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"Where'd you find these?" Loki prodded with a suspicious eyebrow arched in Zeros' direction.
"Bought them off a black market vendor..." Zero's gaze fell to the floor, then ceiling and every wall in the room which Loki tried to follow.
"Fine, what's your compact?" Loki being a trickster himself realized pushing the matter was less important than the fun he could have with these Materia.
"If you can install these Mods and Materia into those three down there in three days I'll help you find the person you're looking for." The words crossed Loki's ears, the ambient Ether came to life in the room as the anger seeped from Loki's body.
"You've never seen me mad Zero, but some jokes cross a line." Lokis' anger nipped at Zero, bloodlust heavily pressed upon their shoulders.
"No jokes, Ivy this can be a life compact if my information is bogus I'll die." The heat of anger slightly subsided.
"And why would I want your life!" The angry Irish-accented words spit like flames from his mouth the anger burning still in his eyes.
"You wouldn't I'm betting you want the information more." Zero tossed the Orbs over to Loki who although surprised caught them all as Zero turned to walk to the railing of the balcony.
"I need the best forger I know to put these girls back together. Using those Materia and creating Mods to handle them, these girls will help me and you get closer to what we both want." The air smoothed as Loki relaxed and walked over to the balcony next to Zero. He looked over the edge at the triplets below them, soundly sleeping in their stasis fields stripped of all their augmentation and prosthetics.
"What if they aren't compatible?" Loki said with a side glance.
"It won't be my fault if they die from their bodies rejecting or-
-They'll be compatible, any mishaps or unforeseeable events outside your purview won't hinder your reward in this compact." Loki looked over Zero pensively as if he was handed a cookie jar, but a skull and crossbones sat nicely on its side.
"I'll need the Ether from an elder Ether beast or Spirit." Even though it was impossible to see Zero's face underneath the fabric that covered their body, he felt the grin that Zero was sporting.
"So we have an agreement?" The devilish tone of Zeros' voice put Loki on alert.
"No. Those girls down there are going to need a lot of Ether for their new augmentations and not to mention creating brand new prosthetics that all will run on these Materias..." Loki gripped the railing tightly.
"Come on Zero tricking a trickster, these girls will die without the purest Ether you could find..." Zero jumps off the balcony and crosses the room to a keypad on the adjacent wall.
"What are you doing?" Delta's voice was quick and coarse, he appeared leaning against the wall next to the keypad, a look of distrust hardening on his face.
"I'm going to use that to rebuild the girls, I can't forge with it because it just turns into more parts for the Mothers Mold, and I want this red cloth off of me not more of it." Zero rubbed their arm even though they felt the sensation of skin on skin, the red fabric covered every inch of Zeros' body feeding information to them second-handedly.
"This stuff is for finding family members and rebuilding your past remember?" Zero winced at Delta's words, the vague weight of memories of their past swept them causing a slight headache.
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