Chapter 36: Meeting of Monarchs

Undeen - Oops. That'll be fixed soon.

[Amy's POV a few minutes later]

Sitting down in a break room, I sighed and let myself relax. Spending a Saturday working on people was nothing new, but it was still tedious and boring as hell. It was nothing new, and that just made it all the worse, because really, what sort of doctor finds their work boring? Ignoring that thought, I fished out my phone and opened YouTube, music would help distract me. (Don't even know what I want to listen to though.) It wasn't like I had a specific genre either, if it was good then it was good, but finding music I liked wasn't something I was good at.

So, there I was, looking for stuff to listen too, when the goddamn door was kicked down! "Hello my overworked and depressed friend! I come bearing nothing but the power of friendship!" There were a few things there that I was going to bring up later.

"You're fixing that later."

"No I'm not."

"Are you sure about that?"

"... Yeees?"

"Mhm."

Watching Anubis, his mask was off so it was probably easier to refer to him as Phoenix, walk right in with Khepri by his side, her mask was only covering her eyes and a bit of her nose, and listening to their little byplay, I couldn't help but stare. "... What the fuck..?" Because really, what the fuck was going on?

Of course, my confusion just made the asshole grin at me. "You'll need to be more specific. What kind of fucking wou...-" The elbow that went his way was somehow avoided, maybe because he expected it. "...- ld you like?" And he just goes on like nothing happened?!

Still, the question snapped me out of my confusion, and I huffed, looking away from him and at Khepri. "How do you deal with him?"

While the 'Him' in question rolled his eyes, Khepri hummed. "By foregoing my sanity." Not exactly the answer I was expecting, but it was still an answer.

"Sounds about right."

Phoenix scoffed, and made his way over to the table, plopping his ass down onto a chair across from me. "None of us were sane in the first place, so fuck off."

(It's crazy that I can't immediately say anything against that...) Pulling up a chair, the female half of Pantheon sat besides him, which wasn't exactly a surprise considering they were apparently dating. (And considering Khepri hasn't said anything either, then she's apparently a long time member of the crazy train.) Shooing that off, I looked at the both of them, a question ready to be asked. "Why are you here?"

Phoenix pointed at Khepri with his thumb, then at me with his index. "I'm introducing my girlfriend to my only other friend. As said friend, you should be honored."

"Uhuh..." I gave him a blank stare at that. "What am I, your mother? Want a stamp of approval or something?" We'd talked over PHO for a bit, so I knew he could handle my shit. "Besides, your 'Only friend' huh. That's sad."

He snorted, while Khepri's lips twitched, a good sign already. "What, want me to call you 'Mommy' or something? That a fetish for you hmm?" That response caught me off guard for a moment, a smirk on his lips as he saw whatever look was on my face. "Would you like that Mommy?"

"Ugh, don't do that." It felt like something crawled onto my skin when he said that, I was pretty sure there were goosebumps forming too, so I'd rather not feel that. "Like, ever again."

Unfortunately, he just smirked even smuger, was that even a word? Then before. "Hmm? You suuure Mommy? Kinks are nothing to be ash...-" I threw my phone at the fucker, it was the only thing I had in reach, but unfortunately he avoided it and blinked when it crashed against the wall, probably breaking as it did... Well shit. Looking between my now broken phone and me, he gave me a look like I was an idiot. "Really? Your phone?"

I rolled my eyes, huffing at him. "Your fault for being a weird asshole with this 'Mommy' shit." And it totally was.

"HUH?! How is it MY fault that you threw YOUR phone at me?!" The look on his face made me mentally grin, a victory for me was always a good thing.

Still, he asked so I might as well answer. "Because it is."

His eye twitched. "Fuck you."

"Not my type, so sorry not sorry."

"Same, you're too short." Fucking what?!

I twitched. "You're like, 3 inches taller then me at most you dumbass!"

"3 inches can go a long way you know."

"Talking from experience I see."

Surprisingly, Khepri snorted. "Bigger then that..." Phoenix and I blinked, shared a look, then nodded. Seeing the byplay, Khepri raised her hands in surrender. "You heard nothing!" But it was too late now.

Turning to his girlfriend, the annoying Changer grinned, wrapping an arm around her waist. "No no, go on, praise my sexual prowess for all to hear."

