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(XD thank you, also Ains a boy but in his current state he can easily be mistaken for a girl.)
Alright.
"Put simply, we don't. We had a bit of an... altercation with Deke here. Long story short, she tried to kill EAmorr and myself. Right, the Defib isn't working, but at least she's no longer bleeding because of it. Ain, do you know how an old-world induction forge works?"
"No?"
"You pass a current through a coil to produce resistance and therefore heat."
Searching the engine room, I found a cabinet full of spare parts. I located some thick copper wire and bent it into a pointed shape before handing it to Ain.
"We can seal this wound now that blood isn't flying everywhere. Ain, make one hand positive and the other negative."
He did so, the wire soon heating up to a red glow. Taking the burning metal in my hands, my shields beginning to deplete, I guided the point to the wound and pressed the flesh together. I then burnt the two edges together. At that point, the strange man returned.
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Good god, you lot have been busy. Welcome, KaiAsa. Also, it stopped being gritty because I wasn't here. Trust me, The Holders is not a thing I should have been reading at 13 years of age.
"Alad, what do you make of this?" I turned to the Volt. "I may need to use you as a defibrillator. Do you have any energy?"
"Yes?"
"Good. Alad?"
Alad was watching Deke writhe on the floor, the Infestation having engulfed most of her back. He looked to the unnatural appendages and compared them to his own.
"This appears very similar to the s-strain that has taken me. It will not kill her. She will probably have to endure a lot of pain." Deke suddenly started gasping suddenly, hands bunching up and hammering at her chest. "Oh, and there's also a chance of heart failure."
Sighing, I grabbed the Volt by the hands and forced them down, placing one on Deke's sternum and the other below her ribs.
"50k. Do it."
Ain looked at me, confused, before recognition dawned on her and she sent a blast of fifty thousand volts through Deke's body.
A recap may be required, if this situation does not fit into the current continuity.
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I looked at the hole in EAmorr's back, wincing when I saw how deep it was.
"I would've cauterised it, but it's to big for that. Best I can do is put pressure on it."
I ran back to the lab, finding a clean labcoat and running back to EAmorr, folding the white material and pressing it to her back. She hissed in pain. Crimson quickly soaked through. I helped her stand, beginning to carry her back to the lab where I might be able to help her. Before we left, I made sure that Deke was still breathing. Convinced that she would survive, I help EAmorr walk away, keeping the now-bloodsoaked labcoat pressed onto the wound.
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Damn it, our armour's still cold.
I switched with EAmorr, appearing in Deke's grasp and driving my claws into her legs. The electricity caused her to roar and seize. I kept my claws in, waiting for her to stop struggling before retracting them. She slumped to the floor, blue vitriol spreading along the floor from the six holes in her legs.I watched as the blood darkened, becoming more purple than blue before running red. The Infested tissue dissolved, exaporating and leaving Deke lying on the floor.
"Well, I guess we have to wait until she wakes up."
Opening up story potential, because I won't be able to update until next week as of tomorrow.
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(alien isolation style)
That's the idea.
"Awww, hell."
I grabbed EAmorr and ran forward, throwing a decoy backwards.
"That thing has thermal pits. It'll figure out it's a decoy quite quickly."
We turned a corner. I heard the sound of metal on metal, several fake gunshots, and a roar, followed by footsteps.
"This corridor is too long! We'll never make it!"
Tilting my head and grinning, I threw another decoy. It appeared at the end of the hall. I switched with it, and then with EAmorr, before throwing another and switching with it.
"With any luck, the residual heat from the engine room should mask us."
We burst through the doors, slamming them shut behind us and barring them. I began tapping away at a console, the translation program in my helmet working overtime to translate the keys and script. A flash, followed by a constant arc from me to the generator's energy cell told me that I had successfully hacked it. The lights turned on, and the engines started, the turbines beginning to spin, the temperature rising. I hoppped above the door, Venka ready to dig in.
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"Not in the sodding eyes! Why is it always the eyes? Damn!"
I took my punctured helmet in my hands, feeling for damage. One of the cameras were gone, and I couldn't get one of my other helmets from my Liset. Cursing under my breath, I placed it back on my head, praying that life support didn't go next.
"Depth perception be damned. EAmorr, try to find the generators and, I don't know, we could jump-start them with our shields."
I took hold of my Vaykor and checked that a round was chambered, the remaining camera on my helmet giving me a flat view of the ship. It was dark, the heating had gone off, and there was no engine noise. Drifting. I cocked the Vaykor and extended the Venka on my off hand. before following EAmorr through the darkened ship, the faint glow of the emergency lighting doing little to light the tight corridors. I stopped when I heard clanging in the vents.
