Post by Fox on Jul 30, 2020 13:12:26 GMT -5
Umeboshi Alice
Other Names: Yue “U-A”
Epithet: N/A
Height: 6’
Build: Slender, Pear-Shaped
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Race: Light Cyborg (½ Rabbit Mink, ½ Sky Islander)
Occupation: Chef
Bounty: 7,500,000
Total X-Poinz: 300
Used X-Poinz: 200
{Full XPz Breakdown}
Earned X-Poinz Record:
Earned X-Poinz Record:
Rebate X-Poinz Record:
- Tekken “Iron Fist”
+100 (Paramecia Devil Fruit Purchase)
-50 (Miraa Shotto “Mirror Shot” - R1 Technique)
Remaining Rebate XPz: 50 - Usu to Kine ”Mortar and Pestle”
+? (Source of Rebate XPz)
-? (Name of Technique, Equipment, etc)
Remaining Rebate XPz: 0
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Mother Hen
Sadistic and Vindictive
Addict
Tormented
Hates Liars
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Personnel File
}Personality
Mother Hen
With those that she cares about, Alice can be more than a little overbearing and protective. She’s caring and coddling almost to the point of obsession. Her care comes from a place of love and a place of terror. Fearing that she’ll lose anything is enough to drive her over the edge.
Sadistic and Vindictive
For those who have wronged her or even those who get on her bad side, Alice is merciless. Not only that, but she will take great pleasure in making them pay for it. She’ll make it hurt badly to the point that they might wish that they were dead. Partly, she does this out of a desire to see someone else hurt as badly as she has.
Addict
Alice loves any diversion that will keep her from thinking too deeply. Wanton destruction, adrenaline, drinking, smoking, and surrounding herself with perfumes are just some of her many vices. It’s an unhealthy lifestyle that she just can’t seem to shake off, feeding into a vicious cycle after coming down from her high. It’s the only way that she knows how to cope with the raging sea of negativity inside of herself.
Tormented
Despite her best efforts, Alice is plagued by nightmares filled with the horrors of her past. She does her best not to let how broken she is show to her nakama, but sometimes that veneer shatters to pieces, and she just breaks down completely. This can happen during times of extreme stress, fear, or loneliness.
Hates Liars
Having been betrayed so utterly by the people that she thought were her saviors and friends, Alice hates liars and regards them as the lowest of the low. She’s brutally honest as a result and terribly slow to believe or trust anyone or what they say. She’s afraid of having her trust betrayed and being lied to again.
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Appearance
Alice stands at six feet tall when equipped with her cybernetic legs. Her body is coated with soft white fur. She has a pink rabbit nose and two large white rabbit ears that sprout from the top of her head as well as a big fluffy tail. Her loose, curly hair is a deep black that looks almost blue in the light. Her eyes are a sharp cyan color. From her back sprouts one wing that denotes her sky islander heritage. The other had to be amputated, but she wears a cybernetic replacement, though it’s more cosmetic than anything else.
Alice generally wears clothes with chinese influences. Long dresses and collars up to her neck are not uncommon. At times, she’ll wear lighter summery clothes, but still in an eastern style. She’ll usually wear long silken pants to disguise her cybernetic legs.
Alice generally wears clothes with chinese influences. Long dresses and collars up to her neck are not uncommon. At times, she’ll wear lighter summery clothes, but still in an eastern style. She’ll usually wear long silken pants to disguise her cybernetic legs.
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{
Electro
Half Blood Starting Trait #1
Bestial Brawn
Half Blood Starting Trait #2
Snow Cloak
Half Blood Starting Trait #3
Out of the Fire
Half Blood Starting Trait #4
Oxygen Efficiency
Half Blood Starting Trait #5
Savage Speed
Half Blood Starting Trait #6
Hydrophobia
Light Cyborg Starting Trait #1
Carrot Powered
Optional Negative Trait #1
Metal Assimilation Cyborg
Devil Fruit Trait
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Name: Tekken ”Iron Fist”
Focus: Devil Fruit, Hand to Hand, Electro
Class: E
Description:
Name: Usu to Kine ”Mortar and Pestle”
Focus: Bojutsu, Power Attacks
Class: E
Description:
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Name: Miraa Shotto “Mirror Shot”
Fighting Style: Tekken
Rank: 1
Description:
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Name: Tsukihana “Moon Flower”
Fighting Style: Usu to Kine “Mortar and Pestle”
Rank: 0
Description:
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Combat Data
}Traits
Electro
Half Blood Starting Trait #1
As a half-mink, the fur that coats her body allows Alice to generate an electrical charge to empower her close combat attacks. Techniques that use Electro have their Rank increased by 1, with Electro itself being treated like an Aspect.
