<strong>Inside the construct.</strong><br/><br/>“You got a captive audience dude.” He said with a laid back grin. “Two decades of dreaming is enough for now, and I’d love to get back into a real body, ANY sort of body. You don’t know what it’s like to be stuck in an endless dream and know it.” He shuddered as he considered that. He picked up a game controller, which hadn’t been there before, and sat back as the chair morphed into a well used sofa.  “I appreciate keeping me online, my brother designed the construct for me to relax but if I didn’t have a body it was a REM cycle. Endless dreams to keep me sane when I had no body.”<br/><br/>He slipped a cartridge and started playing the console, a N64 console it looked like as Darren logged out.<br/><br/>“I can wait to get a beer or just a greasy foot long chili dog.” He said. ‘Lad’ aka Alex Salas was relieved to be online again. Curiously he tried to link with whatever computer Darren was using to see if he could find out more about the ‘real world’<br/><br/><strong>In the real world, Triangle Lab</strong><br/><br/>Darren had barely come out of the construct when Commander Taylor walked it. He smiled as his eyes looked over the naked woman in the tube, looking like the evil version of Mario as he twisted his mustache ends as his eyes lingered on her breasts. Luckily the devise that had wiped her higher awareness hadn’t affected her body’s automatic functions like breathing.<br/><br/>“Ah I see our mad scientist is making progress? Can you put the AI in the body?” Apparently the short man thought Mechano-lad was an AI. Most likely he hadn’t read Assay’s notes. His usual thug was accompanied by another, a messenger who was clearly playing up his bland looks by wearing a jacket, golf shirt and jeans.  He set down another locked case and put the key on top as Taylor continued talking as he ran a hand over the tube that held Syn.  The case had a collection of warning labels, nano-hazard and biological devise warning being the most prominent. “We got lucky, Dr. Helen Chase, of the Quest foundation and Wiz-kids fame, as attacked and shot with a high powered rifle in LA. We managed to recover just under a pint of her blood from the Haz-mat team that cleaned up the site after she and her collection of Wiz kids stopped the attempted robbery of their warehouse. She is the first successful recipient of the Malice upgrade and it’s still in her blood. So I want you to see if you can grow enough to study and fix the design ‘flaws’. My boys want to be super soldiers not super babes.”<br/><br/>One last finger circle on the case above one of the mindless woman’s breast and he turns to leave.<br/><br/>“We should be able to get normal equipment easily enough, and we are bringing in few devises you can work with later next week.” He said as he headed out. Thug and ‘messenger’ dropped a few files on the table and headed out