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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 18, 2021 9:22:40 GMT -4
Yusaku chukled. "Yeah...I've been told I'm a little insistent on that..." He conceded, happily noticing that Daw was indeed willing to wear him for a while by removing his boots for him. He would soon ask the reason. The robotic cat would hop closer and boop the guy's nose in a playful manner. "You don't need boots when you have paws, silly!" The paw used to boop would then be placed on the student's chest. "Hold still for just a momen yeah? Oh, and maybe have your hands out of your pockets. Makes things easier you know." From that moment, Yusaku's form would wiggle and melt. In a matter of seconds Dax's chest would be covered in tiny nanomachines as the robotic cat assembled himself onto the other boy. The swarm would quickly harden back into form, squeezing the soon to be pilot tight.
Dax's legs would soon be swallowed by the nanosuit as it literally assembled itself onto his body. Yusaku's harder shell would push slightly against the other's students muscles, offering more support for the slight increase in body weight. Dax would find his height increased as well as his feet turned into metallic paws. His arms and hands would be soon swallowed up by the self assembling machinery and share his legs' fate.
In a matter of seconds Dax had changed. From the neck down he had a completely metallic body shaped like a cat, complete with a long tail wagging behind him. His new shell proceeded to shift and tighten up around his silhouette to better adjust to his proportions. Outside of the mostly black exterior, neon green highlights and the white paws, silver colored stripes would begin to appear on his thigs and back, soon spreading to neck and arms as well.
Yet, Dax would only have a few moments to examine his new looks before the nanomachines comprising Yusaku activated again and finished the job by swallowing the brunette's head inside a pointy eared cat shaped helmet. Finally, in the darkness of Yusaku's interior, a shiver would cause the new Pilot to feel his whole body go numb.
"There we go!" Yusaku's voice chimed right in Dax's ears. The helmet he was wearing having integrated headphones to communicate with the robot he was now inside of. "I'm going to handle things to you know. Link in 3...2...1!"
When Dax regained his sight and other senses he probably would feel different. A little heavier... and outside of a slight green tint in his vision, he would also soon notice the coldness of the concrete floor beneath his feet-paws as well as the tail wagging slowly behind him.
"Tah dah!" Yusaku chimed, chuckling. "We are one and the same now! You see what I see and feel what I feel. We also share the same movements." He would add, showing that by gently moving their right arm up and down. "Uh...where do these stripes come from? I thought I assembled myself correctly..." The robot would take but a moment to glance down, noticing that something wasn't as he had predicted.
"Hm...weird...though it almost makes me look like a tiger. Maybe your psychic abilitys causes some interference with my Haptic sensors? I might need to calibrate that. Structural integrity is fine though so I could regulate assembly spe- oh, sorry. I was getting carried away. Feel free to move around and do what you want, I'll fix the stripes soon enough."
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Post by Dax Maboroshi on May 18, 2021 13:54:05 GMT -4
Dax took a small step back. He really didn't like people, especially strangers he just met, touching his chest. He didn't know how good Yusaku's sensors were, but he could feel the muscles of his chest felt bigger than your average man's. Still, Dax slipped his hands out of his pockets and watched in both shock and horror as the other boy in front of him began to melt away, his form spreading across Dax's chest. "Wait-" He tried to get out before it took over. It wrapped around his body, squeezing him. It felt constrictive, a little too skin tight. It was a little claustrophobic too. Yet in a matter of seconds, his body was now wrapped in that high-tech suit of armor. He looked down at himself, only having a moment to admire it before his body went numb, his world plunging into darkness.
Dax began to feel panic bubbling in his chest. He couldn't move, couldn't breathe. Then, in a blink of an eye, everything came back. His vision had a weird green tint, but he didn't really mind. He just focused on breathing as he took note of all the differences. He felt heavier, coldness seeping into his feet, and weird movement from his lower back. His arms slowly raised, turning his paws over. A bit bulky, not good at all if he wanted to still use his support weapon. Curiously, his hands moved to his chest next, feeling how flat - if at all - Yusaku had made it. While his binder did a good job flattening him out, it couldn't remove the mass entirely. Even when he wore his binder, wearing something skintight would expose the roundness of his chest. However, he was slightly surprised to feel a completely flat surface. Yusaku had to have felt his chest. So did he somehow know and just automatically flatten him out?
"N-no," he suddenly chimed in when he heard Yusaku talking about removing the stripes. "I like them." As he waited for the changes to be made, he took a first step, feeling both heavy and light at the same time. It was weird, but not really in a bad way. He looked over his shoulder, noting the tail now swishing behind him. "So...what's all the things I can do in this? I mean, do in you? Can you fly?"
