Chapter 396: Breaking In (2/2)

"Which leaves us to sneak in," said Stella She sighed, disappointed "But it means I won't be able to use ood time and blow some shi+t up…"

"Sis, you scare ood time is," said Tox "But I can roll with this plan Better, really Less risk"

"Yeah Elevators will take us to the researchers, too It's all I want out of this," said Ace

"Just make sure to stay on track with the team," said Alexis

"No issues with me," said Alan "The fewer cyberware repairs I have to do, the better"

"Guess I can do this…" said Falco

nobody proposed a dissenting opinion

"Good" Clint put his fist towards Stella, se I'll store it, remember it And, hopefully, put out an explosion that'll meet your expectations Be like as if you were there yourself!"

"Hah! I have high expectations, y'know?" Stella grinned and bumped her fist with Clint's Her small fist looked comically tiny compared to Clint's enormous brick of a hand, but she still punched at hiy

When their knuckles touched, crackling sparks fleeen their fists

Clint closed his eyes, nodding He whistled softly "This is some explosive stuff Shame I can't remember the stuff my body picks up permanently Would've loved to keep soh, it's time to raise some hell"

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Meteor Labs, 20th floor - ??? Research Room

The twentieth floor of Meteor Labs, nestled just above the vault syste filled out the floor, ceilings, and walls, and cleaning drones whirred about, keeping the surfaces as decontaminated as possible

Scientists covered frorey hazmat suits moved about silently, their voices n The lab was designed to have as little stiht or sound

Otherwise it ht react

The room had a circular orientation that revolved around its center where, in a depressed chamber, the object of study stood

Nestled in a cha with a dia itself was fairly thin,darkness that swayed errantly Every littleit like paper on the verge of tearing apart

At the center of the ring was a rotating blue sphere, though it barely passed as one It was more accurate to call it an aoo that rippled and fluxed seely at rando fro They raphical presentations of it from screens that constantly analyzed the object

On eye-pads, they wrote down notes furiously

A near silent buzz indicated that an elevator had reached the level The scientists dropped what they were doing in surprise Coh levels of authorization

It did not happen on a whiiant of a man that y, purple pants decorated with floral cherry blosso ooden sandals for shoes His sculpted upper body was co bodybuilder level ourd, easily as big as a large ed face was thoroughly scarred, with one particularly notable scar running over his left eye, rendering it pale and blind His messy black hair fell down to his shoulders in an unkempt wave that made him look positively horin

"Daetup!" said the man, known as Shuten-Doji, the Fifth Sword "Where's Emi! Papa's back for a surprise visit!"