Bloodfall: Design Flaw
Linda told me Bane has records of my military career. How the fuck did he even figure out that was me? I didn't even use my real name when I signed up and 16-year old me looks nothing like I do now. Nonetheless we gotta bury this fucker soon. Him and anyone following him. We're gonna need some firepower and our guns are with Arnie for upkeep so it was off to Patton Arms for our next stop. I was flying the Sky Slayer (by flying I mean enjoying the fantastic invention that is autopilot) while Linda kept looking through that national criminal database info on Bane. She was looking through the raids Bane performed all across central America, and apparently one stuck out.
"Hey, just found this. One of their raids was a convoy in Belize. It was for Lexcorp and it was apparently carrying prototype equipment for testing or something."
"Lexcorp testing shit in Belize?"
"Right? I said the same thing. I'm looking deeper into it. Some of these files are classified stuff so we should get something good."
"Well, keep searching when we get inside. We're landing."
The rooftop to Patton Arms was barren, thank god. Sometimes some jackoff with a private chopper takes up the one landing pad Arnie's got up here. Arnie was at the roof's door waiting for us.
"Good evening, lovebirds."
"Hi, Arnold."
"Your Minigun and M60 are doing just fine, and from what I've heard you'll need them. Didn't you already kill Bane? And what's this about an Exoskeleton?"
"How the fuck did you find out?"
"Some police reports leaked out and it's all over the news. Anything I have that could match isn't even in the prototype stages yet."
"What's that?"
"...ah, I'll just show you. C'mon."
We head down the freight elevator into the sub-levels where Patton Arms Skunkworks stuff is. Arnie leads us into a room where our guns our, and that's what we find. Alongside something totally unexpected. Something that I'm sure gave Linda a few flashbacks.
"The Uber Soldat!? You made the fucking Uber Soldat?"
"Just a recreation of the armor from the blueprint. With it we might make a powered armor suit but right now we're stuck here."
"Even like this you think it might be good enough to kick Bane's ass?"
"....no."
"No? You have any idea how hard this thing was to kill?"
"But you killed it all on your own. Just one woman in body armor with a few low-tier explosives. And that was with a creature in the armor. If you could handle in that easily, Bane and his guys won't have that much trouble."
"So the Uber-Soldat wasn't all that uber at all."
"Nah. It's just primitive like that Xeno Cannon we had to upgrade."
"....we don't need this anyway. I'm sure there's something else...."
Linda opens up the laptop she took with her and goes back to searching through the files. I go back to admiring the Uber-Soldat armor. Still disappointed I never got to kill one back at the arctic....
"So really, didn't you kill Bane?"
"Yeah. This one's just one of his old asskissers. Some guy calling himself Bird."
"Huh. Well, what's his problem? Why come back to Gotham?"
"Revenge. Bane's guys were stupid loyal to him. Like Steve Jobs and Apple fans or something."
".....interestingly put. The other Bane used that one street drug, though. Venom, right? And this one's using an Exoskeleton?"
"Yep, and it's way better than venom ever could be. Linda and I took him on together and he kicked both our asses without breaking a sweat."
"Oh....oh no, that's...yikes...."
"Yep...."
"Hey! Hey I found it!"
"What's up, Linda?"
"Here it is! Bane's exoskeleton! The Lexcorp ACS4X. An advanced lightweight exoskeleton built for military combat. It can increase a users strength and speed to 4x their natural limits."
"Well that explains how he was able to throw you two around no trouble."
"But wait! It says that the Belize convoy was full of prototypes meant to be scrapped, and Bane definitely got it from that convoy."
"They wanted to trash it? Why? Performs pretty well from what we saw."
"Well, according to this, the exoskeleton would severely strain the user after extended use. Specifically the heart would be dangerously overworked after a while, which would potentially cripple or kill the user. Lexcorp dropped $45 million on the project just to try and fix this before giving up."
"So basically to beat Bane, we just gotta last longer than him."
"Seems like it. There's nothing about Lexcorp getting anywhere close to solving the straining problem, just all the money they wasted and then it's scheduled scrapping."
"I think it's pretty funny. The biggest design flaw is the guy using the damn thing."
"And it's just what we need. We just gotta make him work hard for a bit and he'll pretty much kill himself without even realizing it."
"Well, let's find the son of a bitch and end him already. Access police reports on that thing, see if he poked his head out any time recently."
"On it.......huh......"
"What?"
"Look at what's on the news...."
