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((zordoom-warden: Calix)) "You're Hector? You don't act like how you were described to me."
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The cyborg perked his ear up when he heard someone talking to him, making the holo-screen coming out of his hand disappear before he turned to the stranger. “That would be me, yes. And you must be my nephew’s new brother, Calix right? A pleasure to meet you.”
*POOF*
There he was, no longer the sweet and friendly cyborg Lombax the anon’s magic turned him into. On the outside Hector looked completely fine but, one the inside, he was internally screaming. He never, EVER, wanted that to happen to him again!
“Father... are you doing well?”
“...” No reply came, Hector just stood there, back turned to his cloned daughter as he stood there in the empty room.
He couldn’t believe it happened- again! The Cragmite girl was gone, and with no traces left. Just like with the first clone. All the cameras had been turned off and the guard had been knocked out so there was no way for him to know who took the girl, or where she went.
Or... at least it seemed like that. As a safety measure the cyborg left a hidden camera in the room, and placed it by the bed. If he was lucky then, whoever got the girl out, had been caught on it. He just had to get it and load it up to the computer in his office.
“Samantha, would you kindly leave me alone for a moment? There is something I need to do here.”
“O-Of course, I’ll just go to the cloning lab.”
The teen, reluctantly, turned back to the elevator after that, watching the doors close before her just as Hector started approaching the bed.
Once he did this he would finally get the thief who did all these things, and give them a punishment worse than death.
Hector, you ever gonna tell Ademar the truth? Or are you just gonna keep it a secret til he's dead?
“Not sure about that. One part of me wants to out of guilt for lying to Ademar for so long, and about a dear friend of his, while another think it’s for the better, not tell him what horrible fate my host faced back at Fastoon with Tachyon. I… need to think this trough for a bit.”
“So she’s in there?”
“Yes that is correct.”
“And no one else has gone in there ever since she killed all those science dudes?”
“That is also correct, now will you go in?”
“One more question before I do it! What do I get from this?”
“How about me not trying to kill you...”
“... That works...”
Jonathan and Hector were both standing outside the clone’s room, talking, and the cyborg-bax was starting to lose his patience. He wanted the Cazar to be done with this so he wouldn’t have to worry about the cloned girl in the room and the risk of her killing more people.
“Right, now get in there before I lose my patience. You already wasted enough time talking, be quick with this.” Hector spoke out while opening the door to the room, giving the Cazar a stare before he practically pushed him inside, closing the door behind him. If he left it open Jonathan and the girl could both get out and that would be disastrous.
20 minutes later
“What’s taking him so long? I told him to be quick.”
Jonathan should have been done by now, what was taking him so long? No banging on the door or telling him to open up. Something wasn’t right...
With a annoyed sigh Hector pushed the button on the screen next to the door to open it again, promptly marching inside to see why the Cazar was taking such a long time to take care of the girl.
“Jonathan! Why are you-” But before he could even start yelling at Jonathan his voice disappeared when he saw what the Cazar was doing. He was sitting on the bed next to the girl, her back turned to him, and combing her enormous hair with his hand, which was turned into a comb.
“I, um...” Hector was speechless. First the girl killed everyone who tried getting in her room, which forced him to set it in lockdown, and now she was letting Jonathan comb her hair like nothing happened! What was going on?!
“Oh, hi Hector! Sorry I took so long, but Violet wanted me to help her with her hair. There’s so many knots in it.” Jonathan laughed happily when he caught sight of his cyborg friend, changing his hand back to normal now that he didn’t need to comb the girl’s hair anymore. He was already done anyway.
“Violet? You named her Violet?”
“Yeah, sorta weird but, I think it suits her. Of course she tried killing me when I entered her room but, when she saw I was like her- and her father- she stopped. Ain’t she just adorable. Barely a month old and already knows how to kill people, though I guess making her sixteen had her brain fully developing.”
Hector said nothing, all the gears in his brain had stopped again so he couldn’t think of anything to say. This... was so weird for him. Jonathan wasn’t someone who usually liked kids, he actually hated them, but for some reason he liked the clone, Violet. The cyborg would need to rest after this.
“Just... j-just get her out of the room. Take her with you to the nightclub, she might like being there better.” Hector managed to stutter out after regaining his composure, watching as a beam of delight appeared on the Cazar’s face right after it.
“Really? Wowie! Hear that kid, you’re coming with me home.” The girl, Violet, nodded in respond, a tiny smile appearing on her face. She seemed to be happy about this too, though not as much as her father. “Well I guess we’re going then, bye Hector!”
