Chapter 13: R&D Test?
Doing paperwork in her office and writing the students' status reports back to Command. Everything returns back to normal after Grif got kicked out from Tanya's training course and Matt Rig Heim promoted as her legitimate lieutenant. A month has passed which the remaining students are about to complete Phase One of their physical conditioning. Phase Two approaches which it tests their battle readiness, teamwork, and refining their combat intelligence. Unlike the Navy Seal's version, this a lot more relaxed.
For Tanya, she's far more experience on aerial warfare than naval warfare. But what kind of device she needs to make her recruits fly? If Remnant does not have such a device, she might scrap the idea and focus on their hardiness in combat. Later, the Winter Solstice will start at the end of the week of December which everyone is going on break. The twins did get a few calls from their family to see how they were doing and wanting to see them during the Winter Solstice. It's pretty much a casual conversation and informing the twins that their parents are coming to Atlas to celebrate the holiday festivities with them.
Sitting in their office with their Scroll in hand, the twins see their mother happily smiling at them as she's alive and well.
"Good to see you again Tige and Ruby, so how are you two girls doing while you're away from us?" Tanya is still getting used to her mother calling her original name before her body expired. Tanya tries to give a positive smile to Summer.
"We're doing great mom, I'm training the students to become fighters and I'm leading them into battle." Hiding the truth of what's actually happening. It's a good thing that the training ground is far away from Tanya's office or else they will hear a lot of screaming.
A lot of screaming...
"Wow! I'm really proud of you Tige. So for that, how about I bring the family to celebrate the Winter Solstice at Atlas?" Tanya wants to reject that idea, but Ruby annoyingly pestered her about celebrating the holiday with their family. Resisting on biting her tongue, she nods her head happily.
"Sure thing mom, you can bring Dad and big sister! It's going to be fun." Showing some respect, she doesn't want to upset Ruby or her mom.
[Ihr Frühstück ist hier, Frau Tanya.] (Your breakfast is here, Ms. Tanya.) Hearing a certain robot approaching her to break out Tanya's thoughts, Tanya lifts her head to see Lupen holding a breakfast tray of her choice. Doing something rather trivia after he finished the repairs. Specifically, Tanya ordered Lupen to grab her breakfast at ten in the morning.
"Danke schön Lupen, I really appreciated that. Now proceed with your custodian duties." Hearing her commands, the android left her office to perform his job to clean the garrison. As it left, Huggy and Muggy flew into the office as they rest on her shoulders.
Looking at her birds that are resting on her shoulders as Tanya's start to eat, she searches through Remnant's mythologies to find one that really closely resemble Norse Mythology. Back in her previous life, the Empire and some extent the Entente Alliance is that their pagan ancestors used to worship a heathen god called Wotan as it's no different to Odin before they were assimilated into Being X's monotheism.
The difference here in Remnant's old theology is that the Faunus worshipped him and their interpretation of the Norse Gods. For the Faunus who lives in the Northern part of Mistral who practiced their old religion, Woden is the equivalent to Odin. As this Faunus Odin has raven wings than birds which he can use them for intelligence gathering or mystical purposes like inciting madness in war.
So gazing back at the birds, there is something deeply wrong about them that doesn't make a lick of sense to Tanya; shouldn't both of them be ravens? Unless the brothers did something to them?
This is so boring! This is always what you do in your previous life? Ruby complaining about how mundane officer work and not having any action at all while they're eating, Tanya snaps out from her thoughts and groans of host's childish impatience towards the inaction.
If you do not want to get shot, blown up in the battlefield along possibly not catching the flu? Then yes, it is a pleasant experience for me. Doing office work keeps her mind at ease and reminding herself of what she was like back in Japan. Doing average at the Human Resource Department and punishing anyone who isn't doing their jobs properly.
Why is it so bad on getting the flu? Like what, you're going to catch a cold or something? Looking at Remnant's history of diseases, their pathogenic illness is pretty tame compared to Earth's or Being X's Earth related diseases. When the Great War broke out, there were no signs of lethal influenza or any bacteria that would kill a man in minutes, only Grimm killing off rest of the population. Tanya stops eating her egg rice with salmon at the side as she starts to reminiscent the danger of sickness.
From where I am from, Remnant's diseases are pretty mild compared to the ones we have. One cough, you're dead. That's one of the many reasons why Tanya doesn't want to go into the frontlines. Remembering her history about WW1, the most deadly killers on Earth are diseases. As one of the infamously yet inaccurately named diseases is Spanish Flu. From the lack of medical vigilance or scientific breakthroughs to combat them, it killed millions of people worldwide.
A similar scenario appeared back in the Empire that the allies are suffering and being ravaged by a dangerous disease. Hearing this, she becomes extremely vigilant and keeping watch on her Battalion's health. Ordering them to get medical checkups or immediately reporting in any symptoms among her Battalion to be laid off. Knowing it is the lethal equivalent to Earth's Spanish Flu.
