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"Don't worry Benny We'll help her take car of her little one."

Big Benny sighed, "Little is the wrong word."

The Little Girl turned around and called out, "Buttonnnnns!!!!"

There were few short tremors before the building itself shook. Then it shook again and the lights flickered. Then a brick wall collapsed as the hatchling pushed his way inside.

He was enormous. At the very least 8ft long and 3ft tall. He has six legs and a parrot like beak. The girl ran over to the leviathan of a hatchling and said, "Buttons, How many times we gotta tell you to use the door." And then she hugged his head as he snuggled to her.

"Alright, Every one please show me Your junkyrms. And that's an Order." He looked at Walter's Little Knight and saw that he was made of parts of multi-tools, guns, and a laser pointer. "Frankie, You're son doesn't need my help. Your father's collection has more than enough selection to help the little one grow." Then he looked at Marcus, "Bring it out."

Vicky spoke up, "Marcus, Before you go home Mr. Benjamin and I have something to talk to you about. Don't think I haven't noticed your paranoid behavior at home."

Then Benny looked at Vicky and nodded. "That'll Be 4 orders of umbrellas for Young Eric, 4 orders of My 'Prototype Mach' Skates and 1 order of 'My Finest' tools sets for Young Marcus, and 1 order of Tricycles for my little Wendy. I'll Have the shipment Delivered in the next few hours. And We will have that Talk Marcus."


Then Benny walked out the door. When he came back in he walked over to marcus first and handed him a pair of skates. These weren't just any skates. These were the most advanced skates ever made. "They're not even on the market yet. Still In testing. Take them, For The little one." Then he smiled, "They have a system of brakes and internal mechanisms that make the wheels slow their rotation when the wearer tries to slow down. They also have a speed tracking system that keeps record of fastest speeds, and even how many G-forces the wearers put themselves through. The part that's still in testing is the G-force counter."

Then he turned to Eric and offered a red and yellow parasol to him. "This Parsol is one of our top sellers. The fabric glows it's present colors in the dark, and the handle has a flashlight built in. Also Has floral scented air freshener built into the shaft of the frame. The air freshener can be ejected for replacement by unscrewing the handle."

There was the sound of a rumbling engine outside and then of the brakes letting off some presure. "Ah. Right on time. It'll take a couple hours to unpack it all, but it'll be worth it," Benny said. Then he pushed open the door to reveal a caravan of 5 trailer trucks. The closest on was already unloading, and it was unloading crates as big as Buttons himself. Benny walked over to a Crate and pried it open; lifting out 8 tricycles, two at a time. "Come and Get it Buttons!"

Buttons went over to the 8 tricycles and incorporated them immediately. The frames of the tricycles were shattered and the pieces of steel framing used to improve his heavy skeleton and to provide armor. The rear wheels and rear axles were taken apart and used to improve the joints throughout his body, the handle bars reinforcing his torso, and the front wheels and their associated axles and pedals were used to improve and lengthen his tail. The metal seat pans were added to his back and the top of his tail as armored plates. Overall, He grew half again as long as he was before and doubled his height, and more than tripled his weight has he became even bulkier and more heavily constructed.

Wendy watched as Buttons grew and held onto her teddy bear while clapping and cheering Buttons on.

And the scary part was, there were still seven of those crates of the truck.

Marcus looked from the truck to Buttons, working out in his head how large Jericho and Gomorrah might grow if they each received similar gifts. It was... unsettling, to say the least. The little wyrmling was nice now, but he would be a handful at his current four feet in length. Thirty or more would be absolutely impossible to manage. Eric, he reflected, really got the better deal. At least Gomorrah was going to stay thin enough to fit through doorways after this unexpected gift.

Eric raised an eyebrow as he assessed the total area of Buttons' body that was now that sporty shade of red, ballparking a silent self-estimate of how little of that hideous grey would be left once he was done incorporating eight crates of the things into his body.

Both of them turned their attentions towards Argyle and Lenore when they came in. The girl was a year older than Eric and a few months older than Marcus, and they hadn't interacted much in the past. Marcus was courteous to her when they ran into each other in the house, though he wasn't usually in the house for long while awake since he spent his days working and exercising in the forest. Eric disliked her fashion sense and hair, but since that was how he felt about most of the town he didn't really treat her any better or worse than he did anyone else. He'd asked her advice on female fashions before and gotten mixed results. Both of them were curious as to why she had arrived later than they had, but neither would ask her.

Eric and Marcus waited, sure that Frankie would explain regardless of what they did or didn't say. Eric checked his watch, noting that his shift at the hair salon would start in half an hour and thinking absently that he oughtn't've gone to this meeting if it was going to make him late for work.

Eric glanced over at Lenore, not surprised that she had smelled his perfume. It seemed like he had needed a lot more than usual to get the tiniest scent, and even then half a bottle had left an incredibly weak scent that Eric could barely detect even knowing it was there.

((Probably best to mention this: According to Wire, Eric's "Ultimate Stealth" includes the permanent loss of all scent and the innate and permanent (cannot be toggled) ability to make no sound while moving, regardless of your action. Plus perfect visual camouflage.))

"One Hatchling Bestows extremely enhanced senses that include sense of smell rivaling a great white sharks when under water, and rivaling a turkey vultures when on land, Eye sight that in the dark is so good you could see in perfect detail and in color as if it were high noon. Hearing is magnified to an insane degree, and in addition, three incredible senses that humans normally don't have. Yould notice that with your eyes closed while awake you can still see something. that's two of the senses at work. Your eye lids have heat sensing pitts in them now, making you able to see heat like a rattle snake can. The other sense is one that sharks and rays have, the ability to sense electricity down to a billionth of a volt. When your eyes are closed you can still see infrared and the pulses of electricity givin off by all organic animals around you. The third power is in your feet, and it allows you to sense vibrations in the ground from miles away. Your mother has all of those."

Then Frankie sighed, "There is a Hatchling that grants unearthly strength and stamina, which in a human body equates to literally unlimitted physical strength and stamina, making the human invulnerable to harm while making them impossibly strong." And she glared right at walter as she said this. He felt her stare and realized what it meant. He had that power.

"There is one that grants fire control, as in total fire control. In the body of a human that's the power to take a single ember and make a state wide inferno a thousand feet high. With a couple decades of practice a much larger area could be created. Benny Had that power. And so does his daughter."

Then she looked at Marcus. "One hatchling grants enhanced reflexes and unearthly speed. What this amounts to in a human body is the ability to start moving and instantly go 1000 miles per hour without needing to accelerate and reflexes 10 times faster than those of a normal human. However, such speed is not sustainable for more than a minute or two without the stamina required. And any collision with something stronger than you will absolutely kill you."

Then she looked at eric. "One hatchling grants the power to instant to instant blend with ones surroundings and so become invisible in that way, all the while the body's movements because supernaturally silenced and your scent becomes permanetnly masked. Not even the most potent of perfumes or most noxious of gunk will give your body a scent again. And if you sit still, you will become literally part of your environment."

"And lastly one hatchling will grant the ability to fly without wings and without using energy. While in flight, One can travel through space without dying."