>>974>Location: The Prism - Subterranean Base>Time: 2:00 PM"OK but I still don't understand why you have to do this."
>Arachnid says, protesting as Mosaic continues structuring the cultivation of nanites on his workbench."He's
my problem, Damian. Not yours. Bastard never could help himself."
>Arachnid then webs over to the other side of the bench - hanging upside down in a "yo-yo" fashion."Yeah but who
is this guy? He's just one dude! I don't know if that's enough to just leave the city, going on a chase for him-"
>Mosaic immediately cuts him off, as he continues tuning nanite structures and fabricates more items for his utility belt."Jack Blackburn is the biggest mistake of my entire life."
>Annoyed, Arachnid then finally shouts:"Why
is that? Who the fuck is this guy?!"
"Language."
"Oh like you're squeaky clean!"
>Mosaic then looks straight up at Arachnid, piercing him behind his lenses as Arachnid instinctively flips off of his silk strand, and lands on the ground on the other side of the workbench. Leaning his hands against the edge of the console pad on the workbench, he then sheepishly says:"…..Alright, fair. But still. Who is is this guy, and why is he such a big deal to you boss?"
>Mosaic sighs and then gives Arachnid the abridged version of events."….Blackburn was a rich asshole I went to school with a long time ago. Family was stupidly wealthy. Not as much as mine, obviously, but still enough to matter."
>Mosaic takes a bunch of tuning components and attaches them together, before moving over to the welding portion of his nanite integrated circuitry."Turns out, his family was running almost every criminal operation on the planet. They used to be legit business people, until something happened - I don't know what. But something or someone screwed them out of their business. World of hostile corporate takeovers I guess."
>Arachnid looks somewhat less confused, but then still presses on:"….OK? So why get involved in that?"
>Mosaic blows air on a soldered integrated circuit and then carefully applies nanite paste to it - watching as the metamorphic nanites absorb and replicate the structure effortlessly - before turning back into nanite capsules."I didn't intend to at first. But stuff started to happen around the campus of the school. People started to go missing. Reports about drugs started to pop up. So I investigated. Didn't have the fancy suit that I have now, but I knew my way around some infiltration."
>Mosaic then finishes the nanite construction work and then picks up the large circular symbol - placing it back on his suit's chest. Immediately, bright red lines of circuitry move across it as small nanite packs appear all around his waist. "Got video and audio evidence of what Jack was doing, as well as his family. Sent it in - but it wasn't enough. They needed witness testimony from someone who was there. Since I was actually there…."
>Arachnid then mouths to himself:"….Holy shit. The defendant in that case with the Blackburns….was
you?"
>Mosaic nods and then dusts his hands off, stating:"I wasn't an adult yet, so my identity was hidden to protect me. Not that I needed it, mind you."
>Arachnid then thinks to himself:"…Then that same guy went to prison, got experimented on because the prison was a….."
"Front for Eukaryon."
>Mosaic tosses the data and pages acquired from the MRD's database onto the workbench - a situation he enacted after meeting Chase earlier in the day."They pumped him full of the Metanium ore that was left after the accident in the 1960s. Highest bidder went to them and they hoarded half of it. They used it all on Faust, expecting him to die - but he didn't apparently."
>Mosaic then walks towards the Aurora at the edge of the runway in the Prism's structure."Meaning I have to finish the job now."