Jonathan was quick to walk out of the room with Violet after he said that, letting her hold onto his hand while they walked, and once they both passed Hector and reached the elevator a loud groan came from the cyborg, running a hand thought his hair before he mumbled out, “I need a rest after all this crap...”
“Soooooo... why am I here again Hector? Is there a problem with the new clone you’ve been working with?” Long story short: for some reason the cyborg-bax wanted Jonathan to come to his company but without telling him why, and the Cazar was stupid enough to follow him. And Jonathan was already starting to grow bored in the elevator, no killing or pain makes him that.
Though his ears perked up when he heard the cyborg let out a chuckle, turning to him just as the doors opened up and told him, “No, not at all. She’s fine, and nearly finished too, just another day or two and she’ll be out.”
“Oh, then why the fuck am I here?” Jonathan asked a bit pissed, following the older man out of the elevator and into the cloning lab. Numerous of chambers were lining up the walls but, none of them had anything inside of them... except for one. In the end of the room stood one lonely chamber and was on, glass turned black so whatever, or whoever was inside of it couldn’t be seen.
“I wanted to show you what she looked like in person, besides aren’t you curious to see her in person?”
“Kinda...” The cyborg-bax always knew how to catch Jonathan’s interest, especially when it involved stuff he loved.
“Excellent, now the DNA’s I used to make her might shock you a bit, and that is because one is from, well, you.”
“Well that sounds interesting, how did- WAIT WHAT?!” Jonathan’s eyes widened in horror and gripped onto the cyborg’s lab coat when he realized what he just said, almost yelling out, “You used my DNA to make her?! Are you out of your fucking mind? She might possibly get a symbiote with my DNA!”
But Hector simply rolled his eyes at that and gently took a hold on the Cazar’s hands, making him let go so he could straighten out his lab coat. “That is true, but remember she is a mix between two peoples DNA, and the other person I chose from will keep the parasite at bay if she has one.”
“Who is this other person you took DNA from?” Jonathan quickly asked, arching a brow in question. Something told him it may be from someone he knows, but who he wasn’t sure.
“My sister, Ria, took a strand of her hair from her hairbrush when she wasn’t looking. And from you... I just went to one of your crime scenes and took a sample of your blood, or symbiote, that was left behind after someone tried to stab you.”
“... I’m starting to question you choices in life...”
“Do you want to see her or not...?”
“Fine, fine. Show her to me.” Jonathan grumbled out in reply, immediately going quiet the next moment when he saw the chamber’s glass change color so he could see what was inside of it.
Despite being a mix between Lombax and Cazar the girl looked like a Lombax, her fur a lighter shade of brown than Jonathan’s but her hair the same shade of purple with a magenta colored fringe in it like Ria. Her entire tail was covered on purple fur while the fur at the top was magenta in color like her fringe. Her hands and feet had a strange black substance covering them, fingertips made out of metal and pointy. The top of her ears were purple like Jonathan’s but, she had markings around her eyes that were purple. She was wearing some kind of suit that only left her arms and legs exposed, purple stripes going down them, and a mask covering her mouth and nose to help her breath in the water.
“She’s asleep and won’t wake up until it’s time for her to do that, so I don’t know what kind of kinetic abilities she possesses yet.” Hector spoke out to break the silence, having seen Jonathan stare at the girl in the chamber in awe and curiosity. So far only the Cazar and a friend of Morgana had a symbiote, one of pure darkness and one who was a neutral but had a host who didn’t want to hurt others, if the Lombax in the chamber had one as well Jonathan wouldn’t be alone anymore, and possibly meet someone who is just like him.
“I can’t wait to see her awake then.” Jonathan grinned in reply, stepping forward so he could look closer at the girl and touch the glass. “I’m curious to know just what kind of monster she’ll become with my DNA...”
“This won’t hurt, I promise, all I will do is to take a blood sample so that the project can finally start.”
It had been a day or two since he got the Cragmite girl, Ciara, back, and not until now did he take the bloods sample he needed for the project. Ciara was now on a table in the laboratory on the highest floor and ready to take samples from, but, of course, the girl was crying and trying to break free from his grip on her scrawny little arm, not wanting him to bring the needle any closer to her.
“No! I-I don’t want to, you meanie!” That had the cyborg-bax cringing, Ciara’s high pitched voice hurting his sensitive ear. Dear Orvus it was just like her father’s, only less annoying.
Hector brought the girl closer to him right after her complaining, leaning down to her height to hiss in her face, “Hold still or else I will finish you of faster…”
That had her shutting her mouth, eyes widening in horror as she reluctantly stayed still and let him bring the needle down on her arm, withdrawing some of her blood.
