Capítulo 24: Observation Story Ended
"If that's the case... then it looks like we need to 'amp' up the difficulty~," Head Scientist Victoria exclaimed with a playful tone. She had a mischievous smile as she came up with something that might make the unusual super grunt, Grunt No. 703, take the Orientation obstacle course more seriously.
"'Amp' up the difficulty, ma'am...?" asked the senior scientist with a concerned face. He understood that she wanted to increase the difficulty of the obstacle course, but he was starting to worry that their head scientist would eventually go overboard with her mischievous and malicious whim, resulting in even more harm to the newly recruited grunts' orientation.
"That's right. Our impudent Grunt No. 703 needs a little bit of 'shock therapy' so that he won't be so reckless~," Victoria added. Hearing her reasoning, the senior scientist now had conflicted feelings about letting her proceed. On one hand, he couldn't really object to her as she was one of Lord Max Brain's assistants, effectively his right-hand woman. But on the other hand, he was really worried that she was going to ruin the Orientation altogether...
At the very least, he needed to make sure to minimize the damage!
The senior scientist cleared his throat, trying to get the head scientist's attention. "Uhm! Excuse me, ma'am? Just to be clear: we are only increasing the difficulty for Grunt No. 703's obstacles, correct?" He inquired once more, deliberately pinpointing Grunt No. 703 as the sole target so that she would only increase this grunt's difficulty, not that of every new recruit.
Hearing the specific question coming from the senior scientist, she couldn't help but laugh. "Hahaha, don't worry~, don't worry~. I'm not gonna bully the other new recruit grunts. Just this naughty little grunt here is enough for me~." She assured the senior scientist, but it only slightly lessened his worry given her odd wording. Nevertheless, he at least got a spoken confirmation from her.
But now he began to remember what Victoria had just said about what she would do to Grunt No. 703: 'Amp' and 'shock therapy.'
He soon realized what she had been hinting at. "Don't tell me... that electric obstacle...!" he muttered in realization. Victoria didn't respond to his muttering as she had gone back to watching the live feed of Grunt No. 703, a malicious grin on her beautiful visage. Coincidentally, said grunt had just arrived at the mentioned obstacle, which she would be raising the difficulty for him only: the Lightning Grid obstacle.
In the feed on the large observation monitor, all the scientists could see that Grunt No. 703 had actually stopped his record-breaking advance. He was currently observing the Lightning Grid obstacle, seemingly trying to plan how to get through the lightning barriers created by the multitude of menacing electrified steel rods.
Victoria grabbed the observation drone's remote controller. She gracefully manipulated it, and the previous auto-tracking observation feed was now moving closer to Grunt No. 703. He quickly noticed the observation drone getting close to him by the sound of its rotor blades.
Victoria moved closer to her personal observation equipment and began to speak into it, "Good work on reaching the Lightning Grid first, Grunt No. 703!" She congratulated him through the drone's speaker with a fake cheery tone. Every scientist in the room who heard her fake cheery tone had mixed expressions and reactions, mostly of disbelief. Of course, she ignored the looks given to her by her underling scientists, as she was more preoccupied with conversing with Grunt No. 703.
Seeing that there was nothing more he could do about Head Scientist Victoria and her new obsession with Grunt No. 703, the senior scientist let out a sigh and turned around, heading back toward the center of the observation room to resume supervising the observation of the other 'normal' grunts, but...
He noticed that most of the observation staff and scientists were watching their head scientist's interaction with the unusual grunt with morbid interest and curiosity, some even standing up and stepping away from their workstations. He couldn't exactly blame them, given the circumstances surrounding the mysterious, 'no identity data' Grunt No. 703, but...
They still had a job to do.
"OI, WHAT ARE YOU SLACKERS LOOKING AT?! GET BACK TO WORK!" the senior scientist yelled at them, prompting a swift scramble as everyone quickly returned to their workstations. Satisfied that everyone got back to their previous positions, he walked back toward the center of the observation room, ready to resume his job of supervising the observations of the other grunts. Specifically, of course, the 'normal' grunts who were still trying to get through the first few obstacles of the course, however...
"Uhm... sir?" A voice called out to him. The senior scientist looked back toward the voice and found it was the junior scientist. He was still standing near their head scientist Victoria with an agitated look, glancing back and forth between him and the head scientist. Meanwhile, said head scientist was still talking to Grunt No. 703 through the large observation equipment, which had once been the junior scientist's small observation workstation before she forcefully took over and changed it into her own personal "observation" equipment.
"We have decided this year to pump up the Orientation obstacle course difficulty!" She cheerfully announced her plan to the grunt. The senior scientist saw through the observation monitor feed how the Lightning Grid obstacle now had its lightning barriers not just denser and wider but also with a faster downtime than before. It was now quite impossible to get through any of those lightning barriers even if this grunt had a super soldier body. The powerful electricity produced now by the amped-up obstacle was powerful enough to hinder even Ultra Guy, let alone a grunt with a bit more muscle to him.
He didn't have any bad blood with this grunt, but once you got the head scientist Victoria's attention, you'll most likely end up in a body bag by the end of the day. The senior scientist gave his condolence to this poor unlucky grunt...
Little did he know though that this poor unlucky grunt would surprise all of them later on with his sheer willpower.
Anyway... the senior scientist then looked back at the junior scientist in understanding. "Oh... yeah..." he sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose, trying to ease another headache. "Just... just go support the other observation stations." He waved his hand in dismissal as he resumed walking back toward the center, not wanting to get too involved with whatever whims Head Scientist Victoria was pursuing right now.
