#stgzr

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@stgzr asked for a wolf

It wasn't a bad sunset, he thought. The thief-turned-politician (really, just a different more legal sort of thief) sat on the edge of his office balcony, legs hanging over the edge. It wasn't a wholly unusual sight - a wolf peering out at his territory, the instinct to run through the concrete jungle almost enough to drive a man mad.

He barely notices the other man come into view. And then he hardly believes it when the sight registers.

"Rex...?" That was a face he hadn't seen in.. actually, he wasn't sure how long. Suddenly he's overcome by the urge to duck back inside, to hide away.

He resists it.

"...what's he... doin' back here?"

[breakbeatperfect1on]

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Acht seriously needed to start paying attention to the weather before they booked gigs. Things had been fine when they started their show, but by the time it ended? This downpour was bad enough to start a flash flood. And while there were other people around clearly annoyed by it, Acht was apparently the only one actually threatened by it, judging by the reactions.

They would have stayed inside the venue, and initially they had, but the venue was closed now. So that left them standing awkwardly on the small part of the covered porch, trying to keep as much distance between them and the liquid death currently raining down. How long was it going to keep pouring like this?

This was getting desperate. "Hey." They hated to ask strangers for anything, but if they didn't, they'd be in trouble. "Do you have... I don't know, an umbrella? Something? I've been stranded here for an hour now. I don't know how long it's gonna keep raining, and I really don't want to get dissolved."

[starpcwered]

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Tink…

Tink tink…

TONK TONK 

STOMP!

Onward two heroes bolt, clanging down the metallic floors of a corridor. Pokie charges, sensing out those familiar radiobands transmitted by her mech. Where could it have been taken? And another question…how? Boisterous shouting of guards coming in hot pursuit can barely cover the sound of the ensuant firefight.

“REX, I THINK ITS HERE- AH f- sh- ACCHK!”

…looks like she did not notice the sharp bend in the hallway, hardly adjusting her sprint in time and slamming her shoulder into the wall, her boot squealing on the floor as she slides. She quickly scrambles back to her mad dash, narrowly escaping a laser leaving a sizzling and smoking burn mark on the wall where her head was just a moment before. She is still reading the strong signal locating her mech… but…

“Hey, this hallway looks like… a recent edition,” she proclaims, noting the lack of scuffing on the floors compared to what it was on how-so-ever-far behind them. She begins to slow her pace. Compared to the passage before them, the light seems to be shrinking. It’s dark… Pokie completely stops.

“Wait… they stopped chasing us." She turns her head, taunting the guards, "HEY, YOU GUYS SCARED OF THE DARK-”

Her words halt on her lips as the breeze of some airlock-style door slams behind them. Strips of lighting illuminate the hall revealing it’s… actually a maze? So that's why they stopped... oh. Still wincing a little from her shoulder, she wonders aloud to Rex, “what’s this guy’s deal anyway?”

[littlest-centaurii]

⏳ someone they've known a long time

That would be my fathers- Lord Sunstar and Terra. They were the first faces I witnessed when I was activated.

[dustxechoes]

@stgzr

The signature redish haze of Rubicon's atmosphere concealed their approach, through otherwise snow-white clouds and dangerously high-speed winds.

"Heads up, Asura. You said you wanted a look at some 'Rubiconian historical sites', yeah? Well I convinced Uncle to authorize a scouting op."

Ziyi cut her boosters, sliding along the ground in a cloud of half melted snow as YUE YU came to a stop.

"Engebret Tunnel." She announced over her radio. "An old PCA watchpoint, from before the Closure System was finished. In the aftermath of the Fires of Ibis, Subject Guard would monitor for survivors from here...to terminate them. This is all the 'history' those fascists have left Rubicon. And rumor has it, they're trying to bring it back online."

All systems green. Her final checks completed as her AC entered combat mode, weapons systems shifting into place.

"In and out, Asura. Arshile won't be able to block their comms for long."

[technodromes]

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💽 Reach listens quietly without moving a muscle, soaking all the new information up like a sponge. The whole meaning behind clothes, it is more or less like he thought, based on his own observations and Warren's fractured memories.

Back then, Reach was wet and freezing when he found the green coat he's wearing now. He put on the coat without any second-thoughts, survival was all that mattered on that day.

"Clothes of different meanings were not of great importance to Warren. I... don't think. But, the coat I found to keep his... my body warm, I... there are workers that wear this kind of coat. And I thought, maybe... I should get something different? But I..."

There are so many different coats. As a former AI in charge of large profile databases, this shouldn't be so difficult to Reach. Pick a neutral coat that protects this body and leave. But why is he struggling so much with such a seemingly easy task?

"I don't understand why this is so difficult to me. It shouldn't be. I... I think I am annoyed by this predicament."

[5mind]

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"Hey now," Antares pouted under his mask. "If I really wanted to make the most of a casino I'd go in as an employee."

"Honestly, I was thinking you could just bust him out of the powersuit or something. And then he can figure things out on his own." Helping someone defect in itself was an act worthy of punishment, either demotion or something temporary but still painful and/or humiliating. But still, letting this one go would actually benefit him in the long run.

The villain-of-the-week was someone a lot like him - a man modified into a monster. Except Powersuiter Pangolin was 'gifted' a whole set of power armor with a 'safety lock' that won't let him out. Which was a waste considering that Pangolin had never really been the muscle type in Antares' humble opinion.

He'd never been the villainous type either.

[schattenmagier]

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There's Rex, punching oncoming meteors away from spaceship traffic... [[ Sci-Fi Lilli

" Vhat... zhe fuck... "

She has seen strange stuff before. Herself included. But a guy punching meteors is new. Lilli had been ready to turn off the autopilot of her spaceship to avoid the oncoming rocks herself when the alarm started to ring. But upon seeing the man she hesitated... Also because he was doing a good job on keeping them away from her and the other spacecrafts...

Looking around, she is not even the only one staring. Well, it's not something you see everyday. The lone spacefarer waited until Rex was done punching the meteors and protecting the ships before she slowly made her ship come closer to him and waves at the cosmic contender with a smile through the windshild of her ship.

" Hi! Nice vork you did zhere, Mister! Vould be zhe first time for me to see someone punch meteors! Are you using some kind of technology to do zhat? "