Chapter 58: On a Wing and a Prayer.
Passa was nearly bowled over by Ven as he charged down the corridor in hot pursuit of a small fast-moving but barely visible blur and he leapt back in wide-eyed surprise as his cousin charged past him.
"Sorry cousin!" Ven called back over his shoulder before he heard a human yelp followed by a lot of loud giggling, moments later Ven emerged from one of the side rooms that Passa hadn't explored yet only now he was carrying the young-looking black-suited human man on his shoulder.
"Now you are going to learn that your actions have consequences pretty human, I'm going to teach you the meaning of claw punishment!" Ven growled and the young man gigged and propped himself up on his elbows and Ven's hand seeming squeezed his rear end.
"Oh no being punished by a big bad sexy claw boy whatever am I going to do?" the man called Gregory said in a playful voice and Passa cocked his head curiously, was this man seriously not fearful of Claw justice? he was braver than he looked, a lot braver.
The pair vanished into a side room and mere moments later there came the sounds of human howling, Ven must be really punishing the little human hard he almost felt sorry for him, well that was until the large strange spider boy showed up taking him by surprise.
"Those two at it again!? They really can't keep their hands off one another, can they? Hi, I'm Malakai, by the way, we really haven't had the chance to talk yet" Malakai said offering him a hand in that odd human sign of greeting.
Passa shrugged, when in another's nest you did as they did so he took it and shook it making the spider boy smile at him warmly, "Excuse me what did you mean that they cannot keep their hands off one another, does this Gregory fight back against Claw justice being acted out upon him?" Passa asked glancing at the door that Ven had carried the little human through and was boy the sounds coming out vigorously disciplining him, there were a lot of odd-sounding slapping noises coming through it.
Malakai chuckled softly making Passa growl and turn his attention back to him, was he mocking him? if so he was a lot braver than he looked to mock a proud Claw to his face, he might not be an Alpha like his mother or his cousins but he was still strong enough to defend both his and their honour.
Malakai seemed to notice his irritation, "Forgive me I'm not laughing at you just at what you said is all, Ven is not hurting or striking Gregory, hell he'd tear anyone who laid a single unwanted finger on him limb from limb let alone what he'd do to anyone who ever dared to try and harm him let alone actually do so, those two love each other to the end of the ends of the universe, never seen two boys as in love with one another as those two, so now he's not hurting him, the gruff act you just saw was them just playing around is all, I know it can be kinda strange to the uninitiated but you kinda get used to it real fast the more time you spend around this group trust me on that one" Malakai said.
Passa raised an eyebrow at him questioningly, "B-But those sounds, that is unmistakably the sound of scale meeting flesh, he must be striking him!" he protested and Malakai chuckled again making him irk again.
"Well I guess you're kinda right in that sense but it's not exactly his hand he's striking his flesh with," he said with that soft chuckle again.
"I do not understand?" Passa said sounding as confused as felt and Malakai scuttled up to him and laid a hand on his shoulder and while Passa flinched slightly the touch was not aggressive or unfriendly.
"I can see that, come on let's take a walk I've been meaning to measure you, new claw guys, up anyway, need to get you guys some armour rigged up, sure as hell not letting you guys walk into that lab we're going out to attack without my patented heavy claw armour keeping the bullets away from those scales of yours, hell I get the feeling half the human girls around here wouldn't forgive me if I let you get dinged up," he said gently guiding him away from the room where Ven and Gregory had gone in to.
"Heavy Claw armour?" Passa asked and Malakai nodded.
"Yup, make the stuff myself, came up with it when we attacked Paradise falls, turns you guys into walking talking tanks, you think a claw is scary a claw you can shoot down is even scarier," Malakai said proudly and Passa looked at him in amazement.
"You can protect us from human weapons!?" he exclaimed and Malakai nodded.
"It doesn't make you bulletproof exactly but it stops all but the very heaviest of calibres though you still have to watch out for both plasma and laser weapons though I got some ideas on how to deal with those bastard things, something involving polished ceramic maybe?" Malakai said sounding thoughtful.
It turned out that the only room that they could use was a room just off the lab that Timothy and Shauna had been using to defeat the claw control helmets, "What is this place?" Passa asked looking around at all the strange human glass objects that seemed to come in all shapes and sizes, there were beakers and flasks of different sizes linked together with large tubes.
