sure what he'd tell anyone if they noticed. He just sat there for a couple of minutes before he got up and went back upstairs, on his way he passed something that showed his reflection, he looked in it and gave out a sigh of relief "I still look good he said out loud before going up the last two steps.

Sitting against the wall of his cell Haragan kept his eyes towards the door, There was no reason for it but there was nothing entertaining in his room that he could do either way so he would stare at the door and think. 14 years tomorrow i think it is, Oh how time flys when you have nothing to fucking do. He began to repeatedly tap his fingers against the ground but stopped when he looked at his hands to see they were rather wasted away and weak looking. Being starved of power starved his entire body, not just his spirit. "Its a good thing they have me in here....Because when i get out im going to fucking kill everything i see as punishment for this"

Two weeks pass by. Not much exploring was done by fox she rarely left the lab and sent either shiriku or abboren out on quick errands for her if she needed some parts or to grab some food. Fox had grey take items from people and bring them to her so she could repair them in exchange for Pandorican gold or other items that could be used to barter with. As for the other two they seemed to also bring in their own income. Fox didn't know nor care as to how. Although fox didn't speak much to the others she had grown accustomed to having the other two around. The lab was coming together nicely, with help from the newcomers and grey, and at a great pace. Fox had even started working on some of her own side projects during her restless nights of non stop work very little room was made for sleeping.

"phew" With a huge exasperated sigh of relief fox sits back on the floor using her sleeve to wipe the sweat from her brow. "With these upgrades I should get mysts and fawgs weapon systems finally functioning." Fox often spoke out loud to herself when she worked she felt it helped her focus and leave her mind open to other thoughts. She beckoned over her robots and implanted the weapon systems upgrade into a slot in the back of their chrome heads. "Now lets go see what you two can do." Excitedly Fox rushed out to the backyard and set up some unopened cans ,probably belonging to Aborren or Shiriku, onto a small wall of bricks. "ok Myst lock onto the can to the far right and snipe it down!" Mysts eyes began to glow a brighter shade of blue, it opened its mouth and with a sudden burst fired out a mini rocket which caused the entire brick wall to explode. Debris rained from the sky.
"uhuh...well not exactly what I had in mind but...progress at least. Welp back to the drawing board I guess"

Shiriku was sitting in his room with his hood up, horrible things ran through his mind, memories of his past and thoughts of killing his new found friends, even though he hated the idea he couldn't help but smile, as the geist grew stronger he was losing more and more of his sanity. Shiriku checked his coin purse and realized it was empty, he smirked "I guess it's time to get some more". After walking around outside for about an hour he found someone in an ally-way, asleep, shiriku crept up on him and sliced his throat, Shiriku watched as the blood trickled from his throat to the ground, he liked the sight of it and how it glimmered in the light of the moon, he searched the man's carcass but he didn't have any money, shiriku knew that before he even killed him, he was in an ally after all, but he didn't care. Shiriku soon found someone who was more than happy to part with their gold rather than their head and he returned to the lab.
Shiriku sat in his room for a long time, he wasn't sure how long, he just knew that it was more than a day. He was afraid to go outside, he was afraid of what 'he'd' do to other people, sitting there he began to see things, spectre's of his past, he could hear people laughing and his mothers voice, it made him happy and feel at ease, then he heard the door slam and saw his father stumble in, he then awoke to the sound of an explosion from above, he went to see what it was. When he arrived out the back of the lab he saw debris lying on the floor and Fox and her robots there "That really is some robot you got there, where'd you get them?" While Shiruku was saying this he realized that this was the first time he had spoken to either of his companions since he arrived here and it felt good just to say something, it was relief and for once in the past two weeks he didn't feel like killing someone.

Aboren had spent what time he had scouting the walls and finding the shortest route to them from where they were, He would repeat the process as many times as he could to make sure he could never get lost while doing it. As the days passed the corruption seemed to spread more, it had crossed his chest and was getting closer to his left arm "I dont know if this will work, If it will heal out when the corruption takes it but i have to try".
Aboren removed the gauntlet from his right arm that had been covered in protective runes and took out his mask "System on, Scan mode, I want you to scan all of these runes, no mess ups" He waved the mask over the gauntlet multiple times to make sure each rune was scanned perfectly "This is going to hurt".
Aboren tore the sleeve from his set of armor and put the mask onto his face "Projection mode, Present each rune categorized from position on gauntlet rotated 180 degrees" As he looked at his arm the mask projected one of the runes through the lenses in its eye sockets.
Aboren took a deep breath then used the claws of his right hand to carve the rune into his skin "GRrrraahhhhhhhh FUCK" He continued through the pain and blood loss carving each rune where it was supposed to be until he got to the back of his hand "Flip final rune to its original form, right side up" The rune appeared through his eyes the right way as he looked at the palm of his hand and took another deep breath "im gonna hate myself for this" He began carving the final rune into his hand deep enough to leave the rune scarred but shallow enough not to cut through any tendons.
By the time he stopped his vision was a little bit blurry, He poured water along the wounds and as they were all clean of blood they began to glow "I guess it was a success" He wrapped his entire arm and hand up with the last of the bandages that he had.
As he was about to rest from the ordeal he heard and explosion, Thinking his friends were in danger he grabbed his weapon and started running to the source of the noise, As he got to them and seen there was no danger he leaned over onto his weapon which caused his wounds to bleed through the bandages.

