Chapter 15 Forgotten Chambers

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Rosie bites into the juicy fruit, filling her filthy face red with a look of satisfaction exploding out of her, as she enjoys the sour taste exploding in her mouth. She then proceeds to ravishingly eat the rest of the fruit, bespattering the juices all over her already dirty face. Axel watches from the side with a look of slight disgust and empathy as he holds his hand out to her with a bottle of water.

Axel: "Here, you must be thirsty as well"

Rosie: "...Thank you, that food you gave me was... really good. I have never had anything like it before. Where did you get it?"

Axel: "It's a fruit, it grows on trees back home. There's a lot more if you want, I guess no trees grow in this rusted junkyard so of course, you wouldn't know of fruits. How long have you been here?"

Rosie: "For as long as I can remember, we were..."

Axel: "Come on, you can trust me. I want to help you, I want to save the others..."

Rosie: "We... we're a small group... 10 of us, captured by machines... Taken away from our protectors, two old droids... All who awoke from pods... separated and used as 'runners'. Other pods with those who hadn't woke yet were taken away elsewhere by shiny machines, different from the ones here. I haven't seen my friends since we were brought here, I just know they are used as runners too because I hear the screams from my cage"

Axel: "Pods?... You said those who awoke from their pods...?"

Rosie: "Yes, we were all inside pods... Carried by these old droids. They said they were our protectors... Taught us how to speak and fed us"

Axel: "Where are the droids now? What happened to them?"

Rosie: "The machines from this terrible place... They..."

Water begins to pour from Rosie's face, overflowing from her eyes as it streamed down her cheeks.

Rosie: "They were destroyed by the machines who took us, they tried their hardest to protect us"

Axel thinks to himself, she mentioned pods and old droids... Mom mentioned these things when she told me about where she found me as well, could they... Anyway, that's not important right now.

Axel: "Do you know where they kept you? Or the others?"

Rosie: "I... Know where my cage is... But I don't want to go back there... Please don't take me back there"

Axel: "Don't worry, I won't let them take you again... But to save the others, I need an idea of where they are"

Rosie: "Ok..."

Scrappy crawls inside of the vehicle and goes up close to Rosie, licking the tears from her face.

Axel: "She likes you, her name is Scrappy but you can call her Scrap"

Rosie: "Scrap..."

O'Ton-omi: "Another terrible name by the way. That name is literally a synonym for trash, and that is depressing"

Axel: "Alright O'To, that's enough from you. How much time left?"

O'Ton-omi: "Estimated time remaining is 45minutes and 36seconds"

Axel: "Alright, I think we can do it in that time!"

Axel hops out of the vehicle, as he shouts to Caesar and R3D.

Caesar: "Do what in that time?"

R3D: "Bree Ooop?"

Axel: "There are others, we can save them"


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