"Any idea about what else we should do today since you know the days still not over cuz each day is like ninety fucking hours long? Personally I was going to finish up Bricks new weapon but that'll only take me maybe fifteen minutes soooo, yeah." I said with a sigh.
"Could just kill some bandits. There's also a sewage problem since apparently someone's stopped up the pipeline, Pierce was concerned about back flow." Roland said and I grimaced.
"Didn't think I'd be literally clearing out a shit pipe but fuck it may as well." I said with a shrug.
Of course first things first and I went to my crafting room to have my maker thing spit out Bricks new weapon based on the measurements I'd gotten before I went to sleep. It was a shiny silver grey color and looked almost like a fancy glove really if you ignored the seven barrels circling the wrist. Naturally I had to leave my brand name on it, right on the back of the palm in fact. Still I had a wide grin as I looked the thing over since it was everything I had imagined it would be.-
Sleek and shiny with a fine mix of pugilism and gunsmithing wrapped up in one sweet as fuck package. Brick looked like a kid in a candy store when I handed the weapon over to him and we headed into the sim room to test it out once we filled it with ammo. The first test was the general performance of the weapon that I affectionately named "The Punchline". In this test I simply set the room to a low end combat scenario and unleashed Brick like an overeager murderous dog on the poor sim enemies.-
At first the gun shots with each punch threw Brick off balance but once he got the hang of it he even started to exploit the kickback to throw slightly harder punches with his left hand. Once that was done we moved on to testing the range and accuracy of the shots which wasn't great but that was not unexpected. The barrels had a slight tilt to prevent him from running any risk of blowing off a finger and for obvious reasons this meant long range was not very viable with the bullets it fired.-
Well if I was being fucking honest it IS possible but just would take a serious amount of effort to adjust to the odd trajectory of the barrels. Brick couldn't be bothered to try and I didn't blame him since just using a gun would be easier. At close range though the Punchline was viciously powerful as the fifty caliber rounds it shot off hit point blank which meant no real chance to bleed off energy through the air. In terms of pure damage I'd even go so far as to say it wasn't far off from what my own gun was capable of, minus badass elemental stuff that is.-
Unfortunately I knew I couldn't make this weapon one of my companies mainline products in the future as the traditional use of guns was far too entrenched in the six galaxies to turn a profit. People like Brick and I who prefer using our fists were anomalies and a small minority. I thought it funny that the first two true Drake weapons I've made can't be mass produced for sale. One used obvious Eridian technology and the other was so niche that it wouldn't earn much if sold.-
I needed to come up with a flagship gun for my brand, something new and exciting that nobody else had. I chose to ignore this for now though as Brick was going ham with his new weapon laughing maniacally.
"You've created a monster." Lil said with a laugh.
"I do have a habit of doing that, comes with the territory really." I said with a grin.
"Can't argue there, you are barely even human anymore right?" Mordy asked and I nodded.
"I exceed humanity in too many places to still be considered human. It would be more accurate to consider what I am a close relative to humanity, maybe even a subspecies of it scientifically speaking. Doesn't bother me none though. I'm awesome and only getting more awesomer over time." I said still grinning.
"Subspecies makes it sound worse than normal somehow, not better." Lil said with a frown.
"It's not really strange is it? humanity has always been rather racist or is it specist in this case? Whatever, the point is that term was created out of this notion that the originally discovered version is the superior point of the species evolution and thus every branch off from there is below it. Blatantly fucking wrong at best and delusional at worst." I said honestly.
As much as many scientist like to claim otherwise science is not in fact an impartial thing in all it's facets. Personal opinions, politics, religions and even prejudices have long since been well integrated with nearly all areas of science. Some scientists only make certain discoveries because of these things and that fact doesn't change just because others want it to. Sure you can bury this ugly fact and even try and ignore it but it can't ever truly be erased. I embraced this however as if I can't understand how those other scientists were thinking can I truly claim to understand what they meant?-
Make no mistake understanding them doesn't mean I agree, a fact many people failed to realize back on Earth. If it did I wouldn't have died to that bear since it was well understood that wild fighting was wrong. I may be a bit unhinged but I wasn't delusional by any means. All my thoughts and actions were well grounded in reality. Anyways Brick finished up at about this time so it was time to head out of the house.-
"Hey I got a job for ya'll iffin yer heading to the rust commons west." Scooter sent over the echo right after we left the house and I put it away.
"What sorta job?" I sent back interested.
"Ah well someone's been real hard on the runners lately and we're not gonna see another shipment of replacement parts anytime soon. There are probably plenty of spare parts out in the junkyard in the commons. Got a list and everything. I'll pay ya for anything you bring back from it." He said honestly.
"I'll be right over, beats what I was planning to do by a wide margin." I sent back and looked at my friends.
"I'm with you on this one, no poop station for me thank you." Lil said immediately.
"Looks like that means you three have the poop shoot duty, tough luck." I said with a chuckle.
Brick didn't look like he cared but both Roland and Mordy grimaced at the idea. We stayed together though until we got to Scooters area in New Haven where the Catch-A-Ride was located. While the other three were grabbing a vehicle for themselves Lil and I walked up to where Scooter was sitting.-
"Got the list right here, pay ya extra if you find somethin good and bring it back." he said as he sent the list to our echoes.
The list wasn't anything fancy or even all that special really. A couple fenders, some gas tanks, tires, that sort of thing. Honestly it was hardly a problem at all to clear. We left New Haven on foot this time because the scrapyard in question wasn't far at all. It felt nice to get a bit of a walk in even if the air fucking stank to high heaven. -
"So you think we'll find anything good in the scrapyard?" Lil asked curiously as we walked.
"Depends honestly, like most scrapyards I know of have an order to them. Metal with metal, plastic to plastic, that sort of set up. Pandora doesn't have that. This whole place is completely random in trash and treasure, kinda annoying as fuck really." I said with a shrug.
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Integrated Traits: [Gun expertise-Uncommon grade]X4, [Clever mind-Rare grade],[Enhanced senses-Epic grade]X2, [Demi-supreme body-Legendary grade], [Supreme armored hide-Epic grade]X2, [Energy projection-Legendary grade], [Superior vitality-Epic grade]X2,[Flame breath-Uncommon grade],[Regeneration-Epic grade]X2, [Disease resistance-Epic grade],[Amphibious lungs-Uncommon grade], [Thermal sensing-Uncommon grade], [Water resistance-Common grade],[Active camouflage-Epic grade], [Eridian engineering expertise-Mythical grade], [Efficient lungs-Rare grade]x2, [Fire resistance-Epic grade]X3, [Elemental body(fire)-Legendary grade], [Shock resistance-Epic grade]X4, [Energetic sustenance(shock)-Epic grade]X2, [Radiation resistance-Epic grade]X3, [Energetic sustenance(radiation)-Epic grade]X2, [Biometallic bones-Epic grade],[Elemental body(shock)-Rare grade]X3,[Quick thinking-Rare grade], [Minor spatial awareness-Epic grade], [Buzzaxe expertise-Uncommon grade], [Siren(Phaselock)(Altered)-Mythical grade], [Pugilist expertise-Uncommon grade], [Adrenal rush-Rare grade], [Mechanical engineering expertise-Rare grade], [Gunsmithing expertise(degrading)-Common grade]X3, [Elemental body(Corrosive)-Rare grade], [Corrosion resistance-Rare grade], [Mechanical Savant-Epic grade],
Stored traits: [Flame projection gland], [Mechanical engineering expertise(degraded)-Common grade