"She's moving around..."
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I stared at the mutating Deke, my helmet feed telling me all I needed to know about it. I knew she was still alive, that much was apparent. She was also quite insane, and not thinking.
Great. Nonlethals it it.
Backing away slowly, I brought my arms up, the Venka I always kept there extending, electricity dancing down the blades, arcing between them. I cloaked, sprinting behind her and leaping, only to be kicked away. I hit the ground and rolled to a stop. As she approached, I noticed tiny pits in the front of her mutated face, below her eyes.
Thermal vision. It just keeps getting better.
Looking around the lab, I tried to find something flammble, anything that would burn hot enough to draw its attention away from me. There were some compressed air cylinders stacked up behind some bars. Setting off at a run, I goaded Deke into charging again, the bars crumpling beneath her. Flipping over her, I drove my claws into them, the electricity igniting the cylinders and sending them rocketing across the room, jets of fire leaving a heavy blanket of smoke over the room.
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(Tohn is Deke, she just prefers her last name, "Tohn" over "Deke" :3)
That makes so much more sense now. Post has been edited accordingly.
Frowning, I ran a translation program on the file T122-CHG-DeTo and listened as Tohn appeared on screen.
"Test one-hundred and twenty-two. Nature of test: Applying Infested Charger blood to a Corpus test subject. Chargers are what remains of the Grineer once the Infestation takes hold. The test subject is Tohn, Deke. Commencing test."
She settled into the restraints, heavy metal bands closing over her body, holding her in place as the viridian blood was injected. She changed, breaking out before reverting and returning to the camera.
"Test induced a change of ten seconds. An increase in dose could increase this time, making for a useful tactical weapon in capture missions- Chargers are much easier to subdue than Tenno. End log."
I scowled, closing the video and exiting the vent system after checking that no-one was nearby. I leant against the wall again, hoping that we would reach Uranus soon.
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I tapped at the module in my arm, the small screen showing me a blank page with a simple text field. A password lock. I bypassed it, and began to data-mine the system, searching through every file I could find.
Infested Physiology, nothing new... Infestation Spread, spores, obviously... Cross-species Experimentation?
I opened that folder, scanning the names of the files within, noting that they were all videos, ranging from test 001 down to test 196. I opened the file titled T122- CHG-DeTo, watching as Deke apeared on-screen, speaking into the camera in a Corpus dialect. She held up a vial of glowing blue Infested blood, before loading it into a machine which restrained and injected him.
Injecting yourself? That can't be a- oh my.
I watched the screen as Tohn covulsed, breaking out of the restraints as her flesh grew and expanded. She roared, forcing herself up on stunted back feet and making for the door when she stopped and just... reverted.
Huh.
Tohn returned to the camera, speaking into it before shutting it off. For good measure, I copied the rest of the files to my Warframe. I will have Ordis look through them when I got the chance.
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For all intents and purposes, Decoy is an EXACT replica, not a glowy thing.
"I demand an answer."
I removed the safety.
"This looks more like Alad's research than Regor's. Deke, do not make me kill a person to get an answer."
I quickly dropped a decoy and turned invisible, projecting my speech through the hollow conjuration.
"Do not think I won't shoot you, Deke. It won't be lethal, but it will hurt a lot."
Unseen by the Tenno in the room, I inserted a small chip into the nearest terminal before stepping back into my decoy and becoming visible, all seamless.
"Zan, you do NOT want to make me use these."
Deke extended the claws on her Valkyr, the blades glowing with energy. To my left, EAmorr levelled her Phage at me. Tohn just laughed, and I silenced him with a glare.
"Zan, put the pistol away."
I turned my head between the three of them, before whirling and firing the loaded round into the body of the Charger, now mere inches away from my leg.
"If I were you, I'd keep some special containment procedures on-hand for situations like this."
I waved my Vaykor at the Charger before holstering it and walking out of the lab, vanishing into the vents and tapping into the computer system.
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(We sent him out the airlock...you know maybe)
Floating is always the answer. Anyone who's watched The 100 knows that.
"And you didn't think it necessary to tell us that there was someone abord this ship working with Infested tissue and live specimens?" I spun my Vaykor around my finger, chambering a round. "Deke, if you don't tell us more, I will blow this person's head off, right now."
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I just hope Adman's not gone like the rest. Otherwise.. it'll be up to us two continue the legacy of this thread.
