Cole walks around the city looking for the Nicky-Thru entrance and finds himself in a Sonic drive-thru.
"...this bitch" Cole takes off 120ft into the air as she looks around for Nicky.
He sees endless fast food places with a few mascots roaming the streets.
Cole flies around while looking for Nicky, "Come out, come out wherever you are."
Suddenly a wire from one of the roofs lunges at him. Cole's ankle is caught and unfortunately it is currently being blasted by the jet engines.
The wire is blasted off as another lunges at him.
Cole notices and pulls up to avoid the wire as she looks for the source of the wires.
He sees a screen that slinks behind a tree.
"You." Cole aims her palm at the tree and flex's her fingers as a beam the size of a quarter shoots out from it, then a second later a hole the size of a basket ball is blown through the tree.
Cole sees about 10 of screens disperse from behind the tree as 5 wires are lunged towards her.
"Oh what the fuck." Cole dives down and away from the wires as she hovers for a second as she aims her palm at the screen and flex's her fingers as a beam like before makes a huge hole in the screen.
The body of the divulgar who was shot bursts in indigo blood as 20 more screens slide into view from around buildings.
"Ohhh fuuuck." Cole aims her palm at one of the screens and flex's her fingers as another beam puts a massive hole into another divulgar’s screen.
10 wires are launched at him. Cole tries to roll away from the wires, "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck."
They barely miss as 3 more wires lunge at her.
Cole's leg, arm and chest is wrapped as she starts spiraling towards the ground.
The wires try to dig in to send randomized signals and drain power.
They are unable to dig into Cole's armor as she regains control and hovers and aims another beam at more divulgars, creating basketball sized holes in them. Every screen she destroys bursts with blood. A horde of them emerge from behind another buiding. The wires start trying to pull her down.
"FULL POWER COME ON!" Cole's thrusters go to full power as she tries to rip away from the wires. 10 more wires try to wrap onto her. The ground just looks like a mesh of screens now.
The wires wrap on as Cole groans, "Fuck this is not how Cole mother fucking Genesone goes down, REDIRECT POWER TO THRUSTERS!" Cole's thrusters produce flame as her force pulling away becomes stronger.
The wires struggle and a few snap. 10 more wires from below are thrown at her.
The area around the thrusters is glowing red hot as the smell of burning plastic fills the air "FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK" The wires wrap around Cole as she draws her combat knife and starts trying to cut the wires off.
She's able to cut away quite a few and she starts to go up slightly until on goes straight for her neck to pull her off balance the best it can. Cole leans forward to counteract it as she keeps cutting away wires while still screaming in pain. Wires start being thrown aiming for her knife. Cole's wrist is grabbed as she grabs the wires and starts ripping them off with her other hand.
"GET THIS SHIT OFFFF MEEEEEEE"
A wire on her leg is trying to find a way under the armor. The wire goes into the vent's in Cole's calf and is almost instantly blasted by the jet exhaust. The wire has developed a smoking addiction while even more wires try to clog the vent. It works and the jet engine chokes out. A small explosion blows off the vent cover and various small pieces of armor.
All of the wires thus far go straight for the openings, which cause Cole to spiral out of the sky since the wires have access to the jet fuel lines. While she’s falling, more wires grab on and try to access any openings. Cole tries to stabilize her fall but struggles greatly. The wires are now just adding as much weight as they can while others are trying to get past the armor. Cole is back to spiraling towards the ground at a rapid pace.
He lands in a pile of wires and the they start pulling at the armor trying to pry it off
Small panels get ripped off revealing nothing important, but the chest seems extremely difficult to pry off.
The screens seem to step aside as one of them steps up while revving the spinning blade tail and starts trying to use it like a buzz saw to cut through the chest plate. Cole's chest plate is cut through as everyone surrounding her is hit with a wave of radiation that starts melting everything surrounding. The screens all stumble back with sparks as their screens flicker off. The spinning blade slows to a stop and the wire on Cole start melting. Cole breathes heavily as she lays there for a moment.
Its quiet a moment before she sees some screens a bit further away cut on. Cole slowly stands up and stares down the screens as she raises her palms. She sees screens cut on from every direction.
"Shit..one thruster down I could escape..." Cole keeps her palms raised.
She hears a gargled roar in the distance as the sky darkens
"...fuck that. "Cole leaps backwards as the thrusters struggle to kick on as she struggles to hover 60ft off the ground.
