Everflame 2 (FINISHED)

[Entaru]

Nero let out a bit of a chuckle as he looked at the scanner.  He knew something was going to go wrong as soon as he touched it.  Just what he would have to see.  Until then he would humor the salesman.  Let him get that jolt of happiness before sending him to oblivion...his expression would be more entertaining that way. 

"Hm, why not.  I'll take the expanded setup too."  Nero placed his paw on the scanner.

[Kitt_R_Beesley]

Kitt looked around his suroundings then stood up and streched, heaving a sigh of releif. It feelt good to have controll of his arms and legs again.
"Alright lets see where I am." Kitt said aloud as he accesed the data banks and pulled up a GPS veiw of the area. "Interesting, well I might as well take a look around." walking back a few feet, Kitt ran straight at the wall running up a few steps then latching his fingers over the top of the wall and hauling himself effortlessly to the top. After standing on top of the wall and letting the veiw sink in he activated the com link.
"Hey Doc, do you have any destination for me to go to right now, or do you mind if I take a freerunning trip around the city to test out my new body?

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin didn't go into any special stance, either from fighting experience, or from lack of it. He simply strode up to Tabby until she was within range of his legs, and still had that complacent look as he suddenly spun around and did a back kick to her head.

She apparently blocked, but Chronin only grinned as she didn't realize the assault hadn't stopped as he pushed her block down and put his entire eight on her arm, and caught her tripping leg with his tail. He then pulled her leg towards him with a sharp tug, sending her onto the ground with his feet talons around her neck after he pulled his leg away from her block. "Don't beat yourself up, even my Elite reptilian friends were having problems stopping this..." He uncoiled his tail and got off her throat, then pressed on his tail on a few points to make it fall limp behind him. "Your turn..."

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The fox watched as she pulled the suit off her, revealing her figure, making him turn away with a smirk.
"Yeah, me and Jaack have been together for ages. We're pretty much brothers." He laughed. "A bunny and a fox, brothers in arms, ha-ha." He scratched his ear, then held his hand out for Annie to shake. "I'm Reggie, by the way."




The human suppressed the involuntary revulsion from the withered hand as Nero reached forward and pressed the scanner. The contract flashed red, and an error flew up onto the hologram.
"Err," the salesman said with a smile. "I think your hand might be too different from what the scanner can recognise. Maybe you could just sign your name." He unclipped a digipen from the contract emitter, and handed it over at arms length.




"Be my guest," Seema replied inside the boy's head. "Go as far and as hard as you can. This is a stress test for your new self, so have fun."




Tabby coughed from the foot on her throat, and clambered to her feet with a smile on her face.
"That's a new one, I have to say, but it ain't the best I've seen." She bounced on her feet, and leapt around him, flicking out kicks to his calves, before throwing a punch. The block to defend was caught as she opened her hand with claws gripping him, using his arm as leverage as she flew foot first to his face.

[Entaru]

Nero couldn't help but laugh at the salesmen's reaction.  Signing the contract, he forged a fake last name for himself.  The name read "Nero Goltbenz."  He didn't know why but he liked the name.  Giving the pen back to the salesman Nero smiled in a way that can only be described as slimy.  "When will the ship itself be ready?"

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The contract dematerialised, and the salesman slotted the pen into the emitter, and the whole thing into his pocket.
"The vessels are way out at the airport. There's a transport that takes us right to it, if you'll follow me." He span around, and sauntered to double doors behind the display. They slid apart to reveal a rounded cube with seven seats. It all hovered in a tube that stretched down into the ground. "Take a seat," he said, with a turn to Nero, and a composed face.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chrono braced his taste sense as he leaned into the kick, and took a bite at the ankle, stopping her kick as his teeth held her foot in place. He then let go and with his mouth and grabbed the now wet ankle with his guarding hand, then suddenly pushed into Tabby's hand while knocking the hand away with his free talon. He then sent her sliding on the mat as he literally tossed her away from him. By this time, his hair had gone completely flat, and he had a constant grin of his face as he lightly bounced on the mat. "Come on, do better, I wanna use my tail again!" he said rather childishly as he enjoyed sparring with someone who could actually force him to think on his feet.

[KittKat chunky~]

Laughing as well, Annie shook his hand with a grin "Annie... Explorator Mechanicus first class" she winked at the last part, also untying her dark hair from its long ponytail. She ran her fingers through, smoothing out the hair that had tangled...

