Maya smiled as she carefully ushered the ink out of the street, before turning around with a hum...And tackle-hugged Eugene. "WHITE RABBIT!"
"AH-MAYA!"
Fetch laughed softly as the Video Conduit ended up sprawled out on the ground, the Ink Conduit hugging him. "Ooohhh how joyous it is to see thee again! What has transpired since my departure? Have the angels and demons been doing well? Have you had enough respite? Subsistence? Please do not inform me if thee has just been enjoying thy Heaven's Hellfire…"
"U-uh...Well.."
"Oh dear...What am I to do with you.." She sighed out as she got up, pulling him to his feet.
"Oooohhh I bet he has some ideas."
"Hush Gatsby, your whimsical tales and strung words are not favored at the moment."
"Yeah." Reggie nodded his head with a small smile, nudging Delsin. "I could actually get used to this one."
"Many thanks to you, White Knight."
"Aw-Come on." Delsin huffed, giving a small pout as he crossed his arms. "Why does everyone have a cool nickname besides me?"
"They haven't tried to bring harm unto my body."
"Hey hey hey, I only did that because you went ape shit."
"...What does monkey feces have to do with how I behaved?"
"...No way do you...Do you not know what swearing is?"
"What-ing?"
"..Oooooh-hoho~ I'm gonna have some fun with this."
"And what in Zeus' name." She pauses to grasp Delsin's left arm, holding it up to look at the tattoo on it. "Are these markings?"
"Marking?...Hold up-You're telling me that the Ink Conduit...Has no clue what a tattoo is? Aw, now that, that right there ain't right."
Maya was left blinking in confusion, and looks to Eugene. "Why is he saying such words?"
"Well.."
"C'mon Kid, we've got a loooooot to teach you." The smoke-using male hooked arms with the Ink Conduit, tugging her along with him. "Burnin' day light out here...! Hurry up!"
The red-head softly laughed. She enjoyed this male's enthusiasm...Yeah, Gatsby was a good name for him. That and Mad Hatter...
"This, is a tattoo parlor." Delsin hummed, waving a hand to the sign of the odd shop with neon lights.
"I still do not understand what a 'tattoo' is, Gatsby.."
"Well...I can tell you, or you can learn. Now, how good are you with needles?"
"I'd...Prefer, to have distance between them and my body..."
"Alright then, on to our next option...Can you 'ink' yourself."
"Of course." Maya nods as the two of them enter the store, going to a wall of pictures and designs. "...Oh...These...These are glorious..."
"Well, pick one, and ink it on your body."
She looked at him in a bit of confusion, before looking to her letter-filled shoulder. Carefully the words were pushed to the side. After glancing up at the wall, she decided on a familiar tattoo..
It was a luckenbooth brooch, with the phrase "nemo me immune lacessit" around it. At Delsin's confused look and quirked eyebrow, the Ink Conduit giggled. "It is an infatuation moment...A love token, if you will...As for the phrase, it simply means that 'no one attacks me with impunity'."
"Huh...Demanding, protective, and still with an undertone of sweetness...Nice." Carefully the two linked arms as they walked out, being sure to be on guard for any patrolling D.U.P. "So...Love means a lot to you?"
Maya smiled softly at him, shrugging. "There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice. So says, F. Scott Fitzgerald."
"Huh...Well, try this one on for size. Over and over, I fall for you. Over and over, I try not to."
"Quaint, yet simplistic...Who is the author?"
"Three Days Grace."
"...Who?"
"...Man, how long where you in Curdan Cay for?"
"Uhm...I can not recall."
"That's it! Next stop-Music Sto-...Hold up." He paused Maya, putting his hand up in front of her to stop her from walking. Before them stood a small group of D.U.P. officers and a few rooks. "Crap.."
"What is the matter, Gatsby? Do the Queen's guards give you trouble as well?"
"Well, yeah? What Conduit aren't they after?"
"Ah, fair point...Would you like me to rid of them?"
"Sure, go for it." he nodded his head as he un-hooked their arms.
With a hum Maya looked at them...Before smiling as she raised her hand. The grey of their trucks erupted, cutting through most of the guns...
"IT'S ROWE! AND ANOTHER CONDUIT!"
"Oh dingleberries...ABSCOND!" The Ink Conduit yelled as she started running, Delsin staying where he was to fight though.
"Oh come ON Maya! Where's that fighting spirit!"
"WITH MY SANITY, AWAY FROM BATTLE!"
The Rowe male groaned as he had to leave the fight, Eugene having warned him that Maya could get...Side-tracked, and lost, rather easily...
When he had found her, Maya was happily running around a playground with a castle, giggling as she renewed the colors.
"Well, you get to work pretty well." Delsin nodded as he looked around with a small smile. "Nice job."
"I graciously accept the compliment, thank you." She gave a soft mock bow, laughing gently as he came over to her.
"No, really. You've got a good eye for color...Buuuut I guess that's a given, huh?"
"Indeed, one learns the niche of all the wonderful hues of the world quite well, when the hues are what their dreams are made of."
The hoodie Rowe nodded his head as he looked around...Before grinning as he took ahold of Maya's wrist. "Come on, I got an idea."
"So I just...Paint?" The Ink Conduit blinked at Delsin as the two of them stood outside one of the barren factories, standing before the rusted walls of them.
"Yep, go for it!" Delsin grinned as he got out his own spray can, turning around to face his wall. "We'll turn around in thirty minutes, and see what we've got."
"What is the theme of the endeavor?"
"Theme? Hmm...Freedom."
"Ah, very well.."
Maya smiled as she stepped back from her painting. A large book opening up to reveal a world of fantasy and security...Her own personal freedom...
