>>5736371“Here, lemme help you with that!” you call back to Irico, taking one of the pods. Mom takes another, as Eagalia transforms back into her bird form to get the last.
“We’ll get these looked over by medics. Thank you, organics, you’ve saved lives today.” Eagalia tells you all proudly.
Everyone takes off, with the group back with Peppa Alpha doing the same, and you can sense Rabaht’s group flying in the same direction as well. As you head off, both your Alpha and Beta selves move a bit closer to your robot hosts, asking them similar questions. “Do you think there will be more of those Metal Beast things back on the main planet itself?”
“Almost certainly.” Eagalia confirms. “I’ve faced plenty of them before, but the Cataclysm presented both the prime opportunity for many of them to escape into dark corners across the world and even the surrounding moons. Thankfully, they’d also not be spreading to any significant degree, and very few would be in larger forms like we just faced. Too energy-intensive, and with almost no organic life to attempt to assimilate into.”
“I estimate a few dozen specimens still on the loose on Varak itself. It would still present a danger, but most of our kind would be able to hold them off in their weaker states.” Bravyj remarks. “I would not recommend any organics approach them, though if you and your mother are indeed immune to their Destron energy, that does present a bit of an exception. It is quite the curious that such a trait can be passed on genetically, though. An induced, rather than natural, mutation that renders something so harmful to organic life effectively inert isn’t what I would expect to be passed along to offspring by design. Then again, I am by no means an authority on any forms of ancient, non-augmented organics.”
“Probably just a bit of luck, there.” you reply with a bit of a shrug of your shoulders. “Say, are those among your kind that are like that? With some kind of induced or natural immunity to what’s normally intensely harmful? Or how about other oddities like that?”
“Oh quite a few, quite a few indeed!” Bravyj confirms. “Not to any large population number, mind you, but still enough to be noticeable and notable. Some were forged through less ethical means for purposes of turning them into weapons, but many exhibit inherent exceptional abilities all on their own. Often termed ‘Outliers’ due to them having abilities beyond what might be expected of them. I actually have written a number of articles on this subject.”
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