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>Ranger Zero, C2: Experiment with Oasis of the Heart.
"You're shitting me. You guys got THAT anomaly?" Employee C2 can barely hide his bewilderment. Ranger Zero shrugs as she puts the cloak on.
"Apparently so. R-Company got sick of it? Frankly, this facility did better with it." <span class="mu-b">With an odd ease, the Ranger flies to the back of Secure Storage.</span>
<span class="mu-i">Ah, it's you. I'm not a little vial of sand anymore.</span>
<span class="mu-i">Fly, fl-</span>
"What. The. Fuck?" Ranger Zero instantly freezes in place. "Did you hear that?"
Employee C2 looks around the storage room. When he doesn't see anything of note, he looks towards Ranger Zero. "I hear faint machinery. Are there pipes running through the wal-"
"NOT THAT!" Zero takes in a deep breath to try regaining her composure. She quickly flies back to Employee C2 and throws the cloak off. <span class="mu-b">Quite an unusual reaction from someone so confident.</span>
"Okay, okay, calm down. It can't be that bad?" Employee C2 doesn't react to the freakout with anything more than a stiffly raised eyebrow.
Employee C2 slowly slides the cloak on, like a fresh set of gloves. His flight is a lot more sloppy but otherwise, nothing seems to happen.
Ranger Zero has already regained some of her composure just by watching Employee C2. "Y-yeah. It's more up with your speed anyways. What test to do..."
"Oh. Right. Can you hear anything from it?"
"That again, the schizo blabbering? Do I look like an AI to y-"
<span class="mu-i">Fly, fly, fly away. Freed from R-Company, barely chained to P-Company.</span>
<span class="mu-i">You have your youth. Spend it wisely.</span>
Employee C2 closes his mouth shut. "Okay. Do YOU hear it?" All Ranger Zero can do is nod with a lot of hesitation behind it.
<span class="mu-i">Why are you so scared? Are you afraid of being free, free, free? Like a songbird?</span>
<span class="mu-i">Zip past by like a bullet. Drill through any resistance. Bang, bang, bang.</span>
"It's...wrong hearing her voice like that." Ranger Zero mutters under her breath, keeping her eyes away from it.
"I mean, a voice in my head is weird but it's not that bad." For a split moment, you thought <span class="mu-b">his eyes were a sandy brown.</span> "Hell, it's saying some nice st-"
"Take it off."
"Huh?"
"Take it off, I don't know what it's doing but we're stopping."
<span class="mu-i">Are you going to let her chain you down? Force you to sacrifice yourself?</span>
<span class="mu-i">Let yourself be free. There is nothing left for either of us, isn't there?</span>
Employee C2 slowly lowers himself to the floor. <span class="mu-r">He almost looks like he's considering the advice.</span> But with some clumsy effort, he manages to pry the cloak off of him.
NOTES
-<span class="mu-b">I would be weary on letting mentally weak people wear it.</span> This thing has a way of influencing you. (C3)
-I couldn't hear it before. Even without it on, I can hear it. Was some link formed between us? (0)
-The Admin fought in this? Yet I don't see any tears or damage on it. (C3)
-Sorry for freaking out. The voice wasn't hers. It was distorted, isolated. An echo. (0)
