Seventh Game

[break_the_nine]

[1]

[One would expect Leos to be absolutely devastated when you find him after the mission. With who died... who went missing and how badly he fared. The screaming and crying all the way through... that he would be an inconsolable mess. Yet instead when you find him, he's humming cheerfully as her walked through the base with several packs of pudding. A little too cheerfully. Something was worrying about this.]

Oh... hey! One minute...

[He snaps off a pack and places it in your hand, giving you an almost heartrendingly sunny smile.]

Friendship pudding now. Just so I don't forget like I did a lot of times before.

I've got a meeting with Progtech that Lana's taking me to so I won't be back until waaaay later.

[2] [Later that day...]

[It was closing onto midnight and still no Leos. One would almost be worried as to what was happening to him... but he's a grown dude. He can take care of himself right?]



H... elp....h...help...m..me...

[Except that belief would be refuted. Utterly. Walking down an intersecting corridor was a horrifically bloodied Leos with a frighteningly vacant look in his eyes from the absolutely gigantic amount of pain he was feeling before he just collapsed into the ground and bled there.]

[3]

[The good news first: Leos isn't in any danger of dying. The bad news: All those wounds and injuries? They weren't random. They were surgical scars. It was less about what could have been removed... but more about what was put in. Specifically it seems that Leos was now the proud owner of a large amount of cybernetics. Ones that in theory could allow him to literally interface with machinery and link his mind to it.]

...

[The surgery itself was horrifically invasive and traumatic as Leos can attest to. Diagnosis revealed that a minimal amount of anesthetic was used in order to ensure that the cybernetics were properly linked to his body. As he recovers in the infirmary you can see Lana sparing the Raven a glance before walking away.]

[Could she... and by extension PROGTECH be responsible for this...?]

[As Leos is still in no state to be visited... Discuss this matter with others/Confront Lana?]

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[keep_your_dignity]

[Kagura stays silent, keeping an eye on the wounds and ripping his own clothes with her huge fingers to make partial bandagings on the couple she judges more immediately threatening. What her reaction is to Leos's cries is impossible to know behind her faceless frame.

Thankfully, Executors are good at what they do, and not a minute after the call two of her squaddies appear flying at high speed with a stretcher "requisitioned" from medical. Their faces twist at seeing the sorry state of the man under Kagura, but they don't say anything yet. Kagura places Leos on the stretcher and, flying more slowly now, they carry him to the infirmary]

[break_the_nine]

[There's not much Leos could do aside from lie on the stretcher in pain and bleed. But either way the assistance Kagura and her fellow Executors provided ensured that he would recover... more or less. The matter here though is just what and how this happened...]

[keep_your_dignity]

[After the inevitable arguing and curiosity on the part of the medics has been quieted down, Kagura turns to her men and women]

FIND HIS HANDLER.

[Nodding, the Executors split up and fly off in different directions]