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"That's impossible."
Enigma's ears and tail stood up on end as the alarm began to sound. Knowing his powers aren't effective against cameras and video recordings, he took the extra precaution to scout and study the offices his client asked him to break into. Whatever the corporation in charge was plotting, the diminutive raccoonkin who hired him was convinced that it spelled bad news for the less well-off members of society, and was willing to pay to figure out what.
Spotting the security room nearby, he moved, not bothering to be quiet since the noise of the alarm would mask his own footsteps. Holding out his hand, eyes glowing with his signature cyan aura, he cast a sleeping spell to knock out the guards inside, before he even had time to verify if the room was occupied. Time was of the essence, and the situation called for decisive action.
Sure enough, stepping into the room, glowing with the light of monitors and camera feeds from throughout the building, he saw two beastkin fast asleep, dressed in guard uniforms emblazoned with the SecureTech logo, and both packing iron on their hips. One, a tall, lean but muscular lionness, had the good fortune to be leaning back into his chair when the psionicist's magic lulled him into dreamless sleep. Her partner, a smaller, slender batkin, was instead slumped head-first into the monitor, arms uncomfortably contorted over the keyboard and under his own chest. Taking pity on the poor soul, Enigma pushed him gently back into his chair before inspecting the feed.
That's when he saw it, another person, human, had broken into the building as well on the same night. Clearly, with the way the guards were pursuing him, he was the source of the alarm. In any other circumstance, Enigma would have tried to help the bumbling fool escape, but the risks were already piling up and he needed to secure an escape route.
Pushing past guards and security wouldn't be an issue. He could make himself invisible to them. The tricky part was that even the least secured exit had a few autonomous drones posted. Knowing what he would need to do to get through them, he pulled out the pistol he had trained himself to use since picking up on his first excursion to this fascinating plane. Back to the wall, peering through the door back to the corridor outside, he could feel his hands going through the motions of checking if the weapon's safety was off and clip loaded before his mind consciously sent the signal to do so.
"I was really hoping I wouldn't need to use this."
It may only be a few drones, but a shootout is still a shootout, and he knew he still needed to be careful...
Enigma was always a character designed to fit into multiple different settings, and I must confess that I'm fond of the cyberpunk aesthetic for him. Maybe it's something I'll learn to incorporate into the mainline canon at some point.
LittleBadWolf has certainly proven they have the skill to bring it to life.
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Enigma and short story belong to me.
Enigma's ears and tail stood up on end as the alarm began to sound. Knowing his powers aren't effective against cameras and video recordings, he took the extra precaution to scout and study the offices his client asked him to break into. Whatever the corporation in charge was plotting, the diminutive raccoonkin who hired him was convinced that it spelled bad news for the less well-off members of society, and was willing to pay to figure out what.
Spotting the security room nearby, he moved, not bothering to be quiet since the noise of the alarm would mask his own footsteps. Holding out his hand, eyes glowing with his signature cyan aura, he cast a sleeping spell to knock out the guards inside, before he even had time to verify if the room was occupied. Time was of the essence, and the situation called for decisive action.
Sure enough, stepping into the room, glowing with the light of monitors and camera feeds from throughout the building, he saw two beastkin fast asleep, dressed in guard uniforms emblazoned with the SecureTech logo, and both packing iron on their hips. One, a tall, lean but muscular lionness, had the good fortune to be leaning back into his chair when the psionicist's magic lulled him into dreamless sleep. Her partner, a smaller, slender batkin, was instead slumped head-first into the monitor, arms uncomfortably contorted over the keyboard and under his own chest. Taking pity on the poor soul, Enigma pushed him gently back into his chair before inspecting the feed.
That's when he saw it, another person, human, had broken into the building as well on the same night. Clearly, with the way the guards were pursuing him, he was the source of the alarm. In any other circumstance, Enigma would have tried to help the bumbling fool escape, but the risks were already piling up and he needed to secure an escape route.
Pushing past guards and security wouldn't be an issue. He could make himself invisible to them. The tricky part was that even the least secured exit had a few autonomous drones posted. Knowing what he would need to do to get through them, he pulled out the pistol he had trained himself to use since picking up on his first excursion to this fascinating plane. Back to the wall, peering through the door back to the corridor outside, he could feel his hands going through the motions of checking if the weapon's safety was off and clip loaded before his mind consciously sent the signal to do so.
"I was really hoping I wouldn't need to use this."
It may only be a few drones, but a shootout is still a shootout, and he knew he still needed to be careful...
Enigma was always a character designed to fit into multiple different settings, and I must confess that I'm fond of the cyberpunk aesthetic for him. Maybe it's something I'll learn to incorporate into the mainline canon at some point.
LittleBadWolf has certainly proven they have the skill to bring it to life.Art by
LittleBadWolfEnigma and short story belong to me.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Wolf
Size 1614 x 2283px
File Size 4.54 MB
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Remember that Enigma has other planes he travels to, including his own. Cyber-mods would make him stand out in a way that he neither wants nor needs.
Hard to blend into a more classical fantasy setting with chrome that won't even work when you leave the plane it's installed on.
And you're right. There's the added benefit of security that comes from not opening the door for hackers.
Hard to blend into a more classical fantasy setting with chrome that won't even work when you leave the plane it's installed on.
And you're right. There's the added benefit of security that comes from not opening the door for hackers.
I wonder what Enigma's gonna do next along with the plan this SecureTech or the company that hired them is planning?
Well I guess if you want to show them in main canon personally I'd say have Edmund ask about the stuff that he doesn’t recognize from the plane and have Enigma show them off a bit.
Well I guess if you want to show them in main canon personally I'd say have Edmund ask about the stuff that he doesn’t recognize from the plane and have Enigma show them off a bit.
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