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"Cybrex"
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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 18, 2021 18:01:18 GMT -4
Yusaku would have tilted his head when Dax asked to keep the weird stripes things. "Oh...uuh...well, I guess there is nothing bad with them outside of how jarring this looks. Here, lemme do this." Dax's body began squirming lightly. All the stripes would wiggle and then smooth out as Yusaku turned tem from jagged rips to more tiger like silver stripes, shifting slightly from cat proportions to tiger proportions as well, ending up with slightly pointier ears and longer tail. "There we go. Now at least it looks a bit better, don't you think?"
With the changes and adjustments done, Yusaku quieted down so that Dax could have his time exploring his new body. "Oh? What you can do with me?" He repeated. "Well, for starters, you should be way more mobile and fast. Also you'd probably punch straight through a tank, for starters. Aaand for as long as I am with you, I guess I also can dodge attacks for you and always have you fall on our paws." Was his answer to that question. Hopefully it would help Dax figure out just how much more powerful he was.
"Oh right, almost forgot. You're pretty much inside a concrete bunker. My armor hardens alot, despite you being able to feel what I feel."
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Post by Dax Maboroshi on May 18, 2021 18:35:45 GMT -4
Dax squirmed along with Yusaku as he adjusted the stripes to be more streamlined, sleeker. "There we go. Looks good." He nodded, but as he listened to the cyborg list off everything they could do, he began to notice something odd. It was the language he was using. Dax hadn't fully grasped what this union meant, how they were now one in the same, two halves of a whole. To him, he was just a normal guy wearing a highly-advanced suit of mechanical armor. "Wait, 'fall on our paws'? Don't you mean land on my feet? Or your paws? This is your body, you're just letting me borrow it."
As he waited for an answer, he looked around at the landscape spread out around the training facilities. The length of the building stretched out before him and Dax got an idea. Yusaku might have felt the idea too, depending on how connected their thoughts were at this first connection, but Dax suddenly broke into a sprint. He cleared the full length of the roof in a few seconds, already showing off his impressive speed. It felt like his legs were now tightly coiled and compacted springs and he sprung, leaping up onto the top of the chainlink fence. It was a long way down from here, but Dax had never been afraid of heights. Plus he had just been told he was in the equivalent of a concrete bunker. He'd be fine. Yusaku hadn't confirmed if he could fly, but he also hadn't denied it.
Dax threw himself off the building. His body soared through the air and he let out a whoop of excitement. "Now this is what it's like to have a Quirk!" He laughed, loving the rush of flying.
And then he was falling. He had run out of momentum and now gravity was taking over. He screamed as his body tumbled out of the sky, all mentions of landing on his feet or paws, the armor hardening, that all went out the window as pure terror took over. "SHIT!! YUSAKU!" He watched the grass rush up towards him faster and faster. Was this how it was going to end? How pathetic of a way to go.
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"Cybrex"
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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 18, 2021 19:24:04 GMT -4
"Well if it's my body you're borrowing then me saying our paws makes sense no? It's my paws but you're using them." Yusaku would chime. "And it's less about you borro-" He couldn't even finish his sentence that Dax decided to test his increased speed and leap off the building. He was doing great, until he didn't.
Yusaku just rolled his eyes at the rush of adrenaline the boy saught and then the terror of him realizing he had just thrown himself off a building. Thankfully they had merged before that, or the other student would be paste by now. Taking over control of their movements, the robotic tiger's tail flicked in the air and the body would soon follow. They were going to land in grass, which would be more than fine for him to dampen the fall.
With his body still in freefall forward, Yusaku had Dax frontflip in the air and land on their "hind paws". Just like the student thought his legs were like springs as he ran, their shared body would compress ever so slightly upon landing. With incredible grace, Yusaku safely landed on the ground superhero style. He would then stand back up before allowing his pilot to control their movements once again.
"So, had fun?" He teased, snickering. "Wanna do it again from that higher building over there?" A 3D holographic arrow appeared in Dax's view pointing at a skyscraper about three times as tall as they older drop point.
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Post by Dax Maboroshi on May 20, 2021 17:04:15 GMT -4
Dax felt his body move without him controlling it, but it wasn't the wild flailing he was doing before. He rotated in the air like a sudden pro athlete, landing on the grass in a very cat-like hero landing. His body then rose to his feet and, as soon as Yusaku handed control back over, it dropped back down to their knees. All the sensors and monitors that Yusaku had to check on his Pilot's condition were probably blaring as Dax's heartrate skyrocketed, his adrenaline still coursing through his veins. He was trembling and put a hand on his chest, like that would help calm his pounding heart.
