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Sophie X-6

Was it something I said?

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a character in “The Multiverse”, as played by Patcharoo

Description

Name: Sophie (Last name unknown)
Gender: Female
Age: Eleven
Hair: Light red.
Eyes: Purplish
Test Line: D-4
Designation: A. X-6

'Formally they were a project of an unknown group or individual. I saw not need to change their designation' -Adam

Persona: Still holds a sense of youth and is sometimes easily swayed by those senior to her. She holds a strong dislike of 'fleshies' (individuals unlike herself) and maintains that 'her brother Alex' is going to come back some day, this relation likely being the cause of a sense of abandonment.
Specifications: The following is a list of the installed parts to this unit. For an in depth explanation, see D-4 - A. X-6 specifications manual by Adam Noble.
Impossible Gravitional Device: This technology enables flight, mimicking similar ki-related abilities.
Unlimited Energy Drive: A seemingly impossible machine that generates energy equal to or greater than the energy used. Should it be damaged or run out of energy, A. X-6 will shut down until enough energy has been gathered to continue.
Alloy Fusion Shell: Initially the shell had been designed for mobility purposes, but has since been upgraded to be highly resistant to all form of physical damage, including withstanding multiple close-range shots from armour, plasma and Electro Magnetic Pulse.
Red Power Oil: An odd insistence (but also a convenience) was that the A. X-6 unit runs off a 'blood' oil. A murky maroon-brown liquid courses through their body for reasons of coolant, lubricant and several other basic functions.
Nano-Machine Repair: A left over of their pre-Orion iteration is an uncountable number of nanobots with data allowing them to constantly be repaired and updated. The Nanobots are responsible for the Unlimited Energy Drive, Alloy Fusion Shell and Red Power Oil.
Advanced 'Humanity' Body: A. X-6 is capable of a full range of movement and flexibility higher than that of a normal human being. Additionally, due to the nature of their construction they are immensely strong, fast and may perceive and react to events at a heightened rate.
Palm Nexus Absorption: On the palm of either hand is a concealed device allowing for the absorption of multiple types of energy, including but not limited to heat, electricity and Ki.
Left 'Arm'aments: Concealed within the left arm is a minigun, capable of firing over two hundred bullets a minute. The arm also has the capability to automatically produce these weapons through energy-matter conversion. Favourites of ammunition include High Explosive and Armour Piercing.
Right 'Arm'aments: Concealed within the right arm is a high power rocket launcher and similar energy-matter conversion. Ammunition includes AMRAAM, Cluster Rockets and Incendiary Rockets.

'Adam, while I enjoy a good pun as much as the next man, this is a scientific environment and highly inappropriate. I'd like to see you in my office later.' -Walker.

Sonar Cannon: Concealed in the mouth is a high frequency Sonar Cannon capable of liquefying flesh at close range.
Eye Lasers: Orion tech at its finest, putting a pair of concealed kinetic eye-beams in behind the optical sensors which can in turn amplify or focus the power to a specific point.
Jet Propulsion: High powered jet propulsion allows for rapid change of direction and mobility in the air, or an additional boost of movement.
Internal Bomb: Removed

'Who thought this was a good idea? They're a god damn kid, not a robot.' -Adam.

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So begins...

Sophie X-6's Story

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"Oh..." Aiya said, sounding unsurprised, "Yeah he was always weird. I was kinda worried he would put an evil AI in my neck that made me attack people or something... When I got to know him I mean. I didn't know about him until after Orion."
Sophie however raised her dress triumphantly. "Can we go home and try this on?" she asked with great urgency and excitement. Aiya smiled awkwardly down at the girl, then shrugged. "Sure I guess... We're going to go," she added, looking to Avia.

Except they weren't so fortunate. Recently tipped off that some defunct Orion tech was in the nearby area, and by mere chance of having to operate literally next door to the plaza, a group had their eyes on Avia, Sophie and Aiya.

Vidious Renati was dressed in black synthetic silk robes with long sleeves, matching gloves and a cowl to cover his head. Two men, his infamous Sleeveless guards, walked beside him, dressed almost the same but with veils covering their face and their trademark lack of sleeves. They approach from the rear of Aiya and Sophie and made no effort to hide themselves. And much more subtly weaving through the crowds was a ninja-dressed skeleton and a man all too tall.

They were a part of an infamous group, the Assassin Society, and they had come to lay claim on what they felt was rightfully theirs. For now no weapons were drawn and no ill-intent laid in the direction of the three girls.