Bloodfall: Design Flaw
Linda told me Bane has records of my military career. How the fuck did he even figure out that was me? I didn't even use my real name when I signed up and 16-year old me looks nothing like I do now. Nonetheless we gotta bury this fucker soon. Him and anyone following him. We're gonna need some firepower and our guns are with Arnie for upkeep so it was off to Patton Arms for our next stop. I was flying the Sky Slayer (by flying I mean enjoying the fantastic invention that is autopilot) while Linda kept looking through that national criminal database info on Bane. She was looking through the raids Bane performed all across central America, and apparently one stuck out.
"Hey, just found this. One of their raids was a convoy in Belize. It was for Lexcorp and it was apparently carrying prototype equipment for testing or something."
"Lexcorp testing shit in Belize?"
"Right? I said the same thing. I'm looking deeper into it. Some of these files are classified stuff so we should get something good."
"Well, keep searching when we get inside. We're landing."
The rooftop to Patton Arms was barren, thank god. Sometimes some jackoff with a private chopper takes up the one landing pad Arnie's got up here. Arnie was at the roof's door waiting for us.
"Good evening, lovebirds."
"Hi, Arnold."
"Your Minigun and M60 are doing just fine, and from what I've heard you'll need them. Didn't you already kill Bane? And what's this about an Exoskeleton?"
"How the fuck did you find out?"
"Some police reports leaked out and it's all over the news. Anything I have that could match isn't even in the prototype stages yet."
"What's that?"
"...ah, I'll just show you. C'mon."
We head down the freight elevator into the sub-levels where Patton Arms Skunkworks stuff is. Arnie leads us into a room where our guns our, and that's what we find. Alongside something totally unexpected. Something that I'm sure gave Linda a few flashbacks.
"The Uber Soldat!? You made the fucking Uber Soldat?"
"Just a recreation of the armor from the blueprint. With it we might make a powered armor suit but right now we're stuck here."
"Even like this you think it might be good enough to kick Bane's ass?"
"....no."
"No? You have any idea how hard this thing was to kill?"
"But you killed it all on your own. Just one woman in body armor with a few low-tier explosives. And that was with a creature in the armor. If you could handle in that easily, Bane and his guys won't have that much trouble."
"So the Uber-Soldat wasn't all that uber at all."
"Nah. It's just primitive like that Xeno Cannon we had to upgrade."
"....we don't need this anyway. I'm sure there's something else...."
Linda opens up the laptop she took with her and goes back to searching through the files. I go back to admiring the Uber-Soldat armor. Still disappointed I never got to kill one back at the arctic....
"So really, didn't you kill Bane?"
"Yeah. This one's just one of his old asskissers. Some guy calling himself Bird."
"Huh. Well, what's his problem? Why come back to Gotham?"
"Revenge. Bane's guys were stupid loyal to him. Like Steve Jobs and Apple fans or something."
".....interestingly put. The other Bane used that one street drug, though. Venom, right? And this one's using an Exoskeleton?"
"Yep, and it's way better than venom ever could be. Linda and I took him on together and he kicked both our asses without breaking a sweat."
"Oh....oh no, that's...yikes...."
"Yep...."
"Hey! Hey I found it!"
"What's up, Linda?"
"Here it is! Bane's exoskeleton! The Lexcorp ACS4X. An advanced lightweight exoskeleton built for military combat. It can increase a users strength and speed to 4x their natural limits."
"Well that explains how he was able to throw you two around no trouble."
"But wait! It says that the Belize convoy was full of prototypes meant to be scrapped, and Bane definitely got it from that convoy."
"They wanted to trash it? Why? Performs pretty well from what we saw."
"Well, according to this, the exoskeleton would severely strain the user after extended use. Specifically the heart would be dangerously overworked after a while, which would potentially cripple or kill the user. Lexcorp dropped $45 million on the project just to try and fix this before giving up."
"So basically to beat Bane, we just gotta last longer than him."
"Seems like it. There's nothing about Lexcorp getting anywhere close to solving the straining problem, just all the money they wasted and then it's scheduled scrapping."
"I think it's pretty funny. The biggest design flaw is the guy using the damn thing."
"And it's just what we need. We just gotta make him work hard for a bit and he'll pretty much kill himself without even realizing it."
"Well, let's find the son of a bitch and end him already. Access police reports on that thing, see if he poked his head out any time recently."
"On it.......huh......"
"What?"
"Look at what's on the news...."