"...could always just give him private tutoring. I know this female droid who's really good at teaching the application and principles of Dark matter manipulation."
Mea furrows her brow, "She's a droid. Androids can't manipulate dark matter?"
Daniel shrugs, "True, but she is abnormally sensitive to it, but that's besides the point. She is a droid, which means you can place secretive protocols on her.Especially for Allen who is like stupidly, like seriously, like completely godlike to dark matter manipulation. In other words, zero risk in the end." Allen just scowls at him.
Mea nods in agreement, "Okay, send me her details."
He does a swiping motion over his interfacer towards Mea, "Mmm? who is the extra contact?"
Seeing who it was it kinda ticked of Mea-Ling, "Don't you have a wife or a girlfriend?"
Daniel smiles creepily, "Yeah, I have, but we can never have too many children in this world now can we."
Allen sees the fury in Mea-Ling, and quickly interjects, "Well, I guess over population isn't an issue."
Daniel just stares at him in bewilderment, "What? I'm not following?"
There was a awkward atmosphere, as Allen speaks up, "Mea, we gotta go somewhere?"
Picking up the hint, "Yeah I need to go to the lab. Come on lets go."
Mea briefly waves her hand and starts leaving. When the two are outside the venue, Mea stops and turns around, "Allen don't ever pull that kind of shit again."
What!? That came out of nowhere from for Allen, "And here I thought I was doing you a favor, to avoid mushy gross talk."
Mea raises a eyebrow while confused, "What , no, I'm not talking about him, I am talking about your abilities. Why were you hiding it?"
Allen pauses for a good long while before replying, "That was my first exposure to all this madness."
"You went and exposed yourself to that Daniel guy. Its true what he says about such a tremendous gift. You really...You should have talked to me first!"
"You've got another thing coming if you think that I am going to answer to your every beck and call. I am getting a bit tired of that attitude."
"You have no idea the severity of your awakening. If you hide anything from me we are going to have a problem."
She meant every word of it, but Allen felt it was just another hostility towards him.
"You know what? The hell with this you just keep on going on your self absorbed tangent. I'm done. Its clear that you feel forced to look after me for some bizarre reason. I am thankful for the safe, but I am a big boy I can take care of myself."
Mea was genuinely confused by his statement, "What are you even on about? You are starting to sound like every other natural born male out there."
To Allen that was the last straw. He just turns around and waves his hand in the air without saying a word and starts leaving.
Mea is becoming more bewildered as it goes on, "The hell?... Where the hell are you going?!"
Allen doesn't reply and just keeps walking, "Allen! What the hell?! ALLEN!"
Allen disappears around the corner, "Typical male. Throws a hussy fit over the smallest of things. ...Fuck!"
She quickly tries to chase after him but a paper letter falls in front of her.
She looks at it as if it was the most bizarre anomaly in existence, and picks it up, "What is this?"
She messes around with it when she succeeds at opening it.
Her eyes grow larger the more she reads the contents.
Allen keeps walking and decides to take a quick look back, "Shes not chasing."
He was kinda hoping she would chase, but on the other side he wanted his freedom.
He looked around and saw the streets was practically deserted, not a soul in sight. He needed a place to crash but he had no idea how money worked in this world. So a bench then???
He started to look for something akin to a park, the obvious place right.
He just wasn't too sure about crime and the law, but he shrugged it off in search for a park.
He looked at the interfacer on his wrist, "Uuh...thingymabob, find me the closest public park."
The device pops up a holo arrow showing him the way he should walk, as Allen decides to follow it.
Mea-Ling decides to follow the coordinates of the letter. This place was a random park that didn't see a lot of visitors. Basically a rundown park.
Mea-Ling already retrieved her weapon from a hidden pocket in her clothes, a short plasma infused blade charged with infused with dark matter. She also changed her clothes for ease of movement.
"I'm here, this is a cowards way of handling things."
An individual clothed in black appears in front of her with two dark matter infused short blades that had a dangerous blue hue in its hands, "The mistress sends her regards."
"The mistress? Who the hell is that."
The assailant dashes forward then the eye could normally perceive, but Mea had her own eyes infused so she could spot things better and react accordingly
Sparks fly as the blades connect. During the flurry of knife blocks and attacks, the assailant saw an opportunity and didn't hesitate, kicking into Mea's stomach.
Luckily, Mea's body was reinforced with a kinetic nullification barrier, but it hit so hard that it send her flying back a few meter.
Mea's opponent was ridiculously fast as. The assailant was on her as a cut passed through Mea's personal barrier and slightly graze her.
Mea looks around, something was off about the environment. Security forces should have already intervened. Someone or something has tampered the conflict sensors.
Mea just barely dodges a blade aimed at her face, but sees an opening and takes it. A clean fist strikes the assailant squarely in the opponent's face, knocking it ti the ground.
The assailant rolls with the punch, and at the same time produces something that looked oddly like an crossbow but it only covered the hand and was silver in color.
An unexpected blue beam shoots out it, Mea was just fast enough to dodge it but still got grazed on her left cheek.
Mea uses dark matter to boost her speed temporarily, and runs towards the the safety of the trees as a flurry of blue beams shoots past her.
This annoyed the assailant even with the lock on capabilities, dark matter enhanced speeds were hard to lock on, and now the target went in between the trees to break the line of site
Allen came to his destination and heard something akin to mild blasting sounds, "Oooo...sounds like something to check out."
The device on Allen's wrist lights up, "Area has active signal jamming. Unable to get into contact with authorities. Avoid area in case of conflict."
Alarm bells went of in Allen's head, and a certain sense of urgency came to his mind as he hurriedly ran towards the commotion.
The trees were being shot down one by one via the miniature crossbow blaster, "You can't hide forever"
Mea knew she was at a disadvantage, even if she used ranged attacks via dark matter, they are just to damn slow to her opponent due to its speed, but it was still better then nothing.
Mea got ready with a ball of fire in her hand but it was to late. Her opponent was using a combination of a hologram and camouflage to get her on her blind side, "Too late for your silly tactics."
The blaster was pointed at her head at point black range, the last thought that went trough her head was. Why did she agree to that dumb-ass letter.
The blaster goes of but just before it hits a black translucent ball appears and deflects the attack. Both the assailant and mea had looks of sheer bewilderment
Allen was wheezing his ass of while using one hand to rest against a tree while the other was pointed towards the two, "Christ woman, why am I the one saving your ass? You know I know barely anything about this era's combat...wheeze...wheeze..."
He looks at the assailant, "And you retard. Leave the lady alone before I smash your face in."
The assailant immediately turns it's blaster toward Allen.
Crap, guess bluffing didn't work.
This did give Mea a chance as she does a back flip knocking the assailant on the chin, but the assailant recovered quickly and immediately blasted towards her face but another sphere protected her.
Allen shakes his head, "This punk is a bit stronger then I thought, guess I am fighting with my limited knowledge."
He joins up with Mea as he helps her up, but she slaps his hand away, "What the hell are you doing here Allen!? This is my fight, get away from here. We cant afford lose someone like you.Allen lightly knocks her upside her head, "Shut up and do as I tell you. I am the tank, you the guns. You have no right to refuse."
"Excuse me?", she replies with a hint of indignation.
"Do as I bloody tell you, it our best chance", he said with an authoritative tone.
A small device lands between them and detonates sending them both going into different directions.
It seemed it was a non lethal device, some sort of shock wave device. Both Allen and Mea was slightly dazed, as a blue beam punches right through Mea's chest where the heart is located.
Allen could only watch in disbelief, "MEA!!! NOOOO!!!!"