Coup De Grace: Chapter 2 - Horatio 'Ed' Edgris

Chapter 2: Horatio 'Ed' Edgris
Horatio grinned upon seeing them.

“Hey Garrison, seems like you found him. No Sven? Ah well, that’s no matter, he’ll be using this all the time anyways. But lookie here. I have something really awesome to show you!”

Upon seeing Tei’s face he immediately corrected himself.

“Sorry, Sven’s the one I’ve been working on for the longest, there’s something here for both you and Garrison.” Ed corrected himself.

He pulled out a contraption that had a small computer at the back, with two winches operating along two sets of wires. It also had holsters which were curiously round.

“This is Sven’s new holster. He asked me….” Ed stopped by the look again on Tei’s face.

“...Okay he left me a letter on the desk, but anyways, he wanted a way to be able to quick draw his tonfa, and also making the tonfa collapsible, here, take a lookie.”

He attached two tonfa to the holsters and they immediately folded up and winched back to where the shoulder blades would be.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“The tonfa retain the same properties as Sven’s current ones, including the safety. They only fold when in the holsters too, so they won’t hinder him in any way.” Ed explained.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Then when he just flicks his arm like so….”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ed quickly jaunted the contraption and the tonfa shot out and hit both Tei and Garrison in the face.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Oops….” Ed said upon seeing their murderous glares with newly blooming bruises.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Yea well, he can do that too, anyways, Garrison.” Ed hastily said.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">He pulled out Garrison’s pistol and handed him a bag full of ammunition.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“I made extra bullets so don’t worry about ever running out, but anyways, I just increased the rate of fire on your pistol, they were good as they were, but you’ll be able to do more damage now.” Ed said running his hand along the gun.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“The bullets are specially modified with dust and the colour coded clips. they go like this. Red for fire, blue for water, light blue for ice, white for impact and yellow for lightning.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Garrison nodded and clipped the new bullets onto his weapon.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tei looked expectantly at Ed.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Alright big guy, since you’re strong by yourself, you don’t really need stuff, but here’s a little something for you anyways.” Ed said and handed Tei a small device he could wear on his pants or jacket.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“This is a transmitter. I need a bit of information on you to develop those fighting suits since I can’t fully judge your strength.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Tei nodded to let Ed continue.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“You see that button, one press and it’ll start transmitting live feed from a camera I’ve equipped in your helmet, that way, I can see how you fight from your standpoint. Two presses quickly one after the other will let me know you’re done and I can come collect the data with Olive.”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ed noticed the look on tei’s face and quickly explained.

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">“Look Tei, your weapons are your fists, do you really want to be able to retract them, or be able to equip dust bullet cartridges to them?”

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Ed breathed a sigh of relief at seeing Tei’s grin and leaned back over his worktable.

<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,255,255);white-space:pre-wrap;">“I’ll make a power suit you wont believe” He said before starting to make the blueprints.