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[Thugren]

lucy smiles and makes waht appears to be a mist of fallout with her palm.

 

"No.. Actually none of us in the program just woke up like this.... it took alot of modifying , but when we finally woke up, we where able to do it."

 

she smiles warmly and shakes her head toward Nash.

 

'Oh dont you worry about me... Im fine.. If i was uncomfortable id just blow him across the camp .... Im not all that frail."

[Armoured Priest]

Nash laughed at what Lucy had said, while Kombuse just sort of...shrank in more shame. Ozer-ga was rather silent instead of his usual mumbling self, as he took the threat of radiation poisoning more serious than the humans did. Yea it can kill them too, but it was a weakness for ghouls, made them weak and mewling just in small doses. It was bad enough just realizing Talos was capable of manipulating of the energy, but then they found another one! And now he got wrangled into doing some for of vague ass job or mission for someone or something of which he had no knowledge of. All with in a damn day. 'Can things get worse? Yes, yes they can.' He thought whimsically to himself as he pondered upon his situation.

 

"Did you guys know why they did all that, I mean other than the mission that Talos had told us about. You guys were on ice for a long ass time, I bet you guys could have done a lot of good if they thawed you out earlier or something." Nash asked both of them, not trying to sound like anything other than genuine curiosity and why the two's higher ups did what they did.

[Thugren]

we where supposed to kinda be ghoul deterrents. Irradiating ground to kinda act like a buffer to make the ghouls easier to herd or lead away. Others like talos where meant to be combatants.... TO handle the smarter more dangerous ghouls. but it looks like the program failed and everyone died but us."

 

Lucy looks at Talos and cocks her head.

 

'Why did you hide your abilities."

The rebel chuckles and puts away his kit.

 

"BEcasue the last thing i need is people freaking out htinking im going to go nuclear."

[Armoured Priest]

"He ain't wrong, some people still freak out at people that can use fire or metal. And that's the mundane shit. Hate to see what they do if they saw someone that can be an atom bomb." Nash shrugged, understanding the sentiment Talos had.

 

"A lot of people shoot me when they seem me, and I don't know why!" Kombuse said with utter confusion in his voice, backing up the other two claims. "Oh don't give them that crap, you know damn well why!" Ozer-ga protested with a growl, even taking over the mouth for a moment to say it.

 

"Sigh....anyways." Nash interrupted before the two could start. "We heading out to see your armor specialist friend?" She asked, obviously wanting to get going, the sooner they can the sooner they can get that armor parasite thing off of Kombuse.

[Thugren]

talos nods and goes over to coreus who allows everyone up. Kombuse is tied around the great beasts neck like a charm to keep his armor away from any of the fleshier members of the party and they take to the wasteland.

 

It takes several days, but soon you come upon a camp with a working smithy outside.

 

"Were here."

 

talos says as he helps lucy down, the woman having grown aler from the long trip , being forced to eat food she could barely hndle.

 

 

"Kombuse..watch her..Ill go get Bertrand."

[Armoured Priest]

"Aye aye cap!" Kombuse replied happily as Nash was untying the boy from Coreus' neck now that they had stopped again. He didn't seem to mind it and understood why, but it didn't stop Ozer-ga from being in a foul mood most of the time in being a similar situation as the ferris wheel for several fucking days. Stretching his arms and legs, twisting around and trying to scratch spots on himself through the armor that were bothering him for a long time, Nash would offer Lucy her canteen of water as the armor clad Kombuse plopped himself on the ground near both of them, keeping an eye on their surrounds with the ghoul's help. "Here, try to keep you hydrated at least." 

[Thugren]

lucy places a hand gently on Kombuses armor, buffeting it with waves and waves of radiation. The armor reacts by withdrawing several spikes of its possession back, giving Kombuse a bit more wiggle room as she grabs the water.

 

"THank you...Ill be ok"

 

she says, shaking lightly , tipping the canteen back and takign a long sip.

 

"Oh..SO this is the dumbass who doesnt know to avoid things that arent his?"

 

everyone looks up as a short paunchy man walks up. He is balk and frumpy, only about 4 feet tall with a massive smiths hammer over his shoulders.

 

"Youre the ghoul right? Komtuse or what other? Im bert. Lets get that shit off you and usable."

[Armoured Priest]

"That's me! I'm Kombuse, Mr. Bert!" The ghoul boy introduced himself as he stood back up, and inadvertently agreeing to all the things that the dwarven like man had said about him. Ozer-ga couldn't help but have some curiosity in the stout old man, wondering just how he was going to take off what was essentially a living organism off the boy.

