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Kazo slowly felt himself coming to. He was dizzy to the point he was unsure where he faced, and his vision was blurry. His body ached all over... but it still functioned. Gradually, his vision came back to him, and as he saw where he was pointing, his dizziness faded, his sense of direction recalibrating. Kazo looked around. It must've been Yeln that had allowed him to recover... but Yeln was nowhere to be seen. He heard the distant clang of the hatch closing.
Kazo attempted to sit up, but as he felt excess mana begin to flow back into his soul, he suddenly, fell back, a yellow flash occupying his vision, a sharp pain coming from his chest as he felt his soul jump a bit. Kazo lay back, lessening his power flow. The mana in his soul had been purged out. It seemed his heart was quite damaged, but it was still working, if only marginally.
Kazo monitored his body, seeing just how much mana he could hold before it became too much for his weakened state. When he had found a proper equilibrium, he reached past his open chest plate, and placed his hands against his own heart. There was a crack running down the crystal, and the mana signature, once sharp and clear, had become a bit fuzzy. Though a regenerative aura could repair practically any damage, it might not be accurate enough for this. At least it would set things in their proper place first. Kazo applied a regenerative field, taking a break as the tenuous mana available ran out once. After that was done, Kazo then shut his visual input, focusing down a field almost into a plane, sliding right through the crack. He changed the properties of the field, causing it to act charged, with properties almost like a pseudo-metal. He manipulated the charge to cause the fundamental particles of the blue diamond to bond to one another again in the at crack.
It was slow, and he had to stop a few times, but it was eventually done. Kazo noticed much of the aching had gone away. His strength was returning. He shut his chest plate, and quickly passed applied a regenerative field to wherever soreness remained, finding it disappearing relatively quickly. Kazo moved his joints, finding they worked fine. He stood, and looked around again, feeling his soul begin to fill with mana as he extended the rods of his power core. Kazo spoke, "Yeln? Yeln kitty?" There was no reply.
Kazo left the room, retrieved his spear from a table, and proceeded up the stairwell. When he reached the top, he waited for his soul to fill with mana, then opened the hatch, stepping out. Clouds were above, but it had stopped raining. The sky was orange, on its way to becoming blue, the sun present over the horizon. "MEEEWWW!" Kazo looked over, seeing Yeln tied to a post on top of a building. Just as Kazo was about to move, he heard a rumbling grow, coming from the direction of the garage. "Don't move! Not one inch!"
Kazo remembered, Rostus had mentioned a vehicle, left over from when he was wealthy. The vehicle emerged, looking like a steel-clad armored vehicle, coils on its sides with silver spheres protruding out, a particle cannon mounted on the top, a radiation-hazard sign painted on it. Rostus could be seen through the open door, controller held in one hand. Rostus smiled, "So glad you could join us here? I didn't know why I built this at the time, but now I do. Inconvenient obstacles such as yourself will not stop me from deploying the atomic bombs. It's based off of an old dwarven design, you might say... although I doubt they had ever seen such a future with it." Kazo remembered a bit about the dwarven machine, and also remembered Blitukus' armored vehicle... the dwarven machine was a lot larger than the armored vehicle, but Rostus' vehicle seemed a bit smaller, although it was steel clad and equipped with much higher technology to power it.
Rostus continued, "There is a glorious war ahead, my troublesome foe, and I felt it fitting to make your kitten the first casualty. Now, witness the power of my machine... then you may die yourself." Kazo spoke, "Nobody threatens kitty..." Kazo popped open his chest plate, then grasped the foreign device. He felt no consideration for the switch, and as such, he began to wrench it out. Rostus spoke, "No yo-", then immediately pressed the button on the controller. Kazo felt sharp himself engulfed in pain, yelling out, his vision flashing to white, all sense of his body disappearing. A moment later, the white slowly faded...
But as it faded, it revealed an image not of his dead body, but of muddied dirt. Kazo slowly felt the sense of his body return to him... he was in a bit of pain, yet somehow, he was still conscious. As his senses returned to him, he stumbled, and found himself holding onto the device. the wiring had been torn clean off, a few small components laying on the ground. Kazo stood for a brief moment, surprised himself that that had happened. He dropped the ruined kill device. Rostus seemed immensely surprised, "Holy... wha... oh no!" Rostus slammed the door shut.
