Chaos. Energy. EVERYTHING. Zip "Doc" Cobalt are protagonist finds himself in a realm of pure change where anything and everything happens at once where the only constant is the only stable things where the voice in his head and wait voice in my head pop oh neat my own thoughts are loud also. AAAAAHH, it burns why is it bright and dark, and also sour where am I. Shit my bones burn those things are hyper dense titanium how can they burn also there's a Dog. what wait there's a hole.
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New Bright City Wednesday 12th March 2020
> a city of golden beauty and nearly ten million people. where skyscrapers that make the ones found in Dubi look tiny and helicopters and hero's travel the sky. and for important for Doc is the fabric of reality itself is thin. and in some dirty alley a door opens from possibility to reality.
a subtly pop happens as a man in a lab coat turns form nothing to smear to person. He sits floating in the air as if physics itself hasn't realized he is here until he emits the natural response to his predicament "ow". then as reality rights itself he plumets into the waiting dumpster, crash "OW, wait is that a rat?" and indeed there was. Doc crawled out of the dumpster as swiftly as possible which involved a single hand clenching the rim and jerking him out as he crumples with a semi-wet plop. Doc's eyes remain closed after the overexposure from what ever had happened moments before and in this relative peace, he offers a command into his mind registered by the machinery that shares space with what's left of his brain inside his skull and this command is a simple Condition. and the image displayed on a bioengineered cornea is such
Enhancement Statis
97%. minimal damage to dermal armor and sensor (optical, radiological, gravitational, thermal) repair type 40 sec.
Civilian Green Box (X) authorized; method, required for function
Emergency Blue Box ( ) non authorized; no hazardous environment detected
Danger Yellow Box (X) authorized; method, type 4 override enabled, warning deactivation of Yellow Box systems is unadvised due to enhanced repair systems being in use.
Combat Red Box ( ) non authorized; no elevated stress levels, no threat detected, no high-risk damage detected. type 4 override detected manual activation allowed
The Black Box is closed keep it that way.
Ultraviolet box ( ) non authorized; data input normal
Pandora's Box ( ) Admin override manual activation only nonstandard Box count detected quantity two
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The information displayed in Doc's eye brought a relived exhale of his held breath, he was alive and in essence had gotten away with only scrapes and bruises. after a moment of hesitancy Doc climbs up and dusts himself off followed by the ancient Phone, wallet, keys check. Sliding out of his mouth a unbidden " I should call for a ride" came forth. dox grabbed a phone that resembled a solid piece of square obsidian and taped it to life after quickly adding an extra stop talking to myself to a reminder app that will be ignored with the 132 other such notes his quest for a pickup and eventually a nap was stopped by a small, tiny little icon at the top which in no uncertain terms describe a critical lack of data flow, the dreaded no signal bars.
The inconvenience was accompanied by a twitch in his eye and a swift look around to confirm that he was in fact not stranded on an alien world, this notion was swiftly disproven by the presence of brick walls that form the alleyway that he stands in and humans which hustle along the sidewalk outside of his current smelly location next to a dumpster. and to himself the illustrious and renowned Docter Cobalt talks to himself "come on we have satellites in orbit specifically to avoid this problem!" like the weirdo he is, this outburst is accompanied by a throwing up of hands and a annoyed stomp towards the crowds.
wait crowds, yes indeed crowds standing and staring slack jawed at a building which interestingly enough is on fire suddenly in fact like it wasn't on fire 20 seconds ago and now it's on its way to burning to the ground. The lack of first responders and the stunned silence of the crowd allows Zip to hear two things the Whoosh as a jet of flame bursts from a 4th story window and the more pressing concern the cry of a child coming from the now melted window. The kids wail awakens the crowd gasps and shouts of "oh god a kid is in there" echo around but their bystanders the thought that someone else will help stops them from actually helping. But Doc doesn't have that though his mind is filled with Activate Red Box. This causes an array of changes such as a series of cavity's carved into his left femur releasing a cocktail of synthetic adrenalin analogs and a bevy of clotting and anti-clotting smart drugs, alongside strands of artificial spider silk to tighten forming a Kevlar vest like effect which combines with the outer layer of artificial muscles hardening lets Doc walk of small arms fire, accompanying the other changes in his skin is a set of nanoparticles which are suddenly aligned to form a layer of thermal insulation which will soon be handy. the artificial muscles that have replaced his natural ones after the incident involving the rhino, don't go under any special changes but just stop receiving the limiter signal which was sent by the cybernetic control center in his brain. speaking of which the cybernetics in his head start to overclock to a unsustainable level which is followed by his bio tech grey and white matter reacting to the onslaught of chemicals by starting to function at a non-safe synapse melting rate.
In laymen terms Doc Cobalt's body is reaching superhuman peaks at the cost of a hangover and a LOT of muscle cramps
Combat Red Box (X) authorized; method type override activated, combat stimulants deployed, reaction boosters spin up complete
and like the hero he is Docter (of various sciences not medicine) Zip Cobalt gives shouts a battle cry of "oh Fuck I am an idiot" and weaves through the crowd of onlookers which to his eyes move like molasses, he eats up ground and gains speed. Faster than a speeding Bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall building in a single bound! Those are all impossible things locked to the pages of a comic book. But Doc can jump 2 and a half stories' up and dive his fingers into the concrete his mouth shaped into a snarl and a mad gleam in his eyes. To the bystanders they see some grey-haired weirdo in a lab coat make a massive jump and start climbing a building while shouting "screw you space Osha".