You have to enjoy your job somehow

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

[It's a quiet night, and Roads is in the hangar, working alongside some kind of giant, robot-scale sword. There are tons of computers lying around, and everyone's favorite mad scientist is dashing back and forth between them, muttering to himself. ]

Yes...yes, just a little bit more...

Red to red, blue to blue, yellow to yellow...

[Finally, he takes a deep breath, and walks over to where two extension cords are lying on the ground.]

Alright...With this, WE STEP FORWARD INTO HISTORY!

[He slams the two cords together! Sparks ignite, and the sword gains a new, golden edge around its normal form. Somewhere in the distance, there's a flash of lightning.]

It worked...it worked! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! NOW, NOTHING CAN STOP ME!!

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[the_innocent_blade]

Roads, what the hell are you doing!

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

SCIENCE!

[the_innocent_blade]

THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN ANYTHING!

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Then I'm making a sword out of sunlight and dreams. That work?

[the_innocent_blade]

You made a sword out of sunlight and dreams.

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Yep. Don't touch it, it burns.

[make_history_chew_scenery]

[And Roads's partner in creating the sword's just... standing by. For once, the historian's been out-hammed. But that's fine by him, this is Roads's night in the limelight, and Jeremy's just recording all of this down.]

It certainly seems like all our hard work has finally payed off, Blackwell! The blade is at long last finished... and Nicolai and Sophia will rue the day they showed it to us while gloating about their victory!

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

[That seems to get him to calm down.]

Yeah...Yeah, I guess she will.

[make_history_chew_scenery]

... Still too much eating at you regarding her?

[Jeremy's gonna frown.]

Take heart though. Our victory does not require her death, and you didn't come this far to lose your nerve now.

You have the means now to put an end to the Id Beasts and Nicolai for good, and when that is done we can settle affairs with Sophia.

[armored_mother]

...

[This reminded her of the time Curtis was drunk and tried to SCIENCE. While she had many fond memories of her husband this one was one that taught her to back away. Slowly.]

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Man, this is gonna be great! Damn Id Beasts won't know what hit them...I wonder if I could make some kind of laser elbows with this, and laser knees, and...
[There's a series of sparks, and the field intensifies for an instant before sending a bolt of energy towards the far wall of the hangar. It melts the surface of the metal, leaving a smoldering orange crater.]

....

...AWESOME!

[armored_mother]

....

[Cora's...just going to walk over to Roads and look him dead in the eye as she asks.]

Think you can do that again? I blinked the first time.

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

[blink. Oh god there's a woman in my face.]

I...don't know? Maybe?

...Really, I need to figure out how to stop it from doing that...

[armored_mother]

Yeah.. probably.

But hey, you got something that can tear through bulkheads in a blink!

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

I guess so, but the railgun can already do that. Nah, the point here was to get something that uses as little energy as possible to coat the blade...I've got a bit of a battery problem with the things that supply magic sunlight dust to the rest of my machine, so high efficiency is more important than raw power.

[armored_mother]

I can appreciate that kind of thinking.

[Considering its the reason for her unit... one of the reasons anyway.]

Don't you have.... I dunno... something to keep it from overloading?...

What's the word.... breakers?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Yeah, there's that, but this sort of thing is really more of a contained field...if I have to turn it off real fast it'll just vent into the air. Sort of like a beam saber, you know?

Just...wrapped around a normal sword. And made of magic.

[mecha_eihwaz]

Is that how all weapons on Earth are made...?

[Says the girl from the place where bombs grow on trees.]

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Nah, just some of them.

[mecha_eihwaz]

Only the really powerful ones?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

...Yeah, I guess so.

[mecha_eihwaz]

So, what can it do?

[Lily tries to touch the shining blade.]

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Gah!

[Roads grabs Lily by the forearm and yanks her hand back.]

Don't touch it!

[mecha_eihwaz]

Aah, I'm sorry!

[Yanking might be hard, Lily is surprisingly strong. She does stop, though.]

But please don't worry, I'm much tougher than a normal human. Is it very sharp?

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Well...yeah it's sharp, but I'm a bit more worried about the heat. It's well contained, but touch it and it'll be a lot like holding a beam saber with your bare hands.

[mecha_eihwaz]

So that makes it a weapon that combines the properties of physical strikes and beams!

[2hell_weride]

[[Just a whistle.]]

Looks like It's about time I got off my ass and started working on my shit, huh?

[gudbye_despair]

*A familiar face peeks from a corner.*

...congratulation Mr. Antihero.

1/2

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

!!

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

...Oh, it's just you.

I thought I told you to stop calling me that...

[gudbye_despair]

Does that mean I should start calling you Mr. Roads from now on? But that's so intimate already.

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Uh, my last name's Blackwell...you can just call me Roads, like everyone else.

[She's acting kind of weird...]

[gudbye_despair]

You always looks so cool when you're sciencing, Mr. Roads.

(I know that because I'm always watching you...)

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Oh, uh, thanks!

...What was that second part?

[gudbye_despair]

You must be thirsty. I brought you a drink.

(She hands you a bottle of water with one hand, still not looking at you in the eyes.)

[sexygodofscienceandwar]

Oh, thanks.

[He'll take a swig.]

...Uh, are you feeling alright? You've been acting kind of odd...

[gudbye_despair]

Odd? Ahaha, why do you say that? I'm perfectly normal.

*She takes the bottle of water from your hand and put it into a plastic bag before sealing it.*