Pongo Village
The first thing Elsword noticed when he finally woke up is the fact that his body felt like it got run over by the Ancient Poro. Everything hurts, he felt like a living bruise. Groaning, he began to wake up.
Opening his eyes, he was greeted by the dark yet cozy roof of Chief Adel's home. Huh? It looks they got here. Did they succeed or did they lose? So many questions needed to answer. The boy coughed, finally waking up. Sitting up, he tried to find anyone in the vicinity.
What he didn't expect is to see Rena, trying to pull off a machine attached to what looks like Raven's head on the opposite bed. Arguably, not the most stranges sight he had woken up to. This journey of theirs had give him plenty of strange sights to wake up to but this one took the cake.
Cause why in El Lady's name is Rena missing her skirt, displaying her panties!
He maybe a pure boy but his still a growing boy in the cusps of puberty. Needless to say, the sight as a little stimulating and probably triggered the boy's early puberty.
Why did his pants tighten all of the sudden?
Finally, the older elf noticed the boy's awakening. Her mouth opened to ask for help until a breeze down below reminded her of her current state of undress. Mortification and embarrassment immediately rose into her chest and she acted quickly.
"Don't look!" Rena screamed, more like squeaked, launching a vicious roundhouse kick to Elsword's head. The boy didn't even have time to defend.
"Rena, I got a bathrobe for yo-" Aisha, head wrapped in bandages, had enough time to look up before Elsword's body sailed to her, crushing her underneath him.
"Oh no, Aisha! Raven! Elsword! Anyone!" Rena panicked, now actually scared. One is getting his head smothered by the weird ball shaped Nasod. She accidentally kicked the youngest of her teammates, knocking him out and took out her other teammate in turn too.
This day just got worser and worser for her!
When Adel arrived with the town doctor, he found the pitiful elf trying to control the situation.
Rena cried a lot.
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So what happened after the raid in the Black Crow ship?
Let's go a few inches a while ago.
Rena and Aisha's gamble in disabling the Nasod Core was simply blowing it up with a separate storage of El shards. It took time but they corralled the Nasod Core in the best area with the least El shards but still high enough yield to create huge blast.
What they didn't know is that these El shards came from Fieta Shrine. These particular El shards have been purified and refined by the Shrine, making these shards far more powerful and volatile compared to the normal El shards. As such when the duo set off the explosion, they didn't get a controlled explosion.
They took what amounts to a small tactical nuke.
Aisha's fast reflex and magic kept the two girls alive, the mage creating a solid shield to protect from the huge blasts. The boy's we're not so lucky. Both of them took the blast head-on but more so on Raven's part. At the last second, Raven used his back to block the explosion, minimizing the damage on Elsword.
The ship then crashed afterwards.
Of the four people in the broken cargo hold, only Rena woke up in the burning wreckage. Aisha collapsed from overworked from keeping up the shield to protect them from the blast. Meanwhile, Elsword and Raven are knocked out not far. The boy is bleeding and singed but alright. Raven on the other hand is in far worse condition.
His entire body is burnt, singed and bleeding profusely. The Nasod Arm attached on him is reduced to melted slag of metal.
Rena had too rescue the three of them out of the ship alone. Contrary to common belief that Elves are physically weak or softer than humans, they're quite remarkably stronger in truth. So it wasn't a stretch when Rena basically hauled the three unconscious people out of the wreckage in her lonesome, taking Elsword and Aisha together before Raven last.
That's when the angry green ball Nasod made its presence known by biting her skirt. Naturally, the elf panicked.
"Hey! Don't eat my skirt!" The elft screamed in embarrassment and to her horror, the Nasod is actually eating her skirt.
With one slurp of cloth, she was left in her panties in the wilderness of Altera near the burning wreckage of the flying ship with some unconscious teammates.
Angry, embarrassed and mortified of the experience, she didn't hesitate to kick the damned robot like a soccer ball, sending it flying into the wilderness.
With a huff, she began to apply basic medical care to whatever injuries she can aka the bleeding. Elsword and Raven took her time the most but when she was done, they're stable but still needs professional care.
So she began her journey to return to the Pongo village with her unconscious comrades and plus one.
That's when she noticed said plus one being dragged by the same green ball.
Cue to her and said ball fighting over Raven's body till she managed to steal him and return to the Pongo village.
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He's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Dad's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Deep scans have confirmed fatal damages. Lungs are collapsing, Nasod implants failing, Nasod enhancements shutting down and Broken Nasod Arm is infecting his entire body with metal poisoning.
Haro has to do something!
But how?
Haro has no medical expertise or tools. If ship is still intact or materials available, Haro can probably make something or anything but Haro doesn't have both available.
Everything is lost...
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Raven's dying.
Dad's dying.
Dad's dying.
Dad's dying.
Dad's dying.
Dad's dying.
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Haro knows a way.
Haro still has the DG cells from the previous missions. Haro saved those cells for further research and development but Haro thinks Haro can use those cells.
But DG cells are dangerous!
They're Nanotechnology that is capable of self-evolution, multiplication and recovery. Basically, it can sustain itself with little to no resources. If introduced to biological body, the Nanomachines acts like a biomechanical virus that takes over the body as a host, improving and maing it suitable for the cells to propagate.
But if what if Haro can tweak it?
No time to ponder, Haro has to do it!
Using the Mini G-system in Haro, Haro has to reprogram and recode the functions of the cells to make them harmless but without losing the primary functions. It's the only way to save Raven!
Whatever it takes, Haro has to save [Error]!!!
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"Fascinating!" Adel watched in the sidelines as the man who once terrorized the Pongo village heals before his very eyes with some kind green substance moving all over across the man's body.
Meanwhile, the Green Nasod kept pouring said substance on Raven's head, directly pouring it into his mouth into his body. The unconscious man didn't even choke and seamlessly drank the unknown substance, as if guided by something. What they didn't know is that the cells are actually helping him swallow more cells, moving his throat muscles to gulp all the produced cells.
Meanwhile, Rena had taken the unconscious Elsword and Aisha to another room and to find a new skirt.
As the procedure went on, something fundamentally change deep within Raven's body and psyche.
The DG cells began to integrate in the man's abused body. His abused organs that underwent Nasod implants and enhancements have returned to it's original states when he was still human, strengthen and more efficient. His muscles harden and bone density increased.
And then the DG cells found something more.
Magic.
And before Haro's observation, the Cells began to Evolve.
Raven's old Nasod Arm fell and a new Arm began to form.
A human arm but more.
Under the Pongo village, humanity's last ditch effort to save the earth bore fruit a miracle that no man would ever see.
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Altera Tunnels
She woke up alone and still damaged, her critical motor functions still under process of self repair by the nano-skin armor. It will still take another few weeks till she's back to full motor function.
So what woke her?
The answer came when something hijacked into her systems. Confusion and alarm went through her entire frame, jostled by the surge of electric currents as multiple breaches have been detected all over her frame.
Something is trying to get inside of her!
Then her limbs moved, not by her own code or command, but by an unknown source. Her limbs groaned and shrieked in protest at the movements yet her body didn't obey.
She's been hijacked.
Deep within her core, a cry for help echoed into her connection to her command unit.
Then she began to dig...