Sand in the Gears [INV, ND]

It seemed their first contestant had arrive!

Suddenly from the sand in front of Mechan and his robotic behemoth sprung a beastly hollow resembling some sort of bipedal lizard creature. Mechan's jaw plate shifted in place, forming a mechanical grin as he prepared to begin taking notes. With his arms stiffly held behind his straightened back, his eye ports whirred and zoomed over the Hollow, working to take data on his size and potential power.

Calling out to the beast, he clacked together his heels and nodded in gesture, "Lovely, our first guest! Let us test your mettle against my metal."

The hollow stared for a moment, as if confused by the situation, before ravenously beginning to spring toward Mechan, working to run past the mechanized ape, only for it to rapidly reposition itself and slide back between Mechan and the beast. The Hollow skid to a halt as the behemoth block its path, looking over its form for a moment. With a roar, it leapt up to try and latch onto the beast in some sort of attack. With a whistling release of steam, G.O.R.I.L.L.A.'s arm swung in a full rotation, hooked at the elbow joint, and slamming the massive fist into the hollow before it could even cry out. As the fist slammed into the beast it was like a bug on a windshield, splattering into chunks of flesh and hollow juices.

Mechan stood silently as his eyes recorded more data, slightly disappointed himself. Anti-climactic if anything, but it did its job! Atleast, somewhat. Now Mechan watched as G.O.R.I.L.L.A.'s arm continued to windmill out of control, spinning endlessly until it was thrown off balance, its huge form slamming into the sand with a giant rumble, throwing up sand as the fist continued to heave around. Mechan stepped back as it wildly flung around, humming to himself as he already began working out the possible flaws in his design. After a few more moments of watching it flail around haphazardly, he drew up his arm, the forearm plate flipping open to reveal a set of controls and buttons, to which he tapped at for a few seconds until finally the mechanical beast shuttered and collapsed, a large cloud of steam billowing out of its joints.

"Fascinating."

Mechan stood in the wake of the flailing GORILLA mech, sand raining down around it as its arm continued to dig away and fling up buckets of sand into the air. Without warning, another visitor seemed to phase in out of nowhere. Mechan's eyes scanned over her as she stood, the sand obscuring his vision, but still the sand could not obscure the energy radiating from her. Hollow? She didn't seem like a monster or beast, but her aura... it was similar, but Mechan could not be entirely sure, there was something off about it. Regardless, she was truly powerful and now dangerously close to him and his malfunctioning mechanical minion.

Needs work.

Without a flick of a finger, the sand nearby flattened as if gravity itself had doubled, the air becoming clear and the woman fully visible now. Definitely not a hollow, atleast to the naked eye-ports. Scanning over her for a second longer, he spoke out finally to her in response.

"Yes, definitely needs some adjustments. But packs quite a punch." With a shift of his jaw plate, he grinned and brought up his forearm, pressing a single button on the control panel within. The beast that still flailed about now finally hissed with a grand release of steam before collapsing to a rest in the sand, leaving the dunes in silence once again.

Mechan stood as he watched the woman check here and there on the G.O.R.I.L.L.A. mech, stepping forward to see what the damage was and if anything had been glaringly obvious. He had a few ideas on how to fix the malfunction, but it would only take time and a few more te-

Inventor, that much could be obvious enough, standing next to his robotic creation, but she knew within moments that he was a Mod Soul crafted by Shinigami. Yet he could barely get a read on what species she could be. There was still a vast amount of things to learn from the different dimensions, and without Gotei and more specifically the 12th Squad's resources, it was up to him and his fellow companions to learn what they could with what limited resources they had. His best guess would have to be a "Vizard", some secret information he had stumbled upon in the Research and Development libraries that spoke of cross between Shinigami and Hollow. She LOOKED like a plus soul, but her aura... still something off.

"You seem to know an awful lot about me, yet I am having trouble analyzing much about you." He watched as she had heaved his great best to its feet even though it didn't seem like she would have been able to. This woman was interesting indeed. And luckily, she didn't seem hostile. So far.