Here is the second chapter of OP, Yes Please!
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Previously on- Op, Yes Please!
It was here that Nicholas felt his confidence return to him and stay with him, here that for the first time since he arrived in the Wormverse he felt in control and he was not going to waste this chance.
"Kolki," she turned to face him questioningly "let's get to work." All around the room systems and creations long dormant spread across the workshop sprang to life for the first time in over half a decade, their purpose restored.
Now on- Op, Yes Please!
Chapter 2
The increasingly familiar orbs of Inspired Inventor and Power Manipulation made their way to the fron of his mind, answering his subconscious call, awaiting his orders. Thanks to World Breaker's effect all of the initial charges he spent on a power or specialization would be ranked a six or eight on the PRT power scale, depending on the complexity of the power, and each additional charge would increase its rating by an additional two to four points, again depending on the complexity of the power. Shattered Limiter also doubled the amount of charges he had at his disposal, and he would gain another charge each year or half-year depending on how often he got into fights, this meant he had ten charges for both powers and he had the potential to gain more.
However at this stage he was still soft and squishy and thus would need every advantage he could get his hands on. This meant tech and buffing powers lots and lots of buffing powers. So with that in mind he set about distributing his charges.
Two charges each went into weapon and armor systems, and three points into metallurgy. After a moment's indecision he decided to put the final five points into something called Neural Physics, a concept from the Haloverse that had been developed by the Precursors. This theory posited that Mantle of Responsibility, their religious/philosophic system that, encompassed the entire universe, including living beings, energy and matter. The theory they developed ended up blurring the line between philosophy and science, and using its principles they were able to create a transcendent form of technology, capable creating truly awe inspiring structures or to travel the stars. The way Neural Physics worked meant that even the most simple tech developed by Precursors were completely beyond even the Forerunner, their successors and one of the most technologically adept civilizations in their universe.
He had to work hard to prevent himself from running to the workbench as his charges went away and a flood of knowledge and ideas took their place, as he still had his ten charges in Power Manipulation to spend.
With some reluctance he held back and began to distribute his second wave of points. The first six points went split equally between Hypercompetence and Hypercognition. Hypercompetence made him a natural prodigy in almost every possible field or discipline, whether they are intellectual or practical, formal or mundane. For example he now could go to toe to toe with the best in mathematics, cooking, strategy, sports, games, politics, fighting, mechanics, psychology, economy, art, medicine, investigation, etc. It was the buff of all buffs, and Hypercognition only made it better.
Hypercognition gave him the power to instinctively perform complex mental operations beyond those of a normal human mind, making his mental processes of acquiring knowledge and his ability to understand through thought, experience, and his senses far more powerful than the average persons. But this still left him with four points to spend, points that he once again split only this time between Intuitive Aptitude and a power called Flowmotion.
Intuitive Aptitude gave him the power to almost instantly learn and understand the complexity and exactness of organisms, objects, et cetera. Without him needing any long-term or special education. This meant that any ability not enhanced by Hypercompetence he could easily learn once he came across it.
Flowmotion on the other hand was what it sounded like, a power based on movement. With this power he would be able to fluidly move around on land and, once he gained the ability to fly, in the air. This would allow him to perform feats such as kicking off almost any surface, air dash, swinging around lampposts, grinding along rails, fluidly connect physical attacks with coordinated follow ups, and for all intents and purposes getting every advantage possible out of his environment.
With all of his charges spent he had plenty of ideas he could implement, including a variety of super-strong alloys from metallurgy, but for him to use some of them he would need materials not necessarily native to this particular branch of the multiverse, so taking a shaking breath he let go of the orbs containing Inspired Inventor and Power Manipulation and grabbed Kaleidoscope with both hands, hanging on for dear life as everything rushed towards him
He flew past universe after universe, his consciousness jumping from branch to branch on the utterly massive tree that represented his multiverse. He said his multiverse because while he looked around he saw between the endless layers of splitting and interlocking branches other trees, and with them other multiverses. Not for the first time in his life did Nicholas realize how small he was in the grand scheme of things. He had all of these wonderful powers but as he looked around he finally knew just how little that meant in this vast web of creation and destruction, there would always be someone stronger, someone faster, someone smarter than him. That was just the nature of the multiverse, and he was strangely okay with that, he supposed Invictus was preventing him from having a mental break down, as his soul jumped down the tree searching for a limb that connected to one of the branches he was searching for, and with each limb he passed over he saw more and more of the great tapestry that spread all around him, each color and shade making up something more beautiful than any artist could ever hope to create, each emotion felt became more more meaningful in a way, no matter how small he was. Despite his relative unimportance to the big picture, in the little picture he could be one of the major players, he could help people and prevent the deaths of billions of people. That would be enough for him.
