1 month after the lab tour
In a boat a couple of miles off the coast of Vale a group of people along with a group of orange and white robots dumping barrels of small orange orbs and small magic stones into the water.
"I don't like them who knows what a bunch of immortal robots could do," one of the workers tells his friend.
"We are only mostly immortal if a weapon can damage a soul it can leave permanent wounds on us and The Merchant can practically think us out of existence," a cold voice sounds out behind them.
The two workers quickly turn around startled finding a seven-foot-tall faceless synth standing behind them.
"What do you mean The Merchant can end you with a thought," The first worker asks after taking a step back.
"The gift of immortality is also a curse the egg in our soul that pulls us to a production synth instead of something else is actually just that an egg for a creature that eats souls it hatches after 1,000 years and can eat a soul instantly or The Merchant can force it to hatch before it is mature starting an incredibly painful process of it slowly consuming a soul," the synth replies.
"So the boss didn't just make an immortal robotic race without a means to control them he put some thought into letting you guys out," the second worker questions.
"Yes, it seems common that everyone thinks he is reckless about what he creates which he is but for it to leave his lab he has to have a countermeasure for it or limits for it now get back to work or I will feed you to the Grimm," The synth explains irritation seeping into his voice.
"Yes sir," they both reply hurrying off.
"I wonder if this will work out," the synth says looking at the orange orbs sinking into the ocean.
Roman
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"The gangs in the Vale countryside have been subsumed into the council we have started scouting out Mistral and Atlas Vacuo government is making it easier for us by cooperating and have expressed wishes to join us," Bubble lists off to Roman who is tinkering with something.
"Good if anyone is giving you too much trouble let Neo know she wants to test out the new power armor I gave her," Roman motions towards Neo who is laying on a couch playing something on her scroll.
Neo shoots Bubble a thumbs up and continues to play her game.
"Of course sir I wouldn't deprive Neo of her fun," Bubble replies, the door of the room opens well she is speaking looking over Bubble sees Bones entering the room.
"Dad I feel the robotic forms Atlas has are too constricting could you help me with better designs for future synths," Bones asks Roman walking up to him looking at what he is working on.
He was finishing a gun that was just comprised of a foot-long tube a pistol grip and a selector about 3/4 of the way to the end of it.
"What's that dad," Bones asks attracting Neo's attention she moves over, and in an impressive display of acrobatics she sits on Roman's shoulders looking at the weapon as well.
"This my dear is The Roman Candle or just Candle fires a couple of different things first is an absolute hot bolt a violet bolt that when it hits anything it will delete a one-foot sphere around it, the next is a quark-gluon bolt colored white safe to say will disintegrate anything it toches, another one is a cold bolt this one blue this makes a one-foot sphere of absolute zero, and finally an orange explosive round," he shows off the weapon.
"What is absolute hot, what is absolute cold, what is quark-gluon, and why just an explosive round," Bones asks quickly examining the weapon.
|An: I don't want to put in a lengthy explanation that no one will read so just look it up if you are interested|
...And the reason for just an explosive round is so I can use this all the time now shall we help you with our current problems Bones," Roman explains putting the weapon into his holster in his coat standing up he ignored Neo on his shoulders pulling Bones out of the room with him causing Neo to limbo the door frame which she doses essay with a smile.
Brann
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Brann was having a shitty week the crime rate had decreased yes but now it was more organized cristal Grimm had all but disappeared replacing it with angel dust but all the dealers they picked up off the street had good lawyers for some reason. Most troubling of all is all the dealers had a few coins with the same pattern of a ten toothed cog made of the same crystal the cantonment cell at site one was made of and they refused to answer where they got them and what they are for.
The ones that were willing to share almost as soon as they started there Aura started bubbling almost like it was boiling then they died without any physical wounds. The only thing they got out of the cooperative ones before they died was that Vales underground recently was takin over by The Merchant and every criminal in Vale had to play by his rules or die the massacre by Site 1 was what happed if you disobeyed him.
The worst bit is how no one saw this as a problem they were all celebrating the lower crime rate not seeing the signs that this was much worse than how it was before. Then there was Roman Torchwick he just suddenly appeared with his first braking and entering there was nothing about him at all no birth certificate no family no citizenship records nothing he pops up out of no whare and easily beats a Huntress like it was nothing. What is going on in his city?
Sorry, this took so long and is not a great chapter but I hope you enjoy I have grand plans for the next chapter.