Trying to survive

[Ricter]

"Bleugh!"

Ricter was attacked! But not by swords of weapons, more so by two ants who seemingly wanted to cuddle with him, making him giggle and squirm around in their grip but obviously not wish to break free from it. he would gently lick the two little ants as they helped to groom him, making him give a soft rumbling purr as well as just over all enjoying their company a bit while Nola was busy with Ms. Kokonoe, running what ever tests she had in mind over there.

For himself he had no real need or intrest to do anything else today, and wanted to take a nap soon, which given he yawned softly he would notice the two seemingly relaxing and treating him like they were best friends even after being born only minutes ago. "I'm getting a tad tired." he remarked as he would give them both a nice warm hug.

"Did you want to sleep here? I know I made you and your mother a room but I think you guys wouldn't want to separate from me even if I insisted."

Snickering he would smile gleefully and try to prepare the bed, he didn't wish to leave out Nola, but obviously she would find them once Kokonoe did her tests and what not. As well as a number of other things given how unpredictable Kokonoe was.

 

[Kokonoe]

Kokonoe of course would take Nola into her lab, it was cold like before... It seemed to be in a mess, stockpiles of sweets were kept around her desk... and a rack of Silvervine Candy Lollipops... Two Children would float in incubators they didn't seem to be alive or at least not yet... However it sounded like something was bubbling, molten metals perhaps? There was a chair sitting out with some machine with basic exercise equipment around it with a scale to measure height and weight. There was also a large machine which was probably the X-Ray. She turned to Nola adjusting her spectacles, cleaning up a bit from the last session with Ricter.

"It's a simple test for just about exercise... It'll be sort of like a check up... I'll check your blood pressure, heart rate... get a picture of your skeleton which is simple since you have an exoskeleton, and the like... First I'll put you on the scale and measure your height and weight, then you can sit in the chair so I can do all the check up stuff before the exercise stuff. It should go by pretty quick... and I assume your children are about the same so if you have their height and weight I might be able to plug all the data in for them without any of the tests if they are completely identical to your biological make up." She explained as she would write measurements down as she goes, diligently plugging everything into the computer mostly by voice commands as she wrote her own record in case anything happened. She always kept extra files in her cabinet, which was a great thing when you had to constantly review.

With the scales out of the way she took blood pressure, but she ended up having to use a machine for it since the exoskeleton kept the manual one from working... She checked heart rate and all the same way writing everything down, through circular sticker-like things with wires, "I know all this is very odd, just make sure the sticky parts don't move for a bit since they give the data. They won't hurt to pull off or anything but because of that they are easy to move, after this we can move on to the treadmill and check the changes and then I'll only have the x-ray and adrenaline test." She said as she watched Nola on the treadmill running for only around 10 minutes before recording. Then they went to the big machine which was like a giant camera.

"This is an X-Ray, it'll take a picture of your skeleton. I'll tell you when to close your eyes since it's pretty bright. You can lay on the bed right there, then when this is done we will go back to the chair for the final test." She said... it seemed to take forever for the X-Ray to start... a whir sound was heard, "Okay close your eyes... aaaand..." A bright flash went off, afterwards Kokonoe showed Nola a few pictures of her Skeleton. They all just looked like glowing pictures of Nola due to her exoskeleton, "These... came out really cool looking. Heh, I should use one as lab decor... Well one last test." She said hooking up the sticky things again and holding up a spray bottle... A mist of a chemical came out, "It'll raise your adrenaline for a few so I can record the data, but no harm will come to you... I watered it down, however... You will probably feel sleepy after this so we can head to bed after this, if that sounds good, Nola." She smiled, recording the last of the data she needed.

 

[Sosina]

The two workers continued to cling to Ricter continuing to groom him "Queen made sure to let us know we are meant to take care of you, you were here first so we will guard you like we would the queen" they said one finishing the scentance the other starting it as they continued to comb his fur with their fingers and clip and trip his fur with their teeth making sure he would be well groomed and presentable to the queen.

MEanwhile Nola was going through the tests, she noticed the two children but didn't ask about them, she assumed that this was just how Kokonoe made her own workers, and didn't question it, Though as she was explaining the whole thing that was about to happen Nola looked up at the taller woman, as she did as she was instructed she wondered if Mister Squishy went through all this too, though from what The Tall one said it sounded like he did.