His personal crisis dealt with he continued to leap from universe to universe, mentally marking down ones that could be useful or were interesting in some way, he passed a few hundred more until he found a path that took him to a collection of the universes he was looking for. Once he was there it was easy to find what he needed, and with a simple tug he withdrew from the Kaleidoscope with his prizes in tow.
Opening his eyes he was greeted with pile after pile of some of the most well known metals in the Multiverse. Surrounding him, and currently being prodded by a few of the robotic assistants that had been in the lab before his little trip around the cosmos, were several tons worth of Promethium, Vibranium, Adamantium, Titanium, Vanadium, Gold, Nth Metal, and somer very very high quality iron.
"This is going to be awesome." He whispered to himself.
He spent the next two hours fiddling about with the metals using Psychokinetic to mix the metals in varying combinations and at different ratios. He discovered that he could not create any sort of alloy using Nth Metal without weakening the abilities of both it and whatever metal he was trying to combine it with, with the end result being a rather shiny lump of metal with all of the strength and abilities of wet clay.
That unfortunately meant that he had to scrap a few of his ideas, as well as some of the metal, and would have to use Nth Metal as it was if he managed to use the temperamental material at all. Granted its base abilities included gravity negation, the ability to speed up cellular regeneration in nearby organisms and protect them from extremes in temperature. It was also capable of increasing the strength of whoever was closest to or connected to the metal, through a process he was yet unsure of. But the fact remained he had been unable to make anything new with it and that annoyed him.
Granted he did have much better luck with the other metals, with the final alloy he created having the best of both...well seven worlds. The material which he had oh so creatively dubbed PAVTVIGium, pronounced Pah-Vit-Ig-Ium, was nigh-invulnerable, capable of absorbing and reflecting vibrations, generating and absorbing massive amounts of energy, was self repairing, and was immune to being manipulated by all but the most powerful of magnetokinetics.
Creating it had given him new perspective when it came to the words trial and error and he was pretty sure he had traumatized some of those worker bots after his attempts to combine two variations of Vibranium, namely Reverbium and Wakandan Vibranium which respectively reflected and absorbed kinetic energy through vibrations, with Promethium, which was capable of producing some absolutely ridiculous levels of energy, ended rather explosively. Luckily none of them were damaged as Kolki was able to project a energy shield quick enough to contain the blast, but still the little mechanical wonders were rather skittish around the new materials now, in fact he was pretty sure he saw one of them poking at the metal piles with a pair of tongs as if it were checking if the metals were alive, before emitting a few light chirps and rushing back to its fellows apparently relating some great story in a series of fast paced beeps and clicks. That had caught his attention as it implied that the robotic assistants that Professor Meroe had created at least had some form of intelligence, and while they were probably nowhere near Kolki's level, they were more than likely sentient, if not sapient, to some degree.
But that was a thought for later, and for the most part the experiment had been a success and he now had all of the materials he would need to begin construction of his suit
But that raised the question what kind of hero would he be. He remembered that in India capes were divided not just between hero and villain but also between those capes who were photogenic, gregarious, and engaging to the public and capes who were dark, violent, and intimidating. They termed them "Hot" and "Cold" capes, and while he wasn't going to base himself entirely off this system, it did make him wonder about how he was going to represent himself. Did he want to be a dark hero who struck fear into the hearts of criminals and villains, like the caped crusader of Gotham City, or did he want to served as an inspiration to all of mankind, like Metropolis' man of steel.
In all honesty they both sounded nice, the first would make Villains and Heroes alike, far less likely to break the law or cross him in some way, but it would drive others away leaving him isolated and alone, not to mention what would happen once something scarier came along.
Becoming like Supes was tempting as all hell, he would be loved by the public at large and would receive widespread support from the population, but it would also mean the Villains and Heroes would care less about upsetting him and it would also severely restrict his crime fighting options to things that were suitably "Heroic".