"Chemistry lab, do me a favour and try not to touch anything along that wall, I know our scientists tend to come through here when there's a big find that they want to analyse and I know one of our teams pulled something pretty big about a week ago and I don't know what or even where it is, so do me a favour try not to mess with anything ok?" Faith said hanging the large key ring that she'd used to open the door back on her belt.
"No probs Faith and thanks, don't worry we're only going to use the seat over there and the bench, Is that ok?" Malakai said and Faith nodded before disappearing again with her current chaperone in tow.
Passa followed Malakai over to the large strange looking human seat that the large spider boy indicated, "Ok take a seat big fella I'm just going to start taking some measurements so I can start this off" Malakai said and Passa obliged by moving over to the seat and after a bit of wiggling his sizeable frame into the narrow seat but he finally managed to get himself into place.
Malakai told him to wait while he went and got his tools and he vanished out of the room to scuttle back to his room, while he was gone Passa couldn't help but looked around at all the odd human stuff all around him, it kind of reminded him of some of the stuff he'd seen in his time with Enclave well before they put that vile helmet on his head anyway, all of his memories from the time with that thing bolted onto his head were very fuzzy, like he was trying to look at them through heavy mist or maybe a rainstorm.
That's when he noticed a large case that was sat on the bench on the far side of the large room, he raised himself up out of the chair and stalked over to it, the case was covered in Enclave markings that recognised from his time with them, infact the bench was covered in what looked like stolen Enclave equipment and tech, it appeared that the Ghouls who apparently ran this place that they were using as a nest had really been busy.
Passa couldn't help but feel a sense of smug satisfaction at these people hitting them and taking their stuff, after all, they had done to his pack and others he felt that they deserved any and all injustices enacted upon them, in fact, he'd go as far as to say that they were not injustices at all, they were justices.
Claws are naturally very curious beings to the point where they make cats look positively cautious, add sentience and a thirst for learning and knowledge on top of that and sometimes it can be a recipe for disaster.
Passa had always been like this ever since he was a hatchling both his mother and his elder sisters were forever chasing him around as he got himself into all sorts of mischief like the time he got himself stuck in a mole rat burrow because he'd wanted to know what was in there, that time his sisters had decided to leave him stuck in there for an hour with his lower half stuck in the air sticking out of the ground like a scaly tentacle, one that when they finally did finally pull him out he found that they'd painted rings around his tail so they could use it as a moving target to play claw hoops with old tyres they'd take from some scrapped human vehicles.
Leaning down to look at the large metal case he noticed two large clasps on the front that seemed to connect to the large cylindrical corners of the case, he knew that Malakai had made the Ghoul woman called Faith a promise that they would not touch anything but since he had made no such promise himself he didn't think it would be so bad if he simply took a look in the case, it wasn't like he was a thief who planned to steal their spoils, he merely wished to know what it contained.
Reaching out with one of his Claws he managed to flip the latches on the front from their closed to their open position, as soon as the second one opened there was a loud hiss from each of the cylinders in turn before like screws the wound themselves upwards and out of the case making him jump back in alarm.
The case split in two with a sharp hiss and the top slowly ascended upwards away from the bottom half revealing a foam laid inlay, sat in the middle of the spiky foam that was obviously designed to protect the contents there was nothing but an odd metal sphere.
"Huh, I was expecting something far more impressive than just a ball," Passa said cautiously reaching out a claw tip and tapping the metal sphere which by the odd ringing it made when he tapped indicated it was slightly hollow.
He reached in and very cautiously removed the sphere letting it rest in the palm of his hand testing its weight, for something that was so small it was surprisingly heavy, "Passa! What the hell are you doing Faith told us not to touch anything!?" Malakai's voice yelled from the doorway suddenly making the big claw boy nearly jump out of his scales and he snapped his hand shut on the sphere before he dropped it.
"I-I-I was just curious! I wasn't going to steal it or anything! I just wished to look!" he exclaimed defensively as he spun to face the large spider boy who was standing just inside the doorway holding his tool bag.
"I didn't say you were going to steal anything but Faith said this stuff could be dangerous! And those are fucking Enclave markings on that case! There could be anything in there!" Malakai exclaimed scuttling right up to him.
"There wasn't anything dangerous there was just a metal ball, here look," Passa said holding out his hand and opening it to reveal the metal ball which to his surprise seemed to now have glowing yellow seams that were blinking on and off.
"Huh it wasn't glowing before," he said looking at it curiously.
