Aleister sighed as he finished the latest surgery on Cyber, originally the plan had been to use the cybernetics upon himself... But he wasn't going to use inferior cybernetics, add in the fact he didn't have a safe way to commit surgery on himself yet... Yea, it was obvious he was going to use it on himself.
He made a note to himself, maybe he should talk with Cyber in the future, absolute loyalty or not, she did have SOMEWHAT of a personality, even if she'd basically just stayed still all day till she was called for...
Abilities upgraded.
Enhanced speed (Slightly faster then bullets).
Electricity manipulation (Can create electricity from her body, using it to enhance her speed and strength. Can also absorb electricity).
Aleister looked on the shining golden marble in his hand in awe, a perfect copy of an entire Servant, it wouldn't serve for a Holy Grail, but that was fine.
He glanced to the slumbering Iris, currently tied across a steel table, it was time to get to work...
An hour later.
Aleister quickly removed his bloody gloves, that had been... Nerve wracking. But his work was complete, while Medea had removed the Heroic Spirit Artoria Pendragon Lancer and placed it into the Holy Grail, he'd attached the golden marble of Photonic Crystal to Iris heart, as long as she was alive she'd keep the powers of her Heroic Spirit.
"One step closer to activating the Holy Grail... I wonder if I can create more of these Heroic Spirit crystals...". Aleister wondered aloud, it certainly would be nice to have seven Demi-Servants. Panacea's power was extremely useful and if he could keep her, he could easily massively increase his biological experiments.
So we've got Lancer in the Grail now, while Iris keeps the abilities... Very handy.
Pssttt!
Aleister quickly pulled the blowtorch back, staring at the slim backpack before him, the cape in his Leonardo persona would easily hide it.
He quickly put the backpack on, the technology within should by using a mix of electrical signals and magecraft to be under his mental control.
With a force of will, pieces of the backpack quickly shifted about and two large hands floated besides him, good, it was working so far. Next he had them punch forward, spin like buzzsaws, flamethrowers, electricity...
Aleister's grin couldn't be wider as he saw everything was working as he had desired, the 'Lily' backpack was perfect!
- Lily Backpack.
A slim backpack, easily able to be hidden under armor or Leonardo's cape. Based upon the designs of Da Vinci Lily, pieces of it can separate off into large levitating hands that can be controlled by the users will. The metal it is composed of is Vibranium making it near unbreakable and able to negate kinetic energy.
1. Hands can act as flamethrowers and surround themselves in flames, along with electricity.
2. Fingers can swap between being dull and sharp, in order to act as buzzsaws.
"Pauuuu!". Kuramon nibbled at the chocolate he had been presented with, making joyful noises all the while. Aleister smiled at his partner (And was glad the Baby stage Digimon didn't eat as much compared to a Rookie).
"Eat all you'd like buddy, your gonna need that energy". The master gave the Virus Digimon a pat on the head, with the Baby leaning into it happily.
He wondered what Digivolution path Kuramon would take? There were a few he could think of, Diaboromon being the most obvious, but there were a few others as well. Feeding another piece of chocolate to his partner, he decided to focus on ensuring a good bond with the Digimon.
Bond up.
Kuramon: 2.
No idea how to write this, but no improvement for FB this time, it's hard to get higher then she already is.
She can still be improved like this, just wasn't lucky this time.
Leonardo wondered what god he'd pissed off (He was betting Circe), but quickly moved to dodge to dodge a ghostly spear.
"Stay still you damn traitor!". His opponent roared, but he just glared back.
"If stopping racists makes me a traitor, then I'll gladly be a traitor!". The heroic persona had to quickly avoid a blast of fog, glaring at the member of the so called 'Pure'. "Knight! How goes the- Gugh!".
Quickly teleporting out of the way of another spear, Leonardo cursed the fact he'd run into three members of The Pure, thankfully without Purity. None of them were threats if he was honest... If he could kill them, that is. It was so much harder fighting to restrain then kill.
Iris, with her new heroic persona of Knight really helped, but limiting her to just raw strength and two swords wasn't exactly great.
"I'm trying Leonardo! But- STAY STILL DAMMIT!". Knight roared as she tried cutting Night, but had to avoid a flash bang. Leonardo frowned, truly limiting themselves was annoying, and as horrible as they were, he couldn't argue The Pure escalated to the point he needed to kill them.
"Have you realized how outmatched you are? If you give up now, you may be shown mercy as members of the superior race". Crusader taunted, god Leonardo hated racists.
"I'm sure, but I'm afraid this is the bit we turn things around!". Activating the Lily Backup, two large arms emerged from under his cape and quickly rushed towards the surprised Crusader, who was unable to escape being grabbed and detained by one of the hands.