Getting weighed and measured was simple enough, she asked about her children and she nodded "Workers of my colony will be most like me in every respect except for height and coloration, Soldiers will differ depending on where I get the additional mana from, and any overseers will be different depending on specilization and the mana sources used as well...other high cast will differ depending on what Male I choose to make my high caste with" she answered as she let Kokonoe do her tests

As the tests continued it would highlight how rather odd her body was, well in comparison to herself and Ricter of course, oddly even as she exercised and worked herself her heart rate didn't increase, she would also find she had a hybrid muscular system, it had muscles like her and Ricter, but it also had The type of Hydraulic system insects did, which probably gave her higher strength to weight. When Kokonoe did the X-ray she would see that every surface was glowing as her entire body had that Carapace on it, and this was her normal carapace not her battle Carapace, granted Kokonoe really hadn't had a good look at the differences yet since she had only used it once with her around.

After all That Nola sat there waiting for the tests to finish, and as Kokonoe was explaining the last test something about Adrenalin, and then she was sprayed with a chemical, and she sat there a moment...and then the world went blank.

Outside with Ricter, Sonna and Astra where snuggling and making happy keening sounds as they snuggled into the soft warm fur of the weasel and continued to groom him, giggling to the silly licks he would give back and they would groom him more for them, since it seemed he was trying to groom them too. but then suddenly they both sat bolt upright and looked to the door where Nola had vanished behind.

"Queen....danger....ATTACK!!" the two said in eerie unison as they suddenly untangled themselves from Ricter and raced to the door, one climbing along the wall at full speed while the other was racing just running towards it, nether even used the actual elevator not know how it worked, they simply ripped the top off it by working together, they then raced up the elevator shaft and ruptured the door, breaking it easily with the strength the two of them had working as a team. and into the LAb with Kokonoe and their queen they rushed

 

[Ricter]

Ricter was completely obvious to what was about to happen as one minute he was imply enjoying himself with the two ant girls, and the next they had snapped to attention. Like something horrible was happening and it required their attention imeadly, then as if on cue they spoke in unison, almost like two robots seeking out to destroy their target.

It was almost scarey but at the same time he realized what might have happened, it seemed they were thinking Nola was under attack, as if knowingly, like they had seen the act itself. But knowing Kokonoe, she more than likely did something that warranted 'danger', so as they bolted to the door he would scramble to get up and out of the bed, flopping on the floor with a soft thud as he mistook the landing and then running out of the room.

"Wait!"

He would yell but he knew it was pointless, with determination like those two had he was sure they would no doubt rather tunnel their way into her lab than actually try to listen to his pleas. So he would follow them, no doubt to Kokonoe's lab.

 

[Kokonoe]

As she sprayed the chemicals she'd press a button... The incubators would go downwards with the molten metal tanks... seemingly into the floor where the important main frame was. She looked at her watch as she let Nola grow her battle carapace in peace as she counted down from ten, expecting the two workers to arrive no later than that. She knew it took time to grow out the carapace, thankfully not too long but it did give her a bit of time to review the design of the battle carapace and find the differences in them... She had done her research before hand, they weren't quite as fast as her with her natural speed being higher... With the other two charging up through the tunnel as she watched and reviewed, she adjusted her spectacles as her ears twitched... Her cat instincts were kicking in, she stuck a silver-vine lollipop in her mouth... She started calculating at an insane rate.

She would think to herself for a few seconds recalling knowledge of insects as well as the research Nola provided, with the two helper ants being less than silent she concluded the battle carapace was possibly for defense with a softer exoskeleton. Thankfully with her natural gymnast-like cat reflexes she'd do the smart thing and dodge around Nola's attack... With her intense study with Nola's movement she had spotted that her speed in the carapace was slower than her average. Of course that made Nola wind up go through some of the testing equipment... and the food supply of sweets which made up most of Kokonoe's room... With the open door behind her finally having the two helpers charge up the elevator shafts, she'd back flip over them allowing them to crash through more sweets and equipment... Surprisingly most of the stuff in the lab was plastic due to her flipping tables meaning glass wasn't an option.