Kazo held his spear with one hand, applying regeneration to his heart again with the other, walking toward Rostus' vehicle. His heart had surprisingly little damage. He shut his chest plate, and accelerated, tilting his head and smiling as he walked ever faster toward Rostus. Rostus backed up and turned his vehicle, the engines spinning up. Energy gathered within the vehicle, the whole vehicle humming. Rostus aimed the cannon down at Kazo. Kazo accelerated to a run.
Kazo lunged at the vehicle, thrusting the spear into the viewing port, but this glass seemed extremely thick. Only a small crack resulted. An arc of electricity jumped from a sphere to Kazo, pushing Kazo close to another sphere, the arc from which pushed Kazo off from the vehicle. Kazo stumbled down, his clothes showing flame. This gave Kazo excess energy, but before he could form an explosive orb, he saw the cannon train down on him. Kazo swung back. There was a brilliant flash the very same instant Kazo shielded. A burning ray struck Kazo. Kazo grunted at the immense drain of shielding this, the mere radiation carrying large amounts of heat, the light of the beam flooding out everything around.
His shield shattered, and he found himself engulfed in radiation, some of which pierced straight through. The piercing ray felt as if it burned him from the inside out. He 'shut' his eyes and jumped out of the way, landing on his belly. He felt his whole body was heated to an immense temperature. The mud he had fallen upon hissed and became dry and cracked. He felt something within himself crack, sharp pains all over his belly. He opened his eyes and found part of his spear glew with heat. He stood, finding himself shaking slightly... his coat and backpack seemed to have disintegrated into flaming scraps. Rostus yelled, "Your struggle is FUTILE!"
Kazo ran to the side, finding himself feeling a bit weak again. Not only were likely several crystals cracked in his gut, he felt himself sapped by the radiation. He still smiled, forming an explosive orb in one hand, the vehicle trying to face him, charging again. Kazo threw the orb at the front of the vehicle. BANG! The glass was cracked further, the vehicle rocking a bit, but otherwise little effect. Kazo formed another orb, stopping. The vehicle faced him, the cannon pointed right at him. Kazo pitched the orb like a baseball, directly at the crystal glass barrel of the cannon, but it was too late. Kazo leapt upwards just as the cannon fired, the beam striking the orb and causing it to explode in midair. Kazo landed on the edge of a roof. Rostus scorched a line into the ground, proceeding to burn a line through the building, setting that building ablaze as well as igniting the building behind it.
Kazo leapt down from the roof just before it collapsed. He realized it wasn't in his best interest to destroy the cannon after all. It was indeed a charged particle cannon. It could be used as a large source of energy, in fact... Kazo grinned. An idea occurred to him. As the vehicle charged again, accelerating toward Kazo, Kazo ran toward the vehicle, forming another explosive orb. Kazo hurled it at the front left silver sphere, blowing the sphere clean off of the coil, the spherical section falling to the ground. Kazo darted behind the vehicle, forming another. The vehicle drove away, but Kazo still threw it, striking the rear left silver sphere, blowing the sphere apart, pieces falling onto the ground and onto the plating of the vehicle.
The vehicle turned. Kazo lunged away from the vehicle's line of sight, charging yet another, and hurling it. It arced through the air, striking the rear right silver sphere, blowing the coil out from under the sphere, the sphere falling onto the vehicle, then rolling to the ground. The vehicle turned around quickly, and as soon as Kazo was in its sights, Rostus fired. The beam struck right in front of Kazo, burning its way forward. Kazo ran away from the beam, but as it swept up, it struck him in the tail and the back for a moment. Kazo dove out of the way, the beam ceasing. Kazo could hear a bit of hissing and the occasional cracking. Kazo got up, stumbling a bit, his tail feeling a bit numb and his back hurting a bit. Kazo realized, he would be damaged much worse if he hadn't dove out of the way... in fact, if the beam ever stunned him, he would take the full blast and be boiled from the inside out.
