Chapter 3: Improved Part 1
Morning had come, and Irelia immediately felt like something was wrong. She looked out her window and saw smoke rising from the sea. She quickly put on whatever she could find and rushed outside bare feet. She soon made her way down to the pier where Karma, Master Yi, Shen and the other ninjas were. They too were concerned and looked on wondering what happened.
"Do you think that's it's the ferry that left yesterday?" A citizen asked.
"Not sure, they were at least five of them that left yesterday, could be anyone one of them…" another answered.
Karma and Master Yi saw Irelia coming, and upon seeing the smoke rising in the distance, she felt like something shattered in her heart. Her knees went weak as she fell onto her all fours on the concrete pier. Master Yi wanted to go to her, but Karma and Shen already knew what happened. Shen held Yi back by placing his hand on his shoulder.
"I know how it looks Yi, but…she needs to be alone right now. At least for a while…" Karma told him in a sad tone. Karma could sense that Irelia had lost someone very important to her, so could Shen. And judging by the smoke, they knew that it was indeed the boat that her best friend was on. Irelia knelt on the concrete, her tears falling harmlessly to the ground, her eyes blurry from the pain of losing her best friend. Like a light had just gone out in her life. Dragging herself back to her feet she stumbles a bit then stands properly, though her shoulders were heavily drooped. With her head low, she made her way back home only to lock herself in her room and mourn for her friend.
A distraught Viktor sits on a bench looking at the river. His mind in shambles as to what to do next now that Jayce had destroyed his lab. All his research was gone; he had nothing, except for a few tools, gadgets and other things he managed to stuff in a small box to save. He had nothing now, until. A gadget that Viktor had built into his mask had started going off. A bleeping sound would signal that something of power or salvageable was nearby. Upon seeing this, he got up and followed the directions it displayed in his mask.
That's when he came upon a young girl's body floating in the river. Her red hair was bloody and her body bore a large hole with several claw marks in her stomach. The girl lay lifeless, she was dead, though strangely enough, the magic should've left her body, though it seemed to be circling her like an aura. He held onto her hand but she started flowing down the river. Thinking quickly he grabbed her by the shirt with the third arm mounted on his shoulder. This intrigued Viktor, he then used his third arm on his shoulder to pull the body out of the water and flung it over his shoulder.
As he made his way back to his ruined lab he moved a few pieces of debris and clicked a button on his belt. Surprisingly the doors opened and he made his way inside. With electricity still running Viktor flicked the switch on the wall as he entered bringing light to the dark. What was revealed was a long tunneled out hallway with several doors leading to different rooms. He casually walked down the hallway and entered the last room on his right. He switched on the electricity for the room as well, which revealed a fairly large work table along with a sink an office desk and a few pieces of furniture.
"Never thought I'd be using this lab again." Viktor said to himself. He placed the almost lifeless body on the work table and took a look around for any tools he may have left in the old location. Viktor had built this place under his lab around the same time that he was made a champion of the League. He thought that he should make some place that he could lay low in case things went wrong. He managed to find a few power tools and cutting tools, a few metallic materials that he could make some kind of armor or skeleton from and his old documents and files of things that he thought were failures if ideas.
He took all that he found back to the small lab and put them on nearby the office desk, he took up an old book which he drew several designs of cannons and exoskeleton body parts. As he looked at the diagrams and ideas that he had in the past from within the book he figured out what he would do with the girl and he began his work with a recording.
"Specimen NO: 00115, October 15th, 0207 OCE"
"Time: 15:00hrs"
"I found the body of a young girl seemingly between her late teens and early adolescence. The girl is still alive, barely...but alive nonetheless. I will attempt to bring life back into the female's body using several techmaturgy and hextech tools to fuse her destroyed body parts with. Removing clothing…"
Viktor noticed the girl's body jerk heavily when the scissors touched her skin. At first he thought that she was alive, but quickly realized that it was her bodies last reaction.…
"Upon removing the clothes I found three large entry wounds in the abdomen of the specimen. Shape of the wounds appears to have been made by some kind of bladed weapon." (Stretching and slapping of latex followed by squishy, sticky sounds.)
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"Wounds are very deep indeed. All three wounds have penetrated deep within the organs of the specimen. The liver, small intestine and stomach. Specimen wouldn't have died directly from the weapons entry, but from the blood loss due to bleeding out. Extreme shock of the pain would place the specimen in a paralyzed state, what could've kept her alive for so long?"
"That is all I can see of the specimen. Data collected, I shall begin work on her body parts, starting with the left arm."
Viktor would return to the ruins of his old lab and search for anything he could find that he could use as a metal for the arm. He had made a quick sketch of her arm and needed something both flexible and still highly resilient, so he started digging through some old excess metals he left in a nearby storeroom. There he found several slabs of metal that he was meant to use before Jayce's unfriendly visit. "Polyphorum" a metal that was both flexible and resilient. It was so flexible in fact that it could be bent to extreme angles or even twisted and contorted.
He needed this to help with the impact of things coming towards her. As proven, things that are ridged are easier to penetrate than things that are flexible it was also very lightweight, which was perfect for new parts. Taking three slabs of this metal back to his underground lab, he placed it one against the wall and started scratching out the design or the new arm into the metal. He then moved it to the floor and started cutting it out; he calibrated his death laser to act as a torch to slowly cut through the tough rare material.