It was quite frankly a typical day in the lab, the molten metals below completing her prototypes unknowing to all but her... She figured she'd just evade until they burnt themselves out like the training she took as a field agent before she started to work in a lab twenty four seven on nothing but candy, a few hours of sleep, and coffee. Since she refused to use magic the only attacks she'd do are quick counters to knock them back, only using any form of magic or her battle wrench if something was thrown at her directly. She knew the chemical only took a few minutes to wear off, which was useful for her since she wouldn't have to keep this up forever even if this is her innate ability to evade. Of course as the small fight went on their tactics started to improve, she had to evolve with the tactics of the ant trio. Shrapnel eventually was starting to get past her wrench causing cuts on her body but dodging anything that could hit her vitals, as well as dodging them at a physical range as she couldn't risk the hit.

"Computer; release twin fields Alpha and Beta!" She said as the shrapnel impaired her movements letting the ants surround her, two children with giant floating swords appeared... It seemed as if they could control the swords in some way... The great swords separated into six smaller swords each, "Don't attack Alpha, Beta. Go on defense." The two nodded as the blade shoved into the ground making two circles around the three... Energy charged through the weapons, leaving a surprise for the ant's physical attacks of the now trashed lab. A force field, no... Two. Two that could take the impact of the strength of the ants, buying enough time for them to either calm down or their Mr. Squishy to come running in hopefully... Especially now since it was three on three...

"As you wish Mast-" The two were cut off by Kokonoe herself.

"Don't call me that, you have a soul now you're people. You work for me, but I want a bond not a slavery... Just keep the food as safe as possible... Enough is on the floor already... The things I do for science, you know after I fixed someone's car by ripping two of the doors off to remake the engine you'd think I'd learn not to take short cuts."

"...Kokonoe." Replied Alpha, the female of the Prototype Twins.

"Huh?"

"...They will break through the first force field any second now, now isn't the time to think out loud." Which was the remark of Beta, himself.

Kokonoe gave an annoyed expression, as if she knew that, "You both are more durable about as much as these shields... each of us take one... We can all move faster than they can so keep on running them in circles once they break that second force field. No harm will come to any of the three or someone will end up in the scrap heap... Myself included." Alpha and Beta nodded as they prepared and chose a target to distract in the mean time. Kokonoe would dodge Nola until she calmed down, Alpha would take Astra, and Beta's target would obviously be the remaining lady, Sonna. The funny part about the twin fields is that they were about the same size physically as the Formica race due to being children originally, though everyone would probably be surprised when everyone came to their senses that Kokonoe wasn't kidding about making artificial pseudo-human life. At least she hoped they would be since she sounded like she was simply rambling off crazy science fiction. Eventually with the food and broken equipment scattering the floor... It seems the ants would catch on to how the force fields worked, if they co-ordinate an attack in a singe area it'd bust a hole in them. Kokonoe would prepare her Battle Wrench as Alpha prepared her floating ranged blades, as it seemed they would have to counter attack out of the field at this rate unless they calmed down before hand.

 

[Sosina]

Nola's mind was running on instinct at the moment, and that Instinct was screaming at her to survive, to attack what was threatening her and to beat it down, chase it away, make it unable to be a threat anymore, killing wasn't needed but if required she would do that to, Her Carapace had grown in, and she attacked, and without even thinking about it she made a distress call for help with her hive mind connection to her Workers, though it was only a one way connection to begin with, it was enough for her to know she could send it. Had she been unable to she would have fled to them for assistance if she could out run her aggressor.

With her Attacks being slower then normal she couldn't hit the target but it was moving around, her antenna allowing her to locate it at all times, she even sensed movement going under the floor, something moved down there, but at the same time she could also sense her workers coming to help her, and so the attack continued, Eventually though two more came to help her attacker, they couldn't see the force fields really, however they disrupted the air and that gave them all an Idea where they were, they could sense them as a disturbance, though as they attacked them they could also feel them waver.

That was all the information they needed, and the three of them started to attack the barriers, it may have taken a while had they not been as strong as they were, or if they had only two sets of arms to attack with, but as soon as they got their hands on an obstacle that was in their way they started to demolish it with all four hands, lashing out with attacks that where timed well, there was no real opening between the attacks as they landed another three were already in different stages of striking the barrier.

Nola could sense another presence, in her state she didn't know who it was, however it smelt like one of her workers..did she have three? the scent of course was coming from Ricter as he had been snuggling and getting groomed by Astra and Sonna and so he was marked by their scent, that scent didn't set off alarms like the different scent of the three they were fighting so none of them moved to attack him as he. instead they smashed through the barriers.