Blaze walked over to the pair of foxes, giving a wide grin and nodding to Reggie "Blaze... Mech. 3rd Class" He ran a hand through his own much, much shorter hair and smirked at Annie "Just cut it all off, much easier" She frowned, retying her ponytail...

[Entaru]

Nero sat down in one of the seats and looked around the interior.  His patience with the salesman's demeanor was beginning to wear thin.  As soon as he knew that the ship was ready he would get rid of the salesman. 

Judging by the way he acted...he wouldn't be missed.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The cat landed on all fours, with claws digging into mat to pull against the momentum, launching herself forward into the scuttling run, dodging in and around Chronin, feinting and weaving around. She dug her feet in, leapt high to flip upside down above the dragon, a hand on his head, gripping his loose hair, and dropping her body behind him, sticking her feet into his back to throw him up, over and behind her.





Reggie watched Annie's hair, leading to her face, and as her son piped up, he smirked.
"Yeah, it is easier," he said with his rumbling voice, and pinched a lock of his short fringe before brushing it aside. "But no-one ever said it was best." He smiled at the boy, and lay the assault rifle in his lap. "So, Blaze, you haven't said much. Do you enjoy scavenging with your mother?




The transport closed around Nero and the salesman, with clear reinforced plastic, and with silent ease, it set off into the underground transport channel. They were lit up by the floor, and during the journey, the salesman shuffled, fidgeted, and glanced again and again at Nero's sleeve, where the withered hand was hidden. Then light burst into the tunnel, as the breached onto the surface, faced by a field of open tarmac, with various craft parked in rows. Many colours, shapes and sizes. Most were small, built for families, or personal use, with twin engines and a wide and curved nose, and disabled ramps spilling out of the side.
"Here we are." The transport slowed, and glided through the rows as groups of ships whizzed past, until they got to the far end. There were three identical ships, all red craft, the same as the one Nero had bought. "And here's your ride." The transport stopped, and the plastic walls split open, disappearing into the floor. The salesman got out, and stood in front of the three. "So which would you like?"

[Entaru]

Nero looked around at the three ships with a tad bit of confusion.  As he looked up at the ships, his cowl fell off revealing Nero's entire face.  Any doctor would have believed him to be rotting where he stood and morticians would have thought him a runaway from an improperly sealed casket.

"These ships all look the same.  Does it really matter which I choose?  Or do they each have a different yet vague quality?"  Nero faced the salesman and looked him square in the eyes, the pit of his eyeless socket seeming to pierce through the salesman and into his very being.

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

The salesman stood silent, his eyes were wide, quivering, but his feet held him upright, refusing to run.
"Err, no..." His voice sounded like it had been crumpled, straining to to be heard. "There's no... no difference. Take any." His hands clenched into fists, gripping into his palms. Tears dripped down his cheeks.

[Chrono Blackwyng]

Chronin felt his feet leave the ground, and stuck his talons out to catch the mat before landing on all fours. He reached behind again and 'reactivated' his tail, then slowly made his way back to Tabby, doing fakes until getting in range. He then did some rather expert footwork until ending up right next to her, grabbing both her arms and locking them above, then behind her head as he pushes her onto the mat as his right leg and tail bind her legs. "You know, you seem kind of awkward in this pose... here!" He lifted her torso back up and held both her arms with his own while still holding onto her legs. It was only then that he actually caught a whiff of something in her hair, and he started nuzzling the back of her head. "Your hair smells nice... how much did it cost to get this scent?"

[Entaru]

Nero smiled at the salesman's reaction.  He walked up to him slowly and placed his gnarled claw on his shoulder.  "Tell me...do you have a family, Mr...I'm sorry, I never caught your name."

[Asia Kali Yusufzai]

Tabby's tail whipped against Chronin's chest. Her grunts and struggles in his hold were blasted with a bullet of a laugh as he spoke, and She grinned with gritted teeth as she felt him nuzzling.
"Bounty hunting makes good money," she said, between heavy breaths and pained gasps. "I like to treat myself. How much did it cost for hair like yours? Mood reactive."




The salesman flinched and his shoulder dropped a few inches under the claw. "Kaicen... Ka... Kaicen Jones." He trembled, sweated, and he stared into Nero's face. His mouth could barely formed the words, losing their strength, moving like uncontrollable liquid.
"I have... I have... yes," he swallowed hard, and clenched his eyes shut, feeling the claw holding him in the dark. "My wife, four kids."