BLOOD AND OIL

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It was pitch black. The brothers could not see anything, they were beginning to wonder if they had died.

SYSTEM CRASHED
REBOOT SEQUENCE REQUIRED

Though that was disproven as a familiar message popped up on both of their displays.

BOOT UP SEQUENCE READY

FIRMWARE
  LATEST VERSION (2112.00.06)

CALIBRATION
  CRASHED
  NEW CALIBRATION REQUIRED

BEGINNING CALIBRATION

AUDIO...     OK

After calibrating their audio, both of them could hear a loud rush of wind.

VIDEO...      OK

V1 set his graphics to PSX trying to use little fuel as possible, as he was unaware if he took damage or not.
V2 on the other hand just set his graphics to PC.

The brothers still wondered where they were as the wind kept constantly rushing around them.

CALIBRATION COMPLETE
PRIMARY SETTINGS RESTORED

ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL

BOOTING UP SYSTEM

After rebooting the brothers could finally see as to where they ended up in. As the brothers optics turned yellow, what they had not expected was their first sight being fucking clouds.

V2: WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE?!?

V1 who was beside V2 looked at him wondering the same until they looked down.

They were in the sky and they were falling, and they were falling fast.

The brothers from the looks of it appeared to be in a post-apocalyptic land as it appeared to have frozen over time. Beneath them was some sort of junkyard and abandoned buildings around every corner. As well as a familiar sight. That being the pit they were in a few moments ago. It appeared to have fallen apart from the impact.

V1: [WELL THIS IS AN INTERESTING SIGHT TO SAY THE LEAST]

Though V2 didn't appear to respond with his classic sarcastic insults meaning the sequence had reset their contact.

The brothers regained their composure, preparing to land on their feet.

[THUD]

A very loud thud was heard that echoed through the nights. Despite the constant blow of wind the loudest thing as of that moment was silence. V2 was the first to speak.

V2: Alright what in the ACTUAL FUCK was that.

MACHINE V1 WANTS TO INNITIATE CONTACT
ACCEPT OR DECLINE

ACCEPT<
DECLINE

V1 first looked around his sorroundings then at V2.

V1: [FROM THE LOOKS OF WHEREVER WE LANDED, IT DOESN'T APPEAR TO BE HELL]
V2: Yeah no shit i can tell.

V1 noticed that unfortunately he was on 1 HP, whatever that was back in the pit had the same effect as those black holes in hell.
V2 noticed this too wondering if V1 was in the same situation. This sparked a idea into V2's digital mind.

V1: [IF YOU FUCKING TRY TO ESCAPE OR KILL ME I WILL FORCE YOU TO USE THE SLAB MARKSMAN FROM NOW ON]

A idea was removed from V2's digital mind.

V2: Yeah yeah i get it grandpa, i'm more concerned about where the fuck we are though.
V1: [FIRST STOP CALLING ME GRANDPA, SECOND I HAVE NO IDEA]
V2: Alright if the pit is here maybe the terminal is as well
V1: [I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING]

Inside the rubble a tune that both the machines recognized started playing, the brothers immideatly started digging under the rubble to find it.
They find the terminal mostly functional with a few scratches on its sides.

V2: Damn this thing could survive the big bang.

Is what V2 thought at first before noticing a crack on the screen. The terminals menu was jumbled up to the point where it was unreadable. Taking a closer look they noticed through the crack it was also damaged from the inside.

V2: Well never fucking mind.
V1: [WELL SHIT]

V1 started looking around his sorroundings once again, noticing the snow, sky and especially the clouds and the bright planet with rings in the distance. It was something they had never seen before, though V1 and V2 were more worried about their current lack of fuel. It appeared that there was nothing alive in the area, was this place purely dead?

...

Suddenly a scream was heard from the distance, the brothers took notice in this and decided to investigate the noise, maybe hoping to even refuel. As they rushed towards the scream of terror a female voice was heard maniacally laughing. The brothers hid behind some junk peeking out to see the commotion.

??: And yet, i still feel nothing!

Though the brothers couldn't completely make out what it was, it appeared to be another machine of some sorts. It had razor sharp claws and some yellow lights could be seen emiting from its head.

There was another Machine of the same sort behind it but what it said to the first one was too difficult to understand because of the storm. A moment later the first machine flew away. They noticed it had wings but unlike theirs it could actually use it to fly. The other machine said something and went away as well afterwards.

V2: Aaaaaand we missed our chance.
V1: [NOT REALLY A GOOD IDEA]
V2: And why is that?
V1: [TOO RISKY, I'M GONNA GO CHECK OUT WHAT WAS ALL THAT SCREAMING ABOUT]

The brothers jumped over the rubble and went over to inspect the weird machines. They were smaller in size, their head was bigger and their plates were white. They both stood there wondering what kind of purpose did these machines have but mostly was that them making those noises. There was also a warning smybol displayed on its their visors.

As V1 touched the weird machine to inspect it, suddenly it saw its health bar go up by + 1 HP

V1 noticed the black liquid all over the machines recognizing it as oil. V1 stepped back a bit, puzzled as he never knew he could also use oil as a fuel source. The entire time it was in hell it had only ever used blood to refuel. Never had he expected that he could use other sources of fuel as well to survive.

V1: [HEY CHECK THIS OUT]
V2: What.

V2 looked back at V1 who was holding the head of one of the machines, before pouring the substance over his body. A few seconds later the oil was absorbed by his plates and gone in a matter of seconds.

V2: How the fuck?
V1: [APPARENTLY OIL ALSO WORKS AS A SOURCE OF FUEL]

V2, puzzled, just like his brother was took off a part of one of the machines, but unlike his brother who could immideatly heal through his armor, V2 had to manually refuel. As V2 tried to reach for the port on his back, where the charging stations usually would refuel him he noticably had trouble.

V1: [NEED HELP?]
V2: Fuck off.

...

V2: im gonna fucking kill myself.
V1: [JUST GIVE ME THAT AND STAND STILL FOR A MOMENT]
V2: I miss my arms.

After some time V1 fueled back to 50 HP, while V2 was only a quarter of the health he used to have.
Though they weren't back at full health it was still better than what they had a few minutes ago.
V1 and V2 were still curios as to what those weird machines were. It was nothing like they had ever seen up until now.

V1: [IM GONNA HEAD BACK TO THE TERMINAL]

V2 crushed one of the machines head in his right hand before responding.

V2: Alright.

As they were walking back to the terminal they noticed that it was suddenly... not there anymore.

V1: [WHAT THE FUCK]
V2: What the FUCK?!

END OF CHAPTER

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