Unbound, Kappa, Sigma

[June-bug]

The red-headed project set the photo frame back down on its perch, not quite sure what to think of it. It was a photo of her and her newly found partner Sigma, only she didn't remember it being taken. In the photo, Sigma was dressed in her usual Gothic beauty dress, clad head to toe in flattering gear. Kappa on the other hand, was dressed in a TXS-standard gray uniform, standing next to Sigma... and apparently not in the best of moods. The odd thing about this was that she... kind of remembered it. Both of them had been skeptical about getting a photo taken together; as if it were overly weak (at the moment she agreed with that), but during the session, Sigma had made her feel half-way comfortable, mostly by putting her arm around her waist (which you could only just see).

Kappa II wondered why on earth she'd never seen this photo before. Had it only just come out because she was 'back'? Her brows furrowed and she bit her lip, racing a finger over the smile planted on Sigma's face in the photo. 'She only does that when I'm there with her, and she makes me do it. I don't get it, but I guess I didn't feel it that strongly back then as I do now.' she thought, eyes noting once more how stagnant and unwilling her predecessor was in the face of a camera.

She was in Sigma's room. No. She was inside Sigma and her's room. For reasons she could not understand, she'd been moved in with this project. The raven-haired beauty's attempts at romance and such were lost on the little red-head, eyes as dull and emotionally void as her predecessor's in the photo. Unlike her predecessor though, she had taken to tying her hair back, except for the few bangs at the front that refused to conform, of course. The Other bits were tucked behind her ears. She heard the bathroom and shower door open, and Kappa turned on the spot.

Bdmp...

"Sigma..."

[Symphia]

Sigma had finished her workout routine and was in the process of showering off. She's worked up quite a sweat putting her powerful body through its paces. Push-ups, sit-ups, crunches, weightlifting, even yoga, and of course, practicing with her magic. She smiled at her reflection in the dark tile and continued scrubbing herself down, getting rid of the unclean scents. She shut the water off and stepped out of the shower, grabbing her towel and rubbing her long raven hair with it.

She opened her ruby orbs to see Kappa II standing there, staring at her. She shrugged, the firey-haired girl was her partner and lover, she saw no need to conceal herself. Silently, she padded past Kappa II, tracing a finger through her hair as she waked into her closet, putting on black lace panties and a matching bra, then pulling a dress on. There was a tear across the back that matched a corresponding scar on her back running from just under her shoulder all the way to her hip. It had been given to her while she was protecting the smaller girl from a crazed mutant.

After she turned around, Sigma padded over to her bed and seated herself. "Kappa, come here, I want to do something," she said, creating a right red claw. It was as red as Kappa's hair and sharper than she'd ever made them before. The tip alone was capable of cutting through the thickest of materials, but today, its purpose wasn't destruction.

[June-bug]

Kappa had seen this woman naked before - it just shocked her every time. She didn't know why; it just did. Her luscious curves and long, raven-black hair that draped over her full, shapely chest were... attractive. They drew her in. Every bit of her - every part - every single detail from the way her muscles went taut when she bent over, to the way the woman's rear seemed to be perfectly sculpted as to entice her desires. The red-head felt her cheeks wash over quite warmly... (something else she wasn't sure of) as the woman's finger ran through her hair.

Attentively, she watched the other project get dressed. The lace panties slid up her sculpted thighs and her brassiere covered what would otherwise be a nuisance to the Project. She stared at one of the many Obsidian mirrors in the room, sighing as she noticed that same stagnant emotional void in her eyes. Sigma had, on many such occasions, referred to her as her 'lover'. She had no idea what this meant, though suspected it had something to do with the effect they had on each other when they were alone.

She hadn't noticed, but Sigma had changed into her dress already. Kappa II looked her up and down, breathing in her clean, 'just bathed' scent as she walked past and sat on the bed. The fiery red-head jumped a little as she was addressed and nodded, before obeying without question, sitting beside her 'lover'. "What are you going to do?" She asked dully, staring curiously at the woman's bright red claw.

[Symphia]

The claw disappeared with the idea and she instead pulled the zipper slide for Kappa's jacket. After that, she tugged it off and smiled. "I still remember when I gave you that," she said, smiling darkly. "We were coming down the main elevator from the roof and in a heated flurry of passion, I tugged your shirt off and gave you that..." she explained, tracing over it with her fingertips. Science team hadn't been happy about the addition to Kappa's body, there was little they could do about it.

