#dr asterisk

Meanwhile, in the GSC...

Asterisk is watching a news report about the incident in his lab. A new set of machines are running behind him, assembling something. His smile turns into more of a smirk as the reporter mentions the police have no leads on who stole the machines.

well, that went off without any trouble. no one suspects anything.

On Asterisk's desk are the same sketches of what the internals of Blatto's tank-mechs may look like, though more refined. Several of the hypothetical improvements from before are now clearly inserted in. Asterisk turns to the machines behind him. They're working on the very same tank-mech. The colors are much brighter than Blatto's, and the ESC logo is painted on most parts.

making them fully autonomous should be easy. at this rate, this part should be done easy enough. now i need to get to work on mass production. could try and take over a factory. wait... why haven't i though of this before?

meanwhile...

uhh. cinnamon, what do you have there?

Asterisk

Asterisk does not like being called Sans. I'm not going to go into detail about why right now but there is a reason.

He doesn't keep in contact with the rest of the UT cast.

He's from a neutral timeline

Funky robot

It's technically existed since before Asterisk came to the ESC, but doesn't remember anything from before.

This is due to both having less space to store memories/a less efficient compression algorithm and due to needing to be near totally rebuilt.

It has backups.

Fell

No issue with being called sans, though goes by fell at the ESC

Still in contact with his family and friends

This is because he doesn't know about Asterisk disliking being called sans now.

Uses very silly names for cinnamon in private.

Cinnamon is an Emotional support Animal but he does not like to admit it

Cinnamon

Likes only two people (Fell and Dr Bee), doesn't really care about most others

Does not like asterisk

With that, Asterisk first presses a button causing a small energy shield to surround the turret, he turns the laundry list of weapons on the turret against the raiders. Acid "bombs" fire out, followed by missiles of Asterisks own, then a mix of the two. The acid "bombs"

...heh. this is gonna sting.

Asterisk presses a button on his turret, causing it to start charging. After a few minutes of this, it fires a massive pillar of acid, cutting through thousands of raiders in one go. The majority of the acid seems to evaporate quickly once on the ground, though puddles of it dot the section of the battlefield the charge was fired in. The turret shuts down after the charge attack, retreating back into the esc.

still not done, lets hope these still hold up.

The custom Tank-Mechs, absed of round 2's tank mechs, emerge from the ground, though most of them are getting beat rather badly. A few are winning the fights thwy get involved in, though the more advanced tech is proving difficult.