Fusion Online

Chapter 9: Weapon Upgrade

Jackie places two newly DMR's inside a glass display shelf. She smiles proudly at herself, for she has made no ordinary DMR's, but a recon DMR with silencer and a noble skinned DMR. She turns away from the display shelf and walks to the back room, the place where she makes all her weapons. Jackie begins to hum a song aloud, for it helps her concentrate and focus on her tasks. The teen takes a seat, in front of her is a metal rectangular table with parts and pieces of a gun lies on the smooth surface of the table. She quickly begins crafting a new weapon, working slowly and making sure that all the pieces are in correct order. She wants the weapon to be powerful, stable, and perfect.

A bell rings as its chime echoes inside the building. "A new customer!" Jackie giggles happily as she stands up and skips to a door that separates the back room from the shop. The young brunette opens the door and smiles. "Welcome to Jackie's Weapon Store!." She introduces herself and the store happily. "How may I help you?" She asks, wanting to assist the costumer that has entered her shop. "How's it going Jackie." The customer says, taking off his helmet and placing it on top of wide and tall glass display case. "Ian!" Jackie says in both shock and happy to see the player. "Yea it's me. Did you not want to see me?" The green eye teen says, making the last part sound a bit sad. "N-no, not at all! I just thought you where...you know...not coming back." Jackie shifts to her left side, her right hand rubbing her left arm, and her head looking down at the floor.
"Why would I not come back?" Ian asks, curious at why his friend would think that. "Well...there's better weapon specialist than me out there...and I'm in Wayland. A beginning planet." She slowly and sadly explains, her head staring into the small cracks of the floor. Ian chuckles at this.

"Jackie, your better than almost all the gunsmith I've visited in the past few months. None of them could do what you did to my Westars or to my Battle Rifle. You make Warzone Requisition Weapons. Your like...how do I say this...the best of the best." The Mandalorian says, complementing the girl in front of her. Jackie looks up, her eyes lighting up with joy. "R-really?" She asks. No one has ever complemented her, nor has she known that she is one of the only weapon specialist that makes Warzone Requisition Weapons. Ian nods at her question, causing Jackie to jump up and down for a few seconds in joy.
"Anyway. What can I do for you?" The brunette asks, now extremely motivated to help. "Well. I wanted to see if you can make improvements with my pistols." Ian places his duel Westars next to his helmet. Jackie walks to the display case and grabs the Westars. She places her index finger a few inches above the weapon and moves her finger to the right in a swiping motion. A small white screen appears with the pistol's stats. "No...they are practically at the highest they can be. Any higher and you'll need a new energy source for them." Jackie states, placing one hand on her hip and looking at Ian.

Ian frowns while looking at his weapons. He shakes his hand and smiles. "Well, never mind then. I should've known that they are at their best. I should really stop asking for miracles." Ian apologizes at the request he made. "Anyway, thanks for telling me about it." The teen puts his helmet on and places his blasters back on their holsters. The Mandalorian turns around and starts walking towards the exit.
"W-wait!" Jackie says. "I think I can still do something about it." She grabs Ian's hand, causing him to stop and look back. Ian looks at her confused, for didn't she just say that there's nothing that could improve the twin Westars?

"We could go for the new power source if you want." Jackie suggest, letting go of Ian's hand. Ian looks up a bit, thinking if it would be worth the trouble. "Alright, where do I find this power source?" Ian asks, looking back to the eyes of the brunette. "Well the power source we need is in Mustafar, and it'll only spawn if...a high level...oh no." She trails off, her eyes widening in horror.
"What is it?" The Mandalorian asks, not sure why she trailed off.
"It spawns only if a high level Weapon Specialist accompanies a high level soldier." She answers
"Well, what level are you?"
"Soldier? 5. Weapon Specialist. 53." The brunette answers, clasping her right arm. "Then I guess your coming." Ian simply states, walking outside the shop. "B-but I don't fight. I just make weapons." The girl says, trying to find an excuse. "You are coming and that's final. Plus, I'll be there so you can just stay behind me." Ian counters her excuse, causing the brunette to sigh. "Alright. Fine." She says, grabbing an assault rifle and leaves the store, following the Mandalorian.
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"So this so the place." Ian says, looking at a separatist base several yards away from where he landed his fighter. "Yep, this is the place." Jackie climbs down, and walks next to the beta tester. "C'mon, we don't have time to waste." The Mandalorian-Spartab says, walking towards the base's doors. The doors slide up, revealing several battle droids inside that are just going by their day, which is about to get ruined. "Blast him!" One of them says, firing red lasers towards the players. Ian draws his blasters and retaliates,
Popping the droids head's one by one.
The final droid drops on the floor as Ian walks towards the central command room. The doors open, and inside the room is grey walls with yellow dim lights around the room, for windows are the main source of light from the lava underneath.
"Hey! You can't be-" A battle droid begins, but is shot at the chest twice. The other droids turn to Ian and begging the raining lasers at Ian. The player rolls to cover behind a holo-table, dodging all the lasers that would have hit him if he stood in one place. The Mandalorian takes out two droid poppers, and throws them towards his enemy. The droids stare at the round spheres curiously before the grenades release an E.M.P, disabling the droids all at once.