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A arrived on Venus. "To the police station..." he said under his breath.
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AUGER made his way to the police station on Venus. "Hello," he said to the woman at the front desk, "May I please speak with your commanding officer?"
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Of the information that was known (or lack of) it seemed that either it was their job to break in, or try the front door. Which ever works. White it was silent, the girl fiddled around with her shiny new communicator. She breafly wondered if there were games on it...but checked the map first if there was a need for knowing the surrounding buildings.
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"I guess it just depends on how you want to get in Sacura. "
Of course, Althya thought, they were supposed to destroy the base right? Or was it to destroy Humans First? Both were very different things and required very different strategies. And what about Ash? His last personal mission before disappearing was the same as the one they currently had. Could it be possible that he was captured and kept in the base? Oh, she was never to good with these things.
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AUGER stood up straighter. "I was just hoping to ask Miss Matsunara a few questions. I don't mean to intrude, but it is an urgent matter I need to discuss with her in person. As a result I had no time to schedule an appointment, but it won't take more than a minute." He adjusted the cuff of his sleeve, as he had not yet had time to remove his REAP business suit.
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So now his job description was to start a brawl. Well, this seemed like it was going to be easy, especially considering that they are on Omic, the scumbag pit of the galaxy. The only thing that he really had to be cautious about would be his other... associates showig up if it was reported that he was here. So the sooner they could start the fight the better his chances.
As the girl came within talking distance she took a defensive stance, as if she expected him to punch her out just for beeing there.
"Who are you?" She demanded
Laryn smirked and walked a little closer to her and responded, dripping with sarcasm. "Tourists. Could you please help us? We're lost."
Now there were two things wrong with Laryn's statement that he hoped would make her suspicious enough to try to bring them in for info or something. One, there were no tourists on Omic. Two, everybody knew what they were doing on Omic.
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The approach of the flashy-dressed lady only confirmed Althya's thought. She made no obvious movement but prepped herself for a fight.
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Laryn was still smiling at this girl as he finished. At least it looked like she had some sense of honor, that was good. This could be fun after all.
"I have more than enough power in my left arm to kick your ass. Pfote des Löwen"
As Laryn had finished he raised his left armup to the level of his face. When he finished talking and saying the name of his technique, his left hand erupted for a second into sparks. Then after those cleared, Laryn was looking at this girl through streams of electricity, coursing in between the gaps in his fingers.
"If you don't want to fight me, this is your last chance to leave."
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Kofleur frowned as they walked. She didn't really like it. Something seemed fishy about this. HF would have to know that Nam used to have an important base here before. So why would they choose to place their base directly on top of the base of their former greatest enemy? Something just struck her as off about this whole deal.
And truth be told, she didn't like being split up with Laryn. It wasn't that she didn't trust him, it was just that... he could act like he had a deathwish sometimes when she wasn't around. And on the same token, she didn't really like running the show by herself. She had done it a few times on some of their smaller jobs, but never on something that was this important. And she really wasn't happy about Laryn being on Omic either. Again. He could be reckless.
Anyway she was just frazzled inside. But if she had learned one thing, it was to keep some semblance of a cool. So she led the group onward, toward where the previous entrance to the mountain was.
Soon they arrived at the site, without incident. If HF was still building around here, security seemed pretty lax. At least on the outside. Well, considering that Olympus Mons was a ski resort, they couldn't really have patrols without looking suspicious.
She turned back to the small group that was with her and decided to say a few words. "Alright. This is where we got in last time. There was a trapdoor around here somewhere. It should be easy to find with people walking through the snow. They can't hover, can they? So we just gotta look around and find our way in. Once we're inside, follow my lead and try to keep voices to a minimum. Who knows what's inside. You all ready?"
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Having stopped next to Kofleur, S-9 scanned his surroundings for the signs of an entrance. It wasn't hard to see a path of disturbed snow running along the mountainside, but it was difficult to see, having been snowed over recently. "Activating heat sensors." His vision darkened for a second, then his heat-filter kicked in. He was able to sense not only people nearby, but the motions of people in the recent past. He saw footprints glow slightly redder than the blue-tinted snow around it. "Follow me." He began to trace the path of the prints, moving slowly.
Eventually he came upon the final set, which ended abruptly at the mountain-face. The surrounding snow was slightly more disturbed then the path they had followed, but only one footprint glowed. That's odd. If someone stood here, there should be two prints. S-9 paused, then reached out to brush snow off of the rock wall. Surprisingly, his hand hit air. "It's a hologram!" he exclaimed, stepping through.Behind was a small chamber with a metal door. A small keypad was placed on the direct right side of the door. He immediately scanned the pad for heat. "Damn, it must be protocol to press all of the buttons after entering. All of them have signatures!" He deactivated his sensors. "We'll have to solve this the old fashioned way. Any ideas?"
