PRELUDE /// SECOND: All Guts, No Glory

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"Please! Have some mercy-" The desperate call of a worker drone was silenced as a claw pierced its throat, mangling his voicebox

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"Please! Have some mercy-" The desperate call of a worker drone was silenced as a claw pierced its throat, mangling his voicebox. "You guys are so fussy!" V laughed as she feasted on the dying drone, draining it of oil. "Stop playing with your food and get to work, V," J called from the corpse spire. "We have work to do."


"It's not like you're my boss or anything, J. Loosen up!" V replied, rendering the worker drone apart with her claws. Growling, J went to get N. "Come on, Mr liability, we haven't got all day." Getting up, the male disassembly drone followed his squadmates as the two drones flew into the woods to their sanctuary. "Are you braindead? Get over here-" J stopped as N pointed at the sky. A meteor could be seen. "Great. It's a meteor. So what? We see them every day, moron." J rudely dragged N by the arm when they heard an abrupt *CRASH*.


"Okay, we should probably go check that out. " V said as the two drones nodded in agreement.

Arriving at the crater, N saw a computer terminal. It was yellow. Somehow, it was still intact. "Just what we need. A broken down computer terminal. And I thought the company might've brought something actually good for once instead of these insufferable-" J was interrupted by V. "We can hear you, J. It's not like you're the one with the most efficient kills here. " As the two girls were on the brink of fighting, N called out. "Hey! It just turned on!"


 Withdrawing their weapons, J and V came close to the terminal. "Hmm. we should take this thing to the landing pod. Let's see what this thing has to offer." J spoke. "Okay!" N replied and tried lifting the terminal. It was surprisingly heavy. Trying to find a way to move this thing, N came across lines of text on the terminal.



[MACHINE, TURN BACK NOW. ]

[THE LAYERS OF THIS PALACE ARE NOT FOR YOUR KIND. ]

[TURN BACK, OR YOU WILL BE FACING THE WILL OF GOD.]


"Hey, look. This thing's trying to scare us." J smirked as Gabriel spoke furiously within the terminal. "Well look, you piss-colored refrigerator-" V started. "V, stop. We don't want this thing to be damaged. Yet. " N stopped V from bashing in the screen.


[YOUR CHOICE IS MADE.]

[AS THE RIGHTEOUS HAND OF THE FATHER, I SHALL REND. YOU. APART.]

[AND YOU WILL BECOME INANIMATE ONCE MORE.]


"Let's just get this over with," J said as she went to the terminal. "V, you grab the left side. I'll take care of the right. Moron-bot 2000 here will support us from the bottom." Ordering the drones around, J managed to lift the terminal with the help of N and V. The three drones then spread their wings out, ready to fly to their base, the drop pod. None of them realized that there was another machine, intently watching their backs.

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