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Chapter 16: Total Evolution My cage was pulled through a dark tunnel for what seemed like an eternity. No matter how much I bashed the bars, they wouldn't fold. "Quit punching or I'll put you to sleep!" Afrodita pulled out another syringe from her jacket. I ignored her and continued punching. As expected, she flicked the syringe at me, landing a hit straight on my neck. My chest tingled and the cloth covering my chest assumed the perfect shape of my chest while the strings disappeared. "If I can't put you to sleep like that......" Afrodita slammed her fist into a button on top of the cage, releasing a strange gas into the cage. I stumbled. "Cyclopropane, sleeping gas." the fat guy explained. My vision blurred and I collapsed to the cold steel floor of the cage. Note: I got the sleeping gas name from Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony too. I woke up tightly strapped to a table. "No breaking out, I made the straps myself with nanotech. They're as strong as the steel bars on the cage." the fat guy grinned at me. "What do you wanna do to me!?" I demanded. "Oh, nothing really. I just need a sample of your DNA. It should work wonders on an average mapler." he pointed at Afrodita. She was asleep in a chair. My eyes widened in horror. Hey wait, this armour absorbs physical contact too! I don't have anything to worry about. "Sorry if I haven't told you my name. Hugo Fidelo. And you're in one of the most advanced buildings in the world. The Fidelo Needle." An hour later, after quite a few lost syringes...... The armour had completely melded into my skin and I was naked on the table, grinning at the red face of Hugo Fidelo and his many scientists. "CAN'T YOU GET A HAIR SAMPLE!?" he was rather angry too. "We can't! Her hair is just too slippery to pull out!" a scientist replied hurriedly. "THEN SCRAPE HER TAIL!" "No can do, too slippery to get a grip." "THEN CLIP HER NAILS OR SOMETHING!" "Tried that, the clippers just seemed to meld with her fingernails......" While Hugo was bickering with his scientists, I felt a strange energy inside me. Jakito appeared in ethereal form in front of me. "What if someone sees you?" I hissed. "I am visible only to you. It would appear that you have 3 beings residing in your body by the way." he chuckled. What? 3 beings? "Oh yes. Your body has completely evolved. You can now use my abilities as well as the ones from the other two." he grinned and disappeared. I flexed my arm muscles. Sure enough, I felt stronger and faster. I tried to snap the straps, but they were still too strong. A sudden warmth fell over my heart and I quietened down. This was one energy I hadn't felt before...... "Hello, Jakito's magic seems to chain react with everything. He accidentally sealed me in when he entered your body." the Dark Dragon whispered. "Seems like that same chain reaction created a new Inner Beast too." it smiled. I felt like my entire body was on fire, yet I didn't feel any pain! "Meet the Phoenix." That was Jakito. "You can create a combination of elements using any pair of the three of us now." a soothing voice spoke in my mind. Probably the Phoenix. I concentrated on my right hand and it burst into flames. The straps burnt off easily and silently. Hugo didn't turn around. I used the same power to burn off the remaining straps and got up quietly. I sneaked up behind Hugo and clapped him on his temples lightly. He fainted and the scientists gasped. "I don't want to hurt you. Just show me the way out." I smiled at them. They nodded. "I'm not working with that bastard anymore!" one declared. They led me to an underground cavern and pointed me in the right direction. I thanked the scientists and took to a low hover, flitting through a dark tunnel, my horn emitting enough light for me to see. Even so, I bumped into stalactites every now and then. "This should help." the Phoenix lit a flame on the tip of my horn. I smiled and continued. How had they constructed a tunnel like this? Suddenly, I heard footsteps in front of me. I directed the light towards it and found Alexis running towards me. She stopped dead when she saw me though. "Where's your......" she stared at me. "Completely absorbed. I'm still in control though." I smiled at her. "How do I know it's the real you?" she blinked in the light. "It's her all right." the Dark Dragon said. Its voice echoed in the tunnel. "If it says its you, then I know it is." Alexis smiled and grabbed my hand. Suddenly, a red beam of light shot through the tunnel and hit me in the back. It was absorbed again, but I seemed to have done something wrong. My wings were vibrating violently. "That laser seems to have overloaded your energy. If you don't transfer to someone else fast, you're going to blow yourself up!" Jakito warned. Alexis's grip around my hand tightened and instinctively, my grip tightened too. Sparks of energy shot down my arm and into Alexis. She stared at my arm for a brief second and her armour pulsed. "We'd better get out of here!" Jakito yelled as more laser beams hit my back. The Dark Dragon looked to my back. "I can see words on those guns. RX-10 Laserlock rifles." it whispered to me. The description said it all. "Laser sniper rifles!" I grunted as another beam hit me. My wings began vibrating again. Alexis gladly allowed the extra energy to flow into her and her armour shedded a layer. "What the..." I looked at her. "When I was sucked into Torteliangra's body, the extra energy generated created the armour you were wearing earlier. It seems that the extra energy generated here is creating the same cycle." Jakito explained. "There's the house's exit. I marked it." Alexis called to me, pointing at a square hole in the ceiling of the tunnel. Another beam hit me and Alexis's armour seemed to become ethereal. She stared at herself as I flapped my wings and flew us through the hole. Just as I was halfway through, another laser beam hit my leg. Alexis's armour disappeared and she gasped. "I feel......" she collapsed to the ground, twitching. I slammed the trapdoor close and turned a table upside down, placing it over the trapdoor and sitting on it. Alexis was vibrating strangely. Gold-lined steel arm and leg plates were starting to form on her body out of nothing and a bikini appeared on her along with the cloth-and-steel top that used to cover me. Golden gloves appeared on her hands. She groaned and sat up, scratching her head. Her set of armour was completely new and had no writing or etches on it, just runes. "Now I know what it's like to be you." she tried to take off her top. "Weren't you supposed to be asleep?" I asked. "I was faking it. I felt Afrodita poke me with the syringe, but I didn't fall asleep. The others are still sleeping though." Alexis glanced at the sleeping Lopez. Now, I realized that I could put on my clothes like normal again and I gladly put on my Dark Linnex. The moment I put it on, it sparked slightly and turned into a Dark Lineros. I was surprised. "Girls should wear girls clothes now." Jakito smiled. Alexis was examining her new armour. "Do you think...... I'll grow stuff like yours?" she asked. "Yes, you will." Jakito replied. Alexis groaned. "If Lynx saw this, she'd go nuts." she grumbled. The others were still asleep when we went down. Alexis prodded Lopez with a finger. He didn't stir. I placed my hand on his heart and closed my eyes. "Analyze." I commanded. My hand emitted a golden light. "That's one strong sleeping concoction." I remarked, pulling my hand back. "They'll probably wake up in a week or so." I diagnosed. "A week!? How strong was that stuff?" Alexis was shocked. "Real strong." I mumbled. "Jakito, can you do anything about it?" "Nope. That's one exception to magical laws. No spell can wake up or put a person to sleep." |
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