Chapter 119 - [73]

"Just relax and be calm. It may be a little weird at first but hang in there." Max said. The yellow symbiote started crawling from his hand towards the timid girl.

As the symbiote was starting to seep into her skin, Max held her hand, pseudo-bonding with her so that she won't feel any discomfort. Her eyes were shut for the longest time, before opening, there was now a Yellow-waviness to it.

"Ah… Max, It won't eat my brain? Will it?" she asked. "Or worst I won't have to eat raw meat will I? I don't want too…"

Max blinked, before laughing. "Don't worry, I have meat storage if you feel rather hungry."

The girl became pale hearing that, "You aren't serious are you?"

Max stood up, smiling. "No, you won't need to eat meat… I for one am different, and can stay a long period of time without a host. So I need an energy source. And I don't actually need meat. Anything that has high amount of protein can run my battery without a host.

"But for this new symbiote, I don't think it needs any… It will be just fine, munching on couple of chocolate bars." Max finished. "By the way how do you feel?"

"I don't feel any different." She tilted her head. "And I don't hear a voice in my head as well… I do have a sugar craving though. No I think I need, No I want chocolates, specifically."

Max hummed walking a few steps to the side, opening the mini-fridge and quickly taking out a few chocolate bars. He didn't want Shuri to see there were actual meat here, even though most of them were from animals rather than human.

"Catch." He tossed them towards her, as the chocolate bars spread midair. She tried to catch all of them, but two hands could hardly grab all. So her new symbiotic-body complied as neonblazing yellow symbiotic tendrils shot forth out of her forearms, catching them mid-air and quickly retreating after gathering all the chocolate in her two hands.

"What the… Did you see that…" she looked at her hands and then back to Max. Who just nodded.

"Try some, even symbiote have preference of what types of chocolates they like."

Shuri complied trying out different ones, her taste buds rejoiced every time she tried a new flavor. She was rather surprised at how much she could eat, as if her stomach was bottomless. "I hope I don't get fat… Oh, I think I am strong." She said, after eating she suddenly felt she could lift a boulder if she wanted to.

"Yes, well symbiotes are strong…" Max said, he glanced at the wall clock. "Well, try to separate from the symbiote." Just to be safe Max was standing in front of the door. You never know when a symbiote will throw an anger tantrum and make a run for it. "Try to speak with it."

She closed her eyes, trying to concentrate, trying hard to communicate with the unnamed symbiote. "Ah… Max it wants another few chocolates and…" she paused.

"And?"

"And a name. She doesn't have one." Shuri said.

Max raised an eyebrow, "That is certainly new… But it's a good thing that you can communicate with it." At least this way she would be familiar with the symbiote. Max gave her a few other chocolates not moving from his spot still standing in front of the door. So he had to control his tendrils to do so.

"So what should we name her?" She rubbed her chin going on her infamous thinking pose. Sometimes taking a bite or two from the chocolates.

"Be careful, names have weight to it… And your naming sense isn't the best." Max said.

"Um, how about… how about… Ecstasy?" she said.

"Huh, not bad. That name's actually good."

"Okay, Ecstasy it is… though the name's a mouthfull. How about we call her just Ec?" She said, mostly to herself and her symbiote counterpart. "Huh, you like it. Thanks."

"Okay, it was long and fun. Now please separate… I have to show you something else." Max said, as the girl gave out a sigh in disappointment.

The symbiote without resistance poured out of her skin, settling in a bulge of yellow goo, on her hands. She then put the symbiote back to her place, closing the capsule lid.

Shuri looked like a girl who lost her puppy and she was desperately looking at the symbiote.

"Don't worry you can come and visit the symbiote as long as I am with you." Max said. In a way he was shoving the responsibility on to her.

"Well… what do you want me to see." She asked curious. The symbiote storage room was exceptionally chilly. But when she was with her symbiote she didn't notice it, only now did she know.

"Come upstairs." Max said, humming as he crossed the stairs to the upper floor. Back to the junkyard of a warehouse. The girl followed, glancing back at the other unexplored rooms, she wondered what could have been there.

"Hmm… I need to bond with you for that. If you don't mind." Max said.

Shuri shrugged. "Sure." Getting permission, Max quickly bonded to her.

'Now, this may feel a bit weird at first.' Max said in between their symbiotic mindlink. Shuri bulged up, her hair getting longer, muscles bulkier, her neck was full, making the necklace (Iron-Panther) around her neck tight. The rush of adrenalin kicked in, making her gasp. She always liked the feeling.

"But that's nothing new… Ecstasy can't do it for the time being… But she could learn it." Shuri said, she had already tried it a few times with Max before.

'Well, the thing is… what comes after it.' Max said, activating his Negative mode. Shuri's fully symbiotic form started to morph, as the darkness shed, white symbiotic goo replaced it's place. Other than her forearms and hands being red, everything was covered in white, symbiotic goo.

"Wooo, this feels different. I feel different, did I grow a few more braincells or what… I feel kinda smart." Shuri asked, gasping as she looked at her new form.

'How can you feel smart?' Max asked. Shuri just shrugged. 'Never-mind, just try to activate your Iron-Panther suit… I will guide.'

She frowned before doing what she was told, as she touched it. A tsunami of information crashed into her mind. But she wasn't overwhelmed, she felt like she could understand it.

Trying to tinker with one formula, led to change of a bunch of others. "Wait, can I upgrade my suit with this?"

'Yup, try to fix or change anything and it will happen to the actual suit.' Max said. Shuri grinned, looking over all of the formulas and different things she had on her.

Tinkering with them to the molecular level. Working with vibranium is in fact quite difficult. After your product is finished and printed you can't change anything major. So there was always room for mistakes. Even though most of the mistakes could be avoided with computer simulations.

After a minute or two, the process was done. Morphing back to her regular human size, Shuri activated her suit. Her necklace started pouring out tiny nano particles made out of vibranium.

Purple metal surrounded her body, as she felt the changes that she made. The suit looked mostly the same, other than being a little more purple with patches or Red along with it.

But the most noticeable thing was the where her hands and feet where. Before they looked like bulky gauntlets and boots. Now they looked like skin tight gloves and shoes. The excess bulkiness that was ruining her aesthetic look was long gone. Now her suit was better than ever.

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