Nodding, despite not actually with what he just said, I went on. "As a doctor," I was good enough to qualify as one. "Sexual intercourse could lead to unintended consequences, so you'll need to tell me about your experiences in order for me to discern if your Imm...-"

"Why the fuck are you using so many big words?" My eye twitched.

Turning back to the pain in my ass, I huffed at him. "Because I can, you fuck. And why the hell did you interrupt me? I thought we had an understanding?!"

He shrugged. "You were taking too long." As if that was meant to explain everything!

Another twitch, and I closed my eyes to take a breath. (Don't hurt him. I've got nothing to throw at him anyway.) Opening my eyes, and letting out the breath, I looked at Khepri, who was doing her best to not look at her boyfriend. "I'm so sorry."

Nodding, The Master smiled at me. "Thank you for your condolences." Okay, I might start to like her if she was receptive to ganging up on her partner/boyfriend.

Like the dramatic fuck I was finding out he was, Phoenix brought his free hand to his heart, looking at her in betrayal. "Et tu Mi Reina?" I blinked at that, knowing it was Spanish, but not what that meant.

His girlfriend just scoffed though. "You'd do the same thing."

"True." And he just bounced right back!

Shaking the surprise I had this recent turn of events, I looked at the two of them, consciously taking in the fact that The Changer and The Master were here. It was easy to to forget how capable they were when one of them was acting like an idiot, and the other was just there, not saying much. Though, speaking of her, I felt like there was something... Wrong, here, but I didn't know what, and just brushed it away. Probably wasn't important anyway.

That aside, with them here, and the bit apparently over, I narrowed my eyes them. "So, why are you two here?" That was the big question really. They'd come right as my break started, which couldn't be a coincidence.

Surprisingly though, Phoenix shrugged, while Khepri hummed. "Just had a talk with your team, you got the go ahead to work with us."

My eyes widened at that, and I could feel my lips curl up. "How?!" I had to know. Carol had been adamant to not allow me to work with them, him specifically, so the sudden turn around was way too surprising.

Phoenix grinned, a look of 'Better then you' on his face... I kinda wanted to kick him for it to be honest. "Threatened the stubborn bitch with bad publicity and telling everyone she stopped you from working with us."

Ah... I nodded at that. "That'll do it." And it would. (New Wave is basically Vicky and I at the moment, Eric and Crystal are there, sure, but it's basically me and Vicky carrying the team on our backs. If it got out that 'They', stopped me from working to cure the Case 53's, then New Wave would be over.) I paused at that thought, not really sure what to think of it.

On the one hand, New Wave had done some good for the Bay, had raised me and instilled the ideals of what a Hero was supposed to be, and was my family.

On the other hand, Carol had essentially made me begin rethinking alot of things. After the undeserved dismissal, and the conversation we'd had, I'd really started to think if New Wave was worth it. Carol hadn't gone on a real few hour long patrol in months, at the very least, and the same could be said for Uncle Neil and Aunt Sarah. Mark hadn't gone on patrol a year minimum, and Crystal and Eric just did it when they felt like it.

New Wave had really been just Vicky and I for a while now, and... And I hated it. They were Heroes right? They had their Powers for a reason, right? So they should be helping us. They should be out here with us, doing what Heroes were supposed to do...

But they weren't. They'd fallen into complacency and normality.

They were moving on with their lives...

Leaving m...- US, to pick up the slack. It wasn't fair, none of it was. I busted my ass to work at the hospitals, never asking for anything, refusing pay, doing my best to make a difference, because that was what a Hero was supposed to do... But they just moved on? Just essentially put the suits up and move on with their lives?!

Fuck that!

I wouldn't let that happen! I could do more, help more, figure out how to keep going and show Carol how fucking stupid it would be to not let me work with them. Nodding at that thought, I tu...- "You're done, right? No more inner monologue?"

Blinking, I looked over to Phoenix, whose head was on the table, his eyes staring up into mine... I stared back for a bit, then fully took in what he said, making me blink again. "What?"

He snorted. "We noticed you having a little flashback/inner monologue sequence and decided to let it play out."

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"Huh... Thanks, I guess?" I was used to Vicky or whoever was nearby snapping me out of them, so going through a... "'Flashback/inner monologue sequence?'"

