Your next stop was the tower, for somewhere to train. Rika almost skipped back out to your bike getting a wry smirk and a questioning look from Felicia. You just shrugged, making it clear with your eyes nothing happened. Your platinum kitten smiled and walked over, snatching your keys and tossing them to Rika. "You can meet us there, I want Anthony to ride with us."
Rika squealed with joy, throwing on a helmet quickly before mounting the bike and taking off. You turned to raise your own eyebrow at Felicia. "You know I wasn't letting her drive that thing again. I'm worried after seeing me show off on it she's going to try some crazy trick and get hurt."
Felicia just rolled her eyes and grabbed your hand dragging you out to Spitfire's car as your mentor started it up. She pulled you into the backseat and pushed you in before climbing in herself and leaning against you. "I haven't had quality time with my boyfriend in months. And I'm not talking about sex. Sometimes I just want to cuddle me and you without the other girls. I love them to bits but I do miss when it was just you and me once in a while."
You felt guilt flood your gut as your stomach tightened. Your arm wrapped around her, pulling her close, and you felt her relax. It was easy to take her care and stability for granted, but you berated yourself for allowing it. You spent fifteen minutes or so with her curled against you like that before you finally spoke. "Sorry kitten. I know things have been busy as hell since we got here, what with the tournament and everything. I should have made time for use to spend together. Of course I want to spend time with you doing more than just sex."
She just giggled and poked your side. "None of that now. I know what you've been doing is important, and we're together now. Besides I said once in a while. I'm not expecting weekly date nights where we stare celibately into each others eyes. Weekly date nights is fine but mostly I meant like maybe one out of five of those you arent bouncing me on your dick til my eyes roll up." She gave you a smirk. "I have physical needs as well as emotional, i want time together as a couple but you still need to take care of this." She punctuated the statement by getting up on her knees and slapping her ass.
The jiggle in that cheek pretty much hypnotized you. Rika had some tone, but in terms of fat juicy bouncy cheeks no woman in creation had an ass to beat your kitten. Still you laughed and pulled her to sit back down. "Be good. You said you wanted to cuddle, besides Spitfire is driving and I doubt he's comfortable watching me plow you in the back of his car."
The redhead in question was glaring forcefully through the mirror. "Damn right I dont. Aside from having no interest in seeing either of you like that, I also don't want my car to stink of sex for however long it takes to get the smell out. Now if you two are done scarring me for life by making me listen to my surrogate children discuss their clearly active sex life. We just arrived anyway."
You shot your mentor a half apologetic half warm smile, having noticed his surrogate child slip and feeling your heart warm, and you snagged Felicia's hand and pulled her out behind you. Shooting a glance off to the side you caught sight of the archway and Nat on the other side. She was already dressed and ready with her ATs on. You'd texted her before you left and with the four times temporal difference she'd had plenty of time to get dressed.
She stepped out and skimmed over across the ground to meet up with both of you. Her smart clothes had rearranged to a set of thin sleep armored clothes reminiscent of some special forces stuff you'd seen. Extra protection around the stomach. She couldn't know if she was pregnant yet, but it seemed like she was taking the time to be extra careful.
She gave Felicia a tight hug and then you another, giggling when you palmed her ass, much to Felicia's exasperation. Your platinum haired girlfriend rolled her eyes and smacked you in the shoulder. You heard a bike pull up as the final member of your training team made it. Since the bike was faster than Spitfire's car you suspected she played around on the way but that was fine.
Rika pulled her helmet off as Nat pulled back turning to face her new teacher. The brunette queen gave Nat a once over before nodding approvingly. "Good posture, great balance." Her eyes darted down to Nat's generous tits "Felicia wasn't kidding about you being top heavy, but I can work around that. Your ass looks smaller than bubble butt over there at least."
You glanced down and noted that it actually did. Originally Nat had been packing a bit more in the trunk than Felicia, but while her tits were still bigger her ass had toned up from spending weeks on the thorn road combined with her accelerated healing. Her ass still wasn't small but it was much more taut and sculpted. Felicia's road seemed to develop deeper muscles, making her cheeks seem even fatter if anything. Something you didn't mind.
