Bracelets for the soul

    Cyrus blinked in surprise as he listened to Aberdeen blurt out their thoughts, raising an eyebrow and chuckling a bit. "You really want me to stay, don't ya," he smirked wryly. The scientist curiously stared at them for a quiet moment and studied their body language, knowing he wouldn't be getting any answers about their train of thought out of their prosthetic face. But after a couple beats of silence he sighed, bringing his gaze towards Alraada.

    "Yeah... Lettuce really needs someone to be a dork around and I certainly fit the bill for that, heh. She's a lonely kid, y'know? Heh... Hopefully she's doing okay after that shitshow." He could always provide both of them with his e-mail or number if necessary but, would Alraada really be able to survive with that unstable luchador? How is that even my responsibility?
 
    Cyrus ran a hand through his hair, taking one more look at the surrounding debris before looking back to Aberdeen, patting them on the shoulder. "Anyways, I'll take all your arguments into consideration and sleep on it," he chuckled quietly and sighed. "...Thanks, Hedgehog."

    He could practically feel the exhaustion and stress etched into his features. Looking towards the scientists, he called out, "Ready to go when you ladies are."

The scientists made sure everybody left the place making sure nobody had left anything behind.
The people who had not gone on to do their own thing were greeted with a beautiful hotel, seemingly a four star one at that.
Everybody was escorted to their two (or three) person room with their soulmate(s), with all their luggage from the plane neatly put down in the room where they were to stay.
The scientists wished them all a good night's sleep, and Elenara offered to take care of anyone who may have been injured.
The test subjects, when the scientists were gone, were free to do what they wished in the hotel.


The scientists will monitor the test subjects a little closer, especially the ones who were all outside.

The next couple of hours consisted of nothing special. Aberdeen waited in the back of the warehouse as more of the 'audience' showed up as well as their opponents. They let out a sigh of utter annoyance at the fact they'd have to throw the fight tonight. It was so stupid. After all the shit they'd dealt with tonight, they really needed to let loose on somebody. Heavy motioned for Aberdeen to come over, to which they obliged. The ring was set up, made of poorly put together wooden planks. They'd crumble if one of these fighters were thrown into them. Aberdeen shrugged, as it wouldn't matter. They had to throw the fight.

No.....They thought to themself. I'm not throwing this goddamn fight...I need this after the night I've had... Aberdeen's aura faded into red as they hopped into the ring. The Steel Twins hopped over the other side, gloating and taunting Aberdeen, to which they got no response out of them. The fight was set to start, when Heavy leaned over the ring and whispered to the fighter, his words inaudible to the screaming crowd.



Aberdeen's plan followed through without an issue. First they tore The Steel Twins to bloody pieces(literally) to which the crowd went wild. Their mass cheering turned into mass panic however when they realized Aberdeen was not done with THEIR match. The headless being broke through the poorly constructed ring, and attacked everyone in the warehouse until each and every person there was killed. By the end of it, Aberdeen was a bloody mess, covered in scratches and bruises of the people who tried fighting for their lives, despite it being utterly hopeless.

Aberdeen walked over to one of the beams holding the warehouse up and took a breather, still not being able to shake the feeling of being watched.

Maicy drink more of her orange soda, she looked at the time. It's been a while. How long is the errend that Aberdeen has to do? Hopefully they're doing okay..

Just then, she recieved a video message on her phone. Oh, something she doesn't have to text to. Nice.

She sees the video message.

((Video Message))



Maicy smiled.

They're right. Maicy should'nt have bottle up these type of emotions. She would have Aberdeen to talk to. And maybe some of the other people here. Maybe when the time is right though.

"Thanks guys.."

A grotesque mixture of growls, hisses, and gurgles sounded through the holes in the jagged walls of the man’s cave, all seeming to be in response to the man’s venting.

“Aww! That’s so sweet!” he chimed. “I love you all, too! I’ll see you guys later, OK?” Alti turned away from the beasts and back to a smoother area of the chamber, running a hand across its face as he stared blankly into his reflection. “I just don’t understand people, I guess…” he sighed as his words trailed off, his nails beginning to scrape against the surface. Yelling about tonight definitely took some of the edge off, but there still laid a feeling of dull uneasiness in the pit of his stomach. He pondered at this, his mind hastily replaying the events from a few minutes ago over and over as he tried to tear any form of understanding. He could… sort of able to grasp Cyrus’ reaction to the portal, but fighting? What was so wrong about that? He said ‘play nice’, and I did. That bitch would’ve been dead in any other case…. But that didn’t seem to be enough.

