SOMEWHERE IN HELL... Yeah, V1 just blew up some giant robot by giving it a lobotomy while it was casually fighting another giant robot with some lightning-gun thing—anything for some more blood.
V1 knew very well that there was no light at the end of the tunnel, only darkness. What would he do once V1 finished off the entirety of Treachery? Was there anything worth bleeding dry by that point? As he descended the dark tunnel, he realized he wasn't stopping. Shouldn't he have been in Fraud now? Did Hell just...end? He knew that there were 9 layers of Hell, he heard it from his creators in that dark warehouse. So why was he still falling?
"N, are you even trying? We're 19 drones below today's quota and we're gonna need some more corpses if we want this spire to stand." J wasn't having any of it. N was a liability ever since she saw him on the pod. She was about to use that virus injector on N if he made her team lose this quarter. She was going to put things into her own hands.
V was ready to wipe out a LOT of drones, but this year was extremely different. At the beginning of her life, it was great. Drones were running for their lives, confused, and disoriented by the sudden appearance of these "sky demons". They were easy pickings. But now, every big bunch of worker drones are hidden or blocked off from the outside world. There was one colony in particular that bugged her. It was incredibly close to the pod and would've made for quick and easy kills. However, it was blocked off by 3 metal doors. The nerve of those workers, thinking they can hide from us. V was deep in thought... CRASH!
V1 was in a complete daze. It felt like a year of falling but now he was in Fraud. COPPER 9 /// FIRST 0-1: DISASSEMBLY REQUIRED Okay, this wasn't Fraud. Good to know, but then where was he? Where was the terminal? He couldn't find his weapons. This wasn't good.
N got sent to find some more straggling drones. He felt bad. REALLY bad. He just wanted to do his job, but he was short by 19 drones. 19! His squad was already behind in terms of kills compared to other teams of disassembly drones, this was going to set them back a lot. He was about to come back empty handed when he found a strange, monitor-like object.
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He goes to inspect it, and it starts up. A song plays that...feels...
It takes a minute for N to realize he's standing there mindlessly. "What was that?" He looks at the monitor. TIP OF THE DAY The ATTRACTOR NAILGUN's magnets can be used to stun dr The screen is covered in cracks to the point where N can't read or do much else on the terminal. N would keep this strange terminal in mind, and maybe he could share the discovery of said terminal with his team. "...after I found my 19 drones."
V and J weren't trusting N. He wasn't finishing the job, that's for sure. As they explored the barren wastelands, they found a city. It was very empty. V and J decided to split up to cover more ground. V was sent to search a random factory. Seems like it was supposed to create worker drones, but it's since been discontinued due to the lack of humans. They saw a camera-like head. They couldn't see the front, but there was a yellow glow. "Hey," V said. "Who are you?"
Oh, great, finally there's enemies. V1 grabbed a lead pipe. He didn't have any of his arms equipped, meaning he had one arm only. V1 took a glance and saw that there was only one. They were nothing like the enemies he had fought. Seemed like they would be easy pickings. "You wanna fight?" One of them said. V1 knew damn well he wanted to.
CLANG! V tried going for a slash, but the robot blocked it with a pipe. No problem, he wasn't armed. She had a gun. How could she possibly get hi- "OOF!" V just got slammed into a wall. She switched to her machine gun but that robot was already gone. "Huh?" V was about to check when a pipe got slammed HARD onto her head.
J had already found 4 worker drones, hiding in a basement in some apartment complex. Seems like some disassembly drones had already been here, and right before her, too. She could tell due to the countless drone corpses with fresh oil. J saw by the oil spills on the ground that the disassembly drone was in a hurry. She exited the building and was going to search another until she heard footsteps. She readied up her laser and...
"OH! Uh...hi, J." N did not expect to find J, especially since J and V were supposed to stay at the pod and stabilize the spire. "Were you the one who killed those drones in that building?" J pointed at the building she just came from. "You're too sloppy. Why do you always leave so much oil?" That kinda hurt, but N didn't want to admit it. Then, he remembered. "Oh, J, I found something! It's like this terminal thing..."
V1 finally found the Terminal. Insanely cracked, yes, but the screen could simply be removed. TIP OF THE DAY The ATTRACTOR NAILGUN's magnets can be used to stun drones, but Disassembly Drones require all 3 magnets to be stunned. Magnets also attract any bullets Disassembly Drones may shoot. ALERT: YOUR DATA HAS BEEN LOST, REVERTING TO DEFAULT SAVE He sees that he has 0 points, meaning he'd have to get everything again. He goes to weapons to equip everything, but there's nothing except the default piercer revolver, his right Feedbacker arm, and a machine gun.
J couldn't find V. She was sure she sent V to the factory. She checked every nook and cranny in the factory but nothing came up. She checked the buildings around the factory, nothing. And N just mysteriously disappeared. That's TWO liabilities gone missing, but she can't just leave them both...well, maybe she can leave N, but N isn't completely useless. She was ready to give up on them completely. Then, as J was about to leave the factory, she heard the sound of metal sliding towards her.
