Flesh and Stone

Strange meets Stranger

Normally getting blasted off a cliff and crashing down into a bottomless pit because of a robot means death for just anybody. However to one particular relic bound goliath, it was a really fucking painful Monday. Jump back to the beginning real quick. This is Earth (one of many variations), a world racked with mystery for its human population to try and unravel.

The biggest ongoing mystery to this day are peculiar items called Relics. Items that had existed since the dawn of time and found in forms of stone or some sort of gold. Relics never weather by age and always appear pristine even if submerged by molten lava. They all produce energy which fuels the machines of modern day.

To one Doctor Vargas, a particular relic in question held a lot of mystery in itself than all the others. An orb he found 20 years ago, an orb surrounded by a bright constellation of swirling relics and an orb that came to him of its own well. This very orb was used to create a being who was the first of his kind. A golem made purely out of relics whose name was Knack.

How Knack ended up in this situation could also be simplified. What turned into a mission of discovering why particular enemies of mankind had suddenly gotten an arsenal of advanced weapons into a hunt of giant relics, an abnormality considered no relic had been discovered to be bigger than a bowling ball.

An ally of their team in possession of one of these relics and wanted them all to himself. This man that attacked them on multiple accounts with his security robots, kidnap his friend that was his creator's assistant too, try to capture him and with his latest action blasted him over the cliff by the door leading to these very relics.

And that's where he is now. At the bottom of this chasm within Trogdo Mine without any relics but the ones used to make him. That amount being very very little. His normal self was human shaped-ish and small, barely reaching two feet in height with most of that height from his chest orb and head nearly the same size.

His head was a beigish tan topless stone cone covered in ancient markings, 3 triangular small pieces of red stone relics for hair, smaller versions of these hair relics for fingers and very small rice shaped ones for two toes per foot. Half cylinder stone being his hands, gold rimmed topless cone ones for wrists and irregular smaller cone shaped stone for his arms and oddly two red stone pieces for spikes?

His legs were irregular cylinder shaped stone and were stubby if compared to his arms. He had a large gold gumdrop shape relic for a nose, two small triangular stone pieces for ears, gold triangular pieces for teeth, wider stone cylinder for a bottom jaw and two oval shaped onyx for eyes. And his body consisted of four dark gold triangular pieces for shoulders and thighs with his blue jewel centered gold orb being his body.

Now, Knack never had much of a problem being his small self. Sure, he wasn't strong, was incredibly short and couldn't talk. However, the last ability was much to be desired right now considering what he just found. Lying down unconscious on the dirt ground next to him from where he fell was a human.

A human girl who must be in her late teens, around his age to be exact. The girl had soft tan colored skin, lean around 5'4 in height but the biggest oddity to him was her hair. Hair is normally red, a shade of brown, yellow, black or a shade of gray if someone is older. Only time it was in abnormal colors is if it was dyed. This girl's hair definitely wasn't dyed.

It was a pure shade of lime green, short, curled up a bit by the ends like wisps and these tips highlighted by white. He couldn't deny that she looked pretty. On her was a long black shirt that was sliced at the backends and dyed silver to imitate coattails, skin tight blue latex jeans with a red dress skirt around it, whire running sneakers, a peculiar black watch-like bracelet on her wrist and a black choker with a jewel on it.