"Uh. Long story short, I have someone who needs a new body. That's all I can say."
"Say no more! See you on the other side." "Bye, Nicole~!" And the line goes dead.
>-2 I-CORP FAVORS!Your train arrives at NU-6 not long after. The train station here is a lot more occupied and busy than the one in NU-7 (given it's not abandoned) but you don't have time to drink in the details of the brutalist architecture.
You tell your allies that you and Quentin will be back later and after confirming they'll wait at the station for you, the two of you exit the station in search for Quentin's new bodies.
The buildings are all the same generic grey boxy tower that are all clumped together to be as efficient as possible so it's really hard to tell any of them apart from each other. The names don't help since like a lot of the shops you saw in ANTILIA, they just have simple names like "PHARMACY" and "APARTMENT BLOCK" and "DINER".
You soon find one location that's out of place and that's because it has an almost obnoxiously obvious marker painted on its wall: A pink deer. Wow, thanks Ben.
You two step inside of what looks like another generic, barely constructed grey building. The front room doesn't have any furniture in it and is only a grey concrete shell of what a room should be. There is a locked iron door that you assume leads to the backroom. You approach it and knock on it, yelling out your name.
The door unlocks. The two of you proceed inside to see...
https://youtu.be/G5ciZFmMw7k - Z-CORP LAB
A jury rigged laboratory that, by all measures, should've been audited for being unsafe ages ago. A schizophrenic bundle of electric cables are jabbed into a series of five life-pods, each of which are filled with a bright cyan fluid that's almost like gelatin with how thick it is. Five naked bodies are suspended inside of the slurry, three men and two women.
A set of tubes are embedded into their sides while their faces are covered by a breathing apparatus. Seems like they could live inside there for years if need be.
"Welcome!" "Heya, Nicole! Long time no see!" Standing by the tubes are two allies you haven't seen in a hot minute: Benjamin and Max.
Benjamin's bird nest hair-do has been slicked back into a more neat and tidy hairstyle. A long, flowing white labcoat with veins of teal running down all throughout it is draped over his sparkling white waistcoat and dress shirt. A tasteful teal bowtie also rests on his chest.
Max, on the meanwhile, hasn't changed her look that much. Her tuxedo suit (with a tasteful crimson bowtie) and dress pants are a dull amber hue. Her greyish-blue hair is still the same messy boyish cut it's always in.
You note both wear the same pair of white gloves. How adorable.
Both of their smiles fade upon seeing the rotten corpse trailing behind you. Oh, right, none of them have ever MET Quentin before have they?
"Woah. No wonder you asked him for a rush job. He looks like he's about to drop dead, keh!"