"Specimen NO: 00115, October 16th OCE"
"Time: 01:30hrs"
"I finally completed the skeleton of the arm that will replace the girl's broken left arm. I've managed to acquire some metal that I was studying before that wretched Defender of Tomorrow's interruption."
"As I suspected the metal itself can withstand tremendous amounts of force and kinetic energy and it is flexible enough to bend and twist without worry for damage. Though it does have weak spots, which reside in the areas that I have cut and or welded. I will have to remember that fact and find a way to cover up those weak spots."
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"Progress: I tried to model the design after her own arm to try to make it look as match-able as possible. I was able to make the outer skeleton to a size that it could hold all of the components."
The energy forming around the girl's body seemed to be intensifying as I work and as much as I hate to admit, I have sometimes felt…a little "uneasy" around the specimen. It's as if the energy itself has a mind of its own. I cannot do anything to stop it, though in time, if I must, I will attempt to make a suppression device for her power."
Viktor would start making several components, devices, mechanisms and other small objects to place inside the hollow arm. He tested the arms mechanisms using the same technique that he did for the third arm on his shoulder. As he worked with it, he would make it fold to a fist, open all the fingers and stretch and turning of the wrist. All looked well, though he was missing one final thing; a device to allow it to transform to its assault mode. He had thought about placing the cannon in the palm, but them he figured he could do something a little different.
He unfortunately had to go out and "borrow" the small remote for it. He would then make a type of chip that would connect the arm to the brain wirelessly this would allow for smooth usage of the arm and would feel somewhat natural.
He was done with the cyber-arm; he headed over to the girl. First he made sure that she was fully asleep due to the gas he made her inhale and proceeded to cut off the arm with a saw that the hospitals would use to amputate without much thought. The human arm fell like a rag doll to the ground. He would then carefully remove any excess bone and skin that would obstruct the placement of the new arm. Using the same saw he carefully did this and seemed to smile under the lab mask as he hadn't damaged the collarbone or ball joint on the shoulder. He would continue by placing the arm next to the body and lining it up perfectly.
He didn't put it to touch the body as yet as he turned his back to get the tool to "apply" the arm to the joint and bones. He would hear the sound of metal grinding against metal and immediately turned around.
"My eye augments must be malfunctioning. I am witnessing the power around the girl slowly move the cybernetic arm to the body. This is…amazing."
(Sound of metal scraping, followed by slow footsteps)
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"I am approaching the body. I can clearly see the shape of a hand made by the dark energy surrounding her . I've never seen anything like this."
(Metal scraping stops)
(Silence)
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"The dark energy appears to have placed the arm in a perfect place."
(Faint swirling sounds)
"The dark energy appears to be holding the arm in place…it seems that it wants me to quickly complete my work. I can feel a force, pulling me, makes me feel - rage…and sadness?! I do not understand, but I understand what it's telling me."
Viktor continued working on the arm, making sure of its perfection and fit. Took him a while to finish, then he would flip the body over gently and move to the other table where he had placed the small chip. He placed the chip in a large syringe and used the laser, calibrating it to lightly cut human flesh and he lightly cut out a piece of the skin and bone from her skull and placed the chip directly in the back of the brain.
He then moved to the computer room in the back of the tunnel and moved a small version of his main computer which was destroyed while fighting Jayce. He was able to turn on the chip and calibrate it to its new host, if it would actually work was something he couldn't test as he needed to now resuscitate the body. Viktor headed to the corner of the lab where he stood in front of a large white cloth. He grabbed it, removing it from what it was covering, revealing a large regeneration tank. The liquid used for the regeneration was still fairly fresh so he went back to the computer and placed it next to the tank.
His fingers typed away on the keyboard of the computer, turning on the tank. As it powered up Viktor uncovered the tank and picked up the girl. He then climbed up on a stepping ladder, being careful not to slip and damage her as he carefully placed her in the water of the tank. Managing to get some of the water on his clothes, he closed the tank and locked it. The computer had powered it up to maximum power and the tank started to give off a faint hum. Once she revived the fluid in the tank would not inhibit her breathing.
Then, as soon as Viktor stepped of the step ladder, he saw something else.
"Specimen NO: 00115, October 17th OCE"
"Time: 00:20hrs"
"Finally my work is almost complete. I managed to make the full arm with all of its components and armaments, but I didn't have enough to make the components for the exoskeleton wings that I've yet to work on. I have placed the body in the regeneration tank to resuscitate the girl."
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"It seems that the dark energy can clearly be seen in the glow of the tank and it's starting to get more intense. Again just like before, I feel…happy and still in pain?!"
"Are these my human feelings starting to act up again? Or am I feeling the emotions of someone else. I did not have time to research that factor. But for now, I have to prepare for the girl's renewal. And work on the last pieces of her body."
Viktor decided that it was time to get some sleep after three days of tireless work. He moved himself down the hall and to his right were a large bedroom was placed. Even if over fifty percent of Viktor's body was machine, he still desired sleep. As Viktor called it a night he turned off the lights. Everything was pitch black, only the light from Viktor's resuscitation tank could be seen. The black energy around the girl's body seemed to be stronger now as it could be seen clearer in the light of the tank.