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She gave Sacura a light nudge with the back of her hand, tilting her head towards the target building; it wouldn't hurt to get a vantage point before starting her infiltration. Althya then proceeded to tap Laryn on the shoulder, shrugging off the fact that he would probably scold her or tell her to back off. Any moment before he could do this, Althya spoke up.
"Laryn, maybe you could take a less flashy spot." There was not a moment Althya missed. She had put particular effort to remember that Laryn was rather well known in Omic and not in a good way. While Laryn was known to be a bit hot headed, Althya's suggestion was all based on logic. If he were to stay out of the spot light and position himself at a more tactical spot, it could reduce the risk Sacura was in as well as lower any chances of his presence being discovered on the planet.
"Anyway, I can take her." this said in a bolder tone so that the fancily dressed lady could hear. Unlike her appearance, Althya was very very capable of flashy.
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S-9 tilted his hat back slightly. "No ideas? Okay then, I'll take care of this. Go hide around the corner." With this said, he turned and hit the door quietly, but loudly enough for nearby guards to hear. He leapt out of the opening in the mountainside and clung to some rocks above the exit.
Soon enough, a single guard came outside with his gun hanging at his side. It was probably just a bird trying to get closer to the heat of the door. He sighed, and his breath fogged. Suddenly, he felt a great force hit the side of his head, and his world went dark.
S-9 rose from his crouched position next to the guard. bending the barrel of the gun, he turned towards the door, which the guard had left ajar. "Alright, let's do this."
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"I'm fighting you!" He yelled out as his fist swung at her. He wasn't really that hopeful for this attack though. It was a simple straight punch, no strings attatched, so she would most likely be able to dodge or, if it hit, it wouldn't do much.
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Kofleur looked back at the uncouncious body in the snow and mouthed "sorry" to his form. "Well, now we're in" she said triumphantly. "Now we just gotta sabatoge the place. Kofleur looked around the passageway that she entered as she went into the base. It was a very well lit tunnel, that sometimes sprawled into more tunnels. But Kofleur just kept walking straight. If she remembered correctly, the elevator was near the center of the volcano. "So right now we need to find the security room. So we probably have to go up, considering that the power room is at the bottom." Soon the group walked through a door and emerged into a large barren room, that seemed to mark the actual entrance to the base. Kofleur smiled as they entered the room. "So far so good." And no sooner had she said that than a blaring alarm started and Teisha reached to cover her sensetive ears. "Maybe not..." Kofleur muttered.
Now they needed to get to te security room pronto.
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He exited the Police Station and began walking down the streets. He browsed through a recent memory file of S-9's and muttered to himself. "Sentinel's data seems to show that he had run into another bounty hunter around the same time as he did Ayase and the CHEsuit." He was not surprised to know that S-9 had been able to identify this man, who he had probably heard about in his exploits, or that he had disrupted the data involving the CHEsuit operator to give AUGER a challenge. "Time to pay this "Gabriel Angel a visit..."
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S-9 took down a couple more Human-Firsties who had gotten a little too close to the group before slamming himself behind cover, barely avoiding a barrage of photons that sizzled the air around him. "My sensors indicate that the center of the volcano is that way," he shouted, pointing down the hallway that seemed to have the most guards in it, "If we're going to reach the elevator we'll need to get past those guys through force or cunning. Your choice, Wayfarers." He leaned out of cover far a split second and shot. A loud groan could be heard from a few meters away.
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More trouble was it now? Althya could do that. Checking around her to make sure there would be no physical harm of her body, she unclasped her second flash light. With both chrome handles in each of her hands, she took a deep breath, gathering energy before switching the second flash light on. This may not be the wisest move to make, especially since this was Omic the were on, but that would have to come later; she could take any scolding.
Althya glanced over to Laryn and the lady fighting, making sure that Laryn's back was turned to her. It would be bad if he were to even catch a glimpse of this. Her energy may be zapped after this, she couldn't have Laryn blinded. That would be bad.
The light floated out of both of her 'weapons' before, once again, flickering and wavering, condensing into a dense ball at each end. Sweet was forming on her brow from concentration, with every second passing, the denser both spheres got. Guard's footsteps weren't heard yet, but Althya sure that a few were coming.
Deciding it finally done, she raised both arms into the air, the spheres the size of her head now. Exhaling her held breath, Althya let all energy held back explode into a single, blinding column of light, cutting through the night like a hot knife through butter. If that didn't get any attention or trouble, nothing would.
Of course, sometimes, to much trouble was a bad thing.....
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"Alright" He said as he opened his eyes again. "Leave her. Now we help Cura."
No sooner than had he finished talking that a guard burst out of a door next to them. "Intru...." HE started to say before Laryn gave him a swift jab in the gut sparkiling with electricity. The man fell to the ground as if a tazer hit him.
