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Temujin scoffed and turned his head to peek from his prone state. [color=DC091C][b]"[i]You[/i] look like you should have a light up feature."[/b][/color] He looked Aegis up and down, scrutinizing his new suit. It was a far cry from the hockey pads he wore before, no doubt, yet he couldn't help but wonder, [color=DC091C][b]"Why do you need power armour anyway?"[/b][/color] He lifted his chin in a gesture towards the blue shimmer coating the thick plates of metal. [color=DC091C][b]“Shit’s overkill on top of the bulletproof skin [i]and[/i] that force field."[/b][/color]

Alex's helmeted head tilted to the side in confusion. [color=deepskyblue][b]"But it's not powered at all. It's just conventional armor. I mean Forgemaster made the plating and I have some tech in here but it’s not powered."[/b][/color] Temujin mumbled, [color=DC091C][b]"Yeah but it's still… ugh, nevermind."[/b][/color] Alex looked down to inspect himself. [b][color=deepskyblue]
"Oh. Yeah I got no clue why this is happening. I think I'm supercharged or something? Kinda clowned on Scarhide to get here now that I think about it."[/color][/b]

[color=DC091C][b]"Relish it. That's all the pussy you're getting today,"[/b][/color] Temujin snarked. The edge drained from his words as he wiggled against the cold, hard floor and he grumbled, [color=DC091C][b]"Can you gimme a hand? Been stuck here for a good twenty minutes."[/b][/color]

Alex flipped the cyberninja the bird before Temujin was carefully lifted up off the floor by a corona of blue light. [color=DC091C][b]"Thanks."[/b][/color]

Aegis's arrival had not gone unnoticed, especially after his trick bathed parts of the workshop in an otherworldly blue. The clanking of hammers and buzzing of saws morphed into whispers and chatter that made no secret of the mechanics' excitement.

[b]"OhmyGod ohmyGod ohmyGod! It's Aegis! Standing here, right in our shop!"[/b] The heavyset mechanic squealed as she clasped her hands beneath twinkling, glossy eyes. 

[b]"No way!"[/b] A young man's voice added.

[b]"Whoa, he looks even bigger in person.”[/b]

[b]"Ooh, ooh-ooh?!"[/b] the monkeyman Koba grunted towards Graham, the blacksmith, who rolled his eyes and planted his cheek on his palm. [b]"He's a big hero man. I doubt he's got the time to arm wrestle with you." [/b]

[color=#ffb561][b]"Excuse me! Coming through!"[/b][/color] A shape weaved between the emergent crowd, at least a head shorter than the rest. Ako. [color=#ffb561][b]"Ale- I mean, Aegis! Good, you're here."[/b][/color] She beckoned Aegis and the Doctor to follow. [color=#ffb561][b]"Temujin told me they came all the way from Northbridge,"[/b][/color] Ako recounted, leading the hero down a corridor at the south end of the workshop. [color=#ffb561][b]"I don't know how she's still alive. She's a tough one."[/b][/color] They stopped in front of a door, one of four spare rooms within the workshop. 

Ako held up a card to the reader, and the light flicked from red to green. The door hissed and slid aside. She leaned over and whispered, her eyes squinted above a conspiratorial pout. [color=#ffb561][b]"By the way, did you manage to get me Raudd's number?"[/b][/color]

With his eyes glowing as much as they were, Alex’s squint aimed towards Ako was hard to miss. [b][color=deepskyblue]
“And when did I say I was going to give you that, hmm?”[/color][/b]

Ako turned away, her nose twitching with a bristle. [color=#ffb561][b]"Well, I, I…! Oh, by my great aunt Bonnie's buttered biscuits, help a girl out, won't you?"[/b][/color] She accepted her defeat with a sigh and went inside.