A wave of fog rushed towards Leonardo, who only smirked as invisible to everyone, his fist was empowered with Armament Haki. A punch was thrown-
"Guh! H-how...?". The now transformed back Fog asked, before falling over in pain.
Knight's own fight against Night was going decently, the former Empire kept trying to use flash bangs, smoke grenades and even a black cloak, but Knight wouldn't let her escape her sight and with a final punch, the enemy went down.
With their enemies down or captured, Aleister let out a relieved sigh, before freezing as he took note of a white shining blur flying towards them.
"Dammit... Knight! We're leaving, we can't handle Purity!". Placing a hand on Knight's shoulder, the two vanished as Purity arrived on the scene.
Skills improved.
- Combat 30%
- Observation Haki 14%. 11% chance to be forewarned of attacks.
- Armament Haki 8%. Converts willpower into an invisible armor around your body, enhancing both defense and offense. It also allows the user to hit those with non physical bodies (Logia Devil Fruits, Spirits, stuff like that).
The first phase of the plan was simple, from questioning Tattletale it seemed Coil had the ability to stimulated things, potentially a Precog. If he figured he was being attacked, he may take drastic actions.
FB flew through the digital realm alongside Kuramon, while the Baby couldn't be used for more precise work, tearing down Coil's digital defenses?
"PAUUUUU!!!". The greedy Baby launched himself forward, taking a bite out of the security systems, instantly taking down the communications. He didn't care what he was eating, it was tasty!
FB carefully dealt with the bits Kuramon left behind, ensuring any and all communications were truly cut.
Faust and Okita carefully moved through the physical base of Coil, the abandoned Endbringer shelter was absolutly packed with defenses, but any soldiers they encountered...
"GAAH!".
"WHAT ARE THESE FREAKS!?".
"MERCY!".
Electricity sparked around Faust's hands as he delivered a bone shattering Haki-infused punch to a mercenaries skull, while Okita simply cut down any who got to close. Tinker-Tech or not, they couldn't match the Assassin's sheer speed while Faust dealt with any she couldn't.
Of course, they weren't the only ones attacking.
Medea directed her Dragon Tooth Soldiers with a smile, while by her side Cyber stood as guard. Sure a few of her summons were defeated, but at the end of the day, mystic skeletal undead vs mundane humans? It was an obvious end results.
Strings of mana emerged from Medea's hand, grabbing onto a mercenary who looked somewhat more important then others, a quick use of hypnosis and he was willing to spill everything he knew about, filling in the details they had missed.
Once that was done, Medea quickly began drawing a magic circle onto the ground.
Timeline A.
Coil cursed as he ran through one of his many secret exits, how? How had Aleister Crowley discovered his base!? Had Tattletale revealed this info? She hadn't reported in anything last night.
He quickly summoned a snake to defend himself against a hoard of skeletal monstrosities, dammit! A katana swung when he was distracted-
Timeline B.
Taking a different exit, Coil cursed as his headache got worst. He needed to be careful to avoid the Stranger, with how fast she was it was impossible to survive.
He tried activating the bombs he'd pre-prepared, yet nothing happened! How? How had Aleister built up such support without him noticing! He'd had multiple timelines to attack the cape's new base, but only the defenses he'd seen before had shown up! The Stranger never appeared, nor did the white haired woman in black!
He began running yet again.
FB grinned as she came across another useful data file, Coil had been truly naughty, The Empire, ABB, PRT, he had the true identities of practically every parahuman in Brockton Bay! And that information was all theres! Moving to open another file-
Access Denied.
Huh? Looking at the file that took the form of a chest with the symbol for the Greek Omega on it, she tried accessing the file again.
Access Denied.
Frustrated now, FB tried hacking the file but...
What the hell was she looking at?
It was the single most advanced file she'd ever seen, formed from hundreds if not thousands of Tinker-Tech codes. She tried hacking it in every way she knew, brute force, subtly, nothing worked! Frowning, she tried copying the file so they could study it later, only for-
File Deleted.
"DAMMIT!". FB cursed, the file had been set to automatically delete if someone tried copying it!? "Kuramon... Eat everything".
"PPAAAUUUU!". The Baby happily did so, the AI had already taken everything valuable and left a bunch of junk behind-
Kuramon Digivolve to...
A sphere of data surrounded Kuramon, FB's eyes widened as she realized what was happening. After a few moments, the data sphere disappeared to reveal a purple hand like creature with a single orange eye.
TSUMEMON!
The now In-Training Digimon quickly got back to eating, while FB stared at him in excitement, Aleister would be so pleased!