“Might as well check up on ‘em…” he muttered. He scraped out a portal not too far away from the group, but just enough that he wouldn’t be seen. The first thing that catches his attention was his soulmate and Aberdeen talking, the scientist’s defeated demeanor making the weight heavier. While he couldn’t hear the actual conversation, it was quite obvious what was going on: his “soulmate” was going to leave. Because of him. And then he’d be alone again. Fuck. Had he messed up that badly? Alti groaned in frustration as the group began to head out for some hotel, leaving Aberdeen behind. Alti gasped as his eyes glimmered at the chance of hope before him. Judging by how the conversation with Aberdeen seemed to lighten the scientist’s mood a bit, it’d only make sense that they’d be able to help him right this mind-numbing wrong.

He was thrown out of his stupor as the hedgehog began to slip out of view. Just where were they going? Alti panicked once Aberdeen hailed a cab, his determination suddenly pushing him to scratch a rift in the distance-- right in the back of the vehicle. Alti sighed in relief as his window changed. Got ‘em., he thought as he stared Aberdeen down with one eye, the portal having being small enough itself to not be noticed, but still be able to see. Wherever they were going now, he was going to follow to the very end.

They arrived at what looked like an abandoned warehouse. Alti followed Aberdeen inside the building completely unseen. Fighting the burning need to step out and attract attention, Alti pushed his initial objective to the side and allowed his curiosity to get the best of him as he listened to them and their… acquaintance(?) chat.

And then Aberdeen took their head off. WOW.

Alti tried his best to stifle his excitement at the entire scene, from the fake head to the talks of rigged fights to Aberdeen undressing. Ahhh, they’re so exciting! he thought, his hand clenched over his mouth as he hid his girlish giggles. The smoke erupting from the fighter’s neck didn’t appear to bother him at all. He had seen stranger things in his lifetime.


Alti wasn’t left with much time to return his focus once the match started. He watched them tear into their opponents with a disturbing amount of interest, at some point projecting both him and Vale in the ring and cackling madly as he watched the carnage. Somehow, that calmed him down, and once the warehouse was silenced, Alti was now perfectly in control of his emotions, but was still shaken a bit inside. He didn’t let that show, though.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaberdeeeeeeeeeeeeen~, he sang as he fell from the height and landed straight on his heels, skipping along the mangled corpses before wrapping his arms around theirs. “That. Was. AMAZING!!!!”

Alti, completely unfazed by the presence of the dead bodies littered around the blood-drenched floor, stood confused at the fighter's response.

"Y-yeah, I totally can." he said with a small hint of concern in his voice. He took a few steps toward Aberdeen and stood close enough to them to get a better view of the bodies, but still far enough that he wouldn't be stepping in vomit. Blood was completely fine, but vomit? Oh, nooooo.... Alti cringed as he settled on the thought, but soon wiped it away as he threw all of his focus onto the late audience.

With a simple tap of the foot, the air stood still, the ground trembling slightly. Without warning, portals scattered themselves underneath the deceased, creating chasms to another universe to which they plummeted. Low snarling noises could be detected underneath the ground before the bodies landed with dull thud sounds. Slowly, the uniform rifts in the floor closed as the beasts inside tore at the new meat. When all was said and done, Alti turned back to the trembling fighter.

"Better?"

While waiting for Aberdeen, Maicy was spending the time watching television She is finishing watching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

"And up next, we have 007 coming up" said the announcer of the T.V.

"Fuck you." Maicy said very bluntly while changing the channel.

"Up next on TBS, Family Guy!"

"Oh hell no!"

She changed the channel. It's a documentary on sheep. Maicy began to feel a little sleepy.

"Well shit."

Maicy is still able to write a note for Aberdeen to read when they get back.

"Aberdeen, I've been changing the channel to avoid some programs that I don't wanna see and I ended up watching a documentary on sheep. So, that pretty much caused me to be tired."

As Maicy wrote that down, she thought about something. What if Aberdeen needed something? She continue to write down.

"If there is anything you wanna ask me about, feel free to wake me up."

She folded the note in half and wrote "Sorry for dozing off."

She left the note on the table for Aberdeen to read.

Maicy went to the bed and covered herself in the blanket.

"Stupid sheep documentary.."

And with that, Maicy drifted off to sleep.