Chapter 284: Bestowal
"Hmmm? What the hell...?" remarked a tall and very curvaceous, orange-haired woman in a pale pink, form-fitting bodysuit, a baggy, dark purple jacket, pressurized purple boots that made whoever wore them look like they had hooves, and the words Punk 02 written across her left breast in red. Her hair was short and messy, and a hemispherical earpiece with an antenna covered her left ear, allowing her to communicate with her other selves, Dr. Vegapunk's Satellites.
With little to guard while on security detail, the woman, Lilith, representing Dr. Vegapunk's aspect of evil, had been perusing a technical manual with her feet kicked up and ankles crossed on a semi-circular control console, located a short distance from the training room's ten-meter-tall entrance. She and the other Satellites had restructured the encompassing area into a lab to study the door's properties and conceivably reverse-engineer the tech behind the training rooms. Unfortunately, the door had proven to be completely indestructible and appeared as a void when scanned, resulting in very little progress.
As the doors in question weren't supposed to open for another 1,418 days, Lilith was more than a little surprised to see them opening in the direction of the indestructible white stone stele backing them. However, instead of getting up from where she was seated, she tilted her head and craned her left brow curiously at the large group that emerged through them.
"Oh, my...this is a rather advanced facility..." remarked Venelana, standing cross-armed to Vahn's left, her violet eyes scanning the lab's interior with nearly every other member of his mostly pregnant entourage. To his right, as usual, was Grayfia, and behind them were Misla, Yasaka, Rias, Korra, Koneko, and, as a matter of course, Jack-O, Dizzy, Lupheria, Lastia, Masane, Rihoko, and the other children being raised under the care of the Dragon's Pavilion. One notable addition to the group was Kushina, but she would only be present until she had safely given birth.
"We have the Devil Fruits the Dragon's Pavilion gave us to thank for that," remarked Lilith, setting aside the manual she was reading before kicking off from her terminal and rolling over to Vahn's group with considerable momentum, prompting him to place his hands on her shoulders, arresting it entirely before she could crash into him.
Leaning her head back against Vahn's stomach and staring up at him, Lilith raised her hands and locked them around his waist as she asked, "Will you be joining us for the remaining three years, ten months, sixteen days, eleven hours, and thirty-seven minutes we're in here? If so, I'd like to research your body and blood. I'll make it worth your while."
"I'll consider it," responded Vahn, resisting the almost instinctual urge to stare at Lilith's large and shapely breasts and instead focusing on her sole visible eye, pale purple and glistening slightly as her intraocular heads-up display reflected various observational analysis, such as the dilation of his pupils and his pulse via the micromovements in his neck.
"Just remember that I asked first," said Lilith, pushing off from Vahn and spinning around in her chair to face the group before drawing her feet up in a very unladylike position, resting her elbows on her spread knees, and asking, "Do you guys need a place to stay, or what? Our proprietary Drago Capsules have come pretty far in the past year. The larger ones can store up to 3,300 cubic meters of material."
"We will prepare living arrangements for ourselves," expressed Venelana. "However, I would appreciate accommodations for our guests and the children traveling with us. Later, I would also like a tour of your facilities."