Honestly he kind of wanted to be Iron Man because, besides letting him live out a childhood fantasy, Iron Man had powers to build all of the equipment he was going to be using and depending on what version of Iron Man he drew inspiration from he could be both a popular public figure and a major deterrent to anyone in the cape population getting any funny ideas.
You know what, screw it, he had the power, he had the smarts, and thanks to his perks he had the charm, why not try for a bit of all three.
He could model his appearance and equipment off of the tech created by Iron Man with some systems developed by Bats thrown in for good measure. And as his power continued to develop he could make himself more and more like Supes… Ooh! Ooh! He could go for a All Might vibe as well if he wanted, become Earth-Bet's "SYMBOL OF PEACE AND JUSTICE!". The look on people's faces would be entertaining enough, and when he hit them with a Plus Ultra they would just get even better.
Well now that he had that planned out he just needed to make the equipment he would need.
The next twenty three hours were a flurry of frenzied activity, and during that time he, Kolki, and the robotic assistants molded metal, attached circuitry, assembled designs, and wrote millions of lines of code to run various programs. It was without a doubt one of the most amazing work intensive activities he had ever done in his life. But it was worth it.
The final project was based on the Mark 51 Iron Man armor of Earth-616, as the suit could be easily modified to fit his frame and improved upon as his powers developed. The only real difference was the helmet, which he had modeled after the modified spangenhelm worn by the Captain America of Earth-19999, though without the wings and with retractable plates to protect his eyes and mouth.
The armor was made up of two layers, with the outermost shell of armored plates made up of the PAVTVIGIum alloy, with the underlayer made of a mottled gray mesh of Nth metal. Brilliant blue lights could be found all across the surface of the suit, serving both as decorations and conduits for the hidden backup reactors that powered each individual piece of the suit.
In the center of the armor's chest was a copy of Ironman's signature Arc Reactor, located within a hexagonal compartment and protected by a transparent nanoceramic casing. This reactor, and its smaller cousins that he mentioned earlier, served as the main power source for the armor and the numerous systems and gadgets he had installed as well, drawing off of the natural energy that was constantly being emitted by the Promethium that could be found in its construction.
He had decided not to include all that many weapon systems in the design, as he was already a certified powerhouse and could use the extra space that freed up in his armor for other tools and systems. He had only really included five systems that were to be used directly as weapons. The first of which were the repulsor pads contained within compartments that could be found on the suit's palms and on the soles of its boots, as well as the large one found smack dab in the middle of his chest. From these pads he was able to fire a hire density muon beam that could be projected as a powerful blast of concussive and thermal energy. This beam was actually made much more powerful than his original design had predicted, as the nanoceramic casing he mentioned earlier, the one that protected the main Arc Reactor, doubled as a lens that seemed to magnify the power of the beam. Which he had discovered after a small test during the building stage, where he had once more managed to spook his assistants. Despite that little accident the lens performed well enough where he made several more lenses to be included into the casings on all of the pads.
The next system he included was actually the most simple as it was simply a number of pads on the fingers and on both the back of his gauntlets and on the palms of his suit, surrounding the casing of the repulsor pads, that acted like high powered tasers that could be used in close quarters combat when he did not want to do any permanent damage to his opponent. But after he finished that addition his designs started to get more and more outlandish.
The most "normal" of the last three designs was the Mk. 6 Ballistic Smart Gauntlet, nicknamed the BSG. It was a compact wrist mounted weapon system, with two main means of dealing damage, and a backup weapon in case an enemy got to close for comfort.
On the dorsal side of his wrist was a weaponized directed-energy beam system, with one larger, central laser, and two flanking lasers, that could be fired separately or together. Like the repulsor pads they drew energy from the Arc Reactor that powered the suit, and they were capable of launching a flurry of small blasts or a single high powered beam that was capable of easily cutting through most materials. This beam however was also capable of arcing in a circumferential path back to its source, creating a controlled energy circuit and what was essentially a lightsaber.
But that was only one of the systems in the BSG, as on the palmar side of the gauntlet was two weapons. The first of which was a retractable segmented nanoceramic blade, eight inches long, but its segments were capable of separating to create a bladed whip like weapon with spear head like tips, or a strong grappling hook that could be used in combat or to make a quick escape. He was capable of running an electrical current through these blades turning them into powerful tasers that he could either stab someone with or wrap around them.