Nat smirked and stepped forward to shake her new teachers hand. "Hard work can pay off, though in Felicia's defense the bubble road doesn't seem to slim down the booty at all. If anything I'd say thats even more wagon she's draggin. I doubt she's too broken up about it though. Our boy has a bit of a fixation on juicy rumps." She shot Rika a wink and you reevaluated your thought from earlier. You were the one that was in for a tough time. As she headed over to get to know her new mentor you felt the forge trigger and decided to allow it. It had been a while.
Celestial forge accessed: Rapid Engineering (Honor Harrington) (400CP) Sufficient CP. Purchased. Total remaining CP: 600.
All dramatic portents of social doom aside you had to admit it was nice seeing Nat making friends. Rika was closer to her chronological age than you were, even if she didn't know that, and they seemed to be hitting it off. Your red haired spy had been fairly insular since you'd left home, sticking to your group pretty exclusively.
She seemed to have opened up a bit since your last baby attempt in general but seeing her reach out to other people made you smile. You saw in Felicia's aura she was thinking the same thing and stopped next to your kitten to grab and squeeze her hand and share a smile. She returned your grin and squeezed back and the two of you released your grip and headed inside.
You first target was definitely Ringo. Rika was planning to get the thorn regalia from her sister to give Nat a demonstration of exactly what the thorn queen could do. Spitfire offered to let Ine tune them for her. Not being one of the gravity children Rika wasn't one of the people the regalia were designed for and did need a tuner. She graciously accepted and looked delighted to be working with her best friend again and Spitfire left to call his girlfriend.
You all tracked down Ringo with much the same level of ease, Rika texting her sister who came down to meet her. Ringo had been meeting with Kanon, her own tuner, about her regalia though when she arrived her aura looked generally happy and upbeat and you figured the talk with Ikki must have gone well.
When she was her sister Ringo squealed and threw herself on Rika in one of those high speed tackling hugs teenage girls seemed so fond of and that you had desperately tried to teach Sheila not to do because of her weight and strength. "Rika! It's so good to see you! I've been so worried. How are you feeling? What did you need with the Thorn regalia? Who is this? I know Anthony of course and Felicia works for Spitfire but I've never met this girl."
Rika smiled indulgently as her excited sister began babbling excitedly before putting a hand on top of her head with a chuckle. "This is Natasha, I'm going to be helping her out with the Thorn road. She's a member of Anthony's team. I'm feeling fine by the way, getting out of the house is good for me and I owe the little perv a thank you for convincing me to do this. I need the regalia to do a little demo. You can watch as well, and try to pick up some insights into your ride if you want."
Ringo's eyes widened as she pouted slightly. "Rika, Anthony's team are going to be battling us in a parts war soon. Even if you aren't on the team you should still try not to help our enemies. Though I wouldn't say no to a lesson from you of course, you were one of the original members of the team and one of the best." She seemed mostly excited at the idea despite keeping up her disapproving expression at the idea of helping the enemy.
Rika brought her hand down on her sisters head in a chop eliciting a squeak of pain and making the redheaded twintail rub her skull. "Sleeping forest's enemy is Genesis. The Phantom Hammers are just a challenger, and they're on our side in the grand scheme of things. Don't get so caught up in Kilik's win at all costs mentality, it'll get you into trouble. It certainly caused enough misunderstandings for him over the years."
Without waiting for a response Rika scooped up the ATs from her still pouting sisters arms and headed over to meet Ine who was strolling up to meet us. Rika gave a happy laugh and swept her friend up in a hug, having to awkwardly maneuver the Thorn regalia out of the way to keep from impaling them both as she put her arms around the only other human who had been a member of the original sleeping forest. You had actually though Ine was a gravity child until Rika mentioned it, but it turned out she was the daughter of one of the project managers and the only other pure human on the original team.
