The Starlight wrote:---
Seeing Craig's reaction to her request, Etla smiled weakly, happy that he seemed to have caught on to her train of thought so quickly, and also happy that she had figured out how she could start helping him. She realized that for someone as weakened as he was, asking for blood like that might have been a bit too much, but she hoped that it would allow her to help him fix his heart. After all, a single drop would likely have been enough for her Core to be able to synthesize a mutant's powers, and it was precisely his genes which gave Craig his powers. Thus, she didn't expect him to run off somewhere and then return with a syringe full of blood, though she could at least be certain now that it would work. After all, a syringe with the Sentry Serum had become the Sentry Core and allowed her to gain all the powers of Alex and Naja. So why wouldn't a syringe of Craig's blood give her his powers?
It was with this in mind that she, ignoring the donuts, pressed the syringe against her chest, which seemed to shine softly with a glow that engulfed the syringe and part of her hand. She pulled out her now empty hand afterwards, and suddenly, she felt completely different from before. She felt a connection to all the technology nearby, and though there was no change in her Core's prodigious information processing power, she now had a bounty of information inside her head which she could draw from in order to come up with a solution to her lover's problem. Furthermore, since the Core in her center was technology in some sense of the word, she could understand it now, far better than she had ever been able to in the past, and so, she now had nearly all of the information she needed in order to save Craig. Now she just needed to put her mind to work and build what she needed, and it would all be alright.
"Craig, it worked! I can solve everything!" She said excitedly, ignoring the fact that there were visits now as she gave him a fugacious kiss and then ran downstairs, munching on her chocolate donut as she went, until she was where she needed to be. Some of the employees present looked at her oddly, but many more simply neglected to pay her attention up until she spoke.
"Alright, everyone! I'm going to need the smallest generator you can get your hands on, some vibranium and a lot of microprocessors. Oh, and a few books about anatomy and medicine." She stated. Most of the employees simply stared at her confusedly, save for a few who recognized her and immediately set to fulfilling her requests, knowing better than to disobey such a close friend of their boss, though they didn't have such a good idea of how close a friend she was. Etla stared at those who weren't moving, and one of them spoke up.
"Excuse me, but who are you?" He asked meekly.
"I'm the lover and savior of your boss, so if you want him to continue being your boss for the foreseeable future, you'll start moving." She stated.
She had to say nothing more, and simply munched on her chocolate donut as the employees brought her everything that she needed.