Axis:Legacy

Chapter 11: Compromise

"Found anything yet?" Lissa asked as she and Thomas looked around inside an abandoned Medical Bay after finding four more vials of 6-18, the Medicine they require for Petra and Kyle, meanwhile, Ester and Louis are off busy looking at other rooms hoping they can find a data disk for them to learn about the serum and maybe even replicate it.

"Nothing yet," Thomas said as he looked through the drawers, for some reason she noticed he was having a difficult time using his hand.

"Are you alright?" She asked worriedly as she helped him open a drawer containing thousands of Datadisks and both of them grabbed as many as possible. Well for the most part since she noticed Thomas struggled in grabbing some with his hand.

"Never better." He gave her his usual grin. Lissa doubted it and turned her attention towards a nearby first aid kit on the wall and opened it and grabbed a handful of bandages, she then looked at Thomas with her usual irked look.

"Give me your hand." She told him.

"What?"

"Just shut up and give me your right hand." She said trying her best not to raise her voice or else they'll get caught. He reluctantly extended his right hand, to which she immediately began to work on a makeshift splint. Since Ester was the only one in the group skilled enough to cast a healing spell on his hand, while Charl seems to be more on the offensive type as well, this was the least she can do until they can get out.

"Are you left-handed or right-handed?" She asked him as she was about to finish. "Right actually," Thomas said with a sheepish look.

"That figures." She scoffed as she looked at him in the eyes. "Try using your left hand for the time being then."

"Yes ma'am." He smiled as she went off to go and look for more Datadisks for them to use later on, as soon as she was gone he was inwardly thankful that he broke his hand punching the automata earlier.

The two of them grabbed their weapons, an old pipe that Thomas wielded with his left hand while Lissa found an old Pistol with some ammo inside it, and made their way into the hallways and spotted Charl and Arthur facing something with a tense look on their faces.

"What's going...on?" Lissa asked until her eyes landed on a pale young girl wearing makeshift armor and what appears to be salvaged gauntlets. But her most notable features were these series of wires that

"Query," The girl told them. "Are you the one who responsible for my reprograming?"

"What?" Lissa asked in mild confusion meanwhile Thomas looked at them only to give them a confused shrug as well.

"Query," The girl told them again. "Are you the one who responsible for my reprograming?"

"Who are you and what are you doing in this place?" Lissa asked her as she cautiously walked towards her.

"Answer: Niltria Industries Next-Phase Automata Unit 7." The Girl answered, causing Charl's jaw to nearly drop. Lissa herself couldn't believe it either as earlier this 'girl' was a hulking machine ready to kill them with their bare hands.

"Well shit," Arthur commented, as he tensely gripped a pair of knives he made from Ice Magic earlier. "I did not expect that."

"Query," The girl repeated once more. "Are you the one who responsible for my reprograming?"

Neither of them was ready to respond, they were after all afraid that this girl might end up attempting to kill them or whatsoever.

"Yes, I am the one responsible for your reprogramming."