ROCK 2: Bones

''This article is about the Eidolon Playtest episode. For the Eidolon, see Bones.''   "'Don't you wanna feel my bones on your bones?' -Bones, by The Killers"

Bones is the second episode of Eidolon ROCK and the sixth episode of Eidolon Playtest Season 1. It covers the Alta Drive Jawbreakers in the aftermath of obtaining Eidolons and killing Jack Flash and fighting the Eidolon Bones.

Summary
Virginia Valentine, Harvey D. Godlove, and Chris Masters arrive back at the casino and give their boss Ruby Wednesday and her partner Cecilia Citadel the rundown of how their heist on the Crossfire Hurricane went. Cecilia is concerned that The Dead Pharaoh will find out about Jack Flash's death, theft of the superpower drugs, and come to kill them. Chris attempts to hack into Jack Flash's phone so they can send a text claiming he's fine. He partially succeeds, but his hardware shorts out and he needs to take it home to work on overnight. They make plans to meet again in the morning at 5am. Harvey gets a text reminding him about his regular dinner with Jack Stern, his father figure.

Chili follows Chris home as he remains the only human to understand her. On the way, they encounter an unnamed cat from Chili's alley days. Chili discovers she can understand and respond to the cat, which includes hearing her sensually moan when Chris pets her.

Harvey arrives at the restaurant for his dinner and sees Jack sitting at the table waiting for him. Jack reprimands Harvey for being late and presses him to not let his job with the Dead Pharaoh distract him from his pinball skills. However, they quickly become distracted and begin their weekly tradition, which is to have Harvey attempt to beat Jack's high score on the pinball machine at the back of the restaurant, for which Jack holds the world record. Harvey is initially nervous that his Eidolon may give him an unfair advantage, which proves to be correct as he easily bests Jack's high score. Jack leaves the restaurant, devastated.

Eidolon Battle
Chris returns to his apartment with Chili to begin hacking Jack's phone. Chili enters the apartment and begins fighting Chris's hacked roomba before Chris sets up the TV for her to watch as he begins to work. He manages to open Jack's phone at 2 A.M. and looks through his files, discovering emails between Jack and the Dead Pharaoh concerning the briefcase. The briefcase is of unknown origin and was found in a crate in a warehouse. Through some lab tests, The Dead Pharaoh determined that the vials just contained human blood plasma, even though the liquid glows bright orange. Chris also discovers that someone in Newark, New Jersey was planning to buy it for $10 million per syringe. The McCloud Plaza Jawbreakers had been assigned the job before Jack Flash was killed.

After exiting his room, Chris walks into the living room to discover Chili sleeping on the couch. Then he hears glass breaking and wakes up Chili and tells her someone may be trying to break in. The two hear a loud crash and when they investigate they find an autonomous skeletal hand that has knocked over Chris's monitors. Chris tries to attack with his Eidolon but the hand evades the attack and tries to run away. Chili attacks it with her Eidolon and shakes the hand, breaking it apart into its constituent bones which scatter across the room. Chris then uses Sephiroth, which Ironspy had previously vanished into, to drive around to vacuum several of the hand bones. The rest of the hand bones scatter away. Chris puts Sephiroth into a suitcase to prevent the bones from escaping the bones struggle to escape, but after a few hours, they become inert.

At the same, Virginia wakes up after hearing a loud banging at her door. She goes to her door and looks through the peephole, seeing nothing as the banging continues. Virginia's Eidolon takes the form of an infiltrator and vanishes into one of the windows. As she opens the door she finds a skeletal leg and arm, the latter holding a gun pointed at her. She tries to attack with her Eidolon by throwing a shard of glass which knocks the gun out of the hand, but then the leg launches the hand at Virginia. She ducks and reaches for the gun as the hand attacks her but she has her Eidolon throw another shard of glass at the arm, but it jumps up to kick her and knocks her out.

Virginia wakes up in a mysterious room that looks like a fancy parlor. In the center of the room sits a grand piano with the woman from Jack's bunker laying on top of it. She playfully insults Virginia and informs her she died in the fight with the hand and arm and offers to bring her back to life if she delivers the briefcase to Newark, New Jersey in 72 hours. Virginia agrees and wakes up on the floor of her apartment with the briefcase on her chest. She gets dressed for the meeting at the casino but notices a holographic digital clock on her chest ticking down the time for her to deliver the briefcase to New Jersey.

Harvey arrives back at his apartment after his dinner with Jack and after sending a few frantic texts to him he goes to bed. He wakes up a couple hours later, waiting for the meetup with Ruby and Cecilia. At the same time as the fights at Chris and Virginia's apartments, he hears the lock turn at his front door. He hears this and yells at whoever is outside before turning around, not noticing the several ear bones and a spinal cord that have managed to sneak their way in through the lock-picked door. The spinal cord makes its way to Harvey and attacks him but he hits it with his Eidolon, which ricochets and smashes an ear bone, upsetting the spine. Harvey continues to fire his Eidolon at the earbones but the spinal cord wraps around his ankle, making him fall over. The spine then slithers to the door to escape.

Ending Scene
A clerk at a gas station/convenience store is seen reading a strange college textbook with a long title as a tall man with a black duster and a crutch walks in. The clerk notices he has an odd movement to him, his arm sags by his side and clenches the crutch with his elbow, as his other hand and leg seem to sag in the same way as if they're made out of rubber. He limps to the back of the store and asks the clerk to help him get a jug of expired milk. The clerk offers to get him milk that isn't expired but he insists, saying "whole milk's good for your bones". The clerk continues to disagree awkwardly but the man steps closer and lunges at him, grabbing the jug and sinking his teeth into the side. His floppy limbs inflate as the clerk screams.

Appearances
● Cecilia Citadel (First Appearance)

● Chili the Fox // Little Lies

● Chris Masters // Ironspy

● Harvey D. Godlove // Here It Goes Again

● Lady Luck // Poker Face

● Jack Stern (First Appearance)

● Mason Norman // Bones (First Appearance)

● Ruby Wednesday

● Virginia Valentine // Only The Good Die Young

Trivia
● Virginia should not have actually died in this episode, she only did because Luke made a mistake in calculating damage.

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