Now up in the air, the ground looks like a night sky, covered in black wires with specks of screens on as far as she can see.
"Holy fuckin’ shit." Cole looks terrified under the helmet.
The ground she was at before has been covered again as the screens all watch her
Cole lowers her palms as she clears her throat "I'm not gonna attack you if you show me where Nicky is."
Slowly all of the screens switch to red. With that moment of silence, Cole notices her opal sword humming. She unsheathes it and holds at her side. It hums even louder, even shaking some. Part of the blade cracks as she sees screens in the distance cut off like a wave headed towards her.
Cole takes a defensive stance. "Bring it."
The wave reaches her. It's from a military grade EMP.
Cole collapses as she drops the sword. Nicky sticks her head out from behind an off screen and giggles before walking over to Cole. She goes to pick up the sword. Cole’s chest continues to leak radiation. Nicky coughs some and swipes the Opal sword away from Cole then heads out of sight to throw up.
Cole groans as she stands up and notices the sword missing and switches to thermal vision as she tries to find Nicky's footsteps. She can see her steps duck into a restaurant covered in wires. She walks towards the restaurant. The jets on Cole's arms spin down. The scent of jet fuel can be smelled via the vents.
The resturant looks destroyed on the inside. There's steps headed around the corner. Cole follows around the corner with her arms raised and ready to shoot even more beams. A messed up Drake mascot leaps out at Cole and tries to bite the visor off. In retaliation, Cole flexes her fingers and shoots flames at the mascot.
"EAT SHIT"
The mascot catches on fire and keeps trying to bite at the visor. Cole grabs it by the neck and tries to punch a hole in the mascot's chest. It works as theres a spray of purple soda blood before it goes limp. Cole drops it and circles the building, looking for Nicky.
Before she can search the whole place, another military grade emp hits the area. Cole screams in pain as she stays standing. “YOU FUCKING CUNT!”
Another mascot tackles Cole from behind while trying to claw at her. The clawing doesn’t affect the armor, so she swings around and tries to clobber it in the head. The mascot’s face caves in with a spray of grape soda while it continues to claw. Cole aims another punch at its chest, which causes it to crack and fall over. Cole returns to searching for Nicky
She seems to have left that building but she does find the shattered remains of the white opal sword on the ground. Cole shakes with rage as she collects the remains and puts them in a pocket in the armor
"YOU FUCKING BITCH YOU ABSOLUTE WHORE!"
Cole opens her visor as black smoke pours out of the helmet.
A wire suddenly goes straight for Cole's face. She wasn’t expecting it, so it wraps around her face. It tries to stab into her eyebrow and do its usual thing of sending randomized signals and draining power. She pulls the release on the helmet, but the wire continues to do its thing. Unfortunately, the power drain is effective, which causes Cole to collapse. Cole’s eyes softly flash red. She is left there. Thankfully, the armor has power as well, so while she’s left alone, she takes the armor’s power very slowly.
Cole groans as she struggles to stand up and picks her helmet back up and puts it back on. The scene is rather quiet and still. She goes to look for any signs of Nicky, but it looks desolate with its divulgars’ screens being off. Cole manages to seal off her chest plate using her metal strips. “God damn you.” she says.
Cole starts wandering while looking for a place to rest. The only places not layered with wires is the inside of buildings, so she goes into one. It appears to be a cafe with various purple soda stains on the ground. She takes her helmet off and looks for any water in the area to drink. There’s a sink with some empty glass bottles in it. A faint scent of alcohol accompanies the cafe alongside some smeared red blood on the back door. Cole puts her helmet back on and walks out the back ready for any attacks.
She walks into an empty parking lot with various red blood stains which lead to skidmarks. A shiny red wagon with the initials “FB” carved into the paint is there too. Cole shrugs and climbs inside of it expecting nothing to happen. Upon sitting in the wagon, she feels insanely lucky, so she pulls it to the backdoor. It begins to rain clean water and the wagon seems to be collecting is rather well.
"...fuck it, I'm thirsty and I don't know how long it's gonna take for someone to get me out of here." Cole heads inside and looks for a straw. There's a whole bunch of them on the counter. Cole takes a straw and tosses it in the wagon, then starts looking for anything that could be made of lead. Unfortunately, no lead could be found.
