"The area we are currently in is called the hub. This is where fighters hang out when they aren't battling." I see hundreds of these fighters, both male and female, walking around, chatting, just doing whatever they want. But...
"Why do most of them have weapons out? Are you sure it's safe?"
"'Safe'?" He laughs "Hardly any of us care about safety, Ozone."
"But..."
"But that's due to the large number of Nanotech Disrupters everywhere. If anyone gets hurt, they'll patch them up in no time." Ah, Nanotech Disrupters, fair enough.
When I asked my dad about Nanotech Disrupters, he told me that they're mostly used by medics. They cast a constant beam of energy at the damaged target, healing them quickly. He told me that they also work on electronic items and mechanics.
They don'thave a large range, as in, they have a limited distance for their target. I suppose that makes sense, a healing weapon is most likely very near the target anyway, so range isn't needed much.
"And to answer your first question: Most fighters like to show off their equipment, especially weapons. Probably to demonstrate what style they like to use."
"Style?"
"All fighters use a style in battle, weather they realise it or not. It's their preferred strategy, offence, defence, support, scout, distraction, etc."
"Are you one of those defensive fighters?"
"Yes. What a good guess, Ozone." He happily said to me.
"That wasn't a guess." I told him with a poker face.
"Ah, ok then. Ahem, let me show you where the weapons originate." He walks off in a direction. Was he being serious or sarcastic there? I can't tell.
"This is the barracks. We play with our weapons here." Lava introduced me to a place that is packed with so many weapons, it would take me all day to...you know.
"What do you mean by 'play'?" I asked him.
"Anything to do with weapons occur here. This is where fighters come to try out a new weapon that they recently got, maybe try out different styles, be it alone or in a team, this is also where new weapons are made. The latest addition to the collection
isthe Ion-Distorter." What the hell is that? "It is a shotgun-like weapon. It fires 20 projectiles simultaneously, each projectile deals a small amount of damage, but 20 of them will make the weapon very dangerous up close."
As if he somehow read my mind.
"So it's useless if it's too far away?" Shotguns are useless if the target is really far.
"Precisely." He responded "Another downside is that they're too large and heavy to be carried by a fighter, instead, they're mounted on the vehicles."
"Is that the only weapon with that downside? The only 'big' weapon?" Shotguns can't be the only ones available for vehicles, can they?
"No, there's about 5 other weapons exclusive for vehicles." Exclusive? "There's the Proto-Seeker, the Lock-On Missile Launcher, the Aeroflak Cannon, the Laser Leviathan, and the Plasma Goliathon. All of those weapons are too big and heavy to be carried
byfighters. Like I said: They are instead mounted on the vehicles."
"So there's 6 in total?"
"Exclusive for the vehicles, yes. But there are a couple weapons exclusive for the fighters too. Such as the Subatomic Pistol and the Hand F-Shield."
"I've never heard of the Hand F-Shield before."
"We'll talk more about the weapons later. For now, the garage is our next place."
Garage?
We arrive at a long corridor with about four rows of very large doors on both sides. Each row has a balcony of sorts, probably for the fighters to see each floor? Anyway, the doors are large enough to fit entire vehicles through them. Though none of them
/seem to be open, can they even open?
"We call this the garage. This is where fighters build, store, and test our vehicles. Every individual fighter has their own set of vehicles stored behind one of these doors. Each door has a set of 'bays', each bay stores a vehicle. We are able to get
/each door to have up to 25 bays, and we are trying our best to raise the limit."
"Wow..." Was all I could say.
"That's not the best part. Believe it or not, one of these doors is all yours!" I'm not sure if that rhyme was intentional or not. Probably not. "Follow me, and I'll show you which one." Did they seriously reserve a door just for me as soon as I got through
/the portal? Or was it when I told Lava my name? As soon as I came to the garage? He walks off again, forcing me to catch up to him.
"How long has my door been, well, mine?" I wanted to know exactly what happened.
"When you told me your name, Ozone. My communicator sensed the new name 'Ozone Atom-breaker', so it sent that piece of information to the database to addyou to it as the latest fighter." So that's how it works. I thought so!
After a moment has passed "We're here. This door is yours forever." Lava told me.
"Even when I'm dead?" Wait, wait just a minute! Could you remind me why I asked such a stupid question, Rynowm?
"...let's not think about that right now." Lava hesitated.
"Um...ye...yeah, let's." Thanks, Rynowm, you made me sound like an idiot.
"Ahem, anyway, as I said, this door is yours and you can enter and exit it as you please."
"How do I enter it?" I really want to see what's inside.
"Simple: Just walk through it as if it is not even there." That quote sounds like the preparation for a prank.
"Are you sure?" I don't want to just walk into a solid wall.
"Everyone else does it." I look around to see if that's true. Just across the corridor, I see a female fighter walking up to what I presume is her door. Shejust walked through it, literally!
"Um...ok?" He is right, everyone else seems to doit. But I'm not used to this, what's the term...'no-clipping'? I don't know, but I've never passed though any solid thing in my life.
I slowly lifted up my left hand and carefully attempted to touch the door. The keyword 'attempted', my hand just passed right through the door! I jolted my hand back out. I did not expect that.
I looked back at Lava. He just smiles at me and briefly tilts his head towards th...my door. I turn back towards my door, closed my eyes,
and walked forward.