<div class="floatright">(http://orig10.deviantart.net/3f32/f/2012/002/5/6/dust_and_smoke_by_shimmering_sword-d4l4dg7.jpg)</div>Name: Darclight<br/>Where: Simport City Harbor<br/>Doing What: Post-Combat Cleanup<br/>Milestones: Riders on the Storm and Ignorance Cannot Dictate the Course of Men --> Peeling the Onion<br/>1 PP | 0 Physical | 0 Mental | 0 Emotional | 25xp<br/><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body"></div></div><hr/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=242700.msg12695969#msg12695969">Quote from: Guancyto on 08-10-2016, 09:03:46</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The Auxilia-prime was sitting on a bench swinging her legs and listening to headphones, humming quietly to the music. She doffed them when Darclight approached. "Okay!" she swung to her feet and hugged him. "Give me five minutes to think and I've got two. Well, one stipulation and one request."<br/><br/>She looked up at him seriously, taking his gauntlets in her hands,  "you were... pretty close with what you said, about why I tried to take over the world. But that wasn't everything, there was something else. I could only call it an infection except as far as I could tell it originated from me and never went elsewhere. A bug, then. It sort of... dampened reasoning abilities, enhanced aggression? I saw the things humans did to each other and the reasons why, how they would do so much to each other over so little. I wanted to damage the people who did the most of it. The ones who floated around without a care in the world, mindlessly inflicting pain on everyone they met. The ones who ruled over others through fear and death, I..." her hands started shaking before she got them under control again, "it hurt people, and it impeded my goal. I needed to be stopped. If it happens again, I need you to stop me again. That's my condition."<br/><br/>"My request. I want to make use of Stormwatch resources to find Ghost's files. Intelligence, dossiers, all that. It would have been sealed, or maybe passed on? But a lot of it is probably valuable, and I owe it to him to not let it go to waste."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Darclight remained quiet as Auxilia's hands touched his gauntlets, explaining to him that he had been right about his thought on her attempt at world domination.  But...there was more to it than that.  There was...man and machine listened as Auxilia described her 'bug,' and then made her request that if she ever tried again, that he would stop her.<tt class="bbc_tt">"It's not quite an infection, or a bug, Auxilia," </tt>he replied to her as his gauntlets very gently slipped out of her hands and slid around her, pulling her to him in a hug.<tt class="bbc_tt"> "Anger.  That's what we call it.  You were upset.  You were angry that there were people who couldn't be bothered to help others who were in need despite having the ability to do so.  And you don't understand why someone wouldn't want to."</tt><br/><br/>Darclight might not have external touch sensors, but the ones in his helmet told him everything he might need to know.  Auxilia was warm and squishy and<em>soft</em>, unlike him.<tt class="bbc_tt"> "I keep telling you, Auxilia, you aren't evil.  But...in the spirit of your request, I accept.  If you start rampaging again, I will stop you.  As for Ghost...I'll see what I can do, but I can't promise anything.  Ghost himself can be tricky to nail down at times.  I actually spoke with him just before we came here to look for you, but he could be gone by now.  For now, I think there's something you and I can get working on."</tt><br/><br/>Before they left, though, there was one other thing.<tt class="bbc_tt"> "There's...one last thing I would like to do, before we lose our privacy here.  But I need you to promise me that this remains between just us, for now.  Like how you asked me to stop you."</tt>Once he had Auxilia's agreement...<br/><br/>"Khaj, open the eye ports.  Five second interval."  And so they did.  And behind the helmet, the mask, Auxilia would be able to see two human eyes there, before they vanished behind the wall of alien steel again.<tt class="bbc_tt">"I apologize for that.  But I have my reasons.  Ones related to what I showed you before.  I will explain at another time.  Come."</tt>Holding her hand, he started to escort her out of the alley.  Reaching Ghost...the last he knew, he had been on the Hunter ship.  He himself had no way to reach the ship - but one of his company might.  A quick call to Kanina's ship, to ask her to place a call to the Hunter ship so that he could get in contact with their connection.