"Let's go" Laryn said as he dashed into the doorway that the guard had previously emerged from.
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Kofleur glanced around the corner as a photon bullet whizzed by her head. She sent out a flurrry of ice shards from around the corner and ducked back. She tisked as simply more guards took their place. "Tei" she said "Think you can get close?" Teisha nodded. "You want to try that?" She responded. To which Kofleur nodded smiling. Teisha swiftly removed her photon claws and put them away as Kolfeur got out her card. Kofleur put her hands on Teisha's palms and closed her eyes for a second. A multitude of small knives appeared in Teisha's hands. Twelve to be exact. Teisha held 4 in between each of her fingers on each hand and 2 in each palm. Then Teisha turned and dashed down the hall. She nimbly dodged around the bullets as her sudden charge caught the guards off balance, and making them hesitate. That was all the time she needed. Teisha got into the middle of them and started slashing with all of the knives.
"Now!" Teisha yelled back at Kofleur as she jumped up in the air.
Kofleru focused on her card in concentration as she muttered a quick chant. "Cover in ice like a morning frost."
Suddenly the guards erupted into spiked crystals of ice, protruding in almost all directions. Teisha, who was in the air, was unharmed, but the same could not be said for the guards.
Kofleur walked into the hall and admired her handiwork for a second and then moved down the hall. "Come on. The elevator is this way."
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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?"
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He felt the sudden sensation of two circuits in the right side of his head. Someone was patching through to his radio... Just as expected. He stood to the side. "Excuse me, is this AUGER?" a woman's voice chimed in his ear. "The one and only," he said. "I assume you are the Ayase's contact?" He asked to be sure; though this was a private channel, the risk of it being hacked was still present. He was fairly confident this was no impostor, though. The voice sounded too happy- and yet somewhat worried.
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Glancing at the guards in the postures of their icy demise, S-9 fell in behind the Wayfarers. He glanced at his first pistol. It was getting warm, but he knew it's limits. He could shoot as much as he wanted and it wouldn't lose power, as long as he maintained it's constant intake of photons- yet the constant threat of overheating remained. The second one was a newer model, and was still quite cool. However, it's power was not modified to automatically replenish itself. Once it was out, it was done- and he had already used 10% to get through this hallway. He grinned. It was little things like this that gave him a challenge... one he had not encountered in years.
"Let's go. The longer we take, the more time they have to set up a defense."
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In any event, they were at a dead end. She wasn't the only one to realise this, as a dozen other members, each armed with photon swords, charged down towards them through the corridor perpendicular to the one she was in now. She obligingly waited for the group to pass before she fell in behind them in order to attack.
"Here I- WHOA!" Right before she was about to be electrocuted, she backflipped into the previous corridor to escape the voltage attack. Thank god for that; if that thing got her, she would be seriously damaged. Kinetic forces, she could withstand, but electric charges were a whole new deal. Thankfully, the powerful attack was over in a second and she rolled into the corridor.
Right as the young man came in.
"Why, hello there," she greeted with mock politeness. "Don't you know it's rude to barge into other people's places uninvited?" she sarcastically asked before activating her whips that glowed dangerously red.
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Elsa let a smile grace her face. This was definitely A.U.G.E.R. "Well, I'm actually Nick's assistant, but he's-"
"Elsa, let me," Nicholas demanded, suddenly standing next to Elsa.
"Eh? O-okay," she complied before moving aside to let Nick have her seat.
He instantly spoke. "A.U.G.E.R, we have much to discuss, and I know you want to. I would talk on this call, but time is of the essence and you know as well as I do that we can't waste a moment. Send me the co-ordinates to where you wish to meet me and I, as well as my assistants, shall be there immediately."
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S-9 slapped his hand against the button on the elevator, and the doors slid open silently. "Everyone, get on!" he shouted to the others as he held some HF reinforcements off. A shot whizzed past his head and slammed into the wall behind him. The element of surprise was slowly slipping from their grasp.
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And then his mind caught up with him and he finally registered who the hell this was. "Long time no see." He said as he released her neck. HE then shoved Althya at the newcomer and told her in no uncertain terms "We'll have to catch up later. Cura got herself locked in the goddamn security room. Take her (Indicating Althya) and find Cura. I have some unfinished business." Some unfinished business with a whip he may add.
So he turned back to the hall where he had just fired his railgun and saw her walking down toward him, her whips glowing red. Laryn smiled. This was going to be fun. With that thought he began walking down at the HF girl.
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Teisha grabbed Kofleur and dove into the elevator behing S-9. The bullets were flying everywhere and it would be inevitable that if they were to stay they would be killed. Teisha popped up to hit the button to close the doors and selected the lowest level for the destination. Then she hit the floor again as bullets whizzed into the elevator around them.
