The scarab didn't want to expose Jaime's face to these strangers but right now it was all or nothing. Either it fully retracted and tried to regenerate or the armor would remain deployed. In either case, it could not call up the functions it needed to to resuscitate and heal Jaime.
So the armor retracted, withdrawing from the boy's body, making horrible crunching and grinding noises as it did, a clear sign that it was malfunctioning. It all disappeared under him, into his back.
On Brainy's omnicom, on all the monitors and sensor feeds that had now been turned on while they tried to help Jaime, there were words, clear and desperate:
F|X H|M.
What the armor left behind as it retreated wasn't pretty. Because of the cut to his head, under the armor, and because of a nasty wound on his cheek where some flesh had been scored away by the head of a hammer, his face was drenched in blue goo that was pretty clearly a substitute for blood while the suit was functional. His left leg was also drenched in it, due to the damage to his knee, some kind of foreign object that had been shoved through it. So was his right arm and part of his torso, due to the chewed up chainsaw wound at his shoulder/neck. All of those injuries were still bleeding, so after the suit retracted, the wounds started to trickle red instead.
Those were just the wounds that were actively bleeding. The boy's side looked horribly bruised, in a way that suggested blunt trauma that might have broken some ribs and there were countless other bruises and places that had been battered.
The boy looked very, very small without his armor.
no subject
And it was scared.
Not for itself.
The scarab didn't want to expose Jaime's face to these strangers but right now it was all or nothing. Either it fully retracted and tried to regenerate or the armor would remain deployed. In either case, it could not call up the functions it needed to to resuscitate and heal Jaime.
So the armor retracted, withdrawing from the boy's body, making horrible crunching and grinding noises as it did, a clear sign that it was malfunctioning. It all disappeared under him, into his back.
On Brainy's omnicom, on all the monitors and sensor feeds that had now been turned on while they tried to help Jaime, there were words, clear and desperate:
F|X H|M.
What the armor left behind as it retreated wasn't pretty. Because of the cut to his head, under the armor, and because of a nasty wound on his cheek where some flesh had been scored away by the head of a hammer, his face was drenched in blue goo that was pretty clearly a substitute for blood while the suit was functional. His left leg was also drenched in it, due to the damage to his knee, some kind of foreign object that had been shoved through it. So was his right arm and part of his torso, due to the chewed up chainsaw wound at his shoulder/neck. All of those injuries were still bleeding, so after the suit retracted, the wounds started to trickle red instead.
Those were just the wounds that were actively bleeding. The boy's side looked horribly bruised, in a way that suggested blunt trauma that might have broken some ribs and there were countless other bruises and places that had been battered.
The boy looked very, very small without his armor.