Two More Members (And an Angry Resurgent)

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The place where Coja teleported to was just beyond the mountainside, where she watches the Castle fall apart.

Coja: Well, that's taken care of.

Epsilon: Caligo Coja.

Coja turns around to see Epsilon

Coja: Oh, Epsilon, I thought you...left.

She notices the robot has a human in its hands, a human wearing futuristic armor with a darkened glass dome helmet with a snowflake symbol on the front of it.

Epsilon: I found him while leaving the Castle. He is human, though hard to destroy.

The Contractor: And I don't believe you would want to.

Coja: Who are you and why are you here?

The Contractor: I am referred to by my coworkers and those below me as The Contractor, and I'm here to offer you something.

Coja: Epsilon, can you please let him down?

Epsilon: If he behaves.

Epsilon puts down The Contractor

The Contractor: Thank you.

Coja: Also, how did you find me?

The Contractor: We chipped you.

Coja: I was not aware of being chipped.

The Contractor: And I am not at liberty to tell you how we did it.

Epsilon: Hurry with the offer, we are not patient.

The Contractor: Right. For a while, we thought of you as a candidate for a special project which involves protecting people from threats on a multiversal scale.

Coja: If you are bringing back the Guardians...

The Contractor: No, this is a little different.

Coja: I'm listening.

Epsilon: I am as well.

In the distance, a faint mechanical whir can be heard.

The Rubble of Wily's Castle

We cut to Jezebel, emerging from Wily's Castle. The self-destruction caused by Coja killed her, but she has been brought back to life, and now her body is beginning to shift.

The feeling of her skin shifting and writhing under her body, it was very uncomfortable. She didn't like it at all, in fact she hated it. But she had no control in the matter as it was simply a side effect of the resurrection curse. But she was free, finally. She didn't care how disgusting it was.

Her light body of shadows began to darken, and her body became a liquid, as she felt horns sprout from her head. Soon, the transformation is complete, and she is reborn.

Now she is now a woman completely made of inky black void. She had lost any and all flesh on her body. Her transformation was complete and now she was different from before. Now she could feel the ink running just beneath the surface of her body, and see the world from another perspective entirely. It was strange, but she found it almost invigorating in a sense, now that she could feel the ink pulsing just behind her skin.

She now vows to kill Coja in some way. But first, she needs to find her creators.

She begins to make her way, searching for the Ascensionists. She will make sure to punish Coja sooner or later, but the Ascensionists are her top priority so she decides to look for them first.

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