Before Ruby can ask why her world has deadly diseases, a beep was heard at the twins' scroll. Knowing who it is, she taps on the screen to reveal a holographic image of General Ironwood's face.
"Tanya Rose. Glad to see the practical test is bearing some fruit despite the…controversy." Ironwood is not exactly overjoyed of Tanya's training when he read reports about the physical conditioning phase. But half of his staff members are interested in the training purely for results and Remnant's Council breathing down on Ironwood's neck, forcing him to allow Tanya's unorthodox practice on his students.
"General Ironwood. I appreciate your concerns about my actions that are considered unethical. But that's one of the challenges they signed up for." Trying to reason with the General, the students should suspect of her brutality and they paid dearly for not taking heed of her warnings. Hearing of Tanya's reasoning, James simply frowns and decides to change the topic.
"Please be more considerate your decisions next time Tanya. For now, let's talk about aerial warfare involving a special prototype that R&D made in their project." When Ironwood said prototype, it immediately caught Tanya's attention.
"Prototype? What is it exactly?" Having a creeping suspicion of what this prototype might be, she decides to plays along with Ironwood and not making accusations just yet.
"It's an Operation Orb that allows the user to fly by channeling their aura. Unluckily, it's in its experimental stage." Seeing her prediction is confirmed. She has a pretty good idea who made it.
"Then who designed it?" Giving a scrupulous look at Ironwood of what the catch is. James gave her a clear hint of who it is.
"You wouldn't like what I'm about to say." Now that's her answer.
"The concept and design are from Wahnsinn, am I correct?" Tanya frowns from mentioning that scientist. The scientist that Tanya who looks and acts like Adelheid Von Schugel. A madman who believes in theoretical guesses rather than looking at the practicality in the battlefield. In a short notice, he became an enamored religious fanatic when Being X gave him the knowledge to create her Elenium Type-95, claiming to be God's 'holy' artifact.
"Tanya. I know Mr. Wahnsinn has some few screws loose in his skull but he's the only scientist that may solve your flying problem. Just hear him out and see the results." Tanya wants to make a snide remark about their bat-shit scientist but kept a tight lid on her opinions. Not wanting to be rude towards the General.
"I don't have anything to say right now. If you're feeling it, come down at the R&D building to test his equipment. Your choice. Oh, and Ruby." Saying that. Tanya's eyes become silver and curiously look at Ironwood of what he wants.
"Please watch over your sister." After he said that, the transmission ended and only leaving the twins to their own privacy, which Tanya groans in frustration.
You seem to know that guy? One of the people in your past again? Tanya frowns that Ruby, again, is prying on her previous life. Letting out a sigh, she gives out a little info about that craze scientist.
The one who keeps strapping me with his defective crap? Yes, that's the guy you don't want to be experimented on. Remembering doing test runs with his prototypes. Most of them blow up, went out of control, or randomly stop working during her mid-flight. She is about to call quits until Adelheid present the perfected Elenium Type-95, a gift, and a curse.
So do you want to visit the R&D department since you know…have the thing for you to fly? Tanya carefully thinks through her options. If she refuses, then she wouldn't have the equipment for the students to be efficient, but be spared from Being X's schemes. If she accepts, then she will have to deal with Being X and the scientist's eccentric experiment that might kill her.
Weighing her decisions, she might as well check the facility. But she wouldn't carelessly accept Adel's insane experiments.
Seeing my choices. Let me call in the Bullhead.
Huffing, Turkis groans when he and his peers lifting up gigantic polls from the ground. Their bodies ache and feeling the massive burden weighing them down. They keep doing this in repetition like it's a daily chore. Their tenacity was waning at first, but their grit slowly regaining when their newly appointed lieutenant actually cares for their wellbeing than the previous one.
Lifting with his sweat freezing, the aqua-eyed student noticed that Tanya wasn't here, only Sarge supervising them with the other adult instructors.
"Captain Laven Turkis! What are you looking at?!" Sarge roars at the darkly skinned boy with his shotgun aiming at him that's filled with beanbags.
"Where's the Colonel, sir?" Looking back at the Colonel with his teeth churning, Turkis spotted a bullhead flying in the air.
"Oh, she's off to Atlas on testing your new equipment-now drop down and give me twenty for asking that question!" Hearing him cock his shotgun, Turkis finds it absurdly impossible.
"But sir, I'm carrying this fucking thing with my units!" Rot sees it as an absurd excuse and angrily demands him to do it.
"Nonsense, do it simultaneously! As you know, under intense stress will help you ward off Grimm and lifting a dreadnought airship if you have crippling anxiety."
So what is the prototype would look like sis? Sitting on the seat of the Bullhead and looking at the window to see the endless white tundra of Atlas. Outside, they see their dove and Nevermore flying in the air, following them as they go.
From what I experience from my previous life and what he's rambling about, it will probably be a jewel that can be fueled by our aura. While giving Ruby her prediction, the sound of a shotgun blast echoed in the air and someone screaming top of their lungs. Luckily for them, the bullhead's engine dulling the noise as the twins couldn't hear it. After a few seconds, Tanya felt a sudden spike of negativity in her nostrils.