The main difference between Kokonoe giving orders to her two companions and Nola giving orders..was that Kokonoe had to spend time talking, letting Nola hear the plan and letting Astra and Sonna hear it as well and as the second barrier fell to their attacks they didn't bother going after the smaller two, they kept them in mind using their antenna and kept track of where they were, but all three started to rush towards Kokonoe at this point.

 

[Ricter]

Rushing into the room as the two workers had beat him here he would be greeted with a display of coordinated force from both Nola and her two children. Taking a brief moment to asses the situation it seemed Kokonoe had done something to trigger something in Nola to where they were attacking frantically with the aid of Astra and Sonna.

Looking on after that they seemed ot be striking air, or a barrier as he noticed Kokonoe had erected something to protect herself and the two creations she had been working on. The coordination the ants held was scary, and they didn't even talk, nor communicate verbally, instead they knew what to do and how to do it almost instantly, but they didn't seem to target him as he came into the room.

Their attention was only on Kokonoe and he ahd to stop them before they did something terrible, so as he softly gulped and moved close to them he would call out to the trio, getting closer by about ten or so feet after climbing over some wreaked flipped over table.

"Nola! Astra, Sonna! Plesae stop this, everything is okay, no one is going to hurt you!"

He would say, but moved closer and closer, trying to appeal to them, even willing to throw himself in between them to try and stop their fighting. Which as he got around two feet or so form the group he would reach out with a paw, trying to touch Nola while she wildly attacked the barrier, hoping she wouldn't hurt him. But wouldn't hold any malice if she did, after all she was a friend and he viewed her as such as he spoke up again.

"Nola...? Its me, Ricter, its okay. I promise."

 

[Kokonoe]

With the plan in play the blades flew up from the floor and shot forward in some sort of ranged display from Alpha whom was going to use the blunt ends to send one of the ants flying however Ricter jumped in-between... They stopped mid-air without a sound, what were these two... and how could they so easily manipulate the blades the way they did. Despite the short stature they had they had some incredible range, much like Kokonoe herself. She admired to co-ordination of the Formica race, while they weren't quick in the slightest they could hit as hard as Kokonoe could physically without the aid of her Battle Wrench. While she refused to use her arsenal at her disposal currently she'd pause her counter attack thankful that she didn't need to use something like her freeze ray which she'd been hiding for emergencies for a while. She'd stay silent for now letting her instincts do the talking, cats in the wild didn't communicate by sounds very often which shows that she is fighting back her innate instincts of attacking. She'd let Ricter handle it, both saving her trouble... and risking damage to her friends.

It seems the twin fields fell silent to talk like twins normally would, not a different made up language in this case but silent expressions... However the robotics could be part of the reason for that since they could run data through their minds like a super computer, or very similarly to Kokonoe considering files on the floor showed that her main partners included robots, clones, and various geniuses in her Sector... It also showed some documentation about her being a SS-Class Rebel the only other one in her Universe being a man called Ragna... They were both pictured, with notes that showed the Sector Seven cover ups of Kokonoe's past. It also showed that Kokonoe was a lot older than she looked physically, if they were seen of course... There was mostly food and scrap scattered around the floor, mostly food however... You couldn't help trying to walk around the food, some was even on the walls. Crunching and squishing at every angle, how much junk food had she stored in this room alone? Enough for a few armies, probably.

After a while as Ricter helped cool the situation and Kokonoe felt as if she wouldn't have to jump back into action, the twins decided to look around the room at the mess... Kokonoe glancing over at her food storage with a broken heart, nothing was shown on her face but a blank expression as she whistled at the mess... Inside she was crying about her junk food on the floor rather than being eaten, on the upside it could be replaced.

"Kokonoe rule one of the-" Beta was cut off by the pink haired nekomata herself.

"I know there is no food in the labs I made the rule, refer to rule's exception and rule two."

"Perhaps you should rethink it for reasons such as this..." Alpha joked with an embarrassed chuckle, "You can't clean this every time you have a science experiment after all."

"...But this is one of the smaller messes I've made." That comment just made the twins stare at her, it was as if the room fell silent as everyone just registered Kokonoe's words. She could feel the stares and started chuckling as she swore she felt a slight glance from everyone in the room, "Fine, fine... I'll be more careful with my sciences... If I made a bigger mess... well the neighbors would possibly sue... and that'd be terrible for us. I should take my own advice but I'm so damn impatient!" Both of the twins sigh and shake their heads, at closer inspections the hair of the two were closer to that of animals than humans...

