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 Molly jumped back so quickly her shoes screeched against the floor. "Whoa! What the eff is that?" "What's what?" Kane said, looking puzzled. He winced as a crackle of energy traced over the features. "Ow, shock..." "Your eye is like the freaking Terminator!" She looked around, trying to figure out what to do. "Oh crap uh...uh...That's not normal right?" "What are you talking about?" Kane said, rubbing his eye. He stepped back and looked into the glass over the fire suppression system, but his eye was fine. "I don't get- ow!" He yelped, pulling at his shirt. The cloth was disintegrating, and Molly could see that the circuitry on his face was gone, but strips of it banded his waist. "Dude, just trust me. Some weird what the fuckery is going on. I--lift up your shirt. Look! You've got like...weird...techno stuff on your stomach," she said, gesturing wildly toward his torso. "What- fuck!" More energy arced around him, as the circuitry shimmered and sloughed off in a smattering of black dust. He poked at it for a second before there was a crack, a whiff of ozone, and fire engulfed his right leg up to the hip. Kane tore away his pants and underwear at the waist, tossing the burning clothes to one side. Lines of technology ran up and down his leg, discharging energy as it grew over his skin, encompassing more and more of his leg. Molly's eyes widened and her cheeks flushed as she got a gander at Canadian sausage before quickly averting her look toward Garrison's face. "Uh---should I call for help? I--I don't know what to do." This wasn't something she could really punch. "Get a fucking exorcist!" Kane said, staring down at his body as the technology spread further, heavy electrical shocks travelling back and forth around his body. The pain was excruciating and he gritted his teeth, falling to his knees as the whine of energy got louder and louder. It reached a crescendo and with a blinding flash, the energy discharged all around him, scorching the walls and grounding into the internal dampening. The lines of technology turned black and like before, evaporated off him in a shower of black dust. Breathing heavily, Kane got his hands under him and levered himself up shakily to his feet. The shocks had stopped. Molly had gotten out her phone and was trying to call someone when she felt the ionization in the air and the hair on her arms (as well as the hair on her head) started to rise. "Oh shi---" She dove behind one of the consoles and stayed close to the floor as the energy discharged and everything went to hell. She knew she wasn't entirely unsquishable for some stuff, and didn't want to test her limits. Hearing the hard breathing on the other side of the console, she took a moment to glance down at her phone (fried), then let out a breath and slowly poked her head up. "Are you...?" she said. She wasn't sure what she was going to finish that sentence with: Okay? You? |