A hum came from him, and surprisingly, it was his girlfriend that replied. "We both do it too, and we don't exactly like it when we get interrupted mid train of thought."

That made me groan. "I know, right?! I forget about what I'm thinking whenever that happens, and it pisses me off until I end up remembering what I was thinking about."

Khepri nodded, clearly understanding what I was getting at. "It's annoying too, getting lost in my thoughts can be really relaxing, and then like that," She snapped her fingers for emphasis. "I'm out of them, confused and annoyed at being interrupted."

"RIGHT! Life would be so much easier if everyone just knew to shut the fuck up and let us think." Another nod, and I was really starting to think this whole 'Friends' thing was going to work. (I mean, she gets it, that's way more then I can say about anyone else.)

"Used to have the same problem," Our eyes went down to The Changer, whose head was still on the table, but was now laying against an arm. "Eventually decided to become a master of the 'No thoughts, head empty' school of thought. It helped keep me from overthinking and getting lost in random thoughts. Can't end up doing either of those if you're not thinking in the first place." Well, apparently he got it too, neat.

Still though, I saw a chance, and was all for exploiting it. "So, what you're saying is you're a dumbass."

His eye twitched, and Khepri snorted. "Alright you little shit."

"Dammit, it's just 3 inches you fuck!"

He outright cackled at that. "That's what she said." I noticed Khepri fight back a laugh, biting her lip as she did.

But that didn't matter at the moment. Right now, I had an annoying bastard in front of me, and in punching range. "I will hurt you." And I would too! Strongest Changer in the world or not. It didn't matter if the joke was funny either!

"You can try it you short little shit."

"Height means nothing you asshole!"

"Then why are you short huh?"

"Genetics!"

"Sounds like a you problem then."

(Murderous inclinations rising!) Blowing out air from my nose, it could've been steam with the intensity I let it out, I 'Glared' at him. As much as I 'Hated' this, I enjoyed it too. No one really put up with my shit before, either they wanted to kiss my ass, not deal with pissing off the Heroic Healer in the Bay, or just didn't want to deal with me as a person. So now that I had someone willing to fight me like this, I wanted to milk it for all it was worth. "I can and will make your dick a micro penis." I wouldn't, that was a good way to end any friendship between us, but the the threat was always a powerful one against any guy.

Phoenix blinked, while Khepri snapped towards me, the compound eyes of her mask looking a little unnerving as she was totally still. "No one will ever find your body if you do."

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(Note to self, don't threaten a guy's dick when his girlfriend is in ass kicking distance... Or can drown me in bugs.) With that thought, I slowly, very slowly, nodded. "Got it..."

That said, she nodded, and we lapsed into si...- "So I heard us guys apparently have like, 3-5 inches still inside of us. That legit?"

Closing my eyes, and taking in the 'Done with this' sigh from Khepri, I had a thought. (Maybe I should rethink this 'Friends' thing.)

Despite thinking that, I couldn't help but accept the fact that I wouldn't be able to shake the pain in my ass unless he wanted to leave... And I was fine with that.

Eventually, my break ended, and Khepri left. Apparently she was going to spend time with her father, good for her, though she left me her phone number before she did... Though, looking at the paper, I remembered that I broke my phone earlier... "Well shit."

"Hmm?" Hearing the hum, I turned an eye to Phoenix, The Changer rocking back and forth on his chair, somehow not falling on his ass. Seeing him, I huffed, and waved at my broken phone. When he saw the broken thing, he blinked. "Oh yeah, that happened."

"'Oh yeah, that happened.' That was my phone. Now I need to buy another one." Going through phones wasn't anything new, sometimes they would fall out of our pockets when Vicky flew us around, or I'd accidentally break one when I was too stressed. It sucked, but it was just a thing that happened.

Uncaring of the sucky situation I was in now, he started humming, then looked at me. "Want me to fix that?"

My brow twitched. "Is that actually a question?"

He shrugged. "Well, nah, but I still had to ask." I scoffed, getting another shrug. "Anywaaay." Watching the fibers of his suit writhe like they were alive was a weird thing, kinda freaky to be honest, but also kind of interested. I wanted to know how that worked, especially why it seemed somewhat organic despite being some kind of fiber, but I didn't feel like asking yet, more interested in seeing what would happen.