Ine got started right away, hands flickering through the adjustments with surety and precision, both from experience and familiarity with both subjects. Finally Rika slipped the regalia on and stood. You all headed out into one of the empty spaces in the tower for her to show off. Shockingly once inside Rika stripped her pants off, slipping the ATs back on and standing there in a red thong. At your look she shrugged "I don't care if you get an eyeful as much as I care about shredding my pants. There's a reason Ringo wears what she does. Dispersal of force over the legs gets weird and its easy to tear what you're wearing."
It took you a moment to register the words with the eyeful of thick juicy cheeks you were getting but a smack upside the head from Felicia and a raised eyebrow brought you back to reality. You gave her an apologetic shrug and got an eyeroll in return catching Rika smirking at you as she turned around.
It was a testament to Rika's next moves that you didn't spend the next fifteen minutes staring at her bouncing ass. Because you did not. You were too distracted by the wake of horrifying devastation she let loose on the world around her. As the thorns tore through the air, scoring into the metal around you you understood why Spitfire had wanted Rika to teach Nat. This woman was like Yoshitsune. She was a monster in human skin. As you settled in for the show you felt the forge fire up and allowed it. Maybe you could learn something yourself.
Celestial forge accessed: Alchemy Workshop (Endless Legend) (100CP) Sufficient CP. Total remaining CP: 600.
Much like yourself Nat was also enthralled by the lesson. Felicia didn't seem as amused on the other hand so in the spirit of spending a bit more time with her you snagged her hand and strolled away further into the tower. Spitfire was spending time with Ine now so it was just the two of you going for a walk, which was honestly pretty nice.
Felicia seemed more than pleased to take some time for just us, but more than that she saw an opportunity in our location. My kitten turned to me with an easy smile. "So I hear you've been friendly with a new girl. I'd love to meet her. Knowing you there's a decent chance she'll be going with us anyway."
You considered getting offended or denying that but honestly it was pretty accurate. You'd love if Kururu came with you. You shrugged, not seeing an issue with it. "Sure I can introduce you. I don't know how much she's aware of my relationships though. She might be a little thrown off meeting my first girlfriend."
Felicia let out a giggle, kissing your cheek and wrapping your whole arm with hers instead of just your hand. "I can understand that, I'm sure we can get along just fine once we've gotten to talking." Despite having dismissed every reference to feeling boobs on your arm in anime, your girlfriend was actually busty enough that your arm was stuck between her sweater pillows and it did feel kind of nice.
It didn't take long to make it up to Kururu's work space. You were completely unsurprised to find Kururu tinkering away on one of her toys. Apparently your joint crafting session had inspired her and she seemed to be testing out new ideas and workshopping new methods. Despite that when she heard you coming she looked up happily, only to freeze at the sight of Felicia.
Felicia gave the girl a beaming smile and let go of your arm, deducing much more quickly than you would have that clinging to you might make anything she said seem passive aggressive. She strolled forward and held out a hand in a friendly and cheerful fashion. "Hi there, I'm Felicia, its nice to meet you. I wanted to thank you for helping out so much with Anthony's projects and keeping an eye on him." She glanced slyly at you then shot Kururu a wink. "He needs a bit of help sometimes."
As was the case with nearly everyone you met, your girlfriend managed to put Kururu completely at ease with just her sheer personality, eliciting a giggle from the pink haired girl. Felicia's charisma had gotten dangerous after she took that serum. It was easy to forget since she was always around you and the others who were likewise bolstered. You rolled your eyes and played along with her little show though. "Yeah, yeah, I'm helpless without you all and I don't know where I'd be on my own."
Felicia gave a satisfied nod "It's good that you can admit that to yourself." She turned back to Kururu "So Kory, do you mind if I call you Kory? I feel like I'd mispronounce your name if I tried to say it. I didn't even know Anthony could speak Japanese but he seems fluent. That said I personally am only vaguely conversational, my dad taught me a bunch of languages but nothing in depth. I'm so glad everyone here seems to be able to speak english pretty well. Spitfire has been a huge help too."