Oh, Tenno, Tenno. Did you really think IT WOULD BE! THAT! EASY!? (to get rid of me? :3)
I heard some sort of roar come from the lab, and it woke me to full awareness. I knocked on the door.
"Deke? You alright in there?"
Pressing my ear to the door, I heard faint laughter, distinctly feminine, so it belonged to Deke. I frowned when I heard a second, short laugh, which was most definitely not Deke. I checked the ship, finding Alad in the same place I put him and EAmorr sleeping. I crawled into the vent again, peering through the grate to see the floor covered in what looked like blood, and Deke laughing with another Corpus man I had never seen. Laying a hand on my Vaykor and checking the chamber, I kicked the grate in and landed in a squat, pointing the sawn-off sniper rifle at the man.
"Who the hell is this, Deke?"
I finished my Vaykor build today: 100% chance to either Blast, Impact or Shock on each shot.
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The sound of heavy locks sliding into place woke me up. I tried to pay no attention to it, and tried to go back to sleep, but another noise stopped me from doing so ten minutes later. Unlocking my armour, I silently headed down the corridor and pulled Alad from a vent feet-first.
"I'm fairly sure the locked door means you're not supposed to be in there."
I put him back in the other room and leant against the wall.
"Like a locked door ever stopped you thieving Tenno."
"I wasn't the one half-way into a vent."
I stepped out out of the room and locked the door. I laughed at Alad's expression before turning and crawling into the vent. I watche from above as Deke moved her "classified material" around. From my perspective, the cameras in my helmet streaming the data directly into my mind, it looked like nothing more than a few books and aged holograms. Then, something rung in the back of my mind.
Sentimental Value.
After a few seconds, she hid them away before opening a different door. I crawled through the vent to a new viewpoint, watching as she inspected a live Charger scratch and roar at the glass containing it.
Interesting.
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I remained in the room, Alad never once taking his eyes off me. He twitched sporadically from time to time, a clear sign of the Infestation taking hold.
"Tenno-"
"Zan."
"Zan, why would you help either of us two mad men?"
"Don't get me wrong. This isn't help. Help is voluntary. I'm doing this out of necessity. As destructive as the Technocyte is, it has nothing on the potential of the Void."
"H-How so?"
I projected a screen in front of him, surveillance footage of Vor playing.
"This one was able to unfold the gates we use to protect our Cryopods using a Key."
I pointed to the glittering artefact.
"This was pre-Ascaris, as at one point he experimented with an Ascaris device and was ultimately killed by the Tenno he tried to control."
I pulled up a different video, this one being my own point of view during an excursion to the Void. Alad's eyes widened as the corrupted Vor appeared and tried to kill me.
"As you can see, he is somehow still alive. That is why I am... helping you."
I walked out of the room, donning my armour again and stading against the wall. I lock my armour, deciding to sleep standing until we reached Uranus.
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"Apologies for the intrusion, but I couldn't help but listen in. Old habits. There may be a cure. Deke, EAmorr, I don't know if you heard about it, but Tyl Regor's labs have been found on Uranus."
The Valkyr whirled, meeting my eyeless gaze with a look of fury.
"What? Who found this out?"
"Two people, both Corpus. The first is Nef Anyo, who appears to have gone quite mad. The other is sat in front of you."
Deke turned back to Alad.
"You witheld this from me?"
The sick man shook his head, dropping his glare.
"I didn't want you charging off, as you all- always do." He looks at me. "Yes, I sent out messages. What's it to you, Tenno? Come to goad me with your support for the Void-worshipper Anyo?"
"First of all, please call me Zan. Secondly, is that a way to talk to an employee?"
Deke stares at me. Alad stares at me.
"You would... consider helping me? After I ripped out your eyes?"
"Nef is swindling people with a subject he holds no knowledge of. The Void is sacred. My eyes are a part of me that I have... arduously done without." I leaned in close.
"This is not forgiveness, Alad. Forgiveness for you cannot be gained. But, in this instance, you are the lesser of two evils."
I stand, starting to head out of the room. I stop.
"Oh, and no more Leviathans. One was annoying enough. Do not give me a reason to float you."
(Yes, I did in fact support Alad in the ToR event, because Karak > Dera :P)
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Aws, try to introduce an actual character and please stop using Second Person. This thread's dangerously close to derailing as it is.
"Listen, Alad, in this situation, and those likely to follow, you can consider yourself expendable, and therefore already dead."
He studies my scarred face behind the blindfold I wear. I untie the fabric. Alad scowls.