Suddenly the colours changed from yellow to green, "Subject analysed, DNA match found and confirmed, the subject appears to have twenty per cent damage to DNA strand, this is most likely due to excessive radiation exposure, both reptilian and avian DNA has been detected correcting damage would require strand realignment with a compatible match, scanning database please wait... have now confirmed DNA repair is possible using compatible mammalian DNA molecules beginning procedure, nanites programmed and now being administered" the odd sphere said in a surprisingly feminine human-sounding voice.
"Huh, the sphere talks?" Passa exclaimed.
"What was that about nanites?" Malakai said but before Passa could answer the sphere opened and a series of sharp spikes fired out and pierced Passa's hand.
Passa yelled out in alarm and pain and tried to drop the ball but thanks to the long thin needles piercing his hand he was unable to let go, he tried to shake it off but the spikes appeared to have anchored it into his hand, "It won't come off! I cannot let go! Malakai help me!" Passa yelled as a surge of fear and panic hit him.
Malakai tried to grab the sphere to pull it off him but as he did it shocked him making him recoil in pain waving his singed hand about, "It fucking shocked me! Hold on Passa I'll get Seven, he'll know what to do!" he said and before Passa could say another word the large spider boy was gone like a shot out of a human rifle.
A hot sensation was beginning to travel up his arm from where the needles had pierced him, but when he tried to grab the thing with his other hand to pull it off the sphere simply fired more needles into that hand now anchoring the two together with the sphere wedged between them.
In his chest his heart began to pound like a digger claw trying to carve out a rock nest for his pack to sleep safely in, that odd heat had now made its way up both of his arms and was washing throughout his chest before bleeding outwards towards the rest of his body including his head which began to swim with waves of dizziness.
"New DNA strand forged, nanites applied and fully injected, now beginning upgrade procedure," the odd sphere said and just like that the needles shot back in and he dropped it to the floor with a hollow ding noise, he was stood looking at the eight puncture holes in his hands as Seven and everyone burst into the room like a hurricane.
"Passa?" Seven said approaching him cautiously and he looked up to see the concern in the powerful human's eyes.
"T-T-The ball did something to me, i-i-i-it stuck me with needles, I couldn't let go, there's something inside me...I feel strange" Passa said and that's when things got real swimmy real fast.
Both Seven and Visa were at his side in flash and caught him before he was even halfway to the floor, "We need to get him to the medical bay, get both his mother and faith I need to know what the hell that thing did to him!" Seven yelled and everything went black.
The first thing Passa became aware of was an odd buzzing him his head and then what sounded like a distant voice, "Upgrade procedure complete, DNA sequence has been repaired and fully integrated, new features now logged, nanites now going to passive repair mode, logging completed sequence as Death Claw two point zero" the voice said far off in the distance.
"Hello? Who's there?" Passa called into the darkness but there was no answer and that was when he heard another voice.
"M-M-My boy my beautiful boy! What happened to him!? Who did this to him tell me human!" the voice that he recognised as his mother's bellowed.
"Please calm yourself Vess no-one did this to him he err kinda did it to himself" another voice that he recognised as Malakai's said and there was a thunderous noise that he instantly recognised as a couple of hundred pounds of angry claw matriarch pacing back and forth close by sounded real close to him.
"What do you mean he did this to himself!? How could he do this to himself!?" his mother yelled.
"There was a case on the workbench, Faith let us use the lab so that I could work on making new armour for you all, she told us explicitly not to touch anything on the workbenches as they were things their scientists were going to study when they arrived, so I left Passa there sitting in a chair while I went to fetch my tools when I returned I found he'd left the chair and had opened one of the cases, he was holding some kind of sphere thing, but before he could put it down it kinda turned on somehow and stuck him with needles, I tried to get it off him but it fucking shocked me and burned my hand, here look," Malakai said and there was the sound of angry matriarch claw stomping over to where his voice was coming from.
There was deep rumbling growling that Passa recognised as his mother conceding a point, "Very well I believe you so what happened next?' she demanded.
"Well when I couldn't get it off I ran to get Seven I knew he would know what to do but by the time we got back the sphere had come off on its own but it had struck him in both hands, he must have tried to take it off himself but it obviously stuck his other hand too, that's all I know I swear, if I had known there was anything that dangerous in the room I would have never even gone in there let alone used it," Malakai said.
"And I too would have never let them in there had I know that stuff was dangerous I swear it to you, Vess, I was never told that the things were dangerous just sensitive, this stuff was stolen from an Enclave cache outside of the city, one of our recon teams robbed a bunker and found that stuff, they brought it all the way here to be checked out by our science teams but they never reported it as dangerous otherwise I'd have never let your son or anyone else anywhere near it I swear it to you Vess," Faith's voice said.