"Shut up," he hissed at the guy talking so close into his ear he might as well be in his head. "I...just wanted to try something. I don't need you making fun of me for it." Letting out a long breath, he got back to his feet, waving his hand in front of his face like it would clear that giant arrow from his vision. It, of course, didn't.
"And you never said you couldn't fly when you listed all your fancy abilities." He sighed and headed back into the gym, taking a short hallway between the entrance doors and the main gym doors so he didn't have to do the walk of shame past the students. Who knew how many of them had seen his fall through those big glass windows? He flung open the door at the end of a long hallway, making his way up another flight of stairs and back out onto the roof to get back to his bag. "So...do you like this? Having someone inside of you?"
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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 20, 2021 17:46:13 GMT -4
Seeing as Dax needed a moment to catch himself from the fall, the robot gently coerced his pilot to lay down in the grass, taking a moment to let the adrenaline wane and reaccustom himself with Yusaku's body after the emergency takeover. Wearing him was easy and all but for someone's first time it sure was taxing. The human mind simply doesn't take change well, just adding a tail could end up with Dax falling on his face.
"You really take everything in a bad way do you?" Yusaku asked. "You certainly tried something alright. If anything, I am I am able to let you experience the feeling you were waiting to do this for a very long time. Considering I gifted you my body and powers, you can suffer a little harmless teasing. Besides I told you no? As long as we're together you can jump from any height and safely land on our paws every time."
Taking note of his pilot paw waving behaviour, Yusaku dismissed the arrow pointing upwards and returned to his role of mostly silent observer. He watched as Dax picked himself back up and began walking up to the roof again. As the passed by some mirrored windows, Yusaku raised an arm up to point his pilot to take a better look at their feline appereance. "Usually tigers don't fly, y'know. But hey, we can fall with style and look good so that's gotta amount to something."
They had reached the stairs when Dax interrupted the tip tapping of their 0aws with a question once again. This time though, this question was kind of unexpected. Yusaku squeezed around his pilot ever so slightly, weighting his words but deciding to be truthful on the matter.
"I do enjoy it, yes. Having a pilot with me feels...better. It makes me feel complete, always did. For some odd reason being alone gives me this fain nagging feeling of missing something and at times its almost unbereable. Might be due to the original programming this suit had."
The robot paused. "What about you? You seem to be enjoying yourself as well, at the very least. You can keep on wearing me a while longer, if you want. Hell you can keep me on the whole day too, not like I had other real plans after gym."
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Post by Dax Maboroshi on May 20, 2021 20:08:04 GMT -4
As they made their way up to the roof, Dax felt his arm raise to point at the suit's reflection in the windows. That was an experience that Dax still had to get used to: watching his body move without controlling it. The first time was fine because he was otherwise distracted by falling. He also paused in front of the big windows to stare at himself. He hadn't been able to see what his face looked like in this helmet. It was still that biker style of helmet, but instead of Yusaku's digital green eyes behind the visor, it was Dax's own olive ones. Then of course, the large cat ears poking up.
He carried on up to the roof, actually taking a seat next to where he had dropped his bag. "Complete, huh?" The urge to feel whole, so desperate you'd let someone wear you like a suit of armor. "I can understand that. I guess that was why you were so insistent on getting me suited up." When the question was turned around to him, he couldn't help but chuckle. "Yeah, I guess I am enjoying it. I finally feel strong. Powerful. Capable even, like this is what I was supposed to be before life had other ideas." He stared down at his hands, their hands, turning them over as he looked at them. That was another thing he had to get used to too, the idea of them being connected. It was their body, not one or the other's. "Well it's just your luck that I didn't have anything else to do today either. Besides, there's gonna be more training to do if I'm gonna wear you more often now."
Setting his hands back down in his lap, a thought crossed his mind. Just how connected were they? Their bodies were connected, but what about their minds? As much as Dax despised and resented his Quirk most of the time, he couldn't help but think about the mentality of their connection. "Let me try something, yeah?"
Closing his eyes, his focus turned inwards. Whenever he used his telepathy, he always reached out, searching out those minds and making a connection. This time was very similar, but different in its own ways. He had his own mind very well-mapped out from training his Quirk, so he didn't have to focus for long before finding the faintest anomaly in the back of his mind. That must be Yusaku. He mentally clung to that anomaly, pulling on it, forcing it to grow inside his mind. If Yusaku's mind flooded into Dax's, he could take it. It's the one good thing his Quirk had prepared him for. He let out a slow breath and opened the haptic connection, the Direct Neural Interface, from the other side.
