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Chapter One:
The Domed City of Neo Marina Wharf, a shining bastion of civilization in the post climate crisis in CE 2145. Half of the city lies submerged in an interconnecting network of terrariums and reverse aquariums, the rest lies above land separated from the harsh global climate by a climate controlled dome with a simulated sky.
Inside the city... a skyscraper is on FIRE
Smoke billows into the domed sky and sirens blare into the mundane cacophony of city sounds below. The upper floors of the city are entirely engulfed in a raging inferno and the flames slowly begin to rifle down the tower.
Within the dark haze of the smoke a figure stands unfazed.
The figure tosses its head back and lets out a might bellowing and unhinged laugh that echoes off of the rooftop fixtures into the sky beyond. They Turn dramatically towards the ledge of the roof and point towards the horizon and cry out, a declaration of purpose and a challenge: “I AM PYROSAUR!!! AAAHHHAHAHAHA!!!”
Orange light glints off the sharp carnivorous teeth of this mighty beast as he continues his challenge. “COME OUT AND FACE ME, RESCUE RELAY!!!”
The fire continues to burn into the sky
Meanwhile:
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Sirens blare lighting up the hallways of the undersea base red and blue as workers and robots scramble.
A broad hand grabs a jacket off it’s designated hook and straps it across broad shoulders. A Green number 3 is emblazoned on the shoulder and chest. Makoto runs to catch up with the rest of his squad grabbing a blue accented jacket off the rack as he passes.
“Haru!” he calls out.
Haru glances up from the jeep he’s preparing to see a mass of fabric flying through the air at him. He deftly snatches it out of the air and tucks it under his arm. “Thanks” he mutters.
“Of course,” Makoto says, smiling.
“Save the flirting for the after party boys.” Rin says striding confidently into the room. He snaps his goggles into place before continuing.
“We’ve got a five alarm fire and a level three bogey that isn’t going to wait for you.” he turns and smirks knowingly at both of them, ”and neither are we.”
Haru rolls his eyes and disconnects the pump from the tank, holstering it back in its rack.
Nagisa runs into the room holding two jackets in his hand. He skids to a halt hopping on one foot as he loses his balance for a moment nearly crashing into a nearby storage cabinet.
His jacket is grabbed by the hand of a bespectacled blue haired scientist. The man pulls the blonde back to his feet. “Be more careful.”
“Sorry, Rei-chan.“ Nagisa apologizes and hands the scientist his jacket.
“Thank you, Nagisa kun” Rei said as he shrugged out of his lab coat and grabbed his jacket.
“REI, NAGISA LET”S GO!!!” Rin shouts over the blaring klaxon screaming overhead.
The floor under the jeep starts sinking into the floor.
“Right!”
“Coming!”
The two call out at the same time talking over each other, and they scramble towards the jeep.
Nagisa jumps off the ledge and lands next to Makoto in the back he turns and holds his arms out “come on Rei, toss it to me!”
These are very delicate Nagisa”
“Rei, get in or get left,” Rin calls up from the front seat “let’s go.”
“Honestly, you all are incorrigible.”
Rei throws the briefcase to Nagisa and down, landing awkwardly on top of Nagisa and Makoto.
“Wh-Hey watch it Rei.”
“Easy there you two.” Makoto smiles “What took so long?”
“Well! I’m happy you asked Makoto!”
Rin rolls his eyes and drums his fingers on the steering wheel, “Here we go.”
Haru studies Rin's expression. His face is set, unmoving.
“Dr. Nitori and myself were hard at work!” Rei grabs the suitcase from Nagisa and opens it before everyone. “On these!”
Inside the case are an assembly of 5 gleaming wrist watches of some cyberpunk-esque design with buttons and lights liberally dispersed on each.
Nagisa cocks his head to the side in confusion, “our morphers?
“Not just our morphers,” Rei sets the suitcase on his lap and passes the watch like devices to their color coded owners. “New and improved morphers.”
Haru takes his morpher as it's handed to him. Looking at it in his hand. he turns it over and runs his finger over a set of tally marks scored into the back.
Rin meets Haru’s gaze concerned. He looks up into the rear view mirror. “You’re gonna have to explain this one to us Einstein.”
“It’s quite simple really,” Rei pushes his glasses up his nose and leans forward dramatically. “By channeling the alignment of our powers with the morphing grid we were able to isolate the frequency modulation of the peak vector of power oscillation within the fluctuation of the grid at the maximum moment of synergistic synchronization.”
Nagisa and Makoto look at eachother wide eyed.
Rei continues, “It was honestly quite beautiful to see such a degree of seminal variance within the optimum variation of the grids higgs field, and for it to respond to that input at that intensity… it was nothing short of pure. Beauty.”
Haru sighs.
Rei continues, “After Nitori isolated that factor it was child’s play to amplify that variable across the entire spectrum of our interaction within the grid and make that the new baseline of entrance variation.”
Rin grits his teeth “Could you TRY repeating that in terms the rest of us could understand?”
Rei stutters to a halt. “Right, sorry everyone.”
“Simply put, we isolated how powerful our powers were when we combined all of our weapons for our ultimate attack and used that information to design new powers based on our old powers.”
“So that means?”
“It means that we’re even more powerful than we used to be.” Haru says calmly before turning in his chair. “Thank you Rei, good job.”
“Of course, I was only doing my part.”
“You did good Rei-chan”
Nagisa grabs Rei’s hands in his own and stares at him smiling brightly.
. . .
The Jeep shoots out of the underpass out into the city daylight. The massive structure they just left immediately begins sinking back into the ground.
“Well we've got a chance to try these new powers out.” Rei says grinning. He leans forward and grips the steering wheel harder.
“Let’s kick some ass.”
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