Cole sighs and walks back out to the wagon and starts pulling it as she looks for a landfill. With it raining and being fall, it’s a rather bitter cold after a while. Seems it may take a long time to even find one. The wires everywhere are slowly melting into blood and being washed away by the rain.
Cole closes her visor and keeps walking while pulling the wagon. She can hear a distant engine of a familiar vehicle. Cole turns towards the engine sound. She can't see anything but it sounds like they are driving towards the sunset. Cole looks west as she prepares to break into a sprint. She hears another gurgly roar in the distance as the sky gets even darker. The street Cole is on is slightly downhill and the wagon is starting to roll faster than her.
Cole starts running at the same speed as the wagon as she sighs. The wagon starts going even faster, so she hops on top of it and rides it down while revving her back jet. Through the corner of her vision, she sees a faint flashing but ignores it. For a split second, she sees a chalk drawing of a checkered finish line on the asphalt. She speeds past it as the road levels out and merges with another road. Far ahead, she can see a semitruck going down the road.
"I'm taking that fucking semi" The jet on Cole's back finishes revving up as it roars to life and starts boosting the wagon’s speed.
The wagon is fucking ZOOMING down the road, slowly catching up to the semi.
"I'M COMIN FOR THAT SEMI" Cole crouches down to decrease drag as the jet slightly increases power.
He catches up to the side of the semi and can can hear snarling and clawing. Cole jumps from the wagon onto the semi's door and looks inside.
He sees a mascot hunched over something and taring away at it in the driver's seat. Cole checks if the doors locked, but it’s unlocked and the windows are open. She opens the door and yanks the mascot out of the truck and slung out of the window. There is a bloodied bird nonferal of yet unknown species in the driver’s seat that’s barely breathing.
"Shit...." Cole debates on killing them but shakes her head and pushes them into the passenger seat and quickly shuts the door. There's a few feathers that fly off in the wind and rain while both windows are down. The cruise control is on. Cole searches the nonferal for any wounds as she glances around for the window controls.
She finds window controls and they seem to have a fair amount of claw marks all over them. Cole rolls the windows up as she searches around for bandages or something.
"You’re gonna be just fine man, I promise you."
There's a crate in the floor board filled with first aid supplies. It has a small bit of blood on the handles.
Cole grabs some bandages and starts wrapping the non-feral's wounds They stay still and let him before passing out from exhaustion. It seems like she's wrapped enough to stop any bleeding.
Cole puts the seatbelt on them and starts paying attention to the road. On looking ahead, she sees there's a gps laying on the dash. Cole notices their destination is still quite far away, but it looks like an airport.
"Airport?" Cole's head tilts as she sighs. "Fuck it, I have nothing better to do." She follows the gps. Everything else about the semi feels just like before. Cole smiles slightly and relaxes a small amount. For a brief moment, she sees orange fur in the seat next to her.
Cole snaps to look at the seat next to her, but only the bird nonferal is there.
"...god I need my meds." Cole groans and returns to driving. After some time passed, they almost arrive at their destination. The nonferal bird stirs before sitting up, their head wobbles slightly.
"You alright? That mascot fucked you up pretty good." Cole glances over.
They grumble some before mumbling and putting a hand wing thing to their head "..that motherfukin.." They have a low and gruff voice.
"Calm down. You've lost a good chunk of blood. I can pull over to a gas station to grab you some water."
He looks over and squints at Cole "Who the hell are you?"
"I'm Cole. I saved you from that mascot, I'm just trying to get out of here, presumably just like you." she explains.
"Uhm yeah. Thanks"
"Not a problem, just doing my job"
"You can call me Ryan. Soooo any clue what the hell this place is?"
"No, not a clue what this place is."
Ryans sighs and looks out the window at the area. They are almost at the airport "And what about a way out?"
"I know a way out by teleporting, and I can, but I'm too low on power to teleport right now” Cole sighs
"Great I’m stuck with a druggie..." He mumbles under his breath
"I'm not a druggie. If I was a druggie, would I be wearing this?" Cole points at her armor.
"You would be surprised"
"It's real armor if that's what you’re asking."
"So you’re a nerd then?"
"Eh, I'd consider myself pretty stupid for getting stuck here." Cole sighs. "Again."
"Again?"
"Yeah, I've been here before and also escaped" Cole groans. "I've been in this semi truck too."
