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"Then it's simple. Some of us go looking for the Composer while the rest try to figure out another solution in the mean time."
Inharax dismissively waves a hand. "I can do both at once."
"If he is found, I want him incapacitated. Humiliated. Restrained. Tortured. Everything he condemned to his victims. Wring the information from him... and then I want to kill him myself."
"You'd better let me have a turn. He deserves so much more than that."
Inharax dismissively waves a hand. "I can do both at once."
"If he is found, I want him incapacitated. Humiliated. Restrained. Tortured. Everything he condemned to his victims. Wring the information from him... and then I want to kill him myself."
"You'd better let me have a turn. He deserves so much more than that."
"Does the Composer use anything that we can trace?"
"If he is found, I want him incapacitated. Humiliated. Restrained. Tortured. Everything he condemned to his victims. Wring the information from him... and then I want to kill him myself."
"You'd better let me have a turn. He deserves so much more than that."
"Does the Composer use anything that we can trace?"
"Yeah... his mind. I can track his presence. Just give me a moment."
After a few seconds, his blue light flare slightly brighter.
"He's... almost immediately south. Many, many kilometers away. This planet is massive."
"Yeah... his mind. I can track his presence. Just give me a moment."
After a few seconds, his blue light flare slightly brighter.
"He's... almost immediately south. Many, many kilometers away. This planet is massive."
"That places him somewhere in the Ko-De-Ce-Kra Wahi......."
Equinox starts to walk off.
"And not only that. He's actually in... he's... "
For a second, it appears as though Pain is paralyzed as his voice trails off. Then suddenly, a violent convulsion shivers through his form, rustling the sheets of bent and fused metal for a brief moment before they all clamp back together solidly. Traces of blue electricity jumps across his frame for a short while longer, and then everything goes back to normal. He finishes his sentence, but not without hesitation.
"He's... in a place... in a place called 'Xia'. That's the... uh... that's the Vortixx city."
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"That places him somewhere in the Ko-De-Ce-Kra Wahi......."
Equinox starts to walk off.
"And not only that. He's actually in... he's... "
For a second, it appears as though Pain is paralyzed as his voice trails off. Then suddenly, a violent convulsion shivers through his form, rustling the sheets of bent and fused metal for a brief moment before they all clamp back together solidly. Traces of blue electricity jumps across his frame for a short while longer, and then everything goes back to normal. He finishes his sentence, but not without hesitation.
"He's... in a place... in a place called 'Xia'. That's the... uh... that's the Vortixx city."
"That's everything I need."
Inharax teleports the lot of them to Xia's industrial zone, along with a few Rahkshi (Panrahk, Heat Vision, Accuracy) and RMS agents.
For a second, it appears as though Pain is paralyzed as his voice trails off. Then suddenly, a violent convulsion shivers through his form, rustling the sheets of bent and fused metal for a brief moment before they all clamp back together solidly. Traces of blue electricity jumps across his frame for a short while longer, and then everything goes back to normal. He finishes his sentence, but not without hesitation.
"He's... in a place... in a place called 'Xia'. That's the... uh... that's the Vortixx city."
"That's everything I need."
Inharax teleports the lot of them to Xia's industrial zone, along with a few Rahkshi (Panrahk, Heat Vision, Accuracy) and RMS agents.
"Well, hopefully he doesn't destroy himself. Now, have we attempted to contact the Entity within?"
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Inharax takes on a look of surprise. "Then speak, if you have aught to say worth the listening."
TA sends a powerful telepathic message to Inharax.
Inharax only Quite the unexpected yet timely miracle, is it not? Karunax's resurrection, I mean. At least it would be, were he ever dead to begin with. I had my suspicions, but this revival has confirmed them. Inharax, the other Makuta are not simply turning against you; they are being purposefully taken from you, to rally behind their ultimate destruction. Although it certainly is the one and only Karunax, he has no control of his destiny, and is choked with invisible strings that tie him to The Composer's fingertips. If he succeeds in obtaining full control of the Brotherhood, it will be dismantled without flaw.
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Inharax takes on a look of surprise. "Then speak, if you have aught to say worth the listening."
TA sends a powerful telepathic message to Inharax.
Inharax only Quite the unexpected yet timely miracle, is it not? Karunax's resurrection, I mean. At least it would be, were he ever dead to begin with. I had my suspicions, but this revival has confirmed them. Inharax, the other Makuta are not simply turning against you; they are being purposefully taken from you, to rally behind their ultimate destruction. Although it certainly is the one and only Karunax, he has no control of his destiny, and is choked with invisible strings that tie him to The Composer's fingertips. If he succeeds in obtaining full control of the Brotherhood, it will be dismantled without flaw.
Reply. So it is as I feared: Karunax was not himself. How can he be helped?
TA sends a powerful telepathic message to Inharax.
Inharax only Quite the unexpected yet timely miracle, is it not? Karunax's resurrection, I mean. At least it would be, were he ever dead to begin with. I had my suspicions, but this revival has confirmed them. Inharax, the other Makuta are not simply turning against you; they are being purposefully taken from you, to rally behind their ultimate destruction. Although it certainly is the one and only Karunax, he has no control of his destiny, and is choked with invisible strings that tie him to The Composer's fingertips. If he succeeds in obtaining full control of the Brotherhood, it will be dismantled without flaw.
Reply. So it is as I feared: Karunax was not himself. How can he be helped?
Helped? Makuta Karunax is beyond such luxury. His fate is whatever The Composer wishes it to be. It stands to reason that Karunax has been a puppet that is entirely unaware of its strings for quite some time now, his commitment and purpose for the Brotherhood nothing but a facade to mask his true intended purpose, programmed deep within his being. A facade so perfect that even when I visited his mind, I could not see anything past what I expected to see in any other Makuta. Now that he has endured a third 'miraculous' resurrection, even after he has long been separated from the entity you call Pain, I simply connected the dots. The only hope of releasing him is by obtaining his code, which again, is in The Composer's hands. Of all of this, I am certain.
He lets his words sink in for a moment.
I can only ask that you trust me, for if you were to look into Karunax for yourself, you would only see the familiar thoughts and patterns that you have grown to know to be his. Not only that, but if you brought the matter up to him, Karunax himself would likely think you insane for suggesting such an absurdity.
Had I not parted ways with The Composer before Karunax's assimilation occurred, I could have known about this far sooner and acted accordingly. I am sorry.