Laughter could be heard coming from said head scientist, who was thoroughly enjoying the suffering of Grunt No. 703. But... the senior scientist had firmly decided not to bother anymore.
HIATUS
HIATUS. Not much to say here other than it's not working out.
Capítulo 25: The Aftermath of the Electrical Dilemma
"HELL YEAHHHH!!!" I shouted to the sky in celebration as I finally got through the so-called Lightning Grid obstacle.
My heart was beating fast from excitement, and I was quite ecstatic. I had just beaten what I thought was an impossible obstacle by using the most improbable method I could think of. I still couldn't believe that my insane idea had actually worked.
Charging my whole body with electricity so that I could radiate EMFs myself? If I were still the normal human I once was, I would have died from just the sandpaper-like rubbing that I had to endure to even start generating any electricity in my body. It's all thanks to this new body of mine that I could even attempt such superhuman stunts.
Of course, I also owe my utmost gratitude to my nanobot suit, the Grunt Battle Suit. Not only for allowing me to conceive this wild idea but also for protecting me all this time since I was reincarnated as Grunt No. 703. Hell, these nanobots enveloping my whole body even started to mend the damage done to my skin as I felt soothing relief throughout my whole body.
I also felt tingling all over my body... or more precisely, the tingling was coming from the nanobots. I've said this many times already in the past short amount of time, but I really have gone insane because I felt that those tingles were my nanobots telling me something... and that something was more or less a cheeky 'you're welcome' for helping me out. "Yup, I am definitely insane," I muttered to myself in amusement, realizing that even talking to myself was a sign of insanity.
But then again... these nanobots were connected to my entire nervous system, so it wasn't really a farfetched idea to think I could talk to my own nanobots.
"Well, if that's the case, then I'm counting on you from now on, partners," I said, looking down at my GBS suit, or specifically, at my nanobots. Again, I felt tingling from my nanobot suit, and I could somewhat tell they were agreeing with me.
And again, I realized that I looked like I was talking to myself again... Maybe I should try talking to my nanobots through... what was it? Telepathy? Speaking through my mind? I felt another tingling from my nanobots, and it felt like they were saying 'yes' or something similar.
My own crazy thought process had to stop for now because I heard the familiar sound of a drone's spinning rotor blade approaching from the sky.
I looked up to the source of the sound and found the familiar drone with a familiar display monitor attached to it. The drone's display monitor was also showing yet another familiar face that I still found somewhat irksome. It was none other than the mad scientist Victoria "Mad Star."
The drone itself quickly approached me, and I was surprised by how fast it was speeding towards me. I was relatively calm, expecting it to stop near me... But it didn't show any sign of stopping. It was still flying fast towards me!
I quickly shielded myself with my arms, dreading that it would crash into me, but... it didn't. I could still hear the loud sound of the drone's spinning rotor blades, but the impact never came. I slowly looked forward, letting go of my shielding arms, and found that the drone was right in front of me... with Victoria's full visage right in front of my face, shown through the drone's display monitor. It was as if we were facing each other through a glass window.
But the thing was... her expression was rather different than usual. Rather than the usual irksome mischievous expression that she usually showed me, this time... Her expression was that of genuine excitement and delight.
I was quite taken aback by the expression she was making. Because... My gut was telling me that this expression of hers was not one with pure intentions.
"Amazing! Grunt No. 703! That was truly amazing, what you just did!" Victoria congratulated me with full excitement, emphasizing her astonishment by having her drone approach me closely. It was trying to stick to my face, close to hers as shown on the drone's display monitor.
I firmly tried to push off the drone that was invading my personal space. "Okay, okay! I get it! Thank you!!" I replied to her congratulations, wanting her to back off her drone from me.
Fortunately, she finally did back off her drone, but it was still hovering a bit too close for comfort.
"That was truly amazing, Grunt No. 703," she congratulated me once again, but this time it wasn't as energetic as before. "I thought that when you asked how to use your Grunt Battle Suit, you would use it to destroy the obstacle right in front of you like a muscle-brain idiot." She quickly started explaining her astonishment to me... but her speaking was a bit too fast for me to comprehend. However...
"Wait, did you just call me an idiot?" I caught her last comment, thinking that she was secretly insulting me.
Unfortunately, Victoria ignored my question and continued her rambling. "I never expected you would use the triboelectric principle to charge your own body with electric charge, just to create your own EMF zone? Simply outrageous!" She continued her explanation with the same fast-paced excitement as before.
"'Tri' what now?" I tried to repeat what she had said about the electric charging thing, but the term was quite foreign to my ears and she was still speaking too quickly.
Again, she ignored my confusion and continued her rambling.
"But you did it! You created a mini-EMF zone that was able to block and repel the electric current produced by the Lightning Gate! Simply amazing, Grunt No. 703~," She finally finished her astonished rambling, which was fortunately a bit slower than her previous ramblings. Furthermore, her last praise felt quite genuine and made me blush a little.
"I-I see... thanks, I guess?" I thanked her for the genuine congratulations she had just given me.
Suddenly, her drone moved quickly and once again tried to stick close to my face. To be precise, she was sticking her monitor-displayed face close to mine. Of course, I was taken aback yet again by how close she was trying to get. I was about to protest and push away the drone, but...
"Grunt No. 703!" Victoria suddenly called my name, which shut me down from any protest. She was showing a serious expression as if she was about to say something important to me.
"Y-yes?" I asked back, waiting in anticipation and a bit of fear as to what she was about to say...
"Would you like to become my own personal grunt?" She suddenly offered.
"... huh...?"
HIATUS
HIATUS. Not much to say here other than it's not working out.
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