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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 19, 2020 22:53:13 GMT
The illusion sliced right through one of his devices he was using to web-sling and the button he clicked on, but whatever he clicked trigger some ticking noise coming from the room past the locked gate from the back of the room, causing the dragons to turn their heads.
"What is that noise?" Fafnir asked.
Kumo pulled out a arrow from behind him and stabbed it into the illusion's eye, causing it to disappear as he looked at his bleeding wrist.
"As I said, I will resort to regretful actions when the push comes to shove, when I arrived here, one of my larger friends sneaked into the reactor room through the chimney and in case I would find myself in this predicament, the bomb inside the spider would activate, you just have two minutes till it will detonate and being next to that reactor will create a very big explosion that will wipe out of this factory and anyone else who happens to keep staying around in this area. And trying to hit it with any punches, kicks or beams will *cough* trigger the explosion." Kumo said, with more blood pouring out of his mouth as he explained this.
"WHAT!?" One of the dragons asked.
"Falak was sent into that room to protect the lava generator, he wouldn't allow that metal creature of your's near the machine!" Fafnir growled, looking very pissed.
"Well, I hope you are right about that. This will be quite ironic, Nakiri took her own life in a massive explosion and now, I will take out two members of the Royal Guard through a even bigger explosion." Kumo said, grinning slightly.
"And you'll die too, asswipe! You're sealed in this place with us!" Dietz yelled.
"...You, you would like that, wouldn't you? And the worst news? I happen to know the deactivation code so if you kill me here, your satisfaction will be short-lived if you spend your remaining moments stabbing at my corpse without pause." Kumo concluded.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 19, 2020 23:10:36 GMT
"Hm." Bacchus paused. "Are you just going to escape somehow?" He asked. "Or will you be the second one of your pals to blow yourself up to try to take us out?"
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 19, 2020 23:23:55 GMT
"...I would prefer to live a bit more longer if I had to give you a honest answer. Nakiri was a little too bold for her own good, to face Death square on like that...but some of us are not comfortable with the thought of dying, especially in a Universe like this *cough* where no matter where you go, the reaper is always one step ahead of us. Not when I have so much left to do." Kumo grimaced.
"It's kinda a little too late to make us feel sorry for you, dude. But I don't want to be blown up either so give us the code." Dietz said.
Kumo looked at his own wounds before looking at the Neonytes.
"If you'll let me go, I'll give you the code to deactivate the bomb or you can kill me right here, even if you try to escape, the explosion will not be limited to this factory, the entire zone will get eradicated. So, why don't we just live to fight another day than die together like this? Let's be smart about it." Kumo asked.
"We do not take kindly to bargains, our oppressors learned that the hard way. I say we squash you right now and figure it out for ourselves how to stop it." Fafnir suggested.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 19, 2020 23:26:10 GMT
"Sadly, this ain't our jurisdiction." Bacchus frowned. "Besides, how will we know the code you give us will be the right one?"
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 19, 2020 23:33:19 GMT
"Do I look like someone who would be messing around when our lives are hanging on a timer, especially when these lava eaters sealed off our only exit?" Kumo asked rhetorically.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 19, 2020 23:49:43 GMT
"Can't say." Bacchus said, "I don't really know you. But if we let you go, then your life won't 'be on a timer', will it?
You've already made it clear that you want us dead, at any rate."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 20, 2020 0:02:07 GMT
"With these wounds that you inflicted on me, I'm no shape to take you. Trust me, I hate the two of you but I would prefer to settle this in a place where I won't die in along with the rest of you. If we keep chatting it up like this all day, the bomb will explode will detonate any moment now." Kumo said, holding onto his chest.
"He is obviously being deceitful, first he has the nerve to come here and destroy our main source of lava and now he expects mercy because he is a coward who is afraid to die, he doesn't have any shred of dignity or pride." Fafnir said.
"Well, pride isn't gonna do him anything good if he will die pointlessly even if he manages to kill us. I've fought this guy on another planet before so I'm not sure he is dicking around with us like this when his life is at stake. And we should definitely hurry this up before the place goes kaboom." Diets said, folding his arms.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 20, 2020 0:12:23 GMT
"Or you can just leave him here and let the place blow up." Another voice said.
"..What?" Bacchus asked, turning around.
To find Castor standing on the edge of a portal in midair, with the top of his head brushing against the ceiling.
"..How long have you been here?" Bacchus asked, with a low pitch.
Castor looked at his bare wrist, as though checking a watch. "...Couple seconds." He stated monotonously. "..I'm not hanging around for long."
Bacchus groaned, "Great, you're here to complicate things now too?"
"No." Castor said. "I.. think it's more simple this way. My sibling's got a alliance with you guys, so I can open up a portal for you and take you all a safe distance away."
"..Seriously?" Bacchus asked. "Why would you do that?"