After a minute or so of shuffling his bracer thing, and going through a fuckton of holograms, (Holy shit, how many forms does he have?) He eventually reached the form he was looking for.

Giving me a grin, he pressed down, and a flash of green light went off. Knowing it was coming, I protected my eyes, and looked tow...- "Juryriiii...-ACK!" The chair crashed onto the ground, followed by what looked to be a gremlin in...

Aviator gear? "What the fuck?" I was pretty sure I was going to be saying that alot now.

That aside, I watched with a grin on my face as the red gremlin groaned and rolled onto the floor. "Suffering. Pain..." I snorted, fucker was treating it like he got stabbed or something instead of falling onto his ass. Raising a middle, wait, he didn't have a pinky so it was the 2nd to last finger, at me. "Fuck you."

That got a laugh out of me. "Not my type little man." Now that he was smaller then me, I was going to get all the payback I could.

The gremlin huffed, getting up and giving me a side eye. "You know this means war, yes?" The grin that graced my face was answer enough for him. "Such a little shit."

"You're like 2ft tall you gremlin!" He ignored me and bounced over to my phone, his tail swishing in the air as he did.

I was going to get on him for ignoring me, but when he landed in front of my phone, and started cackling, I decided that maybe I shouldn't. "Hehehe, FIX FIX FIX!" And when an honest to god dust cloud appeared, I realized that not interrupting the Looney Tunes bullshit in front of me was one of my smarter ideas. Eventually, he... Finished doing whatever the fuck he was doing, and held up my phone... I blinked. "Fixed!" Bouncing over to me, the gremlin looked up to me and handed me my phone. "Here ya go ya disrespectful little shit."

Not even bothering to say anything about that, I grabbed my phone, looking at the more advanced and pristine looking thing. I had no idea how, but somehow he made it into some kind of touch screen, despite the fact he only used my old phone so there shouldn't have been enough glass for that... "How the fuck?" Tapping the screen, it lit up, a standard lock screen showing up... And it opened after a second of me looking at it? "Okay, what the fuck happened?"

A flash of green went off, and standing in front of me was Phoenix, a grin on his face as he looked at me. "Don't question Juryrigg, he works on cartoon and Tinker logic."

Ah. "So, bullshit squared?"

He snorted. "Yup. Top tier grade A bullshit."

I nodded, looking back down to my phone. Thanks to Tinkers existing, touch screen phones weren't that much of a surprise, so I wasn't going in blind. "How does it work though? Anything crazy in here?"

He shrugged, not inspiring confidence. "It's a really good phone now. And I don't think so, fucker didn't have enough materials to add a shrink ray or anything like that." It said something that I could see that happening. Tinker's were bullshit like that. "You've basically got what we got, facial ID, unlimited talk and text, and some watered down version of our phones. Better battery, better quality for calls and shit, and a self recharging battery that works off the power of the SUN!" Blinking, I stared at him not only because of the weird emphasis he put on the 'SUN', but because that sounded like alot of bullshit done in a few seconds...

But then again, Tinker's were bullshit, so I just nodded, putting it away for now. "Now what?" I had work to do, and he was still here for some reason.

Another shrug. "Dunno. I've got nothing to do right now, I could go Tinker back home, but I'm waiting for some stuff and I kinda want to fuck with you some more, so I'm gonna just do that." Bastard had the audacity to grin at me like he hadn't just said he was going to mess with me.

My eye twitched, and I huffed. "You're not going to leave if I tell you too, are you?" His grin grew, and I knew the answer to that. Letting out a sigh, I stared him in the eyes. "Just don't fuck anything up."

He blinked. "... Would walking around as a giant mummy be considered fucking things up?"

I paused, needing a moment to understand if he was joking or not. Seeing the look in his eyes, I understood that no, he wasn't joking... And then I had to take a moment to come to terms with the fact that one of his forms was a giant mummy. (God, if you're out there, why the hell are you doing this to me?) The impromptu prayer aside, I focused on him, seeing he was waiting for an answer. "I'll need to see it first."

Nodding, he popped the dial of his gauntlet thing again, and without looking at what showed up, he turned back into... I was pretty sure he called it Juryrigg. I was about to question where the mummy was supposed to be, when he tapped the dial, another flash of green going off. When it disappeared, I was met with the sight of brown wraps? Blinking, I looked up, craning my head up to eventually meet the glowing emerald glow of an Egyptian mask. "Saaay helloooo to Snare-Oh!"