Seems Sarge is enjoying himself. Detecting his usual bloodlust, Tanya might ask Ironwood to layoff Sarge to do his age getting to him.
Yeah, I think that old fart really needs to retire. Ruby held the same opinion as Tanya which the silver-eyed girl question Sarge's sanity most of the times and his random ideas that don't make much sense.
An hour later and idly doing nothing, they see towering white buildings of Atlas and its gigantic academy. The bullhead gently glides down on the helipad as the twins exited their aircraft.
Looking around, they see the snowy landscape of the academy with students going by their daily routine with androids patrolling proximity of the school area. Above them, the twins look up to see Atlas's CCT. Tanya acknowledges that the towers are meant to be symbolic and the friendship between kingdoms. But there is a tiny flaw that really infuriates Tanya to no end.
When one tower is down, the rest will fall? What she learned of the design of the towers feels deeply impractical and inefficient. That would greatly compromise Remnant's international security and communication. Why didn't they make all the towers operate by themselves and not to be tied together to become a huge ultimate liability?
Tanya wants to rant about exiling scientists that held important intelligence like Dr. Watts who have the greatest insight on the CTT's security, but it's too late to make any tirade as she knows the Remnant's governments refuse to change when it comes to legality.
The Devil learned this lesson all too well when the Soviet Union collapse. During the start of the Post-Cold War, thousands of bright Russian scientists, millions who worked in nuclear factories and radioactive arsenals were under pressure by economic ruin. Seeing the possible security threat, the U.S wisely assisted Russia on the turmoil before any one of them can be taken by unsavory factions, preventing any possible nuclear Armageddon.
But here in Remnant, they exiled too many intelligent individuals who have questionable morals but hold great knowledge. Leaving their kingdoms without a guide or purpose is wasteful at best or a liability. Tanya knows that there is going to be a lot of enemies that have knowledge of the inside and outs of the Kingdoms' security to do Remnant's own incompetence.
Scoffing at all of Remnant's poor choices. She passes through the steel walls of Atlas, she enters the R&D building as the automated door instantly opens up for her.
Going through the bustling halls where all the engineers, scientists, or any special individuals going by their day that would benefit Remnant greatly. She quietly steps inside the elevator and hit the button that would lead to the first basement floor of Atlas's R&D.
The door closes and the elevator reverberates as it slides down to her selected floor. Slowing its descent, the door whirred open to reveal the R&D first sub-floor. The ceiling lights shine brightly on their face and they see a room that looks like a warehouse with pieces of tools and electronic parts being exchange by the R&D personnel.
Whoa…look at all that tech! Tanya's eyes became silver as she gleefully looks around the scattered experimental tech. They saw parts of Atlesian androids and a particular mechanized suit going through many revisions which the wires and its metal exoskeleton are being tested. They see a steel door that has a label above said: workshop. As the students doing a maintenance check on their personal weapons and engineers testing on new weaponry that would apply to everyone with better dust enchantments or better rounds.
Please don't touch their stuff. Ignoring the technological wonderland they're in. Tanya looks around on finding the Director who goes by Leo Kirche who manage and supervise most of the R&D team.
"Yes, yes. I will help your project by creating your perfect little girl my dear friend. But you will help me in creating my personal project, right? Like people say. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Overhearing their conversation, Tanya saw a darkly haired man chatting to an elderly man with tannish skin. After he said that, the old scientist departed silently but she spotted a glint of joy overwhelming his eyes.
"You must be Tanya Rose, am I correct?" Turning back to the man, his emerald eyes are being covered by his glasses and a goatee to add with his appearance. Like the other doctors here, he is wearing his white lab coat that has some smudge of oil on it. Reading through his biography, he is a well-respected engineer of Atlas and quickly earning his R&D title as the Director from his ingenious ideas.
"Yes sir, I am looking for Dr. Adel-" She was cut off when she heard his Scroll is beeping.
"Hold on for a moment. Yes-oh god. Kombuse! Lok! don't!" Picking up his Scroll, he frowns when he heard who the caller was.
"Do not touch anything in the-"An explosion echoed in one of the doors and out came a pair of twins running out with fire coating their white retardant suits.
"OH, I AM ON FIRE! EVEN THOUGH I'M WEARING THE SUIT! IT DOES NOTHING!" As they're screaming out within the room and start doing stop, drop and rolls on the floor. The Director pinch at the bridge of his nose to hold his temper and not wanting to pop his vessel.
"God damn it Kombuse-Allie! Get the fire extinguishers for them!" A blonde hair woman who's wearing Atlas's security uniform grabs the extinguisher and the other staff personnel aims their nozzles at the brothers.
"So…who are these two?" Distracted by these two individuals as they're now being sprayed by white fumes, Kirche rub his temple in annoyance.
"These two here are Kombuse and Lok. The brothers are…mentally questionable." Translating his euphemism, Tanya's definition of mentally questionable means retarded.