Faust almost tripped when he felt his connection with Kuramon- no, Tsumemon increase, a grin across his face.
"Hm? You seem rather pleased Master". Okita asked as she swung her katana, flicking the blood off it, around her were the bodies of various mercenaries.
"Kuramon has evolved... And Coil is running like the snake he is, why would I need be pleased". Faust grinned, but a thought occurred to him. "But Koga Saburo is a monster of an Assassin, why isn't he fighting himself?".
"Because he is as you said, a snake". The Assassin began pushing against a steel door that'd fallen in the halls of the shelter, the steel easily bending under the Servant's strength. "Whatever pride or skill in combat he may have once had, has rusted away, now even with power, the idea of combat doesn't cross his mind".
"How pathetic...". Faust followed her through the hallways, he was so close...
Timeline A.
Coil let out a sigh of relief as he'd finally entered the most secure and hidden area of his base, he could still recover from this, get in contact with Cauldron, trade in favors and rebuild-
"You really didn't think you could escape, did you?". A voice he'd only heard through his snakes or video froze him solid, how...? "Now why don't you stay still for me and make this easy?".
The supervillain turned around, throwing a punch at Caster-
Timeline B.
"I can help you! We can work together!". Coil offered, but Ruler only smiled.
"Why would I do that? I have no desire to be bitten by a snake". Holding out a hand, various magic circles appeared around Ruler. "Now by a good boy and die for me".
The Demi-Servant of Assassin managed to dodge the first beam of light, but the second pierced his shoulder-
Timeline A.
-Only for a barrier to stop him, and then a blast of electricity from the white haired woman he didn't notice behind Ruler. Stumbling backward, multiple beams of light pierced through his chest-
Timeline B.
Coil shuddered, what? He was in the second timeline but he was bleeding from his chest, but he'd taken those wounds in the first timeline.
Timeline A.
"How strange, your reacting to pain thats not there".
Timeline B.
"I wonder what will happen if I-".
Coil screamed as his legs were cut off, the wound quickly cauterized by fire.
Timeline A.
WHY WERE THEY GONE HERE!? NO NO NO!
Timeline B.
"How strange, he seems to be...".
"Can you fix it? I can't interrogate him like this Medea".
Timeline A.
"If I knew what I was trying to fix maybe, perhaps his powers are failing?".
"Its annoying- SOMEONES HERE!".
BANG!
...
Timeline B.
...
"STOP HER!". Faust pushed his limits, Armament Haki, Reinforcement, all to reach the woman who'd appeared from nowhere and shot Coil, Okita appeared behind her, only for the woman to somehow dodge, falling into a strange 'door' in reality besides her, which instantly closed. "DAMMIT!".
What the hell had just happened!? It had all started fine, they'd been tearing through the base with ease! Medea had set up a spell covering the entire building that would weaken divinity, cornered Coil who tried throwing a punch only for the Caster to counter with prepared spells, and then...
Coil had started screaming, acting like he'd taken more wounds then he had, potentially a side effect of his power. Acting quickly while he was weak, Okita had cut off his legs with Medea cauterizing the wounds, he had no desire to fight another Demi-Servant.
They'd tried figuring out how to stop Coil's agonized screams, and just as Medea had prepared to use a hypnosis spell in order for them to get everything they could from the Demi-Servant of Assassin...
A woman had appeared out of nowhere, used a gun that had easily tore through Coil's skull, and then disappeared... Who was she? Was she a former ally of Coil who had decided to silence him to ensure their secrets were secure?!
"Dammit... FB! You said you discovered the identities of all the capes in Brockton Bay in Coil's files right? Release everything except Faust, Leonardo, and other capes not affiliated with any large groups, I don't want it to seem strange only Faust and Leonardo were left out! Make sure it seems Coil released the information". Faust ordered, this had gone so well, and then...! "We're leaving, but first...".
Faust quickly gave a final order to FB, and then they all vanished in a show of Flash Air.
While the Endbringer shelter exploded behind them.
Yea, not exactly the violence we wanted huh? Let me explain what happened here. Essentially Coil's Shard was trying to stimulate to much, the things it couldn't understand like Age of Gods Magecraft, his Demi-Servant powers, a full Servant... It drove itself to the point of burn out and started glitching. A Tinker-Tech bullet from Contessa ended him, and with her Path to Bullshit, was able to escape with Aleister left completely clueless.
Honestly you guys got a SUPER lucky roll here, everything went right until the end, but Cauldron are all sorts of bullshit (Idiots, but bullshit), there was no way we were getting anything that could lead to Cauldron there.
Mana of Assassin added to the Holy Grail.