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“The rain has been a really big help recently which is why we’re kinda going crazy about it recently and AH!” They fell to their knees in pain still shaking from the force of the lightning strike. The blood dripping from their eye falling way heavier than normal.
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They jolted upwards in a panic his hand immediately flying towards his eyes. No blood. Thank the gods. He still felt the shock of the lightning strike pulsing through his veins. He gets up out of his sleeping bag, throwing the covers off in a daze, running to find the most reflective surface in their base. He checked his reflection to find many more lightning scars running across his face. He lifted his goggles to check the damage to find that his once sky blue eyes had changed to dark pink with a slight glow that was thankfully covered by their goggles.
What are they gonna tell the rest of his team? Manes? IV? Ite? Theres no excuse for gaining scars overnight. Luckily they got to keep their googles otherwise he’d be in serious trouble. Just get through the day Ajax Ratchet.
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He was rudely awoken by manes shaking him violently. The static had cone back. He was planning on showing them what had changed but he didn’t doubt that they wouldn’t find out anyway. The sound of many furnaces is what really got him out of his sleep trance.
“Wow. Guess I was asleep for a long time huh?” He said looking around to see all the new additions. “Did you get magic?”
“Oh yeah. I also got a shot gun in the time you’ve been asleep.”
Great. He had probably slept for hours. He may have started picking up on old habits which really wasn’t helpful for this stupid death game. It’s not like they hadn’t done this before but this time was different.
Maybe it was time to work on machines.
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They had made good progress on his machine room but something tugged at his chest. They were finally alone enough to feel comfortable sharing the change in appearance to the things static. Afraid of what the others would say, he blocked off the door to their room in hopes of privacy.
The static gave a very weird reaction to their eyes specifically saying name that sounded far too familiar but distant all the same. They were freaking out. Then ratchet heard the sound of footsteps behind him noticing too late to pull back down his goggles.
“Ratchet are you good? You’ve been gone for like 30 minutes. We’ve been calling for you for-“ Ratchet had turned around to face towards IV. “Ratchet whats going on?”
“I- um,” he stuttered out.
“What happened to your eyes? Are those more scars?” IV had to many questions. None of which he had the answers to.
“I- I don’t know. I just woke up today after a horrible dream and felt wrong? I don’t know.”
“Do you want me to call-“ “NO!” He rushes towards them, “just don’t tell anyone please”
“Okay”
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Atlas was back. Yippee.
They were hoping to not run into him. Anytime soon but by the sound of it he knows where their base is. It was only a matter of time before they ran into each other.
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Them and saline had been trying to kill an over powered zombie when atlas swooped in and killed it in one swoop of his sword.
“Atlas?” He said while slowly pulling off his goggles revealing the now bright pink glowing eyes replacing his normal sky blue ones.
“…Ajax?”
“Rondael?”