"Didn't know it was yours. Just saw it and took it to get the hell out of dodge." Ryan says.
"It's fine, I understand. I've been in your shoes before, and I’m gonna get you out of here one way or another." Cole's fatigue is starting to catch up to her, it's barely noticeable.
They reach the airport "And how did you get out last time?"
"I charged through a ice rink and teleported out. You wanna tell me why you’re going to the airport though?"
Cole pulls into the airport.
"I was going to try and fly out...but teleporting? How long have I been in here for that to be a thing?" Ryan questions.
"Wait...what year was it when you came in here?" Cole asks.
He looks down in though for a moment "I believe 2004?”
"....I'm sure nothing much has changed since you left."
"Why do you say it like that? How long has it been???" Half way through the next thing Cole says another military grade emp hits the area as the semi lights flicker but it keeps going.
Cole groans, clenches her fists, and mutters, "fucking emp, I'm sure it's fine."
"So how do we get you power for your suit outfit thing?" Ryan asks
"...about that" Cole looks over at them, "I need to be charged...."
He looks over, "Yeah but how do we charge it?"
"Well the issue is that I'm kinda useless while I charge, but do you have a usb-c like phone charger or something?"
"Yeah...and what do you mean useless, can you not take it off??? You could probably find some clothes in a gift shop or something if that's the issue." He opens the glove box and pulls out a usb phone charger.
"No I can take it off, but I need to be charged."
"We must have a language barrier or something cuz I don't think something is translating" He holds out the usb to her.
Cole takes her helmet off with a groan, her nose is bloody and she looks tired in general. "I am a cyborg and need to be charged to teleport."
"...how long have I been in here for!?!?"
"...fuck if I know man. I don't keep the year in my back pocket." Cole groans.
"Anyway, lets go in and see if we can find an outlit or something somewhere."
"Alright." Cole puts her helmet back on. "Ready?"
He nods and opens the door as he unbuckles and steps out. Cole opens her door and follows Ryan. It’s a rather large airport. Ryan walks towards the doors with determination but Cole can see a hint of a limp. She can’t even tell what color feathers this guy has. He's so messed up. Cole feels bad for him and sighs as she follows him.
Ryan goes through the door into a large main area, then he walks over to the wall where he finds an outlit "Ah, here we are."
"Are you just gonna plug me in and like leave me here? I have to protect you." Cole says.
"No, I'll wait here with you."
"Alright." Cole pulls the release on her armor as she steps out of the armor and extends her hand for the charger. "Gimme the charger." Ryan hands it to her. Cole lifts the back of her shirt up and plugs herself into the outlet as her eyes softly flash green.
"Shit, wasn't kidding."
Cole charging moment.
Ryan sighs and sits down nearby.
Cole is done charging and unplugs herself and groans "Alright." She then gets up and stretches. "I should be able to send you home and then take myself home now."
Ryan is staring at her, seemingly lost in space. Cole snaps her fingers in front of his face to try to get her out of it. "Ryan! You good?”
"Sorry, just not sure how a cyborg even works."
"Don't worry about it."
Cole steps back into her armor and extends a hand to Ryan, who then takes the hand. "Let’s hope this works." They attempt to disappear but nothing happens.
"...hold on uhm this this usually doesn't happen." Cole tries again, but once more, nothing happens.
"This uh gimme one more try just one more try, third try's the charm." Cole tries again, but this time she seems panicked and on the verge of a mental breakdown. Unfortunately, nothing happens and Ryan looks away respectfully.
"..." Tears are flowing inside her helmet. “O-One more time. Fourth time’s the charm.” She tries again but it fails. Ryan lets go and wait as Cole breaks down sobbing and falls to her knees. “It’s happening all over again, all over again, all over again.”
Ryan stays quiet as he walks over to a map on the wall of the airport and examines it. Cole curls into a ball and continues to sob. Ryan thinks some before heading over to Cole and tries to grab her hand to lead her with him.
Cole sniffles and gets lead as she keeps her head down. They head down a few halls before stepping outside near one of the runways. Cole glances around then looks at Ryan, "W-why are we on the tarmac?"
"We are gaining ground my way." He leads them to a small passenger plane and gets a ladder to climb up to the door.
"D-do you know how to fly?!" Cole is lead as she seems somewhat panicked.