The last weapon was built around the compartment that held the wrist blade, and had been dubbed the Hydra Smart Gun. It was a three barreled automatic or semiautomatic capable firearm, that fired specialized smart bullets that had been produced specifically for the HSG. The bullets were programmed to target an enemies head, chest, or limbs after locking on using his suit's and the BSG's integrated heads-up-display. The HSG was also capable of firing a variety of tracking and explosive darts, along with a number of syringes filled with poisons and sedatives.
In the forearm section of the suit's vambraces he had installed a system of fast-acting nanofabricators that would allow him to almost instantaneously project or build any downloaded designs as long as the nanofabbers had material to work with. Currently there were only a few designs in there most of which were grenades, and a few basic tools. The more common grenade types he decided to include were gas, thermite, and fragmentation grenades, as well as a few dedicated EMP grenades, and a modified sonic grenade that once activated would emit a constant barrage of debilitating sound waves. However he did include two designs he "borrowed" from the Haloverse.
They were the Z-040 pulse grenade and the Z-400 splinter grenade. Design wise the two grenades were similar with a cube like body and either eight, the pulse grenade, or six, the splinter grenade, pyramidal projections.
They did have different functions though. The Z-040 pulse grenade, was intended to be used for area denial would after being thrown forcefully detonate and form a hazardous ionization sphere which he could then collapse at will, destroying or severely damaging anyone or anything unfortunate enough to be caught in its radius.
The Z-400 on the other hand was a bit more insidious. As once it detonated the grenade would split apart and form a ionized lattice cloud of "sparks". Whenever someone came into contact with this field, some of or all of the sparks would detonate and disintegrate whoever was dumb enough to walk into the giant glowing lightning bubble. The ionized lattice would additionally create a electromagnetic pulse that would knock out any unshielded tech that entered the cloud.
The final weapon systems he had installed a was a portable hard light projector, that doubled as a miniature-particle-accelerator, that was placed alongside the nanofabricators. When used as a particle accelerator the system allowed him to project accelerated beams of ionized particles in various modes and shapes. He could launch clusters of concentrated explosive charges, single powerful bolts capable of disintegrating matter, or a barrage of particles in a stream or a shotgun like pattern capable of tearing massive chunks out of his targets and superheating the wounds they left behind.
The hard light projector itself was a bit more versatile as it was just as much a tool as it was a weapon. Using the generators he could project shields, blades, and even extra layers of armor, but he could also project bridges, platforms, ladders, cages, struts to hold up collapsing structures, and even create hardware while in the field. The sheer number of applications this kind of tech had was staggering and he was still coming up with ideas on how to use it.
That wasn't to say he had skimped out on systems that were not specifically designed for conflict as well. A number of sensors arrays, a customisable heads-up-display, a global positioning system, and a internal database that included all of the information Kolki could find on the various individuals that made up Earth-Bet's Parahuman population, as well as displays for navigation, power levels and vitals were all built into the suit's helmets. A automated medical system as well as a shielding against EMPs, radiation, explosives, and every other kind of threat his thinker enhanced mind could think of, had been built into the limbs and torso assembly.
Into the suit's visor he had also built in a number of vision modes alongside his HUD, which include X-ray, thermal and night vision, alongside what he liked to refer to as detective mode. While using detective mode, the suit will highlight items that may be useful to an investigation. This includes finger, shoe, and footprints, alongside biological material such as blood, urine, stool or semen. Any wounds or abnormalities in or on a person's body as well as any weapons in sight whether they are conventional or improvised. This mode had been added after he had remembered the recent Batman games and how useful the mode had been in the investigation.
Besides all of this he had managed to include one more system that was arguably the most impressive of them all. Named the Autonomic Prehensible System, or the APS, this system meant that each part of the suit could be summoned to his position using physical gestures, and those pieces would then begin to lock themselves onto his body, forming the suit without the need for specialized equipment, and allowing him to build multiple identical pieces that he could just fly over to replace any damaged parts in the field.
