Zero was hanging around the palace of clockwork, not doing much really. He was simple enjoying the architecture. As he walked through one of the hallway he could see out of one of the windows that the Archimedes was almost done with its repairs from the time when that strange monster, that was supposedly Riza’s true form, attacked the library and took out the entire building. He continued walking throughout the halls and began wondering through some of the closed rooms to see if they held any secrets. He opened one door after the other only to find that there was dust and some decay from where the metal coting o some of the decorations had begun to peel. Zero was a little worried about the palace. Such a beautiful place shouldn’t be kept alone in the dark. He walked through each room and opened the windows so that the rooms and palace could get some life. After a few minutes he found himself outside the palace on the top level of one of the tours. Zero looked out over the horizon and then turned around, closed his eyes and leapt backwards off the tower. Zero did this in his past time. He loved to feel the wind rush threw his hair and the rush from the thought of splattering on the ground but then at the last minute stopping himself and flying back up to the sky made him feel alive. Once he was high enough off the ground he just kind of soured over the city for a bit watching the citizens of Clockwork live out their daily lives. Zero flew back to the palace and found himself looking out over his shoulder before he returned to the inside of the palace. Once inside Zero walked over to the science department of the palace. Here Clockworks lead scientist’s worked day and night on new experiments to try and better Clockworks military. Zero walked into the lab and found that they were working on some kind of battle suite that would enhance the wearer’s abilities. He looked over the plans for the mechanism and found that they needed a human subject to test it out on. Zero openly volunteered to be the test subject. The scientist were a little skeptical about whether or not this was a good idea, “but you’re the emperor if something happens to you then what will become of the rest of us?” they asked. Zero only said that they would have nothing to fear for he would make it through this operation. With still some skepticism in their heads they obliged their emperor and began the test. They strapped him onto a table and then placed needles into his skin and wires to monitor his heart beat so if something was to go wrong they would be able to stop the procedure. After a few minutes of preparation the scientist evacuated the room and watched from the adjacent room through a two way mirror. The lead scientist switched on the machines and began the experiment. From the needles flooded a metallic liquid that began invading every single cell in Zero’s body. The alloy coted Zero’s cells to the point that his entire body was metallic. Once the alloy was drained from the tanks and every last drop was inside of zero the scientist switched on a generator that pumped a giant volt of electricity into Zero. Zero began to flail around on the table and at the same time the alloy started to dissipate and zero’s skin and body was no longer metallic. The scientist turned off all the machines and then entered the room Zero was in and placed a small wristband like object around his wrist. The process was complete and the experiment was a success. The next day zero was in the lab’s testing chamber and he was told to activate the wrist band. He pressed the small button on the band and then zero’s body began to become metallic again only this time he was able to form the metal into an armor. Zero could feel the armor that was now biological infused into his body strengthening him and making him even stronger. Zero held out his hand and formed a ball of Ki. Only it was three times as big as he intended. The zero threw the ball at a small object that was in the middle of the room and once it hit the blast was so explosive it scorched the walls of the room and peeled away some of the metal into tiny strips that coated the floor in a metallic layer. Zero smirked and then ran at the wall and bashed through ten feet of titanium plating. Zero clicked the wristband and the metallic alloy reseeded into his skin. Zero commended his scientist on their job well done and had them implement this alloy to the soldier of Clockwork as soon as they were able to mass produce this material. Zero walked out of the science lab and back to the top of the tour and plunged himself over the side. Instead of catching himself he activated the alloy and slammed into the ground leaving a giant crater in the ground. Zero was going to like having this around. With this new ability of his he would surely be able to jump to the leaderboards. Zero new exactly what to do next. Zero walked over to a frozen yogurt shop and ordered a giant vanilla Sunday.
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