Rainbow sky

The reunion

The sun shone brightly int the small bedroom as Mel sat quietly at her vanity mirror painting her nails. She had recently received the house from her friend Tony who had been her first and only friend ever since she had left apature. He had recently left to live with his daughter he was getting old and he felt no need for the house anymore so he had given it to Mel. She after all had been the one taking good care of the house for the past 5 and a half years that she had been living in it, but now it started to feel kinda lonely. She shook the feeling away and looked over at the digital radio that sat quietly humming away. For some reason it had been working a lot better lately, actually everything digital had seemed to be working better wich was odd because no matter where you had put it before it would still have tons of static, but now you could take it any were and there was no static. That didn't matter now though, things had needed to get done and they weren't going to do it themselves so Mel quickly finished up her nails and headed to start off the day.

Meanwhile at apature everything was quiet, nothing made to much noise expect for the generators and some other smaller robots and the occasional happy squeal of a Co-op testing bot. She sat quietly pondering just how to get her revenge on her test subject who had killed her helped, a moron who had taken charge of the facility nearly destroying it and had stuffed her in a potato, and later stole the moron who had destroyed everything she had tried so hard to create, well not that hard but it still hurt. She suddenly came across a file that she was denied permission for but that didn't stop her and she had quickly hacked into it. "Hmm what do you know backup camera footage and what is this..." she looked carefully at the name "AEGIS, looks like something else was trying to kill me and what is this another test subject named... Mel. Honestly who would name their kid Mel what an awful name anyway it looks like they had ties with. Oh of course I should have seen this coming, yet another metal ball I have to deal with. Hmm maybe I can catch this- no I need to be more original- no you know what who cares let's see if she's any better with stealing personality metal balls as that other subject of mine" a evil chuckle ecoed throughout the place making even the facility stand on edge.

Virgil was sliding across his railing when it had happened. He had been starting to wonder how long it had been since he had seen the human who had helped him excape from his trash heap when his thoughts were interrupted by a crash. A catwalk had fell and destroyed the railing a little ways ahead and he had brushed it off and decided to take a different route witch had been blocked off too he continued on. His railing had seemed to lead him to somewhere when he suddenly realized that he was in her layer. He quickly spun around to get out of there when that had been cut off as well. He was filled with a sudden fear when herd her chuckle "well hello". There was silence before she had spoke again "so your wondering why you are here arn't you well no worries it's not your fault your here. Wait no actually it is, do you know why your here". There was another long gap of silence. "Alright I'll tell you why your here do you remember that little human you helped excape" she waited for his answer and carried on when he didn't say anything. "You know it is quite rude to not answer someone when they are talking to you, but no matter let me just say I need you to talk to her maybe she will save you if you do a good job if not" a claw had came down and plucked Virgil off his rail as he gave a little frightened squeal "well you get the idea".

Mel was in the garage working on a large fairly broken truck when the radio started to go all weird wich if it had been a different case very dissapointing since it had been working so well lately. Mel had slid out from under the truck to go see the problem when suddenly it started working but this time a unfamiliar robotic voice was speaking. "Go on metal ball talk" a sudden familiar and slightly comforting voice was now speaking nervously stumbling over his words "umm Mel h-hey there now O-ok what ever she will tell you please don't listen don't come ba- aghhh" fear started welling inside Mel. Hearing her friend get hurt was the very last thing in the world she wanted to hear and Virgil had been her friend. The unfamiliar voice came back "don't tell her that or I will crush you" Virgil's voice came back more terrified. "Agh Mel I would say come save me but ple-" he was quickly cut off with his own scream. "Alright since he is no help ill say it, if you would like to see him again you'll have to come rescue him just come back the way you came I have an elevator waiting for you but if you don't" a small crunch followed by another scream in pain came through the radio. "well you get the idea and I  hope to see you soon" the radio clicked back to a calm song as if nothing had happened. Mel looked as if she was about to cry, but she quickly took a deep breath and headed inside prepare.