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Lou ignored his outburst, her face strained from holding back the blast, "Go, you idiot!"
Evan didn't need telling twice. He grabbed the bazooka, pushed himself to his feet and hobbled back to his hiding spot. He watched as Lou released the blast into the air and dove behind a rock just as the blast resumed its course and blew up the spot he occupied earlier. They exchanged looks.
The concept of friendship is that we trust each other. You know, no secrets and all. You seem to be misinterpreting it.
Evan, I never knew I'm kinetarch. It just sort of..happened.
Riiiight
You know what? This is hardly the time. Did you plan to use that thing or did I save your butt for nothing?
Evan looked at her, then at his new toy, then back at her and gave his slyest smile. Oh, yeah. I have a plan alright. But first-he glanced in the smog, using his emotion link to locate Cinder-you need to go get Cinder. I'm about to blow this baby up.
Evan told Lou where to find Cinder and gave them thirty seconds to get out before he stomach crawled from the crossfire which had his head almost blown off a couple times. Finally he made it to the other side of the cave, aimed the bazooka right in the ceiling weakest spot and let it rip. You know, it was really beautiful to watch. The sudden explosions, the circuits short-wiring, the brain-scratching rumble of falling rocks. Though if there were screams and not silent destruction, it would be a completely different story but otherwise...pretty neat.
And all of it had started down, the others made their way to him. They stripped the place of any usable weapons and left.
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Did you know that kinetarchs can move bones in your body? Like literally reset your bone structure? Well, Evan didn't and honestly didn't know if he ever wanted to.
"Please, don't do that to me."
"Oh, sure. We can let your bone heal crooked, no problem," Lou countered as she tended to the blood seeping out from his calf with her ripped up bag, "We'll start calling you Square-brackets from now on."
Evan didn't appreciate her tone or her uncolorful nick-naming. He crossed his arms over his chest, "Well, I'm sorry I don't trust you with my broken leg since you've been for a kinetarch for what? Five seconds? If you were for about five seconds more, maybe I'd consider but nah."
"You are such a baby!"
"Thank you. Maybe I'll give you a broken leg so we can be babies together!"
Suddenly their argument was interrupted by Cinder's oink-sounding laugh. They stared at him as he bent over laughing, slipping his knee and all. Finally he composed himself, fake wiping his eyes since he still had his helmet on.
"You guys are soo...man, did you guys do this all the time?"
Evan and Lou shared a look, "Yeah. Pretty much." Cinder glanced between them, an odd look crossed his face before he shook his head, "Anyway, the hut is done."
And, indeed it was. It covered Lou's original campsite and looked exactly like the first one though this was one slightly smaller since the cave was small but it worked. They helped Evan inside and had him lay down. They all removed their helmets.
"You know I could just do it for you. It would only take a second." Cinder offered, kneeling down on his leg with an assessing look on his face. Evan pondered that for a moment, wondering if he planned to get payback for, you know, traumatizing him with his mind voodoo tricks. It seemed, upon peering into his emotions, he had no malicious intent.
He nodded, "Ok, sure." Cinder got comfortable, hovering his hand over the leg, "You know, it's gonna hurt. Like a lot."
Evan didn't like the sound of that. Lou smirked, "Something wrong, Square-brackets?"
"Shut up," he shifted uncomfortably, took out Cinder's polarizer and jammed the handle into his mouth. "Okay. I'm ready." though it did sound more like, "Ohkeee, Mea Redi."
Lou crossed her arms, that amused smirk still plastered on her face. Cinder was right, it did take just a second though the screaming lasted for a lot longer. Perhaps he had some malicious intent after all, he certainly wasn't not smiling.
Later, they sat around in the load pile of killables, picking out the rubbish from the good stuff. Lou got three polarizer pistols, Cinder got a handful of UXBs along with his original pistol and Evan got his bazooka, his butterfly knife (that he absolutely forgot was still his bag) and an elongated arm of a Metrobot he planned on using as a clutch. But among the pile was a piece of tech they didn't recognise.
"What's that?" Lou asked, furrowing her brow as the triangular prism that sat in the centre of their circle.
"I don't know. I picked it out of a Metrobot's body. It was slotted into its chest where the Dominion insignia would usually be," Cinder explained, picking it up and studying it from every angle.
Evan thought back to his lessons in Biomechanics. The design of their armour, including that of the Metrons and Metrobots, was something they were forced to memorise so they could list its parts in their sleep. He got it, "It's an information pod."
Lou frowned at him, "Information pod? Like-"
"Information from Elysium? From the Neuromancers?" Cinder exclaimed, his eyes widened in excitement.
"Yeah..." Evan narrowed his eyes at the thing, thoughts skyrocketed in his mind, "Hand it over here." Cinder it to him with a questioning look.
Evan remembered something very important about information pods, something he learnt not at the Institute but during his visits down at Low Landing. Metrons on duty often got orders from High Landing in the form of mail by wrights so as to prevent hacking of classified information and he had once seen a Metron get theirs in passing....
He looked down at his chest and proceeded to rip off the insignia plate.
"Evan, what are you doing?" Lou but he ignored her and turned the pod upside-down and stick the plate to it and...it fitted perfectly.
Then it suddenly jerked out of his hand and began to spin around like a top. They all stared at it.
"Um, what's it doing?" Cinder asked and before he could answer...the prism...spoke.
"TO RULE, YOU MUST BECOME. LET THE ECHO TAKE YOU."
The Echo? What-
The prism stopped spinning...and exploded.
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