Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-29194274-20180223002613/@comment-26892768-20180223142309

Most of my heroes on the Hero Planet are still debating whether to join, save for the ones that already have, and the Doctor Riders, who have all collectively decided to not join.

They leave while pushing out Kuroto, who is most certainly not insisting that he should join because clearly he would pass the test behind Poppy's hand.

Meanwhile, in "things I should've addressed earlier"-land...

"They expect me to fully explain everything to the Enchantress and Reidak, so I expect they'll be gone for a while." Cronus answers. "So...I'm going to explain everything."

He then teleports, taking the Enchantress, Avak, Reidak, and Makuta with him.

They reappear in a cave of some sort, filled with various objects and files - save for a certain sword that he's put elsewhere.

"...What...is all this?" The Enchantress asks, looking around.

"A habit of mine." Cronus walks further in. "Even though I've never really had the time to plan anything anymore, I still have a tendency to...research. Collect bargaining chips. In case it would be in my interest to make a deal with someone."

The Enchantress raises an eyebrow.

"Convenient, really, considering that we can use one of those bargaining chips for a different purpose now." Cronus states.

Avak and Reidak are both looking at him now.

"Currently, Double has us beneath her thumb. She holds my Bugvisor 2 and my Taddle Chronicle Gashat hostage, and anyone else...well, she's a shapeshifter. She can always turn into someone stronger." Cronus starts. "I have a plan, and in order to accomplish that plan, we need to get their guard down. Do them a few favors, perhaps. Like, say..."

He pulls a large, human-sized canister up on it's bottom, turning it so that his audience can see what's inside.

"Is that..." The Enchantress looks at the thing inside carefully.

"Blood Stalk. Identity unknown, due to him severely disfiguring his own face with an electric attack during his last moments." Cronus confirms. "I even got a copy of the transformation device he used back then - it took a while, but ultimately, I figured it was worth it. A good bargaining chip for Gentoku - a lost ally brought back from the dead. Of course, I was intending to find a way to bring him back to life if I ever intended to make the deal, but...I believe we have what we need now; am I right?"

The Enchantress looks at Cronus, then back at the perserved body of Blood Stalk. "...I should be able to revive him, if that's what you're planning. I'm guessing we're bringing him back because he worked with the man made of acid?"

"His name is Meltdown; and yes." Cronus nods. "A new ally might help bring their guard down. Convince them that we're on their side...until the time comes."

The Enchantress nods slowly. "Alright...I'll do my best."

Cronus opens the canister. The Enchantress focuses her power, and then uses it on the corpse of Blood Stalk.

His wounds heal. The effect of time on his body is reversed. His skin turns green. His face repairs itself...

''"Ahhhh..." ''The man behind the mask of Blood Stalk stretches, rolling his neck a bit. "...Feels good to not be dead. But, ah, no offense, I just don't think green suits me..."

The Enchantress is looking a bit stunned - and is even more stunned when the man holds his hand to his face and gray mist sprays out of it, changing the color of his face back to the hue it once had. She didn't give him that power...but she's more focused on the face.

"...I wasn't expecting you to look so...friendly." The Enchantress admits.

"Well, it helps throw people off, doesn't it?" Blood Stalk, or, as he's more commonly known outside his armor, Soichi Isurugi, shrugs, grinning.

Elsewhere, in another universe that just recently had it's first visitors from different universes, a portal snaps open, and a teddy bear falls to the ground.

SCP-1048 gets up, brushing itself off. Well, this is unexpected, to say the least. But it can work with this. I mean, it was pretty much running free before, so this is nothing new...

And then it notices something - the heavily damaged Exo-Toa Zakaku was using as a body earlier.

It walks over. Now who would leave a perfectly good robot out in the middle of the forest? Why, this is a complete disgrace to it, to just leave it in the woods and let it rust! The least SCP-1048 can do is give the thing some purpose.

It hops onto the Exo-Toa. Hmmm...hollow, clearly meant to be used as a suit of some sort, although perfectly capable of walking around on it's own. SCP-1048 doesn't really need a suit, but it being hollow does give SCP-1048 some ideas...and what's this? What was clearly once a functioning missile launcher? Well, that could be very useful indeed.

Rubbing it's...for lack of a better term, "paws" together, SCP-1048 begins to work on the Exo-Toa.