"It's not ink though, it's particles of dark magic, so it's actually bonded with your DNA, which is likely why it persisted into your new body," she explained, secretly wishing to have one of her own, but her body was ruined on a regular basis so often that it would probably get ruined, and she was sure Kappa II didn't have the control over her magic that she herself had.

Sigma followed Kappa's gaze over to a photo of her predecessor. She looked so much different, her hair down, over-sized black clothes hanging from her lithe body. Poking out from under her coat on her left side was the powerful katana that Subject Omega had ruined on the orbital station with her skeleton. Kappa II had one that looked similar, but it was made from the same material and would likely slice through the ancient project's skeleton. The raven-haired woman snickered darkly as she imagined Subject Omega being cut into pieces.

[June-bug]

Kappa II stared blankly back into Sigma's heavenly ruby-red eyes, features flushing the briefest shade of pink as her jacket was tugged from her torso, revealing that she had not bothered to dress underneath it. Glancing down at herself, the red-head admired the incredibly detailed tribal tattoo winding down her shoulder and around her left breast, briefly looking up into Sigma's eyes as she explained. "The... the main elevator... coming down from the roof..." the red-headed project stammered slightly, recalling briefly the exact expression on Sigma's face after her and her predecessor's first kiss.

Without thinking, the smaller project leaned into her partner, resting her head on the woman's shoulder. "I remember that... when we kissed for the first time..." she blushed and continued, "... and then experimented all night long..." the white-clad project led off, pressing her lips into the woman's neck playfully. From the way Sigma reacted, Kappa huffed and turned to look back at the photo frame of them together on the dresser.

Her eyes narrowed momentarily, perspiration forming on her brow as she leaned away from the raven-haired woman, biting her lip. "You want me to look like she did," she sighed, taking her hands up to her hair to fluff it up and un-tuck it from behind her ears, and pulling out the hair-band that kept it in a pony-tail. Her blood-red hairdo collapsed and hung in front of her eyes heavily, spreading and falling over her back and front messily. "... Like this..."

[Symphia]

Sigma smiled when Kappa II pulled out her hair tie and let her hair drape down. "No," she said, gathering it up and tucking it back behind the smaller project's ears and shoulders. "I want you to be yourself... not her..." she explained, looking down at her lap. "Kappa can't be replaced... but I like that you're different... you're evil on a more stable level..." she explained, suddenly taking the smaller project in her arms.

She buried her nose in the other girl's hair and inhaled the scent of ash and earth that she'd managed to gather. "Kappa... you smell so different... but so much the same too... she always smelled like smoke instead of like ash and earth... I like your smell..." the raven-haired woman said with a smile.

Reluctantly, she let go and stood, crossing the room to her closet. "Kappa..." she whispered, walking to the back of the dark room and grabbing a dress she never thought she'd wear. It was black and flowing, unlike her abuses dresses. It had long detached sleeves, which had fared ends. The dark project normally didn't wear it for practical reasons, but also because she liked it and didn't want it to get ruined.

With her face as red as her eyes, she stepped out of the closet and looking up at Kappa. "D... do you like it...?"

[June-bug]

Kappa's somewhat dismal and oppressed expression suddenly lightened and eased into a smile (albeit a small, surprised one) as the other project re-adjusted her hair, back to the way Kappa II liked it. "Thank you," Kappa murmured, before being swept into a rather enjoyable embrace. She breathed in as Sigma did, closing her eyes as she relished the scent that filled her nose. "You smell really nice too..." she murmured, closing her eyes. Her cheeks reddened as the other Project gave her several compliments in a row, smiling softly. It wouldn't be often that she would smile like that.

The raven-haired woman seemed reluctant to leave the embrace (Kappa actually clung to her a little as she got up), sighing gently as she watched the woman cross the room to the wardrobe, collecting a... a startlingly beautiful dress. It was silkily smooth and seemed to shimmer with lustful darkness as Sigma held it. Kappa's mouth (open slightly in awe), closed, and she blushed too as she tried to figure out the correct words to compliment her dress.

Taking her jacket, the red-head pulled it up onto her shoulders so as to cover her breasts as she crossed the void in the room between the two. "It's..." she bit her lip and looked around unsurely... "It's... very... um..." (it was becoming more and more obvious she wasn't too eloquently spoken when it came to complimenting things). She gently reached out and stroked the fabric, smiling softly up at her lover. "It looks really nice... like it would fit you really well..." she murmured, reaching out and resting a hand on the woman's slender waist.

