Metal Crab Rising

Arc 2 - Project Motherwill - Phase 0.5

"Master, what will you do now?" Florence asked as the two of you entered the control center.

"We haven't checked our resources, have we?" you replied, making you wonder if the resources of the base were enough to begin turning it into a massive, Six-Legged Turtle Base.

It's not a space station, though. Space stations are in space.

"No. We haven't," Florence replied, scratching her forehead. "Did you spend most of it on upgrading us and building Ophelia's new body, right?"

"..."

You immediately went silent, stopping yourself from even smacking your core with your pincers. Technically, all the Goddessium was made from you for them.

Your silence alone was what made her sigh disappointedly, and considering what else you could do around here, you decided to check your resources in the storage room.

To your surprise (and disappointment), however, the storage room doesn't even look halfway full.

Various rapture parts, a few deactivated cores, materials, and alloys in boxes, along with various other items that have their own uses.

However, once you counted the rapture cores and parts needed to create the core of Motherwill, you were further disappointed.

You figured you'd need a core that is as big as your current form to properly and autonomously run the entire facility.

With how raptures evolve and adapt over time, you could try fusing all the current rapture cores in the storage room into a gigantic core nearly your size and connect them to the control panel and the generator to begin the process in which that core begins evolving.

At this point, you realized that scavenging alone wouldn't do much to collect materials.

Plus, there are various risks involved with having humans attack at full force with some special Nikke squads.

And you were disappointed because you had to let your raptures search for more cores in order to create more raptures for future use.

"Hmmm, good ideas indeed." You spoke your thoughts aloud, which relieved you.

"Hm? Did you have a brief enlightenment?" she asked, and you nodded.

"Yeah. Let’s turn the control room into the heart and brain of a rapture."

While it may seem quite ridiculous, you wanted to get your big mecha fantasies realized.

After all, we like giant robots, right?

"We have enough materials to make the heart and brain of Project Motherwill. But all the cores for the creation of new raptures will be used... and maybe some more materials."

You said before moving forward with the project.

Eventually, with Florence's help, you were able to make a chamber to keep the massive core, held up by harnesses just like Material H, which would connect it to the control room and the generators.

But before you did this, you alerted every one of your subordinates in the power plant that a power outage would temporarily occur while you did some work.