Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Seema put the mirror back into her pocket, then clasped held the datapad with both hands behind her.
"It's useful if who you were before, stopped existing. We'll create a whole new identity for you. Maybe more than one. We can also give you an unlimited array of disguises. We can dye your fur, give you contact lenses, and even change the shape of your face." One of the doctors behind him reached over and pushed his head down, looking at the back, examining him.
"Also," the other doctor said. "If we get the chameleon fibre technology working, your arms and legs will have realistic fur. It'll all look totally natural, until you need to use your body for anything extraordinary." Seema's lips made a soft curl that slowly faded.
"There's one problem though. In order for your old life to die, your family can't know that you survived, and your only friends will be us."





Nero walked onwards, and a main road snaked towards him, turning towards the city beside. On it, cars whipped past, humming their individual electric tones, while humans, and the occasional furry or scaly alien, lounged around inside; letting the car drive itself. Up ahead, the buildings started to loom large over Nero, filled with rooms that were filled with people looking out, at all the other stone buildings. The further he went into the city, the more litter he found. Packages biodegrading in the street, and cigarettes stubbed into dry chewing gum that flaked off the floor and drifted over into the tires of the cars. There were a few young humans standing around in the street kicking a ball against the buildings.

[Entaru]

Nero made his way to the humans playing ball.  "Excuse me?  I need directions to the nearest..."  Nero stopped realizing he had no idea what he was looking for.  He thought up of an excuse quickly.  ...Ah, blast it all.  I seem to have forgotten what it is called.  It seems my age is catching up with me.  Its used to house vehicles that travel to different planets."

Nero cursed to himself in his mind.  Now he sounded like an idiot.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The humans looked at eachother, confused. One, a south asian man with a stylised beard stepped forward, leaning towards nero, as though it would make the old hyena understand better.
"What you mean like the ferry? Or a spaceflight dealership? Where you headed?"

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

"Freinds won't be a problem. As for my parents, well they never thought I'd amount to much anyway. It would probaly be better if they thought me dead than a cyborg." Kitt though furiously for a moment then came up with a few mod ideas for the gadgets incase they werent already in the system. "Do these eyes have the ability to acces the central communication boards? And along what kind of jobs would I be doing? As for the chameleon tech. What is the problem holding it back?"

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie took the pistol, firing several shots at the cyborg... "You get your frackin' claws off my son!" all three of the shots hit, glancing off its metal body like raindrops over a tin roof... Despite the lack of obvious damage, it obviously made her feel a lot better...

She looked across at the fox, as they continued to run, still dragging Blaze behind her... "We're Explorator Mechanicus, you can bet your life that we're prepared for anything...." With that she flipped a switch on her wrist, hitting the button that nestled behind it... Blaze did the same, as a carapace helmet extended from inside his red mechanicus armour... Both his and Annie's helms where made of several segmented sections, sliding into place with a series of clicks and hissing compressed gas... Finally their helms locked into place, and a orange-tinted visor slid down with a hiss...

 Annie's voice crackled over the rabbit's comms as she winked to them both...
"Your comms channel wasnt very hard to hack into... Like i said, ready for anythin'..."
With that both she and Blaze hit a button set into their helms, and two strobing flashlights lit up the corridor ahead...

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin looked at 'his men' with confusion as they mostly kept their eyes on him. "If you were to go in order of helpfulness, which one of these boys would be in the top five?" He asked, wondering if that crow he floored was at the top, or one of the top since he was the first to speak out. His hair started to go down as he relaxed more and more, but it wouldn't go all the way down until he had reason to trust this 'Tabby' around his newly assigned squad.

[Entaru]

"Ah, that's it!  Spaceflight dealership.  I'm trying to get to the Capital Sphere and I'm afraid that I have no way to get there as of yet."  Nero looked the man square in the eyes as he spoke, revealing the eyeless socket.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

One of the other doctors glanced over at the boy.
"You really are very young, aren't you?" He shrugged and turned back to his work, making the compartments in the boy's legs open up. Seema tilted her head at the boy.
"I'm sure your parents wouldn't agree with you, Kitt." She gave a growing smile, as the boy moved the subject to technology. "You'll have access to the entire galactic network," she replied. "Communication, personnel records, documents and investigations, phone bills and photos, even Google Street View. You're our agent and we need to make sure you have all the information you need, whenever you need it." She grinned, then looked over to the head doctor as Kitt asked about the Camouflage. The dog turned and pulled off his face mask, showing a slightly pudgy Alsatian.
"The technology basically grows fibres that act and react like real fur, except it's far more durable than any natural construction. The problems, however, are simple. The fibres can't replicate realistic shades, and they have a tendency of falling out, which is not good because it can't just grow back on its own. You need to gather the right materials for it, including silicon and basic carbon, which won't always be available to you out there."






The fox looked over to Annie, grinning and letting a little laugh escape him. Him and Jaack activated their own helmets and the four of them turned the corner, finding emergency doors holding in the atmosphere. The group stopped, and the rabbit slowly looked up at his friend. His eyes were drooping and he was dazed. The fox knelt down behind him, and looked over to Annie.
"That thing's locked down. You think you can open it?" Through the door, the scavenger swung into view, and down the corridor they had been through, the clacking of metal claws echoed towards them.