Bestial Brawn
Half Blood Starting Trait #2
Born with a beast’s natural strength, Alice can perform feats of strength that no ordinary person could hope to achieve. Her instincts provide her with an innate knowledge of how best to use her natural might.
Snow Cloak
Half Blood Starting Trait #3
Alice’s fur has multiple coats, which provide her protection from cold and freezing attacks. Her coat is prone to growing out in colder climates, making her extra fluffy and soft.
Out of the Fire
Half Blood Starting Trait #4
While Alice’s fur provides her protection from the cold, it also severely diminishes her ability to deal with hot climates and flame based attacks. She despises hot and humid climates especially because she turns into a frizzy ball of fluff.
Oxygen Efficiency
Half Blood Starting Trait #5
Her Sky Islander heritage gives Alice the ability to function at full capacity at high altitudes. This grants her superior stamina than other races, especially in the oxygen rich Blue Sea.
Savage Speed
Half Blood Starting Trait #6
Possessing incredible speed due to her rabbit Mink heritage, Alice can move much more quickly than anyone else, though not at blinding speeds. Her agility makes her hard to hit as long as she remains on the move. She sinks like a stone in water, however.
Hydrophobia
Light Cyborg Starting Trait #1
Water is Alice’s worst nightmare in more ways than one. Water causes her cybernetics to short-circuit and malfunction. On top of that, her normal body is totally helpless in water, and she has a phobia of water in general, so it’s a really bad time for her all around.
Carrot Powered
Optional Negative Trait #1
Having been subject to extreme experimentation from her time as a test subject, Alice’s body only derives nutrition from vegetables now. Her body converts them into energy for both her natural body and her cybernetics. When she’s running low on fuel, she becomes significantly weaker and less efficient. She can still eat other foods, but derives no benefit from doing so. Carrots are her favorite.
Metal Assimilation Cyborg
Devil Fruit Trait
The Kin Kin no Mi makes its user an Metal Assimilation Cyborg, which grants them the ability to absorb, manipulate, and merge with all kinds of metal.
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Fighting Styles
Name: Tekken ”Iron Fist”
Focus: Devil Fruit, Hand to Hand, Electro
Class: E
Description:
Meshing her Devil Fruit abilities and her natural survival instincts into a martials art all her own, Alice uses Tekken to deliver brutal strikes via punches and kicks. She uses her claws to great effect and coats her body in metal to empower her strikes and defend herself. She can channel Electro through her metal body as well.
Name: Usu to Kine ”Mortar and Pestle”
Focus: Bojutsu, Power Attacks
Class: E
Description:
Alice was taught how to wield her mochi hammer as a weapon when she was little by her father who was skilled in the way of the warhammer. The style focuses on causing incredible physical destruction with brutal strikes. Alice can launch objects with incredible force from her swings and send them flying far into the distance at enemy targets.
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Techniques
Name: Miraa Shotto “Mirror Shot”
Fighting Style: Tekken
Rank: 1
Description:
Launching a punch or kick from someone at range, Alice sends a piece of metal that she’s assimilated flying off of her body at an opponent. This works best at close and medium range.
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Equipment
Name: Tsukihana “Moon Flower”
Fighting Style: Usu to Kine “Mortar and Pestle”
Rank: 0
Description:
Tsukihana is an oversized mallet used for making mochi and bashing in heads. Alice carved designs of flowers and the moon into it and painted it herself. The hammer is made entirely of wood.
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Background
}Born on Eggstar Island in the Whale Shark Route of the Grand Line, Alice was the darling daughter of a rather peculiar couple. Her mother was a white rabbit Mink named Chang’e, and her father was a Sky Islander of Shandian descent named Ari. While certainly an odd family, they were accepted by the other Sky Islanders. Living on a sky island felt like a wonderland to Alice growing up, and she took great interest in her island’s culture and traditions. She competed in cooking competitions from a young age against other children, learning from some of the great cooking masters on their island.