“Now that wasn’t hard, was it? I already have a clone in mind that I want to make, and with your blood she will be made.”
No respond came from the Cragmite girl, only tears as she was crying. Hector got what he needed now, which meant he had no use of Ciara anymore, but he wouldn’t kill her... yet. There were still things to be done, perhaps after his clone was made would he get rid of the girl. No one would care if he did, she was a Cragmite after all.
So without further do, he picked up Ciara and carried her to her room, tossing her inside and locking the door behind him before he then headed to the elevator. No one expect him had access to the top floor so he could do his experiments without anyone interrupting, especially since a special key-card had to be used to gain access to the floor where the laboratory was located at. He made the mistake to make the last clone, the Nether/Lombax hybrid, on one of the more... available floors, so he learned from his past mistakes.
Now, he had to get to a meeting.
Meanwhile on Thram
“There, now I got everything. I got the coordinates to where that Hayan is located so I will travel now, sure you don’t want me to drop you off at Meridian where Jim is?” Athena had everything now, some weapons that she found in the old building by her mother’s home, as well as a comm-unit so she could stay in contact with the elder female scribe, and enough food to last for a couple of days. With where she was going she would need it.
“I’ll... be fine, it’s more important for you to find out where Ciara is.” The adult Cragmite heard her mother sigh out in reply, leaning against one of her Gargathons for support. Amora was still weak after accident, she would have to rest for Orvus knows how long to recover fully.
“If you say so, bye then.” And with that said, Athena finally scrambled back inside of her ship and started the engine, looking out the window to wave goodbye to her mother before she flew of.
The female Cragmite knew her mother could be stubborn at times, just like her husband Scorch, so she wouldn’t argue. If Amora wanted to stay at Thram to recover she would let her do that, even with her injury. Besides, she got her twin Gargathons to protect her if anyone tried getting to her home, or hurt the elder.
But for now, she would travel to the Zarcov sector to meet up with a certain someone, someone who got her Nav-unit. “Now to get to Silox to meet up what that Hayan asshat, whatever the hell he is doing there.”
“Shut your damn mouth brat, or else I’m gonna make you!” Maru growled out at the crying Cragmite girl in her cage, which he carried over his shoulder and had covered with a blanket, as he made his way into the alley by the Time company’s building, stopping by a door leading into it as if waiting for it to open up for him.
He was late with his job but, it wasn’t his fault the Cragmite girl got help from some stranger to travel to Thram where she lived with some old Lombax lady. A scribe from what he could see, not that he cared really.
His ears perked up when he heard the door’s lock unlock then open up, revealing the cyborg Lombax in all his grace.
“Took you long time, almost though you wouldn’t come.” Hector told the Hayan with a small chuckle after he opened the door fully, earning a small growl from the Hayan who looked anything but happy with what he said.
“Stumbled upon some troubles yesterday when I found the girl on Thram, some old scrawny Lombax lady had been looking after her and I had to get rid of her to get this brat.” Maru huffed out in annoyance after handing over the small cage containing the cloned Cragmite to Hector, expression turning sour at the thought of what happened. He still got the scribe’s blood on his claws since he forgot to wash them after the encounter, caught a few peoples attention when he was making his way through town but, with his intimidating appearance no one dared to ask him why they were like that.
But Hector barely listened to any of the things the Hayan said when he got the girl, pulling away the blanket from the cage so he could see the terrified girl in it with his own eyes, organic and cybernetic. “Finally I will be able to find out how Mr. Ickabar succeeded on cloning this girl, and be able to do even more clones from it.”
“Yeah, yeah. All happy ending for you, and all that shit. Now how about those bolts you promised me?” Maru was quick to ask the cyborg-lombax after hearing his little speech, tapping his foot impatiently and flickering his tail.
“Already transferred them over to your account before you arrived, you should be able to do much with those bolts Mr. Whariz.”
“Before you go, I want to ask you something.” Maru started of which caused the cyborg-lomax to look up at him, a curious look in his eyes. “Who’s the father to that girl? I mean, there weren’t many Cragmites to take DNA samples from after the stuff that happened on Fastoon - and when you started your company, Time.”
“I know and that’s why it should be really simple for you to figure out who her father is, I mean... he did cause a lot of troubles while he was around.”
“You’re not telling me that-”
“Yes I am, whether you like it or not. This girl’s father is Tachyon, the Cragmite who forced my kind to flee into another dimension with help from my device.” He looked down at the girl in her cage, a devilish smile coming to his lips as he then said, “So by getting her back I’m doing the universe a favor, and as soon as I find her mother... I’ll kill them both.”
