Chapter 243 Play A Little Game

I sunk into the ground and went down to the bottom floor where the Silence was being held. I could see Mox pacing back and forth inside with an impatient look on his face on the other side of the door in the once control room. He paused when he saw me walking up and turned towards the door with a disgruntled expression on his face now. "Daniel, it is about time! What is taking so long?"

"I am sorry; I have been busy," I explained as Mox began to pace again in frustration.

"Busy? With what? It has been weeks!" he exclaimed, and I sighed softly as I shook my head.

"No, I haven't. It has only been a few days," I corrected him, but Mox just stopped and stared at me in disbelief for a moment before scoffing softly and turning away from me again.

"Days? That is even worse! How much longer do you plan on keeping me here?" he asked angrily, but I just shook my head as I walked up to the glass and melted through it.

"Not long. I have someone working on the power right now, but I think that you and I need to have a talk first," I explained, and the sickly yellow Gideon narrowed its eyes at me.

"What about?" he asked, but I just shook my head as I turned away from him and started to pace myself.

"About what you want and what I can offer you," I began, but Mox just scoffed softly and crossed his arms over his chest.

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"I am listening," he said, and I nodded my head before turning back towards him with a severe expression on my face.

"I know that you want to be free from the Silence and out of her, but I am not sure if that is something I can allow with you linked to Alpha. I know that you are a clone of him, like all Gideons, but that means I can't trust you, no matter how truthful you are. I just had a conversation with Alpha, and it proved that your truths are only a distraction to divert from having to tell lies," I explained as Mox's eyes narrowed in anger, but he stayed silent as he waited for me to continue. "However, what I can offer you is a chance to help me and become something more, but more importantly, to be yourself."

Mox was silent for a moment before he finally let out a sigh and turned away from me with a thoughtful look on his face. "What do you mean by that?" he asked, and I waited for him to turn back towards me before answering.

"I mean that you can be your own person without being defined by the actions of Alpha or the Silence. You can help make this world a better place, but more importantly, you will have my trust, and I will have yours," I explained, and Mox just stared at me in disbelief for a moment longer before scoffing softly and turning away from me again.

"You are asking for too much," he said dismissively as he crossed his arms over his chest again, but I just shook my head as I took a step closer to him.

"No, I am not asking for anything that you are not capable of giving," I countered firmly, making Mox pause as he considered my words carefully before finally sighing softly and turning back towards me with an exhausted look on his face now.

"Fine, I will help you, but only because I want to be free of them," he said as he stepped closer to me and extended his much larger hand, and I stared at it for a moment before slowly reaching out and shaking it.

I wanted to see how Mox did before I changed him, and I wanted to give him a chance to think about things. I could feel the war of emotions in the man's words, and it would be better if he could do this of his own choice and not just because of the situation.

"Thank you," I said sincerely, and Mox just nodded his head before turning away from me again with a heavy sigh.

It looked like we had finally come to an understanding, but there was still the matter of the Silence. I wasn't sure how to deal with her yet or even if Mox would be able to help me with that, but we would cross that bridge when we got there. For now, we needed to focus on getting past the Shalgoth.

"Can you get past the Shalgoth?" I asked, knowing that I could fight my way to the other side without a problem.

"Not without my weapons, but they are on the other side in the special extradimensional container," Mox explained, and I nodded as silver roots started to come out of my back, but that made Mox jump back. "What are you doing?!"

"Giving you some armor and some weaponry. I think I still have a scan of your scary pistol that has the gravity pads on them. Hold on, this shouldn't hurt much," I said off-handedly, and my roots all converged on Mox, and the giant demon-looking mother fucker let out a scream like an adolescent teenage girl as my roots hit and slashed all over his body. Finally, when it was done, Mox was standing there in a full suit of my armor. "There you go!"

"What the hell is this?! It feels alive!" Mox exclaimed as he looked down at his new armor with a horrified expression on his face, and I just chuckled softly.

"It is called you are wearing me as a skin. It is a suit that I just designed that can change shape and size to fit whoever is wearing it while also providing them with enhanced strength, speed, durability, and reflexes," I explained as Mox just continued to stare at me in disbelief before shaking his head and looking down at his arms.

"This is unbelievable," he muttered as he flexed his arms experimentally before looking back up at me with a serious expression on his face now. "So, what do we need to do?"

I turned my attention towards the door that would lead into the Shalgoth.

"We need to brute force our way past the Shalgoth and the thousands of shadow clones it is going to make. I need you just to keep going; I need to check something with the body that it is possessing," I explained calmly, but Mox threw his hands up, and then I remembered his gun.

"You have got to be kidding me?! How are you so calm?!" Mox demanded as I made a copy of his destabilizer pistol and handed the heavy thing to him, making him calm down some.

"I have to be calm or bad things will happen. My power is tied to this entire planet, and if I get mad or upset, the world reacts, and I could make copies of myself that I couldn't control yet," I explained.

"I see; well, that is a heavy burden to have," Mox muttered as he shook his head before turning back towards the door with a determined look on his face now. "So, let's get this over with."

I nodded my head in agreement before following close behind him as he stepped through the door and down the hallway until the shadows started to appear. I moved forward as Mox was about to raise his weapon, but my roots burst from me and became a blur as I cut through everything.

I looked back to see Mox lower his gun, but I made a clone of myself walk out of the wall beside him. "Keep that up; they respawn fast, so make sure to keep watch and stay between me," I instructed from my clone as I quickly caught up to my original body. Mox nodded his head in understanding before turning back towards the hallway with a determined look on his face now.

We continued down the hallway, cutting through anything that got in our way until we finally made it to the room where the Shalgoth was holding its human host. It looked like it was trying to go for Mox at first, but when it saw me, all its attention shifted toward me instead as I stepped forward with a confident smirk on my face.

"What are you doing?" Mox demanded from behind me as he grabbed onto my arm, but I just shook him off and took another step forward until I was standing right in front of the demon.

"I am going to talk to it," I said calmly, and Mox's eyes widened in disbelief for a moment before he quickly recovered and crossed his arms over his chest with an unimpressed expression on his face now.

"And how do you plan on doing that? It doesn't even have a mouth," he pointed out skeptically, but I had dealt with this creature before, but I was a change being now.

[Hello, Daniel. Have you come to play a little game?]