"Of course I do." He opens the door and heads in the plane.
Cole shrugs and climbs into the plane. "O-okay I trust you."
Ryan goes to the pilot’s cabin and gets in one of the two seats. He starts checking the fuel and things like that.
This man has no time to taxi and goes straight for the runway. Cole climbs into the pilot cabin as well and starts checking gauges while nodding.
Ryan is able to get the plane to take off rather smoothly. Cole has calmed down and is still checking gauges and making sure everything is good. Ryan seems to be a professional at this. Cole stops checking gauges and looks around. It has seemed to pull her right out of being upset. Ryan stays quiet.
Cole stifles a yawn but otherwise stays quiet, "You mind if I uhm take a nap?" She glances over to Ryan.
"Go for it. You clearly need it." Ryan responds.
Cole nods and half chuckles as she mutters, "Don't crash," then quickly falls asleep.
After about 2 hours of sleeping Cole hears loud beeping. She wakes up and looks around rather calmly. There are red flashing lights on the console and the plane is losing altitude. Ryan is no longer in the pilot’s cabin. Cole checks the altitude and checks to see if Ryan took a parachute. All of them are still stocked. A low gurgling growl can be heard from the other side of the plane. The altitude is :(
Cole stretches a little bit and pulls up sharply, which makes the altitude :)
Cole looks over at the other side of the plane. She sees Ryan limp and being dragged by a dark creature covered in shadows that is trying to figure out how to open the door. Cole levels out the plane and after clambering over, she aims a punch at the creature’s chest.
Cole hits what feels like pure muscle. The figure blinks at him and tosses Ryan aside as it contorts. She can now see it is like a deer but dark and standing with long fingers and rough horns. Its hisses from behind a set of charcoal black human teeth as its fur raises.
"FUCK YOU" Cole aims a punch right at its teeth as she screams with anger. Its teeth cave in as its lips, which are a set of hands, grab onto Cole's fist. Cole starts repeatedly slamming the shadow creatures head against the wall. As its head is bashed onto the wall, it tries to hit Cole hard in the gut with a hoof. Cole's armor protects her against the hoof hit as she keeps slamming its head. It starts bleeding a bright lime blood as it's stunned by the hits.
"GET"
slam
"THE FUCK"
slamslam
"INYOURGRAVE"
slamslamslamslamslamslam
As she’s doing it, she starts to feel a strange aching growing "FUCK YOU AND YOUR WIZARD MAGIC!"
Cole pulls her fist back and slams them against the wall hard enough to shatter bone. Its skull caves in as the aching is getting worse.
Cole keeps slamming it's head against the wall as she ignores the aching
"FUCK YOU GET OUT OF MY HEAD"
Its body is limp and splatters lime blood on the wall. Cole drops it and stares down at it as she breathes heavily. The aching seems to be coming from his soul and it gets progressively worse.
Cole groans and falls onto one knee, "...fuck...fuck it hurts." She looks over at Ryan and checks for wounds. Ryan is laying on his side and looks the same as before. He's awake and staring ahead. Cole struggles to stand as she walks over and snaps her fingers in front of his face, she sounds pained. "hey...hey!"
Ryan slowly looks over, seeming a bit dazed but calm and relaxed.
"can you uhm..."
Cole falls onto one knee again as she mutters
"fuck it hurts....can you please go take control of the plane?"
"Uh ok" He gets up a bit sluggishly before walking over to the pilots’ cabin with a bit of a sway.
"just...gimme one second"
Cole groans as she stumbles and picks up the body and tosses it to the back of the plane.
Cole stumbles back to the cabin and sits back down in the pilot seat. The aching has stopped getting worse. Ryan is doing a mediocre job at flying the plane at the moment. He has a small smile.
Cole groans and puts a hand on her chest, "Just keep the fuckin plane level."
Ryan looks close to drifting to sleep and nods some.
"God damn it....let me just," Cole groans as she sets the auto pilot to hold altitude and heading. "There now you can...fall asleep."
Ryan looks around a moment like he doesnt know where he is before drifting to sleep.
"Thank...god" Cole leans her head against the seat as she quietly mutters, "How am I gonna...get this guy out of here?" The aching is starting to slowly lessen. Cole starts to relax more as she breathes easier as she continues to mutter to herself, it's inaudible to Ryan due to the helmet. They both fall asleep eventually.