The setting changes from Wing City Plaza to Canti's Diner

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"I guess I'll look into the whole phone thing as well, or whatever. Shouldn't be too hard to integrate into the comm suite. I'll catch you around, ad'ika. Ret'urcye mhi."

He waved and pulled his helmet over his head, the center eye lighting with a slightly ominous onng as it's various types of photoreceptors activated and began working in harmony.

The setting changes from Canti's Diner to Wing City Plaza

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There was a problem.

Typically when Char moved through crowded cities, he used a combination of his grapnel lines and his rocketpack to move from rooftop to rooftop to expedite movement from location to location. On a particularly long flight, however, something seemed to have clogged one of the intakes for the pack, and as a result one of the six engines on his back had a violent flame out while the other two on the same side sputtered and lost thrust for the most part. The result was a huge red armored Mando'ad spiraling out of control through the air, trailing a corkscrew of black smoke as he spun out of control, the rocketpack shrieking as it's thrusters were overtaxed by his armor's weight. Most people would be quick to move out of the falling merc's way as he landed hard on the street at a roll, though the unyielding surface of a wall would halt his lateral movement with bone-jarring force before he could bleed away all of his inertia. Groaning, he stood and stretched, and generally nobody could have missed his entrance.

"Shabla sen'tra! Wayii, mirdir ni shukur ner kovid."

After muttering to himself for a few moments, he shook his head and attempted to get a bearing on his location.

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"...yes, I suppose you don't remember much, Aiya, do you?" asked Avia, folding her arms. She glanced over Aiya's shoulder and over Sophie's head, nothing the movement of three figures. They weren't...too noteworthy to Wing City standards. "Well...there's not much I can do about that, I guess. You two have fun. That dress is awfully pretty, Sophie. I think you'll look very nice. I'm off, t-"

Someone fell out of the sky.

This was not always a strange thing. People fell out of the sky sometimes. Just not all the time. Thus, due to the nature of the event, it did, indeed, demand attention.

Swiftly, Avia held up a finger to both Sophie and Aiya, then closed the distance to the person...the...thing that had dropped from the heavens.

"I could make a lame joke concerning the pickup line 'did it hurt?' but I don't believe it's the time. Are you alright? Can you understand me?" the woman asked the merc.

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Aiya's attention also turned towards the fallen man as her mouth opened up to let out the most confused; "Char?" Sophie's response was a little less polite, bursting into laughter and pointing at him.

Until Vidious drew in close. "Excuse me," came the cool tone of his voice washing over the group, along with an atmosphere of dead air. Not dead as in rotting, but dead as in absent of life. Stale. "I couldn't help but recently notice that one of you people accessed the wireless connection of the defunct Orion Industries. I find it curious that it would bring me to you three." His pupils drifted from woman to woman, then to Char before dismissively moving on. He didn't recognize the man as important. "As one of the benefactors of Orion Industries I'm going to have to ask you to surrender all Orion Industries assets to our hands."

Aiya raised her eyebrow. "Well... I can't. It's wired into the back of my neck and I don't have an-"
"Your equipment is of little concern to us." By now the presence of Old Bones and Chilx would become much more noticeable, the skeleton and the extremely long-legged man now standing close enough to be 'at the ready'. "Our focus lies more with Android X-6."
"Wh-"
"Go away!" Sophie shouted, "You never found my brother so I won't go with you!"
The level of her voice started to garner concerned looks from nearby passerby's.

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"Ma'am, in my experience there is never not a time for lame pickup lines. For example, I might counter your line with, "Have I died and gone to heaven, because I'd like to sleep with an angel". Anyway, I'm good to go. Think I broke my pride in the landing, but it'll get better I guess. Don't guess you've got a line on a Jetpack repairman, do you?"

He dusted his armor and kama off, doing a quick systems check over his HUD. Everything came up green, so he figured he was mostly good to go. Little bruised up, little dizzy, but the armor took the brunt of the damage, and the CNT emergency systems locked up before he could dislocate or hyperextend anything. He had a feeling he was going to be stiff for a couple of days though. He glanced over at the familiar figures of Aiya and Sophie and raised a hand in cordial greeting.

" 'Cuy. Sorry to drop in on you ladies unannounced. Purely by chance, I assure you."

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Avia smiled at him. "Well, the only one I knew I just threw into jail, but it's good to hear that you're alright."

Upon observing that the girls and the crashed man were at least acquainted. She pointed between them and became to speak, "So..." but trailed off as the two men she'd spotted earlier had engaged them in conversation. With Sophie's outburst, Avia walked away from Char and made her way in front of Sophie and Aiya.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen. Is there a problem?" she asked fearlessly. She was dressed in nothing but a scanty silk nightgown, with no shoes, with her hair uncombed and loose, and she spoke to two very sketchy men fearlessly.