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"I think I hate you."

He snorted, a strange sound coming from a motherfucking mummy. "You knooow you looove meee."

My eye twitched. "Do you have to talk like that?" His response was to turn his eyes into half moons... Giving me an eye smile? "Okay, that's just bullshit." He laughed, and I rolled my eyes. Looked like I was going to be saddled with a mummy for a while. (This is my life now... And fuck me if it isn't an improvement.) Shaking that off, I raised a hand towards what constituted as fingers for this form. Seeing the action, and knowing what I was going for, he hummed, and raised a finger to my hand. When we connected, I blinked, slightly confused about what I was getting.

From what my Power was telling me, there was DNA here, the wraps were 'Alive', in a sense, but they weren't really... They weren't organic. The closest comparison I could make was with skin shed by a snake or the molted cast off from spiders and the like. I could feel it, tell he was basically a walking piece of papyrus with no actual blood or organs, maybe even manipulate said papyrus a bit, but I couldn't do much else with it... Which was both weird, and fascinating. Looking at the DNA itself, I saw it wasn't a double helix, not even a single or triple helix either... It looked more like a Proton, Neutron, and Electron model. The center had some weird purple like color to it, the ring around it where the 'Electron' would be was connected to the center by thin silk like strands, while the ring itself glowed the same emerald of his eyes. This was such a strange DNA cluster, it couldn't be described as anything else, but it was amazing to look at.

"Sooo, thoughts?" Breaking out of my inspection, I looked up to the mask.

It was weird, no one expects to just wake up one day and end up looking a mummy in the eyes. Still, it was cool. "This'll be fine."

He nodded, the finger returning to his side. "Wannaaa scare the shiiit out of someee people?"

My face slackened, and I gave him a dry stare. "This is a hospital."

"And I'm aaa horror mooovie monster. Whaaats your poooint?" My eye twitched. He sort of had a point, because yes, he was a horror movie monster.

Still, that wasn't enough to compromise with me on this. "Again, this is a hospital. If you walked out of here you'd probably give some poor old lady with a bad back a heart attack."

'Snare-Oh' blinked. "Ooodly specific. There any ooold ladieees in miiind?"

Rolling my eyes, I did the 'So-So' gesture. "There's this annoying bitch named Myrtle that always comes in and keeps bothering me about getting rid of her wrinkles, and make her look less like a bag of bones and more like a woman. It's everyday really, she comes in for some bullshit like a cracked nail, some fake rash, shit like that. I have no idea how she keeps getting me called in to 'Fix' her, but holy shit is she an annoying old fossil that I wouldn't mind getting pushed in front of a moving vehicle." Honestly, it was a miracle I hadn't lost it on the woman earlier, but that could be put to my ungodly amount of self control.

My thoughts aside, the big mummy in front of me hummed, scratching the bottom of his 'Chin.' "Sooo, what I'm heaaaring is 'Scareee the old biiitch into a long awaaaited grave.' Yeees?"

That got a snort out of me. "I wanna say yes, but unfortunately, no." I was a Hero, so no matter how much I wanted the old crone to leave me alone, I wouldn't condone her suddenly dying. "So no scaring the shit out of old people."

Phoenix shrugged. "Unforunateee." A scoff left my lips, which just made the mummy snicker, again, a weird sound but not too bad. "Well then, shall we gooo?"

Looking at the door, then over to him, I raised a brow. "Think you can fit?"

He snorted. "I can fit anywheeere."

Another eye roll was my immediate response to that. "So you're small is what you're saying?"

Seeing a mummy's eye twitch was hilarious. "We might get along a littleee tooooo well."

I nodded. We were both annoying assholes, easily snapped back at insults, and apparently enjoyed watching people get fucked over. "Eh, too bad for everyone else."

He did the eye smile thing again, and let out a small chuckle. "Then leeets go and terrorizeee the people." I could've said something, but I was fine with that interpretation of going to work. I knew one thing though, today's work was bound to be interesting.

