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| The Latest Invention; Easy Quest - Completed | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 12 2016, 11:03 AM (181 Views) | |
| Puar | Sep 12 2016, 11:03 AM Post #1 |
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| Puar | Sep 12 2016, 11:59 AM Post #2 |
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The lunch rush had just died down in West City. Puar was perched on a low wall outside of her favorite cheap and greasy restaurant, forced to listen to the growls of her aching tummy. She had to make some cash quick. This cat was broke as a joke, and that jerk cashier wouldn't let her open a tab. Over the past year or so she'd blown a lot of hard working people's money on their slop, but apparently loyalty is a dead practice. Her perch was in just the right spot to see cars coming around a bend in the road. It was a popular place for wrecks, what with a blind intersection right around the corner. She eyed a small sedan coming around the way, but it was too old. Too many lemons flying around this part of town. A truck passed with some equipment loaded too high in it's bed, a good choice, but she could do better. Just then she spotted it, her golden goose, gleaming white and cruising around the corner with abandon. It was a mid sized white van with the Capsule Corp logo proudly displayed on the side, and under that a subtext that said 'courier'. She curled up her tail like a spring underneath her as the van came closer. When she was sure the driver wouldn't have enough time to react she launched herself into it's path and was whacked by the front bumper. The driver stomped their brake pedal to the floor and came to a total halt a few seconds after passing over the struck animal. Puar laid sprawled out on the ground like she'd fallen from heaven, with the most pitiful look she could manage on her face even though she was ecstatic. She would sue them for half their worth. No, 3/4 of their worth. With this sort of accident she could claim suffering equal to a thousand years in hell. "Oh jeez, oh jeez," the driver was saying. He jumped out of the truck the moment he got his seat belt off and ran towards the rear. "Oh god, oh no!" There wasn't a scratch on Puar, but her time in shape shifting school had taught her how to look pretty definitely dead. She could see the checks rolling in, and pictured herself wading through a pool of cash. "I'm already running late, why on Earth would you do that!?" Wait, what? The driver dropped a heel into her stomach and started to yell. "Get up, Puar! What are you trying to pull exactly!?" The cat was so surprised she could have actually died in that moment. She shot into the air and stared at the driver like he'd grown a second head out of his butt that could sing show tunes and talk politics. "What the heck do you mean, you hit me! I could be dead!" She shouted back at him, floating in the air a few inches from his face while her arms and tail were flailing in frustration. "How do you even know my name?" "You're on my route, idiot! Stop wasting my time!" The driver plunged a hand into the dorky fanny pack hanging on his hip and pulled out a small metal card. He stabbed it at Puar like he was trying to insert it into her stomach and spun around to walk back toward his van. Puar caught the thing with her tail before it could hit the ground, but hadn't looked at it yet. "I'll sue your pants off! Your grandchildren will know my lawyers, do you hear me!" She was shouting at the top of her lungs and making obscene gestures with her hands, what a moron that guy was. This card wasn't going to pay for her takeout, what a waste. Behind her a stubby line of cars had piled up, and some of them were starting to honk. She ignored them and floated back to her perch while the capsule corp van screeched away like a bat out of hell. The card felt heavier than it looked, and had only a few words printed across the front. 'The Capsule Corporation invites you to participate in the frontier of scientific discovery! Participants will be compensated. Side effects may be deadly' |
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| Puar | Sep 12 2016, 01:14 PM Post #3 |
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The shadow of Capsule Corp headquarters reached several city blocks over from where the gleaming yellow dome stood, and every other establishment in West City's business district had to stand in it. Home of the richest family in the world, and the workplace of the men and women ushering humanity toward's the future. It was planted in the center of a manicured complex crowded with eager colleagues to the Brief fortune. Puar was flying high above this titan of industry but she was sure she could smell the money already. She dropped down to the front of the complex and hovered above the walkway. It ran under a Capsule Corp banner and continued all the way to the entrance on the north side of the building. The glossy sliding doors sang open in front of her to reveal an immaculate lobby and a single receptionist behind a sleek white desk. If she hadn't seen the grass outside with her own eyes she'd swear it was the entrance to a space ship. "Hello Ms. Puar, welcome to the Capsule Corporation HQ," the receptionist greeted her in sweet tones. "You're expected in the west wing." The kind woman pointed towards a door on the far wall. Puar managed to compose herself enough to mutter a thank you and continued toward the west wing without