Janus.

Chapter 6.1: Copy Of A Guardian Demon

Hyda grabbed Dave's leg. "It's been two days now and you haven't gotten up, so I'm dragging you with me. Literally." She said as she began dragging him out the room. "Uh, ma'am? What are you doing?" The innkeeper asked, I mean, of course he would. She was dragging an unconscious man down the lobby of a well established inn with a retro look. "Oh, he just had too many to drink." She said.

"May I ask your name?"

"Avice"

Squeedo came rushing out into the lobby and ran out.

"What was that gray thing?!"

"You've had too many drinks, man." Hyda left. She dragged him all the way to the parking lot, tried to stash him in the trunk, remembered that the gas tank is too big and that he's a human being, and laid him on the passenger seat, putting the record player robot on his lap. Squeedo was sitting inside, waiting. "Come on already!" He said. "Yeah, yeah" She sighed.

They finally decided to go on their merry way. Hyda played the blue record. This time, it had a vocaloid song playing. It was fine, until it was great. Quite an energetic song, if I'm not gonna lie. "Hey, plug in Nora into the car." Squeedo said. "Sure I guess." Said Hyda. She started checking her pockets and when her hands reached the prism, it fell into the great abyss beside the chair. "Never mind." She heard an energetic voice singing from under the seat. It was a Pink Nora.

"What the hell?"

"OhIdid'ntknowyoulistentovocaloid!Hi!I'maNora!" Hyda could barely make out what she said. "What?"

"Say,doyouplayanyrpgs?"

"Are you sane?"

"Maybe...Idon'tknow...Howdoyouknow?"

"I don't know either. But you sound like you just took way too much meth or something."

"Ohnothisiscompletelyfinebehaviourformeyouseeit'sallpartofmycode."

"Right." She picked her up while driving, like a maniac. The Pink Nora had glasses, but apart from that she looked the same as the others. "What are you supposed to be? The nerd?" Hyda asked her. "Ithinksoyeah!" She said. "I'm gonna connect you to the car now." Hyda said.

"YouseetheproblemwiththatisthatI'manA.Ifromteyear3000soyouneedanadapterforusb2.0ohwaitnevermindit'ssolderedinsidetheprism." What the hell did she even say? Three thousand adapters and soldering?

Hyda plugged her in the car. Nora's face appeared from a screen that slid out from under the dashboard. "Ooh, this is retro! In fact, It's so retro that it'll take an entire day to learn its workings. There's so much! The self defense system and the-" She just kept going on and on and on... Is this what I sound like?

Another screen slid out from under the first screen, it was turned off. It moved closer to Hyda. "I know what you are, stay away from him." It said in Nora's voice. The screen went back inside the other screen as soon as it came out. What was that about? Not taking in account what it said, she just kept driving, eventually reaching the port. The streets weren't really that different from modern ones, it was the city of mages, after all. When they reached the port, they quickly found out that it wasn't well maintained, but it was still covert. What's wrong with a bit of black water on the shores anyway? It wasn't like the entire sea was black, right? Oh wait, that's exactly what it was.

"What's wrong with the water?" Squeedo asked Hyda. "Rectangle God deemed marine life to be a hassle for his experiments, so he made the mages do a mass extinction, the result is highly polluted water and and commercially sold bottles and swimming glasses to have filters in them." She said. "If you ask me, he just wanted to test his power, after all, that microwave is no god. ðe madmann (The madman)." She said.