CM: Downtime 2
When the group returned to Resistance HQ, it was to find Nana absent from her post. "Where's Nana?" Massimo asked curiously.
Chief R looked wan. "She's...with Aile," he explained simply. He glanced meaningfully towards Spider.
Spider, for his part, swore sulfurously under his breath. "I told that idiot he was pushing himself too hard..." he growled, pulling his hat down over his eyes.
"I don't understand," X demanded. "What's wrong with Aile?"
"He's been living on borrowed time ever since he wound up in that chair," Spider stated bluntly, refusing to meet anyone's eyes. "The only thing that's really kept him going, kept him fighting, has been finding causes to believe in and to put his skills to use for...and a girl he knew only through Net Dives."
"Nana?" Octavia gasped in surprise.
Spider nodded. "When we brought her back here was the first time they met face to face, but the bond's real." He chuckled darkly. "That's one of the good things about being Terran, I guess. Being able to physically dive into the Net means it's far easier to get to know people for their real selves, meaning there's a lot less judgement regarding specs. Probably the large variety plays a part there, too..."
"And if she's with him, his time has run out," Marino concluded. "Damn...that's rough."
"He's still holding on," Chief R explained, "spending his last few minutes with her, in The Sky Room-"
Axl suddenly spun to the teleporter, using it to take him to The Sky Room in question.
"Axl, wait!" X called out as he and Cinnamon rushed after him.
The Sky Room was a large, open, circular chamber with a few computer consoles scattered around. At one corner, a large screen displayed a backdrop of Nana. Next to it, a console played soft, relaxing music. In another corner was a database of various details and information that weren't all that important. A case of videos sat at the opposite end. In the middle of the room, Aile hovered in his chair, one hand clasping Nana's as Gaudile examined him from the other side.
Axl strode purposely up to the group. "Aile...I think I have an idea to help you," he spoke quickly.
Aile turned to glance at Axl. "...I think I might be beyond that," Aile pointed out dryly.
"Can you try?" Nana pleaded hopefully. "Just...one last time?"
"All I need is a sample of your RDNA," Axl told Aile. "That'll tell me if this will work or not."
"I can give you that," Gaudile spoke up, providing the disc. "I was hoping I could use it to accelerate a repair program-"
"Already been done to the best tech can..." Aile spoke up softly.
"Maybe this era's tech," Axl mumbled as he uploaded the disc, scanning through the information as it took shape in his A-Trans circuits. "...yes, I this will work. Cinnamon!"
"Yes, Axl?" Cinnamon gasped out, surprised that he knew she was there.
"Do you have a Hyper Mode that maximizes your FMG's Repair Functions?" he asked hopefully.
"Y-yes," Cinnamon confirmed. "Iron Maiden."
"Wait, what?" Gaudile asked in surprise.
"Assume it," Axl instructed. "Tango, Merge!"
Tango immediately warped in, fusing with Axl to create Schrodinger. At the same time, Cinnamon's body blazed with light. When the light faded, her usual nurse outfit had been replaced with a black maid outfit. Axl blinked in surprise as he saw it. "...meow..." he murmured under his breath before shaking his head. "No time for distractions..." He reached out and took her hand.
Cinnamon blushed rosily, both at being classified 'a distraction' and from him taking her hand. Her eyes then widened as data streamed through the grip. "Oh...I see...yes! Yes we can!"
Axl pulled out his Ancient Arm. "Get ready..." he said softly as the weapon burst open, energy gathering.
Gaudile backed away slowly. "W...what are you doing?"
"Nana, get back!" Cinnamon ordered firmly, startling the Navigator into jumping back.
"37%," the weapon proclaimed.
Axl leveled the weapon at Aile. "Restruct!" he cried out together with Cinnamon.
Energy flowed from the pair into the weapon as it discharged its round. When the blast hit Aile, he became surrounded by the light of A-Trans. When it faded, pieces of the hover chair fell to the floor...and Aile fell back onto his rump, arms and legs flailing. "Ow..." His eyes then widened as he realized his voice came from his mouth, and not from the chair. "I..."
The sound of a cane falling to the ground alerted everyone to Spider's presence. "Aile...you're..." He staggered forward in disbelief.
Aile slowly pushed himself to his feet, his legs flailing a bit as he hadn't had legs to use for a long time. "How...?"
"Your RDNA sample was enough to create a fully functional copy of you," Axl explained as Tango defused and Cinnamon reverted back to normal. "While that would let me turn into you, you don't have a Change Circuit. However, by supercharging my A-Trans ability and channeling it through Cinnamon's FMG Repair programs, I was able to create a Change Field that allowed your body to be completely restructured from the ground up without damaging your psyche."
"But that's against every known law of physics!" Gaudile gasped out in confusion. "There's no way that could have worked!"
Axl handed over the Supra-Force Metal fragment they'd gotten from Botos. "Except that Force Metal's true nature is Ether...an energy source connected to magic, a power that is more defined by will than the laws of reality. It worked...because we wanted it to work, and we didn't listen to anyone saying it was impossible."
Gaudile groaned as he put his head between his hands. "I'm a scientist...how an I supposed to deal with this?"
No one was really listening. Everyone was too busy watching the emotional embrace as Nana and Spider held Aile close, helping him from both sides to stand for the first time in a long, long time.
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Welp. Axl can now pull stunts similar to Twilight in Sparkle In His Eye. This universe is either saved or screwed.
8073204 Or possibly both?
8073204 Why not both saved and screwed?
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I third this motion.
A power source that says "fuck physics, do what I want!" Either a scientists wet dream or worst nightmare depending on how you look at it.
Guess Axl proved an age old theory of eternal youth in a sense.
I wonder if turning younger again might have Aile go for some Ale.
Some say wearing black can make you feel younger. Ask Aile.
I can hear Kamina encouraging Simon through that last section.
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Sweet! They fixed his... Ailement!
8073204 And...... we care..... why?
So is Spider not going to betray them? Ok Axl what will your next stunt be?
So, to quote Egil: Ether is power!
Oh, hey. Another universe that has its own version of mana stone / Australium.
Excellent combo move Axl, Cinnamon.
I am glad this is a happy ending. Aile is happy AND he gets the girl.
Still have Botos and Redips but we are seeing the Light at the end I think. After all what threat would be left? Some cosmic god-machine that wants to create a paradise against everyone's will?
8073988 You just had to say something....
Well prepare your butts for an epic boss battle
Yay, Aile got healed!!!!! I think the rest of the team needs to set up a Belle Notte ala Lady and the Tramp for Aile and Nana.
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I think that that was basically Sigma wasn't it?
yay!
And that's how Team Gurren rolls!
8076081 In other words, Ether is Quark's power source.
drinking or smoking while not thinking about it helps OR do as i do when it comes to pinkie pie "don't question it and just roll with it it'll save your sanity"
If something violates known physical laws, yet happened anyway, then either
A. You're dealing with God or Satan (extremely unlikely), or
B. The known laws have unknown exceptions.
In other words, science wasn't WRONG, just incomplete.
So Logic breaking.
To me, it sounds like it is very possible for it to happen. Ether was used, and it fixed a person. Ether is the very basis of what makes a Reploid any different from a Robot, after all. Without it,they couldn't have any hope of becoming anything more.
It isn't that Ether makes the impossible possible. It is that without Ether, the possible is impossible.
As such, this story isn't so much Spiritus ex Machina, so much as it is Deus ex Machina. And I will never forgive you for that, Tatsurou.
Good for Aile though, I guess.
when normal magic has the power to bend entire nations and species into highly charged entities, restoring the body of somebody through the use of a super form change and transfering the power to someone else ain't that far fetched...