[Symphia]

The dark project blushed and nodded. She held her arms up and looked a bit like a very large bird or an angel with black feathers. Sigma originally had the dress custom made as formal wear so she could attend social occasions with Samuele and Jessica. She'd never considered it for day-to-day use because it would result in the destruction of the garment.

Right on que, Sigma's pager chirped and the color drained from her face. She knew she wouldn't have time to change and if she had to fight, her favorite dress would be ruined. Quickly, she picked up her pager and read the message. After a few moments of silence, she made a gulping noise and slowly turned to Kappa. "T... time to fight..." she squeaked uncharacteristically.

Sigma tapped across the floor of her room and out the door, her face as white as Kappa's shirt. She met Jessica at the end of the hall, who looked at her curiously but shrugged. "Sigma, you have to stop Vertigo II, she's gotten loose!" the scientist said, causing Sigma to become even more pale. "Are you okay? You look sick..." she said, reaching up to touch the project's forehead, only to have her hand swatted away.

"I'm fine..." she growled, holding up her dress some in front so she could run. Rounding the corner, she came across a slender blond female project who looked very similar to Subject Omega, complete with copper blond hair and deep emerald eyes. "K... Kappa..." she called softly, but her voice wasn't reaching. "Kappa!!!!" she yelled, watching Vertigo turn and run at her.

[June-bug]

Luck didn't favour Sigma today.

As soon as her pager beeped, Kappa's beeped as well, and she instantaneously zipped up her jacket, before she ran over the the corner of the room and plucked her sword from its perch. She turned back, and Sigma was already gone. Kappa raised an eyebrow and followed, running towards the end of the hallway in order to try to meet up with Sigma and Jessica. She was, after all, paged as well. Her lover, though, seemed uncharacteristically white. Sigma did have porcelain-perfectly-white skin, but that wasn't the same. She was... pale. Panicked and unsure.

Kappa reached the end of the hall just in time to hear her lover's cry. The white-clad red-head thundered around the corner and blew past Jessica, leaping in strangled effort. She collided with the murderous Project (Vertigo), and drove her hard into the wall. Vertigo seemed almost unaffected by the tackle, swinging her left fist back to catch Kappa II off-guard, knocking her hard on the forehead, bowling the red-head off of her side. Kappa growled fiercely and jumped to her feet, ducking under an inexperienced punch and driving her elbow hard into the escapee's stomach.

As the Project stumbled backwards, winded, Kappa turned back to a ghost-white Sigma, "Get away! I can take care of a misfit like this!" she yelled, before being caught off-guard once again by the rogue project's fist. It caught her hard in the stomach; and she any breath she previously had escape her body in one fell swoop. The next blow connected not with the side of Kappa's head, as Vertigo II had planned, but with her palm. Kappa's eyes narrowed fiercely and she felt something akin to absolute rage unlock inside her.

The red-head's right leg swung up and to the right, catching the side of Vertigo II's head in a sickening crunch, and slamming her into the tiled wall. The Project was stunned. Kappa grinned maniacally and, with a hard tug and a kick to the Project's sternum, tore the arm she held in her hand from its body. Vertigo had dared to attack Sigma; and it would know the true meaning of pain.

[Symphia]

The rouge project screamed in pain as her arm was detached from her body in a way most painful. She used her remaining arm as a pivot point and came around with a powerful two-footed kick, slamming Kappa II in her chest and knocking her away. With some concentrated effort, Vertigo II stood and closed her eyes. There was a soft boiling sound that eventually turned to a loud snap and she once again had two arms. She flexed her new arm and took another run at Sigma.

She threw her arms up protectively, but dropped them almost immediately to protect her dress. The smaller project slammed into her hard, knocking her backward into a lab table. The chemicals on the table saturated the back of her dress and the broken glass stabbed painfully into her lower back. Sigma lashed out with a punishing tornado kick that threw the smaller project against a stack of armored lockers. Pieces of metal and plastic rained down from the point of impact.

Jessica knew better than to watch the projects fight, but something seemed to be wrong with Sigma, she wasn't fighting well today for some reason. It then occurred to her that the project's new attire was possibly hindering her movements. Quickly, she drew her gun and called out. "Sigma! Catch!" she shouted, throwing her handgun. Although it would do little good against Vertigo II's regenerative cells, head shots would render her mostly harmless, provided Sigma fired accurately.

Sigma grabbed the handgun and fired several rounds with poor accuracy, striking the project in her chest and arm. Her next few rounds were centered around the project's heart, but they ricocheted off what appeared to be a metallic skeleton. Part of her cursed science team for incorporating Subject Omega's skeleton into newer projects.