Tabby looked incredulously at the dragon.
"You can't make me choose between my boys!" She smirked, and giggled a little. "But if you insist, He's number one," she said, pointing to the crow. "Two," a human in the corner, packing up a deck of cards. "Three," a bulldog, with a drink in his hand. "Four," an oversized anteater with an impressive physique. "And five." For the last, she pointed with her tail, to a weedy little ferret, trying to stuff a dirty magazine into a gap behind the lockers. Tabby giggled and winked at him, making him smile. "Those are my faves," she said. "They do everything they can for me, short of taking a bullet." She giggled again and the men who were still conscious laughed with her.




The human recoiled, but only slightly, trying to maintain civility.
"The sphere? It'll take you a while, and you'll need to go through border checks." He and his friends tried not to stare at the hyena, as he pointed up the road. "The dealership is pretty close. Just on the edge of the city. Won't take you five minutes."

[Entaru]

"Excellent, thank you very much."  Nero turned away from the humans and continued down the road in the pointed direction.  He was full for now so killing them would be a waste of time and energy.  Plus he would no doubt find himself swarmed with vermin like them...not that he couldn't handle it, he just didn't want the hassle.  Soon the dealership was in view and Nero hobbled in.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin grinned and tried to stiffle his chuckle when she pointed at the crow and said 'first'."Sorry for knocking him down a few pegs, don't like playing second fiddle to someone who isn't at least an 'Elite' rank. Would you mind working as 2nd since they obviously favor you more than someone that just showed up and already started a fight..." He wasn't even trying to flirt with Tabby, since his 'hostile' side was the only side he allowed himself to show when around soldiers beyond his 'Aunt' and 'Gran'.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

Kitt began to experiment with the data records and thought for a moment fo what to search for so he decided on the word 'Cyborg' pulling up thousands of results. Deciding to narrow his search he brought it up as hair replication systems stopping to read a few entries pausing over an arcticle saying that a doctor had found a way to pigment the artificial hair to natural shades. It used a small refiliable resivouir filled with a high concentration pigment ink simililar to the stuff the used in tattoos now days.
"Hey doc, can you pull the screen im looking at right now up for a visual? Its rather interesting. Also What is the name of this medical team and the company running these systems?"

[KittKat chunky~]

Annie knelt down beside the pressurised door, firing several bursts from her pistol into a metal panel... Throwing the pistol to Blaze, she pulled the panel away to reveal a mass of wiring and circuitry... Immediately she set to work, pulling two thick wires out of their sockets, and plugging them directly into two ports on her wrist-mounted hacking systems... Biting her tongue with concentration, her tail flicked earnestly as she pulled out another pair of wires, twisting the metal ends together...

"Hurry it up... That thing is gonna be here any second!" Blaze stood facing down the corridor, pistol shaking in his grip as a long shadow stretched around the corner, accompanied by clicking footsteps... Annie switched off her comms, a single bead of swest dripping down her nose as he breath raked loudly inside her helmet... Finally she flipped open a small touchpad on her wrist, selected a computer spike, and activated it...

"Gottit!"

The touchpad flickered twice, as the wiring ad circuitry fizzed and sparked... The pressurised door hissed, unlocking with a slow grinding noise, even as the metallic monstrosity turned the corner... It screeched again, a sound like nails in a blender, as it broke into a clattering run...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

A human in a suit watched Nero walked, and straightened his tie as he skipped over to the hyena.
"What can I do for you sir?"





Tabby smirked and nodded to the dragon. "Sure I don't mind. I'm just waiting until night anyway." She went back to her corner and sat back down. "You can order me around if you want." She grinned at him.





Seema looked past Kitt, over to something behind him, and the rest of the doctors did too.
"We've always been watching, Kitt," she said. "Even before you woke up." Kitt's chair shuddered as a latch was unhooked so the doctors could swing it around to face behind him, where a monitor showed the view from his own eyes. The alsatian looked over to him.
"We've tried that technology already, and it sacrifices durability. When a fibre is broken from the weave, pigment spills out. Any violent episode would have you dripping ink everywhere. We've got other plans but they have to be perfected first." He almost sounded annoyed. Seema leaned in from behind Kitt.
"Just be patient," she murmured, while looking at what he saw. Then she turned to face him. "And if you want to know about us, you could just ask. But if you insist on searching, we're under Dragonfly, and the company is the Ethelred Medical Corporation."
"They're just suppliers and research," barked the alsatian. "We do the actual application."






Jaack fired wildly with the assault rifle, pushing back the beast as the door prepared to open.
"Magnetize your boots and hold onto something!" he yelled, and his boots sucked to the floor, as he pressed a button on his collar. Everyone followed suit just as the door burst open, sucking out everything into the void. The beast flailed through the air, whipping past the group and flying through space, until it collided headfirst into the scavenger ship, and crushed its skull. The ship opened its airlock, ready to receive passengers.
"Let's get out of this hellhole," said the fox as hoisted the rabbit onto his back, deactivated their boots and jumped for the ship.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin gave her a talon-up before lazily looking back at the now-sitting squad, and growled as they just sat there doing nothing even remotely active or productive. "Unless you plan on killing innocents or fellow crew members with your card tricks and erotica, I could care less if you have it out. Now line up like you did earlier since you apparently have nothing better to do..." he said with a lazy twirl of his right index talon.

Gran is going to laugh when she hears this; I was actually given command over a squad of horndogs, with their object of beauty being my second in command...

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The men slowly pushed themselves up onto their feet, and shuffled into an unkempt line. The ferret pulled the magazine back out from behind the lockers and straightened out the pages before joining the rest of the squad. Tabby winked at him, and walked over to pick up his magazine and look through it, occasionally laughing to herself.