Kazo formed another explosive orb, and ran straight at the vehicle, nearly tripping over himself a couple of times. Kazo threw the orb at the last silver sphere, the orb missing, blowing out a piece of wooden wall from a building. Kazo leapt onto the vehicle, ran into the arc coming from the silver sphere, then stabbed it with his spear. Immediately an immense current shot through the spear and Kazo. Kazo took on energy, quite a lot, and so did the spear. The capacitors of the spear, already partially melted, exploded right in front of Kazo. Kazo used this energy in magic, aiding his own strength, allowing him to quickly wrench the sphere off of the coil. Kazo leapt away and ran as Rostus fired again. Kazo skidded, turning to run to the side, then ran back towards the vehicle. Kazo turned again, ducking under the beam as he passed in front of the vehicle. Kazo jumped up. The beam ceased. Kazo landed right on the front of the vehicle, looking through the glass. Rostus leaned back in his chair, and began driving the vehicle in reverse, swerving about.
Kazo looked around the front of the vehicle, and found a panel with a lock and hinge. Normally the silver spheres would've protected this, but they were no longer functional. Kazo jammed his claw into the lock, passing large amounts of energy through it until the metal within glew with heat. He then took advantage of the metal's pliable state to swiftly force the lock open. He opened the panel, and saw beneath more steel pipes, engine plates, and through a small hole, beneath it all, a copper control linkage. There was a loud buzzing above. Kazo looked up to see the cannon pointing right down at him, glowing within. Kazo leapt up as the cannon fired, but found that due to his damaged body, his takeoff was rather awkward. This upset the entire jump. He landed a bit off as well, slipping in the mud and falling over.
The beam scorched its way toward him. Kazo got up, ran, skidded to a stop, then ran directly toward the beam and the vehicle. Kazo leapt up as he neared the beam, just barely keeping above it, his feet and tail grazing the beam... for a moment it looked as if he were walking upon the beam. Kazo jammed his spear down into the beam, falling to the side of it, and skidding to a stop. He immediately channeled his mana to create a field to channel all of the particles through the spear. The particles were charged, and his feet were a grounding point. Kazo grunted, feeling his insides warm up considerably as immense energy passed through him. His soul filled to the brim with mana then was stuffed with even more. This was a risky move on it's own...
For KITTY!
He grunted louder, feeling his soul stretched to the breaking point, his vision seeming to escape him. He yelled, the beam finally ceasing. It was if it was a blur that moment. He ran toward the vehicle, and felt oddly as light as a feather. He leapt onto the front of the vehicle. His soul nearly ready to rupture, he brought his nearly molten spear up, and yelling, jammed it down into the open panel, piercing down through the pipes and plates, forcing a hole straight down to the linkage, covering it in molten metal. He allowed this immense volume of energy to discharge directly through the spear, right into the control linkage. He yelled, but heard a yell that was even louder.
Kazo became silent, feeling the energy stop flowing. His vision returned to his normal state. He pulled the spear out, feeling rather heavy and drained. The vehicle no longer reacted. Kazo looked through the window to see Rostus slumped over the control panel, burns all over his body, a bit of smoke coming out of one of his hands. A bit of insulation on the control panel seemed to have been melted through, revealing the metal beneath.
Never threaten Yeln.
Kazo walked off of the vehicle, stumbling away from it. "Meww!" Kazo looked up. He made his way to the front of the building, evaluated the jump, jumped onto an overhang, then jumped to the roof. Kazo then untied Yeln, and sat, hugging him as the sun finished rising. Kazo smiled, pressing his face against Yeln's, 'shutting' his eyes for a moment. Yeln rested his head upon Kazo's shoulder, purring, shutting his eyes. Finally, there were no more missions or constraints. Kazo was now free again, finally free to explore this world, and on top of it, Yeln would be enjoying it with him. They kept hugging, Kazo looking towards the sun as the sun slowly made it's way above the horizon.
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Nothing stuck out to me as wrong, but dang I hope I didn't mess anything up here.
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