"Then why are they here?" Tanya looking at the brothers' antics in mused. The Director just shakes his head, thinking similarly about why these two are selected to be in R&D and not in social care.
"I keep asking myself the same question every day and why Atlas allows them to be in R&D. Most of the times, they are being nothing but a nuisance here." Watching one of them patting his body to see if he's okay, he yells out again.
"Yeah, we're okay! Nothing to see here…did anyone saw that?" Kirche sighing of their antics, the brothers remove their helmets and saw the Director. They gleefully smile at him and pronouncing his title wrong.
"The dic-tat-or! Glad to see you again Kirche!" Their blue eyes cheerfully look at the Director as Kirche corrected their pronunciation mistake.
"That's Director Mr. Kombuse. Now, would you mind not do anything rash because I'm talking to a very special student here-" The Director is then interrupted when Kombuse and Lok stare at her with great wonder, making their own absurd assumption about the twins in their special perspective...or is it something else they're thinking?
"Is that a little girl? Gasp! Is it Family Day here?" Making poor assumptions, the Director glares at Lok for interrupting of what he's about to say.
"Lok, pay attention! This here is Tanya Rose, a well-educated girl. Do be respectful because she's really smart-" Again, he's interrupted when Kombuse kneels down at the twins' height.
"I'm Kombuse. This is my brother Lok. We do smart things here that smart people do and everyone likes us." Contradicting what Kombuse said, an engineer came out from the burning room as he angrily yells out at the brothers.
"You two fucking dumbasses, you scorched half of our Dust supply in the storage room!" hearing this, the brothers quickly got offended and making a terrible excuse.
No ah-Turkis did it!" Seeing their actions in pure stupidity, Tanya and Ruby have different opinions about the mentally challenged brothers.
These guys are really funny Tanya! Trying not to take control of Tanya's body and laughing hysterically at the blue-eyed brothers' actions. Tanya just sneers at them and rolled her eyes of their pure idiocy.
The fact they are allowed to be here. I don't want them to get near to my equipment. Having the same mentality with the R&D team and ignoring Ruby's childishness, why are the brothers here in the first place?
"What in the blazing heck is happening here?!" Hearing a familiar voice, Tanya looks behind her to see the reincarnate of the Empire's mad scientist and the man who introduce her of the Elenium Orb.
"Oh, Dr. Adel Wahnsinn. Good to see you, Ms. Rose over here is looking for you. Now excuse me, I'll be going. Allie, would you come dear?" Looking back at the blonde girl name Allie, she happily smiles at the Director.
"Yes honey, off we go." Hearing the phrase dear and honey, it gave the twins an obvious hint that they're in a relationship.
"Well, well. Colonel Tanya Rose. Good to see you answered to Ironwood's recommendation." Dr. Wahnsinn kindly spoke to him but Tanya keeps her chin up and not being careless about this.
"Dr. Wahnsinn, I'm merely seeing the prototype. I'm not going to use it. So show me your project." Scoffing and losing the charade he's making. He pulls a small, red jewel in his hand as he presented to the twins.
"Alright, here's the prototype in my hand. A perfected Dust Jewel which can be channeled by someone's Aura. From reading your reports and biography, your aura is perfect for this job!" Knowing his intentions are, Tanya politely shook her head and declines his offer.
"I would love to. But seeing your reputation for being eccentric, I will decline on your request." After she said that, tears suddenly dripping down on his face and whimpering sadly to himself.
"Why Tanya, I need this to work! If not, I will lose my job and nowhere to use my expertise. I will be poor, kicked out in R&D!" Depressingly crying out, Tanya can easily tell this is merely a guilt trip and reading his biography carefully, he is quite rich with a history of being a manipulator. Even Tanya can smell deceit within his heart.
It's a ruse.
"Doctor I know you're desperate. I would happily dec-"
DAMN IT RUBY! Flying uncontrollably in the sky as they're reaching the 7000 meters or 22965.88ft, the twins are almost closed on leaving Remnant's troposphere. Their eyes are concealed by the aviator goggles and the lower part of their face is being covered by an oxygen mask. The white jumpsuit that R&D gave them is layered with untold amounts of wires and a light metallic tank at their back for them to breathe if they reach higher altitude.
As they're losing control, Huggy and Muggy fly in the air. They caw and coo repeatedly to them, fearing their owners are going to die by the inept technology they're carrying. The jewel's synchronization is unstable if they keep continuing further. As the white box that's strap around their waist is starting to make an ominous hissing sound, the engine is not corresponding of what they wanted.
I'M SORRY! I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THAT EXTREME! At their neck, the red Dust jewel glowed viciously as white tube hoses connected to their white gloves and boots which they're being fueled by their auras…but in an unreasonably high consumption in order to control her flight which is failing spectacularly. The metal inside of their exoskeleton is punching them everywhere by inertia.
