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Colossus By Design: Season 3 - Excerpt 80

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  1. [April 30, 2168]
  2. [Mt. Fuji]
  3. [Honshu Island, Japan]
  4. [Japanese Mainland]
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  8. The following day after the attack by the rogue Warmonger prototype now identified as Obsidian Fury, the Bilusaludo are hard at work repairing the damages incurred by the mech's assault to their base of operations on Earth. While most of the engineers are working to correct the external damage, the most prominent members spearheading the Mechagodzilla project have cordoned themselves away from the construction efforts; Jet Jaguar is still on site supporting these efforts.
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  10. The head engineers and scientists of the mechanically-minded aliens, along with a few Exif priests, are examining Kiryu's heavily damaged body and running a multitude of tests on its A.I. and power core functionality.
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  13. (Cmdr. Galu-gu): This is incredible! The Nanometal is growing in both intellectual complexity and reproductive capability! Already, it's learning how to convert materials in its surroundings into more of itself!
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  15. (Metphies): Quite a monstrous growth that your little pet project has gone through.
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  17. (Cmdr. Galu-gu): Don't be so patronizing, Metphies. Lieutenant Belu-be built in very strict command restrictions. It's of no danger to any sentient being.
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  19. (Metphies): Even then, how do you expect this Nanometal to beat monsters like the kind that just attacked this facility? All 3 of your Mechagodzillas thus far have failed in their purpose. What makes this one so different?
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  21. (Cmdr. Galu-gu): Simple.
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  24. The Bilusaludo commander turns to face Kiryu and inputs some commands on his wrist interface; he then turns back around to face Metphies. As he does so, Kiryu's hull lights start to light up once again. Instead of their usual yellow lighting, the lights take on a deep pink colouration. Coinciding with this are the platforms that Kiryu is currently situated on suddenly becoming overtaken by what looks to be a living mass of metal emanating from the third Mechagodzilla iteration's unmoving body.
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  26. This stirs up great fear from the Human and Synthetic engineers, who begin fleeing from the immediate vicinity of the cargo platforms; the Bilusaludo and Exif are quite stoic and don't flinch at this sight at all. The platforms start to disappear into Kiryu's back; they're absorbed into the mechanical giant's body. As this is happening, minor battle damage such as scratches and blast marks is buffed by the seemingly living metal snaking its way out from ventilation ports strewn across the metal dragon's body.
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  28. The main cut running down from Kiryu's shoulder to its chest starts to pull itself together via what look like living wires made of the same semi-liquid metal that emerged from its body earlier. Once the platforms have been fully absorbed into Kiryu's body, the living metal ceases movement.
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  30. While its repairs are incomplete, the metal dragon has repaired its body at a much quicker pace compared to how long it'd take ordinarily even with the Bilusaludo's best Titanium-S formation. It begins to turn over from its side to its hands and knees before then pushing itself back up; it nearly falls over, only being prevented from falling back down with Jet Jaguar's quick action.
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  33. (Cmdr. Galu-gu): That's how, Metphies.
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  36. Upon witnessing the Bilusaludo finally gaining control over the transmutative properties of Gojira and Jet Jaguar, Metphies almost looks stunned, though he composes himself a bit and pulls his father aside to speak to him in private.
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  39. (Metphies): *telepathic* The pace at which the living metal was built is faster than predicted by Garbetrium.
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  41. (Endurph): *telepathic* God is not affected by time or distance. Perhaps he simply misjudged the passage of time for reality.
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  43. (Metphies): *telepathic* You're probably right, father. The golden wings of demise have still predicted the future.
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  50. [STRQ Industries Underground R&D Centre]
  51. [Nagoya, Japan]
  52. [Japanese Mainland]
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  56. Within the STRQ Industries research complex that was used to develop for Jiro Ifukube's Evangelion project, a skeleton crew is manning the facility due to its primary subject having undergone a transformation into Jet Jaguar. While most of the staff maintain the equipment used to house the now useless suits of armour for Eva Unit-01, Anna Maximoff and Jiro Ifukube are busy inside of the latter's office.
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  58. Physical whiteboards and holographic screens are scribbled over with the 2 scientists' writing; rudimentary scans of Jet Jaguar can be barely made out underneath all of the physical and virtual marker writing. The 2 giants in the scientific community are currently combing through the writings they haphazardly scribbled without any real organization.
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  61. (Anna Maximoff): Just like the Androids, see?
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  64. The Russian metaphysicist points to the deep scan images of Jet Jaguar's internal structure. The scan images show what look like biomechanical equivalents to every part of the Human body; they're quite similar to the way that the internal organs and bodily features of the biomechanical Androids are structured and presumably also function at a similar level.
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  67. (Jiro Ifukube): I do see that. But Eva Unit-01 didn't start off like that. It was much more biological than it was mechanical.
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  69. (Anna Maximoff): Could be that the body changed to serve as a better vessel for the new mind. Look at the deeper analyses that our neurologists conducted on the brain structure here.
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  72. Dr. Maximoff pulls out a report from the holographic display that gives a rundown on the estimated neural pathways and overall functioning of Jet Jaguar's brain.
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  75. (Jiro Ifukube): Intriguing...... He truly is a unique mind, and not a conglomeration of separate entities. So..... the pilots are truly gone then?
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  77. (Anna Maximoff): I'm sorry, Jiro. They came together one last time to create something new and beautiful.
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  79. (Jiro Ifukube): Yeah..... yeah, they did.
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  82. The 2 scientists take a brief break from their brainstorming to reminisce together. As they do, they fail to take notice of COMMS hails from both Wei Ho and General Rasczak.
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