Hey I'm glad drowsels let me do this, and I hope I can fit my guy in snug so the universe doesn't explode. Without further adu I guess you should all say hello to Stan

-s-

"Soldering iron"

"Here"

"Hold this" I said handing my tweezers to Nia

"Got it" she said and all I needed to do was connect these spots too aaaand there. I set down my work and looked at my companion, one friend it seems. As we looked at the arc shot the first combination of the remnant and human technology.

"So what's it supposed to do?" said Nia as she pushed a strand of purple hair out of her eye and handed my tweezers back so I could replace them in the toolbox.

"well if my prototype works it's supposed to use a normal grenade's range in an explosion, but it will instead of exploding send out an emp-like blast, that will knock the nervous systems of any active organic within the radius."

"I'm security. You lost me at grenade."

"It's an E.M.P. for people, non-lethal"

"Soooo you made a Taser that somehow keeps the person and a grenade that knock people out. As one of the people in the field I ask these are only so effective, and then somebody wakes up and kills your best friend in this damn place. Thoughtful?"

"These keep people down for hours so as long as you don't stand over them for a long time you'll be fine"

A doo opened in and a very commanding man came out. Commander Tai yang as his tag was shown saluted the strangely for a soldier, dressed woman known as Nia.

"Anything new for me Stan?"

I hate this guy, Thought Stan as a large black block holstered on the back of his shoulder started blinking with light and a musical tone.

"Why do you keep a tablet computer holstered on your back like it's some kind of weapon? It has no use in the field"

"I like to keep it close by. It is my best tool for when I go in the field with you, or do you need me to be taught new things and stop development."

"We give you a gun! Use it." He said holding his pistol and shoving it into Stan's chest, making him jump.

"If you recall from the firing range a month ago every time I use one of these I punch myself in the face. An overall avoidable experience" he said with sarcasm in his voice. Just after that Nia stepped in-between them. Looking at her friend in the eyes.

"Hey stancil, how about you show off the new toy to the commander I think he'll like it" she just stared at him for a second. All he did was pulling out his computer from its holster on his shoulder and closed the window that was flashing. He then typed in some keyboard shortcut to pull up an animated video.

"As you can see the design is supposed to explode with a mix of dust and gunpowder allowing for a shock to the cerebral cortex . . ."

"That will disconnect it from the spine for a nice clean kill?"

"No it's a knockout"

"You've seen what aura can do Stan we need things that will take these remnoids out quickly. All this will do is allow them to inform commanders about our abilities." He yelled "Nia I need to talk to you in private" he led Nia out of the room. After they were gone Stan reopened the program he had closed, seeing the words 'VIDEOS COPIED' on the screen. He opened the file it presented looking to see a list of cameras and locations even seeing live feeds. Pulling up a feed from Xiao long's office he watched as the man pulled out some file he couldn't read and pulled something up on his computer then began to speak.

"Reporting in doctor: new information has been reported by the agent. She's been able to lean convince him to make some more practical designs but he is resistive. Our agent is surprisingly good at the psychology of "friendship" kzkzkzkzkzt" 'file corrupted' said the computer

"What the fuck" said Stan as he smacked the side of his monitor then sighed. He then began typing pulling up what he called the recovery program so that he could find the bugs needed to fix so he could view the file then he reopened the list just in time to hear Nia walk in with the commander.

"I'll be taking my leave but I expect something actually useful next time I check in on you. Or we may have to just stop the agreement about family. Really amazing that your government would allow that. But since you won't comply I need to use the big gun."

"YOU SON OF A BITCH. IF I HEAR ONE WORD ABOUT MY SISTER THAT I FIND WRONG THEN ILL GUT YOU AND YOUR GODDAMN DAUGHTER!"

"THEN YOULL SHUT YOUR GOD DAMN MOUTH UNLESS YOU WANT YOUR PHONE PRIVILEDGES TAKEN!" he yelled

Then Stan just looked down knowing his defeat. The commander left after feeling a venomous look from Nia. As he left Stan reopened the computer he hadn't realized he closed. Nia then looked at Stan putting on an obviously fake smile trying to cheer him up. Walking over to a piece of paper on his desk with some rough sketches, picking one up and carrying it over to Stan, And asking

"This looks like a gun" she said with a tear. She handed him the drawing and for the first time today he looked her up and down. Her curvaceous figure was hugged by the green and purple suit and the strange addition of dirt brown for her normal shirt underneath. Then her heterchromial eyes split between green and a strange purple that seemed impossible for a normal human. She said that that was where her semblance started to change her but it made stan suspicious. she always had a pistol holstered at her side(she said it was glock but stan didn't think that glocks were cost effective) that he assumed had the safety on.

" yeah have you ever heard of a railgun?"

"some mig benefactor guy hitting on me said that whoever gets one of those things in space will win all wars ever or something like that"

"it's a special device that uses magnets to send out anything made of metal faster than any bullet we've been able to make. Until now a miniaturized version for battlefield use was only theoretical, but with this prototype I might have cracked the coefficient for gravity allowing projectile strength but that requires calculations I don't have time for but this rambling has seemed to give me a new idea for a vehicle powered by a dust battery replacing an internal combustion engine, and when im finished with these two projects the commander may finally get off my back about slaughter weapons and how dangerous anyone with an aura is."

"hey that's not fair you know what happened to his daughter. Something like that can scare even the best soldier I know."

"what little miss 'make me shotguns with swivels because im apparently the perfect martial artist and I want a weapon with ten feet of range'. Please give me a break she doesn't deserve the rank she has let alone any given to her for using my inventions like the aura scanners"

"hey you may want to watch your tone . . . "

"and on his high horse he sits with some fucking boner for killing anyone with an active aura. Then threatens my family for trying to slow the murder spree."

"THAT'S ENOUGH"

"WHAT"

"no his other daughter. How have you have you not heard the stories after living here for a goddamn month?"

"you do understand how hard it is to make this stuff, im combining 2 dimensions worth of tech that aren't really compatible."

"it varies from source to source on how exactly it happened, and don't ask him about it. But his second daughter was born with some kind of defect. She was one of the first people to be killed by an aura powered person." As soon as she finished talking he just shut down and pulled out his computer.

"doesn't exactly excuse him. Hes got some double agent somewhere wanna help me find out?"

"where'd you get that info?" she said a look of concern showing on her face

"I made a program to hack into the base I used to be stationed at that was overseen by a genius doctor but here it still worked surprisingly well even though some of the files were corrupted." Then he clicked the footage from the hallway outside from a few minutes ago. As he pulled up the video they both heard a loud explosion outside and the computer pulled up a live feed and saw some men and women in hoods and weird masks followed by 2 teenagers, a 20 year old woman and some man in a suit and fedora

"the white fang" said nia

Well stan is introduced and hopefully characterized enough to be liked 2 shoutouts needed one o kingxana0 writer of jaunes bad day and person who can really do that special kind of ecchi comedy I can enjoy . . . in small doses. And the there's the great drowsels (deow79) who let me do this