With a happy giggle she turned on her heel to look at Del-Whoa..
A large flying bird with wings spread out, soaring through the wall's sky with clouds being pushed away..Nothing could stop it, it just...Flew, at it's own whim...
..
Maya took steps towards Delsin as he carefully sprayed the paint over the wall, grinning to himself...
"Delsin...Gatsby, this..This is...This is beautiful!"
"Hey, thanks Maya, I-"
He was cut off when the Ink Conduit had reached for the spray paint at the same time as he tossed the can up into the air a bit, their hands touching.
...
Maya gasped as she pulled away from Delsin, feeling the sparks on her finger tips as he pulled back also..
"Oh crap, Maya, I-I'm so sorry..I didn't mean to-" Delsin cursed out loud as his feet started to go into a liquid. "-Fuck, h-how do I-"
It was too late now...Wasn't it?
With a sad look and a sigh, the red-headed girl grasped onto Delsin's hand tightly with both of her's, her black and white light soon enveloping both of them.
I...Can't really remember, what had happened to me before Curdan Cay...
Visuals of a happy family was shown, Maya grinning and laughing with her sister and parents.
But after that I...I knew it would never be the same...
The grinning and laughing girl was soon "X"ed out, and showed her being chained up in the cell.
They stored me in a cell with no color, only clearness and white..The only thing that kept me going..Was my memories...
A carefully made and written book is seen, words filling the pages fluidly as it laid in a think-bubble.
They asked me questions..About my family, my friends..My life...Yet I..I knew they'd go after them so..So I...
The book shook, before pages started to get ripped out violently, and all that was left was a few barren pages.
...I did what I had to do...To protect them...
The image of the world went black...Showing fading images that just seemed blurry.
The days melded together as I was forced through tests after experiments. Getting burned and destroyed as my memories continued to tarnish and disappear...Before I just gave up the hope of seeing my family again..
The blurred image of her family comes to mind..before it is completely whited out.
My books were my only freedom after that...So my mind and my manners became my book. I was my own character..I was my own little story...And everything finally started it's rising action when the Red Queen had put me on that bus here...
She shows the bus ride, laying on Eugene's lap and having Hank unlock her restraints.
To be free...It was wonderful...And then, the guards-and-the fire-and-NO!
...It went black...
...I regained my reality once I was far away...And then..I met my darling White Rabbit, and a peculiar Song Bird...
The images of a golden-and-pink hued Fetch, in a glorified light...And a red and blue hued Eugene, in a more..Well, enticing light, was shown.
And vowed that no matter what, none of us were going to that hell hole again.
Maya panted as she shakingly sat up, with Delsin helping her up gently.
"Easy there Huey, easy..."
"Heh...Huey?" She gave him a cracked smile, a bit weak and tired...
"Yeah, Huey...Since I'm your 'Gatsby', you can be a Huey."
"Hm...F-fair enough.."
"Now, I..I kinda need some help, actually.."
"With?"
"Well, have you seen those large Core Relays that the DUPs put out?"...She blinked in confusion... "...Alright, c'mob, I'll show ya."
Maya hummed as they approached one of the Core Relays, looking at it over and over again. It didn't look like much.. "What do you need of this...Odd device, Mad Hatter?"
"I need you to help me break it."
She turned to him, a bit wide-eyed in her confusion. "What?! Whatever for?!"
"Well for one, the DUP put them ou-" He blinked when an ink spike made of Maya's arm went right through the hull...And it popped right open. "Oh! Well...Thanks!"
"Not a problem~" She hummed, re-forming her arm.
With a grin Delsin put his hands to the blue-glowing vehicle, absorbing the glow easily..Before laughing as he formed his own arm into an ink spike. "This is so cool!"
"Indeed, it is rather...Chilly."
"Okay, right along side cursing, we'll get you a crash course on slang...But first, we need to find more of these bad boys."
Maya stared a bit in wonder as Delsin drained yet another one of the containers, a few paint cans exploding a bit near them...Huh, well, he best be careful around his spray cans...
Delsin had used his first power, the turning into liquid one a bit shakily as he slid beneath the next core relay..And stabbed into the base of it, popping open the top. The newest advancement was him being able to drain the ink to increase his size...But only to about double his height.
Still an advancement though.
The fifth power was him being able to change his form in appearance, changing his pigments and a few of the bone structures...
"I swear upon my fallen ancestors that if you turn into a female gender to get into lewd situations, I will destroy you." Maya huffed, glaring at Delsin.
"I wasn't gonna! I was just...Let's go to the NEXT Core Relay!"
"That is what I thought..."
Maya has been quiet throughout most of their journey. She was..Well, a bit on-edge to know that someone knew of her story, and of how she saw Fetch and Eugene...
She was standing a bit to the side, having taken down and subdued the first wave of D.U.P. rather easily as Delsin drained the final Core Relay that he needed..
As the final wave came he clapped his hands, rubbing together.
His form was enveloped in a black and white light as he arose in the air, the D.U.P. freezing in place as the color on them was zapped up.
He stayed in the swirling vortex of color for a moment...Before the sphere exploded, daggers and sharp objects shooting out and pinning the DUP officers to the ground.
"YES!"
"Now Son of Del." Maya hummed as she came over to him, raising her hand. "I must warn you of one complication to my power..."
"Whiiiich is that it's too fucking awesome?"
"No...One must have internal peace to properly use it."
...
And that's when Delsin Rowe realized that he made the biggest mistake, getting this power.
BBB: No really big rhymes or announcements today
Mayhemb: So we'll just exit on out, that'a way~
BBB and Mayhemb: Bye~!