With nothing but his undersuit on, he walked over to the tube. The navi's tail swished slowly as he placed a hand on the glass, admiring his companion for a moment. He waited for the tube to open so that he could access it. He glanced towards Magistrate and Drago once, then gave em a thumbs up. Everything was going to be alright. He probably didn't need to fuse with his SP to make the link happen, but it felt more symbolic and meaningful this way. Commuting with what he could be his companion for life. Kinda sorta some imprinting animals do.
The little wyvern sat upright and blankly stared at Nightshade. Like Magistrate had said, right now she did not have any semblance of emotion. Well, it was up to little Nighty to share some of his own with her. As he got closer, the navi could feel a similar yet slightly different energy radiating from the SP.
"Hey there..." He greeted. "You look kinda blank right now eh? Don't worry..."
He turned around and gently waved at Drago and Magistrate to turn around and give him some privacy. When he was sure they did so, he lifed a hand up to the bridge of his nose and pricked the elastic mask always covering his mouth. He pulled it down and left it hanging around his neck.
"I'll let you have mine." He reassured the Sp with a smile, reaching out to pet the wyvern's snout. She was...extremely silky to the touch.
Just like when Aya equipped herself to him, the wyvern phased away into a stream of bright data, wrapping around Nightshade. The little navi could feel his body squeezed a little as he felt his SP's code embedd itself within him. In seconds he could feel it make its way inside him and reach his core. Aya's code seemed satisfied by wrapping tightly around Nighty's heart, Yumi seemed to want a bit more out of the little cat navi.
With Yumi's presence within his core, their link was finalized. Nightshade stepped out of the tube after he no longer felt changes happening to his form. "I think...I think it went well." He stated, pretty much allowing Drago and Magistrate to turn back around.
The older navi and egghead SP could finally take a glance at the result of the link event. Nightshade was standing there wearing a new, unseen armor and radiating a slightly darker feeling energy. Aside from helmet and tail, which hadn't changed much at all, one could find his bodysuit had been shortened to a half suit as various elaborated gear pieces covered his body.
A beige scarf covered his mouth instead of his usual undersuit, his shoulders and arms were exposed, if it werent for two metallic shoulder plates hooked around his arms with leather straps and two long sleeves made of Yumi's dark blue scales covering black gloves underneath. On his chest, over his undersuit, the same blue scales formed a chest and belly plate, the rest of the navi's torso covered in what looked like some sort of fish net material.
Another bit of armor, this time dyed the smae blue as the scales, hanged on the navi's sides, secured with a beige belt mimicking in style the one used by martial artists. From there, Yumi's scales formed two baggy pants trailing into tight ninja boots around Nightshade's feet. Red strips of cloth were scattered around everywhere, predominantly on Nighty's baggy pants, where a cutout showed the undersuit beneath.
"This feels...great...but also...really weird." Nighty commented. He seemed much calmer than usual. Considering how he used to jump around squaling all excited at the top of his lungs every time he wore a new outfit, it was quite the visible change seeing him all composed and quiet.
"I feel...powerful." He declared.