Kururu blinked at the nickname but seemed to be prevented from forming an opinion immediately by Felicia's deluge of babbling. You were sympathetic to her plight, that trick was one Felicia used on all of you fairly often, burying you under happy chatter to confuse you enough that you were basically bullied into just doing what she wanted. It had taken you a few weeks with her to notice that she even did it, she was just so cheerful and personable about it.
Kururu however hadn't had weeks to notice so she just gave a hesitant nod to the question still looking off balance. That expression got more than a little panicked as Felicia squealed and wrapped the smaller girl in a hug. "Oh thank you Kory, thats amazing! We're going to be such good friends I know it. And I love your hair its so gorgeous! Its the cutest shade of pink. You should let me cut it for you! I've been training at a salon and Spitfire says I'm really good. Don't worry i don't mean cut it short just a trim and a bit of shaping."
The poor engineer had no clue what hit her and within a few minutes was sitting down on her work bench with her arm in Felicia's nodding dazedly to everything your girlfriend said. Felicia chattered on about giving her a new hairstyle and new clothes and how she was so excited to have a new friend around and you suddenly felt both very stupid for thinking Felicia would have trouble handling the meeting and very afraid for any new girls you met in your travels.
As Felicia got to know Kururu you considered the upcoming challenge you had to deal with. Sleeping forests parts war was going to be in about a week. The downside to that was that it was going to be hellish, but the upside was that if you managed to win it would mean claiming the tower, which was essentially winning the tournament.
Honestly you'd gotten lucky when Gabishi had tried to murder you, it gave you a backdoor to the final match through direct challenge. Granted it was kind of cheap but the forge didn't give you any impression it wasnt fine so you just had to finish the match and win and you'd be able to jump off world. In the spirit of preparation you allowed the forge to fire again as you considered your plans for the final match.
Celestial forge accessed: Craftsman (Hercules) (400CP) Sufficient CP. Purchased. Total remaining CP: 300
Today was the day. You woke up in bed with all three girls. They had all dropped into bed with you after their own final training. With the major conditioning done you had passed out cure alls to everyone before you went to sleep so they would be completely fresh for the parts war. Spitfire was here with you all, having a vial of his own and using it to get in some last minute training before it was time to head out, if you concentrated enough you could just barely hear the sounds of him working.
Luckily the cure alls, while bad for physical training since they erased all physical wounds without leaving any lasting damage, didn't affect the brain and so muscle memory was still created. You decided to cook breakfast for everyone, slipping out of the pile of girls and padding over to the entrance to the work shop then through it to the kitchen in the penthouse.
You checked the time once you left and sighed with relief that it was still only six AM. You decided to make something complicated for breakfast and take your time with it. An hour out here was four in there and it would give your girls time to wake up on their own. You frowned at the stove in thought before deciding what to make and nodding. You took out a few bowls and started working on several things.
First you made crepe batter, making sure to whisk it thoroughly so as to really thin it out. Crepes were tough to handle if they got too thin but you were a master chef at this point so you could make them as thin as you wanted, not that you would go too thin. In a second bowl you mixed cream cheese and sugar and a few other things to make a sweet cream cheese filling. Finally the last bowl you diced up strawberries and created a sweet strawberry syrup as a topping.
You put the syrup in the fridge to thicken and wrapped the filling before doing the same and then took out three pans. One you used to make your crepes and the other two you set to low heat and dropped a pat of butter into as you went to the fridge and took out an entire carton of eggs and some wrapped sausage you had handmade yourself last week when you had some time off. The stuff was hard to get in japan and since it counted as creating something yours turned out better anyway.
The last thing you grabbed was a block of smoked gouda taking it all back to the stove. You poured in your first crepe and began the process off scrambling the eggs, adding a bit of heavy cream to make them fluffier, and began to sear the sausages in the other pan. Yous topped intermittently to flip the crepes and slide the finished ones onto a plate (you didnt need a spatula) and once done with the eggs and sausage you took out the filling and syrup and fashioned each crepe into a thick delicious cheese blintz before topping with syrup.
