4 Really a space station!

Multiple events occurred simultaneously, when Thaliak mentally chose a space station as her robots alternate form.

Perhaps the most obvious was the visual growth of her chosen body from the original 25 feet in height, to an astronomical 250 feet tall. Alongside this sudden growth was the additional details added to represent her alternate form, unmistakable windows appeared scattered in random locations around her body, each spike gained a gun as large as a standard 20 feet tall robot, the original hand cannon grew proportionally with an increasing number of wires growing from the weapon and finally the cassette player door grew to be 20 feet wide and 8 feet tall, big enough to hold a standard sized robot as a construct.

"Of all the options! You actually chose the joke form, hahahahaha." Ria trails of in a fit of disbelieving laughter.

"Hey it's the closest choice to a boom box i had to take it, I am aiming to replicate my favorite characters! Soundwave was at least a space station in that one movie so this counts, I think anyway..." Thaliak heatedly responds to the still laughing artificial intelligence.

"B-B-but hahahaha, you just picked the super useless option. Your class, characteristics, profession, training and backstory have all been decided as the price to pay for choosing this bonus form." Ria replies as she finally calms down enough to respond comprehensibly.

"Okay so what have i accidentally gotten myself into, it's not the end of the world if I can't make all these decisions." Thaliak calmly replies while holding the bridge of her nose.

"Just look at the character creation menu, it should list all the locked in choices for you" Ria responds in a manner suggesting curiosity towards the pre chosen options, as if she herself is unaware of the entire class.

Hearing this response Thaliak turns her attention back to the customization menu floating at her side, all options are now grayed out but show the selected options.

Class: Planetary defense station; as one of the largest dión constructed your adopted role was to become a staging ground off planet for defense of any dión occupied worlds. Special ability: Station Operators; you may construct personally loyal forces to operate and defend yourself.

Characteristics: As one of a handful of space stations constructed you are prideful of your position within the hierarchy of your people. Conscious of the role you play you are also very stubborn and refuse to admit defeat pulling close victories out of the most dire circumstances. Aware of the attention your positions holds you are discreet in your dealings with common citizens as they rarely treat you normally.

Profession: Planetary defense, one of the highest positions in the military you are on par with a grand admiral of a navy fleet. Able to requisition forces to aid with defense when required and pursue your own initiative as long as it does not put your assigned defensive position in jeopardy.

Training: Constructed for this very purpose you have been trained in a wide variety of military doctrines from leadership to space tactics all major military fields have been uploaded to your memory banks.

Backstory: The last space station to be created you are new to your role within the dión defense force, thrust into uncertain times the lack of experience you hold will prove challenging. Stationed over the mega-city Lotis on the southern hemisphere of the planet dión, space station Orion is your designation.

"Well Josie did say this game would allow me to become a leader like in command and conquer, so my game-play will be focused on acting as a command center for the players? That's unique" Thaliak muses out loud as her eyes leave the final sentence in the menu.

"UNIQUE! You hit the literal jackpot of character design and all you can say is thats unique! Of all 11.63 million people that have already finished this tutorial you are one of 900 people to pick a hidden option, you are most certainly more than just unique!" Ria heatedly counters Thaliak's musings. "You will be starting the game at the same level as all other players but with a significant advantage, this will be countered by your classes experience gain being 1/100th of a standard player. However all constructs that you command will earn you experience while leveling up themselves. Still you are definitely going to be playing a unique way among all the other players worldwide."

"O-o-oh um, I think i understand. That's great though, i'd rather play with this character than go off and participate in the usual grind of killing hundreds of mobs." Thaliak meekly replies. "So how do i start the game then Ria?"

"All you had to do was ask, before you go I would like to show you the form I will be joining you with in game, there's no way I will miss out on the opportunity to accompany you." Ria enthusiastically blurts out as she gestures towards a new avatar that has appeared next to Thaliak's robot form.

This new avatar is roughly 20 feet tall, starting with a white human face wearing a bright pink helmet reminiscent of the 20th century biker helmets. Going lower down the main body is a bright pink feminine form with white accents, the body has multiple parts seemingly ripped from a sports car. A windscreen on the chest, wheels on the shoulders and waist, car doors on the elbows and a spoiler emerging from the upper back.

"Do you like my body? My alternate form is a sports car if you couldn't guess" Ria shyly asks as the her avatar changes into a sports car.

" That's so cool! I love it, can i see my alternate form as well please?" Thaliak excitedly breathes out a response in the hopes that her alternate form will be just as cool.

As she finishes her question her avatar changes in front of her, growing in size to the equivalent of a small moon the avatar shifts into a form vaguely resembling a crown, with a massive spire in the center connected by 16 massive bridges to the circle around it.

The central spire is similar in shape to mountain with many flat platforms going up the height with multiple large gun emplacements on each platform, On top of the central tower is a massive cannon taken straight from the arm of the robot form of the avatar with multiple wires running down into the spire.

Each of the 16 bridges running from the spire to the crown surrounding it holds a massive grav-train to transport quickly between the spire and the crown.

The crown itself is a series of towers holding massive gun emplacements with hanger bays on the lower portions of the crown, currently closed by thick blast doors. The underneath of the crown holds a large propulsion engine underneath each tower, encircling one engine the size of all others combined on the underneath of the central spire.

"Amazing, Im in love with this space station. Why haven't more people chose this as their alternate form?" Thaliak asks in confusion while staring at the massive form of her avatar's alternate form.

"Because you have to have the cassette player on your robot form to unlock this choice, the developers love transformers as well and were hoping someone would attempt to be Soundwave. Honestly i'm more surprised you chose the option when it appeared." Ria replies distracted by the obscenely large form of the space station beside her ant sized avatar.

"Well of course you should pick the big fun thing! Why would you even play games if you don't want to be a fun thing?" Thaliak mentions as she begins to think of a name to choose for herself. " In memory of my favorite character I will be space station SoundBite, put me in the game now please Ria!"

"Sure see you in the world of Diòn SoundBite!" Ria shouts as Thaliak's vision fades to black.

The world of Dión awaits her.

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