I TOLD YOU NOT TO ACCEPT HIS REQUEST AND NOW LOOK WHAT WE'RE IN! Their gloves and boots are messily covered in electronic wires with a steel skeletal frame to keep them at their place. Their body is flinging everywhere with no control at all and the twins saw the wires are giving out a smoky scent. Sniffing it, Tanya knows she needs to bail immediately.
"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! I'm about to abort the flight!" Yelling at her headphone in terrifying panic, an all too familiar voice screams out to her when she heard someone snatching the phone away from the original owner.
"Continue the flight, Ms. Rose!" Hearing Adel's maniacal cry to continue on with his experiment, Tanya ignored his demented pleas and finding the safety switch to cut off the flow of aura that is feeding into her main jewel. Looking down, the orb's exterior is cracking by the immense pressure by the input she's giving into it.
"Not this time Wahnsinn!" Reaching to the switch while erratically flinging everywhere, the twins can hear an argument behind her headphones.
"Can I have the banana phone Wahnsinn?"
"Lok, no! I need them to achieve theoretically around 20,000 meters!"
Slowly reaching the switch as the turbulent winds and the loss of control of their movement as they're eccentrically flying everywhere, making it difficult for them to grab it. The argument continues within their headphones.
"Pretty please."
"Kombuse!"
Finally grasping on the switch, Tanya flips it down as the orb desist consuming their aura in an unimaginable rate. Her flight begins to slow down and hovering slightly in the air. Soon, the twins begin to fall back to the surface.
"Activating parachutes!" Seeing the right altitude to open the chutes, Tanya pulls the string on her strap as a white cloth pops behind her. Her descend starts to slow down as the twins gently glide back down to Remnant's surface.
Well, …that was a nerve wrecking experience. Floating down, Tanya disappointedly groans of her sister's bleeding heart about Adel von Wahnsinn's job.
Then don't do that ever again of randomly accepting someone's request without knowing their true intentions are! Lecturing Ruby of naively taking in someone's request and breaking her promise again, Tanya holds her guard up just in case she expects an explosion occurs. Luckily, it didn't blow up on their face when her feet touch the snowy ground and coincidentally landed near the air base which the R&D are conducting this faulty prototype.
Strangely to Tanya, everything seems to be going into her favor this time…way too favorable.
"Why didn't you continue on the flight, Ms. Rose!?" Angrily pulling out her gloves and boots on the paved ground, she irritatingly looks back at the insane doctor when she removed all of her equipment. Unbuckling the box that contains the engine to channel her aura, she throws it on the floor in exasperation.
"Your defective piece of shit almost killed me, doctor! The movement is shit, the orb is eating too much of my aura reserve, and the jewel you gave me is about to blow up on my face!" Fiercely pulling out the jewel on her neck, she tosses the orb to Dr. Wahnsinn as he perfectly grabs the cracked jewel.
"Defective? Are you calling my masterpiece mere shit? You take that back!" As Tanya is marching away with Huggy and Muggy landed on her shoulders, the Devil just snarl at Adel's ineptitude on reality.
"OH MY GOSH, YOU'RE BACK! Can I touch the stone?" Turning who said that. They see Kombuse and Lok standing behind Wahnsinn. Adel jump in surprised at how they even sneak up on him like that.
"Don't do that EVER-and no you can't touch my prototype!" Scolding them from their lack of unintelligence while rubbing his ears by their loud outburst, Tanya saw an opportunity to further insult Wahnsinn and encourage those morons to screw with the mad scientist.
"Let them touch your crap. I bet those two make your equipment far better on killing me." Striking a nerve, Adel angrily argues back and starting to accuse Tanya's performance.
"You leave these two nitwits out of the equation. Are you supposed to be a soldier who follows someone's order?" But Lok interrupted Adel's accusation as the brothers still following them.
"Thank you, nice girl!"
"Shut up! Answer me damn it!" Tanya let out a sigh when they enter the clinical room. The twins feel their adrenaline starts to fade away from their body as they can feel the stingy pain all over them.
"I'm not stupid Mr. Wahnsinn! I'm a soldier who uses weapons and fights efficiently on the battlefield, not some insane engineer who shits out rancid theories all the time to test his unfinished junk!" Sitting down on her chair, the nurses starting to check up on any injuries, they see few cuts and bruises form by their unsafe flight.
"Oh, I know! There is a way…to make someone happy when they're mad. Think of happy things. Like counting to ten…and touching the stone!" Wahnsinn lividly stares back at Kombuse.
"I said quietly you imbeciles!" Screaming at them, Tanya got up from her seat and left the room when her wounds are bandaged up.
Heading outside, a Bullhead and the pilot are waiting for Tanya's arrival if she finished with Dr. Wahnsinn's experiments. The pilot saw Tanya's frustration and approaching him with a bloodthirsty presence. Doing the wisest thing then bothering her, he went back to his aircraft and started the engine.
"But my project will be right this time! I will show you when I fix the flaws and showing this revolutionary tech to the world!" Not buying his deranged demands. Tanya steps in of her Bullhead and glares at the doctor for not acknowledging a certain law.
