Shift Steel: Rise of the Machines (S2)

If anyone Olivier believes that someone who has the same position as Cole, it's Ken. Not only this, they're brothers who know each other well than they realize. Looking at Derek, she gives her Silver comrade a quick nod of acknowledgement as she watches him go. Shen then shifts her focus on Tifa and Jun. "It's messy. There's nothing else we can do than just let Jax, Kida, and Derek handle Masters's mess for now." She says.

"Honies! I'm home!" Derek demorphed, greeting the two women. He immediately sat at his desk, firing up his computer.

Amara got to her feet, wiping her eyes softly. "Hey," she said, walking arond the desk and wrapping her arms around Derek's shoulders. "How'd it go?"

Cole sighed but acquiesced when it came to humoring

Jax even Ken alone for a quick moment Cole went off to another corner of the command center "I know what you're going to say you think I'm being paranoid everyone has said it once already you think I'm making connections where there are none to make right?" He said exasperated

Jax shook his head. "I don't think you're paranoid. I think you've got some good points about Masters. something about him is extremely fishy and there's a lot I dont' like about the entire situation," he said. "But eleven months ago, after Moze died and we all went our ways, Billy went to Masters after you brought the initial formula for the Morph-Z to him. He made it seem like he wanted to have Crantson Technologies as a partner. Then Billy bugged the room when the bastard went out to berate the secretary, and we've been monitoring everything he does. So far, everything's been above board, and hes' gone through the right channels. He's talked with Grid Battleforce about Morph-X, improvements that could hae been made, he's gone throguh the right channels to get the chemicals and ingredients for the Morph-Z." He sighed softly, tucking his hands in his pockets.

"Billy was investigating all of this before he disappeared. I've tried, but I'm not half as good as Billy was. I just....need you to trust me when I say that we're looking into things, and I need you to be patient with me. The moment something wrong comes up, you will be the first to know and then we'll go after Masters. I promise you that, but I need you to give me time."

"The Mad Pretender. Heir to nothing. I knew the Grid chose wrong when it made him Blue. His mother would have been a better choice. At least she's easy on the eyes." Moze said. "Unlike you, Ken. You make me sick. Always have. I don't have a working gag reflex now but you still make me wnat to puke."

If anyone Olivier believes that someone who has the same position as Cole, it's Ken. Not only this, they're brothers who know each other well than they realize. Looking at Derek, she gives her Silver comrade a quick nod of acknowledgement as she watches him go. Shen then shifts her focus on Tifa and Jun. "It's messy. There's nothing else we can do than just let Jax, Kida, and Derek handle Masters's mess for now." She says.

Tifa nodded. "The prick said something disgusting as we were leaving. I wanted to punch him in the face and break his teeth, but I know that wouldn't look good," she said, folding her arms. "Olivier, what can you tell me about Masters and this compund he was trying to show off?

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"Not good." Derek spoke honestly. "Marius and his little spectacle got people caught in the crossfire, Jax is loopy after getting hit with something weird on the battlefield, and Cole impatience is going to end up getting us all exposed. Other than that, fantastic!"

Amara sighed softly. "Cole's to hung up on thinking Masters is working for AXIM. He might be, we jsut need concrete proof first," she said. "As for Ken, are we really surprised? He's gonna get himself killed one of these days. What's he doing that's different from being his normal "I'm King, kiss my feet!" attitude?"

Tifa nodded. "The prick said something disgusting as we were leaving. I wanted to punch him in the face and break his teeth, but I know that wouldn't look good," she said, folding her arms. "Olivier, what can you tell me about Masters and this compund he was trying to show off?

While Olivier does explain about Masters earlier, she has a feeling a refresher is required. “Marius Masters established Tomorrow Technologies. He recruited my husband as his co-owner. He’s been developing Morph-Z, a successor for Morph-X, for the past few years. You saw what he had done with it earlier. The thing is we don’t know how he has sources for it and Cole thinks he’s working for the Machine Empire.”

Cole let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding as Jax tried to convince him to down when it came to confronting Marius "all right I'll do my best to be cordial with him and not draw suspicion but it doesn't help that he knows Olivier's secret identity too and he told me that he would basically take her from me" the green Ranger growled fuming at the memory it was then that he saw Olivier talking with Tifa about Marius and Cole decided to help further elaborate on the relationship between the two of them "basically I'm the brains behind tomorrow technologies and Marius was the one with the financial capital to help get the company started I hate to admit it but as he likes to frequently remind me without him I'd still be making robotics out of second hand parts from markets and swap meets I certainly wouldn't be a multimillionaire " Cole said

Amara nodded. "If he gets anyone killed, I'm going to shove my size sixes up his ass and yank them out his nose," Amara said. "Hopefully Jax can calm Cole down. He's usually good about that, and he's better at it then I would ahve been." She sighed, rubbing her eyes softly. "Just wish we knew what happened to Billy."

"Yeah, me too." Derek nodded in agreement. "Billy would be so clutch right now. Hopefully, we get Cole's and Ken's heads on straight before it bites us in the ass."

"Yeah, me too." Derek nodded in agreement. "Billy would be so clutch right now. Hopefully, we get Cole's and Ken's heads on straight before it bites us in the ass."

"Pay Tifa fifty bucks to smack the shit out of them," Amara said with a smirk. She stretched and sighed, rubbing her eyes softly.
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Jax looked at Ken and nodded. "I'll bring it the moment it's finished," he said. "Just remember, Ken, waht you're seeing is Asimov using your subconscious against you. Whatever teh hallucinations are telling you, it's your own self-doubt manifesting as familiar faces. Just do your best to tune them out."

"Tune us out? HA! I didn't know Jax was a comedian. It's time you learned you're not special at all, Ken." Moze said. "Nobody loves you, nobody likes to tolerate you anymore. you're a liability and all you've ever done is get in the way and piss people off. Maybe it's time you killed yourself and did the world a favor. You already got me and your father killed. Shouldn't be that hard for you."