"Guys! I'm right here! What's going on!?" Passa tried to yell.
"How is he?" Seven asked.
"As far as I can see fine, other than the obvious changes it doesn't appear to have done anything negative to him, heart rate is strong, brain waves are good, infact everything seems to be checking out fine but I would fucking love to know what the hell was in that sphere that could do this, I might have to check it out," Shauna's voice said from his right.
"No! No one else touches that fucking thing until we are sure of a way to handle it safely, for now, it stays under lock and key," Seven said.
"Agreed I would destroy it with my own claws before I let it do this to another claw or another person here!" Vess snarled loudly.
"I think he looks good like that" Spectre's voice said from somewhere off to his left and Vess snarled loudly.
"Sorry if you took that as offensive Vess but your son was a pretty Claw boy before, now he's even more exotic than simply being a white scaled claw to boot, girl's gotta call it as she sees it you know?" she said obviously standing her ground and his mother snarled again but then sighed heavily.
"I apologise, Spectre, your words are honourable I am just worried about my only son, he was the only boy in my clutch and as such I and his sisters are very protective of him," Vess said.
"I would claw the face off any female who would seek to sully his honour or steal him from his beloved pack!" Lia's voice snarled close by.
"Agreed the female who would seek to claim him must first prove herself worthy to us or they will be chased away with their tail between their legs because it sure as hell won't be my beloved son between them!" Vess snarled proudly.
"Wow, I've heard god knows how many mothers in law jokes but mother claw in law is a whole new level of crazy" Shepherd said and Vess growled.
"I think mother-in-claw sounds better," Gregory said and there were a few chuckles around the room.
"You had better believe it, a proud matriarch Claw always protects her son till her dying breath leaves her body" she snarled and then the darkness swallowed him back down into its depths and the silence flooded back into his mind.
Passa woke with a huge rushing gasp of breath sitting bolt upright on the bed that he found himself laid upon, for a moment his mind wondered if it had all been a dream until the dizziness set in and forced him back down onto his back where he lay panting trying to focus on the very white ceiling above his head.
Suddenly his mother's face appeared in his vision along with both of his sisters, "Are you alright brother?" Lemet asked leaning her large head down to press her horns to his.
"Give him air Lemet, let your brother breathe," his mother said softly pushing her head back up away from him.
Suddenly the large super mutant woman appeared above him looking down at him, "How are you feeling Passa? Is there any pain anywhere?" she asked and Passa shook his head instantly regretting it as it only added to his dizziness.
"That's good to hear I'm glad that the process hasn't caused trauma that's at least one blessing in disguise," she said checking one of the odd human monitors that were beeping away to itself next to his bed.
"I think pain is the least of his worries, don't you? Given that he has been transformed!" Lemet said with a snarl in her voice though Passa could tell that it wasn't aimed at Shauna it was just general anger but that's when her words caught up with him.
"T-Transformed? What do you mean transformed?" Passa exclaimed shakily and all four of them looked at one another and then back at him.
"That sphere you touched has done something to you Passa, I believe from my preliminary analysis that it may have been either a counter program or an enhancement program for the FEV I will need to do more research into the device itself but from what I and Timothy have been able to ascertain during our evaluation, it seems to have been using some kind of what appears to be nanotech from the traces I found and it appears that it either attacked or enhanced your DNA it's too early to tell but either way the result is the same," Shauna said musing as she thought it over.
"I-I still don't understand," Passa said nervously.
"She's trying to say whatever was in that orb has changed you Passa but I don't think it's necessary for the worse you are no less Claw than you were before to my eyes you are now just a different class of claw," Seven said from somewhere off to his left and Passa turned his head to see the small but powerful human stood being flanked by both Visa and Ven.
"Different class of Claw? I don't understand how can I be a different claw?" Passa asked feeling confused.
Seven looked at Shauna, "Show him" he said and she looked surprised.
"Are you sure Seven I mean the shock could send him into shock" she said and Seven nodded.
"He needs to see the truth early on then he can see it's not so bad and he can begin dealing with it and the changes to his life it means," he said.
Shauna sighed and then she turned and retrieved one of those human mirror things that they used to look at themselves, though why they didn't just use a pool of water like any self-respecting Claw would do had always been a mystery to Passa, humans were always coming up with totally unnecessary things in his opinion.