Their were fifteen pieces that made up the entirety of the suit, and divided it up into sections. These sections were the Backplate, with the attached helmet, the suit's breastplate, a pair of gauntlets, the front and back halves of his cuisses, the suit's codpiece, a loin guard, a pair of rerebraces, pauldrons, sollerets, with attached greaves, a tail guard, and the suits detachable mouthplate.
When the pieces latched onto his body, the solid plates would extend articulated pieces that would reach out to latch with the adjoining component piece, such as the rerebraces and the gauntlets would jointly create the elbow connection between them. This gave his power suit a level of adaptability, and meant that he could easily form another suit around him should an individual piece end up getting damaged
The final piece of his equipment while not part of the suit proper was a dark blue utility belt with a silver buckle with a blue design similar in appearance to his Arc Reactors, that would make Bruce Wayne green with envy. In that belt were a number of types of pellets with either brittle or soft and pliable shells that had several different uses. Tools for accessing or improving maneuverability such as lockpicks, an rebreather, and a cryptographic sequencer. Tools for use in crime scenes such as handcuffs, zip ties, evidence bags and a fingerprint dusting kit. As well as a number of miscellaneous items such as an emergency first aid kit, a spare communications device, a micro recorder, and a miniature power cell to power or recharge his equipment if for some reason he was unable to and both the promethium and arc reactors in the suit failed to produce energy. But it was the final piece of the equipment and he was almost done.
Now that he had the suit actually built there was just one step left and with a thought and a wave of his hand he manipulated the surface of the armor changing its silvery color scheme to one that was both navy blue and muted white. The main body of the suit had been colored blue, with white sections on his abdomen and hips, as well as his inner thighs and the back of his calves and forearms. Smaller sections could be found on his pauldrons and gauntlets, and a single ring of white stretched from each side of his helmet eye holes around the back of his head, and a final patch could be found under his chin.
It had taken him forever to build but it was worth it he had his costume, he had weapons, and… he was actually kind of hungry. How long had he been working.
"Twenty-five hours." Kolki stated simply after he voiced his question. Well that would explain it, he mused slightly surprised at how he had let time get away from him like that. He would have to get a clock or something later and he had a new wave of charges to spend, but first food. The only question was whether or not he had to walk all the way to the top floor to get something to eat, or if Kolki could do something about that to.
It wasn't even a second after he voiced his request that he heard molecular assembler boot up and a loaded tray of food appeared. Two loaded breakfast sandwiches with eggs, tomatoes, mayonnaise, parsley, and a few sausage patties stacked on two slices of texas toast. Along with a large glass, well more of a pitcher really, of iced water to drink. Quickly thanking Kolki he grabbed the tray and began to dig in, while in his mind he once more reached for Power Manipulation and Inspired Inventor.
He had already used four out of his five powers, and he figured now would be as good a time as any to start working with Shaper. But first he was going to use his charges to improve his knowledge on 'wetwork' tinkertech, because there was no way in hell he was going to mess with his biology without knowing exactly what he was going to do. So with that in mind six charges went into biological upgrades and modifications, and a single point went into biochemistry. This granted him some 'blueprints' on what he could do to improve his squishy and fleshy bits. The last three points went into Augmentation, which gave him a more technologically bent way to improve his physiology and ideas on prosthetics that were so similar to actual limbs and organs that they were basically indistinguishable from the original they were replacing.
This time it was easier to hold himself back from rushing to put his designs into practice as he had something else to focus on, namely food, and holy shit he was never going back to regular meals because that assembler made a mean sandwich. Taking another bite out of his second sandwich he spent two charges in efficient movement, which would allow him to perform any movement or body acceleration with less energy or force then what would usually be required to do, meaning he could go from laying on the ground to standing up much quicker than usual without the normally required forces and energy, or do any movement transition or any movement in general whatsoever. He noted that after he spent the charges his new power attached itself to flowmotion flow, seems like similar powers tended to build off of and reinforce one another. He would just call that cluster of powers the 'motion cluster' from now on, and unless he was able to come up with something better he would probably follow a similar naming structure for future clusters.
The other eight charges he poured into a buffing ability much like hypercompetence or intuitive aptitude, but instead of buffing skills it buffed his physical stats. The power he was speaking of was supernatural condition, which would push him far beyond the level a baseline human could hope to achieve, making him immensely strong, fast, and durable as well as greatly enhancing his senses. However this wide ranging buff meant that his charges would be split evenly amongst all of the improved attributes, and if he wanted to make any real progress with this power he would have to spend quite a few charges on it, hence the rest of today's charges going into this one power.
