NPF Avatars 5 - The Big Come Down

[POS Industries]

"Man, I really wish I still had those Negative Kamen powers right about now," Pedro growled to himself as he ran down the hall toward the spa. Turning a corner, he nearly collided with the young man originally known as Jimmy the Intern who, after a series of bizarre events led him to devise a way to help Rei in her fight with Bruticus, was promoted and became Jimmy the Scientist.

"Oh! H-Hi, Mr. O'Sullivan..... sir!" Jimmy stammered, holding an armful of the little item summoning devices used by the tournament competitors, "I have the item teleportation modules you wanted. Grabbed as many as I can."

"Good, thank you," Pedro stated coldly, taking some of the devices from Jimmy's arms as he sped along to the spa.

"Uh.... also," Jimmy continued, following behind his boss, "I had one of the modules attuned to you, but I didn't have time to specifically assign a weapon, so I just used the randomizer function. I, uh, I don't know what you ended up with..."

"Yeah yeah, whatever. I'm sure it'll be fine," POS sighed as he opened the door to the spa, revealing the chaos within. Crazed fembots and arguably equally crazed NPFers were tearing each other and the spa itself apart. The longer this brawl continued, the more money out of his pocket. "Hey, non fembot people!" Pedro yelled out as he ran in and tossed the modules in the general direction of the NPFers, "If you need weapons, use these! They're still attuned to your assigned items from the tournament!"

Keeping one of the modules for himself, Pedro pressed the button and activated the device, causing it to vanish in a flash of light, replaced by the sudden appearance of some bizarre gauntlets and boots on his wrists and feet, respectively. Looking them over, a bizarre thought echoed through his mind suddenly...

BUTTSECKS?

"What in the.... What the hell am I supposed to do with these?" POS griped at his present situation, trying to remember what the hell this stuff actually did. However, short term memory kicked in just long enough for him to stumble onto something.

...really wish I still had those Negative Kamen powers right about now...

Pedro grinned and took up a vaguely familiar stance, calling out, "Negative Kamen Power.... TRANSFORM!!" The boots and bracers began to glow, and Pedro's appearance was changed, his hair turned white, his eyes red, and his clothes replaced with a black tuxedo, cape, top hat, and dark metallic mask.

Looking himself over, he noted that this wasn't quite the same as the real thing. The material was a little cheaper, the stitching a bit off, and the blackened Heart Ring on his finger was quite obviously made of plastic. It wasn't a large leap to assume that his shadow manipulation powers weren't present here, but he did feel a fair bit faster and stronger, and the cane he had manifested was a perfectly useful blunt weapon, as the fembot that just lunged at him found out.

"Yeah, this will have to do," Pedro grinned, getting a feel for the wait of his weapon, "Jimmy, stay behind me. We've got to find the manual power shut down around here someplace. Off we go!"

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Back at the tournament, the bear's snout had found its way into a rather delicious blueberry pie.