"I bet it is revolutionary, but how about you make something work this time!" The engine starting to roar and Dr. Wahnsinn gives an infuriating look at Tanya for not believing in him.
"It will theoretically work this time!" She knows this all too well that the doctor is still ignorant in this life and refuses to see his flaws.
"No, it wouldn't doctor…why engineers are called doctors?" About to lose his anger when Adel looks back at Lok again, Tanya finds it a little surprising that one of the brothers agreed with her. But she ignores them seeing it is merely an idiotic outburst.
"Doctor, anything that goes wrong, will go wrong!" As the Bullhead starting to lift off from the ground and shoots off into the air, the doctor snarl at her statement.
"Anything will go wrong you say? What nonsense!"
Hours up in the sky as dusk approaches. Tanya angrily types on her tablet to give Ironwood her full reports about Dr. Wahnsinn's useless experiment. As she lividly writes it down with every detail and every flaw that she experienced during the test flight. She wants Ironwood to read every single sentence of the bullshit she went.
That…was terrible. Feeling every aches and pain that their body went through from wearing that faulty suit, Tanya agrees but still scolds of her sister's soft nature.
Remember what I say, don't carelessly accept someone's empathy without knowing their true purpose. Gently landed on the ground as they finally reached Tanya's garrison, they step out of the Bullhead and walks back to their office. Looking at their garrison, the supplies and materials are coming in, enough to renovate and repair half of the base to function correctly.
I'll try to control myself next time. Walking, all of the staff members and students stare at their colonel as they notice her visible bruises on her baby face. But they know better not to piss off their leading officer when she's angry after what happened to Grif.
I hope so Ruby. Going through stairs after stairs, they enter their office room and locking the front entrance. Seeing they're in the clear, Tanya then types her password on her Scroll.
You still don't trust me? Soon, a soft hissing was heard as the secret entrance that leads to their bedroom quietly opens up. Stepping inside, Tanya taps her Scroll as the entrance behind her closes silently.
Stripping her jumpsuit off, their body is now covered in bruises and small cuts by Adel's horrible experiment which metals and wires surrounded their body. When they were flying erratically, some of the pieces begin to break down as some of the said pieces puncture her skin or the metal slamming against her flesh.
Even though their Aura is healing them, the device they used drain majority of their aura reserve as her wounds is still present. It did heal her major wounds to become minor ones, but her body is still strained by Wahnsinn's nearly lethal experiment.
The fact we can still feel that garbage beating against our skin. Then yes, I don't trust you on making decisions when I clearly told you about Dr. Wahnsinn's insanity! Feeling the stingy sensation as they are standing naked with their wounds still fresh, Tanya picks up her clothes and headed straight to the laundry room.
But I thought he was being genuine about his decisions! Entering their private laundry room which contains a grey washer, dryer, and a wooden cabinet to hold their cleaning supplies; Tanya steps on a plastic stool and dumps her clothes in the mouth of the washer. Dropping a detergent pod, she slams the door and hit normal, hearing it regurgitating her clothes inside.
Were you aware of our birds' to mentally check what his intentions are? Opening to another door, it reveals Tanya's personal bathroom. Unlike the pure grey décor, their bathroom has white marble walls and slate flooring to give some kind of dignity. Inside are the usual necessities, a porcelain toilet, a sink with a broad rectangular mirror, and a walk-in shower.
Hey! I cannot resist that long face of his and it's a personal habit! Removing their old bandages on their body that stained with their blood, Tanya threw them in the trash bin and only to reveal their open skin by the minor cuts.
Alright, I'll be straight with you. Do not automatically make decisions without my permission. Did you get that? Closing the glass door, she starts running the warm water on the faucet.
Oh, by the way, this is going to sting a little. Grabbing a shampoo bottle on the counter and applying it to her scalp, her wounds begin to react to the water and the sting came back harder on her. Feeling the agonizing pain, Tanya starts to wonder. What if she uses her newfound powers?
Tanya? What are you doing? Feeling her sister's pain since both of them are sharing a single body, Ruby suspiciously question her sister what she's doing. Tanya casually replies back to her host as she's going to test something with her powers.
Doing a useful experiment. Her tiny vines start to swarm on her flesh, Tanya concentrate her Semblance to make her vines minuscule as possible and making her thorns sharp as needles to sew her cuts.
Stitching her cuts with great precision and care, Tanya decides to further mess with her Grimm abilities when it comes to healing. Her veins on her arms start to visibly darken and this strange black ichor arises from her wounds. It bubbled and later ebbed. As it recedes away, her cuts then vanished from her skin like magic.
Ew! Why would you use that!? Even though the pain stopped from their body, Ruby instinctually got upset with the black substance that was on her body. Something about it makes her soul upset and she doesn't know why though. Merely looking at it just gave her utmost disgust like it's feces to her.
Why are you complaining? It healed us. Wondering why Ruby is being irrationally frantic about this. Tanya can tell her sister is visibly frowning at how she expressed it.