Her mother taught Alice about her culture and foods, and Alice studied with great interest, preferring the style of clothes of her mother’s culture. She incorporated eggs into every dish that her mother would teach her how to make as was the custom on Eggstar. A food that she especially took to was mochi. Her mother showed her how to make it using a huge mallet that her father eventually trained her how to use in a fight.
As she blossomed into adulthood, she met a young man from the Blue Sea named Bill. She was enchanted by his tales of a sea that she had never seen up close, and lands filled with people and creatures far beyond imagining. Eventually, this interest developed into flirtation, and rapidly dove straight into head over heels love. Her parents advised her to take her time with affairs of the heart, but Alice interpreted it as them not supporting her decision.
She ran to Bill to confide in him. He suggested that they run away together on the ship that he’d come in on. Hesitating at first, Alice agreed after he pressed her and asked if she really loved him. She ran back home to pack her things, leaving a note for her parents before departing early the following morning. Bill was waiting for her by the docks and guided her aboard. She stared up at the island as they sunk below the clouds, feeling pangs of regret and homesickness already. Worrying if she had made the right decision, she went to Bill to ask if they could still turn around.
However, when she went to see him, Alice was met with many other crewmates who grabbed her and tied her up. She cried out for Bill who appeared to tell her what a fool she was and that she was going to make them a nice little profit. Confused and heartbroken, Alice was left alone for several days in the brig to stew over her choices. They forgot to feed her the first two nights, so when they finally did give her water and something to eat, she could barely muster up the energy to eat.
The voyage felt like an eternity to Alice, though in actuality, it wasn’t that long. She kept hoping that this was all some awful dream and that she would wake up back home on Eggstar Island. When she was put up for auction at Sabaody Archipelago, Alice felt reality sink in with an overwhelming sense of despair. She was never going to see Eggstar again. She was never going to see her parents again.
Alice was sold off to a noble who took her to their estate in the Grand Line. Life consisted of lashings and poor living conditions. Every day, she missed her old life, but as the years passed, even that dulled into the monotony of routine. The worst punishment was when her head was held under water for prolonged periods of time. She learned how to avoid the harsher punishments and worked diligently everyday. Unfortunately, one day, her leg was injured. Her owners didn’t care to pay for her treatment despite how hard she’d worked for them, forcing her to continue her regular duties as her wound festered. It got to the point that she couldn’t even walk on that leg anymore, shambling around with a walking stick.
After nine long years in captivity, the Revolutionary Army attacked her owner’s estate and freed all of the slaves. She finally got her leg treated, but it was too late to save it. The leg was amputated, and Alice had to learn to walk again with a wooden prosthetic. She was taken back to a Revolutionary base somewhere in the Grand Line to recuperate. She volunteered to work in the kitchens, using some of her cooking expertise to make life better for the Revolutionaries. She was approached by the leader of the outpost to participate in a raid.
Alice took them up on the offer and found a kind of solace in enacting her revenge in cruel and sadistic fashion. She helped to free other slaves and found a sense of peace and community in her work. She was reluctant to grow close to anyone again, however, and kept to herself mostly. Alice indulged in lots of drinking and smoking, filling her room with incense and perfume, just to distract herself from the painful memories. On the battlefield, she was wicked. Causing others pain assuaged her own. A year or two passed like this, and eventually the other Revolutionaries learned to leave Alice alone.
One day, Alice was approached by a scientist named Dr. Delgado with an offer. He wanted her to voluntarily participate in an experiment that he was conducting. She told him in a few words to go stick his head where the sun doesn't shine. She had plans to leave the Revolutionary Army in a month or so to go back to Eggstar Island for the first time in years. Dr. Delgado didn’t love that answer, but he left amicably enough, or so Alice thought. A few nights later, large men burst into her quarters and seized her, knocking her out before she could make too much of a fuss.
When Alice awoke next, she was in a strange place. A building made entirely out of metal sprawled before her. She was in some kind of cell with a glass door. Across from her, she could see three stories of cells just like her stacked up in neat little rows. She had a terrible sinking feeling. Below, she could see what looked like the main workshop of a mad scientist, and there, at the center of it all, was Dr. Delgado. Rage boiled up inside of her. She shouted and screamed curses at him, saying that he would never get away with this and that the Revolutionaries would never stand for this.