While other powers could be useful in the short term, he wanted to survive in the wormverse, in the same branch of the multiverse as the Endbringers, Scion and the rest of the Entities, and Slaughterhouse Nine. Speaking of which he had to figure out where they were and soon, because thanks to his complications as soon as he made a name for himself they would be coming after him. But once again he would have to push those thoughts to the side for now, because right now he had to test his new abilities and more importantly, he thought finishing the last of his sandwich and taking a swig from his pitcher/cup thing, it was time for more Tinkering.
It had taken him less than half an hour to recreate the different designs he had come up with on the 3D-holographic-interface, from which Kolki had downloaded the designs and had tasked the 'Squidwards', as he had finally dubbed the robotic assistants due to their tentacle like mechadendrites, with build them while he concentrated on using Shaper to work on the different biological based upgrades his charges had granted him.
Manipulating his biomass alongside what biomass he was able to generate using Shaper, he set about recreating his body.
His first addition was a secondary heart, that would allow him to survive if his other heart is damaged or destroyed, and to survive in low oxygen environments, it would also boost the flow of blood around his body. The second addition, a organ he called the Belisarian Furnace connected both of his hearts. In times of extreme stress or trauma, it would expel self-manufactured chemicals similar to combat stimulants that also aided in regeneration.
He also created an extra lung that would activate whenever he needed to breathe in low-oxygen or poisoned atmospheres, due to it acting as a highly efficient toxin dispersal system, or even below water. In this situation his natural lungs were closed off by a sphincter muscle, and his newest organ would take over breathing operations.
Taking several of the PAVTVIGium ingots, he manipulated them into thin coils and cables and moved them into his body through his limbs, he than used them to the sinews in his body. If they worked as he thought they would, the coils would magnify his already terrifying strength, by contracting and extending, the coils would also give him another layer of interior defense.
Into his main circulatory system he implanted an organ, named a Haemastoma, that would increase the haemoglobin content of his blood, making it bright red as a consequence but also much more efficient at carrying oxygen around his body.
Into his chest cavity and connected to his circulatory system was a liver-shaped organ about the size of a golf ball that he called a Larraman. Should he be wounded the organ would generate and direct 'Larraman cells' into his bloodstream and to the site of the wound, by attaching themselves to the leucocytes in his body. Upon contact with air they would form a near instant patch of scar tissue, sealing any wounds he may have suffered.
The next organ he created the Preomnor, was essentially a pre-stomach that could neutralise otherwise poisonous or indigestible foods. No actual digestion would take place in the preomnor, as it acted primarily as a decontamination chamber placed before the natural stomach in the body's system. In the event of a particularly troublesome intake the Preomnor can be isolated from the rest of his digestive tract until the issue is dealt with.
The next half dozen modifications were all located somewhere in his head, and the first of these modifications, a pea-sized organ called the Catalepsean Node, was implanted directly into the back of his brain. The Catalepsean Node influenced the circadian rhythms of sleep and his bodies response to sleep deprivation. If deprived of sleep, the Catalepsean Node would cut in, allowing him to be both asleep and awake at the same time by switching off areas of his brain sequentially. This process would not be able to replace sleep entirely, but it would increases his survivability in the field by allowing perception of the environment while resting. This means that he now needs no more than a single hour of sleep a day, and could potentially go for two weeks without any sleep at all.
The second modification the Sus-an Membrane had ended up having to be completely merged with his brain. The membrane allowed him to enter a state of suspended animation, consciously or as an automatic reaction to extreme trauma, keeping him alive for years, even if he had suffered otherwise mortal wounds. He would stay in this state until his other powers or organs had managed to heal him.
He had ended up completely replacing his original ears, although the new ones were externally indistinguishable from a normal ear, internally however was another matter entirely. They had been set up in order to make him immune to dizziness and motion sickness, as well as allowing him to consciously filter out and enhance certain sounds.
His eyes also been completely replaced and the replacements set up in such a way as to allow him to see into the infrared and ultraviolet range. His eyesight had also been improved so that he now had vision comparable to that of an eagle, night vision comparable to that of an owl, and underwater vision comparable to that of an shark.