stopping. Her head swiveled to admire the vaulted ceilings and expensive fixtures, she could already picture all the things she was going to buy with this paycheck. The door led to a long tube that interrupted a large terrarium. There was thick greenery on every side, and a variety of creatures the cat had thought to be either fictional or extinct. At the end of the tube a door opened into a room so large it was confusing to the senses. Puar had been slack jawed from the moment she entered the lobby, and by now a long string of drool was trailing down her chin. The room she floated in now was entirely white, and had a large dome ceiling. In it's center there were two men in lab coats that were deeply engaged in discussion. One man was flailing his hands and pointing a lot, while the other was shaking his head with his hands in his pockets. "Excuse me," the small cat said, but they hadn't even noticed she was there. "Excuse me!" She said louder this time, and managed to turn their heads. |
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| Puar | Sep 12 2016, 07:55 PM Post #4 |
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"Oh, you're early! Wonderful. Perfect." The man who had his hands in his pockets strode over to Puar and eyed her for a moment like he was considering her for purchase. "Yes, perfect," he said before spinning on his heel and shouting at the other man in the room. "Would you excuse us!?" Instead of giving a reply the man buried his face in his hands and dragged them down like he wanted to take it off. He did something with his hand that Puar didn't quite catch and a small circle separated from the floor underneath him, so thin it looked like it had been shaven away. The white disk started to float, gently at first, before rocketing up toward the center of the domed ceiling where a hatch the same size as the disk opened and sucked the man inside. The man left with Puar was middle aged, with a large bald spot that was too far forward to look natural. His thick glasses made his eyes look twice as wide as they were, it was pretty hard for her to take him seriously before he'd even introduced himself. "Yes, wonderful. My name's Carl," the doctor said. He gave Puar his hand for a polite shake, and she gave him her tail. "Hi Carl, I guess I don't need to introduce myself, do I?" "Well," Carl said, pushing the frame of his glasses up his nose in the pause. "I guess you don't." Carl stood there in silence for a while longer admiring the floating cat, but the silence got awkward in no time. Puar waved a hand in front of his face to wake him up. "So what are we doing here, doc?" "I'm sorry?" "There was supposed to be an invention?" "Oh! Yes, wonderful. Let me show you." The doctor snapped his fingers and a small disk separated from the floor the same way as before. It rose up to hip height on a clear platform, then opened in the center. A small pair of glasses identical to the doctors floated up out of the hole in a small glow of white light. "You invented the glasses?" |
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| Puar | Sep 12 2016, 08:21 PM Post #5 |
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"Yes. Um, no. They're glasses, but they're not exactly prescription." The doctor stared at her for a moment but once the timing had died completely he threw his head back and squeaked out a high pitch nasal laugh. "Uh right. So what are they?" "They allow the wearer to see through the eyes of someone else. There is one invention, but in fact two pairs of glasses." The doctor tapped the frame on his glasses again. "One pair gives, and one pair receives. The only problem has been that they can be a little too...convincing." "What do you mean?" The doctor wrung his hands together for a moment in a search for words, but decided against it. "It's not worth explaining." Puar hovered down to be eye level with the spectacles and reached for them. "Wait!" The doctor flailed his arms. "The reason we asked for you specifically was because of your, um...special talent." He adjusted his glasses again and gave her that odd look. "You are a shapeshifter, correct?" "Yeah, well I used to be anyway." "Yes, wonderful. Top of your class as I recall." "But what does that have to do with anything doc?" In a few minutes they were ready to start the experiment. Puar was seated in a big white chair shaped like a throne in the center of the room. In front of her there was a floating white pod with a discrete camera placed in both sides. On the opposite side the doctor sat, tapping his foot and twiddling his thumbs. "Yes, yes. Wonderful. We can begin whenever you're ready," the doctor said in between wiggling sporadically in his seat. "Ready and set, doc." Puar felt the weight of the frames in her hand. She raised them slowly and made eye contact with the camera lens as she put them on her face. A second passed, and then two, with no event. But then suddenly she could see herself, seated on the other side of that white pod. And her shape began to change. Her fur turned white in some places, and tan in others. She started glowing softly, like a night light and then quickly morphed into the doctor. "Yes, quite! Wonderful!" She could hear the doctor speak, but his lips weren't moving. "Is it working?" "Yes, wonderfully!" "That's good, fantastic doc. So how about that compensation?" |
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| Puar | Sep 12 2016, 08:27 PM Post #6 |
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