Colossus By Design: Season 2 - Log 139

[July 1, 2166]
[Harmonization Room]
[Scientific & Technological Advanced Research Labs]
[Central City, U.S.A.]
[Colony State - Canadian Super-Nation]

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In what seems like an eternity, the reunion of a scientific lifetime has finally become a reality.

Jiro Ifukube, Wei Ho, and Anna Maximoff, together once more. These three, along with some delegates from both the G.U.D. and the Da'at Yichud, are "officially" meeting within the confines of S.T.A.R. Labs to discuss terms of a joint effort between the two parties to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and technology to prepare for possible major terrorist activity. However, it's clear that the main reason for everyone to have met up here was to reunite three of some of the greatest minds of modern day.

Fittingly, the delegates have left the Harmonization Room for another room to give the scientists time to reminisce and catch up.


(Jiro Ifukube): It's good to see you two, again.

(Anna Maximoff): The feeling's mutual, sir.

(Jiro Ifukube): No need for the formality. I'm not your official superior anymore.

(Wei Ho): Unfortunately, SIR, you're our mentor regardless.


The old man of a research overseer can't help but crack a smile at his former pupils' insistence on calling him "sir". The three stand there for several moments, just looking at each others' facial expressions. One could swear they were talking to each other through their minds, judging by how they exchange gazes.


(Anna Maximoff): So why did you want to leave us in the first place, Jiro?

(Jiro Ifukube): That's a hefty question to ask, but I'll explain as best I can. I've been alive for a long time, kept alive through biomechanical prosthetic implants and yearly cellular refreshment induction. I was tired, and I knew you two would carry on my work and teach the next generation.

(Wei Ho): Then it was a kind of last wish? To become part of the collective that makes up Gamera?

(Jiro Ifukube): That was the idea, yes. Turns out that the giant Chelonian didn't exactly want anything to do with Humans anymore after catalyzing Laura. Funny how that works, doesn't it? The most Human of us all, and yet she was the reason he lost his own Humanity.


The three hold a moment of silence for their long fallen friend, then resume their conversation.


(Wei Ho): We were briefed on some of the details regarding you joining up with the Da'at Yichud, but do you mind telling us more?

(Jiro Ifukube): Of course not. When Set Roth approached me at my home, I was skeptical since, you know, such a sect existing seemingly out of nowhere was a lot to take in. But you know me and the possibility of new technological revelations. They took me in, and I gladly went to work helping them figure out their ancestral roots. As a matter of fact, I helped unlock a lot of their more advanced machinery in my short time with them, such as that recent Transference Communication.

(Wei Ho): You know that I call it tha--

(Anna Maximoff): That's all incredible, really, but I still gotta ask..... why are we here, at S.T.A.R. Labs specifically?

(Jiro Ifukube): Allow me to show you.


The good professor walks over to a blank wall, an oddity amidst the rest of the walls' high degree of decoration and modification into areas to hold vital equipment to the large Harmonizer in the centre of the room. A scanning beam is emitted out of a small hole in the middle of the blank space, activating a hidden door for the three scientists.

This isn't anything new for Wei and Anna, since they've known about Ifukube's secret vaults across a multitude of research complexes for awhile now. Once inside, the holographic projector on the table lights up whilst four synthetic yet oddly Human-sounding voices greet the guests.


(Karen Marais): Welcome home, Professor Ifukub--

(Sasha Kalashnikov): Don't be so formal, Karen!

(Feng Lee): Oh, lay off, AK-74. She's just greeting our guests like they deserve.

(Satoshi Yamane): Indeed.


While the former Project Warmonger director simply smiles, quite unperturbed about the situation, the same cannot be said of his former students. Wei Ho and Anna Maximoff are left in a state of confusion and general shock to hear the voices of the legendary mechanical defenders of the mid-22nd century. Soon after, holographic representations of the Warmongers' original Human forms take shape around the table, acting as their avatars.


(Wei Ho): What.....

(Anna): How.....

(Jiro Ifukube): I'd say "surprise", but I feel that's an understatement here.