The whole thing took about an hour, and like literal magic as you set everything on the table Ruby stepped out with a happy smile and walked over to peck you on the cheek as she walked past to get coffee. She was followed by Felicia, Natasha, Sheila, and Spitfire. Randall usually didn't eat with you all, he considered it to be confusing. He usually chose to eat with Fran.
You had made Fran after some contemplation and decided she should stay with Randall. All of you would be leaving and your first avatar would stay here. Fran was the spitting image of Sheila, who she spent plenty of time with and considered you something of an uncle and Randall her father, despite calling Sheila her twin. Granted there were a few months between them but they were born the same year so you figured it was close.
Everyone sat down to eat with a nice mug of coffee (you'd spent an entire afternoon testing and fine tuning the perfect coffee machine, and the steampunk monstrosity you had created sweetened and added cream to the coffee during creation to the specifications of the dials covering its surface. You and Kururu were the only ones who could work it though. The pink haired tuner had been over to the penthouse many times and between her bad work hours and her love of machines had nearly orgasmed when she saw the coffee maker.
For everyone less mechanically inclined you used some of the telepathic tech from the psi detector to make a palm scanner that read their minds and automatically set the thing for their perfect cup of coffee. You'd had to ban Sheila from touching it without supervision because your daughter had developed some extreme coffee habits and had been drinking dozens of cups a day. There was nothing more terrifying than a hyper shipgirl.
As you bit into your blintzes with relish (the emotion, there wasnt any chopped up pickles on your breakfast) you looked over an at equally gleeful Spitfire. You cleared your throat snapping him out of his daze. "So, old man, today is the day. How are we doing this? I assume you have some sort of plan for the members of sleeping forest? I know its going to be a dash but they can still attack us, and old hate shoes will definitely try to kill somebody."
Spitfire sipped his coffee and nodded. "True, this will be a fight not just a race. Well, it will be both which makes this harder, but I've been training you all for mobile combat so we should be fine. As for a plan? Honestly making those against Kilik is asking for disappointment. He tends to tear them apart. The easiest way to do it is not to have one. I trained you all how to react best. But I guess we should figure out who fights who. Lucky we have Yoshitsune with us, I didn't expect him to agree to that."
Your mentor look speculative for a moment before finally stating "Our best bet here is just to set a basic lineup to follow. Don't stick to it too rigidly because we might have to switch out or go to someones aid though. The two biggest threats we're going to run into are Kilik and the Noyamano sisters. I can take Kilik with the new upgrades I believe, especially in a race. As for the sisters, Natasha should be able to counter Ringo, and we'll leave Shiraume and Mikan to Yoshitsune."
Ruby spoke up, pausing her own eating "I can take care of Mr. Faceless. His road is a fang derivative from what i hear and I owe him an entire ass kicking for trying to kill my boyfriend. I wish I had some footage or something to study honestly, he sound like a pretty brutal guy." She looked pensive for a moment then shrugged "Anyway he seems like the only one in their crew with any real killer instinct and I'm the most comfortable dealing with people trying to murder me."
Felicia piped up next "Om I can take care of. Anyone else should steer clear. Spitfire knew an awful lot about the water regalia since it's something of a natural counter and they grew up together, thats how we designed my ATs. He says she can vibrate the water in people's bodies from a close distance to cause internal damage but it takes a second to start and my own ATs can counter it once I feel it happening. The rest of you are easy targets though so stay back."
Natasha looked uncomfortable with her own assignment, which you got, since Ringo was basically the vice captain of that team and was close to your friend to boot but you reached over and covered her hand with yours "Nobody in sleeping forest is a pushover, but I have a few abilities that counter illusions. Onibasu shouldn't be too much trouble and once he's down I can step in to help handle Ringo. Besides in terms of talent aside from me Spitfire and Rika say you're the best they've ever seen. You were made for the thorn."
You had actually been shocked at how quickly she took to it. In all honestly she picked up the details of her road nearly as fast as Ikki once she got a proper teacher. Rika was insistent that she'd never seen anyone with as much skill on the thorn road, and Spitfire said she was close to matching Gazelle, the original thorn queen, in raw talent, though she obviously had much less practice. He seemed shocked by that as apparently Gazelle was considered a monster even by gravity child standards.
