Opening File: Pinocchio

Many years ago a kindly, old woodcarver finished greatest creation, a marionette. Geppetto then names the puppet Pinocchio, for he was made of what the woodcarver originally meant to be pine but was instead made with a rare piece of wood called Edelwood, and made wish on a shooting star for the puppet to become a real boy. His wish would be granted by the Blue Fairy, a Fae and one of the Children of Oberon who granted wishes to those with kind hearts. What Geppetto could not have known was that the wood Pinocchio was made from contained the broken spirits of those who had succumbed to the despair from the torture inflicted on them by the Fallen Moloch.

The Blue Fairy had hoped Pinocchio's innocence and with the pure hearted woodcarver's guidance he could purify the lost souls within him and create a counter to Moloch. Though Pinocchio was innocent in the beginning, he was later corrupted when the people of his village turned on him and Geppetto. They tried to flee to the sea but Geppetto was killed by the legendary whale Grimm known as Monstro. The loss of his and being exposed to the crueler darker sides of the world broke him in a way that forever kill the kind hearted naive puppet.

Pinocchio now despises humanity, Faunus, Mobians, and other species of the twelve races, with a few exceptions, though he especially hates the Fae of the Children of Oberon. He is resentful and jealous of being denied the humanity he rightful thinks he deserved, and longs to fill the void of the humanity he never got through causing suffering and pain to others. He has become so twisted that he believes that by consuming the flesh of a real boy he can become one. Earning the title Puppet Master Pinocchio has become a very dangerous threat while retaining his childlike appearance but his body has since been modified into a weapon.

It is rumored that due to the Edelwood he is made from he is capable of producing Aura like a living being.

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"Help us!"

"Somebody!"

"Anybody!"

"Now, now, children. I do not want to hurt you." A childlike voice said to the captive children. "I just want to…eat your flesh so I can become a real boy."

That did nothing to calm the terrified children as their captor stepped into the light. It was meant to look like a boy but it was anything but. It resembled a lender marionette that is made to look like a cute little boy with a log shaped chubby face and long pointed nose. He had big, bright blue eyes with a glint of madness in them and a fringe of thick jet-black hair adorned with a yellow hat with a red feather under a blue band wrapped around it.

He wore bright red cotton fabric short overalls with yellow buttons over a light yellow shirt. He also had a black vest, big blue bow tie, and brown wooden shoes.

"Now, who wants to be first?" The puppet asked, reaching out to its first victim, a little girl who screamed out in terror.

CRASH!

The puppet spun around as the door to the room knocked down by a single kick. "Who in the-"

"So, you must be the puppet boy. The legendary Pinocchio."

The intruder turned out to be a young white haired boy wearing a green trench coat and green goggles over his eyes. "The puppet brought to life by the Fae known as the Blue Fairy."

Pinocchio snickered as he faced the boy. "What's this? Another boy? Would let me have a bite…of your flesh? I want to become a real boy like you."

"An illogical idea since you have no stomach and therefore cannot digest anything you eat. Even more illogical is your idea that eating flesh will convert your wooden body to flesh and blood." The boy retorted.

"Oh no." Pinocchio stepped forward. "That's where you are wrong boy. The wood in me is alive. All I have to do is appease it with a sacrifice."

He reached out to grab the boy but was repelled by a force field that actually burned his wooden hand. "AH!"

"A personal force field. A little more lethal than Aura used by Huntsmen but still considered effective." The boy stated stoically. "You will be hard pressed to pass through it with a body made of wood."

"Oh? Let's test that." Pinocchio said as panels on his arms and knees opened, revealing spring loaded needle launchers.

The needles shot at the boy but his barrier burned the needles on contact. Seeing his attack failed Pinocchio switched tactics as panels in his calves opened up, revealing metal wheels that slid down to his feet where a wooden platform joined the hubcaps of the wheels together, and creating two wheeled skates for the puppet to stand on.

"Last but not least." Pinocchio said as a panel on his spine opened up and he pulled out a short but sharp sword. "Now I am ready."

The boy frowned as he analyzed Pinocchio's new status. 'The wheels and the sword suggest that he plans on using a combination of speed and precision to take me out. In that case my barrier alone might not be enough. In that case…'

"Here I come!" Pinocchio cackled as he shot forward.

The boy brought hand to his collar and opened his mouth, releasing a sonic blast that sent Pinocchio right into the wall. "I have been well briefed on all of your possible abilities and my people planned accordingly."

Pinocchio growled as he stood back up, panels on his shoulder blades and thighs opening up, revealing more spring launchers that fired. The boy quickly knocked away the incoming needles with another sonic blast.

"You will do well not to resist." The boy said. "My people would prefer to bring you in alive and mostly undamaged."

"And why is that?" Pinocchio growled. "Let me guess, you want to learn what makes me tick."

"And walk and talk and reason as a real living being." The boy replied. "A puppet that is given life is also gifted with possible invulnerability to bodily harm. My people are very interested in that."

"I bet they would be." Pinocchio chuckled bitterly. "But I am not interested in being someone else's freak show."

"I had anticipated your refusal. Fortunately you cannot escape." The boy said.

"Can't I?" Pinocchio opened his mouth, revealing…a machine gun!

He fired at the boy who actually started running and took cover behind the wall of the other room.

Pinocchio cackled madly as he followed after the boy. "Not so tough now are we?"

"This was included in your file." The boy said before shooting something that hit the living puppet in the chest. "Fortunately, my people accounted for that as well."

Before Pinocchio could say or do anything he was suddenly pulled down by a great force, slamming his body into the floor. "Wh-What?!"

He looked at this chest and saw a Gravity Dust crystal attached to it and underneath were Dust shards. "Gravity Dust…You tricked me!"

"Yes, I did." The boy said, pressing a button on his collar. "The target has been subdued. Move in and prepare transportation for the children hostages with orders to take them home and wipe their memories of their abduction."

Pinocchio growled and glared hatefully at the boy. "This is not over! I will not be dissected!"

"I fail to see how you can escape now." The boy said, almost sounding like he was taunting the blood thirsty puppet.

Unfortunately it seemed fate itself answered the boy's challenge when something crashed through the roof and landed in front Pinocchio. When the dust cleared both the puppet and the boy saw what the object was. It was a massive pickax that was stabbed into the ground as rubble from the ceiling lay around it. Pinocchio stared at the pickax, his eyes wide and appeared to be in a trance as he slowly reached out to grab it.

"Do not touch it!" The boy said but was too late as Pinocchio grabbed onto the handle.

Then suddenly tendrils of wood sprouted from the tool as the tendrils made of wood wrapped around Pinocchio. As the wood continued its process on covering Pinocchio, it appeared to be extremely bulky yet smooth armor made out of wood. His height changed from the height of a young boy to a colossal 7'5 giant as the wood continued to cover him in layers and layers of wooden armor making him appear more and more bulky. As the transformation process reached its completion, the wood started to cover Pinocchio's head as the wood covered everything but Pinocchio's mouth.

As soon as the process was complete the new Pinocchio easy broke free of the Gravity Dust and stood up, looking at the boy who bore a look of caution.

"Hail Crom…Airson mise tha mi a 'toirt taic ri fas!(Hail Crom... For I am the Harvester of Growth!)" Pinocchio shouted in a deeper voice before turning around and rushing at the wall, slamming through it and leaving behind a giant hole.

The boy named Francis and the stunned children were left to stare at the hole and contemplate the status of the monster that had made it. "…We may have to update Pinocchio's file."