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Vidious was quick to dismiss Avia with a flick of his hand and, "No problem. A matter of business. And your chance for involvement ended when Orion Industries did. We only wish to reclaim our liquidated stock." He tilted his head forward slightly and uttered. "However... I am a busy man, and I will not hesitate to seize stock from those unwilling to relinquish it on their own." His hand now gestured left and right to his two men, then to Chilx and Old Bones behind her.

He did not even seem to notice what she wore or that she was fearless. If she was an immovable object, he was an unreadable one, blank in expression and tone neutral and nonthreatening.


Aiya had since taken a hesitant step backwards, grabbing Sophie's shoulder to pull her along. "C'mon Sophie, let's go," she murmured softly, only for a soft shink of three metal claws brushing over Chilx sword caused her to freeze and turn around the face the incredibly tall, veil-faced man. In the mix of it all, Char had apparently been forgotten.

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"Well,I'm not about to speculate on what it is that I've dropped into the middle of, nor am I about to play at being a hero and try to break up what looks to be a fight shortly when it's none of my business. What I am going to do is shamelessly self promote my business by saying that I have a reputation for completing any job or solving any problem, no matter how strange or conveluted, for a nominal fee which can be discussed before or after the job has been agreed to at the discretion of the hiring party, and priced on a scale to suit the income and needs of the hiring party, with emphasis on affordable service. That being said, is there anyone present who'd like to hire a bodyguard, enforcer, mercenary, or a guy in red armor to smash something?"

In the world Char was used to, there were three kinds of men. Good Men, who sacrificed themselves in order to serve others, Bad Men, who sacrificed others to serve themselves, and Paid Men, who sacrificed nothing and served whoever paid well. Once upon a time he'd tried to be a Good Man, and had fully devoted himself to the betterment of his Aliit and his fellow Mando'ade. In that time his wife left him to start a clan of heretics, his clan came to ruin because of betrayal, his leader shattered his skull because he did not wish his people to go to war for nothing, and his bank account reminded him of a doughnut shop.

Right about now Char Ge'kyrayc, formerly Silas Nalfien, just wanted to get paid before he got shot.

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Avia cracked her knuckles, fist meeting the palm of her opposite hand. A lopsided smirk came across her face. "Try me, then. I'll take all three of you on. All at once." Her gaze slid over to Char. "I can't promise you money I don't have, but I do promise that you won't be getting anywhere by joining them. If I have to face four of you, then I'll take down each and every one."

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"I, on the other hand, will pay you well for your assistance," he offered calmly and cooly towards Char. "Allow me to briefly fill you in on the history of our encounter. I funded a group known as Orion Industries who served as a cauldron of scientific ideas to produce me superior assassins and weapons. They mostly failed, but they did take a small child and make her into a literal killing machine." His attention drifted from Char to Avia. "That girl is known as 'Android X-6' and stands before me, hidden between two women. She belongs to me and my company, the Assassin Society. This is your final warning. Hand over my assets."

Aiya, mostly quiet until this point, had finally found her voice bubbling up like an angry pot. "You can't take her!" she released from a powerful set of pipes only matched by her father, "She's mine! And I won't let you kidnap her!" All confidence started to drain away from her face as she looked down to see Sophie (laughably easily) pushing her arm away. "If... If you want..."

Sophie took half a step forward and paused, glancing back towards Aiya. "Yeah, I want to stay with you," Sophie told Aiya before she looked back at Vidious, "I just want to break the fleshy's face in." Aiya's face went from relief to panic in a split second, whilst Vidious let his eyes shift from each individual to the next as if calculating his next move.

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"So the ad'ika's a droid, eh? Interesting. Well, if we're going to be talking payment, I'm going to see figures and draw up a contract. Surely those too little ladies will wait for you to finish business dealings with me so I can have a rematch with Aiya there, yeah? And if that other lady wants to join in the fray, I'll entertain that too. 'course, again, this is after all the business dealings are settled. I'm not about to get stiffed on the bill for this, Aruetii."

He popped open a panel on his inner left wrist and revealed a battered keyboard, which he began typing away at as he drew up a contract. A lengthy, distracting contract, full of jargon. One which would most certainly need to be read after he finished writing it, which would be another lengthy process. On top of that, there was the discussion of exchange rates which would need to be taken into account, and then he'd haggle price with this supposed assassin... Essentially he'd chosen that if he were to be paid to fight the two people he'd had lunch with a while back, they'd have plenty of time to not do that while he dickered with their assailant.