[Phoenix's POV]

A few minutes after Amy and I left the break room, she started doing her job as a walking med station. Following along, I was internally, and sometimes externally, cackling at the looks I was getting. I mean, sure, walking around as a mummy in a hospital was a petty thing to do, but it was hilarious so who gave a shit? (The staff probably, but they're too scared to say shit to me, so fuck em.)

Them aside, I flowed around Amy, looking a bit like Stone Free, but just my head and arms. It was an Interesting really, looming behind Amy as she did her thing, looking like a fucking Stand. The patients had no idea what to make of me, the staff were scared of me, and the odd kid or so saw me as the coolest fucking thing in the world.

Which I was, and anyone that said otherwise was a filthy liar who lied.

"You look ridiculous." Like her!

Looking down to Amy, who was looking at me out of the corner of her eye, and through the reflection of the window, I huffed. "I looook amazing. Yooou're just jeaaalous that Iii'm so cooool."

Amy scoffed, turning towards the patient she was here for. Said patient was some knocked out old dude who had some heart problems or something, and put a hand on him. Apparently he had consented to healing before going under, so she didn't have to ask him for it. "You look like some kids Halloween costume. Plus, the whole spooky thing you're going for kinda wore off already with that annoying dragged out speech thing you're doing."

My eye twitched. "Bullshit! I'm fucking terrifying to these peons!"

She snorted, taking her hand off the old guy to give me a Smug grin. "Uh oh, you're slipping." Another twitch, and I poked the small of her back with a finger, making her yelp. "WUDDAFUQ!?"

The reaction made me snort, earning me a glare from the healer. "Whaaat? Cat got your tongue?"

Her eyes narrowed, and she raised a 'Menacing' fist at me. "I can and will punch you in the nuts."

I blinked. "... But I don't have any at the moment."

She twitched. "You'll have to turn back to yourself eventually." She had a point. "And when you do, I'll strike."

"... You know, telling me that just means I won't let my guard down, right?"

Amy shrugged, and started walking out of the room we were in. "Yeah, but the stress of staying on high alert will get to you, and when you make a mistake, I'll have my moment." She walked out of the door, and I followed along, fucking Baffled at what I'd just heard.

I mean, really, I had no idea how the hell she thought that was a good idea. Even if she did catch me off guard, I was wearing my suit, and could just go into Shield Mode so she could break her hand against my dick... (Okay, wait a minute, what the fuck is that thought?) The thought itself made me Confused, because when the hell would anyone ever think that unironically?

Shooing the thought away, I draped my arms over Amy's shoulders, getting the healer to pause and look up at me, a brow raised in silent question. "Thoughts are annoying."

She snorted at that. "Not even going to bother with the weird talk?"

Dropping my mask onto her head, I did a full body shrug, which was kinda easy when you had full control of said body. "Nah, bored of it now." I was also rethinking the whole thing because it was actually really Annoying and tedious to do.

After nodding, she looked forward, and went back to walking the halls, ignoring the looks we were getting. "You know, for a giant bandage, you're kind of comfortable." To emphasize that, she poked one of my wraps, humming as her Power tried to get a look at me.

Said Power was strange, I could feel something 'Looking' at me, but couldn't do anything about it. Though, at the same time, I could tell there wasn't any danger, so I didn't react when she touched me. "Unfortunately for you, this giant bandage is taken."

She let out a scoff, "Poor Khepri."

My eye twitched. "I can hear you you know."

Amy shrugged, going into another room with more patients. "You were supposed too."

"Whatever." I ignored the small Amused huff she let out. "Yeah yeah, laugh it up virgin."

Amy choked, and whipped her head up to me, making me readjust where my mask was as she looked at me. "Time the fuck out. You two..?" I eye smiled, and nodded. Her brow twitched, and she let out a breath as she turned away. "I was fucking joking earlier, but nooo, of course you two did the deed."

That just made me raise a brow. "Did you not expect us too?" The grunt was all the answer I needed. "So when you said 'Sexual intercourse could lead to unintended consequences, so you'll need to tell me about your expe...-'"

A wild swing went towards my mask, but I brought it back before it could connect. "APAPAP! Out of context!" Directing my mask to float over to the side of her head, I deadpanned at her. Seeing the look, she rolled her eyes. "You interrupt me, I interrupt you." You know what, that was fair. "Besides, I wasn't serious. I'd rather not know what you and Khepri get up too on your own time." That said, she looked at the confused woman in front of us, who had been silent the entire time, and held out her hand. "Do I have permission to heal you?"