Yeah but…I really don't like it. For a second, Tanya thought she felt a glint in her eyes that feels extraordinarily painful. She wants to know what's that feeling was, but her thoughts were occupied by her sister's pointless complaints.
Ruby, can you stop complaining? It just my own ichor for fuck sake! Trying to shut up her sister of her out of nowhere phobia towards the Grimm, Tanya oddly feels strangely offended by Ruby's personal opinion about the Grimm.
Easy you to say, Grimm are villains, they are beasts, and they are cold. They would snap and they would bite, they are hardly prudent. They are dumb as a hammer, dumber a lot. Tanya isn't sure if Ruby is making a Dr. Seuss rhyming or not, it really irks her of how Ruby phrased it.
Well never mind then. Please don't rhyme again. Finished cleaning their body and her hair, Tanya grabs her white towel in the rack as she closes the shower door behind her, Ruby tries to argue back but sees a valid point in her sister's words.
Well, I…okay fine. That sounds really lame of what I said. Apologizing to Tanya, she plainly shrugs it off and groaning of Ruby's awkwardness.
Wiping and wrapping herself with her chosen towel. Tanya heard a beep and walks back to the laundry room. After putting her clothes in the dryer, dressing in their sleeping clothes, and went back to brush their teeth. It was time for them to sleep after doing their mundane chores.
So, goodnight sis. Kindly talking to her sister, Tanya nonchalantly replies back.
Yeah, you too Ruby. Scowling, Tanya is probably going to suspect that Being X is going to enter her dreams and possibly making a tirade monologue of her arrogance or miracles whatever to make people believe in God. Tanya is predicting of what's going to happen next and knowing that Adel will be granted with great knowledge to make her Operation Orb work…with a cost.
After Ruby made a quick prayer in her mind, they soon fall adrift to their dreams.
In a dark corner of an empty workshop where gears scattered and experimental orbs that could trap aura in. The mad scientist who stands alone tries to make a breakthrough in his work. But he couldn't figure out how to stabilize the orb and not backfiring on the user. On the table next to his prototype orb is a picture of Ruby with a file about her unusual aura.
Today is the weekend as the majority of the students or personal leave for their break. But not for him, as he's obsessed with making his creation to work properly. He has one last chance before his project can be canceled by Tanya's critical complaints.
"Hello Adel, how-um-how's your pet stone. It looks fun and nice, can I pet it? Please?" Hearing a familiar voice that sounded overly enthusiastic, he looks behind him to see two identical blue-eyed brothers happily excited at his orb. The mad scientist snarls at them of their pure stupidity as he doesn't trust them on tampering with his magnum opus. He doesn't know why they are allowed in R&D, but the staff allowed them in spite of their lack of intelligence.
"Kombuse! Lok! Leave me be! I don't want you two imbeciles to ruin my grand project!" Shouting at the two. The brothers, strangely enough, listen to him.
"Okay! Bye!" As they left the workshop. Wahnsinn sighs at their idiocy and returning back to his work. He could not find to right function for this to work, what is he missing?
"This isn't right. What am I doing wrong here? How do I maintain the jewel structure while not compromising the design I worked so hard on?" Thinking hard where his hands are messing with the tiny gears that are inside the orb. He soon heard a voice out of nowhere and everything around him seems to slow down.
"I see your struggle Adel Von Wahnsinn, you're ambitious to your work, but not your faith." Surprise by this, he looks around to see who it was but there is no one here. But that holy voice sounds very familiar to the old doctor, a voice that is very wise.
"Who are you?" Dropping his screwdriver as it's falling in midair. The voice calls out to the old scientist again.
"How about I show you the memories to know who I am, my faithful follower?" In a spark of his mind like an explosion, a flood of memories overwhelms him. The time he was in the Empire, creating a perfect orb for Tanya. Wahnsinn now knows who he is and what his God is. He learned of what his purpose is.
He now knows what his problem is.
"I remember now, my Lord, I thank you for your gift as I remember my past as Adelheid. I'll continue my work in your glory!" Praising his God, he looks down at the jewel as now knows what to do. Soon, time proceeds normally and the screw he dropped fell to the ground.
"Your artifact will be your masterpiece. Your creation will make nonbelievers pray to you." Fiddling the orb, it shines bright gold and its minuscule atoms starting to reform itself into something quite special than mere Dust crystals. The gears inside crank in harmonic synchronization as the orb tick. His new found knowledge is a divine act and knowing God is the smartest of them all. His power is unimaginable for mortals like him to know. As mankind's fate is forever sealed by him.
"Welcome back Elenium Type-95…or should I 100?" Grinning madly, his hands precisely adjusted the gears. The hours of precious toil soon to bear fruit as the jewel shines bright like the God of Light himself. After hours of creating this miraculous holy artifact. The bright sun soon sets down as the blacken night approaches.
Laughing happily of his work and its design is about to be finished. He locks the orb under the workbench drawer and left the workshop as it's time for him to sleep. It is time for him to rest and continuing his divine mission tomorrow as usual.
