[b][color=thistle]"If that is your wish, Empress, then I will take my leave."[/color][/b]

Theo stood up from his chair, and started to walk away from the table. He took one last backward glance before he willed his physical form to collapse and return to the Emperor. He started to dissolve into glowing blue energy starting from the head going down and when the dissolution reached his feet, his consciousness suddenly shifted and he was back in his original body.

[b][color=thistle]"Emperor,"[/color][/b] He said, [b][color=thistle]"I have returned."[/color][/b]
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[b]"Oh, hey Theo."[/b] Alto said, looking down at his left arm. [b]"How did it go?"[/b]

[b][color=thistle]"We were cut short,"[/color][/b] He replied, [b][color=thistle]"It is likely the Empress would have questioned further, but her guardian arrived."[/color][/b]

[b]"Bummer. Would've been interesting, I suppose."[/b] Alto was currently working in one of the maintenance labs, on a robot arm that had been sent in by one of his part-timers. Currently the arm he was working on was probably the only legal rocket punch robot arm in existence. Con could do a rocket punch, but Con wasn't really a robot.

[i]Still, this isn't exactly the best for her.[/i]

The owner of the robot arm he was working on worked sometimes for Alto's secret mercenary company, Illegal Stuff Pty. Ltd. Although she was only ever interested in contract assassination. Actually, one of his other part timers also seemed to prefer contract assassination, or just any kind of job he could fight people. Being part of Illegal Stuff Pty. Ltd. was kind of bad for contract assassination because Alto mainly took jobs like robbing a bank or infiltration and stuff.

[i]Don't know why she'd ever use this.[/i]

He sighed. He had a lot of work to do tonight, firstly he had to fill a few hacking orders he'd gotten for the company and then he'd have to check over the details of the compound that Ruby had sent over to Theo.

[b]"Con, can you run some simulations on this arm please?"[/b]

[b][color=yellowgreen]"Yes, master."[/color][/b]

As Con ran some tests, he reflected a little on his workload. Maybe it was a bad idea to simultaneously run a mercenary corporation and a technology corporation at the same time.

[b][color=yellowgreen]"It should work as intended, master."[/color][/b]

[b]"Cool. Got it done in..."[/b] He looked uo at the clock, [b]"About 10 minutes? That was fast."[/b]

He picked up another robot limb in need of repair, this one was pretty standard.

[b]"It's almost time to go home."[/b] He said, [b]"The future promises to be interesting."[/b]