"Um... Yes?" Her eyes hadn't left my form, which was also fair considering I was a floating torso, arms, and head made out of bandages.

Humming, Amy touched the woman, I mentally snickered at that, and did her thing. Knowing not to interrupt, I'd rather I didn't make Amy turn the woman into a fleshy pile of gore or a mutant, I waited till she was done to put my two cents in. "So, you don't want to know our kinks and sex stories?"

My healer friend twitched, arm raised to attack. "No, and if you start telling me about them, I'll be talking all about freaky eye shit I know about and had to deal with." And that was a threat I'd rather she not go through, so I gave in. Seeing that, she grinned, and hummed a triumphant tune.

Rolling my eyes at her, poked her cheek. "Awfully brave for someone in tickle distance."

She froze, head mechanically turning towards my mask. "You wouldn't."

I grinned, raising some fingers and wiggling them to emphasize my threat. "Say the word." We stared at each other for a bit at that, emerald met whatever color her eyes were, and she huffed, looking away first. "That's what I thought."

Amy scoffed, and walked out the room, my floating form following after her. "You're an asshole."

"No shit Sherlock, wanna cookie?"

"Why are you the way that you are?"

"I'm a sociopath with unlimited power."

She stopped, blinked, and looked over to me. We locked eyes for a moment, then she nodded and went back to walking. "Yeah, sounds about right."

I snorted. "Anyway, back to work healing slave!"

Amy flipped me off and walked into another room. She did the whole 'May I heal you' thing, fixed up the poor bastards, then went on with her day.

It was after a few more cases of doing that, that I noticed something and decided to ask about it. "By the way," She hummed to let me know she was listening. "Why are you fine with me acting like a harness?" Cause that's what I was at the moment. Her shoulders, stomach, lower legs, and even her ankles, were wrapped in my cloth, and she hadn't said anything about it. In my opinion, she looked badass, kind of like an Egyptian priest and her... Ba? I think that was what it was, (I'll need to check later, Yu-Gi-Oh can only tell me so much.) And to be fair, I was pretty sure she would've gotten onto my case about it, but she hadn't and I'd forgotten about it.

Hearing the question, Amy stopped, her face scrunching up in Confusion as she looked at the wraps around her shoulders/arms, then to her stomach and legs. After a moment or two of looking, she frowned, and looked over to me. "I don't know." Well that didn't inspire Confidence. "Get off for a sec." Going along with it, I unraveled, reforming by her side as she watched me slip off of her. The healer looked at her arms, poking her shoulder for some reason, before frowning a bit more, and looking over to me. "Yeah, I don't know..."

Hearing that, I mentally frowned. (Is it Shard bullshit?) I wasn't sure, and didn't exactly have a way to test it, but the idea was there.

"Anyway," I focused back onto her. "No more free ride. Walk around like a normal person now."

I raised a brow at her for that, and waved a hand up and down in front of me. "I'm literally a mummy. Where exactly is this 'Normal person' you speak of?"

She rolled her eyes at me. "You know what I mean asshole."

"I do. I just don't care." She groaned, which made me grin and eye smile at her. "Anywaaay, I'll just go back to being your Stand now." Unraveling again, I wrapped myself around her again, and brought my mask back onto her head, looking like a helmet. With my wraps around her, and my helmet set, I ended the whole thing by draping my arms over her shoulders. "Stando: Snare-Oh!" My inner chuuni was living for this.

Amy though, who was looking at this through a nearby window's reflection, facepalmed, dragging her hand down her face. "... God, you're so fucking stupid."

And I took that personally. "Oh fuck off, we look awesome."

Surprisingly, she didn't deny it. She even started looking at the reflection with a critical eye, taking in the wraps that loosely hung off her body, and the arms that draped off of her. front. Humming, she locked eyes with me through the reflection. "I mean, yeah, we do. Totally fitting the whole Egyptian thing... Well, might need to change my colors to tan and gold, but that wouldn't work since white and red is my staple." I was tempted to say something about that, but I didn't because then we'd get into color schemes and all that, and I wasn't in the mood for it. "Though," Lifting one of my arms, she narrowed her eyes, and started fiddling with my fingers. "You don't feel this, right?"

