Harem Reborn

Chapter 77: Bare Dynam Crystals

Everyone got into the large elevator, I was a large enough space for us to all fit, about three by three meters. As we got lower, I started to get a bad idea about us going down here. I looked over to see how the girls were doing, but they all seemed fine. Maxine was in a MAS similar to Tilly's, except hers was cover in smaller gun ports.

"What is your suit deal, Maxine?"

"White-eyes, it's an Adaptamorph beam type. I will be able to deal a lot of damage to this with Sasha; you all just need to let me gather the Dyman. That means I can't be jumping around, so we need to be protected."

"That's what we're here for!"

Just then, the elevator stopped moving, and we had arrived. I looked over everyone one more time and then stepped forward. I placed my hand on the open button, and the doors open up into a bright blue hell.

The Gibbler was over four meters tall, and after a quick count, I estimated there to be about thirteen mouth orifices filled with razor-sharp teeth, ya this was a bad idea. Too late, as we stepped out of the elevator, the giant monster roared out at our entrance to its lair.

"What the hell is this?" Tama was looking at the massive thing, but there was no blue Dyman anywhere.

"This isn't good, Irellia. Let Jill know we're are coming back upIrellia?" Sasha was trying to reach Irellia since she stayed above, but it seems that she wasn't getting through.

"We have to get out of here!" Tilly yelled, but I could see the fleshy blob moving towards us with alarming speed; I had to act.

"Everyone, run! There is tons of room around here; we can't escape now. It's too late for that. If we try to leave, it will get us in the shaft. We have to deal with it ourselves!"

My words made the girls snap out of it, and they started to move, but suddenly one of the mouths whipped out a tongue towards Mikota. I dashed and batted away the tentacle before it could reach her and then turned to run away. I could do nothing but defend and distract, so I pulled Mikota with me to the side while the rest ran to the farthest area.

"Split your clones but don't let it intentionally get one, OK?"

"Mhm."

Mikota's twins formed like silver mist behind her, and they each grabbed a gun. I split off from them, and the clones and Mikota started to use hit and run tactics, and when it got too close to a clone, I would defend. I decided I could slice the tongues off, and we started to have an easier time.

"If there is no Dynam, then what does it matter how many mouths it has if there is nothing left to feed, right?"

*silence*

"Let's just hit it with everything we have! Let's group up; we are coming to you guys. Be ready!" I shouted in the microphone.

We both ran back to the other, and the monster followed us, but we had an easy time outpacing it. When we reached the group, we moved to one side and let them unleash what they had stored up. As they started to fire, Tama met up with us, and we ran around to attack from the other side.

Rockets, lasers, and sound waves crashed into the red flesh pile, and it was momentarily stunned; that's the moment we cut back in for the strike. Tama latched on and started to drain the Dynam back out of the Gibbler. That was followed by a barrage of bullets from Mikota.

//ACTIVATING OVERDRIVE, MULTIPLY DAMAGE X4

In one side and out the other and then three more times from different angles. My suit's ability to walk anywhere I wanted was like having superpowers, and I was sad when I felt the power leave, but it didn't matter. The monster was dead. The girls all cheered and came running over, but I stopped them, walking over to the destroyed monster.

I had noticed something, and it catches my eye because it sparkled, whatever it was. I could see a gem like things inside the monster, so I started to cut into it with hacking swings. Soon I was able to retrieve ten fist-sized treasures, and I carried them back over to the girls and handed them over. Sasha and Maxine took them from me excitedly.

"These are bare Dynam crystals! They are worth a fortune and very hard to find, and you found ten of them!?" Maxine exclaimed.

"I just noticed them; what are they useful for?"

"Weapon crafting and, more importantly, MAS upgrading!" Sasha explained with excitement

"Oh? Then it really is a good find! I just glad that it wasn't as bad as we thought; I thought it would have been a lot worse, but I'm thankful it wasn't."

"Can we go home now?" Mikota asked with a yawn into the microphone.

We all headed back up with our crystals, but everyone stayed clear of me on the elevator. They went as far as crowding in the opposite corner; even Mikota shunned my blood-covered MAS and me. Luckily after ten minutes, we arrived back up top, and everyone piled out of the elevator before me, but I couldn't blame them.

Irellia told me to go back first and use the shower to clean the suit off, so I headed back. Praxcel waved to me as I walked by and headed back to the shuttle. Once inside, I realized I had no idea where the shower was.

Luckily, Alta must have sensed my confusion and directed me to a room that looked like an oversized shower stall, but I guess you could wash large MAS units in here as well. I cleaned the suit off, and then Alta guild me to a place to put the suit, and I got out. By this time, the rest of the girls were back inside, and the ship was already moving. It happened before I left the shower; I had no stress from the departure thanks to the suit.

I moved to the cabin area to join everyone. The girls in the two back seats talked excitedly about what was going to happen with the upgrades. Only Irellia really knew each mech's functions, and she stayed tight-lipped for the duration of the ride back. I sat down across from Maxine again; Tama and Mikota were both talking excitedly about the changes and the new things they could do.

I fell asleep during the flight back, and Sasha shook me awake, so we could leave the shuttle. I stood up and stretched, feeling a bit better than I was before, and followed the group out. Sasha took the gems in a bag and gave them to Irellia from a storage locker, and then we all exited the craft.

Jill was waiting for us in the hanger, and she had a warm smile, but when Irellia handed her the bag of gems, the circuits of her skin lit up with a myriad of colors. We all came over to join them, and Jill hugged each of the girls, but then she stopped when she came to me.

"How do you always do this?"

"What do you mean?"

"How can you always pull such miracles out of thin air?"

"This is hardly a miracle, is it?"

"You will see, we have no need to upgrade the large armor, and a single huge upgrade would take all ten gems. Let's go eat; I'm sure you are all starving; everyone did great today!"

We all followed Jill back to the cafeteria, and everyone got their food and sat down. Everyone was tired, and the food went down quite smoothly, but everyone was quiet. The day was heavy on all of us, and I was glad to retire to my bed, but there was a knock at my door as I lay down.

"Yeah?"

"Can I come in?" Mikota's voice asked from the other side of the door.

"Yeah."

Mikota slipped into my room wearing a flowered kimono and looked very attractive, but then she locked my door. Mikota moved to my bed, letting the kimono hit the floor, her tanned naked flesh in front of me. I rose to meet her and took Mikota in my arms, pulling her back down into my bed. I was glad I could catch some sleep in the shuttle on the way back because I did not get much after that.