Alpha having pink hair like Kokonoe but streaks of the colors of Ricter while Beta was more of Ricter's... but had streaks of Kokonoe's pink hair representing the extra DNA she needed to make the two stable enough to create the artificial souls. They seemed to have a mechanical body suit, with a visor over their faces... However a lot of the mechanical equipment seemed to be able to be removed or made to disappear so they could look more humanoid than robot much like Noel.

"Ricter, you should put them to sleep and everything. I'll clean up, make sure the kids and Nola get to sleep, I mean Ay and Be here, too. They don't need rest like most people but it's preferred, I didn't make them fancy to be mindless robotic drones after all... They are closer to clones than a robot with the model type I used. If it takes me all night I'll try to cook breakfast, I'm used to all nighters anyway." She said spotting the various files strewn about the floor with various information about her scattered everywhere, wondering if the file showing her parents was now on the floor somewhere.

 

[Sosina]

As the girls were about to attack there was something that moved in the way, It was about their size and fuzzy, and as it spoke up Nola focused on him and then hugged him tightly clinging to him as she stayed close and buried her face in his fur, he smelled like one of her workers but she could tell right away now it was her mister squishy, Immediatly she thought back to the colony, when she felt lonely or scared mister Squishy was always there to make her feel safe, and now here he was again...so she was safe.

It was also about that time that the Chemicals had worn off that Kokonoe had sprayed her with, and with that, and the fact that her mister squishy was here, Nola started to relax and her Battle Carapace started to crumble and fall off her making her far far lighter then with it on. Seeing their Queen dropping her armor, and the hive mind call for assistance gone, Sonna and Astra both relaxed as well, though still Astra continued to watch Kokonoe, While Astra moved between Nola and Ricter, and Kokonoe and her two..Children? they didn't know but nether of them knew what happened, they only knew Kokonoe had done something to make their Queen call out for help, and Astra continued to glare at her while Sonna was staying close and also was tempted to cling to the Mister squishy as well...honestly so was Astra...but they didn't they just let their battle Carapace crumble as they continued to wait for some semblance of order to be restored.

Eventually Nola had calmed down and though she was still confused about what happened she stayed silent and continued to cling to Mister Squishy as at the moment she just felt the need to be safe and warm. But after awhile she asked "What happened?" she said not loking up but waiting for Kokonoe's reply as she continued to cling to her fuzzy friend.

 

[Ricter]

Feeling the sensation of Nola reach out and hug him he would hug the little ant back, closing his eyes as he hoped the blades wouldn't just skewer him across the floor, luckily they had stopped just in time. As she pressed into his warm body and nuzzled his fur he was at first scared she might have kept attacking, but now he was just happy this worked and she calmed down, which caused the other two to calm down as well.

"Its okay Nola, you don't have to worry, no ones going to hurt you, I promise."

He reassured her again, giving off his warm inviting presence as he looked to her two guards who seemed on high alert still but relaxed visible and stopped attacking as well. Glancing back to Kokonoe he would add, "You maybe shouldn't use random tests on them, Kokonoe." Which given her snacks were all demolished and scattered on the floor she probably learned her lesson.

"Kokonoe used something to gain a reaction out of you, it kinda ended up in you attacking blindly, no worries though. No one got hurt, except the lab that is, still are you going to be okay?"

Looking to the two guards Ricter would reach out and pull them both in, he wasn't strong so they could resist but he tried to gather them together into a big hug now. Aiming to reduce the tension that they were no doubt feeling as he also let Kokonoe explain in better detail what she had did and what had caused this over all.

 

[Kokonoe]

"I just didn't water it down enough... This stuff is a nightmare for me, it was made to raise adrenaline. Different creatures react differently to it... SO like any good chemist I totally winged it!" She started to laugh out loud, he own reaction earlier was flipping all of her tables over before waking up surrounded by half eaten sweets... It was on the cameras, too... It wasn't a short while either... It popped on the screen as Alpha waved a hand, apparently she was somehow connected to the system Kokonoe made as was Beta. "Thank you Alpha... if you look at the screen... this was the first test." It seemed there was an hour of filming Kokonoe's mental break down from her own chemical, she looked at the spray bottle and put it in a metal container in a cabinet. "I should... probably dispose of this... but it might be useful... so this metal container should work for now. On the upside I got first hand looks at what you three can do... Which is wonderful for research purposes, though I should introduce you... Alpha, Beta... out of armor and battle modes if you would please."

