"I'm going to setup our last portal here. Then we will bring my father here. We can talk about the place after he has seen it." Braxton decided.
"Sounds like a plan. Let's go find that player then do the annoying part." Vixen pressed her own desired forward.
"I know you want more storage space." Braxton agreed.
The couple went outside and mounted up. The mounts were already suffering from the loss of moisture in the air. They traveled another hour and found the body. The armor looked heavy, like super heavy. The body had been here for a long time. They opened up the suit and the skin on the body turned to dust. The wrist watch looked completely different.
"Alpha you didn't detect what I found?" Braxton asked.
"Negative no items detected." Alpha replied.
"This is weird. Let's take this back inside. I'm going to put this on." Braxton decided.
"If you're about to do something stupid and get naked, I'm getting laid in the back seat of a hummer first." Vixen responded.
"Winner winner chicken dinner!" Braxton cheered.
After she finished with him, he put on the armor. "X type combat suit initializing..."
Braxton felt light headed and passed out. He woke up an hour later. He could feel pressure on the base of his neck and several other places on his body. He opened his eyes the UI of his current suit was like looking though a scope. It had many different zoom setting. He could see different weapons systems built into the thing too. There were rocket symbols, a sword, a laser sword and a machine gun icon that looked like a mini Gatling gun.
He summoned the other wrist watch from storage. Then he heard a new voice, this was a woman's voice. It wasn't sexy at all unless you like being dominated. It sounded German. "Accessory identified put it on your right wrist to assimilate!" The voice said forcefully.
He put it on his right wrist and the voice said "Weapons storage recognized and acquired!" This voice was load too.
The UI lit up. The numbers jumped on his weapons. Rockets 100, grenade launcher 100, mini gun 10,000, sniper rifle 1,000. Core power 95%, combat ready new user detected training video initiated.
The training video was four hours long. It was boring as hell. Every time he nodded off he got shocked by electrical charges. They were so strong his entire body tingled. "Holy fuck whoever designed this fucking thing was evil!" Braxton said.
After the video finished playing there was another hour of hands on training. He had to summon each weapon and target practice in a simulation. It was more fun than the video but still annoying. The armor didn't have any skills Alpha could pick up and Alpha couldn't interact with this suit at all. That didn't mean it was useless. The weapons were heavy. The sniper rifle was 20mm it was capable of firing the same rounds as aircraft. The shell were almost a foot long. The recoil was insane.
"I so want to try my luck on big ugly with this gear." Braxton said cockily.
"You might stand a chance. That gun is insane." Vixen replied.
"I bet this was some military prototype and this was a secret research site." Braxton guessed.
"You might be right. They went to extreme measures to hide their top secret stuff." Vixen responded.
"Hey X can you hear me?" Braxton inquired with his mind.
"Yes user, please identify and select security clearance and input clearance code number." X system ordered.
"Identity Ghoul, Braxton B Blackhawk Jr and I don't have a security clearance." Braxton replied.
"DNA test initialized...DNA verified full clearance authorized." X system stated.
"What just happened?" Braxton questioned.
"System X designer Martin J Blackhawk input genetic data so his descendants could claim ownership of combat armor systems." X system responded.
"That is too cool. Looks like I'll have to ask dad about him." Braxton considered.
"Looks like this rig is mine now. It's a little heavy but, it recharges off sunlight or energy crystals." Braxton informed Vixen.
"Sweet ride. I wonder if the nanites can repair it." Vixen mused.
"One thing at a time. Let's see if my dad knows anything about this." Braxton said as he headed for the portal.
***
"Dad, I think you should get yourself ready to go into the Blood Furnace. That is if you haven't already." Jr said after his father picked up the phone.
"Why would I want to do that?" Sr. asked.
"I found something that needs your expert opinion." Jr stated.
"Like what?" Sr inquired.
"Ancient history. Family history. Come by my place at your earliest convince ready to take a short trip with me." Jr ordered.
"Let me get my suit. I can be there in an hour." Sr hung up.
"Vixen can you go back and water the mounts? They need to get taken out of the desert too. I will call you when I get finished with my dad." Braxton asked.
"Sure, we need them healthy. I'll see you soon." Vixen kissed him then went back through the portal.
Exactly one hour later Braxton Sr arrived and pressed the buzzed in the elevator. Braxton hit the ok button to authorize him access and waited. "Welcome to my humble home." He replied when the door opened.
"Where did you find that suit?" Sr asked.
"That's why you are here. I have to calibrate your suit to let you into the portal. We can talk there." Jr replied.
Twenty minutes later they walked through the portal and into the hanger. "I found the suit in the middle of the desert. What do you know about it?" Jr asked calmly.
"Not much, I found some old plans in my dad's safe deposit box after he died." Sr stated.
"What was his name?" Jr queried.
"Jeffery J Blackhawk." Sr replied.
"Who was Martin J Blackhawk then?" Jr questioned.
"Your great grandfather. He vanished when my dad was a kid. He went to work one day and never returned. His car was still in its parking spot and everything." Sr replied.
"Ah, that was probably his body I left in the desert. Not that there was much left of it. This was probably his secret lab then. Follow me." Jr walked to the other gate at the other end of the hanger.
"Here is the teleport pad he would've entered in. You used his research to hatch this game world scheme?" Jr asked plainly.
"I used the research to see what would happen. I cost a lot of money to reproduce the results. I hatched the game theory idea to try and recover the lost money. I used my government connections to back it too. Now I really need it to pay off big or I'm a dead man." Sr leveled with him.
"Is it the armor or did you grow a lot since the last time I saw you?" Sr asked.
"I got a lot bigger. The blood is the real money here. It makes my girl look younger. I've grown over six inches in three months and gain close to 80lbs of solid muscle. It kills cancer cells and god knows what all else. I sold them for over 100k for each small vial. I could've sold them for more but I was in a rush." Jr informed him.
"How many vials can you get from a kill?" Sr asked.
"Depends on how fast I can collect and process it. It also depends on how much it bleeds out before it dies. Then there is the size of creatures. It's pretty random. It has to be filtered to so you lose more there as well. One thing it doesn't cure is infertility in women. It makes my lady friend not cycle at all. There is no right answer. You can keep making little money here and there or you can bank big. I hope you are charging a premium for the hunting permits. Anything less than 100k and your giving away everything for free." Jr said plainly.
"I'm charging 500k and they are selling faster than I can print them." Sr informed him.
"One good kill for someone with knowledge and they can make that and have money left over." Jr returned.
"Sounds like you should share information with me more often." Sr requested.
"I can't tell you all my secrets. I have my own fortune to make. I've blocked your tracking data to this site. Don't expect me to give you this location any time soon. I think there is more data to be found here. Maybe more advanced plans. His suit has a separate armor inventory. It also has a different OS. Your people did a good job on that. This one has its own charms though. Let's go back. If I find something I need help with, I'll contact you again later but I'll need another gate." Jr stated.
"I brought more with me. I got twenty on me." Sr said matter of factly.
"I've got room in my apartment for them. I'll carry a couple but, I'm only for sure placing one more at a premium site before I go do my own thing for a while." Braxton Jr inform his father.
"If you find another accidental like, you'll have one." Sr said confidently.
"Yeah, let's go. My lady is waiting on me out in the wilds of this place." Jr replied curtly.
They returned and he placed the portals in his room. Then saw his father to the elevator. After his father was gone he returned to the Blood Furnace.