I lost all of that lifeforaturally but I wasn't all that bothered by it sihe six adult Prowlers had between 456 and 740 units of lifeforce each whietted me a bit under 3000 units and put me back right around where the Colossus left me inally, 12,875 units currently.
'Perhaps it was because it was a cub and thus it's body wasn't developed enough to hahat sort of power?' I questioned and decided to go find an adult to test this theory on.
It took me a while since apparently that whole fug area beloo that but I did eventually find another Prowler about an hour of travel ter. I snuck up on it and jumped onto it's back to wrestle it down.
"SHHHHH! SHHHHH! Just let it happen!" I yelled at the thing that thrashed and s me to get me off but I utting my new muscles to good work.
I activated my powers and immediately stuffed 500 units of lifeforto the thing. It stiffened just like the cub and I rolled off it and bolted in case it went to explode.-
From a safe distance away I watched to see what would happen. At first the thing just stood there but quickly I noticed that it's muscles began to swell and it's size increased though it certainly didn't appear to be exploding. After a few moment the ge stopped and to my surprise I saw that the name of the creature had ged from just pin [Prowler] to [Dread Prowler]. The now definitely more powerful beast immediately turo gre at me with slightly glowing yellow eyes.
"I don't suppose yoing to decre undying loyalty since I gave you this pht?" I asked while moving my hand to my holstered gun.
"MEEERRROOOOAW!" A deep rumbling roar came from the feline as it flexed it's now very muscur legs to charge.
"Didn't think so." I muttered and drew my gun before squeezing off four shht at it.
All the shots nded and I hoped that was going to be the end of that matter but I was mistaken. The bullets hit the bark skin and chipped of a few pieces but were deflected after that.
"Oh shit!" I shouted and didn't hesitate to empty the st three shots before holstering the gun and dodging as the beast pou me.
While it was in mid air I threunch right at it's side. Pain radiated from my knuckles on impact as it was VERY simir to pung a tree. The roughness of the bark tore the skin on my knuckles slightly but it wasn't even enough to draw blood with my skins current durability. It wouldn't even have hurt if it wasn't for the fact my bodies fists hadn't been tempered by years of impacts unlike my fists when I died.-
In a manner of speaking even with my praraits this body was entirely inferior to the one I had honed for nearly two whole decades oh. My traits were just making it so I could cheat the feats that my previous body could only do after so much training. [Dense bones] kept my bones from breaking and [Armored ski my skin from busting open from so much ford the roughness of the beasts bark skin. While I doubted my punch hit the beast all that much it did serve another purpose, distance. My strength was not small at the moment and I hit a target that was in midair so naturally it got pushed away from me.-
Not much mind you since I wasn't superhumanly strong or anything but I still opened a good three or so feet that I used to distance myself even further while it was readjusting itself after getting off banced by the blow. I used my left hand to open my satchel and rea for the ammo I had been colleg as I went when something ged.
"BANG!" A loud gunsh out and the beasts head burst like a watermelon.
I went to reay gun and another sh out but this time the bullet nded iree behind me, mere inches right of my head. I froze and tried not to grin when my adrenaliarted pumping harder as death breathed down my neck.
"Now it'd be a right shame if I had to put down a kid on at of him not knowing what's good for him. Real burden on the mind child killin." a Male voice spoke from the distance just loud enough for a normal person to hear but for me he may as well have been yelling.
"I don't want any trouble!" I called out sincerely while holding my hands up.
"Coulda had me fooled tangoing with a big ol Prowler like that, even puhe thing if I recall." The voice said with what I could have sworn sounded like... praise?
At the same time however this person had already uionally told me that they showed up after the fight started and didn't see me experimenting with my powers. This was good news for me because I wasn't sure how that would be perceived by other people. Some might see it positively while others might try to kill me on sight, I didn't know.-
"Now here's how we're gonna py this kid. I'ma walk over reeaal slow like with my gun trained on that shiny dome of yours. You make any moves I might by ce misstrue as "hostile" and I won't hesitate to pay those therapy bills, you get me?" The voice said and I nodded.
