Piece by bloody piece (Patreon)

A painted and long overdue image for Maxxy of his drake Indigo & my Ezrael busting a sweat and building our mutual pal Venrix (onikisu)'s drake's suit.

I plan to upload a little "comic" alt of this image depicting the sentient algae in that vile making commentary on the building process.

This image is of course, fully canon and true to the story, which is what made it enjoyable, if difficult, to do. BUT ONI NEVER MAKES IT EASY DOES HE

HUFF

STORY BELOW:

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Ezrael and Indigo had been toiling for hours and the beast was nearly assembled.

"I hope he likes it," Indigo breathed with a huff, tightening bolts on what would become the main housing unit for the sentient ooze that called itself The Green.

"He'd better," Ezrael responded flatly. Her levels of annoyance had only grown from the beginning of this obstacle until now, and they still had the legs yet to go. "Else I'll have to space 'em," she added, rubbing a greasy hand on her forehead and grabbing a new s of heat shrink crimps and crimping some wires together. 

"Yes well, it was his design I suppose, so he should be happy, content at the very last I'd say." Indigo seemed proud, and she had every right to be. Herself and Ezrael had spent the better part of a month coming up with reasons and excuses as to why their largest crew member couldn't enter the engineering bay. Om noxious gases to "blown circuits" they'd used everything in the book keep him away while they worked on the surprise suit of armor.

Ezrael finished the on set of wires and continued onto the next, testing them for voltage as she went. When everything checked out and all they had left were the legs, they took a quick break. Their guest of honor however, was as vocal as ever.

"WILL YOU TWO BLISTERING IDIOTS HURRY UP AND FINI OUR GRAND AND ALMIGHTY CHARIOT OF DESTRUCTION AND MAYHEM?!!WE DO NOT ENJOY BEING CONTAINED IN SUCH A CRDE AND NSULTING FASHION AS IF WE ARE A LAB RAT!" 

"Not again.." Indigo sighed and muttered, "I reaaaally wouldn't start with the cap again-"

She was promptly interrupted by the echo-chamber sounding voice of The Green, "WE ARE ALL POWERFUL, THE GREEN SHALL DO AS WE PLEA-"

"Airlock." said Ezrael, cutting off the vial of goop. "One more work and you'll find out what I did to the last scum to try to speak that way to me. I'll give you a hint. I ate her. And I am pretty hungry." The green vial audibly choked and said: WE APOLOGIZE. WE ARE GRATEFUL."

"I need a break, let's get some food" Ezrael said, wiping the grease from her palms onto her undone jumpsuit. 

"Hell yeah!" shouted Indigo, trailing after.

"WHAT ABOUT US" shouted the green goop, still held in the mechanical vice-grip of the boom arm above their workstation.

"Wanna be a salad?" called Ezrael as they left the room, chuckling and shutting the lights off. The bay doors closed and The Green sighed. "And we left our homeworld for this…"