I shook my head. "Nah. No nervous system or anything, so I don't."

That just made her hum some more. "Good." She dropped the arm, looking back to me with a mean grin on her face. "Wouldn't want to tell your girlfriend you were feeling me up."

Her joke, cause we both knew that was what it was, just made me snort. "Please, we both know Khepri would feed my body to her bugs and use the bones as fertilizer if I did." There was also the fact the Bond existed, making me have no reason to ever cheat on or worry about my girlfriend breaking up with or cheating on me.

Amy just grinned even more. "As she should."

My eye twitched. "Let's just segue away from the topic of me being murdered over the nonexistent cheating on my girlfriend." She showed teeth, and I huffed. "Oh look, a horribly maimed person, so wonder, much wow."

My friend and new pain in the ass snickered, and started walking towards said 'Horribly maimed person', a dude with a cast. "Well, no rest for the wicked I guess."

"Oh hush you dramatic bitch."

"Fuck you."

"Happily taken and will never change."

Amy huffed, but we both saw the smile on her face. "Strongest Changer in the world, and he's whipped to his girlfriend."

I raised a brow. "It's a mutual whipping to be fair. I come down like the wrath of God on anyone that hurts her, and she drowns our enemies in a sea of bugs. Really, what more could I ask for?"

"Uhuh. Whatever you say lover boy." Looking away from me, she held her hand out to the guy in front of her. "Do I have permission to heal you?" The guy obviously said yes, and she did her thing.

While that happened, I started to look around a bit, kinda ge...- |Tess told me the shipment arrived.|

My eyes widened at that, and I mentally cheered. [All of it?!] Confirmation came to me, and I laughed. [Fucking finally!] With the materials I'd be getting, I could make a prototype Vita Chamber, and see how the physical thing held up to the schematics and theoretical capabilities it was meant to have. It'd also help me make sure that I could work on it without fucking it up.

"... What the hell is wrong with you?" Blinking, I broke out of my thoughts, and looked to Amy, who was looking at me like I was crazy. Seeing the look, she explained. "You just started laughing like a madman out of nowhere."

"Ah." The look and question made sense then. "My shipment of materials came in. Tinker Time is fun time."

Amy deadpanned at me for that, but shook it off and turned away. "Tinker's are idiots."

Given that it was aimed at me, I took it personally. "And short brunettes are short, what's your point?"

Her eye twitched, and I grinned in Satisfaction. "I hate you. With every fiber of my being, I hate you."

I scoffed. "Love you too!" She mimed a gag, and I rolled my eyes. "You have no one or thing to gag on, so hush." Amy actually choked at that, and I laughed at her misfortune. "Suffer plebeian scum! Mwahahaha!"

When she stopped coughing, she gave me a 'Look.' "Did you just do a stereotypical villain laugh?"

Now it was my turn to deadpan at her. "I'm literally a giant mummy. What else do you want from me?"

Stopping for a moment, she thought about it, then nodded. "You know what? That's fair." Of course it was. "Anyway, you gonna go Tinker now?"

Blinking, I thought about it for a second, then nodded. "Yes. There's something I need to build." That said, I unwrapped myself from Amy, reforming by her side. Tapping the dial, I turned back into myself, and spread my arms. Seeing the cue, she gave me another 'Look', which I rolled my eyes at. "We're both needy and somewhat affection starved," Taylor and I were on the mend, but we both liked hugs and stuff. "So get your ass over here."

The deadpan was hilarious in my opinion. Though, Surprisingly, she reached out. I kept track of her hands, my earlier Suspicion about Shard bullshit getting a little more ground as her hands reached for my neck, only for her to hesitate and settle for a one arm hug instead. That was fine with me though, and I reciprocated. We broke it off after a second or two, and I nodded at Amy, who had a small smile on her face. "Let us know if you need anything. As partners and 'Reluctant' friends," She scoffed, and I rolled my eyes. "We'll be there."

Her smile curled up a little more, and she gave me a nod. "I'll probably call Khepri though, she's much better then you after all."

I grinned, and flipped her off, getting one right back. "Whatever. Later Amy." Without letting her get the chance to say it back, I ported back home. There was work to be done, and by God was I going to do it.