"Understood," Nabiki said, downcast as she looked down at the metal encasing her hands.
"How did you repair the Sentinel?" Theo asked.
"I didn't," Nabiki said, not daring to lie. "It is no longer a golem. It is a suit of armor. Ryouga Hibiki is within it."
"Ryouga Hibiki," Dee Emm said. "Oh, yes, I recall hearing of him. And why would you give such a dangerous weapon to someone so...unstable?"
"To make Ranma pay for what he brought on my family," Nabiki said. "Ryouga's not so unstable, except where Ranma's concerned."
"The golem is reported to have killed at least one hundred people that we know of," Theo said. Nabiki paled at those words.
"What?" she asked, meekly.
"There was a hamlet between him and the sea," Theo explained darkly.
"Ryouga would never hurt anyone but Ranma or somebody that was attacking him," Nabiki swore. "I KNOW him. He's nice a sweety underneath all his bluster. Even with Ranma all he does is try to beat him up, nothing serious. You've got to be wrong. It's got to be someone else."
"He's not wrong," Gneiss said. "Your friend is running amuck, killing innocent and law-abiding citizens."
"That can't be right!" Nabiki said. "Ryouga would never knowingly endanger..."
"How about when he brought my tower down on your head?" Gneiss asked. Nabiki was silent at that. "What went wrong?"
"I'm not sure," Nabiki said. "When I activated the armor, he went crazy."
"Tell us the steps that you took up to and including the activation," Bugee demanded.
Nabiki faintly explained the steps she took, trying to ponder what was happening. And then she explained how she activated the golem by sending power to the head.
"That was it," Gneiss said. "You should have aimed at the heart, apprentice, aiming at the head left the Sentinel's powering spirit dominant and without programming it latched on your friend's goals...only with more determination."
"But the heart was covered in metal," Nabiki said.
"Enchanted metal," Theo said. "Once you fused it to the golem. So now we have a hostage to worry about in defeating this thing."
"There may be no way to save him," Gneiss said.
"You're going to kill...Ryouga?" Nabiki said weakly.
"Consider that as you wait for your hearing," Dee Emm said. "In the meantime, give us the capabilities of this thing as you know them."
"Hai..." Nabiki said weakly.
Theo leaned back and looked toward Gneiss.
"How could you be blindsided by this, Master Gneiss," he asked softly.
"No one can forsee everything," Gneiss said. "What do you think will become of her."
"I don't think she meant to cause this," Theo said. "And she is obviously not enjoying the situation. Reparations shall have to be made, however, perhaps not Sanctuary. Something more personal seems to be required."
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(Posted Sat, 07 Jun 2003 23:46)
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