The last of two his new head based organs, were both located in his throat or mouth. The first of these two organs, the Neuroglottis enhanced his sense of taste to such a high degree that he would be able to identify many common chemicals by taste alone, and if he had a sample he could probably track his dargets down by tasting the scent they left behind. The other organ the Betcher's Gland actually consisted of two identical glands, implanted into his salivary glands. The gland works in a similar way to the poison gland of venomous reptiles by synthesizing and storing deadly poison, which he was himself immune to due to the gland's presence. This allowed him to spit a blinding contact poison, that could also be made to be extremely corrosive in nature, able to burn away even the strongest of metals given sufficient time.
The next organ he worked on, the Oolitic Kidney, worked in conjunction with his secondary heart and allowed him to filter his blood very quickly, rendering him immune to most poisons. In everyday life the Oolitic Kidney's function would be to monitor his circulatory system and allow his other organs to function effectively.
The last of his new organic modifications, the Mucranoid, would allow him to sweat a substance that would coat his skin and offer him a resistance to both extreme heat and extreme cold, and even provide some temporary protection if he got stuck in a vacuum.
Now that he had finished the purely biological modifications he grabbed whatever Implants the Squidwards were able to build and use Shaper to integrate them into his new physiology. They had actually been able to build quite a few of his designs while he had been working on his body, and the creations slid into place like pieces of a puzzle. The Reflex Booster, which was designed to boost his reflex action, attached itself to the central nervous nod in his spine. The Noiception Regulator attached itself to his cardiovascular system, and began to affect his nociceptors, dulling feelings of bodily harm and enhancing his stamina as well.
The Empathy Synthesizer was implanted in his brain, where it would allow him to more easily pick up other's body language and signals more easily. The Optics Enhancer, was as the name suggested implanted directly into his optic nerve, and would amplify his optic signals to the brain improving his already amazing vision.
The Logic Co-Processor and the Probability Calculator were both implanted near or in his frontal lobe, with the former improving his cognitive function, and the later making it easier for him to calculate odds, which unlike Han Solo he did want to know.
The next implant the Nemean Subdermal Armor was implanted directly under his skin bolstering the cells there making them much tougher. The Phoenix Monocyte Breeder, like the Nemean Subdermal Armor also affected his cells but in a different way. The Monocyte Breeder was designed to speed up the regeneration of cells within his body, similar to that of a lizard or sea creature, allowing him to quickly heal wounds while his new organs stopped them from killing him. The last of the implants going in is body was the the Hypertrophy Accelerator, which boosted his adrenal glands starting a controlled increase in his muscle mass.
While this was the last implant going within him, it was not the last implant he created, that honor belonged to Implant C-13. Implant C-13 was basically a bastardized version of Armsmaster's combat prediction programs, and functioned in much the same way, allowing him to quickly learn any quirks or patterns they may have while fighting and constantly updating using newly collected data.
With all of his implants and organs in place he finally put the Pièce De Résistance, and used Shaper one last time to change his biology in order to hold everything together. First off he increased the molecular density of the cellular fibers in his skin and muscles using synthetic proteins, which had the effect of connecting and improving all of the organs and implants that improved his physical abilities. He also enhanced the metabolic, cellular, and chemical processes in his body, enhancing both his recovery and healing abilities , as well as allowing him to build up a greater resistance to fatigue and exhaustion, This meant he would be capable of fully recovering from an injury without the use of drugs, medicines, or other medical or therapeutic treatments. In addition he also enhanced the effects dopamine, testosterone, adrenaline, and various other endorphins and hormones had in order to further amplify his physical and mental performance.
It also gave him a body that he was exceedingly proud of, and he will admit to spending the next ten minutes simply checking himself out in a mirror studiously ignoring a giggling Kolki. He went from an average five foot six inches and 206 lbs, to a whopping six foot six and 305 pounds of pure heavily corded muscle... oh cool he had a six pack now. His short black hair was a little longer now, he noted absentmindedly brushing it to the right, and his dark almond shaped eyes seemed a little softer and a quite a bit warmer than before.
A rather large step up from the short pudgy asian kid he was before, he noted finally turning away from the mirror and to his armor.
"Kolki prep one of the training rooms." He said rolling his shoulders getting a rather satisfying crack in return "I want to get some practice in before my first day on the job."
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