When Blood Meets Oil

COPPER 9 / / / NEW HOME

When N finally reached his coworkers, they looked at him as if he was a worker drone himself. Under them was a plethora of diffrent worker corpses, ready to be added to the skyscraper tall spire.

N: "Um... Hey guys? I've made a discovery..."

N said sheepishly, putting his finger together. One of his coworkers, J spoke up.

J: "And is it useful? If not, I swar to robo-god I am going to rip you piece by piece."

N: "O-oh! It's useful! Really useful actually! I got this sick Acid Sprayer out of it."

N showed off his new weapon, firing it up into the air, which then landed back down onto him. He screamed in pain for a but before the acid dissolved and he got back up, healing back up. J rose her eyebrow, now eyeing up the weapon.

J: "Interesting, very interesting... Tell you what, I congratulate you, N. You finally did something useful. But... why didn't you bring it here?"

N: "Well... It was kinda too heavy for me..."

J: "Should have guess so. Did you ay least remember where it is?"

N: "Of course I did! It's close to our 'home' actually. I'll lead you there!"

N flew off and J and his other coworker, V flew after him. V and J were sort of struggling to catch up due to N's enthusiasm to show them his find. When they finally reached the Terminal, J and V went to inspect it.

J: "Woah, you found an old ass computer. What a find..."

J said sarcastically as V went to inspect it. The screen lit up and the melody that had played before started again. The regular options lit up, but a new one had shown up

WEAPONS
ENEMIES
THE CYBER GRIND
SANDBOX

N, seeing the new option, was suprised and rushed to the screen, ignoring J's sarcastic remark. Once he approached the Terminal stuttered for a bit before the "sandbox" option dissapeared.

V: "Great job, N. You broke it!"

N: "Wha- Huh? I didn't break it! I swear to JcJenson I didn't!"

J: "Sure... Out of my way!"

J pushed N aside and went to the Terminal, and so the screen stuttered again and the sandbox option reappeared. N was again, confused, but didn't go back to the Terminal out of fear of what J would have done to him if he "broke" it again. While J and V were browsing the Terminal, N saw a golden light coming from the forest. It was getting closer and closer, but stopped at a distance, and then dissapeared behind a tree. N went to check it out, walking down the Long forgotten forest path, glancing back every so often out of paranoia.

N (Thinking): "It's probably just a worker drone... It's probably just a worker drone..."

N kept repeating to himself, but it didn't help. Soon enough, a the same golden light shined through the dense forest, then a smaller blue light. Before he could take another step, a shot rung out and a blue laser-like bullet came right for his head. He tired to scream, but the sound was cut short when the bullet pirced trough his visor, electronic parts and the back of his head. J and V immediately picked up the sound, and recognised it as N.

J: "Ugh. What did that idiot do again."

J got up, and V did too. J look at V weird, before speaking up.

J: "Hey, uh... V? You've been kinda quiet lately. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss the old psychopath you."

V: "I don't know... It's just that something feels off."

J raised her eyebrow at that, not expecting the answer.

V: "Never mind. Let's just see what N did."

J remembered N's cut off scream. She had forgot about it almost the moment it had been produced. N and V followed into the forest, going along the path since N would be too sacred to go off it. They soon reached N's still healing corpse. The hole inside his head stuck out like N along V and J. A normal bullet did certainly not cause it.

J: "Huh. Looks like the workers are finally fighting back."