"Oh, I thought you looked familiar. Yes, your eyes were very useful. A perfect killing machine, even at the prototype stage. Imagine what I could've done if you hadn't... interfered."
He stops talking, a coughing fit interrupting him. He wipes an unhealthy-looking liquid away from the edges of his mouth.
"The Zanuka would have been perfect." He goads me further. "It would have been the greatest defence against any Tenno incursions anywhere. My uninsightful 'business partners' failed to see that. You killed most of them. Cry all you want, Loki, you're not getting your eiiiyes back."
I scowl at him.
"Deke, take off. That way, we can talk without interruption. Also, it gives me a way to dispose of him."
"Oh really? I wouldn't want to get blood all over the floor."
"That won't be a problem. I'll just float you."
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Finally, an internet connection. Now to update :D
As the helmet comes off in my hand, and the wrench lands for the first time, the real Deke approaches, rips the wrench from my grasp and swings once. The Oberon crumples, unconscious. She throws the wrench away.
"Machines are over here. Ordis isn't in here. Make of that what you will. The machinery will repair and store it automatically. Just be sure to show your passes, or it'll tear you apart."
I headed to where she pointed, holding my pass up to a laser scanner and standing still as the arms dismantled my armour. After that, I called the other two over and reconstructed Alad in the middle of the floor, pointing my Rakta Ballistica at him.
"What now?"
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Deke kicked open the door of the hangar, quickly whispering to the two of us.
"Make it look like you're my prisoners. I can get us all past them. It looks suspiscious if I just give two unknown Tenno passes."
She walked in, hoisting us clear of the floor, her claws digging in slightly and making me cringe. I stole a glance at EAmorr, who looked very uncomfortable. Within seconds, a Crewman had ran up to Deke, rattling off a stream of Corpus dialect, to which Deke responded with a stream of her own. I started up my translation program, my silent command activating the processor inside my helmet, and the Corpus dialect became distinct.
"And why do you have them now? Why not just kill them?"
"Well... experimentation."
"Of what purpose?"
"Reverse engineering. Invisibility seems useful." She shook me slightly, and I tensed up, my hands closing around her wrist. Deke looked at the Crewman. "As you can see, they're fresh."
"Ugh, fine. I can see Alad rubbed off on you. I'd rather not have nightmares. Your ship is this way."
Deke followed the Crewman who gestured to a large transport before walking away. Deke tightened her grip for a few seconds and dropped me to the floor while she scanned her pass on the door. As soon as it opened, she picked me up again and threw me inside, EAmorr landing next to me seconds later. Deke closed the door, letting out a deep sigh. I just gasped for breath while EAmorr gently ran a hand over where she had been held, visibly shuddering.
"Sorry about that, I had to keep up appearances."
"I would prefer not to do that again."
"No promises."
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Shrugging, I quickly throttle the Limbo into unconsciousness, reattaching my scythe to my back before taking Deke's device and following behind her.
"I take it that this ship is not your Liset, is it?"
"No. Now shut up and keep running."
I heard growls behind us. Stealing a view, I saw a horde of Chargers hot on our heels, so I turned, spinning, unleasing a wave of energy that tore their arms out, leaving them to weakly push themselves along on their back legs. I turned and carried on running, the three of us soon arriving outside the ship's hangar. Deke stopped, and EAmorr and I stopped behind her.
"Now, the staff in there, if they're still alive, will kill you on sight."
"Great. What do we do?"
Deke lifted EAmorr by the neck, and she protested loudly before Deke clasped a hand over her helmet. The message was clear. She then turned to me. I sighed, holstering my Ballistica and allowing Deke to lift me with unsettling ease.
"I fail to see how this-"
She cut be off by squeezing my throat.
"Right, silence. Got it."
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"Remember, Trapper, you attacked us for no reason. I imagine it would be bad for you if things escalated."
I threw out a small sphere, a Parasitic Charger Eximus appearing and draining the Trappers' energy. It growled at the Vauban. The Limbo looked decidedly uncomfortable in my grip with both arms pinned, no energy and a scythe to his throat. The Vauban drew a second Vasto and trained it on me, switching his view between me and EAmorr. I tilted my head, as if to roll my eyes, had I have had them.
"That's not a wise move."
I drew and trained my Ballistica on him, the drawstring stretching as I held down the trigger.
"Leave now, or things will go very badly for you. Especially when Deke decides she's had enough of me talking."
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"Come on..."
I was scrutinizing the Limbo, looking for any indication as to how long I would stay in the Rift.There was nothing. Nevertheless, I readied my Reaper Prime, counting the seconds of time it'd been in the Rift.
