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Machine Madness

     Today I felt like showing off just how smart Lilac is- even with the extra knowledge he was coded with. Yes, he was specifically designed to be able to make chainsaws and the sort. There's lore, okay? Bear with me.

     And to make us all feel like idiots, they're eleven years old at this time. It's ok, though. This is a Roblox game. We do not need logic.

     Per tradition: Ready. Steady. GO!

     It was like falling into a trance; once Foliage sprouted his vines, they wouldn't stop growing. He didn't want them to, either.

     Well, maybe he did if they were going to crash through a couple rooftops and destroy a house or two.

     It was the 11th year of "Server's rebirth" (as the old men called it) and he was out in the abandoned city, trying to learn how to control his vines while no one was around. He was almost able to completely control a small vine he'd made when someone tapped him on the shoulder.

     He jumped, and what used to be a tiny sprout turned into a monstrous giant, twisting around the houses and almost collapsing a few in the process- then a running chainsaw jumped out from behind him, weaving almost gracefully between the houses and cutting down his rogue plant. The seedling that was left was immediately crushed by a foot-

     Well, Lilac's foot. Or sneaker, technically. Of course it was him.

     He looked down, and saw a disappointed face that clearly relayed the message of "what the fucking hell are you doing?"

     In his opinion, that was a whole lot of swearing for someone that was 11 years old, but for now his opinion didn't matter because Lilac had a point.

     "I dunno," he replied, not knowing what to resort to. Practice? Nope- he'd definitely make him go to sleep and practice in the morning. I was bored? Even I know that's just lame.

     "Insomnia," he followed on. There, that's perfect.

     Lilac just stared at him for a second before saying something Foliage thought he'd never hear one of his best friends say in his entire lifetime.

     "Me too," Lilac replied. "I was going to go back and try to see if I could figure out what was wrong with this thing, but it looks like you need more help than I do."

     Foliage stared, unable to comprehend what he'd just heard.

     "The chainsaw looks perfectly fine to me," he responded slowly. "But when did you start getting so invested in potential murder weapons?"

     "Oh, about a year ago or so ago," Lilac shrugged off. "You never noticed- never mind. What's the matter with your vines?"

     It turned out Foliage was pretty easy to trick when he was little, because he immediately forgot about potential murder weapons and started hurriedly filling in Lilac on how his vines were being mean to him-

     Until he realized that Lilac had been messing around with power tools for around a year.

     "WHAT?" he yelled, stopping midsentence and almost making the chainsaw wielding child jump out of his shoes. "About a YEAR?"

     Lilac sighed. "...you want me to fill you in, don't-"

     "Well, yeah, obviously," Foliage said. "Did you build that thing? What else have you been doing? Can you make machines? Were you the one that made the old cloning machine magically fix itself-"

     "Yes, yes, yes, and yes," Lilac sputtered out. "I need to-"

     "The second question wasn't a yes or no question," Foliage interrupted. "Answer me properly."

     "Ok, just chainsaws so far, but I'm working on more complex machines now," Lilac replied. "Happy?"

     "I wanna see what you do," Foliage said. "No, not happy."

     Lilac rubbed his temples.

     "Ok, fine."

~

     It was a long way to Lilac's "secret hideout", but Foliage thought he was just fooling around. What was it with a safe that was stuffed in the middle of a tree "because there wasn't a proper hiding spot yet?" What about "some codes" and "a crevice he found in the wall of spawn that led to a cave?"

     The only thing Foliage saw was nonsense, and nonsense he decided it was. He was about to just give up on whatever the pitch black maze they were going through was (how did Lilac remember his way?) until they reached a portal that was glowing in an unsettling manner.

     Then, before he could say anything, Lilac stepped through and Foliage had no choice but to go with him.

     And the moment he stepped in the room, all of the "nonsense" bits of their short journey ended there. 

     He was in a faded yet dark purple room, with fancy pillars that raised the roof to an impressive height. There was a clutter of machines in a separate square room-space that protruded out of one of the many walls, and in the center of the room was a thick, elaborately designed pillar, and when Lilac pressed a button cabinets slotted out of the pole in a neat, spiral pattern.

     Overall, it was impressive.

     "Yes, I made this," Lilac said in a bored tone. "You won't believe how useful learning Python and Lua can get- especially since we do live on such a thin plate of reality."

     "Wow," Foliage muttered.

     Lilac ignored him, sweeping past the stunned figure and immediately reaching for a wire covered box, and after doing what Foliage considered to be "magic computer stuff" he had started working with a few pieces of metal and created a- a thing right before his eyes.

     "What does that do?" Foliage asked.

     "Well, it's paired with this," Lilac replied, reaching for a plate with a fancy looking star drawn on it. At a closer look, the machine was a rectangle the size of a crayon box with a button that had the exact same star on it.

     Lilac set the plate on one side of the room, and told Foliage to stand on the other side and press the button to see what would happen.

     The world seemed to slow down as he pressed the button down, and he was immediately shaken in a whirl and dropped on the other side of the room- right where the plate was.

     "I'd call that a teleporter, for obvious reasons. I'm gonna give that to Purple when it's our birthday since he's always out exploring and coming up with new- ah, what was it? Biomes, i think, to build onto here," Lilac said. "And, with this, I can make him feel like an idiot- which is more of the point anyways."

     Foliage couldn't believe that Lilac would invent an entire machine just to brag to Purple. 

     He probably would never be able to believe it.