Alice wasn’t sure how long that she screamed at him before he actually paid her any mind. He walked right up to the entrance of her cell. So tantalizingly close. He told her a few things. That this operation was actually sanctioned by the Revolutionary Army. That no one would come for her. But also to not despair, because her life would go to use in the greatest cause… toppling the World Government. At first, Alice couldn’t really understand what she was hearing. But it all fell into place over the next few days. She had been lied to. Utterly betrayed again by the people that she had trusted.
Despair and hopelessness settled in shortly after the fires of her rage had subsided. She became lifeless. She was subjected to a host of horrific experiments. Surgeries that altered her biology. Dr. Delgado even went so far as to saw off her one leg to test a pair of cybernetic ones. But by far, the worst of it was the Intimate Chair. It was a device of Dr. Delgado’s own design. Capable of delivering precise electric shocks to any part of the body, Alice felt particularly singled out for use in the chair. Dr. Delgado would go on and on about controlling the mind with precise electric impulses and how one could attain the perfect army, working all in unison.
Through years of tinkering with the Intimate Chair, Dr. Delgado made a stunning and horrifying discovery. Alice herself found herself in shock when she heard the news. She was pregnant with a genetically identical copy of herself. Parthenogenesis, Dr. Delgado called it. She was left alone, spared from experimentation until she gave birth. Alice held her child in her arms for a few precious fleeting moments before Dr. Delgado arrived. A new emotion awakened in her. Something soft and tender. A kind of emotion that she’d thought that she might never feel.
But Dr. Delgado arrived with his lackeys in tow. Alice was too weak to fight them off and had her new love stolen from her. She slammed herself against the glass, watching them take her baby away to the laboratory below. She watched with terror as they hooked it up to a life support machine. Her baby’s breathing became more and more labored as they scrambled around it. The baby didn’t survive the night. She saw them carry its limp form off somewhere and slumped weakly to the floor of her cell, utterly heartbroken.
Alice thought a lot that night about what she would have done with the baby if they were allowed to leave this place. She would have wanted to bring it to Eggstar Island to show it all of the clouds, the chickens, and people. She wanted to show her parents. She wanted to show it all the beautiful things that she remembered and shelter it from all of the horror. All of the terrors. She wanted to cook for it and sing all sorts of songs to it. She dreamed that night of a future that would never happen.
When she woke up again, Alice wasn’t sure how long that it had been. Someone had doused her face in water. She vaguely heard the glass door close and smelled the distinctive scent of food. Somehow, she forced herself up. They were just going to force feed her if she didn’t eat now. On her plate, however, was a peculiar looking fruit along with her usual rations. It had strange swirling patterns on its surface. Confused, she looked up to Dr. Delgado, standing just behind the glass as always.
He explained to her exactly what it was. A Devil Fruit. It would supposedly give its user strange powers in exchange for the sea’s hatred. Alice wasn’t sure what all of that meant, but she ate, leaving the Devil Fruit for last. Dr. Delgado waited and watched her until she took a bite out of the fruit. She gagged on its foul taste, surprised by how awful it was. She writhed on the floor of her cell under Dr. Delgado’s satisfied smile.
The next day, having allowed her some time to recover, they brought her down to the Intimate Chair again. Alice felt fear seize her heart as Dr. Delgado explained what today’s experiment was going to entail. They would induce parthenogenesis again to see if the offspring had any Devil Fruit abilities. Alice screamed as they put her back on that metal chair, but as they moved to hook her up to all of the wiring, something unexpected happened.
Alice sank into the chair, merging with the metal that it was made from. She wasn’t sure how or what was happening, but she did not hesitate. She lashed out, knocking the hulking assistants aside, falling onto the metal floor and assimilating more of it. She grew in size and rage, transforming the metal building that had kept her prisoner for so many years into a weapon. She writhed and clawed around, absorbing it all and warping it around her captors and others trapped inside.
Discovering that she was underground, Alice clawed her way up the metal path to the surface, bursting out of the ground in an eruption of stone and earth. Seeing the deep blue of the night sky snapped her out of her rampage. Alice flopped out of the metal monstrosity that she had become, paying no mind to anyone still trapped inside. She crawled onto the soft grass and let the soft breeze ruffle her fur gently. She was free. Finally free again. Alice collapsed in relief, drifting off into the most peaceful sleep of her life.