One you had everything mapped out it was time to go. You all headed to the tower as a group, taking a nondescript black SUV you put together with your vehicle skill. Combined with soft physics the thing had more room inside it than most buses and with all the perks and add one it was nearly indestructible and honestly way prettier than it should be. Despite your best efforts to make it blend anyone with a good eye for detail who looked close would know this was a master craft vehicle.
On the upside it ran like a dream and you reached the tower fairly quickly. You had Sheila wait in the work shop with Randall and Fran so she could watch and also because you were genuinely terrified Sora would just swat the whole house flat when you were gone in revenge for his brother. You all finally arrived and piled out climbing into the elevator and heading up to the top of the tower.
You were shocked when you got to the top and saw Ikki there waiting though, along with Rika, Kazu, and Ikki's other team mates who you didnt know as well. Ikki noticed your shocked expression and laughed "I've been here training most days anyway and when I heard it was time for the big race I had to show up to cheer you on. Rika wanted to come cheer on her student too, not to mention she seems to have a soft spot for you." He shot you a wink but Rika interrupted with a slap upside the head.
She rolled her eyes at her little brother before informing you " You're cute, but a little young for me. Plus my love life is complicated enough without joining-" she waved her hand in the general direction of your girls. "Whatever the hell this is. Not to mention that little pink haired mechanic girl. I do hope you win though. Kilik and I have made... I won't say peace, he's made choices I dislike but he's still my friend and he has a giant stick up his ass. Do me a favor and pry it out with your ATs."
You grinned at her and nodded to both of them "We really appreciate that guys. We're definitely going to win this. I'm under no illusions It'll be easy but I know we can get it done." You slapped your mentor on the shoulder "After all, we have the flame king, and he's faster than anyone sleeping forest has got. We're just waiting on Yoshitsune to show up and we will officially be ready to kick some ass."
A voice came from behind you "Then consider yourself ready kid. I got here a few hours ago, but I was busy talking to your girl in Tool Tou To about my regalia. Had her do a few tweaks to keep up with the new level I'm riding at." You Yakuza boss mentor looked as garish as ever with his slicked back hair and purple sunglasses but there was a kind of nervous energy there you'd never seen before. He was excited for this as you were. You waved him forward and Ikki and Rika led you to yet another elevator. It was time.
Stepping off the elevator was a bit of a shock to you because you finally realized what that odd sublevel you'd been on before was. It was a fucking elevator just like the one you came down on, except much, much bigger. Looking at the walls without distractions you could see anchors keeping it in place as well as certain tracks. You also saw doors fucking everywhere. thirteen of them around the room dispersed like the spokes of a wheel.
In the center of the giant elevator room thing was sleeping forest. Gabishi was there, along with Ringo as well as a pretty asian girl with ridiculous puffy hair buns and the undisputed fattest thickest juciest ass you had ever seen. Well, it was actually probably a bit smaller than Felicia's but the little booty queen was like four foot eleven so it was just like POW! Right in your face. And she was turned around and bent over too, which admittedly you knew was the go to for the bubble road but just damn.
You felt a smack to the back of your head and turned to see Felicia, Ruby, and Nat all glaring daggers at you. You subtly wiped away your drool and mentally erased "wreck the gravity child girl with the big fat ass" off your to do list. You wouldn't have kept her anyway, you just wanted to fuck her. You pouted and returned your gaze to sleeping forest, focusing on the others instead of that sexy little dumptruck. She was in her twenties and was a genetically engineered super being but if she was off limits staring was just torturing yourself.
Honestly though the rest of the team scan was much less intimidating after the distraction. Kilik still looked like the archbishop of beating your ass, Gabishi was still a nut case with a freaky dark metal masquerade mask and Ringo was still wearing pants with one leg, though her aura also told you she'd been getting much more friendly with Ikki and surprisingly for the shy little thorn queen, Simca.