She turned the mirror to face him and instantly he noticed something was different, to his eyes his horns seemed to be longer but as he turned his head to try and measure them that's when he noticed that his eyes were larger and far more vivid than they were before they also now appeared to be purple in colour but if that wasn't shock enough then the feathers that seemed to be running down the centre of his head certainly did the trick.
"M-My eyes! What happened to my eyes!? And why do I have feathers!?" he exclaimed reaching up to touch them feeling the soft feathers bristling when he touched them.
"If those surprised you then the wings are seriously going to rock your world," Spectre said and Passa snapped his head to look at the female human in shock.
"Suitable, way to help him ease into this" Gregory said.
"I think that life-changing things are kinda like a band-aid on hair, better to just rip it off and get it over with rather than slowly pick at it and just make it hurt more, one short sharp shock and done with," Spectre said.
"W-Wings!? What wings!?" Passa said and Seven sighed but he stepped forwards and held out his hand, suddenly Passa felt a tugging sensation to his side and he turned his head just in time to see what that odd power of the little human's was tugging at, a giant flap of what looked like leathery and very finely scaled flesh that was attached to him.
The shock of what Seven was holding and the fact that he could feel the grip that Seven was exerting on it with his power shocked his system and he felt himself getting woozy but before he went back into the darkness his mother was there cradling his head.
"It's alright my beloved boy I'm here and I want you to know right this second right now that neither I nor your sisters think any less of you or love you any less, you are still my Passa and you are my son and I still love you and am as proud of you as I ever was," she said soothingly as she stroked the scales and horns of his head gently.
That helped his mind to recenter and fight back the darkness threatening to pull him under and eventually it stabilised allowing him to breathe easy again after his momentary lapse into a panic.
Once he felt a bit stronger he was able to get up off the bed and to his shock, he realised his feet were slightly different as well now, his large wide-spaced toes were now tipped with what appeared to be large hook-shaped talons that clicked slightly as they made contact with the concrete of the floor, he also now appeared to have a talon on the rear of his foot as well attached to a point in his heel that when he flexed his foot allow the whole thing to close like a large gripping claw.
But as it turned out this rear-facing talon served a secondary purpose to help him balance with the new burden of the weight hanging off his back because as he stood up his body did something strange, it was almost as automatic as breathing or stretching an aching muscles but he actually felt to large struts that were located behind his shoulders anchored into his shoulder blades began to move and he felt what felt like large folds of skin being retracted and shuffled into place like his body had done it a million times before.
"Damn those puppies are even bigger than I thought they were, damn a flying claw now that is going to be something to see!" Shepherd said walking over and circling around him studying him closely.
"I want to see them," Passa said and Shepherd quickly took the mirror from Shauna and began to walk around him to find the right angle before she held it up to allow him to see his back properly.
Just where he felt them to be there were two large struts made from solid bone sticking upwards above his head, these served to hold the massive flaps of white scaly flesh that were folded in underneath them and by the look of them, there were two large solid joints on the tops of the struts that folded in further struts which added to the overall length of the wings.
He tried to open them and to his surprise, they responded to his commands just like his hand or his leg would despite having never had a basis to have a limb there let alone the knowledge of how to control it or make it function, but just as if he'd told his hand to open wide the struts moved and the joints opened out straightening them out to his sides opening the wings out fully and making all the others jump back as the two massive white wings unfurled from his back and touched each wall with ease.
The flesh that was anchored to the absolutely massive multi-jointed struts was jointed into his back reaching down to his hips and running the entire length of his back, that's also when he noticed a series of what looked like shark-like fins running down either side of his spine with the centre of his spine being covered in a singular stripe of bright blue feathers that seemed to run right the way down from the back of his head to the very tip of his tail, infact that's when he noticed that his tail was rather different now.
Not only was his tail thinner than it was before it also felt much light but somehow it felt much more dextrous and prehensile and he curled it and realised he could actually easily grip things with it now as he coiled it around Shepherd's waist as she was the closest thing to him making her gasp in surprise as the feathery appendage gripped her gently but firmly.
"Why Passa if this is your way of flirting gotta say it's different but I kinda like it," Shepherd said with a chuckle that caught Passa by surprise as he realised he'd just coiled his tail around a female rather suggestively and to both of their shock and surprise his feathers instantly fluttered and changed colour to a bright crimson red colour.
"Holy shit he's got mood feathers! Oh, now that is seriously fucking cool! Not that you know giant wings, talons and inbuilt body armour aren't cool but having a living rainbow on your back and tail is fucking mega cool!" Shepherd exclaimed.
