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Vill-V was just putting the finishing touches on her next invention.
–Thud–
"Hello there." Thor dropped from the rafters a lightsaber attached to his hip.
Her hand stopped turning the wrench. A smile threatened to tug the corners of her lips.
She dramatically turns to him. "General Kenobi." Her eyes glued to the lightsaber handle.
"You actually made it." She couldn't believe he would actually do it. When she heard he didn't know of star wars so talked it over with Elysia and even she was appalled that he didn't know of it.
Together they found a day he was free and forced him to watch the first 6 movies. Yeah they were nearly 150 years old, but they were classics. The reboots nowadays suck ass in comparison.
Half way through the first Elysia had to go and do something, leaving Thor and Vill to watch the other 5 together.
She thought of how to make a lightsaber, but never got around to doing it.
Seems Thor did though.
He spun it around a few times before turning it on,
–Zhhooommm–
A blue lightsaber to be exact. "Yep, I had a bit of free time and was like, why not. I even added a few extra touches–"
He turned a dial and the colour changed to red, and again to green, purple and almost every other colour known.
"–And not just those I also added–" He held it up in front of him and pressed a second button.
–Zhhooommm–
A dual lightsaber. Her eyes widened.
"–I wanted to add more, but there wasn't much else I could do before it wouldn't be a lightsaber anymore." Turning it off, she tossed it to Vill catching it with both hands before putting it aside.
"Thor, you've got to remember. It's over 100 years old. Back then they didn't even have holograms let alone a lightsaber." giggling she moved to grab something from the wall, leaving Thor room to speak.
"I know, I know. But still even the force in those movies was shit as fuck. Like what happened to force healing and force movement, they happened like once when they were needed the least." he waved her off.
"Like look–" He uses telekinesis to mess around with a few of the stray tools showcasing his ease of use over them, even doing a force push and other such movies. "–its not even that hard to control it."
Putting tools back where they were knowing Vill's OCD with this stuff.
Climbing the ladder Vill grabs an orange dim orb. "What did you expect? The concept of superpowers wasn't even considered until the Honkai showed up a few decades back."
Tossing the orb to him she jumped off landing with a thud. Thor caught the orb with one hand, bringing in front of his face.
"What is this?" He could feel a miniscule amount of Honkai in it, but that was all.
Vill smirked at his confusion. "Can't you tell? Try using your lightning on it."
He did just that. The orb turned into goo and started wrapping itself around his hand before solidifying into a type of gauntlet.
"Cool. What else does it do?" Knowing Vill, he knew she would do a whole lot more than an orb that becomes a gauntlet.
"Glad you asked." She picked up a pack of cards and started playing with them. "Think of them turning invisible." Her shit eating grin told him there's more to it than she said.
He did that as the gauntlet faded and turned invisible, he couldn't even feel it anymore, he went to put his hands together – and they did – as if there was nothing there. His lips curled into a smile. "You even made it intangible too. How'd you do it, is it even intangibility, and it's just shifting itself to allow my hand through. Either way this is an incredible tool Vill."
"Glad you like it. There is still one more function. First imagine it coming back and then imagine it shaping into a sword, spear, whatever you use." He could tell she was nervous about this aspect, she even started to do a bunch of shuffling followed by tricks, a nervous tick of hers.
Doing what she asked he understood why. While it did change into the shape of a sword, it very quickly started to lose its shape reverting back to its gauntlet form.
"So what's the issue? What material do you need?" Knowing how reluctant she is to ask for resources, from him especially, he had to corner her into telling him.
As the words reached her ears, she stopped, the card she just tossed, feathering to the ground. "R–really, you'll get me it?"
His brow furrowed "I will, it's not like they can stop me." A halo appeared behind him blinding her for a second.
"E-even if it's really expensive?" She was even biting her lip.
'What the fuck does she need to make her like this?'
"Just tell me Vill, It can't be that bad."
"Soulium" An instant reply, no stutter, no nervousness.
If this was an anime Thor would have faceplanted at that. "Are you fucking serious? That was what you were nervous to ask for?" He did, however facepalm at least.
"Vill. I mess around with Soulium for fun. I have tons of it, while yes it's VERY expensive to make. That's only if you pay for the materials to make it." He explained.
VIll felt like an idiot. Now don't blame her, she didn't know outright. But she had seen his personal warehouse full of the stuff.
"Ha…ha…ha" A nervous laugh left here.
Thor gave up and vanished, appearing a moment later with a metal crate. He placed it down causing it to sink ever so slightly into the concrete.
Tapping around the panel on the side the lid split into 2 and folded open revealing the Soulium inside.
"Here you go, if you ever need anymore just ask, heck just take it from my warehouse, I'll add you to the whitelisted personnel." He couldn't with this woman. For how much of a monster she was in mechanics, she was too kind, not wanting to be a bother so she wouldn't even ask for the resources she needed.
She leaped from her seat pulling him into a cuddle. "Thank you Thor… Really thank you." Tears formed at the ends of her eyes threatening to fall.
Thor was surprised by this action, he had never seen her like this. It didn't matter though. He laughed softly before wiping the now falling tears from her face. "It's alright Vill. If I didn't believe in you I wouldn't have even talked to you. The way you took those people in during that crisis, protected them and even comforted them, showed me what kind of person you are.
Even if you were a terrible inverter I would have taken you in, as long as you had the drive I would make sure you grow" Gently rubbing her back he looked up his thoughts unknown.
Warmth bloomed in Vill's chest. She didn't know he thought of her like that. She quietly giggled to herself enjoying the warmth.
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A while later both were sitting on one of the couches, enjoying talking amongst themselves.
"Is Himeko doing ok? I haven't seen her around since then." Vill asked.
Thor thought about what to say for a moment. He met her eyes, "In simple terms it's not great, the amount of paperwork she had to do getting the first institute and Cocoon moved here." He turned and leaned back, hands behind his head sighing.
Vill could already guess why. "You think it's because…"
He opened his eyes, glanced at her, "Because me and Aurora are here?
Because Himeko is the one who brought us along with Mei and Kevin, even Su in future?
How my existence at HQ alone has split the organisation in two. The 4th, 5th and now the 1st institute along with Cocoon under my influence?
How has my relationship with Elysia has stopped them from taking advantage of her kindness?
How Mobius has made it very clear she supports me over the council, how the 4th director stepped down to assistant director making Mei the new one?
Maybe how the last councillor who tried to make trouble for Aurora was found dead with 42 self inflicted gun wounds.
I wonder why." He gritted his teeth. He wanted to just kill all of them and be done with it, but then, who would do all the extra paperwork for him.
'At least I try to help Himeko when I can, I even give her massages to help her relax from the stress.'
Hua tries to help her but she's not the greatest nor the fastest.
Vill flinched with each question she knew was the truth, even recently with her arrival 3 weeks ago, they tried to cut funding to the 5th institute as officially that's who she's registered under.
Her shoulders sagged, feeling responsible for his burden. She felt something soft and warm on her head.
Tilting her head up she saw it was Thor's hand, his face had that sorry look to it. "It's not your fault." She could feel that's what he was saying.
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