"Deus Los Vult." As he left the workshop as the night rises above. Two particular voices talking to each other as they enter the lone workshop when Adel completely left the area. The brothers were then shrouded in the darkness of the night.
"Is this where he stores his pet stone brother? I love a pet stone!" The wild-haired brother happily yelps at his tamer haired brother. Kombuse looks around and smiles happily at his brother.
"Yeah Lok. We could pet it. Feed it and make friends with it. What did Adel say his name was? El-e-Elly?" The tamer haired brother is struggling to remember the stone was. So at his brainless conclusion, he presumes the stone's name is Elly. Hearing this, the brother named Lok happily agreed with that assumption.
"Yup, yup. I think that's his name! Elly! It does sound like a girl's name but it can be a guy's name. So let's find Elly, I think he's playing hide-n-seek. Let's find Elly Kombuse!" Shouting out to Kombuse in hyper excitement, Kombuse joins in with Lok's idea.
"Okay!" As the two aimlessly looking around the room. Kombuse glance around of the many workbenches here.
"Stone? Stone? Where are you? If I was a stone, where would I be in this dark place? Probably lying on some dirt and covered in bird poop. Are you hiding here?" Coincidentally looking at Adel's table which contains the Elenium Type-100. The sandy-haired man harshly pulls the handle of the locked drawer. Fortunately or unfortunately from Kombuse's unnatural strength, the drawer rips right open with pieces of the lock mechanism went flying in the air.
"Whoops. I didn't mean it Mr. Table…I'm…so…super sorry-wait! Elly…is that you? Why are you doing inside Mr. Table? Bad stone!" completely forgetting about what he's even saying when he spotted the Elenium Type-100. He enthusiastically grabs the orb and starts stroking it like if it's alive to him.
"Oh, good stone. Yes, you are! I'm sorry for yelling at you." While he's stroking the prototype. His brother Lok got excited when he finds Kombuse with the orb.
"Oh my gosh, you found Elly!" Overjoyed to see the stone is in his brother's hands so they can play with Adel's orb. Kombuse joyfully agrees with Lok.
"Yes, Lok! I found Elly. Isn't he pretty?" The crystal of the orb shines like gold as Lok take a closer look at the soon to be a powerful relic.
"Yeah, it's pretty for a guy-wait, what's happening to Andy-I mean-Elly?" Soon, the orb burns bright like the sun and the brothers begin to panic what they are seeing.
Unaware to them, someone in the room tries to divinely commune with the idiotic brothers but failed spectacularly. For their minds are empty and their fate isn't bound at all. Only their brainless decision and moronic choices guide them.
"Oh no, the Dust Matrix is fluctuating! Do you know what that means-what was that?" Yelling in random hysteria, Kombuse has no idea what his brother is talking about.
"What does it mean-what was what?" In their pure stupidity, Lok assumes the worst of what's happening to Elly.
"He is ill and fat; he eats too much like Grif. We need to do surgery on him fast so he can be skinny-I think I heard someone talking to us." Speaking calmly like it's no big deal. The tamer haired brother happily claps his hands of what they're going to do.
"Yeah! Surgery sounds fun! What is a surgery? I don't hear anyone?" forgotten what that means, Lok is starting to compare people like machines.
"Fixing someone brother! Do you forget they use tools to fix machines…or was it mech-anic? Yeah, it's probably the birds. Wait, do birds sleep?" Trying to understand what surgery is. Kombuse quickly understood what it meant.
"So it's fixing? Okay, let's fix here! For the birds, maybe yes?" Seeing they now know what to do. They simultaneously speak their catchphrase and completely deaf of that random voice they are hearing.
"Neat!" Soon, they grab the tools that are scattered in the room as they somehow can see through the darkness. Kombuse places the orb on Adel's workbench as the brothers gently tinker the mad scientist's device. Each mindless tweak, there is a flash of silver. Each time they rewind the gears, the burning brightness becomes gentle. Each modification they added, it whispers gently.
"There, there. It will be okay Mr. Stone. You will be all better and happy as you will be our best friend. No need to be so bright and clumsy. You will be fine, like us." After hours of their tampering, the golden brightness of the Elenium that is burning like the sun slowly flickers into silver. The crystal softly glimmers like the moon in the dark night of the sky. Its bindings shattered as if they were fragments.
Behind them. A ghastly, dark figure watches their actions in the shadow before disappearing. Seeing his work to egg them on was successful.
"Oh, Adel will be so happy! Let's put him back." After hours of their tinkering, the orb returns back to bright gold and place it back in the drawer which the lock is busted.
"Yeah! I hope he enjoys Elly's new look! Wait…was it Andy?" Sliding the drawer back. The two cheerfully left the room and leaving the tampered jewel for Wahnsinn to use.
Within the orb. The sun and the moon are stuck inside together, trapped in a single device that they cannot get out. It's the epitome of the jewel's duality.
This will be the brothers' finest and latest relic out of their sheer spite…
