Title:           Update to A Man In His Armor [WiP]
Author:          Xenobreeder
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First Edit:      Tuesday 9th of October 2012 11:21:41 AM CDT
Last Edit:       Tuesday 9th of October 2012 11:21:41 AM CDT

>The changeling had never experienced this level of power before.
>All the previous food sources had been much weaker.
>This ape — no, human. He called himself human in his thoughts — was really enamored by his dreams coming true.
>Also, most of the energy extracted previously went to sustain the not-so-successful drones of the hive.
>None of these sources had lasted for too long.
 
>The survival of the hive was much more important than the survival of the food.
>And more important than the survival of each individual hive part.
>That's why this drone was now alone.
>There was no possible way of being reattached.
>Even though all the energy provided by the, uh, human would probably be very useful for the hive.
>Any drone that somehow lost connection to the hive even for a couple of minutes had to be killed personally by the Queen.
>This changeling was alive only because she didn't want to waste the valuable energy ending the one that was going to die anyway.
 
>But now that it had managed to survive... What was the purpose of its life now?
>The Queen had always been the mastermind and beacon of the hive.
>No drone could ever do anything she hadn't appointed it to do, except when acting on pure instincts.
>But wait. This 'human'. He didn't have a queen or a hive to live for — and still wasn't depressed.
>Maybe given enough time it would be possible to understand how he was able to live this way?
 
***
 
>Having calmed down a little after the initial hype, you leaned against a tree.
>What could you do at the moment?
>You weren't hungry yet, but soon you will be.
>Better find some food now.
>Stealing from that zebra would probably be a bad idea.
>You could get a bowl of oatmeal (or what do these creatures eat?) at best.
>And stealing from a warlock was a bad idea anyway.
 
>All the trees and plants were strange.
>You had never seen anything like that before.
>Trying to blindly eat whatever berries you might find...
>Probably even worse an idea than stealing from a warlock.
 
>Maybe you could try hunting?
>Yeah, like you would be able to catch a hare if it jumped right into your face.
 
>You looked around for any possible hints.
>A-ha! There was a nest up in the branches of a nearby tree.
>Eggs. Definitely better then nothing.
>You vaguely remembered how to start a fire from your childhood games, but raw eggs were fine too.
>Now you just had to get to your future meal.
>Of course, it would be better if it could come down instead...
 
>All of a sudden the whole nest got enveloped with a green aura, emanating from you.
>Then it took off and flew down to your feet, the green aura disappearing shortly after.
>What.
 
***
 
>The changeling instantly realized its mistake.
>Trying to do anything that this human wanted, it ended up using an ability the 'armor' it was imitating should not have.
>It needed to think up a solution.
>And better be quick at this, because if he freaked out — this fantastic flow of power would stop.
>Unacceptable.
>Luckily, in its frantic delving through the human mind it quickly managed to grasp a concept that could work.
>Actually, it could help with the things that the drone was unable to mimic, too.
>And it would not have to carefully divert this bothersome prey's attention from these anymore.
>Not bad.
 
***
 
>Before you had a chance to properly think about what had just happened, the answer jumped right into your face.
>Literally, on a pop-up.
>These were becoming slightly annoying...
>You scrolled through the text.
>Your armor turned out to be an experimental model, made for testing only.
>It didn't have a number of standard functions — booster glands, projectile spikes, even most built-in reflexes were missing.
>But instead it had better brains, better morphing, an ability to sync with user's mind and, yeah, telekinesis.
>It was... A great tradeoff, if you were the one to ask!
 
>Still, you felt slightly uncomfortable.
>It was almost like you were a character of some generic anime — this sudden summoning, finding prototype armor and all.
>Meh, you weren't exactly able to do anything about the situation.
>Better just go with it and hope to be the *main* character.
 
>You looked at the fuckhuge manual on the nonstandard functions of the suit.
>Why read it now?
>The overview was quite simple, learning by doing is always better.
>After all, it will always be easy to look up anything you need.
>So you just pressed the 'sync' symbol.
 
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