Commission for  Vritrax

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"Why the HELL did we take on this job?!" Vritrax popped another tendril with his shotgun, the blast causing a loud boom to echo through the sewers. He hopped, doubled back, and plugged another tendril with a series of three blasts from his weapon.

"Because," Lorkos threw a dagger at a tendril that snaked and slid up around his leg, somersaulting in a flip to safety. He pulled two hand guns from inside his jacket, unloading on more slithering sewer tendrils, their oily surfaces rippling and exploding from the shots. "-it's a SHIT TON of money we're being paid to find these people!" Lorkos triple flipped backward, each time sending off more quick shots.

Vritrax ushered his ally down a tunnel, throwing a grenade behind them both. "Go go go!" They both flashed terror filled eyes as a swarm of approaching tentacles grew close, only to burst in a brilliant flare of explosion. Ashes and stray fire littered a sewage pipe as the pair took a moment to relax, exhausted and their gear draped in black liquid rubber spatters. "Ok... well..." Vritrax huffed. "Now we can... well, find all our armor for one thing. All my gear was stripped off by these."

"Yeah," Huffed Lorkos. "Me too. Weird right? Why is it stripping our armor? Usually these things just try and slap rubber around and transform people. This feels weird." The canine stretched his back and refilled his gun clips.

"Maybe..." Vritrax was about to speak when a whole new host of tendrils slithered and snaked and wound around them both, coiling and causing them to cry out. "AH! Look out! That's!" Unable to believe his eyes, before he could speak a plating of organic compound was slapped onto his shoulder, slimy ink trails latching it to his fight companion. "Thats... that's our armor?! It's changing it! We have to nnf! We have to move! Hurry! Fight back!"

Both Lorkos and Vritrax unloaded round after round, each time only delaying as more tendrils coiled and forced more twisted and organically malformed armor on the pair.