>>5735695You keep sensing out what’s going on over there… but you also get an idea! “Hey Bravyj, wanna see something cool?” He gives an initially confused look, but when you use multi-form to send out a copy of yourself, he’s genuinely shocked.
“Wh-? How…?” The robot-manticore questions. “…Wait, your energy is lower now… oh, fascinating! So you organics have the ability to duplicate yourselves by by splitting energy…? What an interesting ability! Do all of you possess something akin to it?”
“It’s more a technique she ended up picking up.” Raditz answers. “Some of our allies have also picked up that skill, especially those under the Crane School.”
“There a reason you’re doing this, Peppa?” Videl asks.
Your copy heads off, then you point out, “There’s something going on over in that direction.” you point out towards mom’s team. “Gonna check it out, just in case.” Crossing your arms, you add, “Bet you’re sensing it too, Bravyj. You got an idea on what that might be?”
“Hmm… it could be a few things, but given the type of energy it’s giving off, it is very likely it’s one of the remnants of Shokun Vzryvala’s experiments.” he answers. “Eagalia’s fought off legions of them before, it shouldn’t be too-” He stops himself, then with slight concern, asks, “…One of your own is fighting alongside her?”
“That’d be my mom, Maple, yeah.” you confirm. “She’s handled way tougher things before.” Your copy meanwhile has lowered her Ki and is making her way through some of the ruined buildings and streets and structures, carefully hiding to get a better look.
That doesn’t dissuade his concerns as much as you’d hoped. “Hmmmn… well, if she is following Eagalia’s direction, she should be fine…”
“We require further context. Who is Shokun Vzryvala? What experiments would these be? And why would it be a problem that Maple is fighting one of them?” 19 inquires.
“He was one of Viga’s allies, an amoral madman of a scientist driven by his own twisted ideas of logic and ‘progress’ to concoct horrific experiments to bring forth the ‘next step in evolution.’ He had an… odd ‘appreciation’ of organics, often seeing it as his duty to ‘improve’ them, force unethical augmentations upon them to ‘accelerate the evolutionary process’ with them. Many alien lives were lost at his hands. Little wonder, Nigrissi once took a liking to him as well…” Bravyj shakes his head. “Thankfully, he was vanquished a short while before the Cataclysm. But many of his experiments managed to escape in his final downfall. The one over there feels similar to some of the ‘Metal Beasts’, as he termed them. Creatures that use esoteric energy sources and nanomachines to attempt self-propagation and self-evolution, especially on organic life.”
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