I heard the dry leaves and pnts get stepped on as the person approached but I remaiill even as I caught a whiff of the guy. He smelled of gun powder and sweat which was all I o know that I had no ce of winning here if we got into a gunfight.-
When he walked out my first thought was 'Young' and I don't mean inexperienced but rather the guy looked maybe twenty. He was a lean built dark skinned man with a light browher duster coat and matg leather hat decorated with bullets. In his hand he had a rather beefy looking revolver pointed right at my head.
"Alright kid now I'ma need you to toss over that piece at your hip, nid easy. It'll keep both of us safe if you don't go getting any funny ideas." He said calmly and smoothly.
I was a bit unwilling but I was literally staring down a barrel here so I thought it best not to give this man a reason to introduce me to one of his bullets. I slowly lowered my right hand and gripped the handle of my gun with my fiips and slowly drew it out of the holster before tossing it to the grouween us.
"BLING!" I wi the chime it made as the e glow exploded out of it.
"Damn kid that's a fine as on you had! Don't you worry your shihough i'ma give it back if and when I decide you'll not shoot me in the back with it the first ce you get. Till then though I'll keep it safe with me. Now you go ahead and toss over that bag too, that one I'll give back right away if you don't have anymuns stashed away in it." the dude said as he stashed away my gun.
"No guns, just bullets and an item I ied." I said holy.
"You seem like you're shooting straight with me but just as well toss it over, promise I won't take nothing if there aren't any guns like you say." he said and I sighed but tossed over my satchel as well.
He flipped the tch open and unceremoniously dumped the bags tent onto the forest floor. His eyes immediately narrowed in on the sphere that was my house.
"Hooo buddy! Now there a dangerous thing for a kid to be walking around, where'd you get it? Don't go tellihat Grogshit about iing it her, the real story." The guy said much more seriously this time.
"I'm not lying, I did i it just not from family. I had to fight a big ass moo get it, thing was dumb as rocks though." I said holy.
"You opened a vault." he said with wide eyes.
It wasn't a questioher but a statement and ohat I clearly couldn't argue with either.
"That sounds abht, is that a problem?" I asked testingly.
The guy stuffed the bullets and my house ba the bag and tossed it bae before spinning his gun by the trigger guard and holstering it at his waist. To my surprise he then took out my gun and tossed it to me.
"If you really did open a vault and kill the moo get that thing, whatever it is, I think we may have gotten off on the wrong foot. Hopefully giving that back will earn enough trust to vince you to have a talk with my boss. Names Cy by the way." The guy said holding out his hand.
I was fused but not the sort to look a gift horse in the mouth and put my gun and satchel ba their rightful pces.
"Alexander Drake, go by Alex though." I said taking the offered hand.
"Strong name, iic. Probably w why I ged my tune right quick when you told me how you got that fancy alien thing right? Smuggler by trade I am, damn good ooo if I say so myself. I mostly work for the Jakobs these days, the family not the corporation. Way I see it the six gaxies have been hunting vaults for decades now ever sis got theirs on Promethea. If you've gone and opened one up it's only right I set you up with old man Monty Jakobs and if that means trying to butter you up a bit to get you to sell the vault to him then I figure I best do it." Cy said holy.
"A few things, First six gaxies? Sed I have no idea about any Jakobs, family or otherwise. Third, whats Ats or Promethea? And Finally theres more than one vault?" I quick fired questions at the guy and he froze.
"You been living under a rock or something? That's all on knowledge even people on a backwater p like this know." he said fused.
"Amnesia I'm afraid. Judging from the bnk look on your face I should expin. I remember some things like my name and how to use a gun and shield but as for pretty muything else I got nothing. First thing I remember was waking up in the forest with my gun and shield and then stumbling unto the vault which I opened." I said holy.
Obviously I couldn't remember anything when I traded all those memories for my powers but I couldly say that now could I? It was still teically amnesia though even if artificially created so I wasn't lying.-
"DAMN! 't even begin to imagine what that's like. Don't you worry, Ol Monty's not the ge of people but he's got a heart of gold. We tell him your story and he'll see yht, might even offer you a job siheres got to be something special about you to quer a vault in your state. You just follow my lead and I'll take you to him, he'll likely want to meet you in person after all." Cy said and turo walk off clearly expeg me to follow him and I was going to too.