 

Not exactly having good confidence in Lucy's word, he just kept a mental note to keep an eye on the poor woman till she gets better. "So, I'm going to ask the obvious and probably stupid question, how you going to do that without having him o.d. on rads there Bert?" Nash asked the blacksmith, her own thoughts echoing what the ghoul within Kombuse was thinking.

[Thugren]

in a movement that even startles coreus, making the great beast reflexively jump back, bert spins, bringing his hammer around with startling speed and slams the chestplate of the armor with a lkoud clang, knocking the iar from you .

 

"Whsat the fuck Bert!"

 

Talos yelps as you are sent tumbling in a tablge of limbs and pain.

 

"Just watch.."

 

he grunts as he comes over to where you land and kicks you over, pulling the chest peice away easily.

 

"SOund..... Most creatures have a sound level that they can cope with. This ..THing is no different. Since it isnt all one organism, we just have to do it to each part .. My hammer can do that."

 

Lucy goes to stand but is unable to and bert grunts over to Nash.

 

"Inside is a full bath and a regiment of pills...Take the girl into the house."

 

he jerks his finger toward the small red roofed house besides the forge.

 

"Youre lucky Krieg sent pilsl ahead of time boy."

[Armoured Priest]

Nash naturally flinched at the deafening clang after the hammer met Kombuse's chest, and had to stop herself from rushing over to him as Bert went over to peel the chest piece off and explained why he did what he did. "Uh huh, sound, sure you didn't just knock it the fuck out there?" she asked a bit sarcastically as she went over to help Lucy get on her feet and helped her to the house the blacksmith pointed out, putting her trust in Talos and his blacksmith friend that they know what they're doing with Kombuse for right now. "E-e-everything is ringing....!" Kombuse mumbled incoherently as he laid on the ground, not really feeling like getting up when his whole body was still vibrating from the blow. "WHAT THE FLYING FUCK YOU ASSHOLES?!' Ozer-ga roared even after hearing the explaination for why he did it. It was the principle of it after all. 

[Thugren]

stop yer whining ya bitch."

the dwarf growls as he begins working, hitting the armored plates with loud clangs, removing peice by peice until all thats left is the codpeice.

 

 

"Well.....This ones gonna hurt...Alot."

 

he says as he hovers the hammer above it menacingly.

 

Inside the house za bed has been prepared, with a small silver tray. On it are pills and a glass of water.

 

" Hes so thoughtful.."

 

Lucy says weakly, grabing the pills in a trembling hand as she takes them all at once and swallows.

 

"My body isnt used...To all of this."

[Armoured Priest]

"Nuuuuu." Kombuse said quietly, unable to be any louder with the constant buzzing in his ears and the numbing vibrations making him unable to move. 'Kombuse! Move! Move right now! I don't care if he's taking the armor off, move move move! You haven't even got to that it yet!' Ozer-ga tried to motivated the boy dodge, roll over, something to avoid getting hammered in the crotch by the dwarf blacksmith

 

"Yea, its gonna take some time." Nash mentioned, keeping an eye on her to make nothing happened such as accident choking on the vitamins or something. "Might be better for you to take it easy for awhile instead, and not overdue and make it worse on youself. Go relax in a hot bath or something, I'll be right outside the door if you need anything."

[Thugren]

bert taps the armor with the lightest of tinks, and it falls off, completely leaving the boy hunharmed as he tosses the armor into a nearby fire.

 

"Just a joke boy..Tell that ghoul to shut his yap."

 

he closes the armor inside of the kiln and there is a loud bang against the metal door as he huffs.

 

"Fuggin things dont know when to call it quits."

 

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Lucy nods and stands, wobbling over to a bathroom and vanishing inside as talos leangs agaisnt a wall.

 

"Can you make that armor usable?'

 

Bert raises an eyebrow.

 

"yea i can...... Its gonna take some materials though."

[Armoured Priest]

"Oh....ok." Kombuse said, just laying on the ground completely relieved that it wasn't as bad as the blacksmith made it look like. "Hey Ozer-ga---" He started to tell the ghoul before he got interrupted. "I fucking heard." It mumbled before staying quiet. The boy looked over to the kiln as what he guessed was the suit was banging from the inside. "What's the fire suppose to do Mr.Bert?" he asked as he tried to sit up, feeling coming back to his limbs now.

