With one (1) echidna retrieved, you've accomplished your goal, and with the last of the robots defeated (for now) for team A, ring portals open up for all three groups. Watch your step, move quickly, and you'll find yourself back in the base.
Tails looks absolutely relieved to see all of you (mostly) in one piece and he wastes no time at all in hugging Knuckles, forgoing the fist bump entirely. Knuckles pats him on the head and they immediately launch into discussions of what happened. You'll have to save discussions with them for the weekly post because your mod is tired!!
The rest of the day is yours to do with as you see fit. After all, you succeeded in your mission! That has to count for something, right?
[If there's anyone around one could trust to speak plainly, it's Basilio - sometimes even to a fault. (If only he knew how many boss fights he'd start by reading them--)
...And by that same measure, hopefully his bluntness will make it easier to trust that he, at least, isn't one to take advantage of trust. He'd say he's not crafty enough for that - really, he's just not that much of an ass.]
Only as long as y'doin' that doesn't hurt you, yeah? If you're gonna be callin' me that, I need to live up to it.
The appearance is not particularly to my taste, either.
[Featureless white and silver, a little too close for comfort. Quickly brushing that off, Viktor started dismantling what was left of the robot's interior with surgical precision.]
But this...even for a prototype, this is astounding. The efficiency in its construction--no wonder the current iterations have so few changes.
Oh, good. I was starting to wonder if I would have had to doubt that.
[ They flash a smirk as they say that, but they give the other words some form of consideration... ]
As for your idea, perhaps Tails or Viktor may be able to manage it.
Though...I would have concerns about the idea of reverse-engineering such machinery. I suppose if we could guarantee that there is no hidden backdoor element available to be exploited, I wouldn't think it's impossible. But, then again, our enemy has the Master Emerald. I suppose there is quite a good deal to consider.
[ They would be able to reverse-engineer it too, but they're not offering their services on that at this time. ]
[ Now they are getting tropey! They look verily amused even if the man states such words with true severity. Such that their words voiced here are constructed for a rhetorical question. ]
Hmm, it wouldn't be immediate. I can agree with that.
...I suppose the question of how Eggman will retaliate would be the next we'll either solve or find out as it happens. [ Beat. ] Do you believe we were fortunate someone found a little slip of paper called, ah...I don't know, "Eggman's Next Plan of Action"?
["No promises." is pretty much the default when the agreement is to try and not get hurt but you're out there fighting to save the world...... So he's not assuming any promises here, and certainly won't get upset at Lark if he gets hurt.
Now. Whoever may or may not hurt him in the future on the other hand? They better hope he doesn't see it happen.]
Given his new power, that makes him a bit of an unpredictable element...though, we should count on certain aspects of his personality to potentially be exploited in ways as well, hm?
[ Eggman doesn't exactly have a stellar description about himself as a person, unsurprisingly, but they truly don't know much about him as he is now. ]
[ Lark blinks for a moment. Because honestly, the only person he's ever done this sort of thing with is Crane, and it happens so naturally at this point he doesn't have to think about it.
Once that moment passes however, he meets that fistbump. ]
[ It's fine. That's why they're here to lighten things up! Figuratively and literally. ]
Yes, well...if he isn't by now, I would be quite amazed. After all, he has robots everywhere - certainly by now his surveillance system has bore some kind of fruit.
[ That's not comforting but they think it's something like an obvious fact, so it doesn't bother them. ]
...Either way, let's look forward to our hard-earned victory, alright~?
( she will go, then! after a few minutes she returns, with a couple extra mugs and a kettle. the herbal tea is fragrant and strong, brewed for the exact amount of time the box says. )
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