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Somewhere on a restricted Government Island:
"The operating table has been set up Stella."
"Wonderful news Shaka! Let us make haste then!"
The two figures go through the great compound before they reach the lab in question. After going through a thorough disinfection process and donning operating gowns they go in and get greeted by an array of other scientists, who await eagerly for the dissection to start, five of whom sit much closer than anyone else.
"Oh dear. This is a fine pickle."
"Indeed Stella."
The other figure nods
"What have they done to you poor boy? Well, let us not dally. We must find out how this could've happened."
The two move over and immediately get to work.
"What happened? Do we not have the records? How about onboard diagnostics?"
"Unfortunately it seems that there was a lot of interference just before S-Shark stopped transmitting data, as such, most footage that we have is corrupted. The black box also sustained critical damage and we haven't managed to pull anything out of it yet. But we're still trying. What's certain is that he was in autonomous mode and under the orders of Sentomaru before destruction."
"Hmmm, yes. And he's still recovering. Poor lad. Then there's nothing left to do but find out the cause of termination the old fashioned way! Shaka, the plasma scalpel please!"
After much work the two manage to pry open the shell of the Seraphim to take a closer look at its insides. But the mangled mess of flesh and machine is hard to decipher even for those who put it together.
"Oh my. That's some extensive damage. I expected things to be mostly intact."
"Indeed. It seems that S-Sharks carapace offered no protection against external forces. Meaning the enemy combatant was fast enough to keep pace with a Lunarian in speed mode, or worse yet it was capable of exploiting the 0.01 second opening when S-Shark switched from maximum armor to maximum speed. This suggests an enemy combatants speed was on par with the Pika Pika no Mi user. Worrying."
"Hmmmmm. Worrying is the right word my dear Shaka. But I'm not so sure about your hypothesis."
"What do you mean Doctor?"
"Observe."
The doctor moves his scalpel to the region that used to be the Seraphims head and opens up its brain case.
"Behold! Despite the extensive damage to the cranium the brain matter is relatively intact."
"How is that possible?"
"Simple. The force that S-Shark was subjected to was not kinetic energy. But pressure. He was not hit with explosives or riddled with many attacks. No, he was crushed to death, slowly enough for the soft brain matter to conform to its new shell even as it was compressed. And one more thing-"
He delves deeper with his tools.
"As I suspected. Out of the two pituitary fire-glands the armor gland was active at the moment of expiration."
