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Some kind of playground, then?
*The staircase twists and turns toward a floating microlab with no rail leading to it*

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Maybe. What did you do, by the way?

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If you swipe down in front of you with two fingers, you can access the menuing system.

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And then you summoned the magician's rod that did this. Do you know where it's taking us, though?

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Not sure. It urges you toward interactbale things in this world though.
*Holds the staff up to a pillar and the side explodes outward into marble voxels before being pulled seamlessly back into the main structure like a reversed tape*

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*Stops and stares for a second, then hurriedly catches back up the few steps I get behind*
It would be an awesome playground…

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If only we had time to explore instead of saving the world.
*Steps onto the microlab, which contains a series of holographic screens all playing unique content*

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*Continues walking past you, watching the screens as I pass them*
Is that all this is?

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*Each of the screen is a different angle of an intense combat between Dynamo and Aeron with Dark Dynamo; some of the viewpoints are obscured, some are in first-person, and all of them capture a different attribute of the combat overall*
It seems that way.

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*Stops and stares at a viewpoint that catches them all in the footage together*

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*Watches the cameras as well, and we both observe Dynamo say something that can't be made out above the audio mixing between the feeds, and endless clones of Dynamo spawn in sequence and parallel throughout the galaxy, each poised to deliver maximum damage to Aeron when he crosses its path*

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*Says nothing and keeps looking around*
This might not be anything more than combat research of some kind.

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*Continues watching in awe and responds quietly*
Perhaps.
*Aeron launches a barrage of projectile attacks, which Dynamo absorbs with one of his blades back to back in a staff formation, finally culminating in a devastating strike with the other blade—however, a shadowy hand grasps the blade that struck Aeron, and amidst visual glitches and interruptions, the Edge blade is prionized*

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Is there anything here showing the end of this? Might be relevant to what happened to him.

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*Searches between the displays*
Exactly what I'm looking for...
*The footage, now incredible grainy, all flash to a red error screen reading "comms lost" except for one in first person, frozen in place and surrounded by prionization, being disintegrated and rebuilt countless times a second*

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*Stops walking and stares*
... They got him in battle?

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It does look that way, but it also seems as though something else is going on.
*Motions to the error displays*

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*Takes a peek to the side, and reaches over, trying to interact with them for more info*

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*On contact, a debugging screen flashes with the info "contact lost. Contaminants: Amaranthine, Prion" with different coordinates for each screen*

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What do you make of this?