Her mother taught Alice about her culture and foods, and Alice studied with great interest, preferring the style of clothes of her mother’s culture. She incorporated eggs into every dish that her mother would teach her how to make as was the custom on Eggstar. A food that she especially took to was mochi. Her mother showed her how to make it using a huge mallet that her father eventually trained her how to use in a fight.
As she blossomed into adulthood, she met a young man from the Blue Sea named Bill. She was enchanted by his tales of a sea that she had never seen up close, and lands filled with people and creatures far beyond imagining. Eventually, this interest developed into flirtation, and rapidly dove straight into head over heels love. Her parents advised her to take her time with affairs of the heart, but Alice interpreted it as them not supporting her decision.
She ran to Bill to confide in him. He suggested that they run away together on the ship that he’d come in on. Hesitating at first, Alice agreed after he pressed her and asked if she really loved him. She ran back home to pack her things, leaving a note for her parents before departing early the following morning. Bill was waiting for her by the docks and guided her aboard. She stared up at the island as they sunk below the clouds, feeling pangs of regret and homesickness already. Worrying if she had made the right decision, she went to Bill to ask if they could still turn around.
However, when she went to see him, Alice was met with many other crewmates who grabbed her and tied her up. She cried out for Bill who appeared to tell her what a fool she was and that she was going to make them a nice little profit. Confused and heartbroken, Alice was left alone for several days in the brig to stew over her choices. They forgot to feed her the first two nights, so when they finally did give her water and something to eat, she could barely muster up the energy to eat.
The voyage felt like an eternity to Alice, though in actuality, it wasn’t that long. She kept hoping that this was all some awful dream and that she would wake up back home on Eggstar Island. When she was put up for auction at Sabaody Archipelago, Alice felt reality sink in with an overwhelming sense of despair. She was never going to see Eggstar again. She was never going to see her parents again.
Alice was sold off to a noble who took her to their estate in the Grand Line. Life consisted of lashings and poor living conditions. Every day, she missed her old life, but as the years passed, even that dulled into the monotony of routine. The worst punishment was when her head was held under water for prolonged periods of time. She learned how to avoid the harsher punishments and worked diligently everyday. Unfortunately, one day, her leg was injured. Her owners didn’t care to pay for her treatment despite how hard she’d worked for them, forcing her to continue her regular duties as her wound festered. It got to the point that she couldn’t even walk on that leg anymore, shambling around with a walking stick.
After nine long years in captivity, the Revolutionary Army attacked her owner’s estate and freed all of the slaves. She finally got her leg treated, but it was too late to save it. The leg was amputated, and Alice had to learn to walk again with a wooden prosthetic. She was taken back to a Revolutionary base somewhere in the Grand Line to recuperate. She volunteered to work in the kitchens, using some of her cooking expertise to make life better for the Revolutionaries. She was approached by the leader of the outpost to participate in a raid.
Alice took them up on the offer and found a kind of solace in enacting her revenge in cruel and sadistic fashion. She helped to free other slaves and found a sense of peace and community in her work. She was reluctant to grow close to anyone again, however, and kept to herself mostly. Alice indulged in lots of drinking and smoking, filling her room with incense and perfume, just to distract herself from the painful memories. On the battlefield, she was wicked. Causing others pain assuaged her own. A year or two passed like this, and eventually the other Revolutionaries learned to leave Alice alone.
One day, Alice was approached by a scientist named Dr. Delgado with an offer. He wanted her to voluntarily participate in an experiment that he was conducting. She told him in a few words to go stick his head where the sun doesn't shine. She had plans to leave the Revolutionary Army in a month or so to go back to Eggstar Island for the first time in years. Dr. Delgado didn’t love that answer, but he left amicably enough, or so Alice thought. A few nights later, large men burst into her quarters and seized her, knocking her out before she could make too much of a fuss.
When Alice awoke next, she was in a strange place. A building made entirely out of metal sprawled before her. She was in some kind of cell with a glass door. Across from her, she could see three stories of cells just like her stacked up in neat little rows. She had a terrible sinking feeling. Below, she could see what looked like the main workshop of a mad scientist, and there, at the center of it all, was Dr. Delgado. Rage boiled up inside of her. She shouted and screamed curses at him, saying that he would never get away with this and that the Revolutionaries would never stand for this.