Suddenly a sharp pain shot through her leg. She had been shot! She looked out of the doors at the oncoming troops as the doors closed.
As the elevator safely started to move downward, Teisha propped herself up against the wall of their cubical transport and asked "What now?"
Kofleur turned over, hearing Teisha's voice and her eyes widened at the injury. "T! Are you okay? Here, I'll heal you." And as Kofleur began to heal her Teisha once again spoke up. "What's the plan when we get to the bottom? Not having a plan really didn't work ot here, so we really should have one."
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Nicholas made a vocalisation that sounded like a nasal 'hmph', which meant that he was annoyed. Well, he wasn't annoyed. Just a bit peeved. He was the kind of person that liked to have the last word in, but such a minor thing doesn't last on Nick for more than a few seconds. In that time, he stood up. "Elsa, save all the data on the new CHEsuit design- god, we need a name for that- and everything related on the microdrive. OPTIMUS, take care of the place while we're gone. MAGNUS, where are you?"
At that last question, MAGNUS rolled up to Nick's feet and looked up expectantly, evaporating any remnants of Nicholas' peeved-ness. Elsa walked towards him afterwards. "Copied," she said simply.
Nicholas looked at her quizzically. "That fast?" Elsa nodded, prompting Nicholas to think for a few moments. After he was done pondering, he shrugged. "Well, anyway, we're ready. Let's head to Venus."
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One of the many teleporters on the docks suddenly came to life, buzzing with photon energy. Passer-bys looked at it curiously, wondering who would be coming through. Their curiosity was sated moments later when two figures appeared inside the device. One was a man in his late 40s who wore very distinguishable glasses but looked rather tired. The other was a woman in her early 30s who was carrying a small spherical robot. After their brief analysis, the onlookers got bored and went off to do whatever they were doing before.
Nick turned to Elsa. "Well, let's go," he said before he began to walk.
Elsa nodded and placed MAGNUS on the ground to let it roll on its own before they followed him.
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Sacura had finally left the security post to find the other two. She had a bad feeling. One of the other intruders had met up with Laryn and Althya and nothing had happened, so they had to be an ally, or at least not an enemy. The last one, however, was an unknown, and she just had a bad feeling about it. She wanted to get them out of there as soon as possible. Luckily, before she had left the security post, she had wired the info from the station to be sent straight to the comm. That way, she had the map with her to find the others if things went really bad. But, with any luck, it wouldn't get to that.
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The conference room was roomy. Private. Secure. A perfect place for a meeting of the minds. AUGER dismissed the secretary who had guided him there and sat down. The seats were made of a new synthetic material designed exclusively for executive offices, and were designed for both comfort and professional look. The desk that spanned nearly the entire length of the room was made of solid, cherry colored mahogany, and each spot where someone could sit had a mini computer and data port in it. A presenter could plug their own data into the table, which actually contained a complex map of wires, and stream their presentation directly to those present. The ceiling was lined by blue-tinted photon lights, and a small potted plant stood in the northeast corner. The decorative appearance made it hard to believe that the walls were lined with almost two feet of sound and signal proof technology, which was able to selectively filter incoming and outgoing signals. There were only 2 people with access to the special features of this room- AUGER and his predecessor. As a result, it was just natural for him to choose this room for a meeting.
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It took several tens of minutes of walking and Nick being insufferably quiet, but the trio (don’t forget about adorable lil’ MAGNUS) finally came across Silverose museum. It was still a glorious and well-kept place that you could probably call a shrine, probably by virtue of it being dedicated to Ash ‘Silver’ Gibbs and Amy ‘Rose’, his sister… why does that latter name some familiar? Anyway, if it weren’t for the coordinates given to them, they’d have no idea which building to enter.
Upon arriving at the outpost’s door, they soon came across a conundrum.
“How the hell do we get in?” Elsa vocalised her own and Nick’s thoughts. “A.U.G.E.R didn’t give us any kind of key and I don’t see an intercom system anywhere.”
Nick ignored her and pressed the side of his glasses with his index finger. After a few moments of Nicholas searching the wall for something, he stopped at a particular section and waved his hand. “Hey A.U.G.E.R, open the door already. My legs are weak and I need to sit down.” He only just noticed that Elsa was looking at him oddly and stopped to respond to her. "Special glasses function."
Elsa mouthed an 'oh'.
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He paused for one more second while he thought of something else.
"Oh and my clocest relation to you guys is not seeing you in the news. It's you trying to fuc---- kill me numerous times. So get your facts straight."
Laryn smiled coldly and dashed forward with no more words to be spoken before this fight. He had to get to Cura. He led with his crackling left hand made a straight punch right at her, just to test her reaction.