Author: Sorry it took me so long, I was working on my Code: Lyoko fic. I've also had quite a bit to do lately, little of which school. (Surprisingly enough) Anyway, I'm gonna be working on this and my Mechwarrior fic.
"Threra, wake up. We need to get ready." Irat said softly, his hand on her shoulder. "We need to get that flag today, remember?"
"Mmmnn." Threra groaned as she stretched her arms. She got up and walked over to the dresser she had claimed. Irat blushed and turned around quickly, giving Threra as much privacy as possible in the small, one roomed house. "Get changed, unless you're going out like that." She added, looking in the mirror.
"Oh yeah, I might wanna do that. And by the way, that asshole Torn didn't give us any ammo for our Scatter Guns." Irat said, walking over to his, smaller, dresser. He pulled out the first drawer, sifting through the assorted articles of clothing, looking for anything he liked. He found a solid black shirt with a gold dragon on the front. Sliding the drawer back in place, he pulled out the next one, finding the socks. He looked through each one until he got to the bottom. As he opened it, a soft, black glow emanated forth from it, it's source being a small, black and blood-red amulet. "Hey Threra, when you're done changing, take a look at the bottom drawer of my dresser, I've found some pretty interesting things here, some useful for the both of us. And two gun mods! With ammo! Anything cool in yours?" he asked, taking out the black gun barrel.
"Irat, come here please." She said in a strange tone.
"What the Hell?" he said as he saw the strange amulet she found. It was shaped much like his, only it was white and blue. "Dark and Light…Dark Maker and Precursor?" he muttered.
"Oh yeah, you're part Dark Maker, huh? Kor was his name. Wait a second! That old guy walking that kid around, wasn't his name Kor?" Threra said loudly.
"I don't know. We'll have to ask Torn when we get the flag. Anyway, look at this. A white gun mod. Maybe our new mods use eco that we collect. I see you also have two green mods. They're the same thing. Interesting. One new gun mod type for each type of Eco. I wonder who lived here before us." Irat said curiously.
"Here, take one of the green ones, I don't need two. Our amulets look like they can be fused. Show me how to put these on my gun, will you Irat?" Threra said, not knowing very much about how guns worked, especially ones working off of Eco. That, and most technology, was Irat's area of expertise.
"Sure. I took my Scatter Gun apart last night, they do work on Eco. All you have to do is press this button above the trigger to eject the current mod, then snap the new one right on. It was designed to be changed quickly. Probably from the Purple to the Blue Eco series, or the Yellow series. And you have no clue about what I'm saying so I'm gonna just stop talking. I will say this though, I think we should stop by the shooting range by Krew's place before we go get the flag. Come on, let's go." He explained, going a bit too far into it then he meant to.
"Why would we want to do that?" Threra asked.
"So we can find out what these new guns do of course!" Irat said, laughing.
They arrived at the gun course after 'borrowing' a one-seated Zoomer. They left it right outside Krew's place. Keira was inside building a new gun mod. It was blue. "Hey guys. I just finished the upgrades on the gun course. Could you test it for me?" Keira said.
"Wow. What timing. We were coming here to try out some new gun mods. Anyway, we're here so let's try it out." Threra said. "Come on Irat, let's go try these new things out. You've got some Dark Eco available in you right?"
"And eager to be released! Come on, the suspense is killing me." He replied, walking through the door, black gun mod ready, trigger finger twitching. "We should go in alone, just in case."
"I agree. Start the course, put it on the hardest difficulty Keira!" Threra said excitedly. She was just as excited as Irat about finding out what his Dark gun mod did.
"Just so you know, the hardest level uses real Metal Heads, and I'm taking no responsibility if he dies in there. Whatever that gun mod does, it had better be damn powerful. I made this one for Sig, although even he would have to improve to survive this." Keira said, flipping a large switch.
"What's this? Real Metal Heads? Keira, you've really outdone yourself this time." Irat said as he saw the Metal Heads pour out of the walls. They saw Irat and ran towards him. He rushed right up to one of them and put his gun barrel, point blank, to the thing's skull. "Hahaha. Now let's see what this thing can do, shall we?" Irat said evilly as he squeezed the trigger. He felt a tiny exertion of Dark Eco when the gun shot. The projectile burst out of the Metal Head's head, liquid Eco spilling across the floor. The gun seemed to shoot just like the yellow Blaster mod, but when it hit a wall was a different story.
The projectile slided through several more skulls, almost effortlessly, before it hit the wall. It split up into several smaller projectiles, as well as giving off a nice explosion, scorching the wall considerably. "Holy shit! This thing rocks! Now, let's see what the green mod does. Wait, if the black mod uses my Dark Eco, then the green one would use my health, Life Eco. The green is a last resort only. Now, what's this other Dark Eco weapon I've found do?" Irat said as he stood, transfixed by the startling power of the gun.
"WHOA! That gun is unlike anything I've ever seen! Where did he find it?" Keira shouted.
"Two things: quiet down or Torn will hear you, and we found them in the house we got. No, we don't have any more you can borrow, not that you could use them. They use Eco that is stored in the wielder's body. I have a white one that uses Light Eco, he has two black ones that use Dark Eco, and we both have a green one that uses Life Eco. Actually, I have two Light Eco gun mods. Anyway, you could probably use the Life Eco gun, but it may cost your life. We don't know how much ammunition these guns take, nor how much ammunition we have for the Life Eco weapon. We've decided to use the green mod as a last resort only. Anyway, It seems your gun course is proving troublesome for Irat. Wait, why is he using his fists and feet?" Threra explained casually.
"Why is he?" Keira replied, staring into the screen.
"Well now, I think it's time to bring the other Dark gun mod out." Irat said as he took out his Morph Gun. He attached the new gun mod, his finger already quivering in anticipation. This one looked more akin to a cross between the Needle Lazer and the Wave Concussor. "We should give these weapons names later." Irat said as he opened up without mercy. He held the trigger, noticing that it was gathering a large amount of concentrated Dark Eco into a tiny ball at the tip of the barrel. Once the ball became fully saturated at that size, it began to grow at an alarming pace, all this happening within seconds. "Sayonara shitheads!" he said as he released the gargantuan amount of energy. The ball burst out like a shockwave, eradicating the smaller Metal Heads and smashing the others into the walls. Right behind the shockwave came forth a multitude of small, black spikes, homing in on the unfortunate Metal Heads that survived the shockwave. Each one was impaled through the weakest part of it's body. Only one managed to survive, and that was by using a larger Metal Head as a shield. Irat flipped a switch on the barrel and held the trigger, sending thousands of the spikes careening into the lone survivor. Satisfied, Irat left the course, putting his gun away.
"The door's open? There must be something wrong with it, you can't be done yet!" Keira said.
"Oh, but I am. Your turn Threra. Let's hope that your Light Eco weapons aren't defensive like your powers." Irat said like it was nothing.
"HOLD ON! You cleared out the gun course without even getting a scratch or even using more then four shots! I really messed up!" Keira screamed in disappointment.
"You didn't mess up Keira. You just didn't think anyone would come with weapons like these. I had no idea what these things did, so I was a bit nervous to bring them in here. They could have been nearly useless, or they could have taken out all Haven City, I couldn't know. We'll get you as many different Metal Head corpses as we can carry when we finish our next mission, this way you can replicate them. Go ahead Threra, I want to see what Light can do compared to Darkness." Irat said, calming Keira.
"As long as you get me a Wasteland Metal Head, I'll forgive you. If you can't get into the Wasteland, then bring me a Metalpede from underneath the city in the Catacombs." Keira said as she reactivated the training program.
"Let's rock." Threra said in a murderous tone.