"Just you guys." Castor stated, simply. "We don't have alliances with dragons. Or this guy."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 20, 2020 0:25:53 GMT
The dragons and Dietz looked up, Dietz was not happy to see Castor either. Fafnir had his guard up for him aswell.
“Of course you would show up too.” Kumo frowned, glaring into Castor’s eyes.
“While I don’t want to be blown to bits and I don’t like this guy, what makes you think we’ll go with you after what you tried to pull on Plague? And I don’t want exactly to be a heartless dick and leave these guys to die and cost them their lava supply either so you can tell Caveman we are not buying his bullshit, the two of us din’t agree to an alliance with him.” Dietz frowned.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 20, 2020 0:28:54 GMT
Castor stared blankly. "Well, okay."
And then, a portal opened up beneath him, at ground level. One that was clearly a portal to what appeared to be the middle of nowhere, it was recognizably still the planet Uraeus.
"Is this better? ...Now you don't have to rely on my word. The portals already here... it's your choice whether you walk through it."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 20, 2020 0:33:20 GMT
“...If you can open a portal just like that, why can’t you just portal away the spider bomb into space or some abandoned part of the planet?” Dietz asked with his arms crossed.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 20, 2020 0:43:56 GMT
Castor blinked for a second, before saying. "Don't you want this guy to blow up?
He's on his last legs and in his final moment he reveals he's willing to blow up something integral to these dragons survival. Why shouldn't he be taken out by his own explosion.. ..He did poison you, and.. you said that you wanted to kill them all, didn't you? Here's a chance to let another one kill themselves." "You're saying you can just remove the bomb, but you don't want to." Bacchus folded his arms.
"Yes." Castor admitted, with no tone of voice at all.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 20, 2020 1:00:11 GMT
Kumo glared into Castor’s blue eyes while Dietz’s expression din’t change
“...Yeah, I hate this motherfucker and his entire group, I want them all to pay, but I’m not gonna dirty my hands with their blood by letting the reactor blow up just to see him die and give these dragons a new excuse to hate us, I learned what happens when I let my rage get the better of me and I’m not gonna kill a bad guy by being a bad guy myself. Just because you are dead inside and stopped giving a fuck about everything in the entire world, doesn’t mean I have, I want to make things with everyone including the ones we wronged in the past better so don’t try to manipulate me, you blue eyed piece of scum shit.” Dietz said.
Fafnir looked away from Castor to glance at Dietz before looking at Bacchus.
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Post by IDEK on Jan 20, 2020 1:14:24 GMT
"I agree with him." Bacchus said to Fafnir, gesturing at Dietz.
"...I find it.. odd, how, that's what you're insulting me with. My eye colour?" Castor asked, pointing at his eyes. His voice drooped, reminiscent of a scolded puppy "Me being dead inside? I'm.. not trying to manipulate you. I thought that.. since this guy wants you guys dead, and won't stop, this would be the opportunity for us to work together to take him out."
"Is this how you think actual discussions work?" Bacchus asked. "If that's the case, that says a whole lot about you."
Castor stood at the edge of his portal, with his arms hanging limply at his sides. "I guess that's it. There's no convincing you, but it was worth a try."
He took a step forwards and let gravity carry him down before another portal appeared beneath him, he stood on the edge of it again, his black cape flowing behind him as he looked down at them all with bright blue eyes. "Fafnir? How do you feel about these two? Do you trust them? Have they repaired the relationship between dragons and neonytes?"
"What-!?" Bacchus started, taking a step forwards. "What do you want!?"
Castor stared at him. "..Not sure."
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 20, 2020 8:37:16 GMT
Fafnir squinted at Castor with his own eyes.
"I will forever despise Neonytes with a dying passion for what they have done, they're the ones who put my father through hell and ruined his relationship with Cyndass and they're the reason why we have to rely on that stupid machine to survive, it hurts me inside every time I have to see him go through one of his nightmares, as his son, it hurts me a lot to go through this torture without doing anything about it and no amount of apologies will erase the past, the Neonytes as a race will never redeem themselves in my eyes." Fafnir said.
"You know, I think I would prefer getting blown to bits than hearing this right now." Dietz sighed, placing his hands on his ears.
"...But, as much as it would wound my pride to say this, while these two are nuisances, they saved my life when they could of easily let me perish at the enemy's hands if they truly hated me and if they were cowardly enough to listen to your proposal and escape from their impending doom and leave the rest of us to die, that would of been the last straw for me and I would of killed them right there. Their actions speak louder than words, it's those actions that determine who a person is, not fancy words. I will never find it in me to forgive all the Neonytes, but these two showed me that they meant what they said about what they intend to do." Fafnir concluded.
Dietz removed his hands from his ears with a totally shocked expression on his face.
Kumo just stared at them all with a long frown, not engaging himself in this conversation since it's clear what he would say would just encourage them to leave him to die.
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