The other party was an unknown, but seemed eager for a fight, and he'd be willing to supply if the swung first. Otherwise, he'd ignore them in favor of his current business deal.

With any luck, he might get paid up front to not fight these girls. Money for nothing was the best kind.

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Avia clenched her fists, one lowered down to her hip, the other raised. She sank into a low stance. "Aiya, Sophie, you guys stay back. I can take care of this on my own," she warned. She beckoned to the three. No, four of them- the mercenary too.

"Come on. I'm not going to waste the time waiting for him to finish" she spat. "If you don't throw the first punch, I will."

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Vidious raised a hand to Avia as if to pause. "He's right, of course," he stated simply. "Why don't we convene for lunch to manage a contract on the apprehension of the android. The ladies can all go and we can all put our weapons away." Not that Vidious was afraid of getting punched. The moment knuckles touched his face there would be almost nothing that could be done to save her. Him? Oh, he wasn't too worried about his well-being. His guards, on that prompt, slipped their revolvers away. "And we will deal with this conflict when everyone is back and the deal is concluded, hm?"

"You're just going to let us go?" Aiya asked, confused.
Vidious tilted his head. "If you return, yes."

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"Well, I must admit I wasn't expecting to get lunch out of the deal, but I do believe a less hostile environment might be more conducive to business dealings. Where and when would you like to do the meetup for that?"

He glanced over at the girls, hooking his thumbs in his belt and nodding, his monophotoreceptor 'eye' dimming as it came out of combat mode. Over all, his general demeanor had been entirely relaxed the entire time, and while he'd been ready to act defensively if needed, he wasn't particularly aggressive or ready to attack. Mostly he just seemed bored.

"Well, Aiya, looks like we'll have to postpone the rematch, unless you wanna go for funsies. I prefer not to fight when I'm not getting paid, but it looks like your friend there is really in the mood, and I'd hate to deny someone a little bit of fun."

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Avia glared at all four men, eyes switching between them. She backed away, reaching her hands over to grab Sophie and Aiya. "Very well," she said to them. "Untill next time, yes? Yes."

She would then begin to walk away with them, still looking at the men warily.

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"Let them go," Vidious ordered with a gesture of his hand to dismiss his men. "I would advise reconvening at this point at two pm sharp, or I will not show this degree of lenience in the future." And with that the assassins retreated, the skeletal Old Bones and the incredibly tall Chilx backing away and melding into the crowds the best they could. The sleeveless guards remained at Vidious side, naturally.

Aiya grabbed onto Sophie's shoulder once more. "C'mon," she whispered, "Let's go." Sophie let out a loud whining noise. "Aww! But I wanted to fight the fleshy!" she answered, but reluctantly started to retreat with Aiya. "Avia, are you coming?" She also cast a very very very grateful look towards Char and mouthed 'thank you'.

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The big red Mando'ad grinned behind his buy'ce, before realizing the girls couldn't see that. Lamely, he decided on a thumbs up to show he understood, taking stock of where they were going and who, if anyone, was following. Now that he'd engaged in a deal, he was honor bound to stick to it, and would hold the enemy to the same rigid standards of honor he followed. Attempts to attack before the assigned meeting time would be met with extreme prejudice and more than a little opressive firepower.

Baring a breach in contract by a third party, Char would return to the sight about twenty minutes prior, repairs and cleaning evident on his armor by the lack of black soot from his earlier misadventures with gravity and jetpacks. He'd topped off all his weapons as well, and picked up a nifty toy or two to use in the coming battle, should there be one. He only hoped the others would do the same.

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"Of course," said Avia to Aiya, following them with haste. She would grab Aiya's arm and pull her close. "Listen to me," she whispered. "You're coming with me. Follow me." She would try to lead both Sophie and Aiya to her apartment.

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Out of sight, Aiya was already feeling a bit better. For a start she couldn't see anyone tailing them, and her AI tended to be very good at picking those out, even if she wasn't. Sophie tailed close and quietly, eyes never blinking, always on the two women. She looked like she had completely dismissed the trouble back there, and had her mind on other things. "Aiya," said she, "Can you buy me a new wireless internet connection so I don't have to use the Orion one. Then I can turn it off and they won't be able to track me." Aiya glanced at the girl uncertainly, then shrugged.
"I don't know if I can really afford it... Avia, where are we going exactly?" She seemed pretty dismissive of Sophie, like she didn't have time for the girl.