Dominic and Shinto were making more or less decent progress through Nomis’ Warship. They had passed the mess hall three turns ago and were just about to head past the sleeping quarters. It was just then that one of them heard a noise. It was faint and sounded like it was coming from far away, but Dominic had unbelievably sharp hearing. The sound soon was getting closer and closer just until some type of shot was fired, barely missing Dominic’s right arm.

[b][color=crimson]” What the hell?!”[/color][/b] Dominic said as he turned around and saw three weird eye-shaped machines all pointing their weapons at him and Shinto. [color=crimson][b]“Looks like we got company.”[/b][/color] Dominic smirked.

Shinto looked back and saw the three eye machined with their weapons pointed at Dominic and Shinto. Just like his good buddy, Shinto also smirked. [b][color=fff79a]“I guess we deserved a good break, don’ t ya agree, Domi?”[/color][/b]

[color=crimson][b]“Hell yeah.”[/b][/color]

As if the two of them knew from just that moment alone, they scattered. Dominic took to the right in a streak of crimson red, and Shinto took to the left.  The three eye-like machines fired an arc of black energy at both of them. The one strike that went to Dominic missed by a long shot as the crimson-haired male darted up the wall, and the arc of black energy striking where Dominic was, piercing through the wall. Dominic had somehow made it to the ceiling and for a brief moment out of the view of the eye-like machines. He concentrated crimson lightning into both of his hands while keeping enough on his feet to keep him up on the ceiling. He pointed his arms down and shot two bolts of crimson lightning at two of the machines. The bolts completely decimated them and all that was left were scraps of black metal.

Just as the last remaining eye-like machine took notice to the other two becoming scrap metal, that gave Shinto the perfect time to react. That brief moment that it became distracted allowed Shinto to gather enough psionic force into his free hand that he was able to use it to force the last remaining machine back about ten feet. And this was all while he was running. As the machine was airborn, Shinto ran along the wall to his left, and jumped off with his left foot. As he was also airborn, he took to his sniper rifle, Silent Destroyer. By aiming it precisely, he shot three time and each bullet went right into the machine’s main eye, and completely destroyed it.

As Shin landed, Dominic did as well and Shin had done so on one knee, back against Dominic(who was standing straight up).  [b][color=crimson]“Well that was relaxing.”[/color][/b] Dominic said really happy on what had just happened.

Shin smiled. [color=fff79a][b]“Let’s get going.” [/b][/color]

[h2][/h2]

When Nomis turned to Caleb and responded, the young man heard his uncle say that the experiment definitely didn’t go as he had planned. He mentioned that the subject of said experiment was a second or third generation and such as it is, it proved to be too diluted to produce any results with the substance that Nomis was working with. He would also mention that he would need something more purer to work efficiently. 

Caleb just looked at his uncle as he would explain it all while messing around with some of the monitors that were nearby. That’s when Nomis asked Caleb if the teen had seen what the other members of the Empire were up to. Caleb sighed and stretched his arms, the joints making a slight cracking noise as they rose to the air. [b][color=teal]”I saw Ryoko in the library with her servant…maid..person.“ [/color][/b] Caleb said as he looked at his uncle. [b][color=teal]”Why? Is there a reason why you wanted to know, Uncle Nomis?”[/color][/b]

As Caleb was waiting for his uncle to respond to his question, it would be a brief moment, but Caleb sensed something was off. Before he could even react to what was about to happen, he was too late. What he saw was a combination of psionic power and a crimson-colored lightning. The lightning side of it cut off all of the lights, thus making sight unavailable for the moment. While the darkness took the lab over,  the  psionic power side pushed every scientist, including Nomis,  against the wall with bone-crippling force and Caleb could have sworn he heard some cracks on their necks. He tried to look at anything, but the darkness prevented him from doing so. All he could hear was the screams of the scientists that were struggling to get free from the force that bound them to the wall on the opposite side of the room.

[color=00a99d][b]“UNCLE!”[/b][/color] Caleb called out, but he didn’t get a response.

Things would go from bad to worse in a flash…literally. Caleb would spot a streak of crimson lightning surround him. He couldn’t tell exactly what was happening or who was doing this, but before long, he found himself getting grabbed by whoever was behind all of this. He tried to struggle, but the motion from being surrounded by a bright lightning to the action of being grabbed through him for a loop. It was with all of that, in the total span of one minute, Caleb was gone, the crippling force of the scientists and Nomis gone, and the lights working in the lab once more. It was like they were never there.