INNOCENCE
Byte was immediately tapping rapidly on a screen on his wrist. He always had a plan he was so cool. The Gaia roared, shaking the earth. It stretched a palm towards us and suddenly air started being sucked into the hole in its palm. The pull was so strong that our tents was pulled in, the ground was being torn up and even trees were being uprooted. I grabbed onto a rock to stop myself being dragged in. In the distance, I saw six things fly towards Byte. As they came closer, they seemed to be huge metal casings of some kind propelled by rockets. One hit each of Bytes shins, one hit him in the chest, one more hit him on each arm and one hit him straight in the face. They started disassembling rapidly. In a few seconds, Byte was in the Wolf Beater suit. It was heavy enough to not be sucked in.
"JONAS! CARTER!" I looked up and saw Sky screaming as she was lifted off the ground
"Sky!" I shouted
"Innocence I'll get Sky, you see if you can stop that thing from sucking us up!" Byte shouted at me taking off. How was I meant to stop it? I looked at the pair of white rings on my right and left hand.
"Inflict: Darazu" I said. The rings started glowing brightly. I let go of the rock and started getting pulled in. I lifted my palms and a ball of white energy appeared in
each hand. As my palms started tingling.
"Pain bomb!" I shouted, throwing the balls. They were sucked in exploded in the Gaia's palm. It roared in pain and pulled its hand away. Byte had grabbed Sky out of the air and was flying back with her in his arms. The Gaia regained it's posture and closed its hand into a fist. Suddenly Byte, Sky and I were surrounded by blue light. A second later, we were in a metal room. It was a shiny, futuristic looking room with blue lines running all over the walls and floor. Somehow Byte was out of the Wolf Beater which was beside him. A man stood in front of us
"Are you all stupid?!" He shouted at us. We all looked at him. He looked about 50 years old 5 foot tall with sandy blonde hair with his face aged with wrinkles.
"I presume you're the Tinkerer" Byte said
"I presume you're an idiot" he replied
"I prism you're a meanie!" Sky said
"And you're annoying" he countered
"Don't talk to her like that!" I growled at him. He scowled at me
"What do you three want? You've been here for weeks" he asked
"We're looking for the Tinkerer" Byte answered
"Well mission accomplished you've found him now fuck off" he spat, turning round and walking away
"Wait!" Byte shouted "we need your help. We need to get stronger and my dad said you're the leading authority on weapon technology and gaining power"
"And who's your dad kid?" He asked, glancing round
"Spencer Clay". The Tinkerer stopped and looked closely at Byte
"Jonas?" He asked. Byte nodded. "Last time I saw you, you were tiny" he said smiling
"So will you help us?" Byte asked
"However I can" Tinkerer said, turning around and walking down a corridor, gesturing us to follow. We approached a metal blast door which opened to reveal an elevator. We stood in it and waited.
"So how do you need help?" The Tinkerer said
"We need to get more powerful" I said
"Hmmmm" Tinkerer thought "Well Jonas I see you've taken after your father with the pursuit of Full Body Responsive Combat suits. If I let you see my notes and show you some tricks I'm sure we can improve them. I also have have some toys you can play around with and even a mobile base that you can have if you can fix it. And for you..." he said turning to me "Do you have any knowledge of of Advanced Robotics?"
"Not even how to spell it" I replied with a sheepish smile. That got a smile out of him at least
"Well I want to test Antler's theory and I guess I could try it on you". I took a step back and clenched my fist
"Antler? As in Dr. Antler?" I asked
"You know him?" Tinkerer asked
"Yeah. He put a Phantom into my friends DNA and fucked with my genes until I manifested the Enhancement Hyde"
"Sounds like him" Tinkerer replied without hesitation
"Ever heard of a Fusion?" He asked. I shook my head
"A Fusion is one of the seven ways to have power in the world. It involves mixing your genes and consciousness with the genes and consciousness of something else. Less than 1%. Just enough to access the main abilities of the species. Well, this is according to Antler anyway. I haven't tried it yet"
"How do you know Dr. Antler? Are you friends?" Byte asked
"Yes and no. How do you not know this? We're part of the same group. A group of four scientists. Me and another one of us are Neutral, Dr. Antler is on the side of the Chasers, and your dad is on the side of the Frighters."
"And you still get on?" I asked
"We share our discoveries and theories with each other"
"You're helping the Chasers!" I said
"I'm helping the progression of science and technology through knowledge. And knowledge is completely neutral." Tinkerer replied sharply.
"He's not technically wrong" Byte said to me.
"As I was saying, I can help Jonas quite easily. New knowledge, new technology and new assets. However you're different. What abilities do you have?". I thought.
"I have two Enhancements, a Gadget and a Gear" I said
"Go on"
"My Enhancements are Hyde and Bounce Back. My other personality, Sin, can also use Bounce Back. Sin also has the Shifter weapons. And we can both access the Gear Darazu" Tinkerer nodded
"You have three of the seven ways to have power in this world. And your Enhancements, Gadgets and Gear are all pretty powerful. And Darazu was basically made for people with Bounce Back. The only way I can think of to improve you is to improve your control over this and maybe give you a Fusion."
"What would you fuse me with?" I asked. Tinkerer smiled.
"The Blast Gaia that you fought earlier. but before that I'd like to introduce you" he said, opening the elevator doors. We walked out and gasped. The space in front of us was the size of a whole city. And it was filled with thousands of different inventions. Working around them were countless robots cleaning and fixing all these inventions.
"Welcome to my home" Tinkerer said smiling.