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Played by: Nightshade
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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 20, 2021 21:19:47 GMT -4
Yusaku settled down with his new friend on the roof. He watched over him as he studied their paws and then agreed to remain together for the day. That was great news. "Yeah. Even without having our minds connected I still feel much better now that you're with me. I have only ever been able to fully merge mind and body both with one pilot and only for a short while...but man that feeling..."
He was about to say something else but Dax decided to explore their connection in his own way. He didn't expect the guy to be able to do the thing he was doing. Granted he had been told that his pilot was psychic, but not like that. In a moment of focus, Dax had been able to pinpoint exactly from where he was feeding Dax's brain the information about their body. Though instead of shutting him out he was inviting him in. Actually, it was more akin to him being pulled into Dax's mindspace.
Shock. Surprise. Yusaku didn't know what to do. Usually he was the one opening the connection to his pilot's mind. He usually had to push himself into the other's mindspace and wiggle through their subconscious which would instinctually try to force him out of their heads. This time it was quite the opposite.
Yusaku tensed up and squeezed around Dax, initially resisting the pull from his pilot. Did he know what he was doing? From what he could tell...Dax was confident and quite eager to join his mind with his. To make him feel whole, as he put it earlier, to merge the two halves into a single entity. The robot could clearly feel his pilot confidence and willingness to accept him inside his head. The boy was tempting him with the prospect of a complete union...and Yusaku couldn't resist him.
After one final moment of hesitation, Yusaku relaxed and simply let himself go. In that brief moment, he reached out towards Dax in much the same way Dax was reaching out to him, allowing his pilot to easily grab hold of his mind. As soon as their bond was forged, Dax pulled him in his own mind.
All of Yusaku's memories and feelings would flow into Dax's mind, mixing with his own. In a matter of seconds he would find it difficult to differentiate between himself and the robot, completely losing the ability to do so moments after. The same would happen to the robot as Dax's memories would become his own. Every smile every laugh every sob.
And then it happened.
Yusaku was no more. Dax was no more. Thanks to Dax's power, the two halves had joined together both mind and body into a greater whole. They thought the same thing, they wanted the same thing. It wasn't a "they" anymore though. It was an "I"
The striped Yu-Dax tiger hybrid would soon open his eyes, finding himself in the same position he was before. A silver glow was softly shining through both the stripes on his body and the once green lights on Yusaku's chassis.
He feelt happy. Content. Complete.
He felt... whole.
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Post by Dax Maboroshi on May 20, 2021 22:39:37 GMT -4
Dax's brow furrowed when he felt a bit of resistance pushing back against him. Wasn't this what Yusaku wanted though? Why was he fighting? "It's okay..." He whispered, knowing the other had heard him even though he didn't speak that loud. He could feel his emotions creeping in, the source of his hesitation. He was wondering if Dax knew what he was doing? Of course he did. Maybe, in a way that Dax couldn't even put into words, he wanted this just as bad as Yusaku did. "Trust me..."
And then Yusaku let go and Dax felt thoughts, feelings, and memories rushing into his mind. Even though the robot couldn't cry the same way humans could, Dax could feel every moment of sadness and sorrow. All the instances Yusaku was treated like just a machine, a tool, not human. He felt it, like Dax had spent his life being told that. At the same time, Yusaku would receive Dax's memories; each screaming match he had with his family, being told he would always be their daughter, their little girl, memories of the messy divorce and the blame for it.
Then Dax was gone. Yusaku was gone. The figure opened his eyes, looking around at the roof he was sitting on, then turning his vision down to his body. Hadn't these lights been green before? Now they were shining a brilliant silver. He turned his paws over, tail flicking. "Silverpaw." It was Dax's voice, but it had that electronic warble that Yusaku's had. "I'm Silverpaw." In the first time in maybe a long time, the two halves would feel self-love. He was finally completely, finally whole. This was who he was supposed to be.
He got to his feet, staring out across the fields of Ground Alpha before bending down to grab his bag, shoving the discarded combat boots inside. He slipped the bag over his shoulders before once again sprinting to the fence along the edge of the roof, launching himself over the fence and into the air. This time, there was no flailing, no screaming, just a sleek figure flying towards the ground. He landed the same way away before, grinning behind the helmet as he straightened up. He felt unstoppable, like he could take on the entire world now.