The twins powered down, the metal attachments and sword disappeared... A girl and a boy... again with hair colors of both Ricter and Kokonoe, when they stopped floated they were about Nola's size shorter than Ricter himself... They two bowed, they both seemed to one gold and one blue eye. While powered down they looked completely human despite having mechanical souls. "I'm Alpha, and I am Beta. It's a pleasure to meet you all, as Kokonoe was going to explain we are made of the DNA of Ricter... or your Mr. Squishy, and the foul mouth nekomata behind us."

"True." Kokonoe interjected agreeing with her rude mannerisms in question.

"...As I continue, if that's okay Sister..." Beta asking his twin to which she responded with a "No, go ahead." Beta would nod and begin his explanation with the data we had on hand, "We ere made by Magi-Tech... biological and mechanical in nature... We weren't originally ourselves but are one of the brains from the computer mainframe in this room but given our own souls through the uses of Kokonoe's Mechanical Souls. In a way we wouldn't truly exist here today without this component, at the same time this component can even be used to store a current soul to be placed into a clone... Since these bodies were originally dead they had to be regrown from tissue already around... As such our bodies are basically the cross between Ricter... and our creator." Beta explained in full... it as overly complicated but the jist of it was that they were basically test tube children of a cat and a weasel... Though... No one could really know with Kokonoe, she could have just moved them from her to the incubators to protect her figure... Since there was no camera documentation as it seemed to be removed no one but Kokonoe could say with any certainty... She sure was a sneak.

Kokonoe nodded, "That's pretty spot on yeah, they are also capable of both battle and protection. On top of that due to being biological as well they can grow and learn as well as be healed by you donuts... They don't need most human functions, but it's preferred since they have the parts to taste and enjoy all of it. I couldn't have a good childhood, so I'll be damned before something I create can't have one. However they are still connected to the computer mainframe here, and can communicate to this mainframe like my megaphone. Which is a useful trick since they can activate the ship without me present, so if something happens to me... these two can still get things done safely or get help. Whatever either of you need them for they can do if you teach them, and I mean that very literally.... The Magi-Tech components can even create new parts if they need it progress... However... they ARE only a proto-type... I am not fully certain of their limits quite yet."

Alpha then interjects, "You made us... but you have no idea what our limits are? Didn't you make a blueprint?" Kokonoe gives a frown and an annoyed squint before explaining.

"You're lucky I didn't say save your questions until the end... The only way I can find out with certainty is actually making it... I can only guess especially with the faulty materials... I was surprised I ended up being able to make a capable model of machine to do the smelting for the Magi-Tech without harming you or the components." She said before walking off and beginning to clean up, broom, dust pan... throwing things out of impatience because it was stuck to the floor... and trying to grab as many papers of her personal information as she could before Ricter or Nola asked about them even though some lay right at their feet. "Anyway this is my mess and I should clean it all up while you get some shut eye, you're all probably exhausted after my chemical testing... Sorry again for that. I'd also take a shower before hand Ricter... you have some frosting in your fur... I know I have some in the hair... The twins are also water proof so they might want to as well." The twin looked at each other and chuckled, they seemed embarrassed knowing they were created as the same time the chaos was made. Their creator was the definition of chaotic good, though the chaos wasn't so... accepted by the neighbors.

 

[Sosina]

Hearing Mister Squishy was dirty Nola started to groom and clean him, gently crewing on any fur that was to long and trimming it, as the light acid in her spit gently cleaned his fur as she continued to cling to him not wanting to move. Though as things were explained she was able to recall that feeling she had not to long ago, it was the same feeling that had filled her when the Colony was attacked and she was told to escape in a different direction, only this time she instinctivly called for help from the only help she knew was in the area, her own workers, and unlike last time she didn't WANT to run, she wanted to fight off what was making her feel that way, and that had been Kokonoe.