Passa quickly released Shepherd and stepped back from her folding his wings in as they began to bang into various things around the room, "M-My apologies Shepherd I-I did not mean to I was simply lost in my curiosity" he said and she chuckled and waved her hand dismissively.
"It's fine honestly big fella, honestly I'm kinda beginning to see what both Seven and Gregory find appealing about this way of life, something kinda nice about having a big handsome white claw boy sweep you off your feet with his feathery tail and having a big pair of soft leathery wings to snuggle up in at night sign me the fuck right up, don't think any human arms on this planet could make a girl feel as safe as those fucking tree trunks you call arms so listen to me when I say this big boy because coming from a woman from another species it means double the weight, don't you dare feel bad about this new you, you are no less of a Claw than you were before if anything the new you is even prettier and better, you're now like Claw plus, the next generation of pretty claw boys" Shepherd aid stepping up and patting first Passa tail and then his long arm.
Honestly, Passa was extremely surprised but also very grateful for her kind but also flirtatious words, they made his heart flutter like the feathers now coating his back but that's when something else she had said caught his attention.
"When you said natural body armour what did you mean? he asked and Shepherd smiled then reached out and tapped his chest which to his surprise made a clicking noise, he glanced down and to his shock, her realised there were now interlocking plate-like scales overlapping like Dragon scales all over his torso seemingly with the intention of protecting his vital organs.
He reached up and tapped the scales with his claws making them click loudly like he'd just tapped painted metal, that's when he also noticed that he felt a lot lighter on his feet than he did before because when he took a step to his side when he turned it didn't make the usual thump that it normally did.
Suddenly a loud snap made them all jump and spin to find that Timothy had just snapped his fingers and was looking like he'd just had some sort of idea or breath through, "Claw two point zero! Shepherd you are a genius!" he exclaimed and Shauna cocked her head curiously at him.
"What are you thinking my love?" she asked.
"It's so bloody obvious don't you see?" he said and then grinned broadly and rushed to a whiteboard that was hanging on the wall, he began scrawling things all over it that Passa had absolutely no idea what they represented.
"It's an enhancement device! The orb that Passa triggered it's Project fucking Unity!" he exclaimed loudly and rather excitedly and the whole group looked at one another in confusion.
"Project Unity, what's that?" Seven asked.
"To answer that I kinda have to explain everything first, now we're all familiar with the FEV that created both the Claws and the Super Mutants, now this thing was both an absolute success and a catastrophic failure all in one, success in that it kinda did what it said on the tin, failure in that there was no unified results in that some subjects it evolved others it fucking killed outright, but the subjects that it did enhance tended to be uncontrollable and unpredictable, the Claws themselves were kinda designed to be search and destroy creatures towards the end of the Great War, but the FEV had problems interlinking the DNA that was used to engineer them and rather than fix the errors it kinda exasperated them now that's not to say there's anything wrong with the Claws of today but they were born of a flawed integration which means they aren't exactly what they were supposed to be," Timothy said drawing lots of little pictures on his board and drawing arrows between them.
"Are you saying that Claws are flawed?" Ven snarled defensibly.
Timothy baulked as he seemed to realise that he had inadvertently insulted them all and he shook his head, "No that's not what I'm saying I'm saying you aren't what you were intended to be, both human intervention and the FEV twisted what you were meant to become and I believe it was due to the military intervention wanting you to be heavy ground units and today's Claws are the result of that, but I remember reading something in one of the recover military archives that we had back in the Brotherhood and it spoke of something that it referred to as 'Project Unity' which was project started to not only correct the damage done by the FEV but to correct the errors it forged into the DNA of anything affected by it using nano technology to repair gene sequences by using a massive catalogue of stored genomes to plug gaps and repair the damage, if this is what Passa got his large clawed hands on then what you are seeing now is what Claws were truly meant to become, Passa here is Claw two pont zero, Passa is what your species was supposed to become" Timothy said triumphantly and every one turned to look at Passa shock.
"M-My son, my baby boy is the first of the true pure Claws?" Vess exclaimed walking over to him and running her hand over his horns and Timothy nodded.
"The first and maybe the only one of his kind, not only a whole new breed of Claw but the natural evolution of your species made scale and flesh, ladies and gents you are looking at the future of the Claw race right here and now today, ladies and gents welcome to the future," he said causing them all to look at Passa in amazement making him feel very self-conscious, he seriously didn't feel like an evolved being, he just felt like Passa regular old white scaled Claw but then only time would tell wouldn't it?