"Hey, Yusaku!" His head snapped over to see a few third-years waving at him. He lifted a hand, waving back, but it was more out of polite obligation. Why did they call him that? That wasn't who he was. It wasn't like he didn't know who they were talking about, he did, but it wasn't him. The students continued on their way as Silverpaw just stood there in confusion. "But that's not me..." He muttered, but they were already gone. His mind was starting to feel foggy, and he put a hand on his...wait...no. Their head.
Right? He couldn't think straight. They couldn't...this was too confusing. Who was he? He knew he was Silverpaw, but why did they call him Yusaku? Was that who he was supposed to be? No, that wasn't right at all. He cussed under his breath. This was all going so perfect, why did they have to mess everything up?
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"Cybrex"
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Played by: Nightshade
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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 21, 2021 7:03:16 GMT -4
For their very first time, their union lasted a good long while. The name came to them almost instantly, but it seemed that their minds weren't ready to remain united when exposed to the duality of Silverpaw's persona. Silverpaw himself weren't single minded enough to remain self conscious as soon as it was reminded of the parts that made him. As the silver colored tiger's mind became foggy, Yusaku's presence within Dax mind withdrawed, causing Silverpaw's personality to split back in its two components, the two finding themselves on the ground with the bag in their grasp.
"W-well..." Yusaku chimed, still somewhat surprised of what happened. Of all the times he had used his DNI to link himself to one of his pilots it never had been as strong of a connection as the one he had experienced right there. He never felt so connected with someone during the first moments of their mind merge. He never felt so complete. It was almost like...a mental hug. Dax's mind pulling him in close and wrapping around his own as they bonded.
"T-that was sure something..." he would mumble. Dax's mind powers were much stronger than the boy gave them credit for. To make something like that happen the first time he had worn him after barely meeting eachother spoke to great lenghts about him. He might not feel strong in body but that was probably why he had agreed to wearing him. He was the mind and Yusaku was the body. Their fusion had potential. Granted, they lacked the time spent united as one to grow accustomed to the feeling and being able to hold their fusion together for longer periods of time but still...this could be good.
After one moment to settle down, Yusaku would break the silent contemplation going on with a question. "...Silverpaw, huh?" he said, recalling the name their shared form had mumbled out in the few moments he was present. "Not a bad name. Not as fighty or imposing as I'd imagine other tiger names could be but I guess we both like cats enough and we aren't really much of a showstopper eh?"
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Post by Dax Maboroshi on May 21, 2021 13:59:50 GMT -4
He felt a disconnect, like his other half was sliding away from him. He wanted to reach out, grab it, pull it back into him, but he was too disoriented to do that. Eventually, he would become Dax again, staring out through the visor as Yusaku mused over what just happened. "Yeah..." He mumbled. "Was it a good something though?"
He would know the answer before Yusaku gave it. They had been connected, he knew his thoughts about it. Together, they felt whole, like they were who the other person was missing this whole time. "To be honest...I don't know why I did that. I usually keep to myself, I don't really jump into friendships suddenly like that." He shrugged, but continued before the other could get any ideas. "I don't want it to sound like I didn't like it though. I did. I guess I just...surprised myself is all."
He chuckled when the other brought up the name they had given themselves. "I don't know, I saw the silver lights, plus the whole cat aesthetic you got going on, and that was the first thing that came to mind. And no, we aren't exactly imposing by any means." He leaned back against the wall of the building. "That's from my own Quirk, by the way. The silver color. Whenever I use some of my abilities, my eyes change to that color." He shrugged. "In case you were wondering where they came from."
So many thoughts started to fill his mind. He wanted so desperately to be a hero, to be more than just the Sidekick his Quirk demanded he be, and now here was Yusaku, giving him the golden ticket to do that. In a lot of ways, it felt too good to be true. Too good to last. "Can we really stay like this forever?"
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Post by Yusaku Izumi on May 21, 2021 21:11:22 GMT -4
Yusaku would have given Dax a sheepish smile as he asked to say with him forever. They could certainly stay together more often, but their roads would have to split for a while. Yet the sudden change and need for intimacy between the two was not without reason. They had just experienced their bodies and minds merging together in a storng, deep yet fleeting bond...and it felt so good. They both never felt so whole. So complete.
So right as they should always have been.
"Well...I will graduate soon." Yusaku said, squeezing around Dax as to mimic a hug. "While you will have another one two two years to do right? Though that just means I can probably take you up as my sidekick once you're done. Plus we can always hang out in our free time. I...I want to be Silverpaw again."
It was a solid plan. He didn't have many other people to coach and he didn't really think of hiring a sidekick until Dax came around. Maybe that was the reason?
"For now though...you can keep me on and with you for the rest of the day." He stated, giving a small nod too.
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