As she continued to groom Mister Squishy she picked up on some things about the two that she could sense in the room with them, and as they were explained the two Workers were pulled to mister Squishy as well and all three were not grooming his fur and cleaning him just like ants would any member of their colony, and happy churring could be heard from each of them, though the two workers were giving obvious bias to their queen on Cleaning of the Mister Squishy privileges, when she moved to clean a spot they would move away from it and any surrounding spots to let her clean him more.

But eventually Nola asked a question "S..so are they Soldiers?Overseers? or...h..high caste?" she asked as she looked over at Kokonoe who was already working on cleaning the mess, and she was clinging to Ricter more now, wanting to protect him, but also wanting to be protected by him.

Though the two workers were also looking at Kokonoe, Astra loking at her with narrowed eyes as she was hearing all this. HER queen was the one that was in charge here and already This other was trying to match her on workers...maybe even getting Soldiers out before her queen...she wasn't trusting of this woman....she had done something to their queen while they were alone and the queen called for help...she blamed it on some bottle of stuff, but what if she had been trying to eliminate their queen as a rival for the Colony here? it seemed she already admitted to stealing something from the Queens Mister Squishy what else would she try to steal?

Sonna was more looking at the two Twins now how seemed to have their own version of their Battler Carapace, though they could apparently also fly and attack with weapons...could they be Soldiers? if so they had been lucky to not be killed. Was this an attack on their queen and colony? was it just lucky that Mister Squishy got here to stop it? She didn't know but she was now worried for their queen sharing the place with this other that seemed to be trying to out match her.

It wasn't that they didn't trust Kokonoe before, it was the fact that she was female, and was seemingly trying to out pace Nola in numbers, something their natural instincts were telling them all to be wary of, after all if another Colony was trying to take the area they had claimed then it made sense they would simply try to wipe out the young queen and her only two workers...Kokonoe had allowed Nola in..but maybe she expected her to be subservant? It was hard to say though the appearance of her own Soldiers or Overseers meant that maybe she was trying to intimidate her now? but they lacked the gift of a Hive mind it was obvious during the fight that they were slowly wearing away at them...

One thing Kokonoe would notice was that none of them seemed tired from the fight, despite the fact that they had been doing the majority of the attacking, it seemed they had quite the reserve of energy, whether that was still Adrenalin flowing through them or they were just that hardy it would be hard to say

 

[Ricter]

While being groomed Kokonoe's explanation of what she did seemed clear, he was given the spray bottle as well but he mostly was easy to handle. He was after all a small weasel with nothing really interesting about him, so he didn't cause too much of a ruckus and simply jumped around, or so he believed as he woke up the same way Nola did when she was under its effects.

But what pulled his attention more was the two AI creations Kokonoe had made, they seemed odd at first, almost life like, but he was assured that they were some form of hybrid between souls and machine. It almost seemed immoral to think about, but he's heard worse, plus it seems like she had brought them back from death by purpose, rather than forced as the two children were killed by prior causes.

Still, on hearing his own DNA was used for their creation he seemed surprised, almost taken back by the realization as he could see the tan coloration in their hair. Additionally they were mixed with Kokonoe's own DNA as well, so over all it was like they were his children, just not conceived by breeding, more so by genetics and science.

He was seemingly okay with this but he did look to Kokonoe with a knowing look of 'you should have asked first' as he folded his arms, but he forgave her. After all the two beings she made, Alpha and Beta, seemed very nice and willing to aid in stopping what was going on, so he had no reason to be skeptical about their goals nor Kokonoe's.

"Alright, though it would have been nice to know." Ricter pointed out verbally, yet would drop it there as Nola mentioned whom they were and he would scratch his head. She was comparing things way too similarly to her own system of living that she had probably gone through for years before the eventual death of those she held close to her heart, "I'd think they are just Kokonoe's helpers for now, you don't have to think about it too hard Nola. But for now I think you all should get some rest, obviously we got a bit excited there."

Ricter was sure to point out so she wouldn't think too hard on something, no sooner picking the trio up as they were already clinging to his body, he started to walk towards the exit door. "I'll leave you too it Kokonoe, uh just be sure to do less science experiments on us okay?" Even now he yawned while asking her this but wouldn't stay very long for the answer as he went towards his room.

The weasel didn't have much else to do for some time but sleep, so as he made his way inot his room, and no doubt would be forced to share it with the trio even if he had made a space just for them and for her colony to begin expanding. He would flop into bed and tuck them all in with himself there as well, wishing to sleep the night away with the employ of his new friends.