You recognized the others from their descriptions and from meeting them at the Noyamano house. Onibasu had his head wrapped in weird bandages, and Ume and Mikan looked much the same as always except Mikans dumb goggles and her ridiculous track suit. You stepped forward and cleared your throat. "The Phantom Hammers have come to claim the tower." You slapped the sticker of your emblem on the wall for emphasis. "Defend or yield your thrones."
Spitfire had been very clear that Kilik was kind of chuuni. He loved big dramatic declarations like this and would probably get annoyed and go extra hard if you tried to play this casual. As predicted Kilik put the maximum amount of ominous bass in his voice when he responded. "You challenge is witnessed Phantom hammers! Thorn queen! As my second in command, state the terms of our battle!"
Ringo, looking serious but with her aura spiked with a bit of embarrassment stepped forward and cleared her throat. "This will be an F class parts war, to give the advantage to our more...recently initiated opponents." Her voice was clear and steady, though she floundered halfway through and had to scramble for a proper formal line. "The riders will all pick a door, though you may team up, and drop out into the shaft."
She raked her eyes over the assembled riders. "The doors will give each rider the space to catch themselves and begin the descent but all of us will be in plain view, attacks may begin once freefall is suspended in any manner no matter how brief, though remember the point is to make it to the bottom not to splatter the other competitors. Teammates may of course aid each other battle will not be considered joined until your own fall is arrested or an enemy is attacked so catching a team member will not count as initiating combat."
You nodded at the rules, they were honestly more fair than you had expected. Everyone in your team had enough knowledge of air manipulation to manage to stick to a will with their ATs but the girls wouldnt be skilled enough to traverse the massive tower shaft you were sure was outside the doors. You being able to help them was perfect, between your own road and Rubys fangs you could get them headed for the walls and then yourself Spitfire and Yoshitsune could fend off any attacks that came their way before you headed down yourself.
With a final check on everyone you headed to a door with Felicia, worried about your least mobile team member and planning to help her. Each person selected a door, some grouping up, until everyone was at the edges of the chamber ready start. With a final confirming nod everyone turned and the doors opened, releasing all of you to your drop into the shaft.
As soon as you hit the shaft you realized something important. You had fucked up. You knew that Spitfire had said this place was big but you figured he meant football field big not SMALL TOWN big. The shaft stretched out for easily miles. The huge stadium sized elevator room was on a set of four rails and was NOT connected to the fucking walls. Only good new to be had was that you had plenty of time to figure out how to get the girls to one of the many openings you spotted in one of the distant ass walls with your absurd perception, because the width of this thing was chump change compared to the fathomless black DEPTHs of it.
As you all started to fall you forced yourself to stop panicking and activated your multi tasking ability dedication a separate instance of your mind to each individual problem here. How to save each of your girls, help each of your teammates and counter each of your enemies if your team wasnt already about to do so. God you loved the forge sometimes.
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Perks:
Rapid Engineering (Honor Harrington) (400CP)
When it comes to technology, quality may beat quantity, but quantity has a quality of its own. A quality you well understand. You have a deep knowledge and skill at building shipyards and support systems, not to mention ships and their weapons, that focuses on building a lot of them very quickly, instead of building them to be the best in the world. Your product may not be the most lethal or best defended or longest sensing in the galaxy, but you know how to churn out entire fleets of the stuff in the time it would take others to make a prototype.
Alchemy Workshop (Endless Legend) (100CP)
Build into a wagon, this full scale workshop allows for scientific research in the field, and provides all the tools the aspiring researcher needs to learn about the world they are in. Just don't blow yourself up or blind anyone, ok?
* Not many of that workshops are mobile
Craftsman (Hercules) (400CP)
Greek myth sure does love it's weapons and armors, doesn't it? You're great at making both, now. Not only do you have a preternatural skill at putting together weapons, armor and other artefacts of the very highest quality, being able to work legendary items from common tools and materials, but you're also a whiz at enchanting them. Simply put, you can imbue just about any and all magic and power you have into items, and have it work as you desire. It also helps you figure out existing examples of craft, and replicating the effects on your own.