Alice wasn’t sure how long that she screamed at him before he actually paid her any mind. He walked right up to the entrance of her cell. So tantalizingly close. He told her a few things. That this operation was actually sanctioned by the Revolutionary Army. That no one would come for her. But also to not despair, because her life would go to use in the greatest cause… toppling the World Government. At first, Alice couldn’t really understand what she was hearing. But it all fell into place over the next few days. She had been lied to. Utterly betrayed again by the people that she had trusted.
Despair and hopelessness settled in shortly after the fires of her rage had subsided. She became lifeless. She was subjected to a host of horrific experiments. Surgeries that altered her biology. Dr. Delgado even went so far as to saw off her one leg to test a pair of cybernetic ones. But by far, the worst of it was the Intimate Chair. It was a device of Dr. Delgado’s own design. Capable of delivering precise electric shocks to any part of the body, Alice felt particularly singled out for use in the chair. Dr. Delgado would go on and on about controlling the mind with precise electric impulses and how one could attain the perfect army, working all in unison.
Through years of tinkering with the Intimate Chair, Dr. Delgado made a stunning and horrifying discovery. Alice herself found herself in shock when she heard the news. She was pregnant with a genetically identical copy of herself. Parthenogenesis, Dr. Delgado called it. She was left alone, spared from experimentation until she gave birth. Alice held her child in her arms for a few precious fleeting moments before Dr. Delgado arrived. A new emotion awakened in her. Something soft and tender. A kind of emotion that she’d thought that she might never feel.
But Dr. Delgado arrived with his lackeys in tow. Alice was too weak to fight them off and had her new love stolen from her. She slammed herself against the glass, watching them take her baby away to the laboratory below. She watched with terror as they hooked it up to a life support machine. Her baby’s breathing became more and more labored as they scrambled around it. The baby didn’t survive the night. She saw them carry its limp form off somewhere and slumped weakly to the floor of her cell, utterly heartbroken.
Alice thought a lot that night about what she would have done with the baby if they were allowed to leave this place. She would have wanted to bring it to Eggstar Island to show it all of the clouds, the chickens, and people. She wanted to show her parents. She wanted to show it all the beautiful things that she remembered and shelter it from all of the horror. All of the terrors. She wanted to cook for it and sing all sorts of songs to it. She dreamed that night of a future that would never happen.
When she woke up again, Alice wasn’t sure how long that it had been. Someone had doused her face in water. She vaguely heard the glass door close and smelled the distinctive scent of food. Somehow, she forced herself up. They were just going to force feed her if she didn’t eat now. On her plate, however, was a peculiar looking fruit along with her usual rations. It had strange swirling patterns on its surface. Confused, she looked up to Dr. Delgado, standing just behind the glass as always.
He explained to her exactly what it was. A Devil Fruit. It would supposedly give its user strange powers in exchange for the sea’s hatred. Alice wasn’t sure what all of that meant, but she ate, leaving the Devil Fruit for last. Dr. Delgado waited and watched her until she took a bite out of the fruit. She gagged on its foul taste, surprised by how awful it was. She writhed on the floor of her cell under Dr. Delgado’s satisfied smile.
The next day, having allowed her some time to recover, they brought her down to the Intimate Chair again. Alice felt fear seize her heart as Dr. Delgado explained what today’s experiment was going to entail. They would induce parthenogenesis again to see if the offspring had any Devil Fruit abilities. Alice screamed as they put her back on that metal chair, but as they moved to hook her up to all of the wiring, something unexpected happened.
Alice sank into the chair, merging with the metal that it was made from. She wasn’t sure how or what was happening, but she did not hesitate. She lashed out, knocking the hulking assistants aside, falling onto the metal floor and assimilating more of it. She grew in size and rage, transforming the metal building that had kept her prisoner for so many years into a weapon. She writhed and clawed around, absorbing it all and warping it around her captors and others trapped inside.
Discovering that she was underground, Alice clawed her way up the metal path to the surface, bursting out of the ground in an eruption of stone and earth. Seeing the deep blue of the night sky snapped her out of her rampage. Alice flopped out of the metal monstrosity that she had become, paying no mind to anyone still trapped inside. She crawled onto the soft grass and let the soft breeze ruffle her fur gently. She was free. Finally free again. Alice collapsed in relief, drifting off into the most peaceful sleep of her life.
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