Fox stood there in silence mulling over what she could do to patch the upgrade, her arms folded. She was lost in her own thoughts. It was a few seconds before she even noticed shiriku was there and it took a moment for the question to register with her. Fox puffed her cheeks and fumed, she looked offended by his question. "Where did I get them? I created them both from scratch I'll have you know! I wouldn't simply go and get someone else's crap work nothing compares to what I make!" She continued to rant for another couple of minutes while she waved a spanner in his face flicking it back and forth tempted to just whack him on the head with it. "Don't bother me with your stupid questions again or the next thing to explode will b..." She paused abruptly as she saw Aboren lean over on his sword, with a look of disgust she turned around and hunched over. "uuhhhh I think im gunna be sick" Fox hated blood she couldn't stand it, even just the sight of the stuff could make her throw her guts up. "What the..*bleh*..hell happened to you" With some difficulty she managed to fight back her impulse to vomit as she spoke.

Looking at his arm he noticed the blood had started to seep through the bandages "Well, Nothing happened to me i guess, I did this myself in preparation for what im afraid is to come" Aboren picked up his weapon and started to head back to the room he left his gauntlet in before looking over his shoulder at shiriku "Would you make sure she is okay? Dont want her catching something before we leave".
He started to think over everything again, Making sure he remembered the fastest route, Wondering how long it would take to find Alicia, Wondering if Romero had ever told her about him since he knew nothing of her before seeing her picture.
He got back to his room and sat against the wall again, The blood loss had made him dizzy and very tired, He laid his weapon down beside him, closed his eyes and passed out.

Shiriku couldn't help but laugh when Fox was shouting at him, when he finally got hold of himself, after Aboren had left, he said "I'm sorry for offending you, you're quite skilled at what you do indeed, it packs quite a punch, as does your temper" Shiriku handed Fox a canteen of water, "Here, this should help, what are you down here for anyway?". Shiriku was interested in the stories behind his friends, although he had no intention of telling his own, it'd still be nice to hear someone elses story instead of replaying his over and over in his head.
After a while Shiriku went down to Aborens room to check on him, he saw that he was asleep, although it seemed a bit early to be sleeping, "Hey, you okay?" There was no reply, "Aboren, c'mon, it's too early to be sleeping" again, no reply, so Shiriku went up and shook him, but to no avail. Shiriku soon noticed the blood seeping through the cloth and ran back upstairs, "Fox!Fox! I think Aborens bleeding to death, quick, get something to stitch him up with!"

Fox snatched the canteen and gulped down the water which was then followed by a few deep breaths. "Blood, fucking disgusting.." She shuddered just at the thought of it before she turned her attention back to shiriku. "I'm down here because of the insecure pigs that make the rules and think they're superior because they got their little dinger dangars between their legs. Screw em. I wasn't meant to be here I should be in the wastelands!" Anyone would be able to see the anger start to flare in Foxes face as she recalled the reason for her exile. "Gyah who cares? What's done is done I don't plan on staying down here for long though...anyways I have more work to do excuse me."
Without waiting for a response fox impatiently walked past Shiriku so she could return back to work, eager to complete one of her half finished projects. A while later she was close to finishing her new gauntlet since the last one, a simple prototype, was damaged from punching Aborren in the face during their first encounter. All that needed to be done was weld the separate halves of the gauntlet together. Unfortunately for the other two Fox was wearing ear protectors and with the sound of the welder there was no way she could hear Shiriku as he called for help. Not that she was likely to have gone to their aid with blood involved.

Feeling the nudge Aborens eyes opened and glowed while his demonic arm grabbed Shiriku's head. Any struggling would only end up with shiriku's skull or spinal column being stabbed by his claws. His eyes fixated on where shiriku's would be, A voice spoke although aborens mouth did not move "2 inhabit one...No, One inhabits and one is but an invader, A leach. Leaches are easy to remove, You just have to...Squash them" His hand opened and shiriku was free'd but his eyes fell to his right arm and the runes that were carved into it. "Self preservation is a smart thing in this situation i guess" Tensing the muscles in his arm all of the runes became engulfed in flames, Burning over the wounds and scarring them into his skin. Aborens eyes stopped glowing and he began to freak out that the bandages he had put on his arm were now set aflame while trying to pull them off.