Taken by surprise how a 2ft abomination could drag a 4 and a half foot dearf through a 6 inch wide opening, while he is wearing 150lbs of armored doom, weird joykill stares in amazement at the hastily painted blue box the kobold was pointing frantically at.
It was in the middle of what was clearly a standard issue cage trap. The blue paint being a mixture of rocknut oil and ground up dimple dye; a mixture clearly devised by somebody not aquainted with the subtleties between paints and dyes.
At least he used an oil base.
At the surface was a clear photonic disruption, forcing the light deeper into the blue spectrum, and slightly distorting the image.
"WHAT IS THAT THING!?" The annoying little shit demanded.
"Looks like Hugo's work." Joykill muttered. "I heard he was working on something like this.. what the f*^k is it doing in here though..."
Creaking open the door and peering inside, the change in aparent direction of gravity (the box was laying on its 'back', the door facing up.) Caused joykill's head to swoon.
Standing inside shouting nonsense was a 3.5 ft tall clockwork droid, clearly an advanced form of the same android gizogen has in his workshop, as several clear design problems had been corrected, and the movements were smooth and fluid instead of harsh and jerky.
A ghostly image of a white cat lounged lazily on the console, while uttering a stream of equally nonsensical banter.
"...temporal flux reading at 9. Initiating timeline reintegration. Reintegration failure. Temporal fracture index exceeds safe tolerances..."
Seeing the translucet cat playing with translucent yarn while uttering such things was disturbing enough. That the clockwork droid's utterings were more crazed, like hugo on one of his "bad days" was even more bothersome. Especially so, since the synthesized voice was hugo's.
Just then, an idea came to wierd's head. It was the kittens. The kittens had orchestrated this whole thing. That's why the interface hologram was a damned cat.
Standing up, and closing the door, he turned to the kobold.
"Hugo's in there. Sort of. I suggest not actually going inside. I don't think it's completely 'here'."
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!? JUST FIX IT!" The squeaky shrill pestilence shrieked. "FIX IT, FIX IT, FIX IT!"
With a groan, joykill punched the side of the vent duct, making a large hole with the pneumatically driven piledriver built into the suit, then chucked the little bastard out through it before jumping out himself.
"WHAT DID YOU GO THAT FOR!?" Demanded the the frothing imp.
"For pulling me by my face through a knothole." Joykill replied. "And this is for earlier today."
With a wide sweeping motion, the kobold was launched at the far wall of what appeared to be the corridor outside the dining hall, skidding across the engraved flooring before hitting the wall.
"Now we deal with Hug's 'condition'." He said, before scooping up the angry kobold by the collar of his business suit.
A large copper dagger suddenly appeared from a concealed jacket pocket, but the suit was built to withstand for worse forms of laceration, and merely clacked impotently against the ceramic plating.
"This way pest. We have to sever the connection the cats have on hugo's mind."
With a kick on the massively ornate stone door, sending them off their hinges, the pair stormed the dining hall, where all the feral kittens and adult cats were gathering and dispersing, each seeking vermin and susceptible minds to attach to within the fortress when not pathing back here to congregate.
"This has to be done carefully." He said, then opened fire.
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