 

Nash sat near the door to the bathroom like she promised while the three were still outside dealing with Kombuse's parasite armor friend. "What, you plan on putting that thing back on him?" She asked with a bit of an edge to her tone, an obvious sign of what she thinks on the idea of putting something that was about to devour Kombuse back on him after they got it off when there was no real guarantee from Talos earlier.

[Thugren]

"what does fire do to metal boy?"

 

Bert says with a grunt, keeping an eye on the kilin door.

 

"Im hardening it up so that that parasite cant sieze control and try and take over your body."

 

he looks directly at nash as he talks, his head cocked to the side.

 

"Ohhhhh no Bonnie lass i was going to make it some chocolate and put it to bed..Yes im putting it back on him.. YOu dont get handed weapons like that often, and when you do, you use it."

 

he looks at talos as if asking him to chime in, but he only shrugs, watching the house

[Armoured Priest]

"I just thought fire makes metal hot and then googy." Kombuse admitted, now learning a new thing about metal working stuff with living things. Though now his attention was taken by the exchange between Nash and Bert, with her obviously not liking the idea of him in the armor again. 

 

"Yea, and as an expert, I thought you would remember that the thing tried to eat him!" she said, feeling like for some reason that had to be brought up again, as if that fact was getting glossed over. "Can you actually make sure it doesn't do that? Or make him into a fucking monster and lose his mind to it in a battle? I haven't really heard that many good things that outweigh the sheer danger it presents for him or the rest of us." Nash brought up. What seemed to be irritating her more was Talos sitting out of this. Surely he would have something to say about shoving his friend into some death trap like that suit was.

[Thugren]

"iF bert says he can make it safe, he can make it safe."

 

talos says finally, pulling his eyes away fro mthe house as he looks at the group of them.

 

"Bert is a master smith... He made ghoulbone and ghou l armor weaponry work for a long time.. I have fath in him."
 

bert smirks smugly as talos looks at nash.

 

"Im not going to do something that would put kombuse in danger... Im cold, but not that unfeeling."

[Armoured Priest]

"Oh you got to be fucking kidding me." She sighed to herself as she pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration.  She turned to Kombuse, still sitting on the floor, and crouched down to his level to speak with him. "Well, what do you think Kombuse? Since, you know, you'll be the one wearing it." Nash asked, wanting the boy's answer now to see his thoughts on it. Kombuse seemed to think long and hard, concentration and a little strain on his face, as he thought on the bad things as well as the good things of wearing the hungry, hungry set of armor. 

 

".....Yea, its dangerous like you said." He admits at first. "But...what if we come across something like that ghoul king or worse? I couldn't really do anything and neither could you. Talos had to, but its radiation and it might not be useful." the ghoul boy reasoned. "And if I can't fight them then what good am I?" he asked in return to her. There was a bit of silence between the two of them before Nash sighed before hugging him, making give a surprised "What?"

 

"You're an idiot, but you're our idiot." She declared, ruffling his faux helmeted head before standing back up and looking at Talos and Bert. If something goes wrong later, I'm siccing him towards you two to fix it, got it?" Nash warned them, her tone an unreadable mix between making a joke and being absolutely serious.

[Thugren]

oh no... whatever will i do against one Kombuse...."

 

the air around talos seems to swelter and wave for a few moments before it explodes in a sharp crack, making bert jump back as talos kicks off the wall.

 

"Im going to go on a medical run."

 

Without waiting for anyone to speak, talos leaves the small camp as bert chuckles.

 

"Yes all.. Lets get all posturey up on each other... Becasue thats it... Hey big wolf! " 

 

bert goes over to coreus who considers the tiny dwarf curiously.

 

"Yes tiny one?"

 

he asks as bert hjolds up his hammer.

 

"iffun this ghoul boy goes mad, im swinging this hammer at you! Becasue its something beyond anyones control and it makes me feel better!"

 

Coreus chuckles and shakes his head as he kicks kombuses boot.

 

"Lessgo lad... Got to fir you with some orridium harnesses."

[Armoured Priest]

"Huh? Harnesses?" Kombuse stands up, shaking himself off all the dirt that got on him after laying down for so long, before going to follow Bert to....wherever he was going to. The word Orridium caught Ozer-ga's attention, and wondered how this was going to affect them when its put on. 'Nothing good for me I bet.' He thought to himself. He turned around to Nash, walking backwards for a moment. "Be right back, I think, you gonna watch Lucy still?" he asked.

 

"Yea, go have fun with Bert the dwarf, don't do anything too dangerous ok?" She asked of him, getting a nod from him before he turned around to catch up with the blacksmith, leaving Nash to go back to the house and watch over the recently defrosted woman.