Colossus By Design: Entry 0123 - Evidence Review

[February 13, 2146]
[South American Wasteland, former South American continent]

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Freedom of Justice begins to come back online; he sits up and looks around wildly. He sees the Alpha standing a short distance away, looking down at an odd object that appears to have been crushed in his hand.

The Warmonger then turns around and sees the Zeta on the ground, in-between his two teammates and spreading her glowing powder from her wings around them. At first, Freedom of Justice doesn't notice anything, but upon closer inspection, he sees various small ruptures and scars on their bodies beginning to repair themselves, with pieces of their hulls that were lying all over the ground levitating towards such areas to aid in the seemingly automatic repairing process.

He gets up to his feet, watching as the Zeta continues to heal his fellow Warmongers, and quickly picks up on a communications hail from the research division stationed at the excavation site in the distance.


(Director Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] Thomas, you there?

(Thomas Scott): Yeah, Director. What's going on right now, anyways?

(Director Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] You don't remember?

(Thomas Scott): Nope. Why? What happened?

(Director Jiro Ifukube): [COMMS] I think you'd better come over here and take a look for yourself.


Freedom of Justice walks over to the dig site; the Alpha briefly turns around to look at him, then resumes his original position. The Warmonger leader gets down on his hands and knees, peering into the excavation site and catching sight of Director Jiro Ifukube and his closest associates, whom are currently investigating the findings of the stationed research division.


(Director Jiro Ifukube): Ah, there you are. My my, you continue to surprise me.

(Thomas Scott): Surprise you? How?

(Director Jiro Ifukube): I better let our resident expert handle that.


Director Ifukube steps aside as Dr. Anna Maximoff steps into view.


(Thomas Scott): So, doctor, what happened?

(Dr. Anna Maximoff): See for yourself, Thomas.


Dr. Maximoff sends recorded footage to Freedom of Justice, who intently watches the events of yesterday. He sees the battle between the Alpha in an apparent trance and himself and his Warmongers, as well as something that particularly catches his eye: himself entering a berserk state that puts even the mighty Alpha on the ropes.


(Thomas Scott): What in the hell....

(Dr. Anna Maximoff): As you see here, you've entered a state of absolute unpredictability, with your non-standard DE energy levels skyrocketing.

(Thomas Scott): This is the second time it's happened, right?

(Dr. Anna Maximoff): Indeed. I'm still working out why, but what I managed to gleam is the fact that, during the period where you were temporarily out of the fight, and your allies were in danger, something changed within you.

(Thomas Scott): Yeah. The Alpha attacked us without warning, and I guess that the situation became dire enough that this happened again. But why did I keep attacking the Alpha after he regained his composure, and the Zeta too?

(Dr. Anna Maximoff): I theorize that you were in a sort of trance of pure unbridled aggression and, had the Alpha not disabled you, you would've continued to try and kill him and the Zeta, being unable to think for yourself.


Freedom of Justice pulls his head out of the excavation site and looks over at the Alpha, whose injuries seemed to have already begun healing, and at the Zeta and his allies.


(Thomas Scott): The Zeta seems to be healing Sasha and Feng.

(Dr. Anna Maximoff): Yes, Thomas. She's got quite a bit of mastery over non-standard DE energy, performing precise repairs that would've taken several hours for us to do conventionally within the span of minutes.

(Thomas Scott): I'm gonna go and greet them.

(Dr. Anna Maximoff): Very well, then, Mr. Scott. But please return to be briefed on our latest findings once you and your team are reacquainted.


The Warmonger leader nods, gets back up to his feet, and walks over to his teammates; he squats down beside them and gets back up to speed whilst the Zeta repairs their damage. Meanwhile, Director Ifukube and his associates continue to review their findings. Of particular interest are several screens showing analyses of the newly minted Trilomite variant of P.E.M.F., as well as the mysterious organic pods lining the excavation site's epicenter.