29...30...31...32...33...34...
On 35, I cloaked, and my estimate paid off, as a second later I staggered as I reappeared in the material plane. I watched the Limbo panic for a moment, and quickly stopped him when he floated into the air to perform a Cataclysm. I kicked him into the wall and held my blade to his neck, reappearing for the Vauban to see. The Trapper took a Vasto from his leg and held it to Deke's head. I rolled my eyes.
"Kidnapping is one thing, but now you're just going to murder her? In cold blood?"
"When it comes to cold blood, Zantruse, this one here..." He gestured to Deke before pulling the hammer back. "...is well-versed in that subject area."
"What?"
"She killed 67 personnel on Orcus when she escaped."
At that point, Deke awoke. The Vauban placed a foot on her neck, pinning her down.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. You see, when Deke woke up in Orcus, she made a beeline for the nearest exit, found none, and made her own. She then flew through open space with no life support and forcibly attached an Archwing to herself, before punching through several tons of Infested flesh to destroy the Leviathan. What makes you think she's trapped right now?"
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Oh lawdy, not Homestuck.
"Deke, hey, Deke, come on, we don't want other Tenno coming after you."
A signal appeared in my vision, a Limbo appearing there.
"Do not keep us from her, Zantruse. Your Loki Warframe will not aid you here. Deke must pay for what she has done."
Muttering under my breath, I picked Deke up and started running.
"Deke, there are bounty hunters after you. One of them is a Limbo. We will be in serious trouble if he gets a line of sight."
A second signal appeared before me, this time a Vauban.
"The Trappers will not fail, Zantruse. We will take our prize."
I ran through another door, EAmorr joining us. Deke jumped out of my arms, running ahead on all fours. We came to another door, and as Deke ran through it, she was electrocuted. Coming to a screeching halt, I saw the Vauban stood in the hallway beyond, a small metal ball in his hand. Alerting EAmorr, I Switch Teleported with him, dropping him in from of the Saryn who held him at gunpoint.
"Zantruse, your assistance of our prey will not be tolerated."
"Can it, Trapper. We have business to attend to."
"Let me make it clear, she is coming with us."
Pain erupted all over my body, the world listing as I was forced into the Rift. I saw the Limbo quickly do the same, EAmorr similarly trapped.
"No!"
I tried to throw a punch as the Vauban electrocuted Deke again, knocking her out cold. My fist just phased through him, and I heard him laugh.
"She is ours."
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D'aww.
"Deke, you know the plan."
She sniffed and stepped away, and Alad's expression soured as turned to face me.
"Oh, your 'plan'? Let me guess, summary execution for the Zanuka Project? Do you want me to kneel, in case you miss?"
I removed my helmet, opting not to say a word. Alad's eyes went wide with fear and shock.
"You?!"
In his moment of confusion, I sucker punched him, knocking him flat and began to deconstruct him, the orange particles streaming into my hand.
"I'm all done here. Let's leave before these other Tenno realise what we're doing. I don't fancy a Conclave match at the moment. It would be very painful for them."
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"Deke, if I use my Disarm, everything will hit the fan and everyone will be attacking each other. Can you work faster?"
I watched as the timer on my HUD slowly dropped towards zero. While I had the energy to re-cloak straight away, I would be seen before then, and twenty angry businessmen would be shooting at me. There's only so much my shield could do, and six hundred plasma rounds was far out of its league.
"Ten seconds, Deke."
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Posted · Edited by Adman99
Yes. Who is Doktor anyway? They came outta nowhere.
"Well, It's not like anything I have ever seen. Can it restore vision?"
The strange woman turned to me, grinning darkly.
"Vell... only if you vere to rip open your eye sockets."
I extended my Venka and raked them across my face, the scar tissue coming apart under the blades. Doktor swore loudly, in a language I didn't recognise before training the device on me and pushing the top trigger forward, a red beam of energy connecting to me. Burning pain erupted over my injuries, the tissue and organs reforming, my eyes reforming.The beam cut off, and I turned and fell, shielding my eyes against the sudden and harsh light.
"I apologise, that was selfish. Now..." I stood, dropping my hand and regarding Doktor with brazen orange eyes. "Heal her."
Doktor nodded and turned to Deke. I turned to Ain.
"Induction forges were never meant to be used to cauterise wounds. Also, when we did want to cauterise, they had more suitable tools than our bare hands. Imagine using the edge of a Plasma Sword, just for heat."
When I say orange, I mean like Xehanort orange.